David McCallum credited as playing...
Donald Mallard
- Donald Mallard: Torture as a device to bring about a confession has been around since, well, before the Middle Ages. Back then it was considered a necessary part of the judicial process.
- Jimmy Palmer: Maybe that's how lawyers started to get a bad reputation.
- Donald Mallard: Perhaps. It's a nasty business, especially for the lower classes. A commoner, for example, was considered constitutionally incapable of honesty in court unless he or she were tortured.
- Jimmy Palmer: Doesn't seem like a very reliable method for getting at the truth.
- Donald Mallard: Quite right, but as you can see, the process persists to this day. I had a very funny brush with torture once in Edinburgh. I performed an autopsy on a fellow whose torturer had taken his entrails, mix them with oatmeal, and made himself a haggis.