Rollerball Page #3

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Even the corporate wars

are a thing of the past.

I know that...

So now we have the majors

and their executives.

Transport, food, communication,

housing, luxury, energy.

A few of us making decisions

on a global basis for the common good.

The team is a unit.

It plays with certain rhythms.

So does an executive team, Jonathan.

Now everyone has all the comforts,

you know that.

No poverty, no sickness.

No needs and many luxuries,

which you enjoy just as if

you were in the executive class.

Corporate society

takes care of everything.

And all it asks of anyone,

all it has ever asked of anyone ever,

is not to interfere

with management decisions.

I don't mean to resist.

I'm just tryin' to understand.

This is for your own benefit.

You must know that, Jonathan.

All decisions concerning you are.

Well, I lost Ella.

They took my wife

because an executive wanted her.

I won't review all that again.

That was before I took over.

I had nothing to do with it.

From what I hear

your wife wanted to leave herself.

So, now you're going to retire.

That shouldn't be too hard for you.

Stupid game, after all. Awful game.

You ought to be glad to be out of it.

I don't...

I don't know, Mr Bartholomew.

I just don't know.

I realise you had nothing to do with Ella.

- Jonathan, I...

- But...

You're right.

I mean, I oughta do...

- I oughta be happy to do what you say.

- Take your time.

Take a few days.

You've just come through a game.

You're tired.

Go to your ranch, but think about it.

And understand it.

Do understand it.

Because I don't understand

your resistance.

And I don't think anyone else will either.

- Is Clete here?

- In the training room.

I'll go say hello.

Jonathan?

Look what I got for breakfast.

It's a notice from the Corporation.

What's it say?

Oh, that I should get out of here.

You know, go away, vanish.

That kind of thing.

You know anything about that?

Yeah, I kinda heard something about it.

You knew it was comin'.

We've been together six months.

Didn't you even wanna say goodbye?

- We'll talk about it later, OK?

- You didn't, did you?

You didn't even want me here

when you got back.

I gotta go see Cletus.

- What do you want me to do now?

- I want you to take it easy.

I want you to go in

and fix us something to eat.

Clete's come a long way

and I'm hungry. All right?

Jonathan?

I'm glad you're all right.

Come on. All right, come on.

- I ain't tired enough.

- Yeah!

It caught you, didn't it, baby?

Two games running.

- What?

- You did that in the last two games.

Shoulder forward left.

You're standing on your left skate.

You do that in Tokyo, they'll take

your arm home for lunch. You with me?

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