Episode 16: "ABOUT CHRISTOPHER"
(part 2)



SC.1: EXT. – ROAD TO SOUTHFORK, BRADDOCK

(Establishing shot and zoom towards the demolishing machines that are about to put down the manors adjacent to the main house. Behind the road fences, hidden in his van and holding his binoculars, Ray Krebbs is watching closer the devastating view).
Ray: (murmuring to himself) Dammit! How the hell could they go that far...? (Right away, he picks up his cell phone and dials a number.) Ray Krebbs here. It´s time to get into action. I´m ready to do anything...(looking angry)

SC.2: INT. – SUITE IN BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL, IN L.A., CALIFORNIA

(Establishing shot and fade into a middle shot of Pam Ewing talking on her cell phone...)
Pam: Bobby, I had to tell you what I just found out...
Bob: I´m listening, but tell me one thing before: how are you?
Pam: I won´t be alright until we find Christopher. Yesterday I was going to give up, after I talked with Farraday´s sister Lisa. But, when I was going to leave out to the airport, you´d never say who came up...
Bob: Who?
Pam: Debbi Porter. She´s running the biggest West Coast TV network now. But what she said to me doesn´t have to do with that, but with the Ewing barbecue.
Bob: Whatcha mean?
Pam: Remember that she showed up at our last barbecue with John Ross as her date?
Bob: Yeah, and also remember Sue Ellen´s wary looks at her...
Pam: Yes, I know that. But what Debbi told me about that day is really important...
Bob: I´m on tenterhooks. Please just say it Pam...
Pam: When the barbecue was almost over, before knowing that Clayton was dead, Debbi walked out through the ranch entry road. She was overwhelmed about what she thought was a hostile atmosphere. She had had to bear some double-edges comments from people like Marilee, and what´s more, John Ross seemed to push her to go up to his bedroom for some intimacy...
Bob: Can´t blame John Ross for that...
Pam: C´mon Bobby, let me finish. The point is that, about 100 feet from the exit, she found Christopher sitting under a tree, looking very sad...They began a friendly chat and he told her, among other things, that he was missing his girlfriend Jane.
Bob: I didn´t know he had a girl...
Pam: Neither me. I guess it´s true that we parents are the last to know sometimes...Debbi asked her why he didn´t go to see her and he said that she lived at Houston and her dad was playing hard to them.
Bob: Didn´t he tell her in what circumstances he met her?
Pam: That´s the most amazing about it. They first met at the Weinstein Academy, in Houston.
Bob: (surprised) You mean they know each other since we checked Chris into that special boarding school?
Pam: Yeah and seemingly, Chris told Debbi that he´d visit her right away, though he had bad memories about the place she was living at... Bob: (still more surprised) I don´t like it, I don´t like it at all, we´re missing something, Pam. Why don´t ye catch the first airplane and go together to Houston and search?
Pam: I tried to, but there´s a strike at the airport until tomorrow. I´ll stay one more day and then I´ll come home.
Bob: I´m glad to hear that...
Pam: Hear what?
Bob: You´re coming home. I´ve been missing you Pam.
Pam: Me too.
Bob: I love you.
Pam: (almost whispering) Me too...(Bob hangs up and so does Pam. Then Pam´s mind travels back to the past, about 6 months earlier...)

SC.3: INT. - SUITE IN HOTEL DUOMO, IN MILAN, ITALY

(Subtitle “Six months earlier”. Fade into Flashback scene. Pam and Bob have been talking by phone and they are saying goodbye, though we only see the set)
Pam: Well, I wish I could something to help you Bob.
Bob: Come back soon, that´s enough for me...
Pam: I love you Bobby.
Bob: (in low voice) Me too. Bye.
(Pam cuelga el teléfono del hotel. Marca 2 números y le responde la centralita del hotel)
Pam: This is Pamela Ewing, I´d like to talk with Mr. Alex Ward please, I don´t know which room he is staying at.
Operator (off): Scusi signora, but Mr. Ward wants no more calls until he says otherwise...
Pam: All right, but would you be so kind to leave him the message that I called. Pamela Ewing, yes.

SC.4: INT. - DINING-ROOM AT HOTEL DUOMO, IN MILAN, ITALY

(Fade into a long shot of the hotel dining-room, where many of the hosts are having diner. Travelling to Pamela´s and Alex´s table.)



Pam: It took me three days to meet but I finally have.
Alex (absent-minded): Yes, I´m so sorry, Pamela. I´m going through a really difficult time...In fact, I came here only to sign up a contract with a designer who seems to be afraid of flying...on any plane but his own jet.
Pam: (smiling) I think I know who "she" might be...Are you still working for the family company?
Alex: Well, yes and no. My father died a couple of years ago...
Pam: (surprised) Oh, I´m really sorry.
Alex: We never got along, actually he founded the publishing company to keep me busy and out of trouble. It´s been a long long time since we last met...
Pam: Yeah, and I´d rather not to count the years...
Alex: You used to wear a long, curled hairstyle back then...
Pam: Aha, but I´ve grown to like it shorter lately, it´s more practical.
Alex: So how are you two? I read that you remarried Bobby after the car crash and lost Southfork due to the ´95 Big Storm...
Pam: Yes, although we only lost the main house and about four acres. What about you, did you marry?
Alex: Yes, I married an extraordinary woman, who happened to belong at here; she was born in a small town not too far away. She had nothing to do with the fashion business. We were truly happy until she was diagnosed cancer and died last year.
Pam: Oh mine, I´m so rough. I only wanted to say hello to you and know how you were doing, and I´ve been reminding you the bad things that happened to you in the last year...
Alex: Well, that´s part of life, isn´t it?
Pam: You´ve changed all thru the years, in fact I was surprised when you asked water instead of wine...
Alex: Please excuse me now, Pam, but I must return to my suite to do a few calls before leaving.
Pam: I should retire too...
(Both of them stand up and head up to the way out...Fade into a long shot of the corridor of their hotel)

SC.5: INT. – CORRIDORS OF HOTEL DUOMO

(Pam and Alex are walking in silence and, suddenly, Alex stops in front of one door)
Alex: So Pam, this is my headquarters more than my room. It´s been great to be able to talk with you Pam...
Pam: To me too Alex...
(Alex gets in quickly and closes the door quickly too, leaving Pam somewhat worried about her former work collaborator)

SC.6: INT. - BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL SUITE, IN L.A., CALIFORNIA

(Pam opens one of her cases and holds the picture she had put over her clothes: it´s the Christopher one that Lisa gave to her...)

(Fade out and End of Act 1)

SC.7: INT. – KREBBSES´ OFFICE AT THE SOUTHFORK HOTEL

(Close shot of Barbara)
Barbara: So that Madeleine bitch is beginning to put our former homes down...
Ray: Yep, this morning I´ve driven by the manor on my way to Dallas and I stopped there when I saw the machines.
Barbara: And you called me instantly to tell me that you were able to do anything to stop that.
Ray: Bob and I are brothers and care about each other a big deal, but are not the same person. Especially since we lost Southfork. I´ve been waiting for him to change his mind and decide to support you, Barbara, but I think he never will. And Southfork also was partly mine, mine and my family´s.
Barbara: How far are could you go to recover what belongs to us?
Ray: If you got proofs, any kind of proofs, against Madeleine, I can go all the way and show her she´d never approach poor Clayton.
Barbara: What does Donna feel about what you´re saying?
Ray: She´s spent some days in Washington and will soon be here, but I´ll explain my stand to her and she´ll support me for sure.
Barbara: What if she doesn´t?
Ray: Then, Barbara Southworth and Ray Krebbs will become allies...
Barbara (mischievously laughing): I just love that side of you Ray! It makes me think of the times we first met...You were the first person who fully accepted me into the family...
Ray (slightly blushed): And you encouraged me when I believed I´d lost Donna and Maggie forever.
Barbara (getting closer to Ray and messing up his hair with her hand): That´s the least I could do: I´d fallen in love with you. And you gave me a self-esteem lesson, though I had a bad time when you reconciled with Donna. Sometimes, can´t help thinking about you, and remember the nights we spent together...(she gets her face closer to his and her lips closer to his lips)
Ray (he gently gets his lips aback and stares at her): Barbara, you know that, if we gotta take this all the way, our relationship must remain where it was, in the past. I was glad it happened, but Donna and Maggie are and will be, always, the most important to me.
Barbara (embarrased): Sure, pardon me Ray, I don´t know what´s happened to me... I promise it won´t happen again ever...Gotta make an urgent call. We´ll go on talking when I´m back, o.k.? (Barbara walks out of the office and Ray takes a look at the picture of his family standing on his table, and then looks at the door his friend has walked through.)

SC.8: EXT. - EWING MANOR IN TURTLE CREEK, DALLAS

(Long shot of the façade of the manor. Bob Ewing walks out of the house carrying his briefcase and gets into his car, a black Mercedes. Suddenly, an unknown man opens the left door and sits shotgun)
Bob: But what the hell are you doin´...?
Agent (showing him an identification plate only visible for Bob, who looks astonished): Now, put the radio on and drive off. (Incidentally, the song “Pamela” begins to play)

“There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
Let's take what's getting old and make it new

Eye to eye
It's a blinding confrontation
I said you and I
are a deadly combination”

Bob: Are you gonna tell what the hell you want?
Agent: Keep on driving and turn on the right at the next crossing. Ah, and volume it up a little...(Bob does, reluctantly)

So don't start mixing truth with jealousy
The road we're on is clear as far as I can see

Pamela
Don't break this heart of mine
Just remember it may not heal this time
Pamela
There is no second chance
For the one who leaves it all behind

(1)

SC.9: FAÇADE OF HOTEL DUOMO, STORMY NIGHT

(Flashback: Subtitle “Six months earlier”. Long shot of Pam´s bedroom and close shot of hers, who seems to be having a nigthmare. Suddenly, she wakes up and looks at one of the windows, and gets up to draw the curtain. Then she looks at the door and begins to change her clothes...)

SC.10: INT. – CORRIDOR OF HOTEL DUOMO

(Fade into next scene. Pam is standing in front of the door of Alex´s suite, and knocks on it quietly but insistently)
Alex (behind the door): Who is it, what´s going on?
Pam: It´s me Alex. Pamela Ewing.
Alex (opens the door after a few seconds): Hi Pam. Is anything wrong?
Pam: I need someone to talk to...and I you came to my mind (looking innocent).
Alex: Do you want to come in?
Pam: If it´s not much trouble...



Alex: No, well, I was going to read my emails...I´m looking forward an urgent message...(he opens the door and waves her in...Then he closes the door and points at an armchair) Sit down here, if you want to. May I bring you something hot, some tea, maybe?
Pam: I´d love a lime tea...
Alex: I think I got it somewhere...(he goes to the next room and comes back carrying a tray with a teapot and one cup) It´ll be ready in five minutes, we´ve been lucky (winking). Tell me what´s wrong now.
Pam: Alex, I feel ashamed for bothering you at this late...I had an awful nightmare...Perhaps it´s got something to do with my workmates leaving two days ago and I´m still here, in Italy, alone, without knowing exactly why.
Alex: Do Bobby and you have problems?
Pam: No, we don´t...it´s...everything else (she bursts into tears). Yeah, I guess this includes Bobby. Our son Christopher is missing for one month and he thinks it´s normal for a person his age. Afterwards, it´s his stepfather Clayton Farlow, who was deceased in Switzerland recently, and his widow inherited the ranch and obliges us to move out...and then the eleventh of September...(Alex offers his shoulder to cry on and passes his arm around Pam´s back.) Also, my niece Lucy is in a coma since then, she got trapped in her car when the towers began to fall down...And my sister-in-law Donna has lost a beloved person too...
Alex: I think I understand you Pamela. Sometimes it seems that the world is going to explode...that only negative things belong to this life we are living...I felt the same way when I lost my father and my wife...(Alex dries up Pam´s tears as he caresses her face with one finger) But this will end soon, be sure of it. Now drink your tea or it will get cold...
Pam (drying up his tears again with her handkerchief): I´m feeling so dumb...
Alex: Forget everything tonight. Sleep in my bed and I will be in that couch, in case you need anything.
Pam: Thanks Alex. You´re such a sweet person... (Alex enters his bedroom, from which he comes carrying one of the pillows and one blanket, and makes himself comfortable in the couch)
Alex: See you tomorrow Pamela Ewing.
Pam: See you tomorrow Alex Ward.

(Fade out and End of Act 2)

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