When we last left Dallas or—to be more succinct—Tamaulipas, John Ross faced the barrel of Nicolas Trevino’s gun while Trevino had Luis’ pistol trained on the back of his neck, to make sure he did the deed. Surprising a whopping total of nobody, Junior manages to get a flick of his Zippo off and instantaneously Cartel goons start dropping. Rent-a-soldiers swarm in and take El Pozolero, Luis and the rest down. The news reaches Southfork that all is well and John Ross is safe. Yay Blackwater? That hurts just to type. After this, I’ll have to read some Jeremy Scahill in atonement.
Junior returns home to a hero’s welcome and, for once, everyone is happy. Junior’s partners in Ewing Global—Bobby, Sue Ellen, Christopher and Pamela—discover that the Cartel’s majority stake in the company has been seized by the Treasury Department. It will likely be sold back to them once the government learns of the nefarious means Hunter McKay used to buy it. Annie’s happy: she gets back with Bobby and it seems that her daughter Emma has seen the error of her promiscuous ways. Fortune tosses Harris Ryland a smile: he and the C.I.A. are now square, and his handler George offers a nice parting gift—prosecution of Ryland’s mom Judith for conspiracy to distribute narcotics. Cueball turns the offer down but accepts a recording of Ma wheeling and dealing with Luis. It’ll come in handy when the old bat tries to force him to eat all his vegetables.
Yup. Take a picture, y’all. This is Dallas and Ewings don’t stay happy for long.
Elena’s definitely not happy. She gets invited to Trevino’s penthouse for dinner and explanations, but finds her phone that Nicolas hid while they were on the lam. She receives a call from Chris, who informs her that her brother Drew’s autopsy revealed that his body had been moved from the actual place of death and … a bunch of blah-blah-blah CSI jargon. They figure that the Cartel killed him and made it look like a suicide. Trevino makes it home but whatever plans he might have had gets squashed when Elena confronts him with Drew’s St. Christopher medal that Nic snatched from his neck before he killed him. She proceeds to go full-on Annie Oakley on his sorry duplicitous self, winging and kneecapping him before he escapes in an elevator.
Junior shows up with flowers at Pamela’s place just in time to witness his own cuckolding. Turns out Pamela’s not happy either. She still nurses a hardcore grudge against her wayward husband for his shagging Emma and with the financial help of the guy in her bed, Nasir the Sheikh’s son, plans to take control of Ewing Global after a next-day meeting with the Treasury Department. But before she can even change the drapes at the office, Bobby and Sue Ellen show up with news that her preemptory strike has been preempted with a loan from Carlos del Sol. They met with the government and bought the company back. Pamela storms out.
Since Uncle Bobby and his mom froze him out of their plans to take back the company and took away his ownership as some kind of life lesson, so now John Ross isn’t happy. After a good sob story about his birthright being stolen from him, he decides to get proactive and seeks out someone else that isn’t having the best day either: Ma Ryland. She’s getting the cold shoulder from Emma and is rightfully suspicious that Harris is holding something on her. She gives Junior the photos that she secretly took of his visit to her cathouse, and in return he gives her the Cartel recordings that Harris would have gotten from George. Junior also pays Emma a visit, and she gives him a folder containing information she hoped to use as leverage against him.
In lockup, El Pozolero and company are really unhappy with their plans being dashed by Nicolas turning snitch. He promises to serve up a nice cold broth of revenge (borscht, perhaps), but before he can get into the kitchen he and the rest of his incarcerated goons get snuffed by Trevino’s paid thugs. Now the head of the Cartel, Nicolas swears that he will have Elena by his side once more, since he left her a little present. Smash cut to Elena ralphing her guts up in a tacky corner store bathroom, with a pregnancy test nearby. The dream-killer (I dunno…a “pee-stick”? my wife said when I asked what that thing is called; I went with mine) reads positive. She comes outside to watch Christopher’s waiting car go up in flames and another car go speeding off into the night.
At the office, Bobby and Sue Ellen reflect on another W in their column when John Ross comes in. Since Bobby had to vacate the Railroad Commission since he’s an awl-man again, the Guv’nor had to appoint someone else to take office. Enter his new partner Ma Ryland, who promises to make getting the Arctic energy to port hell for the Ewings. In the back of a limo, as he talks with Bub about what was in the folder that Emma gave him: John Ross has a sister, and he wants her found. Chilling with a glass of his Daddy’s Select, he laughs as the limo rolls down the highway.
And that’s Season 3, folks. Hope y’all had as much fun as I did over these months and I hope to see you soon.
