The Padres game incident

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BADER ZAMALANO: THE FOAM FINGER INCIDENT

INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

Bader (9) and his older brother Slim Z (14) are watching a San Diego Padres baseball game on the TV with their little sister Shaikha (1) and their parents, Annie Baltic (22) and Caleb Reynolds (23). Bader's best friends Everleigh LaBrant (10) and Caleb Johnston (11) are over to watch the game too.

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(stands up abruptly)

I can't do this anymore. I'm not watching this game.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(confused)

What's wrong with the game?

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(remembering something)

It's the incident from 10 years ago. I can't watch the Padres without thinking about it.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(interested)

What incident?

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(reluctantly)

I got into a fight at a Padres game 10 years ago.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(excited)

I got into a fight at a Padres game 10 years ago too!

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(skeptical)

What are the odds?

FLASHBACK TO A PADRES GAME 10 YEARS AGO

A 14-year-old Ethan Cutkosky is in line to buy a foam finger when he meets Caleb Reynolds.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(politely)

Hey.

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(rudely)

Hey.

ETHAN CUTSKOY:

(friendly)

I'm Ethan. What's your name?

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(coldly)

Caleb.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(enthusiastically)

I'm going to buy a foam finger!

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(irritated)

Could you not talk to me?

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(amused)

Funny. Wanna be friends?

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(sarcastically)

If I say yes, can you stop talking to me?

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(jokingly)

Pardon me, but I think you're next in line.

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(aggravated)

Yeah, I know.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(to the girls in line)

Hey, no cutsies. I was in line!

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(to the cashier)

Are there any foam fingers left?

CASHIER:

(apologetically)

It's the last one.

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(smugly)

Good, I'll buy it. (Turns to Ethan) so he can’t have it

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(offended)

Huh?

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(mockingly)

Ha ha. I got the last foam finger.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(angrily)

Hey!

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(laughing)

What?

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(yelling)

Daddy!

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(aggressively)

(THUMPS Ethan's shoulder)

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(whining)

You thumped me!

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(defensively)

Did not!

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:

(Whining)

Daddy!

CALEB REYNOLDS:

(tackling Ethan to the ground)

(screaming)

Back to the present.

EVERLEIGH LABRANT:

(fascinated)

Woah.

CALEB JOHNSTON:

(excited)

That's crazy!

ANNIE BALTIC:

(jokingly)

Boys will be boys, I guess.

SLIM Z:

(looking at his younger siblings)

I hope they never get into a ridiculous fight over a foam finger.

BADER:

(agrees)

Yeah, that would be silly.

SHAIKHA:

(makes a baby noise)

CALEB REYNOLDS:
(voice rising) That didn’t happen OK! Let me tell you what really happened.

A flashback to 2013 at the Padres game shows a 14-year-old Ethan and Caleb standing in line.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(impatiently) What the heck is taking so long?

CALEB REYNOLDS:
(calmly) Oh, don’t worry. The line is moving pretty fast.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(rudely) Who asked you?

The cashier calls the next person in line, and Caleb steps forward to order.

CASHIER:
Next in line, please.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(sarcastically) He said “Next in line, get your butt out of your ears.”

Caleb apologizes, and a dying British orphan girl approaches them, asking to cut in line.

DYING BRITISH ORPHAN GIRL: Quarter me, sir. I have only a few weeks to live. May I please cut in front of you? Every minute counts.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(angrily) Aw, for the love of crud!

Caleb kindly agrees to let her go ahead of him, and he purchases the last foam finger.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(enraged) The last one?

CALEB REYNOLDS:
(regretfully) Sorry.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(threateningly) You’re dead, punk.

Ethan attacks Caleb, and the two boys start fighting.

CUT BACK TO PRESENT

CALEB REYNOLDS:
(angrily) So in conclusion It was Ethan who started the fight.

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(Angry) that is so not what happened

ANNIE:
oh that poor little girl

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(pissed) there is no poor little girl why would a dying British orphan would go to a Padres game

CALEB REYNOLDS:
(defensive) orphans love baseball

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(pissed) Admit you made the whole story up right now

CALEB REYNOLDS:
(mad) no

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(pissed) You started that fight!!

CALEB REYNOLDS:
(defensive) You calling me a liar?

ETHAN CUTKOSKY:
(sarcastically) well I ain’t calling you a truther and you ruined my first baseball game

CALEB REYNOLDS:
(mockingly) oh poor Little Josh didn’t get his foam finger

EVERLEIGH LABRANT: (interrupting) Hey, why don’t we all play a video game instead of watching TV?

SLIM Z:
(smiling) That sounds fun. Bader, you pick the game.

BADER:
(excitedly) How about mega man 2

EVERYONE ELSE:
(agreeing) yes

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