Outbreak1995

Sam Daniels:
Sir, I sent you the fax six hours ago...

Brig. Gen. Billy Ford:
Sam, I am not going to issue an alert.

Sam:
I don't wanna bust up your party, sir, but you gotta issue an alert.

Ford:
You said it was contained!

Sam:
I said containment was probable. You should be monitoring the airports, you gotta...

Ford:
Sam! Do you remember 1989?

Sam:
Yeah.

Ford:
You found two lousy cases of Congo fever in Nairobi and we put a note to every American kid's lunchbox. You remember that?

Sam:
Yeah, I was wrong.

Ford:
You were wrong.

Sam:
Uh-huh.

Ford:
What about 1992? Lassa fever?

Sam:
I was wrong. Yup.

Ford:
Wrong again. But you're right about this?

Sam:
No, I could be wrong...

Ford:
Yet you waltz into my party smelling like dirty socks, snatch me away from Senator Rosales, whom I need not remind you, Sam, is head of the Senate Arms Services subcommittee which is in charge of our f***ing budget.

Sam:
Forget Ebola. Forget Lassa. This bug kills so fast, Billy. You could be dead in...

Ford:
Keep your voice down. Now, that is exactly my point, Sam.

Sam:
What?

Ford:
It is the very lethality of this virus which is working for us here. These unfortunate people don't live long enough to spread the goddamn thing around. So you're right, it is contained.

Sam:
I hope so.