Robbie Coltrane credited as playing...
Dr. Edward 'Fitz' Fitzgerald
- [Fitz is in the car with Kelly going back to the monastery]
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Why are you going back?
- Thomas Kelly: I had doubts about my vocation. I left the monastery to see the world outside. I've seen it now - and you can keep it.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Nobody ever loses their memory. It gets locked away like a mad woman in the attic. Occasionally you hear her scream, but you don't unlock the door and have a look. Right?
- Thomas Kelly: There's a great sadness in your life.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: [in a packed lecture theatre] OK everyone,
- [audience begins to stop talking]
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Dr. Fitzgerald is now ready to give us his lecture.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: [Fitz approaches the lectern and puts on his glasses; total silence in lecture theatre; he picks up a book] Spinoza...
- [Fitz throws the book into the audience and picks up another book]
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: ... Descartes...
- [throws the book into the audience and picks up another book]
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: ... Hobbes...
- [throws the book into the audience and picks up another book]
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: ... Locke...
- [he now throws the books in quicker succession]
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Freud, Adler, Jung, Mehler, Pavlov...
- [stops throwing books and looks directly at the audience and continues talking]
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: .
- Pathologist: [Remarking about the body on the autopsy table] She's beautiful!
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Was.
- Pathologist: Is.
- Thomas Kelly: Why do you drink so much ?
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: I like it.
- Thomas Kelly: And smoke so much?
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: I like it.
- Thomas Kelly: And gamble as well?
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Yes, I like it.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Look, homicide and amnesia are heavy. You need to know what you're doin'.
- DCI David Bilborough: Thank you.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Right. I've forgotten more about amnesia than they'll ever know.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: You've got me for one week.
- DS Jane 'Panhandle' Penhaligon: I had pleurisy once - for two.