Dallas (TV Series)

Whatever Happened to Baby John?: Part 1 (1979)

Victoria Principal: Pamela Barnes Ewing

Quotes 

• Pamela Barnes Ewing : [in restaurant]  I've been seeing her at the hospital. You don't know what Sue Ellen's like now. You haven't seen her every day the way I have.

  Cliff Barnes : [nods]  She's been ill. She'll recover.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : If you give her a chance. I know how you feel, Cliff. I don't like what happened, but I can still sympathize with you. But there's not just you to consider, or the baby. There's Sue Ellen.

  [shakes her head] 

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : She's an emotional mess. It's like she's walking a tightrope, and any disturbance, the slightest distraction,

  [nods] 

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : and she's gonna fall off.

  Cliff Barnes : Look, you don't understand, Pam. I can help her because she loves me.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : You'll help her right back to the bottle if you're not careful.

  Cliff Barnes : I should've let her come to me months ago when she wanted to.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : Maybe you should have. Maybe a lot of this mess would have been avoided

  [shakes her head] 

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : if you had.

  Cliff Barnes : Wait a minute. I only did what I thought would best help her.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : What you thought was best for your career.

  Cliff Barnes : Oh, wait a minute! That's not fair! J.R. came to me!

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : I'm tired of hearing about J.R.! For once, just for once, take the responsibility for your own life!

  Cliff Barnes : Whatever happened doesn't really matter. What matters is that I love her, and I wanna be with her. I want her, and I want our son.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : I'm warning you, Cliff.

  Cliff Barnes : You can't possibly think she's better off being married to that monster, than to be with me.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : But I do.

  Cliff Barnes : Well, I don't care, because you're not gonna change my mind.

  [tosses down the money for the bill] 

  Cliff Barnes : I want them. I want both of them.

  [smiles, leaves] 

• Pamela Barnes Ewing : [Miss Ellie's worried about Sue Ellen's lack of interest]  It's not unusual for a new mother to need rest.

  Miss Ellie Ewing : No...

  [smiles] 

  Miss Ellie Ewing : I guess not.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : Come on, Lucy. I'll drop you off at school. Then we can go to the hospital together.

  Lucy Ewing : Great! I'll see you later, Grandma.