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<blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 87993" data-attributes="member: 130">Season 2starring: John Ross Ewing*Lucas Ewing*Amy EwingBo Ewing Sam EwingPamela Barnes Ewing* andLucy Ewing*with David WendellAl ValdezMoe Ben-Gurion Liddy WendellHeather Wendell guest starring:&nbsp; Katherine Wentworth Wendell*Long DiaThe Ewing family rushes into the hospital.&nbsp; Liddy asks at the desk about Lucas and Al approaches.&nbsp; &quot;He&#039;s in the OR right now.&quot; John Ross says, &quot;What the hell happened?&nbsp; How&#039;d someone get through our net?&quot;&quot;Inside job.&nbsp; I&#039;ll explain later.&quot;Al walks over to Amy.&nbsp; She hugs him.&nbsp; In the back of a limousine Liddy and John Ross face Al.&nbsp; Al says, &quot;I shot him, to keep him from digging.&nbsp; Paul Sorensen already killed Ben Wendell.&nbsp; He&#039;s got Heather.&nbsp; He&#039;s after Pamela next.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a security detail on her but it won&#039;t matter if she doesn&#039;t cooperate.&quot;&quot;She will,&quot; John Ross says.&nbsp; &quot;We had a long talk.&nbsp; Sorensens been in the long game to he wants Maracaibo&#039;s oil, bad.&nbsp; There are those that reward him and those that think he&#039;s behaving risky.&nbsp; She&#039;s pulling out of the bid with SinoChang.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Good.&nbsp; Unfortunately Lucas meet with Sorensen and Long Dia.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;God damn it!&nbsp; No wonder you shot him.&nbsp; What the hell does it take to get through to him?&nbsp; So what happened?&quot;&quot;He wouldn&#039;t tell me, just that they&#039;re working something out.&nbsp; My guys could hear either.&nbsp; They used a jamming device.&nbsp; They know they&#039;re being watched.&quot;Liddy says, &quot;What they&#039;re working out is for Lucas, Long Dia and Sorensen to profit going around Ewing Oil and SinoChang and the Association.&quot;They all agree.&nbsp; Al the says, &quot;David Wendell is back.&nbsp; SinoChang hired him as CEO of SinoChang America.&nbsp; Long Dia&#039;s in the board but works for the parent company.&nbsp; He&#039;s also married.&nbsp;&nbsp; David that is.&nbsp; To Katherine Wentworth.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Paul Sorensen walks off of an elevator into his penthouse.&nbsp; It&#039;s late and he pours himself a drink and looks out at the Dallas skyline.&nbsp; John Ross startles him by saying, &quot;Beautiful evening.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;How the hell did you get in here?&quot;&quot;Do you need to ask?&nbsp; Pamela&#039;s pulling out of the Venezuelan bid with SinoChang.&quot;&quot;I heard.&nbsp; Apparently she&#039;s got a merger deal with StoneHurst.&nbsp; She takes over StoneHurst, renamed it Barnes Wentworth and becomes its largest shareholder.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not a bad move.&quot;&quot;Killing Ben Wendell didn&#039;t help you in the least.&nbsp; So, you might as well give up his daughter.&quot;&quot;What about Ewing Oil?&quot;We&#039;re out of the Venezuela bid too.&nbsp; That was Lucas&#039;s play.&nbsp; Not mine.&nbsp; And he&#039;ll be recuperating for sometime.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Who do you have running Ewing Oil in his absence?&quot;&quot;Robert Ackerman.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Good choice.&nbsp; He&#039;ll stay out of my way.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Now all you&#039;ve got to worry about is David Wendell.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m on the board of SinoChang.&nbsp; And I&#039;ve got the ear of his bosses.&nbsp; I can handle Wendell.&quot;&quot;And Long Dia?&quot;&quot;A partnership.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;And the Maracaibo rebels.&quot;&quot;Minor.&quot;&quot;If you say so.&nbsp; I am for a reason.&nbsp; Pamela&#039;s is from limits.&nbsp; You do anything to her and you&#039;ll beg me to kill you.&quot;&nbsp; Sorensen&#039;s phone chimes several texts in a row.&nbsp; John Ross says, &quot;That&#039;ll be the confirmation that tells you how serious you better take me.&nbsp; I&#039;m not her to threaten you because I&#039;m not willing to.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want anything to to Pamela.&nbsp; And a preemptive strike might be all you&#039;ve left me.&nbsp; Right now those friends,&quot; pointing to Paul&#039;s phone,&quot;are protecting you.&nbsp; As you can see, there is a limit to that protection.&nbsp; My family.&quot;&quot;I didn&#039;t shoot Lucas.&nbsp; But I can tell you his snooping around, I&#039;m the least of his worries.&quot;&quot;I know that.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got him take care of.&nbsp; Just worry about yourself Paul.&nbsp; Our friendship only goes so far.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; John Ross pats him on the chest and walks toward the elevator, the doors opening as he approaches.&nbsp; John Ross turns around and says, &quot;Nice place you have here.&quot;&nbsp; The doors close.&nbsp; The Ewing&#039;s gather before dinner.&nbsp; John Ross passing out cocktails.&nbsp; Lucy telling everyone about her late husband, Sorensen, and how he was the most charming con man anyone ever meet.&nbsp; Amy helps a weakened Lucas walk into the room.&nbsp; Bo shows up with Sam.&nbsp; The kids, come walking in.&nbsp; Jay and Sofi holding a toddling Steven&#039;s hands.&nbsp; Al walks in last.&nbsp; John Ross says, &quot;Glad you could make it.&quot;The Ewing gather around the table.&nbsp; Amy wants to know about Mitch.&nbsp; Lucy blushes.&nbsp; Sofi asks, &quot;Who&#039;s Mitch?&quot;&nbsp; Amy asks how&#039;s Al like living in the ranch.&nbsp; &quot;It&#039;s peaceful.&nbsp;&nbsp; I go for a ride almost every day after our morning meetings.&nbsp; Speaking of such.&nbsp; Liddy&#039; moved into the city with her cousin Heather.&nbsp; She&#039;s pretty shaken.&nbsp; I&#039;m going add heather to our security coverage.&quot;&quot;Good idea,&quot; John Ross says.&nbsp; &quot;Make sure she&#039;s safe.&quot;&nbsp; Amy asks, &quot;Sam, Lucy I have a DoA meeting tomorrow.&nbsp; Want to join us?&quot;&quot;Lucy has no such thing.&nbsp; I don&#039;t do DoA meetings.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m afraid I&#039;ve got a busy schedule as well.&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#039;m back to working.&quot;&quot;Oh I did know you worked.&quot;&quot;I took some time off for the campaign.&quot;&quot;What is it you do?&quot; Lucy asks, emphasizing the word &#039;do.&#039;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lucas says, &quot;They&#039;re not use to anyone but me going to work.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sam laughs.&nbsp; &quot;It&#039;s OK.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m a senior strategies with Bryon, Yates and Krebs.&nbsp;&nbsp; We&#039;re a consulting firm.&nbsp; Lobbying, business, special projects.&quot;&quot;I know the firm well.&nbsp; The Krebs name in all that is my sister.&quot;&quot;Oh Margret Krebs is your sister.&nbsp;&nbsp; She&#039;s impressive.&nbsp; She&#039;s our President and CEO.&nbsp; What a small world.&quot;Amy adds, &quot;The wedding gift you got from Secretary Dowling had her name on it too.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Oh I didn&#039;t put the two together.&nbsp; Small world.&nbsp;&nbsp; I saw her a few times in Austin, but I don&#039;t know if she&#039;s even been to our Dallas office.&nbsp; I don&#039;t usually work on political campaigns.&nbsp; Other than Bo&#039;s of course.&quot;&quot;What is it you do than?&quot; Lucy asks. &quot;Well mostly coordinate campaigns for start ups, help them get recognized.&quot;John Ross says, &quot;She&#039;s been one of my goto people who&#039;ve brought start ups to my attention.&nbsp; We usually meet the first Tuesday of the month.&quot;&quot;That&#039;s right.&nbsp; Mr. Ewing . . .&nbsp; I&#039;m sorry, you had me thinking about work.&nbsp; John Ross has invested in some very interesting businesses.&quot;&quot;You see that look from Lucy?&nbsp; We&#039;re wandering into forbidden territory.&nbsp; You can talk work or religion or even politics, were all closeted libertarians here, but you can call us Republicans.&nbsp; But you cannot talk business at the table, not Ewing Oil or Ewing Industries or investing of any kind.&nbsp; Charity work or working the ranch, those are usually safe topics.&nbsp; Any scuttlebutt around the water cooler will work just fine.&nbsp; But never business.&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Pamela sits alone in her cottage trying to eat dinner while going over financials.&nbsp; She places a call in the phone next to her.&nbsp; I&#039;m speaker the voice says, &quot;Yes Mrs. Ewing.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m missing the financials on LuceAckerman.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m sorry Mrs. Ewing.&nbsp; You looked over their plays this afternoon and passed on them.&nbsp; They&#039;ve been shopping for a buyer for two years now.&nbsp;&nbsp; There just isn&#039;t much left to the company.&quot;&quot;Yes but out geologists said there&#039;s a lot more if we can get at it.&nbsp; Bring over those financials.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to make a very low offer.&nbsp; Once we&#039;ve got it, I&#039;ll speak to John Ross.&nbsp; See what he has for getting at it.&quot; &quot;Yes Mrs. Ewing.&nbsp; I&#039;m on my way over.&quot;&nbsp; David and Katherine are celebrating the Venezuela deal in his office when Long Dia walks in.&nbsp; &quot;Turn in the news.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Why?&nbsp; What&#039;s wrong?&quot;&nbsp; He turns on the television.As the news anchor speaks Dia says, &quot;The President has recognized Maracaibo.&quot;&quot;What&#039;s that mean for us?&quot; Katherine asks. &quot;Well with instability Venezuela might back out of our deal.&nbsp; Or double down on it.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to guess Maracaibo is going to try and strike some deals fast.&nbsp; Bring in oil money quick.&quot;&quot;Of course Venezuela won&#039;t allow bidding on any of that and working with them.&nbsp; It&#039;ll be one or the other.&quot;Katherine says, &quot;But we can create other oil companies like you and I did with Velasco Oil and Dia with SinoLong.&nbsp; We create dummy companies to funnel money our way.&quot;&quot;Except anyone bidding on Maracaibo oil will be eager to expose us,&quot; Dia says, pointing to the screen and a news reporter on the scene talking about BranchWater mercenaries Protecting the oil sites throughout Maracaibo.&quot;&quot;BranchWater?&quot; Katherine asks. &quot;They&#039;re a company owned by Ewing Industries.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Paul walks in next.&nbsp; &quot;You see what Ewing did?&nbsp; He&#039;s ripped the whole country apart.&quot;&quot;John Ross isn&#039;t capable of such a thing.&quot;&quot;You&#039;re an idiot Wendell.&nbsp; A willful idiot.&quot;&quot;I&#039;ve know that boy since he was born.&nbsp; JR sure, if he could muster the support, but not even on his own.&nbsp; But John Ross is a cowboy, a stupid red neck rigger who couldn&#039;t even get through college.&nbsp; You expect me to believe he orchestrated this?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I don&#039;t give a shit what you believe.&nbsp; He did.&nbsp; And that&#039;s a fact.&quot;&nbsp; On the phone in John Rosses study Moe speaks Chinese.&nbsp; &quot;Zhào xiānshēng, xièxiè nǐ dǎ diànhuà. Yóu yīn xiānshēng xīwàng nǐmen zhīdào nǐ quánlì zhīchí jìnrù quánqiú shíyóu gōngyè, chéngwéi yīgè wánzhěng de chéngyuán hé dúlì gōngsī . . .&quot;&quot;Mr. Zhao, thank you for taking my call.&nbsp; Mr. Ewing wants you to know you have his full support for entering the global petroleum industry as a full fledge member and independent company . . .&quot;&quot;Shì de, tā hé tā de tóngshìmen yīdàn zhǔnxǔ shǒucì gōngkāi fāxíng, jiù jíyú tóuzī zhōng chāng měiguó . . .&quot;&quot;Yes he and his associates are eager to invest in SinoChang America as soon as you authorize the initial public offering . . .&quot;&quot;Wǒmen tóngyì, zhōngguó de wèilái zhèngfǔ de suǒyǒuquán bù tài zhíjiē . . .&quot;&nbsp; &quot;We agree.&nbsp; The future of China is in less direct government ownership . . .&quot; &quot;Wǒmen qídàizhuó wǒmen zài shèng fúlǎngxīsī kē de huìyì, xièxiè nǐ . . .&quot;&quot;We look forward to our meeting in San Fransisco as well.&nbsp; Thank you.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Zàijiàn.&quot;&quot;Good bye.&quot;&nbsp; He turns to John Ross, Liddy, and Moe, &quot;We&#039;re proceeding.&nbsp; But the reality of the Chinese government giving up any significant share is remote.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I&#039;m not after a significant share, just a share.&nbsp; And some friends who realize my friendship more valuable to them than that some bureaucratic wonks.&quot;&nbsp; John Ross looks at Liddy.&nbsp; &quot;Have you spoken to your father yet?&quot;&quot;Not yet.&nbsp; I don&#039;t really look forward to it.&nbsp; Not to meeting your x-wife&#039;s aunt.&quot;&quot;Will you call her mother or Mumsy?&quot;&quot;You spent too much time in England.&quot;&nbsp; Liddy rolls her eyes.&nbsp; &quot;How about BNP?&quot;&quot;Moe and I are on the board.&nbsp; We&#039;re slowly increasing your share.&nbsp; Al&#039;s directing them to significant rare earth finds.&nbsp; We&#039;re running way ahead of the curve on this one.&quot;Moe says, &quot;The key will be to stay a head of the security issues.&quot;A knock comes from the door.&nbsp; &quot;Come in,&quot; John Ross says.&nbsp; Pamela steps inside, &quot;I&#039;m sorry, I don&#039;t mean to disturb you.&quot;&quot;No that&#039;s all right.&nbsp; We&#039;re finishing up.&nbsp; Most of this can wait until morning.&nbsp; We just had a overseas call to make.&quot;The three excuse themselves.&nbsp; John Ross asks Pamela to sit.&nbsp; &quot;What&#039;s up?&quot;&quot;I&#039;m having a hard time with you being Jim Davis.&nbsp; How could you arrange dominating the global silver market?&quot;&quot;Well that was Liddy&#039;s idea really.&quot;&quot;You got me in and out of Venezuela safely.&quot;&quot;Just a matter of knowing right people.&quot;&quot;This whole thing in Maracaibo, you orchestrated it?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;There&#039;s only so much I&#039;m willing to tell you.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;My job with BNP?&quot;&quot;You got that on your own.&quot;&quot;But my promotions?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Pamela, you did an excellent job with the company.&nbsp; Whether I gave you a nudge in the right direction or not doesn&#039;t change that.&nbsp; What you do, running very complex organizations, you&#039;re brilliant at.&quot;&quot;What if I asked to be on your team?&quot;&quot;What team?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Ewing Industries.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;You&#039;d give up Barnes Wentworth?&quot;&quot;Yes.&nbsp; I don&#039;t own a large share anyway.&nbsp; Bo walks in the front door of Ben&#039;s old house.&nbsp; &quot;How are you doing?&quot; He asks while hugging Heather.&nbsp; &quot;A bit shaken still.&nbsp; Haven&#039;t really left the house.&nbsp;&nbsp; I heard your married and a State Senator.&quot;&quot;I&#039;ve been busy.&quot;&quot;Does that mean you can&#039;t come up stairs with me.&quot;&quot;Oh no.&nbsp; I&#039;m willing if you can keep a secret.&quot;Rubbing his chest Heather says, &quot;Oh I promise you I can keep a secret when I want to.&quot;&nbsp; Lucy walks into Southfork&#039;s entry as Pamela directs movers up stairs.&nbsp; Lucy&#039;s says, &quot;What are you doing?&quot;&quot;Moving in.&quot;&nbsp; She then directs a box into the living room where she follows and begins to put out pictures and nicknacks.&nbsp; &quot;Who said you could move in?&quot;&quot;Why thank you for the warm welcome Lucy.&quot;&quot;Look it we&#039;ve all ignored you living out back.&nbsp; But this is too much.&quot;John Ross comes out of his study.&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;What&#039;s going on?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Your x-wife has took it upon herself to move in.&quot;&quot;Will you please tell you cousin I don&#039;t need permission.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I&#039;m afraid she doesn&#039;t.&nbsp; I gave up half of my half of the house to her in the divorce.&nbsp; But in trust for Jay.&quot;&quot;Well, I&#039;m keeper my a closer eye on things.&quot;&quot;Why?&quot;Lucy turns to see the movers carrying down furniture.&nbsp; &quot;Where are you taking that?&quot;&quot;I can&#039;t have to sets of furniture in my bedroom.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; John and Sofi come running down stairs all excited and hug Pamela.&nbsp; Pamela walks into the study where John Ross meets with Liddy, Al and Moe.&nbsp; &quot;I&#039;d like to discuss how Barnes Wentworth gets a share of the Maracaibo oil.&quot;&quot;It doesn&#039;t,&quot; Lucas says, entering the room behind her.&nbsp; &quot;Those plays belong to Ewing Oil.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Oh there&#039;s plenty to share.&nbsp; Besides Barnes Wentworth is far bigger than Ewing Oil.&nbsp; And from what I&#039;m hearing, Calco&#039;s refinery capacity has expanded significantly.&nbsp; They need all the oil we can throw at them.&quot;&quot;Maracaibo oil are deals worked out with Ewing&#039;s.&quot; Lucas positions himself next to John Ross.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m a Ewing.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Not by blood.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I&#039;m not sure why you&#039;re objecting,&quot; Pamela states.&nbsp; &quot;Your father is Barnes Wentworth&#039;s largest investor.&quot;&nbsp; Lucas is shocked. &quot;The Blackwell Fund owns nearly a hundred million shares.&nbsp; Ewing Industries isn&#039;t too far behind.&nbsp; Compared to you all I&#039;m a minor player.&quot;Bo gets out of bed and pulls on his underwear on the way to the bathroom.&nbsp; A beautiful young girls rolls over in bed and says to him, &quot;You really have to go so soon?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I&#039;ve got to vote this afternoon,&quot; Ben calls out.&nbsp; He steps back into the room, &quot;Look it Ava, you know this is a one time thing or maybe just a few times thing, right?&quot;&quot;I&#039;m not looking to end your marriage if that&#039;s what you mean.&nbsp; My father is the President of Ewing Oil.&nbsp; We&#039;re bound to run into each other from time to time.&nbsp; I just want to enjoy you when we do.&quot;&quot;We&#039;ll see.&quot;&nbsp; Bo walks back into the bathroom.&nbsp; &quot;We both know you&#039;re not a politician or a business man.&quot;She turns over in a huff hearing the shower start.&nbsp; Betsy walks out by the pool where Valjean sets her breakfast.&nbsp;&nbsp; Amy walks up asking, &quot;What&#039;s with Pamela moving in?&quot;&quot;I&#039;d like to know the answer to that to.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Is there anyone left to move in?&quot;&quot;My brother and sister.&nbsp; Then you&#039;d have all the Ewing grandchildren packed in here.&quot;&quot;Is she back with John Ross?&quot;&quot;God I hope not.&quot;Bobby joins John Ross in the barn where he&#039;s cleaning a horse stall.&nbsp; &quot;Thank you for taking care of my father.&quot;&quot;You went out to see?&quot;&quot;Yeah.&nbsp; He&#039;d be happy to be back here.&nbsp; Wish I could say the same about your father.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Have you heard from Chris lately?&quot;&quot;No. He hasn&#039;t talked to me in years.&nbsp; Changed his name to Shepard.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m sorry Uncle Bobby.&nbsp; I heard he&#039;s working on drilling into super volcanos to relieve the pressure and in the process is creating an enormous energy source.&quot;&quot;You&#039;re investing in Thermotron, I take it.&quot;&quot;Ewing Industries owns the investment company Yellowstone, which owns Thermotron.&quot;&quot;Just like your father.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Chris is an engineer, a damn good one.&nbsp;&nbsp; I never wanted him to fail.&nbsp; I just knew we needed money for him to succeed.&nbsp; He could never get it through his thick skull that no one was ever going to loan him the money to get going.&nbsp; They were going to want a piece. And he wanted it all for himself.&quot;&quot;It was his creation.&quot;&quot;And it would stay that way and never get anywhere without funding.&quot;&quot;It&#039;s hard to give up what&#039;s yours.&quot;&quot;Yeah well when you think everything is yours and your the victim of everyone&#039;s schemes, kinda makes it worse.&quot; &quot;I let the whole thing ruin my marriage to Ann.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t even JR.&nbsp; It was me getting in the middle of the two of you.&quot;&quot;And picks me sides.&quot;&quot;His life hadn&#039;t been easy.&nbsp; Still no lead on Pam.&quot;&quot;She doesn&#039;t want to be found.&quot;&quot;I hear Katherine Wentworth&#039;s in town.&nbsp; Married to Jeremy Wendell&#039;s son.&quot;&quot;Haven&#039;t seen her yet, but that&#039;s what I&#039;m told.&nbsp; Governor gave her a full pardon.&quot;&quot;Not surprised.&quot;&quot;You and Uncle Gary doing well with Westfork?&quot;&quot;Actually yes.&nbsp; Nice to have him back in my life.&nbsp; Nice to be working the ranch.&nbsp; Though we&#039;re both getting a bit old for it, just the two of us a few hands.&nbsp; Ray offered to go in with us, would help with some much needed money, but.&quot;&quot;Yeah, he&#039;s done pretty well for himself.&quot; &quot;He sure has.&nbsp; He&#039;s been developing a giant solar farm in Arizona.&nbsp; You wouldn&#039;t believe it if you saw it.&quot;&quot;You guys figured out who shot Lucas?&quot;&quot;He&#039;s been doing some snooping.&nbsp; I told him to back off.&nbsp; There certain people you don&#039;t snoop around.&nbsp; Considering where he was shot, I&#039;d say it was a friendly warning.&quot;&quot;This dealing with Wendell and the Venezuelan oil?&quot;&quot;I&#039;m assuming.&quot;&quot;I was sure he was gone.&quot;&quot;I was hoping.&nbsp; And the US won&#039;t extradite him.&quot;&quot;He&#039;s worst than his father.&quot;&nbsp; Bobby shakes his head.&nbsp; &quot;Considering all the dead bodies left in his wake.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Southfork&#039;s dinning room Pamela directs a very elderly Hispanic woman as to dinner.&nbsp; She says to Valjean, &quot;And I want my place in the middle.&nbsp; Sofi on this side, Steven on this side.&nbsp; If you could put his highchair here for me. Jay across from me.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care where anyone else sits.&nbsp; We&#039;ll need a lower Center piece, make it fruit as well.&nbsp; Just as colorful but useful.&quot;Lucy walks into the room and asks, &quot;What are you going?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Setting up for dinner.&nbsp; Lucy this is Lucinda.&nbsp; Lucinda will be taking over the cooking.&nbsp; She&#039;s been with me since I was a baby.&nbsp; Dinner will be at seven as well.&nbsp; It&#039;s too much for me to be home and relaxed for dinner by six.&nbsp; John Ross said you sit at the head of the table down there.&nbsp; That&#039;s fine by me.&nbsp; I&#039;m sitting in the middle across from Jay.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care where anyone else sits.&nbsp; I also informed Liddy and Al that if they live on Southfork they&#039;re expected to attend, hence the twelve place settings.&quot;&quot;I see,&quot; Lucy says, not too pleased. &quot;What&#039;ll we do if we go to fourteen or fifteen.&quot;&quot;Go tight through that wall and add on, and keep adding on until we gave enough room for everyone.&nbsp; Speaking of which, I was talking to John Ross, since no one here uses the garage of converting it into a sitting room for me. He said he&#039;d talk to you and Bo about it.&nbsp; By the way, you do realize that since John Ross only had a quarter of this house to give away and way the two of you wrote up hbd agreement splitting his share and your share with Lucas equally, that in effect we all have a quarter share.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t sure if he told you.&quot;&quot;I haven&#039;t heard much from him since you got here.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Out in the barn Lucas walks past Bobby with out saying a word to each other.&nbsp; Bobby nods on his way out.&nbsp; Lucas ignores him on his way in.&nbsp; John Ross says to Lucas, &quot;Getting around pretty good.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Apparently who ever shot me I tended it to be a warning.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;We warned you the people you were looking into weren&#039;t safe.&quot;&quot;I noticed Pamela backed off the Venezuelan oil bid.&nbsp; Of course she wants in on your Maracaibo oil deal.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;They&#039;ll iron out the details&quot;Barnes Wentworth is growing fast.&quot;&quot;Well it&#039;s got the funds.&nbsp; It&#039;s a public company and Wall Street loves her.&nbsp; She&#039;s working with the electric car company&#039;s to add charging stations to Calco&#039;s gas stations.&quot;&quot;Yea.&nbsp; Where the hell did that come from.&quot;&quot;I put her on Calco&#039;s board in your absence.&nbsp; Moe will step down when you&#039;re ready to get back to work.&quot;&quot;Have you made any head way in finding out how some got into Ewing Oil late in the evening?&quot;&quot;No.&nbsp; And I told you I wasn&#039;t digging.&nbsp; You want to dig up that nightmare you go right ahead, but I&#039;m not going to touch it.&quot;&quot;Well I do intend to get to the bottom of it.&nbsp; I&#039;m just gonna let someone threaten my life and get away with my.&quot;&quot;I already told you it was obviously a warning shot.&nbsp; But you do what you gotta do.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;I also want to make it clear, now that I&#039;m overseeing Bo&#039;s share of Ewing Industries, I&#039;ll be at your morning meetings.&quot;&quot;You&#039;re not trying to push your way into our daddy&#039;s company are you?&quot;&quot;Just taking care of his interests.&quot;&quot;That&#039;s fine.&nbsp; But his share of Ewing Industries isn&#039;t for sale.&nbsp; Not even to you.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m not trying my hands.&quot;&quot;Let me make it clear.&nbsp; I&#039;ll kick your ass right over the county line you sell so much as one share.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m not your lackey.&quot;&quot;No.&nbsp; You&#039;re not.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have any of those.&nbsp; But those shares are off limits.&nbsp; That&#039;s a promise.&quot;&nbsp; Al approaches and watches Lucas leave. &quot;They arrested Holly Harwood.&quot; &quot;Good.&nbsp; Just make sure her money is protected and ends up in my sister&#039;s hands.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Wendell spearheads CalcoHarwood&#039;s book cooking scandal and they can&#039;t get anything to stick on him.&nbsp; And fall guys like Holly Harwood will never get out of prison.&quot;&quot;Just as long as I have what will stick on Wendell,I&#039;m good with that.&nbsp; &#039;Cause when I&#039;m done with him, he&#039;ll wished he&#039;d stayed in Venezuela.&quot;Lucas walks out the back of Southfork and redirects Bo from going in.&nbsp; &quot;Dinner&#039;s gonna be a bit late.&nbsp;&nbsp; So how&#039;d it go with Ava Ackerman.&quot;&quot;Just as planned.&quot;&quot;Good.&nbsp; I need as many avenues to get him out of my as possible.&quot;&quot;When are you going back to running Ewing Oil?&quot;&quot;I should be back now.&nbsp; John Ross and Lucy keep making a fuss.&nbsp; Pamela grabbed up LuceAckerman.&quot; &quot;What&#039;s that?&quot;&quot;An oil company, related to Robert Ackerman but family sold out long time ago.&nbsp; Pamela&#039;s got John Ross leading her Ewing Alternative Energy tech to get at the oil they couldn&#039;t get at.&nbsp; She also grabbed up Peter Wendell&#039;s, David&#039;s youngest brother&#039;s WenDixon Oil.&nbsp; Same thing.&nbsp; Company&#039;s oil plays all dried up and she comes in and opens back up.&nbsp; That&#039;s Ewing tech I should have exclusive access to and I sitting on the sidelines.&nbsp; Think what it&#039;s costing you for him to favor Barnes Wentworth over Ewing Oil.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I didn&#039;t think of it that way.&nbsp; But I trust John Ross.&quot;&quot;Not when that woman&#039;s concerned.&nbsp; She&#039;s growing that company by leaps and bounds.&nbsp; She&#039;s got five old CalcoHarwood plays in the North Sea Plays she&#039;s opening back up.&nbsp; Two in the gulf.&nbsp; She just got back from Kazakhstan to negotiate a Caspian Sea bid. She acquired McLeish, a Canadian oil company.&nbsp; There&#039;s an Angola oil deal I hear in the works.&nbsp; She&#039;s got Iraqi plays. A bid for Brazil off shore oil.&nbsp; She wants in on Ewing Oil&#039;s Arctic play.&quot;&quot;Shit.&quot;&quot;And if I don&#039;t get back in there Ackerman will cut her in on Alaska.&quot;&nbsp; In Southfork&#039;s living room the family gathers later than usual for cocktails.&nbsp; Bo tells Sam he&#039;s got a meeting after dinner with some constituents.&nbsp; Pamela plays checkers with Jay.&nbsp; John Ross and Bo talk the cowboys.&nbsp; Lucy and Amy talk Oil Barron&#039;s Ball.&nbsp; That night on a hotel bed Bo pounds Heather in completely naked lust.&nbsp; David and Katherine talk about throwing a cocktail party at their place before the Oil Barron&#039;s Ball while walking the thought the executive offices of SinoChang America.&nbsp; Walking into his office they find a room full of people including John Ross, Liddy and Al.&nbsp; John Ross welcomes them and introduces the IRS agents.&nbsp; John Ross announces that Katherine hasn&#039;t paid her American taxes in decades.&nbsp; The IRS agents arrest her.&nbsp; &quot;Don&#039;t worry, you&#039;ll be locked up for decades, but I&#039;ll help out your son, my brother, H. Lee Wentworth. Apparently you mother&#039;s will is very strict about who gets what.&nbsp; So while you&#039;re gone, I&#039;ll help him figure things out and pay off the IRS.&quot;&nbsp; She&#039;s taken away.&nbsp; Liddy closes the door.&nbsp; John Ross says, &quot;You won&#039;t have any access to her money.&nbsp; But you&#039;ve still got a very comfortable living here.&quot;&quot;You just can&#039;t leave me a lone, can you?&nbsp; Your family has to interfere with my life every chance they get.&quot;&quot;You&#039;re a narcissistic shit head, you know it?&nbsp; Do you even remember your son?&nbsp; Do you even remember telling him if he was gonna kill himself at least get it right since he got nothing else in his life right.&quot;&quot;What I said to my son is none of your business.&quot;John Ross punches him in the face.&nbsp; David stumbles back against his desk.&nbsp; &quot;He was my friend.&nbsp; He punches him again.&nbsp; &quot;As far as I&#039;m concerned you killed him.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; He punches him a third time.&nbsp; &quot;And you killed my wife.&nbsp; So let&#039;s get this straight.&nbsp; I arranged to get you out of Venezuela and Katherine a pardon.&nbsp; Let&#039;s be very clear about that.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now you position here at SinoChang.&nbsp;&nbsp; You work for me from this point on.&nbsp; You do what I want, when I want it, how I want it.&quot;&nbsp; John Ross takes a thick envelope from Liddy and pushes it into David&#039;s chest.&nbsp; There&#039;s everything I need to lock you away for what you did at CalcoHarwood from poisoning those people in Columbia and Venezuela to bilking your investors.&nbsp; Look it over so you realize how throughly and completely I own you.&nbsp;&nbsp; You&#039;ll do what I say, when I say it, exactly how I say it.&nbsp; And you won&#039;t be alone here.&nbsp; I intend to control every bit of SinoChang.&quot;&nbsp; John Ross thumps his forehead.&nbsp; &quot;Starting at the top down, in America and China.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Long Dia gets out of bed naked, a king size bed, with two young girls and a young boy passed out.&nbsp; He walks into the living room over his high rise penthouse house to find Moe sitting, waiting.&nbsp; Moe stands, pays the package on the table next to him.&nbsp; &quot;This is from us.&nbsp; Instructions and motivation to carry out those instructions. Make sure you follow everything to the letter.&quot;&nbsp; He leaves the room.&nbsp; Paul steps into his private jet to find Sue Ellen sitting there.&nbsp; Surprised he says, &quot;And to what do I owe a visit from Lady Maitland?&quot;&quot;We can agree, it&#039;s sways better to get along than to fight, right?&quot;&quot;Of course.&quot;&quot;Today John Ross secured us control of SinoChang.&nbsp; So you won&#039;t be needed back in Dallas.&quot;&quot;I see.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I want to thank you for your support.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Association appreciates your loyalty.&quot;&quot;If you&#039;re certain.&quot;&quot;We are.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; She stands and takes his arm, leading back to the door, &quot;Now you can escort me to dinner with a few friends.&nbsp; The weather in New York is more comfortable than Dallas this time of year anyway.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stevew, post: 87993, member: 130"] Season 2 starring: John Ross Ewing* Lucas Ewing* Amy Ewing Bo Ewing Sam Ewing Pamela Barnes Ewing* and Lucy Ewing* with David Wendell Al Valdez Moe Ben-Gurion Liddy Wendell Heather Wendell guest starring: Katherine Wentworth Wendell* Long Dia The Ewing family rushes into the hospital. Liddy asks at the desk about Lucas and Al approaches. "He's in the OR right now." John Ross says, "What the hell happened? How'd someone get through our net?" "Inside job. I'll explain later." Al walks over to Amy. She hugs him. In the back of a limousine Liddy and John Ross face Al. Al says, "I shot him, to keep him from digging. Paul Sorensen already killed Ben Wendell. He's got Heather. He's after Pamela next. I've got a security detail on her but it won't matter if she doesn't cooperate." "She will," John Ross says. "We had a long talk. Sorensens been in the long game to he wants Maracaibo's oil, bad. There are those that reward him and those that think he's behaving risky. She's pulling out of the bid with SinoChang." "Good. Unfortunately Lucas meet with Sorensen and Long Dia." "God damn it! No wonder you shot him. What the hell does it take to get through to him? So what happened?" "He wouldn't tell me, just that they're working something out. My guys could hear either. They used a jamming device. They know they're being watched." Liddy says, "What they're working out is for Lucas, Long Dia and Sorensen to profit going around Ewing Oil and SinoChang and the Association." They all agree. Al the says, "David Wendell is back. SinoChang hired him as CEO of SinoChang America. Long Dia's in the board but works for the parent company. He's also married. David that is. To Katherine Wentworth." Paul Sorensen walks off of an elevator into his penthouse. It's late and he pours himself a drink and looks out at the Dallas skyline. John Ross startles him by saying, "Beautiful evening." "How the hell did you get in here?" "Do you need to ask? Pamela's pulling out of the Venezuelan bid with SinoChang." "I heard. Apparently she's got a merger deal with StoneHurst. She takes over StoneHurst, renamed it Barnes Wentworth and becomes its largest shareholder. Not a bad move." "Killing Ben Wendell didn't help you in the least. So, you might as well give up his daughter." "What about Ewing Oil? "We're out of the Venezuela bid too. That was Lucas's play. Not mine. And he'll be recuperating for sometime." "Who do you have running Ewing Oil in his absence?" "Robert Ackerman." "Good choice. He'll stay out of my way." "Now all you've got to worry about is David Wendell." "I'm on the board of SinoChang. And I've got the ear of his bosses. I can handle Wendell." "And Long Dia?" "A partnership." "And the Maracaibo rebels." "Minor." "If you say so. I am for a reason. Pamela's is from limits. You do anything to her and you'll beg me to kill you." Sorensen's phone chimes several texts in a row. John Ross says, "That'll be the confirmation that tells you how serious you better take me. I'm not her to threaten you because I'm not willing to. I don't want anything to to Pamela. And a preemptive strike might be all you've left me. Right now those friends," pointing to Paul's phone,"are protecting you. As you can see, there is a limit to that protection. My family." "I didn't shoot Lucas. But I can tell you his snooping around, I'm the least of his worries." "I know that. I've got him take care of. Just worry about yourself Paul. Our friendship only goes so far." John Ross pats him on the chest and walks toward the elevator, the doors opening as he approaches. John Ross turns around and says, "Nice place you have here." The doors close. The Ewing's gather before dinner. John Ross passing out cocktails. Lucy telling everyone about her late husband, Sorensen, and how he was the most charming con man anyone ever meet. Amy helps a weakened Lucas walk into the room. Bo shows up with Sam. The kids, come walking in. Jay and Sofi holding a toddling Steven's hands. Al walks in last. John Ross says, "Glad you could make it." The Ewing gather around the table. Amy wants to know about Mitch. Lucy blushes. Sofi asks, "Who's Mitch?" Amy asks how's Al like living in the ranch. "It's peaceful. I go for a ride almost every day after our morning meetings. Speaking of such. Liddy' moved into the city with her cousin Heather. She's pretty shaken. I'm going add heather to our security coverage." "Good idea," John Ross says. "Make sure she's safe." Amy asks, "Sam, Lucy I have a DoA meeting tomorrow. Want to join us?" "Lucy has no such thing. I don't do DoA meetings." "I'm afraid I've got a busy schedule as well. I'm back to working." "Oh I did know you worked." "I took some time off for the campaign." "What is it you do?" Lucy asks, emphasizing the word 'do.' Lucas says, "They're not use to anyone but me going to work." Sam laughs. "It's OK. I'm a senior strategies with Bryon, Yates and Krebs. We're a consulting firm. Lobbying, business, special projects." "I know the firm well. The Krebs name in all that is my sister." "Oh Margret Krebs is your sister. She's impressive. She's our President and CEO. What a small world." Amy adds, "The wedding gift you got from Secretary Dowling had her name on it too." "Oh I didn't put the two together. Small world. I saw her a few times in Austin, but I don't know if she's even been to our Dallas office. I don't usually work on political campaigns. Other than Bo's of course." "What is it you do than?" Lucy asks. "Well mostly coordinate campaigns for start ups, help them get recognized." John Ross says, "She's been one of my goto people who've brought start ups to my attention. We usually meet the first Tuesday of the month." "That's right. Mr. Ewing . . . I'm sorry, you had me thinking about work. John Ross has invested in some very interesting businesses." "You see that look from Lucy? We're wandering into forbidden territory. You can talk work or religion or even politics, were all closeted libertarians here, but you can call us Republicans. But you cannot talk business at the table, not Ewing Oil or Ewing Industries or investing of any kind. Charity work or working the ranch, those are usually safe topics. Any scuttlebutt around the water cooler will work just fine. But never business." Pamela sits alone in her cottage trying to eat dinner while going over financials. She places a call in the phone next to her. I'm speaker the voice says, "Yes Mrs. Ewing." "I'm missing the financials on LuceAckerman." "I'm sorry Mrs. Ewing. You looked over their plays this afternoon and passed on them. They've been shopping for a buyer for two years now. There just isn't much left to the company." "Yes but out geologists said there's a lot more if we can get at it. Bring over those financials. I'm going to make a very low offer. Once we've got it, I'll speak to John Ross. See what he has for getting at it." "Yes Mrs. Ewing. I'm on my way over." David and Katherine are celebrating the Venezuela deal in his office when Long Dia walks in. "Turn in the news." "Why? What's wrong?" He turns on the television. As the news anchor speaks Dia says, "The President has recognized Maracaibo." "What's that mean for us?" Katherine asks. "Well with instability Venezuela might back out of our deal. Or double down on it. I'm going to guess Maracaibo is going to try and strike some deals fast. Bring in oil money quick." "Of course Venezuela won't allow bidding on any of that and working with them. It'll be one or the other." Katherine says, "But we can create other oil companies like you and I did with Velasco Oil and Dia with SinoLong. We create dummy companies to funnel money our way." "Except anyone bidding on Maracaibo oil will be eager to expose us," Dia says, pointing to the screen and a news reporter on the scene talking about BranchWater mercenaries Protecting the oil sites throughout Maracaibo." "BranchWater?" Katherine asks. "They're a company owned by Ewing Industries." Paul walks in next. "You see what Ewing did? He's ripped the whole country apart." "John Ross isn't capable of such a thing." "You're an idiot Wendell. A willful idiot." "I've know that boy since he was born. JR sure, if he could muster the support, but not even on his own. But John Ross is a cowboy, a stupid red neck rigger who couldn't even get through college. You expect me to believe he orchestrated this?" "I don't give a shit what you believe. He did. And that's a fact." On the phone in John Rosses study Moe speaks Chinese. "Zhào xiānshēng, xièxiè nǐ dǎ diànhuà. Yóu yīn xiānshēng xīwàng nǐmen zhīdào nǐ quánlì zhīchí jìnrù quánqiú shíyóu gōngyè, chéngwéi yīgè wánzhěng de chéngyuán hé dúlì gōngsī . . ." "Mr. Zhao, thank you for taking my call. Mr. Ewing wants you to know you have his full support for entering the global petroleum industry as a full fledge member and independent company . . ." "Shì de, tā hé tā de tóngshìmen yīdàn zhǔnxǔ shǒucì gōngkāi fāxíng, jiù jíyú tóuzī zhōng chāng měiguó . . ." "Yes he and his associates are eager to invest in SinoChang America as soon as you authorize the initial public offering . . ." "Wǒmen tóngyì, zhōngguó de wèilái zhèngfǔ de suǒyǒuquán bù tài zhíjiē . . ." "We agree. The future of China is in less direct government ownership . . ." "Wǒmen qídàizhuó wǒmen zài shèng fúlǎngxīsī kē de huìyì, xièxiè nǐ . . ." "We look forward to our meeting in San Fransisco as well. Thank you." "Zàijiàn." "Good bye." He turns to John Ross, Liddy, and Moe, "We're proceeding. But the reality of the Chinese government giving up any significant share is remote." "I'm not after a significant share, just a share. And some friends who realize my friendship more valuable to them than that some bureaucratic wonks." John Ross looks at Liddy. "Have you spoken to your father yet?" "Not yet. I don't really look forward to it. Not to meeting your x-wife's aunt." "Will you call her mother or Mumsy?" "You spent too much time in England." Liddy rolls her eyes. "How about BNP?" "Moe and I are on the board. We're slowly increasing your share. Al's directing them to significant rare earth finds. We're running way ahead of the curve on this one." Moe says, "The key will be to stay a head of the security issues." A knock comes from the door. "Come in," John Ross says. Pamela steps inside, "I'm sorry, I don't mean to disturb you." "No that's all right. We're finishing up. Most of this can wait until morning. We just had a overseas call to make." The three excuse themselves. John Ross asks Pamela to sit. "What's up?" "I'm having a hard time with you being Jim Davis. How could you arrange dominating the global silver market?" "Well that was Liddy's idea really." "You got me in and out of Venezuela safely." "Just a matter of knowing right people." "This whole thing in Maracaibo, you orchestrated it?" "There's only so much I'm willing to tell you." "My job with BNP?" "You got that on your own." "But my promotions?" "Pamela, you did an excellent job with the company. Whether I gave you a nudge in the right direction or not doesn't change that. What you do, running very complex organizations, you're brilliant at." "What if I asked to be on your team?" "What team?" "Ewing Industries." "You'd give up Barnes Wentworth?" "Yes. I don't own a large share anyway. Bo walks in the front door of Ben's old house. "How are you doing?" He asks while hugging Heather. "A bit shaken still. Haven't really left the house. I heard your married and a State Senator." "I've been busy." "Does that mean you can't come up stairs with me." "Oh no. I'm willing if you can keep a secret." Rubbing his chest Heather says, "Oh I promise you I can keep a secret when I want to." Lucy walks into Southfork's entry as Pamela directs movers up stairs. Lucy's says, "What are you doing?" "Moving in." She then directs a box into the living room where she follows and begins to put out pictures and nicknacks. "Who said you could move in?" "Why thank you for the warm welcome Lucy." "Look it we've all ignored you living out back. But this is too much." John Ross comes out of his study. "What's going on?" "Your x-wife has took it upon herself to move in." "Will you please tell you cousin I don't need permission." "I'm afraid she doesn't. I gave up half of my half of the house to her in the divorce. But in trust for Jay." "Well, I'm keeper my a closer eye on things." "Why?" Lucy turns to see the movers carrying down furniture. "Where are you taking that?" "I can't have to sets of furniture in my bedroom." John and Sofi come running down stairs all excited and hug Pamela. Pamela walks into the study where John Ross meets with Liddy, Al and Moe. "I'd like to discuss how Barnes Wentworth gets a share of the Maracaibo oil." "It doesn't," Lucas says, entering the room behind her. "Those plays belong to Ewing Oil." "Oh there's plenty to share. Besides Barnes Wentworth is far bigger than Ewing Oil. And from what I'm hearing, Calco's refinery capacity has expanded significantly. They need all the oil we can throw at them." "Maracaibo oil are deals worked out with Ewing's." Lucas positions himself next to John Ross." "I'm a Ewing." "Not by blood." "I'm not sure why you're objecting," Pamela states. "Your father is Barnes Wentworth's largest investor." Lucas is shocked. "The Blackwell Fund owns nearly a hundred million shares. Ewing Industries isn't too far behind. Compared to you all I'm a minor player." Bo gets out of bed and pulls on his underwear on the way to the bathroom. A beautiful young girls rolls over in bed and says to him, "You really have to go so soon?" "I've got to vote this afternoon," Ben calls out. He steps back into the room, "Look it Ava, you know this is a one time thing or maybe just a few times thing, right?" "I'm not looking to end your marriage if that's what you mean. My father is the President of Ewing Oil. We're bound to run into each other from time to time. I just want to enjoy you when we do." "We'll see." Bo walks back into the bathroom. "We both know you're not a politician or a business man." She turns over in a huff hearing the shower start. Betsy walks out by the pool where Valjean sets her breakfast. Amy walks up asking, "What's with Pamela moving in?" "I'd like to know the answer to that to." "Is there anyone left to move in?" "My brother and sister. Then you'd have all the Ewing grandchildren packed in here." "Is she back with John Ross?" "God I hope not." Bobby joins John Ross in the barn where he's cleaning a horse stall. "Thank you for taking care of my father." "You went out to see?" "Yeah. He'd be happy to be back here. Wish I could say the same about your father." "Have you heard from Chris lately?" "No. He hasn't talked to me in years. Changed his name to Shepard." "I'm sorry Uncle Bobby. I heard he's working on drilling into super volcanos to relieve the pressure and in the process is creating an enormous energy source." "You're investing in Thermotron, I take it." "Ewing Industries owns the investment company Yellowstone, which owns Thermotron." "Just like your father." "Chris is an engineer, a damn good one. I never wanted him to fail. I just knew we needed money for him to succeed. He could never get it through his thick skull that no one was ever going to loan him the money to get going. They were going to want a piece. And he wanted it all for himself." "It was his creation." "And it would stay that way and never get anywhere without funding." "It's hard to give up what's yours." "Yeah well when you think everything is yours and your the victim of everyone's schemes, kinda makes it worse." "I let the whole thing ruin my marriage to Ann. It wasn't even JR. It was me getting in the middle of the two of you." "And picks me sides." "His life hadn't been easy. Still no lead on Pam." "She doesn't want to be found." "I hear Katherine Wentworth's in town. Married to Jeremy Wendell's son." "Haven't seen her yet, but that's what I'm told. Governor gave her a full pardon." "Not surprised." "You and Uncle Gary doing well with Westfork?" "Actually yes. Nice to have him back in my life. Nice to be working the ranch. Though we're both getting a bit old for it, just the two of us a few hands. Ray offered to go in with us, would help with some much needed money, but." "Yeah, he's done pretty well for himself." "He sure has. He's been developing a giant solar farm in Arizona. You wouldn't believe it if you saw it." "You guys figured out who shot Lucas?" "He's been doing some snooping. I told him to back off. There certain people you don't snoop around. Considering where he was shot, I'd say it was a friendly warning." "This dealing with Wendell and the Venezuelan oil?" "I'm assuming." "I was sure he was gone." "I was hoping. And the US won't extradite him." "He's worst than his father." Bobby shakes his head. "Considering all the dead bodies left in his wake." In Southfork's dinning room Pamela directs a very elderly Hispanic woman as to dinner. She says to Valjean, "And I want my place in the middle. Sofi on this side, Steven on this side. If you could put his highchair here for me. Jay across from me. I don't care where anyone else sits. We'll need a lower Center piece, make it fruit as well. Just as colorful but useful." Lucy walks into the room and asks, "What are you going?" "Setting up for dinner. Lucy this is Lucinda. Lucinda will be taking over the cooking. She's been with me since I was a baby. Dinner will be at seven as well. It's too much for me to be home and relaxed for dinner by six. John Ross said you sit at the head of the table down there. That's fine by me. I'm sitting in the middle across from Jay. I don't care where anyone else sits. I also informed Liddy and Al that if they live on Southfork they're expected to attend, hence the twelve place settings." "I see," Lucy says, not too pleased. "What'll we do if we go to fourteen or fifteen." "Go tight through that wall and add on, and keep adding on until we gave enough room for everyone. Speaking of which, I was talking to John Ross, since no one here uses the garage of converting it into a sitting room for me. He said he'd talk to you and Bo about it. By the way, you do realize that since John Ross only had a quarter of this house to give away and way the two of you wrote up hbd agreement splitting his share and your share with Lucas equally, that in effect we all have a quarter share. I wasn't sure if he told you." "I haven't heard much from him since you got here." Out in the barn Lucas walks past Bobby with out saying a word to each other. Bobby nods on his way out. Lucas ignores him on his way in. John Ross says to Lucas, "Getting around pretty good." "Apparently who ever shot me I tended it to be a warning." "We warned you the people you were looking into weren't safe." "I noticed Pamela backed off the Venezuelan oil bid. Of course she wants in on your Maracaibo oil deal." "They'll iron out the details" Barnes Wentworth is growing fast." "Well it's got the funds. It's a public company and Wall Street loves her. She's working with the electric car company's to add charging stations to Calco's gas stations." "Yea. Where the hell did that come from." "I put her on Calco's board in your absence. Moe will step down when you're ready to get back to work." "Have you made any head way in finding out how some got into Ewing Oil late in the evening?" "No. And I told you I wasn't digging. You want to dig up that nightmare you go right ahead, but I'm not going to touch it." "Well I do intend to get to the bottom of it. I'm just gonna let someone threaten my life and get away with my." "I already told you it was obviously a warning shot. But you do what you gotta do." "I also want to make it clear, now that I'm overseeing Bo's share of Ewing Industries, I'll be at your morning meetings." "You're not trying to push your way into our daddy's company are you?" "Just taking care of his interests." "That's fine. But his share of Ewing Industries isn't for sale. Not even to you." "I'm not trying my hands." "Let me make it clear. I'll kick your ass right over the county line you sell so much as one share." "I'm not your lackey." "No. You're not. I don't have any of those. But those shares are off limits. That's a promise." Al approaches and watches Lucas leave. "They arrested Holly Harwood." "Good. Just make sure her money is protected and ends up in my sister's hands." "Wendell spearheads CalcoHarwood's book cooking scandal and they can't get anything to stick on him. And fall guys like Holly Harwood will never get out of prison." "Just as long as I have what will stick on Wendell,I'm good with that. 'Cause when I'm done with him, he'll wished he'd stayed in Venezuela." Lucas walks out the back of Southfork and redirects Bo from going in. "Dinner's gonna be a bit late. So how'd it go with Ava Ackerman." "Just as planned." "Good. I need as many avenues to get him out of my as possible." "When are you going back to running Ewing Oil?" "I should be back now. John Ross and Lucy keep making a fuss. Pamela grabbed up LuceAckerman." "What's that?" "An oil company, related to Robert Ackerman but family sold out long time ago. Pamela's got John Ross leading her Ewing Alternative Energy tech to get at the oil they couldn't get at. She also grabbed up Peter Wendell's, David's youngest brother's WenDixon Oil. Same thing. Company's oil plays all dried up and she comes in and opens back up. That's Ewing tech I should have exclusive access to and I sitting on the sidelines. Think what it's costing you for him to favor Barnes Wentworth over Ewing Oil." "I didn't think of it that way. But I trust John Ross." "Not when that woman's concerned. She's growing that company by leaps and bounds. She's got five old CalcoHarwood plays in the North Sea Plays she's opening back up. Two in the gulf. She just got back from Kazakhstan to negotiate a Caspian Sea bid. She acquired McLeish, a Canadian oil company. There's an Angola oil deal I hear in the works. She's got Iraqi plays. A bid for Brazil off shore oil. She wants in on Ewing Oil's Arctic play." "Shit." "And if I don't get back in there Ackerman will cut her in on Alaska." In Southfork's living room the family gathers later than usual for cocktails. Bo tells Sam he's got a meeting after dinner with some constituents. Pamela plays checkers with Jay. John Ross and Bo talk the cowboys. Lucy and Amy talk Oil Barron's Ball. That night on a hotel bed Bo pounds Heather in completely naked lust. David and Katherine talk about throwing a cocktail party at their place before the Oil Barron's Ball while walking the thought the executive offices of SinoChang America. Walking into his office they find a room full of people including John Ross, Liddy and Al. John Ross welcomes them and introduces the IRS agents. John Ross announces that Katherine hasn't paid her American taxes in decades. The IRS agents arrest her. "Don't worry, you'll be locked up for decades, but I'll help out your son, my brother, H. Lee Wentworth. Apparently you mother's will is very strict about who gets what. So while you're gone, I'll help him figure things out and pay off the IRS." She's taken away. Liddy closes the door. John Ross says, "You won't have any access to her money. But you've still got a very comfortable living here." "You just can't leave me a lone, can you? Your family has to interfere with my life every chance they get." "You're a narcissistic shit head, you know it? Do you even remember your son? Do you even remember telling him if he was gonna kill himself at least get it right since he got nothing else in his life right." "What I said to my son is none of your business." John Ross punches him in the face. David stumbles back against his desk. "He was my friend. He punches him again. "As far as I'm concerned you killed him." He punches him a third time. "And you killed my wife. So let's get this straight. I arranged to get you out of Venezuela and Katherine a pardon. Let's be very clear about that. Now you position here at SinoChang. You work for me from this point on. You do what I want, when I want it, how I want it." John Ross takes a thick envelope from Liddy and pushes it into David's chest. There's everything I need to lock you away for what you did at CalcoHarwood from poisoning those people in Columbia and Venezuela to bilking your investors. Look it over so you realize how throughly and completely I own you. You'll do what I say, when I say it, exactly how I say it. And you won't be alone here. I intend to control every bit of SinoChang." John Ross thumps his forehead. "Starting at the top down, in America and China." Long Dia gets out of bed naked, a king size bed, with two young girls and a young boy passed out. He walks into the living room over his high rise penthouse house to find Moe sitting, waiting. Moe stands, pays the package on the table next to him. "This is from us. Instructions and motivation to carry out those instructions. Make sure you follow everything to the letter." He leaves the room. Paul steps into his private jet to find Sue Ellen sitting there. Surprised he says, "And to what do I owe a visit from Lady Maitland?" "We can agree, it's sways better to get along than to fight, right?" "Of course." "Today John Ross secured us control of SinoChang. So you won't be needed back in Dallas." "I see." "I want to thank you for your support. The Association appreciates your loyalty." "If you're certain." "We are." She stands and takes his arm, leading back to the door, "Now you can escort me to dinner with a few friends. The weather in New York is more comfortable than Dallas this time of year anyway." [/QUOTE]

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