Where Have All the People Gone (1974 TV Movie)

Peter Graves: Steven Anders

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• David Anders : [after checking the food in Clancy's house with the Geiger counter]  Nothing, no radioactivity.

  Steven Anders : I'll get Deb.

  [goes outside] 

  Steven Anders : Debbie? We found some food.

  Deborah Anders : Can we eat it?

  Steven Anders : Yeah, it's okay.

  [both go into kitchen and begin eating the food rapidly, along with David] 

  Deborah Anders : [after a minute]  Hey, we're gonna get sick.

  David Anders : Hm?

  [all three begin to laugh loudly] 

• David Anders : [thinking about having their car forcibly taken earlier by a man]  I wish I'd had the rifle. He wouldn't have got the Blazer.

  Steven Anders : Why, would you have shot him?

  David Anders : Yeah.

  Steven Anders : Have we come to that already, David?

• Steven Anders : All right, you ready to tell me what's going on? Had a feeling ever since we left Clancy's you had something on your mind you didn't wanna share. Is that for my protection or your sister's?

  David Anders : I didn't know for sure.

  Steven Anders : David, this is not some scientific experiment where we can sit and accumulate data to write a paper later on. I'm not a scientist. I have to depend on you. And we have to depend on each other. Now tell me, do you think something happened to the sun?

  David Anders : Yeah, I do.

  Steven Anders : What?

  David Anders : Probably some kind of explosion.

  Steven Anders : Would that reduce your mother's chances? Come on, we have to accept the worst.

  David Anders : No!

  Steven Anders : All right, then. All right, let's accept the best. Now you tell me all you know or all you think you know.

  David Anders : Could've been a solar flare.

  Steven Anders : Solar flares, don't they happen all the time?

  David Anders : Yeah. It would have to be have been a big one, bigger than anything ever recorded. It was send out a tremendous amount of gamma rays, enough energy to knock out the power sources.

  Steven Anders : But what killed the people? We know it wasn't radiation.

  David Anders : I don't know. It had nothing to do with whether or not they were sheltered.

  Steven Anders : That's right. Clancy's family died, but Michael and his parents lived. And we're alive, so your mother must be, too. All right, let's go tell your sister.

• Deborah Anders : [after finding someone's clothes on a car seat and some white powder]  It was a nuclear war.

  Steven Anders : Deb, come on.

  Deborah Anders : [going into hysterics]  It was a nuclear war! And they're all dead! Everybody's dead!

  David Anders : [starts to hit the telephone with the receiver]  No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

  Steven Anders : David.

  David Anders : Leave me alone! It's not a nuclear war! It's not the whole world, it's just here and that's all! And Mom's not here! She's home and she's alive! Just like us!

  [he takes off running] 

• Steven Anders : [David is walking far ahead of the group]  David, you're gonna lose us.

  David Anders : You're goin' too slow.

  Deborah Anders : [talking about Jenny]  She can't walk any faster!

  David Anders : I can't walk any slower.

  Deborah Anders : Well, what do you expect us to do, leave her here?

  David Anders : What about Mom? How do we know what's happening to her? She may need our help now, and she's slowin' us up!

  Deborah Anders : You know, I really believe he'd leave her here. What's happening to him?

  Steven Anders : He's scared, hon. I guess this is his way of hiding it. Be patient with him.