J.R. hopes to trick Sue Ellen into giving up custody; Jenna breaks things off with Jack; Pam wants to vacation with Mark; Clayton makes a deal without Miss Ellie's knowledge
Krystle goes into premature labor and delivers a baby girl, who suffers from respiratory problems. She names the child Kristina after a friend who once saved her life. Claudia is uneasy when Steven accompanies Luke on a business trip. After confiding in Dean Caldwell, he moves to hug her, and the two are soon in a passionate embrace. Amanda overhears Dex tell Alexis to stop hiding the identity of Amanda's father. Jeff finds a photo of Peter DeVilbis in Nikki's hotel room.moreless
Bobby and Ray seek to halt J.R.'s deal to ship oil to Cuba; Sue Ellen worries her personal life could hamper J.R. if he enters politics; Donna thinks greed is motivating Mickey's interest in Lucy; Cliff rebounds from Rebecca's deathmoreless
Katherine schemes to get Bobby where he'll see Pam with Mark Graison; Holly isn't pleased with J.R.'s Caribbean oil dealings; Clayton sells the Southern Cross and moves closer to Southfork
J.R. and Sue Ellen's wedding day arrives; Ray doesn't want Mickey to get involved with Lucy; the Cartel wants J.R. to stop over-producing crude; Donna makes a decision on the offer to serve on the Texas Energy Commissionmoreless
Afton and Sue Ellen try to help their men get a lucrative refinery contract; J.R. doesn't care to see Miss Ellie socializing with men; Pam begs Bobby to end the contest for Ewing Oil, fearing it's tearing the family apartmoreless
Miss Ellie comes to accept that Jock is dead and makes a decision on Donna's book; Bobby helps the police set up a sting to catch Farraday's killers; Cliff is fired for embezzlement by his mother; J.R. tries to win back Sue Ellenmoreless
Unaware that Christopher is he, J.R. looks for what happened to Kristin's son; Ray begins to put his life back together; Mitch asks for a divorce from Lucy; J.R. meets Katherine Wentworth
J.R. seeks to acquire Ray's Ewing Oil voting shares and end Sue Ellen and Cliff's friendship; Bobby makes inroads to adopting Christopher; Donna starts work on her next book; seeing Mitch with another woman sends Lucy to another manmoreless
A woman fakes a suicide attempt in order to get her boyfriend to come out into the open and, unknown to her, expose himself to an assassination attempt.