- Stu Redman: Where's your buddy, Denninger?
- Dr. Dietz: [points a gun at Stu] Well, he's dead... They're all dead... everybody except for me and thee.
- Stu Redman: And you're here to take care of me. Is that it?
- Dr. Dietz: Hole in one!
- Stu Redman: Why?
- Dr. Dietz: Why? Because I've decided a piece of country fried crap like you doesn't deserve to live, not with so many good men dying.
- Stu Redman: Those "good men" caused this mess!
- Sheriff Baker: When I was a boy, we killed ourselves a mountain lion up in the hills, gutted it, and dragged it back to town. What was left of that critter was the sorriest sight I ever seen. You the second sorriest, boy.
- NY Radio announcer: [voice-over] Reports of this supposedly lethal flu epidemic continue to spread. Many downtown shopping areas in southern Florida are virtually empty this morning and rumors of this "superflu" virus appears to be gaining momentum despite denials from CDC health officials in Atlanta and Vermont. In Vermont, Dr. Herbert Denninger of the CDC at a press conference regarding the events happening in east Texas quoted to reporters: "let me put this in five simple words: Captain Trips does not exist."
- Dr. Dietz: Patty Greer says you've given her quite a bit of trouble, she's quite upset.
- Stu Redman: Well, that makes two of us. Being hijacked by a bunch of government sons of bitches in space suits does that to me every time. So if you don't want to see how quick I can rip a hole in that thing 'fore you can get outta here, you better give me a little information. You tell me why I'm not sick.
- [His dying lines, spoken to Stu Redman]
- Charlie Campion: There was a man with us some of the time; he was a dark man. I was looking through the rear-view mirror and I'd see him just sitting there, grinning at me. I thought I could outrun him.
- [He laughs, sickly]
- Charlie Campion: You can't outrun the dark man.
- [In a dream-vision, Nick finds himself in a cornfield in Nebraska]
- Nick Andros: I can hear! I can talk!
- [He approaches the porch of Mother Abigail, who is strumming a guitar and singing]
- Nick Andros: I can hear. I can talk.
- Mother Abigail Freemantle: I know, Nick. Praise God.
- Nick Andros: [grinning] How did you know my name?
- Mother Abigail Freemantle: Come to me in a dream, I reckon.
- Nick Andros: Is this a dream?
- Mother Abigail Freemantle: Mayhap it is, mayhap it ain't.
- Nick Andros: Who are you, ma'am?
- Mother Abigail Freemantle: Abigail Freemantle. But most round these parts just call me Mother Abigail. I'm a hundred and six years old, and I still make my own bread.
- [Nick smiles]
- Mother Abigail Freemantle: I've been living right here in Hemmingford Home, Nebraska, all my life. You come see me, Nick. You and all your friends. You got to hurry, though.
- [Nick turns and Abigail looks up as the sky darkens and lightning flashes]
- Mother Abigail Freemantle: There's a storm coming! HIS storm!
- [She points, and Nick sees, in the cornfield, a pitch-black figure with glowing red eyes. Nick is so startled that he wakes up]
- Stu Redman: Well, say... if it isn't the man with the little clipboard and the armed escort.
- [Stu approaches Dr. Denninger to shake his hand]
- Dr. Herbert Denninger: No, no, n-no, no, we don't shake hands here, just a precaution, hmm.
- Stu Redman: A precaution, uh-huh.
- Dr. Herbert Denninger: Patty Greer says you've given her quite a bit of trouble. She's quite upset!
- Stu Redman: Well, that makes two of us! Being hijacked by a bunch of government sons-a-bitches in space-suits does that to me every time! So, if you don't wanna see how quick I can rip a hole in that thing 'fore you can get outa here, you're gonna give me a little information. You tell me why I'm not sick!
- Dr. Herbert Denninger: Mr. Redman, I hardly think that...
- Stu Redman: Talk to me, dammit!
- Dr. Herbert Denninger: I'm sorry, but you...
- [Stu grabs Dr. Denninger]
- Dr. Herbert Denninger: ... Mr. Redman, be reasonable.
- Stu Redman: Just get outa here, ya little weasel!... You send me someone who'll give me some answers!
- Dr. Herbert Denninger: I don't think that you quite appreciate your position, Mr. Redman!
- Stu Redman: You're wrong about that... I do... go on, get out!
- Gen. Starkey: I don't know how many times I have to say this but this so-called "superflu" does... not... exist!
- Reporter: [voice] Then what is it? Why are people talking about it?
- Gen. Starkey: I don't know why people are talking about it. I don't know where the rumors are coming from. It must be from somebody's imagination. I don't know why I'm up here answering questions I don't have the answer to. There is NO superflu virus!
- Maj. Jalbert: We have a rather large problem in Wyoming, sir.
- Gen. Starkey: What large problem is that?
- Maj. Jalbert: A TV news team got out of the small town of Pine Bluff with some potentially damaging videotape, sir.
- Gen. Starkey: Flu victims? Body dumps?
- Maj. Jalbert: A little of both... and our ops I'm told.
- Gen. Starkey: Well... we can't have that. Showing that footage would not be in the national interests of this country!
- Maj. Jalbert: No, sir. It's not.
- Gen. Starkey: Do we know where this news team is right now?
- Maj. Jalbert: Yes, sir.
- Gen. Starkey: Then do what it takes. Get that videotape and destroy it. Do whatever you have to do.
- Dr. Herbert Denninger: Mr. Redman, I suggest you cooperate and get in the vehicle or...
- Stu Redman: [interrupting] Or what? You'll shoot me? That don't scare me. If we got what that guy Campion had... we're dead already. Right?
- Larry Underwood: [into the phone] I love you, Arlene!
- Arlene: [into the phone] Aw, don't I wish?
- Larry Underwood: [into the phone] Listen, I'm gonna try to get the afternoon flight back to L.A. I want you to put on your sexiest number and I'll take you out to dinner, then I'll take you out dancing and maybe... I'll just take you.
- Arlene: [into the phone] You might want to consider delaying your trip back a few days.
- Larry Underwood: [into the phone] Why? What's the problem?
- Arlene: [into the phone] Things are weird here in L.A. There's hardly anyone here at the nightclub. People are really scared about this Captain Trips thing.
- Larry Underwood: [into the phone] Yeah, but the radio here says it's all just bull...
- Arlene: [into the phone] I know, but the radio here says that all of the hospitals are filling up with sick people... and some of them are dying.
- Larry Underwood: [into the phone] What? People are dying of the flu?
- Arlene: [into the phone] And there's a lot of soldiers around. Suddenly, L.A. is a really creepy place to be, Larry.
- Larry Underwood: [into the phone] Maybe I'll stick around New York for a couple more days.
- Arlene: [into the phone] Yeah, but remember what you promised me when you get back: dinner, dancing and all the paparazzi I can smile at!
- Larry Underwood: [into the phone] Okay. Bye, now.
- [hangs up]
- [looking at the images of the virus outbreak]
- Gen. Starkey: Look at that. It killed 'em in a hurry down there. Telemetry reports suggest that even the ones that managed to get their respirators on died within 12 minutes after exposure. The rest were gone in less than five. Do you believe that?
- Maj. Jalbert: Do I have a choice?
- Gen. Starkey: No. Apparently none of us do. This 'Project Blue', it's nothing but a souped up version of the flu. Herbert Denninger of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, the Pentagon's bright boy of the week, says that once we find Campion, we'll only know if it's going to jump to the outside. He says the virus will probably mutate as it passes from person to person, but that's not gonna help the people who catch it.
- Maj. Jalbert: Sir, I have information that...
- Gen. Starkey: [interrupting] It'll just take 'em longer to die, that's all. Most people that get infected with this thing are gonna think they have the plain old non-lethal flu... right up to the very end, and that's the biggest break we've had so far. Now it's loose out there all because a gate malfunctioned and some idiot, glorified TV repairman grabbed his family and ran for the hills. What I'd like to do more than anything else is get that coward and...
- Maj. Jalbert: Sir, we found him. We located Campion. He crash-landed late last night at a gas station on the outskirts of a one-stoplight town in east Texas.
- Gen. Starkey: He made it halfway across the country in only 12 hours? How the hell did he do that?
- Maj. Jalbert: I don't know. But right now, we have a shot at containing this.
- Gen. Starkey: Is he alive or dead?
- Maj. Jalbert: He's dead.
- Gen. Starkey: Oh my God. Denninger says that this stuff has a communicability level of 99.4%! You know what that means? Any chance we had at containing by the book went out the window when Campion stopped to buy gas or his first take-out hamburger!
- Maj. Jalbert: We can't think that way, General.
- Gen. Starkey: Well... you're right, I guess not. What about the rest of his family? His wife and baby daughter?
- Maj. Jalbert: They're dead, sir. Contact with townspeople was minimal.
- Gen. Starkey: That doesn't matter. We've got to shut that town down, lock it up, dig a moat around it.
- Maj. Jalbert: That operation is already on the launching pad, sir.
- Gen. Starkey: Good. What kind of cover did you come up with?
- Maj. Jalbert: Anthrax. A new strain.
- Gen. Starkey: [laughs] Yeah, it's very new! It's real good at its job.
- Maj. Jalbert: It's bad General, but it could be worse.
- Gen. Starkey: [scoffs] Yeah? How so?
- [Larry has returned to New York to see his mother, who assumes he is a failure, despite his flashy car]
- Alice Underwood: Don't lie. I've seen your car.
- Larry Underwood: [sullenly] About forty thousand.
- Alice Underwood: Jesus wept.
- Larry Underwood: But the record's number 21 this week, Ma! With a bullet. Bam! The album hasn't hit the hot 100 yet, but it will. Forty thousand's nothin'. Nothin'! And I'm not gonna let them make me a one-hit wonder, either. Your son's here to stick around! I'm gonna be famous, Ma. Even better. I'm gonna be rich.
- [Stu is lazily listening to the old men chatter at Hap's gas station when he sees a car driving crazily toward them in the night]
- Stu Redman: Hap. Hap! Shut off the pumps!
- [Campion's car smashes into the gas pumps]
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