Quotes
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Pamela Barnes Ewing : [in restaurant] I can't believe they suspended you.
Cliff Barnes : No, they call it a vacation.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : So now what do you do?
Cliff Barnes : That's what I wanted to talk to you about. I think maybe I should leave Dallas.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Leave Dallas?
Cliff Barnes : Yeah. I mean, not now.
[hushed voice:]
Cliff Barnes : I've been advised not to go anywhere until this is all over. But then...
[long silence]
Cliff Barnes : Look, I have to face the facts. I'm finished here.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Oh, come on, Cliff. Things are rough right now, but you're stronger than that.
Cliff Barnes : There was a time when I thought I could make it in this town.
[looks troubled]
Cliff Barnes : But now...
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Cliff... Is there something else?
Cliff Barnes : Okay, I'll tell you. I'll tell you, because I've gotta tell somebody or I'll explode. The night J.R. was shot... I had gone to the Ewing building with a gun to kill him.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : [softly] You couldn't do that.
Cliff Barnes : Well, I will never know now. Because when I got there, I discovered that somebody beat me to it. Pam, I swear to you, J.R. Ewing is my personal burden from God. Everything that happens to that man, I always pay for it. But, if I had shot him, could you blame me?
[Pamela shakes her head, then leans her head on his shoulder]
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Liz Craig : [doesn't blame Pam anymore] I should have known that the fine hand of J.R. was behind all that.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Who told you about J.R.?
Liz Craig : Harrison Page told me himself. You know, pillow talk.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : You mean, you and Harrison...?
[smiles]
Liz Craig : Mm.
[nods]
Liz Craig : We've been seeing each other for some time now. And he's told me all about J.R.'s fancy string-pulling.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : What did he tell you?
Liz Craig : Oh, just... that J.R. talked him into giving you my job, transferring me to Houston... Using as bait... a percentage of those useless Asian oil wells. Harrison still sees red every time he thinks about it.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Poor Harrison.
[shakes her head]
Liz Craig : Just another fish hooked by good old J.R.
[sighs]
Liz Craig : Well, now, tell me about you. What are you up to?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Oh, slowly going crazy. Oh, not really, Liz, it's just... I thought Bobby and I were finally free of Southfork and the Ewing... business. Now it seems we're suddenly back in it over our heads again. Bobby's managing the company, working a sixteen hour day, seven days a week.
Liz Craig : I see. And what do you do with yourself all day?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : I go shopping. I run errands.
[considers this]
Pamela Barnes Ewing : I'm right back where I was when I first got married.
Liz Craig : Pam, if you wanna come back to The Store, there's nothing I'd like better.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Oh, I don't know. I'm still hoping Bobby will decide to leave Dallas again.
Liz Craig : It's an open invitation.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Well, thank you. I'll remember. Just in case.
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Bobby Ewing : So, what are you up to today?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Oh, nothing special, Bobby. But, you know, I'm a little worried about you.
Bobby Ewing : Why?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Because you've been spending all your time at the office.
Bobby Ewing : Honey, you know the deal that I made. Now I have to run the company till J.R.'s back on his feet again.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : You don't know when he will be.
Bobby Ewing : No. But I know it will be. There is nothing, and nobody, that's gonna keep J.R. from running Ewing Oil.
[strokes Pam's hair]
Bobby Ewing : Now, what do you say we have lunch this afternoon, and then you can go out and spend some money?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Lunch? You said that yesterday.
Bobby Ewing : Okay, this time I promise.
[Scout's honor sign]
Pamela Barnes Ewing : You said that yesterday.
Bobby Ewing : Oh.
[kisses her]
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Okay.
Bobby Ewing : Okay.
