Designated Survivor (TV Series)

Outbreak (2017)

Paulo Costanzo: Lyor Boone

Quotes 

• Seth Wright : What kind of PR bump do you think the president will get off of an animal?

  Lyor Boone : A small one. I'd prefer a constellation, but, uh, this is what you get when you de-fund NASA.

• Kendra Danes : So this is the famous Kirkman toad?

  Lyor Boone : South American tree frog? Yes. Yeah, it's not a particularly robust example of the genus.

  Dr. Shen : I don't think you're qualified to opine about its robustness.

  Lyor Boone : It's spindly.

  [the frog suddenly inflates its throat and begins screeching] 

  Lyor Boone : And now it's not spindly.

  Dr. Shen : It's a fight or flight response. Maybe if you stop staring at it...

  Lyor Boone : I don't think it's smart enough to view me as a threat. Yeah, brain to body mass, frogs are very low on the evolutionary scale. They're stupid, even by the modest standards of amphibians.

  Dr. Shen : Do you need to be here?

  Lyor Boone : Tasty, though. Yeah. I sampled the related frog, xenopus levis, on safari in Angola. And I must tell you... they go wonderfully with tamarind.

• Aaron Shore : [watching Kirkman's press conference]  The most powerful man in the world sucking up to the guy who lied to his face and tried to shake him down. You know what you call that?

  Lyor Boone : Leadership.

  Aaron Shore : Damn straight.

• Dr. Shen : From the Amazonian rainforest, I present Hylidae kirkmanus.

  Lyor Boone : [moving closer]  What is it? Where is it?

  [seeing it's a frog] 

  Lyor Boone : No, no, no, no, no, no. You can't name that thing after the president.

  Dr. Shen : We already have.

  Lyor Boone : Don't you have something better? Like a... like a crested eagle or a panther?

  Dr. Shen : It's not a flea market, Mr. Boone.

• Lyor Boone : You and Kermit need to leave right now.

  Dr. Shen : Oh, we can't...

  [Lyor taps the frog's tank] 

  Dr. Shen : Oh, don't move... that's not gonna be possible, 'cause it's already traveled 6,000 miles in the last three days. If I move it before it habituates to its new surroundings, it... it could die of shock.

  Lyor Boone : Well, so could the president.

  Seth Wright : Uh, so, how... how long, uh, does he have to stay here?

  Dr. Shen : It's a hermaphrodite, so it's not a "he".

  Lyor Boone : [deadpan]  Well, this gets better and better.

• Lyor Boone : Hey. How's this thing going?

  Kendra Danes : Good.

  Lyor Boone : [hearing the shouting inside]  Yeah. Sounds good.

  Kendra Danes : It's a contentious issue.

  Lyor Boone : Do you like frogs?

  Kendra Danes : [confused]  Frogs?

  Lyor Boone : Exactly. No one does.

• Tom Kirkman : What do you mean Carlton Mackie didn't deliver the medicine?

  Aaron Shore : He reneged, sir. He found another buyer.

  Emily Rhodes : Pharmacies whose clientele are willing to pay two grand a dose.

  Tom Kirkman : So the residents of South Carroll Parish will not get the medicine they need, while the residents in Cameron Parish will.

  Emily Rhodes : Yes, sir. It's all about the money; who has it, who doesn't.

  Lyor Boone : It's like Katrina on steroids, Mr. President.

  Tom Kirkman : Not if I can help it. Tell Kendra I'm gonna need her in federal court as soon as possible.

• Lyor Boone : [after a press briefing]  Seth's good.

  Emily Rhodes : Yep.

  Lyor Boone : The virus is better.

  Emily Rhodes : Yep.

  Lyor Boone : The NAACP wants to know why eight times as many people have died in a black parish than a white parish.

  Emily Rhodes : That's a fair question.

  Lyor Boone : I'm saying the president needs to devote more resources...

  Emily Rhodes : Look, we have the CDC, HHS, NIH, FEMA...

  Lyor Boone : I don't think we can contain this with acronyms, Emily.

• Lyor Boone : Twenty-four hours on the button. If that thing's still here, I'm gonna frog-walk it down Pennsylvania Avenue myself.

  Seth Wright : That's a little harsh.

  Lyor Boone : Well, you want to write a release about a swollen, sexually ambiguous toad named after the president whose defining characteristic, by the way, is that it expectorates on its insect prey?

  Seth Wright : Not so much.