Butterfly (1981)

Stacy Keach: Jess Tyler

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• Kady Tyler : That feels so good, Jess. Good, good hands... What's wrong?

  Jess Tyler : It ain't right.

  Kady Tyler : Feels good to me. Does it to you?

  Jess Tyler : It just ain't right.

  Kady Tyler : It's right if it's good.

  Jess Tyler : You're my daughter, Kady.

  Kady Tyler : I'm a woman, too.

• Jess Tyler : [hot day, and now a barefoot, bare-legged blond sits waiting on his porch]  Miss?

  Kady Tyler : Hello.

  Jess Tyler : Something you want?

  Kady Tyler : [appraising him]  How can I tell if I don't know what you got?

  Jess Tyler : [takes off his hat, regarding her wearily]  Maybe you're making a mistake.

  [comes up the steps] 

  Jess Tyler : Maybe you're looking for somebody else's place. Not mine.

  [goes inside] 

  Kady Tyler : I'm looking for you.

  Jess Tyler : How do you know?

  [comes out again with milk pail] 

  Jess Tyler : You ain't seen me before.

  Kady Tyler : You're Jess Tyler.

  Jess Tyler : Who are you?

  Kady Tyler : Just somebody you might like to know.

  Jess Tyler : I don't like people making fun.

  [leaves to milk cow] 

  Kady Tyler : Maybe I'm not.

• Jess Tyler : [milking cow, and Kade is about to drink some fresh produce]  That ain't gonna be cold.

  Kady Tyler : I like it warm, with foam on top of it.

• Kady Tyler : I couldn't take it anymore... listening to the laughs and the whispers... as I walked down the street with my stomach out, and... and I hear people say "that's Belle's daughter, all right, that's... one kid who listened good to her parent." Janey's taking care of the baby. She really knows how. But I had to get away.

  [all the time washing dishes] 

  Jess Tyler : You don't have to do that.

  Kady Tyler : Oh, I don't mind, I want to. I like doing things for a man.

  Jess Tyler : Then you'll make somebody a good wife.

  Kady Tyler : Maybe. But I ain't wanna get married... right now.

  Jess Tyler : What are you planning on doing?

  Kady Tyler : [looks at him full-on]  Keep you from being lonely.

  [he eyes her warily] 

  Kady Tyler : I come to stay with you.

  Jess Tyler : [busying himself with cutlery]  You can't do that, Kade. Uh-uh, I'm sorry, you just can't.

  Kady Tyler : [shakes head in dismay]  Don't make me go.

  Jess Tyler : Look... get your stuff together, and... I'll run you wherever you wanna go. But... you just can't stay here. Please?

  Kady Tyler : [sobbing]  Jess, I'm your daughter... and I got nowhere to go.

  [he comforts her, hugging her against him] 

• Kady Tyler : [brought home by car that just dropped her off]  Morning, Jess.

  Jess Tyler : [demanding]  Who was that?

  Kady Tyler : A friend.

  Jess Tyler : [yelling]  Who was he?

  Kady Tyler : [obviously the worse for wear]  Ooh, don't yell!

  Jess Tyler : Did you lay up with him last night?

  Kady Tyler : If I did, would you get your shotgun... and make him marry me?

  Jess Tyler : Where was you last night?

  [she dunks her head in the trough, no answer] 

  Jess Tyler : Kade!

  Kady Tyler : [streaming wet hair]  I met a girl, and... we got to be friends. I stayed with her when it got too dark.

  Jess Tyler : What was her name?

  Kady Tyler : I forgot.

  Jess Tyler : That was no girl who brought you home.

  Kady Tyler : No.

  Jess Tyler : Who was it then?

  Kady Tyler : [filling a pail with water]  Her brother.

  [walks away carrying it] 

  Jess Tyler : [following her into the house]  What did you do last night?

  Kady Tyler : Enjoyed ourselves. But I don't think you'd like that.

  [goes towards her room, about to drop the sheet she had hung over the entrance] 

  Kady Tyler : Excuse me, Jess.

  Jess Tyler : What you gonna do?

  Kady Tyler : Woman's business.

• Jess Tyler : [in bar]  Ready to go?

  Kady Tyler : Have another drink, Jess. I'm gonna be off.

  Jess Tyler : Where are you going?

  Kady Tyler : Billy Roy's got a brand-new convertible car, and he's gonna take me for a ride.

  Jess Tyler : Why?

  Kady Tyler : Because sometimes... people need to be made to feel good.

  Jess Tyler : [shakes his head]  Kade, come...

  [but she's going to the two men waiting for her, and he grabs her by the shoulder] 

  Jess Tyler : Now, Kade!

  Billy Roy : Listen, Pa, take it easy, we don't wanna have no trouble.

  Jess Tyler : But I am her daddy, and she is staying here with me.

  Billy Roy : Not like she wants to stay, old man, but right now, she wants to go for a ride, so that's what we're gonna do. Sit down and have a glass of prune juice, loosen up.

• Jess Tyler : What are you planning on doing?

  Kady Tyler : Keep you from being lonely.

• Jess Tyler : I've been nothing to her for ten years. It's hard being something after so long a time.

  Rev. Rivers : You can only be a daddy to her, Jess. Nothing more.