Arlo the Alligator Boy (2021 TV Movie)

Mark Whitten: Lawrence, Barn Folk, Robber, Flyer Man, Kid Bully

Quotes 

• Ansel Beauregard : [revealing his true form]  That's right! I'm a birdman!

  Someone in the audience : I love birds, man!

  Ansel Beauregard : And there is something else you should know. This amazing young man...

  [holds up Arlo's hand] 

  Ansel Beauregard : Is my son!

  [audience gasps] 

  Ansel Beauregard : And I have forsaken him.

  [Arlo is surprised] 

  Ansel Beauregard : I have wronged you, Arlo, by trying to bury my past.

  [Flashback to young Ansel in Seaside by the Seashore] 

  Ansel Beauregard : As you know, I grew up in Seaside by the Seashore. It was all right back then. Still poor, but it had a certain dignity.

  [gets ridiculed by four kids] 

  Kid Bully : Watch where you're going, bird boy!

  Ansel Beauregard : The kids were another story.

  Kid Bully : Hungry, eh?

  [throws birdseed in Ansel's face] 

  Kid Bully : Look at his scrawny little legs!

  Kid Bully : Yeah, eat your seed!

  Kid Bully : Hey, Ansel! Next time we'll get you some nice bread pieces if you promise not to poop on my dad's car!

  [Ansel flies away in anguish] 

  Ansel Beauregard : They were mean little twerps.

  [shows Ansel as a teenager hiding his bird appearance] 

  Ansel Beauregard : I swore right then that I'd hide my true self, and dedicate my life to accumulating wealth and power, hoping that one day, I'd be powerful enough to tear it all down.

  [Shows Ansel through the years arriving in Manhattan, becoming a successful businessman, receiving the key to his penthouse, meeting the woman who would become Arlo's mother, and ending at Bellevue Hospital on the night of Arlo's birth] 

  Ansel Beauregard : But then, something happened that... threatened to expose my very existence...

  [shows Ansel witnessing the newborn Arlo] 

  Ansel Beauregard : My son was born. And... I made the biggest mistake of my life...

  [flashback ends] 

  Ansel Beauregard : When I let him go.

  [breaking down] 

  Ansel Beauregard : Forgive me... my wonderful alligator boy.

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : [sniffs, crying tears of joy]  DAD!

  [happily embraces Ansel as the crowd cheers]