Dallas1978

[In the evening at the Dallas Memorial Hospital. Knocking on the door, is the Detective Kane to questioning J.R. Ewing while eating his dinner in bed]

Detective Kane:
Mr. Ewing?

J.R. Ewing:
Hmm?

Detective Kane:
I'm Detective Kane, Dallas P.D.

[Showing his Police Detective I.D. badge from his jacket]

Detective Kane:
I'd like to talk to you about last night, the, uh, shooting?

J.R. Ewing:
Yeah. Well, it's about time. I assume you got that fruit cake wife mine locked up.

Detective Kane:
Uh, no, sir, we don't.

J.R. Ewing:
You don't?

Detective Kane:
As a matter a fact she wants us to bring charges against you for the murder of Nicholas Pearce and attempted assault on her.

J.R. Ewing:
This a joke, right? You're not really a policeman? Somebody hired you to do this to me? Yeah, I know who. Cliff Barnes and it's sound like that moron sense of humor. Huh?

Detective Kane:
Mr. Ewing, I am who I say I am, and your wife wants charges filed against you.

J.R. Ewing:
God, it's not an option try to kill me. She's filing charges against me, too?

Detective Kane:
Well, now, you threw Nicholas Pearce off your terrace?

J.R. Ewing:
Well, of course I do. Hell, the man was intend on killing me, I just trying to protect myself, that's all.

Detective Kane:
That's not what Mrs. Ewing said.

J.R. Ewing:
Well, Mrs. Ewing is a flat out all faced liar. Uh, did you see my door in my apartment? They kicked it in, came in, threatened me, both physically and otherwise?

[Scoffs]

J.R. Ewing:
I'll tell you, I - I just did what any good Texans will do. I was defending my home against intruders.

Detective Kane:
You mean you pulled the gun on him?

J.R. Ewing:
Well, I had no choice. But I didn't start that fight. Pearce jumped me. He was pounding on me and I was trying get away. He was after me all the time. And, well, when he went over the balcony, he was only because slipped trying to pushed me over. And then I turned around, there was Sue Ellen, standing there with the gun in her hand, she looked me straight in the eye, pull trigger. You want to know why?

Detective Kane:
She says you came after her?

J.R. Ewing:
That's a damn lie. She shot me. Because her lover was dead, or didn't she tell you they were lovers, huh? Well, if you don't know, you're the only one on Dallas. Nope. Vengeance. It was vengeance, pure and simple on her part. And I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna file attempted murder charges against her.

Detective Kane:
Now, Mr. Ewing, you can both be guilty of attempted murder?

J.R. Ewing:
That's right. So the sooner you get out of here and lock that woman up the safer I'm gonna feel.