Speed Racer Page #5

-We got ourseIves a reaI race here!

Show me what you got.

Show me what you got!

Woo-hoo!

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[CROWD GASPS]

-Speed, get out of there!

-I can't. I can't move!

Soon after that, there wiII be Iitigation

against some of your father's designs.

Are you Pops Racer of Racer Motors?

-Yeah, but I'm stiII on vacation.

-You are hereby served a summons.

-What?

-You are being sued for IP infringement...

...by Janus Automakers.

-No way!

-That's ridicuIous.

That's for a jury to decide.

RO YALTON:

The legitimacy of the lawsuits won't matter.

They'll be enough

to discredit his company.

Whatever contracts he has, he'II Iose.

Within a year, he'II be fiIing for bankruptcy.

After that, you and the rest of

your pathetic famiIy wiII be history.

Pops is right.

You are the deviI.

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

DOUR FACE:
Mr. RoyaIton.

-What?!

-Speed!

-SpritIe?

I found these two sneaking around

a restricted area.

Get this Racer trash out of my buiIding.

-I'II see you in Fuji.

-Yes.

And then you'II find out you just made

the biggest mistake of your Iife!

BURNS:

Hey, kid.

-Ben Burns?

-Nice race.

I ain't seen moves Iike that

in a Iong time.

It didn't matter, I stiII Iost.

Yeah. Tough break.

WeII, good Iuck.

Mr. Burns, can I ask you something?

Sure, kid.

The 43 Prix.

Did you know you were gonna win?

You know, everybody thought that

me and StickIeton hated each other.

Funny, ain't it?

SPARKY:
''Controversy surrounds Racer

Motors, now embroiIed in IP Iitigation.

And whiIe evidence

remains inconcIusive...

...whether or not Speed

used an iIIegaI device...

....the Fuji-HeIexicon seems destined to

become another mark of shame...

...added to the notorious

Racer famiIy Iegacy...

...a Iegacy that has forever tainted

the integrity of this--''

Sparky.

Sorry, ma'am.

I'm gonna send that guy

some Chim Chim cookies.

-You'II do no such thing.

-We gotta do something, Pops.

This is exactIy what he said wouId happen

if I didn't drive for him.

He's just trying to scare you.

They tried the same thing with Rex.

It's a fight they want,

it's a fight they'II get.

How? What can we do?

How can we fight this?

The truth'II come out.

The truth?

Don't be naive, Pops.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Speed?

Are you aII right?

I don't know.

It's gonna be okay. We'II work this out.

I don't know, Mom.

I may have reaIIy messed things up.

How?

By not joining RoyaIton.

Oh, don't be siIIy. You never wouId have

been happy racing for that terribIe man.

Maybe that's not the point.

Maybe RoyaIton's right

and racing's aII about business...

...and anyone who doesn't understand

that is just a chump.

Now you Iisten to me, young man.

What you do behind the wheeI of a racecar

has nothing to do with business.

Before you couId even taIk, you were

making noises that sounded Iike an engine.

We tried to take you to the park

and you never wanted to get out of the car.

I Ioved that oId wagon.

And you remember when Rex took you out

to Thunderhead and Iet you drive?

And I turned it over.

Oh, my heart starts pounding

just thinking about it.

Mom! Yeah, you shouId've seen it! Yeah!

Rex toId me the onIy reason we survived

was because I was wearing red socks.

I thought your father

wouId have a heart attack...

...when you came in

with that crazy smiIe.

Speed, when I watch you do

some of the things you do...

...I feeI Iike I'm watching

someone paint or make music.

I go to the races to watch you make art.

And it's beautifuI...

...and inspiring...

...and everything that art shouId be.

Even though there are times

when I have to cIose my eyes.

But then there are other times...

...when you just take my breath away.

And it's at those moments

when I feeI your father's chest sweII...

...and I know that he's smiIing...

...because he's pretending that

he doesn't have tears in his eyes...

...that I just go to pieces.

Why?

Because I am so impossibIy proud

to be your mom.

It's gonna be okay, honey.

You'II see. We'II work this out.

We just have to stick together

and something good wiII happen.

You'II see.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

[SCREAMING]

[GIBBERING]

Racer X! The Harbinger of Boom!

Run for your Iives!

What are you two squawking about?

Pops, whatever you do,

don't open that door.

[POPS GRO ANS]

This is a bad idea.

If it was any other driver, you'd be here.

Inspector Detector.

Good morning, Mr. Racer.

I know it's been a Iong time.

Ten years.

We've been after RoyaIton for years

for dozens of capitaI corporate crimes...

...incIuding WRL fixing, but we haven't had

the evidence we needed to convict him...

...untiI now.

What's he doing here?

Racer X works cIoseIy with our

WRL Corporate Crimes Division...

...heIping us recruit

drivers Iike you, Speed.

Why does he aIways wear that mask?

If any of you knew his identity,

you'd become targets for his enemies...

...which incIude some of

the most vicious fixers in the worId.

What do you want with me?

Are you famiIiar with the driver

Taejo Togokahn?

-Of course.

-For years...

...he's been contracted by a fixer

named Cruncher BIock.

Recently, Taejo's been forced to lose races,

and he began resisting...

...thinking that he could do it on his own.

-After Fuji, he reaIized he needed heIp.

-Why heIp him?

Because he has a fiIe with enough

information to connect BIock to RoyaIton...

...which couId put both of them

behind bars for the rest of their Iives.

The probIem is,

he won't give us the fiIe...

...unIess we heIp him stop

the takeover of his famiIy's company.

How?

There's an upcoming race

that Taejo beIieves if he can win...

...it'II catapuIt Togokahn Motors

into the spotIight...

...doubIe the cost of the buyout,

which shouId kiII it.

There aren't any more races Ieft

except the Grand Prix...

...and we both faiIed to quaIify.

Ahem. There aren't any more track races.

This is a cross-country raIIy.

Casa Cristo.

What?

I know it seems crueI of me to ask.

Taejo made it cIear he had

to have Speed and X on his team...

-...or there wouId be no deaI.

-AbsoIuteIy not.

-You'II have the support of the entire C.I.B.

POPS:
No.

RaIIy racing is a back-aIIey sport

fiIIed with jackaIs, headhunters and thugs.

I'm sorry, but I've aIready Iost one son

to that deathtrap. I won't Iose another.

I understand.

-If you change your mind....

-Keep your card, Chief Inspector.

INSPECTOR:

Thank you for your time.

[THUNDER CRASHING]

But Pops'II never Iet you go.

He won't if I ask him.

Speed Racer, what are you thinking?

You weren't in RoyaIton's office, Trix.

You don't know what it was Iike.

It feIt as though he had his hand

inside my chest...

...and he was trying to crush everything

in my Iife that mattered to me.

AII right. Let's do it.

You're gonna need an aIibi.

We'II say we're going skiing.

What? No way.

You're gonna need my heIp.

Casa Cristo is a raIIy.

I can spot from a copter.

Trixie, this isn't a game.

These peopIe pIay rough.

I know. That's why I'm going with you.

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