12 Monkeys (1995)

Frank Gorshin: Dr. Fletcher

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• Dr. Owen Fletcher : Kathryn, you're a rational person. You're a trained psychiatrist. You know the difference between what's real and what's not.

  Dr. Kathryn Railly : And what we say is the truth is what everybody accepts. Right, Owen? I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.

• James Cole : This is a place for crazy people. I'm not crazy.

  Dr. Owen Fletcher : We don't use the term "crazy," Mr. Cole.

  James Cole : Well, you've got some real nuts here.

• James Cole : [In 1990, James is being interviewed by a panel of mental health doctors and trying to explain the situation]  1996 is the past too, listen to me!

  [the panel of doctors look at James with skeptical expressions] 

  James Cole : What I...

  [James realizing this isn't going very well] 

  James Cole : ... what I need to do is make a telephone call. I can straighten this all out if I can make a telephone call.

  Dr. Owen Fletcher : [Very skeptical]  Who would you call? Who would straighten everything out?

  James Cole : The scientists. They'll want to know they sent me to the wrong time.

  [Dr Fletcher just nods] 

  James Cole : I can leave a voice mail message that they monitor from the present.

  [Panel has mixed facial expressions] 

  James Cole : Can I just make one telephone call please?