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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 132685" data-attributes="member: 102">I have an idea for a storyline (plot) that never aired on Dallas.I believe the best time for it to take place would have been shortly after Miss Ellie married Clayton. At that time Clayton was trying to adjust to living in the home of Jock Ewing - the man who had saved Southfork from foreclosure, had loved there for over 40 years married to Ellie and had fathered 4 sons while living there. naturally Clayton was feeling kind of unsure if he could ever really fit in at Southfork and wished that Miss Ellie would have accepted his proposal that they buy a new home just for the two of them and would only see the rest of the Ewings when they invited them over or when Clayton and Miss Ellie got invited over to see the family. I'm choosing this time because it was a time when Clayton felt vulnerable.The storyline goes like this: Jeremy Wendell would attempt an aggressive takeover or buyout of Farlow Refineries. We know Wendell went after many people but we never saw a storyline where Wendell and Clayton were at war. Bobby would realize that Clayton needed their help because West Star was just too big and powerful at that time for Clayton to fight off alone. Miss Ellie would be extremely grateful of course and so would Clayton, although he would have mixed feelings when JR pitched in as well. Miss Ellie would assure Clayton that JR was doing it to try to bury the hatchet with Clayton - which Miss Ellie would truly believe but the audience wouldn't know for sure if JR was joining in to sincerely help or of he had ulterior motives.Together they would be holding off Wendell's attack but just barely. So Wendell sets up a private meeting with JR where he tells JR that he suspects JR doesn't appreciate an outsider having recently married Miss Ellie and living right at Southfork - "trying to take Jock's place" as Wendell would say. Wendell would offer a deal to JR: If JR would execute a plan Wendell would hand to JR to sabotage the Ewing-Farlow attempt at keeping West Star from acquiring Farlow Refineries, Wendell would give JR a huge amount of money. Wendell would tell JR that this might be the only way to get Clayton to the point where he'd feel humiliated enough that he'd leave Southfork for good and JR would appear to take the deal but we still wouldn't know for sure if he did or not.The war would wage on with us being given some clues that would point to JR having accepted the deal. Week by week it would look more and more likely that JR was indeed sabotaging the effort to keep West Star at bay until finally when it appeared that Clayton was about to lose his company to West Star, JR would double cross Wendell and tell him that as much as he resented Clayton living at Southfork, that he'd never liked WestStar and JR double crossing Wendell was payback for every time West Star had ever done anything to hurt Ewing Oil. With that double cross by JR on Wendell, Farlow refineries would remain securely in Clayton's hands. They'd all go to The Oil baron;s Club to celebrate. Wendell would happen to be there and would tell JR that he'd made the biggest mistake of his life and that payback would be hell!</blockquote>

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