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

Lambeau returns to find an elegant solution on the board and tries to identify who wrote it.

Scene 8 of 127 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Lambeau
Nemesh

Act oneAct two

Begins 8 min into a 2:11 film

The story so farBefore scene 8

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.

Scene 2
Will's humor and loyalty live inside a tight South Boston circle.
Just before
Scene 5
Sean sits alone on his rooftop, drinking and grieving.
Scene 6
Lambeau works the MIT reunion, embedded in the institution that has defined his life.
Scene 7
Will and his friends drink at a local ball game, secure in their shared routine.
Scene 8
This scene

8INT. M.I.T. HALLWAY -- LATER

Lambeau, still in his reunion formal-wear, strides down the hallway, carrying some papers. A group of students have gathered by the chalkboard. They part like the red sea as he approaches the board. Using the papers in hand, he checks the proof. Satisfied, he turns to the class.

LAMBEAU

This is correct? Who did this?

Dead silence. Lambeau turns to an INDIAN STUDENT.

LAMBEAU (cont'd)

Nemesh?

Nemesh shakes his head in awe.

NEMESH

No way.

Lambeau erases the proof and starts putting up a new one.

LAMBEAU

Well, whoever You are, I'm sure you'll

find this one challenging enough to

merit coming forward with your identity.

That is, if you can do it.