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Dallas’s last finale opens with an extend credits and ending with the ranch and the words “10 Years later . . .” (which would have been 2001)
Bobby hugs his mother out back of the South Fork house. “Take care of each other,” he says.
Tears fill Miss Ellie’s eyes. “We almost lost you in that car accident, and now you’re leaving us.”
“Please try and understand momma. California isn’t that far. Gary and I bought the West Fork ranch and we’re gonna run it together, and you’re always welcome. But Pam won’t come back to Texas. It’s a chance for us and Christopher and Lucas to be a family.”
“I do understand. I just wish . . . I wish you’d stay. But I get it. You have to go. I love you.”
“I love you too. I won’t be a stranger. I promise. I’ll bring the boys back often. And you’ll come out to California. I promise, momma.” They hug again.
Bobby then hugs JR. “I know you’ll take care of momma. But, remember your word with South Fork.”
“I’ll slant drill from the Wade Ranch. You know I bought it for you and your boys.”
“Thank you JR. Thank you.” They hug again and Bobby says, “It’s all yours now. Just as you always wanted it.”
“I never wanted you to leave.”
“But I have to.”
Christopher and Lucas hug their grandmother good bye and then their Uncle JR and then get in the car with their father.
Miss Ellie hugs JR from the side and says, “We have to let him go.”
“I thought after Jenna died and he got Lucas, I thought my buying the Wade Ranch for him, he’d stay. I wanted South Fork, but not like this. I guess somethings never turn out the way you want.”
“It’s not our life to live.” They wave good bye. Miss Ellie say “Now that you’ve got South Fork and Ewing Oil to yourself, now that you’ve taken West Star private, and Wentworth Tool and Die is yours, are you finally happy?”
“No momma. No I’m not. I suppose I never will be.”
“I wish I knew how to help you JR. I wish I knew how to make you happy.” She rests her head against her eldest sonand watches Bobby’s car leave South Fork.
A limousine pulls up in front of a tall glass office building in downtown Dallas. JR gets out and walks in. The sign on the building says, “JRE Industries:” and lists “Ewing Oil. West Star. Wentworth Tool and Die. CMB Financial. South Fork Cattle Company.”
Up stairs in the impressive executive offices JR is welcomed by the secretaries of years gone by while making his way into a big board room with the oil painting of Jock prominently displayed. He shakes Harv Smithfield’s hand and says, “Where do I sign?”
Harv directs him to a set of papers on the table. “So we’re clear, there’s no going back. This puts all of JRE and the South Fork house in John Ross’s hands. He doesn’t control it. But there’s no going back.”
“I got all that, Harv. I promised my boy that I’d see to it and I’m doing just that.” JR signs.
Donna walks in the room. “I heard you were here, JR.”
“Just singing some papers, I’m still retiring.”
Harv says, “I’d have never believed you were turning over the reigns to Donna, but an excellent choice. Former Secretary of Energy. Widow of a U. S. Senator, completed his term. Widow of Governor Sam Culver. Ain’t no one more capable of leading JRE and the Ewing political network. But she’s no puppet, JR.”
“I know that. I don’t need a puppet. I’m retiring, remember?”
Donna say, “Just as long as you remember, JR.”
JR laughs and offers his hand, “Contracts were made to be broken, honey, but a handshake is the law of God." The two shake hands.
Bobby rides the land with Gary, talking about all the work ahead of them and Christopher, Lucas, Bobby and Betsy.
Lucy attends a fundraiser in New York City where someone comments behind her back on her entering her fourth marriage and another person says, “Fifth. She was married to that doctor twice.” She has a commanding presence in the room. Another group talks about Lucy heading up the “Eleanor and Clayton Farlow Foundation.”
JR’s limousine pulls up to Ray Kreb’s old place. “Well Ray, I hear you got McKay to sell to you. Shame that fancy house of yours done burn down.”
“I’m OK with it JR. I like this place better anyway.”
JR holds out a check, “Tell me if this ain’t enough.”
Ray looks at it. “It ain’t for sale.”
“Common on now, Ray. Everything’s for sale. Figuring what you paid for this place a couple days ago, that’s there’s more than double your cost.”
Ray tears up the check. “I’m not interested.”
“You really moving back here?”
“You’re the one who brought my little girl back to Texas. What do you think?”
“I think you’re a fool if you think you’re gonna get Donna back. Too much water under that bridge. She’s grown past you, I mean you know she always was passed you. That woman is a force to be reckoned with. That’s why I hired her.”
“I just want to be part of my little girl’s life.”
“Well that I can respect. I don’t like it Ray, but I suppose I can live with you next door.” Just make sure your cattle says off my property.” JR gets back in his car.
Donna has lunch at the Cattlemen’s Club as Cliff Barnes stops by her table. “Well what’s this? Donna, I just can’t believe you’re working for JR.”
“Hello Cliff.”
“And Marilee, selling out too. After Jordan Lee’s kids sold out. JR’s gonna have gobbled up all the old independents.”
“I’m selling to Donna, just like the others did. And with her share of Canadian oil, JR is giving her sixteen percent of his company. If she feels she can handle JR, then who am I to question.”
Cliff says, “I don’t believe it, JR giving away sixteen percent of his daddy’s precious company. Donna, I never took you for a fool, until now, that is.”
“Cliff, aren’t you retired?”
“I am. I’m done with the oil business and sharks like JR Ewing. You’d be wise to do the same, cause right now you’re using your good name to do his bidding.”
JR steps up behind Cliff and says, “Well Barnes, Like my daddy alway's said, where there's a way, there's a will.”
Cliff says, “Ain’t you retired?”
“I am. I ain’t here for Donna’s meeting. I got a table over there. But what are you doing here? Donna already gobbled up Wade Luce.”
“I’m here to meet with Senator Neally over there. You take care JR. And Donna, remember what I said.” Cliff leaves.
JR says to Donna, “You don’t suppose Barnes is gonna run for Neally’s seat while Neally runs for governor, do you?”
Donna says, “I’m guessing Cliff is gonna run for Governor.”
“You don’t say.” JR leaves to sit with a group of old Texas oilmen including Punk Anderson.
Marilee says, “Not that I’m agreeing with Cliff, I do think you can handle JR, but aren’t you curious as to why JR would retire and hand over his company to you of all people?”
“I’m not curious at all. I know full well the answer. But, that has nothing to do with this deal. The offer’s on the table. The fact is it’s a good offer because Stonehurst isn’t big enough to weather the next down turn in which case either I’ll grab it up cheaper or one of the Seven Sister will.”
“Yes but your offer doesn’t take into account Stonehurst’s Canadian property.”
“But it does. That’s this figure. It’s based on geology figures minus the Wentworth bit, which you won’t be getting, so you can’t get at the oil. But Ewing Oil can. And we can ship it down a West Star pipeline to a West Star refinery and truck it out to a West Star gas station. All of that is out of your reach. But what I am most interested in, and you’ll see I’m paying most handsomely for, is Stonehurst’s oil field services business.”
Sue Ellen attends a DOA meeting where old friends greet her. “We’re so sorry to hear about Don.” “Does this mean you’re moving back to Dallas?” “Since he was the Earl of Maitland after his father died, do you get to keep the title?”
“I’m just here to see Clayton and visit old friends. I don’t really see me moving back.”
“How is he doing?”
“He’s fine. They think they removed all the cancer but he’s still got chemo. He and Miss Ellie moved back into South Fork for the time being.”
“Give her our best.”
“I will.”
“And the title?”
“Dowager Countess. My stepson’s wife is the Countess Maitland.”
“Oh how grand. Dowager Countess. Your mother must be thrilled.”
“Do you see Patricia much?”
“No so much as never. She does spend her summers in England.”
“And John Ross?”
“He’s twenty-two.”
“Oh he must be so handsome. Where did he go to college?”
“Well that’s a long story. He’s working on an oil field right now up in Canada.”
“Really? For Ewing Oil?”
“No Merilee’s company, Stonehurst.”
Bobby hugs his mother out back of the South Fork house. “Take care of each other,” he says.
Tears fill Miss Ellie’s eyes. “We almost lost you in that car accident, and now you’re leaving us.”
“Please try and understand momma. California isn’t that far. Gary and I bought the West Fork ranch and we’re gonna run it together, and you’re always welcome. But Pam won’t come back to Texas. It’s a chance for us and Christopher and Lucas to be a family.”
“I do understand. I just wish . . . I wish you’d stay. But I get it. You have to go. I love you.”
“I love you too. I won’t be a stranger. I promise. I’ll bring the boys back often. And you’ll come out to California. I promise, momma.” They hug again.
Bobby then hugs JR. “I know you’ll take care of momma. But, remember your word with South Fork.”
“I’ll slant drill from the Wade Ranch. You know I bought it for you and your boys.”
“Thank you JR. Thank you.” They hug again and Bobby says, “It’s all yours now. Just as you always wanted it.”
“I never wanted you to leave.”
“But I have to.”
Christopher and Lucas hug their grandmother good bye and then their Uncle JR and then get in the car with their father.
Miss Ellie hugs JR from the side and says, “We have to let him go.”
“I thought after Jenna died and he got Lucas, I thought my buying the Wade Ranch for him, he’d stay. I wanted South Fork, but not like this. I guess somethings never turn out the way you want.”
“It’s not our life to live.” They wave good bye. Miss Ellie say “Now that you’ve got South Fork and Ewing Oil to yourself, now that you’ve taken West Star private, and Wentworth Tool and Die is yours, are you finally happy?”
“No momma. No I’m not. I suppose I never will be.”
“I wish I knew how to help you JR. I wish I knew how to make you happy.” She rests her head against her eldest sonand watches Bobby’s car leave South Fork.
A limousine pulls up in front of a tall glass office building in downtown Dallas. JR gets out and walks in. The sign on the building says, “JRE Industries:” and lists “Ewing Oil. West Star. Wentworth Tool and Die. CMB Financial. South Fork Cattle Company.”
Up stairs in the impressive executive offices JR is welcomed by the secretaries of years gone by while making his way into a big board room with the oil painting of Jock prominently displayed. He shakes Harv Smithfield’s hand and says, “Where do I sign?”
Harv directs him to a set of papers on the table. “So we’re clear, there’s no going back. This puts all of JRE and the South Fork house in John Ross’s hands. He doesn’t control it. But there’s no going back.”
“I got all that, Harv. I promised my boy that I’d see to it and I’m doing just that.” JR signs.
Donna walks in the room. “I heard you were here, JR.”
“Just singing some papers, I’m still retiring.”
Harv says, “I’d have never believed you were turning over the reigns to Donna, but an excellent choice. Former Secretary of Energy. Widow of a U. S. Senator, completed his term. Widow of Governor Sam Culver. Ain’t no one more capable of leading JRE and the Ewing political network. But she’s no puppet, JR.”
“I know that. I don’t need a puppet. I’m retiring, remember?”
Donna say, “Just as long as you remember, JR.”
JR laughs and offers his hand, “Contracts were made to be broken, honey, but a handshake is the law of God." The two shake hands.
Bobby rides the land with Gary, talking about all the work ahead of them and Christopher, Lucas, Bobby and Betsy.
Lucy attends a fundraiser in New York City where someone comments behind her back on her entering her fourth marriage and another person says, “Fifth. She was married to that doctor twice.” She has a commanding presence in the room. Another group talks about Lucy heading up the “Eleanor and Clayton Farlow Foundation.”
JR’s limousine pulls up to Ray Kreb’s old place. “Well Ray, I hear you got McKay to sell to you. Shame that fancy house of yours done burn down.”
“I’m OK with it JR. I like this place better anyway.”
JR holds out a check, “Tell me if this ain’t enough.”
Ray looks at it. “It ain’t for sale.”
“Common on now, Ray. Everything’s for sale. Figuring what you paid for this place a couple days ago, that’s there’s more than double your cost.”
Ray tears up the check. “I’m not interested.”
“You really moving back here?”
“You’re the one who brought my little girl back to Texas. What do you think?”
“I think you’re a fool if you think you’re gonna get Donna back. Too much water under that bridge. She’s grown past you, I mean you know she always was passed you. That woman is a force to be reckoned with. That’s why I hired her.”
“I just want to be part of my little girl’s life.”
“Well that I can respect. I don’t like it Ray, but I suppose I can live with you next door.” Just make sure your cattle says off my property.” JR gets back in his car.
Donna has lunch at the Cattlemen’s Club as Cliff Barnes stops by her table. “Well what’s this? Donna, I just can’t believe you’re working for JR.”
“Hello Cliff.”
“And Marilee, selling out too. After Jordan Lee’s kids sold out. JR’s gonna have gobbled up all the old independents.”
“I’m selling to Donna, just like the others did. And with her share of Canadian oil, JR is giving her sixteen percent of his company. If she feels she can handle JR, then who am I to question.”
Cliff says, “I don’t believe it, JR giving away sixteen percent of his daddy’s precious company. Donna, I never took you for a fool, until now, that is.”
“Cliff, aren’t you retired?”
“I am. I’m done with the oil business and sharks like JR Ewing. You’d be wise to do the same, cause right now you’re using your good name to do his bidding.”
JR steps up behind Cliff and says, “Well Barnes, Like my daddy alway's said, where there's a way, there's a will.”
Cliff says, “Ain’t you retired?”
“I am. I ain’t here for Donna’s meeting. I got a table over there. But what are you doing here? Donna already gobbled up Wade Luce.”
“I’m here to meet with Senator Neally over there. You take care JR. And Donna, remember what I said.” Cliff leaves.
JR says to Donna, “You don’t suppose Barnes is gonna run for Neally’s seat while Neally runs for governor, do you?”
Donna says, “I’m guessing Cliff is gonna run for Governor.”
“You don’t say.” JR leaves to sit with a group of old Texas oilmen including Punk Anderson.
Marilee says, “Not that I’m agreeing with Cliff, I do think you can handle JR, but aren’t you curious as to why JR would retire and hand over his company to you of all people?”
“I’m not curious at all. I know full well the answer. But, that has nothing to do with this deal. The offer’s on the table. The fact is it’s a good offer because Stonehurst isn’t big enough to weather the next down turn in which case either I’ll grab it up cheaper or one of the Seven Sister will.”
“Yes but your offer doesn’t take into account Stonehurst’s Canadian property.”
“But it does. That’s this figure. It’s based on geology figures minus the Wentworth bit, which you won’t be getting, so you can’t get at the oil. But Ewing Oil can. And we can ship it down a West Star pipeline to a West Star refinery and truck it out to a West Star gas station. All of that is out of your reach. But what I am most interested in, and you’ll see I’m paying most handsomely for, is Stonehurst’s oil field services business.”
Sue Ellen attends a DOA meeting where old friends greet her. “We’re so sorry to hear about Don.” “Does this mean you’re moving back to Dallas?” “Since he was the Earl of Maitland after his father died, do you get to keep the title?”
“I’m just here to see Clayton and visit old friends. I don’t really see me moving back.”
“How is he doing?”
“He’s fine. They think they removed all the cancer but he’s still got chemo. He and Miss Ellie moved back into South Fork for the time being.”
“Give her our best.”
“I will.”
“And the title?”
“Dowager Countess. My stepson’s wife is the Countess Maitland.”
“Oh how grand. Dowager Countess. Your mother must be thrilled.”
“Do you see Patricia much?”
“No so much as never. She does spend her summers in England.”
“And John Ross?”
“He’s twenty-two.”
“Oh he must be so handsome. Where did he go to college?”
“Well that’s a long story. He’s working on an oil field right now up in Canada.”
“Really? For Ewing Oil?”
“No Merilee’s company, Stonehurst.”
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