Contagion (2011)

Kate Winslet: Dr. Erin Mears

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• Dave : My wife makes me take off my clothes in the garage. Then she leaves out a bucket of warm water and some soap. And then she douses everything in hand sanitizer after I leave. I mean, she's overreacting, right?

  Dr. Erin Mears : Not really. And stop touching your face, Dave.

• Dr. Erin Mears : The average person touches their face two or three thousand times a day.

  Minnesota Health #4 : Two or three thousand times a day?

  Dr. Erin Mears : Three to five times every waking minute. In between, we're touching doorknobs, water fountains, elevator buttons, and each other. Those things become fomites.

• Dr. Ellis Cheever : When was the last time you ate something that didn't come from a vending machine?

  Dr. Erin Mears : [Hesitantly]  Taco Bell

• Dr. Erin Mears : How fast it multiplies depends on a variety of factors. The incubation period, how long a person is contagious. Sometimes people can be contagious without even having symptoms. We need to know that too. And we need to know how big the population of people susceptible to the virus might be.

  Minnesota Health #4 : So far that appears to be everyone with hands, a mouth and a nose.

• Dr. Ellis Cheever : How are you?

  Dr. Erin Mears : Yeah, I'm going into a meeting with...

  Dr. Ellis Cheever : No, Mears, I didn't ask what you we're doing, I asked how you were doing. How are you doing?

• Dr. Erin Mears : [on the phone]  This is Dr. Erin Mears in Room 821. I need you to get me the names of everyone who serviced this room in the last 24 hours. Also, you need to get in touch with the waiter who brought me my room service last night. I need all of their numbers. Home, cell, everything, yes.

• Dr. Ellis Cheever : It's gonna be all over the news. What's your single overriding communications objective?

  Dr. Erin Mears : We're isolating the sick and quarantining those who we believe were exposed.

  Dr. Ellis Cheever : Okay, good. As of this moment, you and I are attached at the cell phone. If you need resources, call me. If you get into a political dogfight, call me. If you find yourself wide awake, staring at the walls at 3 a.m. wondering why you took the job, call me.

• Dr. Erin Mears : [on the phone]  I really need you to get off that bus. It's possible you've come in contact with an infectious disease and you're highly contagious. Do you understand? I want you to get off now. And stay away from other people.

• Dr. Erin Mears : How fast it multiplies depends on a variety of factors. The incubation period, how long a person is contagious. Sometimes people can be contagious without even having symptoms. We need to know that too. We need to know how big the population of people susceptible to the virus might be.

• Dr. Erin Mears : In 72 hours, we'll know what it is - if we're lucky.

  Minnesota Health #4 : Clearly, we're not lucky.

• Dr. Erin Mears : He could have gone to anyone with this. He came to us.

  Dr. Ellis Cheever : Why should we trust him?

  Dr. Erin Mears : We have no choice.