Wildside (TV Series)
Don't Keep the Home Fires Burning (1985)
Robert Swan: Hayes
Quotes
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[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!