Beware, My Lovely (1952)
Ida Lupino: Mrs. Helen Gordon
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Quotes
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Howard Wilton : Mrs. Gordon...
Mrs. Helen Gordon : Yes?
Howard Wilton : Have I done anything to hurt you?
Mrs. Helen Gordon : No. Of course you haven't.
Howard Wilton : I'm glad. Because I wouldn't want to hurt you. But I might, you know.
Mrs. Helen Gordon : I don't believe that. You're just not feeling well, that's all.
Howard Wilton : [haltingly] You don't know what it means... like I do... to find myself in the... middle of a room... the middle of a busy street... or in some house I'm working in. A thing like that happens, I wonder where I am... what I'm doing. And sometimes I'm... I'm looking down at someone... somebody that's been hurt. And they've been hurt very badly. And I wonder if *I've* done it, if what I'm looking at is real or, it's only in my mind. Then I begin to run. I hide. But I don't know what I'm hiding from. It's bad enough to hide, but... not to know what you're hiding from. There are days when I pick up a newspaper, and I see that somebody's been murdered. And I ask myself... could I have been there at that time? Could I have done this thing? Where was I yesterday? What causes these blank spaces? What causes them?
Mrs. Helen Gordon : [frightened] I don't know... I don't know... I don't know. Perhaps if we get a doctor...
[makes a run for the door to get away]