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You're moving your head.

See, when you release the ball, you're moving your head off the glove. That's

why the ball is going wide left on you like that.

You got to keep your head on the glove.

Keep it on the glove. All right.

There you go. Okay.

That's better. That's better.

Yeah.

Thanks. You bet.

I haven't seen you around here before.

We just moved from Albany.

You know, you've got some ability, but you've got to work on that leg kick a

little bit.

Are you a coach?

No, I'm just a groundskeeper. I used to pitch a little bit, though.

Hi.

Come on, Mick. Hang on.

I want to talk to this guy.

I'll be right back.

Okay, I'll talk to you.

What were you saying about my leg kick?

Um...

I'm going to show you. You've got to get your knee up higher, okay?

You've got to get your balance point back because that's after your paddle.

Watch me. Follow me. Watch what I do.

What are you doing? You want to sit?

You turn, you step, you follow through keeping your head on the glove, okay?

Straight away on the glove.

Tell you what. Here, why don't you throw me a couple?

Jericho, what do you think you're doing?

I was just going to give him some pointers, Dwayne. Just stick to cutting

okay? He wasn't bothering me.

You want me to complain to the board about you?

A lot of people aren't happy having a drunk anywhere near their kids.

Okay, Dwayne.

Okay.

This is a respectable community.

We've got no use for lowlifes like you.

What's the score?

31. Good, guys.

You gonna fix the sound on that thing?

How about you stop drinking? I got the sound fixed.

Oh, a bartender wants his best customer to stop drinking.

That's a curse.

Hello, Katie?

How are you, Murph? Real good.

Buy a drink?

No, thanks.

I just can't be sick all day.

I knew you were coming. I'm saved.

Oh, it's all right.

So... Wayne Dunbar kicked up a fuss because I helped that kid on the field

today. Don't worry about Dwayne. That job's yours as long as you want it.

That's good.

A little bit of work.

You doing all right?

Yeah, I'm good. How about you?

School okay? Everything all right?

I don't know if the kids are getting dumber or I'm just losing my patience

them.

Today, I gave them a quiz.

Asked them to describe Watergate.

One of my seniors tells me that it's a very bad movie with Kevin Costner.

That's good.

That's good.

You know, it's been over a year since Eileen Davies died.

It's been that long?

Seems like it was just last week.

So, how's Rob?

He's doing better.

It took a couple of months off, but the kids are away at college now, and he got

back into teaching.

We've been seeing each other the past couple of months.

And I always did everything for you.

Congratulations.

The thing is, um, he's ready to give up teaching.

Let's move to New York.

Well, you always used to talk about moving to New York.

With you.

Yeah.

You've been waiting for me for a long time, Kenny.

Marry Rob.

My money lies over the sea.

My money lies over the sea.

Still can't sing with the damn canyon.

Right.

Live and in person.

It's called parole, little brother.

It's what they give you when you become a model and rehabilitated prisoner.

Of course, you would have known about that if you'd paid me a visit any time

the last 27 years, but I guess you were too busy.

Ray, look, I was... What?

You're sorry?

Yeah. You know what I'm sorry about, Flash?

All that time...

After you turned me in, I sat there reading the papers, checking the box

looking for your name, wondering how in the world a boy with your talent didn't

make it to the bigs.

Still, I wondered, even without that, you must have gone on and had yourself a

nice life, family, career,

something to lose.

Looks like I was wrong about that, too.

It looks like this isn't going to have quite the poetry I thought it would.

But sometimes you just have to take what you can get, you know what I mean?

Ray, what is it?

Just tell me what you want.

What I want is my life back.

So I'll settle for even in this score.

Ray, hey.

I'm sorry, Ray. I'm sorry. I know what I did was wrong. Yeah, but it was.

Let me put this in words you might understand, Flash.

Strike three.

You're out.

Go for it,

Flash. Almost there.

I must put the conviction of a moment of decision.

The events in Washington are moving toward their inevitable.

Red Sox win it by a score of 9 -5.

Longing for a flash.

Heading for home. No!

All county by the time he was 14.

All state when he was still a junior in high school.

Huh. This coach thought he was the finest pitching prospect he'd ever seen.

that so?

Yeah. And it says here he had a shot at a pro career.

Is that so?

Yep.

He had the arm.

Wonder how he would have done.

Clean him up nicely, Clarence, and maybe we'll have a chance to find out.

That is much more like it.

What do you think, Flash?

I don't know what to say.

They never do. But trust me.

Remember the plan.

Concentrate, focus, give it everything you have.

I get another chance to fix my life.

Isn't that what you want?

Not if it turns out the same way.

Work with me. I'm just your advocate.

You're the only one who can make it better.

But you won't get the chance unless you show the judge you deserve it.

Well, maybe I don't. Would you at least muster a little enthusiasm here?

I need one more win to get my bonus this month, and you're my last case.

It's a ticket to the premiere of Beethoven's 23rd Symphony.

You don't want me to miss that, do you?

I don't know much about music, but I thought he only wrote nine.

You're still not getting the concept here, are you, Flash?

So young, then.

Mr. Jones, this is your evidence. Do you think you could persuade your client to

let me watch it in peace?

Of course, Your Honor.

He's just a bit overwhelmed by the circumstance.

Aren't they all, Mr. Jones?

Aren't they all?

Flash.

Yes, sir?

Flash was just showing me his gasket.

Oh.

That's nice.

I have some good news for you.

I was just talking to a friend of mine at State about you.

Told him I knew a young pitcher who could do some good things for their

So he's sending a scout to your game on Thursday.

That's great.

Unless you're too busy showing Katie your gasket to play.

No. No, thanks.

Right on, Dad.

Right on.

Very entertaining, Mr. Jones.

But what in the world does that have to do with your client's case?

It's relevant to Mr. Jericho's character, Your Honor.

What you saw took place just a few days before the unfortunate event.

I believe it was an armed robbery.

Yes, but his life hadn't been easy.

His father abandoned the family when my client was very young.

When he was 15, his poor mother got in the way of a drunk driver.

Yes, I remember.

We were very sorry to see her join us so young.

But he did have the very great blessing to be taken in by a foster family who

treated him as one of their own.

As you saw, he was surrounded by good people, and he had a very promising

to look forward to. All the more reason he shouldn't have committed the crime.

This one sounds pretty open and shut, Mr. Jones.

The defendant robbed a convenience store.

Under duress.

He was only trying to help his brother. An innocent man was shot.

Not by my client. He tried to prevent it. And he ended up serving no jail time

at all?

He had a good lawyer.

You can't hold that against him.

Even so, given the thoroughly undeserved opportunity to do something positive

with the rest of his life, he instead proceeded to drink away the next 27

He wasted his life.

I'm not saying he's a candidate for Stainhead, Your Honor. He was a young

with a good heart who was put in a terrible situation.

He didn't handle it well the first time around.

But I believe with my assistance and the mercy of this court, he has what it

takes to make the most of a second chance.

On top of which, he can throw the slider.

And Lord knows our team needs a pitcher who can throw the slider for strikes.

You can throw the slider, son.

Yes, I could.

Well, why didn't you say so?

When your time comes, we want you throwing it for us.

Get back down there and save your soul.

Life seconds.

What does that mean?

Didn't you explain it to him?

It sounds so much better coming from you.

You will have three days.

And three days only to change the course of your life.

You will go back with all your memories intact.

No one will recognize you.

You are a free agent in the universe.

With the blessing of God Almighty and his court.

Good God.

He's better than good.

He's perfect. Stop!

Stop! Don't make me shoot!

Ray?

That was my brother Ray.

I know.

We're too late.

For what? Where are we?

1973. The park near your old school.

Isn't this what started the whole catastrophe in the first place?

When your brother was almost arrested for selling drugs?

Isn't that what just happened? I was hoping to get you here in time to keep

from walking into that trap.

But it looks like the boss doesn't want to make it that easy for you.

Sorry.

No one.

Now you try the hard way.

Someone you have to meet.

Who?

Yourself, of course.

Come on.

Nice catch.

He's good.

Of course he is.

He's you.

This is very strange.

You'll figure it out.

There's one thing I don't get.

That Judge Debra said that I had three days.

Now, Ray nearly got busted on a Monday.

The robbery happened early Wednesday morning, so that leaves me less than two

days.

You sure about the dates? Like it was yesterday.

Very strange.

I'll look into it for you.

Tell me more about your brother.

Why was he out on his own?

Well, Ray was 18 when our mom died.

My foster family offered to take Ray in, but he was pretty stubborn. He felt he

could take care of himself.

He chose an unfortunate way to do it, selling drugs.

I worried about him quite a bit.

I always wished there was something I could have done to keep him out of

trouble.

I didn't love him any less.

Maybe that was my downfall.

Not necessarily, David.

David? Look in your wallet.

David Lazarus.

You're new in town.

What do I do?

Hey, you boys.

Got a dad who can coach hardball?

Mike's wife is having her baby this week.

We need a coach.

There's your cue.

I don't know what the heck she needs him there for, but... How about me?

You know what you're doing?

Yes, sir.

Name's Lazarus.

David Lazarus.

Okay, Lazarus.

You warm up the pitchers while I hit infield, okay?

Okay.

What do I do now?

You warm up the pitchers.

Lazarus?

Who are you talking to?

Oh, sorry, Flash.

Forgot rule one.

When I'm in, you're the only one who can see and hear me.

I got it! I got it!

Right.

Oh, nobody.

Another loony.

Why is this game so full of loonies? I'm talking to myself.

Okay, guys, come on.

I got it, I got it.

Relay, relay.

Come on. Come on.

So, you've been around here?

No, I've been here before.

Got a big game coming up on Thursday, huh? Yeah.

How'd you know that? I hear things, you know.

Listen.

The important thing is that you stay focused. You earn yourself a baseball

scholarship. That's going to do great things for your future, okay?

I don't think much about the future.

You should.

You have no idea how wrong things can go if you're not careful. Believe me, I

know.

Hey, you forget about the screwball, too. You can't throw that one.

It was the night that Ray got to me.

He told me at the house when they were about to meet him.

People have got to know whether or not their president's a crook.

Well, I'm not a crook.

What's the name of that building?

The Watergate.

I can't imagine President Nixon having anything to do with that, can you? I bet

it's nothing.

Probably the media just trying to make the president look bad.

Hello?

Sure, just a second.

Flash, it's for you.

Hello? Hey, uh, don't say it's me.

I'm some friend from baseball or something.

Oh. Hey, Mike, what's up?

I need to see you, man, like, right away.

What's the matter?

I can't talk about it on the phone. Look, uh, meet me in the alleyway behind

theater real soon.

Listen, man, I can't.

Ten minutes.

Yeah.

It's a little after six.

It's the same time Ray called me last time around.

Does everything stay as it did before?

You're here to make sure it doesn't.

Come on.

Battery's dead.

This thing's a piece of junk.

I take what they give me.

This was my chance.

I thought you were supposed to be here to help me. I am, but I honestly don't

know what's meant to be.

And it looks like this plan wasn't.

I gotta get out of here, man. I gotta get out of here before the pigs catch up

to me. Listen, man, if I had the money, I'd give it to you. I know, I know, I

know, but I need a lot of it, and I need it now.

I know where I can get it.

Look, I hate to ask, but I need your help. I can't do it on my own. Do what?

Look, I've been keeping my eye on this store, okay?

Now, the owner doesn't come in on Tuesdays.

They hold the money there overnight.

I can't commit a robbery. No, look, I'd be the one committing it.

I just need you to help me get in there.

Sorry, I asked.

You know, the only reason why I asked you was because you're the only family

I've got, man.

I've got no one else to turn to.

I have to get up to Harry's place in Canada and hole up there.

And that takes dough.

What about Mr. Noctaville? I mean, he's a lawyer. He could help you. You know

what? A lawyer can't help me right now.

You sure we won't get caught?

Hey, look, then you never have to see me again if you want.

And you can go and have yourself a great little life.

Hey, it's for the Red Sox.

I know you'll come out a winner, Flash.

You're the

best, man.

I'll pick you up tomorrow night.

Dead battery. What kind of outfit do you work for?

Look, how do I talk to you without looking like I'm crazy?

Don't worry.

They can see me.

I'm only invisible when I wear my suit from Judgment Court. You know, the three

-quarter length with the nice boots.

You're not into clothes, are you? No, not really.

I hope you like this place.

I know. I used to come here all the time.

Food's great.

Do you... Are you hungry?

We're never hungry.

It's hard to explain.

But something does smell heavenly.

Hi.

Hi, Brenda.

Oh, we met a long time ago. I know you don't remember me. I look too old.

No, no, there is something familiar about you.

Two for dinner? Yes, please.

Come this way.

Here you go.

Special tonight is chicken pot pie.

Homemade? We don't do it any other way.

Sounds great.

Okay, good. We'll have two.

Sounds good.

So if you don't need to eat, what do you eat?

It's almost like a virtual reality thing, you know what I mean?

Not a clue.

Food is the perfect blend of oral, olfactory, and visual sensations.

It tastes great.

Oh, well, why didn't you just say that?

Let me ask you something.

What if I don't succeed?

What if I can't stop my younger self from robbing that store with Ray?

Don't think that way.

You don't want negative thoughts to cloud your mind.

I was done anything for.

Perhaps there was another way you could have helped Ray.

He needed money.

All I had was $100 stuffed in a shoebox. That was it.

Answers are rarely easy to find.

How do people find them?

Prayer has been known to work.

Here you go, folks.

Thanks.

Thank you.

You know, you do look familiar.

Not your face so much as your eyes.

How do I know you?

Very long time ago.

I'm usually pretty good at these things, but I'm all distracted tonight.

My husband and I own a racehorse.

That's him.

Captain Jazz.

He hasn't won a race yet, and he's eating us out of house and home. But you

never know, he's running again tomorrow with a little luck.

At the room, no one is supposed to profit from their knowledge of the

I'm not going to profit from it.

I'll help Rain.

I'll save my future.

I'm just letting you know, it's most unusual.

This whole thing is unusual.

Hey, Flash?

Yeah. Can I talk to you for a minute?

Sure.

No, Coach.

We'll talk to you later.

What's up?

You don't know me very well.

But I know you could use a little help right now.

What are you talking about?

Ray's got a little money problem.

I've got a legitimate way to get it.

You're going to have to keep this between you and me, okay?

There's a horse running in the second race of the track today. His name is

Captain Jazz.

The odds are 50 to 1.

I know he's going to win.

Listen, Coach, I don't know what you've got up your sleeve. No, nothing,

nothing.

I know it sounds crazy, and I know that.

And I can't tell you how I know.

But I want you... I want you to take all the money you have, and you go there

during your lunch break, and you put $100 down.

And that $100 will turn into five grand.

You and your family could use that kind of money, couldn't you?

Yeah, but... Why should I trust you?

Because you have to.

I don't even know you.

Listen.

What do you think?

I gotta get to class.

Very unusual.

Alright,

let's try it again.

Fingers over the seams, right? Here we go.

Come on.

Good. There it is. There it is.

Good. Hey, Dwayne, where's Flash?

Nobody's seen him. He took off at lunch and hasn't come back.

Okay, throw it over here.

Got to practice swinging.

Everybody in.

Okay, now listen up.

You boys.

All know how proud I am of what you've accomplished this year, and you know

everybody's rooting for you to beat Hanover on Thursday.

But as we've said time and time again, we will not put winning ahead of the

rules at Surrey High.

So I'm sorry to tell you that one of your teammates has broken not only the

rules, but the law.

Flash Jericho was caught by the authorities trying to place a bet at the

racetrack. Now, the laws are clear.

Signs are posted for everybody to see. You have to be 21 to gamble in this

state. He's 17.

There's no excuse.

We've got the track officials to agree not to press charges, but we're going to

take our own disciplinary action, starting with dropping him from the

I'm sorry, but we're just going to have to try and win without him.

Okay?

Never got thrown off the team when I was a kid.

You never laid $100 on Captain Jazz either.

I thought I was supposed to be here to make things better. All I've done is

things worse.

Suppose you want me to give you some kind of great insight or spiritual

guidance? Oh, that would be good.

Oh, stiff upper lip?

Is that the best you can do?

Fight the good fight?

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you?

I'm in big trouble.

I know it seems that way.

I wish I can give you some guarantees, but this is not an exact science.

Look, I thought the one rule that I had in my favor was having three days. Now,

why did I only get two?

I don't know.

But I promise I'll bring it up in the staff meeting next week.

Oh, good, man. I feel a lot better knowing that.

That's sarcasm, isn't it?

I know that robbery's going to take place in about 20 minutes.

As soon as he left it.

I'm going to find out.

You. I was wondering if I could talk to Flash.

Haven't you gotten him into enough trouble already?

Well, I'm not sure what he's told you. One minute you're talking to him in the

parking lot. Next thing, he's getting picked up by security guys at the

racetrack. Hi.

Who are you?

Mr. Lazarus? Yeah.

Yeah, I'm a friend of Flash's. Is he here? I just checked his room. He's

He must have taken off out the window.

But he left this, and I think he said, here, what it has to say.

Please, please read it.

To my wonderful family, I don't have the words to express my shame at what I did

today or what I may be forced to do in the near future.

I will always be grateful for the way you took me into your home.

Hello? But I obviously don't deserve your kindness or your faith in me, so I

think it would be best for me to move on.

Hello?

I don't want to disappoint you any more than I already have.

Oh, my love, bless.

What'd you do that for?

Come on, let's get out of here. But we can't just leave him. Are you out of

mind? Let's go.

He needs an ambulance.

We gotta get out of here. I'm calling for help, all right? I'm not waiting for

you, man.

Then leave, all right? I'll catch up to you.

You know where to find me.

Operator? Yeah, it's an emergency. I need an ambulance.

Does this mean I failed?

My life, his life, it goes on the same. It all ends up the same. Is that about

summing up?

Try your best.

I don't understand why this didn't work out.

There's no as an explanation.

Maybe Bob would have gotten my full three days, huh?

That still bothers me. Why you only got two days?

Is there any reason you can think of?

Did anything happen after this that could have made a difference in the book

your life?

I was supposed to be here to stop the robbery and the shootout.

What happened after?

Maybe that's the answer.

What do you mean?

What happened?

Hey, you gotta take me to jail.

What? I gotta go to jail.

You committed a crime?

No, no, no, that's not the point.

Sir. We don't usually put people on jail unless they commit a crime.

You've got to make an exception on that case.

Not tonight, mister. We're kind of busy.

What do you think they're doing?

They're all taking a police officer.

They're under arrest.

Leave him!

Leave him!

So our owner's going to be all right.

And he told the police what you did, how you could have run, but you stayed and

called the ambulance.

I just talked to the DA about you.

The one they want is your partner.

The one who did the actual shooting and ran. Now, if we tell them who he is and

where the police might find him, there's a good chance I can get you probation.

No jail time at all.

And then it's armed robbery.

Maybe 20 years.

20 years in prison?

My wife and I think of you like a son.

Don't be a fool.

Tell them who your partner was. He was much more culpable than you.

Listen, I'm going to have to think about this, Mr. Noctico.

I'll come by first thing in the morning.

If you cooperate tomorrow, you could walk out of here a free man.

We're your family.

We want you to come home.

Your lawyer sprung for your bail now.

Come on, Flash.

I couldn't go on.

I put them in another cell somewhere.

I'm sorry your plan didn't work out.

Sometimes they don't. I just wanted to be able to say that... What?

What did you want to say?

You mean that it's all right to tell the truth? No, telling the truth is what

ruined my life last time, okay?

No, it was guilt.

Guilt is a wasted emotion.

It leaves nothing behind except despair.

Are you getting out of here or not?

Hey, Flash?

Come on, buddy, let's go. I need to talk to him, please.

Not a chance.

It's okay, officer.

Sure, one minute.

Hey, Flash.

I know you don't know me, but I know you very well.

And I know that if you don't do the right thing tonight, you're going to end

being like me.

spend the rest of your life thinking about what could have been and

what never will be, you know?

Look, Flash, you got to step up to the plate. You got to take your cuts, buddy.

Okay?

And you got to stand up now. You got to be a man.

You just need to do the right thing.

Yeah.

You do the right thing.

Could you do one thing for me?

Hey, you don't need that.

I'm a friend of your brother's. He told me how to find you.

You can trust me.

What do you want?

Fleck wanted me to give you this.

He said it's the only picture of your whole family together.

He wanted you to have it.

What's he doing?

They offered Flash 14 years if he pleads guilty.

He says he's going to take it. Did he, uh... Did he say anything about me?

No.

He's, um... He's kind of in a no -win situation, you know.

He's... The cup is for you.

You know, his life is over. And if he doesn't, well, it's kind of the same

thing, you know.

Yeah.

Well, thanks for the guilt trip.

Want me to give him a message?

I don't have a lot of time here.

I cannot believe this is actually happening today.

Oh, neither can I.

I am so proud of him.

And you, too.

Come on, you big goof.

Go on.

Kiss your wife, you big goof.

Honey, what if somebody walks in? Oh, I don't care. I don't care.

I've been so happy to see you as I am right now.

Well, your team's on the field, and your son's waiting for you to warm him up.

It's first game, a starting pitcher for varsity, and he's a nervous wreck.

Can you just give me a minute?

Yeah, yeah, but don't be long.

Two sons, and I've got a little girl.

And I've got... And Charlie, he's... Charlie's my oldest boy.

It's a wonderful world, isn't it, Flash?

Wait a minute.

How can that be?

If I didn't turn Ray in, I went to jail. And if I didn't, then I... I ended up

dead.

Ye of little faith.

I'm trading myself in for you.

So, um, after we're done, they'll check me in and you'll be free.

No, you don't have to do that. Hey, stop your blubbering, okay?

Look, it was only a matter of time before I got busted for something.

Now what would be left of us, huh? Our family?

You're the hope, man.

You're the one who's been blessed.

A talent and a future and a good soul.

I have no right to take that away from you.

So you go.

You get out there and you pitch your butt off.

You make a good life for yourself, Flash. You deserve it.

I'm the one that deserves to be in here.

No. Frankly, I thought you were toast.

But I guess he had other plans.

He gave decency to all of us, Flash.

Even to Ray.

So what happened? Is he all right?

He did 15 years.

You and Katie helped him get his degree in jail.

He works with inner city kids now.

And I'm the coach of my old school.

You're the coach.

I'm afraid to say the news isn't all rosy.

You did pitch at Penn State, but you didn't last half a season in the minors.

You wouldn't stop throwing that screwball.

But you never did get the hang of it.

If only you'd step with the slider.

You think I could go back and do that one over, too?

Not a chance, Flash.

I'm never gonna forget this.

I'm afraid you will.

Once you walk out that door, you won't remember me.

or anything about your time with me.

The only memories you'll have will be of your new life, the good life you

earned. But they are going to include what a bonehead you were to keep

that screwball.

Now get moving, coach.

Your team is waiting for you.