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Episode Recaps: Season Four
Episode 85: The Usual Suspects

A gunshot goes off at Southfork, and J.R. ducks, but the bullet ends up hitting Clayton and critically wounding him….Cliff and Afton land in Mexico for their honeymoon….Clayton lies in critical condition and everyone is suspicious of who the shooter is, as it appears they were gunning for J.R…..Angel and Stefan also head to Mexico, as he's promised her a vacation and we learn her identity: Jamie Ewing Barnes! (She didn't die in that accident, but Stefan was in love with her so switched her tags with a dead body and took her to his home)….Jamie, Stefan, Afton and Cliff are all going to be on the same train in Mexico…The family keeps a vigil for Clayton and Pam worries about Bobby and where he is, and what she will tell the family….Iris tries to be supportive to J.R. and wonders if Rex tried to kill J.R…..Janice learns from Sly that Todd threatened J.R., and he is no where to be found. Janice secretly wonders whether Todd tried to shoot J.R…..Christopher and Melissa bond and she confesses to him that she's pregnant with John Ross's baby….Pamela Rebecca gets a new idea in her scheme to get John Ross once and for all….Rex has not heard from the hitman he assigned to kill J.R. Ewing and wonders whether or not they were responsible for shooting Clayton Farlow….Pam confronts Christopher about his drinking and levels with him about Bobby: She needs him to be strong for the family. Christopher agrees….Bobby's plane has crashed into the ocean and he washes up by a lighthouse.

Episode 86: Lost and Found in Mexico

Stefan recognizes Cliff on the train, and tries to keep Jamie away from him (he recognizes him from a wallet photo Jamie had)….Pam tries to hire a private investigator and finds that it may not be of any use in finding Bobby…Pam makes up an excuse to Ellie that Bobby left town and he's coming back very soon….Jack comforts Sue Ellen….The police start to question J.R. about the shooting and he points them towards Todd Foster….Pam calls Cliff and tells him that Clayton has been shot, so Cliff and Afton agree to come back to Dallas ASAP….Neil worries about how he is going to keep Afton from talking to Lucy about his secret….Lucy goes to Ewing Oil and discovers that she no longer owns a percentage of it thanks to Sue Ellen's scheme….Melissa tells John Ross that she's pregnant and he does not take the news well at all….Pamela Rebecca interviews for a public relations job at the Clifford Group….Pam catches Grace's nanny (who works for Rex) talking on the phone and mentioning the name "Bobby." The nanny covers with a story, but Pam still gets curious as does *69 to the number the nanny was calling and gets Rex's henchman, although she doesn't know who that is, but she knows that the person on the other end is NOT the person the nanny was supposedly talking too…..Iris goes to confront Rex about whether he tried to have J.R. shot but overhears Rex talking about what he did to Bobby. She confronts him on it, and Rex tells her if she breathes a word he'll have J.R. killed. Iris agrees to keep her mouth shut…..Todd is no where to be found….Pam finds an interesting device in Grace's nursery that resembles a camera….Christopher learns from the news that Karen had kidnapped her son and is on the run with Eric Stone. He is furious….Jamie runs into Cliff and Afton…..Clayton dies.

Episode 87: Who Wants an Annulment From A Multi-Millionaire?

Both Cliff and Afton are in shock to see Jamie, and she cannot remember to much….The family, especially, remains in shock following Clayton's death….The lighthouse keeper that found Bobby struggles to keep him alive….Cliff realizes that because Jamie never died, it invalidates his marriage with Afton and he is still married to Jamie….Iris demands a divorce from Rex, and he agrees, but secretly plots against J.R. Ewing…..Karen calls Christopher and he reams her out about how she's lied to him and is on the run with Eric Stone. Karen sticks by her love for her son….Todd visits Janice at Ewing Oil and is shocked to learn he is a suspect in Clayton's shooting…Miss Ellie remains stoic following Clayton's death and Donna worries about her…Pam, Ray and Donna start to fling accusations at each other and Pam reveals that Bobby is gone, wondering what she is going to tell Miss Ellie….Todd is arrested for Clayton's death….Jamie tells Afton she has no plans to divorce Cliff. She wants to find out as much about her old life as possible….Lucy confronts John Ross about how he sold the 25% she was controlling without even consulting her….Eric calls Pamela Rebecca and gives her an update on what's been going on with him, including the fact that Karen has a son….The family learns that Todd was arrested….J.R. and Sue Ellen clash at Ewing Oil, and Lucy confronts Sue Ellen about now having the 25% of Ewing Oil that she controlled….Todd is released on bail, and Janice talks to him, telling him that she is leaving town and breaking off their relationship….Pam realizes that she needs to level with Ellie about Bobby…..Jamie parts with Stefan in Mexico….Jamie, Cliff and Afton show up at Southfork.

Episode 88: Only Fools Suffer Gladly

It's Clayton's funeral and typical Ewing hijinks insue….Lucy decides she wants to join the WNBA….Karen returns with Eric just as Christopher and Todd announce that they're lovers….Sue Ellen and J.R. decide to get married again….Bobby returns with April and the five children that he never knew he sired….Pam is devastated, so Jenna and Katherine return to give her a membership in the "Rejected by Bobby Ewing support group"……Clayton's body is missing as Pamela Rebecca announces that she is pregnant with his baby…Kristin and Kaitlin show up with guns and try to shoot J.R., but Sue Ellen warns them to get off Southfork screaming "Get off Southfork!"…..As Sue Ellen screams "Get Off Southfork!" J.R. wakes her up from her bad day and tells her to prepare for the fact that John Ross and his fiancee Karen will be coming home that day (RTS #1)…..APRIL FOOLS!!!

Episode 89: Lovers and Liars

Pam explains to Miss Ellie that Bobby is missing, and is concerned at Miss Ellie's "taking it too well" reaction. Miss Ellie swears to find Bobby…..the whole family is shocked and thrilled at Jamie's return, as she explains what has happened to her the last thirteen years and how she has little memory left….Afton begins to get hostile regarding Jamie and tries to plants seeds of doubt in Jack's mind….The police find the gun that was used to kill Clayton….Jack and Jamie bond and he fills her in on some of her past and tells her about the current situation with Sue Ellen and how he hopes to get back with her…Melissa and Christopher have lunch and she tells him that she went to the doctor and he told her that she is going to have a difficult pregnancy. She also tells Christopher about John Ross's adverse reaction to her pregnancy….Pamela Rebecca surprises John Ross with her new job as public relations person at the Clifford Group. He is very impressed….Pam tells Cliff about the camera that she found in Grace's room and they both suspect that Rex Wentworth is up to something and somehow involved…J.R. and Sue Ellen clash at work…..Pam and Cliff confront Rex about being involved in Bobby's disappearence, and Rex denies everything, but starts to get worried. He tells his henchman to find someone that sounds exactly like Bobby Ewing and fast….Afton pressures Cliff into divorcing Jamie and he won't because of everything that's happened and they get into a HUGE fight….The gun used to shoot Clayton was registered to Cliff Barnes….Cliff is arrested for the murder of Clayton Farlow (putting Todd in the clear)….Bobby awakens at the lighthouse, remembering everything. He wants to get in contact with Pam, but there is no phone and a hurricane coming, so he'll have to wait….Afton runs into Rex and the two flirt….A big ruckus is caused at the station when Cliff is arrested, including the revelation that Jamie is his legal wife, infuriating Afton….Lucy meets with J.R. and proposes to try to get Sue Ellen out of Ewing Oil so she can get back in. J.R. refuses, but Todd overhears this whole interaction and gets an idea….Afton threatens Neil again, telling him that she needs to tell Lucy the truth. Neil manages to buy some time, playing up Clayton's death….The hurricane hits the lighthouse, and Bobby is knocked unconscious.

Episode 90: In Our Hearts Forever And Always

Clayton's funeral begins at Southfork, and many old faces show up, such as Gary, Val, Carter McKay and James…..Pamela Rebecca insinuates to Melissa that she (Melissa) and Christopher are more than just friends….J.R. and Jillian, and Pam and Christopher have some bonding moments….James encourages John Ross to accept Melissa's baby, and not miss out on the baby's early years….Gary and Lucy have a heart to heart talk about how he took away the percentage she was controlling, and Lucy tells him again that he is forgiven, but deep down, it really hurts her….Jessica Montford comes in for the funeral, as crazy as ever…Cally and James have a tense interaction, in which James gets scared by her hostility towards J.R…..Christopher, Ray, Lucy, Sue Ellen and J.R. all give poignant speeches about Clayton…After the ceremony, Sue Ellen thanks J.R. for his kind words about Clayton, and there is a spark between the two of them….Ellie looks at a picture of Clayton and says, "Goodbye, Sweet Prince."

Episode 91: Back to the Bottle

Cally tells J.R. that he should be the one in the casket, not James, arousing J.R.'s suspicion that perhaps she was the killer…..Pam becomes more and more convinced Rex was involved with Bobby's disappearance….Bobby, meanwhile, remains in a coma but dreams of Pam….Ray gets concerned because Miss Ellie seems to be ignoring her grief over Clayton's death, throwing all her energies into finding Bobby…Pamela Rebecca starts to plant seeds of doubt in John Ross's mind that Christopher and Melissa are more than friends….Melissa saves Christopher from taking a drink and the two bond….Neil starts to act very strange around Lucy, paranoid that Afton has told her his secret. Lucy starts to get concerned, but does not make the connection with Afton….Fed up with Cliff's insistence on remaining married to Jamie, Afton moves out. Meanwhile, Jamie pleads with Cliff to give their marriage a chance….J.R. visits Detective Hope Miller and accuses Cally of trying to shoot him, based on her easy access to the Barnes mansion….Jamie has lunch with Sue Ellen and encourages her to give Jack a second chance…..The police question Cally more and she realizes that suspicion is starting to fall on her….Todd meets with Lucy and proposes that they both try to take J.R. down from Ewing Oil. Todd admits that he overheard J.R. tell Lucy he didn't want her in Ewing Oil and he talks about how J.R. is both their mutual enemy. Lucy agrees….Sue Ellen tells J.R. that he better not let the police think Cally was responsible for the shooting or she'll make the tape she has revealing that J.R. gaslighted her public. J.R. tells her it will only make Cally seem more guilty and upset Miss Ellie, but he realizes he needs to get the tape….Christopher watches the news and sees a report of Karen and Eric perishing in a fire in Mystique Point.

Episode 92: Law and Order in Dallas

Just as Christopher is about to take a drink, Karen shows up and reveals she's alive. Christopher is overjoyed….J.R. has lunch with his four children, and he clashes with John Ross. James is having problems with Debra Lynn meanwhile, and has left his job…..Karen explains to Christopher how she had a son and she faked her own death with Eric because she thought it would be the smartest thing to do at the time, because she needed to get back to Dallas and talk to him. She reveals her intentions to turn herself in….Iris officially divorces Rex, determined now to get J.R. to love her once again…Karen reveals herself to the Ewing family, who agree to support her (not without a few jibes from J.R.)….J.R. meets with Dominique, who helped him to gaslight Cally, and he tells her that he wants her to steal the incriminating tape Sue Ellen has….Pamela Rebecca is shocked to see Eric returned….The police question Cally again, and we learn that she had access to Cliff's house, frequently came over and was seen by herself in the study where Cliff keeps his gun. Cally swears she didn't do it, and tells the story of how J.R. tried to drive her crazy. She directs the police to Sue Ellen, telling them she can verify everything…Karen heads to the police station with Christopher….Pamela Rebecca reveals to Eric how she has taken a job with the Clifford Group as a public relations woman. In the course of the conversation, it comes out how the paternity test results were switched and Christopher is really Megan's father. Melissa, meanwhile, has come over to Cliff's to look for John Ross and hears everything. She lets her presence be known and Pamela Rebecca freaks out. Melissa arrests Eric…..Panicked, Pamela Rebecca meets with John Ross and starts talking about how Megan really wants her mommy and her daddy to be married again….Melissa is sent out of town for a conference before she can tell John Ross the truth about Pamela Rebecca….Karen turns herself in, but she looks very guilty. She worries that Austin, who was with Eric at Cliff's (and is still there now that he's arrested) will be sent back to his mother. Christopher promises to take care of the problem, and has Pam go and pick up Austin before the police can get there….Christopher argues with the authorities about getting temporary custody of Austin until the trial is decided, but they say he needs to be placed with his adoptive mother or in a foster home. The authorities tell Christopher that if Austin's adoptive mother doesn't want him, they might be able to assign temporary custody to Pam as Austin's "grandmother" in a sense….Karen is denied bail….Dominique breaks into Sue Ellen's office and steals the tape….J.R. has lunch with Pam to talk about the missing Bobby, when J.R. gets a call from his PI saying a plane left Dallas the night that Bobby disappeared, and the wreckage was found off the coast of South Carolina. Pam rushes off to investigate, praying that Bobby is alright….Jack tries to make up with Sue Ellen but she doesn't want to talk with him….The police visit Sue Ellen about Cally and she offers to play them the tape but realizes its missing….J.R. threatens Rex, saying he knows he's behind Bobby's disappearance and will make him pay for it…Christopher pays off Austin's adoptive mother to not claim him, so that Pam can gain temporary custody. She takes the money…Rex's assistant believes he's found Bobby Ewing, and Rex orders him to be killed….Cally is arrested for the shooting of Clayton.

Episode 93: Arraignment

Rex invites Afton out to dinner and she agrees. At dinner, they run into Jamie and Cliff, with the four getting into a big fight….Sue Ellen, realizing that J.R. must be responsible for the tape missing, yells at him. He reminds her that it would have just made Cally look more guilty…Cliff cuts off all of Afton's funds….Todd and Lucy meet and try to brainstorm of ideas to get back at J.R. They get sidetracked and end up talking for hours, realizing that they are both attracted to each other….Laurel Ellis returns to Dallas…Pam goes to the site where the plane washed up in South Carolina, and is given a false lead by Gregor (Rex's henchman, whom she doesn't recognize)…Afton learns that she has been totally cut off financially from Cliff….Christopher tells Karen that Austin is going to be staying at Southfork, as he has been assigned temporary custody to Pam…Cally lingers in jail, but is thankful that Justin is staying with James back east for a while, so he won't be exposed to anything…Melissa prepares to tell John Ross the truth, but learns from Theresa he is over Pamela Rebecca's. Melissa heads over there….Neil continues to act edgy (he's frightened Afton will tell Lucy his secret) and he and Lucy get into a fight. Neil says he's jealous of the amount of time Lucy is spending with Todd….Karen and Eric both plea not guilty….Laurel comes to Southfork looking for Ellie, but leaves a message with Jack….As Melissa arrives at Cliff's, she's shocked to see John Ross and Pamela Rebecca about to get married! She collapses with labor pains.

Episode 94: Trial and Error

Karen and Eric await their trial, and things do not look good for them, especially Karen…Afton questions Pamela Rebecca as to what the hell she was doing marrying John Ross. Pamela Rebecca explains that it was all for Megan, and she wishes that Melissa didn't interrupt the proceedings…Nel gets a call that Tiffany needs her appendix out. He rushes off to PA to be with her, and Lucy wants to go with him, but Neil doesn't want her too. It escalates into another large fight in which his jealousy over Todd comes out again as well as his edginess….Karen and Eric's trial begins…..Afton tries to call Neil and inform him that she will tell Lucy the truth, but she gets his machine. She decides to wait a little longer….Jamie and Cliff bond and kiss, but Cliff is unsure whether he is in love with her….Karen and Eric's lawyer gives a gripping defense that makes them both seem innocent…..Melissa, who is in the hospital, demands that John Ross leave and not be in the operating room with her. Melissa also warns Pamela Rebecca that Christopher and John Ross will find out the truth soon enough…..Lucy leans on Todd's shoulder with her problems with Neil and the attraction between the two of them grows…..Rex once again orders Gregor to kill Bobby. Iris overhears, and calls Pam anonymously, informing her of Bobby's real location (she heard it from Rex)….Melissa prepares to go into surgery to try to save the life of her unborn child….Pamela Rebecca yells at Jamie…..Gregor walks into Bobby's hospital room, where he is about to place a poisoned IV in him.

Episode 95: Night of the Not-So-Living-Dead

Donna and Ray attempt to cheer Miss Ellie up, but nothing seems to be working….Jack once again pleads with Sue Ellen that his tryst with Dominique was drug induced. Sue Ellen says she understands that now, but wants to take things slowly with him. Secretly, she's hesitating….Pam enters the room and sees Bobby just as Gregor is about to poison his IV. Pam manages to intervene, but in the process Gregor stabs her with the poisoned needle…Rex orders Gregor back to Dallas, believing Pam and Bobby to have been killed….John Ross is introduced to his son…Lucy gets a anonymous caller saying "Do you really know your husband?" After not being able to reach Neil, she goes over to Todd's….Iris warns Cliff against Rex….Pam and Bobby are both saved, but learn Pam is pregnant….Todd comforts Lucy and the two decide to get drunk…Laurel Ellis explains to Ellie that the painting she sent Clayton contains the secret location that she and her mafia lover stole from the mob, and questions whether anyone has come looking for it. Ellie berates her for putting Clayton and the family in danger…Jimmy, the mafia man looking for Laurel, arrives in Dallas…Melissa tells John Ross, and later J.R. that John Ross will NOT be part of the baby's life. She names her son T.J….Rex plans to use Afton to destroy Cliff…A drunken Todd and Lucy kiss…Christopher and Austin bond….Two teens find a body near Southfork.

Episode 96: Playing the Jury

Rex makes a breakfast date with an excited Afton…Pam fills Bobby in on everything he's missed since his absence from Southfork. Bobby has no memory of his departure from Dallas….Cally worries how to tell Justin that she's in jail….Todd overhears J.R. berating Rex, and forms a plan…Bobby returns to Southfork, to Ellie's delight….The body found at Southfork is identified as one Klaus Urbanski…Rex offers to let Afton move into his penthouse…Sue Ellen and Jillian have a heated confrontation…Todd approaches Rex about teaming up to oust J.R. from Ewing Oil….Pamela Rebecca tries to buy Melissa's silence, but Melissa tells her Christopher and John Ross will both know the truth about Megan soon enough…Jimmy approaches Laurel and tells her he wants the money she stole from him…Karen's trial is starting to turn in her favor….Jimmy reveals that he had someone kill Clayton, for he knew Laurel sent him the painting that revealed the location of the money. Disgusted with herself, Laurel tells Jimmy where the money is…Bobby and Pam bask in their happiness together…Rex learns that the hitman he hired to kill J.R., Klaus, was found dead on the Southfork property.

Episode 97: Beware the Wrath of Ellie

Melissa's parents, Angela and Trevor, visit her as Melissa is released from the hospital….Todd tries to Lucy about their kiss, but Neil's arrival home interrupts them. Lucy questions Neil on the mysterious phone call that she received, and he avoids it. Lucy accuses him of hiding something…Ray and Donna decide to elope…The Dallas PD discovers that Klaus Urbanski died of a bullet wound, but had gun residue on his hands---from Cliff Barnes's gun….Rex proposes to Afton that they team up against Cliff. Afton agrees….Bobby visits Todd and tells his theory that Rex Wentworth was behind his kidnapping---he just can't remember anything…John Ross tries to get Christopher to talk to Megan on his behalf, but Christopher refuses…The Dallas PD learns that hair samples matching Klaus Urbanski were found at Cliff's, implicating him in stealing Cliff's gun, and clearing Cally. The question remains—did he kill Clayton? And who killed Klaus?….Jamie and Afton get into a catfight after running into each other…Theresa receives a disturbing phone call that she hides from Miss Ellie…Austin is given a subpoena to testify in Karen's trial…Todd breaks off his potential alliance with Rex, but Rex decides that J.R. will still go down…Ellie yells at some rowdy ranch hands, the only decent of which is a young man named Manny….Laurel guiltily explains to Miss Ellie that Jimmy was behind the shooting of Clayton…Jack resolves to make his relationship with Sue Ellen work…Karen's trial continues….Neil threatens Afton, knowing her to be the one responsible for the call to Lucy. In the conversation, the fact that Afton paid Neil to marry Lucy is revealed. Rex overhears the whole thing…J.R. swears to John Ross that he'll help him get T.J. back from Melissa.

Episode 98: Ewing vs. McSween

Pam and Bobby announce her pregnancy to the family…Ellie wants revenge on Clayton's killers…Ellie is determined to run Southfork without any help from Bobby….John Ross meets with Melissa, who reveals that Christopher is really Pamela Rebecca's father. John Ross doesn't believe her, and swears to get T.J. from her. Angela McSween, Melissa's mother, hears everything….Ellie hires a new foreman, Wade Sawyer…Bobby tells Ellie that he wants to sell her Southfork, and Ellie agrees….Lucy confides to Pam about kissing Todd and Neil's edginess. Pam tells her to be honest with Neil….Cally is released from prison. The police's official explanation of what happened: A mysterious person killed Klaus Urbanski, who was at Southfork with Cliff's gun. Klaus was shot, and Cliff's gun was used to shoot Clayton….Lucy confesses to Neil she kissed Todd, and tries to get him to reveal what's bothering him, but he's too upset about Todd. Later, Afton calls Lucy and tells her they need to meet for dinner, as she has important information about Neil….Rex starts to investigate J.R…..Austin takes the stand at the trial, and offers damaging testimony. Eric swears to be supportive to Karen, but Christopher is already doing that…After Theresa gets another disturbing phone call, Ellie asks her about it. Theresa confesses that her niece Isabel is in trouble, and her parents want her to stay at Southfork. Ellie agrees, offering to give Isabel a position as a maid…Jamie can tell something is bothering Cliff. What he doesn't want to admit is that he realizes he still has a thing for Afton…Karen's lawyer manages to get Austin to testify favorably for Karen…Sue Ellen and Jack have a romantic moment that J.R. tries to sour…Justin returns home, and tells Cally that he applied to a semester-at-sea type of program….Facing pressure from Iris, J.R. tells her that she's the only one he wants to be with, but doesn't really mean it…Afton promises Rex knowledge about Cliff in exchange for money. Rex agrees, but promises to deal with her if she doesn't provide information.

Episode 99: Two Spies and a Girl

Karen takes the stand at her trial…..Afton hasn't found any information on Cliff for Rex, and is worried that her gravy train is going to come to an end. Rex, meanwhile, has decided that Afton is worthless….John Ross confronts Pamela Rebecca on whether or not he is Megan's father. Pamela Rebecca manages to convince him he is, but knows that Christopher won't be as easy to handle…Karen faces a brutal cross-examination, but manages to hold her own…Raoul, the Ewings butler, tells a mysterious party that Ellie is going to be getting control of the ranch from Bobby….Justin gets accepted to the semester at sea program, but Cally wonders how she'll afford it…Melissa reveals to Christopher that Pamela Rebecca messed with the paternity results of Megan, and that John Ross isn't he father—he is. Christopher swears to get custody of Megan from Pamela Rebecca….Trevor McSween begs his brother Harry for information on J.R. in order to prevent J.R. and John Ross from taking T.J. away….Miss Ellis is shocked to see that there are many dead cows at Southfork. A mysterious figure watches her investigate the dead cows…Melissa approaches Sly with a request to get dirt on J.R. so he won't take T.J. Sly refuses…Ellie and the family wondered what happened to the cows at Southfork…Eric lingers in jail….The vet tells Wade he believes the cows were poisoned…Afton tells Lucy the truth about Neil: They knew each other in Chicago years ago, where Neil married a rich old woman to pay off his gambling debts. Neil stole her money, but the woman died. Neil was involved in a scandal and left town. When Afton ran into him in Dallas years later, she threatened to expose his scandalous past unless he married Lucy and dumped her. Lucy swears to confront Neil…Iris and J.R. run into Jack and Sue Ellen while dining. Iris is jealous of the attention and focus J.R. gives to Sue Ellen, even if it is negative…The closing arguments in Karen's trial occur….Lucy confronts Neil with the truth and he admits it, but tells her that he loves her. She orders him out….Sue Ellen starts to question whether she truly has feelings for Jack, and Jack senses something's up…Neil confronts Afton at Rex's penthouse about her spilling the truth to Lucy. Enraged, Neil almost hits Afton over the head with a small statue while she's not looking. Rex secretly observes the whole thing and gets an insidious idea.

Episode 100: New Beginnings

The jury debates over Karen and Eric's fate…Pam and Bobby bask in the happiness of her pregnancy…Pam hides some disturbing news about her pregnancy from Bobby….The jury finds Erica innocent of all charges. Karen's cleared of everything except she is found guilty of assaulting an officer. Her punishment is community service. She is elated to go home…Theresa's niece Isabel arrives in Dallas…Christopher tells Karen that Megan is his, and he plans to get custody from Pamela Rebecca…Melissa plays John Ross a tape she made of Pamela Rebecca confessing to Christopher that he's Megan's father. John Ross takes off in fury….Cally and Miss Ellie make amends….John Ross publicly berates Pamela Rebecca….Lucy and Todd promise to not let their kiss spoil their friendship. Secretly, it meant more to Todd than he's letting on…Harry McSween threatens J.R. to not take action against Melissa---or else he'll expose J.R.'s illegal dealings…Christopher takes Megan from Pamela Rebecca's….While getting more champagne for Miss Ellie, Sue Ellen and J.R. are locked in the Southfork basement…Phyllis and Sly meet Wade and are smitten with him…Isabel is introduced to Jillian, Lucas and Margaret and Lucas is taken with her….Sly and Wade flirt, but he's secretive about his past…Afton gloats to Iris about living with Rex, but Iris warns her against him…J.R. and Sue Ellen bicker, but in a strange way grow closer…Wade tells Miss Ellie the cattle were poisoned…Isabel is a handful….Carter McKay shows up at the barbecue…Neil tries to make up with Lucy, but she tells him she wants a divorce…Donna and Ray announce they've gotten married…Isabel accidentally knocks Miss Ellie into the pool…Jamie tells Jack that things aren't going well with Cliff, as he's been acting very cold…Pam berates Cliff for ignoring Jamie, and it turns into a huge argument about the Barnes vs the Ewings…Iris and Jack wonder where J.R. and Sue Ellen are…Rex's plan takes a new turn: Afton will die, and thus Cliff will suffer the ultimate tragedy…Jack and Iris find J.R. and Sue Ellen in the cellar, and are suspicious…Cally tells J.R. that she's leaving Dallas with Justin to take him on his semester-at-sea program—and J.R.'s paying for it. Cally threatens to tell Miss Ellie, using Jack and Sue Ellen as evidence, if he doesn't. J.R. realizes Cally's won…Ellie shares a quiet moment with Jock and Clayton's portraits, and ponders on the incredible strength the Ewing family has had.

Episode 101: Business as Usual

J.R. blasts Isabel for her behavior at the barbecue, and as revenge, Isabel puts dirt in his coffee. J.R. wants her gone, but is not going to go against Miss Ellie's wishes to let her stay….Rex learns that J.R. owns 10% of Weststar, and that Kaitlin Ryan owns 41%. Rex decides that Kaitlin is the key to J.R.'s downfall…J.R. asks Sly to talk to Harry McSween and convince him to let John Ross be part of T.J.'s life. Sly refuses to take sides….John Ross once again pleads with Melissa to let him see T.J. but she refuses. He swears to do whatever it takes to get his son…Rex plans for Afton to die, and Neil is going to take the fall….J.R., knowing that someone was at Southfork the night Clayton died to kill him as well, hires a private investigator. He has them start investigating Rex Wentworth, who J.R. believes is behind the threat…John Ross overhears Angela McSween ending it with one of her male lovers. He approaches her and tries to blackmail her with that information in order to get John Ross. Angela refuses, but John Ross has another idea….Sly and Wade go on a date…John Ross asks Angela McSween to meet him at a motel…Iris pressures J.R. to move in with her, but J.R. refuses. A furious Iris is jealous of Sue Ellen and accuses J.R. of not taking their relationship seriously….Pam gets a letter informing her, that due to Katherine's death, she is now the majority shareholder in Wentworth Industries and the sole owner of Wentworth Tool and Dye…Jamie and Cliff grow more distant….Bobby suggests to Pam that they go to the Wentworth Industries board meeting. Pam agrees….Jamie seeks solace from Pam, who tells Jamie (who's still partially amnesiac) that Cliff only married her years ago to get her share of Ewing Oil. Jamie realizes Cliff never loved her….Angela McSween finds a flirtatious John Ross in the hotel room. He tells her he'll have sex with her in exchange for Angela convincing Melissa to let T.J. be a part of his life. Angela agrees…Pamela Rebecca threatens Melissa with a gun, but Melissa's friend Robby intercedes and subdues Pamela Rebecca. Melissa then order Robby to take Pamela Rebecca far away from Dallas, and make sure she "stays away."

Episode 102: Fall of a Ewing

Jamie and Cliff mutually decide to end their marriage….Jamie tells Afton to dump Rex and get back together with Cliff because he never stopped caring for her…Bobby and Pam prepare to go to Houston for the Wentworth board meeting….Isabel spills eggs on J.R., further irritating him with her…John Ross feels lonely without Melissa and T.J., as well as about Megan not being his, and lashes out at Sue Ellen….Christopher, Karen, Austin and Megan visit a water park and bond as a family…Kaitlin gets an offer for her Weststar stock from a company, Titan, Inc. She suspects a dummy corporation that J.R. secretly owns…Karen makes a new friend, but when she learns of the trial she doesn't speak to Karen….Rex plots against Neil: He's had a henchman replace Neil's cell phone with an identical one. The henchman will place a call to Afton's with Neil's real phone, and use a pre-recorded tape of Afton urging Neil to come over---this call will be made to the fake cell phone. When Neil gets to the penthouse, Afton will be dead by the statue with Neil's fingerprints on it—and Rex will arrive there to implicate him!….At the water park, Megan goes missing, and Christopher gets hysterical, assuming Pamela Rebecca kidnapped her…Cliff meets with a representative from Petrol, who is willing to give the Clifford Group an exorbitant amount of money for their oil. Cliff is suspicious, but when Petrol offers to go to Ewing Oil, Cliff agrees to the deal…Megan is found and cared for by a woman, Eve Ashford. She returns Megan to Christopher, and a grateful Christopher invites Eve to dine with Karen and himself. Eve seems to have ulterior motives with Christopher…Despite his lawyer's warnings, Cliff seems oblivious to the clause in the Petrol contract that states what will happen if the Clifford Group cannot produce enough oil…Pam tells Bobby that they are expecting twins…At Rex's penthouse, Afton is scared when the lights go out and she is almost killed by a mysterious man. Afton doesn't get a very good look at him, but she sees his dragon tattoo. She manages to knock him out and call for the police. Meanwhile, Neil arrives outside the door but no one answers. He leaves, and Rex witnesses this….Sly and Wade bond on a date…After passing out in the closet, Afton wakes up and informs Rex that someone tried to kill her. Rex tells her Neil was seen in the lobby the previous night…Cliff signs the Petrol deal and the Petrol representative has other ideas---he's going to set Cliff up…Iris is getting increasingly jealous over Sue Ellen, much to J.R.'s chagrin…Lucy tells Neil that she wants a divorce, despite Neil's pleas….Ellie plans a week getaway with an old friend. On the way to the airport, Ellie stops on a remote section of Southfork after thinking she's seen something. She ends up falling down an embankment and twisting her ankle, her screams for help ignored.

Episode 103: Survivor

Phyllis is jealous of Wade and Sly….Ellie goes in and out of delusions while remaining at the bottom of the ditch with her stolen ankle, where she has visions of past loved ones urging her to get out of the ditch….Angela tries to convince Melissa to let John Ross be part of T.J.'s life. Melissa trusts her mother, and is beginning to come around…Ellie faces a rattlesnake in the ditch….Rex is upset that Kaitlin refused the offer on his Weststar stock, but remains determined to get the stock. He sees a picture of her that his PI has included in her file, and Rex decides he might handle her personally…Angela calls John Ross and tells her that further convincing of Melissa is going to require more "payments" on his part…Cliff meets with geologists to order them or produce oil for the Petrol contract. The geologists tell him that they don't have that amount of oil, but Cliff refuses to believe them…Ellie drinks out of a nearby stream to quench her thirst….Meanwhile, Wade and Manny suspect that the Southfork water supply may be poisoned after finding more dead cows…Bobby and Pam go to the Wentworth board meeting and find that Wentworth Industries is in trouble….Ellie has another dream involving her brother Garrison's wife, Emily. In the dream/flashback, Ellie asks Emily to fake a pregnancy in order to keep Garrison from going to war. Ellie convinces Emily's doctor to back up the story…Cliff realizes that the chances of his offshore wells being able to produce the oil for the Petrol deal are slim. Cliff, in a hope of taking advantage of Stonehurst Oil, asks Eric to join the Clifford Group. Eric agrees. Both are surprised when Pamela Rebecca is given a subpoena for a custody hearing, and both realize they haven't seen her in days—has she gone on the run?….Karen visits Eric and apologizes for getting him into the whole mess with the trial. She and Eric resolve to remain friends, but Karen lets him know they can be nothing more….Christopher advises Melissa to give John Ross a chance to be T.J.'s father…Valene arrives to visit Lucy, saying she has the intention to fix her marriage. Lucy says it's over, and Valene decides she's going to go talk to Neil herself…Manny and Wade find Ellie in the ditch, and rush her to the hospital as Ellie doubles over in stomach pain.

Episode 104: Bittersweet Reunion

Pam toys with the idea of going back to work at Wentworth Industries, but is scared to tell Bobby….Ellie is rushed to the emergency room, where she is not diagnosed with poisoning, but a stomach virus gotten from the water. She's going to be fine though….The police investigate the attempted murder on Afton. All the evidence points to Neil, but one suspects Rex because of his lack of emotion when reporting the crime. Afton calls and reports that Neil was seen in the building that night. The police decide to arrest Neil….Valene visits Neil and questions whether he really loves Lucy. Neil assures her he does, so Valene says he needs to win back Lucy's trust. Just then, the police arrive to arrest Neil for Afton's attempted murder. Lucy arrives to see him taken away, and finds herself sad….The next day, Lucy gets a whole array of flowers that Neil sent the day before…Bobby and Pam tell Ellie that they're having twins, and Bobby warns Ellie to let Wade handle running the ranch…Wade and Manny investigate near where Ellie fell, and see tire tracks---there was some sort of truck there…Todd gets a mysterious phone call from a gentleman warning him not to do any business with Cliff Barnes, or else. Todd is genuinely scared…Ellie has another dream, this time about when Emily told Ellie's brother Garrison she was pregnant, to keep him from going to war. Garrison didn't know it wasn't true, and that Emily and Ellie were scheming together…Eric starts work at the Clifford Group, and Cliff asks Eric to ask Marilee to get the oil needed for Petrol from Stonehurst. Eric realizes that Cliff had ulterior motives for bringing him into the Clifford Group, but decides to go along with him anyway, getting a corner office out of the deal…Lucy runs into Ray, who reports that he and Donna are doing great…Karen and Christopher look at a house…Pam tells Bobby that she wants to go back to work to run Wentworth Tool & Dye, but Bobby is against it, fearing the stress on the babies. Pam wants to run her mother's gift to her. The two gets into a huge fight….Wade and Manny discover two barrels of liquid leaking into the Southfork river, and Wade suspects Carter McKay…Ellie continues to have flashbacks of Garrison and Emily, this time of when Emily informed Ellie that Garrison proposed to her. Ellie wonders what Emily is doing now…Carter McKay visits Ellie, and Wade drops by just to see him. He confronts Carter and accuses him of poisoning Southfork's cattle. Carter denies it, but Wade doesn't believe him…Melissa visits John Ross and tells him that she wants him to be part of T.J.'s life, and she wants to get back together with him. John Ross is elated…Pam announces to the family that she's starting back at Wentworth, and J.R. uses the opportunity to goad Bobby….Jamie announces to the family that she's leaving town, and going to Arizona…Isabel and Jillian have a bonding moment, and Isabel encourages Jillian to tell her father that she doesn't like Sue Ellen…Sue Ellen has a talk with Pam, in which Sue Ellen realizes that she doesn't love Jack…Ellie has another flashback regarding her past and Emily, and decides that she needs to face the ghosts of her past, once and for all.

Episode 105: Where There's Smoke

Cliff continues to pressure Eric to get in contact with Marilee, but Eric can't get ahold of her. Eric tells Cliff to call Pam and try to use her connections to get oil, but Cliff refuses. Eric tells Cliff he won't call Marilee anymore until Cliff calls Pam….Cliff calls Pam and asks her for help in getting oil, perhaps by talking to Sue Ellen or Todd. Pam is furious and refuses…Karen's community service assigns her to Dallas Memorial, where she reunites with the little boy, Cole. Karen later overhears some nurses talking about how the state cannot afford to pay for the orphaned Cole's medical bills anymore. Karen resolves she must do something…Pam gets into an argument with the Wentworth Industries CEO, who tells her that she's not running things right. Pam fires him…Theresa has to save Isabel from J.R.'s wrath when she causes another disaster in the Southfork kitchen…Miss Ellie returns home and decides to solve the mystery of the Southfork cattle problem….J.R. realizes that he still has feelings for Sue Ellen…Pam and Bobby get into another fight about her working too much, and Pam realizes that…Bobby talks with Miss Ellie, who gets him to see Pam's side of things…J.R. learns about some cheap oil fields in Alaska, and Sue Ellen insists on accompanying him on the trip to see them.

Episode 106: Psychotic Moms Finally Go Off The Deep End And Declare Open Season On Barbecue Guests: Next Dallas Dish

Rex visits J.R. and tells him that he wants J.R. to call off the PI trailing him. J.R. promises Rex that he's close to finding out that Rex was behind the attempt to kill J.R…..Bobby visits Pam at work and they make up, but Pam faints, hitting her head on the desk…Wade and Manny hear activity on the ranch one night, and go to investigate. They end up getting shot at by a mysterious party…Pam recovers at the hospital, but the doctors wants to do some more tests to make sure the twins are okay…J.R. and Sue Ellen take off for Alaska, and the sparks between them fly.…Bobby and Pam see a sonogram of the twins…Rex tells Iris to get J.R. off Rex's back, or he'll have John Ross killed as well as Jack (which would send Sue Ellen back into J.R.'s arms). Iris later learns that J.R. and Sue Ellen are on a business trip, and fumes with jealousy…Wade still believes that Carter McKay is behind the troubles at Southfork…Afton goes to Cliff's to pick up some of her stuff, and ends up getting into a fight with Eric...J.R. and Sue Ellen sign the Alaska deal and decide to go out to dinner to celebrate….Bobby and Pam learns that they'll be having a boy and a girl. As well, Bobby agrees to take over Wentworth Tool and Dye to prevent Pam from having the stress of work. Pam agrees…Afton remembers that someone with a beard and a strange tattoo tried to attack her, and that doesn't add up to Neil trying to do it. Rex tries to convince her that her memories are wrong, and gets a new idea to take care of this new complication…Neil isn't being let out on bail…Isabel flirts with an unreceptive Manny. She ends up falling in the pool and Manny has to give her mouth-to-mouth, but realizes Isabel staged the whole thing. Manny is angered…Sly and Wade continue to flirt and grow closer…Ellie learns about the attempted shooting on Manny and Wade and decides to take action into her own hands…J.R. and Sue Ellen grow closer, as Sue Ellen tries to fight her feelings for him.

Episode 107: This Kiss, Passionate Kisses, or Kiss Me?

John Ross feels more and more guilty about sleeping with Angela, but the guilt fades away when Melissa proposes to him. Christopher tells Bobby about his and Karen's tenative plans for getting their own place and Bobby tells him not to make any hasty decisions.

Welcome to Return to Southfork, a fan-created web-series dedicated to continuing the popular 80s primetime series, Dallas.

The RTS page premiered on April 11, 1998 and a little over a month later, episode one, The Return to Southfork was posted. The series ended in 2002, after 137 episodes.

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