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The Andromeda Strain Page #3
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- Year:
- 1971
- 131 min
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Something wrong?
Reminds me of my years in a bordello.
Howdy.
Howdy-do-dee.
You got the time?
Darn shame.
Must be the heat.
It's no fake, believe me.
When I retire,
I'd like an agricultural
station like this in Alaska.
You, a sourdough?
Hmph! The sourest. This way.
Step in.
Cute.
The whole thing,
what a world we're making.
I can see why the kids are dropping out.
We should've.
It's an emergency, Dutton.
We got tagged. Period.
Until I saw those photos
from Vandenberg, I...
They brought it on themselves.
Who? The people in Piedmont?
What you said before,
you don't believe the
infection in that capsule
was brought back deliberately, do you?
Skip it. I hope
Put your hands on
that glass, palms down.
It's a finger and palm
print analyzer. It...
Reads a composite of 10,000
dermatographic lines.
How'd you know that?
Oh, Dutton, I have a
long criminal record.
Then you're in trouble.
This machine has a long memory.
to enter Wildfire.
Isothermal
reading for M.C. Levels 4 and 5
is Z.B. And R.A. Over 2.9.
How's Piedmont?
I had to order up a 7-12.
How are you, Ruth?
No other way to halt
the infection spread.
Oh.
Oh, you two know
each other, don't you?
By reputation only.
Ah, yes, up to now we've
had to worship from a far.
Be good, Ruth.
Any messages for me
from the White House?
Not a thing, Dr. Stone, or you'd have it.
No personal messages?
No, ma'am.
Nothing from Dr. Robertson?
Are you sure, Sergeant?
Dr. Stone, sir, I have
one thing to do. Just one.
Everything else is fully automatic,
computerized and self-regulating.
I... I listen for a
little bell in here.
Ding-a-ling. That
means a message
coming in is for the Wildfire Team.
Precisely! An M.C.N. Communication.
I'm expecting one.
Yes, sir! Top priority.
Ding-a-ling. I push a button
and all five level control
centers are notified
the same time you are.
The bell hasn't rung, sir.
Thanks for the tour, Sergeant.
Dr. Dutton. Thank you.
Will you follow me, Dr. Leavitt?
And may I have your glasses, please?
What for?
They'll be treated and
returned to you, Doctor.
They better be,
or I'll need a white cane.
Who picked Leavitt?
Talk about the Odd Man Hypothesis,
which we haven't yet.
She's really an oddball.
We're lucky to have her.
She's the best equipped of us
to double up for Kirke in microbiology.
When dressed,
the team will proceed
directly to conference room 7.
Keep this with you at all times.
What's it for?
You're the Odd Man.
The key man, quite literally.
This other key,
and Wildfire itself,
depend on your key.
Wildfire's equipped
with a nuclear device
for self-destruct.
In an emergency,
it's activated automatically.
I've just inserted the
key in the main station
that arms the mechanism.
The device is ready for detonation.
When?
Never, we hope.
It only goes off if there's danger
of infection breaking out from here.
That silver key can't be removed.
You're the only one
who can disarm the mechanism
by inserting your red key
in one of the substations
located throughout the facility.
There's a five-minute delay
between the time detonation locks in
and the bomb explodes.
That gives
you a chance to think
and, please God, call it off.
Look, I'm the new boy here. Why me?
Because you're single.
You should have done
your homework, sport.
Page 255, Robbie's Odd Man Hypothesis.
"Results of testing confirm
the Robertson Odd Man Hypothesis:
That an unmarried male should
carry out command decisions
involving thermonuclear
destruct contexts. "
Let me take a look at that.
It's of vital importance
that you always know where you are
in relation to the nearest substation.
To do that, you have to be familiar
with the entire facility.
It can be studied on
this electronic diagram
which rotates to afford an overall view,
or can be stopped at any section.
Detailed plans of the
various levels and labs
are also stored in the system.
We're on level 1 of a five-story
cylindrical underground structure
surrounded by solid rock.
Each level has three substations,
indicated by the yellow lights.
In the event the nuclear
device is triggered,
you can still cancel self-destruct
by inserting your red
key in a substation.
After our last simulation run,
we decided to add two
more substations per level,
but they're not finished.
So don't confuse them
with functioning ones.
At the bottom of the central core
is the apparatus for self-destruct.
Each level is a different color
based on a navy study
of the psychological effects
of color in environments.
Also, each level is biomedically cleaner
than the one above it.
We don't want anything
to contaminate a possible organism.
That would make it twice as hard
to isolate and characterize.
It'll take us 16 hours to descend
through the programmed
decontamination procedures
on the first four levels to level 5
where the main labs are.
Where, exactly, are we now?
There's one way you can
always locate yourself
or any of us instantly.
Simply by calling up projections
from the electronic diagram
on any video monitor
anywhere in Wildfire.
Views such as this.
This shows we're in
conference room 7, level 1.
Each of us is indicated by our initial.
Our movements are continuously monitored
on the electronic diagram.
Where are the patients?
Where's the capsule?
The patients are the yellow X's.
The red circle is the capsule.
On level 5, the patients
and capsule will be isolated
in biologically secure setups.
Are you sure the old man
and the baby are still alive?
What are their chances, Hall?
Uncertain.
I'm hoping the intravenous dextrose
and saline will hold them
until we get to them.
We start decontamination and
immunization procedures now.
You really expect me to fire the thing?
I'm afraid you don't understand.
All you can do is stop it.
In a biological emergency,
the bomb is activated automatically.
It'll then go off within five minutes
unless you get to a substation
and lock in your key.
Oh.
Delta Five to all levels.
We are checking out ray-ban
emergency communications.
This is a test.
Proceed to infrared radiation
decontamination room 1-D.
Also it could be an organism
from another planet
released deliberately.
To wipe us out? Really, Charles!
Just the opposite.
To make friendly contact.
A kind of messenger to show us
life exists elsewhere in the universe.
its own environment.
Pretty far-fetched.
We can't ignore any possibility.
You are about to
undergo long-wave radiation.
A buzzer will sound.
Close your eyes and stand still
or blindness may result.
We face quite a problem:
How to disinfect the human body,
one of the dirtiest things
in the known universe.
human being at the same time.
It gets tougher as we go.
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