Us (1991 TV Movie)

Casey Peterson: Cary Hayes

Quotes 

• Paul Kramer : [after picking up Cary at the police station]  Would you mind telling me what you were thinking?

  Cary Hayes : Nothing.

  Paul Kramer : [sarcastically]  Nothing. Oh, that's a brilliant answer.

  Cary Hayes : You asked me a question and I answered it. I mean, what's the big deal? All they got me for is reckless driving and a misdemeanor. So what?

  Paul Kramer : What the hell is the matter with you? What do you think, the cops want to play cowboys and Indians with you? You're lucky they didn't blow your brains out! Oh, what's the use? It's like talking to a wall.

  Cary Hayes : When do I get my car back?

  Paul Kramer : You don't! I have been walking on eggshells with you, ever since I met your mom. Well, maybe I was wrong. Maybe I didn't go about it the right way, but, damn it, I tried!

  Cary Hayes : I never asked you to try!

  Paul Kramer : Oh, no. You never had trouble asking for anything you wanted: money, clothes, your car. Well, I'm tired, Cary! I'm tired of pretending! I'm tired of bending over backwards just to keep peace with you. You're either gonna get your act together or you're gonna get out!

  Cary Hayes : Fine! I'll get out.

  Paul Kramer : [shaking his head]  Not this time, Cary. Not this time.

• Jeff Hayes : [at an overlook with Cary, he is trying to make sense what Cary preferred doing]  Okay, let's say they didn't catch this guy and I spend the rest of my life in prison. Are you trying to tell me that you would have been better off spending the fourth Saturday of every month talking to me through a pane of glass?

  Cary Hayes : At least, I would have known you. I would have come. I would have come every Saturday.

  Jeff Hayes : Well, I maybe didn't want you to come, okay? Same reason I didn't want your mother coming anymore. Hey, you know what it's like in there? It's like dying. It's like spending your life dying. Then, once a month, the people that you love have to come and watch you die. Well, I didn't want that. I made the decision. I didn't want it anymore. Can't you understand that?

  Jeff Hayes : When Mom told me about you. I got so angry--I don't know, it was like-- Paul didn't want me and I find out I have a real father and he didn't want me.

  Jeff Hayes : So, you wrote a rotten letter and took off? That was a lousy thing to do to your mom. She deserves better than that. She took care of you alone for a lot of years.

  Cary Hayes : She should've stayed alone. She shouldn't have married him. We were getting along fine.

  Jeff Hayes : Oh, no, YOU were getting along fine! What, your mother doesn't have a life?

  Cary Hayes : We had a life, a good life. I took care of her.

  Jeff Hayes : [sarcastically]  Oh, come on! Oh, you were the man of the house, huh?

  Cary Hayes : I was... 'til she met him.

  Jeff Hayes : And what happens when you move out? What happens when you move out, you get married, you got a family of your own? What happens to your mother, then, huh? Come on, what happens to her? Or maybe she gets lucky that she gets to visit you the fourth Saturday of every month? Come on, kid, it's time to start thinking about somebody besides yourself. Now, come on, I'm taking you home.

  Cary Hayes : I'm not going back.

  Jeff Hayes : Hey, look, this isn't Paul you're talking to! I don't wanna be your buddy, I don't want to be your pal! I'm your father and you're gonna do what I tell you because I spent eighteen years of my life loving a kid I never--

  [he stops to preventing himself from bursting into tears] 

  Jeff Hayes : Get in the car.

  [Cary stands there totally shocked] 

  Jeff Hayes : Get in the car!