Dallas Continuation
Cliff reappeared in the 2012 continuation of the series, which doesn't regard the 1990s Dallas telefilms as canon, and thus pick up 20 years after the original series concluded.
As the series begins, Cliff is involved in a casino business. He returns to Dallas and has a meeting with Bobby at Southfork Ranch. Cliff wants to buy Southfork, which Bobby has put up for sale. J.R. walks in on their conversation and warns Cliff against trying to buy the Ewing family home. Cliff later invites his adoptive nephew, Christopher and his new wife, Rebecca, to dinner and expresses an interest in investing in Christopher's energy project. Christopher declines, as he thinks that Cliff just wants to antagonize the Ewings again; however, Cliff warns him not to let the Ewings destroy him like they did his adoptive mother, Pamela. When J.R. arrives at Sue Ellen's office to give her Miss Ellie's pearls, a good luck charm for her Texas gubernatorial campaign, Cliff arrives to take Sue Ellen to lunch to discuss politics. When questioned about trying to buy Southfork, Cliff announces, "I will never stop fighting for what is rightfully mine."
It is revealed in the season one finale that Christopher's wife, Rebecca, is indeed Cliff and Afton's daughter, Pamela Rebecca Cooper, from the original series. Now she goes by the name Rebecca Barnes, although posing as Rebecca Sutter. Cliff is shown to be behind Rebecca's attempt to hustle Christopher.
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