Robert Swan: Hayes

Quotes 

• [Brodie, pretending to be dead in Alice's funeral parlor, suddenly burps in front of two outlaws who think they killed him] 

  Burnett : He's alive. I heard him, he's alive!

  Alice Freeze : [improvising]  They always do it.

  Burnett : Who does?

  Alice Freeze : Gunshot victims. The trauma is so immediate that they don't have a chance to release all the air inside themselves. If you push up and down on his stomach, it will clear his whole cavity.

  Burnett : Push? On his stomach?

  [to Hayes] 

  Burnett : You do it. You got the hands for it.

  Hayes : It don't seem right somehow.

  [Brodie gasps when Floyd pushes on his stomach] 

  Alice Freeze : Don't stop. I've had some bodies go on burbling and hiccupping for hours afterwards. Besides, I may need one of you to hold him down.

  Burnett : Hold him down? What for? He's already dead!

  Alice Freeze : [fingering a bone saw]  That's true, but in order to remove the more severely putrefied organs, I have to pull on them very hard.

  Alice Freeze : [giggling]  Sometimes the body goes sliding right off the table. Gets a lot like a wrestlin' match!