You hear me, don't you, guys? I'll say it one last time. These people that you're going to bomb are not the enemy. We can kill the virus without killing these people. I swear on my soul that the President does not have the facts. He doesn't know we have a working serum. Oh Christ, if you think I'm lying, drop the bomb. If you think I'm crazy, drop the bomb, but don't drop the bomb just because you're following orders! What you haven't been told is that your superiors have another agenda. Don't you understand that right below you in Cedar Creek, there's a biological weapon that they've been manufacturing illegally for the last 30 years?!? Hey, I guarantee you that the disease has spread beyond the perimeters of this town! If you incinerate Cedar Creek, you incinerate the serum!!!
Tied for 4th most-quoted character in Outbreak (1995): in 4 of its 29 quotes
Most scenes with: Sam Daniels (2)
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3 scenesYou could have stopped this outbreak before it mutated, but you didn't.
We couldn't.
We?
We.
We?
We! That's all you need to know.
. . .
Robby's infected.
Sorry.
Is "we" sorry, too?
. . .
Who is "we"? "We" includes you, Sam. Unless you resigned from the Army in the last week. You don't just do research and it ends there, Sam. We have to defend ourselves against the other maniacs who are developing biological weapons.
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.
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.
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.
Mark this day, Salt. We could spend our whole careers waiting to see a new virus.
I hate this bug.
Come on, Casey. You have to love its simplicity. It's one-billionth our size and it's beating us.
So, what do you wanna do — take it to dinner?
No.
What, then?
Kill it.
Sir, I sent you the fax six hours ago...
Sam, I am not going to issue an alert.
I don't wanna bust up your party, sir, but you gotta issue an alert.
You said it was contained!
I said containment was probable. You should be monitoring the airports, you gotta...
Sam! Do you remember 1989?
Yeah.
You found two lousy cases of Congo fever in Nairobi and we put a note to every American kid's lunchbox. You remember that?
Yeah, I was wrong.
You were wrong.
Uh-huh.
What about 1992? Lassa fever?
I was wrong. Yup.
Wrong again. But you're right about this?
No, I could be wrong about this...
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 **** budget.
Forget Ebola. Forget Lassa. This bug kills so fast, Billy. You could be dead in...
Keep your voice down. Now, that is exactly my point, Sam.
What?
It is the very lethality of this virus which is working for us here. These unfortunate people don't live long enough to spread the goddamn thing around. So you're right, it is contained.
I hope so.
