YFRIDAY NIGHT BY PETER BERG Film 44 Imagine Television Writers's 1st Draft NBC Universal Television Studios 11/18/05

COLD OPEN: EXT. WEST TEXAS - SUNRISE Daniel Lanois’ AMAZING GRACE. SERIES OF WEST TEXAS BEAUTY SHOTS: Yearbook style FOOTBALL STADIUMS, CHEERLEADERS, BAND MEMBERS, PARENTS hugging KIDS, KIDS making out, laughing, crying - LIFE. The power of blazing, furious Youth. TITLE CARD: “MONDAY" EXT. RATLIFF STADIUM - DAY WORKERS change light bulbs. A lone car pulls into the massive parking lot. COACH ERIC LONG - gentle face, fierce eyes - gets out. Stares silently up at the workmen. MOJO RADIO (V.O.) So now Coach Long‘’s got himself not only the number one ranked football team in Texas but he’'s got an ESPN news crew on his tail filming every second of the pre- season. That’s just gonna add to the pressure. I tell you what, folks, this old boy better get her done. Big time. You hear me? We’'re TIGHT ON those big, clear, blue coach eyes.... MOJO RADIO (CONT'D) I mean, heck - this is a big deal. Long‘s first year head coach and he’'s got himself a big ole stud guarterback. This guy’'s got it made in the shade. EXT. RIGGINS HOUSE - DAY A decent, working class home. Establish the “RIGGINS RUNNING BACK" sign in front of house.

> INT. RIGGINS HOUSE - SAME TIM RIGGINS AND A GIRL (TYRA) passed out on the living room floor. The room is trashed: food, Jack Daniels bottles, half-folded piles of laundry. The girl tries to wake up Riggins. Gives up. EXT. JASON STREET’'S HOUSE - SAME A decent working class home. Establish “STREET OB” sign in front of house. INT. JASON STREET'S HOUSE - SAME JASON STREET wakes up in his bedrcom. Michael Vick posters and trophies. He sits up and opens the blinds. His face bathed in west Texas orange. MOJO RADIO This kid has true, God-given talent. This is the kind of talent can’t be taught. That arm’s going to seriously spread out defenses and we gonna unload the Bomber. Look out! EXT. BRIAN “BOMBER” WILLIAMS’ HOUSE - SAME A run-down ghetto shack. ESTABLISH “WILLIAMS RUNNING BACK” sign in front of house. INT. HOUSE - BRIAN'S BEDROOM - SAME BRIAN “BOMBER” WILLIAMS listening to an I-pod - one of wmany gifts from faceless Boosters. Ali, Emmitt Garrity, Earl Campbell posters. MOJO RADIO You get the Bomber fifteen, twenty yards a carry, force linebackers to start keying on that big strong son of a bitch. Then we start airing her out. WATCH OUT, TEXAS!

FNL TV 11/18/05 S INT. WILLIAMS’ HOUSE - KITCHEN - SAME g EARL WILLIAMS - BRIAN's fifty-five year old uncle - cracking seven eggs into a frying pan. EARL Get up! 10 INT. SARACEN HOUSE - DAME 10 Back up QB MATT SARACEN - 16, shy and sweet - eals an sandwich over the sink. His MOTHER watches TV in the living room. A “HONK” from outside. Saracen finishes his sandwich. Walks over to his mom. SARACEN Gotta go, Mama. MRS. SARACEN Throw em’ straight. SARACEN You bet I will. Something appears to be a bit off with Mrs. Saracen. Matt gently touches her face. SARACEN (CONT’D) 1 made you two tuna sandwiches and I put your medicine in the green Gatorade. OK? MRS. SARACEN Green Gatorade. SARACEN Love you. He kisses her on the forehead. Starts to leave. As he heads for the door, we WIDEN OUT and get our first good look at the Saracen house. Boxes and piles and stacks and systems that speak of very strange forces. i1 EXT. SARACEN HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 11 A really run down house. Matt Saracen comes out of the house. He stops on the front porch and locks down.

1 [ 2 FNL TV 11/18/05 4. SARACEN'S POV: His football sign. Smaller than the others, knocked over. Saracen slowly walks down to it, picks it up and tries standing it up. A beat up station wagon waits. Saracen walks up to it, gets in. INT STATION WAGON - LATER 12 Saracen sits next to LANDRY CLARKE: Sixteen, skinny and wired with a massive red and black zit on the right side of nose. Landry clearly doesn’t play football. LANDRY I'm gonna get me a sign that says Landry Clarke “Utterly Useless” or maybe Landry Clarke “Defensive Masturbator.” How’'d that go over? All state jerk team. SARACEN I'd probably be on that team too. Saracen picks up the local paper on the seat. Odessa football on the front page. Picture of Coach Long. Smaller pictures of Jason Street and Brian Williams. Headline: “THE BEST EVER?”" Saracen stares at the picture. LANDRY You even gonna play at all? SARACEN Nepe. LANDRY Then why can’t we go back to bed? INT. LYLA GARRITY'S HOUSE - DAY 13 A nice middle class home. LYLA GARRITY: Dark haired, seventeen and stunning, is in the kitchen dressed for cheerleader practice. Lyla’s making Rice Krispie snacks shaped like footballs with individual player numbers on them.

FNL TV 11/18/05 5. Her FATHER, BUDDY GARRITY, a full-bellied West Texas Man and Permian’s head booster studies the sports page and eats waffles next to his similarly framed eleven year old son LITTLE BUDDY. Her MOTHER, TANYA'S getting ready for work eating an orange over the sink. TANYA GARRITY I want everybody home by seven. No questions. LYLA GARRITY Can’t. BUDDY GARRITY No can do, baby. LITTLE BUDDY Can’t. TANYA GARRITY S0 what part of “no guestions” did you people not hear? LYLA GARRITY We’re gonna have a rally rehearsal tonight. TANYAR GARRITY We're having a family dinner tonight. That means the entire family. Dinner. Together. We’re going to talk to each other. Listen to each other. Family experience. Tonight. LYLA GARRITY Can't do it, Mom. TANYA GARRITY Rally rehearsal? LYLA GARRITY That’s right. Lyla’'s little sister TABBY, twelve and cunning, enters. TABBY She's lying about several things. LYLA GARRITY I am not. TANYA GARRITY What ‘s she lying about?

LYLA GARRITY I‘m not lying. TABBY She’s lying about not being able to have dinner. She can have dinner. She’s lying apout rally rehearsal. There is no rally rehearsal. Lyla’'s mother looks from Tabby to Lyla. TANYA GARRITY Is there rally rehearsal? LYLA Yes. TABBY Lie. LYLA GARRITY Shut up. LITTLE BUDDY She’'s going to be rehearsing how to get her tongue as far into Jason Street'’s mouth as she can. LYLA GARRITY Hey! LITTLE BUDDY I've seen it with my own eves. LYLA GARRITY You’'re gross. LITTLE BUDDY No, you're gross. BUDDY. GARRITY What time you going to be home? LYLA GARRITY When do you want me home? TANYA GARRITY I want you home at seven for family dinner. LYLA GARRITY Not tonight.

TANYA GARRITY Tonight, or else. LYLA GARRITY Cr else wnat? The following takes place over Mrs. Garrity maxing lunch for Lyla's lLittle prother and Tabby. It is fast and clean and all rather matter cf fact. TANYA GARRITY I'm not sure exactly “else what” But, it’s been at least three weeks sinze this family has sat at the same table for dinner and that was part of the deal ycur father made wher we decided tc have three kids. We knew it would be hard, at times frustrating, painful, often expensive. We knew we’'d have to make many sacrifices, but we told ourselves it would be worth it, that the good would out weigh the bad. One of the things that we both counted cn as being good was “family meals.” We had high expectations of sitting around the dinner table, talking and laughing with our children. This has not been happening and it is starting to seriously erode the amcunt of joy and happiness we are experiencing as parents. The “or else” will be brutal and punishing and will reflect this displeasure. Silence. Mr. Garrity finishes his eggs. BUDDY GARRITY Alrighty thern. Silence. LYLA GARRITY Seven. LITTLE BUDDY She moves her dad, kisses him. LYLA BUDDY GARRITY I love you baby.

™~ o= Lyla kisses her brother. LITTLE BUDDY Try and keep your tongue in your mouth. LYLA GARRITY try. INT. RIGGINE - LATER Billy Riggins moves out of bedrcom. Thick gutted and fisted. He chugs into the living room, locks down at his son passed out with the girl. Billy gently, almost _ovingly nudges Tim with his foot. BILLY RIGGINS Gotta get up. Tim’s out cold. The naked little honey starts stirring and purring. The bplanket slides down low off her naked young back. Billy digs his voe harder into Tim's back. BILLY RIGGINS (CONT'D} TIME to get up, pecple. These kids are dead to the world. Billy moves to the kitchen, scrapes up two bowls, Frosted Flakes and scme milk. He walks back over to his passed cut kid with a lovaded bowl of Frosted Flakes. RILLY RIGGINS Probably forty nine kids right now, this minute - up and at em’, showering, getting dressed, in their cars. Ferty nine kids on the move. A deep hangover moan from Tim on the floor. BILLY RIGGINS (CONT'D, Everybody but youa, Tim. Billy sl bewl of Frosted Flakes down all

= & TV 11/18/05 9. Tim staggers to his feet. Still drunk, he wobbles towards the bathroom. TIM RIGGINS You’re an ass, Dad. Tim slams the bathroom door and Billy down at the half-naked Tyra. BILLY RIGGINS And good morning to you there, Sunshine. EXT. FOOTBALL STADIUM - DAY 15 Coach Long slowly walks his field. An ESPN NEWS CREW enters the stadium. Coach Long loocks up. ESPN GUY Morning, Coach. COACH LONG Morning. ESPN GUY How they looking? COACH LONG Not bad. ESPN GUY How does it feel to finally be head coach after how many years? COACH LONG Fifteen years. ESPN GUY Wow. Fifteen years. How does it feel to be head coach? COACH LONG Feels good. ESPN GUY You feel the responsibility? COACH LONG Little bit. ESEN GUY You got yourself a heck of a guarterback.

FNL TV 11/18/05 10. COACH LONG He’'s a good boy. ESPN GUY Good luck, Coach. COACH LONG I appreciate it. EXT. RATLIFF STADIUM - PRACTICE - LATER 16 PRACTICE MONTAGE: Coach Long and Jason Street are being interviewed by ESPN. We hear pieces of the interview. ESPN INTERVIEWER So you guys have a special relationship - is that true? JASON STREET Coach Long was coach all through Pee Wee. He’s been QB coaching me through freshman and JV. ESPN INTERVIEWER Coach, how is it you finally got the head coach job the year this superstar takes over as guarterback? COACH LONG That’s really just luck. I've been working fifteen vears to get here and I feel blessed that I'm going to spend my first year with a young man with the talent and moral strength of this young man right here. QUICK CUT TOC The Bomber being interviewed. He makes T.0. and Randy Moss look like cub scouts. BRIAN We going undefeated, shattering records, takin’ these high expectations to unimaginable new highs. State champions. ESPN INTERVIEWER Whatv’'s after high school, Brian?

BRIAN (all smiles) What you think’'s after high school? Me and Mac Brown gonna get our win in Pasadena on. Get my National Championship on. My Heisman on. BACK TO STREET: JASON STREET This a very good football team. We know each other very well. That’'s how we play. With a real sense of each other. Riggins - still a bit drunk - repeatedly blowing plays. Billy Riggins watching in the stands, surrounded by OTHER PARENTS AND BOOSTERS. CHEERLEADERS practicing on the side of the field. Lyla Garrity is the captain of the cheerleaders. Street throws beautiful, tight, forty yard bullet strikes. Coach Long stays close to Street. It’s clear that these two work very well with each other. Matt Saracen watching the COACHES working with Jason Street. OB COACH Shoot. Hey, Saracen? SARACEN Sir. QB COACH Check that can there for me for a yellow play sheet... Saracen looks over to a large garbage can by the base of the stands. QB COACH (CONT'D) I think I accidently threw it out. Go take a look. The QB coach turns back to Street and continues working with him. Matt turns for the garbage can and slowly walks over to it. Starts digging through the garbage.

FNL TV 11/18/05 12. Riggins fucks up another play. He runs out of bounds and trips over a bench. Gets up. Falls down. Sits on his ass, looking like he’s about to puke again. An ASSISTANT COACH walks up to Coach Long. Whispers something about Riggins. Coach Long slowly nods... BULL IN THE RING: Riggins in the middle. Twenty PLAYERS surround him. As Coach Long talks, he calls out numbers. PLAYERS charge out of the circle, SMASHING RIGGINS with killdozer force. Ruthless, evil business. COACH LONG Five days, gentlemen. In five days, a group of men are going to travel a very long way to come here. TWENTY-FIVE, Riggins LEVELED. COACH LONG (CONT'D) To your town where your families live and work and sleep. SIXTY EIGHT. Riggins LEVELED. COACH LONG These men are going to try with everything they have to hurt you. FORTY FOUR. Riggins LEVELED. COACH LONG (CONT'D) To destroy you and take from you everything you hold dear to your heart. FIFTY Riggins LEVELED. COACH LONG (CONT'D) They will attempt to do this to you right here in your house. THWENTY NINE. Will you let them? ZEVENTY-SEVEN. In your house? does not get up.

17 FNL TV 11/18/05 13. ACT ONE: INT./EXT. SUBWAY SANDWICH SHOP - LUNCHTIME 17 Jammed with HIGH SCHOOL KIDS eating lunch. Jason Street and Lyla Garrity sitting side by side. The first couple. Surrounded by other students. Clearly the center of attention. The ESPN news crew is filming them eat. The piece is becoming a profile on the Classic American Quarterback. Jason talks with the interviewer. He comes off confident, but sincere. A good guy. JASON STREET This is where pretty much everyone eats. I always eat the Turkey Club everyday the week before a game. ESPN INTERVIEWER Is that an endorsement? JASON STREET Sir? ESPN INTERVIEWER Is that your first professional endorsement? Subway Turkey sandwiches? Lyla Garrity looks a bit alarmed. LYLA GARRITY No. He doesn't have any endorsements. No way . JASON STREET No, I have any endorsements. Brian is sitting at the next table with a couple of hot black GIRLS. BRIAN I dot I got it all cooking baby. Nike... Adidas. ESPN INTERVIEWER and Adidas? Isn‘t that a nte

PNL TV 11/18/05 14. BRIAN Not the way Bomber does it, baby. I got so much skills there’s room for everybody. Reebok, too. I'm gonna do Big Macs and Whoppers. Coke and Pepsi. Gonna bring the world together, baby. Then I'm gonna bust up Paris Hilton's marriage. ESPN INTERVIEWER Really? BRIAN Bomber’s gonna be running hotel chains. Riggins sits silently, grease-eating his hangover away. Riggins is looking over at Tyra's table. She is completely ignoring him, her focus on Jason Street. A HOTTIE walks up. HOTTIE Hi, Tim. TIM RIGGINS Hi. HOTTIE Can I sit with you? TIM RIGGINS No. HOTTIE Please? Riggins shoots Tyra another look. She continues to ignore Riggins. RIGGINS OK. The little hottie almost explodes with excitement as she slides in next to Riggins. Saracen and Landry exit the Subway doors, plastic trays in hand. TIGHT ON LANDRY as he spots JULIE LONG - Coach Long‘s 16 year old daughter - sitting by herself reading Melville, LANDRY o go for it? ol & 5, w o et or SARACEN

w FNL TV 11/18/05 1 LANDRY go for it. Landry heads for Julie. As he approaches, she loocks up at him. An awkward pause. Standoff. JULIE Yes. LANDRY I'm in your English class. JULIE OK. Saracen is half-lurking behind Landry. LANDRY So is he. JULIE Yeah. LANDRY You want to have lunch with us and talk some Dick. She looks up at Landry. LANDRY (CONT'D) (flustered) Moby Dick. SARACEN Great. Julie smiles up at Saracen. JULIE You play football, right? SARACEN . I'm on the team. Street plays. I don’t play much. JULIE still on the team. I don’t eat with football plavers. Landry steps a fouch closer. LANDRY I‘m not on the football team.

FNL TV 11/18/05 16. JULIE I don’t eat with you either. LANDRY No problem. Inside, the ESPN Interviewer is still on Lyla and Jason. ESPN INTERVIEWER What’'s it like for you Lyla? Dating the quarterback of the football team? LYLA GARRITY It‘s really great. Jason is really cool because when he’s playing football, he’s really focused and intense. ESPN INTERVIEWER How do you see him handling these enormous expectations? Sports Illustrated is calling this the best high school football team in the country. LYLA GARRITY I know. That’s what I'm saying. He handles it really well. On the field, so competitive. But after, when were alone, he’s not like that. TWO TABLES AWAY: Tyra Collette, the naughtiest of the naughty. Blond and diabolical. She burns daggers at Lyla, sitting with her girl pack of ANGELINAWANNABES for something to destroy. TYRA COLLETTE “Oh, Really?” How interesting. That is 80 interesting... Really, I'm hard pressed to remember anything in my life that has ever been so goddamned interesting to me. .. Tyra flicks a pickle. Staring at Lyla Garrity. TYRA COLLETTE (CONT'D) Whore. Tyra gets up, boldly power struts over to Bomber’'s table. She blasts right past Riggins, straight for the Bomber. She injects herself into the Bombers’s world. TYRA COLLETTE (CONT'D) Can I have a Dbilte of your sandwich, Bomber?

18 FNL TV 17. Brian looks up at Tyra and smiles huge. BRIAN Baby, you can have a bite of anything you want to. Riggins boils as this circus of high school continues. Eating and Flirting and Plotting and Fuming. INT. COACH LONG’'S OFFICE 18 Coach Long in his office reviewing game films. a soft knock at the door. His wife Tami LONG enters. TAMI LONG Hi, baby. COACH LONG Hi. TAMI LONG How they look? COACH LONG They’'re fast and they run a lot of counters. She checks out the film for a bit. She can see the stress on his face. She moves behind him, starts rubbing his shoulders. TAMI LONG I heard this really ugly rumoxr. COACH LONG Really? TAMI LONG Has to do with you and me and a certain Ford dealership opening tomerrow night. 2 beat. Then Coach remembers. COACH LONG Shoot . TAMI LONG Did you forget to tell me? Coach locks up at his wife.

FNL TV 11/18/05 18. COACH LONG I think I did forget to tell you. TAMI LONG Do we have to go? COACH LONG You tell me. TAMI IONG Alaska. COACH LONG I know. TAMI LONG I'm just saying. COACH LONG I know. TAMI LONG Much more relaxed life style. COACH LONG It‘s under advisement. TAMI LONG What time? COACH LONG Seven. She bends down, resting her head on her husband’'s shoulder, looking at the game films. Silence for a couple of beats. TAMI LONG Fast little bastards. Long slowly nods as the husband and wife watch the films in silence. EXT. STREET HOQUSE - NIGHT 19 Jason and Lyla pull up in front of the house. Getting out, laughing, he starts chasing around the Catching her, they fall to the ground.

- He does. He does. FNL TV 11/18/05 LYLA GARRITY (fake ESPN voice) Ah, Mr. Street is it true that you can throw a four hundred yard touchdown pass to three different receivers at the same time? JASON STREET That’'s true, LYLA GARRITY Then you must kiss me. LYLA GARRITY (CONT'D) Is it true that you have super human powers and can demolish buildings and fire balls? JASON STREET also true. LYLA GARRITY Then you must kiss me. LYLA GARRITY (CONT'D) Is it true Mr. Street that... JASON STREET That I love Lyla Garrity? LYLA GARRITY Yes. Is that true, Mr. Street? That you love Lyla Garrity? JASON STREET More than anything in the world. LYLA GARRITY More than football? JASON STREET More than almost anything in the world. She laughs. More kissing. Much more.

20 22 EXT. SARACEN HOUSE - SAME 20 Landry drops Saracen off in front of his house. Saracen walks up the short driveway, enters his house. Landry gets out, sits down on an old chair in the yard, starts reading an algebra book. INT. SARACEN HOUSE - CONTINUQUS 21 Mrs. Saracen sitting in the exact same position as when he left her. TV still on. Saracen picks up an empty plate and glass takes them into the kitchen. Puts them in the sink. MRS SARACEN You throw em’ straight? SARACEN Yes, Mama. MRS SARACEN Straight. Tight. Sharp passes. SARACEN I know. Matt just stares at his mom as she watches TV, her right leg tapping ever so slightly. EXT. SARACEN HOUSE - LATER 22 Matt walks outside. The yard looks like a junk yard. He pulls out an old bag of footballs. clearly done this before. Landry gets up, moving behind a hanging tire. Saracen starts throwing passes to Landry. Tight little bullets - each one through the tire. Tight spirals. Matt starts throwing the ball harder. Stinging Mrs Saracen, sipping blue Gatorade, guietly steps onto the porch. She watches the boys.

LANDRY CLARKE I'm just saying that any religion that has as their image front man a cat named rocking purple and shag blue, power sport coats with a sticky pompadour and a couple of power orbs, talking about getting “clear” and grabbing cash faster than Microsoft... Scientology? Please. Charles Manson - L Ron Hubbard. David Koresh - Tom Cruise. I'm working out the numerclogical commonalities. Saracen throws tight bullets - each one smack through the tire. SARACEN The what? LANDRY CLARKE “Branch Dividian” 14 letters. “Charles Manson” 13 letters. “Scientologist” 13 letters. SARACEN So? TIGHT ON PASS AFTER PASS: Saracen has a nice release. LANDRY CLARKE Don’'t defend the zowbies, Matt. They are a rabid pack of manically litigious, blood suckers. They’re worse than Moonies. SARACEN To each their own. LANDRY CLARKE No. See, that‘s the thing. To each their own - fine. Freedom to practice religion - fine. This is something else, Matt. Wake up. This is organized brain washing. This is grand theft. Left unchecked, very bad things can happen. SARACEN Like what? Saracen stops throwing. LANDRY CLARKE It’s just a matter of time before these vastards get their hands on a bomb. . (MORE)

23 FNL TV 11/18/05 22. LANDRY CLARKE (CONT'D) Maybe even a dirty bomb. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes tearing into New York City on tandem purple and blue choppers. Crazy eyed and fully “cleared” with matching North face blue and yellow back packs stuffed tight with high grade military grade plutonium. His and her Radio Shack detonators and blast caps. Saracen stares at his friend. LANDRY CLARKE (CONT’D) Ka-boom, Matt. I'm talking about some serious Ka-boom. SILENCE from Matt as he looks at Landry. Then to his mother. From the porch... MRS. SARACEN You need to get a new friend, Matthew. INT. CCACH LONG'S HOUSE - NIGHT 23 Coach Long sitting in his big brown easy chair. Julie and Tami are cuddled up on the couch. Tami is reading the real estate section of the local news paper. TAMI Here’'s a three bedroom with a pool. Cute. She waves the paper in front of her husband. TAMI (CONT‘D) (singing) To dream the impossible dream... COACH LONG Relent. TAMI It would be so nice... COACH LONG I know. Coach Long is studying the Abilene game tapes. Tami gets up, starts cutting the house photo out of the paper, taping it up on the fridge next to a couple of other real estate listings. Julie is yeading Melville.

24 FNL TV 11/18/05 JULIE Moby Dick is actually the perfect metaphor for this town. The cold black sea representing the season with all of its uncertainty... COACH LONG Yeah... JULIE The magical white whale as the holy grail...state championship. COACH LONG Yeah. JULIE The boat, the whalers are the team. The players and the coaches. Brian Williams as Quee Queg, the hulking African Zulu harpoon hurling whale killer... COACH LONG 2nd I'm Coach Ahab? JULIE Absolutely. Coach, captain - hunter and hunted... Driven near the point of utter insanity...driven to capture what may be uncapturable..... Silence as Long studies his Abilene tapes. COACH LONG If we can see over this front line and not bite on the counters, be on our way to capturing that fish. TIGHT ON “THE FISH:” The real estate listing Tami has taped on the refrigerator. EXT. ODESSA, WEST TEXAS - MORNING. B ] 2 Beautiful west Texas sunrise over the endless oil fields. “TUESDAY” INT. PERMIAN WEIGHT ROOM - MORNING A burst weight training session. The entire team in the room doing speed intervals. 4 1

FNL TV 11/18/05 24. We have never seen young men work out with this kind of intensity. The Bomber gets into a bench press competition with two 300 pound LINE MEN. He wins. INT./EXT. PERMIAN HIGH SCHOOL - MORNING TRACKING: Coach Long out of his office to his car. As he’s about to get in, he stops, looks across the parking lot. Smiles. LONG’S POV: A beat to shit pine green Oldsmobile. Long slowly walks up to the car, looks down at the ancient white haired old man sitting behind the wheel. This is COACH STEVE DEEKS. He’s at least ninety-six, eight state championship rings. His car over flows with play sheets, stat charts, scouting reports, decades of football seasons. Coach Deeks is old but solid, sharp, has the complete respect of LONG. LONG You get down there? COACH DEEKS Just got back. LONG What do you know? COACH DEEKS They run fastest son of a bitch counters I‘ve seen in years. The front line is big, not particularly heavy, tall. Gonna be hard to follow the ball. LONG Yeah. COACH DEEKS I think you gotta find some height on defense. Maybe play Dillard and Olivexr at defensive ends. Give some height so you can see down on them Counters. LONG I like that.

- FNL TV 11/18/05 2 COACH DEEKS Hell with what you like. You got to win this football game. Coach, I‘'m dead serious. You got no excuses and that’'s a lonely place to be starting. Expectations like this...the only place to go is down. That'’'s the problem with being this good. LONG I know. COACH DEEKS Drill ‘em on counters. LONG I will. COACH DEEKS How’s the family? LONG feeling good. COACH DEEKS Then enjoy that now ‘cause it won’'t last. Long looks down at Deeks. Smiles. LONG Come on, Coach - it ain’'t that serious. It’s just football. Coach Deeks looks back up at Long. Blazing blue eyes. Deeks smiles, starts to laugh. COACH DEEKS Just football. Deeks starting to crack up. Long laughing too. LONG Just football! WIDE ON THE TWO MEN laughing alone in the parking lot. ACT TWO: INT. BUDDY GARRITY FORD DEALERSHIP - NIGHT 27 B big deal. Three hundred invited GUESTS. The entire FOOTBALL TEAM. MEDIA. The dealership opening is a major social, business, and political event.

e g FNL TV 11/18/05 We QUICK CUT around the event. COACH LONG is cornered by three BOOSTERS putting the heat on him about the Abilene counters. BOOSTER 1 Can we follow these counters, Coach? We got alert. BOOSTER 2 Really alert, Coach. Triple counters. You up for this, Coach? COACH LONG I think we’ll be OK. BOCSTER 2 You understand this son of a bitch Hastings down there in Abilene? I hate that son of a bitch. COACH LONG I hear you. BOOSTER 2 You shut that son of a bitch red neck hillbilly down. you shut him down. COACH LONG We’'ll do it. BOOSTER 12 What about those crazy counters? Long looks at the booster, Painful smile. Like the President. Jason Street holds court with various CITY OFFICIALS, MORE BOOSTERS. Everyone wants a piece of the young quarterback. MAYCOR RODELL If he let’s you call anything. Throw the ball, son. Alr it out. You got the skills. Just let her fly. JASON STREET Yes, Sir. MAYOR RODELL Carpet bomb ‘em. JASON STREET Yes, Sir.

o Z & TV 11/18/05 27. As the adults fawn, find Tyra Collette wearing something that would intimidate Jenna Jameson... she’s been circling Jason. TYRA COLLETTE Hi Jason. JASON STREET Hi Tyra. TYRA COLLETTE Where's Lyla? JASON STREET She’s meeting me here. TYRA COLLETTE too bad. JASON STREET Why's that? TYRA COLLETTE It’s got to get a little old, Jason. Like drinking milk everyday, all day. You ought to think about a milk shake every once in a while. JASON STREET A milk shake? There are photographers at this party. They have the Paparazzi vibe. Literally. Moving in on Jason and Tyra. Jason reluctantly allows himself to be photographed with the relentless Tyra. As the cameras FLASH... Lyla Garrity enters, sees the photo shoot. Jason locks eyes with her. She turns away. He follows after her. (TBW: flesh out fight between Lyla, Jason and Tyral Tami and Julie Long taking in the spectacle, eating chesse puffs off to the side. JULIE LONG Preak show. TAMI LONG

FNL TV 11/18/05 28. JULIE LONG I'm serious, Mom. It just keeps getting worse. Distorted frenzy of humanity. In the center of the dealership Buddy Garrity - the owner of the dealership - is standing by a new Ford pickup. Eight CONTESTANTS get ready to start a “Hands on a Hard Body” competition. BUDDY GARRITY I want to thank you so much for coming out. We're getting ready to start the “Hands on a Hard Body.” QUICK CUTS of the eight adult contestants: Nervous. Determined. BUDDY GARRITY (CONT'’D) But first, we got some introductions. Starting with the man who's helping create a tax friendly environment here in Odessa like we have never seen. Helping the small business wman. Mayor Chuck Rodell. MAYOR RODELL - a small thick Texan - steps up. State Championship ring, big smile. As he talks, the football team £fills in behind him. Bomber dressed to the tens. Riggins looking nervous. DAVID MATTERS, an easy going Hispanic linebacker waves to his family. MAYOR RODELL Thanks, Buddy and welcome everybody to the grand opening of this beautiful, absolutely stunning automobile dealership. We want to extend a special welcome to Coach Long and what we know to be, and the entire state of Texas is about to experience as the best damn football team in Texas. Coach Long tight smiles. MAYOR RODELL (CONT'D) And the man who's gonna bring home that State Championship. Bring home one of thege, The Mayor raises his ring finger up into the aixr. Hundreds of MEN in the room raise their ring fingers up, high war screaming.

@ i FNL TV 11/18/05 MAYOR RODELL (CONT’D) The big man on campus...Coach Eric Long! The crowd cheers as Coach Long steps up to the stage. IN THE BACK: Julie and Tami - long, soft clap. Julie whistles loud for her dad. JULIE LONG see where that love is if he loses a game. TAMI LONG I know. JULIE LONG I see snakes. TAMI LONG enough. JULIE LONG Lizards. As Coach Long steps up to the mic. ANGLE ON: All of our main characters. Matt Saracen. Billy Riggins. The entire team £ills in behind Coach Long. COACH LONG I want to thank everybody for coming. I just want to say what a privilege it is for all of us to be up here in front of you representing the mighty Permian football tradition. We all, and I speak for each and every coach, trainer, and plaver on this football team - we all feel honored and thoroughly prepared to represent our beloved community this and every other Friday night until we bring home that State Championship. The crowd ERUPTS.

Brian Williams starts Ali howling. BRIAN Mojo gonna play extreme. Abllene gonna cry and scream. Mojo gonna get diabolical like Tom Cruise gets Scientological. Brian's got the mic and the place (already a little ligquored up) is starting to chomp into it. Car dealership as pep rally. Adults booze. Football players sneak booze. Buddy Garrity is up on a three step ladder above the Hands on a Hard Body competition. BUDDY GARRITY to honor what we all know is going to be one hell of a season and to also celebrate the opening of this here little old car dealership, slamming on a Hands on a Hard Body competition. We gonna see who wants one bad enocugh. We get a good look at each contestant as Buddy introduces them: ELI FURTHUR - 50 year old ex-Odessa cop. GLENDA TAYLOR - 22 vear old exotic dancer. MIZZY CORTEZ - 21 year old exotic dancer. STAN MEEKS - 80 year old retired Marine MAGGIE CLEARY - 45 year old lesbian carpenter. MOOSE HOLMES - retarded 30 year old house painter. MARY HOLMES - 55 year old mother. GLENN WILKES - 20 vear ¢ld drummer in local band “ASSER” These eight contestants will be constantly referred to during the first part of the season. BUDDY GARRITY (CONT'D) Ladies and gentlemen...start vour engines. Eight eager hands slap down on that pick up. Determined faces, hard eyes.

FNL TV 11/18/05 31. A DJ starts spinning and the whole thing starts turning into a party. Jason Street finds Lyla Garrity. JASON STREET Sorry about that. LYLA GARRITY She’s just diabolical, that girl. 28 INT. BUDDY GARRITY FORD - 2ND STORY Coach Long's upstairs with Buddy. The two men lock down at the party below. BUDDY GARRITY How you feeling, Coach? COACH LONG Feel pretty good, Buddy. BUDDY GARRITY You do feel good, don‘t you? . COACH LONG I do. Buddy looks at the Coach. BUDDY GARRITY } Concentrate on that feeling, Coach. That good feeling. Warm. Peaceful. Content. Those are good things, Coach. Fiber of life. COACH LONG é They are good things, Buddy. BUDDY GARRITY And they get better, Coach. That’'s the thing about good things. They can keep getting better and better. Coach looks at Buddy, not liking where this seems to be going. BUDDY GARRITY (CONT'D) Or, you know... they can get not better. Good things can go bad.

29 FNL TV 11/18/05 32. Coach Long looks long and deep into Buddy’s bourbon glazed eyes. COACH LONG I‘m gonna do the best I can, Buddy. BUDDY GARRITY Do that, Coach. EXT. DEALERSHIP - PARKING LOT - SAME 29 Riggins is holding court with half a dozen BALL PLAYERS. He's drinking Jack Daniels from a paper bag. TIM RIGGINS I got looks from East Kansas and Colorado I'd rather go to Colorado, but I don'’t know. Brian’s across the lot with a crew of BLACK PLAYERS. BRIAN Only two choices. They both in California and they both start with a U. I prefer SC cause I like the way they treated Reggie Bush. See, a team’s gotta know how to treat a running back. TYRA is crawling up on him. TYRA COLLETTE Hey, Bomber. BRIAN Hey there, angel eyes. Tyra stops, turns, and faces this big monster stud. TYRA COLLETTE What's up? BRIAN Just chillin’ out on top of the world. Picking diamonds off the clouds, Baby. TYRA COLLETTE Is that right? BRIAN Love to plok you one.

30 Z = ] < @ ~ w TYRA COLLETTE You like sushi, Bomber? BRIAN You know I do if you do. TYRA COLLETTE Come on. Tyra smiles, turns away and starts walking to her little CREW at the edge of the parking lot. Brian smiles back at Riggins who pretends that he’s not paying any attention. A red headed, broken nosed KID locks over to Tim. BROKEN NOSE Tyra's gonna ride the Bomboastacoasta. Howls from the white boys. WHITEBOYS (chanting) Bomboastacoastal Everyone’s smiling except Riggins who's following Tyra and Brian as they get into her car and drive off. Riggins takes a long pull off his Jack Daniels. Gets up. Heads for his car. Trouble. INT. ODESSA SUSHI RESTAURANT - LATER Tyra and Brian in a little booth, eating Sushi. Tyra’'s showing Brian how to eat with chop sticks. She’s feeding him. It's all good, clean, flirtacious fun. From the back entrance, we spot Tim Riggins enter the restaurant. He moves past the HOSTESS, heading straight for Brian and Tyra. He approaches their table. TIM RIGGING What are vou doing? TYRA COLLETTE What does it like I'm doing? 30

FNL TV 11/18/05 TIM RIGGINS What are doing with him? TYRA COLLETTE Get out of here, Tim. TIM RIGGINS Why are you doing this? TYRA COLLETTE Go away! The Japanese SUSHI CHEFS are starting to pay attention. TIM RIGGINS What is your problem? TYRA COLLETTE My problem is that you don’t know the first thing about how to treat a woman. TIM RIGGINS Didn’t sound that way to me last night when you were grinding up on me like Jenna Jameson on a fistful of Ecstasy. TYRA COLLETTE Shut up, Tim. TIM RIGGINS Give it all to me, Tim. All of it, Baby. Yeah, that’'s it...All of it. BRIAN Must of been pretty forgettable if you gave her all that big horse Riggins loving and she's out here eating tuna fish with Brian. TIM RIGGINS your fucking wmouth. This goes STRAIGHT TC BLEVEN. BRIAN Say that again. TIM RIGGINS Why, you so dumb you didn’t get it the first time? Brian‘s getting up fast. He and Riggins charge and are BEATING THE SHIT put of each other in a flash. =

31 32 FNL TV 11/18/05 35. Tables and sushi platters flying. Brian’s smacking the shit out of Riggins. Tyra leaps up and, like any good domestic brawl, she sides with Riggins. She starts screaming and smacking Brian. TYRA COLLETTE GET OFF Riggins's getting rabbit punched in the face. TIM RIGGINS I love you, Tyra. Tyra's clawing into Brian, trying to get him off Tim. TYRA COLLETTE I love you, Tim. The Japanese move in to break it up but these are two very big, strong boys. EXT. ODESSA SUSHI RESTAURANT - NIGHT 31 Looks like a rugby game is going on inside the restaurant. A cop car drives by. Stops. U-turns into the restaurant parking lot. ACT THREE: EXT. COACH LONG‘S HOUSE - MORNING 32 ESTABLISHING: The little house with a couple of lights on. “WEDNESDAY" MOJO RADIO (V.0.) I don’t know how ready they are. We got. running backs fish fighting at fish restaurants. I suppose it's all good so long as it gets transferred out onto that field. INT. HOUSE FOR SALE - NORTH ODESSA - DAY 33 Coach Long walks the interior of a modest three bedroom house with a FEMALE REALTOR.

Coach Long is eyeing the set up, tag. FNL TV 11/18/05 FEMALE REALTOR a single story, what we call “flow plan.” You see how it all just kind of flows one room into the next? COACH LONG Yes, I see. FEMALE REALTOR It’s a new trend. People are realizing that the biggest and best room in the house is a “living room” that no body ever lives in. COACH LONG That's true. TIGHT ON THE PRICE TAG: $425,000.00 Coach Long moves with the Realtor into the master bedroom. Then into the his and her separate bathroom areas. Clearly impressed by the amount of sgpace. COACH LONG (CONT'D) She’d sure love this. FEMALE REALTOR Room in the bathroom. Saved more marriages than Oprah and Dr. Phil combined. checking out the price 36. Coach Long smiles as he walks into the oversized walk-in closet. Coach Long walks out through the ocut through a side door, COACH LONG Wow . FEMALE REALTOR There’s an identical closet on the other side. His and Her’s walk-ins. Plenty of room for everybody. into the back yard, up to small sunken swimming pool. The Realtor follows.

34 FEMALE REALTOR (CONT'D) Peaceful, isn’'t it? COACH LONG Yes, it is. They stand in silence. Coach Long looking over the property. FEMALE REALTOR So, what do you think? COACH LONG beautiful. FEMALE REALTOR Why don't you have your wife come down and take a look? COACH LONG I don't need to. I know she’ll love it. FEMALE REALTOR I'm sure she will. A touch more silence. FEMALE REALTOR (CONT‘D) You want to make an offer? COACH LONG Let's see how we play Friday night. FEMALE REALTOR You’re gonna kill em’, Coach. Long looks up at the Realtor, gives a small smile. COACH LONG I hope so. CUT HIGH AND WIDE: The Football Coach and the Realtor standing in the back vard of a three bedroom, West Texas single story. INT. WALMART - DAY 34 Tami Long walks the make-up aisle with an empty handcart, somewhat paralyzed by the array of choices. She wears jeans and an Izod. As she moves in to scrutinize Revlon, a sweet Texas twang iz heard behind her.

FNL TV 11/18/0% MISSY AUBREY (0.S.) Heyhi! Tami startles, turns to find four sparkling Odessa Ladies: MISSY AUBREY (the Principal’s wife), TANYA GARRITY (Buddy’'s wife), and LUCY RODELL {the Mayor’'s wife). All pumps and pearls. TAMI Well, hello ladies. MISSY AUBREY Howyou? TAMI Great. Y'all? TANYA GARRITY Fantastic. Precious blouse, Tami. Tami glances down at her Izod. TAMI Thanks? LUCY RODELL Now Tami, why is it that you never come to Book Club? TAMI Book club? TANYA GARRITY Ludy Rodell, that is a FANTASTIC ideal! Come on, Tami. TAMI You know...that is so nice of y’'all, but ) as you know, with the start of the season- ; MISSY AUBREY ~Exactly. You are a football widow. Tami hesitates. TANYA GARRITY Come on, Tami. Wednesday is our next meeting. A little wine, a little gossip - 11 be good for you, girl. LUCY RODELL Better than gitting home watching him, watching tapes.

35 FNL TV 11/18/05 Tami know she's cornered. TAMI What are we reading? MISSY AUBREY “A Billion Lil Pieces.” It’'s about drugs... but Oprah picked it! Kept her up for two nights straight! TAMI Well thanks. That sounds great. It should be- TANYA GARRITY Fun. TAMI Right. Real fun. INT. RATLIFF STADIUM - DAY FOOTBALL PRACTICE MONTAGE: Leading up to the season opener. We can feel the intensity building. -Assistant coaches swarm over players. -Jason Street runs the offense. -Jason’s PARENTS talking with DIFFERENT RECRUITERS. -Brian’s Uncle, Earl sitting with USC RECRUITERS. EARL What he likes is the ocean and he likes the way you all have treated Reggie Bush. We not in any way afraid of working with a strong pass oriented offence so long as we feel that we going to get our carries. That’s all it is. The recruiters nod and drool as Brian demolishes linebackers and scores at will. W -Matt Saracen watches Street. Occasionally steps in. His passes clearly lack the authority of Street’s. An coach jumps all over Saracen. -Riggins blocks for Brian, who works the field like a voung Barry Sanders. 35

FNL TV 11/18/05 40. -Mr. and Mrs. Street sit with EDDIE McMANNUS - red headed Notre Dame quarterback scout. MCMANNUS We’d like to get you all on the field next Saturday up in South Bend. There's really no words to describe the experience. MR STREET That sounds terrific. MCMANNUS We’'re ready to get this done right now. MR STREET I think we are, too. As Jason throws sixty yard missiles: each one tight and perfect. MRS STREET How good do you think he is? MCMANNUS . Mrs. Street, been scouting quarterbacks for Notre Dame for twenty- seven years. Your son might be the best ever seen. A mother could beam no brighter. ACT FOUR: 36 INT./EXT. ODESSA - SERIES OF TRANSITION SHOTS 36 ; ESPN CREWS interviewing LOCALS about their expectations ! for the coming season. f FORD DEALERSHIP: Eli Further - The ex-cop sporting a State Championship ring. He looks into the ESPN camera. His right hand pressed firmly on the hood of the Ford pick-up. ELI FURTHER It's just a rare coming together of forces. A team this good. A quarterback, a running back as big and fast as Boomer. The right coach. It's gonna be something special. Really special.

e e 37 FNL TV 11/18/05 41. ESPN INTERVIEWER How long are you prepared to stay in this competition? ELI FURTHER be here as long as it takes. Even if it means I have to watch the State Championship with one of my hands still down on this baby. PERMIAN LOCKER ROOM: By the sinks, the boys blow drying their hair and brushing their teeth. Rugged young beauty. TGIF'S: Two middle aged waitresses are hanging up posters of the PANTHERS. WAITRESS 1 We do a Wednesday “Two Day Out chili special,” then a Thursday “Get Psyched Super Size Me” salad taco bar, Friday is “Game Day Blast Off“ breakfast. That's four eggs any way you want em’, three pancakes, sausage, bacon, and a wedge of ham. We £ill ‘em up on game day!!!! EXT. AUSTIN ELEMENTRY SCHOOL - DAY 37 “THURSDAY" A mixed practice between the PEE WEE FOOTBALL PLAYERS and the Varsity team. Street, Brian, Riggins, and Matters all working with the little, future players. SERIES OF SHOTS: -The Varsity scrimmaging the Pee Wees. They are really scrimmaging. -Five TEN YEAR OLDS trying to take down Brian. -Coach Long and his assistants coach from the sidelines. The pee-wee coaches coach from the opposite sidelines. This is treated like a real football game.

FNL TV 11/18/05 42. 38 EXT. AUSTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOCL - LATER 38 On the field, EIGHTY PLAYERS. Young and old, a pack. Jason Street stands in the middle of the field, talking to the players. STREET You guys really want to focus on learning these plays. They are the exact we run and if you learn it right here, like we all did, you will have a really solid understanding of going to be required of you when you get to Varsity. A TEN YEAR OLD FUTURE QUARTERBACK looks up at Street with stars in his eyes. Puts his hand up. LITTLE QB Mr. Street? looks down at the little kid. STREET sSon? LITTLE QB Mr. Street, are you going to play professional football? STREET I'm thinking about it. LITTLE OB I think you should. I think you should play for the Cowboys and that you should be better than Roger Stauback and better than Troy Aikman. STREET Well, I'm going to think about that. Another little player chimes in. LITTLE PLAYER 1 I think you’'re better than Pavton Manning. STREET Well, I appreciate that. OK, pray.

39 FNL TV 11/18/05 43. TIGHT SHOTS of all the boys reaching for each other’s hands. Small hands join larger hands. Football helmets tilt down. Street is about to start when, LITTLE PLAYER 1 Do you think that God likes football? Street looks up at the little man. STREET I think that everybody likes football. Street bows his head. STREET (CONT'D) Our father, who art in Heaven... EXT. DESERT - DUSK Riggins, Matters, and a dozen other PLAYERS AND GIRLFRIENDS parked out in the desert. Tyra and another girl. Everybody’s in full make out mode. Street and Lyla Garrity parked next to them. RIGGINS Street, here’s how I figure it’s gonna work... Correct me if missing something here, but I'm cool hanging right here, you go do your what...maybe ten vears... in the NFL. Say at five mill a year, send me one percent of every paycheck. buy some land down here, then when done you and me have us a big, old hunting ranch. I'1l1l keep it stocked and- STREET I don’'t want you living on my land. Riggins’s drunker than the rest. Grabs two more beers from the cooler. RIGGINS Yeah, vou do. I‘m the care taker. MATTERS Dude, it’s Thursday. You got to slow down . 39