We've been attacking the alien amoeba as if it were a disease, but it isn't, it's an animal, an animal with instincts, and most important of all, a will to act.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Angry Red Planet movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:17:53 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- You know more about this creature than anyone. We thought that...
- General, there is a biological laboratory here, isn't there?
- I think we found the solution.
- We have already thought of that, Dr. Ryan.
- Any kind of electric shock strong enough to kill the amoeba will also kill Tom.
- I know.
- It only makes it harder to destroy.
- And gives it a vulnerability we also have, that of making a wrong choice.
- One we left alone. The other we subjected to light, periodic electric shocks.
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