Jerry Maguire Page #6

WOMAN:

Gorgeous.

JERRY:

A year-and-a-half later, we were

both in Hawaii for the Pro Bowl.

Now I've always hit a wall at 18

months. Every serious girlfriend

lasts 18 months. It's like --ka-

boom. The curse of 18 months.

WOMAN:

That's when you need to cement,

and define define define.

JERRY:

Exactly. And the world does not

need another 35 year-old bachelor.

I knew I wanted to propose, so I

took her there.

WOMAN:

To the pools?

JERRY:

To the pools. Now she's Miss Rock

Climber, and I'm more the Non-Rock

Climber, but we're hiking up

through the pools and there's a

fine mist in the air, and I have

the ring in my pocket, and I'm a

little nervous, I'm lagging

behind, and she says to me, get

this -- "Hurry up, klutz."

WOMAN:

Oh no --

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JERRY:

Well, it bothered me somewhat.

And I got quiet. And now she's

quiet and we're both pouting a

little, you know. And I decide

I'm not going to propose. The

mood is not right. Why be

impulsive? Now at this point I

know she knows that I was going to

propose and didn't. And she knows

I know. So the entire sixty mile

ride back to the airport, we don't

speak. And we're both good at

that. We fly to Honolulu in

silence. We check into the Pro

Bowl hotel --

WOMAN:

How sad --

JERRY:

But wait...

BACK TO DOROTHY:

She is now craning out into the aisle to hear this story.

The plane is now quieter. She listens to the easy sound of

Jerry discussing his charmed life.

RAY:

(waking up)

Mama --

DOROTHY:

Shhh. Mommy's eavesdropping.

He sneezes, three big ones in a row. She hands him more

kleenex, riveted on the story. And listens.

JERRY'S VOICE

Now little do I know that my

assistant. has assumed that I've

now proposed. So she has gotten

the lounge band to actually play

"Here Comes The Bride" when we

walk back in.

Dorothy laughs to herself, somewhat derisively. She tries to

share the laugh with her son, who stares at her.

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15.

BACK TO JERRY -- LATER

JERRY:

Which they do. And we're standing

there. All the football guys are

in the lobby, watching, there's

even an ESPN crew. So I turn to

her and sort of grandly say,

"Well, this is me, Klutz, asking

you, Goddess of Rock Climbing, to

marry me." And I took out the

ring, and I don't much like big

scenes, but she said "yes" right

there in the lobby and some of the

toughest men in football wept like

babies. We're getting married in

February.

WOMAN:

Jerry. You two will be together

forever.

BACK TO DOROTHY:

She takes one of her son's kleenex sheets, as an elegant

Flight Attendant shuts the curtain to first class. Dorothy

blows her nose, moved against her will.

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