[Camp. Rory is looking up at a huge scaffold that has been set up in the
field. Several people are standing on top holding umbrellas. Logan joins
her.]

LOGAN: Hope you're thinking up superlatives.

RORY: What are they going to do?

LOGAN: What do you think they're going to do?

RORY: They're not going to jump.

LOGAN: Jump!

RORY: That's like seven stories! They'll die!

LOGAN: We're all going to die one day.

RORY: But those four are today.

LOGAN: Six.

RORY: I see four.

LOGAN: I'm heading up.

RORY: Of course you are.

LOGAN: And Finn was supposed to do it, but few of us figured he'd make it
this far, so there's an extra space.

RORY: Hmm. (Looks up, then sees the way Logan's looking at her.) No!

LOGAN: And we're not going to die. No one in the Life and Death Brigade has
ever died. Old ones have.

RORY: I am not going to jump!

SETH: We're all set.

LOGAN: This is Seth, he's the genius behind all this.

SETH: It's very safe. We did a dozen successful test drops, every potato
came through without a scratch.

RORY: Potato?

LOGAN: You can's test using people, that'd be dangerous!

RORY: Look, thanks for the offer, but I'm here as a journalist. An observer.
Journalists do not participate.

LOGAN: Since when?

RORY: Since forever.

LOGAN: George Plimpton never participated.

RORY: What?

LOGAN: His best stuff put him in the think of it. Fighting Sugar Ray
Robinson, quarterbacking for the Lions, skating for the Bruins.

RORY: So he participated.

LOGAN: Bill Buford lived with soccer hooligans in Among The Thugs. Ernie
Pyle was so deep in the action in World War II, he was killed by a Japanese
sniper, not that you gotta go that far.

RORY: Buford, Pyle. I know.

LOGAN: Richard Hottelet was four months in a Nazi prison working for the
U.P. Hunter Thompson lived with the Hell's Angels. Got in the muck, didn't
just orbit around it, and it drove his writing. He put you in those biker's
parties. He put you in those biker's heads.

RORY: All right, all right, so, those guys participated. I got it, but I ?br />
EMCEE: Jumpers to their places, please!

LOGAN: You're scared.

RORY: Well, yeah!

LOGAN: And that stops the greats?

RORY: It's stopping this great!

LOGAN: Come on, you look like you need a little adventure.

RORY: What does that mean?

LOGAN: You're just a little sheltered.

RORY: Why? Because I 't spent time in a Nazi prison, been stomped on by
hooligans and beat up by Hell's Angels? And Plimpton got banged up pretty
good too.

LOGAN: It'll be fun, it'll be a thrill. Something stupid, something bad for
you. Just something different. (Rory smiles.) Isn't this the point of being
young? It's your choice, Ace. People can live a hundred years without really
living for a minute. You climb up here with me, it's one less minute you
haven't lived.

RORY: Let's go.

LOGAN: Let's go!

RORY: But I am not a fan of ladders.

LOGAN: They scare the crap out of me, too.

(They climb the scaffold.)

RORY: High. We are very high.

LOGAN: I've been higher.

RORY: I meant distance from the ground.

LOGAN: That, too.

SETH: This is totally safe. And it goes with your outfit. Nice. (He wraps a
band around her waist, which a line is connected to.)

RORY (pointing down at the crowd): Why do they look so worried?

LOGAN: We're low on champagne. You can back out, you know. No one's forcing
you.

RORY: I know. (She grabs an umbrella.)

(The emcee is calling up in Latin.)

LOGAN: You trust me?

RORY: You jump, I jump, Jack.

CROWD: In Omnia Paratus!

LOGAN: I really should have confirmed that those potatoes were okay.

(He grabs her hand and they jump. The crowd cheers as they land safely.)

SETH: Oh, thank God.

LOGAN: You did good, Ace!

RORY: Once in a lifetime experience!

LOGAN: Only if you want it to be.

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