Against All Odds Page #4

I'm gonna stay away from Jake.

And my mother.

Good.

I ought to get going.

Why?

What'd you come here for?

You know, this is the best

I've felt in years.

I think you're incredible.

You do?

Yes, I do.

There's a great canyon.

Let's go back down there.

Don't you ever have to breathe?

It's good therapy for my shoulder.

This is a dream, you know?

It's true! I've completely

forgotten about football.

You liar!

That's the first thing you've said

I don't believe.

Come here! It's true!

Then come in and prove it!

I'm not coming in there!

Come on, guapo. It's good therapy

for your shoulder.

You know, I thought Jake would

send someone awful.

How do you know I'm not awful?

Maybe I'm no different than Jake.

We haven't left each other's side

for the last two weeks.

I figure I know who you are,

Terry Brogan.

When I got my contract...

...it was the first real money

I ever had.

My lawyer took a big hunk

out of it.

But still, I bought

everything in sight.

And the girl that I was

living with at the time...

...she moved out on me.

Took all my furniture with her.

It seems funny now, but

at the time it flipped me out.

I was under a lot of pressure,

trying to make the starting lineup.

I started acting crazy,

hanging out with Jake.

We got along great.

He was as crazy as I was.

And after a couple of years,

I got my ass into debt.

I mean, really badly.

And I made a deal with him

to shave points.

You don't have to

tell me this, okay?

I'm supposed to stop now?

You said you know me.

Well, you don't. I want you to.

It was a game during the playoffs.

We were expected to win by a

four-point spread.

I was supposed to see we didn't

win by so much.

I kept putting it off

because I felt good.

You know, blow the other team out.

In the fourth quarter, they scored

14 points. Everything was great.

The spread was 4.

We were ahead by 3.

I didn't have to do anything.

Then the quarterback...

...he threw this pass.

Put it right into my hands.

It was just so perfect I just

had to catch it.

All I had to do was just

drop the f***er.

But my reflexes took over.

So their guy tackled me on the five...

...and I fumbled.

I just made my hands let go

of the ball.

It scared the sh*t out of me.

I thought everybody in the

stadium, all 55,000...

...knew I was a son of a b*tch.

So you won by three instead

of four points.

If another player

would have done that...

...you'd have to pull me off

quick, or he'd be dead.

It's still torturing you, isn't it?

See, I do know who you are.

Do you know what I wish?

I wish I'd seen you play football.

I bet you were wonderful.

God!

I can see how Jake would

go crazy without you.

All from Jake.

They stopped coming in four days ago.

We should leave here, you know.

Terry, I don't want to leave.

It's so perfect here.

Yeah, I know.

We have no choice, though.

I don't have much money left.

Can't draw from my trust

for three months.

Jake's money's all gone?

What do you mean, Jake's money?

He said you took 50 grand from him.

Steal from him,

when I want him off me?

I'd be out of my mind.

I didn't get a cent

of his goddamn money.

Well, I've got the money

he gave me so...

I'll go to the hotel

in the morning and get my bags.

We'll cover our tracks, huh?

But you have to go to

Chichen Itza alone, okay?

I gotta get Jake off our trail.

God, where have you been, Terry?

I've had 10 days in this place.

I found a guy to

get us a house in Oaxaca.

- Anywhere but here.

- I hope he's for real.

It'll cost all I've got.

- You don't know what it's like.

- Where are we going?

- People can see us.

- If they can, who cares?

Jess, come on.

Will you cool it?

You know we had to separate.

Jake thinks I'm all over

the place looking for you.

I've been to Mexico City,

Cuernavaca, Taxco.

I wired Jake. He thinks

you're in Campeche.

I wonder when was the last time

someone used this court?

Fourteen or fifteen centuries ago,

maybe.

The games here must've been

incredible. Look at this.

They even wore facemasks

and shoulder pads.

Games were a little more serious

than the ones you play.

They'd play for days. The team that

lost got their heads chopped off.

And the guys who bet on the game...

...wagered themselves,

even their children.

And if they lost, they were slaves.

You're going crazy here, aren't you?

I think I'd be crazy if I weren't.

We're getting out.

To go where?

Another place we don't belong?

We could do better.

With what?

I don't have the money Jake

and your mother have, but so what?

I'm taking care of you, aren't I?

There's money in Mexico City.

What? Whose money?

Mine.

Yours?

Jake's.

- Why didn't you tell me?

- I couldn't trust you for sure.

Since when couldn't you trust me?

- In the beginning.

- What beginning?

We've been in it

since we saw each other.

Tell me! When did you

start trusting me?

It was a risk to trust you,

all right?

I never saw it that way.

I took the risk by letting

you come with me.

You let me come with you?

It would've been

different if I were alone.

Do you think I'm caging

you in or something?

Well, it's true, isn't it?

I'm standing in your way of freedom?

Keeping you from your money...?

You're twisting what I say.

Jesus, I love you!

You've become everything I'm about!

Can't anyone love me

without it being...

...life or death to them?

Most people are afraid they're

never going to be loved like that.

Terry, wait!

I've lied and used people all my life

because I thought everybody did.

Everyone except my brother, and look

where it got him.

It's just so hard for me

to trust anyone.

I'm not anyone.

I know.

I know you're not, and I'm trying.

I want to trust you.

God, I love you!

I love you.

Come on. The park's closing.

Let's go to the sweathouse.

There's somebody in here.

- Where?

- There's somebody there.

Sully!

- What the f***...?

- Sorry I walked in on you.

Walked in on me?

What the hell are you doing here?

What am I doing here?

What are we doing here?

You're in a lot of trouble.

I came to...

...talk some sense into you.

You came here to talk to me?

If a tired old guy like

me can find you...

What are you talking about?

Who is he, Terry?

Hank Sully. He's with the Outlaws.

Jake sent him.

That's crazy.

I know his name!

He called Jake at the house.

Talk to me, Sul.

Why did you leave the team

in the middle of the season?

Come on, talk!

What do you want from me?

That jackass Caxton and her

old lady screwing up the team.

You know, if Mr. Wyler were

alive, I'd be head coach.

I think about that a lot.

So I just figured, f*** it!

I'd do something for me

for a change.

I was close to you guys. I knew

who was in debt, and how deep.

So when Jake wanted...

...I could always finger

who was ready to break.

You're going home from here with

nothing. You know that.

Wise will send someone

a lot tougher than me.

Hank, come on.

Man, this is crazy.

- How much trouble are you in?

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