Act just like a rubber ball...
Look, Holly! Sebastian!
Sebastian.
He sure looks good.
- It's been three months.
- Yeah, that's right. So it is.
Hello, Sebastian. Glad
you're out of the hospital.
I'm sorry you weren't with me.
The show missed you.
Sebastian!
- Sebastian.
- Holly.
Oh, jiminy crickets! Oh, gosh!
I've never been so happy to see anyone.
Are you all right
again? Really all right?
Let me see if it's really you.
It was a wonderful hospital.
And such nurses, too.
And we were worried about this big lug.
This calls for a celebration.
He came back when he heard how
good you were in the centre ring.
I was just keeping it warm for you.
- I do not want it.
- Why not?
- You don't want the centre ring back?
- Why not?
Because I just came back
to collect my things.
What for?
- Match?
- No, thank you.
Collect your...
Now I know he's kidding.
No, no. I dropped over
at the Columbia show.
Columbia?
We've been fighting them in
every town since you left.
I ran into somebody over there
I had not seen since Paris,
and very charming.
You know how it is. These things happen.
No. What happens?
You know. A pearl loses
it's luster in time.
Champagne goes flat, doesn't it?
Even the blond bubbling
kind goes flat very quickly.
Well, I will get my gear and rigging.
You don't plan to work
for Columbia, do you?
Let him go, Brad. He's
found some more stardust.
No, he hasn't.
Chйrie, I return you to
sawdust. Sawdust to sawdust.
You wouldn't work for Columbia.
You're The Great Sebastian.
You wouldn't give up the centre
ring for anything or anybody,
unless you couldn't hold it.
You've been lying ever
since you came in here.
- Now lets see the truth.
- Keep your hands off...
- You should not have done that.
- That's why you wouldn't shake hands.
You weren't going to Columbia.
There wasn't any girl from Paris.
You just didn't want me to know...
To know what Id done.
No, no, no, chйrie.
You have done nothing.
It is life.
No one is to blame.
- Can't something be done?
- No. They have tried.
May I have my coat, please?
There's a job for you in this
show as long as you want it.
One more cripple
hanging on to the circus?
Watching others flying through the
air while I am crawling on the ground?
You are meaning to be kind, boss man,
but you and I both know
it is better that I go.
Don't let him go, Brad!
Holly, he's grounded for good.
Hell go crazy if he stays.
- I did that to him.
- No, he took the chance.
I did it to him, as
surely as if Id shot him.
- You had nothing to do with it.
- Oh, yes, I did, Brad.
I made him take that net down.
I laughed at him. I razzed him into
it. That's what made him take it down!
You two crazy fools.
He was tops in the air.
Now he's tied to a dead arm
for the rest of his life,
a claw hand.
- It would've been kinder if Id killed him.
- Holly, this is circus.
Brad, you can't realise what it
means not to go up there again.
Maybe I can.
That's why it's better to let him go.
- Lf he goes, lm going with him.
- Holly, don't be a fool!
You saw the way he hid his arm,
said things to make me hate him.
He said them because he
didn't want me to know...
To know that Id smashed him,
smashed his whole life.
He didn't want me to
know because he loves me.
And I've got to make it up
to him for what I've done.
All right, you smashed him.
Do you think smashing all
three of us will help him?
You don't need me, Brad.
You've got what you love.
You've got the circus. But what's he got?
He's got guts. That guys
tough. He doesn't need sympathy.
He can take this if you leave
him alone. He doesn't need pity.
I'm not going to give him pity.
I'm going to try and give him love.
Yeah?
All right.
- What do you want?
- To help you.
I don't want any help.
I don't need any help.
You come here to cry over me,
go somewhere else. I am packing.
You don't even know where you're going.
Besides, wherever it
is, what could you