Rear Window (1998 TV Movie)
Daryl Hannah: Claudia Henderson
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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 : 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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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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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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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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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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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.
