Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Zohra Lampert: Jessica

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• Jessica : I sit here and I can't believe that it happened. And yet I have to believe it. Dreams or nightmares? Madness or sanity? I don't know which is which.

• Old man : Look what they're driving. Damn hippies, creeps!

  Duncan : Some welcoming committee.

  Jessica : I don't think they like our mode of transportation.

  Woody : Look at those bandages. I think these guys are left over from the Civil War.

  [to the old men] 

  Woody : It's cheaper than a station wagon!

  [they drive off, laughing] 

  Old man : Good riddance.

• Jessica : [voiceover; talking to herself]  Don't tell them. Act normal.

• Jessica : I was just, er, looking at the picture. It looks so much like you.

  Emily : My lord, it does. Gee, how weird. What's the matter?

  Jessica : Nothing. It's just, er, it does look so very much like you.

  Emily : It's an old print. It could look like anybody.

  Jessica : No, it's... it's the eyes.

• Emily : [Emily and Duncan have just finished playing a song together]  Wow, terrific! He's really something! I mean, really.

  Jessica : He's an important man. He was with the Philharmonic.

  Emily : Are you going to try to find someplace around here to play?

  Woody : No, he's gonna farm. Raise apples, have a garden... get back to nature. He's a nut.

  Jessica : *I'm* the nut.

• Woody : [Jessica and Duncan are trying to communicate with the blonde girl in white, who is mute, when Woody arrives]  What's that?

  Jessica : She led me to the body.

  Woody : What's the matter with her?

  Jessica : She knows who killed that man!

  Woody : What man?

  Duncan : [exasperated]  I don't know.

• Jessica : You don't believe me. You don't think there's anything strange going on.

  Duncan : I think it's... it's all strange.