Sarah Michelle Gellar: Helen Shivers
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Quotes
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Officer David Caporizo : Oh, and did this killer use his hook to cut all your hair off?
Helen : No, he used scissors, asshole.
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Helen : Come sit in the back. I'll let you do things to me.
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Helen : Listen, you little shit-stick-mayberry-ass reject. There's been a murder, and you are going to fry in hell if you ignore it!
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Helen : Well Bob, at summer's end I plan on moving to New York where I'll pursue a career as a serious actress. It's my goal to entertain the world through artistic expression. Through art I shall serve my country.
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Helen : By that time I'll just be finishing my two year contract with Guiding Light, coinciding with your first year as starting quarterback for the Steelers.
Barry : Cowboys.
Helen : Whatever. Then we can elope to Europe, or the Caymans, wherever, where I'll let you impregnate me with the first of 3 children before you head off to rehab. Then we can live happily, blah blah blah.
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Helen : We should have a plan. Angela Lansbury always had a plan.
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Barry : We're going home now and never, ever, under any circumstances known to God speak about this again is that clear? It is now merely a future therapy bill agreed?
Barry : [screaming] Helen?
Helen : I'll never mention it again.
Barry : We make a pact, right here and now we take this to our grave.
Ray : Agreed.
Barry : Julie?
[Julie nods her head in agreement]
Barry : [livid] Don't you nod your head, you fuckin' say it.
Julie : [somber] Yeah okay.
Barry : [Barry runs and grabs Julie by the neck pushing her against the car] We take this to our grave, let me hear it.
Ray : Let her go, Barry.
Barry : You fucking say it!
Julie : Okay, Barry, we take this to the grave.
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Helen : Yeah, Jodie Foster tried this and a skin-ripping serial killer answered the door!
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Helen : Christ already, I'll do it!
[dumps dead body in water]
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Elsa Shivers : Hey you riding with me?
Helen : No tell mom I'll be home late.
Elsa Shivers : Ah is little miss Croaker getting sauteed tonight?
Helen : Oh a twit with a wit.
Elsa Shivers : Eat me.
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Helen : [Pulling up in front of Helen's house] What now?
Julie : Now, we try and locate this Billy Blue?
Helen : [Sitting there in silence for a few seconds] Maybe he wanted to die.
Julie : What?
Helen : David Egan. His girlfriend was killed on that same road, July 4th one year earlier. Maybe he blamed himself, maybe he was sitting in the road waiting for us to hit him.
Julie : Yeah, if that'll help you sleep at night.
Helen : What's happened between us? We used to be best friends.
Julie : We used to be a lot of things.
Helen : I miss you.
[Julie doesn't respond]
Helen : Yeah, well...
[She gets out of the car, feelings a little hurt, as Julie drives on home]
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Helen : [Helen enters her house] Hi, Dad.
[He doesn't respond as he is too engrossed in a Baseball game; she goes into the kitchen, pours herself a glass of Diet Coke, takes her drink, and then heads on upstairs to get ready for bed; she changes into her night shirt and looks at the Crocker Queen crown she was awarded one year earlier, until she is startled by her older sister, Elsa]
Elsa Shivers : I'm sorry, is the washed-up, dried-out, has-been having a moment?
Helen : [Goes over to her vanity mirror and begins brushing her hair] What do you want?
Elsa Shivers : We're doing inventory at the store tomorrow and I want you there by 10.
Helen : I can't. I'm in the parade tomorrow.
Elsa Shivers : Well, Dad put me in charge of the store and "I" want you there by ten.
Helen : The outgoing queen has to ride in the parade prior to the pageant. It's tradition, there's nothing I can do about it.
[Continues brushing her hair]
Elsa Shivers : You and hair. You so pathetic.
Helen : You can leave now.
Elsa Shivers : [Leaving Helen's room while closing the door behind her] So very pathetic.
[Helen climbs in bed and goes right off to sleep]
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Helen : [Approaching Missy Egan's House] What if they're waiting for us? What if they recognize us? They could have a gun and shoot us dead.
Julie : It's been a year, Helen, they could have done that already.
Helen : Jodie Foster tried this and the skin-ripping serial killer answered the door.
[Julie knocks on the front door twice, but with no answer]
Helen : Well, it was a good try.
[Julie walks away, going around to the side of the house, with Helen becoming more nervous; Julie climbs onto some logs to peek into the side window]
Helen : We're adding Breaking and Entering to our crime spree?
Melissa Egan : [Missy Egan approaches the girls] Can I help you?
Julie : Oh, um... Hi.
[laughs]
Julie : Uh, our car stalled down the road and we were just wondering if. maybe, we could use your phone?
Melissa Egan : [Entering Missy's living room] Phone's over there.
Julie : Oh, thanks. Um... Jodie... would you call Triple A?
Helen : You got it... Angela.
[They all smile; as Helen turns to use the phone, she bumps into fisherman's slicker, startling her; she and Julie laugh it off, as Helen goes over to the phone and makes her phone call]
Melissa Egan : [to Julie] My name's Missy Egan. Are you girls from Erbelle?
Julie : Uh, Southport.
Melissa Egan : Oh, oh, I went to Southport High.
Julie : Yeah, I, I knew you looked familiar. What, what year?
Melissa Egan : Uh, Class of '88.
Julie : Your name, Egan, sounds very familiar. Did you have a, a brother or something?
Melissa Egan : I did, but he was younger than me: David. Younger.
Julie : What class was he?
Melissa Egan : Ah, '92, but he's dead. He died last July.
Julie : I'm... I'm so sorry.
Melissa Egan : Thanks.
[She starts to walk towards the kitchen]
Julie : Do... do you, ah, do you live alone?
Melissa Egan : [She stops, laughs, then answers Julie's question] Yeah, I do. Ah, well, my Dad died a long time ago and my, my, Ma, she's in a home, you know, in Aurora because she didn't take too, too well what happened with David. Things just haven't been the same since he died.
Helen : [Helen comes back into the room] They're on their way.
Melissa Egan : I could, uh, uh, make you guys a cup of tea while you're waiting.
Helen : Thanks.
Julie : Yeah, thanks, that's, that's nice of you.
Helen : [Missy goes into her kitchen to start making a pot of tea, as Julie and Helen look at the pictures] You know, I think I remember David. He had a friend, right, what was his name?
Melissa Egan : [From the kitchen] Who?
Helen : Didn't he hang out with this guy? And they were really close. God, what was his name? Um...?
Melissa Egan : [Coming back into the living room] Oh, I, I don't know I didn't, I didn't know too many of David's friends.
Helen : Oh.
Melissa Egan : But there, there was one guy. One guy, he, he, he stopped by not too long after David's death and and, he came to pay his respects.
Julie : Really?
Melissa Egan : Oh, yeah. He... was a really nice guy, he was cute and smart. We were, we were... sweet on each other for about 2 minutes. But it didn't, it didn't work out. You know, he didn't... he never really said it, but I think it hurt him to be around me.
Helen : Where is his old friend now?
Melissa Egan : Oh, I... I don't know.
Helen : Do you remember his name?
Melissa Egan : Billy.
Helen : Did he have a last name?
Melissa Egan : Blue. Billy Blue.
Julie : Well, you know what? Um... we should probably wait back at the car.
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Melissa Egan : Don't, don't be ridiculous. Why don't you, ah, stay?
Julie : No, I, I, I don't, I don't want to miss Triple A.
Helen : We appreciate the phone.
Melissa Egan : [as Julie and Helen leave the house] Anytime. You know, I, I don't get too many knocks on my door now 'days.
Helen : [In Julie's car] You okay?
Julie : I freaked out, I'm sorry. But being in his house and seeing his sister. God, do you see what we've done?
Helen : It was an accident.
Julie : Helen, we killed a man and then ruined the lives of everyone he knew.
Helen : I don't think we're that powerful, Julie. You're giving us way too much credit.
Melissa Egan : [Missy jumps up on the Julie's side of the car, trying to catch up with them, startling both Helen and Julie] HEY! You forgot cigarettes.
[She hands them to Julie, who hands them over to Helen]
Julie : Thank you.
Melissa Egan : Well, I see you got this car started, didn't ya?
Julie : Yeah. Damnedest thing, it just started right up.
Melissa Egan : Funny how that happens.
[They drive off, while Missy begins to look suspicious of them]
