The X Files (1998)

Jeffrey DeMunn: Bronschweig

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Quotes 

• [on the phone] 

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : It's Bronschweig. Sir, the impossible scenario we never planned for? Well, we better come up with a plan.

• Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : [after seeing the formed alien]  So much for little green men.

• Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : [the Cigarette Smoking Man and Dr. Bronschweig climb down a ladder into the cave while wearing bio-haz-mats suits]  We brought the atmosphere back down to freezing in order to control the development, which is like nothing we've ever seen.

  Cigarette Smoking Man : Brought on by what?

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : Heat, I think. The coincident invasion of a host, the fireman, in an environment that raised his body temperate above 98.6.

  Cigarette Smoking Man : [they walk into an isolation chamber where one of the infected firemen is lying on a gurney, breathing heavily, his skin gelatinous, and hooked up to various I.V. drips]  This man's still alive.

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : Technically... and biologically. But he'll never recover.

  Cigarette Smoking Man : How can this be?

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : [he points to the alien embryo forming in the fireman's chest seen through the skin which is pulsating]  The developing organism is using his life energy, digesting bone and tissue. We've just slowed the process.

  [pause] 

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : Do you want us to destroy this one too before it gestates?

  Cigarette Smoking Man : Uh, no. No. We need to try our vaccine on it.

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : And if it's unsuccessfull?

  Cigarette Smoking Man : Burn it... like the others.