Richard Long credited as playing...
Lance Schroeder
- Watson Pritchard: [shows everyone a knife] This is what she used on my brother and her sister, hacked them to pieces. We found parts of their bodies all over the house, in places you wouldn't think. A funny thing is the heads have never been found - hands and feet and things like that, but no heads.
- Dr. David Trent: The wife, probably in a fit of rage, threatened her husband with the knife, and then, carried away by hysteria, took a swing at him and simply went on from there.
- Lance Schroeder: [laughing] She certainly went on. How many people did she kill, Mr. Pritchard?
- Watson Pritchard: Only two, her husband and her sister, nobody else was here.
- Lance Schroeder: So there are two loose heads just floating around here someplace?
- Watson Pritchard: You can hear them at night, they whisper to each other, and then cry.
- Lance Schroeder: I'm going to my room and if anybody comes in, I'll shoot him.
- [looking at Ruth]
- Lance Schroeder: Or her.
- Annabelle Loren: My husband is sometimes insane with jealousy. Nothing matters to him!
- Lance Schroeder: Would he hurt you?
- Annabelle Loren: He would kill me if he could.
- Lance Schroeder: [shows severed head found in Nora's closet] What do you know about this?
- Watson Pritchard: They've taken her. In a little while she'll be one of them.
- Lance Schroeder: WHERE'S NORA? Where is she?
- Watson Pritchard: It's too late, it's too late, you'll never find her again!
- Lance Schroeder: Pritchard, if you know where she is you better tell me now!
- Watson Pritchard: She's gone! She's gone with them, and there's nothing you can do about it.
- [a woman screams from somewhere in the house, then chokes and becomes silent]
- Nora Manning: [comes around corner, whispering] Lance, hide me, please, hide me!
- Lance Schroeder: What?
- Nora Manning: Hide me!
- [they go to his room and lock the door, she regains her voice]
- Nora Manning: He tried to kill me! He grabbed me and choked me and put me in that room, and then he went away and left me!
- Lance Schroeder: Who?
- Nora Manning: He thought I was dead!
- Lance Schroeder: Who?
- Nora Manning: Mr. Loren.
- Lance Schroeder: Are you sure about this?
- Nora Manning: I don't know, it was dark but it must've been him.
- Lance Schroeder: Has anybody seen you since he left you?
- Nora Manning: I don't know. I heard some people in that room but I went by and nobody saw me.
- Lance Schroeder: Mrs. Loren is dead.
- Nora Manning: But how?
- Lance Schroeder: Loren said she committed suicide, but I think somebody killed her.
- Nora Manning: Him?
- Lance Schroeder: Do you think it would do any good if you went in and talked to her?
- Ruth: Well, do you think there really was a head in her suitcase?
- Lance Schroeder: I don't know.
- Ruth: A thing like that would put me right over the edge.