Arlo the Alligator Boy (2021 TV Movie)

Vincent Rodriguez III: Ansel Beauregard, Young Ansel

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Quotes 

• Ansel Beauregard : You don't get it, do you? You showing up here like this, it puts everything I've worked so hard for at risk.

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : No, I *do* get it. I risked everything to be here.

  Ansel Beauregard : [pauses and looks back with a smile]  You're a pretty tough kid, aren't you?

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : I guess I've gotten that way.

  [pause] 

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : Listen, Mr. Beauregard. If you don't want anything to do with me, that's fine. I'll leave you alone. But I just wanna know the truth, so I can stop thinking about it all the time.

  [pleadingly] 

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : Are you my dad?

  [Ansel turns and looks Arlo in the eyes] 

  Ansel Beauregard : Arlo, I'm...

  [the moment is interrupted by the arrival of Ruff, Stucky and the Beast] 

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : Uh...

  Ansel Beauregard : Say, what's the big idea, fellas? We're working on an emotional breakthrough here!

  Ruff : We just come for the gator boy.

  Stucky : That's right. Yeah, we prefer to be outta touch with our emotions.

  [Both proceed to stalk up on Arlo] 

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : Dad?

  Ansel Beauregard : [stammers a bit]  Arlo...

  Ruff : [holds out a taser at him]  Stay back, now!

  Stucky : [puts the taser down]  Mister, if you want him back, I'm sure we can work out a price. But what will you want with a real, live alligator boy?

  [long pause] 

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : It's okay. You don't have to. I don't belong here.

  [surrenders himself as Ruff points his taser at Ansel] 

  Ruff : That's what I thought.

  [the Beast roars at Ansel; Arlo is taken away] 

  Ruff : Back to the swamp with you, little buddy! You're gonna make us rich!

  Stucky : Got a nice, fun little cage for you.

  [whistles for the Beast, who follows them out] 

  Ansel Beauregard : What have I become...?

• Ansel Beauregard : [finishes up Better Life]  Arlo, if there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that sometimes you have to change if you're ever going to make it in this world.

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : Change? Wait, what?

  Ansel Beauregard : I hope this lesson will help you. It's all I can do for you.

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : Well... I just thought since I came all this way to meet you, that you'd be happy to see me. You... are my dad, right?

  Ansel Beauregard : I'm... No, I'm sorry.

  [Arlo is crushed; he is sent down the elevator] 

  Butler : Everything all right, sir?

  Ansel Beauregard : Oh, uh... Just another kid from the foundation.

• Ansel Beauregard : Arlo, if you'll give me another chance, I'd love to have you stay with me.

  [Arlo gasps in delight, but looks back and fourth at his friends and Ansel with trepidation] 

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : I appreciate it, Dad, I really do.

  [goes over to his friends] 

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : But I've got a whole new family now. And, well...

  [joins them for a group hug] 

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : We need each other.

  Ansel Beauregard : Cool. Cool. No, no, that's cool. Not like I'm desperately lonely or... anything.

  Furlecia : Get into this hug, gorgeous!

  [pulls Ansel into the hug; the crowd cheers happily] 

  Ruff : You know, we traveled all this way just to put that gator boy in a cage. But frankly, I had no idea we'd learn all this stuff about the human experience!

  Stucky : I never knew you could learn.

  Ruff : Dang it, Stucky. I love you!

  [hugs Stucky] 

  Stucky : Aww...

• 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] 

• Ansel Beauregard : [answering the door for Arlo]  Guys, do I have to get my own door again? Do you know how heavy this is?

• Ansel Beauregard : I don't mean to be impolite, but... you see how this is a pretty improbable situation, right?

  [Arlo shows the ID bracelet from the hospital] 

  Ansel Beauregard : What is this?

  [pauses] 

  Ansel Beauregard : I don't know how you got this, but there's been a mistake. A huge and very terrible mistake.

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : That's what I thought! It had to have been a big old mistake that I ended up floating all the way down from New York City to the swamp!

  Ansel Beauregard : Yes. I mean... no! My son... My son is gone.

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : But...

  Ansel Beauregard : I am not your father!... I can't be.

  Arlo the Alligator Boy : [gulps]  You have to be, I have nowhere else to go! And I came all this way.