Christopher Guest credited as playing...
Dr. Stone
- Kaffee: Commander, you testified that it takes lactic acidosis twenty to thirty minutes before it becomes lethal.
- Dr. Stone: Yes.
- Kaffee: Let me ask you, is it possible for a person to have an affliction, some sort of condition which might, in the case of this person, actually speed up the process dramatically?
- [awkward pause]
- Kaffee: Commander, is it possible?
- Dr. Stone: Certainly.
- Kaffee: What might some of those conditions be?
- Dr. Stone: If a person had a coronary disorder or a cerebral disorder, the process would be more rapid.
- Kaffee: Commander, if I had a coronary condition and a perfectly clean rag was placed in my mouth, and the rag was accidentally pushed too far down, is it possible that my cells would continue burning sugar after the rag was taken out?
- Dr. Stone: It would have to be a very serious condition.
- Kaffee: Is it possible to have a serious coronary condition, where the initial warning signals were so mild as to escape a physician during a routine medical exam?
- Dr. Stone: Possibly. There would still be symptoms, though.
- Kaffee: What kind of symptoms?
- Dr. Stone: There are hundreds of symptoms of a...
- Kaffee: Chest pains?
- Dr. Stone: Yes.
- Kaffee: Shortness of breath?
- Dr. Stone: Yes.
- Kaffee: Fatigue?
- Dr. Stone: Of course.
- Kaffee: [Galloway hands Kaffee a medical report for evidence; Kaffee presents it to Stone] Doctor, is this your signature?
- Dr. Stone: Yes.
- Kaffee: This is an order for Private Santiago to be put on restricted duty. Would you read your handwritten remarks at the bottom of the page, please, sir?
- Dr. Stone: "Initial testing negative. Patient complains of chest pains, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Restricted from running distances over five miles for one week."
- Kaffee: Commander, isn't it possible that Santiago had a serious coronary condition, and it was that condition, and not some mysterious poison, that caused the accelerated chemical reaction?