Barbara Stanwyck credited as playing...
Leona Hastings-Forrest
- Rigby Reardon: [on the phone] Mrs. Hastings?
- Leona: Yes?
- Rigby Reardon: My name's Reardon. Sorry to hear your father's passed on.
- Leona: No, he hasn't. He won't be back till Sunday.
- Rigby Reardon: Sunday? You don't understand, Mrs. Hastings. I'm investigating your father's death.
- Leona: Well, that's absurd! My father called me from Chicago tonight. He never mentioned a word!
- Rigby Reardon: Maybe it slipped his mind. Look, uh, your father is dead, Mrs. Hastings. Your sister Juliet feels his death wasn't an accident.
- Leona: What are you talking about? Why are you calling me like this? I had a long talk with him just a little while ago. He told me some terrible things about you.
- Rigby Reardon: Listen, you phony fruitcake!
- [pause]
- Rigby Reardon: Sorry I called you a fruitcake, Mrs. Hastings. It's just that I don't have time to listen to...
- Leona: [interrupting] All right, don't listen! Who cares?
- [She slams the phone down]
- Rigby Reardon: [to Juliet] Your sister has a lot to learn about phone courtesy.
- Rigby Reardon: Get your sister Leona for me.
- Juliet Forrest: All right. I'm afraid she may not be very much help. She's very disturbed.
- Rigby Reardon: How disturbed?
- Juliet Forrest: She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac. Doctors think she may be faking.
- Rigby Reardon: I'll know after one word if she's faking.
- Leona: [attending the telephone] Hello?
- Rigby Reardon: [to Juliet] She's faking.