Ah, but does it get on your nerves?

Actually, in the old days of the Code, films couldn't have endings wherein Good didn't prevail. (I'd argue that, in Double Indemnity, the protagonist is Fred MacMurray, who assuredly doesn't prevail.) Somehow, sins always had to be punished.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"