Ratatouille2007

Skinner:
No, no, no, no, NO, NOOO!! NOOOO! [Kicks drawer]

Talon:
The DNA matches, the timing works, everything checks out. He is Gusteau’s son.

Skinner:
T-t-this can’t just happen! The whole thing is a set-up! The boy KNOWS! [Skinner goes to his window and parts of the blinds to the kitchen] Look at him out there- pretending to be an idiot! He’s toying with my mind, like a cat with a ball! Of... Something!

Talon:
String?

Skinner:
Yes! Playing dumb! Taunting me with that rat!

Talon:
[confused] Rat?

Skinner:
Yes! He’s consorting with it! Deliberately trying to making me think it’s important!

Talon:
The rat?

Skinner:
Exactly!

[Talon looks at Skinner, visibly confused.]

Talon:
Is the rat... important?

Skinner:
[pause] Of course not! He just wants me to think that it is! Oh, I see the theatricality of it; a rat appears on the boy’s first night, I order him to kill it and now he wants me to see it everywhere! [High voice] OOOH!! [snaps fingers wildly] It’s here, no, it isn’t, it’s HERE! Am I seeing things? Am I crazy? Is there a phantom rat or is there not?! But ohhh, no! I refuse to be sucked into his little game... of...

[Skinner realizes what he is doing and stops, then looks at Talon]

Talon:
...Should I be concerned about this? About... you?