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Dallas 2012
Southfork is filled inside and out as people show up to remember Miss Ellie. The entire family is there, all but JR. Gary and Lucy walk into the living room as everyone else is leaving. Bobby and Christoper are next. Then John Ross and Sue Ellen.
Miss Ellie’s lawyer speaks. “Thank you for staying behind so we can handle Miss Ellie’s wishes. I know it seems fairly simple, but it’s not. She’d been preparing this for almost a year. I know you helped her with South Fork,Bobby, but there’s a lot more to it.
First the easy part. She leaves all of her personal belongings to her granddaughter Lucy to divide among all her grandchildren, including Charlie, Maggie and Lucas Krebs, as you she’s fit. Miss Ellie added a codicil two months ago, which specifically leaves her pearls to Sue Ellen.
As you all know Miss Ellie gave the South Fork Ranch to Bobby some time ago and he’s taken very good care of it. But she’s since bought three other ranches and she’s taken them all apart, including the parts of South Fork she never gave to Bobby, having just given the cattle business to him. The land and mineral rights of each ranch, including South Fork she leaves to the Ewing Farlow Foundation, to protect and preserve. The one stipulation is no drilling or mining on South Fork land can ever occur. The land is then rented to each cattle business for one dollar a year. South Fork already being Bobby’s. The West Fork Ranch in California she leaves to Gary. The Wade Ranch here in Texas to Bobby and the McKay Ranch next door to JR.
In addition Miss Ellie leaves the three houses and the land immediately surrounding each on West Fork to Gary’s three children. She leaves the house on the Wade Ranch to Lucas Krebs. She leaves the cottage here on South Fork to Christopher. And this house at South Fork to John Ross with the stipulation JR, Bobby and john Ross’s siblings always have a bedroom here.
In the last month Miss Ellie was finally able to buy the Southern Cross and leaves it to Dusty Farlow in a similar set up as the others.
The rest of her estate, cash and investments, mostly in West Star, which is now the Trident Corporation, she leaves to the Ewing Farlow Foundation.
She also put together a small trust fund of annuities for Cliff Barnes, in the last month. After Katherine Wentworth won her court case, stripping Cliff and Pam’s estate of their inheritance from Rebecca Wentworth, Miss Ellie said to me she wanted to help out Digger’s son and hope you all will understand.
Miss Ellie related to me she wants no fighting. She wants everyone to get along and have what they always wanted. She hopes this will sees to that.”
Bobby is the first to thank him. He then begins to pass out letters from Miss Ellie.
Sue Ellen walks into JR’s room. His back to the door looking out the window. She says, “Miss Ellie left you the McKay Ranch and this house to John Ross.”
“I’m glad for John Ross. I made a promise to him. At least he’ll get the house.”
“The land, the mineral rights, her’s and Clayton’s money, she left to the foundation. Of course South Fork can’t be drilled on.”
“Why would my momma leave me the McKay Ranch?”
Sue Ellen shrugs and hands him a letter.
He opens it and reads it aloud in a quiet, worn out voice. “My Dearest JR, my first born, my rock. You have no idea how much you have meant to me and that’s my fault. All the good in you and all the bad belongs to me and your father. We should have kept our promises to you. I hope you feel that by leaving the house at South Fork to John Ross you see how much I recognized your place as my oldest son.
I didn’t leave you the cattle business because you never seemed to care about it. I did leave you the McKay Ranch. I suggest you turn over running it to Bobby. The reason I gave it to you is so you can drill on it and get at South Fork’s oil through slant drilling. It’s all yours. You’ll have to share it with the foundation, but it’s yours.
I love you JR. I’ve loved you longer than anyone. And I pray you never forget that. Your loving mother.”
JR begins to ball. Sue Ellen holds him. “This will give you what you need, right? I run the foundation, so their’s nothing in your way to get at South Fork’s oil. And you can leave a thriving oil company to John Ross, just like you always promised . . . It’s OK JR. we’ll fix everything. We will. It’ll be OK.”
Holding his opened letter, Bobby says to Gary, “Momma wants me to fix things with Lucas.”
“Is that possible?”
“I don’t know.”
JR approaches them, “Bob can I see you in private?”
Bobby follows him into the study.
In the closed door room JR says to Bobby, “I’ve got a confession to make.”
“Let’s here it JR.”
“I was behind Kathryn Wentworth’s suite against Pam and Cliff. Pam abandoned this family and I still hold a grudge against Cliff and always will. I financed her and when she won, I bought it all, on the cheap. I also arranged it so she’d return to the state’s thinking she’d get a pardon but instead got arrested for trying to kill you.”
“What do you want me to say JR? You want me to be angry because you bankrupted Pam and Cliff. I don’t even know what’s happened with Pam. I probably never will. And Cliff, I’m not sure he didn’t have it coming. Kathryn certainly did. Is that all?”
“I was behind Lone Star Investment’s buying Ewing Oil.”
“Of course you were. Don’t think I didn’t know from the begging what you were doing.”
“Momma also gave me a way. to get at South Fork’s oil.”
“I know that too. I told her about slant drilling. I also know about your shares in Trident. And momma’s shares that Sue Ellen controls with the foundation. It should give you a seat back on the board. And you don’t have to worry about competing with it, as it’s all mid and down stream production. You’ve got Ewing Oil as one of the nation’s largest pure play oil and gas companies, with South Fork’s oil added to things. And Ewing Oil is owned by Ewing Industries, which is all yours. It also owns your shares in Trident, Lone Star, Wentworth Tool and Die and about two dozen other companies. Congratulations JR. I sincerely hope you finally feel enough is enough.”
“And we’re good?”
“We’re good.”
The brothers hug.
Dallas Theme Song:
Starting:
John Ross Ewing - retired military, runs Branch Water (based on Black Water), JR wants him in the business, but he’s going to do his own thing (based on Jock, Clayton and Bobby)
Ellie Ewing - Mandy and JR’s daughter, a female JR who doesn’t work but is involved in Ewing Industries (based on a young version of FC’s Angela Channing and KL’s Abbey Ewing)
Bo Ewing - Cally and JR’s son, involved in Ewing Oil, in the fields, gay (based on Dynasty’s Steven Carrington)
Chris Ewing - runs Ewing Oil, out to prove himself (based on JR)
Lucas Krebs - works the Wade Ranch without Bobby (based on Ray)
J. Paul Wendell - Jeremy’s son, Chairman and CEO of Trident, out for revenge (based on J. Paul Getty)
Bobby Ewing - owner and General Forman of the South Fork Cattle Company (which acquires the McKay Cattle Company)
Sue Ellen Ewing - Treasurer of the Ewing Farlow Foundation
and
JR Ewing - retired, Chairman, non executive of Ewing Industries
Dallas 2012
Southfork is filled inside and out as people show up to remember Miss Ellie. The entire family is there, all but JR. Gary and Lucy walk into the living room as everyone else is leaving. Bobby and Christoper are next. Then John Ross and Sue Ellen.
Miss Ellie’s lawyer speaks. “Thank you for staying behind so we can handle Miss Ellie’s wishes. I know it seems fairly simple, but it’s not. She’d been preparing this for almost a year. I know you helped her with South Fork,Bobby, but there’s a lot more to it.
First the easy part. She leaves all of her personal belongings to her granddaughter Lucy to divide among all her grandchildren, including Charlie, Maggie and Lucas Krebs, as you she’s fit. Miss Ellie added a codicil two months ago, which specifically leaves her pearls to Sue Ellen.
As you all know Miss Ellie gave the South Fork Ranch to Bobby some time ago and he’s taken very good care of it. But she’s since bought three other ranches and she’s taken them all apart, including the parts of South Fork she never gave to Bobby, having just given the cattle business to him. The land and mineral rights of each ranch, including South Fork she leaves to the Ewing Farlow Foundation, to protect and preserve. The one stipulation is no drilling or mining on South Fork land can ever occur. The land is then rented to each cattle business for one dollar a year. South Fork already being Bobby’s. The West Fork Ranch in California she leaves to Gary. The Wade Ranch here in Texas to Bobby and the McKay Ranch next door to JR.
In addition Miss Ellie leaves the three houses and the land immediately surrounding each on West Fork to Gary’s three children. She leaves the house on the Wade Ranch to Lucas Krebs. She leaves the cottage here on South Fork to Christopher. And this house at South Fork to John Ross with the stipulation JR, Bobby and john Ross’s siblings always have a bedroom here.
In the last month Miss Ellie was finally able to buy the Southern Cross and leaves it to Dusty Farlow in a similar set up as the others.
The rest of her estate, cash and investments, mostly in West Star, which is now the Trident Corporation, she leaves to the Ewing Farlow Foundation.
She also put together a small trust fund of annuities for Cliff Barnes, in the last month. After Katherine Wentworth won her court case, stripping Cliff and Pam’s estate of their inheritance from Rebecca Wentworth, Miss Ellie said to me she wanted to help out Digger’s son and hope you all will understand.
Miss Ellie related to me she wants no fighting. She wants everyone to get along and have what they always wanted. She hopes this will sees to that.”
Bobby is the first to thank him. He then begins to pass out letters from Miss Ellie.
Sue Ellen walks into JR’s room. His back to the door looking out the window. She says, “Miss Ellie left you the McKay Ranch and this house to John Ross.”
“I’m glad for John Ross. I made a promise to him. At least he’ll get the house.”
“The land, the mineral rights, her’s and Clayton’s money, she left to the foundation. Of course South Fork can’t be drilled on.”
“Why would my momma leave me the McKay Ranch?”
Sue Ellen shrugs and hands him a letter.
He opens it and reads it aloud in a quiet, worn out voice. “My Dearest JR, my first born, my rock. You have no idea how much you have meant to me and that’s my fault. All the good in you and all the bad belongs to me and your father. We should have kept our promises to you. I hope you feel that by leaving the house at South Fork to John Ross you see how much I recognized your place as my oldest son.
I didn’t leave you the cattle business because you never seemed to care about it. I did leave you the McKay Ranch. I suggest you turn over running it to Bobby. The reason I gave it to you is so you can drill on it and get at South Fork’s oil through slant drilling. It’s all yours. You’ll have to share it with the foundation, but it’s yours.
I love you JR. I’ve loved you longer than anyone. And I pray you never forget that. Your loving mother.”
JR begins to ball. Sue Ellen holds him. “This will give you what you need, right? I run the foundation, so their’s nothing in your way to get at South Fork’s oil. And you can leave a thriving oil company to John Ross, just like you always promised . . . It’s OK JR. we’ll fix everything. We will. It’ll be OK.”
Holding his opened letter, Bobby says to Gary, “Momma wants me to fix things with Lucas.”
“Is that possible?”
“I don’t know.”
JR approaches them, “Bob can I see you in private?”
Bobby follows him into the study.
In the closed door room JR says to Bobby, “I’ve got a confession to make.”
“Let’s here it JR.”
“I was behind Kathryn Wentworth’s suite against Pam and Cliff. Pam abandoned this family and I still hold a grudge against Cliff and always will. I financed her and when she won, I bought it all, on the cheap. I also arranged it so she’d return to the state’s thinking she’d get a pardon but instead got arrested for trying to kill you.”
“What do you want me to say JR? You want me to be angry because you bankrupted Pam and Cliff. I don’t even know what’s happened with Pam. I probably never will. And Cliff, I’m not sure he didn’t have it coming. Kathryn certainly did. Is that all?”
“I was behind Lone Star Investment’s buying Ewing Oil.”
“Of course you were. Don’t think I didn’t know from the begging what you were doing.”
“Momma also gave me a way. to get at South Fork’s oil.”
“I know that too. I told her about slant drilling. I also know about your shares in Trident. And momma’s shares that Sue Ellen controls with the foundation. It should give you a seat back on the board. And you don’t have to worry about competing with it, as it’s all mid and down stream production. You’ve got Ewing Oil as one of the nation’s largest pure play oil and gas companies, with South Fork’s oil added to things. And Ewing Oil is owned by Ewing Industries, which is all yours. It also owns your shares in Trident, Lone Star, Wentworth Tool and Die and about two dozen other companies. Congratulations JR. I sincerely hope you finally feel enough is enough.”
“And we’re good?”
“We’re good.”
The brothers hug.
Dallas Theme Song:
Starting:
John Ross Ewing - retired military, runs Branch Water (based on Black Water), JR wants him in the business, but he’s going to do his own thing (based on Jock, Clayton and Bobby)
Ellie Ewing - Mandy and JR’s daughter, a female JR who doesn’t work but is involved in Ewing Industries (based on a young version of FC’s Angela Channing and KL’s Abbey Ewing)
Bo Ewing - Cally and JR’s son, involved in Ewing Oil, in the fields, gay (based on Dynasty’s Steven Carrington)
Chris Ewing - runs Ewing Oil, out to prove himself (based on JR)
Lucas Krebs - works the Wade Ranch without Bobby (based on Ray)
J. Paul Wendell - Jeremy’s son, Chairman and CEO of Trident, out for revenge (based on J. Paul Getty)
Bobby Ewing - owner and General Forman of the South Fork Cattle Company (which acquires the McKay Cattle Company)
Sue Ellen Ewing - Treasurer of the Ewing Farlow Foundation
and
JR Ewing - retired, Chairman, non executive of Ewing Industries
