- Sheila Bennet: I've been waiting for you Matt.
- Matt Krane: I've got the stones.
- Sheila Bennet: You're not going anywhere, Matt. You're not going anywhere again.
- Sid Bennet: [seeing that Sheila is ill] You can use my room if you want to. But forget Matt, Sheila. He'll only mean more trouble.
- Sheila Bennet: There's some things you don't understand, Sid.
- Sid Bennet: Like the murder burning in your eyes? You look like you could kill.
- Mayor: All right then, we're ready.
- Health Commissioner Ellis: Not quite.
- Mayor: How much?
- Health Commissioner Ellis: We'll need half a million dollars to get underway. Vaccinations are free.
- Mayor: At six cents a life, that's a buy. You'll start with me.
- Dr. Ben Wood: We have to stop it. Get to the people first, beat the disease! Vaccinate the whole city.
- Dr. Penner: Eight million people? Impossible.
- Dr. Ben Wood: We've got to. This thing's getting out of hand.
- Health Commissioner Ellis: That would take hundreds of clinics.
- Dr. Ben Wood: Get them.
- Health Commissioner Ellis: And doctors.
- Dr. Ben Wood: We'll draft them.
- [leaning in]
- Dr. Ben Wood: Do it, sir. It's our only chance.
- Health Commissioner Ellis: [to Dr. Penner] Call the Commissioners of Police and Hospitals. We're going to see the Mayor.
- Dr. Penner: It's Sunday!
- Health Commissioner Ellis: No one told smallpox it's Sunday.
- Narrator: The City's Finest engraved the image of the Blonde Death in their brains and carried a spare just to make sure, then set out to search for the sick animal that might destroy them all. If you tried to drive in or out of New York that night, you had to pass inspection. If you're a female, five feet four, and addicted to the rinse that makes hair the color gentlemen are supposed to prefer, you had to prove you weren't Sheila Bennet.