Good Will Hunting · written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck · 1997

The friends leave together and sing to Will instead of turning their old threats into violence.

Scene 109 of 127 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act three

Chuckie
Will
Morgan
Billy

Act oneAct two

Begins 2:03 into a 2:11 film

The story so farBefore scene 109

When MIT professor Gerald Lambeau discovers that janitor Will Hunting is a gifted mathematician, a court deal lets Will work with Lambeau and therapist Sean Maguire; Will must risk intimacy and choose a life beyond the defenses that have kept him safe.

Scenes 1–16
Will is a brilliant janitor, fiercely loyal to his South Boston friends and protected by routine.
Scenes 17–31
Lambeau's discovery and the court deal confront Will with an ability and a future he cannot keep hidden.
Scenes 32–46
Will enters therapy and the academic world while beginning a relationship with Skylar.
Scenes 47–82
He tests intimacy and professional opportunity while using jokes, anger and silence to stay in control.
Scenes 83–91
Will proves he can refuse a prestigious job, but the refusal does not yet tell him what he wants.
Scenes 92–97
He loses Skylar's trust and collides with Lambeau and Sean over a future he has avoided choosing.
Just before
Scene 106
Will enters Tri-Tech's reception area and faces the job he has been expected to take.
Scene 107
Chuckie retells the bar's familiar story, returning the friends to their opening rhythm.
Scene 108
Will rejoins the group and speaks about what he will do next.
Scene 109
This scene

109EXT. L STREET -- CONTINUOUS

As they come out the door, rather tha beating Will mercilessly, they stop. Morgan goes into his own, personal rendition of "Danny Boy." No one joins in.

CHUCKIE

Shut up, Morgan.

(to Will)

Here's your present.

Chuckie indicates an old CHEVY NOVA, parked illegally in front of the bar.

WILL

You're kiddin' me.

CHUCKIE

Yeah, I figured now that you got your

big job over in Cambridge, you needed

some way to get over there and I knew

I wasn't gonna drive you every day...

Laughter.

CHUCKIE (cont'd)

Morgan wanted to get you a "T" pass.

MORGAN

No I didn't...

Will approaches the car to take a closer look.

CHUCKIE

But you're twenty-one now, so--

BILLY

--Yeah, now that you can drink legally,

we thought the best thing to get you

was a car.

More laughter. Will inspects the Nova.

WILL

You're kiddin' me.

(a beat)

This is the ugliest fuckin' car I ever

seen in my life.

Laughter, a beat.

WILL (cont'd)

(serious)

How the fuck did you guys do this?

CHUCKIE

Me and Bill scraped together the parts,

worked on it. Morgan was out

panhandlin' every day.

MORGAN

Fuck you, I did the body work. Whose

fuckin' router you think sanded out

all that bondo?

CHUCKIE

Guy's been up my ass for two years

about a fuckin' job. I had to let him