Designated Survivor (TV Series)

Outbreak (2017)

Richard de Klerk: Carlton Mackie

Quotes 

• Carlton Mackie : Do you know what you've done?

  Tom Kirkman : Yes. I've ruined your reputation. But I'm gonna give you a chance to get it back.

• Carlton Mackie : Extasis is an experimental drug. Our patent is pending. But now the drug is in circulation, meaning every lab in America will be reverse-engineering it by Monday. We spent $1 billion in R&D on this drug. If that investment is gone, so is my company.

  Tom Kirkman : That is absolutely ridiculous. You're gonna peddle some kind of corporate doomsday scenario while the country is really dealing with one? Pharmaceutical companies have made billions upon billions of dollars profit every year on the backs of the American people with the understanding that if there is ever a crisis - a real emergency - you people would finally step up and do the right thing and make a sacrifice!

  Carlton Mackie : It isn't just my sacrifice. We have heart disease drugs in the pipeline, diabetes drugs. Whatever happens with this outbreak, if we go bankrupt, more people will die from the drugs that we do not develop than from this bug.

  Tom Kirkman : I took an oath to protect the American people. My job is to save lives now, today, and I will not let you get in the way.

  Carlton Mackie : I know what you think of me, sir, but I'm not a racist. I'm a capitalist.

  Tom Kirkman : Yet the fact still remains the community that is suffering from this right now is made up of minorities.

  Carlton Mackie : And I want to help them. But I don't run a charity. So pay me what I deserve or have me arrested for contempt of court, but your lawyers better be ready for a fight. In the meantime, Mr. President, I have a business to run. Just like you.

• Carlton Mackie : Dr. Bruner is right. Extasis could work on H7N9.

  Tom Kirkman : That's great. Carlton, that's excellent news.

  Carlton Mackie : You're suggesting an untested, off-label use not approved by the FDA. If it doesn't work, if it kills someone, Benevax's liability could be catastrophic.

  Tom Kirkman : I understand, which is why I had the White House counsel's office draw this up. It's an indemnification.

  Carlton Mackie : I appreciate that, Mr. President. But it will take my lawyers weeks to vet this.

  Tom Kirkman : We don't have weeks. We... we have hours. People are dying. Carlton, I'm asking you to trust me.

  Carlton Mackie : All due respect, sir, I have an obligation to my shareholders, and I don't satisfy that obligation by saying someone from the government said "trust me." Even if that somebody is the president.

  Tom Kirkman : I respect that. Honestly, I... I do. But there are times in our society where we have to act in faith on behalf of the greater good. And unfortunately, this is one of them.

• Tom Kirkman : You recognize this? It's a bill of lading from the United States Postal Service for the shipment of 30,000 doses of Extasis to a warehouse in Jacksonville. You're in violation of a court order.

  Carlton Mackie : No, sir. Court order covered exactly 10,000 doses.

  Tom Kirkman : Because you misled us. You allowed us to believe that's all you had. You failed to acknowledge the 30,000 doses that you were holding in reserve.

  Carlton Mackie : I provided an amount I was told was sufficient.

  Tom Kirkman : Which very well might have been if we didn't have to hunt you down to get it. Lives are at stake here, Mr. Mackie.

  Carlton Mackie : I understand that, which is why I'm making additional doses available.

  Tom Kirkman : So you and your company can line your pockets.

  Carlton Mackie : Respectfully, sir, it is not that simple.