Outbreak

Sam Daniels: What're you gonna be doing at CDC? Robby Keough: Working BL-4. Same as you. Sam: My job. Robby: Well, I like to think of it as my job.

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Maj. Salt: [showing them the progression of the virus on a computer] Okay, sirs, here we go. These pictures were taken over a period of eight hours. Normal, healthy kidney cells before they met the virus. In the space of an hour, a single virus has invaded, multiplied and killed the cell. And in just two hours, its offspring have invaded cells here, and here. Continually multiplying. Casey Schuler: Jesus Christ, five hours? It infects the cell, replicates, and kills this fast? These numbers can't be right, Ebola takes days to do this damage. Maj. Salt: Sirs, the numbers are correct. I wish to God they weren't. One goes in, millions come out. Every cell is dead. Now we see them individually, searching for the next victim until there's nothing left to kill. Casey Schuler: Mark this day, Salt. We could spend our whole careers waiting to see a new virus. Maj. Salt: Sirs, Mr. Motaba, up close and personal. Casey Schuler: I hate this bug. Sam Daniels: Come on, Casey. You have to love its sim

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Sam Daniels: Sir, I sent you the fax six hours ago... Brig. Gen. Billy Ford: Sam, I am not going to issue an alert. Sam: I don't wanna bust up your party, sir, but you gotta issue an alert. Ford: You said it was contained! Sam: I said containment was probable. You should be monitoring the airports, you gotta... Ford: Sam! Do you remember 1989? Sam: Yeah. Ford: You found two lousy cases of Congo fever in Nairobi and we put a note to every American kid's lunchbox. You remember that? Sam: Yeah, I was wrong. Ford: You were wrong. Sam: Uh-huh. Ford: What about 1992? Lassa fever? Sam: I was wrong. Yup. Ford: Wrong again. But you're right about this? Sam: No, I could be wrong about this... Ford: Yet you waltz into my party smelling like dirty socks, snatch me away from Senator Rosales, whom I need not remind you, Sam, is head of the Senate Arms Services subcommittee which is in charge of our fucking budget. Sam: Forget Ebola. Forget Lassa. This bug kills so fast, Billy. You could be dead in..

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Sam Daniels: Once in your life, take a chance! Robby Keough: You know what, Sam? I did. I married you.

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Sam Daniels: [presents business card] Colonel Daniels, from USAMRIID. I'm sorry. George: Yes, and I'm George from Sioux City, South Dakota. Back of the line, Colonel. Sam: We got a terrible epidemic. We're from Cedar Creek, George. [to the crowd] We're from Cedar Creek, California! Major Salt: CEDAR CREEK, SITE OF A VIRAL INFECTION!!! [people stand back, including the two men George is trying to gently hold off] Sam: [looks worried] George, you heard about this virus — need we say more? Okay, we need all the bills of lading from ships arriving from Africa [clasps George's hands] in the last three months. George! George: [nervously] Uh-huh… huh? Sam: Shall I cough on you, George?

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Col. Briggs: They're headed right there, and I got two teams on standby. Gen. Donald McClintock: Good, Briggs — a potential screw-up you managed to avoid among many others you have not. Who do you think should handle this now? Briggs: You, sir? McClintock: You kiss ass with the best of them, Briggs. You hope to make general one day? Briggs: Yes, sir. McClintock: Well, you won't.

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