The Andromeda Strain Quotes

  • [first lines]

    Jeff Megan: [to Suzie] That's a lion out there. And a triangle.

  • Jeff Megan: [to Suzie] I'm about to go where no man has gone before.

  • Major Bill Keane MD: [to Jeremy] Charlene was right. There's never been anything like Andromeda anywhere on the Earth. This is terra incognita. This is alien.

  • General George W. Mancheck: I need to know. What have you got to fight this thing?

    Dr. Jeremy Stone: Nothing. At this point, not a single thing.

  • General George W. Mancheck: We suspect a biological agent now code named Andromeda. Whatever Andromeda is it killed those two soldiers so quickly they didn't even have time to jump out of their vehicle.

  • Private Brooks: It's like a war zone.

    Private Connors: Tell me I'm not seeing this.

    Private Brooks: This town is full of bodies.

    Kyle Tobler: Over here! Over here! Help me, men! You've got to help me!

  • Lt. Amy Deacon: It's disintegrating. It's all just falling apart.

  • General George W. Mancheck: What do you need, Stone? Tell me what you need to kill this thing, and I'll get it.

  • Major Bill Keane MD: [to the President] Andromeda's mutation rate is increasing. There's a very real chance that we won't be able to contain this.

  • Dr. Angela Noyce: [to Jeremy] Most die immediately with exposure. Those that don't exhibit violent behavior within minutes.

  • Major Bill Keane MD: You're saying it thinks?

    Dr. Jeremy Stone: I'm saying we need to consider the possibility and act accordingly.

  • Major Bill Keane MD: [to Jeremy] If you set out to deliberately exterminate mankind, you couldn't do better than Andromeda.

  • Dr. Jeremy Stone: So, you're saying they survived Andromeda because they had the same level of stomach acid? That's brilliant.

  • Jack Nash: My name's Jack Nash. I'm a reporter with M.N.T. You probably know my face.

    Leila: I just watch "Colbert". Sometimes "South Park".

  • Ed Dewitt: Are you religious man, Chuck?

    Charles 'Chuck' Beeter: Sir?

    Ed Dewitt: I don't mean every four years. I mean, do you have faith?

    Charles 'Chuck' Beeter: Yes, sir.

    Ed Dewitt: Then you can pray.

  • Wildfire Computer: Wildfire is infected. Wildfire Labs is now initiating lockdown procedures and beginning countdown to auto self destruct.

    Dr. Jeremy Stone: What's happening?

  • Dr. Jeremy Stone: How else do you explain it?

  • Dr. Jeremy Stone: What happened out there?

    Kyle Tobler: They all died.

  • General George W. Mancheck: What we're dealing with induces death within minutes.

  • Jeff Megan: [to Suzie] This is so sick. Look at that thing.

  • Dr. Jeremy Stone: [on the phone to Jack] It's lethal... Beyond comprehension.

  • [last lines]

    Dr. Jeremy Stone: We would seem to have been successful in the short run, but it's probably fair to say whoever it is, we've gotten their attention. What happens next is anybody's guess.

  • Dr. Angela Noyce: I think a linear time frame is a key part of what 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?