Silent Witness: Nowhere Fast
Old school titles. Same awesome cast
Leo is a little confuzzled by the food and clothing that have taken over the lab. Little does he know, that his life is about to change...*cue ominous music*
Baby Harry, however, is at a scene, attempting to wear a blue flower shirt.
Leo: Who the hell are you?
Nikki: Sorry, they're mine. I'm Nikki, I'm a Forensic Anthropologist.
Leo: You're brushing your teeth, in the motuary.
Nikki: I know, ladies loo's flooded.
Leo: Mortuary, as in evidence. Contamination thereof.
Nikki: I sort of know that.
Leo: Cases depend on it! What's all this, this is the pathology department, not the natural history museum.
Nikki: (grinning) Are you Leo?
Leo: Professor Leo Dalton, Head of this department
Nikki: (Laughing) I know
Leo: You can't just wander in here and start camping out
Nikki: Not normally, obviously.
Leo: (confused) What?
Nikki: 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.
Leo: How interesting you find these bones isn't the point.
Nikki: 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 have let me use the software. And Professor Hegarty said that 'Oh Leo, he's fairly easy going. He won't mind'
Nikki: I'm not doing very well, am I?
Leo: Uhh, no.
Nikki: Don't you understand that feeling. It's obsessive. I'm sorry, I really am. When you find something you want the answers, PDQ, you just have to have them.
(Leo smiles)
Nikki: Sorry, again.
Back to baby Harry, who is about to meet the love of his life.
Harry: Have you been practicing Facial Reconstruction, you're getting better at it than I am.
Leo: Not mine.
Nikki: Hey guys
Leo: Where did you learn how to do this?
Nikki: Well I worked in Forensic Pathology in Johannesburg for six months, we had a lot of unidentified bodies.
Leo: You've even impressed Harry
Harry: I don't know if I've fallen into a black hole or something...
Leo: Oh, sorry. This is Nikki. I'm intending to have her thrown out at some point but I've been busy...
Nikki: (shaking hands with Harry) Nikki Alexander, Forensic Anthropologist
(Harry looks confused)
Nikki: It's a ram rage really, I only want you for your software.
Leo: I've had her checked out, and it seems she is who she says she is.
Harry: Well, I should hope so.
Nikki: I've often wondered.
(Harry smirks) - normal reaction, obviously
Nikki: Do you want to see the rest of my iron age family? The reconstructions are coming along rather well.
Harry and Leo share a look
Harry: Brought your own bones...
Nikki: Leo says that I can't keep them in the morgue, so he told me I could leave them there.
Harry: Hmm
Harry: You're actually on my desk...
Not for the last time, Nikki looks at him like he's five.
Leo: Playing to the gallery?
Harry spins in surprise to find Nikki watching him. She smiles, and we see the hints of a grin from him.
Obviously, Harry enjoys showing off...
The boys head off to a crime scene, and Harry saves a little boy.
Nikki: Umm, can I do anything?
Harry: (to Leo) We haven't slept.
Nikki: Well I am home office certified (magic words)
Leo: Scrub up, it's you're lucky day.
Already, these two have the art of standing side by side perfected
The trio spend their first autopsies together, and Harry can't help but channel his inner Hamlet whilst holding up the heart.
The boys engage in some high tech hand language to test out if Nikki actually knows what she's doing.
Leo's more than a little bit of a bastard about it. However, Nikki (who is awesome and intelligent) passes with flying colours, silencing a smug Dr. Cunningham.
I could make some corny joke about Harry placing his a heart in her hands...but I won't :D
Nikki: Well we shouldn't have to wait all day for the tox reports. Okay, right, so when will they be ready. Sorry! You're telling me she's gone home! Well do you see us going home?
Harry: (about Nikki) Fascinating...
Leo: Bonkers.
Harry: (suggestively) Thinking about another pathologist?
Leo: No. Under no circumstances..
Chris: Anyway, the horse autopsy is tomorrow so who wants to join the vet set? Do you two draw lots or something?
Leo: (clapping Harry on the back) Oh, Harry will do it.
Chris: Good lad.
Team work at it's finest.
Vet Lady is awesome. "Don't faint, don't throw up and don't touch anything"
Harry, meanwhile, is some how managing to be adorable, even in a green hair net.
Vet: If you can handle a horse Harry, we'll get through it in half the time. :D
More case work occurs, Nikki continues the search for her iron age family's story, and Harry continues to be adorable for no apparent reason.
Obviously Harry is attempting another blue shirt.
But then we move onto a corduroy brown jacket! (luckily, in later seasons, it is obvious Nikki starts to dress him) and we get a sequence of some of the most adorable faces Harry has ever pulled.
Kes Slattery: You're names Harry, isn't it?
Harry: Yep
Kate Slattery: He saved your life...
Harry: (laughing) Not sure that's true. You're pretty indestructible by the looks of it.
Harry goes to sit in his chair, only to discover that Nikki has taken up residence there.
Harry: If it is a betting scam, how do you make money just by stopping the favourite? You don't know which other horse is going to win.
Nikki: (murmuring) It doesn't matter, if it's the right race.
(Harry glances at her, she looks up in surprise)
Cue Nikki proving just how awesome, fantastic and brilliant she is.
Harry is looking unbelievably impressed and just a little bit in love with her.
Leo: (smirking) Where did you learn all that?
Nikki: (shrugging) I'm attracted to the wrong sort of blokes...
I do believe, at this moment, Harry makes it his life's goal to be one of them.
Harry, adorable, as always
Leo: Do you think, maybe, you could do me a favour before you leave us?
Nikki: Sure
Leo: I'm quite impressed with your facial reconstruction skills.
Nikki: Your faceless man?
(They smile at each other)
Harry: Have you been practicing? (grumbling) Trying to make me redundant.
Leo: She's better at it than you
Harry: Charming
Nikki: What do you think?
Leo: Rather ordinary
Nikki: (incredulously) Rather ordinary? I haven't moved from this chair, I haven't even had a sandwich
Leo: I meant his face...Could be anybody
Nikki: Well he certainly isn't anybody else. That's him, to the life, you'll see.
Leo: So who is he?
Nikki: He'd be to smart for that.
(Glances up, once more taken back by her own words)
Nikki: Sorry..
Harry: (smiling slightly) Go on...
Leo: (pointing at Nikki) Got to put a time limit on that one.
Harry (grinning) I'm getting quite used to her. Apart from having, no sense of when to speak and when to shut up.
Leo: She shouldn't really be speaking at all. Or even be here.
Harry: She was very useful on that betting scam. And I have to admit, she is excellent at facial reconstruction.
Leo: I'm not denying she's clever.
Harry: You implied that we would be, democratic, about things like this.
Leo: Absolutely
Harry: And we need another pathologist, why not put her on a three month trial.
Leo: After a democratic and full consultation with you my answer is no.
I love Harry's determination to get her to stay...
Lab coat :D
Harry tugs his jacket from his seat where Nikki is sat. She doesn't move.
Harry: Oh, Nikki, can you do me a favour?
Nikki: Mhmm
Harry: Can you pop out first thing in the morning and buy me a hockey stick, and ball?
(Nikki glances up in surprise)
Nikki: (brightly) Morning
Harry: Got my hockey stick?
Nikki: The finest
Harry: Very good. Morning. Little experiment, want to help?
Nikki: (grinning) You're completely mad.
Harry: Oh, and, that is my desk.
(Points knowingly at her)
Harry: (breathing deeply) I'm knackered, go on, you have a go.
Nikki: No
Harry: Oh go on.
(Nikki grins, grabbing the hockey stick from him)
Harry: (triumphantly) Yes!
Nikki: I used to be good at this at school
Harry: Score!
(Nikki laughs)
Harry: Violent hit. Right on the button
Nikki: Morning.
Leo: Morning
(glances at hockey stick in confusion)
Leo: Umm, what exactly..I won't ask..
Nikki: Harry seems to be really going for it.
Leo: Harry? Yeah...
Nikki: (After Leo discovers the Iron Age boy had TB) Getting into it?
(She grins, and Leo smiles)
Leo: Extension till the end of the week.
Leo has a toy robot :)
Nikki, already getting coffee for the three of them...
Nikki: Can I help?
Harry: (after contemplating it a moment) No...
(Nikki wheels away dejectedly)
Harry and Leo go for a walk, causing mass amounts of gesticulation from Harry.
Harry: Well I'm not going to end up being the tame Pathologist for some career happy DCI.
Leo: Well if you challenge him he'll eat you for breakfast
Harry: (desperately) So what do I do?
Leo: You find the evidence that proves him wrong.
More case work, Leo secretly wants to become Indiana Jones (you all know it's true)
Nikki: What is it?
Harry: Who'd be stupid enough to slip someone ketamine just before they flew a helicopter.
Nikki: Pretty stupid to slip it to anyone
Nikki, finally, has found her story. Leo and Harry watch on in interest, however Harry is secretly grieving the impending loss of the love of his life.
Nikki: Well, I found my story. Now I'm going to get out of your way. I just wanted to thank you both...
Leo: (interrupting) What do you want to spend your life doing?
Nikki: Uhh, I don't know. I hadn't really thought...
Leo: Let's make it easy. Would you be interested in working in this department as a forensic pathologist. Locum, for the next six months.
Nikki: (grinning) I thought you'd never ask.
Smiles all round :D
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