Good Will Hunting Page #34

CHUCKIE:

Look, you're my best friend, so don't

take this the wrong way, but in 20

years, if you're livin' next door to

me, comin' over watchin' the f***in'

Patriots' games and still workin'

construction, I'll f***in' kill you.

And that's not a threat, that's a

fact. I'll f***in' kill you.

WILL:

Chuckie, what are you talkin'...

CHUCKIE:

Listen, you got somethin' that none

of us have.

WILL:

Why is it always this? I owe it to

myself? What if I don't want to?

CHUCKIE:

F*** you. You owe it to me. Tomorrow

I'm gonna wake up and I'll be fifty

and I'll still be doin' this. And

that's all right 'cause I'm gonna

make a run at it. But you, you're

sittin' on a winning lottery ticket

and you're too much of a p*ssy to

cash it in. And that's bullshit 'cause

I'd do anything to have what you

got! And so would any of these guys.

It'd be a f***in' insult to us if

you're still here in twenty years.

WILL:

You don't know that.

CHUCKIE:

Let me tell you what I do know. Every

day I come by to pick you up, and we

go out drinkin' or whatever and we

have a few laughs. But you know what

the best part of my day is? The ten

seconds before I knock on the door

'cause I let myself think I might

get there, and you'd be gone. I'd

knock on the door and you wouldn't

be there. You just left.

A beat.

CHUCKIE:

Now, I don't know much. But I know

that.

CUT TO:

INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY

Lambeau stands across from Sean, seething.

LAMBEAU:

This is a disaster! I brought you in

here to help me with this boy, not

to run him out--

SEAN:

Now wait a minute--

LAMBEAU:

--And confuse him--

SEAN:

--Gerry--

LAMBEAU:

And here I am for the second week in

a row with my professional reputation

at stake--

SEAN:

Hold on!

LAMBEAU:

Ready to falsify documents because

you've given him license to walk

away from this.

SEAN:

I know what I'm doing and I know why

I'm here!

LAMBEAU:

Look Sean, I don't care if you have

a rapport with the boy -- I don't

care if you have a few laughs --

even at my expense! But don't you

dare undermine what I'm trying to do

here.

SEAN:

"Undermine?"

LAMBEAU:

He has a gift and with that gift

comes responsibility. And you don't

understand that he's at a fragile

point--

SEAN:

He is at a fragile point. He's got

problems--

LAMBEAU:

What problems does he have, Sean,

that he is better off as a janitor

or in jail or hanging around with--

SEAN:

Why do you think he does that, Gerry?

LAMBEAU:

He can handle the work, he can handle

the pressure and he's obviously

handled you.

SEAN:

Why is he hiding? Why is he a janitor?

Why doesn't he trust anybody? Because

the first thing that happened to him

was that he was abandoned by the

people who were supposed to love him

the most!

LAMBEAU:

Oh, come on, Sean--

SEAN:

And why does he hang out with his

friends? Because any one of those

kids would come in here and take a

bat to your head if he asked them

to. It's called loyalty!

LAMBEAU:

Oh, that's nice--

SEAN:

And who do you think he's handling?

He pushes people away before they

have a chance to leave him. And for

20 years he's been alone because of

that. And if you try to push him

into this, it's going to be the same

thing all over again. And I'm not

going to let that happen to him!

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