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SHERIFF DUNKIN IS "SHERIFF" FROM THE MOVIE-I THINK IT'S FUNNY TO HAVE A POLICE OFFICER NAMED DUNKIN-YOU KNOW 'DUNKIN DOUGHNUTS' If you don't know what Duncan doughnut is, it's doughnut and coffee shop. I think that you have them in the US
Chapter 15.-Court-
Two hours later: five police cars, an assortment of sheriff and state officers came and escorted the group to the courthouse. The whole town was packed with cars, and multiple helicopters circled over-hood. There were hundreds of reporters and media vans surrounding the courthouse, but Sheriff Dunkin and his team of officers did a good job keeping them at bay. There was as equal amount of fans, around the court house, some holding signs of support for Lightning. Sally, Scarlett, Doc, and Lightning were gathered just outside of the courtroom, waiting for permission for them to enter. "I'm really sorry Sally; I didn't know that this trial was going to blow up into a media circus." "I did, Kid, did you really think this trial was going to happen with out being noticed?" Doc said "You and Chick are two of the biggest racing stars in the world." "I know that Doc… I …guess... I knew that there was going to be reporters and camera crews." Lightning said "But not this many and this crazy. They have taken over the whole town, along with the two nearest towns as well." "Light, relax" Sally said "It's all right; this is not my first big trial. In fact compared to most of them, it's pretty small." Just then, the bailiff emerged from the courtroom, "Ms. Sally Carrera?" "You and your party may enter now" he said. Sally nodded politely and the four cars were ushered into the court.
Before the trial got started, Sally looked down at her desk and began sorting her paperwork, not noticing that a jet black corvette with neon blue and green accents had driven up to her. "Is that really you, Sally?" A familiar voice asked. There in front of her was the last car that she ever wanted to see again, Justin Sunspur. What Sally didn't tell Lightning or Doc that she knew Justin very well; he had been her first love. They went to the same high school, and after they graduated, they even went to the same law school. Sally thought he was charming and eventually fell in love with him. During collage she continued to grow and mature as a woman. Justin, however seemed to being going in the opposite way, he seemed to get more immature as he got older. Once they graduated from collage, they planned to get married. As time went on Justin got more arrogant and self-absorbed, and it didn't help when he got a job with a high powered law firm. While she never could catch him, Sally was sure he was cheating on her with other women. After living with him for a few years, Sally finally had enough. She packed her bags while he was a work one day and she just started driving, not caring where she was headed. She broke down in Radiator Springs. Sally quickly fell in love with the small town and it's cars and decided to make it her new home.
Sally slowly let her eyes wander over his body while he did the same to her. It had been years since she seen him, but besides his paint job, nothing had changed. Justin's flashy paint job attracted your eyes while his powerful body commanded your attention. Even after all this time Sally had to admit he had the looks going for him. She refused to answer him. She had left him, but he was still wanted her it seemed. "I see that your beauty grows everyday" Justin said, he had silver tongue, and he knew how to use it. That is why he was such a good attorney. She had come to prefer Lightning's romantic lines. The ones she knew he spent days planning and perfecting, only to mess it up when the moment came. It was more meaningful to her. "Are you seeing a handsome car?" he finally asked pointedly. "The love of my life," she said calmly, thinking that he was talking about Lightning. "Oh Sally baby! Of course you are, I'm parked right in front of you! Don't flatter me!" Justin winked. This type of thing used to delight her, now it just made her furious. "Shut the fuck up!" Justin raised his windshield, "I'm sorry, does it bother you to talk about Lightning. Are things difficult between you two? What's a mater Sweetheart, can't the little racer boy satisfy you like I could. Don't you remember, I took your virginity." "Nothing is wrong, and it's none of your business!" she exclaimed.
Sally narrowed her eyes and lowered her voice "Lightning is a better lover than you ever was. I know why you prefer virgins, if they have something to compare you to, they'll find out you're a terrible horrible lover." Sally said sickeningly sweet. Justin was now fuming, how a woman dare tell him off. "We need to talk" He said. "No, we don't need to talk. I think you just want to talk about yourself, and the way your undressing me with your eyes, I don't think you don't want to talk either" Sally said. "Why did you leave me Sally? I'm the best thing you'll ever get, that racecar is so childish, he won't make you happy like the way I can" he said. "I'm not having this conversation with you now, or ever." "Sally, I don't want your love, just your body. Do you know how fabulous I'll look with a gorgeous Porsche like you at my side." Justin said "If you don't want kids then have your tubes tied. I can find a couple of women, get them pregnant and then you can stay home have a family. Then when I get home, you can cook me supper and then we can have sex all night long." Sally's vision blurred with anger. Sally was so offended that she opened her mouth for words that didn't come. The bailiff called the court to order. Justin headed to his side of the courtroom. Sally shut her eyes and gathered her thoughts, she needed to be calm and on her guard for anything that Justin might try. "All rise" the bailiff said. "The honorable Carlton Drake presiding" The judge entered the courtroom and took his place at his desk. "Bailiff please show the committee in" Judge Drake said.
After everyone was worn in to tell the truth, Sally drove onto the floor to address the court and offer her opening comments. "Objection" Justin said "Why are you objecting to the opening statement" Judge Drake said. "Mr. Sunspur this is highly disruptive" "I want to make a motion to dismiss the trial on the grounds that Lightning McQueen has no evidence that my client did anything to him" Justin said "He wrecked because of his own arrogance and being to aggressive on the track." "Mr. Sunspur this trial is just starting and I'm sure that the committee wants to hear what Lighting McQueen has to offer. So I'm overruling you. Ms. Carrera you may continue" "Your honor" She said. "I would like to call Mr. Lightning McQueen to the stand." "Very well," Judge Drake said. Lightning drove onto the witness stand. "Mr. McQueen" Sally said in a voice that was purely business, "You and Mr. Hicks have had a rivalry since you first started racing, correct?" "Yes, Ma'am" replied Lightning. "Objection" Justin called "There is no rivalry between my client and Mr. McQueen." "Your honor" Sally said "I was just getting to that" She said. "Overruled" Judge Drake said. "Why is this?" Sally asked "The King, Strip Weathers was retiring last season, and his sponsorship was up for grabs" Lightning said. "Chick knew he would be able to get the Piston Cup, and the sponsorship after the King retired. Then I came along and added some competition." Sally nodded. "Did Chick say anything to you before you wrecked?" "Objection" Justin called "What is it now Mr. Sunspur?" Judge Drake said, getting annoyed with the frequent interruptions. "It is irrelevant what was said on the track, and there is no evidence that my client said anything to Lightning McQueen." "Overruled" Judge Drake said. "The witness has not said anything. Stop wasting my and the committee's time Mr. Sunspur, let the witness speak" Sally repeated the question. "Yes" Lightning said. "He said something along the lines of: "Take this, McQueen, this fucking race is mine!" Sally nodded "No further questions," she said. "Mr. Sunspur do you have any questions for this witness?" During her entire case she knew Justin took her every word that came out of her mouth to be flirtatious and suggestive. Her cold, strictly-business exterior came off as 'playing hard to get'. He had been close to her once, when she was a different car…but not now. Being a lawyer and knowing Justin so well allowed Sally to see right through him. Sally bit her tongue in frustration. "None right now, your honor" Justin said. Lightning got off the witness stand.
Sally then turned to the committee sitting in judgment. "Ladies and gentlemen we have evidence that Mr. Hicks purposefully slammed into Mr. McQueen. Sally said "What you are about to hear is a recording from Lightning's black box, from the race in which Lightning was severely injured. As you know, after year 1996 all racecars had to have black boxes installed that recorded everything that was said between them and their crew chief. After year 2000, the black boxes were improved to where they still recorded internally, but they also recorded with a ten-foot radius externally. If Chick said anything, to Lightning, his black box would have picked it up. Play the evidence please, Doc." Doc nodded. He pressed the switch on the box. "Don't do it, Rookie!" Doc's voice rang out through the open court room. "I don't listen to your advice anymore" Lightning's voice said angrily. Lightning felt slightly self-conscious at his harsh words. He felt the weight of all the disciplinary committee member's eyes on him. Then, the box uttered the sound of a motor being floored, and Chick's voice came in. "No you don't, McQueen, fucking this race belongs to me," Doc shut the black box off just as the sound of the crash started. The crowd in the courtroom burst into noise as the different cars from the press and Radiator Springs discussed what they had just heard. "Order in the court!" Judge Drake called out in a powerful voice. "I'm asking the court to order Mr. Hicks to surrender his black box. Chick's black box would have picked anything that he said to his crew chief, and if he said anything to Lightning." Sally said "I'm sure that the committee would be very interested in what Chick's black box has to offer." Justin opened his mouth to object. "Before you object Mr. Sunspur." Judge Drake said "I'm going to over rule you. I order Mr. Chick Hicks into the custody of Sheriff Dunkin until his back box can be removed. This court is in recess until tomorrow morning." Judge Drake slammed his gavel on the bench. He and the committee immediately left the courtroom.
Sheriff and a few of his deputies approached Chick and Justin. "Mr. Hicks" Sheriff said "We are going to take you to the hospital to have your back box removed." "This is fucking stupid" Chick complained "Do I have to really surrender my black box?!" "Yes, the judge has ordered it" Justin calmly said. "I would request a meeting with the judge, but I doubt that he would change his mind. Let's just go and have it removed and I'll deal with it tomorrow." "What if I refuse to do it?" Chick asked. "Then I'll arrest you for disobeying a court order" Sheriff said. "Oh, McQueen would love that, wouldn't he!" Chick said "McQueen and that fucking attorney of his will have access to my black box, what if they tamper with it?" "They won't have access to it, Chick calm down" Justin said. "It will remain in the sheriff's possession until tomorrow morning." "Yeah, what ever, I don't believe you" Chick ranted. "The sheriff is friends with McQueen, how do I know that he wouldn't hand it over to them!" "Son, I'll admit that I'm friends with Lightning and Sally, but I have also taken an oath to uphold the law. I've been the sheriff here for over fifty years; my integrity has never been called into question." Sheriff said "The judge has ordered that I take you to the hospital and have your black box removed, then that's what I'll do. If Lightning was ordered to surrender his black box, then I would treat him the same way. Our friendship has nothing to do with it. Come on, I don't have all night" Sheriff lead the way to the hospital. Reporters and camera vans crowed around them, lucky it was a short drive. A blue BMW approached them. "Come with me" He said "I've been appointed to remove your box." After twenty minutes the doctor was done. Chick's transport arrived; Chick and Justin left the hospital and the town for the night.
After supper, Sally sat by herself at Flo's trying to enjoy a drink. There were enough police officers around town to protect Sally, allowing Scarlett to go with Lightning and Doc and do some light training before turning in for the night. "You can stay home have a family…" Sally said to herself. "I wouldn't be with you even if you were the last fucking male on the planet" She wanted so badly to tell someone about what happened before coming here. There were so many people she could confide in, like Flo, or Doc. Flo would give her advice, like an older sister. Doc was the wisest car she knew; she trusted her life with him; let alone her secrets. Lightning and Scarlett arrived at Flo's and asked "Sally are you all right? I know that there is something that your not telling me" He had a feeling that Sally and Justin knew each other, he witnessed the exchange before court and how she acted hostile around him "Everything's fine," Sally said and then she sighed. "Well, could I talk to you alone?" "Yeah sure, let's go." Lightning said "Do you want to go back to your office, or your apartment? We can talk there with out any one over hearing you. Sally paid Flo for the drink and they headed her apartment. "Thanks Scarlett, I think that we will be staying in for rest of the evening" "Ok, I'll see you in the morning" Scarlett said as she left the apartment. Sally shut the door behind her. "Did you get to listen to Chick's black box?" Lightning asked "What did it say?" "First of all Light, I didn't get to hear the black box, I don't have access to it before court. I don't know what's on it until I play it for the committee. I'm confident that Chick said what he said to you before the crash. Lightning, there's something else I want to tell you about. I've wanted to tell you for ages but now it's time…" She told him about everything about Justin. How he was her first love, how he took her virginity, how their life was like together, how he grew immature. Why she couldn't stand it any longer, why she packed up and left him. Lightning didn't say a thing until he heard the entire story. "Oh Sally, I can't believe you kept that from me" "I'm sorry" she began. "Sally, I don't care about what happed in your past. I know you as who you are now and that's all that matters.' Lightning said "I'm glad you told me, but that doesn't change a thing, I love you for who you are. Sally Carrera, I love you more than you'll ever know. I'm tired and ready for bed, are you" "Yeah, it's been a long and stressful day." Sally said "I'll race you to see who can fall asleep first." They headed to bedroom and snuggled in together. It was only a few minutes before they were both asleep-Sally won the 'fall asleep race'.
Day two of the hearing: Sally, Lightning, Doc, and Scarlett arrived at the courthouse. They saw Chick and Justin arrive. Lightning watched Justin drive across the court room. Despite the strange look in his eyes, he looked confident and convincing. Something about the way he moved, the rhythm of his drive, it reminded him of Sally. He seemed to posses what Lightning liked to call 'lawyer features'. The bailiff then called the court back into session. Everyone took their places. Pushing away the uneasy sensation Sally forced herself to proceed with the trial. Sheriff brought in Chick's black box and put it on the table. "Objection" Justin said. "Conservations between a racecar and his crew chief are private" "No, Mr. Sunspur they are not" Judge Drake said "All commutations during a race are public record." The bailiff put Chick's black box into the reader and hit play. He fast-forward it to almost the end. "Jerry(Chick's crew chief) this kid is really getting on my fucking nerves" Came Chicks voice from the box. "Then find a way to take him out" Jerry said. Just then Chick got his chance. "I don't listen to your advice anymore!" Lightning's voice said angrily from behind. Then, the box uttered the sound of a motor being floored, and Chick's voice came in. "No you don't, McQueen, this fucking this race belongs to me, take this!" There was a sound of metal grinding against a concrete wall and a tire blowing out. "Yeah, kid how do you like that" Chick said laughing. "I guess we won't have to worry about him for a while." "Good work Chick." Jerry said "We got this race in the bag." The bailiff stopped the tape.
Even Judge Drake sat there in shock for a few seconds. Sally stood up "I rest my case" She said. Judge Drake called for a 15-minute recess. Lightning went up to Sally and hugged her. "I think that we just won" Lightning said. "I would be so sure, Light" Sally said "Justin is a good attorney, and I don't know what he might pull." "But we heard Chick in his own words…" Lightning was saying as Justin drove up to them. "I have an offer for you if you drop this case…" Justin said. "No" Sally said "We are not interested in making a deal with you. What Chick did was unforgivable, he could have killed Lightning." "Sally listen, to me" "I said no, Justin" "Lightning, is there some where we can talk" Justin said. "Man to man, with out your attorney around. "No, I'm in agreement with Sally." Lightning said "I'm not interested in what you have to say or offer." Justin retuned to his side of the court room. Justin's ego had been knocked down considerably, but he still felt proud of himself for being Chick's attorney. He did present some good evidence, but he could not counter all the evidence that Sally had presented to the committee. An hour and half later, the case went to the disciplinary committee for their verdict.