MAN: We need to talk.
Okay.
I´ve just come from
a meeting with the trustees.
We decided to let you go.
We´ll announce it
after Spring workouts.
Probably best if we call it a resignation.
I assume you have something to say?
Door´s over there.
DANNY: Coach Jim Cooper--
he´s 42 years old, divorced, no kids.
He´s been at Westport for the last seven years.
First four years he was an assistant coach,
then they bumped him up to head coach.
Hasn´t had a losing season until this one.
Yeah, his team was the pre-season pick
for a bowl game.
He ended up 4-7.
Fiesta Bowl to the toilet bowl.
How much money did you lose?
You don´t want to know.
Well, according to the athletic department,
the coach was flushed right before he disappeared.
Now, the garage still has his car in it,
mail has not been checked in two days
and there´s no activity on his cell phone
or his credit cards.
MARTIN: Who called the report in?
Campus police got a call yesterday from a woman,
anonymous.
Does he have a girlfriend?
Not that anybody knows about.
Anybody see anything?
Don´t know that yet, but one of his players,
Evan Young,
lives in the room behind the garage.
He´s at physical therapy right now.
He´s going to come and talk to us
when he finishes.
Young´s one of their best players.
Second team All-American, blew his knee out
in the fourth game of the season.
Take a look at this.
"Rampant corruption in the program
"has made it impossible for me
to fulfill my role as a leader and an educator."
Looks like he´s taking people down with him
as he goes out the door.
Yeah, and he didn´t get to finish his little letter.
Maybe somebody didn´t want him to.
Hey, got a second?
The missing persons report
came from an unidentified woman, right?
Right. Listen to this.
WOMAN: Hey, it´s me.
Where are you? Are you okay?
I´m worried.
That´s it.
How long you been living in the coach´s garage?
Since last October.
When you injured your knee.
Yeah.
I couldn´t deal with the stairs in my apartment,
so coach let me use the room
off his garage while I rehabbed.
I did some work around the house
to pay for it.
We found this in the house.
Do you know who she is?
Yeah, that´s Coach Reese.
She coaches the women´s volleyball team.
She been around lately?
I don´t know.
I´m at the gym lifting every night.
All that lifting? Getting ready to turn pro?
No, actually I´ve applied to the NCAA
for a medical eligibility exemption,
on account I blew out my knee
in game four.
When it comes through, I want to be ready.
Look, um,
I know your knee took you out of commission,
but what happened the three games
prior to that?
We saw that you were suspended.
( sighs )
Tutor took a test for me.
Coach found out.
Everybody does it.
I gave you guys a heads-up last month.
What used to be okay isn´t anymore.
So, what, are you going to start Dams instead of me?
Come on, he couldn´t carry my jock, and you know it.
Evan this is for your own good.
You´re in college.
You need to start preparing yourself
for what you´re going to do in life.
I´m going to play football.
That´s why I came here, remember?
You came here for an education.
That´s not what you said
when you were recruiting me.
It´s what I´m saying now.
Even if you do make the NFL,
the average career of a running back is 2.8 years.
I know that´s not what you want to hear,
but you´ve got to be prepared
for are other things in life.
He was right.
I mean, look at what happened.
I busted my knee.
But academically, I´m good.
I mean, I passed all my classes this year
and I did it on my own.
MARTIN: Why do you think the coach
started cracking down on you guys?
I don´t know.
He suspended a bunch
of other players, right?
Maybe they didn´t
take it as well as you.
What do you mean?
I don´t know. Maybe someone was angry enough
to do something to him.
( beeping )
WOMAN: Hey, it´s me.
How are you? Are you okay?
I´m worried.
Should only take a minute.
Okay, thanks.
JACK: Apparently, Jim Cooper
had ten players suspended last year.
Ten players on the bench.
That would explain a losing season.
And a lot of angry people.
Alumni, gamblers...
Ready.
( beeping )
WOMAN: Yes, I´d like to report a missing person.
His name is Jim Cooper.
MAN: Ma´am, is this an emergency?
WOMAN: I don´t know.
I think something´s wrong.
His address is 315 Hawthorne.
MAN: What´s your name?
And one sec...
( beeping )
Same caller both times.
The answering machine call
came from an empty university housing unit.
What about the anonymous tip?
We traced it to a PBX
in the main administration building at the university.
There are at least 1,200 people that work there.
We´re trying to narrow it down.
MAN: Jack.
Your wife is here.
Uh, thanks.
Everything all right?
I´ll let you know.
Hey.
Oh, hi.
I, uh, I´m sorry to barge in on you.
Oh, no, no.
It´s such a pleasant surprise.
What´s going on?
You know, I was just, you know,
looking around your office and...
You know, when I think of it,
it´s sort of hard to imagine you anywhere else.
What´s wrong?
I got it.
( chuckles )
They offered me managing partner.
That´s fantastic.
In the Chicago office.
That´s not so fantastic.
The managing partner there is retiring,
so they called New York to see if we had a lawyer
that we thought would be good and Eric suggested me, so...
I know it´s not
what we planned, Jack.
How long before they want you to go?
Six weeks.
That´s, uh, that´s fast.
They have corporate housing
right on the lake,
and we could live there until we figure it out.
I know that this would be
difficult with you, especially with your father,
but I´m sure that...
I´m sure we could find a place for him there.
I can´t wait to have that conversation with him.
Just think about it, all right?
Yeah, of course. Of course.
We´ll work something out.
I have to go.
Okay?
So long.
WOMAN: I was friends
with Jim´s ex-wife, Cheryl,
but when their marriage broke up
and Cheryl moved away, Jim and I became close.
The missing person´s report came in
from an anonymous woman.
Any idea who that could be?
It wasn´t me, if that´s what you´re asking.
Cheryl already
made that mistake.
I wasn´t going to repeat it.
What mistake was that?
Oh, being with someone
who eats, sleeps and breathes football.
I mean, Jim´s given
his entire life to it.
Win at all costs.
Until this year.
Yeah, I heard about that, what happened?
I don´t know.
All I know is, something changed for him
at the beginning of the season.
COOPER: Do you realize I´ve got eight guys
who can barely read?
I can´t say that I´m surprised.
Half of them are walking around
in designer clothes and jewelry
they definitely can´t afford,
and I´ve known about it the whole time,
but I let it happen.
That´s why I got promoted.
Hey, it´s not your fault, Jim. It´s the system.
They´re kids, Deb.
People´s sons.
Some of them are walking down the wrong path
and it´s because of me.
What´s this sudden burst of conscience?
Maybe I´ve just been swimming
in the cesspool too long,
and I need a shower.
I´m going to clean this place up.
Team starts losing, team starts losing.
How´d the athletic department feel about his cleanup?
A successful football program brings in $50 million a year
to this school.
The athletic department wants to win.
MAN: He was an assistant coach
who wasn´t ready to run a major program.
Yet you offered him a four-year deal.
That was three years ago.
We wanted a young coach.
Someone who knew the system, could relate to the players.
We thought he´d grow into the job.
It didn´t work out.
That doesn´t explain why you fired him.
Did he jeopardize the program, what?
Other than losing, what do you have in mind?
Throwing games, steroids, you catch him with a stripper?
It´s a stripper-free program.
Mm-hmm.
Look, uh, Jim wanted to make some changes,
we were supportive,
until he started getting out of control.
Suspending players.
Lionel Fortay was the last straw.
( grunting )
( whistle blows )
Good, good, good. Hit and dry.
That´s what I´m talking about. Good job!
Patrick, you´re up.
Jackson, stay here. Justin, good job.
Wait, wait.
Hey!
Hey, Lionel.
What are you doing here?
Oh, coach, that damn tutor
kept me studying, you understand?
Get off the field.
I told you before,
you´re not on this team.
You´re kidding, right?
I am this team.
Get out of here. Let´s go. Come on.
I said I am this team!
( shouting )
Get off me, Jeff!
Get him out of here.
Get off me!
What was that about?
He´s off the team?
Fortay´s your star receiver.
Not as of yesterday he´s not.
Are you out of your mind?
My team, my rules.
Player doesn´t follow them, he´s out of here.
We told him to keep a closer eye on things,
but he completely overreacted.
We´re going to need a complete list
of the players he suspended.
And if you happen to know
the whereabouts of Lionel Fortay,
that would help.
He suspended you from the team, right?
I wasn´t suspended. I was kicked off.
Why is that?
I missed a psych midterm, and the coach decided
he wanted to make an example of me.
11 touchdowns,
and you led the team in total yardage this season.
All natural?
Come on, man.
You know who you talking to?
I know exactly who I´m talking to.
That´s why I find it so hard to believe
that the coach would kick his star athlete off the team
just for missing a test.
You´re thinking I did something to the guy.
You´re sitting there.
Well, I didn´t, all right?
You got motive.
but I just forgot.
I got enough trouble as it is.
You´ve got more trouble now.
All right, that night, after we got into it,
I went to Coach Cooper´s office
to see if I could reason with him.
Did you recognize this man?
Nah, I just took off.
That was enough for me.
I want to play ball, not get shot.
If it was someone from within the university,
Lionel would have probably recognized him.
Maybe somebody from outside the program?
The boosters, gamblers.
Have you checked into that?
Yeah, the coach´s finances are clean.
I´m looking at the players.
What about Jack Cooper´s
state of mind?
Any idea why the sudden interest in cleaning up the program?
No, not that I could find.
Well, if the coach really was cleaning up his program,
he missed a few spots.
That was the campus police.
The night before Lionel Fortay was booted off the Vikings,
a freshman girl OD´d on Ecstasy
at a party thrown by him and his roommate.
How´s the girl? Well, she spent
the night in the hospital, but she was released.
What´s the roommate name?
Patrick O´Neal.
I´m going to go talk to Mr. O´Neal.
Sam, grab Danny,
go talk to the girl who OD´d.
Just my luck.
I mean, the FBI´s on campus looking for Coach Cooper,
and I get busted for using Ecstasy.
Which, by the way, everyone was using at that party.
We´re not going to bust you for using Ecstasy, okay?
We just need some information.
We know some of the coach´s players
threw that party.
Yeah, well, the coach was at the party.
Are you sure?
I mean, they said you were pretty wasted.
I was wasted, but it was definitely him.
♫ Oh, oh ♫
♫ Go ahead, enjoy yourself, enjoy the shine ♫
♫ Enjoy it now ♫
♫ In a minute, this will all be mine ♫
♫ No runways, yet I´m crashing in... ♫
Hey, hey, I want you out of here.
All right, party´s over.
Right now.
You-- yeah, hey, come on.
Everybody get out. Put the beer down.
Coach, Coach, it´s not that bad.
I come here to check on your ankle,
and this is what I find, huh?
Hey, hey.
Watch out, watch out.
Give her air. Move, move.
Miss? Miss?
You awake?
All right, everything´s going to be all right.
Stay with me.
Hey, stay with me.
Stay with me.
I guess the coach sort of saved my life.
Who gave you the drugs?
I don´t remember.
Football player?
Probably.
There´s always drugs at their parties.
There weren´t any drugs.
You know, um, way back in the ´70s
when I went to college, which was long before your time,
we used to call these roach clips.
Now, Patrick, believe me. I get it, all right?
I understand.
You´re a big star athlete.
There´s a lot of fun to be had.
There´s a lot of temptations.
Nobody can blame you for getting caught up in it.
But if there are drugs involved,
it´s possible that´s the reason the coach is missing.
Now, I need to know exactly
what happened that night, and so far,
all I got out of you is that you
twisted your ankle during practice.
Now, what else happened?
What else happened?
He, he came over.
He was pissed.
After he broke up the party, he went crazy.
What are you doing?
Where are they? Where are they?
That girl could have died.
Be careful with that.
I´m going to do whatever I have to
to get this sorted out.
You tell me where those drugs are,
or I´m calling the cops.
I don´t have any drugs!
That girl´s friends were at the party.
They said she got those drugs
from the dude that lives here.
Well, there are two dudes. Lionel?
Yes, Lionel.
How stupid do you think I am?
Jackass.
Even if you weren´t the drug connection,
the party was still at your place,
but somehow, you stay out of trouble.
Why the preferential treatment?
Maybe it´s because I had 62 tackles
and three interceptions my freshman season.
Lionel had 11 touchdowns.
He still got booted off the team.
I don´t know, I guess he´s looking out for me a little bit.
You know, Patrick, I think that you and I
are going to have to continue this conversation
at FBI headquarters.
I think I should call my dad.
He´s a lawyer.
Be my guest.
There was a call from Zone 14 at 9:50,
the same time the police got that anonymous call.
Okay, Zone 14,
fourth floor-- Financial Aid.
Three employees share that line.
Can I ask you something?
When did Westport install these phones--
1888?
( chuckling )
Why can´t we get one simple printout
that tells us who called and when?
We can; I just thought
that would make finding this woman too easy.
MARTIN: I ran Westport Boosters through Vice.
One of them, a Tom Garagas,
a big-time gambler in Atlantic City
gave $200,000 to the football program last year.
This guy also owns
a construction company, G&G Excavation.
I looked at the payroll records.
Up until two months ago,
that kid in the coach´s garage, Evan Young,
was Employee 126-5.
This kid took home more than 4,000 bucks a month.
Four Gs? Yeah,
four Gs.
Hey, I just answered phones.
For 1,000 bucks a week?
That´s 25 bucks an hour if you´re working full-time.
Were you working full-time?
It reads like a payoff from a known gambler, okay?
So, either you tell us what you were doing,
or we´re calling the NCAA.
And you can kiss
your medical red shirt good-bye.
I gave him information.
What kind of information?
You know, who was injured,
how guys were playing at practice.
Did Coach find out about your arrangement?
He must have ´cause he went off
when he saw us together last month.
He says he´s going to declare himself
eligible for the draft.
How about Simmons? How´s his ankle?
Garagas! Get out! Right now.
Hey, don´t touch me, man.
What´s the matter with you?
Stay away from my players.
No more jobs, no more cars, no more meals.
Give money to the school, but this-- this is off limits.
Since when?
Since now.
You´re making a big mistake, Jim.
You´re making a big mistake.
Maybe.
Yeah.
What´s up, Coach?
You stay away from him.
I mean it.
Look, I didn´t give Mr. G. anything he couldn´t get
from the sports guy at the Daily Viking.
It´s still against the rules.
You want me to tell you about the rules?
The rules suck.
Do you know how much money
Westport made from football last year?
$50 million.
Business school gets a new building,
boosters are eating shrimp cocktail in luxury boxes,
Coach is driving around in a fancy car.
And me?
Before that job
at G&G, I was eating ramen in the off season, man.
You talk to Garagas again?
Yeah.
I told him I couldn´t help anymore.
And what did he say?
Said I was going to lose him a lot of money.
GARAGAS: Sure, I was pissed.
I been really good to that program.
Cooper was out of line.
Look, Garagas, we know
you bet heavily on Westport games,
and that you were paying Evan Young
for inside information.
I paid the kid to pick up phones in the office.
He was giving you information on the team,
and you were using it to place bets.
You think I whacked Cooper to make money
on football games?
I think you´re the kind of guy
who says "whacked," so anything´s possible.
What were you doing Tuesday night?
Why?
Because someone matching your description
threatened Coach Cooper Tuesday night, that´s why.
I want my lawyer.
MARIA: Hey.
Oh, hey.
Hi. Hi.
What´s going on?
Uh... I just spoke
to Van Doran about positions in Chicago.
Oh, well, great.
There are two.
One involving crimes, one in Domestic Security.
But they´re both
as street agents. Uh-huh.
There are no supervisory positions for a while.
Possibly a couple of years.
Oh, well, that´s, that´s, um, obviously not optimal.
No, it´s not.
I just, um...
( clearing throat )
I just don´t think I can do it.
I thought that we were going to discuss this.
Okay, let´s discuss it, okay?
I understand
the upside in it for you, okay?
I get it.
But what about me? What about us?
What about our kids?
The girls would adjust.
I would adjust; you would.
I have worked too long and hard to go this far backwards,
I can´t.
Well, what about me?
Look, I understand
that this is a great opportunity.
Oh, hey, Maria, congratulations.
Well, thank you.
I understand that this is a great opportunity...
But what? Your job is more important than mine?
I mean, you came all the way over here,
pulled me out of a meeting, to tell me that?
I just, I don´t understand what you´re doing here.
Neither do I, okay?
I´m just unclear.
I just... it´s a lot to take in.
I have to get back to work.
Is that the man you saw with the gun?
Nope.
It´s not.
What?
Who´s that guy with the glasses?
That´s your roommate´s father.
Well, I´ve never met my roommate´s father,
but that´s him.
That´s the guy with the gun.
There´s no way Patrick had anything to do
with Coach´s disappearance.
He told me all about the party.
Lionel´s the problem, not Patrick.
He´s a... he´s a good kid. He plays by the rules.
What about you?
You play by the rules?
Me?
We have an eyewitness that saw you coming out
of Jim Cooper´s office with a gun
the night before he disappeared.
It´s not what you think.
You know what I think?
I think you´re just one
of those angry parents that gets pissed off
when their kid doesn´t get enough playing time.
Hey, Jim called me.
He wanted me to come in
and talk to him, to...
tell me that he had found something
in Patrick´s apartment.
I found it in his drawer.
He said he had it for protection.
From what?
His roommate´s a drug dealer.
He threatened Patrick.
Oh, my God.
I kicked the other kid
off the team and he´s going to be expelled
from the university...
but I didn´t know what to do about Patrick.
I mean, I took the gun, but...
it seemed that he should have someone to talk to him.
I don´t think he´d really
listen to me unless,
unless I was talking about his two-deep zone
or jamming a receiver,
and that doesn´t really seem relevant
right about now.
He needs to talk to his father.
And that´s you.
I picked up the gun, and I left.
I still haven´t been able to talk to Patrick about it.
I can´t figure out what to say.
There are over
90 boys in that football program.
Why all the special interest in your son?
Look, Mr. O´Neal, a girl OD´d
in your son´s apartment.
Jim Cooper found a gun
in your son´s possession.
He´s disappeared
and you now have the gun. Oh, come on.
It´s obvious that you and Jim
are covering up something for your son.
Look, his whole future´s on the line.
Patrick´s not my son.
Coach Cooper is his father.
GAIL: I was a freshman
at Wichita State.
Jim was the star of the football team.
It was three weeks before graduation
and three weeks before he was headed for the NFL.
That sounds clichéd,
but really, it was just... stupid.
So you graduated and you never saw him again?
Not until last year.
And you had no idea he was the head coach at Westport?
No.
Patrick had been recruited at a bunch of places.
I always focused in on the school´s academics,
not on who the coaches were.
I didn´t know about Jim until...
until we came for a campus visit.
YOUNG: During the season
we´re at practice from 2:00 on.
GAIL: 2:00? When do you go to class?
Mornings.
And if you need it,
the team has a pool of tutors
to help with your class work.
And the coaches here are on top of everything.
That´s the main reason to play here,
the coaching staff.
Check it out.
Especially Coach Cooper.
Man, you couldn´t play for anyone better.
What´s up, Coach?
How you doing? All right.
Looks like you guys
got my best tour guide.
This is Patrick O´Neal,
he´s visiting from Montclair.
New Jersey´s defensive player of the year.
I´ve seen your film.
These are my parents,
Gale and Chris.
Hi.
Good to meet you.
Yeah.
Before that day, Jim didn´t even know he had a child,
much less a son who played football.
How´d he take it?
As well as could be expected, I guess.
COOPER: How could you not tell me?
I did tell you.
I told you I was pregnant.
You told me to go take care of it.
Well, this is how I took care of it.
What about him?
Shouldn´t he know about his father?
He does.
It´s Chris, my husband.
Shouldn´t he know about me?
He knows everything he needs to know.
That his biological father did not want him,
but he was lucky enough to find a father who did.
Why would you even let him go here
if this is the way that you feel?
Because you´re offering the best scholarship package.
You have a great business school,
and this is where he wants to go.
If I´ll keep quiet.
He already has a father.
He doesn´t need another one.
Jim promised that he wouldn´t say anything
and I said that Patrick could go to Westport.
Did he keep his promise?
As far as I know.
We´re going to need to talk to Patrick.
Uh, no, uh... no.
There´s no need to tell him.
Look, if Patrick found out
that the coach got you pregnant
and then abandoned you...
We need to know if he knew.
Then let me tell him.
Your son is a suspect, Mrs. O´Neal.
I´m sorry. I can´t.
I´m sorry.
JACK: Please, take a seat.
Is my dad going to come sit with us?
Do you need your dad
to come and sit with you?
He´s a lawyer.
So you keep saying.
Do you think you need him?
No... I don´t think so, no.
I just don´t know what you want.
What´s going on
between you and Coach Cooper?
Nothing.
Nothing?
He ransacked your room.
He was mad. I don´t know why.
I thought about it,
and all I can come up with is he´s trying to bust me.
He found a gun in your bedroom.
Why didn´t he use that to bust you?
I don´t know.
Maybe he wanted to have
something over me.
Why?
Because I pissed him off.
At the beginning of the season
I just didn´t know how things worked.
COOPER: Yeah?
Hey, Coach,
can I talk to you for a minute?
Yeah, Patrick, sure.
Sure. Sit down.
Grab a chair.
What´s going on?
I...
I been studying with this tutor,
a graduate student in the English department.
Yeah?
He offered to take my Western Civ mid-term for me.
I don´t know what to do.
I mean, I know a lot
of guys do that, but...
I want to know if it´s okay if I take my own exam.
I want to do well here.
I´m a good linebacker,
but I want to get better,
so if that´s what I need to do, if I should
let the guy take my test, then I will.
I just want to know if that´s the way it´s supposed to go.
You can take your own test.
Okay, good.
Good.
Um...
There something else?
It´s just a little weird.
Well, the tutors,
the cars, the girls...
I mean, I read about stuff like this
in the sports magazines, I just...
We´re just playing football, right?
Right. Just playing football.
Okay, thanks, Coach.
Did he ever talk to you
about your mother?
My mother?
Mm-hmm.
On parents day he said he thought she seemed nice.
Okay.
Hang tight, okay?
Okay.
I think you should tell him.
VIVIAN: All those reams
of telephone reports finally gave us something.
Lilly Garrett.
Garret, wait.
Is she married to the athletic director?
She´s our anonymous caller.
She´s got a phone
in Zone 10 that was used the same time
as the police got that call.
What does she do?
She coordinates housing for visiting students,
puts them up in hotels,
vacant university apartments.
The call to the coach´s
answering machine actually came from an empty apartment.
Mrs. Garrett.
Special Agent Johnson.
Thanks for coming.
I´m not sure what I can tell you,
but if you think I can help.
Oh, we think you can.
I´m not sure what I can tell you,
but if you think I can help.
What´s going on? What are you doing?
Yes, I´d like to report a missing person.
His name is Jim Cooper.
But you had to hide it
from your husband, didn´t you?
We´ve been seeing each other almost a year.
I always keep an apartment open over at graduate housing.
And you were supposed to see each other
the night he went missing?
He was late.
That´s why I called the house.
I waited for a while, and then half an hour later,
he called me.
Oh, where are you?
At a pay phone on Locust Walk.
I thought I´d come over to talk to you,
but I can´t come up.
I left you a message.
I know. I heard it.
I was in the middle of writing my resignation letter.
You don´t have to torture yourself on the way out.
It´s the price I have to pay for not acting sooner.
I wish it didn´t take
Patrick coming in to my life for me to see who...
I really was or who I´d become.
You made a hard year better.
Good-bye, Coop.
Good-bye, Lilly.
That´s the last I heard from him.
What time did he call you?
Around 9:30.
DANNY: Mrs. Garrett,
did your husband know about your affair?
When he told me that he fired Jim, I cried.
He asked me about it, and I didn´t answer, but he knew.
Is that why you called the campus police,
because you were afraid your husband had done something?
Yes.
( knocking )
Mr. Garrett?
There´s been some new developments in the case.
I thought you guys would show up.
I know you talked to Lilly.
What time did your wife
leave the house on Tuesday night?
Around 8:00.
And you were alone after that? There was a trustees dinner.
I decided to go build support for dealing with Jim
during the settlement negotiations.
I arrived at the dinner at 8:30. I left at 12:15.
Mr. Garrett, I think
we should continue this conversation downtown.
I have a warrant to search
your office, so I´m going to stick around.
Okay, everybody, listen up.
This is where he made the call.
Now, assuming that he stayed on the path,
he would´ve gone through this wooded area to get home.
I want the three of you to go with me in this direction.
The rest of you and the K-9
Anybody sees anything, I want to be the first to know, got it?
Let´s go.
The maître d´ at the restaurant
and two trustees confirm his story.
He didn´t kill Cooper.
Okay. Thanks.
( sighs )
Yeah, it´s me.
You find anything?
Yes, I did.
It´s a copy of a letter from the NCAA,
uh, to Evan Young, refusing his eligibility waiver.
Yeah. So he lied.
It was processed two days ago-- same day the coach went missing.
( grunts )
SAMANTHA: We spoke to the NCAA.
They denied your waiver.
Why didn´t you tell us?
I didn´t know.
Evan, they sent you a letter
registered mail, and you signed for it.
What´d that letter say, huh?
That you got nothing?
All that hard work in the gym,
all those dreams of turning pro--
that all of that is gone?
You have no future, no team,
nowhere to go... Stop it!
MARTIN: Hey, hey! ( grunting )
Chill out.
Oh! Chill out.
I´m trying to help you.
You can´t.
MARTIN: Just sit down.
I´ve played football since I was seven years old.
It´s the only thing I know.
When I got that letter,
I didn´t know what to do.
I wanted to talk to coach,
see if he could help, but he wasn´t home.
The computer was on.
I couldn´t believe it.
How could he do this, just walk out on the team?
I knew he ran the campus loop.
Evan.
What are you doing without your brace?
You´re going to blow out your knee.
Like you give a rat´s ass what happens to my knee.
Hey, what´s going on?
They rejected my waiver.
I got nothing.
I´m sorry. I... I didn´t know.
You said I´d go to the pros.
Evan... I sat on the bench for three games,
then I have to rush back?
I didn´t rush you.
You were giving my position away.
I wasn´t going to give it away.
I shouldn´t have been suspended in the first place.
All of a sudden, you find God,
and my life is ruined?
I did the best I could, Evan.
You promised me a future, man!
What do I have? Nothing!
And then I find out you´re leaving?
Well, it wasn´t by choice.
What am I supposed to do now, huh?
What happens to me? I´m sorry, Evan!
I didn´t mean to kill him.
( sobs )
I didn´t mean to kill him.
♫ ♫
( laughs ): Thank you. Thank you.
I didn´t want to wake you last night.
I-I was awake. I just didn´t want to talk.
That probably explains why
you didn´t return my phone calls today, either.
Well... I understand your position, Jack, um...
so what is there to talk about?
You´re right.
There´s really nothing more to talk about.
Honey, I´m no longer unclear.
It´s your turn.
I´m going to go with you.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my...
Are you sure?
Yes, I am sure.
I am so... oh...
It´s going to be fun being a street agent.
I need the exercise.