Previously on Dallas...
I've read J.R.'s letter.
The Ewings framed Cliff Barnes for J.R.'s murder.
My family is ruined because of J.R.'s greed.
You pardon Cliff, we don't go to the police with your crime.
Hunter McKay, his grandfather and my daddy
fought their fair share of battles back in the day.
Three games and rounds of funding, we took the company public.
I thought about taking Ewing Global public.
When you offered me a chance to take down the Ewings,
you didn't say anything about Mexican gangsters.
My men took every precaution
to make sure that Drew's death is ruled a suicide.
J.R. Was working on an oil deal with the Sheikh Sherif Ali.
My father has decided to supply you with the capital you need
to buy controlling interest in Ewing Global.
This is my friend Calvin Hannah.
He has underwritten several very large IPOs.
He's the best man for the job.
You really think John Ross is gonna come after me?
Oh, I'm sure of it.
- So we're all set for the IPO? - Everything will be taken care of.
- You're a good man. - I wouldn't go that far.
Nicolas, he isn't who he says he is.
He's using Elena for his own agenda. We're gonna find out what that is.
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Buenos días, señor Barnes.
I heard from Elena that your man on the inside
has everything in place for me to get my company back tomorrow.
Well done, Treviño. I'm both impressed and grateful.
Uh... Is Elena with you?
I've been trying to reach her, but her phone is on voicemail, so...
In the hurry to leave Southfork, I'm afraid she forgot her phone.
Here she is.
Hello, Cliff.
Elena, why am I still in prison?
I wanted to be in Dallas for the IPO
so I can begin my evisceration of the Ewings in person.
I don't have your pardon anymore.
- I gave it to Pamela. - That's not our deal.
I told you from the start I never thought of this as revenge.
I thought of it as justice.
I've seen to it that you will get your company back.
But for me to be the one to free you from jail after everything you did,
blowing up the Ewing rig and killing Pamela's babies,
that justice is not mine to decide.
It's your daughter's.
Fine!
Now that Pamela knows the truth, she'll see the errors of her ways.
And when I'm free,
nothing will stand in the way of me getting the revenge that I deserve.
You did the right thing.
If Pamela lets her father out, there will be more bloodshed.
You're not responsible for their battles anymore.
Only for your own.
And you've won.
- What do you want, Christopher? - Just a minute to talk.
Enter.
You know, it's strange to see you living away from Southfork.
- It's your home. - Not anymore.
Elena wrote me these years ago
when she went to visit your family in Mexico.
She mentioned spending time with an old childhood friend.
A friend named Joaquin.
Carmen, is Nicolas' real name Joaquin?
No.
Elena had many friends back in Mexico, Christopher.
Joaquin was another boy.
You know that despite all the craziness
that's happened between Elena and I over the past few months,
that I will always, always love her.
She's the best person I know.
And that person wouldn't seek out vengeance the way she did.
It was Nicolas.
He used her anger and hurt over what J.R. Did to your husband
to push her down a dark road.
And I know that there is some self-serving reason why.
Carmen, whatever you know about Nicolas,
I must know.
You leave Elena and Nicolas alone, Christopher!
Nicolas is a decent man.
He would never mislead my family the way your family has misled mine!
- Carmen, Carmen... - Please leave!
All right.
- Can I blow them out now? - Yeah.
Boy, they grow up fast. Don't they, Cal?
- What are you doing here? - Oh, come on, now.
I wouldn't miss your grandson's birthday party.
Got a minute to talk about tomorrow's IPO?
Look, John Ross.
I know your daddy did business strong-arming people with blackmail.
- That's not gonna work on me. - I'm well aware.
See, I did a deep dive on you, Cal. You're a good man.
You just happen to have made some real bad business investments.
You bet big on mortgage-backed securities years ago,
and you lost everything you had and some you didn't.
Been trying to dig yourself out of that hole ever since.
Am I right?
You see, one thing my daddy taught me
is that there is good in the worst of us.
But there's also bad in the best of us.
The good in me is about to make you one hell of an offer.
And the bad in you might be greedy enough to take it.
John Ross, this is not...
Ten million dollars, cash.
As long as you make sure
that all of the shares for the 48 percent of Ewing Global
being offered go to Sheikh Sherif Ali.
That's a hell of a bribe, John Ross.
I prefer to call it a significant liquidity opportunity.
No, man. No, no, no.
- I could never do that to Bobby. - Bobby.
Bobby's gonna be just fine.
But you know who's gonna be better than fine?
Little Billy over there. Your entire family set for life.
What do you say, Cal?
We got a deal?
Sweetheart, it's your father again.
Please call me back. I need to talk to you.
Is everything all right?
It's my father calling again.
I know exactly what he wants.
He wants me to let him out of prison.
And you're not sure that you want to do that.
He told me he didn't kill J.R.
But I was too angry to listen.
Angry because he knew I was on that rig
and gave the order to blow it anyway.
Angry because he killed my babies and got away with it.
But just because he got away with that crime...
...does it make it right for him to rot in jail
for another he didn't commit?
I can tell you that, for me,
the hardest part of knowing the truth about J.R.'s plan
was not being able to confront him on why he did what he did.
On how he felt so entitled to lie to all of us.
As a result, I'm afraid,
I'm never going to be able to move on.
But, Pamela, you have a chance with your father.
If at least you'll talk to him.
Let me get this straight.
Your daughter sat with a top general from the Mendez-Ochoa cartel,
struck a new deal,
which involves moving more drugs more quickly,
and you want CIA approval and protection to honor those terms.
George, if we don't honor this deal, I'm putting her life at risk.
Increasing the cartel's cash flow means more arms.
More payoffs at every level, more money to buy votes.
With the election less than a month away,
you accelerate the cartel's timetable
for taking over the Mexican government.
Well, if the threat is so imminent, now is the time to take them down.
Now is the time.
The CIA will not make a move until we have eyes on their leader.
This guy, El Pozolero,
he's like a ghost who only appears to inflict horror.
Last week, he killed 75 villagers who dared oppose him.
He boiled them in acid in front of their families.
We share a 2000-mile border with Mexico.
You really want that psychopath controlling their next president?
I need some time.
Time to extricate Emma from the deal that she's made.
Let me put some drugs through the pipeline for a very short while.
You do that, we'll stop your trucks.
You stop my trucks, they'll kill my daughter!
Then renegotiate the deal and save her.
Did you come here to drop another bomb on me?
Let me guess. You work for the FBI.
I just came to check on you, see how you're feeling.
May I?
You know, after everything that Daddy has done,
years of controlling my every move,
he ruined the one relationship
that ever made me feel like I was worth anything.
Drew saw things in me that no one sees.
But he killed himself
because of the things that Daddy made him do.
And now I'm supposed to forgive him
because he's working with the CIA and he's stopping a war in Mexico.
It's bullshit.
Learning he isn't a complete monster
doesn't change the horrible things he's done to you.
The fact that you feel obligated to grant him absolution
makes you hate him even more.
Your father told me he called your grandmother back to Dallas
to sort out the problems with the cartel.
Emma, your grandmother can't know he's working with the CIA.
Is that why you came back here?
- To get me to keep my mouth shut? - No.
I came to see how you were doing because I love you.
I know what you're going through.
I also know more about your grandmother than you.
Emma.
Arming her with the information that he's working for the CIA
would only make things worse for everyone.
Trust me.
Okay.
Ann.
Maybe we could get dinner tomorrow? Talk more?
I'd like that.
Calvin, what are you doing in the office this late?
I just wanted to let you know you were right.
John Ross came after me today.
And like you asked, I let him think I took the bait.
- I do know my nephew. - Yeah.
Rest assured the IPO will be a fair offering of shares
to institutional investors.
No requests from John Ross or Cliff will be granted.
It's good to have you out front blocking for me again, buddy.
I'll call you at 9:00 AM when the shares are issued.
All right. Good night.
Carlos, my friend.
What did you find?
- Dad? - I just spoke with Carlos.
Turns out a boy named Joaquin Reyes lived with the Ramos' in the '90s.
Well, was he able to find out anything about him?
Medical records and criminal record up till 1997, then nothing.
So Nicolas didn't change his name to leave his past behind.
He changed his name to cover up his criminal record,
so he could reinvent himself as a legitimate businessman.
And there's more.
Carlos said while the man Joaquin Reyes disappeared in 1997,
the man's financial accounts remained open and active.
Doing what?
Investing funds for the Mendez-Ochoa cartel.
Over $600 million,
all of which were lost two years ago.
- Nicolas is in debt to the cartel? - Yeah.
That's why he was so eager to do Elena this favor.
He's using her for her access to the company
so he can pay off his debt.
Making his own move for the company with the cartel.
If he's in business with the cartel, then Elena could be in danger.
Those shares get issued in an hour. I got to get a hold of Calvin.
- I need to tell Elena. - Okay.
Elena, I need you to call me.
Look, Nicolas is in debt to the Mendez-Ochoa cartel.
That's why he's helping you so he can pay off his debt.
Just please call me as soon as you can.
Calvin. Hey, I'm glad I caught you. It's Bobby here.
Listen, we have a real problem.
Treviño's not in business with Cliff.
- What? - No, he...
Sorry about the timing of this, Calvin.
But we've been forced to make some cutbacks.
You're no longer in charge of the Ewing IPO.
We have to let you go.
Well, who is in charge of issuing shares now?
What do you mean you can't tell me?
Goodbye.
- Damn it. - What's going on?
- We can't get in touch with Calvin. - Really?
You are not getting control of the company, John Ross.
What do you mean?
I know you tried to bribe Calvin. This has nothing to do with that.
So, what the hell is happening?
Nicolas isn't working with Cliff. He's after the company himself.
- Everyone, come in here quickly. - Big news from Dallas.
Hunter McKay, the founder of Gitit Games,
has just purchased all 48 percent of Ewing Global,
that was up for sale this morning.
Sources claim this purchase now gives McKay
a controlling interest in the company,
which means there's likely more to learn
about what went on behind the scenes.
Hunter McKay? Where the hell did he come from?
Our fight with that family has been over for years.
I'll tell you.
A few weeks ago,
John Ross was out with Nicolas when he ran into Hunter McKay.
Hunter was bragging about how he took his company public
and it allowed him to gain all control.
Damn it, John Ross! How could you be so reckless?
Everybody, just hold on. None of this makes any sense, okay?
There is no way that Hunter has controlling interest.
Where the hell did the other shares come from?
Well, I've got a pretty good idea.
We've been wondering what's in it for Nicolas from Cliff
after all of this.
What if Cliff signs over
a small percentage of Ewing Global to Nicolas,
say, three percent,
and then Nicolas signs over that percentage that over to Hunter,
giving him a majority?
Your greed has cost us control of this company!
You idiot. They were working together.
They set you up!
So, all of it.
All of the despicable things you've done
only ended up losing you control of my father's life's work?
Pamela, please, just...
You selfish bastard!
Lying and cheating were the things you were good at,
and now you failed at them, too!
Mr. McKay! Mr. McKay!
Where did you get the capital for the takeover?
Believe it or not, it wasn't hard
finding other people interested in owning the Ewings.
So, was revenge your motivation?
It's no secret the McKays have a feud with the Ewings family.
You're asking me if it feels good to do what my grandpa never could
and own both the Ewings and the Barneses at the same time?
Is that what you're... Yeah, it sure does.
But how were you able...
How were you able to gain controlling interest in the company
when only 48 percent of it was up for sale?
If you want specifics, talk to the underwriter.
But I can save you the time and just tell you.
I got it.
- Mr. McKay! - Mr. McKay!
- Mr. McKay! Mr. McKay! - All right.
So, Mr. McKay, what are your plans for the company?
It's... You guys, I'm so sorry. I got to take this.
That's it. That's all today.
Congratulations.
I couldn't have pulled this off without you.
I guess I saved your ass with the cartel, huh?
Hopefully, we both got what we wanted.
So, I get to run the company
as long as I allow you to launder money
through its various assets, right?
That's correct. I'll be in touch.
What the hell happened?
I thought you knew someone on the inside?
I did. I don't know what happened.
- I promised Cliff. - No, I promised Cliff.
I'm the one who lost him the company.
Elena, you did everything for Cliff you said you would.
I am sorry for the part I played in it.
I know how much this has cost you, Elena, but...
...it's over.
It's over.
Hmm. Mm-hm.
Yeah.
That's what I thought.
Right.
I appreciate the heads-up.
All right. Thank you.
Well, the SEC just confirmed it.
Cliff gave three percent of Ewing Global to Nicolas
before he showed up here as Cliff's proxy.
This morning, Nicolas signed those shares over to Hunter McKay,
giving him 51 percent control of the company.
Unbelievable.
Look who's here.
Oh, I'm...
I'm so sorry, Bobby. They took my phone.
They locked me out of my computer. I couldn't get to you in time.
Hey, it's all right, Calvin. There was nothing you could do.
This guy, Victor Des Lauriers, my new boss,
was brought in from Banco de México about a month ago.
As soon as he fired me,
he accepted requests from shell corporations
all of them owned by Hunter McKay.
Where did the money come from?
Hunter didn't have access to that much capital.
Certainly didn't come from Nicolas.
He's in debt to the cartel for $600 million.
Maybe the cartel funded him.
Actually, cartels are legitimizing using companies to launder money.
We've seen it with smaller ventures, but never with a multinational.
If we could prove the cartel is behind this,
the government might seize those shares.
We could get our company back.
- I know just where to start. - Where do you think you're going?
- I'm going to see Hunter McKay. - Not alone you're not.
Knowing you, you'll just make a bigger mess than you already have.
All right, that's enough.
We took this company together as a family.
And we lost it because our enemies made us fight each other.
If we stand one chance, it's to work together again.
- All right? - Yeah.
All right.
John Ross. Christopher. What's up, guys?
Hunter, we were hoping to have a little chat.
Yeah, no problem. Of course. Come on in. Come on.
All right. Man! Christopher.
It's been a minute, huh?
Last time I saw you must've been high school?
And last time you saw me,
you and Nicolas were setting me up so that you could steal our company.
Whoa, guys, I don't want there to be any hard feelings.
- It was all just business. - Except what you did was illegal.
You see, we know the money you used came from the Mendez-Ochoa cartel.
I don't know what you're talking about.
- I think you do. - We're filing a suit with the SEC.
And when we do, you're gonna find yourself in jail.
Guys, let's just be honest.
If you already had proof of where that money came from,
you wouldn't be standing in my apartment.
I think I win.
Let's go.
John Ross, Nicolas wasn't so sure you'd take the bait.
But then I told him how J.R. Fell for a similar move
when my grandfather tricked him into giving up Ewing Oil.
Sort of poetic justice, right?
You losing your company the same way your daddy did?
John Ross!
We're gonna find out where that money came from, McKay.
- And when we do, you're finished. - Let's go! Come on.
Is it done?
Yes. Ewing Global is officially ours.
Drugs destroy families and social infrastructures.
The more broken a society becomes on either side of the border,
the easier it is for us to seize power.
That is precisely why I have a plan in place
which guarantees we double the volume going through the pipeline.
Good.
Not since the Europeans raped our ancestors
have we truly been in power.
Now, it is our time once again.
Now will be the real Mexican revolution.
Thanks to Nicolas.
When I met him, he was only a teenager.
But I knew there was something special about him.
I never met anyone with a more inherent grasp
for business and mathematics.
That's why I educated him.
Trained him to take over the finances of our operation.
He lost $600 million of our money.
It was a bad investment that he promised to make up for.
And he has.
Nicolas will be in charge of Ewing Global from now on, yes?
Yes.
Bobby Ewing, as I live and breathe.
Hello, Tracey. It's been a long time.
What are you doing here?
- I need to speak about Hunter. - What has my nephew done now?
Come on in.
My video-game-playing nephew bought your company?
That seems impossible.
Yeah, it was only made possible
because he got involved with some very bad people.
Including a man named Nicolas Treviño,
who owes over $600 million to a Mexican drug cartel.
Oh, my goodness. Damn my father.
He always blamed the Ewings for my brother Tommy's death.
So, when Tommy's old girlfriend showed up with Hunter and Trip,
he raised the boys to hate your family as much as he did.
Oh, I begged my father not to poison my nephews
the way he poisoned my brother.
Well, that didn't work out very well, did it?
I'm so sorry, Bobby. What can I do?
I need Hunter to tell the SEC
where the money came from to buy Ewing Global.
Now, if he does that,
I have some friends in the state department,
and I might be able to keep him out of jail and safe.
You always were good at playing the hero.
Yeah, in light of recent events,
there may be a few who disagree with that.
Pammy. I knew you'd come. Thank you.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for helping the Ewings put you in jail.
For failing to protect your legacy.
Your whole life, I warned you about trusting the Ewings.
I was trying to protect you.
But what matters now is that you do know the truth
and I didn't kill J.R.
So now you can get me out of jail. We can have a second chance.
We can start all over. We can get the company back together.
I love you, Pamela.
I miss you so much.
This is a deed to Ewing 6.
That was Digger's.
That plot of land was robbed from your father.
And because of that, I was robbed from ever having one.
Pamela...
All I ever wanted from you was love.
But you always hated the Ewings more than you ever loved me.
- Darling, that's not true. - Yes, it is.
Because if you truly loved me,
because if you truly wanted to protect me,
then you never would have done what you did
when you killed my babies.
I can never forgive you for that.
I'm so sorry for what I did.
But you want to leave me here?
And you'll forgive me if I stay in prison?
I know I failed you.
I did.
It's over now.
You've avenged the wrongs done to your father.
And I've avenged the wrongs done to me by mine.
But...
Goodbye, Daddy.
What the hell is he doing here?
- John Ross. - Emma.
Well, isn't this a pretty picture?
Where you all headed together? Wait, let me guess. Family therapy.
What do you want?
This morning, the Mendez-Ochoa cartel
funded Hunter McKay's takeover of Ewing Global.
Problem is, we can't figure out how to prove it.
Hold on. Hold on. This is rich.
Now you're asking me to do a favor for you, boy?
Not so much asking for a favor as much as threatening blackmail.
If you don't use your contacts to help me prove
that the cartel was behind the takeover,
I'll be forced to bring Candace out of hiding.
Now you remember her, right?
The hooker who was willing to testify against you,
and the madam here, for pandering?
Why don't you two wait in the car?
I am so sorry you lost your company, Mr. Ewing.
If you're in need of a job, maybe I can help.
You have a good look.
How are you at romancing men?
Maybe you didn't hear me clearly.
If you'd like to stay rich, old woman,
breathing the fresh, beautiful clean air of freedom,
then I suggest we make a deal.
That is never going to happen.
You know that I will do anything to protect my granddaughter.
So I am not about to put my son in a position with the cartel
to compromise her safety.
Now, if you know what's best for you,
you'd get off my lawn.
And go back to that pit of broken marriages
you call Southfork.
How did that go?
It was just the warm-up I needed. Let's go make us a drug deal.
Hey, Bum, it's me. It's time to go fetch Candace.
Sit.
I am extremely unhappy right now.
Would any of you like to guess as to why that is?
You're a Taurus?
Try not to get us killed in the first five minutes, Mother.
Once again, I find myself taking time out of my busy schedule
to come here and deal with you people.
I know exactly how you feel.
I had to fly back from Paris
when I heard your taking advantage of my naive, young granddaughter.
Emma has many qualities.
But naïveté, it's not one of them.
Let's not forget she came to me with this deal.
I was wrong.
She was in no position to make that deal, and you know it.
You did it because I refused
to increase the amount of product going through the pipeline.
Whether or not she was in a position to make that type of arrangement,
she made it.
Luis.
I have always been a proponent of reciprocity
in all my relationships.
And as a showing of goodwill,
I am willing to renegotiate in a way that helps both of us.
Now, I believe my son has tasked you
with finding our wayward whore, Candace.
But we have not heard from you on that front for weeks.
Once you take care of our Candace problem,
I will agree to increase the amount of product
running through the pipeline
by 25 percent.
You people.
Let's go. Let's go find that Candace.
I hope Hunter will listen to me.
Listen, back in your pool-hustling days,
you could talk anyone into anything, and they wouldn't even notice.
I remember you won $1,000 off of me in less than two hours.
- I think it was $900. - I stand corrected.
But I did offer to buy you dinner to make it an even grand, right?
- Yes. - Okay.
Hunter?
- Dad! - Whoa, whoa. Hold up.
What the hell's going on?
I asked Tracey to come help me talk some sense into Hunter.
When we got here, he was hanging.
And there's no evidence to suggest it's anything other than a suicide.
No, it had to be the cartel. And they're cleaning up loose ends.
People who knew too much about the deal,
who could unravel the legitimacy of the takeover.
And what if they come after Nicolas?
He could be a loose end, too. And he's with Elena.
You've reached Elena, leave a message.
Elena.
Hunter McKay,
the guy who helped Nicolas steal the company for the cartel,
is dead.
They're cleaning up loose ends. You are in danger.
Please call me back.
Tell me that she is lying down in the backseat.
I went by her place. I waited. Candace never came home.
But I got you something better to use against Ryland.
You remember that copy I made of Ryland's flash drive?
I now know why I couldn't figure out what was on it.
It's encrypted with a technology only used by the CIA.
Are you telling me Harris Ryland's in the CIA?
Looks that way.
And wouldn't the cartel just love hearing
that Harris Ryland was in bed with Uncle Sam?
That bald bastard is full of surprises.
Now that you know what the encryption is,
you think you can find a way through it?
- Well, I'll do my best. - Good.
Because that is the one thing that Harris Ryland wanted most.
And it'll do me just right to know what type of bomb it is
before I set it off.
Harris? Who was that at this hour?
Mother, we have company.
Hello, Judith.
Why, Luis.
I thought you said you were headed back to Mexico.
I didn't want to leave without presenting you with this.
Well, isn't that nice?
- Oh, such a beautiful box. - Yes.
Those hands belong to your whore, Candace.
It's my gift to you to show you I'm a man of my word.
And this here is to make sure you keep yours.
I propose a new deal.
Double the shipments immediately. Or they're dead.
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