Paper Mask (1990)
Paul McGann: Matthew Harris
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Quotes
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Schoolboy : [discovers Matthew taking notes of Dr. Hennessey's class photos hanging in school hall] What are you doing?
Matthew Harris : I used to be a pupil here.
Schoolboy : I don't believe you. I could report you, you know!
Matthew Harris : I could probably break your neck.
Schoolboy : [pauses briefly] Yes, I expect you could. Why are you writing that down?
Matthew Harris : Old time's sake.
Schoolboy : The past is another country.
Matthew Harris : Who said that?
Schoolboy : I said it. I made it up, actually.
[Matthew smiles]
Schoolboy : What's funny?
Matthew Harris : Why did you think I wasn't a pupil here?
Schoolboy : Well... your clothes are rather cheap.
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Dr. Thorn : [testing Matthew's ability to diagnose an elderly male patient lying in hospital bed] Feel his liver. Well?
Matthew Harris : [hung-over and nervous] It's normal.
[Patient smiles in surprise]
Dr. Thorn : What do you mean, "normal"? If you can feel it, it isn't normal! So what is it?
Matthew Harris : Abnormal?
Dr. Thorn : Enlarged! Smooth, enlarged, non-pulsatile. Diagnosis?
Matthew Harris : Hepatitis?
[Dr Thorn rolls his eyes]
Matthew Harris : No?
[Catches sight of liquor bottle hidden under patient's bedsheet]
Matthew Harris : Cirrhosis!
Dr. Thorn : Of course! Classic: wasting, spider naevi, jaundice, varices. You been drinking?
Yellow Man : [Thinking Dr. Thorn is addressing him] I'm a dead man anyway!
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Alec Moran : [wheeling a corpse on a gurney] Do you believe in the afterbirth?
Matthew Harris : *Afterlife*, Alec.
Alec Moran : Life, yeah.
[Looking at corpse]
Alec Moran : Imagine coming back looking like that, eh?