Dallas (TV Series)
John Ewing III: Part 2 (1979)
Ken Kercheval: Cliff Barnes
Quotes
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Cliff Barnes : What about the baby?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : She had a boy.
Cliff Barnes : I want to see my son.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Cliff... !
Cliff Barnes : [tearing up at the sight of Sue Ellen's newborn baby] That's him? Oh, God. Is he going to live?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : They don't know.
Cliff Barnes : Well, I know he's mine. And if he lives, he's gonna be raised a Barnes, not a Ewing. I swear that!
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Cliff Barnes : Pam?
[cheerful]
Cliff Barnes : Hi.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : [coldly] Hello, Cliff.
Cliff Barnes : 'Hello, Cliff'? What is this? No sisterly peck, no warmth, no affection?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Look, I'm busy.
[goes off]
Cliff Barnes : [following] Well, I'm sorry for disturbing you, but, you know, I haven't seen you in weeks. You don't answer my telephone calls.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : [outside] Can you blame me? Every time we talk, you want me to take sides in the Barnes-Ewing feud. Well, I'm through taking sides. I'm gonna live my life as I see fit.
Cliff Barnes : I promise you, I have no schemes up my sleeve. I won't even mention the great J.R. Ewing.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : At the moment, J.R. has more than enough trouble, and I think you're the reason.
Cliff Barnes : Wonderful. What is it?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : [halts in her tracks] Wonderful? That Sue Ellen's in a sanitarium?
Cliff Barnes : A sanitarium? Why?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Because she's a drunk, Cliff. And she's gonna kill herself and her baby if she doesn't get help. That make you happy?
Cliff Barnes : Wait a minute. Back off! Why are you laying this guilt trip on me?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Because I think that's where it belongs.
[shaking her head:]
Pamela Barnes Ewing : She couldn't handle that affair with you.
Cliff Barnes : I can't erase the past. Be reasonable.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : No, you can't. And I don't have to be reasonable and I don't even have to like you.
[on her way again]
Cliff Barnes : [trailing after her] Oh, golly. Pam, you're my sister. Allow me some of my mistakes.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : If I thought it were an honest mistake. If you hadn't used Sue Ellen to get to J.R.
Cliff Barnes : [his hand on her shoulder, he stops her] All right, all right, I have to admit that maybe it started that way, I'm gonna be honest. But then it changed into something much more.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Why didn't you go after her and tell her?
Cliff Barnes : Because it would've meant her losing everything. Money, position, everything that goes with being Mrs. J.R. Ewing.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : What about love?
[shaking her head:]
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Or didn't that mean anything?
Cliff Barnes : Not enough.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : To whom? Sue Ellen or you?
Cliff Barnes : That's not fair.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : 'Fair'? Oh, I know you, Cliff.
[eyes flaring:]
Pamela Barnes Ewing : You were worried about the scandal and what it would do to your precious political career.
[shaking her head:]
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Sue Ellen wasn't worth that.
Cliff Barnes : Well, I've got to do something. I've got to help her.
Pamela Barnes Ewing : If you wanna help, you've got to commit. You've got to give all the way and give up everything for Sue Ellen, and if you can't do that,
[nearly snarling:]
Pamela Barnes Ewing : then stay the hell away from her.
[goes off]
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Cliff Barnes : [confronted about his affair with Sue Ellen] No, look, believe it: I fell in love with her.
Bobby Ewing : The only time you fall in love is when you look in the mirror!
[pushes him onto a couch]
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Pamela Barnes Ewing : [in hospital] What are you doing here?
Cliff Barnes : What about Sue Ellen?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : She's alive, that's all we know.
Cliff Barnes : What about the baby?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : She had a boy.
Cliff Barnes : I wanna see my son.
[goes off to neonatal care]
Pamela Barnes Ewing : Cliff...
[follows]
Cliff Barnes : [frail baby] That's him?
[tearfully:]
Cliff Barnes : Oh, God! Is he gonna live?
Pamela Barnes Ewing : They don't know.
[blinks]
Cliff Barnes : [crying] Well, I know he's mine. And if he lives, he's going to be raised a Barnes, not a Ewing, I swear that!
[Pamela is tearful as well]