Tenebrae (1982)

Anthony Franciosa: Peter Neal

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• Peter Neal : Let me ask you something? If someone is killed with a Smith & Wesson revolver... Do you go and interview the president of Smith & Wesson?

• Peter Neal : I've been charged, I've tried building a plot the same way you have. I've tried to figure it out; but, I just have this hunch that something is missing, a tiny piece of the jigsaw. Somebody who should be dead is alive, or somebody who should be alive is already dead.

  Detective Germani : Explain that.

  Peter Neal : You know, there's a sentence in a Conan Doyle book, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

• Detective Germani : You know what, I read lots of thrillers. Agatha Christie, Mickey Spillane, Rex Stout, Ed McBain, and I'm a detective.

  Peter Neal : And you never guess the murderer?

  Detective Germani : Never.