So wait a minute. The Red Sox haven't won a World Series since nineteen eighteen, you slept out for tickets, games gonna start in twenty minutes, in walks a girl you never seen before, and you give your ticket away?
SEAN:
You should have seen this girl. She lit up the room.
WILL:
I don't care if Helen of Troy walked into that bar! That's game six of the World Series!
Sean smiles.
WILL:
And what kind of friends are these?
They let you get away with that?
SEAN:
I just slid my ticket across the table and said "sorry fellas, I gotta go see about a girl."
WILL:
"I gotta go see about a girl"? What did they say?
SEAN:
They could see that I meant it.
WILL:
You're kiddin' me.
SEAN:
No Will, I'm not kiddin' you. If I had gone to see that game I'd be in here talkin' abouta girl I saw at a bar twenty years ago. And how I always regretted not goin' over there and talkin' to her. I don't regret the eighteen years we were married. I don't regret givin' up counseling for six years when she got sick. I don't regret being by her side for the last two years when things got real bad. And I sure as Hell don't regret missing that damn game.
A beat. Will is impressed.
WILL:
Would have been nice to catch that game though.
SEAN:
(breaking) Well hell, I didn't know Pudge was gonna hit the home run.
They laugh.
TIME DISSOLVE TO: INT LAMBEAU'S OFFICE -- DAY The office is more crowded than usual. TOM and THREE of LAMBEAU'S COLLEAGUES including the esteemed ALEXANDER PEKEC are in the room. Will sits at a work-station which projects a proof of his [Will's] onto the chalkboard. Lambeau stands beside the projected image at the board arguing with Pekec, a foreign mathematician. The image is of a Ramses graph binary tree.
LAMBEAU:
Alexander, I know your theory. The boy is updating, he's strategy stealing...
PEKEC:
With a Ramses graph on the binary tree--
LAMBEAU:
--But what he's doing, he's attaching an edge to the adjacent vertex. He can always failsafe to either side--
PEKEC:
Maker can. This is not new, Gerry!
Pekec starts writing lines beside Will's proof on the board.
PEKEC:
But I can always garbage out (writes frantically) All the way to "N" to the minus one.
