Chernobyl (TV Mini Series)

Open Wide, O Earth (2019)

Michael Colgan: Mikhail Shchadov

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Quotes 

• Mikhail Shchadov : The reactor fuel is going to sink into the ground and poison the water from Kiev to the Black Sea, all of it. Forever, they say. They want you to stop that from happening.

  Glukhov : How are we supposed to do that?

  Mikhail Shchadov : They didn't tell me, because I don't need to know. Do you need to know, or have you heard enough?

  Glukhov : [looks at his men, steps up to Shchadov, eyes him over, then pats his shoulder, leaving a big coal dust stain on the minister's nice suit before heading to the truck] 

  [the other miners follow, all patting on Shchadov's suit and shirt, dirtying them up] 

  Miner #1 : [pats Shchadov's cheek, smearing coal dust on it]  Now you look like the minister of coal.