The West Wing (TV Series)
The Fall's Gonna Kill You (2001)
Janel Moloney: Donna Moss
Quotes
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Donna Moss : Does anybody know if it's gonna rain this afternoon? They're asking me.
Staffer : The paper said mid-afternoon.
Donna Moss : So we know it won't be that. Cal the Navy Yard for me, would you?
Staffer : Yeah.
Larry : [Ed and Larry approach, laughing] Donna.
Donna Moss : Yeah.
Larry : Have you seen C.J.?
Donna Moss : No. What's so funny?
Larry : Ed just got a fax...
[laughing]
Larry : I'm sorry. Ed just got a fax from a man named Byron Talmadge. He's the Associate Administrator for NASA's Office of Space Cadets.
Ed : Flight.
Larry : Office of Space Flight.
Ed : The OSF.
Donna Moss : What's the fax say?
Larry : A huge Chinese satellite is gonna come crashing to Earth, and we don't know where, and we don't know when.
Donna Moss : Seriously?
Ed : Yeah, it's right here in the fax.
Donna Moss : A satellite is... crashing to Earth and NASA sent us a fax?
Ed : Yeah.
Donna Moss : This is for real.
Larry : Yes.
Donna Moss : [terrified] A satellite is gonna crash into the Earth?
Donna Moss : Why are you laughing?
Ed : We thought it was funny.
[the two of them turn to leave]
Donna Moss : I'm an assistant. What am I supposed to do with this information?
Larry : The fax was for C.J., just give it to her when you see her.
Staffer : Donna, they say it's not going to rain this afternoon.
Donna Moss : Well, that's a relief.
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Donna Moss : So, NASA's OSF tells us that the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base believes that a Chinese satellite has fallen out of its orbital... flight plan. The last detection the 30th had placed it in what they call a "degrading orbital path" and it's now dropped off their radar, suggesting it's begun a rapid fall towards the Earth's atmosphere.
Charlie Young : [walks back behind his desk] Cool.
Donna Moss : No, it's not! What's the matter with you people?
Charlie Young : What'd I do?
Donna Moss : A thing the size of a garbage truck is gonna be in a two-thousand-mile-an-hour free fall and no one knows where it's gonna hit!
Charlie Young : I'm rooting for Zurich.
Donna Moss : Charlie...
Charlie Young : I've had it up to here with the Swiss.