Dallas (TV Series)

The Heiress (1979)

Laura Johnson: Betty Lou Barker

Quotes 

• Alan Beam : I think you and I should cool it.

  Betty Lou Barker : What?

  Alan Beam : For a while, just for a while.

  Betty Lou Barker : [scoffs]  What are you talking about?

  Alan Beam : Lucy Ewing.

  Betty Lou Barker : Goldilocks? What's she got to do with anything?

  [fighting tears] 

  Alan Beam : She walked into my office the other day, and handed herself to me on a golden platter.

  Betty Lou Barker : [teary-eyed]  So?

  Alan Beam : Think what it would mean for me to marry someone like her. No more scratching. No more living from deal to deal. Just march up that aisle, and when the preacher says "Do you take?", you say "I do."

  Betty Lou Barker : Well, I...

  [tears flowing freely] 

  Betty Lou Barker : I... realize this is a... a corny question... but what about me?

  Alan Beam : Oh, this is the chance of a lifetime.

  [Betty Lou gets up, starts leaving, but he grabs her by her shoulders] 

  Alan Beam : I'm not gonna pass it up. No one matters to me but you. You know that. Just give me a little time. I can fix it so that both of us... can have everything we've ever dreamed of.

  Betty Lou Barker : [shakes her head]  Let go of me!

  Alan Beam : Don't be crazy. I love you.

  Betty Lou Barker : [at door, shaking her head]  You're rotten, you know that? Rotten!

  Alan Beam : I'll call you in the morning.

  [looks at her with boyish charm]