Outbreak (1995)
Cuba Gooding Jr.: Major Salt
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Quotes
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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.
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Sam Daniels : Just don't get negative on me.
Major Salt : Affirmative.
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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
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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.
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[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.
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Sam Daniels : Anything I can do to help?
Major Salt : Just don't make me nervous.
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Casey Schuler : [to Daniels] Allow me, sir.
[to Salt]
Casey Schuler : Major!
Major Salt : Yes... Major?
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Sam Daniels : Thank you, Mrs. - what was her name again?
Major Salt : Pananides!
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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.
