Black Rainbow (1989)

Jason Robards: Walter Travis

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• [aboard passenger train] 

  Railroad Steward : Breakfast!

  Walter Travis : [obviously an alcoholic]  I just had it... it's medicinal.

  Railroad Steward : For your liver?

  Walter Travis : For my soul.

• [last lines] 

  Walter Travis : Is this a dream?

• Walter Travis : Your mother saw *nothing!* You don't still believe that cock and bull story, do you? You were with me in St. Louis, remember? Hundreds of miles away. You *couldn't* have appeared to her.

  [leans over Martha] 

  Walter Travis : You know your mother's problem? Religion!

  [Martha chuckles] 

  Walter Travis : Hmm.

  [nods] 

  Walter Travis : Too much *religion.* She never did see you like she said. It was all in her *dreams.*

  [Martha shakes her head] 

  Walter Travis : Now, you must apologize to that poor woman. I have her waiting outside.

  Martha Travis : [tearfully]  I'm not apologizing!

  Walter Travis : You will!

  Martha Travis : No! I *can't*! I saw it! I saw it, all of it!

  [sobs] 

  Walter Travis : You heard what the woman said. Her husband *isn't* dead.

  Martha Travis : [sobs]  She's wrong...

  Walter Travis : You heard what she said. He's at home watching TV. In some households, that's considered being *alive.* Now, now,

  [strokes her arm] 

  Walter Travis : yes, you must apologize, sweetheart. You frightened the *life* out of her.

  Martha Travis : What about me, Daddy?

  Walter Travis : Why should you be frightened? You've been doing this since you were a kid.

  Martha Travis : [yells out:]  It was different this time. You have to believe me!

• Walter Travis : You have to realize that in a young girl, such powers bring with it a fertile imagination, and the nervous disposition of a racehorse.

• Gary Wallace : Does Martha have any friends?

  Walter Travis : Only in the spirit world.

• Walter Travis : This is the only real... spirit world.

  [takes swig from bottle]