The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Mark Jenkins: Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team)

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Sgt. Crane (Piedmont team) : Piedmont, New Mexico. Population, 68.

  Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team) : Come on.

• [the Scoop satellite retrieval team "Caper One" is in trouble. Mission control personnel start to move closer to the audio monitor] 

  Lt. Comroe : Stay at your stations! And hit that security button!

  [picks up phone] 

  Lt. Comroe : Get me Major Manchek.

  Sgt. Crane (Piedmont team) : Somehow they don't hardly look dead, Lieutenant.

  Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  They're all over the place. Must be dozens of them.

  Lt. Comroe : Damn it! Get this call through!

  Sgt. Crane (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  It's sort of like they just dropped in their tracks, sir...

  [pause] 

  Sgt. Crane (Piedmont team) : SIR!

  [vehicle brakes to halt] 

  Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  Good Christ!

  Sgt. Crane (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  Do you see that thing in white?

  Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  Yeah It's coming toward us!

  Lt. Comroe : [on phone]  Hello Major, this may sound crazy, but there's something strange going on with Caper One!

  Sgt. Crane (Piedmont team) : Lieutenant, Sir, I think we should get out of here...

  [Brief scream and loud thump is heard, followed by silence, except for the satellite homing signal] 

• [Scoop retrieval team Caper One is being monitored by Scoop mission control Vandal Deca at Vandenburg AFB. Vehicle brakes are heard squealing over radio circuit] 

  Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  Ho-ly...

  Sgt. Crane (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  Sir, it's another one!

  Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  You're right. Looks dead

  Sgt. Crane (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  Yes sir, shall I...

  Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  No! Stay in the Van.

  Lt. Comroe : [Suddenly alert, scrambles in his desk drawer for mission notebook]  Vandal Deca to Caper One. What's happening?

  Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  We see bodies. Lots of them

  Lt. Comroe : Are you certain, Caper one?

  Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  Damnit Comroe! Of course we're certain!

  Lt. Comroe : [Nervously, consulting notes]  Your orders are... proceed to capsule and retrieve.

  Lt. Shawn (Piedmont team) : [over radio]  Roger, Vandal Deca.