Heaven Help Us (1985)

Patrick Dempsey: Corbet

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• Rooney : [locked in a dark closet with the others]  I think that faggot figured out who did it.

  Caesar : [sarcastically]  What gives you that idea?

  Corbet : Well, what are you gonna tell him?

  Caesar : [sarcastically]  Let's see, you're sitting in the assembly with a saint's head in your lap. I'd tell him you found it in a box of Cracker Jacks.

  Rooney : [thinking Caesar was serious]  No, that's no good. We gotta think of something better than that.

  Corbet : Hey, Williams, what are you doing?

  Rooney : Corbet, shut up!

  Corbet : Yeah, but Williams is playing with himself in here!

  Rooney : All right, I got it! Listen, this is what we'll tell him when he comes back... We'll tell him...

  [not able to come up with a plausible excuse] 

  Rooney : We'll tell him we don't know what the fuck he's talkin' about!

• Brother Constance : Are you familiar with the term "miserable"? Because miserable is what I'm going to make your miserable lives, every miserable minute of every miserable day!

  Rooney , Caesar , Michael Dunn , Corbet , Williams : Yes, Brother.

  Brother Constance : Yes Brother what?

  Rooney , Caesar , Michael Dunn , Corbet , Williams : Yes Brother, miserable, Brother.

• [Brother William brings the five into the gymnasium, where Brother Constance is standing in front of the exercise horse] 

  Brother Constance : That's far enough. Thank you, brother.

  [Brother William leaves] 

  Brother Constance : Gentlemen, we will dispense with the traditional accusation denial ritual. It is such a bore, and not likely to convince me that I don't have before me right now at least one, if not all of the vandals. But since I'm a just man with no taste for punishing the innocent, I will afford the guilty the opportunity to speak now and to save the innocent from an impending state of wretchedness. Well?

  Rooney : Could you repeat that, brother?

  Brother Constance : [walks toward Rooney]  Shut up. All right, who did it? Speak now or you will all suffer for it.

  Michael Dunn : I did.

  Brother Constance : [walks to Michael]  Mr. Dunn.

  Rooney : He didn't do it. Uh, Williams did it.

  Williams : What do you mean "I did it"? Corbet did it.

  Corbet : No, it was Caesar's idea to take the head off.

  [the five protests and argue about the incident] 

  Brother Constance : [impatient and angry]  All right. All right! That's enough!

  [the boys fall silent] 

  Brother Constance : Have it your own way, gentlemen.