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Observer Effect Line-by-Line

REED: Then this'll likely be one of the times when everyone dies.
 
Decon]

(The window is still covered over when Archer 'rings the doorbell'.)
TUCKER [OC]: Travis, if that's you again.
 
ARCHER: It's me.
(The cover slides back to reveal a pasty-faced, sweaty Tucker.)
 
ARCHER: You're usually too stubborn to be talked out of anything. But I'll do my best. How's Hoshi?
 
ARCHER: Phlox identified what's causing all the trouble. A silicon-based virus.
 
ARCHER: If you mean how much time do you have, it's too early for that kind of talk. Your own immune system could knock this thing out.
 
TUCKER: I remember Exobiology 101, Captain. Humans are carbon-based. Our immune system can't fight silicon.
 
REED: Rational intelligence, yes. Which Archer has not demonstrated. The longer the infected crew remain on board, the greater the risk that quarantine will fail.
 
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