Rear Window (1998 TV Movie)
Christopher Reeve: Jason Kemp
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Quotes
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Claudia : [looking through the camera at the Thorpes' apartment] She didn't leave him.
Jason : How can you be so sure?
Claudia : Well, her jewelry box and her perfume are still on the dresser. She might leave her husband, but she's not gonna leave her jewelry.
Jason : That's my point, something must have happened to her.
Claudia : Jason, she probably spent the day at a bar or at her sister's or her mother's trying to get up the courage to come home. She's gonna come home, she'll be remorseful, they'll be all lovey-dovey for a few days and then they'll go at it again. Relationships like that are far too complicated to understand from the outside. Next time, do us all a favor and don't call 911.
Jason : I'm not sure there's gonna be a next time. I think he killed her last night.
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Charlie : Do you remember anything about what happened?
Jason : Well, I remember leaving my office Friday afternoon. I was driving up to the country to have dinner with a client. After that, I'm a total blank until I woke up in ICU.
Charlie : So, you're missing a whole week.
Jason : If you come across it, I'd like to have it back again.
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Charlie : Did they tell you the first person on the scene was a guy who was a medic in Vietnam?
Jason : Yeah. I was lying there on the pavement. My neck was broken; I wasn't breathing and this guy came along and he literally took a Swiss army knife and dug a hole in my throat and stuck a straw in it and saved my life.
Charlie : Lucky he happened by.
Jason : Sometimes I wish he'd been running five minutes late that night.
[uncomfortable pause]
Jason : Was it my fault?
Charlie : We're not sure yet.
Jason : It's been three weeks.
Charlie : It's been four. You're missing one, remember? We have no witnesses to the actual crash; the other driver's blood alcohol level was slightly elevated and judging from impact, you were both doing the obligatory ten miles an hour over the speed limit.
Jason : What's the other driver have to say?
Charlie : They didn't tell you? She died at the scene.
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Antonio : What you doing here sitting in the dark?
Jason : Spying on my neighbors. I think she's just discovered that her husband's go an online girlfriend. Now she's really reading him the riot act.
Antonio : Serious melodrama.
Jason : I'm telling you.
Antonio : I'm gonna have to try and fix you up one of those personal surveillance devices. Get you that all-important bird's-eye view.
Jason : Would that make me a bona fide, no-two-ways-about-it peeping tom?
Antonio : Definitely.
Jason : Go for it!
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Charlie : Run that by me again.
Jason : So, he makes bail, he comes home and he tell her he's gonna leave her for another woman. She threatens to testify against him and ruin his life. They have a drag-out fight and this time, he kills her.
Claudia : So what do you think?
Charlie : Aside from no body, no witnesses, no evidence whatsoever that a crime was committed... as crackpot theories go, very plausible.
Jason : Are you cynical, Charlie, or just apathetic?
Charlie : Did you see this murder?
Jason : I heard it.
Charlie : You heard them fighting, which married couples do from time to time.
Jason : I heard her scream and then I heard him banging and sawing away all night in his studio.
Charlie : Residential zoning violation and not very neighborly, but hardly a capital crime.
Jason : He was covering up a murder!
Charlie : Look, I hate to be cynical, but you're lying in bed, you can't sleep, you're looking at the ceiling, you start to imagine things.
Jason : I didn't imagine this.
Charlie : Alison, did you hear a scream?
Alison : Well, I was downstairs.
Jason : Alison, are you telling me you didn't hear Mrs. Thorpe scream?
Alison : No, I didn't. I'm sorry. I might have been in the laundry room. I have a monitor in there so I can hear Jason, but I can't really hear anything from outside.
Charlie : All right, no corroboration on the blood-curdling scream. Yet... I'll canvas the neighbors.
Jason : [flatly] Great.
Charlie : [looking at the camera] Too bad that wasn't going last night. We could have gone to the videotape.
[to Jason]
Charlie : You mind me asking, what kind of medication are you on?
Jason : You name it...
Charlie : Alison, help me out here. He on anything which would affect his judgment or perception?
Alison : Sleeping pills and valium.
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Claudia : Has the late show started yet?
Jason : What?
Claudia : The X-rated version?
Jason : What do you mean?
Claudia : I think you know very well what I mean.
Jason : [she leans down and kisses him] Are you sure you wanna do this?
Claudia : Yes. As a matter of fact, I am.
Jason : You're incredible. It always won't be like this. You know, um... right now, I can't, you know, but I'm gonna be on my feet again in a few years.
Claudia : I believe that. Doesn't matter.
Jason : In the meantime...
Claudia : In the meantime, we're just gonna have to be... creative.
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Thorpe : [email] What do you want?
Jason : What do I want? What *do* I want?
[to computer]
Jason : Email to handrasp: "I want to nail you, pal. I want to make you pay for what you've done. I want you to lie awake and wonder when they're coming to get you." Send.
[Jason watches through the window as Thorpe and his girlfriend read the email and start to panic]
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Jason : You know, I always wondered what went on over there during the day. Nothing much. But anyway, time to get back to work on the Woolrich project. Starting tomorrow, I'll be on it again full time.
Roy Mason : Jason, the site's already been excavated. They're pouring the foundation as we speak. They begin framing next week.
Jason : Now wait a minute here, how did that happen?
Franklin Porter : We had to reassign it.
Jason : We made an agreement in the hospital.
Franklin Porter : What can I tell you? The client...
Roy Mason : Insisted. Wasn't confident you'd return to work with all your... former resources intact.
Jason : So who'd you give it to?
Roy Mason : Claudia Henderson. She's the new girl.
Franklin Porter : Actually, she is very talented.
Jason : Well, that's good, because then you won't have any problem giving her something else to do, 'cause I'm back with my resources intact, and the Woolrich Center is mine. Antonio.
[Antonio starts to wheel him out]
Jason : I don't believe you two.
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Jason : [Claudia helps feed him] Are you sure that you don't mind doing this?
Claudia : Not at all.
Jason : [she straightens his napkin] Oh, that's the part I hate.
Claudia : What, the napkin?
Jason : Makes me feel like a big baby with a bib on.
Claudia : I think it's kind of attractive. It's like a tuxedo look without the tux.
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Claudia : How's jury selection going?
Charlie : Well, I got to tell you. This is a pretty thin case. No confession, no corpse, maybe no crime.
Claudia : What about the sister?
Charlie : Oh, she confessed, all right.
Claudia : She did?
Charlie : To being the missing woman's sister and having an affair with her brother-in-law, which may be a crime in some states, but not here.
Jason : But she didn't confess to murder?
Charlie : Why would she confess to murder? If she does that, it's all over. Why does anyone ever confess to murder? There's no upside. Nah. Killers only give it up on television to better-looking cops than me.
Jason : But she was murdered. There is no doubt about that.
Charlie : Plenty of doubt about that.
Claudia : What about the perfume, the jewelry?
Charlie : Cornerstone of my case.
Jason : So what's gonna happen? Are they just gonna walk?
Charlie : Oh, they're not gonna walk, exactly. No, we've got her for impersonating her sister. She kited some checks. Uh, the fraud charges may stick.
Jason : Big deal.
Charlie : And we've got him for assaulting Alison, attempted murder on you. No, these guys are gonna do some time. But for the murder of Ilene Thorpe? I don't think so.
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Roy Mason : We can give Woolrich back to you, if...
Jason : Yeah, you sure can. You don't have a choice.
Franklin Porter : But we're not gonna take it away from Claudia. She's been working her ass off for six months, and I got to tell you, the client is very happy with the work she's been doing.
Jason : Ah, you guys didn't waste much time, did you? Did you give the job away while I was on the operating table 'cause you didn't think I'd survive the surgery? Is that it?
Franklin Porter : Look, Jason, we didn't know what would happen. You're gonna have to learn to work with her. I'm sorry.
Roy Mason : Look on the bright side. Somebody's got to do all those boring lunches with the client.
Jason : Oh, the bright side. Interesting way to describe stabbing me in the back.
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Claudia : [barely escaping from Thorpe] Thanks for the heads up. I took the stairs. Whew! That was a close one.
Jason : Yeah, too close.
Claudia : No kidding. Sorry, I messed up.
Jason : Did you get his e-mail address?
Claudia : Yes. Don't do anything rash with it.
Jason : [innocently] Who, me?
Claudia : You.
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Jason : I guess he's still in the slammer.
Claudia : In the slammer?
Jason : Yeah, the sculptor across the way beat up his wife last night.
Claudia : You're kidding.
Antonio : Jason sicced the cops on him.
Claudia : Oh, so this isn't just cheap thrills. It's in the public interest.
Jason : Call me citizen voyeur.
Claudia : So, if he gonna come after you?
Jason : No, I don't think so. He doesn't know I called the cops, and I didn't give my name to 911.
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Claudia : So, what's odd?
Jason : Well, what's odd is that he really beat the crap out of her last night, and today she doesn't look so bad.
Claudia : Eh, she's wearing a lot of makeup for this early in the day. This is kind of exciting. Bet you could see some pretty sexy stuff with this thing.
Jason : Mmm, I already have. After dark, this, uh, whole, uh, building goes from a PG-13 to a hard R.
Claudia : [she and Antonio laugh] Care to be more specific? Remember, God is in the details.
Jason : Well, come on over some night, see for yourself.
Claudia : Maybe I will. We'd probably end up fighting over this.
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Jason : What's all that?
Claudia : Oh, I was in the neighborhood. I picked up a few things. Some tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, fresh pasta.
Jason : That is so nice of you to come cook me dinner.
Claudia : Oh, no, no, no, no. I don't cook. I shop. I can't cook. I thought that maybe Alison...
Jason : Uh, no, Alison, doesn't cook at all, believe me.
Claudia : What are we gonna do?
Jason : Uh, well, can you boil water?
Claudia : I can try.
Jason : Okay, um, grab a big pot down there.
Claudia : [looking] Pot, okay. Pot. All right.
Jason : [she takes out a small saucepan] Um, big. It's a technical term that means big.
Claudia : Smart aleck.
[searching again]
Claudia : Big, big pot.
Jason : [she finds the right pot] That's better. Okay. Now you need a big knife.
Claudia : [getting a knife] Big enough for you?
Jason : [amused laugh] Yeah, that's fine. And what you do is you take the tomatoes, then you're gonna wash them and then you dice them.
Claudia : Define "dice".
Jason : Oh, no, we're gonna starve.
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Jason : I don't understand why you can't find the bronze, 'cause, you know, you find the bronze, you're gonna find her. I'm convinced of it. I think that he stuffed her body inside it, he sanded it, he painted it, and shipped it out right under our noses.
Charlie : Jimmy Hoffa in the Meadowlands.
Jason : Probably where he got the idea.
Charlie : Jimmy Hoffa was never found, let me remind you.
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Claudia : Listen, uh, you were right.
Jason : I was?
Claudia : Mm-hmm. There is definitely a new girl in residence over there, and the old one is not coming back.
Jason : What convinced you?
Claudia : Ilene's perfume and her jewelry have been put away and replaced by some other woman's, and it's not the same stuff. Not at all.
Jason : Any sign of another name?
Claudia : No. Whoever she is, she's still going by the name Ilene Thorpe, using her ID, her checkbook, everything.
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Antonio : She like you, you know.
Jason : Who, Alison?
Antonio : Claudia.
Jason : Oh, Claudia. Yeah, we're getting along very well on the project together.
Antonio : Not like that. Like a woman like a man.
Jason : Hmm. Well, I only see two problems with that. One, she could have any man she wants. And two, I'm damaged goods. Contents broken during handling and shipping. Why would she want that?
Antonio : I'm tellin' you, man, when it come to a woman, sometime waters run deeper than you or I will ever know.
Jason : Have you written anything I could check out at the library?
Antonio : [laughing] I don't need to write it, man.
[pointing to his temple, indicating his brain]
Antonio : I know.
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Antonio : Alison's downstairs. She'll be on duty all night. She got a monitor. You need anything, you just click.
Jason : Okay.
Antonio : Got my phone number and my beeper number hot-wired into your computer. Alison call me, I'll be here before you can say Rastafarian rehabilitation.
Jason : You know what? I think you're overqualified for this job.
Antonio : I think so, too.
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Claudia : Woolrich commissioned the piece from Thorpe. It's been sitting in our lobby all this time.
Jason : How could we not have known that?
Claudia : Remember that meeting you didn't go to, on lobby art?
Jason : Mm-hmm.
Claudia : Woolrich told me that he commissioned a bunch of sculptures from prominent local artists, that you'd approved the sketches, and it was a done deal. They never told me the names of the artists, I never asked.
Jason : I never approved any sketches.
Claudia : It was the day of your accident.
Jason : Oh, that's why I don't remember.
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Jason : What's going on up there?
Franklin Porter : Major renovation. Putting together 10,000 square feet for Spartina Gallery.
Roy Mason : Spending some real dough.
Jason : Whoa. Who's the architect?
Roy Mason : Hollingsworth.
Jason : Bud Hollingsworth? He couldn't design the stalls in a men's room.
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Claudia : Well, she's back.
Jason : Yeah, big time.
Claudia : Just like I said, they're all lovey-dovey.
Jason : But it doesn't make any sense. They never were before.
Claudia : I... I don't know, Jason. I just can't tell.
Jason : I... I just don't see how it can be her.
Claudia : Well, you couldn't prove it by me. I didn't get a good enough look at her.
Jason : Well, this one seems to be about five pounds thinner, her hair's lighter. Her mouth and her chin are a little bit different. And that little mole by her mouth is missing.
Claudia : Maybe she had it removed.
Jason : Maybe this one never had it in the first place. Notice anything really different?
Claudia : No, not really.
Jason : She's not drinking. The other one always had a glass in her hand and a bottle by the bedside.
Claudia : You're obsessed.
Jason : Well, maybe, but I'm not crazy.
