Dallas (TV Series)
The Lesson (1978)
Victoria Principal: Pamela Barnes Ewing
Quotes
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Pamela Barnes Ewing : [her convertible alongside Lucy in driveway] Get in.
Lucy Ewing : Walking is good for my figure.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Why did you do it?
Lucy Ewing : Me? Mr. Miller scared me half to death. It never would have happened if you hadn't made me go to school.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Do you know what this could do to Mr. Miller?
Lucy Ewing : Do you really care about Mr. Miller?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : I care what happens to him.
Lucy Ewing : Then Monday I'll go to school and I'll tell them it was just a little misunderstanding.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : And in return for this magnificent gesture...?
Lucy Ewing : Well, you just make sure no more letters come to the house when I skip school... and you keep Miss Ellie believing I'm in school every day.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : You really worked this beautifully.
Lucy Ewing : Thank you.
[smiles]
Lucy Ewing : See what happens when you care about people?
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Pamela Barnes Ewing : [at loft, hands on hips, calls out] Ray!
Ray Krebbs : Yeah! Be right down!
[appears]
Ray Krebbs : Pam.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : [sternly] Come down here a minute.
Ray Krebbs : [still fixing his trousers] You givin' me orders now?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Come down here, please.
[cocks her head]
Ray Krebbs : [climbs down ladder, gives uneasy smile, expecting trouble] Something I can do for you?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Yeah. Leave us alone I wanna talk to Lucy.
Ray Krebbs : Now, Pam, you ain't gonna...
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Now, Ray!
Ray Krebbs : [after being held by her steely gaze] Suit yourself.
[walks off]
Pamela Barnes Ewing : [looks up at hayloft] Lucy!
Lucy Ewing : [comes down the ladder] Ray Krebbs was just telling me how even he used to, uhm...
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Never mind me and Ray Krebbs. The subject is school.
Lucy Ewing : I get all the education I need... right here.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : [strict] You're going to school.
Lucy Ewing : I'm not going anywhere.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : How about seeing Jock?
Lucy Ewing : Fine! Granddaddy believes everything I tell him.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : All the letters from the school? He's gonna believe they were lost in the mail?
Lucy Ewing : [widens her eyes to assert herself] If that's what I tell him.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : And when I get copies of the letters? He's gonna believe those are lies?
Lucy Ewing : Sure.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Sweetie, that's a set of lies only an imbecile would believe.
[turns to leave]
Lucy Ewing : You're not really gonna tell him, are you?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Oh, I really am. And I'm gonna get copies of those letters.
Lucy Ewing : Why? Why do you care?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Because I'm a Ewing now! This family is so full of guilt because your Daddy ran away, they let you run wild. Well, baby-face, that won't work with me.
Lucy Ewing : [tastes defeat, sighs] What do I have to do?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : [adamant] Go to school.
Lucy Ewing : [head rearing back] No!
[seething, Pam turns around, and is off to go tell... so Lucy scampers all the way down the ladder to go after her]