Highlights
Cape Fear Season 1 - What Is Your Worst Fear Clip
Cape Fear
Off Campus Season 1 - Absolutely Obsessed with Justin Kohl Clip
Off Campus
The Wrong Girls - Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat Interview
The Wrong Girls
Without Blood - Salma Hayek Pinault as Nina
Without Blood
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu - Return to the Galaxy Clip
The Mandalorian and Grogu
Brothers Season 1 - Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson Poster
Brothers
Mutiny - First Round Pick Jason Statham Clip
Mutiny
The Last Sunrise - Fernando Lindez and Maia Reficco
The Last Sunrise
The Boys Final Season - The Rumors Are True Clip
The Boys
Without Blood - Official Poster
Without Blood
Disclosure Day - Exclusive Interview
Disclosure Day
Slow Horses Season 6 - Official Poster
Slow Horses
Margo's Got Money Troubles Season 1 - Unforgettable Nonverbal Acting Clip
Margo's Got Money Troubles
The Terminal List Season 2 - First Look at Chris Pratt as James Reece with Military Equipment
The Terminal List
Contagion

Contagion (2011) - Quotes

Audience Score
67

Fear Affects Everyone Equally

Taglines: No one is immune to fear.

Avoid contact and communication with others

Taglines: Don't talk to anyone. Don't touch anyone.

The Power of Fear in Contagion

Taglines: Nothing spreads like fear.

Shortage of Body Bags Affects Response Efforts

First Haz-Mat: [Putting a body in a mass grave] When did we run out of body bags?
Second Haz-Mat: Two days ago.

Fast Food Choices in Crisis Situations

Dr. Ellis Cheever: When was the last time you ate something that didn't come from a vending machine?
Dr. Erin Mears: [Hesitantly] Taco Bell.

Precautions Amidst a Health Crisis

Dave: My wife makes me take off my clothes in the garage. Then she leaves out a bucket of warm water and some soap. And then she douses everything in hand sanitizer after I leave. I mean, she's overreacting, right?
Dr. Erin Mears: Not really. And stop touching your face, Dave.

A Concern for Personal Well-Being

Dr. Ellis Cheever: How are you?
Dr. Erin Mears: It's good, we just finished setting up the...
Dr. Ellis Cheever: I didn't ask what you're doing, Erin, I asked how you are. So... how are you?

Investigation of a Medical Mystery

Minnesota Medical Examiner: [performing an autopsy on one of the early victims; [w:Sulcus (neuroanatomy)|sulci; pause] Well, the ] are obliterated. Let's look at the base. Oh, my God.
Assistant Medical Examiner: Do you want me to take a sample...
Minnesota Medical Examiner: I want you to move away from the table.
Assistant Medical Examiner: Should I call someone...
Minnesota Medical Examiner: Call everyone.

The Nature of Writing and Time

Dr. Ian Sussman: [Disparagingly to Alan] Blogging is not writing. It's just graffiti with punctuation.
Jory Emhoff: [Rhetorically] Why can't they invent a shot that keeps time from passing?

Frankenstein and the Complexity of Humanity

Alan Krumwiede: [about the virus; [Godzilla (franchise)|Godzilla; [King Kong] ], ], Frankenstein all in one.

A Rhesus Monkey's Unfortunate Day

Alan Krumwiede: It's a bad day to be a rhesus monkey.

Unlikely Encounters in Disease Transmission

Dr. Ally Hextall: Somewhere in the world, the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat.

Factors Influencing Disease Transmission Rates

Dr. Erin Mears: How fast it multiplies depends on a variety of factors. The incubation period, how long a person is contagious. Sometimes people can be contagious without even having symptoms.

The Frequency of Human Touch and Germs

Dr. Erin Mears: [[w:fomites|fomites] The average person touches their face 2- or 3000 times a day. Three to five times every waking minute. In between, we're touching doorknobs, water fountains, elevator buttons, and each other. Those things become ].

The Origin of the Handshake Explained

Dr. Ellis Cheever: You know where this comes from, shaking hands? It was a way of showing a stranger you weren't carrying a weapon in the old days. You offered your empty right hand to show that you meant no harm.

The Dangers of Misinformation During a Crisis

Dr. Ellis Cheever: We're working very hard to find out where this virus came from. To treat it and to vaccinate against it if we can. We don't know all of that yet, we just don't know. What we do know, is that in order to become sick you have to first come in contact with a sick person or something that they touched. In order to get scared, all you have to do is to come in contact with a rumor, or the television or the internet. I think what Mr. Krumwiede is uh... is spreading, is far more dangerous than the disease.

Nature's role in spreading disease

Dr. Ellis Cheever: Someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that.