- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [in restaurant] I can't believe they suspended you.
- Cliff Barnes: No, they call it a vacation.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: So now what do you do?
- Cliff Barnes: That's what I wanted to talk to you about. I think maybe I should leave Dallas.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Leave Dallas?
- Cliff Barnes: Yeah. I mean, not now.
- [hushed voice:]
- Cliff Barnes: I've been advised not to go anywhere until this is all over. But then...
- [long silence]
- Cliff Barnes: Look, I have to face the facts. I'm finished here.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Oh, come on, Cliff. Things are rough right now, but you're stronger than that.
- Cliff Barnes: There was a time when I thought I could make it in this town.
- [looks troubled]
- Cliff Barnes: But now...
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Cliff... Is there something else?
- Cliff Barnes: Okay, I'll tell you. I'll tell you, because I've gotta tell somebody or I'll explode. The night J.R. was shot... I had gone to the Ewing building with a gun to kill him.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [softly] You couldn't do that.
- Cliff Barnes: Well, I will never know now. Because when I got there, I discovered that somebody beat me to it. Pam, I swear to you, J.R. Ewing is my personal burden from God. Everything that happens to that man, I always pay for it. But, if I had shot him, could you blame me?
- [Pamela shakes her head, then leans her head on his shoulder]
- Liz Craig: [doesn't blame Pam anymore] I should have known that the fine hand of J.R. was behind all that.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Who told you about J.R.?
- Liz Craig: Harrison Page told me himself. You know, pillow talk.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: You mean, you and Harrison...?
- [smiles]
- Liz Craig: Mm.
- [nods]
- Liz Craig: We've been seeing each other for some time now. And he's told me all about J.R.'s fancy string-pulling.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: What did he tell you?
- Liz Craig: Oh, just... that J.R. talked him into giving you my job, transferring me to Houston... Using as bait... a percentage of those useless Asian oil wells. Harrison still sees red every time he thinks about it.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Poor Harrison.
- [shakes her head]
- Liz Craig: Just another fish hooked by good old J.R.
- [sighs]
- Liz Craig: Well, now, tell me about you. What are you up to?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Oh, slowly going crazy. Oh, not really, Liz, it's just... I thought Bobby and I were finally free of Southfork and the Ewing... business. Now it seems we're suddenly back in it over our heads again. Bobby's managing the company, working a sixteen hour day, seven days a week.
- Liz Craig: I see. And what do you do with yourself all day?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: I go shopping. I run errands.
- [considers this]
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: I'm right back where I was when I first got married.
- Liz Craig: Pam, if you wanna come back to The Store, there's nothing I'd like better.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Oh, I don't know. I'm still hoping Bobby will decide to leave Dallas again.
- Liz Craig: It's an open invitation.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Well, thank you. I'll remember. Just in case.
- Bobby Ewing: So, what are you up to today?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Oh, nothing special, Bobby. But, you know, I'm a little worried about you.
- Bobby Ewing: Why?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Because you've been spending all your time at the office.
- Bobby Ewing: Honey, you know the deal that I made. Now I have to run the company till J.R.'s back on his feet again.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: You don't know when he will be.
- Bobby Ewing: No. But I know it will be. There is nothing, and nobody, that's gonna keep J.R. from running Ewing Oil.
- [strokes Pam's hair]
- Bobby Ewing: Now, what do you say we have lunch this afternoon, and then you can go out and spend some money?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Lunch? You said that yesterday.
- Bobby Ewing: Okay, this time I promise.
- [Scout's honor sign]
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: You said that yesterday.
- Bobby Ewing: Oh.
- [kisses her]
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Okay.
- Bobby Ewing: Okay.
- Lucy Ewing: Well, I might be stubborn, but I'm not stupid enough to want a liar and a cheat. I got enough of those in my life, thank you.
- Kristin Shepard: [enters after his phone call] Well... even a hospital bed doesn't stop you, does it, J.R.?
- J.R. Ewing: Why, hello, sugar. I thought you'd been ridden out of town on a rail by now.
- Kristin Shepard: [casually approaching bed] Maybe your goons ignored your orders. I guess that's what happens when a man gets... confined to a hospital bed.
- [taunting]
- Kristin Shepard: His power just slips away.
- J.R. Ewing: Well, I'm not gonna be in a hospital bed forever, you know.
- Kristin Shepard: [smirks] No, but then... you'll never be the man you once were, will you, J.R.?
- J.R. Ewing: Don't worry, Kristin, when I get out of here, you'll get yours.
- [flashes big toothy smile]
- Kristin Shepard: [humors him with a smile] I know I will. But not from you. That's for sure. Because you're just not man enough anymore.
- [spitefully pushes wheelchair towards the bed]
- J.R. Ewing: [tries in vain to get up out of bed, while Kristin looks on coldly before leaving, then falls back defeated] Bitch!
- Kristin Shepard: [outside hospital] Sue Ellen.
- Sue Ellen Ewing: Oh, Kristin. I'm so glad that you're here. I hate to leave J.R. all alone, but I have to take little John in for his checkup this afternoon.
- Kristin Shepard: How are you? You look tired. I wish I could help.
- Sue Ellen Ewing: You do help. You help me a lot just by knowing that you're on my side.
- Kristin Shepard: You can count on that, Sue Ellen. I'll always be on your side from now on. It's the least I can do after all the terrible things that I did to you.
- Sue Ellen Ewing: Shh. That's all over now. We don't need to talk about that anymore.
- [kisses Kristin]
- Sue Ellen Ewing: Now you go on up to see J.R. I think he needs someone to talk to. Maybe you can even, uh, help get his mind off... all his troubles.
- Kristin Shepard: Okay.
- Sue Ellen Ewing: Bye-bye.
- Kristin Shepard: Bye.
- Sue Ellen Ewing: Bye.