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"OK, let&amp;#x27;s get right to the chase here. If you at all have enjoyed watching Dallas any time over the last five decades (be it the original, the continuation, or reruns in between), then you do NOT want to miss tonight&amp;#x27;s episode. Rather, you can&amp;#x27;t miss tonight&amp;#x27;s episode. It is one of the most finely acted and written pieces of television in a long time, and it reunites many of your Dallas favorites as they say goodbye to Larry Hagman/J.R. Ewing. I spoke with the cast at PaleyFest (sponsored by Hulu, Samsung Galaxy, and Samsung Smart TV) to find out the answers to your burning questions, including the most hilarious video with the cast reading a script from 1988! Wait till you see THAT video below! Why does Christopher Ewing still live at home in Southfork? Patrick Duffy explains, &amp;quot;One of the things that was so fun in the original show is that we were the most dysfunctional family in the world, and twice a day we would sit down and have dinner. So the more we can bring all those characters together, the better. That&amp;#x27;s why Christopher lives at Southfork, it&amp;amp;#8217;s why J.R. moved into Southfork, and now with Emma moving in, it&amp;amp;#8217;s good to continually populate Southfork Ranch with all these dysfunctional plot lines.&amp;amp;#8221; What scenes were added after Larry Hagman passed away? Duffy tells me that &amp;quot;the angry birds and IM scene were added after Larry died. We had filmed 90 percent of that episode, and I had actually gone in to J.R.&amp;amp;#8217;s room and had a conversation with him in person, and now we couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t do that because we had to put him in Abu Dhabi or wherever he was. So the first scene I did when I came back to work after Larry died was that scene at the computer where I yell at him. It was kind of appropriate that I was yelling to him not there.&amp;amp;#8221; (As a side note, Duffy was impressed I picked up on the fact that there was a different kind of emotion in that IM/computer scene that you&amp;#x27;d normally see. Go back and rewatch and let me know if you notice a difference). How did Larry&amp;#x27;s last scene on-air (sitting in his hotel room when he is shot) get put together since Larry never filmed that scene in the first place? After all, it looked exactly like Larry knew what he was filming. Duffy explains, &amp;quot;That&amp;amp;#8217;s brilliant film editing. They found out-takes; they found shots that they couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t use before and changed the coloring to make it look like it was all done at the same time. They changed the angles of it and did everything on the computer to actually formulate a conversation that was never shot. All of those little things on the phone were shot at different times, in different scenes, and they put them all together and changed them all enough that it looked like it was a typical scene with Larry planned that way. But Larry and I always thought... we did 300 and something episodes of Dallas, and with the computer systems they have now, they could probably take the footage and reconstruct it and make another 100 episodes.&amp;amp;#8221; Impressive, right? Does the cast know who really shot J.R.? Actually, only Duffy knows. In the last scene of tonight&amp;#x27;s episode, there&amp;#x27;s a moment where Patrick has to react to a letter and can&amp;#x27;t reveal the contents. In order to know how to play that scene &amp;quot;correctly,&amp;quot; the producers decided to fill him in on who shot J.R. None of the other cast knows. When will it be revealed who shot J.R.? Executive producers Cynthia Cidre and Michael Robin promised the audience that there will be a resolution by the end of the season. Duffy calls the revelation the &amp;quot;most brilliant piece of scriptwriting I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen.&amp;quot; Is it hard for Patrick Duffy&amp;amp;#8212;one of Larry Hagman&amp;#x27;s real-life best friends&amp;amp;#8212;to watch their last scenes together? &amp;amp;#8220;No. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not too hard. I&amp;amp;#8217;m looking at my best friend, so it&amp;amp;#8217;s fun to watch,&amp;quot; Duffy tells me. Duffy also told me that the scarf he is wearing in the above picture was given to him by Emma Bell, who plays Ann&amp;#x27;s daughter, Emma, on the show, when she was in Machu Picchu. &amp;quot;I cherish it greatly.&amp;quot; Meanwhile, Patrick also mentioned that he thoroughly enjoys his Glamour interviews and never wants to get too old for us. (Never, Patrick!) Will Sue Ellen and Gary Ewing hook up? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know, but she is lonely,&amp;quot; says Linda Gray. &amp;quot;I want her to be with someone. I think the writers are trying to figure it out...that&amp;#x27;s what I&amp;#x27;m thinking. But she&amp;#x27;s definitely busy with her life...she&amp;#x27;s got things to do!&amp;quot; What was Linda Gray&amp;#x27;s favorite episode with Larry? Gray tells me it was when &amp;quot;he comes to the porch because he saved Sue Ellen. He saved her from going to jail. It was a lovely moment.&amp;quot; What lies ahead for Ann and her daughter, Emma? Emma will be moving into Southfork, but it&amp;#x27;s not all smooth sailing. Brenda Strong explains that &amp;quot;Ann doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t really know her daughter. As much as they are the same blood, they need to re-establish a relationship that they never had.&amp;amp;#8221; For season two&amp;#x27;s cliffhanger, who will be at the center of attention? Cidre promises that there will be two cliff-hangers, but they haven&amp;#x27;t decided what order within the episode to place them. She did admit that one of the cliff-hangers will center on Jordana Brewster&amp;#x27;s Elena Ramos. Now that Pamela Rebecca Barnes is getting deeper into her pregnancy, will we see a softer side to Cliff&amp;#x27;s menacing daughter? &amp;quot;I think so,&amp;quot; Julie Gonzalo tells me. &amp;quot;I think that that is making her change and will make her realize that her father wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t the best role model that she&amp;amp;#8217;s ever known, and a lot of that is coming out because she&amp;amp;#8217;s now becoming the parent. So I think you will see a bit of lightheartedness.&amp;amp;#8221; More Interesting Tidbits from the Panel: *Julie Gonzalo was supposed to keep the fact that she was really Pamela Rebecca Barnes a secret from the rest of her cast in season one. That didn&amp;#x27;t stop her from telling co-star Jordana Brewster, who obviously kept the secret. The producers had no idea that Jordana knew and weren&amp;#x27;t too impressed when they found out about that during the panel! Eh, water under the bridge, right? *Cynthia Cidre has gone to great lengths to make sure that the new Dallas matches most every detail from the original series. Except for one slight mistake that a fan brought to her attention during the Q&amp;amp;A. &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s Bobby Ewing, not Robert James Ewing!&amp;quot; Apparently Robert James was used a few times during season one, and the fan wanted Cidre to know that is not Bobby&amp;#x27;s real name...it&amp;#x27;s actually just Bobby Ewing. *Patrick once put a 300-pound naked man in the closet to prank Larry. He also put a lizard in his briefcase. &amp;quot;But, I caution other actors...the only reason I could do these kinds of things with Larry was because we knew it wouldn&amp;#x27;t interrupt the flow, cost production money, or stop us from getting our work done. I treasure those kinds of things when I think of Larry.&amp;quot; *Now, for the most hilarious moment of the afternoon...TV Guide&amp;#x27;s Will Keck, who marvelously moderated the panel (not the easiest of jobs considering so much of the mood was centered around Hagman&amp;#x27;s absence), brought two scripts from the original Dallas in 1988 that featured a young John Ross and Christopher Ewing. He asked the actors to do a line-reading, which ended up being one of the most genius moments I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen. Wait till you hear Josh Henderson trying to speak as an eight-year-old John Ross. And check out this scene with Patrick Duffy and Jesse Metcalfe! For the full Paley Fest video, watch below. 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