Chernobyl (TV Mini Series)

Vichnaya Pamyat (2019)

Emily Watson: Ulana Khomyuk

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• Valery Legasov : They will shoot me, Khomyuk.

  Ulana Khomyuk : You told me to find out what happened. I spoke to dozens of people. Every word they said, I wrote down. Forty of these books: these are the ones who are still alive, these are the ones who are dead. They died rescuing each other: putting out fires, tending to the wounded. They didn't hesitate, they didn't waver, they simply did what had to be done.

  Valery Legasov : So have I. So have I. I went willingly to an open reactor. So I've already given my life. Isn't that enough?

  Ulana Khomyuk : No, I'm sorry, but it is not.

• Ulana Khomyuk : [giving evidence at Dyatlov's trial]  I want you to think of Yuri Gagarin. I want you to imagine he had been told nothing of his mission into space until the moment he was on the launch pad. I want you to imagine all he had was a list of instructions he'd never seen before, with some of them crossed out. That is exactly what was happening in the control room of Reactor 4. The night shift had not been trained to perform the experiment. They hadn't even been warned it was happening. Leonid Toptunov, the operator responsible for controlling and stabilizing he reactor that night, was all of 25-years old. And his total experience on the job?

  [beat] 

  Ulana Khomyuk : Four months. This was the human problem created by the delay. But inside the reactor core, in the space between atoms themselves, something far more dangerous was forming. A poison.

  [pause] 

  Ulana Khomyuk : The time is 28 past midnight.