Michael Constantine credited as playing...
Dr. Burke
- Sylvia Carter: [shown a cigarette case] That's Jerry's.
- Dr. Burke: It was laying on the deck. Mrs. Carter, why didn't you report your husband missing?
- Sylvia Carter: I don't know exactly that he is missing.
- Dr. Burke: Well when's the last time you saw him?
- Sylvia Carter: Dinner last night.
- Dr. Burke: He didn't return to the state room any time since then? You must've been worried.
- Sylvia Carter: I think curious would be a better word.
- Dr. Burke: Mrs. Carter, we are in a ship in the middle of the ocean. Your husband is gone all night and your feeling is one of curiosity?
- Sylvia Carter: Doctor, this is not the first time my husband didn't come home all night. At first I was worried, now I am merely curious.
- Dr. Burke: I'm sorry, Mrs. Carter, I don't mean to be rude, but the captain is very concerned. Your husband may have fallen overboard.
- [Sylvia looks at him]
- Dr. Burke: We're searching the ship, I'll let you know as soon as we have any information.
- Captain Vettori: Dr. Burke, you're saying it's murder.
- Dr. Burke: I'm just saying that two accidental deaths with no witnesses is more than a coincidence.
- Captain Vettori: You state in your official report that Mrs. Mason fractured her skull in a fall down the stairs.
- Dr. Burke: But you see, she could just as easily have been hit over the head with a blunt object, and then dropped down the stairs.
- Captain Vettori: Then why don't you say that?
- [slaps medical report]
- Dr. Burke: I couldn't be certain. I'm not an expert in forensic medicine. Anything is possible.
- Captain Vettori: You can't have it both ways, Doctor, what is it, accident or murder?
- Dr. Burke: The only thing I can state with medical certainty is that Mrs. Mason is certifiably dead.
- Captain Vettori: Then let's leave it at that, until we get to Maracaibo. Let them enjoy the rest of the cruise, they paid for it.
- Dr. Burke: No they didn't, not one person at that table paid for this trip. They won the cruise in a contest, all of them.
- Captain Vettori: How do you know this?
- Dr. Burke: They talked about it the first night.
- Captain Vettori: I wonder why I wasn't told? Drink?
- Dr. Burke: Thank you.
- Captain Vettori: Contests are usually coordinated through the public relation department of the steamship line. I would've been informed.
- Dr. Burke: Let's see, they said the name of the company that sponsored the contest. E and M Promotions.
- Captain Vettori: Never heard of them. Of course that doesn't mean anything, I've been sailing out of Miami for 8 years and just found out they had a football team, Miami Porpoises.
- Dr. Burke: Dolphins I think.
- Captain Vettori: [shrugs] Same genetic family.
- Dr. Burke: What about the other 4 people, sir?
- Captain Vettori: What do you suggest? That we tell them someone's trying to kill them? Lock them in their state rooms? Change the report to murder, and I'll do that.
- Dr. Burke: Mrs. Radney, you feel like talking?
- Mary Frances Radney: That depends what you want to talk about.
- Dr. Burke: The people at table 24.
- Mary Frances Radney: What about them?
- Dr. Burke: That's what I hoped you'd tell me.
- Mary Frances Radney: Basically they were selfish, and that they were totally insensitive.
- Dr. Burke: Including your husband?
- Mary Frances Radney: My husband's dead. You leave him alone.