Dallas s12e19 Episode Script

NARRATOR: Last on Dallas: - It's not working, is it? - Yeah.
- I've heard you love playing cat and mouse.
- Only when I'm the cat.
So make a couple of quick sales.
That'll cover the rest.
Doesn't work that way, Tommy boy.
Ewing Oil and the other big Texas oil companies are going to be furious.
Making love with you at the studio [SUE ELLEN SIGHS.]
it was like living a fantasy.
You represent European industries that never again wanna be held hostage by OPEC.
[McKAY SPEAKING ON SPEAKER.]
- The kids' mike is clear as a bell.
- Oh, that's wonderful.
Good morning, ladies.
PHYLLIS: Good morning.
SLY: Morning.
We celebrating something? Uh, no, a messenger just brought this case of wine for Bobby.
It's from Europe.
Yeah, I know where Bordeaux is.
I mean, Ray Krebbs sent it to him.
Heh.
Ray Krebbs never drank anything that didn't come out of a long neck.
- I'm sure Bobby will enjoy it.
- Yeah, I'm sure.
Sly, come on in here, will you? Yes, sir.
Hey, Sly.
I want you to dig up little information for me.
All right.
I want up-to-the-minute figures on our oil production and known reserves and, uh, how much of capacity we're producing right now.
Oh, is Bobby letting you deal in oil now? Sly, you're not here to play Twenty Questions.
Just something I want you to do for me.
All the information should be in the computers.
I'll get right on it.
I don't want anybody to know about this.
Yes, sir.
I've been showing my statues around, and the dealers really like them.
Good.
I'm glad to hear that.
As a matter of fact, I may have underestimated how many I could sell.
So I was thinking, if you'd come up with another 100,000 or so I can be in business in a real big way.
It seems to me that the 200 I already gave you would be enough to get you started.
Why don't you just make sure that there's really a market out there before I invest any more? I told you, the dealers like them.
Liking them and being able to sell them are two different things.
No, you start the way you are.
You can always expand later.
How come everything is always later with you? After everything that you did to this family, don't you think that you owe me? Whatever I did or didn't do, you're the one that got yourself into trouble, not me.
And why? Because I couldn't handle Mama dying.
Neither could I.
Believe me.
But eventually, I got to see that life goes on.
Easy for you, man.
You know, all of a sudden, out of nowhere you've got this ranch, you're the head of a big company, you're in fat city.
You talk like I've got to prove myself to you.
Don't you? As far as I can see, you're the same as you always were.
You don't give a damn about anybody but yourself.
I am sorry that you feel that way, because I've really tried to make it work between us.
But you've got something to prove too.
Show me that you're willing to meet me halfway.
There isn't anything I won't do for you.
Then how about starting off by trusting me? Get behind me 100 percent.
I wish I could.
I love you with all my heart.
But I don't trust you.
I'm sorry about that, but that's the way it is.
And all you have to do is show me that I'm wrong.
[SIGHS.]
[POWER SAW BUZZING AND HAMMER BANGING.]
I wish we had another stage.
We got a lot of big sets.
I know.
But if we angle the boardroom this way we might be able to get the office here in this corner.
Doesn't give me a lot of mobility with the camera.
How do you feel about practical locations? The money saved on construction would offset some of the location expenses.
- I like the idea of wild walls.
- Yeah, I do too.
BRUCE: Hi.
SUE ELLEN: Hi.
You two look like you're plotting a revolution.
- Ha.
- No, nothing that simple.
Oh, just going over the, uh, set blueprints.
Take a look.
Am I supposed to understand what these mean? Yeah, you will.
Once you get used to it.
Come on.
I want you to see what they'll look like when they're built.
But, uh, be prepared because if I remember rightly you could be in for a bit of a shock.
I don't believe it.
What do you think? Were those the blueprints of the real Southfork that I was looking at? No.
I made sketches that unforgettable wedding night.
Then the art director turned them into blueprints which became this.
It's really scary.
There's Miss Ellie's room.
[SUE ELLEN SIGHS.]
Bobby's room.
John Ross' room.
Christopher's room.
[DON SNIFFS.]
And, uh, yours and J.
R.
's.
Oh, my God.
Scene of the crime.
It's not as funny as you think.
No, it's all right.
It's the truth, I suppose.
What you've done is really amazing.
What I don't understand is, um why you've built the sets before the script is even finished.
- Is that? Is that usual? - No.
But we're gonna use these sets so we build them now while we're on an eight-hour-day basis rather than charge into overtime later on.
It all feels so real.
Yeah, it does in a way.
The more involved you get, the more real it will become.
It will be like living your life all over again.
I wonder if I'm really ready for that.
That's it.
- See you.
SLY: Okay.
I'm off.
- Do you want me to get your phones? - No.
I'm having the calls forwarded.
Okay.
Enjoy.
JACKIE: We have to be out of the building early.
PHYLLIS: Oh, I'm gonna leave about 5.
SLY: Jackie, hold the elevator.
JACKIE: Sure.
Uh, J.
R.
's not gonna be back until later, so I'm gonna grab lunch and head on home.
- Okay.
- Don't get lonely.
- I won't.
Ha, ha.
- Ha, ha.
- I'll see you tomorrow.
SLY: All right.
[PHONE RINGING.]
J.
R.
Ewing's office.
MAN [O VER PHONE.]
: Sly, this is Mike in Geology.
We just finished the oil reserve update.
We're putting it on the computer now.
Uh, thank you.
Bobby, can I talk to you for a minute? Well, sure.
Sit down.
What's up? I'm not sure if I'm doing the right thing or not.
Sly and I are good friends.
Is there some problem with you two? Oh, no, it's nothing like that.
It's just that Well, for most of the days, Sly has been working at her computer.
Then she takes printouts into J.
R.
And there was just a call for her from Geology.
They're feeding the oil reserve figures into her computer.
Is J.
R.
Here? No.
J.
R.
Is coming back, but Sly is gone for the day.
Can you access her computer? Sure.
I know Sly's password.
BOBBY: Does she know yours? - Yes.
- I want you to change it, keep it a secret.
- Okay.
[COMPUTER BEEPS.]
All right, Phyllis.
You can go home now.
I'll wait here for J.
R.
I'll stay if you want.
That's all right.
I don't want anybody around when I see him.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Who is it? TOMMY: Tommy McKay.
Can we talk? [APRIL SCOFFS.]
About what? TOMMY: About what a jerk I've been.
Hi.
Ah, ah.
Okay.
Talk.
I wanna apologize for what I did the night of the wedding.
It was dumb.
I'm sorry.
Well, that's a start.
I know I came on way too strong.
But I've been away from women a long time.
It'll be a lot longer if you don't slow down.
Nothing but good behavior from here on out.
I promise.
I like you.
Uh, will you go out with me? What do you have in mind? Nothing fancy.
Just fun.
Just a date? Nothing else? Honest.
And you can go just the way you are.
It's perfect.
I'm probably gonna regret this.
But everybody's entitled to a second chance.
Stay here.
I'll get my jacket.
[APRIL CLEARS THRO AT.]
[PAPER RUSTLING.]
You never stop trying, do you? What are you talking about, Bob? I know what you've been doing.
You're not supposed to have any of that information that concerns the oil business.
Have you given your word to anyone and really meant it? All right.
So I needed a little information, but let me tell you why.
I don't wanna hear any excuses.
You're a liar, and I'm sick and tired.
I stumbled on to one of the greatest deals.
I want Ewing Oil to have it.
You lie so often, you don't know the truth.
- Would you just listen to me? - Never again.
- I'm telling you, it's worth millions to us.
- Not us.
You're through, J.
R.
I want you to take your assets and your lies and get out.
- Oh, Bob, you can't mean that.
- That's exactly what I mean.
- Oh, come on.
- You're through.
I want you gone tomorrow.
- Oh, Bobby - J.
R.
, I'm done talking.
This is a chance in a million.
It's a windfall.
I'm not kidding you.
[CRASH.]
J.
R: What the hell? [CABLES SQUEAKING.]
Well, that was a scare.
At least the power's back on.
No, that's a battery light.
It means the power's not on.
I'll try the phone.
Get out of the way.
Hello? Hello? Hello? What use is a phone if there's nobody at the other end when you need them? J.
R.
, it's nighttime, and there's nobody else in the building.
- Well, what are we gonna do now? - There's nothing we can do.
Wait for the power to come on, or until somebody figures out we're stuck in here.
As long as we're in here together there's things we ought to straighten out.
- I have nothing to say to you.
And I don't want you talking to me.
So get as far away as possible and shut up.
- Bob - Shut up! [BO X THUDS.]
[SIGHS.]
DON: You've been quiet all afternoon.
Seeing those sets disturbed me.
Now I wonder if I, uh, have thought about this thing enough.
What thing? The movie.
Yes, I wanna humiliate J.
R.
, but there's also a lot of people that I care about.
People like Miss Ellie, Clayton, Bobby, the boys.
And how can I go through with this without hurting them? How will you hurt them? They'll all have to be portrayed in varying degrees.
Even if we give them different names they're gonna know who they are.
- I just don't think it's right.
- You're gonna have to trust my instincts.
Do you think I intend to show them as anything but sympathetic? I don't know.
They will be shown as a family that was used.
Because of their love for J.
R.
Because they kept hoping that somehow he'd be different.
That perhaps someday he'd look beyond his own desires and really be one of them.
Is it really possible to do that? I think so.
Sue Ellen.
You've got unfinished business with J.
R.
The only way you're ever gonna be rid of him is to exorcise his demon.
And the way to do that is through this picture.
You'll never forgive yourself if you back off now.
[SIGHS.]
You do know me, don't you? I'd have known that if I'd never read your diaries.
Inside of you, there's a terrific person waiting to be free of J.
R.
And I wanna be the one that sets her free.
To do what with? We'll see, won't we? Come on, you drive.
I'm tired.
[SHOUTS.]
Hello? Anybody there? Can anybody hear me? Huh? [J.
R.
SIGHS.]
[IN NORMAL VOICE.]
Isn't there anybody in this building? Just relax.
Bobby, I know you're angry at me.
But you didn't mean that I'm out of Ewing Oil altogether, did you? That's exactly what I meant.
Tomorrow morning, you start looking for your own offices.
If you wanna be in the oil business, J.
R.
, that's just fine.
But you do it on your own.
[SIGHS.]
Oh, you know, it's not just the oil business that I care about.
It's Ewing Oil.
If you'd have taken me in as a full partner, I never would've had to go behind your back.
So it's just as much your fault as it is mine.
[SCOFFS.]
Your logic is as twisted as your morals.
You don't have the right to dump me like this.
Yes, I do.
It's my company.
I run it, and you're out.
Well, it's kind of funny to hear you talking like that.
I didn't intend it to be funny.
I remember the day, years ago, just after you had married Pam.
Up until then, you'd been nothing but the company pimp.
And then all of a sudden, you're in the office, full-time.
I wanna tell you how How you filled your daddy's heart with joy when you decided to come to the business.
That's just it.
I'm in the business.
I have a right to know everything.
Do you? Well, heh, it's not as simple as that.
BOBBY: I don't see why, J.
R.
We're brothers.
We're not enemies.
No, of course we're not enemies.
But while you were out there sowing your wild oats, I was learning the business.
While you're playing football and winning.
I'm not saying anything wrong with that.
But I was here.
Busting my butt under our father.
And let me tell you, he's not an easy man to work for.
Heh, I think I can appreciate that.
Can you? And in last few years, you've been out there spreading the bees around wining and dining friends of Ewing Oil.
And hanging out with fancy women and in general, being charming.
I've been making the company work.
And I've been making it grow.
Well, that's true enough.
Ever since I remember, all you ever thought about was running Ewing Oil.
Seems to me you're doing the thing you love best.
I am.
Yeah, I truly am.
[CHUCKLING.]
But what I'm trying to say is this: I had to make decisions, had to make deals a man running a company has to make.
And that's my business.
Mine alone.
As long as I'm running this company, Bobby that's the way it's gonna stay.
I was head of the company then, and I didn't throw you out.
Because I knew our daddy wanted us to work together.
And I taught you everything I could.
Well, you did teach me that I can never trust you.
But you did say one thing.
It's the head of a company that makes the decisions.
You made plenty of decisions in your day, J.
R.
, and I've made mine.
[SIGHS.]
[APRIL CHUCKLES.]
- Hey, you're good.
APRIL: Ha, ha.
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON RECORDING.]
[APRIL LAUGHING.]
- I'm gonna beat your score.
- Never.
Now, is this fun or what? Ha, ha.
You were right.
I love it.
See, it doesn't hurt you rich folks to see how us workers live.
I wasn't born rich.
And this isn't my first time in an arcade.
[TOMMY CHUCKLES.]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON RECORDING.]
Ha, ha! I beat you.
How much would you like it if I didn't let you win once in a while? Oh-ho-ho-ho.
TOMMY: Okay.
You're good.
Anyway, I'm gonna be taking you out to better places after this.
- I like this.
- But I'll be able to afford anything I want.
- What are you in now, bank robbing? TOMMY: Nope.
I started my own business.
Importing stuff from South America.
It's gonna be real good.
- Is it? - You know it.
And I got all my financing in place.
I'm ready to go.
But because I like you a lot, I'm willing to let you buy in while it's still small.
For a hundred grand, you can get in on what they call the ground floor.
Well, I appreciate the offer.
But I wouldn't want money to get in the way of our relationship.
What relationship? That's what I mean.
[BOBBY SIGHS.]
This is ridiculous.
[BOBBY GRUNTS.]
Well There's no getting out there.
How about up through the top? All right.
I guess it's worth a try.
[GRUNTING.]
J.
R: How are you doing up there, Bob? Well, how about it, Bob? We gonna get out of here? I'm not about to break my neck to find out.
We're gonna have to stay in here till power gets turned on.
Well, it may be a long wait.
Uh, Sly told me they're shutting down electricity tonight to work on generators, something like that.
That's right.
We were supposed to leave the offices early, weren't we? Well, heh, at least I got something to drink.
J.
R: Well, now you're talking.
That's a good idea, bud.
Ha-ha-ha.
Boy.
I'll bet you Ray didn't think that this gift was gonna come in quite so handy.
Yeah.
Good old Ray, huh? Ha, ha.
[BOBBY GRUNTS.]
Hey.
- This is good stuff.
- Yeah? Oh, yeah.
Chateau-bottled? Yeah.
Estate-bottle.
Estate or whatever.
Good, good.
[J.
R.
CHUCKLES.]
Mm-mm.
[CORK POPS.]
[BOBBY SIGHS.]
Very good stuff.
[CHUCKLES.]
- What are you doing? What are you doing? - I just want a drink.
Ray sent this to me.
And I know he didn't intend on you having a bit of it.
I don't believe this.
You're not gonna sit there and drink that wine while I'm dying of thirst.
That's my plan.
So why don't you go sit over there and shut up? In fact, I'm not all that tickled being locked up here with you.
Why don't you go up on the roof and just sit there and leave me alone? Now, listen, Bobby, I realize we can't work together, and you're the boss.
But you're also my brother, and brothers just don't treat each other like that.
J.
R.
, I only have two brothers that I care about.
Ray and Gary.
They're not here, and you get zero wine.
Well, I'm gonna remember this.
This is the kind of thing I don't forget.
Cheers.
[J.
R.
SIGHS.]
I can't believe it.
I feel like I'm gonna be sitting here for the rest of my life watching you swill that wine.
Aw.
Poor J.
R.
[BOBBY LAUGHS.]
Sure, yeah, go ahead.
Enjoy yourself.
Our families back home, worrying about us.
They might be worried about me a little but nobody ever expects you to show up.
I bet you my little Cally is worried sick about where I am.
Well, unless you've changed your attitude about marriage drastically she's gonna have to get used to it.
Oh, that's cruel, Bob.
Downright cruel.
This marriage is entirely different.
And Cally is a special kind of person.
I'd never do anything in the world to hurt her.
I hope not.
Maybe this time, you can be a real husband.
I guarantee it.
It's a different me.
Come on, give me a drink.
Now, come on, come on.
I don't know how long we're gonna be in here.
I could run out.
I only have One, two, three, four, five, six, seven All right, all right, I'll buy a damn bottle.
Here.
Wow, that's a different story.
- Yeah.
- What have we got? Twenty dollars.
Twenty dollars.
Well, that shows you what kind of wine you're used to drinking.
J.
R.
, this is imported stuff.
This is very good stuff.
- Fifty? - More.
A hundred? How much you got? - I don't know.
Five hundred - Five hundred sounds right.
- You're not gonna take - It's supply and demand and right now it's a seller's market.
There you go.
[SIGHS THEN CHUCKLES.]
Give me the corkscrew.
What for? Well, how the hell am I gonna open this bottle without a corkscrew? I don't know.
All you paid for was the wine.
The rent of the corkscrew, that's extra.
But you took all my money.
I'll take a check.
My checkbook's up in my office.
I'll tell you what.
Since you're my brother, I will take an IOU.
"A rent.
One corkscrew.
One thousand dollars.
" Ha-ha-ha.
You know you're a lot more like me than I realized.
Here.
[CHUCKLING.]
[APRIL GIGGLING.]
Here.
Here, let me show you.
- I can do it myself.
- Yeah, not too well.
I'd rather.
- What are you so uptight about? - You.
I was only trying to help you.
I don't like you rubbing up against me.
[SIGHS.]
Why do you have to come on so strong? When I first met you, I thought you were cute.
I thought you were fun.
Why can't you just relax, and let's see how things work out? Well, I'm no Bobby Ewing, if that's what you mean.
What does Bobby have to do with anything? My sister told me you had a thing for him.
It must kind of burn you to see them together.
- It's none of your business, nor hers.
- Kind of get you that they're making it? Who knows? Maybe you'll get invited to their wedding too.
- Ahh, good night.
TOMMY: Wait.
Wait a minute.
- Hey, where are you going? - To get a cab.
I didn't mean for you I'm sorry.
Our going out was a mistake.
I'm going home.
- Well, at least let me drive you.
- I can get a cab.
Don't be so stubborn.
I'll drive you straight home, promise.
[SIGHS.]
[LINE RINGING.]
WOMAN [O VER PHONE.]
: Ewing Oil.
- Is Mr.
J.
R.
Ewing there? WOMAN: The offices are closed.
This is the answering service.
Is there any message? No.
No message.
Thank you kindly.
[KNIFE SCRATCHING WOOD.]
BOBBY: Huh.
Whew.
Ah.
Boy, it's been a long time since we've done this.
Ha, ha.
Oh, yeah.
We need to get stuck in elevators more often.
Ha, no, I'm talking about just sitting here having a drink.
Remember how Daddy used to take us out and get us a little drunk? Straighten out what was wrong? Yeah, I remember.
We were a lot closer then.
Yeah, a lot closer.
Seems like lately, we've been more enemies than friends.
Not enemies.
Competitors maybe.
Do you think I wouldn't like to work side by side with you? Yeah, but we never did.
Either you had the upper hand or I had the upper hand.
I guess we didn't try hard enough.
I did try.
You're the one who made it impossible.
You were always lying and cheating and trying to figure out some way to double-cross somebody.
Ahh, Bobby, you still don't understand me.
Now, I didn't start off wanting to hurt anybody.
But I had these goals.
Goals that were drummed into me when I started to work for Daddy at Ewing Oil.
Now, see, Ewing Oil had to be the biggest.
It had to be the best.
Ahem.
Nothing came before Ewing Oil.
Not family, not friends, not anything.
And I'd never have broken any of the rules.
If people hadn't had gotten in my way, if they had just let me alone nobody would've gotten hurt.
That's a lot of self-justifying crap, and you know it.
The hell it is.
Think I didn't learn anything from Daddy? He was the original hardball player, buddy.
You remember what happened to people who got in his way? [SIGHS.]
If he was gonna run somebody over he'd at least warn them to get out of the way.
Ah, well, maybe that's the way you remember it.
But it wasn't like that in the early years before you got there, I tell you.
Still gotta be a better way than yours.
Now, you sound like you never did any dirty work.
I know Daddy made the plans, but you executed them.
Ha, ha.
Remember what happened when you foreclosed on old Wild Bill Orloff? It was just a good business decision, that's all.
Yeah, heh.
Now look who's justifying.
No, Bobby, you learned that power corrupts.
That the deal can often be a lot more important than the people involved in it.
I almost did.
But not quite.
J.
R.
, it's not that I don't understand why you do what you do.
It's that I don't think you're ever gonna change.
All right.
You just sit there and judge me.
But you're lucky, Bobby.
You don't have the ghost of Jock Ewing whispering in your ear.
The hell I don't.
You don't think I wanted to be a son that Daddy could be proud of? You don't think it killed me every time I disappointed him? You were his favorite from the day you were born.
That's it, huh? You think it's just that simple.
It was my company until he decided to let the fair-haired boy come in, run it with me.
"You be good to Bobby," he'd say.
"You teach him everything you know.
" Forget all the years that I had to learn the hard way.
"You share everything with Bobby.
" That's what he'd say.
Well, I would've been happy with that.
Then I realized what you were doing to the Ewing name.
Well, that's my name too.
And I want it to stand for something besides wheeling and dealing.
And I know Daddy did too.
Well, believe it or not, everything I did was for my daddy.
[SIGHS.]
I do believe it.
We have the same goals, J.
R.
We just go about them differently, that's all.
He left us a hell of a legacy, didn't he? Well, he sure made fighters out of us.
He made sure that Ewing Oil was the most important thing in both our lives.
That's why we're sitting here, chewing at one another.
Well, just so you know, anything I ever did right or wrong, was for Ewing Oil.
And if you want me out, well, that's the way it'll be.
And, uh, I can't really blame you if I look in my heart.
But you're still my brother.
And I'm proud of you, brother.
And I love you.
Well, that's something they can't take away from either one of us.
Oh, hell.
You can stay on at Ewing Oil.
What? I said, you can stay on at Ewing Oil.
To Ewing Oil.
Unh! Get your hands off me! - Don't tell me you didn't like that.
- I didn't like it.
I can't stand you.
Forget we ever met.
[PANTS.]
God.
[SIGHS.]
[BANG ON DOOR.]
[SCREAMS.]
Who the hell do you think you are slamming a door in my face? You frozen rich bitches are all alike.
All I ever wanted is for us to be friends.
Maybe even lovers.
But no.
You think you're too damn good for me, don't you? You can just keep your precious virginity and your money.
You just stay out of my sight.
Here.
Fix your door.
[SNIFFS.]
[SOBBING.]
[CHUCKLES.]
Bobby, you just don't know how happy you've made me.
Oh, yes, I do, because you keep telling me.
Ha.
Oh, I'm so grateful to you.
Did I tell you that? Well, I'm gonna tell you again.
How grateful are you? I'm so grateful l've decided I can put up with Cliff Barnes being in the company.
[CHUCKLES.]
You don't have a choice.
But what I can't put up with is not being back in the oil business again.
Don't start.
Don't.
Bobby, just look how much better it would be if you and I were working in oil together.
I wouldn't have to go behind your back.
Everything would be out in the open.
Oh, that'd be the day.
Well, mostly out in the open.
Wouldn't expect you to tell me everything either.
But you already took me back into the firm.
And if you don't take me back as a full partner you'll have to be putting up with all my lies and tricks and hell, we both know that's what I'm gonna be doing.
You know what? I actually see a logic in what you just said, and that's pretty scary.
Well, you remember what Daddy used to say? "Keep your enemies close and your friends even closer.
" And if we were closer, you could keep an eye on me.
[CHUCKLES.]
You have got more moves than the Dallas Mavericks.
- You know, you're almost convincing.
- [CHUCKLING.]
Yeah, well, I'm trying.
Best of all, what if I know something that could make Ewing Oil a giant again? What if you do? And what if I told you I know somebody that would buy all the oil we could produce at a guaranteed minimum price? - Do you? - Mm-hm.
Well, don't you wanna know? Is this information free? [J.
R.
LAUGHS.]
Look who's talking.
Look at all the money I owe you.
You tell me who it is, I'll tear up every one of those.
Did you think I'm gonna let it go that cheap? I don't know what you do but I know you think you've got a lever to get back in as a full partner.
Right on the nose, brother.
Nope.
No, what? It's not worth it.
Bobby, you know what's wrong with you? You are stubborn.
And you're prideful.
And that's just a terrible thing to see in your very own brother.
Damn.
Well, it's a step up from greed and avarice.
All right.
Now, if I tell you, would you at least think about you and Cliff and me being equals? I'll think.
Okay.
Well, there's an oil company in this town, and I mean a big one that's been having meetings with some Europeans.
And these Europeans wanna buy their total output at a guaranteed price for five years.
And they're willing to put up earnest money up-front.
Maybe half.
What's the name of this company? Well, I can't tell you that, but the initials are Carter McKay.
Are you sure? You got somebody inside Westar? Well, you know, I always got my sources.
So, what does this have to do with us? Well, you don't want Westar to walk away with this deal, do you? Or are you scared to cross swords with McKay? Why would I be afraid to cross swords? Well, you're still tight with his daughter, aren't you? If you undercut him you know what'll happen.
I run Ewing Oil the way I see fit.
That's just something she's gonna have to understand.
I don't believe my ears.
What? For a minute there, you sounded just like Jock Ewing.
Yeah, I did, didn't I? [BOTH LAUGHING.]
- Golly.
- What do you say, bud? I'll think about it.
SUE ELLEN: Do you have another assignment after this one's over? Well, my agents contacted me about a couple of jobs but they're a ways off down the road.
Why? You, uh? You worried about my future income? Heh.
No.
No, I just wondered, um, how much longer we'd know each other.
Ah, I see.
You think this finishes when the picture does.
Don't you? Take my jobs one at a time and I lead my life one day at a time.
It's been that way since my wife died.
It's a method of self-protection that works very well for me.
Do you think you need protection from me? - That's what we're finding out, isn't it? - Mm.
What happens will happen.
I gave up trying to look around corners a long time ago.
But don't you think that sometimes fate needs a helping hand? I think fate tells me that downstairs, there's a couple eggs dying to become an omelet.
To that extent l'll give fate a hand.
[SUE ELLEN LAUGHS.]
[YAWNS.]
DON: Hmm? - Um Are you afraid of a commitment? I'm only afraid of mistaking attraction for love.
It took me a long time to get over my wife.
Be a long time before I'm sure of anyone else.
To tell you the truth about us, I'm not sure.
Oh, perhaps one day we'll be, perhaps not.
Well, you're certainly honest.
Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.
I thought honesty would be something you valued in a man.
More than anything.
So? So? I'll make the omelets.
In that case, make mine runny in the middle sliced tomatoes, hold the home fries, wheat toast - You are so British.
- No jelly.
Right.
Except for the coffee.
SUE ELLEN: Mm.
- Black.
Orange juice [SIGHS.]
- Hey.
- Hmm? Wake up.
What? Now you're back in.
Full partner in Ewing Oil.
And the three of us will put the screws to Westar, okay? Oh, Bobby, you just made me the happiest man in the world.
[J.
R.
CHUCKLING.]
I'd be a hell of a lot happier if I didn't have this hangover.
[BOBBY CHUCKLES.]
Oh, God.
Well, how about that? Hey, wait a minute here.
[BOTTLES CLINKING.]
What are you doing? What are you doing? This will only take a minute, Bob.
Now that I'm in with you again, I wanna look at our offices.
[BOBBY LAUGHING.]
J.
R: Oh, boy.
- Okay.
[BOTTLES CLINKING.]
Oh, I love it, Bob.
I just love it.
Yeah, we're gonna make history here.
There's only one thing wrong.
What? What's wrong? That damn Barnes has got a bigger office than I have.
NARRATOR: Next on Dallas: Hey, Bobby.
You'll never regret taking me back.
[GRUNTS.]
Give us the money, we'll give you the stuff.
Your psycho brother's running around loose.
No wonder Bobby's having second thoughts.
I'll have a dozen of my best J.
R.
's tomorrow.
A dozen J.
R.
's.
What a nightmare.
What? I'm resigning.
- What do you want from me? - Sixty-five grand.
She's jerking my brother around.
Your brother's not exactly a saint.
[APRIL SCREAMING.]
You should lock your front door.
You never know who might walk in.