Spellbound Page #8

- You follow this?

- Yeah.

- How do you feel?

- Coffee.

Awful.

The patient is going to tell us

what he dreamt.

Fine, I'll take notes.

I'll get my glasses.

Now here's where dreams come in.

They tell you what you

are trying to hide.

But they tell it to you all mixed up,

like pieces of a puzzle that don't fit.

The problem of the analyst

is to examine this puzzle

and put the pieces together

in the right place.

And find out what the devil

you are trying to say to yourself.

Let's see.

I kept thinking while I was dreaming

that all this meant something,

that there was some other meaning in it

that I ought to find out.

We'll find out.

I can't make out

just what sort of a place it was.

It seemed to be a gambling house.

But there weren't any walls,

just a lot of curtains

with eyes painted on them.

A man was walking around

with a large pair of scissors

cutting all the drapes in half.

And then a girl came in

with hardly anything on

and started walking around

the gambling room kissing everybody.

She came to my table first.

Did you recognize

this kissing bug?

I'm afraid she looked

a little like Constance.

This is plain, ordinary,

wishful dreaming.

Go on.

I was sitting there playing cards

with a man who had a beard.

I was dealing to him.

I turned up a seven of clubs.

He said, "That makes 21. I win. "

But when he turned up his cards,

they were blank.

Just then, the proprietor came in

and accused him of cheating.

The proprietor yelled "This is my place.

If I catch you again, I'll fix you. "

I'm sorry about that kissing bug.

I'm glad you didn't dream of me as

an eggbeater, as one of my patients did.

Why? What would that mean?

Never mind.

Does it make any sense to you,

what I've dreamed?

Not yet. You're trying to

tell yourself something.

What it is, we'll figure out later.

There's a lot more to it.

Go on and try to recall the details.

The more cockeyed, the better

for the scientific side of it.

It was, leaning over the sloping roof

of a high building

was the man with the beard.

I yelled at him to watch out.

Then he went over slowly,

with his feet in the air.

And then I saw the proprietor again,

the man in the mask.

He was hiding behind a tall chimney

and he had a small wheel in his hand.

I saw him drop the wheel on the roof.

Suddenly I was running.

Then I heard something

beating over my head.

It was a great pair of wings.

The wings chased me

and almost caught up with me

when I came to the bottom of the hill.

I must have escaped. I don't remember.

That's all there was.

I woke up and saw Dr. Brulov.

- Have some coffee.

- Thanks.

- Something's happening there.

- What is it?

- Snow.

- The light frightened him.

Photophobia.

No. It was the snow.

That's the white he's afraid of.

Snow and those tracks.

- What tracks?

- The sled tracks in the snow.

The first symptom he revealed

was shock at the sight of fork lines

drawn on a white tablecloth.

And my robe, which had dark lines on it.

And last night, the white coverlet,

like those dark tracks in the snow.

We'll pull the blinds down.

Dr. Edwardes was fond of sports.

He mentions tennis and skiing

in his book as valuable

in the treatment of mental disorders.

Skiing.

Ski tracks in the snow.

That's what those dark lines

symbolize for him.

His horror of them means, of course,

that they are immediately connected

with the cause of his amnesia.

Yes. A murder on skis.

Where did Edwardes go for his skiing?

We must find out.

Can you tell us where? Try.

He has told us already in his dream.

Let me see your notes.

What can we do for him?

You're not his mama, you're an analyst.

Leave him alone.

He'll come out of this by himself.

The sloping roof.

- That means only mountainside.

- They were skiing.

The father image, the bearded man,

is Dr. Edwardes.

That's very simple. Dr. Edwardes

plunged over the precipice while skiing.

And then a shadow chases him

up and down a hill.

That could mean he was escaping

from a valley.

Skiing resorts are often called valleys.

Like Sun Valley.

He was being pursued by a winged figure,

a witch or a harpy.

No. The figure was you.

If you grew wings,

you would be an angel.

The dream's trying to tell him

the name of the resort.

Angel. Angel Valley.

Do you remember Angel Valley?

No.

We can call a travel agency

and check all the resort names.

It wasn't Angel Valley.

I remember it.

It was a place called Gabriel Valley.

What else do you remember now?

Who was the masked figure

in your dream?

It was an accident.

Do you remember that, a skiing accident?

Dr. Edwardes went over a snow cliff.

It was no accident! I can't stand this

anymore. I've had enough of it.

We've got to call the police.

No. We have to go to Gabriel Valley.

You've got to go with me.

- This is for Cooley when he comes in.

- I'll tell him.

At 4:
45? Thank you.

Goodbye.

There's a train leaving in an hour. We

can make connections for Gabriel Valley.

I know what I have to do.

I can't go on endangering you.

- I know about last night.

- Nothing happened.

But it will.

I've got to end it before it does.

I love you, but I'm not worth loving.

- Darling, you can help me afterward.

- There's no help afterward.

If you give yourself up to the police

in your condition,

there's no afterwards for either of us.

I can cure you.

- But you can't undo a murder.

- There is none to undo.

- I killed him.

- Stop it.

And now, you... Last night...

Don't try to stop me, I've got to go.

Guilt, guilt, you've lived with it

for a long time, haven't you?

Yes.

- Since childhood.

- What?

Ever since your childhood,

you've tried to run away from something.

You've always felt guilty about

everything that happened around you.

What was it in your youth?

It must have been terrible for you

to prefer to think you murdered Edwardes

rather than remember

what happened long ago.

You said you love me. Look at me.

Then, why am I fighting for you?

- Because I love you. Because I need you.

- But I'm nothing.

I want you to come with me

to Gabriel Valley.

What good will that do?

When you see the hill where the accident

happened, you'll remember it.

We'll go skiing together

as you did with Edwardes.

I was there, I killed him.

You'll see your innocence,

you'll see what really happened.

- You mean, because it will happen again?

- Yes.

And what if I killed him?

Isn't it true that if

the episode's repeated,

I'm likely to do

the same thing I did before?

Then how do you know I won't kill again?

Because I'm convinced

you didn't kill in the first place.

You believe in me enough

to take such a chance?

Of course I do.

We're going back to that ski run.

We'll find out what it was

in your childhood

that's haunted you all your life.

We'll also find out what happened

to Dr. Edwardes.

Did you ever see her before?

Let's go.

I've always loved very feminine clothes,

but never quite dared to wear them.

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