- 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?