Rehearsal for Murder (1982 TV Movie)

William Daniels: Walter Lamb

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• Alex : Oh and by the way, it's something new for me; a mystery.

  Walter : Good. They do well.

  Alex : Unusual form, a mystery. You take the audience by the hand, and you lead them... in the wrong direction. They trust you, and you betray them! All in the name of surprise.

• Walter : Alex, we've known each other for a long time, so I'm entitled to be blunt. Why are we here?

  Alex : You know why, Walter. To read my new play.

  Walter : It's not a play. It's just a bunch of unrelated scenes, all of them uncomfortably close to the truth.

  David : The hell they are!

• Walter : The woman killed herself! Do you understand? Whether you want to believe it or not, she was depressed, and she jumped out of her bedroom window!

  Alex : How can you be so certain, Walter? Were you there?

• Walter : [to Frank]  We all said a lot of things. None of them were true.

• Karen : Who's that?

  Walter : Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Bumped into each other outside.

  Lloyd : The difference is that Walter came in a limo and I had to take a bus.

• Walter : [referring to Alex]  Ah, he's being mysterious. Well, it's the playwright's prerogative... and it's the producer's prerogative to have a sweet roll.

• Lloyd : He certainly raked you over the coals.

  Walter : Well, that makes two of us.

  David : Three.

  Leo : Great. Marvelous. Wonderful.

  [to Karen] 

  Leo : We're next!

• Walter : Well, now what?

  Alex : Alibis, Walter.

  Walter : I was wondering when you would get around to that.

  Alex : I've established that you all had motives...

  David : Like hell we had.

  Alex : But motives are nullified by a legitimate alibi.

• Walter : What are you talking about? Monica wasn't murdered. She committed suicide. And to suggest that one of us is involved...

  Alex : It isn't a suggestion; it's a statement of fact.

  Karen : They investigated, the police...

  Alex : The police were wrong.

  Walter : Alex! We all know you suffered a terrible loss. We understand your grief. But what you're doing here, it won't change anything. It won't bring her back.

  Alex : Then you've nothing to lose by indulging me.