Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by to pick you up, and we go out drinkin' or whatever and we have a few laughs. But you know what the best part of my day is? The ten seconds before I knock on the door 'cause I let myself think I might get there, and you'd be gone. I'd knock on the door and you wouldn't be there. You just left.
A beat.
CHUCKIE:
Now, I don't know much. But I know that.
CUT TO:
INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY Lambeau stands across from Sean, seething.
LAMBEAU:
This is a disaster! I brought you in here to help me with this boy, not to run him out--
SEAN:
Now wait a minute--
LAMBEAU:
--And confuse him--
SEAN:
--Gerry--
LAMBEAU:
And here I am for the second week in a row with my professional reputation at stake--
SEAN:
Hold on!
LAMBEAU:
Ready to falsify documents because you've given him license to walk away from this.
SEAN:
I know what I'm doing and I know why I'm here!
LAMBEAU:
Look Sean, I don't care if you have a rapport with the boy -- I don't care if you have a few laughs -- even at my expense! But don't you dare undermine what I'm trying to do here.
SEAN:
"Undermine?"
LAMBEAU:
He has a gift and with that gift comes responsibility. And you don't understand that he's at a fragile point--
SEAN:
He is at a fragile point. He's got problems--
LAMBEAU:
What problems does he have, Sean, that he is better off as a janitor or in jail or hanging around with--
SEAN:
Why do you think he does that, Gerry?
LAMBEAU:
He can handle the work, he can handle the pressure and he's obviously handled you.
SEAN:
Why is he hiding? Why is he a janitor?
Why doesn't he trust anybody? Because the first thing that happened to him was that he was abandoned by the people who were supposed to love him the most!
LAMBEAU:
Oh, come on, Sean--
SEAN:
And why does he hang out with his friends? Because any one of those kids would come in here and take a bat to your head if he asked them to. It's called loyalty!
