Detective Story (1951)

Eleanor Parker: Mary McLeod

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• Detective James McLeod : At an autopsy the other day I watched the medical examiner saw off the top of a man's skull, take out the brain and hold it in his hand.

  [holds out his hand] 

  Detective James McLeod : Like that.

  Mary McLeod : Why are you telling me this?

  Detective James McLeod : Because I'd give my soul to take out my brain, hold it under the faucet and wash away the dirty pictures you put there tonight.

  Mary McLeod : Dirty pictures?

  Detective James McLeod : Yes!

  Mary McLeod : Oh, I see. I see. Yes, that would be fine... if we could. But when you wash away what I may have put there, you'll find you've a rotten spot in your brain, Jim. And it's growing. I know, I've watched it.