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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 66036" data-attributes="member: 130">Season 3 – again just notes of what we saw but with slight changes which are critical to the story:Sue Ellen and Ann plan a wedding for John Ross and Pamela.  Pamela gets close to Ann but is cold toward Sue Ellen as she feels that John Ross’s mother hasn’t been a good mother.  Sue Ellen tries to get close to Pamela.  Sue Ellen is worried that Pamela still loves Christopher.   John Ross and Bobby dispute over their joint ownership of Southfork, especially when it comes to a massive remodeling project.   Sue Ellen cautions John Ross not to underestimate Bobby and reminds him of the importance of working together as a family.  John Ross said what he wants is to refinance Ewing Energies and for him and Christopher to continue the company, just the two of them using the name Ewing Oil.  Bobby also say that his 1/3 of Barnes Global should belong to Chris and John Ross tells him that JR bought it and that Pam is still out there somewhere and so is Kathryn. Cliff Barnes begins to plot his revenge on the Ewings from prison with Chris showing up at the offices of Barnes Global announcing he has Cliff’s 1/3 and intends to be an equal partner to John Ross and Pamela.  Chris doesn’t want to hear about sharing Ewing Energies with John Ross.  He’s content with Barnes Global absorbing the entire thing.  Chris then goes about to seduce Pamela.   Old Ramos family friend Joaquin (now calling himself Nicolas Trevino) arrives in Dallas presumably to act as a partner to Cliff Barnes in Barnes Global, he has an agreement that shows he acquired a quarter of the company from Cliff last year.   He is working with Ryland and Cliff to help Chris take control of Barnes Global.  Chris agrees to hire Elena as a VP of Development with Barnes Global’s new Energy Division and in fact is acting as a mole planted by Cliff and Nicholas.  Chris works on seducing Elena as well. John Ross tries to make a business deal with Emma, who is the acting-CEO of Ryland Transport now that her father is in prison.  He does through Drew’s relationship with her and his friendship with her.  Pamela is jealous of John Ross’s friendship with Emma and she keeps a distance from John Ross, insisting on separate bedrooms. Christopher meets Heather (a Southfork ranch hand) for the first time.Sue Ellen has Bum tail John Ross to see if he is cheating on Pamela with Emma Ryland.  Bum finds out that he isn’t, but that John Ross is confiding in her his loneliness. Heather lashes out at Christopher when she thinks he and Bobby are behind the efforts to drill on Southfork, but she finds out John Ross and Sue Ellen are. Christopher invites Nicolas to the Ewing barbecue in an effort to raise capital for the arctic leases.  He then volunteers to go to Mexico to see what he can find about Nicolas when details about his alleged deal with Cliff Barnes don't ring true. Seismic tests supposedly determine that the Shale plates are within the foundation’s surface rights on Southfork even after the Seismic tester confesses to having been bribed by John Ross.  John Ross wants that oil for his part of Ewing Energies – and to eventually us it all the other pieces JR left him to recreate Ewing Oil.  Sue Ellen wants the oil for her foundation work. From prison Ryland warns Ann about the danger posed by the Mendez-Ochoa drug cartel to Emma, his mother, AND her.  John Ross wins Southfork ranch hands over to his side on the question of drilling on Southfork land first by fighting it out and being willing to take punch as well as give one and then by offering them lucrative drilling jobs until they can return to ranching.  Nicolas (Joaquin) attempts to bribe a witness in the Cliff Barnes murder case, but he is met by Bobby when he drops off the bribe money.  In Mexico, Christopher meets a man who was cheated out of his share of the profits from a drug patent by Nicolas (Joaquin). He is then taken to the Trevino family compound where he is introduced to Nicolas's (Joaquin's) wife.  Nicolas (Joaquin) and Elena sleep together.Bobby shows up at John Ross's drilling site with a Lesser Prairie Chicken - reminding John Ross that drilling would threaten the bird's natural habitat thus shutting down. On the morning of his wedding to Pamela, John Ross is called into a meeting with the Texas Railroad Commissioner about his permit to drill for oil on Southfork where he instead finds Nicholas waiting to meet with him.Sue Ellen, expressing further concern that her son is becoming more and more like his father, asks Ann that Emma be made to move off Southfork.  Ann reminds her that it might not be safe because of the dangers posed by the Mendez-Ochoa drug cartel.  Ann also says that just because they are friends doesn’t mean they’re sleeping together and that the problem is that neither Pamela or John Ross have a marriage of love but one of business and how they’re bringing  child into the mess.  She says that maybe Sue Ellen should support her son.  Sue Ellen says she is buy going after the oil on Southfork.Christopher returns from Mexico after meeting with Nicolas's (Joaquin's) wife who then travels to Dallas and confronts him about his relationship with Elena and blackmails him over his threat to divorce her.Drew is now hiding out on Southfork and has an attack of conscience about blowing up Christopher's methane rig.   John Ross gets him to confess to Pamela who believes him that he didn’t intend for anyone to get hurt.  John Ross is issued his drilling permit after he discovers that the Texas Railroad Commissioner that initially denied him his permit has some strange sexual fetishes.  John Ross and Pamela's wedding goes off seemingly without a hitch.Sue Ellen goes to Bobby over her concerns about John Ross's behavior.Ryland puts into motion a plan to blackmail John Ross at a brothel a friend of his owns. Christopher and Heather hook up after the wedding.Christopher discovers surprising details about Heather's past.  Elena agrees to sleep with Christopher – each of them thinking they’re using the other to get at control of Barnes Global.  Pamela once and for all tells Christopher that she never loved him and that she was only desperate to make her father’s plan work.  She reveals that she meet John Ross several years before she meet him and that she fell in love with him then and is still in love with him, though he doesn’t remember their meeting and that she doubts he has any feelings for her what so ever.  She also reveals that while her father wanted his methane patent that she wanted Southfork to give to John Ross and now that doesn’t matter anymore. Judith Ryland and Ann try, with varying degrees of success, to get Emma under control.After Bobby’s appointment as Railroad Commissioner, John Ross scrambles to find the funds with Barnes Global to keep the Arctic lease deal alive. \Sensing an opportunity, Elena and Nicolas get Pamela and John Ross out of the office to divide and conquer. Christopher, while living in the Southfork cottage with Heather, begins an affair with John Ross’s secretary. Sue Ellen confronts John Ross about what she suspects is an affair and how she’s going to call off the drilling of Southfork oil and side with Bobby, that she’s afraid he’s just like his father.  They fight in her kitchen.  She’s drunk.  He confronts her about her drinking and abandoning him and how she’s out of control.  She begs him to turn his life around.  He says she’s crazy.  John Ross has her committed before she hurts herself. Bobby works to get Sue Ellen released from rehab.  Ann is worried that it might be the best place for her but Bobby is sure that John Ross is just using it to control the foundation and get at the oil on Southfork to shave his artic leases.  (if it can be arranged a brief appearance by Ian McShane would be nice where he sees Sue Ellen and also John Ross, and is running the foundation in her absence and he disagrees with Bobby and wants the oil pumped up). Emma discovers the lengths her father and grandmother have gone to control her.The crushing reality of John Ross's supposed affair with Emma hits home as Pamela views a video sent by Nicolas – but the video is not sex, more him confiding in her.   As water seeps from the bathroom at Southfork Ann and Sue Ellen find Pamela sitting on the floor with the bath overflowing.  With Bobby finding out the revelations, he demands that Emma leave Southfork, as the spotlight is wrongly turned on her for sending the video to Pamela.Pamela gives birth early to John Ross Ewing IV, Jay.  Pamela slips further into depression.  John Ross promises his son they’ll be a happy family. Christopher and Heather panic when her x collects his son from school and goes missing, although they are later found having a father and son moment at the rodeo after her x has assaulted five policemen and escaped vowing revenge on the Ewings; it acts to bring Christopher and Heather even closer.Nicolas pierces Elena's diaphragm with a needle, and then having sex with her.Pamela goes to the Ryland Mansion to confront Emma.  Emma tries to explain nothing is happening only to realize that Pamela is on drugs and OD’s.Sue Ellen, still living at Southfork, returns to the bottle because of all of the stress of the supposed affair and collapses at Southfork, with the camera cutting to Heather’s x driving to the ranch. Next flames rip through the ranch as a fire breaks out. Bobby and Christopher rush inside to try to rescue anyone trapped, when the ceiling collapses on them, leaving them in mortal danger along with Sue Ellen who is still unconscious on the floor.Right after Southfork is on fire, Pamela, Sue Ellen, and Heather’s x have been hospitalized - an infuriated Bobby and Sue Ellen goes after John Ross and Emma.  Pamela, recovering from a drug overdose, John Ross begs her to believe him, that he loves her and that he didn’t have an affair, that she’s the one that wanted the business marriage not him.  She dies loving him.  He says that he knows she loves him because of what she did to herself, that he’s never hurt anyone in his life and he promises to never hurt her again.  Pamela tells him there is not marriage and to leave her alone. John Ross goes on a drinking binge and Elena seduces him to get at JR’s letter.After sharing the truth with her mother, Elena confronts the Ewings over J.R. and Bobby taking her father's oil rich land and for framing Cliff for J.R.'s death.  Sue Ellen and Ann are shocked that Bobby headed J.R.'s master plan.  Christopher reminds Elena how much she has changed and that he doesn’t care what happens to Cliff, Barnes Global will be his, no matter what he has to do to her to get it.  John Ross tells her he’ll destroy her for going after his family. Sue Ellen confronts Bum about J.R.'s death and learns that Bum painted J.R.'s portrait that hangs in Ewing Global.  Bobby agrees to reimburse Elena for her father's land and obtains a pardon for Cliff.  Carlos tells Cliff the pardon won’t help him, that he’ll never leave Mexico alive.  Elena later hands the pardon document to Pamela prior to making a phone call to Cliff in Mexico.  Bobby warns Elena that by freeing Cliff she is restarting the Barnes-Ewing feud and the fallout from it is because of her.  In front of Elena, John Ross reveals to Nicolas that Elena only obtained J.R.'s letter because she had sex with John Ross.Nicolas’s plan to takeover Barnes Global for the Cartel moves forward, setting the stage for a new battle.John Ross learns from Drew that Nicolas sent Pamela the video of John Ross and Emma  making it look like they’re having sex and that Nicholas has been working with Ryland Cliff behind both Elena and Chris’s back and the Cartel behind Ryland and Cliff’s bank.Pamela must deal with the choice to either free her father or leave him in prison.  Pamela leaves him in prison saying his hatred of the Ewings was more important to him than his love for her and she also says she can never forgive him for blowing the Ewing rig knowing she was on board and killing her children.Tired of dealing with the Ewings through Nichols the cartel kidnaps Emma and Ann. John Ross meets Drew who informs him that the flash drive John Ross copied from Harris’s black box was encrypted with software only readable from a CIA database.  John Ross tells Drew to break the encryption one way or another.Ann and Emma are taken to a Cartel house in Tamaulipas, Mexico.  John Ross, Christopher, Bobby, Sue Ellen, and Judith meet the CIA and Harris in prison and Ryland reveals that the Cartel leader has been in hiding for the last 4 years and is a notorious Mexican war criminal known as El Posolero that wants to own Barnes Global to launder money as well as Ryland Transport to ship drugs.   Ryland's trucks are stopped at the border and Luis performs a mock execution of Emma as a warning.John Ross tells Pamela about Ann and Emma being kidnapped.  Christopher meets Nicolas's wife Lucia and informs her that Nicolas and Elena are having an affair. She tells Nicolas that Christopher knows his real identity and his debt to the Cartel. It's revealed that Lucia hired the photographer that has been photographing Nicolas and Elena. Later after Lucia learns of Nicolas's affair with Elena, she again meets Christopher and agrees to help him find Nicolas.Nicolas confesses to Elena that after her family moved to Dallas to live on Southfork with their Aunt Teresa,  he left the Mexican Catholic school and became a part of the street gang that became the Mendez-Ochoa Cartel. The leader, Ernest Mendez-Ochoa, saw potential in Nicolas's skills in numbers and mathematics and sent him to school in Europe. He made a deal that cost the Cartel $600million and they threatened his family if until he returned the money. Nicolas explains that the Cartel leader wants Nicolas to deliver enough money to buy the next Mexican presidential election and until then Nicolas, Elena, his sons, and wife are all in danger. Elena is angry that he used her to repay his debt to the Cartel.  He says they also want Barnes Global to launder money and Ryland Transport to ship drugs. Bobby calls a U.S. Senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee for help in getting Ann and Emma back. He also meets with the Texas Railroad Commission to get an emergency drilling permit in South Texas as a cover for transporting the Cartel's drugs across the border via railroad. Bobby flies to Mexico and meets with the cartel about the new plan to transport the drugs.  Judith thanks Bobby for helping get Emma back. Bobby meets the cartel and makes the railroad drug shipment deal – this is the money they need now to buy the Mexican election.  The cartel agrees but only allows one hostage to go back with Bobby.Christopher scrambles to find Elena and Nicholas as they own 1/4 of Barnes Global and is sure they are next on the cartel hit list.  He’s not worried about them so much as he wants their ¼ of the company he considers his. The Cartel double crosses Bobby and he returns with just Ann. John Ross risks all to attempt a rescue.  Drew had decoded the flash drive where John Ross locates a CIA contractor - he goes to the Tamaulipas hideout where Emma is held hostage.Pamela believes that it is Emma that John Ross loves because he risked his life for her and offers him a divorce.  John Ross begs her to believe him and that he wants to be a happy family with her and their son. Judith thanks John Ross for saving Emma.  She sells JRE her shares in Ryland Transport, which in effect are control and he has the governor appoint her to a vacant Senate seat.  She also gives him the pictures in the brothel.   West Star wins the artic oil leases that Barnes Global and its Energy Division (former Ewing Energy) lose.   John Ross announces that JRE now owns Ryland Transport and Branch Water, a private mercenary company and that Barnes Global will be taken apart with JRE acquiring most of its pieces and JRE owning ½ and Christopher owning the other ½ of Ewing Energies after the U.S. government seized Nicholas’s ¼ share of Barnes Global.  Pamela will be President of JRE and Chris will be president of Ewing Energies.  John Ross is retiring to ranching with Bobby. Chris sleeps with Elena who feels guilt over working with Nicholas and blackmailing Bobby for money.  She reveals she’s lost everything.  Chris vows he’ll take control of all of Ewing Energies and runs off to marry Heather. Nicholas runs off and marries Elena the second his divorce is final. Pamela talks to John Ross about Ewing Oil and John Ross says that the company belongs to another place and time.  She wants to focus on running West Star.  He tells her to have at it and that Drew will help, that Drew runs Branch Water.  She is happy as a powerful business executive and John Ross will be the stay at home parent and work with Bobby.   Jay comes home from the hospital.   Emma leaves for D.C. with her grandmother. Cliff and Ryland each still in prison.   Elena finds out that she is pregnant.Bo, Calley’s, son arrives at Southfork. So not a major cliff hanger as cliff hangers go but since there was a good chance they’d be canceled as they were, this leaves things on better note: John Ross retires behind the scenes, Pamela runs JRE and Drew gets to be John Ross’s go to man.  Chris gets to fight over Ewing Energies, having made him more like JR by finale and John Ross just being accused of being more like his father than he really is.  And Elena, a woman scored by both men, now with the money to go after what she believes she was cheated out of, Ewing Energies.  The five inner connected people and a new generation of Dallas.As Nicholas is waiting in his car, the car explodes and burns while Elena watches and screams.</blockquote>

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