A scene from In Cold Blood 1967
Dick

Where are the black stockings?

Perry

They didn't have black.

Dick

Stop someplace else.

Perry

Where?

Dick

A Catholic hospital.

Perry

Sure. We'll just barge in like it was a goddamn five-and-dime.

Dick

Sister, sweetie, we gotta have some black stockings to hide our face.

Perry

Okay, forget it. Anyway, nuns are bad luck.

Dick

Kind of sexy, though.

Perry

You wouldn't think so if you'd lived in one of those orphan homes... with those black widows always at you. Always sneaking up in the dark, spying while you sleep. Hitting you with a flashlight for wetting the bed. That's the first time I was saved by the yellow bird.

Dick

The what?

Perry

Sort of a parrot. Taller than Jesus. Brilliant yellow, like a sunflower. It attacked those nuns like an avenging angel. The nuns begged for mercy. But the yellow bird slaughtered them anyway. Then the bird folded me in its wings...and lifted me up to paradise.

Dick

That's one hell of a bird to have on your side.

Perry

Anyway, that's why I have an aversion to nuns...and God and religion.

Dick

Forget it. Black stockings are a waste of time. No one's gonna remember us because we're leaving no witnesses.

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