Pathological states can induce abnormal strength. Accelerated motor performance. Now, for...

Dr. Taney: Pathological states can induce abnormal strength. Accelerated motor performance. Now, for example, say a 90 pound woman sees her child pinned under the wheel of a truck. Runs out and lifts the wheels a half a foot up off the ground - you've heard the story - same thing here. Same principle, I mean. Chris MacNeil: So what's wrong with her? Dr. Klein: We still think the temporal lobe. Chris MacNeil: Oh what are you talking about, for Chrissakes? Did you see her or not? She's acting like she's fucking out of her mind, psychotic, like a... split personality or... Dr. Taney: There haven't been more than a hundred authentic cases of so-called split personality, Mrs. MacNeil. Now I know the temptation is to leap to psychiatry. But any reasonable psychiatrist would exhaust the somatic possibilities first. Chris MacNeil: So, what's next? Dr. Taney: A pneumoencephalogram, I would think. Pin down that lesion. It will involve another spinal. Chris MacNeil: Oh, Christ. Dr. Taney: What we missed in the EEG and the arteriograms could conceivably turn up there. At least, it would eliminate certain other possibilities.