Patient Zero (I) (2018)

Stanley Tucci: The Professor

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• The Professor : [as an Infected]  Just because I killed my family doesn't mean I didn't love them.

  The Professor : [to Morgan]  You Are Our Patient Zero

• Morgan : You're a goddamn animal.

  The Professor : Between the humans and The Infected, who do you think is on the top of the evolutionary scale?

  Morgan : Not you.

  The Professor : See, I beg to differ. Our brains have been enhanced by the virus. Therefore freeing us from the limitations of what you call human.

• Morgan : Where is Patient Zero?

  The Professor : Oh, there is none.

  Morgan : The virus started somewhere, where is he?

  The Professor : The rage. The rage started here against the government. The rich, the poor, foreigners, intellectuals, conservatives, feminists, freaks, name it. That's where it came from. We became so angry for so many good reasons, and for none. The virus has laid dormant in us since the beginning of time. And the extremes of modern stress have caused it to awaken. We're all, in essence, Patient Zero.

• Scooter : Free will, Professor. I believe you lost that capacity when you were turned.

  The Professor : Oh, I see. So, you're postulating that because I'm no longer human, that I don't have free will. And yet, here I am conversing with you, enjoying a smoke. These are hardly the traits one would associate with an animal. In fact, I would argue that we're a more evolved species than you.

  Scooter : An evolved species that destroys without any conscience.

  The Professor : Yes, just like humans, who destroy chickens and cows without a conscience.

  Scooter : No, no, come on, man, that's food, that's sustenance.

  The Professor : What do you think violence is for us?

• The Professor : So that's why you're so interested in finding Patient Zero.

  Morgan : No, it's because you're a disease. A disease that I believe can be cured.

  The Professor : Do I look sick to you?

  Morgan : Yes.

  The Professor : I think that human beings are the disease, and we're the cure. The antidote that has been given to Earth to get rid of the human infection.

• Morgan : Thank you for the educational talk. But we are at war here.

  The Professor : If we're at war, I suggest you ask yourself who's winning.

  Morgan : Oh, you think you're winning? Hey, let me tell you. However slight the human race may be, we will continue to fight. We will continue to remain curious. We will continue to find solutions and we will continue to adapt because that is what we do, and that is what we have done since the dawn of time, okay?