- J.R. Ewing: Well, hello, Clayton. Come to take Mama out?
- Clayton Farlow: Yes. We're going out to dinner.
- Sue Ellen Ewing: Uh, she should be down in a minute. Oh, excuse me, I'm sorry. Clayton Farlow, Roy Ralston.
- Roy Ralston: How do you do?
- [shakes Clayton's hand]
- Clayton Farlow: Oh, yeah, you're the fellow who has the talk show J.R.'s on.
- Roy Ralston: Yes, I do. I'm sure you share my enthusiasm for J.R.'s appearances on my show.
- Clayton Farlow: Not really.
- Roy Ralston: Well, J.R.'s becoming a champion of the underdog. I have a feeling he'll be leaving for Washington, uh, after the next election.
- Clayton Farlow: Well, Dallas' gain will be Washington's loss.
- Katherine Wentworth: You know, Bobby has that deal with McLeish Canada?
- J.R. Ewing: Yeah. Yeah. I've been praying to the snow god for a very cold winter.
- J.R. Ewing: [re Holly flirting with him] Well, I admire your taste, my dear. I also remember a pistol big as a cannon pointed right between my eyes.
- Holly Harwood: [laughs] I've put away my gun.
- J.R. Ewing: Katherine, if Bobby loses, Pam just might take pity on him. She might want a reconciliation. And if I lose, Bobby takes over, their marriage is finished for good.
- Katherine Wentworth: Is that the way you see it?
- J.R. Ewing: Don't you? If you want Bobby...
- Katherine Wentworth: [abashedly] Who said I want Bobby?
- J.R. Ewing: If you want Bobby, you better move fast while this contest for Ewing Oil is still on. And I win.
- Katherine Wentworth: Well, J.R.
- [raises her glass]
- Katherine Wentworth: Here's to winners.
- J.R. Ewing: I'll drink to that.
- [clink glasses]
- Holly Harwood: It's a real old-fashioned Western shootout between you and J.R., isn't it? And I've been caught in the crossfire.
- Bobby Ewing: Holly, I don't know what to do. Saying I'm sorry won't bring back seventeen million dollars.
- Holly Harwood: You know something? That is one hell of a loss, but I think Holly Harwood will survive it. But what I won't survive is having the Ewing brothers run my life and my company. My daddy used to say that when it comes right down to it, there's only one person you can count on--yourself. Just think things through carefully and do what has to be done--yourself. Well, now I'm going to start listening to my daddy. I will get the Ewing brothers out of my life. All by myself.
- J.R. Ewing: Government is big business. The biggest. They're in the police business and the land management business, and health, education business. All those bureaus are just departments of one big department store.
- Roy Ralston: J.R., as a capitalist and a businessman, how could you find anything in common with Cuba's communists?
- J.R. Ewing: Roy, I honestly don't know. But I'd like the opportunity to find out. And who knows, we might come up with a deal that would be profitable for both sides.