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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 114295" data-attributes="member: 130">John Ross opens a box to see a A Patek Philippe wristwatch.  Pamela says, “Another gift from your friend?”  “Yes it is.”“Nice.”“It is, isn’t it?”“Aren’t you going to put it on?”“No."   John Ross closes the box.  “I’m not so worried about time.”  “A man of leisure I take it.”   “No. It’s just ranching is guided by the sun.  It doesn’t need this kind of precession.  I’ll give it to Steven.”“Speaking of Steven, I’m worried about him.”“Why?”“He seems upset.  Paul’s not around and Alex is back.  Maybe you could talk to him.”“I wouldn’t know where to begin.  Maybe you could.  You recognize something’s off.   Maybe you can help.  He trusts you.”  “I don’t know about that. But I’ll try.”  “Thank you.”She takes the box.  “And I’ll deliver this.”   Kyle sits at a computer looking into a bank account.  Suddenly the number goes to zero.  He panics, goes to another account and watches it crash to zero.  He continues this, watching every time the  account empty.  Ellie walks into Karin’s apartment and looks around.  Karin walks out of the bedroom,wet, raped in a towel.  Startled she screams and then says, “What the hell are you doing here, Ellie?”  “I came to check on you for my brother.”  “Colin.”  “If that baby is a Ewing, you’d best move back to the ranch.  The Burkcroft’s aren’t going to take care of you and you damn well better believe he’ll grow up with his cousins.”“I’m not afraid of you.”“It takes brains to know when to be scared. And since that's something in short supply for you, I'm gonna help you out, now is the time to be scared.”  Ellie walks out.Pamela walks with Steven on the college campus.  “Well you need to make a choice.  Paul seems to really care about you.  Alex, I’m note sure he’s capable of caring about anyone but himself.  He’s spent a lifetime just trying to survive.  Both of his parents weren’t stable.  You know that.  I don’t mean he’s a bad person, but can you be happy with him?”“I don’t think my grandparents sound all that stable either, but you’re with my father.  And you don’t get much more stable than John Ross Ewing.”  “I suppose now, but it’s taken a lot of fighting for your father to come to terms with his life.  When you were just a baby and he retuned to Southfork with you, that was it.  He swore he’d never again let anything tear his family apart.  He made a packed with Lucy and with Lucas.  He tired to get his brother to move to Southfork.  Tried everything he could.  So you’re right, ain’t no one more stable than your father.  But he had to hit rock bottom to get there.  And what about Paul?”  “I hurt him.  I hurt him real bad.”“Than maybe before you figure out your life, you better fix what you’ve done.” John Ross hurries up and puts a letter in his pocket as Lucy enters his study.  “That the letter JR left you?”  “Yeah.”“You carry it around with you?”“All the time.”“Well, I just wanted to tell you you’re momma just came through the gate.  She’s on her way up to the house.”“Momma?   What’s she doing here?”“I don’t know.  Say John Ross, you said the letter was a set of instructions, you ever get to the last one?”“Oh I deviated from his plan long ago.  Except the last line.  He said not to let the bastards get me down.”  “Well there was a moment.”“Yeah I believe there was.   Well let’s go see what my momma’s here for.”   Ellie walks into Kyle’s Dallas apartment.  “Well look who’s here.”Kyle sits staring out the window, looking a bit shell shocked. Sitting heft to him, staring to unbutton his shirt, “What’s got you down.”“They cleared me out.”“Who’s they?  What do you mean cleared you out?”  “I guess my fathers enemies in Russia.  I don’t know how they did it.  Every dimes gone.  I’ve contacted my lawyers and they’re not even returning my calls.  Someone’s got at them.  Even my safe here is empty.  Every credit card maxed.  I can’t even get to New York to check there.  Maybe you could help.”  “I’d suggest you just sell your share of RCP.  I’ve got some friends who will make you a fair offer.”  His shirt wide open Ellie feels all over his chest.  “What?  You know about this?”“Of course Kyle.  You’re playing our game.  We’re the house?”  “Who’s we!”  He stands up over her.  His shirt falls off his shoulders.  “I swear to God Ellie.”  “You swear nothing.”  She undies his belt. “Relax Kyle.  This will all be over soon.  You can sell your share and return to New York where you can keep playing at what ever you want. Know one need know you’re really a bitch.”He grabs her arms and pulls her up so he’s looking her straight in the face.  His pants drop.  His stands in front of her in right black bikini briefs and nothing else.  “I swear I’ll kill you.”  As calm as can be Ellie replies, “Right now you can walk away and as far as the world knows you are a man in control, or you can make a big mistake and loose everything, even your dignity.”He studies her.  Let’s her go.She slides back onto the sofa.  That’s a good boy.  My, are you gorgeous.”  She reaches around and rubs his ass.  “Erick won’t be here but I’m more interested in you doing as I tell you.  Consider it my going away present, your going away.”  Jack walks out of an apartment bathroom with only a towel on, brushing his teeth, “I took care of Demae.  I think there’s still a lot to use there but for now I’m just letting her mull over her position. Poor little thing.  She’s got a lot to deal with.”  McKenzie sits up in bed, sheet around her chest, “Yes well, she got in over her head.  Maybe experiencing drowning will convince her next time to not take such risks.”  “We’ll see.  Have to keep an eye on that one.  She’s useful, but maintaining control is important.  That guy you sent over should do the trick.”“He was your sister’s idea.  Common practice though, for controlling your front men though.  You should have thought of it sooner.”  Demae sits in her apartment on the floor naked, high, with a naked young man helping her shoot up. “Here this’ll help you forget what you saw of your family.  Just relax and enjoy.”   Amy sits having lunch in an apartment with Petrio.  “Jack asked me to ask you to back away from Alex and Steven, at least Alex while he’s with Steven.”“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”  “Yes you do.  I don’t give a damn Petrio.  I understand it’s got to be difficult.  You were raised really poor.  People like Charlotte and now Alex, them make it seem like you’re not so poor.  The problem is Alex isn’t any good for Steven.  He only confuses him.”“He looks to be enjoying himself if you ask me.”“Look it Petrio.  I’m asking.  Jack and his sister won’t ask.”“It’s none of their business.”  “It is when they see their brother hurting. You’d better believe it.  And Ellie, she won’t warn you.  She believes only cowards who don’t want to follow through make threats.  She’ll get at you before you even know it.”  Petrio’s look turns demure.  Amy noticed, “Unless maybe she’s already got at you?”  In the early morning Anna walks on the beach with her daughter Jolie while Lucas showers up by house in an outside, glass enclosure.  “I just came to visit you.  Make sure you’re OK.”  “You’ve never come to just visit me.  What are you up to?”“I’m your mother for crying out loud.  Can’t I get the benefit of the doubt?”“No.”“Alright.  The Engles family trust I over see, I’m invested with the Burkcroft’s and De Le Vegas in a business, Burges.  We’ve been competing against Billcore, which Ewing Industries now control for mining leases all over the world.  And RCP, which friends of the Ewing’s own, Ellie Ewing helped arrange the company moving from Russian hands to a consortium controlled by Mckenzie Felix.”“Why are you telling me this?”“Because there’s a fight brewing between the Burkcroft’s and the Ewing’s and I want you to stay as far away as possible.  You and Joshie.” “The Ewing’s have handled the Burkcroft’s before.”“Yeah and it got Logan killed.”  Over cocktails before diner Pamela says to Ellie, “The RCP deal is done I hear.  You’re back to playing just the one side.”Ellie smiles, “Oh no.  I play all sides.”John Ross says, “Your grandpa use to have a saying, Don’t sit on the fence if you can’t play both sides of it.  I have a feeling you’re capable of doing your great granddaddy proud.  But if Lucy hears you talking business, ain’t no skill gone help either one of you darlin’s.”   Ellie puts her arm around Colin.  “So true.  So Colin, how’s the ranch holding up?  You keeping daddy from making a mess of things.  You know he ain’t really a rancher.”Colin chucked a bit of a somber laugh.  “Yeah without Lucas he’s a bit of a fish out of water.  But we’re holding it together.”“Damn straight we are.”Lucy enters the room.  “Watch your mouth John Ross.”  “Yes ma’am.  Darn tooting we are.  Evening Lucy.  Where you been?”  “Seeing to dinner why you lounge about.”“Lounge about.   Me and Colin put in a hard days work.”Picking up on his somberness.  “You OK Colin?”“Yea I’m hanging in there.”Ellie says, “He’s just being glum over that little tart was living on the ranch.  Lucy says, “You got all the tact of your grandpa.  It’s OK Colin.  Some girls they just don’t know a good thing when they got it.  She’ll realize and by then you’ll done moved on.  It’s how these things work.”Sue Ellen walks in the room.  “How what things work?” “Collins just up set about Karin leaving.”  Sue Ellen sits down and wraps her arms around him from the opposite side of Ellie.  “You don’t worry.  That’s why grandma’s here.  This woman’s gonna be sorry she ever messed with the Ewing’s and took up with those Burkcroft’s.  Don’t you let it get you down.  We’re gone set this straight.  And a fine new Ewing baby’s gonna be running around Southfork in no time.”   “Thanks grandma.  It shouldn’t be like this.”“No it shouldn’t.”  “I just wanted my kid to have better.”  Ellie says, “We don’t even know it’s your kid.”Ellie swats her arms away from Colin.  “If you believe it is, I’m certain it is.  Ellie’s just talking like your grandpa, gibberish.   Unlike his momma who had the grace to just admit she didn’t know what to say.”  “Colin can handle the truth.”  “No sweetheart.  Sometime a man just needs comforting.”  “Pish-posh. “ Early in the morning Ellie walks through a Dallas penthouse, the sun climb up over the city. A gorgeous man closer to her fathers age walks up out of the pool in a black speedo, wrapping himself in a towel.  “Darren.”He gives her a mischievous smile.  “Ellie.”“All done with Kyle?”  “All done.  He’s back in New York happy to have money again.  I don’t think you’ll hear much from him again.” “Some dogs just go away and lick their wounds.  And McKenzie Felix?”“She’s taken up with your brother.  Put a lot of money into his campaign.  Happy to be running RCP and headed to Geneva.”“The reports on the members of the Cartel?”“Besides your father, Mackenzie Felix and Hugh Tryon, it’s hard to figure out who belongs.  But I’ll keep working on it.”“I know you will.”</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?