The Accused

Hey, you need a lift?

Are you hurt?

Come on. I'll give you a ride.

A close call, lady.

At first I thought maybe you were an insurance plant or worse.

Last time I picked up a woman it cost me sixty bucks and my watch.

Not that you look like you can handle a gun.

Wrestling match?

Where you headed for?

Where you headed from?

I'm very tired.

A nice night for the beach, wasn't it.

Until the fog came in.

"Let's stop here and look at the moon."

You dames. Kidding yourselves it's for the scenery.

Maybe it bothers me because I've got a kid sister.

You advise them and teach them decent.

Then the first guy that comes along in a flight jacket and a convertible ..

Okay, okay.

Anyway, you got away. You're lucky.

Yes .. I'm lucky.

After this, be more choosy, eh?

Dr Tuttle. - Yes?

Your phone was ringing. About 9 o'clock.

Dean Rhodes at the university. He says you're to call tomorrow morning.

Thank you.

Was it only this morning?

Only this morning.

Only this morning.

Well, as you've probably already guessed by now.

Today's examination deals with conditioned reflexes.

The subject at this time however, is man. Not animals.

Man with his complex mind.

Continually bombarded by conditioned stimuli of the environment.

Is even more a victim of conditioned reflexes.

That we find in the poor animals we study in cages.

Mr Roberts and Miss Duval, will pass out the questions and blue-books, please.

The honor system is still in force.

Wouldn't you even say hello to me, Bill?

This morning, I want you to probe your own experiences.

Think of yourselves, your friends.

Your professors, if you like.

However, you may refer to your subjects as ..

Mister X, Mister A and Miss B.

By all means, be discreet.

But there is no textbook and no laboratory ..

Which is as revealing a study as the people around you.

I ..

I want you to think of yourselves mainly when you answer these questions.

Think of your needs, your hungers, your fears.

For these are the things I'm afraid.

Which rule most of us.

That's all. You have fifty minutes.

Twenty more minutes.

If any student has finished his test.

He may leave his blue-book on my desk and he may leave the room.

Dr Tuttle. - Mr Perry, please.

Question 14. I don't understand it.

Mr Perry, you are disturbing the others.

But if you don't understand a question, step up here and I'll explain it to you.

Thank you.

Question 14. Oh yes.

What is meant by a "creative synthesis"?

Do you want a technical definition or a case history?

No. I want a general description if you know one.

I don't understand "creative synthesis".

Mr Perry.

You know a synthesis is a combination of incoming and outgoing stimuli.

As in a kiss?

Yes. To use a minor illustration.

Minor?

It depends on the kiss. Some can be pretty stimulating.

I'd like to see you when you're mad, doctor.

Pretty soon you'll be fixing your hairpins again.

Mr Perry, for some time I've had a feeling I must have a talk with you.

With pleasure.

Meet me in my office at 5:30. Be prompt, please.

5:30 it will be.

I just had to talk to you.

Why, what is it this time, Susan? No luck with your exam?

I thought as my faculty advisor you would have more understanding.

I do understand.

I understand you can't fall in love every 2 minutes.

It's not like that. It's the same one always but he ..

Now, Susan.

You left your own country to come over here and go to college.

What for?

To get married.

Now isn't that an awful waste of time and money?

Hello Susan!

Hi!

But how can I help you if you won't tell me what or who?

Because you wouldn't approve of him either.

Everybody has warned me.

My girlfriend.

My mother hates him. So do I. I hate him.

Yet, you go out with him?

There is a Prom tomorrow night. He hasn't even asked me.

That I don't understand. If he makes you so unhappy, why do you want to see him?

He only does it to hurt me.

He likes hurting me.

I'll kill him if he doesn't stop. I'll kill him!

Hello Susan.

Professor, this is Harry Bryant. - Hello.

Come on, I'll buy you lunch. Excuse us? - Sure.

It's late. I've been waiting for you.

Oh Dr Tuttle. You were to meet me in your office at 5:30.

Forgotten? - Oh no.

No I didn't forget you, Mr Perry. I left a note for you.

As a matter of fact, I've thought it over. I want you to see the Dean.

I've called him about it. - That wasn't very sporting.

We called people like that tattle-tails back in grade school.

But it wasn't like that really.

I just pointed out to him what an exceptional student you are.

You're too good to me.

But you had a few personal problems. - How do you know my problems?

Mr Perry.

You are just too brash.

You may go up to my office and get the note. It is all in there. Goodnight.

Dr Tuttle .. I'm in trouble already.

I'm always in trouble.

That's the trouble.

Alright, I'm fresh. I admit it.

Dr Wilma Tuttle, I apologize.

Deeply and fully and sincerely, I apologize.

Very well, very well.

But you see the Dean. He'll appoint you another advisor.

You know, you really have a brilliant mind.

You just walked through my course. - You've read my exam?

No. No, not yet.

But I'm looking forward to it.

I always do.

Well, goodnight again.

There goes my own bus.

My car is here. Please, let me take you home.

I'm not taking you out of your way, am I?

Nothing to do until 6:30.

Then I have to go to the airport.

Having a visitor to the Prom? - No.

I was just interested.

If you were really interested, you wouldn't throw me to the Dean.

My guardian is coming down from San Francisco.

He threatens to take me out of school and put me to work.

Well you mustn't let him do that. - But he's a lawyer.

With him you need arguments.

You wouldn't do me a favor and have dinner with me? Give me some angles.

No. No, I ..

Strictly as a consulting psychologist.

But he's expecting you. - I'll see him later.

I'd much rather listen to you scold me.

You would? - Uhuh.

Well, Mr Perry. You asked for it.

Overindulged by one parent for six months.

Then over-disciplined by the other for the next six months.

A split home, a split childhood.

It wouldn't matter if you weren't intelligent and sharp, but you were.

You are.

Use that intelligence now, to even out your life.

Tell me more.

Alright, I will if you give me more to go on.

I can tell you, you have a beautiful mouth.

I'll overlook that.

You say, you ..

You never want to listen.

That's a bad balance. Self-indulgence.

These things lead to danger, Mr Perry.

To yourself and to others.

Charming and poised one minute and then erratic and poorly controlled the next.

I'm not so poorly controlled, doctor.

Right now, I'm .. resisting impulses.

There you go again. Trying to divert my analysis.

And that's another symptom.

It indicates that deep down inside.

You're afraid I might show you you're not as good as you think you are.

I do alright.

Oh, Mr Perry.

If you go on believing that, I warn you, you will be an unhappy man.

After all that advice you deserved it.

Well I warned you.

Today we came a long way for it.

I think we'd better be getting back.

But I quite enjoyed it. - Even the Martini?

I don't know why that surprised you.

I have an occasional drink when I dine out.

Occasional cigarette?

Yes. I think I will, thank you.

You know, it is curious the impression you get of people.

That I'm prudish.

Did you enjoy your fish? - Yes, fine thanks.

Weren't you in here last week?

Yeah, I remember.

All that uproar on how to cook that abalone you caught.

What in the world is "abalone"?

You don't know what abalone is?

Where are you from? - Kansas.

You don't know what an abalone is?

No, I never heard of it.

It's a type of mollusc. Beautiful multicolored shells.

You've seen the shells. They're used for compacts in the high street.

Oh yes. - They give me a kick.