Silent Witness

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
[Phone rings] Pathology... it is... mhm... okay, I'll be down in five minutes. [to Nikki] Someone's died apparently.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
This place is full of dead people talking about dead people!

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
[to Nikki] You didn't sleep here last night, did you? [Nikki shrugs] Please don't. you've got a perfectly good bed at home... or so everybody says.

Rebecca Connelly:
Do you know what I remember about you? [Harry c*cks head] How kind you were.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Oh... I'm still kind.

Rebecca Connelly:
[laughs] I hope so...

Charlie Gibbs:
Um, the mortician wants me to attach the toupee.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Ok.

Charlie Gibbs:
He had one fall off. Very embarrassing. It's made him edgy. Now how would one attach a toupee? Glue?

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Turn the mike off. [turns mike off] Yeah, glue, or a staple.

Charlie Gibbs:
Staple! Perfect. I'll just bang one into his skull.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Charlie! Little bit of respect, please.

Charlie Gibbs:
What, do you think he can hear me?

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
No, but I can.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
What a fascinating little brick.

Dr. Nikki Alexander:
As, indeed, are you.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Perhaps you'd prefer it if I retrained as a paramedic.

Dr. Nikki Alexander:
Perhaps you'd prefer it if I retrained as one of your adoring 25-year-olds?

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Little bit late for that, don't you think?

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
I'll tell you all about my mad aunt Meredith, came to believe she was a lemon, and lost all her zest for life. [Nikki and Leo talk] What about my cousin Harvey who thought he was a banana?

Nikki Alexander:
What about him?

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Well, he's got a split personality.

Leo Dalton:
[Walking into cutting room] Who the hell are you?

Nikki Alexander:
Oh [spits toothpaste] Sorry, they're mine. [moves skeleton] I'm Nikki, I'm a forensic anthropologist.

Leo Dalton:
You're brushing your teeth in a mortuary?

Nikki Alexander:
I know, ladies' loos are flooded.

Leo Dalton:
Mortuary as in evidence, contamination there of.

Nikki Alexander:
I sort of know that.

Leo Dalton:
Cases depend on it. What's all this? This is the pathology department, not the natural history museum.

Nikki Alexander:
Are you Leo?

Leo Dalton:
Professor Leo Dalton, head of this department.

Nikki Alexander:
I know.

Leo Dalton:
You can't just wander in and start camping out.

Nikki Alexander:
Not normally, obviously.

Leo Dalton:
What?

Nikki Alexander:
Well, you're right of course. You don't just invade a mortuary... Okay, look: The archaeology department doesn't have the software for facial reconstruction, you have, so when I bought these back from the Brecon Beacons dig... It's a very unusual late iron age burial. My colleagues think it's ritual sacrifice but I don't. That's what's so interesting...

Leo Dalton:
How interesting you find these bones isn't the point.

Nikki Alexander:
I just wanted to get on with it. To know what these people looked like. I'm sorry. I convinced myself that if you'd been here you'd let me use the software. And professor Hegarty said 'Oh Leo, he's fairly easy going, he won't mind, he... ' I'm not doing very well, am I?

Leo Dalton:
Uh, no.

Nikki Alexander:
Don't you understand that feeling, it's obsessive. I'm sorry, I really am. You find something, you want the answers, PDQ, you just have to have them. Sorry. Again.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Leo, have you been practising facial reconstruction? You're getting better at it than I am.

Leo Dalton:
Not mine.

Nikki Alexander:
[Walks in with bones] Hi guys.

Leo Dalton:
Where did you learn how to do this?

Nikki Alexander:
Oh, I worked in forensic pathology in Johannesburg for six months. We had a lot of unidentified bodies.

Leo Dalton:
You've even impressed Harry.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
I don't know if I've fallen into a black hole or something...

Leo Dalton:
Oh, sorry, this is Nikki. I'm intending to have her thrown out at some point, but I've been busy.

Nikki Alexander:
Nikki Alexander, Forensic Anthropologist. It's a ram-raid really, I only want you for your software.

Leo Dalton:
I've had her checked out, it appears she is who she says she is.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Well, I should hope so.

Nikki Alexander:
I've often wondered. Do you want to see the rest of my iron age body? The reconstructions are coming together rather well. This is the woman, 30-ish.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Bought your own bones?

Nikki Alexander:
Leo said that I couldn't keep them in the morgue, so he told me I could leave them there.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Oh... You're actually on my desk, but...

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Nikki! Are you okay?

Dr. Nikki Alexander:
Yeah.

Professor Leo Dalton:
I thought I told you to stay at home.

Dr. Nikki Alexander:
I'm fine.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Are you?

Dr. Nikki Alexander:
Yeah, doctor had a look at me.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
Lucky doctor.

Professor Leo Dalton:
In my day you could not do a medical degree without Latin.

Dr. Harry Cunningham:
In your day the patients spoke it.