![]() | Season 2 / Episode 8: - J.R.'s Masterpiece John Ross Ewing: [reading J.R.'s final letter to him aloud] John Ross, if you're reading this, it means I'm dead. And if I'm dead, that means Barnes is coming after you. You must crush him before he can win. I promised your Uncle Bobby that taking down Harris Ryland would be my masterpiece. I bet my last nickel Barnes'll join forces with Ryland to destroy us. Use what I've given you to take from them what they want to take from us. When you've done that, Bobby will know what to do. John Ross Ewing: And remember, you're my son, tip to tail. Bum: [to Bobby, handing him an envelope] He wanted you to have this. John Ross Ewing: [Bobby reads it silently] What's it say? Christopher Ewing: Ain't you gonna tell us? John Ross Ewing: [Bobby beckons to Bum] Uncle Bobby! Christopher Ewing: Dad! Bobby Ewing: [as he and Bum leave the den] This is between my brother and me... for now. Bobby Ewing: [to Bum] You pay off whoever you have to pay off... so that everybody still thinks J.R. was killed by a mugger. And when the time comes, we'll take care of this ourselves... as a family. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 8: - J.R.'s Masterpiece Bobby Ewing: [Bobby enters J.R.'s bedroom and pours himself a drink from J.R.'s decanter] I knew you'd have at least one more left up your sleeve, J.R. Bobby Ewing: And it's a good one... I love you, brother. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 6: - Blame Game John Ross Ewing: Please tell me that look is morning sickness, [looks out window] at night. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 6: - Blame Game Judge Wallace Tate: [to Harris] You kidnapped your daughter and let your ex-wife think she was dead. If you'd done that to me, I probably would've shot you too. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 6: - Blame Game Pamela Barnes: Was all I was just revenge sex to you? John Ross Ewing: Revenge sex is all I could afford. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 6: - Blame Game Ann Ewing: I know that look, and the feeling behind it. One time when I went to my hairdresser, he convinced me to get some highlights. So I did, and as I was on my way home I got afraid, what if Harris didn't like it? Emma Ryland: What did he say? Ann Ewing: Before he got home I went back and had it dyed back to the original color. But he still knew, he got furious. That was the start of him always making me feel like I was stupid for not consulting him first. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 5: - Trial and Error Ann Ewing: [Ann has just left the hospital after confronting Harris over his accusation of Bobby as his alleged murderer... she notices blood spatter on the toes of her boots and then walks through the police station in stocking feet, slamming the boots on the front desk] My name is Ann Ewing. I shot Harris Ryland. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 2: - Venomous Creatures JR Ewing: [to Sue Ellen] I'm only going to tell you this once, and I'll deny it the minute I leave this room, but the best decision you ever made was leaving me. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 2: - Venomous Creatures JR Ewing: [to Sue Ellen] With all the pull I still have in this city after all the crap I've pulled, you'll bounce back too. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 10: - Revelations J.R. Ewing: [talking to Bobby] Come on, wake up, you hear me? Wake up and you get better. And you keep fighting. You keep fighting me! Now I'm gonna tell you something you never heard me say before: I love you Bobby, and I don't know who I'd be without you. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 10: - Revelations Ann Ewing: [to Harris Ryland] One more thing: the next time you ask me for a hug, you'll be hugging the business end of my shotgun. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 10: - Revelations J.R. Ewing: Life is cheap in prison, Vicente, and I'm a very rich man. Vicente Cano: Hm. So am I. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 10: - Revelations John Ross Ewing: [to J.R] How about you *stop* trying to teach me the oil business and *start* teaching me every dirty trick you know! |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 9: - Family Business J.R. Ewing: I don't see how this it's my fault. Ann Ewing: Of course you don't, you're a sociopath! J.R. Ewing: Well there's no need to call names. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 9: - Family Business Ann Ewing: [to J.R] If I catch you anywhere near Bobby's room, I'll shoot you, and since you have no heart, It'll be somewhere more vital. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 9: - Family Business Ann Ewing: He called me Wife number 3? Sue Ellen Ewing: That's when I slapped him. Ann Ewing: That deserves a muffin. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 9: - Family Business John Ross Ewing: He finally got what he's always wanted, but he's being pig-headed and selfish. Sue Ellen Ewing: [sarcastically] That's so unlike J.R. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 8: - No Good Deed Vicente Cano: I just want to know one thing... where is my oil? John Ross Ewing: It's kind of tough to do business behind bars. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 8: - No Good Deed Christopher Ewing: How the hell could J.R. do this to his own family? Bobby Ewing: How much time do you have? Son, ever since momma left me this ranch, J.R. has been desperate to get it back. I just never thought he'd be so desperate that he'd risk losing it all together. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 7: - Collateral Damage John Ross Ewing: No, I am not gonna ask Elena to float me some barrels. I refuse to drag her into this mess. Sue Ellen Ewing: She's in the oil business, she's in the mess already. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 7: - Collateral Damage Bobby Ewing: [to John Ross] I really had hoped that you kids would climb out of the hole this family dug. But J.R.'s just dragging you down with him. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 3: - The Price You Pay J.R. Ewing: Bullets don't seem to have much of an effect on me, darling. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 2: - Hedging Your Bets J.R. Ewing: [to John Ross] Son, never pass up a good chance to shut up. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 2: - Hedging Your Bets J.R. Ewing: [at the Cattle Baron's Ball, to John Ross] Watch and learn. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 2: - Hedging Your Bets J.R. Ewing: [on meeting the real Marta] I'm gonna have to introduce you to my son, John Ross. He's a chip off the old block. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 2: - Hedging Your Bets J.R. Ewing: [at the Cattle Baron's Ball, in a display of modesty when he's complimented as a legend] Mostly in my own mind, darlin'. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot: Changing of the Guard John Ross Ewing: [on being told by Bobby that he has no right to drill at Southfork] I'm a Ewing. I have every right. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot: Changing of the Guard Ann Ewing: [on catching an intruder in the house] I don't miss, mister, not at any range. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot: Changing of the Guard J.R. Ewing: [in the nursing home, to John Ross] Bobby always was a fool. |
![]() | Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot: Changing of the Guard J.R. Ewing: The courts are for amateurs and the faint of heart. No, this is personal. |












