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Outbreak

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Outbreak	label	Outbreak
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Outbreak	comment	Imagine you are hunting a killer. The perpetrator is insidious, invisible, and deadly. It is reactive and fast. Its victims suffer and die in horrifying pain. There is no reasoning with it, no bargaining with it, and no way to stop it. The military wants to avoid a panic. The media questions the methods being used to stop it. It is a billionth your size.Outbreak is a 1995 suspense film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, and Morgan Freeman (among many others: Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr., Patrick Dempsey, etc.), depicting a what-if scenario surrounding a deadly fictional African virus called Motaba, inspired by real-life Ebola outbreaks, and speculating on the measures taken by the military and the Center for Disease Control if such an outbreak occurred in the United States.In 1967, a deadly virus, Motaba, ravages a war-torn African village. The U.S. Army sends in colonels Donnie McClintock (Sutherland) and Billy Ford (Freeman) to appraise the situation, and they promise to send for help. But what's really sent is a fuel-air-bomb which vaporizes the village and everyone in it.Flash-forward thirty years, when an infected monkey from this very area has been captured and smuggled to the United States, and into the hands of Jimbo (Dempsey), a young man who plans to sell it for the pet trade.The smuggled monkey spits in Jimbo's face, on his way to sell it. When it turns out unsuitable (after having scratched the pet shop owner and having lost her banana to another monkey in the shop), Jimbo sets it free in California and hops a flight home to Boston — during which he falls seriously ill. He greets his girlfriend with as passionate a kiss as he can muster, then passes out.In Boston, Dr. Robby Keough (Russo) takes care of the victims of the infection, and that's that. But the cat is out of the bag. Cedar Creek, California becomes infected with a mutated and airborne strain of the virus.Following his instincts, Sam Daniels (Hoffman) disobeys orders and goes to Cedar Creek. His crew is dispatched and Daniels is allowed to work despite having disobeyed. With Robby's help, they race against time to find a way to cure the deadly virus.Meanwhile, the Army, seeing projections of the virus' progress across the North American continent, advises the President to take drastic measures... without sharing with him the information that they have a cure for the African strain and want to be able to use it as a biological weapon. McClintock concocts a plan to firebomb Cedar Creek.Can Daniels find a way to cure the new Motaba strain and get it back to Cedar Creek before the Army wipes it out to save the country and keep their weapon?The film was nominated for various awards but failed to garner any major award nominations. Notable in that it was set-up as a counter-production to a film adaptation of the novel The Hot Zone that never materialized.
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Outbreak / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Outbreak / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Casey Schuler succumbs to the virus after being infected when his suit tears.
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Outbreak / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
Outbreak / int_159ce749	comment	Ensign Newbie: Major Salt fits this pretty well. He is a young Army doctor who, when first introduced, has never been in the field before. In Zaire, when he witnesses the true horrors of a "hot zone" for the first time and realizes that reading about horrible diseases in a book is a lot different than seeing it in person (something his older, more seasoned colleagues warned him about), he loses his cool, and starts vomiting and freaking out. And when working with a dangerous virus like Motaba, this can create more dangers for everyone. However, he gets himself together and toughens up, and really proves himself in the final parts of the movie. In fact, he qualifies as Majorly Awesome by the end of the movie.
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Outbreak / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Outbreak / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Daniels interrupts General Ford's party to say he needs to put out an alert for Motaba. Ford, however, brushes him off, noting other times when Daniels expected a major outbreak, but it didn't happen. In addition, Motaba kills so fast, it's hard for it to get very far. Afterwards, they agree that the odds of Motaba coming to America are about a million to one. Cue one Motaba-infected monkey arriving in America...
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Outbreak / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Outbreak / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: A capuchin monkey is a New World Monkey, not native to Africa where Jimbo gets it from.
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Outbreak / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Outbreak / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Motaba has more in common with the Andromeda Strain than Ebola. Most notable examples: There is serious debate as to whether or not it is even possible for a virus that is not airborne to evolve that rapidly. At one point, a character working in BSL-4, Casey, is infected within seconds after his suit rips. This is why pressurized suits are used in the first place; Motaba would need powered flight to get to him. Ebola is murder on primates, making a monkey reservoir species unlikely to say the least. The cure is isolated and synthesized in large quantities within hours. It gives Hollywood effectiveness for how rapid and complete recovery is from a virus that has been described as liquefying the internal organs of its victims.
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Outbreak / int_18d42614	type	Rule of Empathy
Outbreak / int_18d42614	comment	Rule of Empathy: Who the viewer is supposed to empathize with goes up and down. Jimbo was engaged in illegal activity. Unsympathetic. But he is kind to children. Sympathetic. Jimbo's fiancee Alice comments that Jimbo looks terrible when he gets off the plane. Sympathetic. But despite seeing her fiance looks ill, she deep kisses him. Stupidity warranting reduced sympathy. The Centrifuge operator is not a sympathetic character because he wasn't paying full attention when he stuck his hand in a still-moving centrifuge full of blood. And the thing that distracted him? A sports broadcast on a radio. He was staring at a radio when he reached into the active centrifuge. Worse still, he goes to the movies not feeling well, and doesn't cover his mouth when he coughs, exposing his girlfriend and the entire movie theater. The doctors don't want to touch Jimbo and Alice to autopsy them. Unsympathetic but understandable. One doctor agrees to but he's so terrified that his hands shake too much to hold the scalpel. Sympathetic. Donald McClintock's Establishing Character Moment is his appearance in Africa in a faceless, black mask Hazmat suit, wherein he lies to a dying soldier before ordering the bombing of the village. Everything we see about him going forward tells the audience he is not a sympathetic character. Billy Ford is a man who has a long career in the Army and went along with his superiors, but finds himself conflicted when the outbreak puts him between doing what's right and following orders. Sam Daniels is good hearted through and through. To a fault. There's a young mother in Cedar Creek who has come down sick and is obviously terrified. She bids goodbye to her children, who she can't even touch because she's contagious. She tries to speak reassuring words to her family that she visibly doesn't feel. She's sympathetic until the moment we see her zipped into a body bag and carried off to be burned.
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Outbreak / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Outbreak / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: Used somewhat effectively when Casey collapses as a result of the infection.
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Outbreak / int_1d3c92da	type	Failsafe Failure
Outbreak / int_1d3c92da	comment	Failsafe Failure: A lab technician is infected with The Plague when he carelessly opens and reaches into a centrifuge while it's still spinning, breaking a vial of infected blood and cutting his hand. In Real Life, lids on centrifuges lock until the spinning has completely stopped; it's impossible to open one while it's still in motion, therefore, in order to open that, the lock would have had to have been broken. Later, Casey gets infected when the oxygen line on his isolation suit gets stretched too far, causing the suit to rip open like it's made of tissue paper. In the novelization, Casey gets infected when his oxygen line gets disconnected from his suit. These kinds of valves are designed to seal if there is not a plug installed — air compressors use the same technology — so the only way this could happen is if the oxygen hose itself were separated from the plug attaching it to the suit, which itself would be a pretty inexcusable failure to check their gear before use.
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Outbreak / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Outbreak / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Daniels encounters one of these, but convinces him to cut the crap by informing him that he has come all the way from the disease-infected city, clutching the man's hands very earnestly, and offering to cough on him if he doesn't believe him. This causes him to call his much more helpful boss, who gladly goes above and beyond to help Daniels. Ford behaves as one but only because he's trying to participate in the coverup of Motaba so it can be used as a superweapon. By the end of the movie he's had enough of McClintock's crap and turns on him.
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Outbreak / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Outbreak / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Subverted. The soldiers begin rounding up infectees in the quarantined small town, and we get to see only one woman say a tearful goodbye to her family. We follow her for a few minutes while they take a blood sample during her initial medical exam. There is even a close up of the phial, labeled "Sample 612". In a later scene, we see a scientist examining blood slides:
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Outbreak / int_26431f8	type	Magical Antibiotics
Outbreak / int_26431f8	comment	Magical Antibiotics: Antiviral rather than antibiotic, but Robbie contracts the Motaba virus and is on the brink of death before they administer the virus' antiserum. She is almost completely recovered after only a day. In reality, this is far too soon to recover from a hemorrhagic fever, which causes massive internal bleeding and organ failure.
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Outbreak / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Outbreak / int_269e82c1	comment	Completely inverted later in the movie, when it is mentioned two children died from the new strain of Motaba.
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Outbreak / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Outbreak / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: General Ford tells Daniels and Salt exactly how to stop the bombing run at the end of the movie, under the guise of warning them of the dire consequences of doing so. McClintock immediately starts berating him for "slipping up" like that, then has a bit of a subdued Oh, Crap! reaction when he realizes what he's up to.
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Outbreak / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Outbreak / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Daniels's response to being ordered not to interfere with the bombing of a small town:
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Outbreak / int_2decf5dd	type	Silly Simian
Outbreak / int_2decf5dd	comment	Silly Simian: The movie unashamedly features a cute little monkey who is the plague bringer of doom (albeit unintentionally).
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Outbreak / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
Outbreak / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) plays a fairly large role and so does USAMRIID (United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases).
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Outbreak / int_34e3784f	type	Please, Don't Leave Me
Outbreak / int_34e3784f	comment	Please, Don't Leave Me: Imploringly spoken by Sam Daniels as Robby looks like she might succumb to her Motaba infection. Followed by his calculated risk. Also stated by the dying American soldier in the 1967 prologue when he realizes that the hazmat-clad newcomers are also Americans.
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Outbreak / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Outbreak / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: In the prologue, the Congo camp doctor figures out that the "care package" being airdropped is a daisy cutter a few seconds before the sick soldiers do, and he remains stone-faced while the soldiers have varying degrees of shock on their faces. Casey tries, but in his last moments he is too feverish to carry a conversation.
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Outbreak / int_39add7e2	type	Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice
Outbreak / int_39add7e2	comment	Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice: Applied to Cedar Creek by the U.S. military, and the typical application of Armies Are Evil of this trope is (thankfully) averted: while Motaba is so lethal that it's justified, the only reason why the military escalates to try to nuke the city off the map is because McClintock lied to the President and the Joint Chiefs about Daniels's chances of finding a cure, so he could maintain the existence of his personal project to use Motaba as a weapon in secret. The military itself doesn't act in any particularly evil way during the quarantine. They get a little justifiably physical with rioting townspeople who won't obey the stay-at-home command, and the only fatal incident occurs when someone about to break quarantine tries firing a rifle at a military helicopter ordering them to stop their car.
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Outbreak / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Outbreak / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: In the climax, Daniels and Salt fly their helicopter right into the path of Sandman to prevent the bombing of Cedar Creek.
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Outbreak / int_3c88d6c2	type	Flat "What"
Outbreak / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What": Billy Ford's reaction when told by Daniels that there are two strains of Motaba, and the new one, despite what they were told about the prior strain, is airborne and highly infectious.
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Outbreak / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Outbreak / int_3f89452c	comment	Sad Clown: Casey. He's Daniels' best friend and covers up his emotions with jokes. When his suit tears and he fears he has been infected, he tells Robbie. "Just a sudden case of the Willies. I hate those Willies. Don't you think they should call it the Sams (referring to Sam Daniels, Robby's ex-husband)?" When he is in the early stages of the illness, and Daniels forces him awake, he says, "I had a wonderful dream, Auntie Em. You were there, and you were there..." When he's in the final stages, he weakly manages to joke to Robby that she should give Sam Daniels a chance because he has a huge crush on her.
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Outbreak / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Outbreak / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: When Daniels asks Ford what E-1101 is (the serum for the original strain of Motaba) Ford calls it an experimental antiserum from Yale virology. Daniels doesn't buy it for a second. When Daniels and Salt manage to successfully divert the bombing run, causing the pilots to drop their cargo harmlessly on the water, the pilots blame the miss on "wind shear".
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Outbreak / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Outbreak / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Daniels does this so much that his superiors just barely tolerate him. If he weren't as good as he is, he'd probably be reassigned or discharged.
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Outbreak / int_441bd048	type	Patient Zero
Outbreak / int_441bd048	comment	Patient Zero: A wild monkey carries the Motaba virus; the first human infectees are Jimbo Scott and the pet store owner he was trying to sell said monkey too — the latter of whom got scratched while handling the animal, the former of whom got spat on by the monkey while releasing it into the wild. Though Jimbo only ends up spreading the virus to his girlfriend before snuffing it, the pet store owner ends up infected with an airborne strain of Motaba... and ends up spreading it to everyone in his town.
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Outbreak / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Outbreak / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Played with. There are a few shots of bloody, lesion-covered Motaba victims reflected in the hazmat suit masks. The shot either tightens in on the eyes of the person in the mask so you can see their horror, or cuts away.
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Outbreak / int_4dcfdb68	type	It's the Only Way to Be Sure
Outbreak / int_4dcfdb68	comment	It's the Only Way to Be Sure: A fuel-air bomb is used to sterilize an infected camp in Africa, and another is nearly used to sterilize an American town. They do in fact have the cure for the original Motaba strain, but jump to sterilization because it would make a very effective biological weapon.
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Outbreak / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Outbreak / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Played with. The thing that sets Salt's panic reaction off is seeing a toddler-age child, clearly infected, crying in bed with his parents who are obviously already dead. When Jimbo is on his flight home, already sick with Motaba (which by now the audience knows is seriously deadly), a little boy in a cowboy outfit asks for his cookie. Jimbo, despite being quite ill, playfully tells him he can have it. But his mother stops him before he can touch the infected cookie. Completely inverted later in the movie, when it is mentioned two children died from the new strain of Motaba.
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Outbreak / int_56863152	type	Operation: [Blank]
Outbreak / int_56863152	comment	Operation: [Blank]: McClintock's plan for bombing Cedar Creek is code-named "Operation Clean Sweep".
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Outbreak / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Outbreak / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: McClintock attempts this by sending Daniels to New Mexico. Daniels has other ideas.
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Outbreak / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Outbreak / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: In the opening, McClintock tells the Congolese doctor that he'll arrange an airdrop of medical supplies for the mercenary camp. He also tells one of the mercenaries - a fellow American - that he'll be brought home and will see his girl again. A few hours later, a plane does come by and drop a large container... it's just said container is actually a fuel-air bomb which then vaporizes the camp.
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Outbreak / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Outbreak / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Salt proves to be an excellent one, which doubles as a Chekhov's Skill when escaping from McClintock.
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Outbreak / int_61801647	type	Game of Chicken
Outbreak / int_61801647	comment	Game of Chicken: Twice: Salt does this with one of the helicopters chasing him and Daniels, to buy some time for them to get back to Cedar Creek. Ford roundabout suggests it to Daniels and Salt so they can try to prevent Sandman from dropping its bomb.
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Outbreak / int_61fea7c1	type	One Dose Fits All
Outbreak / int_61fea7c1	comment	One Dose Fits All: The film shows everyone getting the cure to Motaba in IV bags. The specification Sam gives Robby is that every patient is getting 200 ml. This would probably need to vary by age and size of patient, and whether they could be brought back from the later stages of the virus.
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Outbreak / int_62d4ceb3	type	Mood Motif
Outbreak / int_62d4ceb3	comment	Mood Motif: There's a brilliant motif, full of hopefulness and wonder as Jimbo sets the host monkey free in the thick, lush California forest, underscored with a significant tension of strings and low notes because the monkey is the host and Jimbo is already starting to become symptomatic. There's an uplifting and hopeful tinkly tune when Daniels looks up to see the test monkey with African Motaba shows that the serum given Daniels by Ford works effectively as a cure. There's a Scare Chord when Casey's suit rips. The Strings of Suspense play during Sam Daniels's impassioned plea to the pilots of Sandman not to drop the Fuel Air Bomb. There's a musical lilt that goes soft and gentle after Sandman releases its bomb over the water, indicating that Daniels' plea was successful and the pilots chose not to bomb the town despite orders.
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Outbreak / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Outbreak / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Daniels uses this to get his plane redirected to Cedar Creek. He intimidates a poor airman who is in charge of getting the plane ready that he didn't had orders to go to New Mexico, he had orders to go to Cedar Creek, and call General Ford to confirm it if he's unsure, then tell the airman that it's too damn late in the night and to not call Ford and wake him up, just get the damn plane ready to go.
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Outbreak / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Outbreak / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Played with. Daniels pulls off his hazmat helmet in Robby's hospital room, knowing full well the virus is airborne, to give Robby the will to fight until the antiviral serum is completed. It's more of a calculated risk, since Sam knows that Salt is already producing the antivirus for the airborne strain as fast as he can.
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Outbreak / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Outbreak / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: McClintock's big defining personality trait. He berates everybody for sentiment and calls it silly. He has a clue about empathy though, because he makes precision strikes against others in ways that will hurt them emotionally.
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Outbreak / int_6ac3af76	type	Divorce Is Temporary
Outbreak / int_6ac3af76	comment	Divorce Is Temporary: As the movie opens, Robby used to be part of Daniels' crew he takes to all outbreak sites, but when their marriage ended, she got another job. They fight until they're forced to work together, but it's obvious they still love each other despite their differences. By the end of the film, it's obvious that they're going to give it another shot.
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Outbreak / int_6ac5926f	type	Insane Admiral
Outbreak / int_6ac5926f	comment	Insane Admiral: McClintock, whose go-to option for disease control can be summed up as "Kill It with Fire". This is because he wants Motaba as a biological weapon, which won't work if it can be cured by anyone else. It says a lot that he's the only man in the film that sees the horrors Motaba can do and doesn't look disturbed (he doesn't even try).
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Outbreak / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Outbreak / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: Once the protagonist has found and isolated the antibody from the monkey's blood serum, by the next scene there's enough antiserum for all those infected through Hollywood production speed. Once injected into the dying people, it nigh-instantly cures them and everything is soon on the road to normal, with no lasting ill effects.
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Outbreak / int_70e8a55a	type	No FEMA Response
Outbreak / int_70e8a55a	comment	No FEMA Response: The town is quarantined, and then the plan is to Fuel Air Bomb it to stop the infection from spreading.
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Outbreak / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Outbreak / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The young boy who goes up to an obviously sick Jimbo and asks if he can have his half-eaten cookie. He's a kid, but c'mon. Luckily his mom is smarter and stops him before he can touch it. Jimbo's girlfriend, who kisses him even after noticing that he looks sick. At the Cedar Creek lab, the technician working with the blood sample from the pet store owner becomes infected himself when he reaches into an active centrifuge, breaks the sample container, and splatters himself with the blood. The reason? He was distracted by a sports broadcast, and not even a televised one. He was staring at the radio.
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Outbreak / int_740f0e9e	type	Wronski Feint
Outbreak / int_740f0e9e	comment	Wronski Feint: After finding the host animal, Daniels and Salt are intercepted in their Loach by a pair of Hueys commanded by General McClintock. After an aerial chase, Salt manages to trick the two Hueys into nearly colliding. While they both survive, it distracts them long enough for Daniels to fire some missiles into the forest, keeping the Hueys even further distracted while they make it back to Cedar Creek.
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Outbreak / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Outbreak / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: Daniels is treated as doing this; it's just that he tends to go on alert much faster, and take infection risk much more seriously than his superiors would prefer.
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Outbreak / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Outbreak / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: General McClintock, with his permanent smug scowl.
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Outbreak / int_7c6709e2	type	Crisis Point Hospital
Outbreak / int_7c6709e2	comment	Crisis Point Hospital: This is the inevitable condition of any hospital in an area hit by the Motaba virus, as no less than three examples in the film aptly demonstrate. The first is a field hospital in Zaire, 1967; overrun with cases of the virus, forty-eight people have already died in the last two days, and conditions are dire even without the place being in the middle of a war zone. With no morgue or graveyard available, bodies are dumped outside under a tarpaulin. General McClintock has the place bombed to prevent the disease from spreading. And to hide the existence of the virus so he could acquire it as a biological weapon. The second is another field hospital in modern Zaire, this time built around a peacetime village. By the time the USAMRIID team get there to investigate, the virus has killed just about everyone in the building and left them as breeding grounds for the flies - a sight that prompts Major Salt to vomit in his hazmat suit. The worst is the local hospital at Cedar Creek, California: Here, the virus mutates into an airborne form, so it spreads quickly through the ventilation ducts and into wards for uninfected patients. By the end, the hospital has gotten so crowded the military have been forced to expand testing and treatment outdoors into a field hospital, and the mortality rate is so vicious that the bodies eventually have to be burned immediately to save space. McClintock plans to have the town bombed as well, both to prevent it from breaking quarantine and to preserve Motaba as a bioweapon.
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Outbreak / int_7e1eccce	type	Orbital Kiss
Outbreak / int_7e1eccce	comment	Orbital Kiss: A particularly disturbing one takes place in a scene. Jimbo and Cindy have one, but Jimbo's got Motaba virus and passes out in Cindy's arms when the orbit comes full circle.
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Outbreak / int_7e226b8a	type	Orbital Shot
Outbreak / int_7e226b8a	comment	Orbital Shot: The camera spins dizzyingly around Jimbo and his fiancee before he collapses.
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Outbreak / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Outbreak / int_7febc23b	comment	Donald McClintock's Establishing Character Moment is his appearance in Africa in a faceless, black mask Hazmat suit, wherein he lies to a dying soldier before ordering the bombing of the village. Everything we see about him going forward tells the audience he is not a sympathetic character.
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Outbreak / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
Outbreak / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: The mom to the little girl who has befriended a monkey she's named "Betsy" drops a plate of apple slices (complete with dramatic shattering of dishware) when she sees the announcement that the monkey is a carrier for the deadly Motaba virus.
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Outbreak / int_8390cdf1	type	Contamination Situation
Outbreak / int_8390cdf1	comment	Contamination Situation: Robby Keough and Casey Schuler both contract the deadly Motaba virus. Robby lives long enough to get the cure. Unfortunately, Casey does not.
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Outbreak / int_85e7c12f	type	Puppy-Dog Eyes
Outbreak / int_85e7c12f	comment	The first time we lay eyes on Dr. Sam Daniels, he's in the middle of giving his two giant St. Bernard dogs a bath. He takes the call from Ford, then scolds the dogs for getting out of the tub while he was on the phone. He immediately relents when the dogs retaliate with Puppy-Dog Eyes.
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Outbreak / int_8acf3a97	type	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic
Outbreak / int_8acf3a97	comment	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic: McClintock shows off a projection of Motaba's spread over 48 hours, which consumes the entire country. In this case, it's probably a nonsense scare scenario (which sharp viewers might note is plotted from several cities that are not infected) designed to sell the committee on bombing the town.
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Outbreak / int_8bb55271	type	Hazmat Suit
Outbreak / int_8bb55271	comment	Hazmat Suit: Worn by the security guards. Because if they didn't, they'd all discover a lot about the disease a little too personally.
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Outbreak / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Outbreak / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Rudy Alvarez spends his screentime being an abrasive asshole with a Hair-Trigger Temper, and he winds up one of the first to die of Motaba.
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Outbreak / int_8fe0659e	type	Infection Scene
Outbreak / int_8fe0659e	comment	Infection Scene: There are numerous instances of viral infection. First, when a courier takes the Motaba Virus infected African Monkey to release it into the Northern California redwood forest, he gets scratched (which the camera focuses on), and boards a plane where his girlfriend meets him at the airport and make out, infecting her; the camera does a spin effect before showing the courier collapsing from illness. At the pet store where the courier tried to sell the monkey, a half eaten banana is taken by another monkey infecting it, and it infects the shop owner, who later dies in the hospital. Later, a careless lab technician gets the shop owner's contaminated blood on him. Up to this point, Motaba Virus could only be spread through physical contact, however it mutates inside the lab assistant to be spread via the air, and when he has a coughing fit he infects dozens of movie theater goers, with a lot of focus on his flushed face and the mucus droplets in the air. Robby and Casey, two virologists, work non-stop for days, and the fatigue makes them careless in the lab. The camera focuses on a tear in Robby's hazmat suit that allows the virus to enter, and a needle prick on Casey's hand that she tries to disinfect.
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Outbreak / int_91cecc1e	type	Exaggerated Trope
Outbreak / int_91cecc1e	comment	Exaggerated Trope: Motaba is a perfect example of a fictional disease that goes over the top for the sake of Rule of Drama; known hemorrhagic fever viruses like Ebola have an incubation period of seven to twenty-one days, with a fatality rate of 30-90% depending on the strain. Motaba patients have symptoms within hours with a fatality rate of 100%. Even the scientists are shocked at how fast and deadly Motaba is.
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Outbreak / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Outbreak / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The government's response to a deadly viral outbreak.
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Outbreak / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Outbreak / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: As Casey and Sam are about to enter the secure environment, Casey catches a tear in Sam's suit and chides him playfully for being preoccupied over his divorce from Robby than with proper procedure. Later, Casey has worked himself so hard he begins to fall asleep at his post. Forgetting his oxygen line he walks away without unhooking it and tears his suit.
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Outbreak / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
Outbreak / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: McClintock's and Ford's efforts to use Motaba as a biological weapon spiral out of control. After they decline to reveal that they have the serum for the original strain, this allows someone to be infected with the airborne strain, who promptly spreads it to an entire movie theater full of people, and the rest is history.
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Outbreak / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
Outbreak / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: Daniels cannot speak for several seconds when he realizes he was about to go into a level 5 hot zone lab with a tear in his suit, if Casey hadn't spotted it.
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Outbreak / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Outbreak / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: Ford provides the team with a serum derived from the Motaba samples taken back in the Sixties, which they find out works just fine against the first, un-mutated strain. Daniels' insistence in finding out where it came from puts Ford in a rut of increasingly Implausible Deniability.
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Outbreak / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
Outbreak / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: There are several instances in the film that are done specifically to ramp up the tension and suspense for the audience, nevermind whether it's realistic: How fast Motaba mutates. Infection of airborne Cedar Creek Motaba is practically instantaneous. Casey is infected within seconds of his suit ripping despite a rigorous decontamination regime.
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Outbreak / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
Outbreak / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Downplayed with Daniels and Keough. They have a lot of unresolved tension and issues and aren't over each other, but when push comes to shove they're able to work together without issues to deal with Motaba. They end up reconciling by the finale of the movie.
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Outbreak / int_aa58bf92	type	Working with the Ex
Outbreak / int_aa58bf92	comment	Working with the Ex: Daniels works with his ex-wife Robby. Naturally, they get back together at the end of the movie.
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Outbreak / int_aa8fa208	type	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced
Outbreak / int_aa8fa208	comment	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: Major Salt is the New Meat of the USAMRIID team and though he's trained well enough to detail the symptoms of Ebola from memory, he has absolutely zero field experience. Sure enough, while deployed to a Crisis Point Hospital hit by the Motaba virus, Salt pukes inside his hazmat suit and tears the helmet off in a blind panic - an act that could have been fatal if the strain of the virus had been airborne. Though badly shaken, he recovers and begins working hard to make up for his earlier cockiness, soon adjusting to the pressure of working in the field - to the point that he even manages to commandeer a helicopter and help Daniels save the day.
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Outbreak / int_ac7471b0	type	The Dead Have Names
Outbreak / int_ac7471b0	comment	The Dead Have Names: Invoked by the White House Chief of Staff, dropping a stack of photos onto a conference room table:
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Outbreak / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Outbreak / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: While going over Major Salt's personnel file, it's mentioned he's a trained helicopter pilot.
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Outbreak / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Outbreak / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Daniels notices that people are getting sick with Motaba even though they should be isolated from the infectees. Moments after Daniels gets one, Ford gets one himself after being informed that Motaba is now airborne. When Sandman's pilot and co-pilot see the Loach hovering in their path to Cedar Creek.
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Outbreak / int_ad3962c1	type	Biological Weapons Solve Everything
Outbreak / int_ad3962c1	comment	Biological Weapons Solve Everything: General McClintock believes that weaponized Motaba will solve enough problems in wartime to merit killing off an entire American town and keeping it a secret.
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Outbreak / int_ada62584	type	Reminder of Duty
Outbreak / int_ada62584	comment	Reminder of Duty: Several times: Ford reminds Daniels of the fact that he, himself, is part of the Army that developed the disease, in an effort to keep him quiet about the weapons project. This is about duty to the group. McClintock tells Ford that if he goes down, Ford will have just as much to answer for. Eventually, this no longer matters to Ford. This is about his own desires, though posed as duty to the group. The White House Chief of Staff tells the people preparing to authorize the bomb strike to wipe out the infected city that if there are any voices of the objection, they belong in the room, then and there, not someone running to the press later and claiming disingenuously that they were the "sole voice of opposition" in the room. This is about duty to higher ideals. Daniels appeals to the pilots who have been assigned with the duty of delivering the bomb that will wipe out the town on the basis of duty to ideals first:
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Outbreak / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Outbreak / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Casey. No surprise there considering who plays him.
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Outbreak / int_b39b810e	type	Fiery Coverup
Outbreak / int_b39b810e	comment	Fiery Cover Up: The military threatens to bomb the town in order to contain the virus.
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Outbreak / int_b43754f1	type	Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics
Outbreak / int_b43754f1	comment	Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics: Subverted. The viewers were given plenty of information about the residents of the town about to be bombed. So naturally the day is saved.
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Outbreak / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Outbreak / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: We get a shot that shows the disease is airborne as it must have traveled from the isolation ward to the room of another patient who's had no contact. But a hospital would have heavy and redundant filtration for just that reason even if they were told the virus isn't airborne.
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Outbreak / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Outbreak / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The guy who thought firing on a military attack chopper, which had already fired warning shots at his truck, was a good idea. Suffice it to say he did not live long after that. Jimbo's girlfriend also counts. She sees her boyfriend clearly showing symptoms of a serious disease, and she STILL kisses him on the mouth. The Centrifuge operator, who splatters himself with Rudy Alvarez's infected blood because he wasn't paying attention and infects even more people when he goes out to a crowded movie theater while knowing full well he's very sick and doesn't even cover his mouth when he coughs.
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Outbreak / int_b58b7975	type	Kindhearted Simpleton
Outbreak / int_b58b7975	comment	Kindhearted Simpleton: Jimbo isn't particularly smart and starts the whole crisis by stealing the monkey, but he is by no means a bad person and whenever given the opportunity he makes sure to Pet the Dog.
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Outbreak / int_b72b12cf	type	Blood from Every Orifice
Outbreak / int_b72b12cf	comment	Blood from Every Orifice: One of the more horrific effects of the virus.
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Outbreak / int_b89ab683	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Outbreak / int_b89ab683	comment	Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Salt is this to Daniels, as an Ace Pilot and marksman and a doctor who is capable of making an antivirus within a few minutes.
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Outbreak / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Outbreak / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Done twice: Daniels gets to the point where has had enough of McClintock and his warmongering obstructionism when the former threatens to shoot down the latter after being told he has the way to cure the remaining early-stage Cedar Creek patients. Daniels to Ford, before Sandman is close enough to drop the bomb:
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Outbreak / int_c00afbbd	type	With Due Respect
Outbreak / int_c00afbbd	comment	With Due Respect: Colonel Daniels has this exchange with General McClintock while in a helicopter blocking a bomber from nuking a small town: When Daniels and Salt are discussing how to intercept the Tae Kuk, Salt says, "You want me to fly you out to sea, drop you onto a freighter? Sir, with all due respect, that is idiotic."
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Outbreak / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Outbreak / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Sam and Casey get into an argument because Sam is being his usual obstinate self and insisting they've overlooked something. Casey tells Sam he should get some sleep, which only makes Sam angrier. Sam snaps that Casey should get some sleep. Casey as is his wont, jokes about having slept in July. The next shot is Sam having given in to sleep, and Casey still working, until he starts to fall asleep on his feet — which is why he walks away without unhooking and tears his suit. If he'd listened to his own advice...
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Outbreak / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Outbreak / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The "experimental antiviral serum" works on original Motaba, but not the new strain. Then Casey and Robby each become infected. And Daniels realizes the Army knew about the first strain of Motaba and the antiviral was produced en masse already for the troops so they could use Motaba as a bioweapon.
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Outbreak / int_c3c3771c	type	Sting
Outbreak / int_c3c3771c	comment	Sting: These are used practically all the time. And we do mean all the time.
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Outbreak / int_c57a6051	type	If I Do Not Return
Outbreak / int_c57a6051	comment	If I Do Not Return: There's a sick soldier in Africa who is pathetically grateful to see the Americans even if they're in faceless hazmat suits. But he's realistic, and asks them to tell his girl he loves her. The False Reassurance mentioned above includes, "I'm not gonna tell her. You tell her yourself."
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Outbreak / int_c6a70ec5	type	Apocalyptic Gag Order
Outbreak / int_c6a70ec5	comment	Apocalyptic Gag Order: Colonels McClintock and Ford, despite knowing how deadly the Motaba virus is, play clueless so that they can use the version they have a cure for as a germ warfare weapon. There's even a scene in The War Room where they watch a projection of Motaba's contagion spread and death toll, indicating the president is on board. There are repeated examples of the government telling people who are sick that they'll be just fine — right before dropping a Fuel Air Bomb on the infection.
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Outbreak / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
Outbreak / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Applied to Cedar Creek by the U.S. military, and the typical application of Armies Are Evil of this trope is (thankfully) averted: while Motaba is so lethal that it's justified, the only reason why the military escalates to try to nuke the city off the map is because McClintock lied to the President and the Joint Chiefs about Daniels's chances of finding a cure, so he could maintain the existence of his personal project to use Motaba as a weapon in secret.
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Outbreak / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Outbreak / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: McClintock threatens to sink Ford's career alongside his if he's arrested at the end. Ford, by that point in time, is beyond caring and orders the General's arrest.
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Outbreak / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Nobody saw a hyper-lethal virus like Motaba coming. The hospital in an urban center like Boston had no idea what to make of it so one could hardly blame the small hospital in a tiny town like Cedar Creek for being overwhelmed in a matter of minutes, especially since they were dealing with far more patients.
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Outbreak / int_cd2cf2e3	comment	Typhoid Mary: The lab tech unwittingly infects dozens of people in a cinema after an accident in the lab in which he catches the virus. He's exposed to a blood sample from a dead man, who caught the virus from a smuggled monkey.
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Outbreak / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: McClintock is a good example of one that made it all the way to General Ripper: smug, manipulative, imperious, completely lacking in empathy, and willing to kill thousands of people without hesitation for the sake of keeping the Motaba virus (which can easily kill millions if properly used) as a viable option for bio-warfare (and has no problem saying that it's all for the good of America).
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Outbreak / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Daniels' favorite trick. How Daniels gets onto the military flight to Cedar Creek. He does the same thing again to steal a helicopter so he and Salt can try to find the host.
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Outbreak / int_d54fa1a6	comment	Magic Antidote: One of the CDC doctors contracts the disease (a hemorrhagic fever with a near-100% fatality rate), and is hanging on by a thread when she's given the antiserum. Barely a day later, the splotches on her skin have disappeared, and she's looking tired but otherwise perfectly fine. FYI, hemorrhagic fever causes massive internal bleeding and organ damage. Much of this damage should be permanent even if the disease was arrested, and certainly would not be healed in a single day.
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Outbreak / int_dbed9cf7	comment	I Was Never Here: Played with. Lt. Daniels has, against orders, gone to the site of an outbreak of a deadly virus. His superior, General Ford, discovers this and also discovers that the situation is much worse than anticipated. Ford needs Daniels on the ground to battle the disease and doesn't want to waste time disciplining him, while Daniels is angry at how long it's taken for the military to respond to the situation. So:
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Outbreak / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The U.S. Chief of Staff certainly behaves as one during his one scene. When confronted by the reality of the dangers of Motaba he makes sure that it's absolutely necessary to wipe out Cedar Creek to contain the virus and that there was no other choice. The only reason he agrees to it in the first place is being lied to by McClintock.
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Outbreak / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Daniels tears this excuse apart as he's trying to stop the town from being bombed.
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Outbreak / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The sailor aboard the Tae Kuk. At the beginning, he is seen playing with the monkey. But when Daniels and Salt visit the ship, they are immediately taken to the freezer, where his dead body is seen.
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Outbreak / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Outbreak / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: Wisely navigated when demonstrating the impact on the town's populace. The soldiers begin rounding up infectees in the quarantined small town, and we get to see one woman say a tearful goodbye to her family. We follow her for a few minutes while they take a blood sample during her initial medical exam. There is even a close up of the phial, labeled "Sample 612". In a later scene, we see Casey examining blood slides and becoming increasingly frustrated as he pronounces each one as being infected, including hers. We're later treated to a shot of her in a body bag. Defying this trope is the crux of the speech given by the White House Chief Of Staff, who asks everybody in the room to make damn sure that it is necessary to wipe out Cedar Creek, damn sure that the American people understand there was no other choice, and damn sure that nobody gets the funny idea of going to the press and lying about which decision they took after the fact.
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Outbreak / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: A downplayed case. Despite multiple people reminding him that he and Robby are officially divorced, paperwork and all, Sam Daniels continues to refer to her as "my wife". This is used against him by Ford, cited as his tendency to distort facts.
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Outbreak / int_e59a8584	comment	Instant Illness: The Motaba Virus almost immediately enters the infectious phase right after initial infection (At first it was through physical touch, though once the virus mutates it can spread through the air), with symptoms appearing after about four hours which includes a flush looking face, severe cough, and high fever. A few hours later, the victim will be too weak to move, have difficulty breathing, and experience extreme hemorrhaging, eventually suffering seizures, organ failure, and, about twenty-four hours after infection, death.
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Outbreak / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: McClintock, full stop. The audience can hate a disease, but it's just a disease that does what it does, so the filmmakers compensate by making him as unsympathetic as they can — a sociopathic Smug Snake War Hawk that has about the same problem with killing thousands of people (be it by bio-weapon or gigantic fireball) as he has wiping dog crap from the bottom of his shoe.
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Outbreak / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: General Ford has a change of heart about the imminent incineration of an infected town. He gets on the horn to the chopper carrying Colonel Sam Daniels — who has been unable to convince the army to call off the bombing — to deliver the following warning:
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Outbreak / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The credits sequence, which has a camera going through the Army biological hazards lab, with helpful subtitles showing which specific Biosafety level people work on.
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Outbreak / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: General McClintock is a sociopathic Insane Admiral with a Lack of Empathy who is perfectly happy to kill hundreds of innocent people as long as it gets him what he wants.
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Outbreak / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
Outbreak / int_ec02c97e	comment	Defying this trope is the crux of the speech given by the White House Chief Of Staff, who asks everybody in the room to make damn sure that it is necessary to wipe out Cedar Creek, damn sure that the American people understand there was no other choice, and damn sure that nobody gets the funny idea of going to the press and lying about which decision they took after the fact.
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Outbreak / int_f792ffe4	comment	Beleaguered Assistant: Being a colonel, Briggs hardly fits the traditional archetype of an assistant but he acts as one to McClintock, mostly getting getting treated like crap and criticized no matter what he does. Briggs is only too happy to put McClintock under arrest at the end of the film.
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Outbreak / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Outbreak / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Daniels orders Salt to fire a couple of missiles into the forest below them so it looks like their Loach has crashed. This fools the pursuing Hueys long enough as they check for wreckage that they're able to get away.
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Outbreak / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Outbreak / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: From the moment General McClintock arrives in Cedar Creek, he treats Lt. Colonel Briggs like total crap. Just look at the grin on Briggs' face◊ when he gets to put McClintock under arrest at the end. The General lampshades how pleased the Colonel must feel about this.
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Outbreak / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Outbreak / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Both Casey (played by Kevin Spacey) and Robby (Rene Russo) are infected at different times with Cedar Creek Motaba, for which there is no cure so far. Casey's symptoms are portrayed with horrifying detail: blood streaming from his eyes, nose and mouth, skin destroyed. Robby looks a little bit feverish, her eyes are a little fever-bright, and her hair is slightly disheveled. It's been a matter of hours, at most a day between Casey becoming infected and Robby becoming infected. Even once she has entered the later stages, her makeup has been made to make her look pale and dried out, but she's not bleeding from her face like Casey was at the same stage.
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