- J.R. Ewing: [alone after the funeral service] Never really told you how much you meant to me. All the fights, all that time butting' heads with one another I'm sorry we were never friends. I wish I'd taken time to tell you that I loved you... I do... and you tell Daddy I love him too. Goodbye, Bobby. I miss you!
- J.R. Ewing: Of course, you didn't know. How could you have known? You were too busy rollin' around in bed with that saddle-tramp. Or maybe it was gettin' stinkin' drunk at some motel.
- Clayton Farlow: J.R., stop it!
- J.R. Ewing: You're never around when anybody needs you. John Ross almost died; Bobby did die. All you ever think about is yourself.
- Sue Ellen Ewing: That isn't true.
- J.R. Ewing: Get out of here, Sue Ellen. Go back to your cowboy, go back to your bottle. I don't care where you go, just *get out of my sight!*
- [Gary has offered to help J.R. run Ewing Oil, just after Ray did]
- J.R. Ewing: So, Gary, you want to help run the company too? Well, I don't need your help, or your pity. I only had one brother and he's dead! No one can replace him!
- [looks over at Ray with disdain]
- J.R. Ewing: Least of all you two!
- Sue Ellen Ewing: But I'm not an alcoholic.
- Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow: Oh, Sue Ellen... You are. Every disappointment now sends you right back to the bottle.
- Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow: After the funeral, I want you to go back to California, to your own life. Bobby was Bobby, but you are you, and I don't want you to think that you have to stay here and try to take his place.
- Gary Ewing: Oh, I could never take his place... but I could be here for you.
- Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow: And if I thought that you would be happy here, that would be wonderful. But you can't live your life as a replacement for Bobby. You're my son, and I love you with all my heart, but we don't have to be together to keep that love.
- Gary Ewing: No, I guess we don't.
- Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow: You've been through a lot, Gary. I can feel a strength in you that you've never had before. Well, for the next few days, I'm going to need that strength. J.R. and Sue Ellen, Jenna, little Charlie, they're all in pain. They all need me. So for a while, I'm gonna lean on Clayton, and on you, because I know you'll be there.
- Gary Ewing: It's about time, Mama. It's about time.
- J.R. Ewing: She may be a drunk, but she's still my wife. A situation I intend to do something about.