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

Sean tells Lambeau that Will did not speak, frustrating Lambeau's demand for quick progress.

Scene 57 of 127 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Lambeau
Sean

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:02 into a 2:11 film

The story so farBefore scene 57

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 54
In the rain, Will calls Skylar from a pay phone while his friends wait in the car.
Scene 55
Skylar answers, but Will hangs up before he can speak honestly.
Scene 56
Will sits through a silent session with Sean, unable to turn the moment into a joke.
Scene 57
This scene

57INT. HALLWAY -- LATER

Lambeau and Sean walk down the hallway after the session.

LAMBEAU

What do you mean "he didn't talk?"

You sat there for an hour?

SEAN

No, he just sat there and counted the

seconds until the session was over.

It was pretty impressive, actually.

LAMBEAU

Why would he do that?

SEAN

To show me he doesn't have to talk to

me if he doesn't want to.

LAMBEAU

Oh, what is this? Some kind of staring

contest between two kids from the "old

neighborhood?"

SEAN

I won't talk first.