[Interior – KLIFF KINGBURY’S Paradise Valley, Arizona home] A slender man sits relaxed in the middle of his couch as two visitors flank him from Roche-Bobois Spoutnik armchairs on either side of the couch. The larger visitor is rubbing his hands together and staring through the floor to ceiling windows at the estate grounds. The smaller visitor, a white woman with an obvious unfamiliar understanding of both the surroundings and the substance of the conversation, shifts her eyes between the two silent men. The man on the couch finally speaks.

KLIFF KINGSBURY: Look, I appreciate you all have to run your investigation but I have helped you. I’ve given you answers to the questions I have been asked. You may not like them but that’s the facts. So I don’t know what you expect to gain from this silence….Really…..I mean, what’s with the silent treatment here? What do you know that I don’t know?

BEATRICE “BEADIE” RUSSELL: Well it’s just that — wait. Is….is this chair warming up?

KINGSBURY: Fuckin’ A. Settle in for — ready for this? — Sports Mode. I’m getting ready to watch some TCU/Georgia pregame action. Didn’t watch it last night because of the firing and all. Put a boatload on TCU straight-up though. I know being blessed by Christ and I know football. Texas football; I’ve dominated it — there’s nothing like it. GO FROGS! Want to stick around? I got nothing going on and you look like a couple working-class Americans who don’t have time to follow now-millionaire kids playing football on a Monday after New Year’s.

WILLIAM “BUNK” MORELAND: Well you would be right about that, my man. I’m about already over missing the Bengals game and that ain’t even happen yet. But you really feeling all blessed right now? After being criticized, fired, called a beta-cuck who doesn’t have the stones to run a package or a locker room? Now you’re gonna cover for Mike Bidwill? Keep your mouth shut for Robert Sarver?

 [DOOR FLIES OPEN]

POLISH INSTAGRAM MODEL VERONICA BIELIK: Oh! Hello there. I did not know we had visitors! Kliify! Now I am the embarrass here for my boyfriend with blushing.

KINGBURY: It’s okay, Veronica. These are a couple officers with la policia. They seem to think that Mr Bidwill — you know, the szef — is somehow into something no good. Something zly.

BIELIK: Oh noooooooooo. You are policja? Please listen to Mr Kliffy. He knows how good Mr Bidwill is. You know, when I met Mr Bidwill the first time, I was in this exact outfit and the first thing Mr Bidwill said to me was — oh um, sorry my accent — I stood right here and he say, “God woman! Put a towel over that! No one want to look at that!” Very traditional. He turn his head away. Very gentleman that wydra. Oh but Mr Kliffy will tell you. Now, I am here and I will bring you all some tea and — no no — coffee! and pączki. [Exits through hallway to kitchen]

KINGSBURY: Like I was saying, detectives — blessed. I’m like early 40’s. Got this place. Got THAT. Enough cash that, between you and me, I am RUINED as an employee. I probably shouldn’t tell you that because, like, I don’t want to kill the passion you two have for policework but, hey, just being honest with you here.

[BIELIK steps in and sets a heavy glass on the table next to BUNK; a coffee mug beside BEADIE, and exits towards the porte-cochère. No one speaks until she is out of sight.]

BUNK: Now what have we here?

KINGSBURY: I hope her hospitality isn’t intrusive. It’s just that, well, we have a pretty extensive liquor selection but I don’t drink much and, honestly, Veronica has this gift of just pairing a drink with a person. I mean, give it a try. Or if that’s even allowed? I don’t know. The last time I had a job where anyone cared if I ever took a nip must have been, I guess when I played for Cologne in NFL Europe. Did you know that about me? Got a ring with the Patriots my rookie year — so, I guess I did show the Cardinals something new — now it’s been the better part of twenty years and I’ve seen a lot.

BUNK: But you ain’t seen anything to help them blue collar people out there. Nothing for the kinds of people who float checks to pay for those tickets to seat in those seats and drink overpriced beer while your boy woofs down an overpriced hot dog? You ain’t seen nothing for them. Yeah, you too drunk on this here fine whiskey while you put your feet up and rest on your laurels. You gonna keep those lips locked like her pollock ass.

BEADIE: Mr Kingsbury —

KINGSBURY: Coach. It’s like Doctor or Esquire. I’m just kind of, I guess, non-practicing right now.

BEADIE: Coach Kingsbury. We’re really trying to just find out what is going on. The real truth. Look, we don’t know anything about what’s coming together in front of us. But we do know there are some bad people around this and we can’t help you or Mr Bidwill unless you talk to us.

KINGSBURY: Let me be clear about this to both of you. I am done. I’ve reached a high level of professional coaching. Obviously I’m not the  best guy ever but, I’m just saying, the guy who had this job before me got canned after one season and I got a contract extension. That’s it. That is the market speaking. To the market, I had value. I had potential. I was worth taking a chance on. You guys go to that FTX fuck up and ask him to rat on Elon or whoever backed their fraud? No, You see Michael Bidwill and Steve Keim, not just take a chance on me, but see my vision and buy-in? So it didn’t work! Maybe I’ll learn. Maybe I’ll be back. I love Mike Bidwill. If he ever calls me and tells me he needs a coach — for one game or one-hundred — I will drop whatever I am doing to help the man who shared his wealth with me. Oh, and on his passive advice one day, I had nothing in FTX! I’m on the outside watching this unfold. Tell Ramsey and Brady to stick that up their asses!

BUNK:  I can see that. You are one fortunate man. You got a good set up. Next time you getting blessings at the fountain or whatever, mind tossing in a small tithe for The Bunk? Fuck, Kliffy, just a fifth of this special whiskey would be a miracle at my pay grade. I mean, since you seem to have the touch.

KINGSBURY: Look, I just know where my bread is buttered. I’m trying to show you. I’m trying to display this all enticingly to you. I’m offering my home to you, My drink. My DVR. I offer to share with you the spoils — the riches — of being on the inner circle of a Michael Bidwill. Catching flies with honey and all that. Do you hear me? Do you see what I’m saying?

BEADIE: I just don’t understand how you keep such unwavering loyalty after the brutality displayed on that Black Monday. It’s so ugly.

KINGSBURY: It’s pretty manageable from inside this compound actually. Wasn’t a surprise so I just left it all behind me at the office. I can honestly tell you that the blackest part about Monday around this residence last night…was the train.

BUNK: Shit man. I got a woman back home that’d never make me go to work if we sat in chairs like this in houses like this with a drink like this. You got a humidor in this thing? Something for the Bunk’s other hand here?

KINGSBURY: I do. But that will need to wait until next time. I’m afraid your comment reminded me that we have a full schedule planned for my first day off. I really get why people are so sour when they say failed up. It’s hilarious from this side though.

BEADIE: We will follow up with any further questions. Veronica is lovely and the coffee was really wonderful. Good luck with your….unemployment.

KINGSBURY: Thanks! We drink Nespresso Reserve pods not Shell gas station piss. Door is behind you both.