The Swarm (1978)

Bradford Dillman: Maj. Baker

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Quotes 

• [Crane has found something at the ravaged picnic site] 

  Brad Crane : [holding it up]  Plastic. It's a piece of a plastic cup. There are pieces all around here.

  [he starts pointing out the other fragments] 

  Brad Crane : Look. Look, there. There. There.

  General Thalius Slater : What's so significant about that?

  Brad Crane : I'm afraid to speculate. But, I think, the bees, did this.

  Major Baker : Are you saying these bees eat plastic?

  Brad Crane : No, no. But I'm wondering. Your American honeybee has a weak mouth, that couldn't even break the skin, of a grape. But it looks like this species, is tearing up, plastic cups, possibly to line their hives. Now, if this is true, they didn't, just get here. I mean, the invasion, didn't, just now begin. They have been here some time. Breeding. Increasing.

  General Thalius Slater : So?

  Brad Crane : Well, suppose these bees, are using plastic, to insulate their hives.

  General Thalius Slater : No bee is that smart.

  Brad Crane : Suppose these African bees are.

• [Watching Crane pray after Helena suffers toxic shock from a bee sting] 

  Major Baker : Can we really count on a scientist who prays?

  General Thalius Slater : I wouldn't count on one who doesn't.

• [after Crane leaves the missile silo's mortuary] 

  Major Baker : I noticed Dr. Crane seemed uneasy in here.

  Dr. Krim : I can't imagine why anyone would be uneasy around all these *dead men*. Can you, Major?

• Major Baker : General! General!

  General Thalius Slater : What the hell's going on?

  Major Baker : The bees have broken inside.

  General Thalius Slater : Now what?