In the original show, there is a 10 year age gap between Speed and Spritle, which makes sense in the context of the movie too if Speed is 10 in the flashback at the beginning (where Rex is 18) and there is an 8 year gap between when Rex raced at Thunderhead and when Speed does. Spritle is probably conceived right around the time Rex is leaving home, maybe it was before, but Mom hadn't broken the news to the family yet, or right after.
Rex would have probably heard the news that there was a new Racer boy while he was still racing with Uniron, before the trial and him faking his death. So, I think Spritle screaming and slamming the door in his face probably was the first time he ever met his youngest brother.
But think about this, Rex finds out his Mom had another child during the first year he's with his evil slimey sponsor team and is seeing the underbelly of the racing world for the first time, and all he can think is, "Oh no. Another kid set up for failure to follow him into this hell." Because of course he's going to, he's a Racer. If he's anything like Speed, if he's anything like Rex, of course he's going to end up right where Rex himself is right now. And it was already hard enough when he thought it was only one brother he had to protect from this fate, but now there's another, and he has to do something to create a future for his brothers where there wasn't one for him. So even if he know it will break his family's hearts in the end, he whistle blows on his team, goes to trial and rats out on all the crime he's witnessed. Then, he fakes his death to stop anyone from going after his family in retaliation, joins the CIB as an alias, and becomes Racer X.
Now years later, the racing world is much the same as it was for him, but now Speed's embroiled in it too, just like he knew he would be. How much longer till it gets all three of the Racer boys? He's still never met his youngest brother, but in his gut he knows it's only a matter of time before it gets him too.
He's standing on the doorstep of his old family home with the Inspector, knowing this is a bad idea, when a young boy and a monkey open the door. Before either of them can get a word out, the boy screams and slams the door in their faces. And Rex realizes, this is his youngest brother, the one he never met. They're invited in by Pops, and Rex is standing there silently as the Inspector explains why they're there. His eyes keep drifting to Speed, to see how he's handling the information and to etch into his brain the young man his kid brother has turned into. But in equal parts his gaze keeps turning to the young boy hiding behind the counter with his pet monkey.
He's not sure what he was expecting his youngest brother to be like, maybe a carbon copy of Speed at that age, but he's clearly not. He obviously likes sweets, is a bit suspicious and a lot dramatic, but he seems like a good kid. He's following the conversation as well as all of the adults in the room, like he understand the intricate working of the racing world, and of course he does, he's a Racer, it's in his blood. But Rex doesn't see that spark in his eye he recognizes in Speed and his own when being in a race is brought up. And something unclenches in his chest as he realizes maybe this youngest brother isn't a racecar driver like he and Speed are, maybe he'll still be safe from the underbelly that swallowed him and is attempting to swallow Speed now.
And when he brings up the Casa Cristo and witnesses first hand the grief and agony his family is still realing from because of his actions, he is shockingly please to see that Spritle doesn't seem affected like the rest. How could he be, Rex wasn't around for him to know, so why would he be touch by his loss like the others. As he leaves the house, it's almost refreshing to know that at least there's one family member he's never hurt.
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