No. [Surprisingly, Caesar stays his hand and stands his ground. This is a side of Joseph he's never seen. His posture, his refusal to look him in the eye...
Is this remorse?]
When I arrived here, I was at death's door. So I tried to forget about everything you had said in St. Moritz-- after fifty years, you wouldn't remember it, and I thought... fighting someone like DIO to protect your daughter, you must have learned, long ago, to understand how I felt back then.
[It hurts, admitting this. He believed in Jojo; he believed that he'd grown up and left the stupid impulsiveness of his youth behind. Or at least refined it to make it more useful than a simple talent for bullshitting well enough to get by.
He hasn't been so wounded by a realization since that day in Switzerland. It's not a feeling he's eager to feel a second time, but here he is.]
If you were this irresponsible... it's clear that you didn't!
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Is this remorse?]
When I arrived here, I was at death's door. So I tried to forget about everything you had said in St. Moritz-- after fifty years, you wouldn't remember it, and I thought... fighting someone like DIO to protect your daughter, you must have learned, long ago, to understand how I felt back then.
[It hurts, admitting this. He believed in Jojo; he believed that he'd grown up and left the stupid impulsiveness of his youth behind. Or at least refined it to make it more useful than a simple talent for bullshitting well enough to get by.
He hasn't been so wounded by a realization since that day in Switzerland. It's not a feeling he's eager to feel a second time, but here he is.]
If you were this irresponsible... it's clear that you didn't!