
He allows her to leave and turns the gun on himself. She walks away, the gun still pointed at her, and explains that while the first murder carried extenuating circumstances of his own mental state, murdering her as well would result in the electric chair.

He pulls it out of his desk and threatens to shoot her. She confronts Murchison with this and he confesses, but says that he didn't drop the gun he still has it. Murchison hiding behind a tree, shooting Dr.

Petersen realizes that the 'wheel' was a revolver and that the man hiding behind the chimney and d ropping the wheel was Dr. After reconsiderin g her notes fro m the dream, Dr. Petersen return s to her position at the hospital, where Dr. Ballantyne is convicted of murder and sent to prison. All is understood now, and Ballantyne is about to be exonerated, when it is discovered that Edwardes had a bullet in his body. He also remembers that his real name is John Ballantyne. This incident had caused him to develop amnesia and a generalized guilt complex. He slid down a hand rail and accidentally knocked his brother onto sharp pointed railings, killing him.
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The dream sequence (designed by Salvador Dalí) is full of psychoanalytic symbols The two doctors a nalyze a dream that 'John Brown' had. Petersen and the impostor (who now calls himself 'John Brown') travel by train to Rochester, to meet Dr. One of Hitchcock's characteristic innocent-person-pursued-by-the-police evasions ensues, as Dr. She uses her psychoanalytic skills to unlock his amnesia and find out what had really happened. Petersen goes to the Empire State Hotel, knowing that the police are in pursuit. Edwardes is missing and may have been murdered. Edwardes' is an impostor, and that the real Dr.

Petersen that he is going to the Empire State Hotel in New York City. Edwardes' disappears during the night, having left a note for Dr. Petersen believes that he is innocent and suffering from a guilt complex. He suffers from massive amnesia and does not know who he is. Petersen soon realizes, by comparing handwriting, that this man is an impostor and not the real Dr. He has a peculiar phobia about seeing sets of parallel lines against a white background, first displayed after seeing a diagram drawn with the tines of a fork on a tablecloth. Petersen notices that there is something strange about Dr.
