Exorcist

Regan MacNeil:
What an excellent day for an exorcism.

Father Damien Karras:
You would like that?

Regan MacNeil:
Intensely.

Father Damien Karras:
But wouldn't that drive you out of Regan?

Regan MacNeil:
It would bring us together.

Father Damien Karras:
You and Regan?

Regan MacNeil:
You and us.

Regan MacNeil:
I'm not Regan.

Father Damien Karras:
Well, then let's introduce ourselves. I'm Damien Karras.

Regan MacNeil:
And I'm the Devil. Now kindly undo these straps.

Father Damien Karras:
If you're the Devil, why don't you make the straps disappear?

Regan MacNeil:
That's much too vulgar a display of power, Karras.

Regan MacNeil:
Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.

Regan MacNeil:
Your mother sucks c*cks in Hell, Karras, you faithless slime.

Father Merrin:
Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psycological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.

Father Damien Karras:
It's my mother, Tom. She's alone. I never should have left her. At least in New York, I'd be near, I'd be closer.

Tom, President of University:
Could see about a transfer, Damien.

Father Damien Karras:
I need re-assignment, Tom. I want out of this job. It's wrong. It's no good.

Tom, President of University:
You're the best we've got.

Father Damien Karras:
Yeah, not really. It's more than psychiatry, and you know that Tom. Some of their problems come down to faith, their vocation and meaning of their lives, and I can't cut it anymore. I need out. I'm unfit. I think I've lost my faith, Tom.

Sharon Spencer:
I should have known better. I'm sorry.

Chris MacNeil:
Yeah, I guess you should have.

Sharon Spencer:
How were the tests?

Chris MacNeil:
We have to start looking for a shrink.

Dr. Taney:
Pathological states can induce abnormal strength. Accelerated motor performance. Now, for example, say a 90 pound woman sees her child pinned under the wheel of a truck. Runs out and lifts the wheels a half a foot up off the ground - you've heard the story - same thing here. Same principle, I mean.

Chris MacNeil:
So what's wrong with her?

Dr. Klein:
We still think the temporal lobe.

Chris MacNeil:
Oh what are you talking about, for Chrissakes? Did you see her or not? She's acting like she's f***ing out of her mind, psychotic, like a... split personality or...

Dr. Taney:
There haven't been more than a hundred authentic cases of so-called split personality, Mrs. MacNeil. Now I know the temptation is to leap to psychiatry. But any reasonable psychiatrist would exhaust the somatic possibilities first.

Chris MacNeil:
So, what's next?

Dr. Taney:
A pneumoencephalogram, I would think. Pin down that lesion. It will involve another spinal.

Chris MacNeil:
Oh, Christ.

Dr. Taney:
What we missed in the EEG and the arteriograms could conceivably turn up there. At least, it would eliminate certain other possibilities.

Burke Dennings:
So, what's for dessert?

Psychiatrist:
Is there someone inside you?

Regan MacNeil:
Sometimes.

Psychiatrist:
Who is it?

Regan MacNeil:
I don't know.

Psychiatrist:
Is it Captain Howdy?

Regan MacNeil:
I don't know.

Psychiatrist:
If I ask him to tell me, will you let him answer?

Regan MacNeil:
No.

Psychiatrist:
Why not?

Regan MacNeil:
I'm afraid.

Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director:
There is one outside chance for a cure. I think of it as shock treatment - as I said, it's a very outside chance... Have you ever heard of exorcism? Well, it's a stylized ritual in which the rabbi or the priest try to drive out the so-called invading spirit. It's been pretty much discarded these days except by the Catholics who keep it in the closet as a sort of an embarrassment, but uh, it has worked. In fact, although not for the reasons they think, of course. It's purely a force of suggestion. The victim's belief in possession is what helped cause it, so in that same way, a belief in the power of exorcism can make it disappear.

Chris MacNeil:
You're telling me that I should take my daughter to a witch doctor? Is that it?

Regan MacNeil:
Let Jesus f*** you, let Jesus f*** you. Let him f*** you.

Chris MacNeil:
You show me Regan's double, same face, same voice, everything. And I'd know it wasn't Regan. I'd know in my gut. Now, I want you to tell me that you know for a fact that there's nothing wrong with my daughter, except in her mind. YOU TELL ME FOR A FACT YOU KNOW AN EXORCISIM WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD. YOU TELL ME THAT.

Father Damien Karras:
I think it might be helpful if I gave you some background on the different personalities Regan has manifested. So far, I'd say there seem to be three. She's convinced...

Father Merrin:
There is only one.

Father Damien Karras:
Take me. Come into me. God damn you. Take me. Take me.

Lt. Kinderman:
If certain British doctors never asked "What is this fungus?" we wouldn't today have penicillin, correct?

Burke Dennings:
Shall we summon the writer? He's in Paris.

Chris MacNeil:
Hiding?

Burke Dennings:
F***ing.

Father Dyer:
My idea of Heaven is a solid white nightclub with me as a headliner for all eternity, and they LOVE me.

Dr. Klein:
Do you keep any drugs in your house?

Chris MacNeil:
No, of course not, nothing like that.

Dr. Klein:
Are you sure?

Chris MacNeil:
Well, of course I'm sure. I'd tell you. Christ, I don't even smoke grass.

Father Damien Karras:
There isn't a day in my life when I haven't felt like a fraud. I mean priests, doctors, I've talked to them all. I don't know anyone who hasn't felt that.

Chris MacNeil:
Would you like some bourbon in that, father?

Father Merrin:
Well, my doctor says I shouldn't but thank God my will is weak.

Father Merrin:

Regan MacNeil:
Lick me, Lick me.

Regan MacNeil:
Do you know what she did, your cunting daughter?

Regan MacNeil:
Keep away. The sow is mine.

Father Damien Karras:
There are no experts. You probably know more about possession then most priests. Look, your daughter doesn't say she's a demon, she says he's the devil himself. Now, if you've seen as many psychotics as I have, you'd say it's the same thing as saying you're Napoleon Bonaparte. You asked me, what I think is best for your daughter. Six months... under observation... at the best hospital you can find.

Regan MacNeil:
F*** ME.

Burke Dennings:
There seems to be an alien pubic hair in my gin. Never seen it before in my life! Have you?

Lt. Kinderman:
You know who you look like? John Garfield. Exactly, John Garfield, "Body and Soul." Do people ever tell you that, Father?

Father Damien Karras:
Do people tell you that you look like Paul Newman?

Lt. Kinderman:
Always.

Father Damien Karras:
Why her? Why this girl?

Father Merrin:
I think the point is to make us despair. To see ourselves as... animal and ugly. To make us reject the possibility that God could love us.

Burke Dennings:
Tell me, was it public relations you did for the Gestapo or community relations?

Karl:
I'm Swiss!

Burke Dennings:
Oh, of course. And you never went bowling with Goebels before either, I suppose? Nazi bastard.

Regan MacNeil:
You killed your mother! You left her alone to die! Bastard!

Father Damien Karras:
Shut up!

Regan MacNeil:
Hi, Mom.

Chris MacNeil:
What did you do today?

Regan MacNeil:
Um... stuff.

Chris MacNeil:
What kind of stuff?

Regan MacNeil:
Well, me and Sharon played a game in the backyard, and we had a picnic down by the river. Mom, you should have seen this man came along on this beautiful grey horse. Wasn't it pretty?

Chris MacNeil:
Really, what kind was it a mare or gelding?

Regan MacNeil:
Think it was a gelding. It was grey. Oh, it was so beautiful, the guy let me ride it all around. It was so nice. Oh, I loved it. Oh, Mom can't we get a horse?

Chris MacNeil:
Well, not while we're in Washington.

Dr. Klein:
Put this in your mouth. Keep it there. This tells your temperature. When the red light goes on, that's your Temperature.

Regan MacNeil:
I don't want it.

Bellevue Nurse:
Unroll your fist. Arm up. Good. That wasn't so bad, was it?

Bellevue Nurse:
Remain perfectly still. Breathe normally.

Dr. Klein:
Tell me if you feel a Vibration. Can you feel anything?Regan?Can you feel this?

Regan MacNeil:
I don't feel anything!

Chris MacNeil:
Operator, I have been on this line for twenty minutes... What did you do, take the literacy test to get that job for Christ's sake?... No DONT TELL ME TO BE CALM, GODDAMIT! I'VE BEEN ON THIS F***ING LINE FOR TWENTY MINUTES!

Regan MacNeil:
Mother, what's wrong with me?

Chris MacNeil:
Well give me an example, like what specifically did she say?

Dr. Klein:
Specifically Mrs. MacNeil she advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamed c*nt.

Regan MacNeil:
Mirabile dictu, don't you agree?

Father Damien Karras:
You speak Latin?

Regan MacNeil:
Ego te absolvo.

Father Damien Karras:
Quod nomen mihi est?

Regan MacNeil:
Bon Jour.

Father Damien Karras:
Quod nomen mihi est?

Regan MacNeil:
La plume de ma tante.

Dr. Klein:
WellIt's a symptom of a type of desturbance in the chemico-electrical activity of the brain.In the case of your daughter in the temperal lobe,up here in the lateral part of the brain.It's rare, but it does cause bizarre hallucinations and usually just before a convulsion.

Chris MacNeil:
Convulsion?

Dr. Klein:
The shaking of the bed, that's doubtless due to musuclar spasms.

Chris MacNeil:
Oh no, that was no spasm.I got on the bed,the whole bed was thumping and rising off the floor and shaking.The whole thing,with me on it!

Dr. Klein:
Mrs. MacNeil,the problem with your daughter is not her bed,it's her brain.

Chris MacNeil:
So,what causes this?

Dr. Klein:
Lesion,Lesion in the temperal lobe.It's a kind of seizure disorder.

Chris MacNeil:
Look doc,I really don't understand how her whole personality could change.

Dr. Klein:
The temperal lobe is very common.Could last for days, even weeks.It isn't rare to find destructive or even criminal behaviour.

Chris MacNeil:
Hey do me a favour will ya'.Tell me something good.

Dr. Klein:
Don't be alarmed.If it's a lesion in a way she's fortunate.All we have to do is remove the scar.

Pazuzu:
Give us time... Let the girl die... I am no one... I am no one... Fear the priest... Fear the priest... Merrin... Merrin.

Lt. Kinderman:
You go to films, Father Dyer? You like them?

Father Dyer:
Oh, sure

Lt. Kinderman:
I get passes. In fact I've got a pass for the Crest tomorrow night. You'd like to go?

Father Dyer:
What's playing?

Lt. Kinderman:
Wutheriing Heights.

Father Dyer:
Who's in it?

Lt. Kinderman:
Heathcliff, Jackie Gleason, and in the role of Catherine Earnshaw, Lucille Ball. You're happy?

Father Dyer:
I've seen it.

Lt. Kinderman:
Another one.

Subway Vagrant:
Father, could you help an old altar boy? I'm Cat'lick.

Reagan McNeil:
You’re going to die up there