Kate Reid credited as playing...
Dr. Ruth Leavitt
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: According to this, there'll be a super-colony of Andromeda over the entire southwest in...
- Dr. Charles Dutton: [interrupting] Jeremy! These are biological warfare maps!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Why, yes... so they are... uh... but... simulations, Charlie. Defensive... it's just a scenario.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: That's not the point, for God's sake! Wildfire was built for germ warfare! Wildfire AND Scoop! And you knew, Stone! YOU KNEW IT!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: That's not true, Ruth! I learned about Scoop the same time you did!
- Dr. Charles Dutton: They already have Andromeda programmed! The purpose of Scoop was to find new biological weapons in outer space, and then use Wildfire to develop them!
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: It stinks, Stone!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: You're blowing your tops! We have no proof...
- Dr. Charles Dutton: The map!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Don't be an ass! That map only shows what Andromeda could do in the hands of an enemy!
- Dr. Charles Dutton: Enemy? We did it to ourselves!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Perhaps! But this is hardly the time to organize a protest!
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: [sarcastic] Another giant leap for mankind!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Stick to established procedures.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: Establishment gonna fall down and go boom.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: [handing out suppositories] Umm... stop by your rooms and insert these before taking the elevator.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: I have risked drowning in that foul bath! I have been par-boiled, irradiated and xenon-flashed, and now you suggest I...
- [pushing suppository upward in the air]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: I HAVE to! We haven't done a thing about the G.I. tract yet. On level five we must be as nearly germ-free as possible.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: [eyeing suppository sheepishly] Anyone care to join me for a "smoke"?
- [Leavitt averts her eyes when passing a flashing red warning light]
- Dr. Charles Dutton: Something wrong?
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: I never liked red lights. They remind me of my years in a bordello.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: No excretions. No waste of any kind.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: You'd expect that, Andromeda's perfect for existence in outer space. Consumes everything, wastes nothing...
- [Leavitt, Stone, and Dutton exchange anxious glances]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Good lord!
- Dr. Mark Hall: What?
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Stone to Delta-Five. Put me through to Dr. Robertson Immediately!
- Dr. Mark Hall: WHAT?
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: God, I hope we're not too late.
- Dr. Mark Hall: Tell me!
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: It functions like an atomic reactor!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: An atomic blast could provide it with enough energy to grow into a gigantic supercolony.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: In one day!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Where's the next substation, Hall?
- Dr. Mark Hall: Left of elevator on Level 2.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Right. Across the corridor from Body Analysis, our next port of call.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: Not for my alabaster body! I mean it, Stone, you can take your Body Analyzer and you can st...
- [door closes]
- Dr. Robertson: You can relax now, we've just left the President. He agreed to drop the bomb...
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: NO NO! You've got to stop 7-12 from being carried out!
- Grimes: Now wait a minute! We're not playing ping pong! We just got through telling the President that you...
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: For God's sake, go back! It grows when exposed to x-rays. or any source of energy.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: Tell him NO nuclear device mush be detonated anywhere near it.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: We just found out Andromeda functions like a little reactor. Converts matter to energy, energy to matter, directly
- Dr. Robertson: [Whistles] Then the bomb would just provide a fantastically rich growth medium.
- [to Grimes]
- Dr. Robertson: Understand?
- Grimes: No, but I'll pass along the recommendation.
- [smugly]
- Grimes: The boss'll be pleased to know that HE made the right decision on 7-12 in the first place.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: [harsh with sarcasm] Congratulate him on his scientific insight.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: The whole thing. What a world we're making... I can see why the kids are dropping out; we should've.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: It's an emergency, Dutton. We got tagged, period. 'Til I saw those photos from Vanderburg, I...
- Dr. Charles Dutton: They brought it on themselves.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: Who? The people in Piedmont?
- [Leavitt has added a second scanner to view the Scoop capsule]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: No, Ruth. Use only one microscanner.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: You being paid by the hour? We could cover the capsule in one-half the time!
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: There's less chance of missing something when we both concentrate on the screen
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: Let's go directly to the inside. We can assume they put the scoop on the thing to scoop something into it. Brother, they sure got what they were looking for.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: We're not here to make accusations. We have a job to do, purely as scientists
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: Maybe not so pure.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: [coldly] Continue the scan, Ruth. On the outside.
- Dr. Mark Hall: That body analyzer! I'd like to be there when the AMA gets wind of it.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: So far it's only been used to treat astronauts in space.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: You doctors better start making house calls again.
- [At the entrance to Wildfire]
- Dr. Charles Dutton: Put your hands on that glass, palms down. It's a finger and palm print analyzer, that...
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: -reads a composite of ten thousand dermatographic lines.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: How'd you know that?
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: [coyly] Oh Dutton, I have a *long* criminal record.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: Then you're in trouble. This machine has a *long* memory.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: [Viewing x-ray crystallography scan of Andromeda] How does something so simple use energy for growth?
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: No way of telling from the structure.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: Oh yes there is.
- [uploading information]
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: With this new data we can get a computer simulation of how Andromeda operates.
- [Contrast-enhanced computer stimulation begins on display]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: They're not uniform.. could be mutation...
- [simulation speeds up and eventually crashes. Computer displays '601']
- Dr. Charles Dutton: What the devil...?
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: 601? The computer's overloaded! Too much data coming in too fast.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: Dividing and mutating at the same time?
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: And *nothing* to stop it. Normal Earth checks and balances don't exist for it.
- Assistant to Cabinet Secretary: Are you sick ma'am? We have a physician on call.
- Bess, Dr. Leavitt's assistant: [Handing Leavitt a glass of water and a pill] All Dr. Leavitt needs is rest.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: Oh knock it off, Bess.
- [takes pill]
- Assistant to Cabinet Secretary: Now if a physician certifies that you are unable to continue...
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: No!
- [long pause]
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: I'm fine.
- [rises and walks to corner, removing her lab coat. MP blocks her path]
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: [to MP] Relax! I'm going with you.
- [Arriving at the Wildfire entrance, disguised as an agricultural facility]
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: It's a great place to grow pot.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: Just a plain old crop of barley. Still, it is rather clever, I think.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: You don't believe the infection in that capsule was brought back deliberately, do you?
- Dr. Charles Dutton: Skip it. Skip it. I hope I'm talking through my hat.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: You two know each other, don't you?
- Dr. Mark Hall: By reputation only.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: Ah, yes, up to now we've had to worship from a far.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Be good, Ruth.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: We face quite a problem: how to disinfect the human body, one of the dirtiest things in the known universe.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: That is without killing the human being at the same time.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: When I retire, I'd like an agricultural station like this - in Alaska.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: You, a sourdough?
- Dr. Charles Dutton: The sourest.
- Assistant to Cabinet Secretary: Dr. Leavitt, I told you *there's a fire*!
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: My experiment's at the critical stage, I can't just leave now.
- [to Bess]
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: I want that plate as soon as it's developed.
- Bess - Lab Technician: Yes, ma'am.
- Assistant to Cabinet Secretary: [insistent] My orders come from Dr. Robertson, the president's science advisor.
- Dr. Ruth Leavitt: There's a phone, pick it up. Call Robbie. Tell him I've burnt my draft card.