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matter with you?

-Stop it!

-What have I got

to do with you?

-Help me! Somebody help me!

-Shut up!

Monica, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to hurt you.

-I'm sorry.

-(SOBBING) Don't touch me.

-Please, don't touch me.

-I'm not going to hurt you.

Wait, let me get a washcloth.

Oh, God.

Monica!

Hey, Monica?

Monica?

(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)

(SCREAMS)

-Monica?

-(SCREAMS)

-Help me!

-Hey, hey, it's okay.

It's me. It's Tucker.

-Oh, Tucker.

-Easy, easy.

You're going to okay.

Calm down.

You're all right. You're okay.

Here, take my coat.

Hey, you kids okay?

Yeah, how much

to Tearton hotel?

Our minimum's $40.

Okay, that's fine.

Monica, what happened?

Who did this to you?

It's going to be all right.

Come on, I'll help

you to you room.

I really want to

be alone, okay?

I got to go, all right.

Hey, my 40 bucks?

Thanks.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

Garson, I want to talk to you.

Hello, country boy.

I'm just here having a drink

with my buddy Dostoyevsky.

What did you do to her?

Now there's a writer.

His family tried to force him

into being an engineer,

and he said...

What did you do to her, man?

Hey, what she do,

make up some story?

Monica never made up a story

in her life, and you know it.

So now what happened,

damn it?

Nothing happened, all right?

Why don't you

just settle down.

You want a drink?

No.

Look, I don't want

anything from you,

I just want you

to be straight.

I'm being straight!

Nothing happened, all right?

We had a little

misunderstanding.

That girl's got real problems.

You know, she imagines things.

So what did she imagine?

She's crazy,

all right, Tucker?

She actually thought that

I was trying to rape her.

Can you imagine that?

Me, the next President

of these United States.

-(CHUCKLES)

-You bastard!

WAITER:
Hey, stop. Stop!

Both out of here. Get out!

Cool down...

-Get out of here.

-Stay out.

You snake!

You're not a friend.

You're just like every other

rich a**hole in this world.

You use people

like us for kicks.

Don't give your

poor-boy bullshit.

I never did for any friend

in this world,

and you took it to use me

every chance you got.

That's a lie. No, I didn't!

Don't tell me

you don't go home at night

thinking of ways that

I could help you

in your political career.

I think Monica was right.

I overestimated you,

Muldowney.

You and your smelly cage

full of animals,

you're full of sh*t.

-Get out!

-(HORN HONKING)

All right, I bought into it.

Like everybody else,

I wanted to be just like you.

I wanted to have it all.

Did it ever once occur to you

that maybe I envy you

as much as you envy me?

Did it?

That's crazy, man.

I don't have sh*t.

No, you're wrong, Chickenman.

You've got it all,

but you don't even realize it.

I'm the one who's got sh*t.

Outside of Charlie Nichols

there's not a single

goddamn person in this world

I can trust.

Well, you can't even

trust him, homey.

What are you saying?

Your beloved Charlie Nichols,

he's been controlling you

for years.

Your father has been using him

to keep you in line.

You're lying!

Bastard, I'm going

to kick your ass.

(HORN HONKING)

Tuck, look out.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

Garson!

Oh, God!

God help me.

Somebody get an ambulance!

Get an ambulance!

Don't die.

Garson, don't die.

CHARLIE:
No.

Jesus!

Garson.

CHARLIE:
The Dean is issuing

a formal statement of default

to the NDT today.

I said that was

all right with me,

but I wanted to

talk to you first.

Why us?

The rules say, if the

first team can't go,

the second team

takes its place.

That's you.

You beat out Gore and Hooper

by one point in New York.

We never debated open,

we wouldn't stand a chance.

TUCKER:
Ah, come on,

we don't deserve to go.

I shouldn't even be alive.

We're not Garson and Chin.

Oh, I don't know.

I don't know.

That's a lot of crap.

What if I told you

you were better than Garson,

and he knew it.

You the best freshman team

I've ever coached.

You're not saying

we go to Washington.

I mean, those guys...

Those guys have debated

together for last eight years.

They've won the NDT title

for last three years straight.

So what?

Let's get something straight

about Garson, too.

I know you loved him

as much as I did,

but he wasn't a God.

He was just a kid

wanting to live out

his own dream

and nobody would let him,

especially me.

That's my problem.

Your problem is,

are you going to cut short

your own dreams,

just quit,

default to Harvard,

or try to live up

to the potential

that Gar saw in you,

and put up a fight?

I thought the Dean was

planning on defaulting us.

You face-up to your fears

I'll face up to mine.

What do you say, Tomanski?

What's it going to be,

Muldowney?

What you got to lose?

(MONICA SNIFFLES)

-Okay.

-All right.

Good.

Good.

Good...

Miriam, ring me as soon as

the NDT call comes through.

They don't want

to quit Wilson,

and I don't want

to quit either.

(PHONE RINGING)

You pick up that phone

and I'm going to shove it

right up your pompous ass.

I'm asking for investigation

into this mess,

and it's going to cost you

your professorship!

-Who cares?

-(PHONE CLATTERS)

I'm going to tell

the whole world

how we kept that kid

captive here,

how we took away his

God-given freedoms

-for our selfish motives.

-Not me.

Oh, not you. Oh, no.

What happened is New York

was your responsibility.

Everything I've ever done

I've done for the good

of the school.

Bullshit!

You and I killed that boy.

And I'm going to be around

to remind you of that

every time you look over

your shoulder.

All right, go ahead take them.

-Send the freshmen.

-I'll do that.

But you know as well as I

they don't stand a chance.

Don't be too sure of that!

REPORTER:
Good afternoon,

ladies and gentlemen.

We're in an anteroom to the

Supreme Court

for the first true

National Debate Championship

in 15 years.

Judging today's debate are

five of the nine-members

of the Supreme Court

of the United States.

Representing the NDT, the

National Debate Tournament,

Harvard College.

Representing the CEDA,

the Cross Examination

Debate Association,

Kenmont College.

Call it, Kenmont.

Uh, heads.

Tails.

Harvard, do you wish to debate

the affirmative

or the negative?

Harvard will debate

the negative.

CHARLIE:
Your flying low

won't do any good.

Oh, jeez! I went on

television like that.

MAN:
All rise.

Be seated.

Kill 'em.

All right, here we go.

These Harvard boys have egos

bigger than their brains.

Feed those egos,

don't fight them.

Maybe we get them

to lower their guard a bit.

Okay, let's kick ass.

Let the debate begin.

(AUDIENCE CLAPPING)

Go Kenmont!

(HOOTING)

(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

The affirmative will prove

that abortion is

neither legally,

nor philosophically justified.

Legally we will argue that the

Supreme Court's proper role

is to uphold and interpret

the constitution.

Not arrogantly legislate their

private moral views into law,

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