Jerry Maguire Page #23

INT. ROY FIRESTONE SHOW -- NIGHT

Roy Firestone leans forward.

FIRESTONE:

...your father who left the family

on Christmas eve, the mother who

cleaned the steps of a prison to

make your tuition. The older

brother who lost a leg in that

tragic bass fishing accident --

Tidwell is wearing glasses now, in a somewhat scholarly mode.

TIDWELL:

No, Roy. I'm not gonna cry.

FIRESTONE:

-- well, Rod, your agent passed me

a note before the show. He says

that your deal memo has been

signed by the Arizona Cardinals.

Four years for ten-point-two

million dollars. Playing in the

state where you grew up.

ON TIDWELL -- WEEPING

TIDWELL:

I... I love everybody, man. I

love my wife. My kids. Little

Tyson. My new baby Kaydee. My

brother Tee Pee. I love my

friends, my teammates, who am I

leaving out?

FIRESTONE:

(laughing)

It's only a half-hour show, Rod.

ON TIDWELL'S FRIENDS AND FAMILY

watching off-camera. Marcee crying too. Shot takes us to

Jerry, Dorothy and Ray.

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131.

TIDWELL:

Wanna send some beautiful love out

to my offensive line, just a

beautiful bunch of dudes, wanna

thank a beautiful individual --

God, and of course the entire

Arizona organization, a little

slow, but they do come around.

I'm leaving somebody out...

Amused and finally glimpsing the end of a long journey, Jerry

leans over to Marcee.

JERRY:

Take care, Marcee. We'll see you

at the restaurant.

She nods, emotionally, biting her lip.

TIDWELL:

Oh yes. Jerry Maguire! My agent!

This is a fierce, loving

individual, I love this man, he is

love, he is about love -- my

ambassador of kwan.

FIRESTONE:

Ten seconds, Rod.

TIDWELL:

And I love my fans, of which he is

one. Wanna thank them for all my

Sundays, and of course my Monday

nights too. That about says it...

Jerry watches wonderously at the monitor before leaving. TV

credits are rolling on the show.

TIDWELL:

(continuing)

Wait! And thank you Melvin from

the Casual Man, thank you for the

suit...

EXT. PARKING LOT -- DAY

Jerry, Dorothy, Ray exit into the daylight. They walk to

Jerry's car. From across the fence, a stray baseball from a

pick-up game flies into the parking lot and bounces ahead of

them. Ray picks it up. In an easy fluid motion, he whips it

back over the fence to the game on the other side. A few

kids on the other side of the fence shout their approval of

a great little throw.

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Jerry and Dorothy stop, looking at Ray who has just shown

shocking natural ability. They are quiet for a moment,

turning slowly to look at each other. And then, not ready to

deal with it, not even close to ready to deal with it, they

say quickly to the boy:

JERRYDOROTHY:

Come on, Ray. Ray, let's go.

Happily Ray joins them as they walk to the car. A family.

Music.

FADE OUT:

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