Conundrum, Extended Altered Series Finale 1991

by cardiff1984

JR is on the brink of suicide. He's lost Ewing Oil and the majority and remaining Ewing family members have left South fork. JR is shown what the world would have been like if had never been born, with extended/Altered scenario's and extra character re-appearances. Plus, several different Ending outcomes with shocking revelations.

2. Chapter 2

JR is on the brink of suicide. Ewing Oil is now owned by Cliff Barnes and every Ewing family member, except Bobby and Christopher have left SouthFork. It's a lonley place for JR and all his bad deeds, have come back to haunt him - literately. JR lays drunk with a gun in hand on a deck chair near the pool, when Adam a supposed Guardian Angel appears to him. Adam offers JR the chance to see what the world would be like if he'd never been born. JR thinks Adam is crazy, but the ghostly figure decides to prove otherwise.

JR's journey into his Non- Existence starts at an Insurance Company building, which used to be the Ewing Oil Building, before it went bankrupt.

"Bankrupt? JR confused. "What are you talking about?"

"Well, without you Gary was the oldest brother. When Jock was ready to retire, he was going to turn it over to him," Adam explains.

"Daddy wouldn't do anything that dumb."

"But, he did - Miss Ellie wanted it that way. Gary was always her favourite. Unfortunately, Gary wasn't cut out for the oil business and inside a couple of years - company went belly up."

JR learns that Jock died from stress at the loss of Ewing and a few years later, Ellie died from a broken heart, thus never met Clayton Farlow.

Gary lives in California, is a Lawyer, that lives in what JR calls a 'Playboy Mansion.' Gary is a better lawyer than an Oil Man. Gary is working on a divorce case involving Mr and Mrs Kingdom.

"He never married you know," Adam states. " Without you to drive him off SouthFork, he never met Valene - never had Lucy. He's just a poor, happy, Bachelor."

"Where the hell is the justice in that?"

But, Gary is a true Ewing, just like his brother, Gary beds Mr Kingdoms Attorney to compromise a deal in the divorce settlement.

JR learns another brother, called Jason was born, who stripped Bobby and Gary of their shares of SouthFork. Jason was so corrupt, he turned the once beautiful landscape into a housing estate. Jason is also married to long suffering wife, Bootsy.

Sue Ellen would become a Television Star, thus never had a alcohol abuse problem. Sue Ellen would be denied a chance at Hollywood, thanks to her not so truthful agent, but she was far from unhappy. Sue Ellen was happily married to Nicholas Pearce, who did not move to Dallas and didn't fall off the balcony to his death, three years earlier.

"Sue Ellen was obviously going to be alright, whether JR Ewing existed or not," Adam points out."