Frank Gerstle Movies
Frank Gerstle Quotes
The Reality of a Grim Diagnosis
Frank Bigelow:
Give it to me straight, doctor!
Dr. MacDonald:
Well, a number of things are involved, the systemic condition of the individual, the amount consumed...
Frank Bigelow:
Yes?
Dr. MacDonald:
You won't feel too badly for a while. Then it will happen suddenly. A day, two days... a week at the most.
Frank Bigelow: [in a daze]
A day... Two days...
Dr. MacDonald:
There's nothing that can be done now. If it had been caught in time, your stomach could have been washed out. But you've had it in you for some time now... for at least twelve hours, haven't you, Bigelow?
Frank Bigelow:
I don't know.
Dr. MacDonald: [surprised]
You don't know?
Frank Bigelow:
No!
Dr. MacDonald:
Don't you know how you got it?
Frank Bigelow:
No!
Dr. MacDonald:
Then this is no accident. Somebody knew how to handle that stuff. That wax is tasteless and odorless, and the amount of alcohol in your body, you must have got it in liquor.
Frank Bigelow:
I was drinking last night.
Dr. MacDonald:
I'll arrange for your admission to the hospital immediately. Of course, I'll have to notify the police. This is a case for Homicide.
Frank Bigelow:
Homicide?
Dr. MacDonald:
I don't think you fully understand, Bigelow. You've been murdered.
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