Dallas s03e19 Episode Script

Pam, I want to save our marriage, but I can't do it by myself.
- Now, you've gotta help me.
- I don't think I can.
You got nothing to lose, Sue Ellen.
Whatever J.
R.
Ewing offers you, I can give you more.
I love you.
Leave him.
I'd like to know if you want Bobby because if you don't, I do.
- You'll give me a divorce? - Sooner the better, but the boy stays.
- You couldn't take my son.
- My son.
What are you trying to do, knock it through the wall? If I don't, you will.
Things haven't been right between us in a long time.
Ever since she lost the baby.
She's been miserable, and I don't seem to be able to help.
I've tried everything I could think of.
It just doesn't work.
There's nothing you can do, Bob, except just give her some time.
Pam's a fighter.
She'll get through this okay.
Yeah, maybe.
If you and Donna are gonna be in the Longhorn I'd like to buy you a beer.
Donna and I aren't seeing each other anymore.
Since when? Yesterday.
These things always come in bunches, don't they? What happened? I finally got smart.
I realized there's no way that Donna and I could ever make a go of it.
It's like J.
R.
says, "She could have anything in the world she wants.
She shouldn't have to settle for just being a cowboy's wife.
" Ray, you know better than to listen to anything J.
R.
has to say.
It's not just J.
R.
I've been thinking the same thing myself for a long time.
I guess I was just afraid to admit it.
I mean, the cowboy and the lady.
We're just too different to ever be happy together.
You could have made it.
Just give her more time.
We didn't have one thing in common to start with.
Except each other.
I used to think that was enough.
I don't anymore.
Well, it sure as hell ought to be.
Come on.
Let's get out of here.
- Hi, Pam.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Well, we didn't expect you until Monday.
Well, I took an earlier flight.
Business was over, and I didn't feel like sightseeing.
- Did you have a good time? - Yeah.
Terrific.
- Where's Bobby? - He went to the club with Ray.
He didn't say what time he'd be home.
Well, I'd better unpack.
I'm sure he'll be home sooner or later.
For someone who just spent a weekend in Paris, she didn't seem too excited.
Sometimes I think nobody's ever satisfied.
What about you? I've never been happier in my life.
Couldn't wait to get back home? Hello, J.
R.
Didn't you enjoy Harrison's company? He can be real charming when he wants and I'd thought he'd done just about anything to please you.
Well, he is trying very hard to please somebody.
What did you have to do with my getting that promotion? - What makes you think that? - Something Harrison said this weekend.
You made him send Liz Craig to Houston and give me her job, didn't you? Pamela, you have an exaggerated view of my power.
I merely pointed out your Your many talents to him, that's all.
- Why? - Well, I thought you looked unhappy.
Thought you needed something to distract you.
Well, how very kind of you.
Well, I thought so.
And now that Bobby's found something to distract him everything worked out perfectly, right? - Bobby? Jenna Wade's back in town.
Haven't you heard? If you're expecting hysteria, J.
R.
, you're gonna be awfully disappointed.
They're old friends.
I don't see anything to be concerned about.
Then you don't know Jenna or Bobby.
See you later, girls.
- Hello, Daddy.
- What do you say, Bobby? - Where are you off to this morning? - I'm going over to Fort Worth to have dinner with Pat Powers.
Everybody down here's so damn busy, there's nobody to talk to.
Catch up to you.
Hey, Bobby.
You're home early.
I didn't expect you till tomorrow for breakfast, if then.
And what's that supposed to mean? Now, come on.
Don't get touchy.
- How you spend time is your business.
- That's right.
If you want to spend it with Jenna Wade, I can't blame you one little bit.
Oh, by the way, your wife is home.
- Already? - Yeah.
You didn't happen to mention Jenna to her, did you? By accident, of course.
Bobby, I'm sorry.
I did let it slip.
Yeah.
You did a good day's work yesterday breaking up Donna and Ray.
Should be enough for one week, you think? Even the Lord rested on the seventh day.
Donna and Ray? You're home early.
What happened? Well, I tried.
It's hard to have a good time when you're mad at me.
What did Harrison say when you left him? Well, the work was finished.
He couldn't say anything.
Why? Did you hope he got angry and fired me? Well, it wouldn't be the worst thing that ever happened.
If he did, I'd just have to go out and find another job.
Yeah.
What's wrong between us isn't my work, Bobby.
You ran into Jenna at the airport.
What's wrong has nothing to do with Jenna either.
I know.
Did you have a good time with her? Yes.
Yes, I did.
I had a sensational time.
The kind of time that you and I should be having.
Pam last night I almost slept with Jenna.
I didn't but I wanted to.
Doesn't that matter to you? Does anything matter to you anymore? What stopped you? I love you and she knows it.
Pam, I want to save our marriage, but I can't do it by myself.
Now, you've gotta help me.
Bobby I don't think I can.
It isn't what I wanted for you, but it's the best I could do for now.
No, it's beautiful.
Really, Alan, it's beautiful.
You're beautiful.
Lucy, let's get married soon.
I don't want to wait.
Well, honey, it takes time to plan a wedding.
You do want a big wedding, don't you? A big, splashy wedding? It doesn't matter what kind, just as long as it's soon.
Can we talk about this later? I'm still stunned from being engaged.
- Let me just get used to that first, okay? - Sure.
I've been through the proposal a dozen times.
He's smart, that Matt Devlin.
He hasn't left us much room to fight him.
I don't know why you'd wanna fight him.
That Mimosa Park is prime real estate.
As far as you're concerned, the state of Texas could be a concrete slab, including Southfork.
Now, that's just not true.
You know how much I care for Southfork.
Right, Dad? Morning, Pam.
- Pam.
- Morning, Pam.
I'd better get going.
I don't want Bobby to get too much of a head start on me.
I don't know what time he left.
Must have been early to get by me.
What time is that meeting with Vaughn Leland? Eleven o'clock.
Eleven, huh? Well, I should stop by Punk Anderson's first.
Miss Ellie, can I take you to the attorney's office? No, thanks, Jock.
Sue Ellen's taking me in later.
- Mama.
Pam.
- Bye-bye.
Pam.
He was out all night, Miss Ellie.
I think he was with Jenna Wade.
He's my son.
Whatever I say will make it sound as if I'm making excuses for him but he loves you, Pam.
I'm sure of it.
Well, it's not his fault, Miss Ellie.
It's mine.
I've known there was something wrong.
I didn't want to pry.
I've been so awful to him lately.
And I try not to be, but I can't seem to stop myself.
I think maybe if you saw Dr.
Elby, talked to him.
He's helped Sue Ellen so much.
I don't I don't know.
I don't know.
Do you know that it says here that Jordan Lee is worth $40 million? You wouldn't know it to look at him, would you? My mama always says, "Never judge a man's bank balance by the size hat he wears.
" - Morning, ladies.
- Morning, J.
R.
Hello, Kristin.
- You have a nice weekend? - I've had better.
Hank Johnson called, and Jordan Lee.
Get Hank on the phone for me, will you? Bring some coffee in the office.
- Good morning.
- Morning.
Well, well, Bobby.
You were up and out of the house so early this morning I expected to find you already here, hard at work in your office.
Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, J.
R.
- Any calls? - Yeah.
Roy Tate, Tim Jessel of The Cattlemen's Association, and Jenna Wade.
She'd like you to call her right away.
Another greedy lady.
They always want more, don't they? I'm not in a very good mood this morning, J.
R so don't you ride me too hard, okay? - All right, Bobby.
All right.
Get Jenna Wade on the phone.
I'll take it in my office.
Sure.
What are you doing here? Well, hello.
Nice to see you too.
- Where's Daddy? - I don't know where he is.
He's out somewhere.
Why, did you wanna see him? No, not really.
Cliff, this place is a mess.
Aren't you ever gonna clean it up? Yeah, I am.
Someday when I get in the mood.
You had a job interview on Friday, didn't you? - Crawford and Masters? - Yep.
- Well, how did it go? - Fine.
Masters and I are both thinking it over.
- Meeting with other people this week? - Yeah.
What is this, 20 Questions? No, I'm just concerned about you, that's all.
Well, babe, you don't have to be concerned.
I'm fine.
Well.
You're fine.
I'm fine.
Everybody, in fact, everything, is Jim-dandy, A-one, okay fine! I said I'm fine.
But what about you, huh? What's going on? What's wrong with you? Pammy, come on.
Out with it.
Cliff, I've been so awful to Bobby for months now.
I don't think he can take much more of it.
But why? What did he do? Nothing.
That's what's so terrible.
Up until now, he's been wonderful, understanding.
He doesn't deserve the way I've been treating him.
I can't seem to help myself.
Sometimes I almost think that I'm going crazy.
I don't know why I act the way I do.
It's as if I want to drive him away, as if I want him to leave me.
Then maybe he'd find somebody and he could lead the kind of life he wants, with children.
Pam, if that's so important, then you have to take the risk.
You go ahead, you get pregnant.
Only I have symptoms, and if I've got a 50 percent chance of passing it on any child you have probably would not be affected.
I can't.
I'm too afraid.
And I feel so guilty of depriving Bobby of children.
I feel so inadequate that every time he tries to touch me, I turn ice-cold.
- I can't help it.
- You have to stop worrying about it.
You have to stop thinking about it.
Cliff, Bobby's going to leave me.
I know he is.
And I love him so much.
Hi.
Sit down.
A vermouth cassis on the rocks and bring me another one of these.
I'm glad you could make it.
I really needed to talk to you.
Well, I'm glad you called.
I've been feeling terrible about the other night.
I haven't slept since.
I don't know what got into me.
Jenna, there's no need for you to be sorry.
You did what was right.
But you needed me, and I let you down.
No.
No, you didn't let me down.
I was trying to use you, and you knew it.
I love you, Bobby.
I can't bear to see you unhappy.
Do you know how many men I've slept with in my life who haven't cared anything about me? Why was it suddenly such a big deal? Jenna I do care about you very much, and you have to understand that.
But not enough.
All you had to do was lie to me.
I would have believed you.
I wanted to.
I've never lied to you.
I'm not gonna start.
You look awful.
Haven't you been sleeping either? I spent the night in a hotel.
Why can't you tell me what's wrong, Bobby? Next time I won't be such a fool.
All you have to do is ask.
Jenna, there won't be a next time.
You told me you wanted more.
You're right to want it.
You deserve it.
And I want to save my marriage.
I'm not sure why but I do.
And I won't do that if I get involved with you.
Come in.
Hello.
Did we have an appointment I've forgotten about? No.
- I just want to talk to you.
- About what? I'd like to know if you want Bobby because if you don't, I do.
What do you think you're doing here? Trying to save your marriage, it seems.
Which just goes to show I must be certifiable.
I don't want to talk to you about this, Jenna.
I'd like you to leave.
I will.
Just as soon as I've said everything I came to say.
I want you to get out now.
Aren't you interested in keeping your husband? We're not schoolgirls.
We both know that men like Bobby don't grow on trees.
I don't have to listen to you lecture me on the virtues of my husband.
Well, you better listen to someone if you want him.
I love Bobby.
I always have.
I had a strange way of showing it at times, but when I let him go, I was 20.
That was my excuse for being a fool.
What's yours? Oh, has Bobby been crying on your shoulder, Jenna? Complaining about the wife that doesn't understand him? You know him better than that.
He hasn't said a word about you.
Then what makes you so sure I'm going to lose him? He's miserable, Pam.
Anyone can see that, and I know him better than most.
He's loving, understanding and kind but ultimately, he's a survivor.
If you won't make him happy, he'll find someone who will.
- That someone being you.
- Yes, if I have anything to say about it.
Look, Pam, Bobby loves you a lot, so I'm trying to play fair but if you can't make him happy I'll cut you out just as fast as I can.
Will I see you tomorrow? Gotta go back to San Angelo.
I've got responsibilities there, Sue Ellen.
Yes, of course you do.
- When will you be back? - I'm not sure.
I went back to the Southern Cross because I wanted to make a home for you.
To do that, I had to make a deal with my father.
Promised him I'd be there when he needed me.
- And me? - You got responsibilities too.
Your son.
How long can you keep running off to meet me without neglecting him? Are you politely trying to tell me that you don't want to see me anymore? I am politely asking you to marry me.
Dusty.
- But you know I can't.
- Why not? - I am married.
- Divorce him.
- My son.
- He's little.
There's more than enough room for him at Southern Cross.
We It would break their hearts, Jock and Miss Ellie.
What about your heart? What about mine? - J.
R.
would never let me go.
Never.
- He can't stop you.
That's what you don't understand.
This time he's not dealing with a penniless politician.
He can't bribe me off.
He can't scare me off.
Me, my family, we're more than a match for J.
R.
Ewing, for all the Ewings.
l I just need some time to think about it.
You've been thinking about nothing else for months now.
But I'll have to talk to Dr.
Elby.
Why? Don't you know what you want? You got nothing to lose, Sue Ellen.
Whatever J.
R.
Ewing offers you, I can give you more.
I love you.
Leave him.
I will.
Oh, I will.
Mr.
Ewing, Donna Culver is here.
Okay.
Send her in.
Thank you.
- Well, well, Donna.
Sure good to see you.
- Thank you.
- Won't you sit down? - Sure.
Maybe I could get a drink for you, huh? No, I don't think so.
It was good of you to see me on such short notice.
Well, I'm afraid goodness didn't have anything to do with it.
It isn't often anymore that a pretty girl like you asks for an appointment.
What can I do for you? It's about Ray, Jock.
- Ray? - Ray Krebbs.
We've been seeing each other since Sam died.
Yes, I heard.
I'm sorry.
This is embarrassing.
Well, don't be embarrassed.
Something upset you enough to bring you here.
What is it? Ray and I were planning on marrying as soon as it seemed respectable.
And now, all of a sudden, he's changed his mind.
I want you to talk to him.
Well, Donna, there just isn't a whole lot that I can do about that.
You don't understand.
He's got some crazy idea that he's not good enough for me.
You know him, Jock.
You know him better than anybody.
You've been like a father to him.
He respects you.
He thinks the whole world of you.
And I just want you to tell him that he's good enough for anybody anybody at all.
Because I know he'd listen to you.
Ray's a pretty smart boy, Donna.
Does that mean you won't talk to him? I never even told my own boys how to live their lives, Donna.
I can't start with Ray.
Jock, we love each other.
Yes.
Yes, I believe you do.
But, Donna a good marriage is based on a much more solid foundation than that.
Well I'm sorry if I bothered you.
You didn't bother me, Donna.
Just wish I could've helped you, that's all.
I know.
- Bye.
- Goodbye.
Well, Donna Culver, what brings you here, honey? Get out of my way, J.
R.
Well, what a way to talk.
Especially after I made a nice contribution to Dave's campaign last Saturday.
That's not all you did on Saturday, is it? I don't follow you, Donna.
How is it you always know exactly what to do to cause the most harm and you always do it with such unerring instinct? If I didn't know better, I'd swear you made a pact with the devil.
Are you trying to flatter me or insult me? I can't make out which.
I can promise you this: Dave and I are gonna take up where Cliff Barnes left off.
We'll destroy you.
Well Sam said she had a cool head.
File those, honey.
- Miss Ellie.
- Pam.
Bobby called a few minutes ago.
He won't be home for dinner.
Well, did he say where he would be? I'm sorry, Pam, he didn't.
Thank you.
Oh, Mama, how'd your meeting go? Find a way to whip old Matt Devlin yet? - Maybe.
- Not talking, huh? Afraid I'm gonna steal your secrets and sell them to your enemies? - Where's Sue Ellen? - She's up with the baby.
She's become a wonderful mother, J.
R.
I told you, Mama.
Just a matter of time.
Mama was right.
You two make a pretty picture.
Thank you.
You have a good day? Yes.
I had a pretty good day too.
We had a meeting with Vaughn Leland today and Bobby was so preoccupied he hardly said a word.
Daddy, well, he wasn't much better.
We sat down and did all the business in half the time.
No arguments.
How about that? Are you making an attempt to share your life with me, J.
R.
? Yeah, I guess I am.
Kind of sounds like it, doesn't it? It's a little late.
Well, you know how the saying goes.
I want a divorce.
What did you say? You heard me.
Sue Ellen, I asked you before.
I'm asking again.
- Who is he? - Why do you think there is anybody? I am miserable with you, and I have been for a long time.
I want a divorce.
It's as simple as that.
You haven't got the guts to leave me and go out on your own.
Who is he? No one you can intimidate, if that's what you're thinking.
He's as rich as you are, and as powerful.
You won't be able to scare him off.
I'm not sure I want to scare him off.
He just might be doing me a favor.
You've been a headache to me, Sue Ellen, for a long time.
Then you'll give me a divorce? Sure.
Why not.
Providing the price is right.
I don't want anything from you, J.
R.
My baby and I have everything we need waiting for us.
You don't think you'll leave here with little John, do you? Well, what are you talking about? Of course I am.
You can leave anytime you want to the sooner the better, but the boy stays here.
You can't mean that.
I have my rights, J.
R.
, and there are courts, and I will fight you.
Sue Ellen, you're a drunk and a tramp.
With your history, there isn't a court in Texas that would let you have him.
No.
J.
R.
, you can't be serious.
You couldn't do that to me.
You couldn't take my son.
My son.
- Hey, watch it, buddy.
- I'm sorry.
You think you own this place or something? - Look, I said I was sorry, all right? - Watch it.
You know who this is? Yeah, I know who it is.
Big deal.
Guys like him think they can do anything and get away with it.
- Look, buddy, not tonight, all right? - Look, I told you I'm leaving.
Does anybody have something else to say? Come on.
Let's dance.
Sue Ellen? Are you all right? Yes, I'm just fine.
Well, where are you going? Nowhere.
Nowhere in particular.
Sue Ellen, you don't look well.
Why don't you come on back in the house.
J.
R.
, stop her.
Why? Hi.
Donna.
You're making this too hard for both of us.
I just came to say goodbye.
We said it the other night.
No, you did.
I didn't say anything, remember? I'm going away.
- For long? - No.
Just for a month or so, and I'll be back.
I promised Dave I'd help him get the healthcare reform bill through.
He needs me.
Besides, I don't have anything else to do.
That's good.
That's what you should be doing.
I suppose.
I stopped in to see Jock today.
I needed to talk to somebody that knew you really well.
He seems to think that I should listen to you.
I am right.
I wish you'd believe me.
I do, now.
I figured that if we both aren't convinced we can make it work we just don't have a chance.
One thing being around politics so much you learn to recognize when you're beaten.
Donna I'm sorry.
Someday you'll see.
You are the most stubborn man I ever met.
Goodbye.
I love you.
I'm sorry that's not enough.
Bobby? Hello.
Hello.
I didn't really expect you to come home.
I came back to get some clean clothes.
I've been waiting to talk to you.
Okay.
Bobby, please don't make this any harder for me.
Jenna came to see me today.
Yes? She's still in love with you.
Well, I'm not in love with her.
- Not anymore.
- Were you with her last night? I was in a hotel last night, alone.
Very much alone.
I'm to blame for this, Bobby, I know that.
Pam, it doesn't matter who's to blame.
Not anymore.
But it does.
I spent the whole day thinking about it, ever since I talked to Jenna about whether or not I could stand losing you.
And? Sometimes I think you'd be better off with someone else.
You'd be with somebody who loves you.
Who could give you children.
Pam, we've been over this a thousand times before.
I know.
Bobby I feel I feel so inadequate.
I feel all the time as if I'm failing you.
And I can't stand it.
It makes me pull away from you.
It's crazy but sometimes I wish you would leave and sometimes I think that if you go, I'll die.
I've done everything I can, hon.
The rest is up to you.
I know.
I love you.
And I want us to spend the rest of our lives together.
With children, without children, I don't care.
I want us to be together and to be happy.
I want to try.
If you'll give me another chance I promise I'll try.
I think I can give you one more.
I love you.
Where have you been? I expected you hours ago.
Just driving around.
Just thinking.
What happened? Are you all right? Sue Ellen, tell me what happened.
- I asked J.
R.
for a divorce.
- Yes, and? He said he'd give me one.
But he'll keep my baby.
He can't.
- You don't understand.
- We'll fight him.
- There's no use.
- Sue Ellen, I've got money.
I've got enough money to fight him and win.
I've been hospitalized for alcoholism.
What judge is gonna let me have my baby? We'll find a judge.
We'll find a judge who will.
J.
R.
has reports, detective reports, about Cliff and me.
- I can't beat him.
- You've got to try, Sue Ellen.
It's no use.
If I leave him, he'll keep my baby.
No, he won't.
I promise you he won't.
I'll find a way.
I can't leave my baby not even for you.
Sue Ellen, come with me now, please, tonight.
I love you, Dusty, but I can't.
You know I can't.
Okay.
You're upset, darling.
Take some time.
Think it through.
You'll see that I'm right.
I'll go home and I'll wait.
For however long it takes, I'll wait.
And you'll change your mind.
I won't.
Sue Ellen we love each other.
He can't win.
But he has, and he always will.
Sue Ellen.
I knew you'd never have the guts to go.