[Legasov and Shcherbina's helicopter approaches the Chernobyl plant]
[Sees the reactor, horrified] What have they done?
Can you see inside?
I don't have to. Look. That's graphite on the roof. The whole building's been blown open. The core's exposed!
I can't see how you can tell that from here.
Oh, for God's sakes! Look at that glow! That's radiation ionizing the air!
Well, if we can't see, we don't know. [to the pilot] Get us directly over the building!
Boris, if we fly...
Don't you use my name!
...directly over an open reactor...
I didn't ask your advice!
...we'll be dead within a week! Dead!
Sir?
Get us over that building, or I'll have you shot!
[to the pilot] If you fly directly over that core, I promise you, by tomorrow morning, you'll be begging for that bullet! [the pilot considers this, and turns away from the Chernobyl plant]
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