If we only knew how or by what he was infected, we might know how to combat the disease, but we're working in the dark.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Angry Red Planet movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:12:13 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- How can anyone cope with that?
- Come on, Dr. Ryan, we'll follow.
- I've given him a sedative. Should keep him quiet. He's running a high temperature.
- Dr. Gordon, that... that growth... what are we up against?
- Do you have any idea what it might be?
- What about the tape records? Has anything been learned from them?
- That's just it. The general informed me that there are no records.
- Silent, as though they'd been erased by some powerful magnetic force. They're all like that.
[...]