It's Not Your Fault - Zootopia 2 - Good Will Hunting Tribute

It's Not Your Fault - Zootopia 2 Scene - Good Will Hunting Tribute

(ZPD HQ, After closing, building nearly empty; in Judy Hopps' Office, Judy and her friend Sydney O'Hare are arguing; Nick Wilde creeps into doorway)

Judy: I am who I am today because I kept pushing and pushing myself. And that's exactly what I gotta do to Nick.

Sydney: HE'S NOT YOU! YOU GET THAT?!

(Both notice Nick in the doorway)

Nick (Concerned): I can... come back.

Judy: No no. It's fine. Come in, Nick.

(Angered, Sydney leaves and shuts the door)

Judy: Don't mind that. She and I...we go back a long way. When we were in high school.

Nick: Yeah...

(Judy picks up Nick's life file)

Nick: What's that?

Judy: It's your file. The ZPD got this from the city council when you were deemed an officer (opens the file)

Nick: Just know that whatever's in there is just nonsense. I mean, it's just meaningless. (Judy looks at the snapshots of all of Nick's abusive injuries)

Judy: Remember when we were on the sky tram and you told me about the junior scout troop incident? Remember how you said that your mother 'scraped enough money' to buy you the uniform?

Nick: Why does that matter right now?

Judy (looking at a page): Cause it says here that you never had a mother. (Nick looks at Judy) I mean, of course you had a biological mother. But it says here that she left you when you were only a year old. You were then fostered for the next seventeen years.... Why would you lie to me?

Nick (with a loss of words): Maybe... cause... I... I...um...

Judy: Maybe you were just too embarrassed? Embarrassed to tell me that you were an orphan for pretty much your whole life? Nick, that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Nick: I don't know... It's just that... I hated my life. Of course I had to hustle. I mean, the sooner I hustled for money the better.

Judy: Nick, you never hustled til you were eighteen. Not since you were twelve. According to this you lived in a foster home, and... a pretty rough one too.

Nick: It was only rough cause of my foster dad... (Glancing down at the floor with shame) My foster dad was an alcoholic, just a mean drunk. (Flashback of shadowy figure coming up stairs and young Nick and the other fox children running) It would mainly be on the weekend nights when he would just come home and up the stairs. My foster siblings and I used to... hide in the closets. My foster dad would just find me... and bring me into the kitchen. (Young Nick gets shoved into kitchen by the figure and faces the table) Then, he would lay down on the table in front of me a stick, (stick gets slammed onto table)... a wrench, (wrench gets slammed onto table)... and a belt. (belt gets slammed onto table)... (back to present) Then he would say... "Choose."

Judy: Did you go with the stick?

Nick: I went with the wrench.

Judy: Why?

Nick (with a little sneer on his face): Cause the heck with him, that's why.

Judy: Well, he's out of your life now. All of them are. (Nick looks at Judy with confusion) Yeah... That's right... This file contains every single mammal who has ever abused you... Physically, verbally, emotionally. Your foster dad, kids at school, neighborhood bullies, they're all in here... And what else is all in here is every single injury you've ever received.

Nick (with an annoyed look on his face): Please don't show them to me. I mean, I don't want to look at what I gave myself.

Judy: Gave yourself?

Nick: Yeah, I feel like I just trapped myself into this life where I just cause mammals to physically or verbally beat me up. I feel like I just... locked myself in this cage where I wasn't allowed any potential! All because I'm... because I'm...

Judy: A fox?

Nick: Yeah... You know Judy, I had this dream a couple nights ago... where I was in the hospital and I had a heavy bruise on my neck from a fight that I got into with my foster dad. And I had my collar on.

Judy: Collar? Like what they had you wear in the foster home?

Nick: Yeah. The shocking collar for predators. Anyway, the doctor took it off for the check-up. And... I don't know...it's just that when he took it off, I... I felt so free, just so relieved, if not... released. Ever get that feeling before?...That you're just...freed?

Judy: So then what happened?

Nick: I woke up...in my apartment

Judy: Were you relieved you didn't have to wear that predator collar anymore?

Nick: Yeah... So anyway, what does the bottom line result of that file say?... "Nick has an attachment disorder?"... "Nick has a fear of abandonment?"

Judy: It's blank.

Nick: Huh?

Judy (shows Nick the file): The bottom line is blank... The truth is that they can't even figure out what exactly is keeping you in this state of grief... But... I think I know what it is... what should be in that bottom bar.

Nick: What?

Judy: Unnecessary guilt... I mean... you see this Nick? (holds up the file in front of him) All this "nonsense?"... It's not your fault.

Nick (nonchalantly looks down at the floor again): Yeah, I know that.

Judy (gets closer to Nick and grabs his paws): Look into my eyes, Nick... It's not...your fault.

Nick (nodding): I know that.

Judy: It's not your fault.

Nick (smiles at Judy): Yeah... I know

Judy: No you don't (comes so close to Nick as to whisper's length) It's not your fault. (Nick has a dead serious look on his face looking down at the floor) It's not your fault... It's not your fault... It's not your fault...

Nick (With tears in his eyes): Don't mess with me.

Judy: It's not your fault.

Nick (Angered): Don't mess with me! (shoves Judy to the ground)

Judy (On the ground): It's not your fault.

Nick: Please! Don't mess with me Judy, not you!

(Judy gets back up, stands on a stool, and puts her paw on the back of Nick's neck)

Judy: Shh... (Nick whimpers; Judy whispers) It's not your fault.

(Nick puts his paws over his face and starts sobbing like a child)

Judy: Come here.

(Judy wraps her arms around Nick, as well as his around Judy; they hug tight as Nick is bawling into Judy's shoulders)

Nick: OH GOD I'M SO SORRY!

Judy: It's not your fault. (Nick continues to cry into Judy's shoulder)... Oh, you foxes. So emotional

(Scene pulls back from image; Judy has finally gotten through to Nick.)

(Scene cuts away to Nick on the subway, looking out the window at the city at night. The train dives underground, and Nick stares into the eyes of his reflection in the window. He gets off the train at Fox Creek Station and rides the escalator up to the street. Nick enters his apartment in the neighborhood of Foxton and sits on his bed, thinking about everything that just happened.)