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♪ ♪

[CROWD BOOS]

You want some of this?

Huh?

Come get some!

[CROWD CHEERS]

Atta baby. Come on, let 'em have it.

MAXX: Nice!

Give it to 'em!

Is that the best you've got?

Is that all you got?

♪ ♪

It's great to be here in Blue Ridge!

[CROWD CHEERS]

Tonight, I win back

my Southern Mountain Wrestling Alliance

Women's Championship!

Tonight is Kodiak time!

[CROWD CHEERS]

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

If you can't stick to our script,

I'm not gonna stick to our deal!

I own you!!

You'll do WHAT I say,

WHEN I say it

and HOW I say it!!

And you!

You pack up

get outta here! You're through!

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I don't care what I said,

I would rather die

than let a washed-up quitter

like you be champion!!

You do the job or else.

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JUSTIN: When did this start?

MADDIE: A while ago?!

When were you going to tell me?

I don't know. I mean, I didn't think you would approve.

For good reason! Out of every boy in the country

you choose Jeremiah Wade's son to be your boyfriend?

Blade's not like his family.

Wait. Did you say Blade?

Blade Wade?! That's his name?

Blade Wade? - MADDIE: Yes Dad!

Blade. He's sweet to me.

He's nice. Right Mom?

You knew about this?!

Yes I did. And yes, he's a good boy.

MADDIE: Exactly!

And he wants to take me to the wrestling thing tonight.

[JUSTIN'S PHONE RINGS]

If he wants to take you...

he's gonna have to ask me first.

Mom?! He has to ask Dad?

That's so old school.

Honey...

what about your father doesn't

scream old school?

Where?

♪ ♪

JANICE: I can't believe somebody was killed here.

It's horrible.

I'm sorry.

I know that can be unnerving.

Thanks for coming out,

meeting me.

I thought that Ryan would be here.

JANICE: (whispering) I don't think he really wanted

to spend his Saturday at a crime scene

with his new girlfriend's ex-husband.

Besides, he thought I might be a better help.

Why's that?

Well, as the school administrator

it's my job to rent out the gym

so I gave him a few sets of keys.

The wrestlers could come and go as they needed to.

Did they have access to the entire school?

No. Just the gym and locker rooms.

What about the weight room?

Oh yeah... that too.

Another reason why he thought I might be better help

was I actually had tickets to last night's match.

Oh, you're a wrestling fan? - Yeah.

Since I was a little girl.

My whole family was into it.

And now it is my son's dream to one day

be a part of the wrestling business.

Barry, right? - Mm hmm.

I think he's friends with my daughter.

Yeah, Maddie was over at our house for his 18th.

She's a sweet girl.

JUSTIN: She is.

So, did the event go well last night?

I um...

waited till it was done and then,

made sure all

the guests were gone,

and locked up and then left myself.

Did any of the wrestlers stick around?

Most, if not all.

All right well, tell Ryan

that the matches are canceled for tonight

for obvious reasons.

♪ ♪

What've we got?

RP: Our vic, Earl Gibson...

aka Earl Jones.

He's the co-owner and promoter for the wrestling company.

Guess it's a federation?

It's an alliance...

It's an alliance. Not a federation. Or a company.

Yeah, Southern Mountain Wrestling Alliance.

SMWA...

It's been around for a while.

Since 1987 to be exact.

Well, if you're being precise,

it was founded fall of '86.

RP: Anyway, it looks like he died from

blunt force trauma to the back of the head.

From the rigor right here, I'd say time of death

somewhere probably between

10 PM and midnight.

JUSTIN: The fact that you're even part of this conversion,

I assume you're the one who found the body?

Oh well, the school hired me to come in and clean the gym this morning.

Found him right here under the ring.

Fortunately... Dwayne bumped it with the buffer.

Unfortunately... he buffed the entire gym

so any chance of finding DNA is gone.

We aren't going to find your fingerprints

on the corpse are we?

Oh, I might be dumb but I'm not stupid.

[RP CLEARS THROAT]

MAXX: Right there...

is probably our murder weapon.

JUSTIN: Contact Janice Reed from the school

and see if it belongs to them.

No, that belongs to The Contractor.

The school's contractor?

No, no, the wrestler. The Contractor. Terry Traynor.

He wrestled in the main event last night.

He's the top heel.

RP: Heel?

MAXX: Bad guy.

I saw him in Chattanooga last year

for their big Thanksgiving event.

Turkey Day Massacre.

Best match ever?

MAXX: You first.

Easy.

The Undertaker versus Mankind. 1998.

Cage match.

Mankind takes a HUUUUGE

bump off the cage.

RP: Bump? - Bump's a fall.

But the greatest match is Wrestlemania 17.

Dudleys versus Hardys versus Edge and Christian.

Edge spears Jeff off the top of a ladder--

JUSTIN: Okay...

Anything else?

I was hanging out after the matches last night

to get some selfies for my socials with the wrestlers

and I heard The Contractor and Earl Jones arguing about money.

I got a legal contract! That's binding!

EARL: I don't care!

I'm not paying!!!

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The Contractor was real mad.

Sounds like motive to me.

Wait here for CSI team to arrive.

Get The Contractor and bring him to the station.

- Yes, sir. - Anything I can do to help?

Stop being involved in every major crime

in Blue Ridge.

And everybody knows the greatest match of all time

Wrestlemania 3.

Ricky The Dragon Steamboat

versus Randy Macho Man Savage.

Oh yeah!

JUSTIN: You say you had nothing to do with it?

TERRY: Just because I play a bad guy

doesn't make me one.

JUSTIN: I realize that.

But we found this next to the body.

Do you think I'm dumb enough to use my signature prop

and then leave it there for you to find?

I've met some pretty stupid criminals over the years.

TERRY: I left my wrench in my gym bag in the locker room.

Everyone had access.

We heard that you and Earl got into an argument

backstage after the match.

We did. But it was a work!

- A work? - Part of the show.

TERRY: It was rehearsing. Earl liked to

insert himself into the storylines.

It was acting.

It was bad acting at that.

Anybody that heard that

and didn't realize it was a work

is a complete moron.

So you weren't mad at him? TERRY: No.

In fact, I'm the highest paid wrestler he's got.

And I got along with him

where everybody else hated his guts.

One of them had to have used my wrench to murder him

trying to frame me for it.

Any guess who that would be?

Yeah.

Boots.

Dirty Boots Mcrae?

Yeah, he and

Earl got into it yesterday.

BOOTS: You gave me your word

that I could retire as champion.

EARL: That's before I knew you were nothing but

a washed up quitter.

[SCUFFLING]

TERRY: Earl stabbed him in the back.

If anyone used my wrench

to murder him and was trying to frame me for it?

It's definitely Boots.

Why would you say that?

Because I have what he wants.

Which is?

His championship belt.

JUSTIN: With everybody having access to the murder weapon

that's not gonna be enough to hold him.

[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]

Sorry.

Whatcha got?

RP: CSI arrived and examined the wrench.

Blood on it, but

based on the size and shape of the wound there's no way

it could have been the murder weapon.

All right, search the gym top to bottom

see if you can find anything.

Got it.

All the wrestlers staying at Connor's place?

- As far as I know. - We need to search Earl's room

and see we can find a clue to who hated him

enough to want him dead.

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[CLOSES DOOR]

CONNOR: Sheriff. - Thanks for meeting us.

CONNOR: Not a problem.

Map of the motel. The

wrestlers' rooms are marked.

We're gonna need a key to the promoter's room.

He was actually staying in his RV.

It's parked down the trail there, just past the bend.

Said he wanted to

feel like he was camping, but

I got the sense he was trying to

keep his distance from the others.

JUSTIN: Getting new vending machines from the Wades?

CONNOR: You know what they say, keep your friends close.

You know him? - Ah he's...

He's my daughter's boyfriend...

temporarily.

I think you and me have more in common than you know Sheriff.

Thanks.

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[MUFFLED THUMPING]

[THUMPING]

Where is it?

JUSTIN: Sheriff's Department!

Freeze!!!

What's your name?

Hunter Lockwood. I'm a wrestler.

MAXX: Never heard of you.

I wear a mask.

MAXX: Bronco?!? - Yeah.

JUSTIN: What's so important that you broke into

your murdered promoter's RV?

My final check.

I earned that money seven nights

a week on the road

I wasn't going to let Earl stiff me.

Dead or not.

Go back to your motel room and you stay there.

We'll be in touch.

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JUSTIN: Get this hauled back to the station

see if you can find anything interesting.

MAXX: Lotta stuff to go through.

I can't believe I'm suggesting this, but

get Dwayne to help.

I'm gonna start interviewing the wrestlers.

Beginning with...

Boots.

BOOTS: Sure... we fought.

Earl was a hothead

with a silver tongue.

We also had history.

He and I wrestled a series of Iron Man

matches through the panhandle back in the 80's.

Got legit heat from them too.

Afte that I started performing all over the world.

Multiple major promotions.

I headlined 3 pay-per-views

and I was at the top of the card.

But...

that all changed.

The bookings slowed down and

shows got smaller.

Then one day Earl called me

wanted me to wrestle for him.

Exclusively. - What did he promise?

Small piece of the company.

Plus, more importantly,

he promised that when I got ready to call it quits,

he'd put that World Title on me

I could retire as champion.

Has that time come?

I just want to

be with my family.

Go to football games.

Recitals.

Prom. Be able to

still walk them down the aisle.

But when I told Earl all this,

he broke his word.

On both accounts.

That's what Terry saw.

Terry said that

you needed to be restrained.

I'm third generation. I love this business.

It's given me everything.

Yeah it's

probably going to be hard.

But I'm ready.

I saw your dad wrestle.

Oh yeah? - Yeah.

My father, he'd always take me when

the matches when they came to town.

It brought a lot of

peace to my life

during a season when there wasn't much.

Look...

Earl was a slimy promotor,

no doubt,

but he was no more slimy than a dozen others

I've worked for over the years.

And he helped make my career.

So yes...

I hated the man,

but I also owe him.

So, I would never kill him.

Any idea who would?

Well, if you asked me to name one person

I'd say Tad Williamson.

Why Tad? - Because I wasn't the only one

that got into an argument with Earl yesterday.

EARL: I can promise you, that's not gonna happen!!!

What?

TAD: You stand in my way old man

and I'll kill you.

See, back in the day, we had a code.

Now, it's not like that.

And Tad... he wrestles like a punk.

Arrogant. Sloppy.

He doesn't care what he does

as long as he gets over.

And worst of all...

he doesn't care if anyone gets hurt

so long as he looks good doing it.

In fact, I think he enjoys it.

Hey!

[DWYANE WHISTLES]

Officer Covington.

Who's on Mount Rushmore?

All right.

Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Hulk Hogan.

Ric Flair

and The Rock.

Not bad.

Stone Cold.

Hogan.

Shawn Michaels. - Ahhhhhh... No!

Trish Stratus.

Trish Stratus! All right!

Yeah buddy.

♪ ♪

[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]

What you got? MAXX: Sheriff...

I just found something in one of the wrestler's contracts.

[LAUGHTER]

You think I killed Earl?

Why's that so funny?

TAD: Because I'm the face.

The baby fa- I'm the good guy.

So you can't be a bad guy in real life?

What would my motive be?

My contract's up next month and I am outta here!

Found a document that said that Earl owned your character

and wanted $50,000 to let it go with you.

So?

So... that's your motive.

Look.

I was never worried.

I just told you, I'm going to the big times.

Their lawyers would eat Earl alive.

If that's true then why'd you threaten to kill him?

Man, I was hopped up on Red Bull and gummy bears.

All right? That was just locker talk.

If it wasn't you, who killed Earl?

I don't know. Anyone.

Everyone who ever worked for Earl

had their reasons, all right?

Although it might have been somebody

who wanted to work for him.

Give me a name.

I don't know.

Just some kid that had a try out yesterday.

Shoot on him.

♪ ♪

[WRESTLING]

[WRESTLING]

If you can't hold your own

with a guy twice your age

you have no place in this business.

You're the worst excuse for a wrestler I've ever seen.

Pathetic.

♪ ♪

It's not unusual for Earl to give some wanna-be a try out,

this one was different, you know?

What he had me do to that kid it was...

it was like he was trying to humiliate him,

you know?

[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]

Don't leave town.

♪ ♪

What's up? - MAXX: So... for all of Earl's faults,

turns out he was an excellent accountant.

One of his wrestlers was giving him back half of their paycheck.

Any idea why?

No. Just that Earl was putting it

in an account called special projects.

That's interesting. MAXX: Yeah, it gets better.

Turns out that wrestler's wanted on multiple charges

including attempted murder.

What's his name?

Marcus Richards.

I don't remember that name on the list.

That's because he goes by the alias Hunter Lockwood.

Aka Bronco.

I already told you,

I just wanted my final check.

JUSTIN: Don't you mean half your paycheck?

I can't figure it out.

Was Earl blackmailing you to keep quiet

about the attempted murder charge?

Or was he hiding you for a fee?

[BRONCO YELLS]

[FIGHTING]

[FIGHTING]

[FIGHTING]

[FIGHTING]

[FIGHTING]

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[DEEP EXHALES]

MAXX: Sheriff...

So maybe, rather than having to keep paying hush money,

he decides to kill him,

then ransack the RV looking for evidence

that Earl was holding over him.

It lines up.

Except this Bronco guy claims to be

tying one on over at Jeremiah's.

You want me to check it out?

No.

I'm already going over there for another reason.

JEREMIAH: Yeah, he closed the bar down.

Big dude.

Could drink an entire keg by himself.

There's another reason I'm here.

I reckoned there might be.

We need to talk about the situation between our kids

and how we're going to end it.

Who says we have to end it?

I do.

Sheriff, what's the harm in it?

your daughter's a nice girl,

my son's a nice boy.

She's safe with him, she's safe with us.

One thing you know about my kin by now...

is we protect our own.

And it doesn't bother you that I'm the sheriff?

[JEREMIAH CHUCKLES] It would not have been my first choice

but I can live with it.

Can you?

♪ ♪

MAXX: Well, at least we arrested someone wanted for attempted murder.

JUSTIN: Yeah but we're no closer to solving this actual murder,

and we can't keep the wrestlers in town any longer.

MAXX: What if we get them to move tonight's match

to tomorrow in honor of Earl?

Like...

a tribute show.

They don't seem to be too particularly

broken up over it. MAXX: No, but...

their contract stipulates they don't get paid

if they don't perform. So, if you need someone to

fake emotion, who better than a professional wrestler.

That's true.

Good idea.

Contact the head office in

Atlanta and see if you can't

set that up. - Yes sir.

See if you can figure out who the

local guy auditioned for Earl is.

MAXX: Oh, I think I already know that.

Someone was emailing Earl every day

for a couple months requesting a try out.

Was he harassing him?

MAXX: No. More like friendly persistence.

There it is.

Guy by the name of Barry Reed.

I know a Barry Reed.

MAXX: You do? - Yeah, he's friends with Maddie.

Text me his address.

I'm going to check on RP at the school.

Dwayne.

Be Dwyane.

RP: After the CSI tech examined the wound more closely

he feels like the victim was hit a single time

with something heavy

maybe a couple inches wide.

You've searched the entire gym?

And the surrounding areas.

Search it again.

And this time, don't look for anything tangible.

Look for something

out of the ordinary.

RP: Yes sir.

Hey, I just had a request to reschedule

tonight's matches for tomorrow.

They claim that was okay with you?

Yeah.

So, why didn't you tell me that

your son auditioned yesterday?

Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't think it was pertinent.

Is that a problem?

No, I just-

I need to ask him some questions.

He may have witnessed something that would

you know, help the investigation.

Right.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's home now.

Thanks.

Janice... on an completely different topic...

what is your impression of Blade Wade?

Oh, I'm not really supposed to discuss students.

Fair enough.

But...

one parent to another...

he's a good kid.

That seems to be the overall consensus,

though I find that hard to believe.

So, I hear the try out didn't go so well.

BARRY: No sir.

I got tossed around like a rag doll.

Mr. Jones says I don't have what it takes

and to give up.

So, how'd that make you feel?

Pretty bad.

Bad enough to do something about it?

No sir. No. Definitely not.

So, what did you do after the matches last night?

BARRY: Nothing.

I didn't go, okay?

Just you know

decided I was done with wrestling.

Done with wrestling?

What made you change your mind?

I slept on it

and I took my Mom's advice about

it being just one person's opinion.

And, you know, like she says,

every setback is an opportunity for a comeback.

So, I'm using it as motivation to train even harder.

[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]

That's a

positive attitude.

Also, I thought about it,

and I think at least part of the reason

my audition was so poorly was because of Mr. Jones so-

How so?

He didn't reply to my emails for months.

And then, he just sends one out of the blue,

saying if I want to try out, I have to be

at the gym in 30 minutes?

I don't have time to properly warm up

or get into character. Plus,

I think he was kind of taking out his frustrations on me.

Why do you say that?

Well...

[WRESTLING]

[WRESTLING]

Take a shot.

With her.

♪ ♪

[WRESTLING]

[WRESTLING]

EARL: AHHHHHH.

[EARL GROANING]

BARRY: Mr. Jones started screaming

that she was fired after the weekend.

And how he was going on about how he was going to make it

his mission to destroy her reputation.

It was crazy.

You stay here.

Maxx...

I need you conduct an interview at the hotel...

I'm headed back to the school.

Going somewhere?

KODIAK: Earl did fire me.

But it wasn't just because of yesterday.

We used to date.

What can I say?

I've always had bad judgment with men.

Earl didn't take it well when I dumped him.

First he made me drop the women's championship

and now he's had me jobbing out to a

different wrestler every night.

I haven't won one single match since.

So it's fair to say you're not exactly wallowing in grief?

Sure.

But I wouldn't wish this on him.

And the truth is

Earl did me a favor. - By firing you?

KODIAK: I had wanted to leave for a while, but...

I didn't have the courage.

Life as a wrestler's hard enough.

There's no need for it to be toxic.

Well, you know him well.

Any ideas who else might want him dead?

Let's see... there's Gemini,

the wrestler Earl dated before me.

His writer who he berated every day.

His business partners

who I'm pretty sure he's hiding money from...

Oh, and every single wrestler who works for him now

or has ever worked for him.

(sarcastic) That it?

Exactly.

The first time I searched, I was looking for

blood or any signs of a struggle.

But this time, I took your advice

and found something different, out of the ordinary.

See all these right here?

Dirty, smudges, except for this one.

Spotless.

Yeah.

Just like it's been wiped clean.

RP: Exactly.

Maybe get lucky, find the killer's DNA on it?

Get with Maxx.

Collect DNA samples from everyone at the interview today.

You send it to the lab with that dumbbell

and get it fast-tracked.

We've kept the wrestlers around another day

but we're gonna lose them on Monday morning,

so we're running out of time.

But if you're right...

you not only found the murder weapon,

but you found the scene of the crime.

Okay. Mountaineer's breakfast.

- Thank you. - Mm hmm.

[ELLI SIGHS]

What?

Blade's a nice boy.

They're all "nice" boys around us.

I guess I'm

upset that she's even considering

dating. And that you guys-

you kept it from me.

Well...

I'm sorry.

Maddie asked me to keep it a secret I felt like

I had to respect that.

You know, teenage girls they're-

kind of like deer. One false move and

they run. Just want to make sure that she knows that

she can come to me about anything.

She used come to me, talk with me about everything.

[DOOR BELLS RING]

Oh boy.

BLADE: Mr. Wise... Would you mind if

I had a moment of your time?

ELLI: Yes, absolutely. Have a seat.

Sir. Sheriff...

I know you don't know me but-

I think your daughter's great.

I mean she's-

pretty and smart...

and very kind.

She's awesome!

Um, she's not like the other girls.

She's thoughtful and responsible...

and most of all she's-

she's nice.

I realize my family's reputation doesn't exactly help...

but I'm really trying to not be like them.

And she makes me want to be better.

So, with your permission,

I'd like to take her to the matches...

If... um... that's okay with you, sir.

♪ ♪

So, we collected all the DNA and sent it to the lab.

All the wrestlers, including Barry Reed.

Hometown Barry Reed?

JUSTIN: Yeah.

Hometown Barry Reed.

[DWAYNE SCOFFS]

What?

He's terrible. Hold on.

Look at this.

Feast your eyes.

Hey guys, my name is Barry Reed.

This is my audition video.

DWAYNE: His suplexes are bad.

He can't punch.

He can't throw an elbow to save his life.

[BARRY YELLING]

DWAYNE: Certainly can't take a bump.

Hurts my eyes to watch.

Why would Earl give him an audition after he saw that video?

Maybe he was trying to be nice?

JUSTIN: Doubt it.

I heard he berated the kid.

Maybe he enjoys crushing people's spirits.

I told the lab about our time constraint;

they moved us to the top of the list.

That's good.

In the meantime, I may have caught

one of the wrestlers in a lie.

Who?

Remember how Terry Traynor

said he was the highest paid wrestler

in the promotion?

Oh yeah. - He was.

Until recently.

His salary was cut significantly.

I found it when I was going through Bronco's payments to Earl.

JUSTIN: It's convenient he forgot to mention that.

Saw the books.

You were the highest paid wrestler

but you're not anymore.

I just think it's a little odd

that the champion took such a hefty pay cut.

TERRY: Okay...

Earl paid me extra to send cash

to a three different locations each month.

One in Montana, one in Oklahoma

and one right here in Blue Ridge.

Why?

TERRY: I don't know.

I asked him once and he told me to shut up,

mind my own business.

He was my boss so what am I going to do?

I thought it was his way of laundering money.

Which is why I didn't admit it at first.

That still doesn't explain the hefty pay cut.

A few months back Earl had me stop sending cash to the one here in town.

Did he give a reason why?

I wasn't asking and he wasn't telling.

Do you have an address?

Yeah.

Stay here. Don't leave.

Got it?

[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]

You get the lab results? RP: I did.

But unfortunately our killers did

too good of a job cleaning the dumbbell.

There's no DNA on it to compare

against any of the wrestlers.

Okay.

Actually, I-

I need you to ask them to fast track

one more test for me.

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♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Your hunch

was spot on.

Let's bring 'em in.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

We did a DNA test...

and we discovered that Earl was

related to one of our suspects.

Ah, looking back I remember that you

forgot to mention the weight room,

and that turns out to be where the murder was.

And I could not figure out why

Earl...

gave your son an audition.

I met Earl

20 years ago when he was still a wrestler.

We dated for a while and

when I became pregnant with Barry...

he made it abundantly clear

he wanted nothing to do with either of us.

So I raised my son on my own.

And it was hard.

We barely made ends meet for a while

but we were happy.

When I found out Earl had bought the SMWA

he seemed to be doing well so,

I contacted him and told him

he needed to pay child support

or I was taking him to court.

He begrudgingly agreed

to give me a little money

for Barry until he turned 18.

Ever since he was a little boy,

Barry just...

dreamed of being a wrestler.

It was in his blood.

And when I found out he was trying to get an audition,

I convinced Earl to give him one.

And he was so excited.

And I was even more so.

I was watching...

from next to the bleachers.

Barry didn't see me,

[WRESTLING SOUNDS]

but Earl did.

If you can't hold your own with a guy twice your age,

there's no place for you in this business.

JANICE: And then went out of his way

to destroy my son

in front of me.

Both physically

and psychologically.

[HITTING MAT]

[QUIET CRYING]

I'd never seen Barry so upset.

He refused to go to the matches. He-

He said he was done with wrestling.

And thanks to Earl...

I watched... my son...

go from a boy with a dream,

to an adult...

with a first-hand taste of how

cruel the real world can be.

And he graduates in the spring.

And Earl took those last few

fleeting moments of youth away from him.

And me.

So I confronted him

after the matches

once everyone had left.

You need to reach out to him.

You need to tell him you didn't mean what you said!

I meant it.

But why did you have to crush his spirits?

Because I knew it would crush yours too.

Maybe even worse.

See...

this is payback...

for you making me

pay money all those years for some stupid kid,

who now that I've seen wrestle,

I doubt is even mine.

[EARL LAUGHS]

What am I supposed to tell him?

Tell him that he's a loser.

A pathetic loser.

Just...

Like...

His... mother.

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[HIT] [BODY FALLS TO THE FLOOR]

[DUMBBELL DROPS TO FLOOR]

JANICE: I needed somewhere to hide him until

I could figure out what to do.

He was too heavy to take out of the school.

I panicked.

I tried to throw you off with the wrench.

[DROPPING WRENCH]

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And then I

cleaned the actual weapon

and left as fast as I could.

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As a parent...

you just want to do what's best for your kid.

JUSTIN: We haven't told

Barry yet.

I didn't think it would be fair that he would lose his mother

and his father on the same day.

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[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]

BOOTS: First off, Blue Ridge,

all of us

want to thank all of you

for coming out tonight.

[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]

[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]

BOOTS: Earl loved wrestling

and he would have loved this turnout.

So tonight, we turn up...

and we do it...

for Earl. RP: Oh brother.

Oh brother's right.

Dwayne saved us some seats.

Here. Popcorn?

[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]

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