Ice Castles Page #4

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And introducing, Alexis Winston.

Ceceil, it's not important.

Ceceil, it's not important.

Only you matter.

Ceceil, come.

Ladies and gentleman,

the French national champion...

...Ceceil Monchet.

There she goes again.

Do you want to stay on this?

Okay, if she goes down again,

I'll have the girls ready.

Okay, here we go. Smile, let's go quickly!

Kill that spot.

Somebody get rid of her. Kill the spot!

It's nothing, don't worry.

Alexis?

It's nothing to do with you.

Everybody knows she wasn't well.

Maybe she shouldn't be skating anymore.

You were a smash.

Everything we've been working for,

hoping for, it's happened!

What's important is...

...that yesterday nobody knew

of Alexis Winston.

You qualified for the sectionals.

Come on.

I won't let anything happen to you, okay?

You were wonderful!

Absolutely wonderful!

Hello.

Wonderful.

Let me introduce you.

These are your sponsors.

All gone.

What do they want?

Nothing.

To see you.

Touch something that's exciting.

A winner.

And that's what you are, Lexie.

Why do they have to touch me like that?

Because they want to...

...touch someone who can do something

they can't.

-We're on display, aren't we?

-That's right.

And damned lucky

somebody wants us to be.

Everybody out there tonight,

everybody who saw you today...

...would change places with you

in a minute.

Don't worry about it.

You're the star.

You want to give it up?

No.

Scared?

I don't know what I'm scared of.

Nothing.

You're not afraid of anything.

Okay, here we go.

-Remember, concentrate.

-Give her the tight shot.

Don't zoom in yet.

Lead her, lead her.

Reviewing the overall standings here

at the Broadmoor World Arena...

...where the 23rd annual Midwest

sectionals will, we hope...

...send a champion

to the nationals next month.

All the training, all the sacrifices.

And I don't mind telling you...

...I think I'm more nervous than Alexis is.

But this is the bottom line.

And fourth overall,

the astounding new skating discovery...

...who is also training here

at Broadmoor, Alexis Winston.

Nothing, you're not afraid of anything.

Remember, nothing.

Now, ladies and gentlemen,

the girl from Waverly, Iowa...

...in fourth place overall,

Miss Alexis Winston.

-We would like to see the performance.

-Will you please sit down?

Okay, hold your horses.

Fabulous!

Ladies and gentleman,

here are the scores for Miss Winston:

5.8, 5.7, 5.7...

...5.6, 5.9, 5.8.

And we have a new

Midwest regional champion...

...Miss Alexis Winston.

This is what amateur skating is about

and we are very proud...

...because this shows

that a person like Alexis...

...anybody with the energy,

the spirit, to them no door is closed.

-Baby, thank you.

-Come here, you.

I love it! I love it!

Everything is in place

for the awarding of the trophy...

...to be presented by the President

of the Broadmoor Skating Club.

Lexie, do you hear them?

In third place,

representing the North Skating Club...

Nick!

...Susan Blake.

-Congratulations, Susan.

-Nick, you came.

In second place, the defending

national champion, a fine skater...

...who'll be a strong challenger

at the nationals...

...and later in the world competition,

Annette Brashlout.

Please Nick, I have to go.

It looks like you've got

everything you need.

Ladies and gentlemen, Alexis Winston.

Why don't you just go try out

for another hockey team?

Ladies and gentlemen,

this is what amateur skating is all about.

We, at the Broadmoor Arena....

And now, we're sure that this is

the next national champion...

...and one of America's Olympic hopes.

Ladies and gentlemen, Alexis Winston.

Oh, God, Lexie?

Here we have the first slice

of the examination.

Through the base of the brain,

we see some of the bony structures here.

And the brain itself looks fine at this point.

We're beginning to see

a bit of abnormality...

...with just a little swelling in this area.

Here's the real problem.

This white area represents

a blood clot in the brain.

And this darker area around it represents

some swelling of the brain tissue.

-It's a nice scan, Diana.

-Thank you.

And here we seem to be

right in the middle of the blood clot here.

It looks like it's a little smaller than it was

on the prior study, a few days ago.

So, there has been some lysis.

What is that?

That just means that it's dissolving.

The body is taking care of the clot.

I don't see any new clot.

This was the one done the day

that she came in and was injured.

It's a bit bigger here on this first day.

And this, I believe, was three days later.

And it's a little smaller then

and it appears to be even smaller now.

I don't see any new bleeding into the area.

Let's print them, Diana.

Hi, babe.

Daddy?

Is she blind or isn't she?

When she first woke up from the coma...

...she said all she saw was darkness.

At least now she reports

seeing some light and shadows.

Usually this sort of thing...

...either gets better or worse

in a few days after the injury.

After that,

what you have is what you have.

I'm sorry we couldn't do more.

I understand she was very promising.

Yes, she was very promising.

Lexie?

Honey, Brian's on the phone again.

Come on, Lexie,

he just wants to know how you are.

Tell him.

What?

Goddamn it, I'm not talking

through closed doors in my own house.

Tell him what?

I said, tell him how I am.

Tell him I can't see.

Is that what you want? Tell him

that you just sit here and you don't see?

Yes!

It's still a pretty place, Lex.

If you shut your eyes...

...you can put together

a pretty good picture of this place.

I want to go home.

What the hell's going on?

Hey, Marcus,

what the hell do you think you're doing?

Marcus, what's the matter with you?

You drunk or something?

Christ, Marcus, I'm not out of the pit yet.

Damn it. Stop it!

What the hell is he trying to do?

What the hell are you trying to do, Marcus?

I said, stop it now!

You get out of here

or I'm going to get Matt.

Get Matt down here. Get him to set

those pins. There are no pins down there.

You've got ten seconds

to get your ass out of here.

Did she ever talk to you?

You just go to the house

and go up to her room. Is that it?

What do you talk about, Beulah?

You go up.

You're both skaters.

You both won the regionals.

-What the hell, you got a lot to talk about!

-She won the sectionals.

We watch TV.

What?

I said, we watch TV.

But she can't see it.

She listens.

She listens, and I watch.

All right?

I don't know what to do with her.

She says, "What's the point

graduating from high school?"

The least she could do is graduate. Right?

Why?

You're a great, goddamn help, Bea.

If you hadn't filled her with all that crap:

"Everybody's got to do it

just once in their life."

She did it just once.

Don't you start up with me, Marcus!

Don't you dare start up with me.

You sitting out there...

...hanging on to her like some damn doll!

I just want her to be okay.

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