Cuba Gooding Jr. credited as playing...
Major Salt
- Sam Daniels: You know Salt, fear gets a bad rap. I don't want anybody in my outfit that doesn't get scared.
- Major Salt: Then I'm your man sir.
- Sam Daniels: Colonel Daniels from USAMRIID.
- George Armistead: Yes, and I'm George from Sioux City, SD. Back of the line colonel
- Sam Daniels: We got a terrible epidemic. We're from Cedar Creek, CA
- Major Salt: [shouts at everyone] Cedar Creek, site of the viral infection
- [everyone backs away]
- Sam Daniels: George, you heard about the virus? need we say more?
- George Armistead: NO
- Sam Daniels: [holding George hands] We need all the bills of landing from ships arriving from Africa in the last 3 months. George, shall I cough on you?
- George Armistead: NO
- Sergeant Meyer: Sir, my pilot is taking a leak.
- Sam Daniels: A leak? No shit! Well, in that case, we'll just wait in the Loach.
- Sergeant Meyer: Sir.
- Sam Daniels: You better tell him to squeeze it off, Sergeant.
- Sergeant Meyer: Sir?
- Major Salt: How about you give him a hand, Sergeant?
- Major Salt: [flying a helicopter over a freighter boat] I can get you down close enough.
- Sam Daniels: Close enough to what?
- Major Salt: Jump, sir.
- Sam Daniels: Are you serious?
- Major Salt: Fine, *you* fly, and *I'll* jump.
- Sam Daniels: Alright, just get me down lower.
- [Sam, Salt, and Casey are examining the virus via computer]
- Major Salt: Okay, sirs, here we go. These pictures were taken over a period of eight hours. Normal, healthy kidney cells before they met the virus.
- [the computer supports Salt's following claims]
- Major Salt: 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
- [points at the screen]
- Major Salt: here, and here. Continually multiplying.
- [Salt clicks another button and the virus is shown to be spreading further]
- 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.
- Major Salt: Sirs, the numbers are correct. I wish to God they weren't. One goes in, millions come out. Every cell is dead.
- [Salt begins to zoom in]
- Major Salt: 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.
- [Salt zooms in some more]
- Major Salt: Sirs, Mr. Motaba, up close and personal.
- Casey Schuler: I hate this bug.
- Sam Daniels: Come on, Casey. You have to love its simplicity. It's one billionth our size and it's beating us.
- Casey Schuler: So, what do you want to do, take it to dinner?
- Sam Daniels: No.
- Casey Schuler: What, then?
- Sam Daniels: Kill it.
- Major Salt: See that bridge up there, Colonel?
- Sam Daniels: Yeah.
- Major Salt: Over or under, sir?
- Sam Daniels: Why--why don't don't you decide? I'm not really up to it.
- Major Salt: Hang on.
- Sam Daniels: I'd have said over.
- Sam Daniels: Guys, guys, the monkey. Turn around.
- Major Salt: Oh, my sweet Jesus. He should be dead by now. I guess the orange juice worked, huh?
- Sam Daniels: How many hours of flight school?
- Major Salt: 60 hours plus, sir.
- Sam Daniels: Actual flying time?
- Major Salt: Every minute, sir. I was yanking and banking.
- Sam Daniels: Get us to San Francisco, Salt. They'll be on our tail, so follow the coast. The fog might give us cover.
- Major Salt: Fog, sir?
- Sam Daniels: Yeah, fog. You've flown through fog, right?
- Major Salt: I've read about it, sir.
- Sam Daniels: That's it.
- Major Salt: That's it. We're there, sir.
- Sam Daniels: There it is.
- Major Salt: That's it!
- Sam Daniels: There it is.
- Major Salt: We're there, Colonel.
- Sam Daniels: There it is.
- Major Salt: We are there.
- Major Salt: Sir, with all due respect, that is idiotic.
- Sam Daniels: Idiotic? Let me ask you a question, are we fugitives from the law?
- Major Salt: Right.
- Sam Daniels: Idiocy is our only option.
- Major Salt: This is crazy.
- Sam Daniels: They want their weapon.
- Major Salt: They're gonna kill all those people?
- Sam Daniels: Right. They want their weapon.
- Major Salt: They're gonna sit there and watch all those innocent people die?
- Sam Daniels: Yes, they want their weapon.
- Major Salt: No!