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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 109873" data-attributes="member: 130">Late into the evening, a large bomb fire on the ranch.  John Ross leads camp songs playing his guitar.  Paul says to Steven out by the barns, “Thank you for inviting me, especially considering, well.  It’s very beautiful here and look at all those stars.” “Yeah, it’s something.  I’m glad things worked out with your sister.  And I’m sorry you had to come down here for all of this.”“I’m just glad she left for Houston and your cousin agreed to dropping the charges.  Wasn’t as bad coming down here as I thought it was going to be.”“That’s good.”“And I got to see the legendary Southfork ranch.”“This is true.”“And meet your family.”“Also true.”Paul leans forward and kisses Steven.  “I should go.  But when you’re back in Ann Arbor, let me know.  I’d like to see you again.  If this is ok.”Steven kisses him, “There’s no reason you have to go so soon.”   He pulls him in and kisses him passionately.  Ari approaches Kyle.  “I saw you talking to Ellie Ewing.  That where you’re headed with those drinks?”“Ari.  Yeah.  Say looks like John Ross invited everyone that might give the old man some hassle with his company.  Like I said to you before, no reason for leaving that drilling process on the shelf.”  “Well all depends if or when you want to shake things up.  But listen, Ellie, two words of advise.  She’s capable of handling herself.  Under estimating her, well.  Her father’s, you know.  And her grandfather.”  “Carlos DelSol.”“And I’m her godfather.”“Really?  That I didn’t know.”  “Marta and I were very close at one time.  But not one of us need to protect that girl. We taught her how to handle herself, so just be forewarned.”Tyler hands Ellie a drink in a corner alone by the pool.  “Ari just told me he’s your godfather.”“He is.  Sofia Princess of Wallonia is my godmother.  Are you impressed?”“I suppose I am.”“I don’t make it a habit of attempting to impress anyone, but since you brought it up.  Ari has been very helpful to me.”“In what way?”“I don’t make it a habit of discussing the details of my personal business either.”“Fair enough.”“But I’ve heard your father’s put you in charge of his very diverse portfolio of companies.  And your family, through associates, own a great deal of land in Russia.”  “Oh but my personal business you snoop into.”“Don’t take it personally.  I’ve done so with everyone here.”  “Your grandparents walked off with a lot of ill gotten gains.  What what is it you want?”“You’re very blunt.”“Sure.”Kyle considers her.  “I want Burkcroft Hamilton to use the Ewing Process to bring down the price of natural gas. To destabilize Russia and topple the regime.”Ellie smiles.  “Paybacks are a bitch and America is nothing if not patient.”“I’ve found that to be true.”Colin walks Karin back to her cottage.  She takes his hand and pulls him inside. “Yes ma’am,” he smiles a sly grin.  Howard sits at a table and says, “How would you like to be the president of Cantrell Oil?  I’ve got a whole team in to help you with the particulars of the oil business.  It’s basically what was Ewing Oil but I’ve got to rename it.”  “You’re a gutsy man Mr. Burkcroft.”“Howard.”“I’m interest, if there’s an ownership stake.  Ten percent to sign up and stock options get me up to twenty-five percent in the first five years.  Then we can talk from there.”Howard laughs.  “I’ll be honest.  I don’t want the company.  I’ll help you buy the whole thing.  The methane extraction contract was sold to Burkcroft Hamilton, so you’ll have to make a go of it without it.  And with enough debt to choke a horse.  But it’s worth a go, don’t you think?”  “I think we can work out favorable terms.”Early morning, the first hints of twilight.  Mateo hands John Ross a tablet.  The sounds of sex fills the room.  “What the hell,” Pamela says.  Mateo reach over and forward it.  Burkcroft and Smith are heard talking.  They talk about stalling the extraction process by setting explosions and having Congress stall Ewing Oil using the politicians they bought, they mention a few names including Vice President Tate.  They talk about buying the debt of Ewing Oil.  Then Burcroft says, “You’d better get this right.  Chekhov killed Sechin and a dozen others that let him down.  I’d hate for you to be next.”Pamela says, “They know she recoded this?”“According to Lockwood?  No,” Mateo says.  “He’s got her held safe too.” John Ross hands him back the tablet.  “I’d rather have her safe with us.  Anyway this ties in our Vice President and the Russian President, but can we make hard connections?”“Working on it.  We’ve got one particularly large loan Berkshire arranged.”“To who?”“Logan, to finance Cantrell Oil.”“OK.”  A little grin creeps onto John Ross’s face. “I’ve got documents, not legally obtained, but they show Chekhov’s been financing Burkcroft Hamilton for ten years.”“So the Wizard of Windsor’s not a modern Warren Buffet after all.” “No. With his television career and testing the waters for the White House, I’d say he’s more like. . .”“Don’t say it.” In the kitchen at Southfork Pamela works on making chili with the cook while talking about John Ross with Lucy who’s sitting at the counter next to Ellie.   Ellie says, “Just remember he’s my father.”Pamela says, “As long as you remember he’s my husband.”Lucy hands Pamela a board of cut up onions.  “You both better remember this is my house.  Speaking of which, when are you going back to work?  I’ve never seen you go without a job so long.”  “I said that to John Ross.  There’s a shake up at Ewing Industries.  Retirements coming up.  People he’s putting in place of recreating Ewing Oil.  Anyway, he offered me the job of CEO of Ewing Industries. Chairman of the board and CEO.”“Wow.  Sounds like more than full time.”  “Is.  But says he needs someone to get things in order.  Someone he and his brother trust.”“Well that’s good.”Ellie says, “You ran Ewing Oil into the ground.  How’s that work for getting a promotion to run the whole thing?”“You’re assuming we weren’t complicit in that?”“Why would my father be complicit in loosing Ewing Oil?” “We need another five years to be ready for the Ewing process.  By then the agreement with Ewing Oil expires.  In the meantime it puts Burkcroft out in the open and gets Logan in the family business to try things out on his own.”  “My father set this up?   And you’re saying he knew Burkcroft would sell to Logon.  How’d he know that?”“Burkcroft has people whispering in his ear just like your father.  People he thinks he can trust.  Speaking of work, you ever gonna get a job?”  Ellie smirks.  “God no.  I’m trying to figure out why I’m in the kitchen now.”  Lucy says, “You spent your whole life watching me in the kitchen.”“Yes like this, sitting and watching someone else cook.  Since when have Ewing’s cooked?”  “My grandmother cooked.”“Oh sure a hundred years ago.”“It wasn’t that long ago.”“I like to cook,” Pamela says, “And your father likes my cooking.  Especially my chili.  Part his grandmother’s, part your grandpa DeSol’s, part me.”  “Well as long as the two of you enjoy it on your own.  You eating dinner in the kitchen?”  “By the pool.”Ellie shakes her head.  Logan sits in front of a congressional hearing being drilled on his loans and their Russian sources, his relationship with Howard Burkcroft.  Roger Smith walks into his office in Detroit, closing the door.  An explosion blows the door out. From the street below the office exploits a second and third time raining debris down on the city streets below. A congressman asks Logan, “After the assignation of Roger Smith and Vicktor Sechin before that, do you fear for your life, dealing with these people?”John Ross walks into a Detroit board room with Oliver Lockwood saying he’s filling in for his father.  They sit down with the rest of the board.  The chairman’s seat empty.  John Ross speaks up, “Since Dale isn’t going to be joining us it seems, I’d like to get started without him and nominate Kyle Reznikov as interim chairman.”  Oliver seconds the nomination.  Ari calls for a vote.  Just over half vote for Kyle who then says, “Fine, let’s get down to business,” while taking the seat at the head of the table.”A man is seen through a prison hall and locked behind bars.  The guard walks away.  The man turns around and another man says, “Dale Ubanks.”“Yes.”  Holding his hand to his mouth, the man blows a dart at Dale.  Same goes to grab his neck where the tiny dart hits him, but before he can he falls over.  The man removes the dart.  A man whispers in the congressman’s ear who’s questioning Logan. FBI agents walk in the door to the room at the opposite end and march down the aisle.  The lead agent says, “Congressman Dort?”“Yes,” the congressman who had been questing Logan says.  “You’re under arrest for taking bribes and laundering money.  You have the right to remain silent . . .”  While the Congressman is read his rights and hand cuffed another of the agents approached Lucas.  “Mr. Cantrell.  You’re under arrest as well.  You have the right to remain silent.  Anything you say . . .” In another congressional hearing room, discussing nuclear energy funding, another team of FBI agents enters.  Jack says, “What the hell is going on?”  In a hotel room Ellie undresses Kyle, unbuttoning his shirt.  “So you’ve got a new job.”“Part time.”She takes his shirt off, rubbing his muscular body. Colin gets out of bed with Karin in her cottage, walking naked to the bathroom.   “My father has a shit load of work for me tomorrow.  I’ve to be up by four.”  “Well don’t wake me up.”Calling from the bathroom, “Oh you don’t want to see me off.”“Come back at the crack of noon and we’ll have breakfast.”   Coming out of the bathroom and sliding back into bed with her he says, “I’ll have lunch.”“You fo that darlin’.”   She leans over into him, rubbing his chest.  They kiss.  Steven has dinner with Paul Scott in a cozy restaurant.  Howard eats in his grand dinning room alone, looking up and wiping his mouth with his napkin.  Over a candle lit dinner by the pool John Ross wipes his mouth with his napkin and says to Pamela, “Damn that’s hot darlin’.”“Too much for you I can get you the kiddy version.”“I didn’t say that.  I can handle anything you got.”</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?