Jeremy paid April a visit and asked if she'd spoken to J.R. about MacArthur Mining. April said J.R. was too distracted with other things to concentrate on business. Jeremy then told her that he knew where Jack was. This got April interested, but Jeremy refused to tell her until she got J.R. to spill the beans about MacArthur Mining.

J.R. was forced to tell the family (sans Clayton and Miss Ellie, who are away on vacation) about B.D. Calhoun, although he twisted the story a little, stating that Calhoun had asked him to sponsor his mission to raise the price of oil, and only found out when it was too late that Calhoun meant to blow up the Saudi Arabian oil wells. Pam and Sue Ellen took the kids on a trip to California to get away from Southfork. Before parting, Pam clung to Bobby. "I don't know what I'd do without you," she said. I do. She'd cry a bit, move into his offices at Ewing Oil, and then Mark Graison would come back from the dead and she'd marry him. Sue Ellen overheard J.R. apologizing to John Ross while he slept for having started all this, and how he did all of this so he would have a Ewing Oil to inherit. Sue Ellen was touched. J.R. proposed a night together. "You're talking about a night. I'm talking about a lifetime," Sue Ellen said and went back to her room. Calhoun was in California waiting for them and kidnapped John Ross from the swimming pool. J.R., Bobby, and Ray immediately went to California and received a videotape of Calhoun saying he'd kill John Ross is J.R. didn't come meet him at a children's playground.

As J.R. left, armed with his trusty gun, Bobby and Ray stopped him in the lobby, wanting to come along, too. J.R. told them to stay behind, and Bobby and Ray didn't argue. J.R. then went to the playground, which was actually a huge assortment of life-sized traincars which I guess the tykes are supposed to climb around on and pretend they're hobos and what not. It must not have been a popular idea because it was abandoned in the middle of the afternoon on a perfectly sunny day. Calhoun shot at J.R. for a while, J.R. ducking in between the traincars. Calhoun allowed J.R. to see John Ross tied up and gagged in the conductor's seat of a locomotor. Calhoun shot at J.R. again for a little while more, and finally stopped. J.R. almost got to John Ross before Calhoun got the jump on him. He challenged J.R. for an old-fashioned draw on the count of three, and mentioned that he knew J.R. had deterred Bobby and Ray from following him at the hotel. J.R., being no John Wayne, was obviously not prepared for Calhoun to fire at "two". J.R. was hit in the stomach and fell to the ground. J.R. pleaded with Calhoun not to make John Ross watch his daddy die. Calhoun was shocked, asking "what kind of a man do you think I am?". After all, the Bible says the sins of the father are revisited on their sons. Thus, Calhoun was going to kill John Ross and make J.R. watch! But just as Calhoun prepared to shoot John Ross, Bobby and Ray shot Calhoun, having followed J.R. to the train graveya...er, playground. They had counted on Calhoun overhearing that conversation in the hotel.

And so, the Ewings of Southfork Ranch rode into the sunset and lived (un)happily ever after.