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

Lambeau offers to intervene if Will studies mathematics and attends therapy; Will accepts.

Scene 31 of 127 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Last scene of act one

Plot Point I
Save the Cat: Break into Two
Lambeau
Will

Act oneAct two

Begins 32 min into a 2:11 film

The story so farBefore scene 31

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.
Scene 17
Lambeau discovers the anonymous solution on the MIT hallway board and learns his janitor solved it.
Just before
Scene 28
Will faces sentencing after another assault, with Lambeau present in court.
Scene 29
A guard takes Will to the jail phones after he is remanded.
Scene 30
Will phones Skylar from the jail, reaching toward a connection beyond his friends.
Scene 31
This scene

31INT. MIDDLESEX COUNTY JAIL, INTERROGATION ROOM -- LATER

Professor Lambeau sits, waiting. Will is brought in, shackled, by the guard.

LAMBEAU

Hello. Gerald Lambeau, M.I.T.

WILL

Fuck do you want?

LAMBEAU

I've spoken with the judge and he's

agreed to release you under my

supervision.

WILL

(suspicious)

Really?

LAMBEAU

(beat)

Yes. Under two conditions.

WILL

What're those?

LAMBEAU

That you meet with me twice a week--

[This portion poorly Xeroxed, but Lambeau explains the need to meet with a therapist as the second condition]

WILL

If I agree to this, I walk right now?

LAMBEAU

That's right.

WILL

I'll do the work. I'm not going to meet

with a therapist.

LAMBEAU

Now, it won't be as bad as it sounds,

Will.

(beat)

I've already spoken to one therapist,

his name is Henry Lipkin and he's a

friend of mine. He's also published

four books and is widely considered to

be one of the brightest men in his

field.

(beat)

I'm sure it'll be better than spending

the next six months in jail.

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