Dallas (TV Series)

Changing of the Guard (1982)

Priscilla Pointer: Rebecca Barnes Wentworth

Quotes 

• Rebecca Barnes Wentworth : Sue Ellen, I thought you'd left.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : [shakes her head]  I can't. I have to make sure that he's gonna be all right.

  Afton Cooper : Why? Do you really care if Cliff lives or dies?

  Sue Ellen Ewing : [shakes her head]  Afton, I don't have to answer to you.

  Afton Cooper : [snaps]  No, you don't. But you do have to answer to your own conscience. That's what's really bothering you, isn't it? You just wanna be able to go home believing that Cliff has only been destroyed... but he's not dead!

  Sue Ellen Ewing : [yells]  Get out of my way!

  Afton Cooper : [hisses]  You listen to me. I know Cliff thinks he's in love with you. He wanted you so badly he walked blindly into a trap J.R. set for him. But no more. You stay out of his life, Sue Ellen, you hear me? Cliff is my man until he throws me out. I love him! You don't know the meaning of the word. You're poison.

  Rebecca Barnes Wentworth : Go home, Sue Ellen. This isn't helping Cliff.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : [shakes her head]  Not until I see him first.

  Rebecca Barnes Wentworth : Not now.

  [resolutely sees to it that Sue Ellen backs off] 

• Rebecca Barnes Wentworth : [inside hospital]  Pam!

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : Oh, Mother.

  [hugs her] 

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : I'm sorry. How is he?

  Rebecca Barnes Wentworth : [heads back, with Pamela in tow]  No change. He's still in a coma.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : Why would Cliff try to kill himself?

  Rebecca Barnes Wentworth : Why? For the same reason that his father finally succeeded in drinking himself to death. The Ewings.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : Mother, Cliff's fight was with J.R.,not the whole Ewing family.

  Rebecca Barnes Wentworth : Pam, I know you're married to a Ewing, but that shouldn't blind you to the kind of people they are. Digger Barnes was in love with Ellie.

  [nods] 

  Rebecca Barnes Wentworth : So was Jock Ewing. Two men in love with the same woman. It happens all the time. But when one of the men is a Ewing, he iisnt content to win the woman fair and square. He has to destroy his rival at the same time.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : That's ancient history.

  Rebecca Barnes Wentworth : Is it? Well, history has a way of repeating itself. This time, the triangle is Cliff, Sue Ellen and J.R. And Cliff may be dying. I told Ellie this morning that I am gonna break the Ewings. I have the money and the power to do it. My family will not suffer at their hands ever again.

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : [eyes flaring]  Mother, would you stop It! If Bobby has his way,

  [shakes her head] 

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : J.R. is out of Ewing Oil already. You can put that all behind you! The important thing is that Cliff gets well.

  [Rebecca takes pause] 

  Pamela Barnes Ewing : I'd like to see my brother now.

  [walks off]