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<blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 63208" data-attributes="member: 130">Bo says to Gary, &quot;I heard Uncle Bobby signed over half his mineral rights for South Fork to Uncle Ray.&quot;&quot;Yea that&#039;s what he said.&nbsp; He wanted to make sure Charlie, Margret and Lucas were taken care of.&quot;Bo hands him a check, &quot;I want to buy half your mineral rights.&quot;Gary takes a look at it, appearing impressed.&nbsp; &quot;Your father forgot about you?&quot; &quot;No.&nbsp; He remembered me and James, just not with a share of South Fork oil. But my brother and sister included me.&nbsp; I live here.&nbsp; And I own a third of JRE.&nbsp; What I&#039;m missing is a sixth of South Fork&#039;s oil.&quot;&quot;I&#039;ll think about it.&quot;Bo then hands him a large envelope.&nbsp; &quot;Don&#039;t think too hard.&quot;Gary looks at the contents and says, &quot;Now I see the resemblance to your father.&quot;&quot;Well, I&#039;ll take that as a complement, since you resemble a termite.&nbsp; The papers are in there too.&nbsp; Sign &#039;em and leave &#039;em before you leave and cash that check in twenty-four hours, then we&#039;re all good.&quot;John Ross pulls up his pants in their bedroom as Pamela asks, &quot;So you really slept with her?&quot;&quot;Gabi?&quot;&quot;Gabi.&nbsp; Amy.&nbsp; Anyone else?&quot;&quot;Do you really wanta know?&quot;&quot;Pretty much answers that doesn&#039;t it?&quot;&quot;Long before you.&nbsp; Gabi was married to Carlos&#039;s oldest son.&nbsp; She had plans to get her hands on the DelSol money.&quot;&quot;Which she did.&quot;&quot;She controls their trust fund, which is a fifth of his fortune.&nbsp; About fifteen billion dollars.&nbsp; And she did what ever to make her son, Jeremy Wendell, the Chairman of the DelSol Group.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Do they stand a chance at getting a share of the Alamo Oil?&quot;&quot;If they buy some mineral rights north of the boarder, but they&#039;re not touching our share.&quot;&quot;How rich are we?&quot;&quot;Marv estimates when all&#039; said and down, at the current price of oil, forty-five billion, each.&nbsp; With you and Chris, another five billion, each.&quot; &quot;Oh my God.&quot;&quot;He did say it was his masterpiece.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Oh my God John Ross.&nbsp; Oh my God.&quot;&nbsp; Pamela begins kissing him, walking him backwards toward the bed.&quot;Gabi and her boys get out of their car and walk up to the front door of their massive chateau.&nbsp; As they do, she says, &quot;I paid a lot of money for the DelSol Group&#039;s half of the Tip to Tale Ranch and if I can&#039;t use it, I intend to get half of what the Ewing&#039;s have.&quot;Benjamin says, &quot;You swindled our aunts and uncles out of their share and you&#039;re pissed it turns out to be worthless.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m mad the Ewing&#039;s are getting one up on us.&nbsp; I&#039;ve waited a long time for the chance to strike and it keeps getting further and further away from me.&quot;&nbsp; She walks into the house.&nbsp; They follow.&quot;In the massive entry, bright, white and elegant, Gabi says to her sons, &quot;They destroyed my father and took his find.&nbsp; Your grandfather.&nbsp; They&#039;ve destroyed anyone who got in their way.&nbsp; Cliff Barnes is rotting in a Mexican prison.&nbsp; Harris Ryland in a prison somewhere in Colorado.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; No.&nbsp; It&#039;s time these people pay for what they&#039;ve done.&quot;&nbsp; Then looking at Benjamin, &quot;Either you get on board with that or get out of my way.&quot; Ellie gets off her horse and John Ross says, &quot;What&#039;s this I hear you&#039;re working on getting a seat on the board of the DelSol Group?&nbsp; Are you trying to antagonize them?&quot;&quot;It&#039;s called being preemptive.&nbsp; It&#039;s why I&#039;m here isn&#039;t it?&nbsp; I know business.&quot;&quot;I&#039;ll never forget the look on Uncle Bobby&#039;s&nbsp; face when he found out we were keeping you a secret.&nbsp; Or when you told him we&#039;d never fight over South Fork, that if it made me happy you&#039;d burn it to the ground.&quot;&quot;Well h he ticked me off.&nbsp; Blaming you for everything, even Chris bring in the hospital.&nbsp; I don&#039;t put up with that crap.&nbsp; So did you really have an affair with Gabi Wendell?&quot;I was fourteen the first summer it happened.&nbsp; She&#039;s been plotting to destroy our father.&nbsp; Do you really think it was an affair.&quot;&quot;Oh my God.&nbsp; Fourteen.&quot;&quot;I honestly thought she loved me.&quot;&quot;When do you realize she didn&#039;t?&quot;&quot;When I came back here to strike oil on South Fork.&nbsp; She set me up with Veronica Martinez.&nbsp; She manipulated the&nbsp; whole thing. Then when I was in jail she wouldn&#039;t help me get out.&nbsp; She knows everybody.&nbsp; She wouldn&#039;t even return my call.&nbsp; Told me it was too dangerous, getting caught together.&nbsp; Then when dad died.&quot;&quot;I told you to come to England.&nbsp; Getaway from the hornets nest.&nbsp; You just got deeper and deeper in the mess.&quot;&quot;I had to finish JR&#039;s masterpiece. When I knew I had to finance the take over of West Star, I should have know to call you then.&quot;&quot;Well, none the less you did.&nbsp; Now I&#039;ve got this covered.&nbsp; I&#039;ll get on the board of the DelSol Group and keep a watchful eye on the Wendell&#039;s.&quot;John Ross hugs his sister.&nbsp; &quot;Thank you.&quot;&quot;Of course John Ross.&quot;Bo gets down out of a helicopter as it lands along with a heavily armed crew.&nbsp; He says, &quot;Don&#039;t forget, shoot to kill.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want anything happening to a single rig or stretch of pipeline.&nbsp; Lock it down.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Yes Mr. Ewing.&quot;Gabi welcomes Sue Ellen to Walnut Grove as the women of the DOA gather in her living room.&nbsp; I&#039;m the middle of the luncheon meeting Sue Ellen says, &quot;Of course it&#039;s a good cause.&nbsp; The Ewing Foundation gives to children&#039;s medicine in several places around the country.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure if I talk to Pamela, she&#039;d underwrite the whole event for us.&quot;A couple ladies ask after her and God Sue Ellen should get Pamela to join.&nbsp; Sue Ellen couldn&#039;t agree more.&nbsp;&nbsp; John Ross and Pamela shower together.&nbsp; She laughs as her lather her body saying they&#039;re suppose to be getting dressed for dinner.&nbsp; Her laughter turns to moaning as his hands continue to explore her body.&nbsp; Ellie walks up behind Ruby in the barn as he&#039;s cleaning out a stall and slaps him on the ass.&nbsp; When he objects she tells him how much she&nbsp; enjoys him, while pulling apart his shirt.&nbsp; Bo and Ben roll around in bed together.&nbsp; The Ewing&#039;s gather in the living room for drinks before dinner.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ellie makes an announcement, &quot;Chris sold his share of EO to Gabi.&nbsp; She informed Marv this afternoon.&quot;&nbsp; John Ross is furious, accusing him of betraying the family and after all he&#039;s done to fund his methane research.&quot;Ellie sits laughing with her drink in hand, &quot;Yes but those patterns belong to EO and Chris doesn&#039;t own a single piece of the company.&quot;&quot;Yes but I&#039;d rather he own a piece than Gabi.&quot;&quot;No worries.&nbsp; The bylaws of the corporation are clear.&nbsp; He must offer them for sale to an existing shareholder first and if he sells them to someone else, all we have to do is reimburse them.&nbsp; So, she really did us a favor.&nbsp; Marv sent the corporate lawyers over.&quot;John Ross laughs.&nbsp; The front door bell rings.&nbsp; And he wonders who it could be.&nbsp; Ellie asks Pamela if her share is for sale, &quot;Put a lot of cash in your pocket tondo anything you want with it.&quot;Pamela looks at her with skepticism.&nbsp; Bo announces, &quot;Its Benjamin DelSol.&quot;The room stops in hushed silence looking at him.&nbsp; Ellie asks, &quot;How long?&quot;&quot;Over a year.&quot;She looks highly up set.&nbsp; The house keep shows him in announcing him and leaving the room.&nbsp; The older man stands there looking nervous. Ellie straights herself up, crossing the room as if she&#039;s going to strangle him and hugs him.&nbsp; &quot;Welcome Ben.&nbsp; I assume my brother told you dinner is eight sharp.&nbsp; You can&#039;t be late, but we always have some time to gather before hand.&quot;&nbsp; Taking his arm she leads him into the room. &quot;You know everyone, I suppose at least from the other day.&nbsp; The boys are up stairs.&nbsp; They&#039;ll be down for dinner.&quot;&nbsp; John Ross says, &quot;So what&#039;ll it be.&quot;&quot;Soda water?&quot;&quot;Sure.&nbsp; No problem.&nbsp; You sure, nothing stronger?&quot;&quot;No that&#039;ll soda will be fine.&quot;The Ewing&#039;s including Ben and the three boys gather around the table.&nbsp; The food is passed around family style and everyone talks about the kids school or charity work, and the Oil Barron&#039;s Ball that&#039;s coming up.&nbsp; Ellie suggests that her and her mother and Pamela get working on dresses soon.&nbsp; And then asks Ben if he&#039;ll be joining them at their table, telling him that Bo is usually her date and &quot;Sue Ellen always goes with Sam Bronfman.&nbsp; Marv and his wife usually sit with us but maybe he could sit at the Anderson table.&nbsp; But that means I&#039;ll need a date.&quot; Ben isn&#039;t sure as Bo hasn&#039;t asked him and he hasn&#039;t told his mother yet.&nbsp; Ellie laughs, &quot;Oh please let me tell her.&nbsp; Please.&quot;Ellie, Sue Ellen and Pamela go over fabric while discussing with their dressmaker what they&#039;d like to see.&nbsp;&nbsp; Pamela mentions loaning her grandmother&#039;s emerald to Ellie.&nbsp; Ruby and John Ross mend a fence in the ranch.&nbsp; John Ross says, &quot;So Ellie just came out and asked you.&quot;&quot;Well it was more like she told me I&#039;m escorting her.&quot;&quot;Every function since she&#039;s been in Dallas, she&#039;s gone with&quot;I better not have to keep you in line?&quot;&quot;Yeah right.&quot;&nbsp; Ruby laughs. Sue Ellen and Pamela are having lunch together in a bright restaurant.&nbsp; Sue Ellen says, &quot;I was surprised when John Ross showed up with her.&nbsp; Ellie is a home body.&nbsp; I would never have thought she&#039;d have left England, except John Ross went to get her.&nbsp; When Don and I separated she stayed with him.&nbsp; He&#039;s like a father to her.&nbsp; Kind of like Dusty&#039;s a father to John Ross.&nbsp; When JR&#039;s your father you need someone else to help ground you.&quot;&quot;John Ross has got a lot of people in his life.&nbsp; I never meet someone with so many friends.&nbsp; And more x-girl friends.&quot;&quot;He&#039;s like Bobby that way.&nbsp; Ellie&#039;s more like JR.&nbsp; JR only had two friends that I know of and I didn&#039;t really know of Bum until toward the end of his life.&quot;&quot;Who was Bum?&quot;&quot;A guy who did stuff JR needed being done.&quot;&quot;Oh John Ross might of mentioned him.&nbsp; Then there was Carlos.&quot;&quot;Yeah they&#039;d been friends since college but John Disapproved.&nbsp; Well it was how it was in those days.&nbsp; Carlos was Mexican.&nbsp; And not that JR ever brought him up, he knew better.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the two of them were literally thick as thieves.&quot;&quot;I bet.&quot;&quot;I worry Ellie&#039;s more like that.&nbsp; She doesn&#039;t have any friends that I know about.&quot;&quot;Well she&#039;s been over there quite a while.&quot;&quot;Business.&quot;&quot;Probably.&nbsp; She is close to her brothers.&quot;&nbsp; Sue Ellen takes a contemplative sip of tea.&nbsp; &quot;For three kids raised pretty separately, they are very close.&nbsp; When Bo was at boarding school John Ross use to go visit him and bring him over to England to see Ellie.&nbsp; I think they thought no one knew about there secret meetings.&nbsp; You know, no matter how many friends John Ross had around I don&#039;t think he ever felt anything but lonely.&nbsp; Until he brought his brother and sister to South Fork.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m sure I didn&#039;t help.&quot;&quot;Well your marriage had a rocky start.&quot;&quot;That wasn&#039;t all John Ross&#039;s fault.&nbsp; As far as he knew I was in love with Chris.&nbsp; Telling a man like John Ross you&#039;re in love with him doesn&#039;t mean much.&nbsp; He&#039;s heard that his whole life.&nbsp; You have to prove it, and I kinda worked on disproving it.&quot;&quot;Yeah, he&#039;s like his father in that way.&nbsp; Whatever happened to that Arab prince?&quot;&quot;John Ross told you about him?&quot;&quot;No. Bobby.&nbsp; John Ross doesn&#039;t share his troubles.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Nothing happened between the two of us.&nbsp; I just wanted John Ross to think it had.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Looking back it wasn&#039;t such a good idea.&nbsp; Took us a long time to get past it.&quot;Ellie returns to table.&nbsp; &quot;That was Leland.&nbsp; We&#039;re talking about buying some properties off them here in Dallas but we weren&#039;t getting anywhere with their people so I think I might have loosed up the negotiations.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m certain you&#039;re like your father, and I don&#039;t want to know how you went about it.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m persuasive.&quot;John Ross opens up mail in his study.&nbsp; Looking strangely at one he turns the envelope over and on the sealed flap it reads in embossed script, &#039;John Ross Ewing II.&#039;&nbsp; Looking knowingly content, he takes out a letter and reads it, a smile turning to horror.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the cottage on South Fork Bo comes out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel and brushing his teeth.&nbsp; &quot;What do you mean it&#039;s best we don&#039;t sit together.&quot;&quot;My mother hates your family.&nbsp; I&#039;m just not ready to go there.&quot;&quot;When will you?&quot;&quot;I don&#039;t know.&quot;&quot;So never.&quot;&quot;I didn&#039;t say that, Bo.&quot;&quot;You didn&#039;t have to&quot;Bo returns to the bathroom.Guests arrive for cocktails at South Fork before the Oil Barron&#039;s Ball.&nbsp; John Ross introduces Marvin Anderson and his wife as old family friends to his new Wall Street investor, &quot;Joshua Bates.&nbsp; He believes in diversity with one-third in securities like businesses, one-third land say as rental property, and one-third stuff such as gold.&nbsp; No three ever go down at the same time.&nbsp; You keep your money moving.&nbsp; When gold is up and stock are down, sell gold and buy stocks.&nbsp; All that money you make off the Alamo o oil will be go through his and Ellie&#039;s hands.&nbsp; We&#039;re even talking about taking the company public.&quot;&quot;Public?&nbsp; Well that&#039;ll be a different way to run things,&quot; Marvin comments. John Ross pats him on the back. &quot;We know we can count on you.&quot;&nbsp; Ellie stands by Ruby who asks him why she doesn&#039;t mingle.&nbsp; Ellie responds, &quot;Why don&#039;t you?&quot;&quot;I prefer to watch people.&nbsp; You can learn a lot by watching.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Good point.&quot;&quot;Why do you stand back, if you don&#039;t mind me asking?&quot; &quot;I don&#039;t really know any of these people.&nbsp; Well except for family.&nbsp; And Professor Bates.&nbsp; And Marv Anderson, I guess.&quot;&quot;You not like John Ross are ya?&nbsp; He&#039;ll cover this whole room and then tonight the whole ball room and people will think they&#039;ve spend the whole evening talking to him.&quot;&quot;I find people best in small doses.&quot;&quot;What do they just irritate you.&quot;&quot;Yes.&quot;&quot;Well I&#039;m glad I don&#039;t irritate you.&quot;&quot;Who says you don&#039;t?&quot;&quot;Oh I see.&quot;Sue Ellen introduces Bo to Addy Bronfman, Sam&#039;s daughter.&nbsp; &quot;Nice to meet you, she says.&nbsp; Your mother told me your boyfriends situation.&quot;Sue Ellen goes to correct her.&nbsp; Bo cuts bet off, &quot;She wonderful isn&#039;t she? We have to hide from Ben&#039;s family but not mine.&quot;&nbsp; He hugs Sue Ellen from the side.&nbsp; &quot;She didn&#039;t tell me about this Ewing Wendell Feud you have going on but assured me you&#039;d fill me in.&quot;&quot;I did tell her the shirt of it.&nbsp; Jeremy Wendell and your father fought over business, both having no problem skirting the law.&nbsp; But, Jeremy Wendell just got caught.&nbsp; Spent years in prison and lost most of his money.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Well there isn&#039;t much more except now we own a piece of property in New Mexico with a lot of oil on it and she thinks we should share it.&nbsp; But the part her family owns is in Mexico and the oil belongs the government.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;And she thinks she should get your part?&quot;&quot;Something like that.&nbsp; It had belonged to her father but he lost it paying off his debts.&quot;&quot;I see.&quot;&quot;Her late father-in-law had been working to get the Mexican government to release any oil along the boarder for joint American Mexican businesses, but he never accomplished it.&nbsp; They&#039;re the DelSol&#039;s so they&#039;re far from broke themselves.&quot; &quot;No that&#039;s true.&nbsp; They certainly aren&#039;t.&quot;&nbsp; The ballroom fills up with People.&nbsp; Sue Ellen and her date, Sam Bronfman find the Ewing table, a round table front and off to the side.&nbsp; She looks into the center of the room and sees Gabi taking a table with her family, two sons, Amy and a date for Ben.&nbsp; Marv and his wife join them.&nbsp; Gabi gives an obviously fake welcome to them. The Governor stops by the Ewing table and he and Sue Ellen hug as old friends. &quot;M.J.&nbsp; Addy, I&#039;d like you to meet former governor Marvin Anderson the third.&nbsp; He&#039;s Marc&#039;s father who you meet at the house.&quot;He olds out his hand, &quot;You can call me MJ darlin&#039;&quot;. The shake. &quot;So where are you sitting?&quot;&quot;I&#039;m here with Gabi Wendell.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Oh M.J. seriously?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I know but she&#039;s a hard woman to say no to.&quot;&quot;You should of tried,&quot; Sue Ellen laughs. John Ross marches up to Gabi as she crosses the room.&nbsp; Pulling her to the side she objects.&nbsp; He hands her the letter from JR.&nbsp; &quot;Is JR true?&quot;She looks over it and her face turns to stone.&nbsp; &quot;You don&#039;t need me to confirm your father&#039;s telling you the truth do you?&quot;&quot;In this case yes.&quot;&quot;Nice of him to apologize for his role but seems selfish to me. What&#039;s done is done. He&#039;s just easing his conscious.&nbsp; By why now?&nbsp; And who sent this for him?&quot;&quot;Answer the question.&quot;&quot;Yes Jermey is your biological son.&quot;&quot;How could you hate me so much to have kept this from me.&quot;&quot;You were a child, seventeen.&nbsp; And I was married.&nbsp; And your father didn&#039;t give me much choice, as you can see.&quot;&quot;I loved you.&nbsp; And this is what you did to me.&quot;&nbsp; He walks away from her.&nbsp; Crossing the room Ellie sees him and beelines right to him, &quot;What&#039;s wrong John Ross.&quot;He stops long enough to say, &quot;I take it back.&nbsp; There are no limits to dealing with Gabi Wendell, end her.&quot;&nbsp; He hands her the letter continues his march out of the room.&nbsp; Reading it her face turns to stone.&nbsp; Pamela approaches and asked her what&#039;s going on. She shares the letter and when Pamela&nbsp; says she&#039;s going to kill her, Ellie stops her and says, &quot;No. My brother need you.&nbsp; You take care of him.&nbsp; I&#039;ll take care of her.&quot;&nbsp; The two go their separate ways and Sue Ellen stops her next.&nbsp; &quot;What&#039;s going on?&quot;&nbsp; Ellie shares the letter.&nbsp; &quot;That bitch!&quot;&quot;I&#039;ve got this,&quot; Ellie assures her. &quot;No he&#039;s my son.&nbsp; Leave her to me.&quot;&nbsp; Sue Ellen matches up to Gabi who&#039;s returned to family, Ellie right behind her.&nbsp; Shoving the letter at her, &quot;You&#039;re sick!&quot;&quot;Oh Sue Ellen, come to play the wronged mother.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t suit you.&quot;&quot;You used my son to get back at the Ewing&#039;s didn&#039;t you?&quot;&quot;Your son didn&#039;t object once. Besides when we&#039;re you ever sober to play mother?&quot;Sue Ellen smacks her, &quot;You bitch.&nbsp;&nbsp; Fine you want a fight.&nbsp; You got one, but this time it&#039;s all the Ewing&#039;s you&#039;ll be fighting &quot;&quot;Not all.&quot;Sue Ellen grabs the letter from Gabi and shoves it into her son&#039;s hand.&nbsp; &quot;None of us knew, but you can be sure, we&#039;ll welcome you.&quot;&nbsp; Pamela finds John Ross walking into an elevator and quickly gets in with him.&nbsp; He asks her to leave jim alone alone.&nbsp; She refuses, tell him she saw the letter.&nbsp; &quot;Then you&#039;ve come to yell at me, because I really can&#039;t deal with that right now.&quot;&quot;No, of course not.&quot;&quot;How can you even stand to look at me?&quot;&quot;This isn&#039;t your fault.&quot;&quot;I wasn&#039;t an idiot.&nbsp; I knew what I was doing.&nbsp; I knew she was married.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t really know the DelSols.&nbsp; They were all older than me. But I knew of them.&nbsp; I knew she was Jeremy Wendell&#039;s daughter and I certainly knew what we were doing and the consequences.&quot;&quot;You didn&#039;t know he was your son.&quot;&quot;I knew he could be.&nbsp; But I didn&#039;t want to know.&nbsp; And she . . .&quot;&quot;She what?&quot;&quot;Nothing.&quot;&quot;John Ross.&nbsp; We promised no more secrets.&nbsp; You told me everything, even about her and I can&#039;t say women popping up in your past is easy for me, but I have my last too.&quot;&quot;Two guys.&nbsp; Two.&nbsp; That your father pimped you out to.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s not the same.&quot;&quot;You loved her.&quot;&quot;She . . .&nbsp; The things she said.&quot;Pamela holds him, &quot;You&#039;re safe John Ross.&nbsp; I&#039;ll never leave you.&quot;&nbsp; She hold him tight.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sue Ellen meets with Bum. He tells her he had no idea what was in the letter, just that JR gave him letters to mail with notes of when to mail them.&nbsp; &quot;The last one was when they struck oil on the Tip to Tail Ranch.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I better look over what you&#039;ve got left.&quot;With a stack of letters in front of them Sue Ellen leans back on a sofa, closes her eyes and recalls the last time she danced with JR.&nbsp; (TNT deleted scene).&nbsp; She ten sits up and says, &quot;That&#039;s a lot to take in.&quot;&quot;He really loved you.&quot;&quot;Yes he did . . .&nbsp; So Ben isn&#039;t Junior&#039;s son either.&quot;&quot;That woman&#039;s a piece of work, isn&#039;t she?&quot;&quot;Certainly is.&quot;&nbsp; Sue Ellen says, &quot;I&#039;ll hold onto this one.&nbsp; When things calm down with Jeremy, I&#039;ll give it to him.&nbsp;&nbsp; It might mean something that his grandfather didn&#039;t forget him.&quot;Bo walks into the study where John Ross stares at a bottle of Bourbon.&nbsp; &quot;Ben&#039;s talking to his brother.&quot;&quot;You didn&#039;t have to do that.&quot;&nbsp; John Ross doesn&#039;t look away from the dark amber liquid.&nbsp; &quot;It was Ben&#039;s idea.&quot;&quot;Right before I married Pamela, I slept with Amy.&nbsp; She was eighteen at the time.&quot;&quot;Well her son&#039;s not that old so he&#039;s not yours.&quot;&quot;No.&nbsp; That&#039;s true.&nbsp; I have grandchildren.&quot;&quot;You do.&nbsp; Grace and William.&nbsp; They&#039;re pretty cute.&quot;&quot;Dad said the cover up was for Carlos&#039;s son too.&nbsp; Carlos certainly didn&#039;t like Gabi as a daughter-in-law but no one wanted him hurt like that.&nbsp; I&#039;m the one that hurt him. And he never knew.&quot;&quot;No you didn&#039;t.&nbsp; She did.&nbsp; She used him to get at his family&#039;s money.&nbsp; To get at a connection to our father.&nbsp; She used you both because somehow she thinks she has a score to settle.&quot; &quot;There&#039;s a provision in Carlos&#039;s will that only biological descendants can inherit.&quot;&quot;He knew that was cut off Jeremy.&quot;&quot;He did.&nbsp; Gabi inherited her money from her husband. Which is considerable, but not like the bulk of the DelSol fortune.&quot;&quot;So he looses everything.&nbsp; What about his running the DelSol Group?&quot;&quot;That&#039;s up to the family.&nbsp; He&#039;s mostly just a figure head.&nbsp; But I hear he&#039;s learning, like a supped up internship.&nbsp; Carlos does have a special prevision for him and Ben in his will.&quot;&quot;What is it?&quot;&quot;I don&#039;t know yet.&nbsp; Ruby went to pry into the sealed codicil.&quot;Ben drives in his car away from his mother&#039;s house, shaken, distraught.&nbsp; In Mexico City Jeremy attempts to walk from his car at the curb as a horde of reporters rush him on the way to the corporate offices of the DelSol Group.&nbsp; They bombard him with questions regarding his biological linage and that of his brother Ben.&nbsp; Ellie looks over blue prints of a runway in the dinning room.&nbsp; Pamela steps in and says, &quot;What are you doing?&quot;&quot;I ordered a private jet for the family and John Ross said I could put in a landing strip on the Henderson property.&quot;&quot;Are you serious?&quot;&quot;Certainly.&nbsp; Nothing gaudy.&nbsp; A Boeing 757.&quot;&quot;Isn&#039;t that a bit big?&quot;&quot;Well for family and friends.&quot;&quot;John Ross and I were talking about adding on as well.&quot;&quot;To the house?&quot;&quot;Yes.&nbsp; Grandpa changed it to suite them.&nbsp; Now we should do the same.&nbsp; Bigger.&nbsp; Not pretentious just bigger.&quot;&quot;I think we&#039;re just fine the way the house is. I don&#039;t really want it bigger.&nbsp; We talked about a rec room over one of the barns.&quot;&quot;That could be nice.&nbsp; But I mean like a mansion, not just a large house.&quot;&quot;Why don&#039;t you build your own place on the property, as big as you want?&quot;&quot;You mean use this like a office or a guest house?&quot;&quot;No I mean leave this to John Ross and our family.&quot;&quot;What and live by myself?&quot;&quot;You would be by yourself.&nbsp; You&#039;d have a huge staff living with you.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;That might work.&nbsp; Maybe something overlooking the lake on the Brandies property John Ross bought.&quot;&quot;Sure.&nbsp; Tear down that little ranch house and build something as orientate as you like.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Not a bad idea.&nbsp; And you won&#039;t be upset?&quot;&quot;Not in the least.&nbsp; As long as you&#039;re happy.&quot;&quot;I&#039;ll talk to John Ross right away.&quot;&quot;You do that.&quot;&nbsp; Gabi sits on her patio looking out at her back yard, a grand, sculpted lawn leading to well maintained paths among shrubs c d flowers and trees.&nbsp; She takes another sip of her cocktail.&nbsp; &quot;You won this round JR.&nbsp; But the war isn&#039;t over yet.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a trick or two up my sleeve.&quot;Ben knocks on Bo&#039;s cottage door.&nbsp; Bo opens the door and surprised says, &quot;Ben. I been trying to get a hold of you all day.&nbsp; Did you talk to your brother?&quot;&quot;Can I come in? I need to be with someone.&quot;&quot;Sure.&nbsp; What happened?&quot;&quot;I just found out that my dad isn&#039;t my real father either.&quot; &quot;Oh Ben.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bo hugs him. In the barn John Ross shakes the hand of a lawyer.&nbsp; &quot;Mr. Ewing.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been trying to get a hold of you.&nbsp; Ricard Davis. I&#039;m one of Carlos DelSols lawyers.&nbsp; The chief administer of his trust.&quot;&quot;Nice to meet you.&nbsp; How can I help you?&quot;He puts down his briefcase and takes out a crucifix, handing it to John Ross.&nbsp; &quot;Mr. DelSol left this to you.&quot;Looking it over John Ross smiles.&nbsp; &quot;My father sent me a letter saying Carlos was suppose to be my Godfather, but my father didn&#039;t dare bring it up to his dad.&nbsp; This puts that to rest.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thank you.&quot;The man then hands him some papers.&nbsp; &quot;Mr. DelSol asked me to give you this to give to your son, Jeremey.&quot;&quot;What is it?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Deeds to the Tip to Tail Ranch property.&nbsp; He bought the property on both sides boarder from both companies.&quot;&quot;Are you serious?&quot;&quot;Yes I am.&nbsp; He left it to Jeremy and Ben and to you to share.&nbsp; Apparently he worked out a deal with JR, knowing that at least for now they&#039;d never get the oil off the Mexican side and that Mr. DelSol&#039;s son considered this boy&#039;s his sons. He and your father wanted to make this right.&nbsp; &quot;Oh my God.&nbsp; Well, thank you.&nbsp; I&#039;ll speak to them.&nbsp; By the way.&nbsp; Who is Ben&#039;s father?&quot;&quot;Cliff Barnes.&quot;&nbsp; John Ross walks up to the pool where his family, with Ben gathers.&nbsp; &quot;I&#039;ve got some news for everyone.&nbsp; Carlos DelSol&#039;s lawyer just visited me.&quot;Pamela says,&nbsp; &quot;First I want to tell you something.&quot;&nbsp; A hug smile across her face. &quot;I know this has been hard for Ben. And I&#039;m so sorry, or what&#039;s happened to you but I can&#039;t tell you how thrilled I am that your my brother.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;That&#039;s one of the things he told me.&quot;&quot;You were talking about me?&quot;&quot;Yes Ben.&nbsp; As you know Carlos&#039;s will cuts you and Jeremy out, at least in terms of his family trust.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;It&#039;ll be some getting use to but I don&#039;t give a damn about the money.&nbsp; Pamela&#039;s offered to go to Mexico with me.&nbsp; I want to make sure I&#039;m good with my father&#039;s family.&quot;&quot;That&#039;s a good idea.&nbsp; A very good idea.&nbsp; Anyway.&nbsp; Carlos&#039;s lawyer presented me with the deeds to the Tip to Tail Ranch. He and my father schemed to get it away from the two companies and did.&nbsp; He owned the land on both sides of the boarder, leaving half to you and Jeremy to split and half to me, as his God son.&quot;Shock comes over the group.&nbsp; Ellie state&#039;s, &quot;So Bo and I have been cut out?&quot;&quot;No I intend my half for us to split up as owned by JRE.&nbsp; We&#039;ll lease mi real rights to Ewing Oil and in the end not much will change.&quot;&quot;Not much. We still have lost half the mineral rights.&nbsp; That&#039;s tens of billions of dollars.&nbsp; Sorry Ben.&nbsp; It&#039;s just a shock.&nbsp; Seems the only ones that benefit here is your DelSol family.&quot;John Ross laughs. &quot;Ellie. There&#039;s plenty of money to go around.&nbsp; We&#039;ll figure it all out. Besides Carlos had acquired a lot more land then we&#039;d figured on.&quot;&quot;How much more land?&quot;Three times as much. I don&#039;t think we&#039;ve lost a thing.&nbsp; Maybe picked up something. We&#039;ve got somehow convince the Mexican government to give us leases to the oil on their side and we&#039;ll be better off than we were.&quot;A smile crosses Ellie&#039;s face, &quot;Really.&quot;&nbsp; John Ross offers a hand to Ben.&nbsp; &quot;Your welcome to stay here as long as you like.&nbsp; And congratulations.&nbsp; Pamela here, she&#039;ll make one hell of a big sister.&quot;&nbsp; Sue Ellen takes John Ross to the side, &quot;I really do think your father is trying to fix a lot of the wrong things he did.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I agree.&nbsp; But there are things you can&#039;t fix.&nbsp; But I appreciate he cared enough to try.&quot;&quot;Have you spoke to Jeremy?&quot;&quot;Tried to.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got Ruby looking for him.&nbsp; He was in Mexico City.&nbsp; Resigned from the board of the DelSol Group.&quot;&quot;Those boys loved the man they thought was their father.&nbsp; And no matter what&#039;s happened in the past few days, they love their mother.&quot;&quot;She&#039;s lost control of their DelSol money.&quot;&quot;She&#039;s not broke is she?&quot;&quot;No.&nbsp; Far from it.&nbsp; But she&#039;s taken a hell of a hit.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;She&#039;s going to be coming after this family.&quot;&quot;I know. She thinks all that oil was stolen from her father.&quot; Gabi walks her garden cutting flowers for a basket hanging from her arm.&nbsp; Jeremy walks up to her. Without blinking an eye she asks, &quot;Did you hear about the Tip to Tale Ranch?&quot;&quot;Of course I did.&quot;&quot;Your brother moved to South Fork.&quot;&quot;He&#039;s in love with Bo Ewing.&nbsp; But he&#039;s still a Wendell.&quot;&quot;That&#039;s right.&nbsp; And so are you.&quot;&quot;So now that we have half the oil, what&#039;s the plan to get the other half.&quot;Gabi smirks and continues to cut flowers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stevew, post: 63208, member: 130"] Bo says to Gary, "I heard Uncle Bobby signed over half his mineral rights for South Fork to Uncle Ray." "Yea that's what he said. He wanted to make sure Charlie, Margret and Lucas were taken care of." Bo hands him a check, "I want to buy half your mineral rights." Gary takes a look at it, appearing impressed. "Your father forgot about you?" "No. He remembered me and James, just not with a share of South Fork oil. But my brother and sister included me. I live here. And I own a third of JRE. What I'm missing is a sixth of South Fork's oil." "I'll think about it." Bo then hands him a large envelope. "Don't think too hard." Gary looks at the contents and says, "Now I see the resemblance to your father." "Well, I'll take that as a complement, since you resemble a termite. The papers are in there too. Sign 'em and leave 'em before you leave and cash that check in twenty-four hours, then we're all good." John Ross pulls up his pants in their bedroom as Pamela asks, "So you really slept with her?" "Gabi?" "Gabi. Amy. Anyone else?" "Do you really wanta know?" "Pretty much answers that doesn't it?" "Long before you. Gabi was married to Carlos's oldest son. She had plans to get her hands on the DelSol money." "Which she did." "She controls their trust fund, which is a fifth of his fortune. About fifteen billion dollars. And she did what ever to make her son, Jeremy Wendell, the Chairman of the DelSol Group." "Do they stand a chance at getting a share of the Alamo Oil?" "If they buy some mineral rights north of the boarder, but they're not touching our share." "How rich are we?" "Marv estimates when all' said and down, at the current price of oil, forty-five billion, each. With you and Chris, another five billion, each." "Oh my God." "He did say it was his masterpiece." "Oh my God John Ross. Oh my God." Pamela begins kissing him, walking him backwards toward the bed." Gabi and her boys get out of their car and walk up to the front door of their massive chateau. As they do, she says, "I paid a lot of money for the DelSol Group's half of the Tip to Tale Ranch and if I can't use it, I intend to get half of what the Ewing's have." Benjamin says, "You swindled our aunts and uncles out of their share and you're pissed it turns out to be worthless." "I'm mad the Ewing's are getting one up on us. I've waited a long time for the chance to strike and it keeps getting further and further away from me." She walks into the house. They follow." In the massive entry, bright, white and elegant, Gabi says to her sons, "They destroyed my father and took his find. Your grandfather. They've destroyed anyone who got in their way. Cliff Barnes is rotting in a Mexican prison. Harris Ryland in a prison somewhere in Colorado. No. It's time these people pay for what they've done." Then looking at Benjamin, "Either you get on board with that or get out of my way." Ellie gets off her horse and John Ross says, "What's this I hear you're working on getting a seat on the board of the DelSol Group? Are you trying to antagonize them?" "It's called being preemptive. It's why I'm here isn't it? I know business." "I'll never forget the look on Uncle Bobby's face when he found out we were keeping you a secret. Or when you told him we'd never fight over South Fork, that if it made me happy you'd burn it to the ground." "Well h he ticked me off. Blaming you for everything, even Chris bring in the hospital. I don't put up with that crap. So did you really have an affair with Gabi Wendell?" I was fourteen the first summer it happened. She's been plotting to destroy our father. Do you really think it was an affair." "Oh my God. Fourteen." "I honestly thought she loved me." "When do you realize she didn't?" "When I came back here to strike oil on South Fork. She set me up with Veronica Martinez. She manipulated the whole thing. Then when I was in jail she wouldn't help me get out. She knows everybody. She wouldn't even return my call. Told me it was too dangerous, getting caught together. Then when dad died." "I told you to come to England. Getaway from the hornets nest. You just got deeper and deeper in the mess." "I had to finish JR's masterpiece. When I knew I had to finance the take over of West Star, I should have know to call you then." "Well, none the less you did. Now I've got this covered. I'll get on the board of the DelSol Group and keep a watchful eye on the Wendell's." John Ross hugs his sister. "Thank you." "Of course John Ross." Bo gets down out of a helicopter as it lands along with a heavily armed crew. He says, "Don't forget, shoot to kill. I don't want anything happening to a single rig or stretch of pipeline. Lock it down." "Yes Mr. Ewing." Gabi welcomes Sue Ellen to Walnut Grove as the women of the DOA gather in her living room. I'm the middle of the luncheon meeting Sue Ellen says, "Of course it's a good cause. The Ewing Foundation gives to children's medicine in several places around the country. I'm sure if I talk to Pamela, she'd underwrite the whole event for us." A couple ladies ask after her and God Sue Ellen should get Pamela to join. Sue Ellen couldn't agree more. John Ross and Pamela shower together. She laughs as her lather her body saying they're suppose to be getting dressed for dinner. Her laughter turns to moaning as his hands continue to explore her body. Ellie walks up behind Ruby in the barn as he's cleaning out a stall and slaps him on the ass. When he objects she tells him how much she enjoys him, while pulling apart his shirt. Bo and Ben roll around in bed together. The Ewing's gather in the living room for drinks before dinner. Ellie makes an announcement, "Chris sold his share of EO to Gabi. She informed Marv this afternoon." John Ross is furious, accusing him of betraying the family and after all he's done to fund his methane research." Ellie sits laughing with her drink in hand, "Yes but those patterns belong to EO and Chris doesn't own a single piece of the company." "Yes but I'd rather he own a piece than Gabi." "No worries. The bylaws of the corporation are clear. He must offer them for sale to an existing shareholder first and if he sells them to someone else, all we have to do is reimburse them. So, she really did us a favor. Marv sent the corporate lawyers over." John Ross laughs. The front door bell rings. And he wonders who it could be. Ellie asks Pamela if her share is for sale, "Put a lot of cash in your pocket tondo anything you want with it." Pamela looks at her with skepticism. Bo announces, "Its Benjamin DelSol." The room stops in hushed silence looking at him. Ellie asks, "How long?" "Over a year." She looks highly up set. The house keep shows him in announcing him and leaving the room. The older man stands there looking nervous. Ellie straights herself up, crossing the room as if she's going to strangle him and hugs him. "Welcome Ben. I assume my brother told you dinner is eight sharp. You can't be late, but we always have some time to gather before hand." Taking his arm she leads him into the room. "You know everyone, I suppose at least from the other day. The boys are up stairs. They'll be down for dinner." John Ross says, "So what'll it be." "Soda water?" "Sure. No problem. You sure, nothing stronger?" "No that'll soda will be fine." The Ewing's including Ben and the three boys gather around the table. The food is passed around family style and everyone talks about the kids school or charity work, and the Oil Barron's Ball that's coming up. Ellie suggests that her and her mother and Pamela get working on dresses soon. And then asks Ben if he'll be joining them at their table, telling him that Bo is usually her date and "Sue Ellen always goes with Sam Bronfman. Marv and his wife usually sit with us but maybe he could sit at the Anderson table. But that means I'll need a date." Ben isn't sure as Bo hasn't asked him and he hasn't told his mother yet. Ellie laughs, "Oh please let me tell her. Please." Ellie, Sue Ellen and Pamela go over fabric while discussing with their dressmaker what they'd like to see. Pamela mentions loaning her grandmother's emerald to Ellie. Ruby and John Ross mend a fence in the ranch. John Ross says, "So Ellie just came out and asked you." "Well it was more like she told me I'm escorting her." "Every function since she's been in Dallas, she's gone with "I better not have to keep you in line?" "Yeah right." Ruby laughs. Sue Ellen and Pamela are having lunch together in a bright restaurant. Sue Ellen says, "I was surprised when John Ross showed up with her. Ellie is a home body. I would never have thought she'd have left England, except John Ross went to get her. When Don and I separated she stayed with him. He's like a father to her. Kind of like Dusty's a father to John Ross. When JR's your father you need someone else to help ground you." "John Ross has got a lot of people in his life. I never meet someone with so many friends. And more x-girl friends." "He's like Bobby that way. Ellie's more like JR. JR only had two friends that I know of and I didn't really know of Bum until toward the end of his life." "Who was Bum?" "A guy who did stuff JR needed being done." "Oh John Ross might of mentioned him. Then there was Carlos." "Yeah they'd been friends since college but John Disapproved. Well it was how it was in those days. Carlos was Mexican. And not that JR ever brought him up, he knew better. But the two of them were literally thick as thieves." "I bet." "I worry Ellie's more like that. She doesn't have any friends that I know about." "Well she's been over there quite a while." "Business." "Probably. She is close to her brothers." Sue Ellen takes a contemplative sip of tea. "For three kids raised pretty separately, they are very close. When Bo was at boarding school John Ross use to go visit him and bring him over to England to see Ellie. I think they thought no one knew about there secret meetings. You know, no matter how many friends John Ross had around I don't think he ever felt anything but lonely. Until he brought his brother and sister to South Fork." "I'm sure I didn't help." "Well your marriage had a rocky start." "That wasn't all John Ross's fault. As far as he knew I was in love with Chris. Telling a man like John Ross you're in love with him doesn't mean much. He's heard that his whole life. You have to prove it, and I kinda worked on disproving it." "Yeah, he's like his father in that way. Whatever happened to that Arab prince?" "John Ross told you about him?" "No. Bobby. John Ross doesn't share his troubles." "Nothing happened between the two of us. I just wanted John Ross to think it had. Looking back it wasn't such a good idea. Took us a long time to get past it." Ellie returns to table. "That was Leland. We're talking about buying some properties off them here in Dallas but we weren't getting anywhere with their people so I think I might have loosed up the negotiations." "I'm certain you're like your father, and I don't want to know how you went about it." "I'm persuasive." John Ross opens up mail in his study. Looking strangely at one he turns the envelope over and on the sealed flap it reads in embossed script, 'John Ross Ewing II.' Looking knowingly content, he takes out a letter and reads it, a smile turning to horror." In the cottage on South Fork Bo comes out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel and brushing his teeth. "What do you mean it's best we don't sit together." "My mother hates your family. I'm just not ready to go there." "When will you?" "I don't know." "So never." "I didn't say that, Bo." "You didn't have to" Bo returns to the bathroom. Guests arrive for cocktails at South Fork before the Oil Barron's Ball. John Ross introduces Marvin Anderson and his wife as old family friends to his new Wall Street investor, "Joshua Bates. He believes in diversity with one-third in securities like businesses, one-third land say as rental property, and one-third stuff such as gold. No three ever go down at the same time. You keep your money moving. When gold is up and stock are down, sell gold and buy stocks. All that money you make off the Alamo o oil will be go through his and Ellie's hands. We're even talking about taking the company public." "Public? Well that'll be a different way to run things," Marvin comments. John Ross pats him on the back. "We know we can count on you." Ellie stands by Ruby who asks him why she doesn't mingle. Ellie responds, "Why don't you?" "I prefer to watch people. You can learn a lot by watching." "Good point." "Why do you stand back, if you don't mind me asking?" "I don't really know any of these people. Well except for family. And Professor Bates. And Marv Anderson, I guess." "You not like John Ross are ya? He'll cover this whole room and then tonight the whole ball room and people will think they've spend the whole evening talking to him." "I find people best in small doses." "What do they just irritate you." "Yes." "Well I'm glad I don't irritate you." "Who says you don't?" "Oh I see." Sue Ellen introduces Bo to Addy Bronfman, Sam's daughter. "Nice to meet you, she says. Your mother told me your boyfriends situation." Sue Ellen goes to correct her. Bo cuts bet off, "She wonderful isn't she? We have to hide from Ben's family but not mine." He hugs Sue Ellen from the side. "She didn't tell me about this Ewing Wendell Feud you have going on but assured me you'd fill me in." "I did tell her the shirt of it. Jeremy Wendell and your father fought over business, both having no problem skirting the law. But, Jeremy Wendell just got caught. Spent years in prison and lost most of his money." "Well there isn't much more except now we own a piece of property in New Mexico with a lot of oil on it and she thinks we should share it. But the part her family owns is in Mexico and the oil belongs the government." "And she thinks she should get your part?" "Something like that. It had belonged to her father but he lost it paying off his debts." "I see." "Her late father-in-law had been working to get the Mexican government to release any oil along the boarder for joint American Mexican businesses, but he never accomplished it. They're the DelSol's so they're far from broke themselves." "No that's true. They certainly aren't." The ballroom fills up with People. Sue Ellen and her date, Sam Bronfman find the Ewing table, a round table front and off to the side. She looks into the center of the room and sees Gabi taking a table with her family, two sons, Amy and a date for Ben. Marv and his wife join them. Gabi gives an obviously fake welcome to them. The Governor stops by the Ewing table and he and Sue Ellen hug as old friends. "M.J. Addy, I'd like you to meet former governor Marvin Anderson the third. He's Marc's father who you meet at the house." He olds out his hand, "You can call me MJ darlin'". The shake. "So where are you sitting?" "I'm here with Gabi Wendell." "Oh M.J. seriously?" "I know but she's a hard woman to say no to." "You should of tried," Sue Ellen laughs. John Ross marches up to Gabi as she crosses the room. Pulling her to the side she objects. He hands her the letter from JR. "Is JR true?" She looks over it and her face turns to stone. "You don't need me to confirm your father's telling you the truth do you?" "In this case yes." "Nice of him to apologize for his role but seems selfish to me. What's done is done. He's just easing his conscious. By why now? And who sent this for him?" "Answer the question." "Yes Jermey is your biological son." "How could you hate me so much to have kept this from me." "You were a child, seventeen. And I was married. And your father didn't give me much choice, as you can see." "I loved you. And this is what you did to me." He walks away from her. Crossing the room Ellie sees him and beelines right to him, "What's wrong John Ross." He stops long enough to say, "I take it back. There are no limits to dealing with Gabi Wendell, end her." He hands her the letter continues his march out of the room. Reading it her face turns to stone. Pamela approaches and asked her what's going on. She shares the letter and when Pamela says she's going to kill her, Ellie stops her and says, "No. My brother need you. You take care of him. I'll take care of her." The two go their separate ways and Sue Ellen stops her next. "What's going on?" Ellie shares the letter. "That bitch!" "I've got this," Ellie assures her. "No he's my son. Leave her to me." Sue Ellen matches up to Gabi who's returned to family, Ellie right behind her. Shoving the letter at her, "You're sick!" "Oh Sue Ellen, come to play the wronged mother. It doesn't suit you." "You used my son to get back at the Ewing's didn't you?" "Your son didn't object once. Besides when we're you ever sober to play mother?" Sue Ellen smacks her, "You bitch. Fine you want a fight. You got one, but this time it's all the Ewing's you'll be fighting " "Not all." Sue Ellen grabs the letter from Gabi and shoves it into her son's hand. "None of us knew, but you can be sure, we'll welcome you." Pamela finds John Ross walking into an elevator and quickly gets in with him. He asks her to leave jim alone alone. She refuses, tell him she saw the letter. "Then you've come to yell at me, because I really can't deal with that right now." "No, of course not." "How can you even stand to look at me?" "This isn't your fault." "I wasn't an idiot. I knew what I was doing. I knew she was married. I didn't really know the DelSols. They were all older than me. But I knew of them. I knew she was Jeremy Wendell's daughter and I certainly knew what we were doing and the consequences." "You didn't know he was your son." "I knew he could be. But I didn't want to know. And she . . ." "She what?" "Nothing." "John Ross. We promised no more secrets. You told me everything, even about her and I can't say women popping up in your past is easy for me, but I have my last too." "Two guys. Two. That your father pimped you out to. It's not the same." "You loved her." "She . . . The things she said." Pamela holds him, "You're safe John Ross. I'll never leave you." She hold him tight. Sue Ellen meets with Bum. He tells her he had no idea what was in the letter, just that JR gave him letters to mail with notes of when to mail them. "The last one was when they struck oil on the Tip to Tail Ranch." "I better look over what you've got left." With a stack of letters in front of them Sue Ellen leans back on a sofa, closes her eyes and recalls the last time she danced with JR. (TNT deleted scene). She ten sits up and says, "That's a lot to take in." "He really loved you." "Yes he did . . . So Ben isn't Junior's son either." "That woman's a piece of work, isn't she?" "Certainly is." Sue Ellen says, "I'll hold onto this one. When things calm down with Jeremy, I'll give it to him. It might mean something that his grandfather didn't forget him." Bo walks into the study where John Ross stares at a bottle of Bourbon. "Ben's talking to his brother." "You didn't have to do that." John Ross doesn't look away from the dark amber liquid. "It was Ben's idea." "Right before I married Pamela, I slept with Amy. She was eighteen at the time." "Well her son's not that old so he's not yours." "No. That's true. I have grandchildren." "You do. Grace and William. They're pretty cute." "Dad said the cover up was for Carlos's son too. Carlos certainly didn't like Gabi as a daughter-in-law but no one wanted him hurt like that. I'm the one that hurt him. And he never knew." "No you didn't. She did. She used him to get at his family's money. To get at a connection to our father. She used you both because somehow she thinks she has a score to settle." "There's a provision in Carlos's will that only biological descendants can inherit." "He knew that was cut off Jeremy." "He did. Gabi inherited her money from her husband. Which is considerable, but not like the bulk of the DelSol fortune." "So he looses everything. What about his running the DelSol Group?" "That's up to the family. He's mostly just a figure head. But I hear he's learning, like a supped up internship. Carlos does have a special prevision for him and Ben in his will." "What is it?" "I don't know yet. Ruby went to pry into the sealed codicil." Ben drives in his car away from his mother's house, shaken, distraught. In Mexico City Jeremy attempts to walk from his car at the curb as a horde of reporters rush him on the way to the corporate offices of the DelSol Group. They bombard him with questions regarding his biological linage and that of his brother Ben. Ellie looks over blue prints of a runway in the dinning room. Pamela steps in and says, "What are you doing?" "I ordered a private jet for the family and John Ross said I could put in a landing strip on the Henderson property." "Are you serious?" "Certainly. Nothing gaudy. A Boeing 757." "Isn't that a bit big?" "Well for family and friends." "John Ross and I were talking about adding on as well." "To the house?" "Yes. Grandpa changed it to suite them. Now we should do the same. Bigger. Not pretentious just bigger." "I think we're just fine the way the house is. I don't really want it bigger. We talked about a rec room over one of the barns." "That could be nice. But I mean like a mansion, not just a large house." "Why don't you build your own place on the property, as big as you want?" "You mean use this like a office or a guest house?" "No I mean leave this to John Ross and our family." "What and live by myself?" "You would be by yourself. You'd have a huge staff living with you." "That might work. Maybe something overlooking the lake on the Brandies property John Ross bought." "Sure. Tear down that little ranch house and build something as orientate as you like." "Not a bad idea. And you won't be upset?" "Not in the least. As long as you're happy." "I'll talk to John Ross right away." "You do that." Gabi sits on her patio looking out at her back yard, a grand, sculpted lawn leading to well maintained paths among shrubs c d flowers and trees. She takes another sip of her cocktail. "You won this round JR. But the war isn't over yet. I've got a trick or two up my sleeve." Ben knocks on Bo's cottage door. Bo opens the door and surprised says, "Ben. I been trying to get a hold of you all day. Did you talk to your brother?" "Can I come in? I need to be with someone." "Sure. What happened?" "I just found out that my dad isn't my real father either." "Oh Ben." Bo hugs him. In the barn John Ross shakes the hand of a lawyer. "Mr. Ewing. I've been trying to get a hold of you. Ricard Davis. I'm one of Carlos DelSols lawyers. The chief administer of his trust." "Nice to meet you. How can I help you?" He puts down his briefcase and takes out a crucifix, handing it to John Ross. "Mr. DelSol left this to you." Looking it over John Ross smiles. "My father sent me a letter saying Carlos was suppose to be my Godfather, but my father didn't dare bring it up to his dad. This puts that to rest. Thank you." The man then hands him some papers. "Mr. DelSol asked me to give you this to give to your son, Jeremey." "What is it?" "Deeds to the Tip to Tail Ranch property. He bought the property on both sides boarder from both companies." "Are you serious?" "Yes I am. He left it to Jeremy and Ben and to you to share. Apparently he worked out a deal with JR, knowing that at least for now they'd never get the oil off the Mexican side and that Mr. DelSol's son considered this boy's his sons. He and your father wanted to make this right. "Oh my God. Well, thank you. I'll speak to them. By the way. Who is Ben's father?" "Cliff Barnes." John Ross walks up to the pool where his family, with Ben gathers. "I've got some news for everyone. Carlos DelSol's lawyer just visited me." Pamela says, "First I want to tell you something." A hug smile across her face. "I know this has been hard for Ben. And I'm so sorry, or what's happened to you but I can't tell you how thrilled I am that your my brother." "That's one of the things he told me." "You were talking about me?" "Yes Ben. As you know Carlos's will cuts you and Jeremy out, at least in terms of his family trust." "It'll be some getting use to but I don't give a damn about the money. Pamela's offered to go to Mexico with me. I want to make sure I'm good with my father's family." "That's a good idea. A very good idea. Anyway. Carlos's lawyer presented me with the deeds to the Tip to Tail Ranch. He and my father schemed to get it away from the two companies and did. He owned the land on both sides of the boarder, leaving half to you and Jeremy to split and half to me, as his God son." Shock comes over the group. Ellie state's, "So Bo and I have been cut out?" "No I intend my half for us to split up as owned by JRE. We'll lease mi real rights to Ewing Oil and in the end not much will change." "Not much. We still have lost half the mineral rights. That's tens of billions of dollars. Sorry Ben. It's just a shock. Seems the only ones that benefit here is your DelSol family." John Ross laughs. "Ellie. There's plenty of money to go around. We'll figure it all out. Besides Carlos had acquired a lot more land then we'd figured on." "How much more land?" Three times as much. I don't think we've lost a thing. Maybe picked up something. We've got somehow convince the Mexican government to give us leases to the oil on their side and we'll be better off than we were." A smile crosses Ellie's face, "Really." John Ross offers a hand to Ben. "Your welcome to stay here as long as you like. And congratulations. Pamela here, she'll make one hell of a big sister." Sue Ellen takes John Ross to the side, "I really do think your father is trying to fix a lot of the wrong things he did." "I agree. But there are things you can't fix. But I appreciate he cared enough to try." "Have you spoke to Jeremy?" "Tried to. I've got Ruby looking for him. He was in Mexico City. Resigned from the board of the DelSol Group." "Those boys loved the man they thought was their father. And no matter what's happened in the past few days, they love their mother." "She's lost control of their DelSol money." "She's not broke is she?" "No. Far from it. But she's taken a hell of a hit." "She's going to be coming after this family." "I know. She thinks all that oil was stolen from her father." Gabi walks her garden cutting flowers for a basket hanging from her arm. Jeremy walks up to her. Without blinking an eye she asks, "Did you hear about the Tip to Tale Ranch?" "Of course I did." "Your brother moved to South Fork." "He's in love with Bo Ewing. But he's still a Wendell." "That's right. And so are you." "So now that we have half the oil, what's the plan to get the other half." Gabi smirks and continues to cut flowers. [/QUOTE]

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What month follows July?