"Knots Landing" A Family Matter (TV Episode 1981) - Joan Van Ark as Valene Ewing

[first lines]

Valene Ewing : [re newspaper photograph of J.R. Ewing] I can't even look at him.

Karen Fairgate : [to Abby] She's not crazy about him.

Valene Ewing : Well, I've got good cause *not* to be.

Abby Cunningham : What's he in town for?

Karen Fairgate : Some oil convention. Actually, I found him rather exciting.

Abby Cunningham : You met him?

Karen Fairgate : Last year he was trying to get the offshore drilling rights for this area, but we stopped him.

Abby Cunningham : [incredulously] You stopped him?

Karen Fairgate : Yeah. I read the autobiography of Mata Hari and went to his hotel room to see him one afternoon.

Abby Cunningham : [pretend-shocked] My brother's wife went to a hotel room to see a *man*?

Karen Fairgate : I found him enormously attractive... and enormously charming.

[sighs]

Karen Fairgate : As he got close to me and looked into my eyes...

[the others hanging on to every word]

Karen Fairgate : I got out of there enormously fast.
Valene Ewing : [to J.R] I don't blame whoever it is that shot you. I just wish I'd done it myself.
J.R. Ewing : [snide tone] Valene, you should eat when you're sitting down at a full table. You never know how long your luck's gonna hold.

Valene Ewing : [fed up with him already] I'm not very hungry.

Joan Van Ark: Valene Ewing