John Lithgow credited as playing...
Carter • Cain • Dr. Nix • Josh • Margo
- [Cain tells Dr. Nix to stay out of his way]
- Cain: But hey, I'm not one to hold a grudge. After all, where would I be without you, Baumse?
- Dr. Nix: You wouldn't exist.
- Cain: That's right. But I do exist, don't I? I'm that fucked-up experiment of yours that just won't go away. Hickory, dickory, doc. Cain has picked his lock. I'm outta here. The cat's in the bag and the bag is going in the river. So don't fuck with me, dad! You may lose more than your license this time.
- [first lines]
- Karen: [Karen tries to put the jacket on her boy Sam at the park] Let me put your jacket on.
- Sam, Karen's son: No, no, no, no.
- Karen: Come on.
- Sam, Karen's son: I don't want to.
- Carter: [Carter comes strolling up beside Karen] You taking off, Karen?
- Karen: Trying to.
- Carter: Need a hand?
- Karen: Would you mind?
- [Carter asks Karen if she knows about child development]
- Carter: Do you realize how important these early years are in Sam's development?
- Karen: Are you kidding? I've read all the books. And, of course, I get all the expert advice I can handle from my mother-in-law.
- Carter: [Carter chuckles] I know what you mean.
- [Carter talks to Karen about the importance of child development]
- Karen: Don't you have any know-it-all relatives?
- Carter: Oh, listen, my father wrote the book on child development. Unfortunately, it's in Norwegian!
- Karen: [Carter chuckles as Karen smiles] What does he have to say on the subject? In English!
- Carter: What does he not have to say?
- Karen: That bad?
- [Carter tries to talk to Karen about his dad's clinic in Norway]
- Karen: Well, what's so visionary about your dad's clinic anyway?
- Carter: Well... first of all, it's in a beautiful, natural, country setting. Amy will be supervised by a team of child psychologists... who record her progress hourly. But the thing is, you can't study child development and think anyone is going to take it seriously... if you only have one subject. It's just another case history. So, what we're setting up is a control group of gifted children. We'll need at least five. None of them older than three years old. That's why I wanted to talk to you about Sam, being one of...
- Karen: Being one of your guinea pigs? Oh, Carter, you gotta be kidding!
- Carter: [Carter shakes his head side-to-side with a smile on his face] No.
- Karen: Nobody's gonna let their kid go to some snake pit in Norway... to be part of some development study.
- Carter: [Carter looks away pulling on his tie] It's not a snake pit.
- [Carter tells Karen about the importance of personality development]
- Carter: Karen, do you realize that no one really knows anything about personality development. Everything up to now has been pure conjecture. All we psychiatrists do is-is chase cows after the barn door has been opened.
- Carter: [Carter fake sneezes into his hand] Here, for the first time, we'll have an opportunity to observe what happens... when it happens and precisely monitor the psychological consequences.
- Karen: Well, not with my kid, you don't.
- [Carter knocks out Karen in the car as two joggers come jogging down the street in slow-motion]
- Cain: [Carter hears a wicked laugh, as Cain appears outside the passenger window of the parked car] Kiss her.
- Carter: What?
- Cain: You got about five seconds before those guys are in your face. And what do you think you look like, killer? Go on, kiss her!
- Cain: [Carter kisses Karen's unconscious lips, as the joggers smile and keep jogging] Oh. Well done.
- Carter: When did you get out?
- Cain: Move over.
- [Cain sits in the car with Carter and talks to him about what he observed]
- Carter: What are you doing here?
- Cain: I'm saving your ass, that's what. I was just supposed to come along as an observer. Right now, what I'm observing is very odd. Twin brothers chatting in the front seat of a car... while the driver is slumped over the wheel. What is wrong with this picture?
- Carter: I don't need you!
- Cain: [Cain imitates Carter] 'I don't need you!'
- Cain: [Cain chuckles] Let's get out of here, Carter, before we're seen. Because, believe me... we'll be remembered.
- [Carter talks to Cain, upset that Cain had to show up]
- Cain: You can drop me off at the next corner. I can use a drink.
- Carter: And don't follow me anymore.
- Cain: 'Don't follow me anymore.'
- Carter: Stop that!
- Cain: 'Stop that!'
- Carter: Stop it!
- Cain: [Cain chuckles while smoking in the car] All right. All right.
- [Cain asks Carter about what he was going to do with Karen's body]
- Cain: Ah, Carter, you're a thankless dope. I was only trying to help. Which, of course, I did. This thing you're doing means everything to the old man. And you can't fuck it up.
- Carter: I'm not fucking anything up.
- Cain: Oh, really? What were you planning to do with the little missus here?
- Carter: I'm gonna... take her back to the park and leave her there.
- Cain: Very good! I see you've got this all thought out. 'Take her back to the park and leave her there.' Uh-huh. And then what?
- Carter: Then, when the chloroform wears off, she'll be fine.
- Cain: And when you get home, the cops will be sitting on your doorstep.
- Carter: I won't hurt her!
- Cain: You won't hurt her! She'll hurt you!
- [Cain tells Carter what they're going to do with Karen's body]
- Cain: [Cain lifts Karen's head up by the hair] The cat's in the bag. And the bag is in the river.
- [Dr. Nix learns that Cain has gotten out]
- Dr. Nix: I was afraid of this. I wanted him to do this himself. I didn't want you to help him.
- Cain: Gee, Daddy, I was only trying to help out. If I hadn't been there we'd all be fucked. Carter's an amateur. He panicked.
- Dr. Nix: Oh, stop it! I know you, Cain. Carter weakened and you stepped in. We all know your 'tough guy' act. But we don't need a loose cannon here. Carter can finish this himself.
- [Cain reminds Dr. Nix about their troubled past with one another]
- Dr. Nix: You know... you could get us all put away for good.
- Cain: There's no jail that can hold me. I'm the escape artist, remember? I learned it breaking out of all those cages you locked me in.
- Dr. Nix: [Dr. Nix shouts] They were not cages! They were especially designed infant environments.
- Cain: [Cain yells back] They were cages!
- [Carter follows his wife Jenny into the park woods, where he watches her have sex with Jack]
- Cain: [Carter hears a wicked laugh, as Cain appears next to him behind the tree] Jesus! Come on, be a peeping Tom on your own time. We're gonna lose that kid.
- Carter: That's my wife!
- Cain: [Cain frowns looking back at Jenny having sex] No shit?
- Carter: I married her too soon. She never got over him.
- Cain: [Cain laughs to Carter] No question of that!
- [Jenny returns home and fights Carter for trying to kill her, who doesn't remember a thing]
- Jenny: [Jenny holds a knife to Carter's throat] Wake up! Don't move or I'll cut it.
- Carter: Jenny, what are you doing? I'm bleeding. Oh my god, I'm bleeding!
- Jenny: [Jenny sarcastically replies with a smile, being a doctor] And I can help you.
- Carter: Don't let me die, Jenny!
- Jenny: [Jenny screams back] I want to know what you've done with Amy!
- Carter: Amy? What are you saying?
- Jenny: [Jenny pulls on Carter's shirt] I want answers, Carter!
- Carter: Jenny!
- Jenny: How could you let me drown like that?
- Carter: Drown? What's happening?
- [Cain talks to Carter as Jenny holds Carter down with a knife]
- Cain: [Cain stands over Jenny's shoulder] She wants to know where her brat is. So why don't you tell her before you get your throat cut.
- Carter: [Carter replies back looking to Cain] But I don't know where she is.
- Cain: [Cain imitates Carter] 'I don't know where she is.'
- Carter: I don't!
- Jenny: [Jenny looks over her shoulder] Who are you talking to?
- Cain: I do. I took her to dear ol' dad.
- Carter: Where is she?
- Jenny: [Jenny looks behind herself again seeing that nobody's there] Who are you talking to?
- [Carter sits in a holding room as Cain talks to him from a set of cabinets]
- Cain: [Carter starts to cry] Ha! She doesn't care who she fucks or where she does it. But don't worry, buddy. I'm not going to let that loving wife of yours sell you down the river. Once we get outta here I'm gonna put that two-timing bitch in a box she'll never swim out of!
- [Cain helps Carter find what he needs to escape from the police station]
- Cain: [Carter grows scared in the holding room] Hey! Remember that lady cop... with a rats nest for a hairdo who brought Waldheim her coffee?
- Cain: [Carter nods yes] Take a look down at your feet.
- Cain: [Carter begins to look down as Cain shouts out] Don't be so obvious! Jesus!
- Cain: [Carter silently listens to Cain] Keep your head up. Now reach down... down... down... and pick it up.
- Cain: [Carter picks up a hair pin as Cain smiles] Good boy!