"All right! The normal is the good smile in a child's eyes. There's also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills, like a god. It is the ordinary made beautiful, it is also the average made lethal. Normal is the indispensable murderous God of health and I am his priest."

"Worship all you can see, and more will appear."

"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: "At least I galloped — when did you?""

"Forgive me. I'm not making much sense. Let me start properly, in order."

"The thing is, I'm wearing that horse's head myself, all reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean hoofed onto a new track of being that only I suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump, because the bit forbids it and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little. The only thing I know for sure is this: A horse's head is finally unknowable to me. Yet I handle childrens' heads, which I presume to be more complicated, at least in the area of my chief concern. In a way, it has nothing to do with this boy - the doubts have been there for years, piling up steadily in this dreary place - it's the extremity of this case that's made them active. I know extremity is the point. All the same, whatever the reasons, these doubts are not just vaguely worrying, but intolerable."

"Afterwards, he says, they always embrace. The animal digs his sweaty brow into his cheek and they stand in the dark for an hour, like a necking couple. And of all nonsensical things, I keep thinking about the horse - not the boy, the horse - and what he might be trying to do. I keep seeing the huge head, kissing him with its chained mouth nudging through the metal, some desire absolutely irrelevant of filling its belly or propagating its own kind. What desire could this be? Not to stay a horse any longer? Not to remain reined up forever in those particular genetic strings? Is it possible, at moments we can't imagine, a horse can add its sufferings together, the non-stop jerks and jabs that are its daily life, and turn them into grief? What use is grief to a horse? You see, I'm lost. What use, I should be asking, are questions like these to an overworked psychiatrist in a provincial hospital? They're worse than useless - they are, in fact, subversive."

"Alan Rickman - Interrogator"

"Madeleine Stowe - Victim"

"A man runs, someone shoots at him."

"No one can harm you in your imagination."

"What made you this way? Is it what they did to you? Or is it some hidden sickness, an inner decay?"

"[trying to stay awake] Pain will only strengthen my will. You can break my body, but you can't break my mind. Torture is the policy of tyrants. Resistance is my only weapon."

"You can break my body, but you can not break my mind!"

"Sign the confession, or suck my dick! Which ever you please, you tease!"

"Ninety-nine point ten percent of women who wear black underwear are closet whores."

"I don't like all this you know. I tell myself it's just a job and then in my dreams these words float by: Because thou hast the power and ownst the grace to see through and behind this mask of me, against which the years have beat thus blenchingly with their rains, and behold my soul's true face." It seems so long ago. My soul's true face."

"Your best hope would be to de-personalize what follows and not to look upon me as a foe or yourself as a victim. Remember, we are both seekers of truth, and in this quest, I am your friend, philosopher, and guide."

"You would do well to depersonalize what follows."

"Alan Francis - Art Radcliffe"

"Ronald Francis - Randy Radcliffe"

"Larry Aten - Joe Dobson"

"Bing Stafford - Jim Archer"

"Barbara Francis - Lois Radcliffe"

"Douglas Mellor - Hank Radcliffe"

"Anthony Cardoza - KGB Driver / Helpful Neighbor"

"Coleman Francis - Narrator"

"Tor Johnson - Joseph Javorsky / The Beast"

"Well, doctors can't help her. Maybe angels, but not doctors."

"Twenty hours without rest and still no enemy. In the blistering desert heat, Jim and Joe plan their next attack. Find the Beast and kill him. Kill, or be killed. Man's inhumanity to man."

"Touch a button. Things happen. A scientist becomes a beast."

"Boys from the city. Not yet caught by the whirlwind of Progress. Feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs."

"Always on the prowl. Looking for something or somebody to kill. Quench the killer's thirst."

"Nothing bothers some people, not even flying saucers."

"Camille Davies as Muriel"

"Ken Jones as Mr. Dicks"

"June Jago as Miss Fairfax"

"Tim Wylton as Mr. Fellows"

"Billy Franks as Burgess"

"Craig Marriott as Dadds"

"William Vanderpuye as O'Leary"

"Kay Skinner as Peggy"

"Peter Walton as Fensham"

"Hilda Barry as Grandma Perkins"

"Roy Kinnear as Mr. Perkins"

"Keith Barron as Mr. Latimer"

"Sheila Steafel as Mrs. Latimer"

"Jack Wild as Ornshaw"

"Mark Lester as Daniel Latimer"

"Tracy Hyde as Melody Perkins"