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Carlo's friend: [in response to his lecture] What a wonderful future you've shown us.
Doctor Génessier: The future, madame, is something we should have started on long ago.
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Louise: She's happy this time. She has faith.
Doctor Génessier: Finally.
Louise: I showed her how nicely it's healing. I changed the bandages. It looks fine. Much better than yesterday.
Doctor Génessier: I'm so afraid.
Louise: Don't be. I have faith this time, too.
Doctor Génessier: All I can do is hope.
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Doctor Génessier: Smile. Smile. Not too much.
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Christiane Génessier: My face frightens me. My mask frightens me even more.
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Louise: [in response to Christiane calling Jacques] Do you realize how reckless you're being?
Christiane Génessier: I know. The dead should keep quiet. Then let me be dead for good. Please let me die. I can't stand it anymore!
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Louise: [when Christiane stabs her] But... why?
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Le docteur Lherminier - médecin légiste: Something doesn't quite make sense.
L'inspecteur Parot: What's odd is the body was fished out naked - in a man's coat.
Le docteur Lherminier - médecin légiste: Why should Génessier's daughter, distraught at her disfigurement, feel the need to strip naked in mid-winter before drowning herself?
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L'inspecteur Parot: It's a strange business, but that's how it looks to me. When Génessier's daughter vanished from the clinic, her face was an open wound.
Le docteur Lherminier - médecin légiste: The missing facial tissue confirms your theory. The car accident, the facial burns, the long immersion in the river.
L'inspecteur Parot: And the rats, Doctor. Don't forget the rats.
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L'homme de la fourrière: This morning, bargemen fished a girl's body out fo the Seine. The time of drowning coincides with that of your daughter's disappearance. The description also fits. The damaged face - only the eyes are intact.
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Christiane Génessier: I see horrible things. I'm living them! What have you done now?
Doctor Génessier: What had to be done. For your own good. Always for your good, Christiane.
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Doctor Génessier: Christiane, your mask! Get into the habit of wearing it.
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Doctor Génessier: There's no reason for you to doubt me. I know my abilities, don't I? You'll have a real face. I promise you.
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Doctor Génessier: A new face, a new identity.
Louise: You're more beautiful than ever. There's something angelic about you now.
Christiane Génessier: Angelic? I don't know about that. When I look in a mirror, I feel I'm looking at someone who looks like me, but seems to come from the Beyond, from the Beyond.
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Louise: Why are you lying? I've known you long enough to read your face.
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Le docteur Jacques Vernon: A pearl choker?
L'inspecteur Parot: That ring a bell?
Le docteur Jacques Vernon: Hold on. Yes, it reminds me of someone.
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Paulette Meroudon: What do I have to do?
L'inspecteur Parot: Bleach your hair, for starters.
Paulette Meroudon: You're kidding.
L'inspecteur Parot: No. That's not our style. You have to be much blonder.
Paulette Meroudon: It won't suit me.
L'inspecteur Parot: It doesn't matter.
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Paulette Meroudon: Doctor, are you going to shave my head?
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Doctor Génessier: Is not the greatest of man's new hopes that of physical rejuvenation?
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