The Good Place (TV Series)

Help Is Other People (2019)

Benjamin Koldyke: Brent Norwalk

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• Brent Norwalk : Man, crazy twist, huh? It's like something out of a Chip Driver novel.

  Chidi Anagonye : Leave me alone, Brent.

  Brent Norwalk : I'm kind of freaking out over here, man. You're my only real friend.

  Chidi Anagonye : No, I'm not your friend. I don't even like you.

  Brent Norwalk : But you helped me.

  Chidi Anagonye : Yeah, I did, because I have this stupid moral code that forces me to help everyone. But you have never helped anyone, because you don't care about other people. Which is the bare minimum that a person has to do, just care a little about the other people around you, and you can't do it.

  Brent Norwalk : What are you trying to say here?

  Chidi Anagonye : [slowly and deliberately]  You are a bad person.

  [cut to Eleanor and the rest of the crew watching from outside] 

  Eleanor Shellstrop : You can do this.

  Michael : Come on, dum-dum. Faster.

  [long pause] 

  Brent Norwalk : No, I'm not.

  [gets up and backs away from Chidi, eyes widening] 

  Brent Norwalk : I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not a bad person. I'm not. I'm a good person!

  [glances around the room in desperation] 

  Brent Norwalk : Oh, man... Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no... No, no...

  [pause] 

  Brent Norwalk : Look, Chidi... whatever happens next, I, um... I need to say this to you, all right? I am... I am so, so sor...

  [countdown clock reaches zero and the experiment freezes] 

• Chidi Anagonye : You're not going to the Best Place! Don't you get it? They're torturing you! They're torturing all of us. Because this is the Bad Place.

  [camera zooms in on Eleanor and Michael, who cackle maniacally] 

  Eleanor Shellstrop : Oh, man! I can't believe you figured it out!

  Brent Norwalk : Wait... he's right? This is the Bad Place?

  Eleanor Shellstrop : Yeah. Damn it, he's right.

  Michael : We had a good run, though, didn't we?

  Eleanor Shellstrop : Yeah, we did.

  [they both laugh] 

  Brent Norwalk : So no Best Place?

  Eleanor Shellstrop : [mockingly]  "Oh, so no Best Place?"

  Michael : Oh, Brent, you big white oaf! Never change, bud.

  Eleanor Shellstrop : Well, I guess we should let 'em know you guys are on your way.

  Michael : Yeah.

  Brent Norwalk : Wait. On our way where?

  Michael : The actual Bad Place. They let us toy with you a little just for kicks, but now you're going...

  [points downward] 

  Michael : And trust me on this: it's a lot worse.

• Brent Norwalk : [clinging to the side of a giant hell hole]  I'm not scared! I'm shouting so you know I'm okay. I am very brave.

• Brent Norwalk : Well, right at the beginning, I talked to Mike and Eleanor, and they were like, "Yeah, don't tell anyone this, but there's a place better than this: the Best Place. And that's where you're headed, amigo."

  Chidi Anagonye : I don't think they actually called you amigo.

  Brent Norwalk : I had to go through the year here. Kind of a test, I guess, which, obviously, I aced. So at midnight, I'm in the first Escalade out of here, baby.

  Simone Garnett : Brent.

  Brent Norwalk : Yeah?

  Simone Garnett : Think about this.

  Brent Norwalk : Okay.

  Simone Garnett : How could YOU get into the Best Place? You would literally have to be one of the most incredible people in the universe.

  Brent Norwalk : [He pauses, thinking]  I mean, it makes sense to me. I don't know what to tell you.

• Tahani Al-Jamil : Simone, look at this logically. We are in paradise! There's fresh air, mountains, Janet! And yes, some of us are under 5'10", but other than that, it is literally perfect here!

  Simone Garnett : No it is not. Jason is proof! And if you need more evidence that this isn't the Good Place, clearly he's not the only one who doesn't belong.

  [looks pointedly at Brent] 

  Brent Norwalk : Actually, she's right.

  [Everyone stares incredulously] 

  Brent Norwalk : And I know it for a fact.

  Chidi Anagonye : ...for the first time ever, I am desperate for you to keep talking.