Avonlea (TV Series)

Return to Me (1996)

Michael Mahonen: Gus Pike

Quotes 

• Hetty King : So, Gus Pike, this is the lot you choose, is it?

  Gus Pike : [defiantly]  Go home, Miss King. Nothing you can say will change my mind.

  Hetty King : Change your mind? Oh, brass of you. You think I care a wit if you sit here and rot, after making such a fool of me?

  Gus Pike : Fool of you?

  Gus Pike : Yes. I had such high hopes for you, Gus Pike--always! You were bright, you were ambitious, but most of all, you had spirit! Or so I thought. That's why I tutored you and fussed over you and coddled you. And for what? So you could hide away and throw your life to the wind?

  Gus Pike : It was no sense for you and Felicity coming here. If you care about your niece, you'll take her home.

  Hetty King : [furiously gets at his face]  Don't you give me that pious face, or I'll slap you! All along, you've said she was too good for you! Too good for you! Well, now I'm inclined to agree. And not because you've lost your eyesight, boy, but because you're a COWARD!

  Gus Pike : [yells angrily]  I'M NOT A COWARD! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE! YOU DON'T...

  Hetty King : [angrily cuts him]  OH, SHUT UP! You have nothing to say that I want to hear! If you've not the guts to fight back, then go on and... lie down and die, for all I care!

  [Hetty storms off] 

• [Miss Lydie shows Felicity the room where Gus is, Gus is sitting alone with perfectly weaved baskets all around] 

  Gus Pike : [with his back turned]  Miss Lydie, come back from practice?

  [Felicity goes still as Gus turns around and gets up] 

  Gus Pike : Miss, Lydie?

  [Gus turns where Miss Lydie and Felicity are but somehow cannot see them] 

  Gus Pike : [suspiciously]  Who's there?

  Felicity King : [hesitates]  Gus... It's... It's Felicity.

  Gus Pike : [nostrils flaring in anger]  Get out! GET OUT OF HERE!

  Hetty King : [runs in hearing this]  What in heaven's name!

  Felicity King : [in tears]  Gus, no!

  Gus Pike : GET OUT, I SAID!

  Felicity King : [as Gus moves in on them and trips]  Gus, you're going to hurt yourself!

  Gus Pike : [gets up]  DID YOU HEAR ME! GET OUT AND LEAVE ME BE!

  Hetty King : [as they get pushed out of the room]  Gus, you stop that! Stop this!

  [Gus slams the door at their faces] 

  Gus Pike : [crying]  Just go away! Go away!