Legasov: [Sees the reactor, horrified] What have they done?
Shcherbina: Can you see inside?
Legasov: I don't have to. Look. That's graphite on the roof. The whole building's been blown open. The core's exposed!
Shcherbina: I can't see how you can tell that from here.
Legasov: Oh, for God's sakes! Look at that glow! That's radiation ionizing the air!
Shcherbina: Well, if we can't see, we don't know. [to the pilot] Get us directly over the building!
Legasov: Boris, if we fly...
Shcherbina: Don't you use my name!
Legasov: ...directly over an open reactor, we'll be dead within a week! Dead!
Pilot: Sir?
Shcherbina: Get us over that building, or I'll have you shot!
Legasov: [to the pilot] If you fly directly over that core, I promise you, by tomorrow morning, you'll be begging for that bullet! [the pilot considers this, and changes course]”
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