Andromeda Strain

Major Bill Keane: (to Jeremy) If you set out to deliberately exterminate mankind, you couldn't do better than Andromeda.

Jeremy Stone: (discussing time travel) It would be nice, though, wouldn't it, to be able to go back and change things? Angela Noyce: I-I think a linear time frame is a key part of what it means to be human. If our really important choices could be sampled like a box of chocolates, then… our decisions would lose their meaning. What would be at stake?

Maj. Bill Keene: You're missing the point! Whether Andromeda is the newspaper, or it's the delivery boy who is dropping it off, the message is loud and clear: drop dead.

Jack Nash: Release me immediately, or I'll have my lawyer all over this! Col. Ferrus: (talking over him) I don't have to let you speak to a lawyer, I don't even have to acknowledge that you are in our custody. Under the Homeland Security Act you can be held here indefinitely as a terrorist threat. Jack Nash: Listen to me, you little tin-pot fascist, I'm not some hapless Middle Eastern exchange student with an out-of-date visa, I'm an American citizen with a very public profile. You screw with me, and you're gonna have to answer some really unpleasant questions!

(Capping off a list of nothing but bad news.) Pat Terrence: There's also a rumor at the U.N. that the blast in Utah was staged as a deliberate distraction from the vent-mining controversy. President Scott: (disbelieving) Oh… "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

Major Bill Keane: There has never been anything like Andromeda anywhere on the earth. This is Terra Incognita, this is alien.