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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 107120" data-attributes="member: 130">Jack says from a panel at a House Congressional committee meeting, looking down the row of his fellow Congressmen, “Yes this is an issue of particular interest to my family, but more importantly it’s of national significance.  We just can’t allow a foreign national to walk away with American technology so vital to our energy security and that of our allies.”  A fellow congressman says, “And the courts are handling the matter with current law.”Another congressman says with a great deal of hostility, “That’s the very point. There needs to be a constitutional amendment to protect these types of assets.  We need it through this joint committee now and through the full congress tomorrow so the states can take action on it quickly.”  “Quickly doesn’t give us time to discuss this most serious issue,” another congressman interjects.  Jack says, “Then just give the keys to your house to the Russians now!  What more do they have to do to get you to act?  They’ve bought ejections.  Senator Graff, did they buy yours?”“Now wait one damn minute!”“Wait so you can drag your feet?  This is America and we’re at war.  And some of you are still dragging your feet.  Is it really out of line to ask why, especially when we know the Russians have bought right up the White House?  They’ve bought into the Chinese State Council and Central Military Commission!”Pandemonium breaks out.  The chair pounds his gavel attempting to restore order.  Bobby walks with Chris through a federal court in Dallas.  John Ross approaches him with Mateo and says, “You traitor!”Bobby positions himself between Chris and John Ross, “Back off!  You know Chris thought he was selling to the Wendell’s.”“Ok so he’s a stupid traitor.”“If you hadn’t tried to steal his work in the first place none of this would have happened!”“Steal!  Those patents are assets that went in to creating Ewing Energies, which was acquired by Barnes Global when his dumb ass ran the company into the ground.  Which my father had to die to make into Ewing Global.  And then you and my mother couldn’t pay your debt so you lost majority control to Ewing Industries.   You do recall those events?”Chris says, “Of course we recall how you stole everything from me, partner.”“I tried to be your partner.  You wanted to control everything.  Then your girlfriend wouldn’t pay back my momma and somehow that was my fault.  Then she almost gets you killed.  Took you a decade to recover.  Is that my fault too?  Raped me.  Blackmailed your father.  Cavorted with drug dealers and the man who killed Pamela’s babies, her own father.  Got Aunt Anne and Emma kidnapped.  Emma raped.  Drew killed.  Laundered money for Trevino.   You need anymore?  Now your dumb ass is selling secrets to the Russians.”Bobby pulls Chris away and says, “Let’s just go.”In the wide upstairs hall of Southfork Pamela stops John Ross in the way into his room.  “How’d court go today?”  “Stalemate.  Which is what we expected.  The court is won’t force turning over anything immediately like they wanted.”“That’s good.  You talk to Jeremy?”“No.  He wasn’t there.  Neither was Viktor.  Just Lone Star lawyers.” “Chris?”“Oh yes.  He testified he never turned over anything to Ewing Energies.  We present the documents which set up the company and asked for the case to be thrown out.  Of course he didn’t.  Preliminary crap and no one blinked, so.”“Our lawyers told me we can’t proceed though.”“We made that clear, how much the company is loosing having to wait and see until they figure things out.”  “They don’t care.”  Pamela shakes her head incredulously.  “No they don’t.  Anyway.  I’m going to change did dinner.  See you down there.”“Yes.  See you down there.”  At the bottom of the stairs Lucy asks Pamela, “Did you talk to him?”“I did.  But nows not the time.  He’s dealing with Chris and this court case.  He’s got a lot . . .”“Yeah he’s always dealing with a lot.  I don’t want to be the one to tell him.” “I’ll tell him.”Bobby walks through a hotel lobby.  Ray approaches him.  “Bob.”“Ray.  What are you doing here?”“Looking for you.  What’s going on?”“Chris is having to testify about the sale of extraction process.”“That’s what I mean.  To some Russian.”“He sold to the Wendell’s.  He didn’t know they were in business with some guy from Russia.”“And they’re both dead and the two of you are here doing what?”“Chris is explaining what went down both back when they formed Ewing Energy and then when he sold the process to Lone Star.”“You got to be kidding me Bob.  So what?  So they get the extraction process.”  “With the deal Chris gets royalties.  Without it, he gets nothing from Ewing Oil.”  “I know you don’t like what happened, and John Ross ending up with the company, but come on Bob, the Russians.”  “Im just here to support Chris.”  “You don’t both to tell me your in town, or Lucas, or Lucy.  You know this ain’t right.”“What’d John Ross send you here to talk to me?”“You know that’s not true.  I was talking to Lucas.  And yes, he and John Ross are close.  The man Lucas describes is just the ban Jock would have wanted John Ross to be.”“How you figure?”“He’s strong.  Don’t take no guff.  Don’t ask anyone to do anything he’s not willing to do.  They respect him.  He does what’s got to be done.  He took the company away from you and Chris.  You were burying it just like Jason and Digger.  And he did what he had to do.”  “Oh that’s crap Ray and you know it.”“Is it?  I talked to Sue Ellen when everything went down.  She told me how Elena would pay her back.  How you and Chris sunk everything into the extraction process.  How you’d disagree with Chris but still side with him.  Donna said Carlos told her the same thing.  The two of you pushed the company to the wall.  Then that Elena girl nearly got him killed dealing with drug kingpins.  Now he’s dealing with the Russians.  Come on Bob.  Take the blinders off.”“Me.  You come down to lecture me when you better than most know JR’s cons.”“This isn’t JR.”“You know what I mean.”“Do I?  You walked away from Dallas.  You’ve got Pam.”“You know he helped Katherine take her money?”“I know Rebecca ignored Herbert’s Will and split up what was just Katherine’s.  Look I’m no fan of the woman, or wasn’t, but that boy of her’s, he’s a good kid.  And if that’s what Herbert’s will said.  It’s not about John Ross helping her.  It’s about doing what’s right.  I thought that’s what I could expect out of you.  But this, helping some Russian walk off with American technology, this is just wrong.  You and Gary got a great thing out there in California running Westfork.  You got your families.  Why come back to do this?  Revenge?  Cause that’s what it sounds like.  John Ross got the girl, the ranch and the company.  That’d make him Jock and Christopher Digger.  Look what happened to Digger Bobby.  You gotta stop this before it’s too late.” The Ewing’s walk out of the dinning room toward the living room.  Alex thanks Lucy for including him and Jolie as family.  Pamela holds the arms of her two boys.  In the late evening, John Ross sits out back of South Fork in the crisp night air.   Lucas says he better get going and leaves.  Then Pamela walks out.  “Hey John Ross.  Can we talk?”“Yeah sure. Of course. What’s up?”“I want to talk about us.”“Not to sound like a bitch, but there’s an us?”“There was.”“Yeah, I guess there was,” he says with a heavy sigh. “I don’t know how to say this except just to say it.  Colin and Logan are your sons.”“Look it Pamela, I might not have known there ever was an us, but I’ve always known those boys were mine.”“You did?  But why didn’t you say.”“What was I to say or do?  You didn’t want me.  And the truth is I didn’t think very much of myself at the time.  I walked out of here and left Jack and Ellie to Lucy.  Far as I was concerned, Cantrell would’ve made a better father anyways.  And what now?  Tell them the man they loved isn’t their father.  You know you father once told me that?”“He doesn’t even know about my sons.”“No.  About me.  You left.  I went to Mexico to see him.  Confront him.  He told me the babies, your babies with Chris, he thought they were mine, and I had to know why he did what he did.  He told me I was really his son.  He was going to get Southfork for me.”“My fathers nuts.”“Agreed but after his elaborate story I went and got tested to make sure.”“And?”“JR was my father.  But my point is I had to deal with what I’d have to ask those boys to deal with, except it’d turn out different.  The man they expect to be their dad isn’t.”“He was a good father.”“I know he was.  Just like Lucy was a good mother.”“I’m sorry John Ross.”“Don’t be.  It was the right choice.”  He stands and walks off the porch.  “Where you going?”“For a walk.  Make sure everything’s locked down.”“It’s dark out there.”“Usually is.” John Ross shows up at a deer blind.  “Hey,” he says to a man sitting in side with night goggles, earphones and an assault riffle.  The man says, “Mr. Ewing.”“How’s it going?”“Pretty good.  We picked up some chatter near by not long ago.  Turns out it was your neighbors.  The McCoys.  Couple of kids looking to tent camp stumbled onto Southfork.  But other than that, all’s quite.”“That’s good.”</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?