Amy Granderson quotes from The Last Ship

This is Tom Chandler, commanding officer of the USS Nathan James, over.

Amy Granderson

Captain Chandler. You have no idea how good it is to hear your voice. We thought you were lost at sea.

No, ma'am, we're alive and well.

Granderson

Oh! There you are. I got it. You must be nearby. I'm Amy Granderson. And I suppose an explanation is in order. As vice-chair of the President's defense policy board, I was briefed on your mission to the Arctic. I knew the risks of the coming pandemic, and I had my daughter transferred to your ship. You must forgive me.

No apology needed, ma'am. Your daughter's been an incredible asset. Pleased to hear from you. We had no word from the presidential bunker.

Granderson

President Geller invited me underground. I declined. I-I felt the risk was too big to have so much of our civilian and military command in one confined space. Unfortunately, I was right.

So the government is gone.

Granderson

For the most part, yes. Since the bunker went silent, there has been a breakdown of infrastructure, general panic, and, of course, a tremendous loss of life. I have tried to execute a contingency plan working with the state and local police to create safe zones. We have been hanging on as best we can. And I have been praying every day for your return.

Amy Granderson

We have successfully taken control of the Nathan James. My people are collecting all your work as we speak. Now, with your research and your samples, Dr. Hamada and his team will eventually learn to make the cure themselves. Wouldn't it be better for everyone if you just agreed to work together?

Dr Rachel Scott

Work together? What, on your Darwinian experiment? Save those that you deem worthy and, what, just forget the rest?

Granderson

Perhaps I was overzealous in... "barbarians at the gate," I believe, is what you called them. Doctor, I watched a grown man beat a 12-year-old boy to death over a gas mask. I saw a woman stab her sister in the back for a can of beans. The apocalypse is here. It's been here for a long time. But I am willing to adjust my philosophy to suit your sensibilities if you just help me get the lab up and running.

Scott

What about the captain? And my friends?

Granderson

The best thing you can do for your friends is to let them know you've decided to cooperate with me. That will end this foolish bloodshed.

Scott

You say you'll help everyone?

Granderson

I will.

Scott

Well, then, prove it.

Granderson

And how do you suggest I do that?

Scott

You're wasting doses here on healthy people. Let me out into the street with what I have left... save people who are already sick. What, you think I'm gonna try to escape?

Granderson

I think it's silly. And given the state of the world, I think it's small.

There are 200 more where I came from. You heard my XO. We've taken back our ship, this building is ours, and we're telling the people of Baltimore that your kill zone at Olympia is out of business. You have two choices... a trial... or a funeral.

Amy Granderson

[to bodyguard] I gave you a direct order. Shoot! [bodyguard wavers and stands down]

I am not going anywhere with you.

I found your daughter lying in a pool of her own blood, shot by your guards, under your order! My children were lined up to be murdered and sent to the ovens, along with thousands of desperate people... all so you can keep the lights on for your select few.

Granderson

You don't know! The virus was spreading! So you get to decide who lives and who dies?! There was panic, Captain, and I remained calm. Everybody was fleeing underground, but I stood firm! There was no plan and I built this. I'm the reason these people have survived this long.

Except when you had the cure in hand, you wouldn't stop! You continued killing. It's over. Your grand social experiment is history. I'm offering you the chance. Surrender with honor.

Granderson

And who will judge me? You?

Not me. A jury of your peers. Pick up the radio. Stand down your troopers. Shut down Olympia. Turn away your helo and come peacefully. It's the only way for you now.

Granderson

[on radio] Th-this is Amy... This is Amy Granderson. Stand down. Cease and desist all operations at Olympia. Repeat... stand down. We are surrendering. [Radio clatters] I am not a monster. I am not. [brings out vial and swallows] Dr. Hamada assured me that the cocktail provided a quick and painless death. I insisted on it.

It must have transmitted to the satellite right before the attack.

Dr Rachel Scott

Have you watched it?

Granderson

Only long enough to know that it was for you, ma'am. But even from what I saw... It wasn't easy to watch. [opens video]

Rachel, oh, God, I pray this gets to you. Listen, we're... We're under attack, Rachel, but it's important... It's important that you learn this. I've been working with the data you sent me about the cure. And I think I found a way to help. Using what I learned about the measles project... Now, I know you think that's crazy, but it works. I'm sending you the data now. It's here. Look, I don't... Oh, God. Listen, Rachel. It's all worked out. All you have to do is... I just somehow pray that this file gets to you, that you get it off the server, Rachel. [gets interrupted]

Okay.

Got to know that... Rachel.

Come on, now. Take it all. We need to find that server. Okay, doc. No. Stand up.

Please. Please. [killed by gunshot]

Well, that's how they were able to get the locations of all the labs. Stole them from Dr. Hunter.

Scott

He was working on an experiment to turn my liquid injectable version of the cure into a powder so it could be released over populated areas via helicopters, planes, drones, even. I could manufacture a highly concentrated powder right here on the ship. We wouldn't even need labs anymore. So people could breathe in the cure. It would be very much like crop-dusting. Mass inoculations without glassware, needles, all the infrastructure that we no longer have.

Do you think Hunter was actually able to do it?

Scott

I know that he had some good results aerosolizing the measles vaccine, but I won't know until we get down to his lab in Florida.

I didn't want to believe it. All those questions. "Is Nathan James okay?" "Is Tom Chandler alive?" "Tell me, tell, me, tell me." You used me as a weapon. How long?

Since before we met.

Granderson

Why? How?!

It was my duty. Surely, you can understand that.

Granderson

You're insane.

I'm insane? No. Insane is believing in lies and closing your eyes to the truth. Insane is having blind faith in a corrupt power structure. No, we need... What the people yearn for is an awakening. Have you heard Tavo speak? Have you heard his message? "The first step towards tyranny" "is to believe" "the government will take care of everything."

Granderson

Kelsi, did I mean nothing to you?

Oh, I did care about you, Alisha. You should know that. And for awhile there, I thought I loved you, but... you and me, what we are... That doesn't even matter. Not now.