- Holly Harwood: [re J.R.'s shady business deal] If it gets out that I sold oil for twenty dollars a barrel, I'm gonna get boiled alive in my own crude.
- J.R. Ewing: [re having learned that Clayton is moving into Dallas] Well, if that doesn't put a pall on the evening...
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [opens door] Katherine!
- Katherine Wentworth: Hi, Pam.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Hi. I just called you a while ago.
- Katherine Wentworth: Mm. Yeah, I was out. I'm making arrangements to have my things sent out here from New York.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: You're gonna stay for good?
- Katherine Wentworth: Mm-hmm.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Oh, that's great! Well, you want a cup of coffee or a drink?
- Katherine Wentworth: Oh, no, thanks.
- [sits down]
- Katherine Wentworth: Uhm, Pam, have you seen Cliff lately?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Yes, I have.
- [sits down]
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: He looks awful. I'm really worried about him. He's taking Mama's death really hard.
- Katherine Wentworth: [shakes her head] Well, Pam, all of us are taking Mama's death really hard. It just seems to me that... Cliff can't handle stress very well.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Well, all the more reason why we should help him.
- Katherine Wentworth: Mm. I'm all for that, but...
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: But what?
- Katherine Wentworth: [exhales] Well, what about Bobby?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: What about him?
- Katherine Wentworth: Well, aren't you afraid that by helping Cliff it's gonna look like you're siding with him against your own husband?
- [Pam just looks at her]
- Katherine Wentworth: I mean, that can't help the two of you get back together.
- [Pam still doesn't say anything]
- Katherine Wentworth: Pam, you and Bobby are gonna reconcile, aren't you?
- [Pam still doesn't answer, and then the phone rings]
- Donna Culver Krebbs: Losing his Daddy's company could sure make a Senate seat look awful attractive. Oh, God help us, can you imagine J.R. in Washington, manipulating oil legislation?
- Cliff Barnes: [re Mark Graison's offer] Why, am I supposed to be honored because he wants to sell me something?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: No, you're supposed to get off your butt, get down there and take a look at it and make a decision!
- Cliff Barnes: Forget it!
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: You're not even gonna go take a look at it?
- Cliff Barnes: You got it.
- Bobby Ewing: You know, I wonder whatever happened to the phrase "For richer, for poorer, for better or worse." Do you remember any of that?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: I wonder what happened to the Bobby Ewing I said those words to.
- Bobby Ewing: So how is J.R. doing by you?
- Holly Harwood: Well, since you asked, he's pulled something. Frankly, I don't buy his explanation. I think he's conniving, Bobby.
- Bobby Ewing: [smiling] Conniving? Never.
- Senator Dave Culver: All right, if he does decide to run, do you really think he can come out of nowhere and win a senate seat? He doesn't know anything about politics. All he knows is oil!
- Donna Culver Krebbs: Well, Jimmy Carter came out of nowhere and he was elected president of these United States.
- Ray Krebbs: And all he knew about was peanut farming!
- Sue Ellen Ewing: You miscalculated. Pam's walking out on him didn't have the effect that you anticipated.
- J.R. Ewing: Is that right?
- Sue Ellen Ewing: He feels that he's lost everything now that his family's gone. He'll stop at nothing to get Ewing Oil.
- J.R. Ewing: The last gasp of a drowning man, huh?
- Sue Ellen Ewing: If you would have seen his face when he told me, I think you would feel differently.
- J.R. Ewing: We'll see. We'll see.
- J.R. Ewing: What risk? I could go to jail for sending oil to Cuba.
- Walt Driscoll: He's the one making it look like it's going to Puerto Rico.
- Walt Driscoll: He wants a hundred-thousand dollars or he says it's a no go.
- J.R. Ewing: All right, give it to him.
- Walt Driscoll: That's a lot of money, J.R. I could call his bluff and see what happens.
- J.R. Ewing: Let him have it. He's got me over a barrel. I have to make this deal no matter what, understand?
- J.R. Ewing: [dumps a mailsack of letters on J.R.'s office floor] What on earth is all that?
- Roy Ralston: A present for you from the TV station, in response to your appearances on my show. Comes to 1,431 letters, all saying, in effect, if you ever decide to run for political office, those people will vote for you.
- J.R. Ewing: Well, I'll be damned.
- Clayton Farlow: If I were to hold onto the Southern Cross, I'd still be connected to the past. And it's time to...
- Miss Ellie Ewing: Let go?
- Clayton Farlow: Yes, that's it. San Angelo used to be my whole life. But now, the people I care about are in Dallas. It's time I let go. Move on.
- Miss Ellie Ewing: Then you're taking some of your own advice.
- Clayton Farlow: What do you mean?
- Miss Ellie Ewing: Well, you're the one that's been telling me to let go of the past.
- Clayton Farlow: [chuckling] Yes, yes, I have been. Miss Ellie, thanks for coming down. I'm sorry I don't have anything more to offer you than a kind of bittersweet day.
- Miss Ellie Ewing: Thanks for letting me share it with you.
- Clayton Farlow: It's good to have someone like you to share it with.
- [they walk on together arm in arm]
- [last lines]
- Walt Driscoll: The Cubans are prepared to buy all the oil you want to sell at forty dollars a barrel... . Oh, they're anxious for that oil, J.R... . What have you got in mind, J.R.?
- J.R. Ewing: One million barrels.
- Bobby Ewing: [to Holly] Be real careful in your dealings with J.R. from now on. His back's against the wall. And when he's in trouble, that's when he's the most dangerous. And right now, he's in a lot of trouble.
- Ray Krebbs: Donna, he's not gonna leave Ewing Oil.
- Donna Culver Krebbs: No, not if there's still a battle going on for control of the company. And certainly not if he wins. What if he loses?
- Senator Dave Culver: Do you think Bobby could beat him?
- Donna Culver Krebbs: Well, I think it's possible. And if he does, well, c'mon, we all know J.R. He's gotta look for some place to take his power trip.
- Ray Krebbs: Donna's got a point.