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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 103051" data-attributes="member: 130">The Ewing’s gather for a big barbecue out back of South Fork with a few hundred guests.  Lucy hugs Ray, welcoming him.  “Thank you for coming.  John Ross could use some help grilling all the stakes.”  She then hugs and welcomes Lucas.  As they walk toward the pool she asks, “Did you here from Uncle Bobby?”“No. I left a message.  Can’t say I expect him here to celebrate a hundred years of Ewing Oil.  But I will say this, and I told Bobby, it’s what Jock wanted.  Someone strong enough to take the company and hold onto it.”“John Ross has his picture up in the board room of Ewing Industries. Uncle Bobby and Grandpa’s.  JR’s of course.  Donna’s too.  And Cliff Barnes.”“You gotta be kidding me.  Why Cliffs?”“He said he was a president of Ewing Oil.  From ‘91 until ‘96 when Bobby returned to running it.     Then there’s Paul Wendell who ran it when he and Sue Ellen sold to West Star, after JR’s retirement.”“What the hell.  John Ross took Ewing Oil away from Wendell, took all of West Star, I heard.”“Paul’s sons are still on the board of West Star, just now Ewing Industries is its largest shareholder and Ewing Oil doesn’t belong to it anymore, hence John Ross’s picture on the wall after Cliff.”“I can imagine what JR would have to say.”“So can I.” “Jack following in his foot steps?”“No, John Ross’s school friend, Ariel Ben-Gurion, is running Ewing Oil and Ewing Industries.  Jack’s running for State Senator.  Steven’s interning with the business, but Jack’s got other plans.  He’s engaged to Amy Anderson.”“Punk’s granddaughter?”  “Yep.  Has been for someone time.  She’ll make the perfect politician’s wife.  The bluest of Texas blood.  University of Texas in Austin, line JR, serves on countless charities like Sue Ellen did.”  “No doubt JR would approve.”“Hell he couldn’t have picked her out better himself.”“Your dad coming?”“God no.  Margret sent her best.  She’s Ewing Industries’ lead lobbyist in D.C.”“I’ve heard.  James?”“No. He did send his best to John Ross.”“They’re talking?”“Not really.  Though John Ross did set up a trust fund for James and Beau using his share of South Fork’s oil.”“Beau?”“Cally’s son.”“Oh.  I’ve never meet him.  He here?”“No.  Works for Ewing Industries though, in Europe.”   “I can guess not Christopher.”“No they haven’t spoken in years.”“He doesn’t speak to Bobby either.  No body’s heard from him in a long time it seems.”  At the grill John Ross hugs and welcomes Lucas. “And these are friends of mine.  Guys this is my cousin, Lucas Ewing.  This is Mateo Ramos.  You remember Carmen?”“No. I can’t say I do.”“Teresa?”“Of course.”  “Caremen was Teresa’s sister.  Mateo’s her youngest son.”“So your sister was. . .”“Yes.”   John Ross cuts him off.  “He was in the Marines when you were living here at South Fork.  And this is Juan Carlos DelSol.”“Yes.  We meet before.  You’re Marta’s brother?”“Yes Marta was my sister.  You’re right.  We did meet.   You were working with John Ross on the ranch when Marta was . . .  here.”“Yes I was.  Taught him everything he knows about ranching.”John Ross says, “Then I helped him buy his mother’s family’s place and I don’t see him anymore.”“Well when you’re not a billionaire you’ve gotta do most of the work yourself.  Though I did hear about you and the brush fire.  All anyone in the tri-county area’s talking about.”“Thank you did pitching in on your side.”“Well yeah.  Fire’s don’t respect property lines.  So we you want me to go get some Wade beef?  For the really important guests.”“Very funny.  Braddock’s best has always been South Fork beef.”“Only because I’m in Dallas County.”“We’re in Dallas County too.”“I know and Wade beef’s still the best.”“You must be smoking some wacky stuff over there if you’re gonna say that with a straight face.”The two cousins laugh together.  Ray steps over to see Sue Ellen.  “Well if you’re still not the prettiest woman in Texas.”“Oh Ray.  How are you?”  The two hug.  “I’m surprised to see you here.  You never cared for the oil business.”“I’m not here to celebrate a hundred years of Ewing Oil.  Lucas dragged me over.  The company managed to get at some oil under the Wade Ranch no one even knew about.  And Lucas and John Ross have been on again, off again good friends.  How have you been?”“I’ve been good.  Traveling.   Grandkids are grown.  Believe it or not things have been quite around here.”“Well that’s a good thing.”“It is.  How have you and Lucas been?”“You mean since JR sent him a letter from the grave telling him Bobby’s his real father?”“JR sent out a lot of letters he shouldn’t have.”  “Classic JR to use Carlos DelSol to set you and Bobby up.  You borrow the money from him to buy control of Ewing Global only to find out it’s from a trust fund he’d been managing for JR.”“Actually it was in a trustfund he’d been managing for John Ross.  Jock left him an investment in Cyberbyte that JR used to get a hold of shares in West Star and Carlos managed to turn into even more, including taking Ewing Global from us.  JR set us all up.  To do just what he wanted, to lock away Cliff and to turn over the company to John Ross.”“Should any of us thought otherwise.”“No I suppose not.  Did you know that after JR has his breakdown back in the early ‘90’s Miss Ellie has Bobby return South Fork to her?  She’d gone to the nursing home to beg him to return home, even offered him all of South Fork.  Oil and all.  He never spoke to her.”“No, I didn’t know that.”“She left it to John Ross in her will for Bobby to look after.  Half when JR died.  The other half  when Bobby dies.”“I take it JR found out about the arrangement.”“I’m sure of it.  Why else would he have signed it back over to Bobby.”“What about Lucy?”“Bobby sold his half to her, though he and Gary kept their share of the mineral rights.  John Ross was suppose to take it all including the mineral rights, giving a  sixth to James, Beau and two other of JR’s kids.”“Two?”“Aparently JR’d been running an entire family on the side no one knew about.  Two other children.  They didn’t know about us and we didn’t know about them.  Somehow in all of this I was suppose to figure out JR loved me and only me even though he had another wife.”“They were married?” “While he was married to Cally.”“Did you figure that out about JR, that he only loved you?”“Actually I did.  He left me a sixth of his precious South Fork oil and a dinner invitation which turned out to be a letter sitting across from me explaining every fear and self doubt JR ever had.”“Really?”“It was everything I’d ever wanted to hear from him.  I didn’t need nor want a share of South Fork’s oil, son John Ross split my share with JR’s two other kids and he gave his share to James and Beau.  So in the end JR left is nothing but letters and Bobby and Gary kept their share.  He arranged for Lucy to get the Wade ranch and friend out Lucy had a trustfund just like John Ross.”“Really?  I didn’t know that.”  “John Ross and Lucy each own forty percent of Ewing Indusrtries and the DelSol Group owns the remaining twenty.  It isn’t what JR wanted but why should he get everything he wanted?”“I couldn’t agree more.  Margret said John Ross and Lucy even shared Cyberbyte shares with all the grandchildren, including her and Christopher and Lucy’s brother and sister.  Not exactly a JR stunt.”“No it wasn’t.  He just wants peace in the family.”“Well it looks like he finally accomplished it.  You must be very proud Sue Ellen.”“I am.  I just wish he’d find some happiness of his own.”</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?