The Guardian2006/I

Jake Fischer:
You do *not* want to hear about my day.

Emily Thomas:
Yeah, I do.

Jake Fischer:
Man, this guy Randall, you know, it doesn't matter what I do. It's just not good enough.

Emily Thomas:
Maybe he's just trying to push you to be better. We teachers do that to the ones we believe in.

Jake Fischer:
No, it's personal with me. He's knows that I'm better then he was. I mean, today I broke every one of his records. I owned them all.

Maggie McGlone:
Not all of them. There's one record you won't break. [takes a picture off the wall] This is 'The Aegis'. Medical ship. Caught on fire. It was a nightmare; people burning in their beds. And Ben Randall got every one of those people out of there, except for this one guy. And right when the ship started to go down, he reaches down and grabs this guy. He's hanging from the cable with this man's life in his hands, and the winch jams. It's twenty minutes to the base. The man's screaming, but Ben looks him dead in the eye, and do you know what he said? He said "I won't let go."

Emily Thomas:
What happened?

Maggie McGlone:
Dislocated his shoulder, tore every tendon in his hand, but he didn't let go. Twenty minutes, just fingertips. You break that record, and you give me a call.

Jake Fischer:
...My day was alright.