Opinions Of The Barnes/Wentworth Family.

[Snowcat]

It certainly was embezzlement. It doesn’t matter if he was fooled, Cliff was taking Wentworth funds and using it for his own personal gain. Like Rebecca said, if it was anybody else, she’d have every right to call the state department.

Embezzlement is stealing. Cliff planned to pay the money bac with his earnings

 

[Billy Wall]

Embezzlement is stealing. Cliff planned to pay the money bac with his earnings

It doesn’t matter if he was planning to pay it back, it’s still embezzlement. Cliff stole money from Wentworth Industries.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

It doesn’t matter if he was planning to pay it back, it’s still embezzlement. Cliff stole money from Wentworth Industries.

Yeah he did and I'm not surprised Rebecca fired him.

I shall never forget that scene where she visited Miss Ellie and told her this and then asked her to fire JR because he used Ewing Oil to attack her son.

She swore she'd break the Ewing's. I wish we'd gotten to see that, the writers wrote Rebecca out far too soon.

 

[Chris2]

I think they did too but ultimately I think the Ewings would have crushed Rebecca, not the other way around. It would have been fairly easy for JR to dig into her past and find out that she never divorced Digger, rendering her marriage to Herbert (?) Wentworth invalid. That might have called her inheritance into play.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I think they did too but ultimately I think the Ewings would have crushed Rebecca, not the other way around. It would have been fairly easy for JR to dig into her past and find out that she never divorced Digger, rendering her marriage to Herbert (?) Wentworth invalid. That might have called her inheritance into play.

And possibly if that did happen Rebecca would've done a background check on JR himself. It would've set the cat amongst the pigeons if proof came to light that JR's Father was actually Willard 'Digger' Barnes!!

 

[Jimmy Todd]

And possibly if that did happen Rebecca would've done a background check on JR himself. It would've set the cat amongst the pigeons if proof came to light that JR's Father was actually Willard 'Digger' Barnes!!

Two good ideas for a plot. JR digs into Rebecca's past, and she has the money and influence to do the same thing to him.
How come none of JR's enemies ever thought to play JR at his own game and blackmail him with a sordid detail from his past?

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Two good ideas for a plot. JR digs into Rebecca's past, and she has the money and influence to do the same thing to him.
How come none of JR's enemies ever thought to play JR at his own game and blackmail him with a sordid detail from his past?

I don't think the writers or the Producers wanted anyone getting too much of an upper hand over JR.

 

[Mustard]

Embezzlement is stealing. Cliff planned to pay the money bac with his earnings

Embezzlement is using company funds for your own personal purposes. Unless it's a purely personal business, it's against the law. Wentworth Tool and Die was a part of Wentworth Industries, with boards of directors etc.

 

[Mustard]

How come none of JR's enemies ever thought to play JR at his own game and blackmail him with a sordid detail from his past?

J.R. was sometimes blackmailed, like when Jeb Ames and Willie Joe Garr claimed that they had kidnapped John Ross and demanded a big ransom. In general, the question is what would his enemies blackmail J.R. with? J.R. seemed to want blackmail dirt on all those he wants to do business with, even better if they owe him a favour. He tended to make his business deals this way, with all this in mind. J.R. said his motto "Do unto others before they do unto you".

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

J.R. was sometimes blackmailed, like when Jeb Ames and Willie Joe Garr claimed that they had kidnapped John Ross and demanded a big ransom. In general, the question is what would his enemies blackmail J.R. with? J.R. seemed to want blackmail dirt on all those he wants to do business with, even better if they owe him a favour. He tended to make his business deals this way, with all this in mind. J.R. said his motto "Do unto others before they do unto you".

Yeah, he did.

He also said "Keep your friends close but you're enemies closer!"

I suppose that would explain why he had a hold over some of them.

In case they owed him a favour.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

J.R. was sometimes blackmailed, like when Jeb Ames and Willie Joe Garr claimed that they had kidnapped John Ross and demanded a big ransom. In general, the question is what would his enemies blackmail J.R. with? J.R. seemed to want blackmail dirt on all those he wants to do business with, even better if they owe him a favour. He tended to make his business deals this way, with all this in mind. J.R. said his motto "Do unto others before they do unto you".

I would have someone put a private detective on JR and find out about his humiliation in Haileyville and seeing a psychiatrist over it. For the son of Jock Ewing, this would be a major embarrassment. I'd have Lucy do it when she returned to the show, bitter from the scene when JR mocked her father. Lucy did next to nothing, so this would give her something to do. Even if she doesn't release the information, she could throw it in his face. This would be a sort of ice bucket of water in the face moment for JR, and it would galvanize him to return to his bad ass self, turn Haileyville into a parking lot, ruin the sheriff, and send Cally packing.

 

[Snowcat]

Also, when he is named Oil Man of the Year, he doesn't mention Katherine in his speech. She was the one who pushed for the use of the Tundra Torque (albeit, she did it for Bobby), which was instrumental in Cliff"s success.

I thought the same thing when he was making the speech. But it would have been completely out of character for Cliff. He was completely obtuse when it came to others