- The honeymoon is over for John Ross, as Bobby and Sue Ellen try to use the Governor to stop John Ross from becoming just like his father, J.R. - a move that could divide the family forever. Meanwhile, Christopher discovers surprising details about Heather's past; Cliff persuades Elena to try a new tact in her quest for justice; and Judith Ryland and Ann try, with varying degrees of success, to get Emma under control.—Anonymous
- John Ross's Southfork drilling plan unravels now Sue Ellen has blackmailed the governor to appoint Bobby to the Railroad Commission. Nicolás Treviño is near his wit's end to ruin the Ewings and accepts a devil's pact -actually concocted with Cliff- to take over Ewing Global with John Ross by going public. Sue Ellen, whom John Ross found drinking again, fears she failed her son excessively, and holds the key vote. Christopher becomes ranch-hand hothead Bo McCabe's son's sugar daddy while dating his mother Heather. John Ross must keep playing wife Pam and mistress Emma.—KGF Vissers
- Pamela and John Ross return from their honeymoon. Pamela feels like she wasn't involved in business with all the wedding planning and offers to help close the Ryland deal for ice breaker ships, noting she's close to Emma now. John Ross assures her he has it handled.
As they head for the drilling site on Southfork to check the progress, they continue the honeymoon activities in the back seat.
When they reach the site, Bo the blackmailed ranch hand, tells John Ross that drilling is stopped because someone dropped their tools down the well. John Ross asks them to work overnight.
Sue Ellen drops in on the Governor Sam McConaughey, to ask him to get Stanley Babcock, the Railroad Commissioner, to resign. She wants the permit John Ross got revoked. She threatens to expose the fact he covered up the oil rig sabotage, but he throws the bribery charges back in her face. He's willing to take his chances with whatever dirt John Ross has on Babcock (footage from Judith Ryland's brothel). The Governor walks away having said no, but Sue Ellen is pleased.
She calls Bobby to report the Governor took the bait.
"Men like my son and the governor have a lust for control. I think it's time to remind them exact who is in control," Sue Ellen says.
Nuevo Laredo Elena and Nicolas meet with Cliff Barnes in prison. He's disappointed that Bobby got to Ronda the waitress. Elena suggests they look into the police file on the JR murder case next. Cliff asks Elena to keep an eye on Nicolas.
Christopher drops in on Heather the ranch hand in the stables. He assures her John Ross won't be in charge long. After checking that neither of them is looking for a serious relationship, they plan drinks.
Bobby comes into the Ewing Global offices to find John Ross has brought a giant dopey looking stone statue back from his honeymoon. He expects Bobby to hate it, but Bobby pretends it's fine.
John Ross checks in with his mother and, after telling her things with Emma were just business, he tells her it's over. He accuses her of holding JR's sins against him.
Christopher and John Ross have a brief dust-up over fracking Southfork and Candace the slutty secretary working for Harris Ryland tries to cozy up to John Ross. Pamela takes note.
John Ross leaves, saying he has to close a deal. He goes to see Emma at Southfork and tells her the honeymoon was "hot, rainy, ton of iguanas." He brought her a necklace and then gives her the lease agreements for the ships to get her grandmother to sign them. She's frustrated her dad is out of jail, but he assures her he's working on it, he just needs to decrypt the flash drive.
Ann sees John Ross walking down the hall from Emma's room and goes to talk to her after he leaves. Emma is snotty and rude, calling her mother a liar and ex-drug addict. Ann shouts at Emma to leave Southfork.
Nicolas and Elena meet with Peter, the state attorney who went after Sue Ellen for bribery. He doesn't need much convincing to look into the murder case against Cliff to hurt the Ewings.
Ann calls Harris to tell him she threw Emma out. Ann is driving around looking for her, but Harris assures her he'll take care of it.
He calls his CIA contact and tells him he wants out, but the CIA guy says no. Harris shows him a picture of a Swiss bank account the agent has (from his encrypted flash drive) and tells him to get his family more protection or he'll go to his bosses about the slush fund.
At Ewing Global, Pamela watches John Ross flirt with Candace. She gets a call from her father in prison. He insists he didn't kill JR, but she hangs up on him.
Bobby and Sue Ellen get word the governor is meeting with Stanley Babcock. They see the flirting and Sue Ellen laments that John Ross is creating a war within the family when they should be working together.
Over drinks in a bar, Christopher tells Heather about his dating life in high school and with Elena. She asks if he initiated the DTR (define the relationship). He asks about her last relationship. She says they should talk about it, but she's interrupted by a text. She has to go, then tells Christopher she has a kid.
Stanley Babcock frets to the governor about his prostitute-as-puppy peccadilloes. McConaughey assures him it'll be fine, as long as Babcock keeps funneling is family's money to him through the accounting firm like last time.
Sue Ellen and Bobby listen in a van outside, from the bug planted in the bottle of JR bourbon Sue Ellen brought the governor.
Christopher brings Heather home, where her ex is waiting with their son. Her ex is Bo the ranch hand. He tells her his boss asks him to work late and he needs the money because his landlord keeps raising his rent. She thinks it's because he gambles his money away. Bo gets angry when he sees she's with Christopher, but he leaves. Christopher meets Heather's son Michael and bonds with him over a Transformer.
Emma meets with her grandmother to tell her about the lease agreement. But Judith doesn't want to do business with the Ewings. Emma shows her grandmother a file she has on her with book keeping from her brothel. She offers to trade her half of the files for the lease contract.
"Now that you know about grandmother's side business, allow me to teach you a valuable lesson: Never screw a man for nothing," Judith says. She says her girls are paid well and are always in control. She taunts Emma about John Ross, saying he degrades her. "If you think that's love, then you are a worthless creature. Don't let him manipulate you," Judith says.
Judith goes to see Harris to blame him for having dirt on her that Judith can use. Judith is eager for Candace to get to work so they have dirt on John Ross. Judith also wants Emma to come back home -- she doesn't trust Emma on Southfork near John Ross, and it would really piss off Ann.
Nicolas and Elena go over the JR murder file. Elena is bothered to be working for Cliff, a "terrible man," but Nicolas says he's a means to an end. Nicolas notices an incision on JR in the autopsy photos.
John Ross goes to see Emma and immediately asks about the ships. She wants to know why he's only nice to her when he wants something. He backtracks and tries to butter her up. She wants a piece of the arctic ship deal. She tells him Ann threw her out. He tells her to fix it, so she'll be close by. Then he falls into bed with her.
Elena and Nicolas meet with Cliff again. He wants them to convince Pamela he's innocent.
Ann comes home to Southfork to find Emma waiting. They apologize to each other. Emma tells her she broke things off with John Ross and Ann says she can stay.
Later, Harris drops by Southfork to tell Ann his handler agreed to give them more protection. Ann tells him she's not sure if Emma is telling the truth about breaking things off with John Ross. "Hell, Annie, I'm the one who screwed her up, you've been a better parent to her than I ever was," he says. He tells her he came to convince Emma to come home with him, but now he thinks she should stay with Ann on Southfork.
Sue Ellen goes to see the governor again and plays him the recording of his conversation with Stanley Babcock. She has the perfect candidate to replace Babcock.
John Ross comes back to the office to find the signed lease agreements and a note from Emma. Then he gets a text from his mother telling him to turn on channel 5 and "I couldn't look the other way."
John Ross turns on the TV to see Babcock resigning and Bobby Ewing being appointed as interim replacement. John Ross seethes.
Candace tries to cozy up to him, but he slams the door in her face on the way to leave and angry voice mail for Sue Ellen, telling her they're enemies now and he won't forget being stabbed in the back. Sue Ellen copes with a pull from her flask.
Christopher and Bobby talk to John Ross at the office. He accuses Bobby of cutting off his nose to spite his face, but Bobby tells him he takes his stewardship of Southfork seriously.
"You don't even pause to consider the consequences of your actions, John Ross.... You're more selfish than your father ever was," Christopher says.
"Fine. You want to build a road block between me and drilling Southfork? Go ahead. If I'm as bad as my father ever was, then I'll blow right past it," John Ross says.
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