The Professor delineates the degenerative characteristics of the criminal brain - "the scarcity of convolutions on the frontal lobe.Immediately after his confession, Neff explains how he became involved with Los Angeles housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), a conniving, seductive, icy blonde bombshell."Jesse asked for help - enlisting Grady to watch over him as he slept: "Just watch me.If anything starts to happen, if I start to act weird, or start dreaming weird or try to walk out of here, you gotta stop me.I wondered about our new neighbor who owned such beautiful things.Significantly, the firstspokenwords in the film's first flashback identify and introduce the 'unknown woman's name' - they are called out as a summons by the young girl's mother (Mady Christians) from a second-story window, to get her daughter o stop her dreamy contemplation of the delivery van: "Lisa, come in Lisa.