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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 156104" data-attributes="member: 130">The Ewing’s gather for cocktails in the living room.  First John Ross and Pamela join Sue Ellen.  Then Ellie and Marcos.  Then Bo and Andy.  The boys rush in next to jump on the sofa with their adoring grandmother.  Rachel bounds down the stairs and gets to the door before the maid, opening to see a beautiful, young blond boy.  “Simon.  Come in.  Let me introduce you to my family.”She leads him by the hand and introduces Simon Paul to her family.  “He’s absolutely brilliant.  Works for my mother.  He’s moved here to Dallas to represent the company’s energy investments.  Isn’t he gorgeous?”  Ellie says, “I hear you represent a considerable investment in CanGo.”“Yes.  Got it for an excellent price but still worried about it.” Sue Ellen says, “I’m sorry Simon.  We don’t talk business at dinner.” “Oh sorry.  Probably best.” Sue Ellen smiles.  “No.  I didn’t mean you.  Ellie knows better.  You’re a guest.  Talk about what ever you want.  But everyone here knows to stay clear of business, certainly not bring it up.”  Ellie scoffs, “Just good to know when you’ve invited a wolf to dinner that’s all.”  “A wolf,” Rachel laughs.  “Simons a sweetheart.”“I don’t know about that, we are judged by the company we keep,” John Ross adds.  “What’s that suppose to mean?” Rachel asks.  “You damn well know what I mean,” her father answers.  Bo looks at Andy then they both look at Marcos.  Marcos whispers, “Dimitry Zubkov and Diego DeLaVega.”   They both sigh, “Ah.”   “If you and Ellie have something to say, say it,” Rachel demands.  “Who you think you’re talking to?  No body orders me around.  You better be clear about that.  CanGo is a front for people who have it in for this family.  If your friend here is friends with them, we got a problem.  Me and him and me and you.”  “Well Simon besting you and Ellie and Marcos isn’t my problem.  It’s yours alone.” “Now there’s where your mistaken.  You thinking my problem with you isn’t a problem for you.”  “Whatever.”  Rachel grabs Simon’s arm and leads him out.”  Sue Ellen says, “Let her go.”  Following a housekeeper whispering in her ear Pamela announces, “Dinner is ready.”  In the back of a limousine in Washington, D. C. Ben meets with an older politician. As the man enters the car he says, “I didn’t expect to see you.”  “I didn’t expect to be here but the Senate doesn’t appear to be making any progress with neutering CanGo’s investors.”“You know as well as I do how complicated things get in the Senate.”  “I know it’s bypassing the EPA in expanding it’s refinery down in Canton, Louisiana and not a thing’s being said by anyone.”“I haven’t heard anything about that.”  “You really want to bullshit me?  We both know the party leaders you’re kowtowing to.”“Things are more complicated then you know.” “They’re not complicated.  They’ve been got at.  Problem is people like you think you’re pandering to your electorate and their puppet master.  A little warning Harriman.  You’re being tested right along with the rest of your cronies.  And you’re failing.” “Listen, I helped when I could.  I got the information to Caroline Baker like you asked.  Now you’re pushing for a public battle and it ain’t gonna happen unless I get some assurances from you once I’m ran out on a rail.”“I’ve got an assurance for you.  This isn’t a  test you can afford to fail.”  John Ross comes out to the stables to find Rachel grooming her horse.  Pamela, who’s close by, looks on with concern.  John Ross says to his daughter, “Simon buy it?”“That I’m vulnerable to betray my family?  Hook, line and sinker.”  “You be careful with him.  Thinking your vulnerable could turn on us.”  “No he’s not that kinda smart.”  The two laugh.  Pamela says, “But his associates are.” John Ross says, “They are.  But they’ve got exposed bellies too.  If they hadn’t, we’d have to have taken them out long ago.”  Looking at Rachel.  “Never trust a man without an exposed belly.  He got nothing to lose you got to put him down before you even get started.”“That from your daddy?”  “He did use to say, ‘Do unto others before they do unto you,’ so I suppose that applies here.”“I suppose it does.”  “My daddy also said, ‘keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves.’”“You think Zubkov and Diego DeLaVega are gonna take care of themselves?”   “Sweetheart, they already are.  They’re smart, five or six moves ahead.  But we’re twenty steps ahead and they’re just doing what we want.” Bo shakes a man’s hand standing at a restaurant table in Dallas.  The man asks him to sit.  “Thank you.  Nice to meet you Mr. Harriman.”  “Neal, please.  I believe our families know each other.  My father’s Senator Harriman from Pennsylvania.  He was the senior senator when your Aunt Donna took over for her late husband, before she became the Secretary of Energy.”  “So you know my father’s cousin Margret Krebs.”  “I do indeed.  A formidable lobbyist.  I hear on the Ewing payroll.”“I wouldn’t know about that.”“Her brother, Lucas, Margret’s got him in the House.   Some say one day he’ll be president with her behind him.”  “That’s what they say.  My brother helped him but the old Wade Ranch.  He’s sort of a gentleman farmer.”Neil says, “The Lucas I know is a rancher and sort of a congressman.”“Probably.”“I hear Margret’s got your cousin Bobby running for the house too, out in California.”“I heard the same thing.  My brother helped him by back West Fork.”  “Your brothers generous.”  “Well he is.  Very.  Especially to family.““I’m familiar with your cousin Lucy as well.  She was married to Senator VanAndel from New York.  A good friend of my dads.”Bo laughs.  “My cousin Lucy’s been married to lots of men.”“She’s the charming woman, I’m not surprised.  A colorful character.”  “So you’ve invested in a small turbine company and you want to team up.”  “They’re wind turbines in the peak of the roof.  Cheap to install, not much more then a roof vent, but can generate a great deal of electricity.  And you’ve got the battery technology we need to make it a worthwhile investment.”  “Well maybe we can work something out.”</blockquote>

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