Dallas (TV Series)

The Dove Hunt (1979)

Jim Davis: Jock Ewing

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• Jock Ewing : [talking about his past]  I was wildcatting. Ah... tough times. Men shooting, killing each other. You know, things like... like happened today.

• Jock Ewing : All right, maybe I did lean on you too hard. But it seems to me you've waited a hell of a long time to get revenge.

  Tom Owens : I didn't want revenge. I wanted to spit in your eye.

  Jock Ewing : Then what's all this?

  Tom Owens : You crushed me like a bug. And after 32 years you don't even remember my name. You're gonna pay for that.

  [aims his rifle at Jock] 

• Jock Ewing : I don't remember you, Owens, but I should have. Because you got a lot of pride. And when you get right down to it, that's all a man can take to his grave.

• Jock Ewing : [laughing and throwing cash to the bartender after the fight at Lenny's Bar]  Three hundred bucks oughta cover it, buddy!

• Jock Ewing : [Jock awakens to see someone under the hood of their SUV]  Hold it!

  [fires his shotgun, sniper shots follow, Jock is hit and goes down] 

  J.R. Ewing : [awakens]  What is going on?

  Bobby Ewing : Daddy's hit!

  Ray Krebbs : Get down!

  J.R. Ewing : DADDY!

• Tom Owens : [Tom and Dan come up on a sleeping J.R. and Jock, Dan takes J.R.'s gun, they awaken with a start]  Hold it.

  Jock Ewing : What do you want?

  Tom Owens : Still don't remember, Ewing? Steal a man's farm, wipe him out, and you still don't remember.

  Jock Ewing : Now you look, Mister...

  Tom Owens : Owens!

  Jock Ewing : Owens, I do business with a lot of people.

  Tom Owens : 32 years ago, you came to my farm, personally. We stood as close as we are right now. You tried to get me to sell. When I wouldn't, you spread some money around. And suddenly no one would buy my crops.

• Tom Owens : [enters bar]  EWING!

  Jock Ewing : You talkin' to me, or all of us?

  Tom Owens : You! Big Jock Ewing! You're in my territory now, where that name doesn't mean a damn thing!

  Jock Ewing : Well now, since I didn't claim it did, we don't have anything to argue about do we?

  [turns back to his table] 

  Tom Owens : Face me, Ewing! There's no one to help you here! No Ewing organization, nobody but yourself, if you're man enough!

  Bobby Ewing : [standing up]  That does it...

  Jock Ewing : [stops him]  Bobby...

  Tom Owens : Look at me! Well, look at me!

  Jock Ewing : [grunts, then stands up]  All right! I'm lookin' right at ya! Now what the hell do ya want?

  Tom Owens : Don't you know?

  Jock Ewing : Know what?

  Tom Owens : I'm Tom Owens!

  Jock Ewing : So you're Tom Owens!

  Tom Owens : Don't you even remember me?

  Jock Ewing : I never saw you before in my life!

  Tom Owens : Why you...

  [throws punch, brawl insues] 

• Tom Owens : My boy and I had to start all over again, from nothing... in Landowne.

  Ben Masters : Mr. Owens has made a lot of friends around here, Ewing.

  Jock Ewing : Yeah, the kind of friends that ambush people.

  Dan Owens : They all know my father's story and who ruined him in Texas. Nobody's gonna feel sorry for whatever happens here.

  Jock Ewing : So that's it? You're gonna kill me in cold blood, huh?

  J.R. Ewing : Listen, maybe we can make a deal, sir.

  Jock Ewing : No, J.R.

  [sits up] 

  Jock Ewing : All right, Owens. Come on. If you're gonna do it, do it.

  Tom Owens : [raises rifle, then looks into Jock's unwavering eyes, lowers rifle]  I can't. I'm not a killer. I thought you're were gonna shoot my boy... I was gonna kill you, and get away with it. Give the devil his due.