Chester Tate quotes from Soap

Chester

[Alone in the kitchen, talking to himself] Well, that's it. I can't go on. My life is over. My wife is in jail, the only woman I ever really loved. My career is over. I'll be in jail for embezzlement. I can't go on. Might as well... end it all. I'll leave a note. Paper, I need paper. The important thing is how to do it. I want it quick, quiet, and with no pain. I want it... pleasant. Oh, that's wonderful, Tate - you want a pleasant suicide. Why not have it catered?

Burt

I just can't believe it. I cannot believe it! I mean, it's just a small, small world. I can't get over it! I mean, my long, lost son from Hawaii comes to Connecticut and winds up teaching my sister-in-law and her daughter tennis.

Benson

Bet that ain't all he teaches!

Burt

And then, and this is really incredible, my sister-in-law and her daughter don't know they have the same tennis teacher. Plus which, he doesn't know they are mother and daughter. And then... and then to top it all off, no one, but no one knows he's my son!

Chester

So what, Burt?

Burt

So, it's a small, small world. And, I can't get over it. Can you?

Chester

Yes.

Jessica

I don't see what the big deal is. I mean, I told you I had had an affair. I mean you did know about it.

Chester

But I didn't know who, Jessica. I didn't know who you were having your affair with.

Jessica

Well I should think it would come as a relief.

Chester

A relief?

Jessica

Yes. Doesn't it make you feel better to know I had an affair with someone who's dead? I mean someone who's dead now.

Chester

Why are you posing as a lawyer?

Benson

[while visiting Jessica] Cause I couldn't get in to see her as a butler.

Chester

Oh Benson, I need strong coffee. I was so worried about the trial I didn't sleep a wink last night.

Benson

Me neither.

Chester

You were up worrying too?

Benson

Yup.

Chester

Oh I wish I'd known.

Benson

Yeah.

Chester

Sure. I would've had someone to talk to.

Benson

I wish I'd have known too. Cause that would've put me to sleep.

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?