Soap (TV Series)

Episode #2.10 (1978)

Katherine Helmond: Jessica Tate

Quotes 

• Jessica : Dutch, tell me: did you really kill a man?

  Dutch : Yeah.

  Jessica : Dead? You shot him dead?

  Dutch : That's usually what happens in a successful killing.

  Jessica : Of course.

  Dutch : You see, what happened is that when I got out of the Navy, I borrowed some money to go into business. The banks all turned me down for a loan, so I went to a local loan company. They gave me $5000 at a very high rate of interest. In the first week, when I couldn't come up with the dough, they broke my fingers. The second week, they broke my nose, two ribs and my knee. Plus the guy who was beating me up had a very bad cold, so I ended up with a terrible cough. The next week, they was gonna break my head, but I convinced them not to.

  Jessica : How?

  Dutch : Well, I talked to them for a while and then I shot 'em.

  Jessica : I think that should be considered self-defense.

  Dutch : It was, but the guy who owned the loan company turned out to be the Chief of Police.

• [Following his brain surgery, Chester is having severe memory problems] 

  Chester : It's all lost to me. My past, my future... it's all gone! I try. I try so hard to remember. I can't. I'm so afraid if I don't remember soon, you'll have me put away. You've all been so good to me. I must have been some guy to have such a beautiful bunch of people love me the way you do.

  Jessica : Chester.

  Chester : It's agony. To know I have a wonderful son and daughters and a wife and not know who they are. Sometimes, I swear... it's almost too much to bear.

  Jessica : Oh, Chester. I just know that someday you'll remember.

  Chester : Remember what?