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SC.14: (INT). EPILOGUE. DALLAS COUNTY PRISON.
TEASER: EXT. - SOUTHFORK LANDS.
GARRISON: Don´t I always do?
ELLIE (giving him an ironic look): Sure! Isn´t it wonderful, the view from here?
GARRISON: You look radiant sister. The whole ranch is like fresh air to you. You couln´t live without it.
ELLIE: Oh, Garrison! What´s wrong? Is Daddy feeling bad again?
ELLIE: Just do it, you dumb boy!
GARRISON: I´m gonna leave soon. I´ve joined a ship and we´ll weigh anchors next week.
ELLIE (shocked): Oh Garrison, but why...?
ELLIE: What if there is another war? I couldn´t stand losing you (she holds her brother tighly and he gives her a kiss in her head). My big brother...What about Cherie? Does she know? (Staring at his brother and guessing what he´s thinking) Oh no, Garrison Southworth, don´t do that!
GARRISON: Please take care of her. I can´t say it to her, just can´t. Maybe I´ll marry her when I´m back, if she forgives me...Will you tell her?
ELLIE (teary-eyed): Aha. When were little children, we used to play the ranching siblings, remember? Each of us with our own families, and running the ranch, and making it bigger and bigger.
GARRISON: I want you to promise me that, if something ever happens to me, you´ll take care of this ranch.
ELLIE (turning around): Oh you scared me Lucas! You´re such a...!
LUCAS: You mean about your parents? Their divorce?
ELLIE: My parents, and that damn trial...The business fights with John Ross and his wife...And Gary and Bobby gone. And Ray the way he is...Donna, Pam and Val are such strong women. I hope to be like them when I grow older.
ELLIE: Am I? I don´t know. If I were, my mother wouldn´t have left me behind when she left.
ELLIE: I lied. But keep it a secret. I never met my natural father, and the man who treated me as his daughter also left.
LUCAS: I can tell you, I got real problems in the past, and I´d never change my current life for those days. I lost my Mum, I lost touch with my sister Charlie, I went from one foster home to another...and then, I came back here, and I made another big mistake when my sister talked me into faking her kidnap...If I hadn´t agreed, HE wouldn´t have gone to prison. He wouldn´t have lost three years of his life. Now I´m learning to run Southfork, and John Ross in a bad mood is the worst thing that may happen.
ELLIE: I cried a lot when he was sentenced to jailtime. He´s such a good man...I just hope that prison didn´t change that...too much.
Cally (pulling the glass away and calling the waiter): Hello, honey (she finally gets up and gives a kiss to her daughter). Did your get your hair dyed again?
Ellie (looking disappointed): But mum, don´t you even remember what your daughter´s natural hair color is?
Ellie (looking angry): A hurry? Again? We hadn´t met since last year...When you called me, I thought...we were going to spend some time together.
Cally: Ellie, you were the one who told me last year that you´d rather stay at Southfork than coming with me to Florida.
Ellie: True, I can´t stay that weather. Why did you call me then?
Cally: You´ll soon be 18 years old. I know that everybody at the big house seems to take for granted that J.R. Ewing was your father, but now that Lucy is gone... (The waiter comes with the drinks) Oh thank you!
Ellie: Did you know that Lucy was leaving today and you didn´t come to say goodbye? What kind of friend are you?
Cally: Don´t be rude to me girl. I have brought something for you (she takes her purse and gets an envelope out of it, and then puts it over the table).
Cally: Your life insurance, if you are smart enough, sweetheart. When you were born, I got a DNA test to know for sure if J.R. was your father, just in case he demanded me the proof. I never used it, but I supposed you might need it now.
Ellie: What are you talking about?
Cally: Your Ewing grandfather Jock left in his will a little fortune for each of his grandchildren, born and to come. Bobby and Betsy got their inheritance 4 years ago, 10 millions for each of them, and Lucas, Bobby´s son, got his own last year. You want me to be a good mum and give you a good advice? When you´re 18, go to the Ewings´ lawyer, take the money and run far, far away from here!
Ellie (looking frightened): What´s happened to you, mum? I can´t recognize you anymore...You know what I want, what I´ve always wanted: be a part of the Ewing family here at Southfork, and become a good singer after my graduation. Nothing else matters to me.
Ellie: ...To live next door with her mother Valene. You knew that, and maybe also that her grandmother Lilimae just died three days ago and the funeral will be held tomorrow.
Ellie: Tell me something, mum. What happened 4 years ago, when James returned from his fishing weekend with Jimmy?
Cally: James belongs to the past for me.
Ellie: I was too naive then and just did all that you told me to. But James was the only father I ever had and he disappeared from our lives one day. You owe me the truth. You know you do.
Ellie: I am...very sorry to hear that.
Ellie: ...But I spent that week at Southfork, I remember it well. So what did you do?
Cally: Lucy had introduced me to a lawyer called Kyle Bennett, a friend of the family´s, and I called him since James was gone...It was my impulse.
Ellie: Isn´t the same man you went to live with after divorcing James?
Cally: That´s not the point. He helped me out to get rid of Boaz once for all.
Ellie: What does that mean? Did you get him killed?
Ellie: I have news for you too. I have my own big surprise (she takes a letter out of her purse). It´s a letter from James. He gave me his own version of this story. He says that you didn´t forgive him for lying about his fist wife. But also that you had an affair going on with Kyle and, when he found it out, went to his office and, due to some reform works being done, both of them fell down from a two-stores height. Kyle suited him and they got to a settlement. James eventually enlisted the Navy Seals and he´s written this letter from Iraq. He might be dead one of these days...and you must know something: he never signed the divorce papers, so you´d be the first person to be noticed if he is killed in service (Cally gets up and puts a 10 dollar bill on the table, and her letter back into her purse). I'm leaving with my letter, and you can throw away yours!
Donna (furious): I won´t let my husband rot in prison, by no means at all!!
Valene: What do you mean, Donna? Why are you so angry to me?
Donna: I noticed your face when the police were taking him away...My husband has a precedent for the mercy murder of his cousin Mickey. God is my witness that he won´t end up behind bars again!!
Ray: Yes you have, Lucas. We the Ewings are your family. We love you.
(The sun has just risen and Lucas is riding his horse, slowly but steadily. He looks serious and hurt. The nightmare still ressonates in his head. He keeps on riding and, half an hour later, he returns to Southfork, where he spots Ellie, leaning on a fence. He whistles and she waves at him.
Ellie: Morning, Lucas. You look awful. Couldn´t sleep well?
Ellie: May I ask you something, Lucas?
Lucas: Not about my love life (he says with a naughty smile).
Ellie: How could you adapt yourself to the fact of being one of them, of being a Ewing?
Lucas: Actually I didn´t want to. My sister forced me to. Charlie was broke and wanted me to get money from Bob. So I got a job at the next door´s ranch and came around to see what my father look like. I also asked around about him: I wanted to know how he was, and in the end, I told Charlie off and decided to leave Dallas again.
Ellie: Why did you come back?
Ellie: You know what there was a settlement, don´t you?
Charlie: Just give it to him Lucas. Don´t be a fool.
Charlie: He wants all the money for himself, Lucas. We shouldn´t have trusted him (John slaps Charlie´s face, and Lucas steps forward as he points the gun at John´s head. We see a close shot of a hand taking a long knife and John´s face again: he´s been stabbed and falls down heavily).
Sue Ellen: What? You let Shania leave to New York?
Pam: She confessed she didn´t remember her true mother´s face nor had any photo of hers. She really believed that Mandy was her mother, and you and I had noticed their mutual resemblance.
Pam: Half Dallas and Houston were at that building that evening. But this doesn´t mean that someone was going to drop a bombshell regarding another of J.R.´s secret children...On the contrary, it was your son John Ross who revealed that Christopher was among the guests after exiting the Witness Protection Program.
Sue Ellen (looking up to Pam): So what? She admits that Mandy convinced her to become my friend at the clinic so Shania would be the perfect assistant once both were out...but she always believed Mandy was her mother because she told her details of the old woman who took care of her when she was a child. So this allows her to fly away with the man I hired to gather information about her?
Sue Ellen: Well, yes. Tyler was the child we used to play John Ross when I produced that movie about J.R. Later on, he got into trouble and turned to me in search of help. I treated him as my own son, and encouraged him to follow his true vocation, acting, and move to N.Y. I used to call him, once in awhile, whenever I needed some digging into someone´s past.
Pam: Have you read the last paragraph, Sue Ellen?
Sue Ellen (reading it and looking surprised): She gives her 50 % of the magazine income back to you and only asks for a letter of recommendation to work as a secretary in N.Y. That´s all?
Pam: Yes Sue Ellen, that´s all. Do you think that she sounds like a greedy person?
Sue Ellen: And I always wanted to take revenge on my husband´s lover, didn´t I?
Sue Ellen: This is not over yet, Pam. Shania may be J.R.´s daughter, and may not want a piece of the Ewing cake, but I won´t rest until put Mandy behind bars, where she belongs!
Pam: Oh Sue Ellen. I talked to Dusty on the phone before you returned from France. He told me about Shania´s polarity...Shouldn´t you have explained that to me too? You got the medical record of Shania out of the clinic and didn´t even mention it.
Sue Ellen: I have the feeling that you want to play the devil´s advocate here, Pam, and if you don´t give up, maybe we shouldn´t be partners...nor friends either. About Dusty, I´ll talk to him as soon as I come home (Sue Ellen turns away and leaves the office, while Pam watches her astonished. Cut to next scene, that fades into the back of a waiter).
Sue Ellen (ironicly): Hello, Andrea. So, you´re marrying my son, aren´t you?
Andrea: Well, I guess that someone might overhear one of our conversations at the Oil Barons´ Ball. I wanted to talk to you in person.
Andrea: Actually no, I didn´t (Sue Ellen smiles, still high-browed). But where I come from, tradition still is important. But not in an old-fashioned way.
Andrea: I only knew my mother. She never married my father though he was single. She wanted to become a successful actress, but sacrificed her dream to give me the best education she could. My father never helped us in any way at all.
Andrea: If we were in Hawaii, John Ross probably should need my mother´s approval to marry me.
Sue Ellen: And why don´t you invite her to stay here for awhile?
Andrea: I would. But she´s dead. She died when I was ten. I became the local teacher´s assistant in two months, and I managed to be independent when I was 16. I got my Degree in Business at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, in Oahu.
Andrea: Yes. But not in my class, but in the 55 years of the College´s history (Andrea smiles wide open and winks, while Sue Ellen also smiles and just dares to say...).
Sue Ellen (shaking her head): Oh no, I couldn´t...Not even coffee.
Andrea (handing something to her): Here you are.
Sue Ellen (blinking, looking confused, as she opens the folder. Andrea stares at her, while Sue Ellen reads the first page and turns to the next) I...I...can´t understand.
Andrea: It´s easy. We talked about traditions, about our jobs, about the people we love...This is another tradition: the dowry. My dowry. As would be wife of your son, from the bride to the groom´s mother. From woman to woman. But this must be a secret between us until John Ross and I are legally married.
Sue Ellen: So...you own 50% of Wentworth Industries, and you want to give it to your future husband in your honeymoon, so to say (Andrea nods) Something tells me that you and I are going to get along, Andrea (Sue Ellen smiles, honestly surprised).
Sue Ellen: Hello, Southfork Ranch? (Sue Ellen´s smile turns into a nasty gesture when she hears who is calling her) Oh my God (lowering her voice)! Why are you calling here?
Kristin: Thanks, little sister, I´m also happy to hear you... (She takes the old-fashioned phone and begins to walk through a room) How is your dear J.R.?
Sue Ellen: It´s none of your business! What do you want now?
Kristin: Don´t you even want to know where Chris is spending the night? He´s at the prison of the Melrose Avenue Police Station.
Sue Ellen: Is this another of your lies?
Sue Ellen: How much for bailing him out?
Sue Ellen: Thanks a lot for coming with such short notice.
Chris: Anytime, Sue Ellen. Is anything wrong?
Sue Ellen: Actually, it´s a very complicated situation but I´ll try to make it simple for you. I need an urgent solution, if there is one (I hope).
Chris (smiles at her and nods): I´m all ears.
Sue Ellen: I don´t know if your mother talked to you about my former assistant, Shania Wyatt.
Chris: The brunette who was at the press table at the Oil Barons´ Ball? (She nods) Yeah, though she didn´t mention anything specific.
Chris (slightly blushing up): Is she the one who was on that cover not long ago?
Sue Ellen (mumbling): Yes. So, I had the feeling that Mandy was the one responsible for my...overdose. Do you remember a couple of years ago, when...?
Chris: I´ve been told, yes, and it was Shania who saved your life, wasn´t she?
Sue Ellen: Yes, apparently. I called a detective to follow Mandy´s steps since Shania vanished, and found out that she managed to get into Shania´s apartment posing as her mother. The next day, I went with John Ross to her flat, and bribed the landlord to do the same thing. Everything was upside down, Shania´s clothes and bags were gone, and we found an empty safe box. You know, one of those you can lock down with a little key...We did find out a receipt from one of the biggest Dallas banks. Her bank balance was on it, and it seemed that she also had rented a safe box at the bank. All we could find out was that Mandy had been at the bank, asking to see the safe. Of course, she wasn´t allowed to, but I knew that bank office´s director, and she told me that Shania´s safe was available now. She herself took everything and cancelled it.
Chris: I´m a bit confused...Where am I supposed to fit in that scenario?
Chris: Wow! When you called me and said you needed my help, I thought your intranet had been having problems...but this is serious, really serious, a BIG problem.
Chris: No, I´ll take care of it, Sue Ellen. It better stays in the family. What about Mandy? Where is she now?
John Ross: Where the hell are you Mother? The Jury´s back, and it doesn´t look good! You should be here with us! Aren´t you worried about him?
John Ross: What is most important to you, your business or giving support to the family who´s always been by your side?
Sue Ellen: Oh really? And was that before or after you started your relationship with Andrea?
John Ross: A few months after that. Why, what happened to her?
John Ross: Olivia was a cutie, clever and independent, and I liked that. But it was a one-night stand only.
John Ross: Oh Mother, why are you so nasty sometimes?
Sue Ellen: It seems that Olivia had a heartbreak because you ignored her, and she began to use drugs again. Did you know she was an addict?
John Ross: Yes I did, but you can´t blame me for that!
Sue Ellen: This is not the blame game! It´s the answer to why I am ruined now!
John Ross: What do you mean?
Sue Ellen: I also talked to Valene. She said, succinctly, that Gary´s ex-wife Abby is the most horrible person she had ever met, after your father, of course. She added that, when Abby wanted to take revenge on someone, all hell might break loose. She has no scruples or morals. And after Olivia´s breakdown, she found out about her affair with you...and set her sight on us, specifically on me and my company...Oh and she´s been wrecking chaos on their lives too.
John Ross: What are you gonna do?
John Ross: Don´t do anything crazy mum!
(The limo parks in front of one of the taxi-free spots, and Sue Ellen gets out of the car. She looks at her gold watch and begins to look for someone who can fit the physical depiction of Mandy.
Sue Ellen (getting into the car again): Please Jared, let´s drive around a little, I must find someone urgently.
Jared: What does she look like?
Sue Ellen (handing him the magazine with Mandy´s latest cover): Remember her?
Jared (pointing at Mandy): Isn´t that the woman in question?
Cop: Did you know this woman, madam?
Sue Ellen (ironicly): What? Why are you laughing at me?
Sue Ellen (playfully): Hmmm. Visiting the Tower of London? Having tea with Lady Di?
Don: Me too, Sue Ellen (he kisses her cheek). Right before your call, three months ago, I had a funny feeling. I was almost sure you were going to call me, and you did.
Sue Ellen: That´s what you get when you let someone read your diary...They get to know you too well.
Don: You also came here about two years ago, after your brother-in-law was sentenced. And after Mandy Winger died before your eyes, and you lost control of your companies. I´m going to tell you the same thing I told you then: you still got it. And I´m not talking about your beautiful brown eyes...You still got the capacity to pull yourself together, no matter what happens, and build up something out of the blue. You lost your companies and you were sure that the women who tried to kill you got away with it. But you took you cell phone and called me, and the next day, you were here in London. I was a little scared when I saw you, but I tried to hide it.
Sue Ellen: Did I look so awful?
Don: You didn´t dare to look at my eyes, that´s it. Until the second week, you didn´t tell me what had happened. Of course, I knew that already thanks to John Ross. That damned trial, then knowing that J.R. had a daughter, and, in the middle of that, your new relationship with Dusty...I decided to let you alone for awhile, and time healed you. I was sure of that, and I wished for it so strongly.
Sue Ellen: I just...feel as if I´m stuck in a loop. Everything´s going fine, and suddenly, once again, I have to start over, as if everything I have done until now is worthless. I do know I can make it on my own again, but every time, it´s harder and harder...That´s what happened when John Ross got married and I almost lost my business. And that young woman...not being sure, ever, if she was responsible for my overdose, and knowing that she is J.R.´s daughter...That was the last drop. And you helped me a lot, Don.
Sue Ellen: ...I know: you´re my best friend too. But it´s time to go back home and face everybody. Face my family, the Ewings. My son and his wife Andrea. I´ve isolated myself by focusing on my business, and I may have lost the most important thing I´ve had: my family. And maybe even Dusty. So...I´ll take a flight back to Dallas tomorrow, and maybe, if I´m lucky, the Ewings will forgive me for not supporting them in the last two years. What do you think, do I have a chance?
Sue Ellen: And do you think I´d be helpless in London without you? I could go see "Piaf" one more time...or even "The Graduate".
Don: I´m afraid "The Graduate" is back to the U.S.
Sue Ellen: Too bad...I found it so...exciting (they both laugh loudly). Don (looking all serious again), thank you so much for being such a good friend. I miss you...and I love you. Now I´m sure everything will go back to normal for me (she embraces him and Don softly caresses her hair).
Any opinion or comment is not only welcome but needed. Don´t hesitate to make any questions in this thread.
Yes, the beech is gone, and soon forgotten...It took a big bus to kill her off (maybe I overdid it a bit too much here, did I?).
Barbara: I´m also happy to see you Ray. I wish it were in better circumstances...Julian and I just came today from Houston, in time for the barbecue. First of all, I need to know what happened on the last Oil Barons´ Ball night. You know why the police took you here, don´t you?
Barb: Did you know him Ray?
Ray (serious): No I did not. But I had heard from him thru Bob, he had hired this detective guy to find about his son Christopher´s whereabouts.
Barb: We don´t have too much time, so I´ll go straight to the point. What happened on the Ball´s night? Where were you that night?
Ray: Well, Donna and Ray had decided to stay at home and skip the Ball, because my doctor had insisted. I´ve had a lot headaches lately and those events are quite noisy, not to say violent... (Ray smiles at Barb) I was half-asleep when I saw my cell flashing in the darkness. I´d rather have it on in case some emergency happens...So that night, I got a call from Bob. I went to the kitchen so I wouldn´t bother Donna. He told me that he had an idea: Why not spend the weekend the three of us together, meaning me, Bob and Gary, in a brotherly outing as we used to? We would go fishing to Takapa lake, though we had to hurry up to leave early in the morning.
Barb: Where did Bob call you from?
Ray: He was in a motel in Lubbock. He had decided to stop his search and fire the detective. Then he called Gary and had arranged everything with him to go fishing. So if I agreed, we would go the next day to Takapa. I said ok, and hung up. Right after that, I went to pick up my fishing stuff, got into my truck and drove all the way until our meeting point, half-way between Lubbock and Dallas.
Barb: Did you think it was a usual thing to do, calling you at night to go fishing the next day?
Ray (trying to smile): Bob may be quite impulsive, you know him enough to know that.
Barb: And what happened during that weekend?
Ray: Well, we tried to disconnect from everything to keep the atmosphere as quiet as possible, but Bob forgot to switch off his cell, and got a call. It was his son Christopher, who had decided to come home with his half-sister Charlie.
Barb: Did it surprise you Ray?
Ray: In fact yes, I was shocked. I didn´t know that Chris had been living near Southfork for awhile, and had lost touch with him lately, as well as with his sister. So after that call, we decided to pack up things on Sunday morning and go back home.
Barb (looking away): Do you know why the police bring you here Ray?
Barb: And who happens to own that rig?
Ray: That rig was one of the richest oil rigs in all the Southfork property. Miss Ellie promised her father she wouldn´t let anyone drill any part of land belonging to the ranch, but in 1980, J.R. mortaged the house and the whole land to get a loan, so he could invest in a big Asian lease. They almost had to drill that land when the bank pushed them to, but in the last minute J.R. found a gusher and they stopped the drilling at Southfork. After that, that piece of land was almost forgotten, and the rig was sealed right away. Just before J.R.´s death, Miss Ellie gave to Bobby the ranch´s ownership...and he gave me part of his lands, sure as was that I´d never let anyone drill that land. Now, Section 40 belongs...to me.
Barb: So you are the one who best knows everything related to that rig?
Barb: I have to tell you Ray, that the police found your DNA in the clothes of that detective. And his death seems to be dated back on the last Oil Barons´ Ball night. (Barb moves her hand towards Ray´s) You know I do care about you. A few years ago, we both shared something very special, so please, for our memories´ sake, and for you own sake, tell me truth about what happened that night. Donna is pushing me to let a lawyer friend of hers, a Paul Morgan, defend you if you are formally accused of murder. I ask you, no I beg you, to let me defend you. Honestly Ray, do you think that a man in his seventies can defend you better than me? Do you really want to take that chance? (Ray puts his right hand over his face and closes his eyes. Then he opens them and looks at Barb) So please Ray decide: Do you want me to be your lawyer...?
Ray: Yes Barb. Be my lawyer.
(Echoed dialogues) J.R.: Daddy would be ashamed to see you where you were. Sell me your share of Ewing Oil! You are not worth them...Look at you: unshaved, drunk, rotting in a jail. Daddy would be ashamed of you!
Ray: What a better reason to solve out our problems?
Ray: So you are pregnant, we´re separate...what are you supposed to do Donna?
Guard: Well Krebbs. Lucky you. Time to go. The charges have been dropped.
Ray (putting his coat on and combing his hair): Really? What´s changed?
Guard: We can´t tell you. (Ray gets out of the jail and, in the corridor, he crosses his way out with the two guards, taking inside the jailhouse another person, well-known to Ray.
Ray: Hey, what the Hell is going on? Why are you doing this? He´s not guilty of anything!!
Guard: Shut up Krebbs, or you´ll spend another night for altercation.
Gary: So, where should I begin?
Barbara (putting her hands together): What about the last Oil Barons´ Ball? What happened that night?
Barb: And what did you do then?
Val: Is anything wrong Gary?
Gary: Valene, remember what happened a couple of years ago, when I was kidnapped by the sons of that guy from California who beated me? (She nods) And your mistrust when I told you a lie trying to keep it away from you?
Barb: Did you see anyone at the ranch?
Gary: No I didn´t. The house was empty and I just took my fishing staff and left.
Gary: She returned with the women to Southfork.
Barb (looking at him suspiciously): Did you think it was a usual thing to do, calling you at night to go fishing the next day?
Barb: And didn´t Ray go with you?
Gary: No...Yes, I mean. Sure, we used to do this kind of things when we were kids.
Barb: Why didn´t you tell me that Ray was going with you, Gary?
Gary (nervously): I don´t know. I forgot it, for a moment.
Barb: What did you do after that? Where did you meet them exactly?
Gary: Half-way between Lubbock and Dallas.
Barb: So Ray was with Bob already?
Gary: I think we are finished, Barbara (she walks away from Gary, then turns around and gets closer to him).
(Black screen and title of the scene in white letters: "John Ross". Fade into the first scene: General shot of one of the parks in Ray Hubbard Lake. Subtitle: "2005". Cut to a profile shot of John Ross and his fiancée Andrea, lying on the ground, looking at each other).
John Ross: What´s been your favorite moment of the night?
John Ross: I have...something for you (he reaches out his jacket and takes a black box out of his right pocket. Then he gets down on his knees and opens the box for her) Will you marry me, Andrea, and make me the happiest man in the planet?
Andrea (she looks at the shining Queen Plumeria Dome ring): Oh my God...It´s amazing...Is it rose gold?
John Ross: Sure! It´s 22 karats, especially brought from Hawaii for the most beautiful girl in the world.
Andrea: I´ve never seen something so wonderful John Ross! Do you know the meaning of this type of flower, Plumeria?
John Ross: I can see the first three every time I look at you, and you can see the last one in me, if you look at me the way I look at you.
John Ross: Google is really helpful these days... (both laugh) So my question is, Andrea Thompson, will you marry me and become the new Mrs. Ewing?
John Ross (walking away to be able to hear her mother´s voice): Hello, mum?
Sue Ellen: John Ross, are you at the barbecue?
John Ross: Sure, why aren´t you here already?
Sue Ellen: Something´s happened with my accounts. They´re almost overdrawn...all of them.
John Ross: What do you mean with that?
Sue Ellen: I was at the door when I got an urgent call from my accountant and he told me that big sums of money have been withdrawn this last week. There´s no funds to pay my staff and all the future expenses. I can´t believe it!
John Ross: What do you mean, "no funds to pay your staff"? You are multimillionaire, as much as a Ewing!
Sue Ellen: Oh please, John Ross, don´t be childish...You know that my capital is in two accounts that finance my companies. There is no other use for these accounts. I think someone has hacked my bank accounts!
Sue Ellen: Would you please tell Christopher to call me as soon as possible?
John Ross: Do you want me to find him and put him on?
Sue Ellen: No, enjoy the barbecue...Give my regards to everybody and excuse my absence.
John Ross (confused): Ok. Bye mum.
John Ross: Well, to be true, this a Ewing barbecue. Not a party, honey... (he sweetly kisses her lips) People can´t say they´ve seen everything Texan unless they´ve been in one...Are you enjoying yourself?
John Ross: Yeah, Val had Lucy when she was only fifteen. You know, she and Gary got married too early...and my dad didn´t like that. There´s something I´d like to ask you Andrea (she stares at him): Have you ever thought about having a baby?
Andrea: Not until now. My career has come first, at least until I met you...What do you have in mind?
John Ross: Hi sheriff, wanna have a beer?
Sheriff: No. I´m very sorry but I´m on duty. I need to talk to Mr. Ray Krebbs. Is he present?
John Ross: Look around, I think he is... (turning around to look for Ray, he eventually finds him by the pool, and points at him) Over there, right by the pool.
Sheriff: Oh, ok. Thanks Mr. Ewing.
Bob: Hello Sheriff. I´m surprised to see you here...but you´re welcome as usual.
Sheriff: I´m sorry but you are under arrest for the murder of a man called John Doe (the assistant begins to read his rights to him. Ray doesn´t resist to them and looks helpless to Bob, who keeps his eyes on him, as if he is trying to give him a message in some kind of code. Donna notices this and walks closer to the sheriff). We have found incriminatory proofs in his body.
Gary: Hey sheriff, you said yourself that the man who was found dead at the Section 40 rig was a drunk, a hobo, and had nothing to do with us (A scared Val, behind him, listens to the conversation).
Sheriff: No Mr. Ewing. I just said "probably", he probably was a drunk man who fell down into the rig after opening it again. But that has changed. I can´t give you more information.
Val: May we help you somehow Donna?
Valene: But, Donna, why are you so angry at me?
Donna: I´m too angry to continue this talk Val. So if you excuse me, I have to go try stop my husband from being imprisoned again (She takes her purse and gets out, but John Ross has had time to leave. Traveling to John Ross, drinking a beer).
John Ross (muttering to himself): Well well, look at this. So my dear uncles have quite a stormy past and I didn´t know...If dad was here, he would be happy...really happy.
Awesome story great updates finally caught up. I wonder if Donna can help keep Ray out of jail?. Who took Sue Ellen's money? I hope you update again soon.
I´m glad you like it Jessie. I´m working on a couple of teaser videos about the Who went to jail Mystery...This weekend I´ll publish a few more entries...the end is near!!!
The end of season six or end of your story Toni?
I'm not reading this yet as I wanna read things in order so I'm gonna read "The Last Years of Southfork" first.
No, the end of a storyline that revolved around a mysterious crime that might have committed (or not) one of the Ewing brothers. Actually, I had to omit the bulk of this story and turned it into a flashback-flashforward single episode that ends with the revelation of "Who spent 2 years in jail?".
Not only are involved the three brothers, but also their wives, of course, their grownup children, and their lawyer and cousin Barbara Southworth (Jessica Lange), as well as the District Attorney and the Judge themselves. I did give a lot of thought to this but was just blocked out for a long time, and decided to use the format used by shows like "The Affair": showing different POV´s of those months and also of the 3 years spent since the first and tragic event.
About the title, I mean several things: one, that "Ewing Empire" will continue (for a long time, I hope...), two, that the 3 years that have passed by have been very hard for everybody in the Ewing family, and three, that there will be consequences in the following episode, which will be narrated in present tense, as usual (not with flashbacks).
Thanks to all of you who read it and / or give me your feedback! Karin, I´ll try to speed up the posting of the episodes of TLYOS.
Here´s a little trailer I have edited for this specific episode and storyline. It´s funny how often the Dallas stars are called to play in a storyline about a trial. I hope you like it and post here your opinion, I wish the quality of some clips were better but hey, I finally put it all together!!
John Ross: So Mother? What´s so urgent? Did you talk to Christopher about your problem?
Sue Ellen: Yes I did. I knew he´d be able to help me though...maybe it´s too late.
John Ross: Too late? What do you mean?
John Ross: It´s not your fault...You got stuck in Paris because of the controllers´ strike and you couldn´t come back on time for the Oil Barons´ Ball...Besides, you must have an insurance for cases like this, don´t you?
Sue Ellen: I do, but we´re talking about millions here. And time is important. I was wondering...if you could loan me some money.
John Ross: Sure. How much do you need?
Sue Ellen: Right now I need around 2 million.
John Ross (sitting down and holding her hands): Mum, you know I and Andrea are going to marry in a couple of months, don´t you?
Sue Ellen: Yes, but...what does it have to do with your inheritance?
John Ross: Nothing. Or almost. Look, right before I met Andrea, Pamela´s company, Wentworth Industries, went public and she became the wealthiest woman in Texas...like it or not. Well, I had been saving my money until then because I had found out about her decision. So I´ve been buying Wentworth stock since then, and I´m going to give it to Andrea as a wedding present. At this moment I own 50% of that company. Dad would be proud.
John Ross: Mama, do you have to be so sarcastic? I wanted to become someone big, not only your son or J.R.´s. It was very tough losing the company that James and I funded...Ewing Oil...I´m very grateful to you for trying to save my neck then, but I can´t loan you more than half a million, tops.
Karin, I´ll try to speed up the posting of the episodes of TLYOS.
Thank you Toni, I'll look forward to it.
You walk by and I fall to pieces"
Julian (unexpectedly): How can I be just your friend (paraphrasing the song)?
Barbara (still crying): Will you ever forgive me?
Julian (holding her tightly): There is nothing to forgive. Just stay home. And please, don´t fall to pieces... (The couple laugh, and kiss passionately as the camera pans around them and the song comes to an end again).
PS: 2 scenes left only!!!