The rising action is when a man crawls into Thane and Ty's house in the middle of the night and Ty was scared it was one of the mobsters, so he grabbed a baseball bat and took a couple swings and turned out it was his Uncle Gus.
Ty, a 12-year-old football prodigy, has plenty of stress in his life. His older brother Thane, a pro football player, is his guardian, because his parents died in a car accident. Ty gets to travel with Thane to his football games. Ty's Uncle Gus loves hearing about Thane and the Jets, but it isn't until the FBI arrives on his doorstep that he realizes that Uncle Gus is passing the information on to the Mob.