Wings (TV Series)
Whose Wife Is It Anyway? (1994)
Tim Daly: Joe Montgomery Hackett
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Quotes
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Helen Chapel : Okay! Okay, I love you! I've always loved you. But what the hell kinda reason is that to get married?
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Well, it's no "He asked me first", but it's the best I can do.
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Joe Montgomery Hackett : Dammit Helen. When you walked out this morning, I felt all the life drain out of me. I sat at that counter, and all I could think about is all the years we've known each other, since we were kids. We've already spent a lifetime together! Nobody knows me better than you, and no one knows you better than I do! How can you even THINK about marrying Lynch? It's wrong! Having kids with him, growing old together. That's OUR marriage.
[Softly]
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Those are OUR kids. It's OUR lifetime.
[Long pause]
Joe Montgomery Hackett : We're supposed to be together.
[pause]
Joe Montgomery Hackett : I love you, Helen.
[He sighs, shrugs, and turns away]
Joe Montgomery Hackett : I guess, sometimes love just isn't enough, huh?
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Helen Chapel : [Joe just declared his love for Helen, who is now stunned] Ask me again.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : What?
Helen Chapel : Ask me again.
[She rolls her eyes]
Joe Montgomery Hackett : ...Will you marry me?
Helen Chapel : [She pauses for a moment] Oh, what the heck.
[They kiss]
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Joe Montgomery Hackett : What about us?
Helen Chapel : What us? We tried us years ago. We broke up.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Oh, all couples break up.
Helen Chapel : We fought all the time.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : All couples fight.
Helen Chapel : I drove my Jeep through your office.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : All couples... yeah you did. What the hell were you thinking?
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Joe Montgomery Hackett : Fine, fine. If you can stand here and look me right in the eye and honestly tell me that you love him, I'll step aside.
Helen Chapel : I love him.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Let me put that a different way...
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Joe Montgomery Hackett : All right. Helen, if you can look me in the eye and honestly tell me that you don't love me, I will get off this elevator and out of your life.
Helen Chapel : I don't love you.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : I gotta stop saying that.
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Joe Montgomery Hackett : What are we moaning about? We're gonna be just fine without Alex and Helen. And you know why? 'Cause we're the Hackett brothers. We got a lot going for us.
Brian Michael Hackett : We do?
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Who left a string of broken hearts at Siasconset High?
Brian Michael Hackett : The Hackett brothers?
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Yeah. And who had their choice of any flight attendant in Boston?
Brian Michael Hackett : The Hackett brothers.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Exactly. So why are we gonna be okay?
Brian Michael Hackett : 'Cause we're the Hackett brothers!
Joe Montgomery Hackett : You're damn right! From now on, we're gonna have more women than we ever dreamed of!
Brian Michael Hackett : Yeah yeah yeah. Hot Latin women in tight black skirts.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Sure yeah. Big Nordic blondes with no tan line.
Brian Michael Hackett : Yeah. Nasty French girls with pouty lips.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Asian anchorwomen.
Brian Michael Hackett : Oh, good one. Wow.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Hey, we'll never have another meaningful relationship for the rest of our lives. It won't matter because...
Brian Michael Hackett : Hey, we'll have each other, right? We'll have each other. We'll be two old men with big smiles and a lot of great memories.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Oh, that's right. Two fat happy old guys sitting there in front of the TV in our underwear eating a couple of Hungry Man dinners.
Brian Michael Hackett : [the reality starts to sink in] Yeah. Two unshaven old geezers with three-inch fingernails, shouting about who left the cap off the Vapo-Rub.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : [They laugh half-heartedly] Mothers dragging their kids away from our house, saying "Don't go near there. You know who lives in there?"
Brian Michael Hackett : ...The Hackett brothers.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Where are those plane keys? I'm going after Helen.
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Helen Chapel : You know I know you don't want to hear this, but I'm marrying Davis and that's that.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : Give me one good reason why.
Helen Chapel : Oh honey, I'll give you the best reason of all: He...
[at a loss for a reason]
Helen Chapel : ... asked me first.
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Joe Montgomery Hackett : Look I really want this, Brian. If you care about me, if you want me to be happy, if you love me, you won't stand in my way.
Brian Michael Hackett : [Long pause] Get bent.
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Joe Montgomery Hackett : Look Brian, don't give up on Alex. You know there's still a chance it could work out.
Brian Michael Hackett : Yeah. Well hell, I'm not really worried. You know I've actually come up with a great plan to get her back. Every time she goes out for the morning paper, I'll be there. Every time she goes out to lunch, I'll be there. Every time she pulls the shades down at night, I'll be there.
Joe Montgomery Hackett : And every time you come up for parole, I'll be there.
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Joe Montgomery Hackett : [to Brian, about Joe and Helen spending the night together] Look, I don't know how it happened. She was on her way to New York, she stopped by here last night on her way to the airport to borrow my travel iron, so I gave it to her.
[Brian stares blankly]
Joe Montgomery Hackett : I meant the travel iron.
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Brian Michael Hackett : Boy, huh? You and Helen. All these years you two guys parading around as friends. This hot, steaming passion raging underneath the surface. Smoldering, sexual tinderbox just waiting for a spark to come along...
Joe Montgomery Hackett : You slept alone again last night, huh?
Brian Michael Hackett : Oh yeah.