Emilia Fox: Nikki Alexander

Quotes 

• Leo Dalton : [Walking into cutting room]  Who the hell are you?

  Nikki Alexander : Oh

  [spits toothpaste] 

  Nikki Alexander : Sorry, they're mine.

  [moves skeleton] 

  Nikki Alexander : I'm Nikki, I'm a forensic anthropologist.

  Leo Dalton : You're brushing your teeth in a mortuary?

  Nikki Alexander : I know, ladies' loos are flooded.

  Leo Dalton : Mortuary as in evidence, contamination there of.

  Nikki Alexander : I sort of know that.

  Leo Dalton : Cases depend on it. What's all this? This is the pathology department, not the natural history museum.

  Nikki Alexander : Are you Leo?

  Leo Dalton : Professor Leo Dalton, head of this department.

  Nikki Alexander : I know.

  Leo Dalton : You can't just wander in and start camping out.

  Nikki Alexander : Not normally, obviously.

  Leo Dalton : What?

  Nikki Alexander : Well, you're right of course. You don't just invade a mortuary... Okay, look: The archaeology department doesn't have the software for facial reconstruction, you have, so when I bought these back from the Brecon Beacons dig... It's a very unusual late iron age burial. My colleagues think it's ritual sacrifice but I don't. That's what's so interesting...

  Leo Dalton : How interesting you find these bones isn't the point.

  Nikki Alexander : I just wanted to get on with it. To know what these people looked like. I'm sorry. I convinced myself that if you'd been here you'd let me use the software. And professor Hegarty said 'Oh Leo, he's fairly easy going, he won't mind, he... ' I'm not doing very well, am I?

  Leo Dalton : Uh, no.

  Nikki Alexander : Don't you understand that feeling, it's obsessive. I'm sorry, I really am. You find something, you want the answers, PDQ, you just have to have them. Sorry. Again.

• Dr. Harry Cunningham : Leo, have you been practising facial reconstruction? You're getting better at it than I am.

  Leo Dalton : Not mine.

  Nikki Alexander : [Walks in with bones]  Hi guys.

  Leo Dalton : Where did you learn how to do this?

  Nikki Alexander : Oh, I worked in forensic pathology in Johannesburg for six months. We had a lot of unidentified bodies.

  Leo Dalton : You've even impressed Harry.

  Dr. Harry Cunningham : I don't know if I've fallen into a black hole or something...

  Leo Dalton : Oh, sorry, this is Nikki. I'm intending to have her thrown out at some point, but I've been busy.

  Nikki Alexander : Nikki Alexander, Forensic Anthropologist. It's a ram-raid really, I only want you for your software.

  Leo Dalton : I've had her checked out, it appears she is who she says she is.

  Dr. Harry Cunningham : Well, I should hope so.

  Nikki Alexander : I've often wondered. Do you want to see the rest of my iron age body? The reconstructions are coming together rather well. This is the woman, 30-ish.

  Dr. Harry Cunningham : Bought your own bones?

  Nikki Alexander : Leo said that I couldn't keep them in the morgue, so he told me I could leave them there.

  Dr. Harry Cunningham : Oh... You're actually on my desk, but...