- Sheriff Fenton Washburn: You got a powerful enemy there, gentlemen. That Barnes is real gung ho on this case.
- J.R. Ewing: I knew it, I knew it! That man just won't quit. An old derelict's body is found on Southfork, and he's gonna make it look like the biggest case since Bonnie and Clyde.
- Kristin Shepard: I'm sorry, J.R., the only thing I had to eat in the kitchen was caviar.
- J.R. Ewing: Kristin, when you learned about all the ways to please a man, you got an A in bedroom and flunked kitchen.
- Kristin Shepard: Well, I'd learn if I had a man to cook for.
- J.R. Ewing: [chuckles] Oh, somehow I can't imagine you getting all steamy and grimy working over a hot stove.
- Kristin Shepard: [feeds him caviar on crisp bread] I'd do it for you, J.R.
- J.R. Ewing: You move a little fast for me, honey.
- Kristin Shepard: I don't think so. You have everyone convinced that Sue Ellen's drinking. Now all we have to do is to find a way to get her to take that first drink.
- J.R. Ewing: Let me do the thinking. Works better that way. I don't want you involved in a scandal. I mean, how would it look, you named correspondent in your sister's... divorce action? God!
- Kristin Shepard: I really don't care. Sue Ellen's been a rotten wife to you, J.R.
- J.R. Ewing: That's true enough. But I don't think my Mama and Daddy will take kindly to you replacing her until there's sufficient cause.
- [as Kristin sighs:]
- J.R. Ewing: Patience, sugar, patience.
- Kristin Shepard: I don't wanna wait, J.R. I want you now.
- J.R. Ewing: [puts glass on bedside table, checks wristwatch, drops it] Well, I've got at least an hour until I have to be back in the office.
- Lucy Ewing: Pamela, how's your daddy?
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: Well, he's really very sick. Thank you, Lucy.
- J.R. Ewing: You mean drunk? A lot of that going around.
- Cliff Barnes: Sloan, I might have to work with ya, but I don't have to like you.
- Lyle Sloan: You're still sore 'cause I almost put you in jail for the murder of Julie Grey, hm?
- Cliff Barnes: How did you guess?
- Matt Devlin: How did you ever get involved with Jock?
- Miss Ellie Ewing: What do you mean?
- Matt Devlin: Love of the land, open space. You told me Jock's oil wells ruined the country's line. Your daddy hated him for that.
- Miss Ellie Ewing: My daddy hated all oilmen. Not just Jock. But daddy had a feeling for the land that only a rancher could know.
- Matt Devlin: Or a rancher's daughter?
- Miss Ellie Ewing: Yes.