K-PAX (2001)

Alfre Woodard: Dr. Claudia Villars

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• Claudia Villars : [after Prot has disappeared]  Patients do not escape from this institution. They don't escape. I'm going to have a great time explaining this to the state board. I've got psychotics on the fourth floor packing up their sneakers because they all think they're going off to K-PAX. Find him.

• Dr. Mark Powell : You know, maybe what's wrong with him is that he is.

  Claudia Villars : Is what?

  Dr. Mark Powell : From the planet K-PAX.

• Prot : I've been to 64 planets within our galaxy. Earth is the only one of your species, homo sapiens, that I visited so far.

  Dr. Mark Powell : When did you arrive on Earth?

  Prot : 4 years and 9 months ago.

  Dr. Mark Powell : So that makes you how old?

  Prot : In Earth terms, 337 years old. I aged about seven getting here traveling at about 6 multiples of c. But, really, Marko, it only seemed like an instant.

  Claudia Villars : I'd say access 1 psychosis NOS.

  Dr. Mark Powell : That's glib to call him a psychotic. That's a wastebasket diagnosis.

  Claudia Villars : Well, he believes he traveled here from another planet. What's your diagnosis, jet lag?

  Dr. Mark Powell : Well, how come he didn't respond to the Haldol?

  Claudia Villars : Haldol can make you more psychotic. It's rare but it does happen.

  Dr. Mark Powell : Look. I'm not saying that medication can't be a helpful tool to help somebody like this. But you can't...

  Claudia Villars : In the meantime, we have 10 new transfers to take care of.

  Dr. Mark Powell : Maybe, what's wrong with him, is that he is.

  Claudia Villars : [interrupting]  Is what?

  Dr. Mark Powell : ...from the planet K-PAX.