Kathie Moffat You can't make deals with a dead man, Jeff.
Played by Jane Greer 
Out of the Past (1947) · 67 quotes
Out of the Past (1947) · 67 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Out of the Past (1947): in 19 of its 67 quotes
Most scenes with: Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham (15), Whit Sterling (2)
You dirty, double-crossing rat.
More lines from Kathie Moffat
2 quotes Kathie Moffat Kathie Moffat I never told you I was anything but what I am. You just wanted to imagine I was. That's why I left you. Now we're back to stay.
Scenes with Kathie Moffat
16 scenes
My name is Jeff Markam, and I haven't talked to anybody who hasn't tried to sell me something for ten days. If I don't talk I think. It's too late in life for me to start thinking. I could go down to the cliff and look at the sea like a good tourist, but it's no good if there isn't somebody you can turn to and say, 'Nice view, huh.' The same with the churches, the relics, the moonlight or a Cuba Libre. Nothing in the world is any good unless you can share it.
Kathie Maybe you want to go home.
Maybe that's why I'm here.
Kathie Is it?
Kathie You know, you're a curious man.
You're gonna make every guy you meet a little bit curious.
Kathie That's not what I mean. You don't ask questions. You don't even ask me what my name is.
All right, what's your name?
Kathie Kathie.
I like it.
Kathie Or where I come from?
I'm thinkin' about where we're going.
Kathie Don't you like it in here?
I'm just not ready to settle down.
Kathie Shall I take you somewhere else?
You're going to find it very easy to take me anywhere.
Kathie Why not?
'Cause it isn't the way to win.
Kathie Is there a way to win?
Well, there's a way to lose more slowly.
Kathie I prefer it like that.
Chuck it in.
Kathie Don't you like to gamble?
Not against a wheel.
Kathie Tell me why you're so hard to please.
Take me where I can tell you.
Kathie When are you taking me back?
Is that why you kissed me?
Kathie No.
Whit didn't die.
Kathie He didn't?
No.
Kathie Then, why...
He just wants you back.
Kathie I hate him. I'm sorry he didn't die.
Give him time.
Kathie You are taking me back.
There's no hurry.
Kathie I could have run away last night.
I'd find you.
Kathie Yes, I believe you would. You're glad you did?
I don't know.
Kathie I am.
There was a little business, about forty thousand dollars.
Kathie I didn't take it.
How did you know it was taken?
Kathie It's what you meant. I don't want any thing of his or any part of him.
Except his life.
Kathie I didn't know what I was doing. I, I didn't know anything except how much I hated him. But I didn't take anything. I didn't, Jeff. Don't you believe me?
Baby, I don't care. [They kiss]
I didn't know you were so small.
Kathie I'm taller than Napoleon.
You're prettier too. [They kiss]
Kathie Did you miss me?
No more than I would miss my eyes.
Kathie You don't know Whit. He won't forget.
Everybody forgets.
Kathie Not Whit.
So we'll send him a postcard every Christmas.
Kathie Jeff, I'm glad you're not afraid of him.
I've been afraid of half the things I ever did.
Kathie And this time?
I'm only afraid you might not go.
Kathie Don't be. I'll be there tomorrow. Love me?
Mmm, hmm.
Kathie Poco?
What's that?
Kathie Little.
Mucho.
You didn't have to kill him.
Kathie Yes I did. You wouldn't have killed him. You would have beaten him up and thrown him out.
You didn't have to do it.
Kathie You wouldn't have killed him. He would have been against us. Gone to Whit.
Kathie I had to come back. What else could I do?
You can never help anything can you? You're like a leaf that the wind blows from one gutter to another. You can't help any thing you do, even murder.
Kathie You can't say it was that.
I can say one thing. I buried him. What did you tell him? About us? But you couldn't help it, could you Kathie?
Kathie He knew it. He looked right into me. He knew it.
How much?
Kathie What, Jeff?
I mean about Fisher. Did he look into you for that too?
Kathie No, I didn't tell that.
Don't lie to me.
Kathie I didn't. I wouldn't tell him that. I wouldn't tell anyone that. I swear it Jeff. Believe me.
Sure, sure I believe you.
Kathie I didn't know what to do. I was always afraid of him, and afraid of what I'd done. I couldn't live that way anymore. I couldn't stand it. Jeff, I've missed you. I've wondered about you, prayed you'd understand. Can you understand?
You prayed, Kathie?
Kathie Can't you even feel sorry for me?
I'm not going to try.
Kathie Jeff.
Look, just get out, will you? I have to sleep in this room. Just leave it where it all is. Get out.
Is there a slip up baby? Did you by any chance send your friend up there to find Eels dead?
Kathie No Jeff.
Tell me. Tell me.
Kathie Don't Jeff.
Don't what?
Kathie I don't want to die.
Neither do I baby, but if I have to, I'm going to die last. Something slipped up, didn't it? They told you they were gonna knock him off, and they haven't done it, have they? They haven't because I tipped him off. He blew.
Kathie He's all right?
Didn't you want him to be?
Kathie Yes, yes, because if he died, they'll say you did it.
You're wonderful Kathie. You're magnificent. You can change sides so smoothly.
Kathie Don't Jeff. You're hurting me.
Whit wants to get Eels out of the picture. He wants to square an old account with me. Two birds together...A redhead takes me up to visit the chump who has to go. I have a drink. Leave my prints around. I leave and somebody gets him. Eels dies and the tax papers...They were in the briefcase that Meta took, weren't they? Papers go back to Whit. I'm the fall guy. There's only one thing missing - a plant. What was there to give me a motive? I wouldn't kill a guy for a martini. Tell me Kathie.
Kathie They made me sign it.
Sign what?
Kathie An affidavit.
Go on.
Kathie I couldn't help it Jeff. They made me sign it. I swear I couldn't help it. They said they'd find the body and tell the police I killed him.
Fisher. Then you did tell them about Fisher when you told them I did it! Perfect. Foolproof and beautiful. That Whit can really hate, can't he? You said it once, he can remember.
Kathie I never stopped hating him Jeff. I couldn't help myself. I was caught too. We don't have to be against each other now.
Aren't we?
Kathie No, we can break out of it. All we need is the briefcase. Then we've got them, Jeff. We can get anything we want from them.
I'd like that affidavit you signed.
Kathie We can get it. It's in Eels' office safe. We can make Meta get it. We can make them do anything.
Sure.
Kathie Oh, Jeff. You ought to have killed me for what I did a moment ago.
There's time.
Kathie No, you won't. I've never stopped loving you. I was afraid and no good, but I never stopped, even if you hated me. Did you?
Yes.
Kathie But you don't now.
No.
Kathie We could be together again, in a way we never were. We can go back to Acapulco and start all over as though nothing had happened. [They kiss]
Kathie Things are mixed up.
Bailey mix 'em?
Kathie I can't talk on the phone. We're trying to get a plane.
But you're bringing me something.
Kathie No Whit. I can't explain now darling.
What are you scared about? Joe isn't coming back. He got careless and fell in the river. Did you hear what I said? Joe's dead, Kathie. Can't you find some tears for him?
Kathie Do you think I sent Joe?
Oh, you're wonderful Kathie.
You take the frame off me. You pin the Eels murder on Joe.
Sure, sure.
I get a modest settlement, say, oh, say $50,000. That should be enough for me to spend my waning years in Mazatlan. Not Acapulco, because I'd keep thinking about you Kathie, up there in the women's prison in Tehatchapie. It won't be too bad. Hills all around you. Plenty of sun. You make me nervous. You'd be happier if you let the cops have her Whit. That's what you'll have to do. Somebody's got to take the rap for Fisher's murder. It's not going to be me.
Wait a minute. I'm not framing any woman.
When did you reform? I wouldn't try it, Whit, you're out of shape. Besides, it's not a frame. She shot him.
Kathie He was going to kill you.
You see Whit, self-defense. A cinch to beat. She might not even have to do time.
Kathie I'll say you killed him. They'll believe me.
Do you believe her? Go on Kathie, tell him about Joe. Last time I saw him, he was in the East Walker River.
Kathie I didn't send him after Jeff. It was his own idea.
He slipped and fell. When I got there, it was too late. That's a mean river.
He was trailin' you?
Well, you don't go fishing with a .45 in your hand.
Kathie Don't you see you've only me to make deals with now?
Build my gallows high, baby.
Kathie No, no, we're starting all over. I want to go back to Mexico. I want to walk out of the sun again and find you waiting. I want to sit in the same moonlight and tell you all the things I never talked to you - till you don't hate me, till sometime you'll love again.
They'll always be looking for us. They won't stop till we die.
Kathie I don't care. Just so they find us together. If you're thinking of anyone else, don't. It wouldn't work. You're no good for anyone but me. You're no good and neither am I. That's why we deserve each other. [They kiss]
Kathie Jeff, we've been wrong a lot, and unlucky a long time. I think we deserve a break.
We deserve each other.
