Discontinuity of Existence

by Robert

Am I the same person I was a year ago? Maybe not.

DCI Tom Barnaby: Lady Annabel says that you dropped in on her for a cocoa round about midnight.

Teddy Butler: Oh, really? Oh, well, if Annabel says it, it must be true.

DCI Tom Barnaby: Well, don’t you remember yourself?

Teddy Butler: Yesterday is another country, Mr. Barnaby. Borders are now closed.

Later that same day:

DCI Tom Barnaby: Look, Teddy, please – the rifle, the rifle. Please concentrate.

Teddy Butler: Oh, sorry. No, never even held one. I mean, you can’t love nature, and then embrace something that would destroy it, can you?

DCI Tom Barnaby: Amos says that when you were a young man, he taught you to shoot.

Teddy Butler: Oh, yes. When Teddy was a young man, he did all those things. But as we go through a complete molecular change every seven years, that Teddy isn’t this Teddy.

Midsomer Murders, episode “Vixen’s Run”, series 9, episode 3, broadcast 5 March 2006 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0647513/)
You can read the script here: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=midsomer-murders-1997&episode=s09e04