1
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Marker.

2
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Hey, Jamal!

3
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Jamal, you awake?

4
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Jamal! I know you can hear me, boy.

5
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Jamal, I'm writing all this down.

6
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I've got that thing with your teacher
and I'm working late.

7
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So you're gonna have to take care
of yourself for dinner, okay?

8
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Okay?

9
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Okay.

10
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Hey, I thought you wanted
to get up by 7:30.

11
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- Play the ball.
- Ball!

12
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- Play the ball.
- Ball!

13
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- You want to change things?
- Check that.

14
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Play ball, baby. Stop crying.

15
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Hold on. What up, J?
Where you been, man?

16
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- What's up?
- Sleep, yo.

17
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- Hey, what's up, man?
- Up wondering how to save your ass.

18
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- What are you saving?
- Hey, Damon.

19
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Let's go.

20
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J, break him up, man.

21
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Take the ball, man, okay?

22
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- Oh, he broke your ankles, man!
- Yeah!

23
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You can't give him that.

24
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- You can't give him that.
- I'm awake.

25
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Come on, yo.

26
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- You got something for me?
- What you got?

27
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Soufflé, baby!

28
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Where's the D?

29
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Got nothing for me, man.

30
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A lot of good that's doing.

31
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- It's something for The Window.
- You ever seen him?

32
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- The Window?
- Yeah.

33
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No. But he see us, man.

34
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Come on, what's wrong with y'all?
Y'all want to play ball?

35
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- All right, baby.
- Wake up.

36
00:05:04,771 --> 00:05:07,535
- You got to help me out, man.
- Shake it!

37
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Hip-hop, man.

38
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In 1845, Poe wrote his
most famous piece, "The Raven"...

39
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...a poem he wrote while strung out
on coke and obsessed with death.

40
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"The Raven" is like the football team.

41
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There's a team obsessed with death.
Always get their ass kicked.

42
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Baltimore Ravens, only pro football
team named after a classic poem.

43
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Anyone read it?

44
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"Once upon a midnight dreary

45
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While I pondered, weak and weary..."

46
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Jamal, how about it?

47
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No, I never read it.

48
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Okay, I need those essays
by next Tuesday.

49
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Yo, man, my dad saw The Window, man.

50
00:06:01,894 --> 00:06:03,828
Yo, man, my dad saw The Window, man.

51
00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:05,361
About 20 years ago.

52
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Just like a ghost, like the ones
that be in our science books.

53
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- Just like that.
- So, what, he was white?

54
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Ain't milk white?

55
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- Ever see a ghost that wasn't white?
- Just playing.

56
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I heard he killed somebody.
That's why he stays inside.

57
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You gotta kill an army to hide here.

58
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- True.
- Y'all play too much.

59
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Remember Shurrita?

60
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She used to live below The Window?

61
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She calls me up this one night,
bugging, dog. Bugging.

62
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Saying she heard this tapping
from upstairs by The Window's place.

63
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Tap...

64
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...tap...

65
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...tap.

66
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While she was on the phone,
she started screaming, dog.

67
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Because now the tapping made
its way down the stairs somehow.

68
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Tap...

69
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...tap, tap.
- Listen to him, fool.

70
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And now it was on
the other side of her door, dog.

71
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She could tell there was some
type of knife he was tapping with.

72
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Before she can even hang up,
the phone disconnected.

73
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- That's the last time we seen her.
- Shurrita from across the street?

74
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Come on, man, yo.
You know that girl is a crack ho.

75
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No, no, she was nice.

76
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Listen, man, all I know is
that The Window's bad news.

77
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Rules was, you go outside,
you stay away from The Window's place.

78
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- No, stay away from your lying ass.
- Yo, J, you believe me, right?

79
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You full of shit, dog.

80
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Damn.

81
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So let me guess.
So you'd go up in there, right?

82
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It's an old man
looking out a window, man.

83
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- You'll go?
- He won't go.

84
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- So you'll go up there?
- Let them know, J.

85
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- He's not gonna go.
- This nigga's scared.

86
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Yo, I got the next call.

87
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- So?
- So...

88
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I dare you to go up there, right?

89
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Right? Right?

90
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- Whatever, man. I'll go up there.
- Yeah.

91
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- He's going.
- Big shot. Superman.

92
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- Bring it, son.
- That's my dog.

93
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You feel me.

94
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D, I believe you, dog.

95
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Man, shut up.
Go to class or something.

96
00:08:03,783 --> 00:08:05,978
Here, man, sit over here, son.

97
00:08:06,185 --> 00:08:08,813
Are you kidding me?
Stop playing with me.

98
00:08:09,021 --> 00:08:11,615
- It's a vibrant thing. Go over there.
- Fine.

99
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Here, take your apple too.

100
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- Ms. Joyce?
- Yeah. Hi.

101
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Good to see you.
Have a seat here.

102
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Thank you.

103
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Okay.

104
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We got Jamal's test scores
back this week.

105
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- Test scores?
- Assessment tests.

106
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The state education department
requires all kids to take them.

107
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He didn't tell you?

108
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Mrs. Wallace,
Jamal maintains a C average.

109
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Which means he does just enough
to get by without standing out.

110
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Now, what makes Jamal's case
unusual are his test results.

111
00:10:03,936 --> 00:10:06,427
Oh, my God.

112
00:10:06,639 --> 00:10:09,199
I see him reading all
these books all the time.

113
00:10:09,408 --> 00:10:12,400
Books I never read.
Some I never even heard of.

114
00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:16,104
And he's always writing
in his notebooks.

115
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Ever since his father left.

116
00:10:18,784 --> 00:10:20,911
But that's what I see.

117
00:10:21,287 --> 00:10:24,745
All he ever talks about is basketball.

118
00:10:25,157 --> 00:10:27,648
Basketball is where
he gets his acceptance.

119
00:10:27,860 --> 00:10:30,624
Kids don't care about
what he puts down on paper.

120
00:10:30,830 --> 00:10:33,799
Let's go! Between the yellow lines!
Let's go!

121
00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,160
Yo, T.

122
00:10:35,368 --> 00:10:36,357
What up, Fly?

123
00:10:36,569 --> 00:10:37,763
- How you?
- Maintaining.

124
00:10:37,970 --> 00:10:41,736
Look, look. You looking
for tickets, little bro?

125
00:10:41,941 --> 00:10:42,930
Dead tonight.

126
00:10:43,142 --> 00:10:44,268
Sorry about that.

127
00:10:44,477 --> 00:10:46,502
Come on, man.
We know you got tickets.

128
00:10:46,712 --> 00:10:52,048
I got four words for you:
Bos-ton Red Sox. All right?

129
00:10:52,251 --> 00:10:56,187
The Yanks and Sox tickets, they damn
near been sold out almost a month.

130
00:10:56,389 --> 00:10:57,754
All right, Mr. Fly?

131
00:10:57,957 --> 00:11:01,188
And by the way, why don't you go
tell Camry boy over there...

132
00:11:01,394 --> 00:11:04,295
...that he need to back up
his little cheap-ass bumper...

133
00:11:04,497 --> 00:11:05,964
...on that Mercedes there.

134
00:11:06,165 --> 00:11:09,657
Go handle that.
Let's go, Fly! Let's go!

135
00:11:10,870 --> 00:11:13,202
What the hell, Jamal? Moms called.

136
00:11:13,773 --> 00:11:16,264
Tell me about the test.
What's up with that?

137
00:11:16,475 --> 00:11:18,841
- Nothing, man.
- What do you mean, nothing?

138
00:11:19,245 --> 00:11:21,008
This in the way of your plans?

139
00:11:21,213 --> 00:11:23,511
Remember, it was your plan first, T.

140
00:11:24,316 --> 00:11:26,750
Yeah, I know.
A little college ball and all.

141
00:11:26,952 --> 00:11:30,888
Then start signing checks,
solving everybody else's problems.

142
00:11:31,090 --> 00:11:32,114
Look at me, though.

143
00:11:34,894 --> 00:11:36,691
Whoa, hold a minute.

144
00:11:38,864 --> 00:11:40,263
Hold on to these.

145
00:11:42,001 --> 00:11:44,026
I guess this makes it our plan now.

146
00:11:45,337 --> 00:11:47,999
- One thing.
- What up?

147
00:11:48,207 --> 00:11:50,641
Don't say nothing
about them test scores.

148
00:11:50,843 --> 00:11:52,868
Don't worry, I'm your brother, dog.

149
00:11:53,079 --> 00:11:56,242
Whatever me and you discuss,
it stays between me and you.

150
00:11:56,849 --> 00:11:58,942
- Right.
- Love you, dog. All right?

151
00:11:59,151 --> 00:12:01,278
Make sure you keep one thing in mind:

152
00:12:01,487 --> 00:12:05,389
Moms knows when the game ends,
so take your ass straight home.

153
00:12:05,591 --> 00:12:07,320
- Okay.
- Don't get into no trouble.

154
00:12:07,526 --> 00:12:09,721
Be careful. Stay safe, all right?

155
00:12:09,929 --> 00:12:12,022
- Love, dog.
- All right, T. Good looking.

156
00:12:12,231 --> 00:12:14,165
All right, Jamal. Be careful.

157
00:12:14,734 --> 00:12:16,895
Stink in here.

158
00:12:17,303 --> 00:12:18,793
J, you see that window?

159
00:12:19,004 --> 00:12:20,995
He keeps that one cracked sometime.

160
00:12:21,207 --> 00:12:23,471
Yo, light's been out
for two hours, dog.

161
00:12:23,676 --> 00:12:24,904
You sure he asleep?

162
00:12:25,111 --> 00:12:29,741
That Methuselah's like a thousand
years old. That's all they ever do.

163
00:12:29,982 --> 00:12:33,315
Yo, J, man. For the reals, son,
I don't know about this.

164
00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:36,511
- I know.
- I think I'm... Oh, shit!

165
00:12:37,923 --> 00:12:39,982
I think I'm gonna pull the call, yo.

166
00:12:40,192 --> 00:12:42,319
- No, yo, I got this one.
- Rats.

167
00:12:42,862 --> 00:12:44,489
All right. Yo, Fly.

168
00:12:44,697 --> 00:12:47,291
Keep it.
You gotta bring something out.

169
00:12:47,867 --> 00:12:50,597
Yo, man, you hear us,
drop down, all right?

170
00:12:51,237 --> 00:12:52,534
All right.

171
00:12:52,938 --> 00:12:54,769
Don't stay in there too long.

172
00:12:55,674 --> 00:12:57,005
Got you.

173
00:12:58,811 --> 00:13:00,711
Damn, this thing's rickety.

174
00:14:20,059 --> 00:14:21,720
<i>Lucy Chapman around?</i>

175
00:14:26,532 --> 00:14:28,124
<i>Last stool on the other end.</i>

176
00:14:33,372 --> 00:14:34,964
<i>Lucy Chapman?</i>

177
00:14:36,242 --> 00:14:39,700
<i>- Yeah.</i>
<i>- I'm Bannion, Homicide.</i>

178
00:14:39,912 --> 00:14:43,746
<i>With this band playing, you need</i>
<i>megaphones to talk at the bar.</i>

179
00:14:43,949 --> 00:14:45,917
<i>- We can sit in a booth.</i>
<i>- All right.</i>

180
00:16:01,827 --> 00:16:03,385
- Yo, look, look!
- Oh, shit!

181
00:16:03,595 --> 00:16:06,086
- Yo, yo, got something?
- Oh, shit!

182
00:16:06,298 --> 00:16:09,062
- Yo, what happened?
- You son of a bitch!

183
00:16:09,435 --> 00:16:11,232
Dickheads, he wasn't asleep.

184
00:16:11,437 --> 00:16:14,304
- Yo, did you see him?
- No, not for long, yo.

185
00:16:18,978 --> 00:16:22,277
Jamal, would you stop bouncing
that damn ball in the house?

186
00:16:22,481 --> 00:16:25,882
I got Michael Jordan's name
written in dirt all over my floor.

187
00:16:26,085 --> 00:16:27,609
Don't worry, I'll clean it.

188
00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:30,653
I got a better chance
of Michael Jordan cleaning it.

189
00:16:30,856 --> 00:16:34,622
If you're thinking of a shower,
the hot water's taking a few minutes.

190
00:16:34,827 --> 00:16:38,160
- I wasn't thinking about it.
- Hey! Hey, where's your pack?

191
00:16:40,332 --> 00:16:42,994
- I don't know.
- Don't know?

192
00:16:43,469 --> 00:16:45,562
What do you mean, you don't know?

193
00:16:45,771 --> 00:16:48,899
We wanted you to bring something,
not leave something.

194
00:16:49,108 --> 00:16:50,769
Leave this one alone, man.

195
00:16:51,076 --> 00:16:53,135
What was in your bag anyway?

196
00:16:53,979 --> 00:16:56,504
I'm not talking about the damn bag.

197
00:16:57,116 --> 00:16:58,777
Bet you ain't, man.

198
00:16:59,018 --> 00:17:02,010
Let me teach you something.
Now watch the eyes.

199
00:17:02,221 --> 00:17:04,348
He's probably watching you right now.

200
00:17:05,924 --> 00:17:07,915
Stop. Stop. See?

201
00:17:08,193 --> 00:17:09,888
You don't know about that, man.

202
00:17:10,529 --> 00:17:11,757
Here's how you do it.

203
00:18:09,922 --> 00:18:12,413
I'm not gonna do anything
to your car, man.

204
00:18:12,624 --> 00:18:13,818
I'm sorry?

205
00:18:14,026 --> 00:18:16,256
You look worried,
like I'll do something.

206
00:18:16,462 --> 00:18:19,397
No, I worry about this car
everywhere, not just here.

207
00:18:19,598 --> 00:18:21,998
- Don't take it personally.
- It's just a car.

208
00:18:22,201 --> 00:18:25,967
No, it's not just a car. It's a BMW.

209
00:18:26,171 --> 00:18:28,469
Those who know anything
about that company...

210
00:18:28,674 --> 00:18:31,643
...know that it's more
than just a car.

211
00:18:31,844 --> 00:18:35,473
Oh, those who know. So I wouldn't
know anything like that, right?

212
00:18:35,681 --> 00:18:37,308
No, that's not what I meant.

213
00:18:39,151 --> 00:18:41,085
Last thing I knew about BMW...

214
00:18:41,286 --> 00:18:44,187
...is, they made plane engines
when they first started.

215
00:18:44,823 --> 00:18:47,485
A guy by the name of Franz Popp
started it all.

216
00:18:48,293 --> 00:18:51,353
Franz Popp. I like that name.

217
00:18:51,864 --> 00:18:54,628
Made this one engine before 1920.

218
00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:56,925
It flew six miles up.

219
00:18:57,202 --> 00:19:00,228
Well, Popp and his boys were
just getting started, man.

220
00:19:00,439 --> 00:19:03,067
Made this one engine,
the 801, World War II...

221
00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:08,406
...14 cylinders,
2300 horsepower, seven miles up.

222
00:19:10,182 --> 00:19:13,413
With more time, they would have
bombed the shit out of England...

223
00:19:13,619 --> 00:19:15,450
...and maybe even won the war.

224
00:19:16,355 --> 00:19:18,118
That's where this comes from.

225
00:19:19,091 --> 00:19:21,753
White propeller zipping
around a blue sky.

226
00:19:22,895 --> 00:19:26,126
After the war, they couldn't
make plane engines anymore.

227
00:19:26,331 --> 00:19:31,098
And that's when BMW gave some
serious thought to making cars.

228
00:19:31,336 --> 00:19:32,963
Kind of like this one.

229
00:19:33,872 --> 00:19:36,500
But you probably knew all that,
since you lease one.

230
00:19:37,042 --> 00:19:38,976
Thanks for the history lesson.

231
00:19:39,845 --> 00:19:41,335
No problem, man.

232
00:21:00,025 --> 00:21:02,255
Messing with my stuff, man.

233
00:21:57,616 --> 00:21:58,640
Hey...

234
00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:01,279
The other night was...

235
00:22:01,486 --> 00:22:04,546
It was just this dare thing
me and my boys do.

236
00:22:21,673 --> 00:22:25,871
Well, I was wondering maybe I could
bring you some more of my stuff...

237
00:22:26,078 --> 00:22:28,205
...or maybe I could
write something else.

238
00:22:28,413 --> 00:22:33,749
How about 5000 words on why you'll
stay the fuck out of my home?!

239
00:23:15,694 --> 00:23:18,390
Come on, man, I know you in there.

240
00:23:22,434 --> 00:23:25,494
Take your goddamn hand off my door!

241
00:23:26,271 --> 00:23:31,208
I just came to drop off
that thing you asked me for.

242
00:23:31,410 --> 00:23:32,707
What thing?

243
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:37,109
The 5000 words on why you wanted me
to stay out of your place.

244
00:23:37,315 --> 00:23:39,180
That's kind of the way you said it.

245
00:23:39,384 --> 00:23:43,684
Well, try remembering it
exactly as I said it.

246
00:24:12,083 --> 00:24:13,710
Come on in, Jamal.

247
00:24:13,919 --> 00:24:15,250
Hi, honey.

248
00:24:15,954 --> 00:24:17,353
It's okay.

249
00:24:18,924 --> 00:24:20,016
Sit down.

250
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,125
Mrs. Wallace, Jamal. When we got
your recent test scores...

251
00:24:25,330 --> 00:24:28,595
...we figured there may be some
interest from private schools.

252
00:24:28,967 --> 00:24:32,130
Well, it turns out we were right.

253
00:24:32,771 --> 00:24:33,829
Mr. Bradley.

254
00:24:34,039 --> 00:24:37,133
Jamal, Mrs. Wallace,
my name's David Bradley.

255
00:24:37,342 --> 00:24:39,367
I'm with the Mailor School
in Manhattan.

256
00:24:39,578 --> 00:24:43,036
- Mailor? Mailor-Callow?
- That's right. You familiar with us?

257
00:24:43,748 --> 00:24:44,976
Yeah.

258
00:24:45,250 --> 00:24:48,845
Jamal, Mailor-Callow is not only
the best prep school in the city...

259
00:24:49,054 --> 00:24:51,989
...it's one of the finest
private schools in the East.

260
00:24:52,190 --> 00:24:53,521
Only the best go there.

261
00:24:53,859 --> 00:24:56,487
You may know we're a few weeks
into our fall term...

262
00:24:56,695 --> 00:24:58,686
...but every year
we hold some openings...

263
00:24:58,897 --> 00:25:01,297
...while we wait
for test scores to come in.

264
00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:04,034
Jamal, your test scores...

265
00:25:04,236 --> 00:25:07,103
...to put it mildly,
caught our attention.

266
00:25:08,139 --> 00:25:11,734
I'm here to see if you'd be
interested in attending our school.

267
00:25:13,778 --> 00:25:17,179
Jamal, we know leaving
for another school...

268
00:25:17,749 --> 00:25:20,684
...especially a private school,
is not gonna be easy.

269
00:25:21,253 --> 00:25:24,381
But this isn't the right place
for you anymore.

270
00:25:24,689 --> 00:25:26,987
Jamal, it's not a difficult choice.

271
00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:28,716
Mr. Bradley...

272
00:25:30,328 --> 00:25:32,853
...there's no way
that we could pay for this.

273
00:25:33,064 --> 00:25:35,123
We're not asking you to.

274
00:25:35,967 --> 00:25:38,697
When Dr. Simon said,
"Only the best go to Mailor"...

275
00:25:38,904 --> 00:25:40,667
...he neglected to mention...

276
00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:43,670
...that our excellence extends beyond
the classroom.

277
00:25:43,875 --> 00:25:44,933
I figured that.

278
00:25:45,143 --> 00:25:46,610
We thought you might.

279
00:25:47,012 --> 00:25:51,381
Mrs. Wallace, about 40 of our students
have gone on to play college ball.

280
00:25:51,583 --> 00:25:54,143
Three have made it
to the professional level.

281
00:25:54,419 --> 00:25:56,819
We evaluated your play last year.

282
00:25:57,022 --> 00:25:59,286
While this is strictly
an academic offer...

283
00:25:59,491 --> 00:26:02,324
...we won't be disappointed
if you choose to play.

284
00:26:02,527 --> 00:26:06,554
All we ask is you come out for a
few days, take a look, think it over.

285
00:26:06,998 --> 00:26:08,863
- Okay.
- Mrs. Wallace.

286
00:26:09,067 --> 00:26:10,728
- Thank you.
- Jamal.

287
00:26:11,803 --> 00:26:12,895
Goodbye.

288
00:26:13,104 --> 00:26:14,469
We'll be in touch.

289
00:27:03,254 --> 00:27:06,382
- I didn't knock this time, man.
- To whom were you speaking?

290
00:27:06,591 --> 00:27:09,719
I'll tell you that
when I get my 5000 words back.

291
00:27:50,402 --> 00:27:52,029
Bolt the door...

292
00:27:52,237 --> 00:27:53,431
...if you're coming in.

293
00:28:00,478 --> 00:28:02,139
The man in the car?

294
00:28:07,652 --> 00:28:09,813
He was from this private school.

295
00:28:10,855 --> 00:28:12,584
They want me to go there.

296
00:28:16,261 --> 00:28:18,354
We don't have to pay anything, though.

297
00:28:20,331 --> 00:28:23,061
We live a couple blocks from here,
me and my mom.

298
00:28:24,402 --> 00:28:28,031
Well, my brother was there
a couple of years ago...

299
00:28:28,239 --> 00:28:30,503
...but he left after my dad left.

300
00:28:46,624 --> 00:28:50,458
My mom got tired of waiting
for my dad to get himself clean.

301
00:28:51,029 --> 00:28:53,657
And my dad got tired of trying.

302
00:28:55,266 --> 00:28:57,257
But that's when I started writing.

303
00:28:57,469 --> 00:28:58,834
What's your name?

304
00:28:59,337 --> 00:29:00,929
Jamal Wallace.

305
00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:03,897
Sounds like some kind of marmalade.

306
00:29:04,576 --> 00:29:06,009
How old are you?

307
00:29:07,045 --> 00:29:08,512
I'm 16.

308
00:29:08,713 --> 00:29:10,476
Sixteen!

309
00:29:11,316 --> 00:29:12,305
And you're black!

310
00:29:16,054 --> 00:29:18,318
- It's remarkable.
- Remarkable? What?

311
00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:21,756
It's remarkable that I'm black?

312
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,827
What does me being black
got to do with anything, man?

313
00:29:29,634 --> 00:29:32,102
You don't know what to do
right now, do you?

314
00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:34,629
If you say what you
really want to say...

315
00:29:34,839 --> 00:29:37,273
...I might not read any more of this.

316
00:29:37,809 --> 00:29:41,711
But if you let me run you down
with this racist bullshit...

317
00:29:43,481 --> 00:29:46,041
...what does that make you?

318
00:29:49,888 --> 00:29:51,583
I'm not playing this game, man.

319
00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:55,351
Oh, I say you are playing it.

320
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,859
An expression is worth
a thousand words.

321
00:29:59,697 --> 00:30:03,690
But perhaps in your case just two.

322
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:10,668
Here.

323
00:30:27,692 --> 00:30:29,182
What an asshole.

324
00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:39,859
One hand to give, one hand to receive.
As we eat together in unity...

325
00:30:40,071 --> 00:30:43,802
...may our minds, bodies
and spirits grow strong...

326
00:30:44,008 --> 00:30:46,340
...and congratulations to Jamal.

327
00:30:46,544 --> 00:30:48,011
Amen.

328
00:30:48,213 --> 00:30:49,703
- Amen.
- Amen.

329
00:30:49,914 --> 00:30:51,142
Did you see this?

330
00:30:51,349 --> 00:30:53,579
- Let me see.
- Don't mess it up.

331
00:30:54,118 --> 00:30:55,107
Wait a minute.

332
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,346
From the cover this look like
the funny-man school to me.

333
00:30:58,556 --> 00:31:00,285
Terrell, eat your food.

334
00:31:00,491 --> 00:31:04,188
You'll be fine, big bro, because
Mommy don't make nothing but soldiers.

335
00:31:04,395 --> 00:31:06,420
You could have done the same thing.

336
00:31:06,631 --> 00:31:10,123
I work at a parking lot. And I ain't
no regular parking attendant.

337
00:31:10,335 --> 00:31:13,236
I am the supervisor
of all the parking attendants.

338
00:31:13,438 --> 00:31:16,373
You don't know how much
you'll make from week to week.

339
00:31:16,574 --> 00:31:18,769
One week it's $50,
one week it's $100.

340
00:31:18,977 --> 00:31:21,002
- That's not a real job.
- Leave him alone.

341
00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:24,704
Ma, look, I rap, I get busy.
You know I got my rap thing going.

342
00:31:24,916 --> 00:31:27,077
Don't bring up the rap.
Eat your food.

343
00:31:27,285 --> 00:31:29,446
- You don't want to hear my songs?
- Eat.

344
00:31:29,654 --> 00:31:31,144
I'll sing it for you now.

345
00:31:31,356 --> 00:31:33,483
<i>When I come due</i>
<i>And I blow the spot</i>

346
00:31:33,691 --> 00:31:36,660
<i>Your son is supervisor</i>
<i>Of the parking lot</i>

347
00:31:38,529 --> 00:31:40,895
Tell her, Jamal.
My choice is hot, right?

348
00:32:28,179 --> 00:32:29,840
Jamal Wallace?

349
00:32:30,581 --> 00:32:33,015
Hi, I'm Claire Spence.

350
00:32:35,219 --> 00:32:37,744
Bradley asked me to show you around.

351
00:32:38,289 --> 00:32:39,517
All right.

352
00:32:43,361 --> 00:32:44,350
Come on.

353
00:32:49,934 --> 00:32:52,801
Don't worry about answering
any questions or anything.

354
00:32:53,004 --> 00:32:55,131
Not till you decide
what you're gonna do.

355
00:32:55,373 --> 00:32:58,035
Besides, the teachers here...

356
00:32:58,242 --> 00:33:01,040
...aren't all that into
student participation.

357
00:33:01,245 --> 00:33:03,372
They're busy listening
to themselves talk.

358
00:33:03,581 --> 00:33:05,811
- What do you mean?
- You'll see.

359
00:33:06,250 --> 00:33:10,186
This morning we begin our third
required reading of the semester...

360
00:33:10,388 --> 00:33:12,686
...the study of a novel
that offers everything...

361
00:33:12,890 --> 00:33:15,586
...and an author who could
have offered much more.

362
00:33:20,031 --> 00:33:21,931
That's Robert Crawford.

363
00:33:22,133 --> 00:33:24,294
Been here as long
as most of the buildings.

364
00:33:24,502 --> 00:33:27,994
When William Forrester was 23,
in 1953...

365
00:33:28,206 --> 00:33:30,674
...he set out to write his first book.

366
00:33:31,242 --> 00:33:35,679
Many aspiring authors talk about
writing the great 20th-century novel...

367
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,440
...well, William Forrester did it.

368
00:33:39,217 --> 00:33:40,741
On his first try.

369
00:33:40,952 --> 00:33:42,351
Have you read this?

370
00:33:43,454 --> 00:33:44,751
Yeah, you?

371
00:33:45,056 --> 00:33:47,320
Only about a dozen times.

372
00:33:47,525 --> 00:33:50,153
This was the only one
he chose to publish.

373
00:33:50,361 --> 00:33:53,296
For all we know it was the only one
he chose to write.

374
00:33:53,498 --> 00:33:55,295
Your job over the next week...

375
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:59,368
Your job over the next week
is to read it and tell me why.

376
00:33:59,570 --> 00:34:00,696
So...

377
00:34:01,639 --> 00:34:03,539
...you gonna be back tomorrow?

378
00:34:03,741 --> 00:34:06,369
Yeah, they want me to spend
some time on the court.

379
00:34:06,577 --> 00:34:08,010
Yeah, I heard.

380
00:34:08,212 --> 00:34:12,012
Graduation was a little rough
on last year's team, that's all.

381
00:34:12,216 --> 00:34:14,776
But it's just like college, right?

382
00:34:15,186 --> 00:34:18,587
You get an education,
and they get what they want.

383
00:34:18,856 --> 00:34:20,619
Maybe you both get what you want.

384
00:34:20,825 --> 00:34:22,190
Yeah, maybe.

385
00:34:24,228 --> 00:34:26,355
It was very nice meeting you, Jamal.

386
00:34:27,198 --> 00:34:29,962
You too, Claire. You gonna
be around tomorrow?

387
00:34:30,168 --> 00:34:31,897
Not where you'll be...

388
00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:35,304
...but you might be able
to find me for lunch.

389
00:34:43,047 --> 00:34:44,742
I didn't say those two words.

390
00:34:44,949 --> 00:34:46,541
Why didn't you?

391
00:34:47,418 --> 00:34:49,886
Because I want you to read
more of my stuff.

392
00:34:53,825 --> 00:34:56,487
You know, they talk a lot
about you out there.

393
00:34:57,462 --> 00:34:59,362
All this "legend" bullshit.

394
00:34:59,564 --> 00:35:01,464
They got some stories, though.

395
00:35:01,666 --> 00:35:03,725
People wonder if you killed somebody.

396
00:35:03,935 --> 00:35:06,301
That, and wondering
why you been in here so long.

397
00:35:06,504 --> 00:35:09,064
I wouldn't move, though.
I'd stay for the quiet.

398
00:35:09,273 --> 00:35:11,138
You don't hear nothing in here.

399
00:35:11,642 --> 00:35:13,803
Our place got these noisy neighbors.

400
00:35:14,011 --> 00:35:17,037
Their kid's always yelling
because he's only a year old.

401
00:35:17,248 --> 00:35:19,944
Or pops is yelling
because the kid's making noise.

402
00:35:20,151 --> 00:35:21,778
Then mom's yelling...

403
00:35:21,986 --> 00:35:23,453
But that's a different yelling...

404
00:35:23,654 --> 00:35:27,283
...because that's when the old man's
playing the tunes for her...

405
00:35:27,492 --> 00:35:30,154
...and she got her head
banging up against the wall.

406
00:35:30,361 --> 00:35:31,623
She be screaming like...

407
00:35:32,330 --> 00:35:34,798
- Then she...
- You better stir that soup.

408
00:35:35,366 --> 00:35:36,355
What?

409
00:35:37,602 --> 00:35:39,536
Stir the soup before it foams up.

410
00:35:47,078 --> 00:35:49,205
How come ours never
gets anything on it?

411
00:35:49,413 --> 00:35:51,847
Come on. Come on. Closer.

412
00:35:53,518 --> 00:35:54,382
Now.

413
00:35:54,585 --> 00:35:58,919
- You got somebody doing that yelling?
- What I have here is an adult male...

414
00:35:59,123 --> 00:36:01,057
...quite pretty...

415
00:36:02,026 --> 00:36:04,722
...probably strayed from the park.

416
00:36:09,367 --> 00:36:11,335
A Connecticut Warbler.

417
00:36:12,036 --> 00:36:14,698
You ever go outside to do any of this?

418
00:36:15,506 --> 00:36:18,134
You should have stayed
with the soup question.

419
00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:22,244
The object of a question is to obtain
information that matters to us...

420
00:36:22,446 --> 00:36:24,539
...and to no one else.

421
00:36:26,117 --> 00:36:29,018
You were wondering why
your soup doesn't foam up?

422
00:36:29,220 --> 00:36:32,121
Probably because your mother
was brought up in a house...

423
00:36:32,323 --> 00:36:35,190
...that never thought
about wasting milk in soup.

424
00:36:35,393 --> 00:36:37,657
Now that question was a good one.

425
00:36:38,296 --> 00:36:42,062
In contrast to,
"Do I ever go outside?"

426
00:36:42,266 --> 00:36:44,234
Which fails to meet
the basic criteria...

427
00:36:44,435 --> 00:36:47,029
...of obtaining information
that matters to you.

428
00:36:47,238 --> 00:36:48,671
All right, man.

429
00:36:48,873 --> 00:36:51,273
Guess I don't have
any more soup questions.

430
00:36:52,610 --> 00:36:53,702
No?

431
00:36:53,911 --> 00:36:56,539
Why did you say that stuff
about me being black?

432
00:36:56,747 --> 00:36:59,272
It had nothing to do
with you being black.

433
00:36:59,483 --> 00:37:03,943
It had to do with me finding out just
how much bullshit you'd put up with.

434
00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:05,383
You knew I'd come back.

435
00:37:05,590 --> 00:37:08,320
Yes, just like I know
you'll go to this new school.

436
00:37:08,693 --> 00:37:09,785
How you know that?

437
00:37:09,994 --> 00:37:12,554
Because there's a question
in your writing...

438
00:37:12,763 --> 00:37:15,357
...suggesting what is it
you wish to do with your life.

439
00:37:15,566 --> 00:37:19,627
And that is a question your present
school cannot answer for you.

440
00:37:23,908 --> 00:37:26,604
Let's match up.
Wallace, you take Hartwell.

441
00:37:30,114 --> 00:37:31,411
What's up, man? I'm Jamal.

442
00:37:32,550 --> 00:37:34,074
Just check it, all right?

443
00:37:37,588 --> 00:37:39,453
- Check the ball.
- Let's go, guys.

444
00:37:39,657 --> 00:37:40,783
Come on now.

445
00:37:43,995 --> 00:37:45,394
Ball's in.

446
00:37:47,298 --> 00:37:48,356
Come on!

447
00:37:48,799 --> 00:37:50,767
- Cover Danson! Get on him!
- Let's go.

448
00:37:52,203 --> 00:37:54,000
Play him tough, play him tough.

449
00:37:54,338 --> 00:37:55,737
Here, Johnny, inside!

450
00:37:57,408 --> 00:37:59,137
Way to go. Way to go, gang.

451
00:38:02,513 --> 00:38:04,037
Let's go, D up.

452
00:38:04,248 --> 00:38:05,772
- Let's go, garbage.
- Come on.

453
00:38:05,983 --> 00:38:07,917
- Come on.
- Step up. Step up.

454
00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:09,108
Head's up.

455
00:38:13,924 --> 00:38:16,358
Leave the trash-talking
back home, all right?

456
00:38:17,228 --> 00:38:18,252
What?

457
00:38:18,829 --> 00:38:20,763
Get that goofy look off your face.

458
00:38:20,965 --> 00:38:22,956
- I'm gonna make you my son.
- Right.

459
00:38:23,167 --> 00:38:24,862
- You gonna be my son.
- Come on.

460
00:38:33,544 --> 00:38:34,670
Let's go.

461
00:38:37,682 --> 00:38:39,547
- Come on, man.
- What?

462
00:38:39,750 --> 00:38:41,684
- You're too small.
- What?

463
00:38:43,487 --> 00:38:45,011
Nice handle.

464
00:38:47,491 --> 00:38:50,119
Hartwell, a little defense
would be real nice.

465
00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:52,853
Coach is right. A little defense.
Let's go.

466
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:55,231
- Try and get it past the line.
- What?

467
00:38:55,433 --> 00:38:57,162
I said, get it past the line.

468
00:38:58,102 --> 00:39:00,195
Is this too much? Pressure.

469
00:39:03,674 --> 00:39:05,608
Too much.

470
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:11,177
I need some help!

471
00:39:11,782 --> 00:39:14,046
Ten seconds. Let's go,
the other way.

472
00:39:29,333 --> 00:39:30,459
I'm taking your spot?

473
00:39:30,668 --> 00:39:31,760
- Taking what?
- Your spot.

474
00:39:31,969 --> 00:39:33,903
Taking nothing. Come on.

475
00:39:47,918 --> 00:39:49,681
My court, man. My court.

476
00:39:55,426 --> 00:39:57,018
That's how we play down here.

477
00:39:57,228 --> 00:39:58,320
That's right.

478
00:40:01,499 --> 00:40:02,864
Hartwell's just a rich kid...

479
00:40:03,067 --> 00:40:06,594
...who wants as much of the spotlight
as he can get his senior year.

480
00:40:06,804 --> 00:40:07,862
That's all it is.

481
00:40:08,072 --> 00:40:10,632
They take things real serious
around here.

482
00:40:10,841 --> 00:40:13,241
Well, it's a serious place.

483
00:40:13,444 --> 00:40:16,413
Serious enough I usually end up
here, getting lunch on my books.

484
00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:19,246
What are you working on?

485
00:40:21,352 --> 00:40:22,910
Forrester's book.

486
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:24,781
I thought you read it.

487
00:40:24,989 --> 00:40:26,957
I know, but look at this.

488
00:40:27,158 --> 00:40:29,126
My dad got it for me.

489
00:40:29,326 --> 00:40:30,816
It's an early printing.

490
00:40:37,635 --> 00:40:38,761
Listen, I gotta go.

491
00:40:38,969 --> 00:40:40,231
But you just got here.

492
00:40:40,438 --> 00:40:41,666
I know, but...

493
00:40:41,872 --> 00:40:43,237
...I forgot something.

494
00:40:43,441 --> 00:40:45,534
I gotta check up on something.

495
00:40:45,776 --> 00:40:47,505
I'll see you later.

496
00:41:07,965 --> 00:41:09,830
"Born 1930.

497
00:41:10,334 --> 00:41:12,029
In Scotland."

498
00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:24,171
"Moved to New York with his family
in his late teens.

499
00:41:24,882 --> 00:41:27,715
Mr. Forrester was unavailable
for comment."

500
00:41:29,019 --> 00:41:30,646
Yeah, I bet he was.

501
00:41:30,855 --> 00:41:30,921
Are we now planning
to make these visits a habit?

502
00:41:30,921 --> 00:41:33,651
Are we now planning
to make these visits a habit?

503
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:40,226
- You said you knew I'd be coming back.
- Yes, but I thought you meant once.

504
00:41:40,564 --> 00:41:43,032
I need some help with
this thing at school.

505
00:41:43,234 --> 00:41:46,328
Ah, yes, this thing at school.

506
00:41:46,537 --> 00:41:49,665
And what "thing" are we
talking about now?

507
00:41:55,112 --> 00:41:57,205
You ever read that?

508
00:42:01,485 --> 00:42:03,112
I'm trying, man.

509
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,517
I just can't seem to get past
the first 10 pages.

510
00:42:07,892 --> 00:42:11,055
As I recall...

511
00:42:12,296 --> 00:42:14,856
...I took a while
to get past those pages myself.

512
00:42:18,435 --> 00:42:20,995
Oh, Christ, you've
dog-eared one of them.

513
00:42:21,205 --> 00:42:23,730
Show a little respect
for the author, huh?

514
00:42:29,380 --> 00:42:31,177
That's you, isn't it?

515
00:42:32,416 --> 00:42:34,008
You're the author.

516
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:39,518
I read the whole thing.
It's not bad. Especially...

517
00:42:39,723 --> 00:42:40,917
Hey...

518
00:42:41,725 --> 00:42:43,124
...I know what it is.

519
00:42:43,327 --> 00:42:47,354
I don't need another person
telling me what they think it is.

520
00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:48,862
I wasn't gonna say that.

521
00:42:49,066 --> 00:42:50,556
What were you gonna say?

522
00:42:50,768 --> 00:42:52,759
I should tell you everything about me?

523
00:42:52,970 --> 00:42:54,335
I told you about me.

524
00:42:54,538 --> 00:42:57,063
You could learn
a little something about...

525
00:42:57,274 --> 00:42:59,071
...holding back.

526
00:43:31,909 --> 00:43:35,675
If I ask you not to say
anything to anybody...

527
00:43:36,146 --> 00:43:38,944
...about here, us...

528
00:43:39,984 --> 00:43:42,043
...is that something
I can trust you on?

529
00:43:47,524 --> 00:43:48,718
Yeah.

530
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:50,549
I promise.

531
00:43:51,595 --> 00:43:52,994
Fine.

532
00:43:54,498 --> 00:43:57,194
And if I ask you to keep helping
me with my writing?

533
00:44:12,883 --> 00:44:14,373
There'll be no questions...

534
00:44:14,585 --> 00:44:17,281
...about me, my family...

535
00:44:17,488 --> 00:44:19,615
...or why there was only one book.

536
00:44:19,823 --> 00:44:21,484
Then I won't ask.

537
00:44:22,526 --> 00:44:23,993
Good.

538
00:44:24,428 --> 00:44:25,918
And good night.

539
00:44:36,607 --> 00:44:37,733
What's it feel like?

540
00:44:38,976 --> 00:44:39,965
What?

541
00:44:40,177 --> 00:44:42,509
Writing something the way you did.

542
00:44:44,481 --> 00:44:46,472
Perhaps you'll find out.

543
00:45:03,867 --> 00:45:05,528
Listen, you 5-foot-nothing.

544
00:45:08,839 --> 00:45:11,069
He's probably still
sleeping in the crib.

545
00:45:13,377 --> 00:45:14,935
Kenzo, how old are you again?

546
00:45:15,145 --> 00:45:16,407
Why?

547
00:45:16,613 --> 00:45:19,639
Look at your face!
Did your mom do that to you?

548
00:45:19,850 --> 00:45:21,078
She started you young.

549
00:45:21,285 --> 00:45:24,448
You know where that starts from?
Eating too much cookie.

550
00:45:27,091 --> 00:45:29,321
Teresa told me. She told me.

551
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:31,687
I like them big. You got a problem?

552
00:45:31,895 --> 00:45:33,294
I like them big.

553
00:45:34,331 --> 00:45:35,423
That big?

554
00:45:35,632 --> 00:45:39,762
It's like when I'm with
all three of your mothers.

555
00:45:40,003 --> 00:45:43,268
- You're not talking about my mother.
- Hold on, Oscar Mayer wiener.

556
00:45:43,874 --> 00:45:46,866
Stop playing. You got beat
like Tina in school one day.

557
00:45:47,077 --> 00:45:48,977
I seen Duke smack you up.

558
00:45:49,179 --> 00:45:50,840
Listen, throw it at your mama.

559
00:45:51,048 --> 00:45:52,743
Everything tilts towards your mama.

560
00:45:53,984 --> 00:45:56,418
Your mama. Stop throwing your mama.

561
00:45:59,356 --> 00:46:00,789
Why you laughing?

562
00:46:00,991 --> 00:46:03,585
Yo, man, your glasses
are like Coke bottles.

563
00:46:05,462 --> 00:46:06,520
Classics.

564
00:46:08,832 --> 00:46:11,630
- You ever met somebody famous?
- How famous?

565
00:46:11,835 --> 00:46:13,564
Like, I don't know...

566
00:46:15,405 --> 00:46:17,396
...somebody people would know.

567
00:46:17,908 --> 00:46:20,433
Nobody like that
comes around here, man.

568
00:46:24,715 --> 00:46:26,580
So, you here for good now?

569
00:46:27,551 --> 00:46:29,917
Yeah, I'm just trying to get started.

570
00:46:34,024 --> 00:46:35,958
Well, at least they look good.

571
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:37,422
Right?

572
00:46:48,772 --> 00:46:52,037
This year's writing competition
has now been scheduled.

573
00:46:52,743 --> 00:46:56,008
For those who choose to take part,
entries must be turned in...

574
00:46:56,213 --> 00:46:57,578
...before spring break.

575
00:46:57,781 --> 00:47:00,716
Meaning, you still have
a few months of procrastination.

576
00:47:02,286 --> 00:47:06,620
Feel free to experiment with
a more proactive approach. The...

577
00:47:09,293 --> 00:47:10,783
Mr. Wallace!

578
00:47:11,595 --> 00:47:12,687
Please.

579
00:47:14,998 --> 00:47:16,522
I had a chance this morning...

580
00:47:16,733 --> 00:47:19,930
...to review the files sent over
by your former school.

581
00:47:21,405 --> 00:47:23,498
Test scores, impressive.

582
00:47:23,707 --> 00:47:25,436
Actual classroom work...

583
00:47:26,143 --> 00:47:27,576
...not so impressive.

584
00:47:28,178 --> 00:47:29,668
Is this...

585
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,849
...the level of work
I should anticipate, Mr. Wallace?

586
00:47:37,020 --> 00:47:39,511
Because if it is...

587
00:47:39,957 --> 00:47:43,791
...it will help me determine whether
I should treat you as a student...

588
00:47:43,994 --> 00:47:46,189
...or as someone here
simply to pursue...

589
00:47:46,396 --> 00:47:47,590
How should I put it?

590
00:47:48,498 --> 00:47:50,193
Other endeavors?

591
00:47:51,602 --> 00:47:54,969
Of course your work will give you
ample opportunity to respond.

592
00:47:57,474 --> 00:47:58,805
Good day, Mr. Wallace.

593
00:48:05,649 --> 00:48:09,141
Just so you know,
you handled that the right way.

594
00:48:09,353 --> 00:48:10,650
How's that?

595
00:48:11,054 --> 00:48:12,578
You didn't say anything.

596
00:48:12,789 --> 00:48:15,280
It's the ones that do
that run into trouble.

597
00:48:15,492 --> 00:48:17,824
- John Coleridge.
- Jamal Wallace.

598
00:48:21,098 --> 00:48:23,623
So how many people do say something?

599
00:48:23,967 --> 00:48:26,435
And actually stay in Crawford's class?

600
00:48:26,637 --> 00:48:28,127
Not many.

601
00:48:29,273 --> 00:48:30,968
I missed what you said.

602
00:48:32,409 --> 00:48:34,070
I didn't say anything.

603
00:48:38,849 --> 00:48:40,373
You read all these?

604
00:48:40,584 --> 00:48:44,384
No, I just keep them
to impress all my visitors.

605
00:48:45,789 --> 00:48:47,723
All your visitors.

606
00:48:48,292 --> 00:48:50,522
We talk about your book at school.

607
00:48:50,727 --> 00:48:53,127
People have been talking
about it for years.

608
00:48:53,330 --> 00:48:55,730
They just haven't been
saying anything.

609
00:48:56,233 --> 00:48:58,098
Yeah, I think I got it down, though.

610
00:48:58,302 --> 00:49:01,430
I figure you were writing
about how life never works out.

611
00:49:01,638 --> 00:49:05,768
Oh, really? You had to
read a book to figure that out?

612
00:49:06,543 --> 00:49:09,774
Yeah, but Crawford's
messed up on it anyhow.

613
00:49:09,980 --> 00:49:13,108
Says the guy having trouble
after the war is really you.

614
00:49:13,317 --> 00:49:17,811
Some symbolism shit for the problems
you were having with everybody.

615
00:49:18,021 --> 00:49:19,750
Robert Crawford?

616
00:49:20,390 --> 00:49:22,483
Yeah, I think it's bullshit, though.

617
00:49:22,693 --> 00:49:25,218
I think there really was
somebody else.

618
00:49:31,902 --> 00:49:33,699
Mr. Johannsen?

619
00:49:34,304 --> 00:49:35,328
Here.

620
00:49:35,806 --> 00:49:39,970
Mr. Massie! Another trip
to your favorite destination.

621
00:49:40,177 --> 00:49:42,771
I've got four bags today.
I can leave them.

622
00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:44,004
Oh, no, no.

623
00:49:46,783 --> 00:49:48,114
Come right in.

624
00:49:48,819 --> 00:49:50,650
How you doing, Mr. Johannsen?

625
00:49:50,988 --> 00:49:53,980
At least a half-hour
before the sun goes down.

626
00:49:54,191 --> 00:49:57,888
Then you can begin your
panic-driven quest back to Manhattan.

627
00:49:58,095 --> 00:50:00,256
This should last you till next week.

628
00:50:00,697 --> 00:50:02,255
Your mail is in...

629
00:50:02,499 --> 00:50:03,488
...this one.

630
00:50:03,700 --> 00:50:05,565
- Mr. Johannsen?
- Essentials are in...

631
00:50:05,769 --> 00:50:07,396
Essentials?

632
00:50:07,804 --> 00:50:12,104
I took care of your bills, and
I put all the copies in this one.

633
00:50:12,309 --> 00:50:15,005
The phone company wonders
if you still want service...

634
00:50:15,212 --> 00:50:18,147
...as you haven't had a call in six...
Okay.

635
00:50:18,348 --> 00:50:21,146
I got your socks
for the next couple weeks...

636
00:50:21,351 --> 00:50:22,909
...which are in this one.

637
00:50:23,220 --> 00:50:26,280
And I have your latest check
from accounting.

638
00:50:26,490 --> 00:50:29,084
They wanted to know if you
cashed the last one.

639
00:50:29,292 --> 00:50:31,192
It's still showing up outstanding.

640
00:50:31,395 --> 00:50:34,296
Not as outstanding as it once was.

641
00:50:39,069 --> 00:50:41,833
I'm sorry, I didn't realize
you had company.

642
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:45,008
Oh, yes. We were just
having a discussion...

643
00:50:45,208 --> 00:50:48,268
...on German automobile history.

644
00:50:48,478 --> 00:50:51,538
- Care to join us?
- No, I'm in a tow-away.

645
00:50:51,748 --> 00:50:52,772
Of course you are.

646
00:50:52,983 --> 00:50:54,245
See you next week?

647
00:50:54,451 --> 00:50:56,248
Not if I'm lucky.

648
00:51:01,591 --> 00:51:04,685
Why not give that guy a break
and do your own shopping?

649
00:51:05,162 --> 00:51:09,155
- And why are your socks inside out?
- Because socks are badly designed.

650
00:51:09,366 --> 00:51:12,699
The seams are on the inside.
Hurt the toes.

651
00:51:13,303 --> 00:51:17,763
In some cultures, it's considered good
luck to wear something inside out.

652
00:51:17,974 --> 00:51:19,202
And you believe that?

653
00:51:19,409 --> 00:51:21,400
No, but it's like praying.

654
00:51:21,611 --> 00:51:22,873
What do you risk?

655
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,071
And I do go outside.

656
00:51:25,282 --> 00:51:27,773
How do you think those windows
get cleaned?

657
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,088
Now, about this...

658
00:51:32,289 --> 00:51:33,813
...professor of yours.

659
00:51:34,024 --> 00:51:38,222
How did it feel having him
tell you what you can't do?

660
00:51:38,428 --> 00:51:43,365
- Like he knew he was better than me.
- Then let's show him what you can do.

661
00:51:44,701 --> 00:51:46,999
Why are the words we write
for ourselves...

662
00:51:47,204 --> 00:51:50,970
...always so much better than those
we write for others? Move.

663
00:51:54,544 --> 00:51:55,738
Sit.

664
00:52:05,422 --> 00:52:06,446
Go ahead.

665
00:52:07,724 --> 00:52:09,021
Go ahead and what?

666
00:52:09,326 --> 00:52:10,452
Write.

667
00:52:13,063 --> 00:52:14,291
What are you doing?

668
00:52:14,498 --> 00:52:17,160
I'm writing. Like you'll be...

669
00:52:17,367 --> 00:52:19,335
...when you start punching those keys.

670
00:52:24,708 --> 00:52:25,970
Is there a problem?

671
00:52:26,176 --> 00:52:27,473
No, I'm just thinking.

672
00:52:27,677 --> 00:52:29,144
No. No thinking.

673
00:52:29,346 --> 00:52:30,870
That comes later.

674
00:52:35,018 --> 00:52:36,781
You write your first draft...

675
00:52:37,988 --> 00:52:38,886
...with your heart...

676
00:52:40,390 --> 00:52:43,018
...and you rewrite with your head.

677
00:52:46,930 --> 00:52:49,125
The first key to writing...

678
00:52:49,332 --> 00:52:51,527
...is to write.

679
00:52:52,636 --> 00:52:54,160
Not to think.

680
00:53:04,314 --> 00:53:06,009
Jesus!

681
00:53:43,086 --> 00:53:45,281
Is there a chance you might sit down?

682
00:54:03,473 --> 00:54:05,407
"A Season of Faith's Perfection."

683
00:54:05,609 --> 00:54:08,601
- What's this?
- Start typing that.

684
00:54:08,812 --> 00:54:11,337
Sometimes the simple rhythm
of typing...

685
00:54:11,548 --> 00:54:14,346
...gets us from page one to page two.

686
00:54:14,784 --> 00:54:17,446
And when you begin to feel
your own words...

687
00:54:17,921 --> 00:54:19,912
...start typing them.

688
00:54:41,378 --> 00:54:43,642
Punch the keys, for God's sake!

689
00:54:53,990 --> 00:54:55,423
Yes!

690
00:54:57,060 --> 00:54:58,584
Yes!

691
00:54:59,663 --> 00:55:02,097
You're the man now, dog!

692
00:56:05,695 --> 00:56:07,162
Jamal...

693
00:56:07,831 --> 00:56:10,664
...whatever we write
in this apartment...

694
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,400
...stays in this apartment.

695
00:56:14,003 --> 00:56:15,129
No exceptions.

696
00:56:47,937 --> 00:56:50,064
Okay, let's push it, guys. Come on.

697
00:56:52,475 --> 00:56:54,375
- Heads up.
- Yo, D!

698
00:56:56,413 --> 00:56:57,505
That's a foul, man.

699
00:56:57,714 --> 00:57:00,683
- I had the spot.
- You'll know when you got the spot.

700
00:57:00,884 --> 00:57:02,249
Hey, hey, gentlemen!

701
00:57:02,452 --> 00:57:05,046
- Hey, hey!
- Our season begins in one week.

702
00:57:05,255 --> 00:57:09,214
If I see this one more time, you'll
shoot fouls to see who runs today.

703
00:57:09,426 --> 00:57:12,361
Is that understood?
Is that understood?

704
00:57:12,762 --> 00:57:13,956
One.

705
00:57:20,103 --> 00:57:21,195
Two.

706
00:57:25,308 --> 00:57:26,536
Three.

707
00:57:30,413 --> 00:57:31,744
Eleven.

708
00:57:35,752 --> 00:57:37,185
Twelve.

709
00:57:40,056 --> 00:57:41,421
Thirteen.

710
00:57:43,893 --> 00:57:45,520
Twenty-nine.

711
00:57:53,870 --> 00:57:55,303
Forty-eight.

712
00:57:58,942 --> 00:58:00,170
Forty-nine.

713
00:58:05,415 --> 00:58:06,609
Hold it.

714
00:58:08,685 --> 00:58:09,879
One more.

715
00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:27,402
That's one of the most impressive
things I've ever seen on a court.

716
00:58:27,604 --> 00:58:30,596
Why do I know it wasn't good
enough for either of you?

717
00:58:30,807 --> 00:58:32,707
Shower up and get out of here.

718
00:58:35,845 --> 00:58:38,780
You may think we're the same.
We're not.

719
00:58:46,356 --> 00:58:47,687
Oh, Mr. Wallace.

720
00:58:49,859 --> 00:58:51,156
Mr. Wallace!

721
00:58:51,794 --> 00:58:55,252
- Professor Crawford.
- The latest paper you turned in...

722
00:58:57,300 --> 00:59:00,497
It showed quite a bit of improvement
from your earlier work.

723
00:59:01,104 --> 00:59:02,503
- Thank you.
- Yes.

724
00:59:02,705 --> 00:59:06,106
- How long did it take you to write it?
- I wrote it last night.

725
00:59:06,309 --> 00:59:07,708
Last night!

726
00:59:09,012 --> 00:59:12,004
Well, I have some things
to finish up here.

727
00:59:12,215 --> 00:59:13,580
Good day, Mr. Wallace.

728
00:59:22,158 --> 00:59:23,887
<i>That's right. Select again.</i>

729
00:59:24,093 --> 00:59:26,687
<i>- "Birds of a Feather" for 600.</i>
<i>- Answer:</i>

730
00:59:26,896 --> 00:59:30,457
<i>Vibrant in color, its name borrows</i>
<i>from this Vivien Leigh character.</i>

731
00:59:30,667 --> 00:59:34,364
- The scarlet tanager.
- It's, "What is the scarlet tanager?"

732
00:59:34,571 --> 00:59:36,505
<i>What is the scarlet tanager?</i>

733
00:59:36,706 --> 00:59:38,537
Gotta know the rules to play.

734
00:59:38,741 --> 00:59:41,835
It was written by a writer
you have never heard of.

735
00:59:42,845 --> 00:59:46,144
"Thy duty, winged flame of spring

736
00:59:46,349 --> 00:59:49,944
Is but to love and fly and sing."

737
00:59:50,153 --> 00:59:53,247
He was writing about the song
of the tanager.

738
00:59:53,456 --> 00:59:57,916
A song about new seasons, new life.

739
00:59:58,127 --> 01:00:00,220
That's James Lowell, man.

740
01:00:00,430 --> 01:00:02,330
I know who he is.

741
01:00:03,099 --> 01:00:06,796
"I'll stay with 'Poor Assumptions'
for 800, Alex."

742
01:00:07,770 --> 01:00:10,261
You ever see any
scarlet tanagers around here?

743
01:00:10,473 --> 01:00:13,271
They don't stray that far
from the park.

744
01:00:18,748 --> 01:00:23,151
So your professor wasn't exactly
full of praise this afternoon.

745
01:00:23,853 --> 01:00:25,787
No, not exactly.

746
01:00:26,255 --> 01:00:30,749
Well, there's something you should
know about Robert Crawford.

747
01:00:31,594 --> 01:00:34,586
He wrote a book
a few years after mine.

748
01:00:34,998 --> 01:00:39,367
And all the publishers rejected it,
which was the right decision.

749
01:00:39,569 --> 01:00:42,800
And instead of writing another one...

750
01:00:43,272 --> 01:00:47,732
...he took a job
teaching others how to write.

751
01:00:48,611 --> 01:00:50,010
How you know all that?

752
01:00:50,213 --> 01:00:53,808
Just keep in mind that
bitterly disappointed teachers...

753
01:00:54,017 --> 01:00:59,284
...can be either very effective
or very dangerous.

754
01:01:46,936 --> 01:01:49,666
All right, this is
the first step tonight, guys.

755
01:01:49,872 --> 01:01:51,669
"Mailor" on three.

756
01:01:51,874 --> 01:01:54,672
One, two, three, Mailor!

757
01:02:20,803 --> 01:02:22,134
Gold.

758
01:02:22,338 --> 01:02:23,430
Black.

759
01:02:24,774 --> 01:02:27,004
Up here, up straight and high.
Not yet.

760
01:02:39,455 --> 01:02:42,151
- What up, J?
- What up? You was in there tonight?

761
01:02:42,358 --> 01:02:43,416
Twenty-six points.

762
01:02:43,626 --> 01:02:46,117
Eight of 10 from the floor.
Ten of 10 from the line.

763
01:02:46,329 --> 01:02:48,957
- I'm supposed to miss that?
- All right, it was hot.

764
01:02:49,165 --> 01:02:52,396
You were putting some serious ink
on that stat page, man.

765
01:02:52,602 --> 01:02:53,591
What's going on?

766
01:02:53,803 --> 01:02:56,499
Yo, brothers was going
by Red Rose, man.

767
01:02:56,706 --> 01:02:59,334
I told them we catch up.
Friday night, kid.

768
01:02:59,542 --> 01:03:00,531
Come on. Come on.

769
01:03:00,743 --> 01:03:03,837
Hey, Jamal, you plan
on doing that every night?

770
01:03:04,046 --> 01:03:06,947
- Worked out, I guess.
- I'd say it worked out.

771
01:03:08,985 --> 01:03:10,384
This is Fly.

772
01:03:10,586 --> 01:03:12,315
- Hi, Fly, I'm Claire.
- How you doing?

773
01:03:12,522 --> 01:03:14,319
- You a friend of Jamal's?
- Claire!

774
01:03:14,824 --> 01:03:15,813
Come on!

775
01:03:16,025 --> 01:03:17,322
I'm coming.

776
01:03:17,693 --> 01:03:20,787
Don't hold that bus up too long.
Nice meeting you, Fly.

777
01:03:21,831 --> 01:03:24,732
All right! What the hell
you working there, man?

778
01:03:26,269 --> 01:03:28,100
Shut up, man.

779
01:03:29,405 --> 01:03:33,569
Yo, about Red Rose.
I ain't gonna make it.

780
01:03:33,776 --> 01:03:36,677
I gotta go to this dude house.
They do it every year.

781
01:03:37,213 --> 01:03:38,771
Don't be going off on this.

782
01:03:38,981 --> 01:03:42,815
You big time. You best be going.
I don't want to hold your bus up.

783
01:03:43,019 --> 01:03:44,543
You around this weekend?

784
01:03:44,754 --> 01:03:48,417
Where you think I'm gonna be? In
the Hamptons?

785
01:04:39,408 --> 01:04:42,935
It was very nice talking with you.
Remember, anything you need...

786
01:04:43,145 --> 01:04:46,171
...please give me a call.
Okay? Anything.

787
01:04:47,083 --> 01:04:48,072
Okay?

788
01:04:53,856 --> 01:04:56,552
Building up a collection
of those things?

789
01:04:57,526 --> 01:04:58,993
Yeah, a few.

790
01:04:59,295 --> 01:05:01,422
Do you want to get outside
for a while?

791
01:05:02,098 --> 01:05:04,430
Yeah. You know this place?

792
01:05:05,568 --> 01:05:08,765
I live in this place. Come on.

793
01:05:16,145 --> 01:05:20,445
They'll be in there till midnight,
congratulating themselves on your game.

794
01:05:20,650 --> 01:05:24,450
Which means I get to cram tomorrow
for this test on Monday.

795
01:05:24,654 --> 01:05:26,019
Test on what?

796
01:05:26,222 --> 01:05:28,122
It's on the Sherlock Holmes books.

797
01:05:28,324 --> 01:05:31,487
They have us tracking down
all this worthless stuff, like:

798
01:05:31,694 --> 01:05:33,753
"Who introduced Watson to Holmes?"

799
01:05:33,963 --> 01:05:37,023
They give it to you
to force you to read everything.

800
01:05:38,301 --> 01:05:40,269
Looks like it might be a while.

801
01:05:40,770 --> 01:05:42,397
Maybe so.

802
01:05:42,605 --> 01:05:46,598
So this friend Fly.
How long have you known each other?

803
01:05:47,143 --> 01:05:50,442
For a while. He was born there,
and I was born there too.

804
01:05:50,646 --> 01:05:52,341
- In the Bronx?
- Yeah.

805
01:05:52,548 --> 01:05:54,015
Must be hard.

806
01:05:54,417 --> 01:05:55,406
What?

807
01:05:55,618 --> 01:05:58,086
I don't know. New people, new school.

808
01:05:59,355 --> 01:06:00,617
It's not?

809
01:06:01,590 --> 01:06:03,990
No, what's hard is growing up
in a place...

810
01:06:04,193 --> 01:06:07,094
...where the cops don't
even want to be after dark.

811
01:06:08,397 --> 01:06:10,865
What's hard is knowing
that you're safe there...

812
01:06:11,233 --> 01:06:13,724
...because the people
you need to worry about...

813
01:06:13,936 --> 01:06:15,870
...know you got nothing
to give them.

814
01:06:16,605 --> 01:06:18,664
So it's a good thing you're here.

815
01:06:20,476 --> 01:06:24,378
Yeah, but these people don't think
I got anything to give them either.

816
01:06:24,981 --> 01:06:28,212
Don't let me get by you.
Once I get by you, I'll score.

817
01:06:28,417 --> 01:06:30,078
- Okay.
- You ready?

818
01:06:30,286 --> 01:06:32,982
- Ready.
- Stay in front of me now.

819
01:06:33,189 --> 01:06:35,054
- All right?
- Okay.

820
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:39,591
I got by you, man.

821
01:06:39,795 --> 01:06:42,059
You're bigger than I am.

822
01:06:42,932 --> 01:06:44,763
You still got to play defense.

823
01:06:44,967 --> 01:06:46,525
How do I do that?

824
01:06:47,136 --> 01:06:49,934
How do you play...?
I'll show you one right here.

825
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:52,737
Turn around.

826
01:06:53,609 --> 01:06:55,133
Turn around.

827
01:06:57,380 --> 01:06:58,677
Feel that?

828
01:06:59,148 --> 01:07:00,240
I feel it.

829
01:07:00,549 --> 01:07:04,280
I know where you'll go because
I can feel where you're gonna move.

830
01:07:04,487 --> 01:07:06,421
All right, now try and move left.

831
01:07:08,624 --> 01:07:12,583
I'm still here. You can't get around
me because I feel you moving left.

832
01:07:12,795 --> 01:07:14,194
Try and go right.

833
01:07:16,766 --> 01:07:18,427
See, I'm still here.

834
01:07:18,667 --> 01:07:22,194
I feel when you try and go right.
So you can't go there neither.

835
01:07:22,405 --> 01:07:23,929
Now try and get by me.

836
01:07:26,042 --> 01:07:27,509
Hold on.

837
01:07:28,577 --> 01:07:30,306
You gotta dribble first.

838
01:07:30,513 --> 01:07:31,639
Dribble.

839
01:07:31,847 --> 01:07:34,748
Dribble. Okay. Like this?

840
01:07:34,950 --> 01:07:36,212
Yeah.

841
01:07:38,788 --> 01:07:40,722
- Sorry.
- Claire.

842
01:07:42,158 --> 01:07:43,352
Daddy.

843
01:07:43,726 --> 01:07:45,421
Some of our guests are leaving.

844
01:07:47,129 --> 01:07:49,689
I'll see you on Monday, okay?

845
01:08:02,111 --> 01:08:03,442
Oh, Claire.

846
01:08:04,413 --> 01:08:05,505
Yeah?

847
01:08:06,182 --> 01:08:07,774
It was Stamford.

848
01:08:08,184 --> 01:08:09,549
Excuse me?

849
01:08:09,885 --> 01:08:11,512
At the bar in London.

850
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:14,314
He's the one who
introduced Watson to Holmes.

851
01:08:14,690 --> 01:08:17,853
Might save you some time
after everybody's done in there.

852
01:08:25,301 --> 01:08:27,769
You know how long I worked on that?

853
01:08:27,970 --> 01:08:29,733
"One season of faith's perfection"?

854
01:08:29,939 --> 01:08:32,931
Feels like I worked on it
for two or three seasons.

855
01:08:37,480 --> 01:08:40,472
Oh, you're in that place where
you can't even hear me.

856
01:08:41,183 --> 01:08:43,674
Like I could ask why you
never moved from here...

857
01:08:43,886 --> 01:08:47,378
...and you wouldn't even get pissed...
- Paragraph three starts...

858
01:08:48,023 --> 01:08:50,491
...with a conjunction, "and."

859
01:08:51,193 --> 01:08:53,525
Never start a sentence
with a conjunction.

860
01:08:53,729 --> 01:08:55,356
- Sure you can.
- Oh, no.

861
01:08:55,598 --> 01:08:57,088
It's a firm rule.

862
01:08:57,299 --> 01:08:58,994
No, no, no, see...

863
01:08:59,201 --> 01:09:00,759
...it was a firm rule.

864
01:09:00,970 --> 01:09:03,768
If you use a conjunction
at the start of a sentence...

865
01:09:03,973 --> 01:09:05,736
...it can make it stand out a bit.

866
01:09:05,941 --> 01:09:08,034
And that may be what the writer wants.

867
01:09:08,244 --> 01:09:10,303
And what is the risk?

868
01:09:10,513 --> 01:09:12,674
Well, the risk is doing it too much.

869
01:09:12,882 --> 01:09:16,215
It's a distraction. It could
give the piece a run-on feeling.

870
01:09:16,418 --> 01:09:19,285
But for the most part,
the rule on "and" or "but"...

871
01:09:19,488 --> 01:09:21,547
...at the start is still pretty shaky.

872
01:09:21,757 --> 01:09:24,920
Even though it's taught
in many schools by many teachers.

873
01:09:25,127 --> 01:09:28,119
Some of the best writers
have ignored that rule for years...

874
01:09:28,330 --> 01:09:29,627
...including you.

875
01:09:32,501 --> 01:09:34,230
Well, you've taken...

876
01:09:34,436 --> 01:09:37,064
...something which was mine...

877
01:09:37,706 --> 01:09:39,139
...and made it yours.

878
01:09:39,341 --> 01:09:41,206
That's quite an accomplishment.

879
01:09:43,546 --> 01:09:44,706
Thank you.

880
01:09:44,947 --> 01:09:47,814
The title is still mine, isn't it?

881
01:09:49,552 --> 01:09:50,678
I guess.

882
01:09:50,886 --> 01:09:54,720
Now, it was the neighborhood
that changed. Not me.

883
01:09:54,924 --> 01:09:56,482
I ain't seen nothing change.

884
01:09:56,692 --> 01:09:58,057
You "ain't seen nothing"?

885
01:09:58,260 --> 01:10:02,094
What in the hell kind
of sentence is that? Huh?

886
01:10:02,298 --> 01:10:05,392
When you're in here,
don't talk like you do out there.

887
01:10:05,601 --> 01:10:08,934
I was messing with you, man.
It was a joke.

1
01:10:12,373 --> 01:10:14,364
I want to hear
about the neighborhood...

2
01:10:14,577 --> 01:10:16,738
...back when people
still read your book.

3
01:10:17,845 --> 01:10:19,404
What did you say?

4
01:10:22,417 --> 01:10:23,612
Nothing. 

5
01:10:23,819 --> 01:10:28,414
You said, "back when people
still read my book."

6
01:10:29,190 --> 01:10:30,215
Didn't you?

7
01:10:38,067 --> 01:10:40,057
We have 24 copies.

8
01:10:40,269 --> 01:10:43,466
But I'm sorry. They're checked out.

9
01:10:44,006 --> 01:10:46,634
Oh. Well, thank you, anyway.

10
01:10:46,841 --> 01:10:48,207
You're welcome.

11
01:10:52,780 --> 01:10:54,078
Any luck? 

12
01:10:55,984 --> 01:10:58,010
Did you get on the waiting list?

13
01:10:58,220 --> 01:11:00,346
Yeah, man, your book was checked out.

14
01:11:01,590 --> 01:11:03,023
And yes... 

15
01:11:03,225 --> 01:11:05,193
...I did pay for dinner.

16
01:11:05,461 --> 01:11:08,623
It cost me $13,
so I guess you made your point.

17
01:11:09,931 --> 01:11:13,698
I called to see what kind of
food you wanted, but it kept ringing.

18
01:11:13,902 --> 01:11:16,462
I took the bell out 20 years ago.

19
01:11:21,976 --> 01:11:23,466
Let me ask you something.

20
01:11:23,746 --> 01:11:25,475
How come a guy like you...

21
01:11:28,216 --> 01:11:31,015
...wastes his time reading
<i>The National Enquirer?.</i>

22
01:11:31,252 --> 01:11:32,480
What's wrong with it?

23
01:11:32,887 --> 01:11:34,947
I mean, it's trash, man.

24
01:11:35,157 --> 01:11:38,149
You should be reading
the <i>Times</i> or something.

25
01:11:38,359 --> 01:11:40,020
I read the <i>Times</i> for dinner.

26
01:11:40,229 --> 01:11:41,719
But this...

27
01:11:41,930 --> 01:11:43,693
This is my dessert.

28
01:11:44,565 --> 01:11:47,363
They got a contest at school.
This writing thing.

29
01:11:47,569 --> 01:11:50,162
- You ever enter one of those?
- Writing contest?

30
01:11:50,372 --> 01:11:52,305
- Yeah.
- Once.

31
01:11:52,507 --> 01:11:53,907
A long time ago.

32
01:11:54,109 --> 01:11:55,167
Did you win?

33
01:11:56,045 --> 01:11:57,841
Well, of course I won..

34
01:11:58,613 --> 01:12:00,309
Like money or something?

35
01:12:01,550 --> 01:12:03,016
The Pulitzer.

36
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:06,613
Oh.

37
01:12:06,822 --> 01:12:09,484
The students have to read
in front of everybody.

38
01:12:09,692 --> 01:12:12,216
What the hell's that got
to do with writing?

39
01:12:12,427 --> 01:12:14,588
Writers write
so that readers can read.

40
01:12:14,796 --> 01:12:16,320
Let someone else read it. 

41
01:12:16,532 --> 01:12:18,090
You ever read your own book? 

42
01:12:18,634 --> 01:12:21,068
In public? Hell, no.

43
01:12:21,270 --> 01:12:23,203
Barely read it in private.

44
01:12:24,372 --> 01:12:28,867
You know those things you do,
that coffee-shop reading shit?

45
01:12:29,078 --> 01:12:30,601
You know why they do it?

46
01:12:31,613 --> 01:12:32,806
Sell books, I guess.

47
01:12:33,015 --> 01:12:34,845
Because they want to get laid.

48
01:12:35,751 --> 01:12:38,913
Really? Women will sleep with you
if you write a book?

49
01:12:39,121 --> 01:12:42,021
Women will sleep with you
if you write a bad book.

50
01:12:43,024 --> 01:12:45,458
- Did it ever happen to you?
- Sure.

51
01:12:48,896 --> 01:12:50,296
Did you ever get married?

52
01:12:52,900 --> 01:12:54,926
Not exactly a soup question, is it?

53
01:12:56,305 --> 01:12:59,034
No. No, I never did.

54
01:13:01,542 --> 01:13:03,601
I learned a few things
along the way...

55
01:13:03,811 --> 01:13:08,010
...which might be of help with this
young lady you always talk about.

56
01:13:09,318 --> 01:13:10,546
Like what? 

57
01:13:13,087 --> 01:13:15,648
The key to a woman's heart...

58
01:13:15,858 --> 01:13:20,556
...is an unexpected gift
at an unexpected time.

59
01:13:20,762 --> 01:13:22,753
You're giving me advice on women?

60
01:13:22,997 --> 01:13:26,832
Unexpected gift, unexpected time.?

61
01:13:27,603 --> 01:13:27,703
This is so unexpected!

62
01:13:27,703 --> 01:13:30,536
This is so unexpected!

63
01:13:32,373 --> 01:13:33,931
Oh, Jamal.

64
01:13:34,243 --> 01:13:37,177
It's not a first printing
or anything, but...

65
01:13:37,378 --> 01:13:38,970
Oh, my God.

66
01:13:39,180 --> 01:13:42,047
- What happened?
- This is a signed copy.

67
01:13:43,185 --> 01:13:45,710
I can't accept it.
It must've cost a fortune. 

68
01:13:45,921 --> 01:13:48,115
It didn't cost that much. Really.

69
01:13:48,923 --> 01:13:50,891
Maybe the bookstore missed it. 

70
01:13:52,194 --> 01:13:54,788
Bookstores don't
usually miss this stuff.

71
01:13:56,265 --> 01:13:58,233
How did you end up going to Mailor? 

72
01:13:59,835 --> 01:14:02,667
Mailor was originally
an all-boys school.

73
01:14:02,871 --> 01:14:07,364
So my father did what anyone
in his position would do.

74
01:14:07,975 --> 01:14:10,307
He got on the board
and changed the rules.

75
01:14:10,511 --> 01:14:12,309
And every kid there knows it.

76
01:14:13,047 --> 01:14:14,675
They would've done it anyway.

77
01:14:14,882 --> 01:14:16,612
That doesn't change anything.

78
01:14:16,819 --> 01:14:19,219
I'm still "Dr. Spence's daughter.".

79
01:14:22,024 --> 01:14:23,012
Jamal.

80
01:14:23,225 --> 01:14:24,283
Yeah?

81
01:14:24,493 --> 01:14:27,052
That night at my home,
after the game...

82
01:14:27,261 --> 01:14:31,631
...when you were showing me
how to play basketball.

83
01:14:32,967 --> 01:14:34,798
Was that all you were showing me?

84
01:14:37,305 --> 01:14:39,466
Listen, I don't think
that's gonna work.

85
01:14:39,675 --> 01:14:40,663
What? 

86
01:14:41,643 --> 01:14:42,836
That. 

87
01:14:43,110 --> 01:14:44,305
Why not?

88
01:14:47,483 --> 01:14:49,144
Ask your father. 

89
01:14:49,984 --> 01:14:54,182
Jamal, I'm not asking for some
kind of prenuptial agreement here.

90
01:14:54,789 --> 01:14:56,621
It's just a question.

91
01:14:57,158 --> 01:15:01,528
Why does everything have to be
so black and white with you?

92
01:15:03,765 --> 01:15:05,391
I forgot what the question was..

93
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:09,594
You don't forget anything,
Mr. Stamford.

94
01:15:23,217 --> 01:15:24,980
You don't think he wrote it?

95
01:15:25,186 --> 01:15:27,381
That's a serious accusation, Robert.

96
01:15:27,588 --> 01:15:30,056
You come to the board
with something like this...

97
01:15:30,391 --> 01:15:32,382
I'm aware of how serious it is.

98
01:15:32,594 --> 01:15:34,288
It's remarkable work..

99
01:15:35,096 --> 01:15:36,529
You recognize any of it?

100
01:15:36,731 --> 01:15:38,666
It smacks of something.

101
01:15:39,868 --> 01:15:41,301
But I don't know.

102
01:15:42,470 --> 01:15:44,631
The boy does well in my class.

103
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:46,534
He had good scores coming in.

104
01:15:47,275 --> 01:15:49,266
Maybe all he needed was direction.

105
01:15:49,478 --> 01:15:51,502
Carl, he's a basketball player...

106
01:15:51,712 --> 01:15:52,702
...from the Bronx.

107
01:15:52,914 --> 01:15:56,077
Who just happens
to have won 17 straight...

108
01:15:56,451 --> 01:15:58,783
...for a school that likes winning.

109
01:16:00,255 --> 01:16:04,157
Robert, have you considered
that he might just be that good?

110
01:16:08,863 --> 01:16:10,354
Not this good.

111
01:17:00,681 --> 01:17:03,707
Do you know what
the absolute best moment is?

112
01:17:04,485 --> 01:17:06,953
It's when you've finished
your first draft...

113
01:17:07,756 --> 01:17:10,588
...and you read it by yourself.

114
01:17:11,726 --> 01:17:15,253
Before these assholes
take something...

115
01:17:15,463 --> 01:17:17,898
...that they couldn't do
in a lifetime...

116
01:17:18,100 --> 01:17:20,625
...and tear it down in a single day.

117
01:17:22,336 --> 01:17:24,395
People love that book, man.

118
01:17:24,905 --> 01:17:27,136
I didn't write it for them.

119
01:17:28,542 --> 01:17:31,909
And when the critics
started all this bullshit...

120
01:17:32,113 --> 01:17:36,846
...about what it was
I was really trying to say...

121
01:17:37,752 --> 01:17:40,016
Well, I decided then...

122
01:17:41,023 --> 01:17:42,489
...one book was enough.

123
01:17:44,458 --> 01:17:47,359
William, that was 50 years ago, man.

124
01:18:07,649 --> 01:18:08,740
William.

125
01:20:59,020 --> 01:21:02,353
William, I actually spent money
on these tickets. Come on.

126
01:21:02,591 --> 01:21:04,182
Is it still light outside?

127
01:21:04,391 --> 01:21:05,689
It's nighttime, man.

128
01:21:14,202 --> 01:21:15,533
Well? 

129
01:21:16,704 --> 01:21:19,902
You look good, man.
It's not the latest stuff out...

130
01:21:20,108 --> 01:21:23,475
I wasn't asking how I look.
I was asking, are we ready to go?

131
01:21:23,677 --> 01:21:25,908
Oh, yeah. Come on, man.'

132
01:21:27,315 --> 01:21:28,645
Let's go.

133
01:21:34,521 --> 01:21:35,681
Come on.

134
01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:48,626
We're playing here in two weeks.

135
01:21:49,738 --> 01:21:52,707
I said we're playing in two weeks.
State tournament.

136
01:21:59,413 --> 01:22:00,471
Come on.

137
01:22:12,059 --> 01:22:14,961
Hold on. They got programs.
Let me get a program.

138
01:22:41,488 --> 01:22:42,682
William.

139
01:22:45,827 --> 01:22:47,385
Yo, William! 

140
01:22:49,396 --> 01:22:50,386
Damn. 

141
01:23:00,841 --> 01:23:02,274
William!r

142
01:23:04,679 --> 01:23:05,838
Hey, William!h

143
01:23:58,399 --> 01:23:59,525
William.

144
01:24:06,306 --> 01:24:08,365
Come on, let's get you out of here.

145
01:24:10,145 --> 01:24:11,202
I got you.

146
01:24:40,774 --> 01:24:42,470
You used to get out, right?

147
01:24:43,411 --> 01:24:45,038
Yeah, a long time ago.

148
01:24:45,279 --> 01:24:47,645
- What happened?
- How the hell should I know?

149
01:24:47,849 --> 01:24:49,817
I didn't keep track of the time. 

150
01:24:50,018 --> 01:24:52,179
Sorry for losing you back there.

151
01:24:52,386 --> 01:24:53,614
No apology needed. 

152
01:24:53,822 --> 01:24:57,780
Good, because I got one more place.
It's quiet and it's on the way home.

153
01:25:03,431 --> 01:25:05,126
You only got 10 minutes.

154
01:25:05,332 --> 01:25:06,765
- All right.
- Keep it going.

155
01:25:06,967 --> 01:25:09,333
- Take that. It's all good.
- Thanks a lot.

156
01:25:24,051 --> 01:25:25,542
Ground level.

157
01:25:27,755 --> 01:25:29,313
House that Ruth built.

158
01:25:36,264 --> 01:25:38,255
Why did you bring me here?

159
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:40,899
Because it's your birthday, man.

160
01:25:42,871 --> 01:25:44,930
I looked it up in the almanac.

161
01:25:45,773 --> 01:25:48,798
They don't even have you
in the dead people section yet.

162
01:25:53,247 --> 01:25:55,978
I figure with all
the games you watched...

163
01:25:58,118 --> 01:26:02,452
...with whoever you watched them with,
you never got down this close.

164
01:26:02,657 --> 01:26:07,025
- What the hell are they doing?
- What you worried about, man?

165
01:26:07,228 --> 01:26:10,823
You acting like they gonna play
a World Series championship game.

166
01:26:11,032 --> 01:26:12,020
Relax.

167
01:26:12,533 --> 01:26:16,903
My brother and I,
we were here for every game.

168
01:26:18,872 --> 01:26:20,636
Till he left for the war. 

169
01:26:23,243 --> 01:26:26,212
I thought it'd be the same
when he came back...

170
01:26:28,082 --> 01:26:30,380
...but he talked a little less...

171
01:26:30,585 --> 01:26:32,416
...and drank a little more.

172
01:26:34,189 --> 01:26:38,454
I promised my mother I would
help him get through it all.

173
01:26:42,797 --> 01:26:45,890
So I caught up with him
this one night...

174
01:26:46,100 --> 01:26:49,068
...and I was already
half a dozen drinks behind.

175
01:26:50,337 --> 01:26:52,271
So we had a few more.

176
01:26:52,739 --> 01:26:56,676
And after a while
he tells me he wants...

177
01:26:56,877 --> 01:26:59,141
...to drive me back to the apartment.

178
01:26:59,980 --> 01:27:01,845
I said, "No, thanks."

179
01:27:04,152 --> 01:27:06,381
We were all still living there then.

180
01:27:08,389 --> 01:27:10,515
I just stood there...

181
01:27:11,826 --> 01:27:13,952
...and watched him drive off. 

182
01:27:18,166 --> 01:27:20,634
Makes it through
the whole goddamn war...

183
01:27:21,769 --> 01:27:23,565
...and I let him drive.

184
01:27:27,307 --> 01:27:29,037
Later that night...

185
01:27:29,243 --> 01:27:33,771
...the nurse was typing
whatever it is they type...

186
01:27:34,681 --> 01:27:36,649
...and you know what she tells me?

187
01:27:38,452 --> 01:27:41,819
She tells me how much
my book meant to her.

188
01:27:43,224 --> 01:27:46,193
My brother's getting cold
in the next room...

189
01:27:47,362 --> 01:27:50,092
...and all she can talk
about is a book.

190
01:27:51,298 --> 01:27:52,390
Well...

191
01:27:54,068 --> 01:27:56,467
...everything changed from then on.

192
01:27:59,039 --> 01:28:04,273
Within five months,
I buried him, my ma, my father.

193
01:28:05,479 --> 01:28:07,140
All of them here...

194
01:28:07,347 --> 01:28:08,940
...in the Bronx.

195
01:28:13,554 --> 01:28:16,351
We'd spent our summers here.

196
01:28:17,891 --> 01:28:20,725
And if we were lucky, the fall.

197
01:28:21,328 --> 01:28:23,661
A lot of falls with those teams.

198
01:28:23,864 --> 01:28:25,195
Yeah, well...

199
01:28:26,768 --> 01:28:28,166
...not enough.

200
01:28:28,869 --> 01:28:31,600
"The rest of those
who have gone before us...

201
01:28:32,440 --> 01:28:35,033
...cannot steady
the unrest of those...

202
01:28:35,743 --> 01:28:37,108
...to follow." 

203
01:28:40,047 --> 01:28:41,948
You wrote that in your book.

204
01:29:08,342 --> 01:29:12,109
Jamal, I realize that
if I give you enough time...

205
01:29:12,313 --> 01:29:16,373
...you'll find a way to amaze even me.

206
01:29:19,319 --> 01:29:20,684
Does he know?

207
01:29:21,389 --> 01:29:23,220
No, he doesn't know.

208
01:29:23,623 --> 01:29:28,458
This was one of the best evenings
I've had in quite some time.

209
01:29:29,029 --> 01:29:30,291
All of it?

210
01:29:31,265 --> 01:29:34,063
Yes, all of it.'

211
01:29:34,268 --> 01:29:35,394
Well, I...

212
01:29:44,612 --> 01:29:46,273
This guy, man. 

213
01:29:47,614 --> 01:29:49,845
How do you say you know
this guy again?

214
01:29:50,518 --> 01:29:52,747
- He's my teacher.
- Oh, yeah?


215
01:29:54,588 --> 01:29:56,921
Seems like a different kind of dude.r

216
01:30:03,997 --> 01:30:05,693
Anyone in particular?

217
01:30:07,601 --> 01:30:10,195
I sometimes come here in the morning.

218
01:30:10,872 --> 01:30:14,068
Just me, the aspiring...

219
01:30:14,274 --> 01:30:15,765
...and all of them.

220
01:30:20,113 --> 01:30:22,877
I got a note saying
I should come and see you..

221
01:30:25,118 --> 01:30:26,551
Mr. Wallace...

222
01:30:27,454 --> 01:30:30,117
...I think it's time you and I
had a very honest... 

223
01:30:30,324 --> 01:30:33,588
...and very open discussion
about your writing.

224
01:30:34,395 --> 01:30:36,056
I thought you liked it. 

225
01:30:36,564 --> 01:30:38,225
Your recent work?

226
01:30:39,333 --> 01:30:41,233
I liked it very much.

227
01:30:41,802 --> 01:30:46,604
No, Mr. Wallace, the question
concerning your most recent work...

228
01:30:46,807 --> 01:30:48,742
...isn't whether it's good.

229
01:30:50,177 --> 01:30:51,805
It's whether it's too good.

230
01:30:54,181 --> 01:30:55,842
The speed in your progress....

231
01:30:56,050 --> 01:30:59,541
...from your old school
to this one is unusual.

232
01:30:59,820 --> 01:31:03,586
To the point that I must draw
one of two conclusions.

233
01:31:05,559 --> 01:31:10,429
Either you've been blessed with a rare
gift that has suddenly kicked in...

234
01:31:11,265 --> 01:31:12,425
...or...

235
01:31:14,502 --> 01:31:17,198
...you're getting your inspiration
from elsewhere.

236
01:31:18,706 --> 01:31:22,233
Given your previous education
and your background...

237
01:31:22,443 --> 01:31:26,173
...l'm sure you'll forgive me
for reaching my own conclusions.

238
01:31:26,380 --> 01:31:28,074
I wrote those papers, man.

239
01:31:28,282 --> 01:31:30,375
Then you won't mind showing me.r

240
01:31:31,918 --> 01:31:34,148
The next assignment
is due in two weeks.

241
01:31:34,454 --> 01:31:37,685
I'll schedule some time
for you to come to my office.

242
01:31:39,359 --> 01:31:41,520
I'd like you to write it there.

243
01:31:44,030 --> 01:31:48,399
In the meantime, if there's anything
you wish to talk about...

244
01:31:50,104 --> 01:31:51,900
I'm not writing anything, man.

245
01:31:53,140 --> 01:31:54,470
Which proves what?

246
01:31:54,675 --> 01:31:58,907
If a two-comma kid wrote the papers,
would he use this "background" shit?

247
01:31:59,113 --> 01:32:00,943
- Two-comma kid?
- A million dollars.

248
01:32:01,148 --> 01:32:03,615
- One comma, two commas.
- No.

249
01:32:03,818 --> 01:32:05,479
No, I don't.

250
01:32:06,052 --> 01:32:08,782
Do you know what people
are most afraid of?

251
01:32:09,623 --> 01:32:12,319
- What?
- What they don't understand.

252
01:32:12,527 --> 01:32:16,725
When we don't understand,
we turn to our assumptions.

253
01:32:17,565 --> 01:32:19,430
Crawford cannot understand...

254
01:32:19,634 --> 01:32:23,126
...how a black kid from the Bronx
can write the way you do.

255
01:32:23,336 --> 01:32:25,635
So he assumes you can't.

256
01:32:27,407 --> 01:32:29,432
Just like I assume he's an asshole.

257
01:32:30,744 --> 01:32:32,211
You knew him, didn't you?

258
01:32:32,413 --> 01:32:33,710
Crawford?

259
01:32:34,148 --> 01:32:35,239
No.

260
01:32:36,384 --> 01:32:38,045
But he thought he knew me.

261
01:32:38,252 --> 01:32:40,618
So what's all this stuff
about his book?

262
01:32:40,820 --> 01:32:44,518
A lot of writers know
the rules about writing...

263
01:32:44,725 --> 01:32:47,250
...but don't know how to write.
- So?

264
01:32:47,461 --> 01:32:51,693
So Crawford wrote a book
about four authors who did know.

265
01:32:51,898 --> 01:32:54,059
And I was the only one still alive.

266
01:32:54,268 --> 01:32:58,170
- And?
- He convinced a publisher to buy it.

267
01:32:58,372 --> 01:33:02,809
So I made a polite telephone call...

268
01:33:03,010 --> 01:33:06,002
...to this publisher,
telling him and others... 

269
01:33:06,212 --> 01:33:09,648
...that I was in the process
of writing a second book.

270
01:33:09,850 --> 01:33:12,045
And if they wished to bid on it....

271
01:33:12,252 --> 01:33:15,449
Oh, so that's why
Crawford's book went away.

272
01:33:16,390 --> 01:33:19,018
But you knew there wouldn't
be a second book.

273
01:33:19,226 --> 01:33:20,750
Yeah, but they didn't.

274
01:33:27,167 --> 01:33:30,797
Interesting what happens when
the resources aren't close at hand.

275
01:34:11,412 --> 01:34:14,346
The rich tradition of handing
in competition entries...

276
01:34:14,547 --> 01:34:16,981
...on the final day continues...

277
01:34:17,184 --> 01:34:20,016
...for yet another year.

278
01:34:26,627 --> 01:34:28,560
Ladies and gentlemen...

279
01:34:29,130 --> 01:34:31,189
...may I have your attention...

280
01:34:31,398 --> 01:34:34,197
...please, if you don't mind.

281
01:34:35,235 --> 01:34:37,863
"Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade

282
01:34:38,072 --> 01:34:40,063
Death came with friendly care

283
01:34:40,341 --> 01:34:43,275
The opening bud to heaven convey'd..."

284
01:34:43,476 --> 01:34:45,377
How nice of you to join us.

285
01:34:46,479 --> 01:34:48,038
That's not part of the poem.

286
01:34:49,583 --> 01:34:52,746
"And bade it blossom there."
Anyone?

287
01:34:55,456 --> 01:34:58,653
A little more early morning
reticence than usual.

288
01:34:59,460 --> 01:35:00,893
Mr. Coleridge.

289
01:35:03,831 --> 01:35:04,922
Please.

290
01:35:05,532 --> 01:35:06,931
Mr. Coleridge...

291
01:35:08,002 --> 01:35:10,800
...how many students would you say
we have here today?

292
01:35:13,373 --> 01:35:14,898
I'm not sure.

293
01:35:15,476 --> 01:35:18,639
Perhaps you could
humor us with a guess.

294
01:35:20,381 --> 01:35:21,677
- Thirty?
- Thirty.

295
01:35:21,881 --> 01:35:26,342
And of that 30, there isn't one person
who knows the author of that passage.

296
01:35:26,554 --> 01:35:31,217
I find that remarkable.
Don't you, Mr. Coleridge?

297
01:35:32,092 --> 01:35:34,390
Perhaps we should back into this.

298
01:35:34,595 --> 01:35:39,827
In looking at this, what, if any,
conclusions might we be able to draw?

299
01:35:41,402 --> 01:35:43,563
You mean about the author?

300
01:35:43,770 --> 01:35:45,431
About anything.

301
01:35:47,608 --> 01:35:50,702
Do any of the words
strike you as unusual?

302
01:35:54,215 --> 01:35:59,118
Feel free to view this as
the appropriate time for a response.

303
01:36:01,422 --> 01:36:02,411
"Ere." 

304
01:36:02,622 --> 01:36:04,750
"Ere." And why is that unusual?

305
01:36:06,393 --> 01:36:07,757
Because...

306
01:36:07,961 --> 01:36:10,088
...it sounds old.

307
01:36:10,297 --> 01:36:12,162
It does sound old, doesn't it?

308
01:36:12,899 --> 01:36:15,960
And you know why
it sounds old, Mr. Coleridge?

309
01:36:17,837 --> 01:36:20,203
Because it is old.
More than 200 years old.

310
01:36:20,407 --> 01:36:24,639
Written before your father was born,
before your father's father was born.

311
01:36:24,912 --> 01:36:27,345
But that still does not
excuse the fact...

312
01:36:27,547 --> 01:36:32,416
...that you don't know who wrote it,
now does it, Mr. Coleridge?

313
01:36:33,820 --> 01:36:36,153
I'm sorry, sir, I don't...

314
01:36:36,623 --> 01:36:40,720
You, of all people in this room,
should know who wrote that passage.

315
01:36:40,927 --> 01:36:43,327
And do you know why, Mr. Coleridge?

316
01:36:44,297 --> 01:36:46,458
I repeat, do you know why?

317
01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:48,564
Just say your name, man.

318
01:36:50,703 --> 01:36:54,230
Did you have something
to contribute, Mr. Wallace?

319
01:36:56,577 --> 01:36:58,943
I just said that
he should say his name.

320
01:36:59,145 --> 01:37:03,014
And why would it be helpful
for Mr. Coleridge to say his name?

321
01:37:03,550 --> 01:37:05,314
Because that's who wrote it.

322
01:37:06,220 --> 01:37:07,686
Very good, Mr. Wallace.

323
01:37:09,890 --> 01:37:11,720
Perhaps your skills...

324
01:37:11,925 --> 01:37:15,452
...do extend a bit farther
than basketball.

325
01:37:16,363 --> 01:37:20,025
If we can turn to page...
You may be seated, Mr. Coleridge.

326
01:37:20,768 --> 01:37:24,067
Turn to page 120
in the little blue book that...

327
01:37:24,270 --> 01:37:25,260
Further.

328
01:37:27,708 --> 01:37:28,935
I'm sorry?

329
01:37:29,943 --> 01:37:31,104
Don't.

330
01:37:33,079 --> 01:37:36,538
You said my skills extend "farther"
than the basketball court.

331
01:37:36,951 --> 01:37:41,786
"Farther" relates to distance.
"Further" is a definition of degree.

332
01:37:42,389 --> 01:37:46,951
- You should have said "further."
- Are you challenging me, Mr. Wallace?

333
01:37:47,461 --> 01:37:49,952
No more than you challenged Coleridge.

334
01:37:50,163 --> 01:37:53,690
Perhaps the challenge
should have been directed elsewhere.

335
01:37:55,568 --> 01:37:57,729
"It is a melancholy truth that even..."

336
01:37:57,938 --> 01:38:00,030
"...great men have poor relations."

337
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:01,971
Dickens. 

338
01:38:04,211 --> 01:38:05,837
"You will hear the beat of..."

339
01:38:06,046 --> 01:38:07,137
Kipling. 

340
01:38:08,282 --> 01:38:11,011
- "All great truths begin..."
- Shaw.

341
01:38:11,217 --> 01:38:14,153
- "Man is the only animal..."
- "...that blushes...

342
01:38:15,355 --> 01:38:16,880
"...or needs to."

343
01:38:19,792 --> 01:38:22,454
It's Mark Twain.
Come on, Professor Crawford...

344
01:38:22,663 --> 01:38:23,925
Get out!

345
01:38:25,498 --> 01:38:28,092
Get out.

346
01:38:35,809 --> 01:38:38,038
Yeah. I'll get out.

347
01:38:50,858 --> 01:38:53,122
- Leave it alone.
- Hold on, please.

348
01:38:53,327 --> 01:38:55,886
So they kick you out
if you know something here?

349
01:38:56,095 --> 01:38:58,222
You don't know what Crawford will do.

350
01:38:58,431 --> 01:39:00,194
You're right about that. 

351
01:39:01,502 --> 01:39:02,992
Jamal!

352
01:39:04,637 --> 01:39:07,698
- Do you think you should apologize?
- No.

353
01:39:08,641 --> 01:39:10,802
- Do you?
- No.

354
01:39:11,145 --> 01:39:14,636
You did nothing wrong.
Just beat him at his own game.

355
01:39:15,148 --> 01:39:16,479
But...

356
01:39:17,318 --> 01:39:20,115
...it would be a good time
to be careful.

357
01:39:20,320 --> 01:39:23,586
Careful? Careful about what?

358
01:39:23,791 --> 01:39:28,421
You have a gift that will allow you to
do remarkable things with your life.

359
01:39:28,662 --> 01:39:30,493
That is, if you don't screw it up...

360
01:39:30,965 --> 01:39:34,162
...by being a 16-year-old
right now.

361
01:39:42,876 --> 01:39:44,365
- Jamal.
- Yeah.

362
01:39:44,577 --> 01:39:47,479
- You got a call from the office.
- All right.

363
01:39:54,020 --> 01:39:55,851
Mr. Wallace. Please.

364
01:39:58,759 --> 01:40:02,217
As you know, Professor Matthews
is on the faculty board.

365
01:40:02,429 --> 01:40:05,864
And Dr. Spence is chair
of the trustees board.

366
01:40:06,065 --> 01:40:09,627
We've been reviewing the writing
competition submissions.

367
01:40:09,869 --> 01:40:14,363
We were hoping you might clarify some
points concerning your submission.

368
01:40:14,708 --> 01:40:18,199
"A Season of Faith's Perfection."

369
01:40:19,345 --> 01:40:21,143
Your piece, correct?

370
01:40:22,216 --> 01:40:23,706
Yeah, that's it.

371
01:40:24,217 --> 01:40:28,211
Mr. Wallace, it is standard policy
with us to ask students...

372
01:40:28,422 --> 01:40:31,118
...if they wish to credit
any source material...

373
01:40:31,324 --> 01:40:35,386
...or acknowledge any other writers
when turning in an assignment.

374
01:40:36,896 --> 01:40:38,626
Do you wish to do that?

375
01:40:43,404 --> 01:40:45,065
1960.

376
01:40:47,074 --> 01:40:50,237
An essay titled
"Baseball's Best Year"...

377
01:40:51,744 --> 01:40:56,546
...with a subtitle that reads
"A Season of Faith's Perfection."

378
01:40:58,085 --> 01:41:00,484
Published in <i>The New Yorker</i>
and written by...

379
01:41:01,422 --> 01:41:03,287
...one William Forrester.

380
01:41:07,461 --> 01:41:09,827
Your version is actually
quite original...

381
01:41:10,029 --> 01:41:13,591
...but there is the title
and first paragraph to consider.

382
01:41:14,768 --> 01:41:16,359
Isn't there?

383
01:41:17,470 --> 01:41:20,234
Jamal, either you happen to have...

384
01:41:20,440 --> 01:41:24,774
...the permission
of William Forrester, or...

385
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:27,878
Have you some other explanation?

386
01:41:28,082 --> 01:41:29,105
No. 

387
01:41:31,085 --> 01:41:32,143
That's my paper. 

388
01:41:32,351 --> 01:41:35,082
Well, then,
your entry is now withdrawn...

389
01:41:35,288 --> 01:41:38,122
...and it becomes a matter
for the board to consider.

390
01:41:39,059 --> 01:41:43,826
The board does have the authority
to place you on academic probation...

391
01:41:44,030 --> 01:41:48,729
...which would, among other things,
prevent you from playing basketball.

392
01:41:53,739 --> 01:41:56,470
Since the board doesn't meet
till next week...

393
01:41:56,676 --> 01:41:59,338
...you can play in this
weekend's state championship.

394
01:41:59,546 --> 01:42:03,743
But I have to warn you, the board has
a history of taking these matters...

395
01:42:04,650 --> 01:42:06,311
...quite seriously.

396
01:42:06,920 --> 01:42:10,252
So we would like to suggest
what we feel... 

397
01:42:10,457 --> 01:42:13,483
...is a solution that
may satisfy these concerns.

398
01:42:14,961 --> 01:42:16,155
Robert.

399
01:42:16,829 --> 01:42:20,960
What matters most is to ensure
this type of violation isn't repeated.

400
01:42:21,167 --> 01:42:22,157
So... 

401
01:42:23,170 --> 01:42:27,731
...you will write an apology to the
students you took advantage of...

402
01:42:28,007 --> 01:42:29,838
...by submitting this piece.

403
01:42:31,011 --> 01:42:34,878
- You'll read it in front of my class.
- I'm not reading anything.

404
01:42:35,082 --> 01:42:39,519
Then I'm sure the board will consider
that when reviewing your scholarship.

405
01:42:40,020 --> 01:42:43,182
You haven't left us
with too many options, Jamal.

406
01:42:43,690 --> 01:42:45,020
Excuse me.

407
01:42:59,806 --> 01:43:02,934
Don't ever embarrass me
in front of my class.

408
01:43:08,081 --> 01:43:10,378
Please return the pen
when you're finished.

409
01:43:18,492 --> 01:43:20,925
No conventional greetings today?.

410
01:43:21,528 --> 01:43:24,052
Why have me rewrite
something you published?

411
01:43:24,264 --> 01:43:27,961
- Be careful where you take this.
- Why not tell me some magazine ran it?

412
01:43:28,167 --> 01:43:29,760
Why the hell does it matter?

413
01:43:29,970 --> 01:43:31,800
Man, you should have told me.

414
01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:35,171
What did you do with it?

415
01:43:35,375 --> 01:43:36,932
I turned it in.

416
01:43:37,911 --> 01:43:41,278
I turned it in.
I had to show them something.

417
01:43:41,480 --> 01:43:45,645
You promised me anything we wrote
in here would stay in here.

418
01:43:45,851 --> 01:43:47,342
I know!

419
01:43:50,690 --> 01:43:52,681
- I just thought...
- Shut up.

420
01:43:58,832 --> 01:44:00,265
What are they telling you?

421
01:44:03,136 --> 01:44:06,594
I go on probation unless I write
a letter saying I was wrong.

422
01:44:06,806 --> 01:44:08,206
Then write the letter.

423
01:44:08,908 --> 01:44:10,809
I said I'm not writing anything.

424
01:44:11,011 --> 01:44:14,708
You got him, he gets you.
Write the letter.

425
01:44:14,948 --> 01:44:16,881
And you'd let him do that?

426
01:44:19,019 --> 01:44:21,715
Is this supposed to be
another damn lesson?

427
01:44:22,088 --> 01:44:25,422
I'm tired of all these lessons
every time I come here.

428
01:44:27,728 --> 01:44:29,889
So your title's
at the top of my paper.

429
01:44:30,096 --> 01:44:33,555
- What's the lesson in that?
- I'm not the one who turned it in.

430
01:44:33,766 --> 01:44:36,395
Yeah, but you were the one
who just had to say:

431
01:44:36,603 --> 01:44:40,333
"Keep this one here because
it got printed in <i>The New Yorker."</i>

432
01:44:40,740 --> 01:44:42,800
That's all you had to say, man.

433
01:44:44,911 --> 01:44:49,280
- I could use some help on this one.
- Oh, no. That's not an option. 

434
01:44:49,815 --> 01:44:53,307
- You don't even have to go...
- I said that's not an option.

435
01:44:53,520 --> 01:44:55,043
That's all right, man.

436
01:44:55,655 --> 01:44:58,386
Got a nice history
of people not helping me.

437
01:44:58,592 --> 01:45:01,925
Oh, Christ. Not that self-pity,
father bullshit.

438
01:45:02,429 --> 01:45:03,918
What did you say?

439
01:45:09,369 --> 01:45:11,360
Man, fuck you, William!y

440
01:45:12,238 --> 01:45:14,900
The real bullshit
is me taking it on this one...

441
01:45:15,108 --> 01:45:17,007
...because you won't
walk out the door...

442
01:45:17,210 --> 01:45:21,112
...and do something for somebody else.
You're too damn scared, man!

443
01:45:22,048 --> 01:45:23,880
That's the only damn reason. 

444
01:45:25,452 --> 01:45:28,148
You don't know
a goddamn thing about reasons.

445
01:45:28,354 --> 01:45:29,981
There are no reasons!

446
01:45:30,190 --> 01:45:33,318
Reasons why some of us live
and why some of us don't.

447
01:45:33,527 --> 01:45:36,324
Fortunately, you have decades
to figure that out.

448
01:45:36,530 --> 01:45:41,489
What's the reason for having a cabinet
full of writing nobody ever reads?

449
01:45:43,003 --> 01:45:44,698
What is that, man?

450
01:45:47,841 --> 01:45:49,637
I'm done with this shit.

451
01:45:56,615 --> 01:45:58,447
Give him the ball again.

452
01:45:58,652 --> 01:46:02,246
Oh, look. Jamal Wallace,
here to pay us a visit.

453
01:46:05,925 --> 01:46:07,188
What's up?

454
01:46:08,194 --> 01:46:10,219
- What's up, man?
- What's up, y'all?

455
01:46:10,664 --> 01:46:12,324
Come on.

456
01:46:22,976 --> 01:46:24,773
I know, I know. I've seen it.

457
01:46:40,327 --> 01:46:42,591
How's your first game
in the Garden feel?

458
01:46:44,864 --> 01:46:46,855
A little closer than I thought.

459
01:46:47,533 --> 01:46:51,765
That's why I thought it might be
a good time for us to talk.

460
01:46:51,971 --> 01:46:56,671
I know it's difficult handling classes
with the time you spend on the court.

461
01:46:56,877 --> 01:46:59,640
I couldn't handle that load.
Not at this school.

462
01:46:59,979 --> 01:47:03,279
And maybe it was unfair of us
to ask you to do it.

463
01:47:04,217 --> 01:47:07,277
I talked to the board members
and to Crawford...

464
01:47:08,054 --> 01:47:09,385
...and... 

465
01:47:09,956 --> 01:47:13,653
...we don't want to pursue this
any more than you do. Any of it.

466
01:47:13,860 --> 01:47:18,489
I'm here to present you with an offer.
We forget about the whole thing.

467
01:47:18,698 --> 01:47:21,791
Next year, your academic schedule
will be less demanding.

468
01:47:22,002 --> 01:47:23,730
You mean Crawford wanted that?

469
01:47:23,936 --> 01:47:28,498
Crawford wants what's best for you
and for the school.

470
01:47:28,708 --> 01:47:30,335
So, what am I supposed to do?

471
01:47:30,543 --> 01:47:34,139
You hold up a championship trophy
at the end of this tournament.

472
01:47:34,346 --> 01:47:37,680
You make that happen,
I'll make the rest of it happen.

473
01:47:38,385 --> 01:47:39,373
All right?

474
01:47:40,052 --> 01:47:42,418
Now go finish up
what you came here to do.

475
01:47:49,962 --> 01:47:53,262
Let's go, Pilgrims!
Let's go, Pilgrims!

476
01:47:53,666 --> 01:47:56,101
Okay, let's go! Throw it to Jamal!

477
01:48:24,396 --> 01:48:26,331
Damn, man. Come on, man!

478
01:48:27,132 --> 01:48:29,465
Defense! Defense! 

479
01:48:41,614 --> 01:48:43,344
Jamal, get the ball! 

480
01:49:01,601 --> 01:49:05,128
Good pass, man. Good pass.
Get up there.

481
01:49:11,710 --> 01:49:12,699
Pick it up!h

482
01:49:24,056 --> 01:49:26,547
Offensive foul! That way!e

483
01:49:26,760 --> 01:49:29,627
Ten, gold. Offensive! That way.

484
01:49:30,262 --> 01:49:32,493
Okay, you got them now. Let's go.

485
01:49:45,612 --> 01:49:46,840
Time-out! Time-out!

486
01:49:48,614 --> 01:49:49,979
This is still our game.

487
01:49:50,182 --> 01:49:53,208
We make a stop here,
they'll have to put us on the line.

488
01:49:53,420 --> 01:49:57,789
When that happens, it's all over.
Don't lose your composure out there.

489
01:49:57,990 --> 01:50:00,458
If they score,
we don't call a time-out.

490
01:50:00,659 --> 01:50:03,150
The ball goes to Hartwell or Wallace.

491
01:50:03,362 --> 01:50:06,059
Okay? Hartwell or Wallace.
Let's go, guys.

492
01:50:07,666 --> 01:50:08,496
Go!

493
01:50:23,682 --> 01:50:24,944
What's the score?

494
01:50:25,150 --> 01:50:28,051
It ain't looking good, Ma.
It ain't looking good.

495
01:50:39,332 --> 01:50:42,324
Foul, 22 blue! Two shots.

496
01:50:45,271 --> 01:50:50,230
Foul's blue team, 22.
Hit, two. Go line up, guys.

497
01:50:57,350 --> 01:50:58,782
Two shots.

498
01:51:01,487 --> 01:51:03,819
Come on. We're gonna make these.

499
01:51:04,123 --> 01:51:05,351
I can't look. 

500
01:51:05,557 --> 01:51:07,458
It's gonna be all right, Ma.

501
01:51:17,771 --> 01:51:19,068
Do it. 

502
01:51:27,447 --> 01:51:28,470
Damn.

503
01:51:35,220 --> 01:51:36,654
One shot. 

504
01:52:04,283 --> 01:52:05,773
That's game.

505
01:54:56,221 --> 01:54:57,655
Thank God!

506
01:54:57,856 --> 01:55:00,256
He must have come in after we left.

507
01:55:00,525 --> 01:55:01,652
Let him sleep.

508
01:55:01,860 --> 01:55:06,127
- I'm gonna turn his bedroom light off.
- Turn it off and come on.

509
01:55:11,938 --> 01:55:14,667
You started cleaning up
your room, Jamal. 

510
01:55:30,189 --> 01:55:33,716
<i>He looks very happy with himself,</i>
<i>that coyote. Look, ears down...</i>

511
01:55:51,476 --> 01:55:53,707
Jamal, he wrote that for you.

512
01:55:55,614 --> 01:55:56,740
When?

513
01:55:56,949 --> 01:55:58,679
After the game.

514
01:55:59,118 --> 01:56:01,677
He's going back to the school
this morning.

515
01:56:02,755 --> 01:56:04,279
It's funny, though.

516
01:56:04,724 --> 01:56:07,318
They always let you get but so far....

517
01:56:07,527 --> 01:56:10,051
...before they take
everything away from you.

518
01:56:11,264 --> 01:56:16,065
God, he's such a good kid, man. Then
he gets to come back to this shit.

519
01:56:57,143 --> 01:56:58,632
That seat open?

520
01:57:01,213 --> 01:57:02,442
I think so.

521
01:57:03,850 --> 01:57:06,579
This isn't exactly
where I thought I'd find you.

522
01:57:08,987 --> 01:57:10,853
This is still my school.

523
01:57:12,091 --> 01:57:14,820
They want me out,
they'll have to do it themselves.

524
01:57:15,460 --> 01:57:16,655
They will.

525
01:57:18,030 --> 01:57:19,327
Whatever.

526
01:57:32,779 --> 01:57:36,077
"The winter's darkness and cold
is but a momentary prelude...

527
01:57:36,282 --> 01:57:39,739
...to the new day of spring.
And while its grip seems endless...

528
01:57:39,952 --> 01:57:43,581
...our perseverance proves equal.
We renew ourselves once again...

529
01:57:44,190 --> 01:57:47,751
...seeking out the bright moments
that will serve...

530
01:57:47,960 --> 01:57:50,827
That will serve therefore...

531
01:57:53,065 --> 01:57:56,262
Therefore serve as the foundation
of our future."

532
01:57:57,436 --> 01:57:58,734
Thank you.

533
01:58:09,315 --> 01:58:10,782
Professor Crawford...

534
01:58:14,219 --> 01:58:16,949
...may I read a few words?

535
01:58:21,894 --> 01:58:23,417
What's he doing here?

536
01:58:25,264 --> 01:58:26,958
Yes, of course...

537
01:58:27,166 --> 01:58:28,996
...by all means.

538
01:58:30,869 --> 01:58:32,701
Thank you, professor.

539
01:58:46,652 --> 01:58:48,710
My name is...

540
01:58:48,921 --> 01:58:50,615
...William Forrester.

541
01:58:55,427 --> 01:58:56,792
Excuse me.

542
01:59:02,434 --> 01:59:03,902
I'm that one.

543
01:59:08,841 --> 01:59:10,967
"Losing Family."

544
01:59:11,911 --> 01:59:13,208
"Losing family...

545
01:59:13,412 --> 01:59:17,041
...obliges us to find our family.

546
01:59:17,984 --> 01:59:20,851
Not always the family
that is our blood...

547
01:59:21,052 --> 01:59:23,521
...but the family
that can become our blood.

548
01:59:25,023 --> 01:59:29,893
And should we have the wisdom
to open our door to this new family...

549
01:59:30,163 --> 01:59:33,564
...we will find that the wishes
we once had for the father...

550
01:59:33,765 --> 01:59:35,859
...who once guided us... 

551
01:59:36,135 --> 01:59:39,161
...for the brother,
who once inspired us...

552
02:00:15,774 --> 02:00:18,573
- the only thing left to say will be:

553
02:00:18,778 --> 02:00:22,873
'I wish I had seen this, or I wish
I had done that, or I wish..."'

554
02:00:26,318 --> 02:00:28,684
Most of you are too young... 

555
02:00:28,887 --> 02:00:32,119
...to know what your wishes will be.

556
02:00:32,791 --> 02:00:36,125
But when I read these words...

557
02:00:36,461 --> 02:00:40,023
...words of hope and dreams...

558
02:00:40,632 --> 02:00:43,362
...I realize that the one wish...

559
02:00:43,568 --> 02:00:47,164
...that was granted to me
so late in life...

560
02:00:47,372 --> 02:00:48,737
...was the gift of frien...

561
02:00:48,940 --> 02:00:50,498
Of friendship.

562
02:00:53,712 --> 02:00:57,204
Mr. Forrester, I'm sure I speak
on behalf of everyone here...

563
02:00:57,416 --> 02:01:00,681
...in thanking you for this
unexpected visit.

564
02:01:00,886 --> 02:01:04,378
The quality of your words...

565
02:01:04,990 --> 02:01:08,188
...is something we should all
aspire to reach.

566
02:01:09,996 --> 02:01:11,622
Mr. Forrester?

567
02:01:12,764 --> 02:01:15,563
Mr. Forrester, may I ask...

568
02:01:15,768 --> 02:01:18,100
...to what do we owe this honor?

569
02:01:18,703 --> 02:01:20,398
Professor Crawford... 

570
02:01:21,707 --> 02:01:23,606
...I spoke here today... 

571
02:01:23,809 --> 02:01:26,675
...because a friend of mine
wasn't allowed to.

572
02:01:27,179 --> 02:01:31,342
A friend who had the integrity
to protect me...

573
02:01:31,684 --> 02:01:35,279
...when I was unwilling
to protect him.

574
02:01:35,987 --> 02:01:39,479
His name is Jamal Wallace.

575
02:01:43,762 --> 02:01:46,027
Jamal Wallace is a friend of yours?

576
02:01:46,231 --> 02:01:49,201
Yes. Yes, he is.

577
02:01:50,369 --> 02:01:52,929
I helped him to find his own words...

578
02:01:53,139 --> 02:01:55,436
...by starting with some of mine.

579
02:01:55,640 --> 02:01:58,041
And in return, he promised....

580
02:01:58,710 --> 02:02:02,271
...never to say anything to anybody
about me.

581
02:02:03,716 --> 02:02:05,239
A promise which he kept.

582
02:02:05,451 --> 02:02:07,385
Mr. Forrester... 

583
02:02:07,920 --> 02:02:09,978
...while your visit
appears to be heartfelt...

584
02:02:10,189 --> 02:02:12,384
...l'm sure you will appreciate...

585
02:02:12,657 --> 02:02:16,115
...that it will not change
or interfere...

586
02:02:16,328 --> 02:02:20,389
...with this institution reaching a
fair and proper decision in his case.

587
02:02:20,733 --> 02:02:23,896
There's one more issue here. 

588
02:02:25,171 --> 02:02:28,230
Those words that I read today... 

589
02:02:29,809 --> 02:02:31,538
...I didn't write them.

590
02:02:32,077 --> 02:02:33,773
Jamal Wallace did.

591
02:02:43,988 --> 02:02:45,182
Quiet.

592
02:02:47,559 --> 02:02:49,789
Quiet! Quiet, please!

593
02:02:50,563 --> 02:02:51,551
Be still.

594
02:02:55,101 --> 02:02:56,966
Quiet, please.

595
02:02:57,536 --> 02:02:59,868
That has no bearing...

596
02:03:00,072 --> 02:03:01,766
...on the decision concerning...

597
02:03:02,208 --> 02:03:05,769
As director of this competition,
I have final say in this matter.

598
02:03:06,045 --> 02:03:07,773
Robert, sit down.

599
02:03:08,113 --> 02:03:11,208
I have been a teacher
for more than 30 years.

600
02:03:11,416 --> 02:03:15,443
That's long enough to know that
integrity counts for something.

601
02:03:15,788 --> 02:03:17,380
I'd say that Mr. Forrester...

602
02:03:17,590 --> 02:03:21,355
...has cleared up this matter
very nicely for us all.

603
02:03:21,559 --> 02:03:23,528
And as chairman
of the faculty board...

604
02:03:23,728 --> 02:03:26,289
...I have the last word
in that matter.

605
02:03:26,565 --> 02:03:30,797
Mr. Wallace, you are excused
from next week's board meeting.

606
02:03:31,003 --> 02:03:32,630
Mr. Forrester...

607
02:03:33,806 --> 02:03:37,469
...should you ever have an interest
in a teaching position...

608
02:03:38,144 --> 02:03:39,235
No.

609
02:03:41,313 --> 02:03:44,305
Jamal, these are your words? 

610
02:03:47,119 --> 02:03:48,916
Sixteen. 

611
02:03:49,922 --> 02:03:51,115
Remarkable. 

612
02:04:04,202 --> 02:04:05,192
Well done.

613
02:04:18,851 --> 02:04:22,753
I'm thinking you'll make
your own decisions from here on.

614
02:04:23,956 --> 02:04:27,789
I'm thinking you're about to say
something more like, "I always could."

615
02:04:27,993 --> 02:04:30,460
No. No more lessons.

616
02:04:30,663 --> 02:04:32,358
But I have a question, though.

617
02:04:32,565 --> 02:04:36,023
Those two foul shots
at the end of the game...

618
02:04:36,702 --> 02:04:38,032
...did you miss them?

619
02:04:38,537 --> 02:04:40,027
Or did you miss them?

620
02:04:41,139 --> 02:04:43,574
Not exactly a soup question, is it?

621
02:04:45,778 --> 02:04:46,971
Let's go.

622
02:04:49,547 --> 02:04:54,041
Do you think our vaudeville act today
will merit the <i>National Enquirer?.</i>

623
02:04:54,386 --> 02:04:55,876
Yeah, definitely.

624
02:04:57,489 --> 02:04:58,957
Whatever happens...

625
02:04:59,157 --> 02:05:00,750
...l'm off.

626
02:05:02,161 --> 02:05:05,755
What's the word that you and
your friends would use for that?

627
02:05:05,965 --> 02:05:07,262
Leaving?

628
02:05:08,032 --> 02:05:09,056
Oh, God.

629
02:05:09,934 --> 02:05:11,425
Where are you off to?

630
02:05:11,637 --> 02:05:15,073
I have a homeland I haven't seen
for too long.

631
02:05:15,273 --> 02:05:16,467
You mean Ireland.

632
02:05:16,675 --> 02:05:18,404
Scotland, for God's sake.

633
02:05:19,177 --> 02:05:21,168
I'm messing with you, man.

634
02:05:22,948 --> 02:05:24,438
Be sure to write. 

635
02:05:55,681 --> 02:05:57,807
- Hey, Jamal.
- What's up?

636
02:06:01,387 --> 02:06:02,752
What's up, John?

637
02:06:03,289 --> 02:06:04,949
You heard from William?

638
02:06:05,157 --> 02:06:07,181
Yeah, but I don't know
what he's doing.

639
02:06:07,393 --> 02:06:10,760
He keeps sending letters checking up
on these college recruiters.

640
02:06:11,063 --> 02:06:14,190
I was just downstairs.
Looks like you got another one.

641
02:06:14,399 --> 02:06:15,662
Word?

642
02:06:15,967 --> 02:06:17,400
I'll see you around.

643
02:06:20,905 --> 02:06:22,032
Jamal?

644
02:06:24,577 --> 02:06:25,565
Steve Sanderson.?

645
02:06:25,778 --> 02:06:27,074
- How you doing?
- Good.

646
02:06:27,279 --> 02:06:29,474
Thanks for coming
on such short notice.

647
02:06:29,815 --> 02:06:32,908
No problem.
So, what school are you from?

648
02:06:33,118 --> 02:06:35,780
Oh, no. I'm a lawyer here in town. 

649
02:06:35,987 --> 02:06:38,717
- I work with Roberts and Carter.
- Oh, a lawyer.

650
02:06:38,923 --> 02:06:41,619
Yeah, but congratulations with that.
That's great.

651
02:06:41,827 --> 02:06:44,387
That's really, really... great.

652
02:06:44,596 --> 02:06:47,657
We got a bunch of the guys
in the office following you.

653
02:06:49,134 --> 02:06:53,194
But we're the legal representation
for William Forrester.

654
02:06:53,871 --> 02:06:55,168
How is he?

655
02:06:55,440 --> 02:06:56,668
Here...

656
02:06:56,875 --> 02:06:57,863
...sit down.

657
02:07:04,782 --> 02:07:07,217
We've received word that William...

658
02:07:07,418 --> 02:07:08,783
...passed away. 

659
02:07:18,931 --> 02:07:20,262
I'm sorry. 

660
02:07:27,005 --> 02:07:29,270
He wanted you to have...

661
02:07:29,975 --> 02:07:31,875
...these things right away.

662
02:07:47,393 --> 02:07:48,724
What happened?

663
02:07:50,162 --> 02:07:52,186
William had cancer.

664
02:07:54,065 --> 02:07:56,500
They found it a couple years ago.

665
02:08:07,979 --> 02:08:09,810
Jamal, this is crazy.

666
02:08:10,014 --> 02:08:11,573
Oh, my God.

667
02:08:11,783 --> 02:08:13,148
Wow! 

668
02:08:16,220 --> 02:08:19,520
- Look at all these books.
- Don't touch anything.

669
02:09:39,538 --> 02:09:40,765
<i>Dear Jamal:</i>

670
02:09:40,972 --> 02:09:44,237
<i>Someone I once knew wrote that</i>
<i>we walk away from our dreams...</i>

671
02:09:44,443 --> 02:09:49,380
<i>... afraid that we may fail,</i>
<i>or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.</i>

672
02:09:49,581 --> 02:09:54,176
<i>While I knew so early</i>
<i>that you would realize your dreams...</i>

673
02:09:54,386 --> 02:09:58,219
<i>... I never imagined</i>
<i>I would once again realize my own.</i>

674
02:09:59,190 --> 02:10:00,851
<i>Seasons change, young man.</i>

675
02:10:01,059 --> 02:10:03,925
<i>And while I waited</i>
<i>until the winter of my life...</i>

676
02:10:04,128 --> 02:10:06,619
<i>... to see the things I've seen</i>
<i>this past year...</i>

677
02:10:06,832 --> 02:10:09,494
<i>... there is no doubt</i>
<i>I would have waited too long...</i>

678
02:10:09,701 --> 02:10:11,497
<i>... had it not been for you.</i>

679
02:10:21,180 --> 02:10:23,171
You gonna be here a while, man?

680
02:10:26,918 --> 02:10:29,217
Just can't watch the eyes this time.

681
02:10:29,421 --> 02:10:31,719
You'll be okay, man. Come on.

682
02:10:34,792 --> 02:10:36,157
Come on, man. 

683
02:10:37,628 --> 02:10:38,720
Get up. 

684
02:11:32,451 --> 02:11:34,442
You're missing lay-ups now?

685
02:11:35,554 --> 02:11:37,282
What happened to you, boy?

686
02:11:41,460 --> 02:11:43,552
Where did the first step go, man?