Nightmare Alley
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1:30:19
When you first came to me,
you were in bad shape.

1:30:22
I had hoped by getting at the roots
of your anxieties, I could avert a serious upset.

1:30:26
Well, I seemed to have failed.
1:30:30
Wait a minute. If you're thinking
of throwing the cops at me...

1:30:33
don't forget that you've
been in this with me.

1:30:35
Please, Mr. Carlisle,
try to understand...

1:30:38
that these delusions of yours in regard to me
are a part of your mental condition.

1:30:42
When I first examined you,
you were being tortured by guilt reactions...

1:30:46
connected with the death of that
drunken mentalist during your carnival days.

1:30:50
Wh-What are you trying to pull?
You can't prove anything.

1:30:55
Besides, it was an accident.
I told you that.

1:30:57
I'm a psychologist,
not a judge.

1:31:00
What I want to explain to you is...
1:31:02
all these things that you think you have
done lately, or that have been done to you...

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are merely the fancied guilt of your past life
projected on the present.

1:31:11
Do I make myself clear?
You must regard it all as a nightmare.

1:31:17
The police records show that a carnival employee
by the name of Peter Krumbein...

1:31:21
actually died of wood alcohol poisoning
in Burly, Texas.

1:31:24
Self-administered. You told me you gave him
that bottle of wood alcohol yourself.

1:31:29
But I suppose that was just another one
of your homicidal hallucinations, wasn't it?

1:31:35
Or was the homicide a reality too?
1:31:41
Speaking of records,
would you like to hear a playback...

1:31:44
of the recital you made to me
that night?

1:31:47
It's on file in my office, but I'll be glad
to let you hear it anytime you like.

1:31:52
Listen. I can prove that you've been
in this with me from the start.

1:31:55
That's another thing,
Mr. Carlisle...

1:31:57
which clearly indicates the serious nature
of your malady.


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