Dead Heat (1988)
Clare Kirkconnell: Rebecca Smythers
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Quotes
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[Mortis is brought back to life by the Resurrection Machine]
Det. Roger Mortis : I still don't believe it. I sorry Doug, I just don't believe it.
Det. Doug Bigelow : Minute by minute Roger. That's the only way to take this. It's the only way to live anyhow.
Det. Roger Mortis : Easy for you to say.
Rebecca Smythers : Roger, you haven't heard the worst of it.
Det. Roger Mortis : I'm dead Rebecca. How much worse can it get?
Rebecca Smythers : I've been scanning the lab report. The Resurrection Process has an unfortunate side effect.
Det. Roger Mortis : Which is what?
Rebecca Smythers : Progressive decay of re-animated tissue. Irreversible cell damage. You've got ten to twelve hours, tops.
Det. Roger Mortis : And then what?
Rebecca Smythers : All of the cells in your body will dissolve into a kind of organic stew.
Det. Doug Bigelow : Becky, can't you just pop him back in for a recharge?
Rebecca Smythers : This thing isn't a toaster oven Doug.
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[Smythers gets Mortis to sit on an autopsy table so she can examine him]
Rebecca Smythers : So how are you feeling?
Det. Roger Mortis : Great. Picture of health.
Rebecca Smythers : [to hanging microphone] Subject Mortis comma Roger. Post mortem follow up July 6th. approximate time eighteen forty five.
Det. Roger Mortis : Do you have to talk into that thing. This is not an autopsy.
Det. Doug Bigelow : Hey Rog, you are dead, this is a morgue and she is a coroner.
Det. Roger Mortis : Thanks.