1:26:00
the infant with a skin rash,
the child swiped by a car...
1:26:05
the old lady mugged in the subway,
the derelict beaten by sailors...
1:26:10
the teenage suicide, the paranoids...
1:26:13
drunks, asthmatics, the rapes,
the septic abortions...
1:26:17
the overdosed addicts...
1:26:19
the fractures, infarcts, hemorrhages,
concussions, boils, abrasions...
1:26:24
the colonic cancers, the cardiac arrests...
1:26:28
the whole wounded madhouse of our times.
1:26:39
Who's Number 7680202-S?
1:26:43
Is there anybody here who is that number?
1:26:49
In this way...
1:26:51
was it revealed to me
the manner of Nurse Campanella's death.
1:26:55
She was to die
of the great American plague:
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Vestigial identity.
1:27:02
So, last night I crushed Miss Campanella
with a sandbag...
1:27:07
sedated her with Thorazine,
shaved her, prepped her...
1:27:11
and parked her in a corridor
of the x-ray department for five hours.
1:27:14
- Why x-ray?
- At x-ray...
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a sedated body lying around
unattended for five hours...
1:27:20
- wouldn't seem unusual.
- Of course.
1:27:22
Her operation, that is to say...
1:27:24
Mrs. Mangafranni's operation,
was not scheduled till 9:30.
1:27:30
At 9:15 this morning, I rang for my nurse.
1:27:33
Rang for your nurse?
1:27:34
To insure one full hour
of uninterrupted privacy.
1:27:39
I got up, wheeled Miss Campanella
off to the operating rooms...
1:27:44
I exchanged
Mrs. Mangafranni's bed with hers.
1:27:49
I transferred the charts
and identity bracelets.
1:27:52
She died officially of anesthesia shock.
1:27:57
In fact, she died because she was wearing
another woman's identity.