The Glades (6 page)

LONGWORTH

You're not gonna give me that?

CARLOS

It's four feet.

LONGWORTH

You won't give me that for eighty?

CARLOS

Not four feet.

LONGWORTH

Are you an asshole now?

He putts the ball. But before it hits the hole --

CALLIE (V.O.)

An eighty-one?

EXT. ROBBIE'S RAW BAR - DAY

Callie with Longworth, at the bar, sipping longnecks.

CALLIE

You three putted the last hole?

LONGWORTH

Burned the edge on the outside, rolled five feet past. He gave me that one.

CALLIE

A gimmie eighty-one. Wow.

LONGWORTH

I feel okay about it. My game is in good shape, left a few shots out there, but that's golf. I feel okay.

CALLIE

You watch too much Golf Channel.

Longworth noticing a guy at a booth checking Callie out.

CALLIE

Thanks for taking Jeff fishing.

LONGWORTH

Sure.

CALLIE

His father never did anything like that.

LONGWORTH

Well he was trying to put a roof over his family's head. You know, by stealing things that didn't belong to him.

CALLIE

I'm not making excuses. I knew what he was doing. I didn't like it, and I told him so. But I knew what he was doing.

LONGWORTH

You could have left him.

CALLIE

I could have. But I didn't. Then I didn't have to.

LONGWORTH

You wouldn't be the first woman to divorce a man in prison.

CALLIE

Yeah, but then I'm the woman who divorced her husband in prison.

She looks at him to see if he gets that.

CALLIE

There was good in Ray once. Maybe this is bottom for him.

LONGWORTH

Odds are not in favor of that being the case.

CALLIE

Odds don't get any better if I divorce him.

Which puts her in a difficult place. A point he considers.

LONGWORTH

I should go.

CALLIE

I thought he was meeting you here.

LONGWORTH

The lucky candidate? He got here about twenty minutes ago.

Callie confused - then figures out what he did when she looks to see the guy in the booth who's been checking her out.

CALLIE

You'll never find a partner that way.

LONGWORTH

Not a good one.

As he rises to leave...

CALLIE

I don't get Jeff back from his Grandma's until morning. How 'bout that first date we never had?

They look at each other. A beat that quickly fills with promise.

LONGWORTH

Give me an hour to see what this joker has to offer?

She glances at the guy - who remarkably is still checking her out.

CALLIE

An hour is generous.

Longworth throws some bills down and we FOLLOW him to the booth, where he introduces himself.

LONGWORTH

Randy Cromwell?

CROMWELL

Yeah?

LONGWORTH

Jim Longworth.

The guy looks at Longworth, knows now he was checking out his lady friend.

CROMWELL

Jim. Nice to meet you.

LONGWORTH

Thanks for driving up.

CROMWELL

Yeah, I got here a little
early...

LONGWORTH

Yeah, I noticed that.

Longworth slides in on the other side. Cromwell knows he's already screwed.

LONGWORTH

So you want to be my partner?

FADE OUT.

THE END...