Lucas (1986)

Kevin Wixted: Tonto

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• [Ben slams open the classroom door and interrupts the school band practicing] 

  Ben : Did you hear about Lucas?

  Tonto : What about him?

  Rena : It's suicide.

  Ben : What do you mean?

  Ben : He's gone out for the football team!

• [Lucas quietly joins the kids in the cafeteria, sad over the distance between him and Maggie] 

  Ben : [Ben shouts out to Lucas]  Lucas! We're over here.

  Ben : Sit down. We're trying to figure out how to get rid of this jackass band teacher. I hate the idiot's guts.

  Tonto : Too bad Treichel had to kill himself.

  Ben : Yeah, Why'd he have to kill himself and leave us with this jackass.

  Tonto : Sex-crazed, that's why.

  Rena : He wasn't sex-crazed, he was in love.

  Tonto : With a dental technician?

  Rena : Not everybody has to be glamorous to have someone fall in love with them.

  Tonto : You don't kill yourself over a dental technician.

  Rena : You ever hear of Romeo and Juliet?

  Tonto : Was she a dental technician?

  Rena : No, but people do kill themselves when they can't have who they love.

  Ben : I thought he had a heart attack.

  Tonto : No heart attack, my man. He blew his brains out with a book of poetry open and a rose in the page.

  Rena : I think it's kind of beautiful, the poetry, I mean. It was probably Keats or Shelley.

  [Lucas sits quietly watching the football players at the other table]