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> “Mr. Weston is one of the most brilliant investors the world has ever known. He’s…obviously a maverick, but he’s also rigorous in his research.”
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* > Schultz’s take on Weston.
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> “The point is…we really need the money, so Mr. Weston figured it’d be a good idea to temporarily…*delay* your pay, seeing as how you’re more of a liability than an asset.”
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> Danny: “So, you’re ripping me off?”
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> “Bartering is more like it. That’s business, slick. We hit the bags, you hit the roads; that’s the way it works.”
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> Danny: “Where you going? You owe me money!”
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> “When you do that, you’re making yourself out to be a male shrew to be attacked. It’s pathetic, it really is. Get this straight: the jobs belong to you guys…but your cut belongs to Mr. Weston, the right-minded mastermind of business in Chicago and Blaine County.”
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> Danny: “So this is it? I commit grand theft auto for no pay? A fair night’s pay after a fair day’s work? That’s it?”
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> “Yup. That’s it, hypothetically. I’ll admit, inconvenience is hell, it is. Well, I must get back to work. I’m sorry, Daniel.”
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* > Schultz tells Danny at the last minute he’s not being paid at all.
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> “That guy’s a psychopath! A murderer! He wants to kill me! Him and his crazy-ass friends! Get out of the way!”
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* > Schultz panicking as he flees from Ben.
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Rex Schultz, or better known as just Schultz, was the triagonist (tertiary antagonist) of the 2009 film ***Teenagers Endgame***, alongside Devin Weston and Col. Crouse. He was portrayed by Dylan O'Brien.

He is Devin Weston's nephew and assistant, as well as the Senior Vice President and (Amateur) General Counsel to his business, *the Lost,* who were trying to kill Ben and the rest of the team after Tom's death.

## Background

At age 18, Schultz was close to graduating from Hoffman Estates High in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. He planned on attending Harvard University to get a degree in law and an Msc in Corporate Raiding from UCLA. After two months of ROTC, he spent five more months working as an intern for the in-house litigation team of Apex Oil before moving to Wrigley Candy Company, where he successfully proved 26 times that sugarfree spearmint chewing gum is the #1 prevention of lung cancer in tobacco users (which, in real life, is not). He was then headhunted by his uncle, Devin Weston, at a Robin Hood benefit in 1992.

As Weston's trusted lieutenant, Schultz often handles the contacts between Weston and the six protagonists. His final appearances come when he is told to purposely lure Ben and the others out to the danger zone, where Danny is nearly crushed by a crane in a dead car, facing a near-death experience.

Unwilling to sort things out with the group, Danny, Ben, Max, Emmet, Chloe, and Nick pursue him out to the junkyard, the way Weston planned. Although Ben's intention was to simply speak to Schultz and get him off their backs, Schultz panics and wrongly assumes that he is trying to kill him. After a big chase through the street, Schultz crashes his motorcycle on the side of the fence. Still, he makes an attempt to run for it and leap over the fence, not just to escape them, but to lure them into the shootout as well. However, one of the shooters accidentally shoots him in the foot after he runs too far into the danger zone. He then rapidly creeps away below the whizzing bullets.

He is not seen again until the end of the film, after Ben's dead, Weston and Crouse are defeated, and the estuary victims are ambushed. One morning, Schultz is in his apartment, limping around in shock, gasping for air, and calling for help, as Nick and Alonzo slip a lethal smoke bomb filled with tear gas into his ventilation system. After twenty seconds of agony, Schultz loses consciousness and faints to the floor, implying the tear gas most likely killed him.

## Personality

Schultz was shown to be extremely manipulative in an easygoing way, a wolf in a sheep's clothing. However, as tough as he acts, he can be skeptically frightened when pushed too far, much to his uncle's delight.

## Trivia

* Schultz's death was the final death in the film and easily the most dramatic, similar enough to Lady Lyndon's attempted suicide in Stanley Kubrick's ***Barry Lyndon***.
* Rex Schultz is one of several teenage antagonists in the ***Teenagers*** series, preferably comparable to Cliff Ruben (The Sickened One) from the first ***Teenagers*** and its novelization. However, while the Sickened One is the main antagonist of ***Teenagers,*** Schultz is not the main antagonist of ***Teenagers Endgame*** and is far less psychotic than the Sickened One.