Designated Survivor (TV Series)

Outbreak (2017)

Kal Penn: Seth Wright

Quotes 

• Seth Wright : So, I just got off the phone with an infectious disease specialist at the CDC. This bug is a rapidly mutating pathogen that accelerates its host's lytic cycle.

  Emily Rhodes : English?

  Seth Wright : Uh, it makes your cells explode.

  Emily Rhodes : Maybe don't tell the press that.

• 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.

• Tom Kirkman : Dr. Shen was just filling me in on our little friend here.

  Seth Wright : Yes, indeed.

  Tom Kirkman : He's incredibly resilient. Can fight off a wide variety of enemies, holds his ground.

  Dr. Shen : It's fiercely protective of its family.

  Tom Kirkman : And doesn't even sleep much. I think he's a perfect namesake.

  Dr. Shen : We thought so, too, sir.

  Tom Kirkman : Seth, why don't you get the White House photographer? Hylidae kirkmanus is ready for his close-up.

• Seth Wright : Hey, um, did you leave me a blueberry muffin?

  Emily Rhodes : I did.

  Seth Wright : That was really nice.

  Emily Rhodes : Yeah, I picked out all the blueberries, so don't make it a big deal.

  Seth Wright : Well, I won't now. Oh, uh, that zoologist from the National Museum wants to come by; the guy who's naming the animal after the president. He wants a photo op.

  Emily Rhodes : [sarcastic]  Bringing an alien species into the White House while we're fighting a possible pandemic that originated with animals is... a great idea.

  Seth Wright : Hey, I just work here.

• 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 : 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.