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

Skylar answers, but Will hangs up before he can speak honestly.

Scene 55 of 127 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Skylar
Chuckie
Will
Morgan
Billy

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:01 into a 2:11 film

The story so farBefore scene 55

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.
Just before
Scene 52
Sean confronts Will in the Common and shares the loss of his wife, breaking the therapeutic standoff.
Scene 53
Will and Chuckie do demolition work, grounding their friendship in shared labor.
Scene 54
In the rain, Will calls Skylar from a pay phone while his friends wait in the car.
Scene 55
This scene

55INT. SKYLAR'S ROOM -- NIGHT

SKYLAR

Hello?

Will hangs up and runs back to the car, soaked.

CHUCKIE

Who'd you call?

WILL

No one. I didn't have the number.

MORGAN

What are you, retarded? You went all

the way out there in the rain and you

didn't have the number?

WILL

No, it was your mother's 900 number.

I just ran out of quarters.

Laughter. Chuckie pulls away from the curb.

MORGAN

Why don't we get off mothers, I just

got off yours.

There is a long moment of silence in response to Morgan's attempt at levity. Then laughter.

BILLY

You're a pretty funny guy. Here, have

a nickel.

Billy WHIPS his EMPTY BEER CAN off of Morgan's head.

MORGAN

Keep fuckin' with me. Watch what

happens.

BILLY

All right, then.

MORGAN

Watch what happens.

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