Kevin McCarthy credited as playing...
Dr. Miles J. Bennell
- Becky Driscoll: Is this an example of your bedside manner, doctor?
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: No, ma'am. That comes later.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: In my practice, I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happened slowly instead of all at once. They didn't seem to mind... All of us - a little bit - we harden our hearts, grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us, how dear.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: I've been afraid a lot of times in my life. But I didn't know the real meaning of fear until... until I had kissed Becky.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: This is the oddest thing I've ever heard of. Let's hope we don't catch it. I'd hate to wake up some morning and find out that you weren't you.
- Becky Driscoll: [laughs] I'm not the high school kid you used to romance, so how can you tell?
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: You really want to know?
- Becky Driscoll: Mmm-hmm.
- [Miles kisses Becky]
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Mmmm, you're Becky Driscoll, all right!
- Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: I don't want any part of it.
- Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: You're forgetting something, Miles.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: What's that?
- Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: You have no choice.
- [from trailer]
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Listen to me! Please listen! If you don't, if you won't, if you fail to understand, then the same incredible terror that's menacing me WILL STRIKE AT YOU!
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Even these days, it isn't as easy to go crazy as you might think. But you don't have to be losing your mind to need psychiatric help.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: And so I ran. I ran, I ran, I ran! I ran as little Jimmy Grimaldi ran the other day.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: [having returned from finding that large numbers of pods are being grown in greenhouses, to Becky who, exhausetd, had fallen asleep in his absence] I've been afraid a lot of times in my life, but I didn't know the real meaning of fear until... until I had kissed Becky.
- Becky Driscoll: Miles, why don't you call Danny? Maybe he can help.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Danny? No. The way he was behaving last night... I'm afraid it's too late to call Danny too.
- Becky Driscoll: Well, what are you going to do?
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Get help. I hope whatever's taking place is confined to Santa Mira!
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: [cautiously] Who are you?
- Dr. Hill: I'm Dr. Hill, from the state mental hospita...
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: I AM NOT INSANE!
- [guards grab him]
- Dr. Hill: Let him go!
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Listen, Doctor, now you must listen to me, you must understand me, I'm a doctor too, I am not insane! I am NOT insane!
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: [Upon learning that Becky is also divorced] Well, I guess that makes us lodge brothers now...
- Becky Driscoll: Yes.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Except that I'm paying dues while you collect them.
- Becky Driscoll: [laughing] Oh, Miles!
- Jack Belicec: Stop trying to rationalize everything, will ya? Let's face it, we have a mystery on our hands!
- Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: Sure you have. A real one! Whose body was it, and where is it now? A completely normal mystery. Whatever it is, it's well within the bounds of human experience, and I don't think you ought to make any more of it.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Look, I wouldn't if I hadn't looked in Becky's cellar! How do you explain away the body I saw there?
- Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: I don't think you saw one there.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: You don't think I saw one here, either?
- Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: I know you did because three others saw it too.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: But I dreamed up the second one?
- Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: Doctors can have hallucinations too.
- Dr. Harvey Bassett: Oh, Doctor Hill.
- Dr. Hill: Dr. Bassett. Well, where's the patient?
- Dr. Harvey Bassett: I hated to drag you out of bed at this time of night.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: [screaming from behind door] Will you let me go while there's still time?
- Dr. Harvey Bassett: [to Dr. Hill] You'll soon see why I did.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: [grabs Dr. Bassett] Doctor! Will you tell these fools I am NOT crazy? Make them listen to me while there's still time!
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Well, it started, for me it started last Thursday. In response to an urgent message from my nurse I'd hurried home from a medical convention I'd been attending. At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn't. Something evil had taken possession of the town.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: What'll you have? We're pushing appendectomies this week.
- [Becky laughs]
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: I don't know, maybe I clown around too much, pretty soon my patients won't trust me to prescribe aspirin for them. Seriously, what's the trouble?
- Becky Driscoll: It's my cousin.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Wilma? What's the matter?
- Becky Driscoll: She has a, well I guess you call it a delusion, you know her uncle, Uncle Ira?
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Sure, I'm his doctor.
- Becky Driscoll: Well Miles, she's got herself thinking he isn't her uncle.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: How do you mean? That they're not really related?
- Becky Driscoll: No, she thinks he's an impostor or something, someone who only looks like Ira.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Have you seen him?
- Becky Driscoll: I just came from there.
- Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Well, is he Uncle Ira or isn't he Uncle Ira?
- Becky Driscoll: Of course he is, I told Wilma that but it was no use.