"And you decided that the best way to do that was to set him to hurt his girlfriend, blow off his team, and ruin his seventeenth birthday?

"You know, if I actually were out to do what you seem to think I'm out to do, and make pick between me and you, you'd have done an awful lot of the work for me Sunday. So the fact that I'm here, trying work things out with you, should tell you something.

"Because I don't have any interest in making this some kind of contest for James. I can't actually think of a cruel thing to do to him than make him pick between his girlfriend and his best friend.

"But if you insist on making this a contest, Black? I won't have any intention of losing it."