Rollerball Page #4

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OK. You practise that for me a little, huh?

Hell, I forget which corporation is which.

Any ass knows that fire's energy.

Who wrote the music?

Where does the music come from?

- OK if I have one of these?

- Go on, have a holiday.

I forget what corporation's

running what city.

Chicago's still the Food City,

but what about Indianapolis?

Whatever happened to that town?

Whatever happened to Mackie?

Everything was much simpler when

I was a kid. We still had three nations.

That was before the corporate wars,

even before rollerball. Before everything.

Do you believe in kids?

I remember hearing about the National

Football League and the World Cup.

- Where are you going?

- Indianapolis.

What do you know about that stuff, Clete?

You know, how the corporations

got started, about the corporate wars.

They were nasty!

- Well, nobody talks about that.

- Well, except for friends.

Yeah.

I remember your rookie year.

You were mean and tight.

The best player I ever coached.

Nobody could lay a hand on you

that year. Remember?

Yeah.

Look, I gotta ask you something.

That figures. Go ahead, I'm listening.

Well, there's something

goin' on with the game.

I don't know what it is.

I don't think I'm supposed to know.

- What's that?

- They want me to quit.

Why would they want you to do that?

I don't know.

That's what I'd like you to find out.

I can try.

I hear just about everything going on

in the game, one way or another.

That's what I mean. I can't think of

another executive who'd tell me a thing.

Like I say,

I'll try.

- But I don't think there's much...

- Look, no troubles for either of us, Clete.

Just find out what you can.

Trust me, Jonathan. You know you can.

Sure.

Well, sit down.

Oh, yeah!

Thanks, boys.

Good show, Johnny.

That's the Houston stride.

You boys wanna play for Houston,

you'll have to learn it.

We pride ourselves

on bein' a power team.

- That's right.

- We're power, we're mean.

And that doesn't mean to say we like to

have you hangin' back there on a rail,

just fightin' somebody in section A,

when you should be in section B.

I'm comin' up to score

and you ain't in the section,

- it won't do us no good.

- That's right.

Who's the two new catchers here?

Right. Gimme that ball.

Don't stick your hand

in that gutter too quick.

Wait till this ball

comes down on the track.

Don't get too anxious.

That thing'll take your arm off.

Now the bikers.

A biker might sacrifice

a little three-minute penalty,

run over the top of a skater,

if he feels he's skating a little too good.

So we have a few methods

here in Houston. There's hundreds.

One, of course, is to use this shield.

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