From
Aliens (1986)
Burke:
[
Talking about the facehuggers] Look, those two specimens are worth millions to the bio-weapons division. Now, if you're smart, we can both come out of it as heroes and we'll be set up for life.
Ripley:
You're crazy Burke, you know that? You really think that you can get a dangerous organism like that past ICC quarantine?
Burke:
How can they impound it if they don't know about it?
Ripley:
Oh they *will* know about it, Burke. From me. Just like they'll know that you were responsible for the deaths if 158 colonists here.
Burke:
Wait a second...
Ripley:
You sent them to that ship.
Burke:
You're wrong.
Ripley:
I just checked the colony log. Dated 0-6-1-2-7-9, signed Burke, Carter J. You sent them out there and you didn't even warn them. Why didn't you warn them, Burke?
Burke:
Okay, look. What if that ship didn't even exist, huh? Did you ever think about that? I didn't know! So now, if I went in and made a major security issue out of it, everybody steps in. Administration steps in, and there are no exclusive rights for anybody; nobody wins. So I made a decision and it was... wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley, it was a bad call.
Ripley:
Bad call?
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