The Exorcist1973

Dr. Klein:
She's heavily sedated. She'll probably sleep through tomorrow.

Chris:
What was going on in there? How could she fly off the bed like that?

Dr. Klein:
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:
So what's wrong with her?

Dr. Klein:
We still think the temporal lobe.

Chris:
Oh what are you talking about, for Christ's sakes? 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. Klein:
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:
So, what's next?

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

Chris:
Oh, Christ!

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