The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[memento]

Ennis was able to confide in Jack how his father tried to terrify K.E. and him by showing him Earl's dead body.

[Toast]

Ennis carried the unconsolable events of Earl's death with him all his life.

def - Sad beyond comforting.

[southendmd]

Jack treated Ennis's punch as a veniality; he wasn't really sore from that punch and could forgive Ennis.

[Fran]

At the Motel Siesta Jack gave Ennis a watered-down version of his conversation with Joe Aguirre.

[memento]

Cassie was upset at her x-lover's cold demeanor after she had made her feelings for him so clear.

[memento]

Round 594!!
Left Wanting So Much More!!

[Meryl]

Jack's heart yearned for his soulmate Ennis, but that yearning was never to be wholly assuaged.

[ProwlAmongUs]

Throughout his married life, Jack was the unfortunate recipient of L.D. Newsome's bombastic ramblings.

[Toast]

The 2003 screenplay describes Ennis's callousness to Cassie (without a boyfriend) as he ends their fling:

136 INT: DENNY'S RESTAURANT: RIVERTON: NIGHT:

ENNIS sits in a booth, eating a slice of apple pie and drinking coffee. An ELDERLY MAN sits at the counter. A heavy-set WAITRESS carries a tray of food past ENNIS, and serves a middle-aged couple in a booth.  Glen Campbell's "SOUTHERN NIGHTS" plays from the speakers mounted in the ceiling. Enter CASSIE.  She's dressed in tight jeans, her white blouse untucked on one side. She is slightly disheveled, has been crying, her eyeliner trailing down her face. She sits down in ENNIS'S booth, across from him.

                    CASSIE
               {loud whisper)
          Where you been?

The restaurant is dead silent.

                    CASSIE
               (still whispering)
          I said, where you been?  I ain’t seen you for a week.
          Called you up, you said you wasn't goin' out tonight.

                    ENNIS
               (a little defensive)
          Denny's ain't goin' out. I got hungry, so I came here
          to get some pie. (a beat) Can't I eat in peace?

                    CASSIE
          Been drivin' around for hours, lookin' for your truck.

ENNIS drops his fork. It clanks on the plate. The noise makes ENNIS self-conscious, looks around.

                    CASSIE
          I drove to your trailer and you wasn't there,

                    ENNIS
          Didn't know you was my parole officer.

                    CASSIE
          I ain't your parole officer.  I'm your girlfriend,
          why can't you treat me like one?

ENNIS looks at CASSIE.  CASSIE looks hard at his face: he's dark, distant, inaccessible.

                    CASSIE
          I don't get you, Ennis Del Mar.

Knows he's hurting her, but he doesn't know what to do about it. The look on his face changes then, to a look of stark loneliness. She realizes, then, that she's not the answer.

ENNIS reaches up to her shoulder.
CASSIE deflects ENNIS'S hand. Tears well up in CASSIE'S eyes. 
She gets up, begins to sob when she gets to the door.
               [Leaves.]

ENNIS stares out the window at her as she gets in her car, speeds off.

[Fran]

Uncharacteristically downcast and desolate upon realizing that he had misinterpreted the meaning of Ennis's postcard about the divorce, Jack headed for Mexico.