Party of Five (TV Series)

Have No Fear (1995)

Tom Mason: Joe Mangus

Quotes 

• [Charlie goes out and sees Joe sitting in the alley behind Salinger's] 

  Charlie Salinger : Joe.

  Joe Mangus : Oh, hey, Charlie. Yeah, I'm just catching a little break. I guess I better...

  [he tries to get up but, feeling pain, he sits down again] 

  Joe Mangus : Oh!

  Charlie Salinger : Joe...

  Joe Mangus : No, I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm fine. It's, uh... Mostly I'm just sitting here worrying whether table two got the pellegrino they asked me for.

  Charlie Salinger : [worried]  What's going on, Joe?

  Joe Mangus : I'm sick, Charlie. I'm not dying, but I'm sick. It's, uh, congestive heart failure.

  Charlie Salinger : Then what the hell were they doing letting you out of the hospital?

  Joe Mangus : They didn't let me out. I, uh... I signed myself out early.

  Charlie Salinger : What?

  Joe Mangus : I don't wanna deal with it, okay? It just pisses me off. Because I think about it, and I'm still a young man. I mean, in my mind, you know, I'm 25 years old, and I'm staying out all night, and I'm still drinking, and I'm... Whatever. But... This damn body of mine...

  [sighs] 

  Charlie Salinger : You can't really do this anymore, can you?

  Joe Mangus : Oh, yeah. I can.

  Charlie Salinger : I'm gonna take over for you, Joe.

  Joe Mangus : No. No, you're not.

  Charlie Salinger : Yeah.

  Joe Mangus : Charlie...

  Charlie Salinger : What? What are we gonna do? Turn this place over to a total stranger? Dad's place?

  Joe Mangus : I can't let you do this, Charlie. You got too much you wanna do with your life.

  Charlie Salinger : Yeah, I know. So, I'll... Quit painting houses. I think I can live with that.

  [he sees Joe doubting] 

  Charlie Salinger : What are you looking at me like that for? Give me a little support here, huh? This is kind of a momentous decision.

  Joe Mangus : Right.

  Charlie Salinger : I don't know. I made so much noise for so long about how much I hated this place... It could be there was just some stupid little voice in me I just didn't wanna hear, you know? Saying, "Hey, you could do worse. You could do way worse than Salinger's."