Northern Exposure (TV Series)

Animals R Us (1991)

Janine Turner: Maggie O'Connell

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• Woman : [having arrived in town by pickup truck]  Hi. Are you Maggie O'Connell?

  Maggie O'Connell : Yes.

  Woman : Oh, good. I'm looking for my dog.

  Maggie O'Connell : Your dog?

  Woman : I heard a thing on the radio that you found him.

  Maggie O'Connell : Oh. Right.

  Woman : Don't tell me he took off again?

  Maggie O'Connell : No, I don't think so. He was just, um...

  Woman : ["Rick" comes running up to his true owner]  There you are. Come here, Butchy. Come here, boy. Butch.

  Maggie O'Connell : [stunned by this revelation]  Butch?

  Woman : Butchy. You bad boy. You come to Mama right this minute. Oh, you sweet thing. Mama missed you.

  Maggie O'Connell : Are you sure this is your dog?

  Woman : I never know where I'm gonna find him. I spend half my time chasing after him. He's such a mooch.

  Maggie O'Connell : A mooch?

  Woman : Yeah. But I love him anyway.

  Maggie O'Connell : Well, you can have him.

  Woman : I'd better hit the road. We've got a 400-mile drive back to Soldotna. Thanks a lot. Come on, lover boy. Let's go home. Come on, Butch.

  Maggie O'Connell : [as Butch looks up to Maggie, who no longer views him as "Rick"]  Yeah, right.

  Woman : Thanks again for taking care ofhim. Come on.

  [they leave Cicely together] 

• Dr. Joel Fleischman : [about the dog Maggie has just met]  You asked the dog whether or not he was Rick?

  Maggie O'Connell : Well, yeah. I said, "If you're Rick, bark three times."

  Shelly Marie Tambo : Did he?

  Maggie O'Connell : Mm-hmm.

  Dr. Joel Fleischman : This dog is-is not Rick. People do not become dogs when they die. Dogs are dogs. People are people. That's it, end of story.

  Shelly Marie Tambo : He does sort of look like Rick, in a way.

  Dr. Joel Fleischman : Why are you people fostering this delusion? It's such a patently obvious pathology. She's displacing the guilt and grief she feels over the death of Rick... by anthropomorphizing a-a mutt.

  Chris Stevens : Well, Joel, you know, certain belief systems... still embrace the concept of reincarnation. Buddhism, Hindu, Chippewa.

  Shelly Marie Tambo : Hey, Ed, you're an Indian. Is this Rick?

  Ed Chigliak : Oh, I don't know, but if Rick was to come back as a dog, I think he'd be a terrier.

  Dr. Joel Fleischman : Okay, look. The dog is not Rick. - I'm stating categorically and in no uncertain terms as a scientist... and as a human being, no dog can come back to Earth and be Rick.

• Maggie O'Connell : [as Joel notices the absence of "Rick," or rather, Butch]  Oh, Fleischman, you can come out. The pooch is gone.

  Dr. Joel Fleischman : Gone? Really? Where'd he go?

  Maggie O'Connell : Well, if you must know, his owner came and got him. And I don't wanna hear any jokes about it.

  Dr. Joel Fleischman : Oh, okay. I'm sorry.

  Maggie O'Connell : Too bad you missed her. She was really attractive.

  Dr. Joel Fleischman : Well, Rick always did have an eye for the ladies.

  Maggie O'Connell : Okay, Fleischman. Maybe you're right, and I know how important it is for you to be right about everything. Maybe I did have some leftover things to work out about Rick, and maybe I did work them out with a dog, but so what? But, for your information-you skeptical, rational, empirical know-it-all- the dog was Rick.

  Dr. Joel Fleischman : You're right. What do I know?