CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series)

Face Lift (2001)

Reginald VelJohnson: Dr. Philip Kane

Quotes 

• CSI Dr. Gil Grissom : [to Dr. Kane]  Thanks for your insights, Philip. I'll let you know how this unfolds.

  Dr. Philip Kane : Gil, be careful. Sociopaths are dangerous because they don't function by the same moral code as the rest of us.

  CSI Dr. Gil Grissom : Welcome to my world.

• C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows : [about Tammy Felton]  Dr. Kane, this girl was kidnapped at age four. Would she have any recollection of her prior life?

  Dr. Philip Kane : The theory of infantile amnesia suggests that we have no cognitive memory before the age of three but since Tammy or Melissa was taken from her biological parents at age four, she may remember something of her former life.

  CSI Dr. Gil Grissom : But these memories would be tenuous?

  Dr. Philip Kane : A sound or a smell might awaken some latent image or feeling but she'd have difficulty contextualizing these sensations.

  C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows : That's got to be frustrating.

  Dr. Philip Kane : And it's precisely that frustration which dominates this woman's present state of mind. Kidnapped children at that age tend to exhibit some degree of sociopathy as adults.

  C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows : Such as?

  CSI Dr. Gil Grissom : Inability to feel guilt, compassion or love, right?

  Dr. Philip Kane : Correct. But the most defining characteristic is their instinct for survival. There's nothing that they won't do.

  C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows : Tammy Felton needs help. She may be a suspect, but she's also a victim.

• Captain Jim Brass : [about Melissa/Tammy]  So we're looking at a split personality?

  Dr. Philip Kane : Quite possible. Two personalities in one.

  Captain Jim Brass : Is there any scientific evidence that supports this disorder?

  CSI Dr. Gil Grissom : Brain scans have documented changes in the hippocampus of individuals shifting from one personality to another, but would these two personalities be aware of each other?

  Dr. Philip Kane : Well, usually the dominant personality is aware of everything. The subjugated personality is only aware of itself.

  CSI Dr. Gil Grissom : Tammy's the dominant personality.

  C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows : But Melissa killed Joseph Felton, Tammy's father.

  CSI Dr. Gil Grissom : Who was also Melissa's kidnapper.

  Captain Jim Brass : Revenge for a kidnapping 21 years after the fact?

  Dr. Philip Kane : Well, it is possible. It may have taken that long for the subjugated personality to break free.

  Captain Jim Brass : Maybe, uh, Miss Mirror-has-two-faces is playing us for fools. We corner her with the evidence, she goes nuts, sets the groundwork for an insanity plea.