Dallas (TV Series)
The Dove Hunt (1979)
Robert J. Wilke: Tom Owens
Quotes
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Tom Owens : [unrepentant] This ain't gonna buy you a place in heaven, Ewing.
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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]
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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.
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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]
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Tom Owens : [after the fight] He doesn't remember. He destroyed me... took everything, and he doesn't remember.
Ben Masters : They're going hunting... in the middle of the week. No matter where they go, there's going to be nobody around.
Tom Owens : Yeah... yeah.
[begins to smile]
Tom Owens : I've waited a long time, and Jock Ewing is gonna remember Tom Owens. He's gonna remember me, all right.
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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.