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THE FAMILY
EWING
by Leonard Katzman
 The
Ewings gather at Southfork to bury Bobby. At Pam’s house, Cliff
and Jamie try to comfort her. Pam blames herself. Only Miss
Ellie seems able to cope,she draws up lists of things to be
done and begins to plan the funeral.
"Don’t bury the pain inside, Ellie," Clayton tells
her. Gary returns to Southfork and provides a shoulder for Ellie
to lean on. After all these years, Gary has found himself and
is able to provide solace to his mother.
She decides to bury Bobby on a beautiful
green hill overlooking Southfork, near a tree house where the
Ewing boys played as children.
"Of all the places on Southfork
where he used to play, this was his favorite," she tells
Clayton. "Gary used to come ut here with him. When the
other boys were playing, J. R. was learning from Jock, but I
think he would have traded everything if he could have been
the one that Jock built the tree house for."
Sue Ellen, who learned of Bobby’s death after everyone else,
goes on a bender. Dusty wants to take care of her, and J.R .
seems more than happy to get Sue Ellen out of his life. "You
just go in the house, throw Sue Ellen over your shoulder, and
carry her the hell out of Southfork," he tells Dusty. Ellie
tries to explain to Sue Ellen that she is an alcoholic, and
Dusty cannot offer her the kind of help she needs, but Sue Ellen
takes offense at the speech. She leaves the ranch and goes right
to a bar Dusty follows her there and drags her away.
Dusty explains to Sue Ellen that he still
loves her, that he will help her dry out. His main goal is to
get her in shape for Bobby’s funeral.
The funeral is a small family event.
The ceremony is short and simple. Most of the family members
move away and return to the house, leaving JR. alone with the
casket. He speaks to Bobby.
"Never really told you how much
you meant to me. All the fights, all that time butting’ heads
with one another I'm sorry we were never friends. I wish I’d
taken time to tell you that I loved you... I do... and you tell
Daddy I love him too. Goodbye, Bobby. I miss you!"
Broadcast: 27-Sep-1985 w: Leonard Katzman
d: Nick Havinga
NOTE: THE DREAM BEGINS Originally aired
as a two hour episode.
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ROCK
BOTTOM
by Joel J. Feigenbanm
Sue Ellen has a sudden change of heart
as she and Dusty leave the ranch. She tells him it was a mistake
for her to walk out and that she plans to go back. JR. is not
impressed with her return. His harsh rejection turns her, once
again, to alcohol. She jumps in her car and roars off to the
nearest bar. After downing too much vodka, Sue Ellen is too
drunk to drive. She attracts a man who volunteers to take her
home and then robs her of her Mercedes. The next morning, without
purse, identification, or any sense of herself, Sue Ellen wanders
through an unfamiliar part of town. A bag lady offers her a
drink, but Sue Ellen disdainfully rejects the offer
Clayton and Ellie worry about Sue Ellen
and go off to look for her
"Every time she drinks, her chances
only get worse, Ellie tells Clayton.
"We don’t know that she’s been drinking."
"Don’t we?"
But Ellie can’t devote herself entirely
to Sue Ellen’s problems—Bobby’s will must be read. The family
is shocked to discover that Bobby has left his share of Ewing
Oil to Christopher, in Pam’s trust. J.R. can’t believe he may
have to be in partnership with Pam, while Cliff wants nothing
more than to arrange for Pam to sell the shares—to him.
Only Mandy gives J.R. the understanding
he needs but Mandy does worry about the fact that J.R. is still
a married man.
"I have a feeling," JR. says
to her, "a very strong feeling , that the Sue Ellen problem
is going to take care itself."
Indeed, Sue Ellen has returned to the
bag lady she once shunned and now greedily shares her bottle
cheap wine.
Broadcast: 27-Sep-1985 w: Joel J. Feigenbaum
d: Michael Preece
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THOSE
EYES
by Peter Dunne
Clayton and Ellie intensify their search
for Sue Ellen who Ellie feels very strongly must be in trouble.
Meanwhile, J.R. considers his own troubles.
He can't believe that he may end up in business with the person
he hates the most—his former sister-in-law, Pam. J.R. tries
to buy Christopher’s shares of Ewing Oil, and Jeremy Wendell
of Weststar works with Cliff to convince his sister to sell
her Ewing Oil shares to them. Pam is truly torn between wanting
to do the right thing for Christopher and wondering what Bobby
would want her to do.
Clayton and Ellie finally find Sue Ellen.
She has been moved from the city drunk tank to a detoxification
ward. Dusty comes to the "detox" ward and gives Sue
Ellen some gentle assurance. "I’m here because I love you,
Sue Ellen. I’m here to keep my promise to help you. I will get
you healthy again. Because I want you."
But Sue Ellen can only beg him for a drink. As Dusty tries to
comfort Sue Ellen, JR. comes in and finds his wife in her lover’s
arms. He and Dusty exchange punches while Sue Ellen, traumatized,
begins to scream; and quake all over. JR. decides to commit
Sue Ellen to a sanitarium.
"It’s all right, J.R. ," Ellie
tells him after he signs papers. "You’ve done what had
to be done. Someday Sue Ellen will thank you for this."
Broadcast: 04-Oct-1985 w: Peter Dunne
d: Nick Havinga
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RESURRECTION
by Hollace White and Stephanie Garman
Ellie begins to wonder if she too should
sell her share of Ewing Oil to Weststar Although she doesn’t
want the the family business to come to an end, she also does
not want a repeat of the struggle for control that tore Bobby
and JR. apart after Jock’s death.
Sue Ellen discovers that she has no choice
but to join an alcoholics program at the clinic. When Dusty
tries to visit Sue Ellen at the sanitarium he discovers she
isn’t allowed to have visitors, so he bribes an attendant to
let him in. Clayton warns him that his involvement with Sue
Ellen is poorly timed, but Dusty seems very determined to make
the love affair work out this time.
When her attendant pulls out a flask
and offers Sue Ellen a drink—for a price, of course—Sue Ellen
is sorely tempted. Then something inside her gives her the strength
to turn away. Ferociously, she presses the "call"
button and rings for a doctor. The action surprises and enlightens
her.
"I can do it!" she says to
herself. "I can do it. I just need help.’
Cliff continues to pressure his sister
to sell to Jeremy Wendell at Weststar, and Pam gets more and
more confused. Unable to deal with the business or the decisions
she needs to make, Pam runs from the house—and gets quite a
shock.
Broadcast: 11-Oct-1985 w: Hollance White
, Stephanie Garman d: Michael Preece
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SAVING
GRACE
by Joel J. Feigenbawn
 Pam
runs out of her house and smack into Mark Graison, who she was
certain was dead. Trying to recover from her shock, Pam can
only tell him, "I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Mark sweeps Pam away, taking her away
from the pressures of having to make a decision and off to try
to explain his sudden resurrection. Mark reveals that he was
in Hong Kong when Pam went there to search for him, but that
he paid someone else to be in his bed—he didn’t want her to
go on believing that he was alive.
Meanwhile, the other Ewings are trying
to sort out what they will do. Weststar has made offers to Ray
and to Jack for their shares of Ewing Oil, and Ray warns Jack
about JR. Cliff is also actively courting Jack, who storms out
and tells Cliff that he is still uncommitted.
Cliff tries to get Mark behind him in
his efforts to convince Pam to sell to Weststar. But Graison
does not want to tell Pam what to do. To try to persuade him
to take sides, Cliff tells Mark J. R. sent Pam on a wild goose
chase from place to place, searching for Mark.
Mark goes to Ewing Oil arid punches J.R.,
then gives him something to think about. "You’ll regret
the day you sent Pam looking for me. Because she found me. And
I’m going to do everything I can to make you suffer the way
she suffered. Take a good look around you. This place is going
to he nothing but memories before I’m through."
Broadcast: 18-Oct-1985 w: Joel J. Feigenbaum
d: Nick Havinga
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