Sam Daniels:
Sir, I sent you the fax six hours ago...
General Billy Ford:
Sam, I am not going to issue an alert.
Sam Daniels:
I don't wanna bust up your party, sir, butyou gotta issue an alert.
General Billy Ford:
You said it was contained!
Sam Daniels:
I said containment was probable. You should be monitoring the airports, you gotta...
General Billy Ford:
Sam! Do you remember 1989?
Sam Daniels:
Yeah.
General Billy 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 Daniels:
Yeah, I was wrong.
General Billy Ford:
You were wrong.
Sam Daniels:
Uh-huh.
General Billy Ford:
What about 1992? Lassa fever?
Sam Daniels:
I was wrong. Yup.
General Billy Ford:
Wrong again. But you're right about this?
Sam Daniels:
No, I could be wrong...
General Billy 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 fucking budget.
Sam Daniels:
Forget Ebola. Forget Lassa. This bug kills so fast, Billy. You could be dead in...
General Billy Ford:
Keep your voice down.
[beat]
General Billy Ford:
Now, that is exactly my point, Sam.
Sam Daniels:
What?
General Billy Ford:
It is the very lethality of this virus which is working for us here.
[referring to his party guests]
General Billy Ford:
These unfortunate people don't live long enough to spread the goddamn thing around. So you're right, it is contained.
Sam Daniels:
I hope so.