The Skeptic (2009)

Tom Arnold: Sully

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• Sully : You want to know what I think your problem with death is?

  Bryan Becket : Not really.

  Sully : You don't believe in anything. You know? You don't believe in a higher power, you don't believe in the afterlife, nothing.

  Bryan Becket : You're right. Life would be easier if I were gullible.

  Sully : You think I'm gullible, Beckett?

  Bryan Becket : Sully, you believe in everything.

  Sully : I don't believe in everything!

  Bryan Becket : Yes, you do.

  Sully : No.

  Bryan Becket : Okay. Didn't you once tell me you believed in the Loch Ness monster?

  Sully : Oh, they're gonna catch that sucker! You'll see.

• Bryan Becket : I don't know what the military was covering up at Roswell. Does that make it aliens?

  Sully : No! But alien bodies on the ground made it aliens!

• [Beckett and Sully drive up to the house] 

  Sully : Oh my God, it's a monster. She lived there alone? I wouldn't be caught dead alone in there. It would creep me out.

  Bryan Becket : I can't wait to get in there. I hear there's all kinds of antiques, even a wine cellar.

  Sully : You hear? Oh, that's right. This is the aunt that didn't like you, so she never invited you over.

  Bryan Becket : I don't care if she didn't like me. She's dead now. I'm inviting myself over.

  Sully : Yeah, but why didn't she like you?

  Bryan Becket : Don't know.

  Sully : You know, I gotta admit I find this all very, very intriguing.

  Bryan Becket : Well, you also find astrology intriguing, and it's not.

• [Beckett and Sully tour the house] 

  Sully : Yeah, but, you know, something still doesn't add up, you know? You got your classic mystery here. Don't you see that?

  Bryan Becket : Yeah, it's right up there with crop circles.

  Sully : Okay. You know what? I don't care how high your IQ test scores were. You lack common curiosity, and that's a flaw. It is. And I've got it. You know, I'm curious all day long, I'm like a two-year-old.

  [Beckett smiles] 

• Bryan Becket : You want to hear my theory on my aunt?

  Sully : [excitedly]  You have a theory?

  Bryan Becket : I don't think she was the saint that everybody thought she was. I think she was hiding something, about herself or about her past. And she feared being around someone like me: someone who was smart and shared her blood, I just might figure it out. It's a pretty juicy theory. It's right up your alley. What do you think, Sull?

  [Sully suddenly gasps; his eyes roll up in his head, and he staggers] 

  Bryan Becket : Sully! Sully!

  [Sully collapses against a table, sending a silver tea set crashing to the floor] 

  Bryan Becket : Hey!

  [Beckett runs to him] 

  Bryan Becket : Sully? Sully? Where's your juice?

  [He begins looking through the pockets of Sully's suit] 

  Bryan Becket : Where's your juice? Where's your - oh, okay. I got it. All right, just hang on, pal, you're gonna be fine. Let's just get some juice in you.

  Sully : [whispers]  There's something upstairs in the closet. Behind the crucifix.

• [Bryan has just learned that his aunt had written up a will, and that he does not inherit the house] 

  Bryan Becket : Then who the hell did she leave the house to?

  Sully : The Delano Institute.

  Bryan Becket : Why would she...

  Sully : I don't know why, but she left it to a particular department there, run by one Dr. Warren Koven.

  Bryan Becket : Okay. What do we know about this Koven guy?

  Sully : He runs a sleep lab.

  Bryan Becket : Which is what, exactly?

  Sully : I don't know. I assume it's a lab where people sleep. And now they've got your house, I'm sure they're gonna sleep a lot easier.

• [Sully has confronted Becket about his poor showing in the courtroom] 

  Bryan Becket : And all this on no sleep. Shepard gave me some pills for it, but they prove to be totally worthless, except when you mix them with Scotch, they tend to, you know, sorta enhance the Scotch. But, no, I can't concentrate on getting dressed, much less a court case! And about the only thing keeping me going these days is a morbid curiosity of where exactly it'll be that I totally fucking lose it!

  [Sully uncomfortably glances over his shoulder, where he sees people are eavesdropping, with jaws dropped] 

  Bryan Becket : So. How do you like our new relationship so far? The opening-up thing?

  Sully : [Sully hesitates, then whispers:]  I like it better.

  Bryan Becket : [swallows]  Well, bless your heart, partner. I think it rots.