Virus - Quotes

Yoshizumi: [gets thick blanket from nearby skeleton and dusts it off, but imagines a nearby skeleton calling out to him] What are you doing alone in a place like that? You won't answer me? Then keep sleeping in there forever...

Skeleton: Where are you going?

Yoshizumi: My friends and child are south of here.

Skeleton: Child? Is it yours?

Yoshizumi: [looks at medallion Marit gave him] No but I love them very much.

Skeleton: It's no use, there's no one left.

Yoshizumi: But I'm heading south anyway.

Unknown Voice: You will not land.

Ensign Smirnov: Who is this speaking?

Unknown Voice: Her Majesty's nuclear attack submarine Nereid. Capt McCloud at your service.

Smirnov: This is not your concern, English!

Captain McCloud: You have the most profound sympathy for your situation, Ensign Smirnov, but surely you realize you cannot be allowed to disembark.

Smirnov: I have a responsibility to my men!

McCloud: You have a higher responsibility.

Dr Irma Ollich: Well, we really don't know how to go about it just yet, although the problem itself is certainly clear enough. Women have become our most valuable natural resource and as it has just been pointed out, one-to-one human relations are no longer possible. This means that each women however reluctantly, will have to... accommodate more than one man. Of course, we will have to go against deep personal feelings and this is an extremely serious matter, but somehow we must find the will to suppress our instincts and that is what troubles me the most. Can we? Can we control our instincts with reason?

Dr Tarowicz: [Sylvia, the raped victim, shrieks out as Sarah tries to calm her] Unless we can, there is no future. The human race will die out.

Sylvia: It's too much! How can we live like that?!?

Admiral Conway: Sylvia, from the bottom of my heart, I wish that I could answer your question.

President Richardson: [[w:Palmer Station|Palmer Station] ], this is the President of the United States.

Admiral Conway: This is Admiral Conway, Mr President.

Richardson: I would like the entire American contingent to hear what I have to say. Has the sickness hit your station yet?

Conway: No sir, there is no sign of any illness here.

Richardson: And the other stations?

Conway: There are no reported illnesses at any of the stations, and we are in more or less regular contact. How bad is it, Mr President?

Richardson: Patch me through to the other Antarctic bases.

Conway: All of them sir?

Richardson: All of them, Admiral Conway.

Conway: [signals other Antarctic bases] Right away, Mr President.

Radio Operator: Attention, attention all stations! Please stand by for an important message from the President of the United States. I repeat - all personnel, all stations, must listen to the following message. Please stand by.

Richardson: [pleads; signs off] It is with great regret and personal sorrow, as well as the position of the government of the United States that I officially confirm what most of you already know. The world has been beset by a horrible plague, and now we are unable to devise an effective vaccine. The United States has sustained... sustained casualties of the greatest magnitude. No country has escaped a similar fate. We do know something about this virus. We know this virus remains dormant under subzero conditions. For this reason, you in Antarctica, have not been affected. Do not leave your sanctuary. Do not allow those from the outside to enter. Under no conditions try to return. I offer you no solutions, no hope other than that, somehow, you may prevail. This time, try to work it out together, please. Please? And may God bless you all.

Yasuo Tatsuno: Hello this is AJ1RL. I copy you. What is your callsign? Over.

Voice: [[w:Mawson Station|Mawson Station] This BK0CC. Ahab from ]. Over.

Tatsuno: [to colleagues in Japanese; to radio in English] It's that Australian group from next door. Hello neighbor what have you heard from outside? Over.

Ahab: Just for a couple of minutes from some doctor in Uganda. He said whatever it was, Central Africa was hit bad. Not just the people, but most of the wildlife as well. Even the elephants, over.

Tatsuno: Wildlife too?

Ahab: Yeah. Imagine an elephant with the flu, One sneeze can break its bloody neck I reckon.

Dr Yamauchi: [to Tatsuno in Japanese; English] Let me speak. Hello? this is Dr Yamauchi speaking. Can you please explain as much as possible the characteristics the Ugandan doctor described? Over.

Ahab: All he said was that it started out like a simple cold, or flu mostly and then quickly turned to pneumonia. And there were symptoms of other diseases as well but he didn't think it was any of those things. He thought it was something else.

Dr Yamauchi: [curious] Something else?

President Richardson: [referring to an item in the news about a vaccine; to officials; slaps table and stands up away from the table] What vaccine? All right. How long it will take to manufacture this vaccine in quantity?

Science Official: Mr President, we haven't been able to isolate the cause. The virus - if it is a virus - it's like the common cold, it is everywhere, it is nowhere!

Sen. Barkley: I'd like to say this point, Mr President, I suggest, we might have been in a better position to develop a crash program if it's budget hasn't been slashed against the specific wishes of Congress.

Richardson: [flustered] Damn it senator, I don't have to hear that from you!

Cabinet Official: [to science official; Richardson closes the door of the TV cabinet.] What do you mean, there is no vaccine? Then what is it we're giving the police and fire department personnel? The essential services, the military alert crews if not a vaccine? It's just that we don't have enough for the general populace. Isn't that right?

Science Official: We have a vaccine of sorts. We put together a soup of every flu-related vaccine we know. It's effect leaves something to be desired. In fact, it's more of a placebo than anything else.

Cabinet Official: [enraged because he was administered a shot] You gave me a goddamn placebo?!!?!

Science Official: We are doing our best!!

Dr. Krause: You have a cold?

Big Man: Oh it is nothing.

Krause: If I were to open this ampule to the air, you would be dead within three days.

US President Richardson: [apparently disgusted with [[w:Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff|JCS Chief of Staff; has a heart attack and dies] ] General Garland's repeated insistence in activating the Automated Response System even when the pandemic's out of control] You're a fool, General. There's nobody left.

US President Richardson: [seeing Sen Barkley die of the Italian Flu] You were my opponent in every political battle, but you were never ... you were never my enemy.