Teddy Newton credited as playing...
Lawyer (Talon Labarthe)
- Skinner: [on Linguini] Look at him out there, pretending to be an idiot! He's toying with my mind like a cat with a ball... of something!
- Lawyer: String?
- Skinner: Yes! Playing dumb, taunting me with that RAT!
- Lawyer: [confused] Rat?
- Skinner: Yes! He's consorting with it, deliberately trying to make me think it's important!
- Lawyer: The... rat?
- Skinner: EXACTLY!
- Lawyer: Is the rat important?
- Skinner: [pause] Of course not! He just wants me to THINK that it is! O-ho, 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!
- Skinner: [high voice] Ooooh! 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 oh, no! I refuse to be sucked into his little game... of...
- Lawyer: Should I be concerned about this? About you?
- Lawyer: Well, the will stipulates that if after two years from the date of death, no heir appears, Gusteau's business will pass on to his sous-chef, you.
- Skinner: I know what the will stipulates! What I want to know, is if this letter - if this *boy* changes anything!
- [the lawyer looks at Linguini through the window, comparing it to Gusteau's picture on the wall]
- Lawyer: There's not much resemblance.
- Skinner: There's NO resemblance at all! He's not Gusteau's son, Gusteau had no children! And what of the timing of all this? The deadline in the will expires in less than a month! Suddenly some boy arrives with a letter from his recently deceased mother claiming Gusteau is his father? Highly suspect!
- Lawyer: [about a chef's toque in a glass container] ... This was Gusteau's?
- Skinner: Yes.
- Lawyer: May I?
- Skinner: Of course, of course.
- [the lawyer takes a hair out of the toque]
- Lawyer: But, the boy does not know?
- Skinner: She claims she never told him, or Gusteau, and asks that I not tell!
- Lawyer: Why you? What does she want?
- Skinner: A job, for the boy.
- Lawyer: Only a job? Well, then this is easy. If he works here, you can keep an eye on him while I do a little digging, find out how much of this is real. I'll need you to collect some DNA samples from the boy, hair maybe...
- Skinner: Mark my words, the whole thing is *highly* suspect. He knows... something.
- Lawyer: Relax, he's a garbage boy. I think you can handle him.