Silent Witness1996

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.