Outbreak
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Sam Daniels: If you think I'm lying, drop the bomb. If you think I'm crazy, drop the bomb. But don't drop the bomb just because you're following orders.

Mrs. Pananides: I have a friend in the Coast Guard, all I have to do is call.
Sam Daniels: How close a friend?
Mrs. Pananides: Closer than his wife would like.

Sam Daniels: Anything I can do to help?
Major Salt: Just don't make me nervous.

Sam Daniels: We are fugitives of the law. Idiocy is our only option.

Sergeant Wolf: This could mean my stripes, sir.
Sam Daniels: It'll mean your ass if you don't get your finger on the phone. Finger it.

Sam Daniels: Thank you, Mrs. - what was her name again?
Major Salt: Pananides.

Sam Daniels: Just don't get negative on me.
Major Salt: Affirmative.

Sergeant Meyer: Sir, my pilot is taking a leak.
Sam Daniels: A leak? No shit.

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.

Casey Schuler: You want a hotshot scope-jockey, fine, but, frankly, I'm hurt.

Casey Schuler: I hate them willies, they ought to call them the Sams don't you think?

Factual error: When the camera is panning through the different rooms of USAMRIID it exits out of BSL-3 and as it does a female technician takes her breathing mask off before she opens the door. This is supposed to be the highly infectious room that tests things like Anthrax or H.I.V. yet this woman not only takes her mask off she's not even quarantined or decontaminated.

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Question: When they are viewing the virus through the microscope, we see its shape is like a long strand, sort of coiled up at one end and uncoiled at the other end (think cobra rearing up). That structure seems too complex to be a virus. Are any viruses really shaped like that?

Answer: Yes, the fictional virus would be a filovirus similar to Ebola. These are filament shaped virus that can coil up.

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