Million Dollar Baby Scene 21 Summary

Nobody Writes Letters Anymore

  • Back at the gym, Scrap waits for Frankie to show up. He doesn't.
  • But who does? It's Danger. Scrap's genuinely happy to see him.
  • Danger tells him that he'd been thinking about what Scrap said: Anybody can lose one fight. Scrap tells Danger to get ready; he's missed a lot of training.
  • Scrap tells us, via voice-over, that Frankie never came back. Ever. No note. No forwarding address. Nobody knows where he went.
  • Scrap just hopes he found somewhere peaceful to spend his days, and maybe eat some killer lemon pie.
  • Scrap's narration shifts, and we see he's writing a letter in the office at the Hit Pit. He's addressing Frankie's daughter, Katy.
  • Whoa! This whole time, his narration has been him writing down this story for her. "No matter where he is," Scrap writes, "I thought you should know what kind of man your father really was."
  • As Scrap's narration comes to a close, we zoom in on Ira's Roadside Diner. Peering through the cloudy window, we see a man that sure looks like Frankie sitting at the counter.