- Jock Ewing: J.R., if I find out you had anything to do with this, I'll kick your tail over to the next county, do you hear?
- JR Ewing: Well, there's no sense in looking a gift horse in the mouth, Dad.
- Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing: What? You gonna hit your pregnant wife?
- [J.R. grabs Sue Ellen and forces her to look in the mirror]
- JR Ewing: Come here, Miss Texas, I want you to look at something. Pretty ain't it? A lush! A TRAMP!
- Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing: [pause, giggles] And the mother of your child.
- JR Ewing: Really?
- Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing: Chances are.
- JR Ewing: Now listen to me carefully, Sue Ellen. You take care of that baby, you hear? Be sure it's a happy, healthy one. 'Cause it's the only thing standing between you and the gutter!
- Seth Stone: Ben Maxwell is a tall order, even for you, J.R. He represents the ultimate power in Dallas. And he's clean. He believes in church on Sunday, fresh air, and lots of exercise.
- JR Ewing: Is that a fact?
- [a picture of Pam with a call-girl and a politician is front page of the newspaper]
- Bobby Ewing: This is your style, J.R. My wife and the man that put Cliff Barnes in office.
- JR Ewing: Your wife got in plenty of trouble before you all got married. And I, I don't understand why you'd think she'd change...
- JR Ewing: [Bobby grabs JR] Hey, wait a...
- Jock Ewing: [Jock comes between them] Knock it off, both of ya! Before I beat the hell out of ya!
- Bobby Ewing: Ray and I got in a fight with a couple of boys in a bar last night.
- Jock Ewing: I damn wish I'd been with ya!
- Miss Ellie Ewing: Jock...
- Jock Ewing: Well, nothing I like better than a little fight now and then.
- [last lines]
- Bobby Ewing: You know, J.R., a funny thing happened when Pamela and I saw that picture of her in the morning paper. It made us realize just how much we really needed one another. I'd sure like to know who to thank for that.
- JR Ewing: [looking at portrait] Hey, this is something new since the last time I saw you. Huh, pretty little girl. What, about four years old?
- [no response]
- JR Ewing: Huh? Well,
- [smirks]
- JR Ewing: no wonder you dropped out of sight.
- Leanne Rees: She's the best thing that ever happened to me.
- JR Ewing: Yeah? She in the bedroom here?
- Leanne Rees: No... she's with my mother.
- JR Ewing: Oh, sure, of course. Who's the father?
- [laughs]
- JR Ewing: Oh, sorry, darling. You know, I thought you'd have a house by now. And running a string of girls. You always had a good head for business, Amber.
- Leanne Rees: The name's Leanne.
- [eats carrot nonchalantly]
- JR Ewing: Leanne. That's classy.
- Leanne Rees: [annoyed] Will you leave?
- JR Ewing: We all know I have some business to discuss with you, honey. Something that demands your special talents.
- Leanne Rees: That business doesn't interest me anymore. I'm making a new life for myself.
- JR Ewing: [most patronizing tone] Oh, they always try. You know that never works.
- Leanne Rees: I'm making it work.
- JR Ewing: Well, from the looks of this place, I'd say your old life was a lot more lucrative.
- Leanne Rees: Why the sudden interest in my old life? Ewing Oil need some congressmen entertained, some parties livened up?
- JR Ewing: Well, I do have a friend that needs your services. And I aim to accommodate him.
- Leanne Rees: Sorry. You're taking up my time, J.R., and my time's not for sale anymore.
- [walks to her door, is gonna open it for him]
- JR Ewing: Honey, this man wants you. And it's in my interests to give him... what he wants.
- [puts down five hundred dollar bills]
- Leanne Rees: [picks up the money, counts it, then spitefully tears them up] No deal.
- [cool, defiant glare]
- JR Ewing: [gets up, scoffs] Honey... the courts in the state of Texas are very straight-laced about the welfare of children. They have some kind of old-fadhioned notion that a mother... should set a moral example for them.
- Leanne Rees: All I ever did was sell myself, but you... you'd sell yourself, your family, your friends, for power. J.R., you're a prize pimp.
- JR Ewing: You know...
- [as he leaves:]
- JR Ewing: coming from an expert... I consider that a compliment.
- [gestures with contempt at torn bills, she's welcome to them]
- Seth Stone: Face it, J.R., Willie Joe and Jeb stuck with you, look what happened to them.
- JR Ewing: I had nothin' to do with that!
- Wade Luce: Maybe. They couldn't even beat that manslaughter charge. You just don't have the clout you used to have.
- Andy Bradley: Cliff Barnes has got you blocked six ways from Sunday!
- Seth Stone: Andy's right. With Cliff Barnes in the Office of Land Management, you've got a powerful enemy.
- JR Ewing: I can handle Cliff Barnes.
- Wade Luce: You can't touch Barnes, not with Ben Maxwell backing him.
- Andy Bradley: No one gets to Maxwell.
- JR Ewing: Now boys, don't underestimate me.
- JR Ewing: [as Pam and Leanne walk away, Ben's gaze lingers] That Leanne's a good lookin' woman, ain't she?
- Ben Maxwell: Yeah, very.
- JR Ewing: You interested?
- Ben Maxwell: Of course not, Ewing. I'm a happily married man.
- JR Ewing: [apologetically] Oh, yeah, sure.
- [a devious smile creeps across his face]
- JR Ewing: [conspiring to set up Ben Maxwell] Now, just get him to your place after Pam's asleep.
- Leanne Rees: Why are you setting up Pam?
- JR Ewing: Well, let's just say I want to kill two birds with one stone.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [carrying suitcase] Bobby, what are you doing here?
- Bobby Ewing: It's time to come home, Pam.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [shakes her head] Didn't you see the paper?
- Bobby Ewing: Yes, I saw it. So what?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: I'm leaving Dallas.
- [about to walk past him]
- Bobby Ewing: [grabs her by the arm] First Southfork, then me, now Dallas, Pam?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [shakes her head tearfully] I can't live with the scandal.
- Bobby Ewing: Come on, Pam, it was a set-up, and everybody knows it.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: How can I go back to Southfork with this hanging over my head?
- Bobby Ewing: It's the only thing you can do. Are you still looking for excuses to stay away from me?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: I don't wanna stay away from you, I never did.
- Bobby Ewing: Then give some credit to the people that love you. To Mama and Daddy and me. Now, we know you wouldn't be involved in something like that.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Well, how do I face them? What do I say to everybody at The Store?
- Bobby Ewing: You take it one step at a time, Pam.
- [his hand on her shoulder]
- Bobby Ewing: And the first step is to come back to the people that love ya. For a while, nothing else matters.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: I truly wish I could believe that.
- [goes back on her way]
- Bobby Ewing: Do you know I love you?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [stops] I know you love me, Bobby.
- Bobby Ewing: But you don't know why that picture was taken, do you?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [faces Bobby] To embarrass Maxwell.
- Bobby Ewing: Honey, if it were only to embarrass Maxwell... why were you involved in it at all?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [realizes] J.R.? J.R. did that to both of us?
- Bobby Ewing: I don't know who else, except I couldn't prove anything.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [dismayed] Well, that finishes it.
- [bursts into tears]
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Don't you understand? It's over!
- [on her way again]
- Bobby Ewing: [grabs her by her shoulders, spins her around] It's only over if you want it to be! It's only over if you stop fighting! Pamela, J.R. has been trying to do this to you ever since I brought you to Southfork. And if you leave now... if you run... then he wins, finally and completely. I married a fighter. Are you ready to let J.R. win? Or do we stand together and fight him? Together, we can win. And I want you with me.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: I love you, Bobby.
- Bobby Ewing: Then let's go home.
- [takes her in his arms, loving embrace, they kiss passionately]
- Leanne Rees: [at Racquet Club] He's not here, is he?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Mm, I guess not.
- Leanne Rees: You really miss him, don't you, Pam?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Well, of course I do. You know, I think I spend half my day waiting for him to call me. I'll never get used to the idea of living alone.
- Leanne Rees: Look, I've got an idea. I've got a spare bedroom. Why don't you move in with me? I could use the company, not to mention splitting the expenses.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: I couldn't do that. I mean, that would make the separation seem so permanent.
- Leanne Rees: Isn't it?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: No! Leanne, I love Bobby. It's just, I don't think we can make it together on that ranch anymore. That serpent of a brother, J.R. He almost sent my brother to jail. He destroyed him.
- Leanne Rees: Pam, we seem to have gotten along pretty well these past few weeks. Maybe you should move in until you decide what you wanna do.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: [considers] Well, it couldn't hurt to take a look. I'll come by tonight.
- Leanne Rees: Terrific.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Okay.
- [smiles]
- Bobby Ewing: [answering phone] Hello.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Bobby?
- Bobby Ewing: Hi.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: I just wanted to tell you that I'm moving out of the hotel. I'm going to move in with a girlfriend.
- [no response]
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Bobby? Did you hear me?
- Bobby Ewing: Yeah. Yeah, I'm here.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Well, I just wanted to tell you.
- Bobby Ewing: Well, that sounds permanent, doesn't it?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: You know I don't like living alone.
- Bobby Ewing: You had another choice, Pam.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Thank you, sweetheart.
- [shakes her head]
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: But J.R. is still there, and I'm not ready for that.
- Bobby Ewing: Well, I'm not too pleased with the arrangement myself.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Bobby...
- Bobby Ewing: Who are you moving in with?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: I don't think you know her. Leanne Rees.
- Bobby Ewing: When?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Probably the day after tomorrow.
- Bobby Ewing: Good luck. Goodbye.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Bobby? Bobby?
- [he cradles the receiver]
- Ben Maxwell: [parks car, has obviously had too much to drink] Good night, Leanne. I... I really enjoyed the evening.
- [chuckles]
- Leanne Rees: Why don't you come up for a nightcap, Ben?
- Ben Maxwell: No, no, I... I don't think so, it's getting late.
- Leanne Rees: I just don't want the evening to end out here on the sidewalk. Please?
- [he is, of course, going to follow her]
- Leanne Rees: Come on.