- [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?
- [Jackson grabs the nurse's thigh while being examined]
- Karen Anson: Feeling "better" aren't you, Mr. Jackson?
- Jackson: ee-YEP!
- [pause]
- Jackson: You always have to wear that "iron suit"?
- Karen Anson: [imitating Jackson] ee-YEP!
- 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!
- [Dutton has just finished drawing a picture on the blackboard of a scientist examining a specimen under a microscope. A speech balloon from the slide says "Take us to your leader". His students all laugh]
- Dr. Charles Dutton: I'm glad you're amused gentlemen, but it might just turn out to be true. During this symposium, we'll discuss the possibility that intelligent life on a distant planet may be no larger than a flea.
- [more laughter]
- Dr. Charles Dutton: Perhaps no larger than... a bacterium.
- [silence]
- [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!
- Computer Screen: 601
- [error code displayed when a "memory overload" occurs]
- Dr. Mark Hall: I'll have the answer when I know why a sixty-nine-year-old sterno drinker with an ulcer is like a normal six-month-old baby.
- Dr. Rudolph Karp: Fools! They refuse to believe life exists in meteorites. I showed them at the astrophysics conference what I just showed you. But no! Even with a microscope they are blind! But what do I have to do? Hit them over the head?
- 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: Tell us what happened, Mr. Jackson.
- Jackson: I don't wanna think about it.
- Dr. Mark Hall: You know what people will say: "Piedmont was bad. That's why it was punished." First the town went crazy and then was destroyed...
- Jackson: YOU'RE crazy! Folks at Piedmont was good, decent, normal folks.
- Dr. Mark Hall: The man we found all dressed up in his doughboy's uniform, you call that normal?
- Jackson: Pete Arnold, who worked at the store. It was the disease!
- Dr. Mark Hall: How do you know?
- Jackson: 'Cause the only thing wrong with him before that night was sugar.
- Dr. Mark Hall: Diabetes? Did he take insulin?
- Jackson: Couple of times a day! Hated the needle. I tried to talk him into usin' squeeze.
- 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.
- Answering Service Supervisor: [Dr. Hall has been overheard "flirting" with the recorded female voice that's been coming over the PA system] This is the Answering Service Supervisor. We wish you would adopt a more serious attitude, Dr. Hall.
- Dr. Mark Hall: Sorry... Her voice is quite luscious.
- Answering Service Supervisor: Well, the voice belongs to Miss Gladys Stevens, who is 63 years old. She lives in Omaha and makes her living taping messages for voice-reminder systems.
- Dr. Mark Hall: [slightly sarcastic] Much obliged.
- 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.
- Pilot: [from recording] Albuquerque Center, Albuquerque Center, this is Air Force 561
- Control: Go ahead, 561.
- Pilot: My air hose is coming apart like it's dissolving!
- Control: 561, can you...
- Pilot: Everything made of rubber... is coming apart!
- Pilot: [gasp] I... I feel funny.
- Dr. Mark Hall: Dutton, I think rapid breathing helps. Don't let the bug in your lungs long enough to penetrate blood vessels. I want to turn off the pure oxygen and you start breathing room air as fast as you can!
- Dr. Charles Dutton: NO! No, I-I was running a test in here! The air is thick with Andromeda! Experiment with your own lives, damn it!
- [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 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."
- Allison Stone: You tell the senator it's his daughter.
- Senator (Allison's father): Allison?
- Allison Stone: Dad, there's something very peculiar has... has just happened, even for Jeremy. A few minutes ago...
- [call is interrupted by beeping]
- Allison Stone: Dad, are you there? What's going on?
- Women's voice on phone: This communication is being monitored. The connection has been broken for reasons of national security. You will be briefed at the appropriate time. Thank you for your cooperation, Mrs. Stone.
- 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.
- Mic-T: A.A. analysis results are ready, Dr. Dutton.
- Dr. Charles Dutton: Something's wrong. It's not registering.
- Mic-T: Yes, it is, sir. It's just registering double-zero, double-zero.
- 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?
- 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.
- [first lines]
- Sgt. Crane (Piedmont team): Piedmont, New Mexico. Population, 68.
- Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team): Come on.
- General Sparks: Dr. Stone didn't know Scoop existed.
- Sen. McKenzie (New Mexico): I'm astounded.
- General Sparks: Reasons of national security.
- Senator from Vermont: Very smart.
- Dr. Robertson: It should've been left up to the scientists. It's a colossal mistake. Tell the president *I* said so!
- Grimes: No, but... I'll get you an appointment.
- Dr. Mark Hall: Do you know the baby's name?
- Jackson: Give us a butt, first.
- Dr. Mark Hall: Smoking isn't allowed here.
- Jackson: Then, go fish.
- Dr. Mark Hall: Come on. She can't hurt you.
- Karen Anson: Wasn't she with Dr. Dutton?
- Dr. Mark Hall: No, it's epilepsy. Give her the injection. She'll be all right.
- [rushes to give the injection]
- Dr. Mark Hall: Good girl. Thanks.
- Dr. Jeremy Stone: When the bomb goes off, there'll be a thousand mutations! Andromeda will spread everywhere! They'll never be rid of it!
- 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.
- [Hall, wearing an isolation suit, is attacked by Jackson, wielding a meat cleaver]
- Jackson: YOU!
- [Hall trips and falls backward to avoid Jackson's weapon]
- Jackson: YOU... YOU DID IT!
- Dr. Mark Hall: [getting to his feet] Give me that knife.
- Jackson: [stepping back] You're not... human... everybody's dead!
- Dr. Mark Hall: What happened?
- [Jackson doubles over in pain]
- Dr. Mark Hall: What is it?
- [Jackson collapses to the ground in severe pain, unable to speak]
- Dr. Mark Hall: WHAT HAPPENED?