Christopher Reeve credited as playing...
Richard Collier
- Richard Collier: This is not for a play, Miss Roberts. This is something very personal.
- [shows her the pocketwatch]
- Laura Roberts: Where did you get that?
- Richard Collier: Well, she gave it to me, ma'am. At the opening of a play I wrote eight years ago at Millfield College.
- Laura Roberts: That watch was very precious to her. She never- never left it out of her possession. It disappeared the night she died.
- Richard Collier: She died that night?
- Richard Collier: I owe you an apology. I understand you now. You have nothing but the best motives in mind for her, but so do I.
- [first lines]
- [various snippets in crowd chatter]
- Richard Collier: I got some news. There was an agent in the house tonight, and he said he thinks this play might be good enough for Broadway.
- [cheers from crowd]
- Richard Collier: Fingers crossed, who knows? Come on, let's all have some cake.
- Dr. Gerald Finney: What can I do for you?
- Richard Collier: I have a question for you, sir?
- Dr. Gerald Finney: Shoot.
- Richard Collier: Is time travel possible?
- Dr. Gerald Finney: [pause] That is a question.
- Elise McKenna: The most peculiar moment of my life Mr Collier.
- Richard Collier: I think you will survive it Ms McKenna.
- Elise McKenna: You will marry me won't you?
- Richard Collier: [Richard coughs and splutters] Sorry
- Elise McKenna: You won't?
- [she asks rather worriedly]
- Richard Collier: Sure, I Was just laughing at the way you asked that's all
- Elise McKenna: For one moment there, I thought you had a wife and children back home somewhere
- [she chuckles]
- Richard Collier: Oh Elise
- Richard Collier: Arthur, you know in the Hall of History, there's a photograph, a young woman. There's no nameplate.
- Arthur Biehl: Yes, that's Elise McKenna. She was a famous actress in her day. Starred in a play in the hotel theater.
- Richard Collier: I-I'm sorry. Did you say there was a theater here?
- Arthur Biehl: Yes. Down by the lake.
- Richard Collier: Really? When was this play done?
- Arthur Biehl: 1912.
- Elise McKenna: The first thing I intend to do for you...
- Richard Collier: You've already done.
- Elise McKenna: The second thing, then...
- Richard Collier: What?
- Elise McKenna: Buy you a new suit?
- Richard Collier: I don't understand. Nobody seems to like my suit!
- Elise McKenna: Well, can you blame them?
- Richard Collier: Now wait a minute. I think my suit's terrific! I mean, what's wrong with this? I don't care - so what if it's ten years old?
- Elise McKenna: Oh, at least fifteen!
- Richard Collier: Fifteen?
- Elise McKenna: Mhm.
- Richard Collier: Well, I think it's fabulous. Look, let me show you - it's really great. See, it's in first-class condition. The sleeves fit, which is pretty good for me because my arms are about nine feet long. And, I've got pockets everywhere - I could pull rabbits out of here. Oh, yeah, this is the best part - this is a special coin compartment for emergen...
- [Richard pulls a 1979 penny out of his pocket; seeing the modern coin breaks Richard's hypnotic suggestion, and he begins to fade out of 1912]
- Elise McKenna: [initially concerned, becoming hysterical] Richard? Richard? Richard!
- [Elise rapidly fades from Richard's view]
- Elise McKenna: Richard! Richard! *Richard!* *Richard!*