- Alex: [tennis star sighs] Mom doesn't really know what it takes to get this far, so she's a lot more cavalier about me giving it up.
- Sgt. Rita Lee Lance: What does it take?
- Alex: Desire. Jason used to call it
- [mocks enthusiastic gesture]
- Alex: "fire in the belly."
- [chuckles]
- Alex: You know, that's the big difference between TracI Linderman and me.
- Sgt. Rita Lee Lance: Oh?
- Alex: I mean, she's got much better strokes with all those lessons and stuff... but I want it more.
- [shrugs]
- Sgt. Rita Lee Lance: Mm. So what are you gonna do?
- Alex: I guess... I'm gonna have to drop out of the tournament.
- Sgt. Rita Lee Lance: Why?
- Alex: Well, after what happened last night... Nick won't even speak to me. He thinks it's because he was coaching me that someone shot at him. Like they thought that he was taking over my career.
- [sighs]
- Alex: No one else is gonna practice with me.
- Sgt. Rita Lee Lance: What if I introduced you to someone who would?
- Alex: [surprised] Do you think that I should go back?
- Sgt. Rita Lee Lance: It's not about what I think.
- Sgt. Rita Lee Lance: Would you tell us what happened, TracI?
- Traci Linderman: It's no big deal. Alex's stepdad was rugged...
- [raises her eyes]
- Traci Linderman: not like the other wimps at the country club.
- Sgt. Rita Lee Lance: And he seduced you...?
- Traci Linderman: [shakes her head] I kind of seduced him.
- [Rita does double take]
- Traci Linderman: I'm not a kid, you know!
- Sgt. Chris Lorenzo: Why tell your father?
- Traci Linderman: To see what he'd do. He doesn't give much of a damn about me. He's too busy with his...
- [makes disparaging gesture]
- Traci Linderman: stocks and stuff. Mom's the only one who cares if I win or not.
- Sgt. Rita Lee Lance: He cared enough to confront Jason about it, doesn't he?
- Traci Linderman: [shakes her head] Yeah. I never expected that. It was so cruel. He told Jason off. He said he'd see him in jail if he ever touched me again.
- Sgt. Rita Lee Lance: And then what happened?
- Traci Linderman: And then Jason knocked my Dad down. He bent over and laughed at him. He said that since everybody already slept with my Mom, he thought he'd try me.
- Sgt. Chris Lorenzo: Is that why you took the gun to the club that day?
- Traci Linderman: [angrily] Well, Jason didn't have to humiliate him like that! It was the first time my Dad ever cared enough...
- [swallows her words]
- Traci Linderman: You're my best friend, Alex. You're the only one who doesn't treat me like the spoiled bitch I sometimes am.