Narrator: “The surprise of Sissy Hankshaw is that she did not grow up a neurotic disaster.” (0:00)
Hitchhiker Sissy tells a driver, “When I’m really moving, moving so freely, so clearly, so delicately, that even the sex maniacs and the cops can only blink and let me pass...” (0:10)
William Burroughs: “Ominous.” (0:11)
Transvestite mogul of afeminine hygiene products company The Countess advises Sissy, “Try being born a male Russian Countess into a white, middle-class Baptist family in mississippi, and you’ll see what I mean.”
”But what I’m getting at is there comes a time when it is psychologically impossible for a woman to lose her virginity.” (0:11)
Julian has an asthma attack when he sees Sissy. Marie: “You know, asthma attacks are brought on by emotional stress... The excitement of meeting you must have upset his chemical balance or something.” (0:15)
Rupert tells the others, “Crazy Guggenheim has more style than that.” (0:17)
Rupert takes a vial marked Adrenaline from the medicine cabinet. He tells the others about “pills... to elevate moods...” (0:17)
Sissy reads from a newspaper: “The Food and Drug Administration...”
The Countess: “Grandiose...”(0:23)
Cowgirl Delores: “I’ve traveled through the Yucatan with the circus... when one night I at peyote and had a vision.” (0:28)
Cowgirl Bonanza Jellybeans tells Delores, “Someday, if that Sissy Hankshaw ever shows up here, I’m gonna teach her how to hypnotize a chicken. Did you know chickens are the easiest critter on earth to hypnotize?” (0:29)
A hippie van driver tells Sissy, referring to The Chink, “I mean we drove all the way from Minneapolis, and the crazy bastard tried to stone us to death.” (0:30)
Miss Adrian tells the others, “Those crazed bitches have led innocent women out and are slaughtering them at this moment.” (0:36)
Bonanza Jellybeans hypnotizes chickens. (0:43)
Bonanza Jellybeans tells Sissy, “Delores zonks out on peyote at least once a week.” (0:45)
The Chink lights a joint and shares it with Sissy. (0:56)
The surgeon tells Sissy the status of The Countess' traumatic brain injury. (1:01)
Dr. Dreyfus tells Sissy, “We all have our problems these days, but as the painter van Gogh said, ‘Mysteries remain, sorrow or melancholy remains’... I have retired, a victim of a malpractice suit... succumbing to my suppressed artistic drives...”
Sissy faints. (1:03)
Narrator: “There came a point when Delores felt compelled to get in her peyote wagon and leave the ranch.” (1:10)
The cowgirls together: “Peyote!”
Sissy: “They’re drugged?”
Bonanza Jellybean: “What do you mean, drugged?”
”The kind of food you eat, the kind of air you breathe, can change your mental state. Does that mean you’re drugged?”
”Drugged is a stupid word, but the peyote is obviously affecting their brains.”
Cowgirl Debbie: ”The way I see it the peyote mellowed them out, made them less uptight... Peyote has enlightened them.”
Bonanza Jellybean: “This here discussion is destined to become academic because we’ve got less than half a bag of peyote buttons left...”
Radio reporter, referring to Delores: “... having been arrested in Sisters with more than 50 pounds of peyote buttons.” (1:13)
Sissy tells Bonanza Jellybean, “My confusion becomes your confusion. Students confuse teachers. Patients confuse psychiatrists. Lovers with confused hearts confuse lovers with clear ones.” (1:17)
Delores tells the cowgirls, “The cranes and I will be sharing the last crumbs in the peyote sack.” (1:18)
Narrator: “Lost in a psychedelic trance, Delores... wandered... Peyote buttons sang in Delores’ brain like a choir... There the promise of the third vision was fulfilled.” (1:19)
Delores tells the cowgirls, “The peyote mother has promised a fourth vision.” (1:20)
Sissy grieves the death of Bonanza Jellybean. (1:25)