InAlienable (2007)

Alan Ruck: Dr. Proway

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• [Dr. Proway and Eric are looking at X-ray scans] 

  Dr. Proway : Well, as far as I can tell, it isn't a virus or a bacterial infection. It's nothing you contracted at the lab. Old tight-ass Shilling won't have to worry about his insurance rates. And it's not a tumor.

  Eric Norris : You've told me what it isn't.

  Dr. Proway : As of now, some form of as-yet unidentified parasite that is growing inside you at a very rapid rate. It seems to have tapped into the cardiovascular network through thousands of filament-like protrusions that act as conduits. It has also compromised your respiratory system. Like a true parasite in host, it is getting everything it needs to survive from you.

  Eric Norris : Right. Oxygen, blood nutrients.

  Dr. Proway : Mm-hm. It really is grotesque.

  Eric Norris : Yeah.

  Dr. Proway : A monstrosity. But evidently, it has a physiology compatible with yours. Do you have any idea how you could have come in contact with this?

  Eric Norris : No. And to remove it?

  Dr. Proway : Well, that's the bitch, Eric. It has integrated itself so insidiously into your biology that to remove it would cause massive hemorrhaging and instantaneous death.

  Eric Norris : [grimly]  Prognosis?

  Dr. Proway : I've never seen anything like this.

  Eric Norris : Prognosis?

  Dr. Proway : Well, it'd just be a guess. But I think, either way, it will kill you in a very short period of time.