- Person on Tape: [voice on tape] Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Harve Harrison is the Lieutenant Governor of this state and the puppet of underworld boss Leon Chandler, know on trial for murder. Chandler's alibi has been provided by the Lieutenant Governor. The chief witness against Chandler is this woman, Nora Dawson, who is in a state mental hospital where she is being systemically driven insane in order to destroy her credibility as a witness. Convention enforcement agencies have been unable to win Nora Dawson's release on legal grounds. Your mission, Jim, if you decide to accept it, is to deliver her in court in a mentally competent condition in time to testify against Chandler tomorrow. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.
- [first lines]
- Nora Dawson: Shoe. Snakes. Think. Bird. End. Zygote. Arm. Air. Window.
- John Dawson: Dr. Carrick, is she...?
- Dr. Carrick: Mr. Dawson, given a little more time, your wife will become totally and incurably psychotic.
- [last lines]
- Wilson: Now, Mrs. Dawson, would you please tell the court what actually happened in your house on the night in question?
- Nora Dawson: I heard a terrible argument in the study... about franchises. I looked in just as Leon Chandler killed him with a fireplace poker. Governor Harrison saw it all.