(Later, Mack drives along)
????: (on TV) Fans here at Thunder Hollow still buzzing over tonight's unexpected appearance of Lightning McQueen, Eric Rookerson, The Junior Patrollers and The Paw Patrol.
Miss Fritter: (on TV) They has always been my favorites! My garage is filled with head to toe in 95 posters.
(Lightning and Champ stares at Cruz and the Thunder Hollow Trophy)
Cruz Ramirez: So, trophy's kinda nice. Don't you think?
(Lightning and Champ just stares)
Cruz Ramirez: I mean, we know you all got a million of them, so you would know.
Lightning McQueen: (enraged) Stop! Just stop! Okay, Cruz? You don't even know. You don't even have one clue!
Cruz Ramirez: Hey! I was just trying to — (The others watch as it goes on)
Champ: Do you know what happens if we lose this race?! Every mile of this trip was to get us faster than Jackson Storm. Faster! We start off getting nowhere for a week, on a simulator! We lose a whole day with you on Fireball Beach! And then, we waste tonight in the crosshairs of Miss Fritter! We're stuck in the same speed we were a month ago! We can't get any faster, because We're too busy TAKING CARE OF OUR TRAINER!!!
Lightning McQueen: This is our last chance, Cruz! Last! Final! Finito! If we lose, we will never get to do this again! If you were a racer, you'd know what we're talking about! But you're not! So, you don't!
(Because Lightning and Champ were very enraged and angry, they accidentally knock the Thunder Hollow trophy and caused it to fall and break)
Cruz Ramirez: (gasps and gets angry) Mack, pull over!
Mack: What, now?
Cruz Ramirez: NOW! (She presses the buttons and opens the door with sparks flowing)
Mack: Okay! I'm pulling over! I'm pulling over!
(They leave the trailer)
Cruz Ramirez: Ask us if we dreamed of being trainers, guys, go ahead! Ask me if I got up, in the dark, to run laps before school every day! Ask me if I saved every penny to buy a ticket to the races when they came to town. Ask me if I did that so that I could be trainers someday. Ask me.
Lightning McQueen: Did you...
Cruz Ramirez: NO! I wanted to become racers forever! Because of you all! I used to watch you on TV, flying through the air. You seemed so... fearless. And I used to watch you Ryder going on missions with the pups. Dream small, Cruz. That's what my family used to say. Dream small, or not at all. They were just trying to protect me. But I was the fastest kid in town, and I was gonna prove them wrong.
Eric Rookerson: Well, what happened?
Cruz Ramirez: When I got to my first race, I figured it out.
Chase: What?
Cruz Ramirez: That I didn't belong. The other racers looked nothing like me, they... they were bigger, and stronger and so... confident. And when they started their engines, that was it. I knew I'd never be a racer. I just left. It was my one shot, and I didn't take it.
[Cruz looks down while Lightning and Champ look extremely remorseful]
Cruz Ramirez: Yeah, so, I'm gonna head back to the training center. I think we all know it's for the best.
(Cruz turns to drive away, but then turns to them)
Cruz Ramirez: But can I ask you something? What was it like for you? When you showed up to your first race. How did you know you could do it?
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Paw Patrol: Cars 3
AdventureBlindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast cars, the legendary Lighting McQueen and the gang finds themselves pushed out of the sport that they love. Hoping to get back in the game, they turn to Cruz Ramirez, an eager young technician who has he...
