Jack Klugman credited as playing...
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.
- Adrian Mercer: Abby just quoted from the very music you cited as contributing to a brutal murder. Now, you're not really saying that music can kill, are you?
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Yes, I am. I believe that the music I heard is a killer. It's a killer of hope, it's a killer of spirit. The music I heard said that life was cheap, and that murder and suicide was OK.
- Dr. Emily Hanover: Music can be a very powerful thing. Nothing galvanises the emotions as quickly.
- Adrian Mercer: You wrote the lyrics in question, Fly. You take issue with any of this?
- Fly Fester: Hell yes! You know why you people can't stomach our songs? 'Cos they're a mirror, dig? Our music's ugly and violent because that's what's outside my window when I wake up. The world's ugly, the world's violent. All we do is rub your noses in it, you don't like what you see. Well don't lay it on us.
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: You're right about one thing: there is too much ugliness and violence out there. But if we took your advice we'd never overcome it - all you want us to do is throw up our hands and give up.
- Skip: Who got us where we are today? It was your generation. Now you people have your finger on the button, ready to blow the whole joint to bits, and you're telling us to cool it?
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: You know, not so many years ago there was a generation of young people who were as mad as you are about the world. Only they worked their tails off to change it. Trying to end a war they didn't believe in, trying to correct injustices that they saw. But all you do is gripe. Has it ever occurred to you to do something else with your anger besides venting it?
- Skip: You're the ones who loused everything up - and you expect us to pick up the pieces.
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: If not you - then who?
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Oh boy, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller... it's like going back in time. You know, if you close your eyes you can see the whole thing: the big bands and the parquet floors and the gowns... You know, honey - why would anybody want to listen to music that makes you hate, when you can listen to music that makes you love?