Sue Ellen tells J.R. chat she wants an open marriage, with separate bedrooms at Southfork. Bobby asks
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Pamela Barnes Ewing to come back to him, but he is faced with having to choose between protecting Ellie or preserving his marriage as Pam says she could never live at Southfork again.
J.R. and Katherine are furious about the possible reconciliation of Bobby and
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Pamela Barnes Ewing.
J.R. tells
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Pamela Barnes Ewing that he will do everything in his power to hurt Bobby and destroy Cliff if Pam revives her marriage.
Mickey is depressed when the doctor says he'll be paralyzed for life.
Cliff talks to
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Pamela Barnes Ewing at the swimming pool in her nice white swimsuit.
J.R. plants the seed of Pam's destruction with Katherine, who will go to any lengths to try to win Bobby.
When Katherine can't talk
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Pamela Barnes Ewing out of going back to Bobby, she decides to fake a letter—from Pam about Mark—which would throw a new light on a reconciliation.
"I don t read Pam s mail" Bobby says when offered the letter.
"I didn t want to read it either. I found it accidentally. But you have to hear part of it.
'Six years of marriage can not easily lie dismissed. Therefore if that means remaining with my husband when it no longer makes me happy, in order to avoid causing him pain, then perhaps that is what I have to do.
I know I would be better off if Bobby just let me go, but it he doesn t.
I may have to give in and return to him. His happiness should lie as important to me as my own. "
The letter has the effect Katherine intends.
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Pamela Barnes Ewing meets Bobby for a date—only to discover that Bobby now wants out.
"I want you to know that i'm letting you go. It's not fair to either of us like this.
It' s for the best. I think it's time we both finally realized it's over."
J.R. and Katherine arrange it so that
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Pamela Barnes Ewing sees Bobby with an attractive woman at a restaurant.
Afton tells
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Pamela Barnes Ewing that Katherine must have set up the whole thing, as there are too many restaurants in Dallas for it to be a coincidence.
J.R. pays off a driller for having sabotaged Bobby's Canadian oil wells.
J.R. later tells a hooker, Serena, that he has no intention of dividing the company with Bobby when the final audit comes through.
Lucy tells Mickey that she loves him despite his paralysis and will stand by him and see he doesn't give up on himself.
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Pamela Barnes Ewing and Bobby's divorce is made final by a judge in court. Pam is present, but Bobby is not.
