Pamela Barnes Ewing: I wanted to see you because there's something I, uh, I need to talk to you about.
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth: Well, what is it, honey?
Pamela Barnes Ewing: I know how angry you are at J.R., and God knows you have every reason to be, but... I'm asking you now, please stop this vendetta before it gets out of control.
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth: Pam! J.R. tried to kill your brother. That is not something I plan to forgive.
Pamela Barnes Ewing: Buying Cliff an oil company is one thing, but buying Wade Luce's company and getting him into the cartel... that could hurt all of Ewing Oil. He'll turn the cartel against the whole company. That includes Bobby, Christopher and me!
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth: Cliff never had any real power behind him and it almost cost him his life. I'm making sure that never happens again.
Pamela Barnes Ewing: You're taking sides. Is Cliff more important to you than me?
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth: That's not the issue. You have the Ewing strength behind you. Whose strength does Cliff have?
Pamela Barnes Ewing: He should have his own.
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth: Yes, he should. But he doesn't. Not yet. And maybe that's because... when he was growing up... when I should have been there to give it to him... I was off trying to develop some of my own.
Pamela Barnes Ewing: [folds arms] Mother, you've always had strength. You've proved that when you left your children to go and start a new life. It's a cold, calculating kind of strength. Is that what you want for Cliff?
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth: Pam... I was seventeen!
[shakes her head]
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth: I could barely read or write. I wasn't ready to be a wife or a mother. And Digger... Digger was destroying me. Oh, honey...
[cups Pam's chin]
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth: I didn't wanna leave you. But I had to save myself... and somehow I found the strength to do it. And now I've got to help Cliff find his own strength.
Pamela Barnes Ewing: [angrily] Don't you understand? J.R. and Bobby are not gonna roll over and play dead just because you want revenge! This thing could destroy *all* of us! Do you love Cliff that much?
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth: I love you and Christopher just as much. Believe me.
[Pamela glares at her]
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth: But this is something I have to do.
[turns away]
