Kenny Coyote
Telly Talk Star
Suppose that in season 9 (DVD count) you've been hired as showrunner as Dallas and while you can hire whatever assistants you want, you now have final say as to what storylines are told and in what direction you take Dallas. You're also responsible for either deciding to rehire Patrick Duffy or to not rehire him.
In what direction do you take the show's storylines? Do you rehire Patrick Duffy to bring Bobby back? If not, what do you do to minimize the impact of his absence? If you do rehire Patrick Duffy, how do you explain Bobby's return in Dallas?
You have a contract that guarantees you control of the show for this season and the next one - season ten.
Here's what I would do:
I'd hire some assistants since I don't have experience as a showrunner or in the TV industry.
I don't rehire Patrick Duffy. I've never seen a good explanation for bringing Bobby back. That's alright. A show needs to evolve. There has to be a progression in the show, a progression in the main characters of the show that makes it possible for the show to stay fresh and new and exciting. Dallas had done everything it could with where the characters were in that stage of their development. These are powerful characters so it takes a lot for something to be enough of a catalyst to initiate any significant change in characters who had acted in very particular ways for that long of a long time. Bobby's death might be exactly the type of thing that could change Dallas in a way to where it wouldn't be predictable or complacent. When something that significant happens it has to change the show. Not having Bobby drastically changes the dynamics of the show. As long as the change in the show isn't the most obvious or simple change to make and instead it changes in a way that surprises the viewers in a good way, it gives the show new life.
The major storyline of season 9 involves JR and Pam. JR is devastated by Bobby's death. He picks up a picture of Bobby and looks at it.
JR: Bob, I wasn't the brother to you that I should have been. I can't change who I was but I can change who I'm gonna be. The one thing that always united us was a crisis. That's when our family was its best. I could always count on you to help me get us out of whatever trouble I'd gotten us into. I got us into trouble because I had such big dreams, I wanted so badly to please Daddy, to make him proud of me. I didn't think I'd ever make him proud of me until I'd done something tremendous. I thought the only way to accomplish anything that big was to be willing to take big risks because I figured the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. If Daddy hasn't given up on me yet and if you haven't given up me yet, I'll make you both proud of me because I am going to do something big. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start listening to the advice you and Daddy gave me and live my life the right way.
Pam is devastated by Bobby's death and can barely function at first, but day by day she recovers a little bit. Everyone is amazed at how well she is doing in dealing with Bobby's death. She says that with Bobby gone, Christopher has to be able to count on her and she has to be strong for his sake.
JR talks to Sue Ellen and vows to change his ways. and be the one who protects his family from any further harm. He says this to Sue Ellen and she's very skeptical. He tries to convince Sue Ellen to give their marriage another chance but she says no. She tells JR she's divorcing him and going after custody of John Ross. JR asks her not to do this. He reminds her she's still drinking and no judge will grant her custody of John Ross. She says she can quit now, says she will quit now and she doesn't believe he will ever change. She says JR is the only reason she drinks and she's leaving Southfork now to get sober. Finally she says when he sees her next, it will be in court, where she'll be sober and get custody of John Ross. JR makes one more attempt to get her to stay by asking how she can leave when Bobby has just died and the family needs her. She replies that the one who needs her most is John Ross and she won't be any good to him until she gets away from JR and gets sober.
The will is read and it is about the same as the one that was read in season 9. Pam has control of Christopher's shares.
Miss Ellie is totally distraught over Bobby's death and Clayton fears he may have to send her to a place that can help her 24 hours a day. JR overhears and tells Clayton he's sorry for how he has treated Clayton in the past and that he respects him. Whatever way Clayton thinks is best to help Miss Ellie, JR promises to go along with it and help in any way that he can. Clayton is surprised but pleased with this and says he has to think it over.
Four or five days go by.
Clayton: JR, I've waited as long as I can for your mama to get better. I believe it's irresponsible to let her stay in this condition.
JR: I know you've done everything you can to help her and so have I but my mama is getting worse!
Clayton: You've seen that too? She isn't just staying the same; she's getting more depressed, isn't she?
JR: She is. I'm afraid she's a danger to herself at this point. When I talked to her this morning, I saw it. This isn't a healthy way for her to grieve.
Clayton: No, it's not. God knows she's not going to agree to leave Southfork no matter what we tell her. I wanted to take her for a ride this morning, just a nice drive to get her out of this house for a little while and she told me that she didn't want to be that far away from where Bobby...
JR: From his grave site?
Clayton: Yes. The thing that frightens me is that she said some things that made it sound like she had to be right here in case Bobby needed her. I can't let her get any worse. I'm going to call the sanitarium now.
JR nods his head in agreement.
Pam visits Cliff. Jeremy Wendell has offered Cliff an opportunity to merge with Westar and to give Cliff a seat on the board of directors of Westar. Cliff is elated. He immediately calls Pam and asks if she can come over to his place and she accepts. When she arrives there Cliff tells Pam he's glad she's there because he has been thinking about the family a lot since Bobby's death and has arrived at an important conclusion. Cliff says that she and Christopher are the only family he has left and he wants them to be a close family. Pam says of course, so does she. Cliff immediately transitions to trying to convince her to sell Christopher's shares of Ewing Oil to Wendell.
Pam: Why on earth would I sell Christopher's shares to Wendell, of all people?
Cliff: To cut your ties with the Ewings! Pam, those shares are the last thing that is tying you to that family.
Pam: Christopher is a Ewing. He deserves to be able to visit Ellie; she's his grandmother. Clayton is like a grandfather to hm, Lucy loves him to death, there is no way I'm going to deprive Christopher of being able to spend time with his relatives.
Cliff: No, no, I think you're missing the point! You could sell your shares to Wendell and still let Christopher visit them but that way you wouldn't have to go to Ewing Oil every day and work with JR. He'll destroy you, Pam! He is a human blight! Mankind would be so much better off if...
Pam: Stop it! Just stop it! I am so sick and tired of hearing you go on and on about JR. I don't think I've ever come over here even one time when you didn't start talking about JR at some point. Do you realize how much you talk about him?
Cliff: I don't talk about JR every time you come over here.
Pam: Oh my God. You really don't realize how much of your life you spend talking about him do you? Cliff, you are obsessed!
Cliff: If I am it's because I have to be in order to win! That's what it takes to beat JR Ewing! Pam, do you realize how unbelievably close I am right now to finally, finally, once and for all, finishing off JR Ewing for good?
Pam: And I don't suppose Jeremy Wendell has anything to do with this?
Cliff: What if he does?
Pam: That's why you want me to sell my shares to him specifically. (Cliff begins to say something) No, don't even start Cliff. I can see right through you; it's like looking though glass. You continually underestimate me and you did it again today because if you hadn't you wouldn't have asked me to sell my shares to anyone. But you specifically asked me to sell Christopher's shares to Wendell. That was subtle, Cliff. Real smooth. But it doesn't matter because there is no way that I would betray Bobby and Christopher by selling Christopher's shares to someone else.
Cliff: How would you be betraying anyone? You'd be doing Christopher a big favor - securing his future. Bobby would be proud of you.
Pam: How do you think you would know what Bobby would want? When I married Bobby, he did everything possible to be the best brother-in-law to you that anyone could ever be. No matter how good Bobby was to you, you never gave him a chance. Time after time he tried to do whatever he could to end the Barnes-Ewing feud but you would never, ever meet him half-way! He tried so hard but you always saw him as just another Ewing. If you'd made the effort to truly get to know him, maybe even be friends, you'd know Bobby wanted to give Christopher his chance to run Ewing Oil one day, just as Jock had done for him. I will not betray my son!
Cliff just stands there amazed at what Pam has just said, completely disheartened over hearing the conviction with which she said it. He just stands there, stunned, as Pam storms out of his condo.
Sue Ellen rents a luxury apartment and plans to get sober while living there in preparation for the impending custody battle over John Ross. Dusty visits her and is concerned about whether she can stop drinking on her own. Sue Ellen tells Dusty that not living in the same house as JR will make this "easy."
Dusty: That's bull and you know it! You think I can't smell the alcohol on your breath?
Sue Ellen: No, that's only wine! I have quit drinking liquor. No vodka, no whiskey, all I had today was a couple glasses of wine to stead my nerves. I have to allow myself something or my hands start to tremble.
Dusty: Your hands start to tremble because you're going into withdrawal! That means you're a...
Sue Ellen: Wait, wait! It's just a shock to the system to completely quit drinking and that's why I've had so much trouble with it before. When I was ready to quit nobody would let me taper of gradually, they just wanted me to suddenly quit and I couldn't stand the way it felt.
Dusty: You couldn't stand the way it felt because you're so addicted to it that your body doesn't know what to do when there's no alcohol in you. That can be lethal!
Sue Ellen: I know! It can be! That's why I'm tapering off - that way my body can adjust to it more gradually and in a few weeks I'll have completely quit drinking!
Dusty: Good lord! Sue Ellen, if you had the kind of willpower to do that you wouldn't be an alcoholic in the first place!
Sue Ellen: But I did have the willpower to, or I would have had the willpower, except JR aggravated me and provoked me and made me feel so bad that I didn't have my usual willpower. Now that I am away from him I am in complete control of myself and I can do this my own way. I'll prove it to you. Just wait and see.
Dusty: I've seen all I can take for today. Sue Ellen, I love you. I can't watch you do this to yourself.
Sue Ellen: Well don't leave!
Dusty: I'll be back tomorrow. Can we make a deal? If tomorrow when I get here, if you've had more than a couple glasses of wine, I mean if you're drunk, will you then agree to let me take you to a hospital?
Sue: Of course, because that will never happen. I won't ever get drunk again. I'm away from JR so I have no need to get drunk. So sure, if I'm drunk tomorrow when you get here, I'll go to a hospital.
Dusty gives Sue Ellen a concerned look, then forces a smile and says alright, he'll be back tomorrow at noon.
JR and Pam have a meeting at Ewing Oil. They have both been grieving for Bobby and this will be their first real conversation about what their plans are for Ewing Oil.
Pam: I've made the decision to work at Ewing Oil full time and take as active a part in running the company as my 30% of Ewing Oil will allow. Since you also have 30% that makes us equal partners.
JR: Are you sure that's how you want to spend your life? Working in a business that you never showed any interest or enthusiasm for while you were married to Bobby? Hell, you even blamed Ewing Oil for for your divorce from Bobby!
Pam: JR, I made a huge mistake when I left Bobby. My mother died and I was looking for someone to blame. I took everything out on Bobby. I said the contest for Ewing Oil was responsible for my mother's death. I blamed him for not quitting the contest when I asked him to. It wasn't until a few days ago that I took accountability for being the one who talked Bobby into quitting his job as a road man or Ewing Oil so that he could get into running the company. That was selfish of me. I now have to admit I did it because I didn't like the idea of my husband being on the road so much, using the three Bs to get cooperation from people that could help the company. It was insecurity on my part. I didn't want Bobby around the parties, the booze, the women that were all a part of the three Bs. I was afraid that being around that environment all the time, Bobby might be tempted to...
JR: No. There was no temptation that ever would have been strong enough for Bobby to ever stop being the best husband to you he could be. He loved you too much to even think about doing something that would have tarnished your marriage.
Pam: Thank you JR. That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
JR: Bobby...not being here anymore...has changed me. I know I gave you every reason to think I hated you and if I'm being honest, I did hate you...but I don't hate you now Pam. There's something I want to tell you because there is nobody else I've been able to tell. Somehow I think you might understand. Something happened to me when Bobby died. I feel like a part of him is inside me now. I want to let that part of him that's inside me now to be my conscience. I think I know how to do that: When I'm in a situation where I have a difficult choice to do the right thing or the wrong thing, I'll just let go...let go of who I used to be...and let Bobby tell me what to do. All these years whenever I tried to overcome who I used to be it never worked. There's something so evil inside me that it can't be overcome. That's alright though because I don't have to conquer it; all I have to do is let go of it.
Pam's eyes are wide open and she's just staring at JR. It takes her a little while to be able to speak. When she does start talking she's using a tone of voice she's never used with JR.
Pam: You. . . you sound so sure that will work.
JR: I know it will. It has to work.
Pam: JR, I would love to believe that. I would really love to. Nothing you ever did to me while I was married to Bobby gives me any reason to believe you...but I want to. I want to believe what you just said could be true. That would be so much like Bobby, to still keep trying to help you. (Pam starts crying) I haven't told anyone else what I'm about to tell you but maybe you're the only person who would understand: After Bobby died, I started to feel like I was dying too. I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even get out of bed. I was actually getting worse every day and then one morning as soon as I woke up I felt Bobby's presence inside of me. I felt a part of his spirit inside of me, healing me and telling me that I would be okay, that Bobby wouldn't let me be anything else because that's what he wanted for me - to live a good life and to be the best mother to Christopher I can be.
JR: Bobby's still here.
Freeze frame of Pam looking right into JR's eyes.
In what direction do you take the show's storylines? Do you rehire Patrick Duffy to bring Bobby back? If not, what do you do to minimize the impact of his absence? If you do rehire Patrick Duffy, how do you explain Bobby's return in Dallas?
You have a contract that guarantees you control of the show for this season and the next one - season ten.
Here's what I would do:
I'd hire some assistants since I don't have experience as a showrunner or in the TV industry.
I don't rehire Patrick Duffy. I've never seen a good explanation for bringing Bobby back. That's alright. A show needs to evolve. There has to be a progression in the show, a progression in the main characters of the show that makes it possible for the show to stay fresh and new and exciting. Dallas had done everything it could with where the characters were in that stage of their development. These are powerful characters so it takes a lot for something to be enough of a catalyst to initiate any significant change in characters who had acted in very particular ways for that long of a long time. Bobby's death might be exactly the type of thing that could change Dallas in a way to where it wouldn't be predictable or complacent. When something that significant happens it has to change the show. Not having Bobby drastically changes the dynamics of the show. As long as the change in the show isn't the most obvious or simple change to make and instead it changes in a way that surprises the viewers in a good way, it gives the show new life.
The major storyline of season 9 involves JR and Pam. JR is devastated by Bobby's death. He picks up a picture of Bobby and looks at it.
JR: Bob, I wasn't the brother to you that I should have been. I can't change who I was but I can change who I'm gonna be. The one thing that always united us was a crisis. That's when our family was its best. I could always count on you to help me get us out of whatever trouble I'd gotten us into. I got us into trouble because I had such big dreams, I wanted so badly to please Daddy, to make him proud of me. I didn't think I'd ever make him proud of me until I'd done something tremendous. I thought the only way to accomplish anything that big was to be willing to take big risks because I figured the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. If Daddy hasn't given up on me yet and if you haven't given up me yet, I'll make you both proud of me because I am going to do something big. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start listening to the advice you and Daddy gave me and live my life the right way.
Pam is devastated by Bobby's death and can barely function at first, but day by day she recovers a little bit. Everyone is amazed at how well she is doing in dealing with Bobby's death. She says that with Bobby gone, Christopher has to be able to count on her and she has to be strong for his sake.
JR talks to Sue Ellen and vows to change his ways. and be the one who protects his family from any further harm. He says this to Sue Ellen and she's very skeptical. He tries to convince Sue Ellen to give their marriage another chance but she says no. She tells JR she's divorcing him and going after custody of John Ross. JR asks her not to do this. He reminds her she's still drinking and no judge will grant her custody of John Ross. She says she can quit now, says she will quit now and she doesn't believe he will ever change. She says JR is the only reason she drinks and she's leaving Southfork now to get sober. Finally she says when he sees her next, it will be in court, where she'll be sober and get custody of John Ross. JR makes one more attempt to get her to stay by asking how she can leave when Bobby has just died and the family needs her. She replies that the one who needs her most is John Ross and she won't be any good to him until she gets away from JR and gets sober.
The will is read and it is about the same as the one that was read in season 9. Pam has control of Christopher's shares.
Miss Ellie is totally distraught over Bobby's death and Clayton fears he may have to send her to a place that can help her 24 hours a day. JR overhears and tells Clayton he's sorry for how he has treated Clayton in the past and that he respects him. Whatever way Clayton thinks is best to help Miss Ellie, JR promises to go along with it and help in any way that he can. Clayton is surprised but pleased with this and says he has to think it over.
Four or five days go by.
Clayton: JR, I've waited as long as I can for your mama to get better. I believe it's irresponsible to let her stay in this condition.
JR: I know you've done everything you can to help her and so have I but my mama is getting worse!
Clayton: You've seen that too? She isn't just staying the same; she's getting more depressed, isn't she?
JR: She is. I'm afraid she's a danger to herself at this point. When I talked to her this morning, I saw it. This isn't a healthy way for her to grieve.
Clayton: No, it's not. God knows she's not going to agree to leave Southfork no matter what we tell her. I wanted to take her for a ride this morning, just a nice drive to get her out of this house for a little while and she told me that she didn't want to be that far away from where Bobby...
JR: From his grave site?
Clayton: Yes. The thing that frightens me is that she said some things that made it sound like she had to be right here in case Bobby needed her. I can't let her get any worse. I'm going to call the sanitarium now.
JR nods his head in agreement.
Pam visits Cliff. Jeremy Wendell has offered Cliff an opportunity to merge with Westar and to give Cliff a seat on the board of directors of Westar. Cliff is elated. He immediately calls Pam and asks if she can come over to his place and she accepts. When she arrives there Cliff tells Pam he's glad she's there because he has been thinking about the family a lot since Bobby's death and has arrived at an important conclusion. Cliff says that she and Christopher are the only family he has left and he wants them to be a close family. Pam says of course, so does she. Cliff immediately transitions to trying to convince her to sell Christopher's shares of Ewing Oil to Wendell.
Pam: Why on earth would I sell Christopher's shares to Wendell, of all people?
Cliff: To cut your ties with the Ewings! Pam, those shares are the last thing that is tying you to that family.
Pam: Christopher is a Ewing. He deserves to be able to visit Ellie; she's his grandmother. Clayton is like a grandfather to hm, Lucy loves him to death, there is no way I'm going to deprive Christopher of being able to spend time with his relatives.
Cliff: No, no, I think you're missing the point! You could sell your shares to Wendell and still let Christopher visit them but that way you wouldn't have to go to Ewing Oil every day and work with JR. He'll destroy you, Pam! He is a human blight! Mankind would be so much better off if...
Pam: Stop it! Just stop it! I am so sick and tired of hearing you go on and on about JR. I don't think I've ever come over here even one time when you didn't start talking about JR at some point. Do you realize how much you talk about him?
Cliff: I don't talk about JR every time you come over here.
Pam: Oh my God. You really don't realize how much of your life you spend talking about him do you? Cliff, you are obsessed!
Cliff: If I am it's because I have to be in order to win! That's what it takes to beat JR Ewing! Pam, do you realize how unbelievably close I am right now to finally, finally, once and for all, finishing off JR Ewing for good?
Pam: And I don't suppose Jeremy Wendell has anything to do with this?
Cliff: What if he does?
Pam: That's why you want me to sell my shares to him specifically. (Cliff begins to say something) No, don't even start Cliff. I can see right through you; it's like looking though glass. You continually underestimate me and you did it again today because if you hadn't you wouldn't have asked me to sell my shares to anyone. But you specifically asked me to sell Christopher's shares to Wendell. That was subtle, Cliff. Real smooth. But it doesn't matter because there is no way that I would betray Bobby and Christopher by selling Christopher's shares to someone else.
Cliff: How would you be betraying anyone? You'd be doing Christopher a big favor - securing his future. Bobby would be proud of you.
Pam: How do you think you would know what Bobby would want? When I married Bobby, he did everything possible to be the best brother-in-law to you that anyone could ever be. No matter how good Bobby was to you, you never gave him a chance. Time after time he tried to do whatever he could to end the Barnes-Ewing feud but you would never, ever meet him half-way! He tried so hard but you always saw him as just another Ewing. If you'd made the effort to truly get to know him, maybe even be friends, you'd know Bobby wanted to give Christopher his chance to run Ewing Oil one day, just as Jock had done for him. I will not betray my son!
Cliff just stands there amazed at what Pam has just said, completely disheartened over hearing the conviction with which she said it. He just stands there, stunned, as Pam storms out of his condo.
Sue Ellen rents a luxury apartment and plans to get sober while living there in preparation for the impending custody battle over John Ross. Dusty visits her and is concerned about whether she can stop drinking on her own. Sue Ellen tells Dusty that not living in the same house as JR will make this "easy."
Dusty: That's bull and you know it! You think I can't smell the alcohol on your breath?
Sue Ellen: No, that's only wine! I have quit drinking liquor. No vodka, no whiskey, all I had today was a couple glasses of wine to stead my nerves. I have to allow myself something or my hands start to tremble.
Dusty: Your hands start to tremble because you're going into withdrawal! That means you're a...
Sue Ellen: Wait, wait! It's just a shock to the system to completely quit drinking and that's why I've had so much trouble with it before. When I was ready to quit nobody would let me taper of gradually, they just wanted me to suddenly quit and I couldn't stand the way it felt.
Dusty: You couldn't stand the way it felt because you're so addicted to it that your body doesn't know what to do when there's no alcohol in you. That can be lethal!
Sue Ellen: I know! It can be! That's why I'm tapering off - that way my body can adjust to it more gradually and in a few weeks I'll have completely quit drinking!
Dusty: Good lord! Sue Ellen, if you had the kind of willpower to do that you wouldn't be an alcoholic in the first place!
Sue Ellen: But I did have the willpower to, or I would have had the willpower, except JR aggravated me and provoked me and made me feel so bad that I didn't have my usual willpower. Now that I am away from him I am in complete control of myself and I can do this my own way. I'll prove it to you. Just wait and see.
Dusty: I've seen all I can take for today. Sue Ellen, I love you. I can't watch you do this to yourself.
Sue Ellen: Well don't leave!
Dusty: I'll be back tomorrow. Can we make a deal? If tomorrow when I get here, if you've had more than a couple glasses of wine, I mean if you're drunk, will you then agree to let me take you to a hospital?
Sue: Of course, because that will never happen. I won't ever get drunk again. I'm away from JR so I have no need to get drunk. So sure, if I'm drunk tomorrow when you get here, I'll go to a hospital.
Dusty gives Sue Ellen a concerned look, then forces a smile and says alright, he'll be back tomorrow at noon.
JR and Pam have a meeting at Ewing Oil. They have both been grieving for Bobby and this will be their first real conversation about what their plans are for Ewing Oil.
Pam: I've made the decision to work at Ewing Oil full time and take as active a part in running the company as my 30% of Ewing Oil will allow. Since you also have 30% that makes us equal partners.
JR: Are you sure that's how you want to spend your life? Working in a business that you never showed any interest or enthusiasm for while you were married to Bobby? Hell, you even blamed Ewing Oil for for your divorce from Bobby!
Pam: JR, I made a huge mistake when I left Bobby. My mother died and I was looking for someone to blame. I took everything out on Bobby. I said the contest for Ewing Oil was responsible for my mother's death. I blamed him for not quitting the contest when I asked him to. It wasn't until a few days ago that I took accountability for being the one who talked Bobby into quitting his job as a road man or Ewing Oil so that he could get into running the company. That was selfish of me. I now have to admit I did it because I didn't like the idea of my husband being on the road so much, using the three Bs to get cooperation from people that could help the company. It was insecurity on my part. I didn't want Bobby around the parties, the booze, the women that were all a part of the three Bs. I was afraid that being around that environment all the time, Bobby might be tempted to...
JR: No. There was no temptation that ever would have been strong enough for Bobby to ever stop being the best husband to you he could be. He loved you too much to even think about doing something that would have tarnished your marriage.
Pam: Thank you JR. That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
JR: Bobby...not being here anymore...has changed me. I know I gave you every reason to think I hated you and if I'm being honest, I did hate you...but I don't hate you now Pam. There's something I want to tell you because there is nobody else I've been able to tell. Somehow I think you might understand. Something happened to me when Bobby died. I feel like a part of him is inside me now. I want to let that part of him that's inside me now to be my conscience. I think I know how to do that: When I'm in a situation where I have a difficult choice to do the right thing or the wrong thing, I'll just let go...let go of who I used to be...and let Bobby tell me what to do. All these years whenever I tried to overcome who I used to be it never worked. There's something so evil inside me that it can't be overcome. That's alright though because I don't have to conquer it; all I have to do is let go of it.
Pam's eyes are wide open and she's just staring at JR. It takes her a little while to be able to speak. When she does start talking she's using a tone of voice she's never used with JR.
Pam: You. . . you sound so sure that will work.
JR: I know it will. It has to work.
Pam: JR, I would love to believe that. I would really love to. Nothing you ever did to me while I was married to Bobby gives me any reason to believe you...but I want to. I want to believe what you just said could be true. That would be so much like Bobby, to still keep trying to help you. (Pam starts crying) I haven't told anyone else what I'm about to tell you but maybe you're the only person who would understand: After Bobby died, I started to feel like I was dying too. I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even get out of bed. I was actually getting worse every day and then one morning as soon as I woke up I felt Bobby's presence inside of me. I felt a part of his spirit inside of me, healing me and telling me that I would be okay, that Bobby wouldn't let me be anything else because that's what he wanted for me - to live a good life and to be the best mother to Christopher I can be.
JR: Bobby's still here.
Freeze frame of Pam looking right into JR's eyes.
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