The aftermath of Pam’s disappearance saw a parade of women pass through Southfork seeking to make a life with Bobby. Pam barely survived a fiery car accident in 1987 and died a few years later of cancer while under the care of a doctor whom she married while Bobby and Christopher moved on with their lives back in Dallas. Pam (Victoria Principal) was overjoyed when she first laid eyes on Christopher. Pam eventually learned the truth, but succeeded in adopting Chris with Bobby and they hoped to raise him together. and he didn’t have the heart to tell his jubilant wife that Christopher wasn’t meant for her. Bobby, thinking Christopher was J.R.’s love child by Kristin, brought him to Southfork but Pam saw him before he could confront J.R. An accident - involving J.R., of course - caused Pam to miscarry the first baby she conceived with Bobby and for a long time thereafter it was believed she could not carry a baby to full term. Although Chris’ beginnings were tinged with tragedy - both his birth parents met early deaths - he was destined to land safely in the loving arms of Bobby and Pam Ewing, the star-crossed Romeo and Juliet of Southfork who so craved to share their love with a child. Luckily for him, Dallas writers seized on an opportunity to prove that nurture, not nature, determines a person’s moral compass. Clearly, Christopher didn’t come from good stock. Farraday, a Los Angeles-based drug dealer and all-around shifty guy, was Christopher’s biological father and his birth mother was Sue Ellen’s younger sister Kristin Shepard, whose resume included husband stealing, blackmail and attempted murder. Then again, life for Christopher could have been worse had it not been for the fortuitous twist of Bobby intercepting Jeff Farraday’s blackmail plan against J.R. However, next to more colorful characters like John Ross and Nicolas, he couldn’t help but come across a bit bland. He was at his best when he was the knight in shining armor. Intended to be the moral center of the show’s new generation, like his father Bobby had been during the show’s ’80s heyday, Christopher had the not-always enthralling duty of standing up for what’s right and good. In many ways, he was the least likely of the Ewings expected to meet death in such a manner. The sudden death of Christopher Ewing in last week’s season finale of Dallas was an explosive turn of events, both literally and figuratively.
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