Arthur Hill credited as playing...
Dr. Jeremy Stone
- [finding a man dead by self-inflicted drowning in a bathtub]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: I wouldn't believe you could commit suicide that way.
- Dr. Mark Hall: Most of them died instantly, but a few had time to go quietly nuts.
- [last lines]
- Senator from Vermont: This cloud-seeding business, Stone... you absolutely sure it worked? You better be.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: All reports continue to indicate that the experiment was successful, Senator.
- Senator from Vermont: Then we can feel confident your so-called "biological crisis" is over?
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: As far as Andromeda is concerned, yes. We have the organism at Wildfire, and we continue to study it. We know now beyond a doubt that other forms of life exist in the universe.
- Senator from Vermont: Thanks to Scoop?
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Yes.
- [pause]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: However, with this new knowledge, there is no guarantee that another so-called "biological crisis" won't occur again.
- Senator from Vermont: Hmm. What do we do about that?
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Precisely, Senator. What do we do?
- 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!
- [Hall and Stone are sealed off in a section of the lab with an unfinished sub-station for locking out the self-destruct device, which has been activated and is counting down]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: The defense system is perfect, Mark. It'll even bury our mistakes!
- Dr. Mark Hall: [reading suicide note] "The day of judgment is at hand. Have mercy on my soul, and to hell with all the others. Amen."
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Senile...
- Dr. Mark Hall: This took time. Regardless of what made her do it, it took time. There's a chance someone's still alive.
- 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"?
- Dr. Mark Hall: [Removing the pants of a dead doctor] Have a look at his buttocks.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: That's not funny.
- Dr. Mark Hall: Not meant to be. Normally, blood in a dead person goes to the lowest points. There should be marks of lividity, right? Do you see any purplish marks on his butt?
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: No.
- [Dr. Hall takes a scalpel]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Careful you don't puncture your suit.
- [Dr. Hall cuts the wrist of the corpse; red "sand" pours out]
- Dr. Mark Hall: Clotted blood! Powdered!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: I'll be... damned.
- Dr. Mark Hall: No wonder they didn't bleed. It's clotted throughout the entire system - five quarts of blood turned to powder!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: In theory, I suppose a single organism could do it.
- Dr. Mark Hall: But, in fact, there isn't an organism on Earth...
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: You mean there didn't used to be.
- Wildfire Computer Sgt. Burk: Dr. Stone, sir, I have one thing to do. Just one. Everything else is fully automatic, computerized and self-regulating. I, uh, I listen for a little bell, in here. Ding-a-ling! That means a message coming in is for the Wildfire team.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Precisely! An M.C.N. communication. I'm expecting one.
- Wildfire Computer Sgt. Burk: Yes, sir. Top priority. Ding-a-ling! I push a button and all five level control centers are notified the same time you are. The bell hasn't rung, sir.
- 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 have you been?
- Dr. Mark Hall: Leavitt had a seizure.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: What?
- Dr. Mark Hall: Epilepsy. The red light flashing at three-per-second brought on a fit. Why the hell didn't she tell us about it?
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Probably no top lab would have her if they knew. Insurance, prejudice, all that crap.
- Dr. Mark Hall: From the Middle Ages.
- 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. Jeremy Stone: Hall? Take a look at this.
- [gestures to dead man with peaceful facial expression but grabbing his own chest]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Are you sure that isn't coronary?
- Dr. Mark Hall: No. A coronary's painful. They should grimace.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: If it was fast, they wouldn't have time.
- Dr. Mark Hall: Fast? These people were cut down in mid-stride!
- [arriving at the virus site via helicopter]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: If anything happens to us, you have your orders.
- Dempsey: Yes sir. Proceed directly to Wildfire, and then, uh...
- [makes slashing motion across neck]
- Dempsey: ...zzZZTT!
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: [to Hall] If we're eliminated, the aircraft and pilot'll have to be sterilized.
- Dempsey: Uh, wait a minute. That's not what they told me... just "incinerated."
- Dr. Mark Hall: Why did you pick me?
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: You're an MD, a talented surgeon who knows blood chemistries... and you're single. The Odd Man Hypothesis.
- Dr. Mark Hall: What the hell is that?
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: Didn't you read the Wildfire material I've been sending you?
- Dr. Mark Hall: [smirks] Very little. I never went in much for science fiction.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: [glares at Hall] Nor do I.
- 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. Mark Hall: [referring to Dr. Dutton] Poor devil! Look at how he's breathing. He's scared to death.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: We'll increase his oxygen. It'll slow down his breathing.
- Dr. Mark Hall: [beat] No, we want him to breathe fast! In Piedmont the old man survived drinking Sterno... Sterno, acidosis! Acidosis, rapid breathing!
- [begins working a control panel]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: What the hell are you doing?
- Dr. Mark Hall: I'm turning off the oxygen.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: But the baby! He's normal!
- Dr. Mark Hall: He's crying. He's not leaving it in his lungs long enough to do anything.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: [incredulous] Rapid breathing? It just can't be that simple!
- Dr. Mark Hall: It isn't.
- [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.
- [finding the Scoop satellite in a doctor's office, crudely pried open]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: There it is...
- [pause]
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: why the damn fool opened it!
- Dr. Mark Hall: [sarcastically] Yeah, every country doctor should run his office like the Lunar Lab.