Double Indemnity (1944)

Jean Heather: Lola Dietrichson

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• Lola Dietrichson : Look at me, Mr. Neff, I'm not crazy, I'm not hysterical, I'm not even crying. But I have the awful feeling that something's wrong. And I had that same feeling once before, when my mother died.

  Walter Neff : When your mother died?

  Lola Dietrichson : We were at Lake Arrowhead. It was 6 years ago. We had a cabin there and it was very cold. My mother was very sick; she had pneumonia, there were just three of us there in the cabin. One night I got up and went into my mother's room. She was delirious with fever, all the bed covers were on the floor. The windows were wide open. The nurse wasn't in the room. I went and covered my mother up as quickly as I could. Just then I heard the door open behind me. The nurse stood there. She didn't say a word, but there was a look in her eye I'll never forget. Two days later my mother was dead.

  [growing anger] 

  Lola Dietrichson : Do you know who that was nurse was?

  Walter Neff : No, who?

  Lola Dietrichson : Phyllis!

• Lola Dietrichson : You're not making sense, Miss Dietrichson. Your father fell off a train.

  Lola Dietrichson : Two days before he fell off that train, what was Phyllis doing? She was in her room, in front of a mirror with a black hat on and pinning a veil to it! As if she couldn't wait to see how she would look in mourning!

  Walter Neff : You've had a pretty bad shock, Miss Dietrichson. Aren't you just imagining these things?

  Lola Dietrichson : I caught her eyes in the mirror. They had that same look in them they had before my mother died. That same look.