(beat) So, is that my problem? I'm afraid of being abandoned? That was easy.
SEAN:
Look, a lot of that stuff goes back a long way. And it's between me and him and it has nothing to do with you.
WILL:
Do you want to talk about it?
Sean smiles. A beat. Will sees a FILE on Sean's desk.
WILL:
What's that?
SEAN:
Oh, this is your file. I have to send it back to the Judge with my evaluation.
WILL:
You're not going to fail me are you?
Sean smiles.
WILL:
So what's it say?
SEAN:
You want to read it?
WILL:
No.
(beat) Have you had any experience with that?
SEAN:
Twenty years of counseling you see a lot of--
WILL:
No, have you had any experience with that?
SEAN:
Yes.
WILL:
(smiles) It sure ain't good.
INT. WILL'S CHILDHOOD APARTMENT -- FLASHBACK From a child's P.O.V. we see a man, partially obscured by a doorframe. The man turns toward the P.O.V.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY
SEAN:
(after a pause) My dad used to make us walk down to the park and collect the sticks he was going to beat us with. Actually the worst of the beatings were between me and my brother. We would practice on each other trying to find sticks that would break.
WILL:
He used to just put a belt, a stick and a wrench on the kitchen table and say "choose."
INT. WILL'S CHILDHOOD APARTMENT -- FLASHBACK A large, callused hand sets down a wrench next to a stick.
