The Meeting That Made The Decision Possible

DISSOLVE TO: A garden, somewhere outside Schenectady:

PAT O’RILEY
So ... Reinsdorf will move against you first. He'll set up a meeting with someone that you absolutely trust ... guaranteeing your ability to speak freely. And at that meeting, you'll be setup over this whole tampering business [Pat drinks from a glass of wine as Dwyane watches him]. I like to drink wine more than I used to, anyways, I'm drinking more....

DWYANE
It's good for you, Pat.

PAT O’RILEY (after a long pause)
I hope you don't mind the way I ... I keep going over this Reinsdorf business...

DWYANE
No, not at all....

PAT O’RILEY
Oh well, eh ... I want you to arrange to have a man check all the tweets that go in and out of your account because....

DWYANE
I did it already, Pat.

PAT O’RILEY
Oh, that's right ... I forgot.

DWYANE
What's the matter? What's bothering you? [Then, after the Pat doesn't answer.] I'll handle it. I told you I can handle it, I'll handle it.

PAT O’RILEY (as he stands)
I knew that James was going to have to go through all this. And Bosh, well, [he sits besides Dwyane], Bosh was, well.... But I never, ... I never wanted this ... sharing the spotlight for you. I work my whole post-LA & NY life, I don't apologize, to take care of the Arison's. And I've refused ... to be a fool [Beasley pick aside] ... dancing on the string, held by all those -- capologists. I don't apologize ... that's my life ... but I thought that ... that when it was your time ... that ... that you would be the one to hold the strings. Mutiple-MVP's Wade, first owner-player Wade, or ... something ...

DWYANE
A Lebron succeeding in Cleveland ...

PAT O’RILEY
... or a Tiger without the missing windshield ... there just weren't enough bad GM's, Dwyane. Just weren't enough bad GM's ...

DWYANE
We'll get there, Pat, ... we'll get there....

PAT O’RILEY
Uh... Now listen, whoever comes to you with this Reinsdorf meeting ... he's the traitor. Don't forget that.