Good Will Hunting Page #21

WILL:

Didn't your mother ever tell you not

to look a gift horse in the mouth?

SKYLAR:

I'm supposed to understand this.

WILL:

You're not going into surgery tomorrow

are you?

SKYLAR:

No.

WILL:

Then let's go have some fun.

With a smile, she relents.

INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY

Sean and Will in session.

SEAN:

Really? How'd the date go?

WILL:

Do you still counsel veterans?

(beat)

I read your book last night.

SEAN:

No, I don't.

WILL:

Why not?

SEAN:

I gave that up when my wife got sick.

WILL:

Is that why you didn't write anything

else?

SEAN:

(smiles)

I didn't write anything else 'cause

nobody, including most of my

colleagues bothered to read the first

one.

WILL:

Well, I've read you colleagues. Your

book was good, Sean.

(beat)

All those guys were in your platoon?

SEAN:

Yeah.

WILL:

What happened to that guy from

Kentucky?

SEAN:

Lon? He got married. He has a kid. I

kind of lost touch with him after

Nancy got sick.

WILL:

Do you ever wonder what your life

would be like if you never met your

wife?

SEAN:

What? Do I wonder if I'd be better

off if I never met my wife?

Will starts to clarify his question.

SEAN:

No, that's okay. It's an important

question. 'Cause you'll have your

bad times, which wake you up to the

good stuff you weren't paying

attention to. And you can fail, as

long as you're trying hard. But

there's nothing worse than regret.

WILL:

You don't regret meetin' your wife?

SEAN:

Why? Because of the pain I feel now?

I have regrets Will, but I don't

regret a singel day I spent with

her.

WILL:

When did you know she was the one?

SEAN:

October 21, 1975. Game six of the

World Series. Biggest game in Red

Sox history, Me and my friends slept

out on the sidewalk all night to get

tickets. We were sitting in a bar

waiting for the game to start and in

walks this girl. What a game that

was. Tie game in the bottom of the

tenth inning, in steps Carlton Fisk,

hit a long fly ball down the left

field line. Thirty-five thousand

fans on their feet, screamin' at the

ball to stay fair. Fisk is runnin'

up the baseline, wavin' at the ball

like a madman. It hits the foul pole,

home run. Thirty-five thousand people

went crazy. And I wasn't one of them.

WILL:

Where were you?

SEAN:

I was havin' a drink with my future

wife.

WILL:

You missed Pudge Fisk's homerun to

have a drink with a woman you had

never met?

SEAN:

That's right.

WILL:

So wait a minute. The Red Sox haven't

won a World Series since nineteen

eighteen, you slept out for tickets,

games gonna start in twenty minutes,

in walks a girl you never seen before,

and you give your ticket away?

SEAN:

You should have seen this girl. She

lit up the room.

WILL:

I don't care if Helen of Troy walked

into that bar! That's game six of

the World Series!

Sean smiles.

WILL:

And what kind of friends are these?

They let you get away with that?

SEAN:

I just slid my ticket across the

table and said "sorry fellas, I gotta

go see about a girl."

WILL:

"I gotta go see about a girl"? What

did they say?

SEAN:

They could see that I meant it.

WILL:

You're kiddin' me.

SEAN:

No Will, I'm not kiddin' you. If I

had gone to see that game I'd be in

here talkin' abouta girl I saw at a

bar twenty years ago. And how I always

regretted not goin' over there and

talkin' to her. I don't regret the

eighteen years we were married. I

don't regret givin' up counseling

for six years when she got sick. I

don't regret being by her side for

the last two years when things got

real bad. And I sure as Hell don't

regret missing that damn game.

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