The Fog (1980)

Darwin Joston: Dr. Phibes

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Quotes 

• Nick Castle : Do you feel that?

  Dr. Phibes : I'll tell you what happened...

  Nick Castle : It just got cold in here.

• Dr. Phibes : You see the water acts like ice. A whole body would take a year to decompose, longer if it was down far enough, cold enough.

  Nick Castle : But he was on the boat. He was below decks.

  Dr. Phibes : No. Dick Baxter died in the ocean. Remember last October those three kids that went diving for that old boat off the point? We got to 'em, they'd been down a week, maybe ten days. I swear to you right now, he's been down longer.

• [the pathologist, Dr. Phibes, has just examined the body of Dick Baxter] 

  Dr. Phibes : What the hell happened out there?

  Nick Castle : There was rust all over everything. It was like the boat had been out there a long time, taking on water. He was down below, near the bunks.

  Dr. Phibes : Nick, his wounds are covered with algae, his lungs are full, and there's silt under his fingernails. I tell ya, I saw Dick Baxter three days ago in Salinas. Now he's lying there on the table looking like he's been underwater for a month!

• [Dr. Phibes is recording his examination of Dick Baxter's body] 

  Dr. Phibes : Evidence of deep penetrating wounds into each ocular orbit, entering into the cranial cavity. Also jagged lacerations to the face. The right area of his throat has been crushed. Thorax has been crushed and the lungs are filled with fluid.