Quotes
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[Back at Southfork Ranch in the evening. Sue Ellen is home to see Bobby that he's in the house to have a drink]
Sue Ellen Ewing : Bobby?
Bobby Ewing : Sue Ellen, what are you doing here?
Sue Ellen Ewing : [sighed] Don't condemned me without hearing my sight of, Bobby.
Bobby Ewing : I really don't care very much about your sight of it. You couldn't kill J.R., even he doesn't deserved that.
[Bobby sits down, read his newspaper, and drink]
Sue Ellen Ewing : [sighed] I think it's a little strange to hear to defending him, as well as you know him.
Bobby Ewing : He's my brother. And that's the bottom line. I love him.
Sue Ellen Ewing : Well...
[sighed]
Sue Ellen Ewing : they're very few people in the world who can make a statement like that.
Bobby Ewing : [sighed] What do you want, Sue Ellen?
Sue Ellen Ewing : I wanted to talk to Miss Ellie.
Bobby Ewing : What makes you she's gonna be any happier seeing her than I am?
Sue Ellen Ewing : I think see might understand what happened.
Bobby Ewing : Even mama can only turned the other cheek so many times.
Sue Ellen Ewing : I thought she might knew where John Ross is. I want him.
Bobby Ewing : She's in Florida. Clayton's gonna be bringing her home tomorrow.
Sue Ellen Ewing : [sighed] Do you know where John Ross is?
Bobby Ewing : No. And I'm not sure I'd tell you even if I did.
Sue Ellen Ewing : Bobby, I'm gonna get him back one way or the other. J.R. is hardly able to take care of him from prison.
Bobby Ewing : [Scoff] What makes you think that J.R.'s gonna end up in prison?
Sue Ellen Ewing : For killing Nicholas Pearce, that's why! Don't you think I'm gonna see him prosecuted for that?
Bobby Ewing : Well that make a wonderful headlines for John Ross to read, wouldn't it? Mother accuses father of killing her boyfriend. That's real love, Sue Ellen.
Sue Ellen Ewing : You don't know a damn thing about it!
Bobby Ewing : I know it would be hard for John Ross to live with that.
Sue Ellen Ewing : You expect me to just let him get off scot free?
[Lucy arrived in the living room and find out what Bobby and Sue Ellen complaining about]
Lucy Ewing Cooper : Well, if you're a better shot, you wouldn't have to worry about that.
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[Back at the Dallas Police Department in Dallas]
Detective Kane : I'm not happy about it. But that doesn't seem to be in anyway for us to find out what really happened. I've talked to District Attorney's office, there will be no prosecution in the death of Nicholas Pearce. As far as they're concerned, this case is closed.
J.R. Ewing : Well, if it'll make you feel better, it was an accident.
Sue Ellen Ewing : He'd be alive today, if it weren't for you.
J.R. Ewing : Sue Ellen, you heard the man. It's over.
Sue Ellen Ewing : What is over is our marriage. You should be getting your divorce papers any day now.
J.R. Ewing : Good!
Sue Ellen Ewing : And you can kiss your son goodbye once and for all.
J.R. Ewing : You'll never keep John Ross from me.
Sue Ellen Ewing : Just watch me.
Detective Kane : Enough. We don't want any trouble from the two of you. This is not your personal police force. And the first one of you that gives us trouble is gonna to regret it.
J.R. Ewing : They'll be plenty of trouble until I get my boy back.
Sue Ellen Ewing : You'll get him back over my dead body.
J.R. Ewing : Whatever it takes, Sue Ellen. Whatever it takes.
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[Later in the evening in the city of Dallas and the Dallas Police Department. Sue Ellen is interrogated by Detective Kane about the incident]
Sue Ellen Ewing : And so I thought the only way to get my son back was to once and for all force J.R. to tell me where he was.
Detective Kane : And Mr. Pearce went along to help you?
Sue Ellen Ewing : Yes. But, uh, J.R. refuses to tell me. When we started arguing, J.R. pulled out the gun to threatened us. Then Nick jump him to try to get him to put the gun away.
Detective Kane : So, Mr. Pearce was shot during the struggle?
Sue Ellen Ewing : There was a shot, I don't know whether anyone was hit or not.
Detective Kane : And then?
Sue Ellen Ewing : [sighed] And then they struggled out toward the balcony, and somehow...
[sighed]
Sue Ellen Ewing : J.R. had threw him over.
Detective Kane : He threw him over?
Sue Ellen Ewing : Yes.
[Sue Ellen drinks some cup of coffee before continuing an answers]
Detective Kane : And then?
Sue Ellen Ewing : And then he turned back to me. I was sure he was trying to kill me, too. So I... I pick up the gun... I couldn't believe what he'd done. And he came toward me... I killed him.
Detective Kane : Well, you shot him. Whether he's dead or not some other question.
[Detective Kane and Sue Ellen have a seat]
Sue Ellen Ewing : You don't mean that he's still alive?
Detective Kane : I don't know. He was still breathing when he got into an ambulance. He lost a lot of blood. We haven't heard him a thing since.
Sue Ellen Ewing : I don't believe this! You mean that bastard is still alive?
Detective Kane : I should make you happy, at least you won't be facing murder charge.
Sue Ellen Ewing : [sighed] It'll most be worth it just knowing he's dead. But it wasn't murder. It was self defense. I already told you that.
Detective Kane : Yes, ma'am. Well, Mr. Ewing does live might be interested here what he has to say.
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[Here is the United States and Texas flags flows next to the Dallas Memorial Hospital]
Detective Kane : I know it's an unusual procedure, but, uh, you were the only two people there and you're telling diametrically opposed stories.
J.R. Ewing : I told you she was a liar.
Sue Ellen Ewing : And he's a murderer.
J.R. Ewing : The only murder in that apartment was you, darling!
Sue Ellen Ewing : I wish I'd have been. Then I would've had my son, and you would've just been a bad memory.
J.R. Ewing : You wait a damn minute!
Detective Kane : Whoa. Now, whoa, this isn't what I wanted it all. Now, Mr. Ewing, do you still want us to press charges against Mrs. Ewing?
J.R. Ewing : You're damn right I do.
Detective Kane : And you, Mrs. Ewing?
Sue Ellen Ewing : No. I've decided to drop all charges against him.
Detective Kane : You are? Does this mean you're changing your story?
Sue Ellen Ewing : No. It just means that I remember I had a son. And as much I wanna see J.R. punished. I want my son to exposed to any of this.
J.R. Ewing : Well, I hate to see it, but she's right. It's best this never gets at trial.
[sighed]
J.R. Ewing : I'm... willing to drop charges and forget the whole damn thing.
[Detective Kane sees that both J.R. Ewing and Sue Ellen Ewing are going to drop the charges and be dismissed]
Detective Kane : Well, you can both drop your charges, but there's a dead body to think about, and I'm not going to call this off until I find out what did happen.
[Sue Ellen doesn't know. So does J.R., too unknown]
