Route 66 (TV Series)

Effigy in Snow (1961)

George Macready: Mr. Fontaine

Quotes 

• Mr. Fontaine : I'll find him, Sheriff. I've always found him.

  Sheriff : This time you're too late.

  Mr. Fontaine : But what makes you think this dead girl is his dead girl?

  Sheriff : The look on your face tells me you think so.

  Mr. Fontaine : But maybe I'm not too late for the second girl.

  Buz Murdock : This guy Fontaine - is he dangerous?

  Sheriff : He escaped from an asylum back east.

  Buz Murdock : You mean he's insane?

  Mr. Fontaine : No, no, just angry. He's consumed with wrath, tortured with memories, doing the killing I didn't do. Doing it for me, and for himself.

• Mr. Fontaine : Armand!

  Armand Fontaine : Father? Oh Father, please make them go away.

  Mr. Fontaine : We must go, Armand. Not they. You and I. We must go home.

  Armand Fontaine : No. I want Penny. Please send Penny to me. I promise I'll be gentle. I won't hurt her. I won't hurt her the way you hurt Mother.

  Mr. Fontaine : I've told you ten thousand times, Armand. I did not kill your mother. That's only something in your mind. A fantasy. It never happened.

  Armand Fontaine : I was with you. I saw it! She was there, and the other man. She laughed at you, and she laughed at me. She didn't even care. And then I saw you go to her. I saw you push her face down into the pillow. I saw you smother her in the white pillow until she was dead.

  Mr. Fontaine : No, Armand, she is not dead. Your mother is not dead. Try and remember how it really happened. We came home that night, unexpected. We surprised her. That part is true, Armand, but then I took you away. I took you out of there that very second because you were too young to know about such things. I never said a word to her, Armand. I never touched her. I did not harm her, Armand.

  Armand Fontaine : That's not true! We punished her! We made her perfect again!

  Mr. Fontaine : Only in your own mind, because that's what you want it to be. God knows I was tempted, but you wanted revenge. Don't you see what's happened to you, Armand? By killing her over and over again in your mind, it's made a cripple of you.

  Armand Fontaine : Don't lie to me!

  Mr. Fontaine : I'm going after him now.

  Otto Wellers : He'll kill you!

  Mr. Fontaine : Perhaps.