PREVIOUSLY ON “EWING EMPIRE”…

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Man: My name is Richard Channing…Did you like the wine and the flowers?
Sue Ellen: I loved the flowers...but wine, sorry but I don´t drink. So you are a winemaker...
Richard: You can call me Richard, please Sue Ellen...
S.E.: Ewing Oil has not planned to make such an investment, an oleoduct doesn´t get into our politics, though we could be interested in acquiring those oil fields you own in California. My companies also work on fashion, publishing, movie production and so on. Ewing Oil is looking for steady project now, not multi-million deals.

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Gary: It´s a really ambitious project Mr. Channing. We work with different energy sources and move on a nation-wide level. We´re looking for a project similar to this but, anyway, we´d always be interested in investing on those California fields.
Richard: Pleased to meet you, Mr. Ewing. Mr. Beam.
G.: I need you to research Mr. Channing´s past, personally and discreetly.

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Alan: Alan Beam speaking…I only wanted to confirm you that Gary Ewing is morally at the best moment to close the deal. He has just been thrown in his face what a big man his brother J.R. was.
Richard: Congratulations Beam. Tomorrow I´ll give the order to make a transference of two million dollars. One of them, to your account in a Swiss bank. The other million, to your personal account in the “First Commercial Bank”…
A.: All is going to work out fine. Gary Ewing will end up biting the dust...

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Gary: Alan, hint Channing that we can surpass any offer to get the oleoduct deal...You can call and tell him that Westfork from Texas is intent on winning California...

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Cliff: Have you heard anything from him...what´s his name...that Channing?
Sue Ellen: Gary talked with him by phone a couple of times, but he couldn´t get anything definite. Alan faked Gary´s signature on the pre-contract, and he considers that his company didn´t commit with the pipeline business at all.
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Gary: Bob, I´ve found out that Richard Channing is blaming me for the contract breach. As it seems, Alan faked my signature on that pre-contract and faxed it to him the day he left Dallas. Channing told me that he had also transferred into an account I had in California...
Bob: California?
G.: Alan seems to have been posing as me to open an account and get that million as a first payment of the pipeline deal...
B.: You´re not saying that Alan has conned Channing using your name, aren´t you?...
Gary: Not only that. As he told me, a second million was going to be paid to him if he got the deal closed. That million has been cashed by Alan at a Swiss bank...The day he left, I was very nervous about Bobby´s crash. I told Alan to go ahead with the Channing deal. Later on, my secretary brought me a dossier about him that I had asked her to do: what I found in it scared me to death. Even if only half of it was true, that individual is not the best partner one can have...
B.: What was it about?
G.: Connections with a European multinational corporation with a terrorist past, also with a Mafia-like group called The Thirteen…So I backed down and rejected the deal. Tried to contact Channing but he wasn´t reachable and Alan was gone. You know the rest...
B.: Do you mean that Channing might come back and demand you those 2 million dollars back?
G.: He wants us to be his partners in the pipeline, at any price. I´m fed up with this business...Every day I´m more fed up with it, I mean it Bob...

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Alan: We´ve spent one whole year living the big way but now it´s time to find a new method to make our living…
Betty Lou: Too bad that asking Gary Ewing for a ransom didn´t work out. It was a good idea…now that those two millions are gone…
A.: My friend told me that Richard Channing is still trying to find us and he might have sent somebody…I hope your girlfriend may help us down there in Rio…(General shot of Alan and Betty Lou closing the trunk lid, and then the car doors. One second later, a big explosion makes the house window glass shatter causing a deafening noise. Through the broken windows, we see the Beams ´car in flames)

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S.E.: It must have been some sort of accident…
Pam: Don´t worry about anything Sue Ellen. Everything´s under control now…
But something had to happen…That bottle, and how you mixed up the pills… Everything´s so strange…

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Betsy: Oh mine…it can´t be…
Man: Yes I am, Betsy. I´m your mother´s husband: Ben Gibson. I live in another continent now, and I have another family…and name.
Ben: I came here for work. I´m not a journalist anymore, and I will just be here one more day. This will probably the last time we will meet. I can´t erase the past...

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Reporter: Why did you wanna kill yourself? Is true that you are drinking again? Under these facts, guess you are out of the Woman-Of-The-Year Award competition…
S.E.: You speak as you can, because you´re just a little snake who´s gonna be blast one of these days…

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Molly: I´d give ya 50 bucks a week and a place to live, I have a room to spare…
Lucas: Ok, but make it 60 and my own room.
M.: What else were expecting dear…what´s your name?
L.: Joel, my name is Joel…

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L.: We´re almost in, sis…But the ranch you mentioned is not like you explained: it´s taller now and has many front pillars, And remember, my name is Joel, now. Not Lucas. Bye Charlie…

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Beckie: Are you trying to convince me to give birth the baby…like you did with me?
Afton: Think about it and make a choice. I´ll be ok with it but we´ll be together all the way…

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Maggie: What happened then? What did Daddy do?
Donna: He had recognized the car and turned around to make Jenna stop. He arrived at the accident place too late. The car was down the cliff, set in fire. He rushed to rescue them but only Charlie could be taken out…She was disfigured and amnesic. Jenna died during the car explosion. Daddy tried to save Jenna too, but the flames didn´t let him open the door. He put his own life in danger to save her. He only wanted the best for Lucas…
M.: Where´s he now?
D.: He was given in adoption upon Jenna´s last will. We didn´t hear from them since then…

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Bobby: Yes I will…
Will: You Will...what?
B.: I will come to live with you Will, and don´t make fun of me anymore…

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Val: What happened to you?
Gary: The person I am tutoring at A.A. called me when I was waiting for you and begged me to go as soon as possible. It was a matter of life or death Val.
V.: I´ll be upstairs packing up. I´m returning to Galveston tomorrow.
G.: Valene...! Please Valene...!

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G.: It´s a hard time…Val still is in Galveston, and our kids are living on its own…and Mama is gone…
B.: I have a son who´s officially dead. And Mama´s dead for me too. Now we have a whole new house for us to live in. Let the past go and fight for the things than you can still have…

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Cliff: So…my daughter is having a baby with Bobby Ewing´s illegitimate son Lucas…
Detective: Now his legal name is Joel…
C.: Stevens, thank you very much. I think I´m not gonna need ya anymore…

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Shania (holding the newspaper which reads: “EWING-WENTWORTH HEIRESS SELLS OUT GOODS. Now wealthiest woman in Texas will tour around the world with husband”

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Andrea: Are you alright?
John Ross: Yes, it just passed by. I´m sorry about the suit. It was new.
A.: I´m very thankful but I have a business meeting now. Glad to meet you, I am Andrea.
J.R.: And I am John Ross…Hope to see you again…

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Dusty: What the hell do ya want from me?
Mandy: I want to get you out of here.
D.: For a prize, I guess?
M.: Not too high dear Dusty. I know it´s bad times for you cowboys…
D. (ironically): I can´t wait to hear more…

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Pam: Here´s your ticket.
B.: Thank you babe…Hey this must be wrong…
P.: No it´s not…Bobby…I´ll take my chances…Will you take yours?

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Chauffeur: You should not go alone through this part of the city, madam.
Madeleine: You´re so kind to tell…My husband died last year…in a skiing accident. And I´ve been feeling so helpless since then.
C.: Do you want me to wait for you?
M.: Yes, thank you.



…AND NOW, ON “EWING EMPIRE”…



Episode 3/21: “BILLION DOLLAR BABY”



Special Guest Star:
DEBORAH SHELTON as MANDY

Also Starring:
JOLENE BLALOCK as ANDREA
RYAN CARNES as LUCAS
ANNE FRANCIS as ARLISS
EMILIE DE RAVIN as BETSY
MIA KIRSHNER as SHANIA

Introducing:
EDDIE CIBRIAN as RICK
JUSTIN HARTLEY as KEVIN CHANNING
CILLIAN MURPHY as MIKE CHANNING

and

MARY-LOUISE PARKER
As MOLLY

(+ Surprise Guest Star)


SC1 – INT. MONTAGE SUE ELLEN´S MANOR / JOHN ROSS´APARTMENT

(SUE ELLEN wakes up and begins to prepare herself for a really tough day. At the same time, JOHN ROSS is already taking a shower in his new apartment and gets a diet breakfast after working out at his own house. / SUE ELLEN chooses the suit she is going to wear that day. She walks down to the dining-room, where JAMES, CALLY and their children Jimmy and Ellie are already having breakfast.)



Cally: Good morning, Sue Ellen. You look wonderful, I love your new hairstyle…
James: We´re very happy you allowed us to stay here while you were in Europe.
S.E.: Well, I guess you´re my family now. I travelled to France in order to spend a couple of weeks in the best Spa and, when I came back, I found John Ross barely talks to me…and he´s run away to get his own apartment.
James: He had been waiting for his inheritance for years, Sue Ellen, and you know that. He was anxious to get the lifestyle he was raised to have, and he´s working hard to invest his fortune on something profitable. You should understand his attitude…
S.E.: I do James, better than I wanted to. It makes me think of my dear late husband, and how he raised his son. Always magnifying Big Jock´s real role in the family, using John Ross as a pawn in our fights for custody…Now it´s time for him to fly away…away home.
C.: Sue Ellen, you know you can count on us, but we don´t wanna disturb your privacy…
S.E.: Sweetheart you all are making me feel less alone especially now, and I care about you and the kids. So please stay as long as you want to.
C C.: You´re such a lady, Sue Ellen. I hope you can win the ”Dallas Woman Of The Year Award”…
S.E.: That´s only an award, I wish I could re-connect with my son the way we were before…(James looks at Cally and Cally holds S.E.´s hand warmly).

SC2 – EXT. AIR VIEW OF JOHN ROSS DRIVING HIS BRAND NEW MERCEDES ON THE DALLAS STREETS

(A lot of thoughts come in and out of John Ross´s mind. Some from the far past, others from the near present, but John Ross´s face stays tough.
Montage of Thoughts: John Ross: “Mommie, mommie, there was a lot of lights and firemen too…(Sound Clip from “The Road Back”.)
J.R.: “Your Mama is crazy, boy” (Sound Clip from Season 11).
J.R.: “John Ross…This is EWING OIL (showing him Jock´s portrait)…(Sound Clip from “The Fall of The Ewing House”)…
J.R.(reading Jock´s last letter): ”Never stop trying and never let the bastards get you down. The Ewing name and our company can´t stop with me or you. Perhaps with God ´s Grace, I´ll be back to stand beside you, as one day you´ll stand beside your son and pass the torch to him” (Sound Clip from “Daddy Dearest”)…
John Ross: “Look Mother: this is Ewing Oil, and now it´s all yours. Run it by youself because you probably intended that…” (Sound Clip from “My Best Enemy´s Wedding”(III).
John Ross: Go to hell you all. I don´t need you, not even you, my bastard brother James…(He arrives at his new job building and drives to the parklot.)

SC3 – EXT. STREETS OF DALLAS IN THE MORNING



(Shot of SHANIA´s feet walking her way to the “Shepard Industries” office Building and suddenly stopping at a shop with a TV set inside, reporting about the new list of the top powerful women in Texas. She wide opens her eyes and notices Pamela Ewing´s name at the top of the list. Thanks to her recent sold-outs, Pam has become the most powerful woman in all Texas. SHANIA keeps walking and gets a newspaper before entering the elevator. When SHANIA arrives at the office, surprisingly SUE ELLEN is already there, after having a meeting with someone unknown to her. They say goodbye to each other and then tells SHANIA to come in on her office).

S.E.: Dear Shania, I´ve been studying your reports from the last six months and I must admit that you have done an excellent job.
Shania (faking surprise): Thank you so much Sue Ellen. It´s all due to your training, you know that.
S.E.: I have been thinking about changing a few things here and there…
S.: What do you exactly mean?
S.E.: I think you´re the right person to revamp our Style magazine, you know, the one we called Woman Today. But I think you need a proper motivation for that…(She handles a document over to her)
Shania: Are you making me your equal partner in the magazine ownership?
S.E.: Yes, that´s right. You got talent, a personality and a sense of urgency to improve the women´s status on Dallas. Who better than you for this job?
S. (slightly heartwarmed): Oh this is so unexpected Sue Ellen…
S.E.: But why darling? You´ve been loyal to me for almost a year and even saved my life when I accidentally overdose. You´re hardworker and never put your personal life before your work obligations.
S.: What about Pamela? She´s gonna come back some day.
S.E.: Let me handle that, but Pamela has made a choice. She isn´t interested in business any more and I must respect that. So, we are partners?
S. (shaking her hand): Oh yeah, we are partners (kissing Sue Ellen´s cheek) (Fade Out And End of Act 1)

SC4 – EXT. / INT. DARK RESTAURANT IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS



(Shot of SUE ELLEN joining a woman detective who is drinking a scotch.)

Deirdre: Would you like one…?
S.E.: No thank you. I´d go straight to business.
D.: It´s fine for me.
S.E.: This is the staff at my company. I want a complete investigation of ALL OF THEM, what they do out of work, if they have criminal record, if they have been married and how many times…
D.: This one is very good looking. And has a high profile in your company (taking out a picture of Shania).
S.E.: Yes it´s true.
D: You want her investigated too?
S.E.: I want her ESPECIALLY investigated, if you understand what I mean…

SC5 – EXT. TOWNSEND ADOPTION AGENCY BUILDING IN DALLAS

(General shot of sad RAY and DONNA coming downstairs. He suddenly stops)

Ray: Well, he didn´t want to be found. At least we know he was adopted after the trial.
Donna: That was Jenna´s last will, wasn´t it? Oh please Ray, don´t get obsessed about that, honey.
R.: I´m not obsessed but he is my brother Bobby´s natural son and it´s natural that I care about him, and his whereabouts.
D.: What about Charlie?
R.: We lost touch after the trial. She was so depressed, and influenced by that boyfriend of hers, Randy…
D.: Ray, if you wanna find out where he is now, get a detective to follow his track. Otherwise, please please concentrate on your family: Maggie needs a father very badly now, and I just can´t connect with her as I used to… (They kiss and get into their car and leave)

SC6 – EXT. SOUTHFORK PRAIRIES

(Travelling into GARY, talking to his horse)

Gary: You know, boy, life is a mess. It´s always been a mess to me. I spent many years with the wrong women and, when I returned to my first love, something went wrong and changed my life forever…)(Fade into Flashback)

FB1 – INT. USED CAR BEING DRIVEN IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SUBURBAN DALLAS

(GARY wakes up inside the car and sees a big gun pointing at him. He looks up and sees the face of his kidnapper)

Gary (confused): Where the hell I am?
Michael: On the Road to Perdition, pal.
G.: Is this a bad joke, do I owe some money?
M.: No. And yes. You owe to us all your money…
G.: You better shoot me than play games with me. I´m not in the mood.
Kevin: Tell the guy who we are, Mike!
G.: Who the hell are you?
M.: We´re Richard Channing´s sons. Do you remember him? You conned him two million dollars.
G.: That´s not true. It all was my lawyer Alan Beam´s fault, he quit and took that money along…Ask him!
K.: Too late. He and his wife had an accident down in Mexico…A fatal accident. (Gary´s face begins to look concerned as he feels a deep pain in his right arm)

(Fade Out And End Of Act 2)

SC7 – EXT. BOBBY AND BETSY WALKING DOWN THE BEACH IN GALVESTON



(BOBBY suggests taking a sit on a rocky esplanade. BETSY agrees.)

Be.: How´s Mama?
B.: Awful. She´s going thru one of her silent crisis, she is isolated of everyone and doesn´t want to hear what Dad has to say…
Be.: Every time I hear you say Dad, I think you mean Ben, instead of Gary. Do you think I will ever overcome it?
B.: Maybe some day. But you should remember that Gary is not only our natural Dad, but also acted as our Dad for the last…what…14 years?
Be: I can´t see him that way…Maybe I should talk to Lucy…She had issues with Dad too…
B.: Well, if your new mystery job gives you enough time to talk to your older sister.
Be: Bobby, I had to leave that house and make my own living. I know I´m not living my dreams but, for now, I can pay a rent with my workmate…
B.: Is she nice?
Be: Well, I´m sure she wouldn´t be welcome at one of the Southfork barbecues… I knew her on the Girl Chat and talked for hours during one month. Then I asked her about her job and she insisted in me to go to see her. She´s an artist, and everybody look at her when she´s on the stage…I wish I could do that.
B.: Be careful little sister, those words could fit in a lot of problematic “jobs”…Shall we go to the house now?
Be: No, I´ll stay for awhile and listen to the waves…It makes me relax…Then I´ll drive back to Dallas. (Kissing Bobby) Thank you for being here.

SC8 -INT. CALLAWAY DINING-ROOM IN BRADDOCK

(Molly, her husband and Lucas are having dinner together at the patio)

Hank: You´re doin´ a great job here Joel…and I want ya to know…
Joel: Thank you Mr. Callaway. It was a good chance for me to settle down in Dallas. I love Texas…
Molly: Joel is not just a cowboy and a pool-cleaner, Hankie dear, he speaks several languages and he´s a very hard…worker.
J.: (looking at Molly): It´s easy to work in a place you feel like home.
H.: Keep on working like that and you might get a surprise…
J.: (shocked): What kind of surprise?
H.: I could build a new house for you near the West fences…
J.: (looking at Molly): Here´s ok for me, don´t need my own house.
M.: Let me giv´ya one advice boy, if Hank Callaway wanna give you a house, don’t argue with him, just take it!
J.: (moody): Ok, I´m gonna have a smoke now. Swell meal as usual, Mrs. Callaway. (He gets out to the terrace, followed by Molly)
M.: Never contradict him again, never!
J. (smoking a cigarette): Give me a good reason.
M.: My husband has two sides: one is a smooth rancher who smokes big cigars and the other…
J.: What about the other?



M.: You´d get scared at it. Shall we take a swim?
J.: Isn´t he smoking at the back patio?
M.: He must be already sleeping there, I slipped a couple of sleeping pills to make his night life better…and mine too. (She takes her clothes off and jumps onto the pool. Then she encourages Joel, who gets naked and joins her in the warm waters…Molly puts her body onto his and kisses him with passion. Joel hesitates one second and then, he kisses her back…)



SC9 – EXT. BURNT UNIT IN ATLANTA HOSPITAL

(Establishing shot of the Hospital and then, a helicopter awaits on the grass. CLIFF BARNES gets out of the building and gets on the helicopter as he says to the helicopter pilot:)

Cliff: She´s not here. We should fly to her Mother´s house in Biloxi!
Pilot: But Mr. Barnes, it will take us the whole day!
Cliff: Never mind, I´ll pay you double!! I gotta find my daughter before it´s too late!



(The helicopter flies away from the Atlanta lands)

(Fade Out And End Of Act Three)

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