Chapter 5: The Bigger Man
After Vinny drops Jake at the Baker's cabin. Vinny drives around for a while. He is sitting on the dock. Mike goes up to him. "Hey Vinny." Mike said to him. "Hey Mike." Vinny replied. "Jake told me what happened." Mike said to him. "I'm sorry you had to hear about that." Vinny said to him. "Vinny just go over there and apologize." Mike said to him. "Me apologize to him? After what he said about me?" Vinny asked Mike. "Vinny you need to be the bigger man and apologize." Mike told him. "Mike I don't apologize for anything when I know I'm right. And I know I was right." Vinny said to him. "It doesn't matter who was right or wrong." Mike said to him. "I was raised to stand up and speak out when I'm right. And in this case I was right." Vinny told him. Mike shakes his head at Vinny. "What?" Vinny then asked him. "Vinny you're like a big brother to me so, I'm going to give you some advice." Mike told him. "A twelve year old giving me advice?" Vinny asked him. "Just hear me out. Shallow your pride and apologize to him. And be the bigger man." Mike told him again. "I wish I could but I can't." Vinny said to him. "When you decide to put this little feud you have with Bill Murtaugh behind you, you come to the Boulders to apologize." Mike told him as he left. "Where you going?" Vinny asked him. "The Boulders. I'm going to ask Bill to sign this football for me." Mike said to him. "I hope you have money on you. He only signs stuff for money." Vinny told Mike as he was leaving.
Two hours later Mike comes back to see Vinny. "So, did the Superstar sign your football?" Vinny asked him. "Yeah he did for free. And he said he wants to go rappelling with me on Thursday." Mike told him showing Vinny the football autographed by Bill. "Just don't get your hopes up Mike." Vinny told him. "Vinny this guy isn't as bad as you make him out to be." Mike said to him. "Yeah baby. I don't know why you hate this guy so much." Lorraine said to him. "This guy is a two faced son of a gun." Vinny said to them. "Son of a gun?" Mike asked him. "I'm trying not to curse. So get off my back." Vinny told him. Mike leaves Vinny's cabin and goes back to the Bakers.
"I should go over there and apologize." Vinny said to Lorraine. "You should." Lorraine told him. Vinny goes over to the Boulders and knocks on the door. Kenny answers the door. "What's up Vinny?" Kenny asked him. "Nothing much Kenny. How about you?" Vinny then asked him. "I'm doing good. You here to go another round with my cousin Bill?" Kenny asked him. "Believe it or not I'm actually here to apologize to him." Vinny told him. "You apologize to Bill?" Kenny asked him with a shocked look on his face. "I can't believe that I'm doing this either." Vinny told him. Kenny showed him where Bill was. Bill was of course surrounded by people. Jake, Elliot and Sarah are watching them from the balcony. "Vinny you here to cause more trouble?" Bill asked him. "No. I'm here to apologize to you for the way I acted today. Even though I was right." Vinny said to him. "Excuse me for a minute." Bill said to the people around him as he and Vinny walked off to talk alone. Jake, Elliot and Sarah try to see where they are going but lose sight of them and go downstairs for a better look.
"Vinny this a new side of you." Bill said to him. "I know. I hate it." Vinny told him. "So, I'm waiting." Bill said to him. "Waiting for what?" Vinny asked him. "My apology." Bill told him. "You'll get yours when I get mine." Vinny told him. "You want me to apologize to you? For what?" Bill asked him. "The other night and what you said behind my back." Vinny told him. "Vinny I was joking around. You should be able to take a joke." Bill said to him. "I wasn't there so I couldn't laugh at that joke." Vinny told him. "I'm sorry for making a joke about you." Bill told Vinny. "And I'm sorry for earlier today." Vinny said to him. Bill shakes Vinny's hand. "From this moment on, you don't bother me I won't bother you. If we see each other we don't say anything, we don't even look at each other." Vinny told Bill. "Fine by me." Bill said to Vinny when he was leaving. "You'll be sorry tomorrow Vinny." Bill said to himself as he saw Vinny walking away.
