Forced to Fight Page #5

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It's all right, sweetheart.

This is your fault.

What?

He never got into fights

before you came around.

Is this what you've been doing?

Teaching him to fight?

I mean when you're not too busy

sneaking around hitting on my wife.

Shane!

- Hitting on your wife? Are you insane?

- CONNIE:
In your room now.

Go to your room now.

I took you into my home,

the stupidest thing I've ever done,

and this is how you pay me back?

Are you kidding me?

I don't know what you're thinking.

You wanna know what I'm thinking?

While I'm busy fighting your battles for you,

Sucking up to my son, sucking up to my wife,

pretending like this is your home.

Well, it's not.

- Shane, no.

- You stay out of this.

SHANE:
I took you in, I took care of you,

and I told you this is the last time

(BREATH ES H EAVILY)

or I'm done.

I don't care anymore,

and I want you out of my house now.

- Shane, no.

- SCOTTY:
No, Connie.

Connie, it's okay, he's right.

You're right.

I should've never let this happen.

I shouldn't have stayed so long.

But you know what?

ljust got used to being part of it, okay?

All right, so I'm sorry.

- Scotty, please.

- It's okay, Connie.

SHANE:
Leave him alone.

Scotty, please don't go.

SCOTTY:
Connie, it's okay, really.

- Just let him go.

- SCOTTY:
It's cool.

SCOTTY:
N0, but thank you.

You know, for taking me in

and trying to straighten me out.

You know, maybe one day

I could return the favor and...

Yeah, what are the chances of that, huh?

Give me a break.

- What?

- CONNIE:
Are you happy?

You know, for your information,

it was you who gave James the idea

he should stick up for himself, not Scotty.

- What are you talking about?

- Yeah, you.

And you're the one

who told him not to be a crybaby.

And you're the one

who didn't even bother to look at his project.

You know he built that thing

to make his daddy proud?

And when that failed, he got into a fight

to make his daddy proud.

- He told you that?

- He didn't have to.

Shane, don't you get it?

This isn't Scotty's fault, this is our fault.

I mean...

- Connie, I'm sorry...

- No!

Whatever you have to say,

say it to your son.

I will always be here, but your son?

You need to talk to him right now.

(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

(SIGHS)

Hey, buddy.

You Okay?

I am really sorry, okay?

You know, you didn't do anything wrong.

I've just been going through some...

This crazy adult stuff, you know?

I was completely out of line.

S0 I'm really sorry.

You know I love you, right?

Okay.

I love you more than anything.

JAMES:
I love you, too.

I'm gonna look for Scotty.

I think I owe him an apology.

That's what I've been trying to tell you.

Hey, Danny.

Hiya, kid.

Look, ljust came

to square up with you, okay?

Too late for that.

No, it's not too late.

I still owe you that 30 grand, remember?

Turns out your brother's a real goldmine,

so your 30 grand

it don't cut no ice with me.

I'm...

What are you saying,

you're gonna leave us alone now?

That we're good, we're done?

We're not done.

You cross me, you hurt my feelings.

You hurt my feelings, you hurt my reputation.

"My reputation, my reputation.

Oh, my reputation."

You know who said that?

No.

Some mutt named Cassio

in an old limey play about a schvartze.

(GUN C*CKS)

Now we're done.

CONNIE:
Well?

I'll look again in the morning

after I take James to school.

(TIRES SQUEALING)

(HORN HONKING)

Wait here.

(TIRES SQUEALING)

No.

No,no,no!

(SOBS)

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

(SOBBING)

DANNY G:

Your brother had to go, but his debt remains,

so find me before I find you.

So you have no idea

who might have done this?

Scotty led a pretty rough life.

Like I told you earlier,

he's just been staying with us

for the past few weeks

to recover from a run-in.

With Who?

Couldn't tell you.

FORTINSKI:
Well, it looks like

you had a run-in with someone, too.

No.

Not really.

Look, you seem like a smart guy.

Maybe you got involved in something

over your head like your brother did.

And maybe that something is over now.

It is for him.

But if it's not over,

you be a smart guy and you call me.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

Ma'am, I'll let myself out.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Why didn't you tell him, Shane?

Why didn't you tell him the truth?

Or something worse.

What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna put an end to this.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

Hey, Frank.

Oh, hey.

Just wanna say I'm sorry, man.

No, it's okay.

You went a little crazy,

but this whole thing is crazy.

It's Scotty.

- He's dead.

- Oh, my God.

I'm so sorry, Shane.

I'm gonna need your help.

Fortinski. Yeah.

Yeah.

Right. Okay, listen.

Just where are you now?

Hold tight, I'll be right there.

Okay?

(ENGINE STARTING)

What do you got, a banana in your ear?

Are you f***ing deaf?

Pull over, pull over, there he is.

Pull over, pull over.

Well, look at you, up and around already.

I could kill you right now with my bare hands.

I could've killed you

when I killed your brother.

But what good would that do?

Everybody loses.

Look, we got a good thing going here.

I want you to win again.

I want you to leave my family alone.

I can do that, but you gotta square the 27K

your brother owed me.

Fine.

Fine.

I'm a fair man.

I got a proposition for you.

Just hear me out. I got a proposition for you.

I got it streamed in around the world

from my new server in the Ukraine.

You fight, and you fight to win.

If you still remember how.

You fight, you square your debt,

you and your family get to fly away.

You lose...

Well.

VVhen?

When? Now, tonight.

Why the hell should I trust you?

What, like you got some kind of choice?

You'd be surprised.

You'd be surprised

who's watching your family right now.

Hit it.

Connie?

James?

(CROWD CHEERING)

Thank you, attention,

may I have your attention?

May I have your attention?

Hey, shut up, you mutts!

Thank you!

Welcome this evening to Danny G Fights.

I'm your host, Danny G.

Thank you very much.

Welcome to the most absolutely

mesmerizing, pulverizing, brutalizing

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between man to man

on heaven or Earth.

I know you're just creaming in your jeans

to see what kind of event

we've got for you tonight.

'Cause we're gonna see one man,

one man fight for his life,

and that man is Shane Slavin!

(CROWD BOOING)

lknovv, lknovv, he's been

a little bit disappointing to you lately.

That's why we brought him here, kiddies.

We brought him here

to see if he can still kick ass.

Well, he can kick ass with the best of them.

He can kick ass alone.

If there are doubters among you,

pony up the loot,

or shut up and go home to Mommy.

So let's kick it with the first event of the night,

Shane Slavin

Varga!

(CROWD CHANTING) Fight! Fight! Fight!

DANNY G:
Hey, how about it, Shane?

You ready to quit?

Quit while you're ahead. Huh?

Let's go!

And now the next battle.

Shane Slavin

That all you got?

And the winner is...

Got anymore?

Just bring it on!

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