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Ewing Empire: Season 3
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<blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 253383" data-attributes="member: 82"><p>SC.11: INT. –FARLOW MANOR</p><p></p><p>(Aerial shot of the Manor at early afternoon, especially lit for the Ball, with several bodyguards standing at the entrance. A big top has been set up at the backside, covering the pool and reaching the partly demolished annex buildings. Zoom in to the manor inside. At the hall, Madeleine is welcoming the guests. The camera zooms into the bigger room and then into a small group, formed by people known by us)</p><p></p><p>Sue Ellen: I haven´t been here for a long time but, I can´t believe that, since she´s the owner of this house, it has become such a cold, decadent place...</p><p>James: Cold, especially when these waitresses leave after the party...</p><p>Cally: James, don´t try me…I love your costume Sue Ellen...</p><p>S.E.: Thank you darlin´. And I love yours. Anyway, I have the feeling that one person here is not disguised, but wears her true identity at everybody´s sight...</p><p>James: You ain´t speakin´ of our hostess, the Evil Witch of Southfork?</p><p>S.E.: (nudging James): Be careful, she´s coming this way (gently smiling). Good evening Madeleine.</p><p>Madeleine: Good evening dear Sue Ellen. I´m so happy you could make it. I hope there´s no resentment between us, after all this is a charitable party and I thought you´d like to cover it for your magazine.</p><p>S.E.: I wouldn´t have missed it for anything in the world.</p><p>James: Neither any of us...</p><p>S.E.: Oh, remember my stepson James and his wife Cally?</p><p>Madeleine: Of course, how could I forget such an attractive man...Sorry your company went into bankruptcy.</p><p>James: Well, you know, this happens all the time in the business world: some can be at the top one day and, the next day, hit bottom...</p><p>Madeleine: So they say, but I haven´t checked it out personally.</p><p>Sue Ellen: Here´s my son John Ross and his girlfriend...(pointing at two people in costume and masks who wave at her).</p><p>Madeleine: Will you excuse me...Sue Ellen (she looks at her smiling, and then she welcomes another group at other corner of the room).</p><p>S.E.: Watch out James! We can´t arouse suspicions!</p><p>Cally: Yeah, as J.R. used to say, “revenge without the surprise factor ain´t half as funny”...</p><p>S.E.: Sometimes I forget you and I had the same master, Cally...</p><p></p><p>SC.12: INT. – FARLOW MANOR ENTRANCE</p><p></p><p>(One of the bodyguards blocks the passing of Julian and Barbara, who are accompanied by Ray and Donna)</p><p></p><p>Bodyguard: I´m sorry but we got specific orders to let you out...</p><p>Julian: I want to see Madeleine...</p><p>Barbara: Here´s my invitation and you can read on it that includes Barbara Southworth, that´s me, and company, that´s him.</p><p>Bodyguard: I´m only following orders...</p><p>Ray: Hey friend, we´re gonna wait here while you go and ask Mrs. Farlow, o.k.? (The young man gesturing at one workmate and Madeleine appears son afterwards)</p><p>Madeleine: What´s wrong?</p><p>Barbara: Hello Madeleine darlin´. Your “Demolition Man” says that my companion Julian is not allowed to get into the house...</p><p>Madeleine: Your companion? What a real surprise...Keep in mind that we have to be very selective in a party like this, and do not want money missing, or something worse...</p><p>Donna: Madeleine, Ray and I are coming with them. If they don´t go in, neither any Ewing nor us will. I thought this was a fund-raising for the sick children...</p><p>Madeleine: Arnie, let them in. You´re right dear...Enjoy the party. (Madeleine goes back inside followed by Barbara and Julian, all smiles)</p><p>Ray: That´s my little wife...(Donna holds her husband´s arm and enters with him.)</p><p></p><p>SC.13: INT. – EWING MANOR´S LIVING-ROOM</p><p></p><p>(Pam embraces her son Christopher, in front of Jane)</p><p></p><p>Pam: I missed you so much son...</p><p>Chris: I missed you too, mum...and you (looking at his father).</p><p>Bob: The whole family has been missing you a lot. But we must know something Chris.</p><p>Chris: What is it?</p><p>Bob: Why did you spend the last years coming and going, keeping up the mystery? Jane´s father talked to us about the time you were under therapy...</p><p>Jane: Chris, this is the best moment to be true...Who knows if we´ll have a better chance...</p><p>Chris: All right. I´ll try my best to make you understand. Everything started when you checked me into that school, the Weinstein Academy. You don´t know but at the beginning, I hated that place. I just couldn´t make friends there, the same that happened at the Braddock school. Until I met Jane.</p><p>Pam: Did our moving to Canada have anything to do with your problem?</p><p>Chris: Yeah, someway...All the schoolmates had their parents, although they were divorced. But I had the feeling that you were more and more distant from me…and I couldn´t help thinking that it was due to Lucas.</p><p>Bob: You mean Lucas, Jenna´s son, your stepbrother? (Chris nods)</p><p>Pam: But, son, we always tried hard to let you know that being adopted didn´t make us love you less, all the opposite. About Lucas, he had his parents, Jenna and Ray, though Bobby was his natural father...</p><p>Jane: Forgive me for intruding but, how can you explain that to a fourteen-year-old boy...? Chris´s performance was so low that the Academy Commission even came to think about a temporary expulsion. It was then when they contacted his Uncle Cliff Barnes...</p><p>Pam: I know, my brother told me everything, and also that Chris´s problems had been solved.</p><p>Chris: They were, for awhile. But every time Lucas came to my mind, I went through depression again...Eventually, the school psychologists called on Uncle Cliff and he agreed to let them try hypnosis to “eliminate” my problem...</p><p>Bob: Did Cliff tell you that, honey?</p><p>Pam: First news to me...</p><p>Bob: I think your little brother and I are gonna have a long, long talk...</p><p>Pam: Let him finish Bobby.</p><p>Chris: So, it seemed to work out. To the point that the Academy granted me a 200.000-dollar scholarship that I donated to another fellow...After that, I continued my courses and, when I finished my last career, I was offered the job that Jane´s father mentioned...</p><p>Bob: Is true that they tried to kill you twice?</p><p>Chris: I´m afraid so. One with explosives and another one, causing a short-circuit at my workroom, as I was working with my computer.</p><p>Pam: Jane, why is your father against your relationship?</p><p>Jane: Because he knows everything about Chris. He´s afraid that he can have emotional problems again and jeopardizes my career...</p><p>Pam: Do you really love him?</p><p>Jane: He´s the only one I´ve ever loved...</p><p>Chris: Please let me tell the whole story...When I discovered the truth about my natural mother Kristin, I began to do some searching...You, mama, and Sue Ellen witnessed my anguish and Uncle Cliff also helped me to understand the truth...(He turns around and walks by a window) I resumed my therapy then, ´cause I couldn´t accept the fact that the person who had given life to me, not only ignored who my father was, but she had tried to kill her lover, Uncle J.R., and had been using me to blackmail a few men. She did the same thing to my father Jeff Farraday...I don´t think I had overcome it...</p><p>Pam: Sweetheart, they both had a serious issue with drugs that made them act that way. You shouldn´t judge them slightly.</p><p>Bob: But you must know the truth Chris. Kristin really was a girl who had made up her mind and, from the very first moment, she wanted to steal her husband to her own sister. We all make mistakes Christopher: the biggest thing of it is being able to forgive and moving on in our lives...</p><p>Chris: The barbecue´s day...when Maggie mentioned Lucas, I had completely forgotten his existence, and got so confused when I remembered it that I felt like running away. When I met Debbi Porter and talked with her, I realized that I had been unfair to Jane and missing her, and I really wanted to be with her...(Jane listens to him with her eyes full of tears)</p><p>Pam: We love you Chris, and will respect your decision if you wanna leave with her...</p><p>Bob: Do you agree with all we talked about, son?</p><p>Chris (staring at Jane): Yeah, no doubt at all. But...do we have any other choice? (Chris looks at Bob and he looks at Pam)</p><p></p><p>SC.14: INT. – FARLOW MANOR´S MAIN ROOM</p><p></p><p>(Long shot of the manor´s dancing-room. Cut to a medium shot of Lucy and Gary)</p><p></p><p>Lucy: So dad? You like my costume?</p><p>Gary: I love it...although any other dress would have become you...</p><p>Lucy: You´re adorable. Mama looks lovely too, so does Will...</p><p>Gary: Lucy, can I make you an indiscreet question?</p><p>Lucy: No, Will ain´t Peter´s daddy...</p><p>Gary (laughing): I guessed so, I think you and your mama are over that. If you wanna introduce your son´s father someday, fine then...if not, we´ll still be grandpa and grandma...</p><p>Lucy: Just say it dad...</p><p>Gary: Do you think your brother Bobby´s in love?</p><p>Lucy: Funny you asked me that, I´ve been wondering that myself too...Sometimes I´ve noticed him much nicer, sensitive, and others, as if he hadn´t time for nobody at all.</p><p>Gary: He spent three weeks at San Francisco carelessly using his credit card...</p><p>Lucy: Are you hinting that he went there to celebrate his birthday in private?</p><p>Gary: Not exactly, but the point is, do you know who can be the person your brother is with?</p><p>Lucy: Honestly dad, I have my guesses, but not confirmed yet. Anyway, when he wants us to know, he´ll just tell us...</p><p>Gary: I´m glad to be near him and your sister at this stage of their lives, since we weren´t able to help you when were their age.</p><p>Lucy: No resentment dad. I can count on you for anything, now I´m certain...(Someone touches Lucy´s shoulder with her hand: it is Val)</p><p>Val: Can I dance with my husband, babe, at least one song?</p><p>Lucy: Sure mama. Besides, I´ve put my eye on a couple of masked young men who look the most interesting...(Lucy exits the scene and Val and Gary start to dance)</p><p>Val: What did you feel about her, is she any better?</p><p>Gary: I hadn´t seen so well in years Valene. We should worry more about each other and less about them...</p><p>Val: Changing of subject, do ye think that there will be blood here tonight, so to say? (whispering to his ear)</p><p>Gary: As long as it´s not ours...what else are we here for? But I haven´t seen Pam and Bob yet.</p><p>Val: No, they stayed home for awhile, they had to talk with Chris and his girlfriend...</p><p></p><p>SC.15: INT. – FARLOW MANOR´S OUTSIDE DANCING-ROOM</p><p></p><p>(Long shot of the outside dancing-room, a top settled on the back ground of the manor. The camera zooms in to Will, who´s having a drink. Suddenly, Cliff and Afton come up)</p><p></p><p>Cliff: Hi cousin Jimmy.</p><p>Will (when he identifies him): Hi Cliff (sounding serious).</p><p>Afton: How are you Will? (Afton adds, warmly)</p><p>Will (kissing her cheek): Hello Afton...I´m very happy to see you here. You look fabulous...though I hadn´t recognized you with that costume...</p><p>Afton (piquantly): Good, this is a costume party so I thought, why not to promote my mystery and sex appeal?</p><p>Will: You´re right Afton. You want me to get you a drink?</p><p>Afton: Yep, thank you sweetheart. A glass of champagne please... (Will leaves and a frowning Cliff talks to Afton without looking at her face)</p><p>Cliff: What the hell´s wrong with him? We´re family after all...</p><p>Afton: When was the last time you invited him to dinner, or called him, or asked him about his job?</p><p>Cliff: We met him at our own house a few days ago.</p><p>Afton: That was a business meeting Cliff, and you know it...If you don´t care of your family, one day you´ll wake up and realize that you have nobody left...aside of me. Beckie is living her own life at college and has a regular boyfriend, and you always find an excuse to criticize the Ewings...</p><p>Cliff: That´s unfair Afton, you know I was devoted to you this last year, and nothing else mattered to me, not even my charge at the bank.</p><p>Afton: I thank you so much for that, but this has nothing to do with it…I´m totally recovered and wanna find a job, though I won´t be able to sing again. Cliff, open up your eyes, you´re not the young lawyer who fights the wicked Ewings. You´re already sixty and need to regain your links with your family, the family you have left, including the Ewings. Maybe I should invite my mum to stay with us some time...</p><p>Cliff: Er…no, you´re right Afton. Next week we´ll invite Will, Bob and Pam to dinner and won´t talk of business...</p><p>Will (handing her glass of champagne to Afton): “Voilà, mademoiselle”...</p><p>Afton (nicely surprised): Oh, “merci monsieur”...I´m gonna see if Pamela´s here, I wanna know about Christopher... (Will and Cliff sneak a look at each other. A blond woman wearing an arty mask passes by and Cliff comments)</p><p>Cliff: Wow, must be great being a single these days, with so many available women at parties like this, Will...</p><p>Will: Yep, I guess so. Well, see ya, little “cousin”...</p><p>Cliff is left alone and sips his glass of champagne)</p><p></p><p>SC.16: INT. – FARLOW MANOR´S UPPER FLOOR</p><p></p><p>(First shot of Barbara, followed by Julian, walking through the long corridor of the manor´s upper floor)</p><p></p><p>Julian: Hey wait Barbara...! Where are you goin´?</p><p>Barbara (rushing, looking at both sides): Where I belong...</p><p>Julian: What do you mean?</p><p>Barbara (stopping in front of one of the doors and opening it): Is this Madeleine´s bedroom?</p><p>Julian: Yeah...(she goes in and so does he. The song “Rescue Me” by Madonna begins to play)</p><p>Barbara (with angry eyes): Of all the rooms in this manor, that bitch had to choose “my” bedroom...When she´s out of here, I´ll get it disinfected...</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">“I'm talking, I'm talking</p> <p style="text-align: center">I believe in the power of love</p> <p style="text-align: center">I'm singing, I'm singing</p> <p style="text-align: center">I believe that you can rescue me"</p><p></p><p>Julian: You should think about nicer things...</p><p>Barbara: Like what? Any suggestion?</p><p>Julian: Have you ever made love with a man in a mask?</p><p>Barbara: No, until now...(Julian takes Barbara and they lay over the bed, he still wearing his mask on as he gets naked, and she puts her costume helmet off her head)</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">"With you I'm not a little girl, with you I'm not a man</p> <p style="text-align: center">When all the hurt inside of me comes out, you understand</p> <p style="text-align: center">You see that I'm ferocious, you see that I am weak</p> <p style="text-align: center">You see that I am silly, and pretentious and a freak</p> <p style="text-align: center">But I don't feel too strange for you</p> <p style="text-align: center">Don't know exactly what you do</p> <p style="text-align: center">I think when love is pure you try</p> <p style="text-align: center">To understand the reasons why</p> <p style="text-align: center">And I prefer this mystery</p> <p style="text-align: center">It cancels out my misery</p> <p style="text-align: center">And gives me hope that there could be</p> <p style="text-align: center">A person that loves me"</p><p></p><p>(Barbara and Julian kiss passionately and start making love over Madeleine´s bed)</p><p></p><p>SC.17: INT. – CRISTOPHER´S BEDROOM AT EWING MANOR</p><p></p><p>(Establishing shot of the manor, zooming in to Chris´s bedroom. Cut in to a panning shot of Chris and Jane on the bed. The camera slowly zooms in to them as they talk)</p><p></p><p>Jane: Are you o.k., Chris?</p><p>Chris: I wasn´t so good for a long time…</p><p>Jane: I really mean it. You know that next days won´t be easy. We´ll have to face things that can change our lives...</p><p>Chris: I know but I don´t care, as long as we can be together...</p><p>Jane: Your mother looked gorgeous in that costume.</p><p>Chris: You know they aren´t just attending a Costume Ball, it´s much more than that...</p><p>Jane: Yep, I understand...</p><p>Chris: Funny...I always considered Bob and Pamela my parents, and Lisa and Sue Ellen as my aunts, but it was hard to define my relationship with the others. I mean, John Ross, James, Cally, even my uncles Cliff, Ray and Gary. John Ross made me go through a bad time when we all were living together at the old ranch...</p><p>Jane: Really? Is he the way they said his dad was?</p><p>Chris: I don´t know what he´s like now, he doesn´t seem to me too reliable. Did you know that once I shot him with my dad´s gun, when playing cowboys?</p><p>Jane: Are you kidding…? So you were a naughty boy...</p><p>Chris (sitting on the bed): I´m afraid not…I was rather boring. Remember that, when I was a little child, I used to wake up my mama and she made me jump into her bed, and caressed my head gently...It´s one of my earliest memories of her. She´s the sweetest person I´ve ever met...right after you.</p><p>Jane (kissing his mouth): Oh, Christopher...Every time you went back to Southfork and Dallas, leaving the Academy, I thought you wouldn´t come back anymore. You had such a big, beautiful ranch and a loving family, why would you come back to a workaholic like me?</p><p>Chris: It wasn´t your blame, Jane. Every time I felt pushed by scientists and military men, I used my last name to get rid of my obligations...It wasn´t fair for anybody, neither for them nor for us...(The couple hears a strange noise that calls their attention: someone has pulled off the safety catch of a gun)</p><p>Jane (shocked): Dad! What are you doin´ here?</p><p>Professor: I´m helping you to reason, since you obviously can´t do it on your own. Pick up your stuff: we´re driving back to Houston.(Jane gets up and stands between his dad´s gun and Chris, who slowly puts on his feet)</p><p>Chris: Take it easy professor...We can find a way out good enough for all of us...</p><p>Professor: You´re not good enough for my daughter, Ewing...Hands up or you´ll regret it...(Chris doesn´t do it and Jane gets closer to her father)</p><p>Jane: Give me that gun, dad.</p><p>Professor: Baby, get out of the house and wait for me inside the car...(Chris feels petrified and Jane rushes towards his dad and takes his gun. Chris tries to stop the fight...)</p><p>Professor: Let the gun go...</p><p>Jane: No, dad...</p><p>Chris: Jane, watch out...! (Cut in to the window. Then two gun shots can be heard and the camera pans away the manor. Fade out and End of Act 3)</p><p></p><p>SC.18: INT. – UPPER FLOOR OF THE FARLOW MANOR</p><p></p><p>(The song continues.)</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">"Ooh ahh, ooh ahh, love is understanding</p> <p style="text-align: center">Ooh ahh, ooh ahh, love is understanding</p> <p style="text-align: center">Love is understanding</p> <p style="text-align: center">It's hard to believe life can be so demanding</p> <p style="text-align: center">I'm sending out an S.O.S.</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rescue me, rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">It's not my business to decide</p> <p style="text-align: center">How good you are for me</p> <p style="text-align: center">How valuable you are</p> <p style="text-align: center">And what the world can see</p> <p style="text-align: center">Only that you try to understand me</p> <p style="text-align: center">And have the courage to love me for me”</p><p></p><p>(The subjetive camera gets close to the door of Madeleine´s bedroom and the door is wide open. First shot of an astonished Madeleine watching Barbara and masked Julian making love, both half-naked...The song abruptly stops)</p><p></p><p>Madeleine: What the hell are you doin´, whoever you are? (Barbara gets up with a smile in her face and fixes her costume, as Julian takes his mask off) You too! How do you dare to do something like this...on my own bed?</p><p>Barbara: This is “my” bed, you damned thief! Enjoy your last minutes in this house because we´re gonna crucify you!</p><p>Madeleine (speaking to Julian): You´re done. You better begin to run away, because tomorrow there´ll be an arrest warrant at your name...And about you...</p><p>Barbara: Don´t even say my name, you whore, you humiliated the Ewings and you´re just a jet-set delinquent but even so, just a disgustin´ delinquent...(Madeleine slaps Barbara, who slaps her back. Julian puts in the middle, and Madeleine slaps him too, with her angry eyes wide open) Come on love, it´s moment of truth...(Barbara gets out of the room holding Julian´s hand, as Madeleine takes a few seconds to react...)</p><p></p><p>SC.19: INT. – MAGGIE & BETSY´S APARTMENT AT HOUSTON</p><p></p><p>(Establishing shot of the building. Cut in to a first shot of Betsy having a look at a fashion magazine)</p><p></p><p>Maggie: Aren´t you thrilled about the Easter holidays, Beth?</p><p>Betsy: I´m ecstasic babe...Back to the lake house with daddy, mummy and my traumatized sister Lucy...</p><p>Maggie: Oh come on Beth, don´t be so bitchie. Lucy went thru a very hard experience, you should feel more compassion for her...</p><p>Betsy: I´m sorry but I´d always rather feel passion than compassion...</p><p>Maggie: Hear, don´t spoil the Easter family reunion Beth, I´m asking you for it as something personal. Pamela had planned to reunite all of us at her house and have a peaceful dinner with the family...</p><p>Betsy: I´d love to be at that Big Costume Ball now, there must be a lot of hot, available guys. Besides, since it´s a fund-raising´ party, they must be millionaires...</p><p>Maggie: I´ll never understand how you can get so obsessed with chasing a millionaire when you´re one of them yourself...!</p><p>Betsy: Wanna have fun and spend my life with someone who can give me all that I deserve, and be his center of attention...Here they only look at your car plate...</p><p>Maggie: Maybe if you didn´t drive an Ashton Martin at college, you´d be more valued as what you are...Well, you can have dinner if you´re hungry Beth. My sugar level was low and I had to eat something. I´ll have a shower...I´ll be inside for half an hour. If someone calls me, please take a message, o.k. sweetie?</p><p>Betsy: Bet your little ass I will, Maggie…(She disappears and Betsy gets up to check if her cousin is already under the shower. Then she opens one of her night table drawers and finds Maggie´s diary under a folder. She opens her own purse and takes a copy of the diary´s key out of it. She uses the key and begins to read the last pages...) Off voice: “I am still thinking of what mama told me about daddy. It´s so hard to believe that I can´t take it out of my head...Could they be wrong all these years? Is possible that my father is not the one everybody thinks he is...?” (At this point, Betsy opens her big eyes and gets a shock to read the following paragraph) “If it´s true what mama said, then neither I nor dad are Ewings, neither he nor I have any right to the Southfork land. This would make John Ross, Bobby, Lucy and Betsy the only legitimate heirs to the ranch, the only blood relatives of the originary Ewings-Southworthes. But we lost those lands and shouldn´t worry about it. I just hope dad will never know the truth because, as mama told me, this could affect him so deeply...” (At that moment, Betsy hears Maggie turning off the shower faucet, and returns the diary to its place...Then, muttering to herself, she says: Wow wow, my dear cousin Maggie. At the end, you´ll turn out to be not to cousin, but just the daughter of the old ranch foreman...)</p><p></p><p>SC.20: FARLOW MANOR´S STAIRCASE</p><p></p><p>(Long shot of the upper floor of the manor, Madeleine leaning on the baranda. At one of the corners are the Ewings and the Barneses, except for Bob and Pam)</p><p></p><p>Madeleine: May I have your attention dear friends...I´d like to say a few words. First of all, I hope you are enjoying the party. You know that both tickets and donations will go to the Children´s Disease Research Center...</p><p>Barbara (coming up from behind her, along with Julian): ...a fictional center in Texas, and in every other place in this country, at least with that name, and that´s the first proof of our hostess´s zero sense of ethics...</p><p>Madeleine (with a forced smile in her face): This “lady”, who is uninvited, is overdrunk, so please come a couple of my bodyguards to accompany her and her paid escort out of here. You know how these parties are, friends, you can never control who gets in completely...(Ray and Donna walk upstairs and accompany Barbara and Julian to the lower floor. When the bodyguards try to take them out, Gary, Ray, Will, Julian and James make a resistance front. First shot of Sue Ellen, who gets close to the masked person she previously introduced as John Ross)</p><p>Sue Ellen (whispering): Now it´s time to prove your technical abilities, darlin´...Be sure I will reward you quite well if everything goes our way...(The man, wearing a heavy armor and a metal mask, o.k.´s at her)</p><p>Madeleine: Before letting the fun going on, I´d like to announce something very important to me, as owner of these lands...and this house. (At that moment enter Bob and Pam) Oh, I see that its former owners have just arrived, welcome Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ewing...Enjoy the party...(Bob and Pam look at each other and give a little smile. The camera focuses on Ray and Donna)</p><p>Ray: Where the hell is “he”?</p><p>Donna: He´s the one with the superhero costume...</p><p>Ray: That´s inspiration…</p><p>Donna: I hope he won´t miss a word.</p><p>Ray: As far as I know Sue Ellen has taken the right measures to avoid that.</p><p>Madeleine (rising the volume of her voice): Well, I´m proud to announce that I, as owner of the lands formerly known as Southfork, have closed a deal with a big company that will build one of the longest highways that ever crossed the State of Texas. (Then Bob encourages everybody to applaude Madeleine´s speech. Afterwards, he goes at the top of the staircase.)</p><p>Bob: Once again, this great woman Madeleine has showed us she´s a model business woman who never thinks of herself, but the rest of people. What will happen with this manor Madeleine?</p><p>Madeleine: Oh, it will remain my permanent residence. I wouldn´t leave it not even in my worst dreams...</p><p>Barbara: Not even when you have to serve a sentence in prison?</p><p>Lucy: We know everything Madeleine and have evidences to proof it...(Suddenly, people begin to murmur)</p><p>Donna: Confess in front of your presumed friends Madeleine...neither that is your name nor you inherited these lands legally. You forged your husband Clayton Farlow´s signature on his will and bribed the lawyer who took care of it...in order to make you his universal heiress.</p><p>Dusty (coming out of the corners and taking his mask off): And your biggest crime was murdering my father Clayton.</p><p>Madeleine: I´m not paying those bodyguards to let a lot of fools get inside...Take that riffraff out of here...</p><p>Bob: Madeleine is wanted by secret services of a few countries for conning a lot of people and marrying ancient millionaires to then kill them ruthlessly...She is the vice-president of an illegal cartel, a Europe-based pyramidal corporation which speculates with real estate and handle a fortune in undeclared money that goes to the Managing Board´s accounts. Whoever wants to see the evidences, they´re all here...(pointing at Will, who lifts a folder).</p><p>Dusty (walking upstairs): You´re gonna pay for what you did to my father...</p><p>Gary: Law is on our side and the Police has come to arrest her...(officers of the Braddock Police begin to enter the room).</p><p>Donna: Besides, the Attorney General didn´t want to miss the party either...(the man in a superhero costume takes his mask off)</p><p>Lucy: You damn killer, were using an illegal medicine to slowly kill a person with a heart condition...</p><p>Julian: …And up there in Switzerland, you only had to leave him alone in the snow when he was beginning to weaken...You are a viper with no scruples...</p><p>Madeleine: If I go down, you also will, trashy gigolo...</p><p>Barbara: He ignored you were gonna kill him, he was just your bodyguard...</p><p>Madeleine: Did he say that? It was the one who was with Clayton and let him die...(Barbara looks at Julian suspiciously. At that, Dusty rushes over Madeleine and Bob stops him. The police go up and Madeleine says in loud voice:</p><p>All right! I´m ready!!</p><p></p><p>(Then, lights go off and panicked people begin to scream, Val calls Lucy...and the police hold their laser pointer guns...but eventually, lights go on again before they shoot...Everybody is lying on the ground and, at the upper floor, Bob and Dusty are gone...The police looks for them, followed by Gary and Ray. They finally find them at the back balcony...staring into the horizon...)</p><p></p><p>Bob: She´s run away...somebody was expecting her in a bulletproof Navy helicopter. Our fugitive has friends in high spheres...</p><p>Dusty: She won´t go very far...Be sure of that.</p><p>Ray: Let´s join the other folks, they´re very nervous...</p><p>Bob: You go Ray. We´ll go in a minute...(putting his hand on Dusty´s shoulder) Your dad´s death won´t be in vain. I promise you Dusty. Madeleine will pay for what she did and you´ll get your ranch back...and this too, which always was your home...</p><p>Dusty (smiling sadly): You sound like a brother...</p><p>Bob: I wouldn´t mind to have another brother. The more people come to dinner, the more fun we have...</p><p>Cliff: Bob, hurry up, you got a call...</p><p>Bob: What´s wrong?</p><p>Cliff: It´s Christopher... (Zoom in to Bob´s worried face and freeze frame. Fade into the frame of a mask turned on red. The song “Rescue Me” by Fontella Bass plays over the end credits)</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong>End of Episode 17</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">“Rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">And take me in your arms</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">I want your tender charms</p> <p style="text-align: center">'coz i'm lonely and i'm blue</p> <p style="text-align: center">I need you and your love too</p> <p style="text-align: center">Come on and rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">Come on baby and rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">Come on baby and rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">'coz i need you, need you by my side</p> <p style="text-align: center">Can't you see that i'm lonely</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">Come on and take my heart</p> <p style="text-align: center">Take your love and conquer every part</p> <p style="text-align: center">'coz i'm lonely and i'm blue</p> <p style="text-align: center">I need you and your love too</p> <p style="text-align: center">Come on and rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">Come on baby and rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">Come on baby and rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">'coz i need you by my side</p> <p style="text-align: center">Can't you see that i'm lonely</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">Oh take me in your arms</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">I want your tender charms</p> <p style="text-align: center">'coz i'm lonely and i'm blue</p> <p style="text-align: center">I need you and your love too</p> <p style="text-align: center">Come on and rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">Come on baby and rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">Come on baby and rescue me</p> <p style="text-align: center">'coz i need you, need you by my side</p> <p style="text-align: center">Can't you see that I’m lonely”</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Next:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>THE GOOD SON</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Special Guest Stars:</strong></p><p><strong>JESSICA LANGE as BARBARA <em>(A Thousand Acres)</em></strong></p><p><strong>JARED MARTIN as DUSTY</strong></p><p><strong>DAVID BOREANAZ as JULIAN <em>(Bones)</em></strong></p><p><strong>and</strong></p><p><strong>SUSAN SARANDON as MADELEINE <em>(Alfie)</em></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Guest Stars:</strong></p><p><strong>DAVID MORSE as Professor MORRISON <em>(Treme)</em></strong></p><p><strong>ELISHA CUTHBERT as JANE <em>(24)</em></strong></p><p></p><p>This episode is dedicated to actress Susan Sarandon, who was a true inspiration for creating the character and storyline of Madeleine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Toni, post: 253383, member: 82"] SC.11: INT. –FARLOW MANOR (Aerial shot of the Manor at early afternoon, especially lit for the Ball, with several bodyguards standing at the entrance. A big top has been set up at the backside, covering the pool and reaching the partly demolished annex buildings. Zoom in to the manor inside. At the hall, Madeleine is welcoming the guests. The camera zooms into the bigger room and then into a small group, formed by people known by us) Sue Ellen: I haven´t been here for a long time but, I can´t believe that, since she´s the owner of this house, it has become such a cold, decadent place... James: Cold, especially when these waitresses leave after the party... Cally: James, don´t try me…I love your costume Sue Ellen... S.E.: Thank you darlin´. And I love yours. Anyway, I have the feeling that one person here is not disguised, but wears her true identity at everybody´s sight... James: You ain´t speakin´ of our hostess, the Evil Witch of Southfork? S.E.: (nudging James): Be careful, she´s coming this way (gently smiling). Good evening Madeleine. Madeleine: Good evening dear Sue Ellen. I´m so happy you could make it. I hope there´s no resentment between us, after all this is a charitable party and I thought you´d like to cover it for your magazine. S.E.: I wouldn´t have missed it for anything in the world. James: Neither any of us... S.E.: Oh, remember my stepson James and his wife Cally? Madeleine: Of course, how could I forget such an attractive man...Sorry your company went into bankruptcy. James: Well, you know, this happens all the time in the business world: some can be at the top one day and, the next day, hit bottom... Madeleine: So they say, but I haven´t checked it out personally. Sue Ellen: Here´s my son John Ross and his girlfriend...(pointing at two people in costume and masks who wave at her). Madeleine: Will you excuse me...Sue Ellen (she looks at her smiling, and then she welcomes another group at other corner of the room). S.E.: Watch out James! We can´t arouse suspicions! Cally: Yeah, as J.R. used to say, “revenge without the surprise factor ain´t half as funny”... S.E.: Sometimes I forget you and I had the same master, Cally... SC.12: INT. – FARLOW MANOR ENTRANCE (One of the bodyguards blocks the passing of Julian and Barbara, who are accompanied by Ray and Donna) Bodyguard: I´m sorry but we got specific orders to let you out... Julian: I want to see Madeleine... Barbara: Here´s my invitation and you can read on it that includes Barbara Southworth, that´s me, and company, that´s him. Bodyguard: I´m only following orders... Ray: Hey friend, we´re gonna wait here while you go and ask Mrs. Farlow, o.k.? (The young man gesturing at one workmate and Madeleine appears son afterwards) Madeleine: What´s wrong? Barbara: Hello Madeleine darlin´. Your “Demolition Man” says that my companion Julian is not allowed to get into the house... Madeleine: Your companion? What a real surprise...Keep in mind that we have to be very selective in a party like this, and do not want money missing, or something worse... Donna: Madeleine, Ray and I are coming with them. If they don´t go in, neither any Ewing nor us will. I thought this was a fund-raising for the sick children... Madeleine: Arnie, let them in. You´re right dear...Enjoy the party. (Madeleine goes back inside followed by Barbara and Julian, all smiles) Ray: That´s my little wife...(Donna holds her husband´s arm and enters with him.) SC.13: INT. – EWING MANOR´S LIVING-ROOM (Pam embraces her son Christopher, in front of Jane) Pam: I missed you so much son... Chris: I missed you too, mum...and you (looking at his father). Bob: The whole family has been missing you a lot. But we must know something Chris. Chris: What is it? Bob: Why did you spend the last years coming and going, keeping up the mystery? Jane´s father talked to us about the time you were under therapy... Jane: Chris, this is the best moment to be true...Who knows if we´ll have a better chance... Chris: All right. I´ll try my best to make you understand. Everything started when you checked me into that school, the Weinstein Academy. You don´t know but at the beginning, I hated that place. I just couldn´t make friends there, the same that happened at the Braddock school. Until I met Jane. Pam: Did our moving to Canada have anything to do with your problem? Chris: Yeah, someway...All the schoolmates had their parents, although they were divorced. But I had the feeling that you were more and more distant from me…and I couldn´t help thinking that it was due to Lucas. Bob: You mean Lucas, Jenna´s son, your stepbrother? (Chris nods) Pam: But, son, we always tried hard to let you know that being adopted didn´t make us love you less, all the opposite. About Lucas, he had his parents, Jenna and Ray, though Bobby was his natural father... Jane: Forgive me for intruding but, how can you explain that to a fourteen-year-old boy...? Chris´s performance was so low that the Academy Commission even came to think about a temporary expulsion. It was then when they contacted his Uncle Cliff Barnes... Pam: I know, my brother told me everything, and also that Chris´s problems had been solved. Chris: They were, for awhile. But every time Lucas came to my mind, I went through depression again...Eventually, the school psychologists called on Uncle Cliff and he agreed to let them try hypnosis to “eliminate” my problem... Bob: Did Cliff tell you that, honey? Pam: First news to me... Bob: I think your little brother and I are gonna have a long, long talk... Pam: Let him finish Bobby. Chris: So, it seemed to work out. To the point that the Academy granted me a 200.000-dollar scholarship that I donated to another fellow...After that, I continued my courses and, when I finished my last career, I was offered the job that Jane´s father mentioned... Bob: Is true that they tried to kill you twice? Chris: I´m afraid so. One with explosives and another one, causing a short-circuit at my workroom, as I was working with my computer. Pam: Jane, why is your father against your relationship? Jane: Because he knows everything about Chris. He´s afraid that he can have emotional problems again and jeopardizes my career... Pam: Do you really love him? Jane: He´s the only one I´ve ever loved... Chris: Please let me tell the whole story...When I discovered the truth about my natural mother Kristin, I began to do some searching...You, mama, and Sue Ellen witnessed my anguish and Uncle Cliff also helped me to understand the truth...(He turns around and walks by a window) I resumed my therapy then, ´cause I couldn´t accept the fact that the person who had given life to me, not only ignored who my father was, but she had tried to kill her lover, Uncle J.R., and had been using me to blackmail a few men. She did the same thing to my father Jeff Farraday...I don´t think I had overcome it... Pam: Sweetheart, they both had a serious issue with drugs that made them act that way. You shouldn´t judge them slightly. Bob: But you must know the truth Chris. Kristin really was a girl who had made up her mind and, from the very first moment, she wanted to steal her husband to her own sister. We all make mistakes Christopher: the biggest thing of it is being able to forgive and moving on in our lives... Chris: The barbecue´s day...when Maggie mentioned Lucas, I had completely forgotten his existence, and got so confused when I remembered it that I felt like running away. When I met Debbi Porter and talked with her, I realized that I had been unfair to Jane and missing her, and I really wanted to be with her...(Jane listens to him with her eyes full of tears) Pam: We love you Chris, and will respect your decision if you wanna leave with her... Bob: Do you agree with all we talked about, son? Chris (staring at Jane): Yeah, no doubt at all. But...do we have any other choice? (Chris looks at Bob and he looks at Pam) SC.14: INT. – FARLOW MANOR´S MAIN ROOM (Long shot of the manor´s dancing-room. Cut to a medium shot of Lucy and Gary) Lucy: So dad? You like my costume? Gary: I love it...although any other dress would have become you... Lucy: You´re adorable. Mama looks lovely too, so does Will... Gary: Lucy, can I make you an indiscreet question? Lucy: No, Will ain´t Peter´s daddy... Gary (laughing): I guessed so, I think you and your mama are over that. If you wanna introduce your son´s father someday, fine then...if not, we´ll still be grandpa and grandma... Lucy: Just say it dad... Gary: Do you think your brother Bobby´s in love? Lucy: Funny you asked me that, I´ve been wondering that myself too...Sometimes I´ve noticed him much nicer, sensitive, and others, as if he hadn´t time for nobody at all. Gary: He spent three weeks at San Francisco carelessly using his credit card... Lucy: Are you hinting that he went there to celebrate his birthday in private? Gary: Not exactly, but the point is, do you know who can be the person your brother is with? Lucy: Honestly dad, I have my guesses, but not confirmed yet. Anyway, when he wants us to know, he´ll just tell us... Gary: I´m glad to be near him and your sister at this stage of their lives, since we weren´t able to help you when were their age. Lucy: No resentment dad. I can count on you for anything, now I´m certain...(Someone touches Lucy´s shoulder with her hand: it is Val) Val: Can I dance with my husband, babe, at least one song? Lucy: Sure mama. Besides, I´ve put my eye on a couple of masked young men who look the most interesting...(Lucy exits the scene and Val and Gary start to dance) Val: What did you feel about her, is she any better? Gary: I hadn´t seen so well in years Valene. We should worry more about each other and less about them... Val: Changing of subject, do ye think that there will be blood here tonight, so to say? (whispering to his ear) Gary: As long as it´s not ours...what else are we here for? But I haven´t seen Pam and Bob yet. Val: No, they stayed home for awhile, they had to talk with Chris and his girlfriend... SC.15: INT. – FARLOW MANOR´S OUTSIDE DANCING-ROOM (Long shot of the outside dancing-room, a top settled on the back ground of the manor. The camera zooms in to Will, who´s having a drink. Suddenly, Cliff and Afton come up) Cliff: Hi cousin Jimmy. Will (when he identifies him): Hi Cliff (sounding serious). Afton: How are you Will? (Afton adds, warmly) Will (kissing her cheek): Hello Afton...I´m very happy to see you here. You look fabulous...though I hadn´t recognized you with that costume... Afton (piquantly): Good, this is a costume party so I thought, why not to promote my mystery and sex appeal? Will: You´re right Afton. You want me to get you a drink? Afton: Yep, thank you sweetheart. A glass of champagne please... (Will leaves and a frowning Cliff talks to Afton without looking at her face) Cliff: What the hell´s wrong with him? We´re family after all... Afton: When was the last time you invited him to dinner, or called him, or asked him about his job? Cliff: We met him at our own house a few days ago. Afton: That was a business meeting Cliff, and you know it...If you don´t care of your family, one day you´ll wake up and realize that you have nobody left...aside of me. Beckie is living her own life at college and has a regular boyfriend, and you always find an excuse to criticize the Ewings... Cliff: That´s unfair Afton, you know I was devoted to you this last year, and nothing else mattered to me, not even my charge at the bank. Afton: I thank you so much for that, but this has nothing to do with it…I´m totally recovered and wanna find a job, though I won´t be able to sing again. Cliff, open up your eyes, you´re not the young lawyer who fights the wicked Ewings. You´re already sixty and need to regain your links with your family, the family you have left, including the Ewings. Maybe I should invite my mum to stay with us some time... Cliff: Er…no, you´re right Afton. Next week we´ll invite Will, Bob and Pam to dinner and won´t talk of business... Will (handing her glass of champagne to Afton): “Voilà, mademoiselle”... Afton (nicely surprised): Oh, “merci monsieur”...I´m gonna see if Pamela´s here, I wanna know about Christopher... (Will and Cliff sneak a look at each other. A blond woman wearing an arty mask passes by and Cliff comments) Cliff: Wow, must be great being a single these days, with so many available women at parties like this, Will... Will: Yep, I guess so. Well, see ya, little “cousin”... Cliff is left alone and sips his glass of champagne) SC.16: INT. – FARLOW MANOR´S UPPER FLOOR (First shot of Barbara, followed by Julian, walking through the long corridor of the manor´s upper floor) Julian: Hey wait Barbara...! Where are you goin´? Barbara (rushing, looking at both sides): Where I belong... Julian: What do you mean? Barbara (stopping in front of one of the doors and opening it): Is this Madeleine´s bedroom? Julian: Yeah...(she goes in and so does he. The song “Rescue Me” by Madonna begins to play) Barbara (with angry eyes): Of all the rooms in this manor, that bitch had to choose “my” bedroom...When she´s out of here, I´ll get it disinfected... [CENTER]“I'm talking, I'm talking I believe in the power of love I'm singing, I'm singing I believe that you can rescue me"[/CENTER] Julian: You should think about nicer things... Barbara: Like what? Any suggestion? Julian: Have you ever made love with a man in a mask? Barbara: No, until now...(Julian takes Barbara and they lay over the bed, he still wearing his mask on as he gets naked, and she puts her costume helmet off her head) [CENTER]"With you I'm not a little girl, with you I'm not a man When all the hurt inside of me comes out, you understand You see that I'm ferocious, you see that I am weak You see that I am silly, and pretentious and a freak But I don't feel too strange for you Don't know exactly what you do I think when love is pure you try To understand the reasons why And I prefer this mystery It cancels out my misery And gives me hope that there could be A person that loves me"[/CENTER] (Barbara and Julian kiss passionately and start making love over Madeleine´s bed) SC.17: INT. – CRISTOPHER´S BEDROOM AT EWING MANOR (Establishing shot of the manor, zooming in to Chris´s bedroom. Cut in to a panning shot of Chris and Jane on the bed. The camera slowly zooms in to them as they talk) Jane: Are you o.k., Chris? Chris: I wasn´t so good for a long time… Jane: I really mean it. You know that next days won´t be easy. We´ll have to face things that can change our lives... Chris: I know but I don´t care, as long as we can be together... Jane: Your mother looked gorgeous in that costume. Chris: You know they aren´t just attending a Costume Ball, it´s much more than that... Jane: Yep, I understand... Chris: Funny...I always considered Bob and Pamela my parents, and Lisa and Sue Ellen as my aunts, but it was hard to define my relationship with the others. I mean, John Ross, James, Cally, even my uncles Cliff, Ray and Gary. John Ross made me go through a bad time when we all were living together at the old ranch... Jane: Really? Is he the way they said his dad was? Chris: I don´t know what he´s like now, he doesn´t seem to me too reliable. Did you know that once I shot him with my dad´s gun, when playing cowboys? Jane: Are you kidding…? So you were a naughty boy... Chris (sitting on the bed): I´m afraid not…I was rather boring. Remember that, when I was a little child, I used to wake up my mama and she made me jump into her bed, and caressed my head gently...It´s one of my earliest memories of her. She´s the sweetest person I´ve ever met...right after you. Jane (kissing his mouth): Oh, Christopher...Every time you went back to Southfork and Dallas, leaving the Academy, I thought you wouldn´t come back anymore. You had such a big, beautiful ranch and a loving family, why would you come back to a workaholic like me? Chris: It wasn´t your blame, Jane. Every time I felt pushed by scientists and military men, I used my last name to get rid of my obligations...It wasn´t fair for anybody, neither for them nor for us...(The couple hears a strange noise that calls their attention: someone has pulled off the safety catch of a gun) Jane (shocked): Dad! What are you doin´ here? Professor: I´m helping you to reason, since you obviously can´t do it on your own. Pick up your stuff: we´re driving back to Houston.(Jane gets up and stands between his dad´s gun and Chris, who slowly puts on his feet) Chris: Take it easy professor...We can find a way out good enough for all of us... Professor: You´re not good enough for my daughter, Ewing...Hands up or you´ll regret it...(Chris doesn´t do it and Jane gets closer to her father) Jane: Give me that gun, dad. Professor: Baby, get out of the house and wait for me inside the car...(Chris feels petrified and Jane rushes towards his dad and takes his gun. Chris tries to stop the fight...) Professor: Let the gun go... Jane: No, dad... Chris: Jane, watch out...! (Cut in to the window. Then two gun shots can be heard and the camera pans away the manor. Fade out and End of Act 3) SC.18: INT. – UPPER FLOOR OF THE FARLOW MANOR (The song continues.) [CENTER]"Ooh ahh, ooh ahh, love is understanding Ooh ahh, ooh ahh, love is understanding Love is understanding It's hard to believe life can be so demanding I'm sending out an S.O.S. Rescue me, rescue me It's not my business to decide How good you are for me How valuable you are And what the world can see Only that you try to understand me And have the courage to love me for me”[/CENTER] (The subjetive camera gets close to the door of Madeleine´s bedroom and the door is wide open. First shot of an astonished Madeleine watching Barbara and masked Julian making love, both half-naked...The song abruptly stops) Madeleine: What the hell are you doin´, whoever you are? (Barbara gets up with a smile in her face and fixes her costume, as Julian takes his mask off) You too! How do you dare to do something like this...on my own bed? Barbara: This is “my” bed, you damned thief! Enjoy your last minutes in this house because we´re gonna crucify you! Madeleine (speaking to Julian): You´re done. You better begin to run away, because tomorrow there´ll be an arrest warrant at your name...And about you... Barbara: Don´t even say my name, you whore, you humiliated the Ewings and you´re just a jet-set delinquent but even so, just a disgustin´ delinquent...(Madeleine slaps Barbara, who slaps her back. Julian puts in the middle, and Madeleine slaps him too, with her angry eyes wide open) Come on love, it´s moment of truth...(Barbara gets out of the room holding Julian´s hand, as Madeleine takes a few seconds to react...) SC.19: INT. – MAGGIE & BETSY´S APARTMENT AT HOUSTON (Establishing shot of the building. Cut in to a first shot of Betsy having a look at a fashion magazine) Maggie: Aren´t you thrilled about the Easter holidays, Beth? Betsy: I´m ecstasic babe...Back to the lake house with daddy, mummy and my traumatized sister Lucy... Maggie: Oh come on Beth, don´t be so bitchie. Lucy went thru a very hard experience, you should feel more compassion for her... Betsy: I´m sorry but I´d always rather feel passion than compassion... Maggie: Hear, don´t spoil the Easter family reunion Beth, I´m asking you for it as something personal. Pamela had planned to reunite all of us at her house and have a peaceful dinner with the family... Betsy: I´d love to be at that Big Costume Ball now, there must be a lot of hot, available guys. Besides, since it´s a fund-raising´ party, they must be millionaires... Maggie: I´ll never understand how you can get so obsessed with chasing a millionaire when you´re one of them yourself...! Betsy: Wanna have fun and spend my life with someone who can give me all that I deserve, and be his center of attention...Here they only look at your car plate... Maggie: Maybe if you didn´t drive an Ashton Martin at college, you´d be more valued as what you are...Well, you can have dinner if you´re hungry Beth. My sugar level was low and I had to eat something. I´ll have a shower...I´ll be inside for half an hour. If someone calls me, please take a message, o.k. sweetie? Betsy: Bet your little ass I will, Maggie…(She disappears and Betsy gets up to check if her cousin is already under the shower. Then she opens one of her night table drawers and finds Maggie´s diary under a folder. She opens her own purse and takes a copy of the diary´s key out of it. She uses the key and begins to read the last pages...) Off voice: “I am still thinking of what mama told me about daddy. It´s so hard to believe that I can´t take it out of my head...Could they be wrong all these years? Is possible that my father is not the one everybody thinks he is...?” (At this point, Betsy opens her big eyes and gets a shock to read the following paragraph) “If it´s true what mama said, then neither I nor dad are Ewings, neither he nor I have any right to the Southfork land. This would make John Ross, Bobby, Lucy and Betsy the only legitimate heirs to the ranch, the only blood relatives of the originary Ewings-Southworthes. But we lost those lands and shouldn´t worry about it. I just hope dad will never know the truth because, as mama told me, this could affect him so deeply...” (At that moment, Betsy hears Maggie turning off the shower faucet, and returns the diary to its place...Then, muttering to herself, she says: Wow wow, my dear cousin Maggie. At the end, you´ll turn out to be not to cousin, but just the daughter of the old ranch foreman...) SC.20: FARLOW MANOR´S STAIRCASE (Long shot of the upper floor of the manor, Madeleine leaning on the baranda. At one of the corners are the Ewings and the Barneses, except for Bob and Pam) Madeleine: May I have your attention dear friends...I´d like to say a few words. First of all, I hope you are enjoying the party. You know that both tickets and donations will go to the Children´s Disease Research Center... Barbara (coming up from behind her, along with Julian): ...a fictional center in Texas, and in every other place in this country, at least with that name, and that´s the first proof of our hostess´s zero sense of ethics... Madeleine (with a forced smile in her face): This “lady”, who is uninvited, is overdrunk, so please come a couple of my bodyguards to accompany her and her paid escort out of here. You know how these parties are, friends, you can never control who gets in completely...(Ray and Donna walk upstairs and accompany Barbara and Julian to the lower floor. When the bodyguards try to take them out, Gary, Ray, Will, Julian and James make a resistance front. First shot of Sue Ellen, who gets close to the masked person she previously introduced as John Ross) Sue Ellen (whispering): Now it´s time to prove your technical abilities, darlin´...Be sure I will reward you quite well if everything goes our way...(The man, wearing a heavy armor and a metal mask, o.k.´s at her) Madeleine: Before letting the fun going on, I´d like to announce something very important to me, as owner of these lands...and this house. (At that moment enter Bob and Pam) Oh, I see that its former owners have just arrived, welcome Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ewing...Enjoy the party...(Bob and Pam look at each other and give a little smile. The camera focuses on Ray and Donna) Ray: Where the hell is “he”? Donna: He´s the one with the superhero costume... Ray: That´s inspiration… Donna: I hope he won´t miss a word. Ray: As far as I know Sue Ellen has taken the right measures to avoid that. Madeleine (rising the volume of her voice): Well, I´m proud to announce that I, as owner of the lands formerly known as Southfork, have closed a deal with a big company that will build one of the longest highways that ever crossed the State of Texas. (Then Bob encourages everybody to applaude Madeleine´s speech. Afterwards, he goes at the top of the staircase.) Bob: Once again, this great woman Madeleine has showed us she´s a model business woman who never thinks of herself, but the rest of people. What will happen with this manor Madeleine? Madeleine: Oh, it will remain my permanent residence. I wouldn´t leave it not even in my worst dreams... Barbara: Not even when you have to serve a sentence in prison? Lucy: We know everything Madeleine and have evidences to proof it...(Suddenly, people begin to murmur) Donna: Confess in front of your presumed friends Madeleine...neither that is your name nor you inherited these lands legally. You forged your husband Clayton Farlow´s signature on his will and bribed the lawyer who took care of it...in order to make you his universal heiress. Dusty (coming out of the corners and taking his mask off): And your biggest crime was murdering my father Clayton. Madeleine: I´m not paying those bodyguards to let a lot of fools get inside...Take that riffraff out of here... Bob: Madeleine is wanted by secret services of a few countries for conning a lot of people and marrying ancient millionaires to then kill them ruthlessly...She is the vice-president of an illegal cartel, a Europe-based pyramidal corporation which speculates with real estate and handle a fortune in undeclared money that goes to the Managing Board´s accounts. Whoever wants to see the evidences, they´re all here...(pointing at Will, who lifts a folder). Dusty (walking upstairs): You´re gonna pay for what you did to my father... Gary: Law is on our side and the Police has come to arrest her...(officers of the Braddock Police begin to enter the room). Donna: Besides, the Attorney General didn´t want to miss the party either...(the man in a superhero costume takes his mask off) Lucy: You damn killer, were using an illegal medicine to slowly kill a person with a heart condition... Julian: …And up there in Switzerland, you only had to leave him alone in the snow when he was beginning to weaken...You are a viper with no scruples... Madeleine: If I go down, you also will, trashy gigolo... Barbara: He ignored you were gonna kill him, he was just your bodyguard... Madeleine: Did he say that? It was the one who was with Clayton and let him die...(Barbara looks at Julian suspiciously. At that, Dusty rushes over Madeleine and Bob stops him. The police go up and Madeleine says in loud voice: All right! I´m ready!! (Then, lights go off and panicked people begin to scream, Val calls Lucy...and the police hold their laser pointer guns...but eventually, lights go on again before they shoot...Everybody is lying on the ground and, at the upper floor, Bob and Dusty are gone...The police looks for them, followed by Gary and Ray. They finally find them at the back balcony...staring into the horizon...) Bob: She´s run away...somebody was expecting her in a bulletproof Navy helicopter. Our fugitive has friends in high spheres... Dusty: She won´t go very far...Be sure of that. Ray: Let´s join the other folks, they´re very nervous... Bob: You go Ray. We´ll go in a minute...(putting his hand on Dusty´s shoulder) Your dad´s death won´t be in vain. I promise you Dusty. Madeleine will pay for what she did and you´ll get your ranch back...and this too, which always was your home... Dusty (smiling sadly): You sound like a brother... Bob: I wouldn´t mind to have another brother. The more people come to dinner, the more fun we have... Cliff: Bob, hurry up, you got a call... Bob: What´s wrong? Cliff: It´s Christopher... (Zoom in to Bob´s worried face and freeze frame. Fade into the frame of a mask turned on red. The song “Rescue Me” by Fontella Bass plays over the end credits) [CENTER][B]End of Episode 17[/B] “Rescue me And take me in your arms Rescue me I want your tender charms 'coz i'm lonely and i'm blue I need you and your love too Come on and rescue me Come on baby and rescue me Come on baby and rescue me 'coz i need you, need you by my side Can't you see that i'm lonely Rescue me Come on and take my heart Take your love and conquer every part 'coz i'm lonely and i'm blue I need you and your love too Come on and rescue me Come on baby and rescue me Come on baby and rescue me 'coz i need you by my side Can't you see that i'm lonely Rescue me Rescue me Oh take me in your arms Rescue me I want your tender charms 'coz i'm lonely and i'm blue I need you and your love too Come on and rescue me Come on baby and rescue me Come on baby and rescue me 'coz i need you, need you by my side Can't you see that I’m lonely” [B]Next: THE GOOD SON[/B][/CENTER] [B]Special Guest Stars: JESSICA LANGE as BARBARA [I](A Thousand Acres)[/I] JARED MARTIN as DUSTY DAVID BOREANAZ as JULIAN [I](Bones)[/I] and SUSAN SARANDON as MADELEINE [I](Alfie)[/I] Guest Stars: DAVID MORSE as Professor MORRISON [I](Treme)[/I] ELISHA CUTHBERT as JANE [I](24)[/I][/B] This episode is dedicated to actress Susan Sarandon, who was a true inspiration for creating the character and storyline of Madeleine. 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