Man On Fire Page #3

- That's good.

- The gunshot holds no fear!

- That's good.

You welcome the sound.

In fact, it's the sound

that sets you free.

You are a prisoner on this block

until that sound sets you free.

- Are you ready? Are you ready?

- Yes. Yes.

- Are you set?

- Uh-huh.

- Creasy?

- Hmm?

- What's a concubine?

- Why do you ask?

It's in my history book.

- Oh.

- It's like a wife, right?

Yeah. Yes, uh... Can I see that?

- Kind of a wife.

- Right there.

But the emperor of China

had 1,000 of them.

Um...

Okay, like nowadays in-in the West,

they have one husband for one wife.

But in the olden time cultures,

they had, uh...

you know, different...

uh, different rules.

- Why, you feel sorry for the husband?

- Yeah.

Can you imagine my mom

multiplied by a thousand?

[Chuckles]

Creasy. You're smiling.

- What?

- You were smiling.

- No, I'm not. No, I was not.

- You were.

- You're not now, but you were.

- You were smiling. I wasn't.

- You were.

- When?

- Like five seconds ago.

- I'm not smiling.

- A second ago you were.

- You said five seconds ago. Now that's six.

- Six seconds ago I wasn't smiling.

- Ten seconds ago.

Ten seconds ago I was smiling. Okay, in

the next 10 seconds, let's see who smiles first.

- You smiled already. See? You did.

- Mmm!

- No, that wasn't a... That was a smirk.

- Yeah, you...

That's not a smile.

A smirk is different.

They both start with "S," but they're

not the same... Do your homework.

You were.

Bang!

Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Come back, come back.

- Bang!

- [Inhales]

Stop, stop, stop, stop,

stop, stop, stop, stop. Come here.

Hurry up, hurry up. Set.

Bang!

Bang!

You don't flinch when you hear

the gunshot, understand?

You listen for the sound.

You don't anticipate.

- Concentrate on the sound.

You understand me?

- [Inhales]

They're gaining on you!

Go, go, go, go, go, go! Stop! Stop!

Come on, get out.

Let's go again. Let's go again.

[Both Speaking Spanish]

- Gracias. Come here, girl!

- Daddy!

- [Squeals]

- Oh, I missed you so much.

- I missed you too.

- How are you doing? I got a surprise for you.

- You do?

- Ready?

- Huh?

- You got me a dog! You finally got me a dog!

- What do you think?

- Oh, my gosh.

- Just what I wanted. What's his name?

- Sam, like Dad.

Great! Come on, Sam!

Come on, Sam!

- State.

- Mm-hmm.

Bhutan.

It's a Himalayan kingdom.

They were having some problems

with their royal family not that long ago.

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

Any more questions?

- Do you have a girlfriend?

- What?

- Do you have a girlfriend?

- No.

What kind of question is that?

You're supposed to be studying history.

- That is history. Creasy history.

- No, that's ancient history.

- No more questions.

- Who was your very first girlfriend?

Nonya. Nonya business.

That's who.

- Okay?

- [Lisa Clears Throat] Hi.

Tomorrow after you drop off Pita,

could you take me to get my hair done?

- Yes, ma'am.

- All right.

Well, um, I'll leave you two

to your history.

- Good night.

- Good night, honey.

- Okay, now ask me.

- Ask you what?

- [Shouts]

- [Water Splashing]

[Bruno Shouting Encouragement

In Spanish]

Go, Pita, go. Go! Go, go, go, go!

[Shouting In Spanish]

Go, go, go, go, go.

- [Beeps]

- [Bruno] Bravo! Muy bien!

- 10.99.

- Yes!

Whoo!

[Spits Water]

- I'm tough, Creasy.

- No such thing as tough.

There's trained,

then there's untrained.

- Now, which are you?

- Trained.

Trained. Okay. Let's go again.

[Horn Sounding]

- Here.

- Stand here near the finish line.

Okay. Hey.

I'm a prisoner in the block

until the gunshot sets me free.

- Don't smile, don't fool around

if you want to win.

- Okay.

- You want to win? Trained or untrained?

- Trained.

Go.

- Seor Creasy, nice to see you.

- Oh, good to see you, Madre.

Pita's parents are away

on business in Jurez. I was...

Today you are her father.

[Inhales, Exhales]

[Crowd Cheering, Screaming]

[Cheering]

[Announcer Speaking Spanish]

Pita Ramos!

[Squealing]

I won! Creasy! I won!

- Okay.

- I won!

[Laughs]

[All Laughing]

- Once upon a time, when we were young...

- When I was young.

Well, when we were young

and he was younger...

all heads turned our way.

We made a deal

to take the world together.

Yeah, then one day

I got a call, and he said...

- [Wailing]

- "I'm in love! I'm in love!

And I'm moving to Mexico."

And... [Laughing] I said...

- "What happened to the plan?

What happened to it?"

- [Wails]

I said, "The plan's right here."

Yeah. Yeah. And what'd I do?

I hung up, then I met Alicia...

and then I went,

"Oh, now I got you! I got you."

I got it. Can I kiss her? Is that...

Absolutely!

Hey, what are you doing?

- You got me.

- Okay, I think now is a good a time as any.

I bought it with my own money.

Open it.

It's St. Jude,

patron saint of lost causes.

Wow.

Well deserved.

Thank you, Pita. It's beautiful.

You're welcome.

- Dad.

- Yes, sweetie?

Can I talk to you?

Yes.

I don't want to play piano.

I want to swim.

It's not open for discussion,

honey, okay?

Mr. Lozzi's a very, very famous teacher,

and if he accepts you as his student...

you're gonna play the piano.

[Whispers]

Whatever.

Baby.

- I love you.

- I love you.

- I just want what's best

for you, you know that?

- Okay.

Okay, honey.

If you broke all my fingers,

then taped them back together...

I wouldn't be able to play piano,

but I could still swim.

- Sam, get back.

- [Whimpers]

Don't be a crybaby.

You're tougher than that.

Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit.

- Remember the day you wanted the pencil?

- Yeah.

I know why.

- Yeah?

- You wanted the license number

off of that car.

I wrote it down in my notebook.

I got it all but the last number.

I'll get it from you lat...

Can you belch?

Burp. Can you burp?

- [Inhales, Belches]

- [Laughing]

That's good. That's very good.

- I just had a Coke.

- All right. Listen.

Now, this teacher,

this famous teacher...

He teaches a lot of rich kids

and plays for the symphonies, right?

- Right.

- You belch every few minutes

while you're practicing.

- Okay.

- You apologize to him, but you keep belching.

- You'll offend every sensibility he has.

- Okay.

Very good. You'll be back in the pool

in 24 hours, I guarantee you.

- Right, Sam?

- [Panting]

[Buzzes]

- [Man] Hola.

- Lupita Ramos?

For you, Creasy.

Thank you.

[Sniffs]

- How does this look?

- Good.

- Good.

- Hmm?

- Hola, Pita.

- Hola.

- Bye.

- Bye. [Speaking Spanish]

Gracias.

[Barking]

[Piano]

- [Loud Belch]

- [Lozzi] Pita.

[Piano]

[Growling]

- [Pita Belches]

- [Lozzi] Pita!

[Lozzi Speaking Spanish]

[Piano]

[Growling, Barking]

- [Barking]

- [Shouting In Spanish]

[Growling, Barking Continue]

[Woman Speaking Spanish]

[Piano]

[Bell Tolls]

[Police Radio:
Woman Speaking Spanish]

Pita!

Pita!

[Horn Honks]

[Man Speaking Spanish]

Pita!

- [Shouting In Spanish]

- [No Audible Dialogue]

[Gasps]

- Run!

- [Woman Screams]

[Man Shouting In Spanish]

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