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12 Monkeys
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Dr. Peters: It doesn't even have an odor.
[holds the open vial under the nose of the officer...]
Airport Security No. 1: That's not necessary, Sir...
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12 Monkeys
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[James Cole found a spider and knows he's got to take it with him, let's it crawl over his hand while deciding what to do with it]
Jeffrey Goines: You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules. Take germs, for example.
James Cole: Germs?
Jeffrey Goines: Uh-huh. In the eighteenth century, no such thing, nada, nothing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person, anyway. Ah! Ah! Along comes this doctor, uh, uh, uh, Semmelweis, Semmelweis. Semmelweis comes along. He's trying to convince people, well, other doctors mainly, that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. Ah? He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do you call it? Uh-uh, germs? Huh? What? Now, cut to the 20th century. Last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole. I go in to order a burger in this fast food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. Jim, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says, "I don't believe in germs. Germs is just a plot they made up so they can sell you disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right? See?
[James Cole finally takes the spider into his mouth, Jeffrey Goines is either too deep into his talk or unimpressed by this and continues his talk as if nothing happened]
Jeffrey Goines: Ah! Ah! There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion. You... you... you believe in germs, right?
12 Monkeys (1995)
(from internet transcript)
You could've made a real contribution.
Helped us to reclaim the planet.
As well as reducing your sentence.
The question is, Cole,
do you want another chance?
- Good.
- Last connection going on.
- Stand clear.
- He was your choice.
- Nothing we can do about that now.
No mistakes this time, Cole.
Stay alert.
Keep your eyes open.
Good thinking about the spider.
Try and do something like that again.
From 3/1/1965 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Ben Casey"::"A Dipperful of Water from a Poisoned Well" ) To 5/11/2025 ( ) is 21986 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/8/1995 ( premiere USA film "12 Monkeys" ) is 10993 days
From 9/29/2011 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, previously referenced ) To 5/11/2025 ( ) is 4973 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/15/1979 ( premiere USA film "Prophecy" ) is 4973 days
From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 5/11/2025 ( ) is 9778 days
9778 = 4889 + 4889
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/1979 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Be Prepared ) is 4889 days
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Prophecy (1979)
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Maggie Verne: Rob, what is it?
Dr. Robert Verne: It's methylmercury poisoning, that's what it is. This whole place has been contaminated.
Maggie Verne: How do you know?
Dr. Robert Verne: The Indians eat the fish, and they behave like they're drunk when they haven't had a drop of liquor. That raccoon convulsing and turning vicious, its brain turned to mush. Even that old man, that Indian, you saw the burns on his fingers.
Maggie Verne: Is that from mercury?
Dr. Robert Verne: It's from cigarettes; the reason he didn't feel it is from mercury. You see, it acts on the nervous system
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Prophecy (1979)
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Dr. Robert Verne: [from the tape recorder] Described as the most potent neurotoxin of the post-World War II age. Used from 1948 to 1956 in pulping processes as a cheap and effective caustic agent that prevents algae from forming on waterlogged timber. It is also known for its mutagenic properties, concentrating in the bodies of fish and plankton-eating crustacea, affecting the fetal development of everything that ingests it. The ratio of toxin to blood level is 30% higher in the developing fetus than in the host. It was discovered, after extensive testing, that it is the only mutagen that jumps the placental barrier, concentrating in fetal blood cells, where it adheres to the DNA and corrupts the chromosomes.
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Prophecy (1979)
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Maggie Verne: Jumps the placental barrier. What does that mean?
Dr. Robert Verne: [referring to methylmercury] It's a mutagen.
Maggie Verne: A mutagen. What is that?
Dr. Robert Verne: Freakism! Freakism! That's what's been going on out there. That's why there's a goddamn salmon five feet long, and a tadpole the size of what a bullfrog should be! And stillbirths.
Maggie Verne: What?
Dr. Robert Verne: That's what that Indian woman said. And deformed children. And God knows what else has been going on out there.
Maggie Verne: So if a pregnant animal ate some fish, it could...
Dr. Robert Verne: Yes. My God. Is it possible?
Maggie Verne: Yes.
Dr. Robert Verne: The size of a dragon.
Maggie Verne: What?
Dr. Robert Verne: The size of a dragon. Isn't that what Isley said at the airport? And something about eyes, cat's eyes. And the old man, the Indian. Didn't he describe that creature as being a... part of everything in God's creation? Isn't that what he said?
Maggie Verne: Yes.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 01:20 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 05/16/2025
