'Dallas' Season Finale Recap: J.R.'s Killer Is...  Did Cliff
Barnes put the final bullet in the Texas oil baron?  Yahoo TV
Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing and Ken Kercheval as Cliff Barnes on
TNT's "Dallas."  View photo   SPOILER ALERT: This recap of the
second-season finale of "Dallas" contains storyline and
character spoilers.  We already knew who shot J.R. Ewing the
first time around, way back in 1980, but who put the final
bullet in the Texas oil baron who took great delight in being
called a "scoundrel"?  It was J.R. himself. Sort of.  In a
twisty Season 2 finale that paid homage to both Larry Hagman's
iconic J.R. Ewing character and the "Who shot J.R.?" storyline
from the original series, the "Dallas" writers revealed it was
J.R. who had plotted his own murder, part of a grand scheme to
put an end to the decades-long Ewing/Barnes feud while ensuring
it was the Ewings who emerged victorious.  J.R. didn't pull the
trigger himself, however. In a letter to brother Bobby (Patrick
Duffy), J.R. revealed he had been