The Singing Detective1986

Doctor:
[Doctors and nurses have been clustered round, discussing Marlow's condition while ignoring him] How do you feel about trying one of the new retinoids? Hmm? [pauses] Do you understand the question?

Philip E. Marlow:
Uh - no, I don't think so.

Doctor:
[slowly] I'm asking you if you'd like to try one of the new...

Philip E. Marlow:
I don't understand the question because I seem to have regressed into a helpless, pathetic condition of total dependency, of a kind normally associated with infancy. The last time I experienced anything remotely like this was in my bloody pram, being poked and drooled over by slobbering cretins, who turned out to be escapees from the local loony bin. They thought they were *doctors* and *nurses*!