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From the opening scene:
Dr. Mott (Austin Pendleton): Welcome to Long Island, McCarty.
Jim McCarty (John C. McGinley): [to Scott Parks] Friendly guy.
Scott Parks (Eric Close): Mott? Oh, he's okay once you get to know him. He's kind of an intellectual type, you know what I'm saying? Well, let's get this over with, huh?
JM: Uh, What about the masks?
SP: Oh, you don't need a mask. Your olfactory glands? They completely deaden after three minutes of exposure. Didn't you know that?
JM: No.
SP: It's a psychological fact.
JM: I'd still rather go with masks.
SP: Masks can cause problems. Look, try to think of this as uh, life affirming.
JM: Beg your pardon?
SP: Life affirming. That's what investigative homicide really is. Every time I come up against something really gross and it happens a lot, I try to remember that what we're doing out here, bagging evidence, drawing pictures of what we see, writing everything down, taking photographs...
JM: It's not life affirming. It's standard procedure.
SP: But why do we have a standard procedure? Because the taking of a human life is a terrible crime and because we, as a society, value life so much that no matter who lies... beneath this cardboard box... and no matter what their race, sex, color, creed or economic status, we're going to try as hard as we can to bring the person responsible for their death to justice. And the act of doing that, my friend, is an affirmation of human life.
JM: I'm not looking to get off on the wrong foot here but... that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in my life.
SP: Hey, okay... but what do you smell?
JM: What's that?
SP: What do you smell? Huh? [grin, laughs] Isn't that cool? What did I tell you? Three minutes and the smells all run together. What do you say, Jim? What do you say we take a look?
JM: That's incredible, inconceivable. I mean [sniff], I can't smell anything. [laughs]
SP: Well... [Scott lifts the cardboard] Corpse is um, [sniff] very badly decomposed, also note that the head and both the hands have been chopped off.
JM: [sounds of throwing up]
SP: [with a big grin] See, now aren't you glad you aren't wearing a mask?
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