Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Richard France: Scientist

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• Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : The normal question, the first question is always, are these cannibals? No, they are not cannibals. Cannibalism in the true sense of the word implies an intrapecies activity. These creatures cannot be considered human. They prey on humans. They do not prey on each other - that's the difference. They attack and they feed only on warm human flesh. Intelligence? Seemingly little or no reasoning power, but basic skills remain and more remembered behaviors from normal life. There are reports of these creatures using tools. But even these actions are the most primitive - the use of external articles as bludgeons and so forth. I might point out to you that even animals will adopt the basic use of tools in this manner. These creatures are nothing but pure, motorized instinct. We must not be lulled by the concept that these are our family members or our friends. They are not. They will not respond to such emotions.

  [the gathered crowd starts arguing] 

  Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : They must be destroyed on sight!

• Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : [on a TV]  They use... consume maybe 5% of the food available in the human body. With that small amount, the body is usually intact enough to be mobile when it revives.

  TV Commentator : What are you saying? Are you saying...

  Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : [interrupting]  It is worth saving? Is a bite victim worth saving? For all I know, it's the brains that are already dead. It's the idiots that are still alive.

  TV Commentator : You can't help us deal with your calm illogical ways...

  Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : Illogical hell! I'm showing you a way we can up the food supply 20 times.

  TV Commentator : Food supply for who?

  Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : For a whole specimen that is walking around out there in increasing numbers, we should...

  TV Commentator : Are you saying we should FEED them? The bite victims...

  Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : What else are you going to do with them? Give me an alternative.

  [various arguing among the studio audience is heard in the background] 

  TV Commentator : I thought you scientists are supposed to come up with a way of solving this problem rather than feeding the opposition? It doesn't make any sense.

  Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : Well, I can think of another alternative. Yes, I can think of one other alternative. Since these things seem to congregate in heavily populated areas and since we have not touched upon any of our nuclear resources... why don't we drop bombs on all the big cities?

  TV Commentator : You're not serious?

  Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : I am deadly serious! What are the choices? They won't run out of food, that's the problem you see. And they won't run out of food as long as we're still alive.

• Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : This isn't the Republicans versus the Democrats, where we're in a hole economically or... or we're in another war. This is more crucial than that. This is down to the line, folks, this is down to the line. There can be no more divisions among the living!

• Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : We must think logically. We must deal with his crisis logically, with calm and unemotional response! We have to remain rational. We have to remain logical.

  TV Commentator : Scientists like you always think that way. That's not how people think. We just cannot abandon our moral code to...

  Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : We've got to! We've got to remain logical. There's no choice. It has to be that. It's that or the end.

• Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : Dummies! Dummies! Dummies!

• Dr. Millard Rausch, Scientist : [on Emergency Television Network]  If there was ever a time a decision had to be made, it's now, now! Someone's got to come up with a plan!