TV series: Chernobyl (Chernobyl) (2019)

- What is a dosimeter?
- 3.6 x-ray, but it is his maximum...
- 3.6... Not great, not awful.

- It turns out that you have a talent for it.
- What? To lie?
A policy that Legasov. To the policy.

- Why worry about something that never will be?
- Why worry about something that never will be? Just fine... It's on the money necessary to print.

I was afraid the prices however, now I only ask: what price a lie?

- Do you know who Vasily Ignatenko?
- No.
- He was a firefighter, died two weeks after the explosion. I met his widow, she gave birth to a child. The girl, who lived only four hours. Doctors said would die mother, if I wasn't pregnant. The child absorbed all the radiation. Her child. We live in a country where children must die to save their mothers. To hell with your contract, to hell with our lives - someone needs to tell the truth.

When the stake is your life and the lives of everyone you love - the remorse you already do not care, they are useless.

When you shoot an animal and it's dead, shoot it until you die. Don't let them suffer. Otherwise I will shoot you.

It's not safe in the air radiation, you know?
- Do you know how old I am?
I do not know. Probably a lot.
- Eighty-two. I have lived all my life here. It was here, in this house, in this village. I don't care about the danger.
- I have my orders. Let's not be stupid.
Stupidity? You're not the first soldier had come there with weapons. When I was twelve, the revolution began. First the king's soldiers, and then the Bolsheviks. Guys like you, came, told us to run away. No. Then there was Stalin and with it a famine, the Holodomor, the parents died, my two sisters. Those who survived were ordered to get out. No. And then world war II. German soldiers, Russian soldiers - more soldiers - more famine, more death. My brothers never returned from the war. I lived here and still live. So after all that I have seen, I must run away from the fact that I can't even see? No.

- For liquidation of the accident will take three years and about seven hundred and fifty thousand people. Including doctors and engineers.
- And how many will die?
- Thousands. Perhaps tens of thousands.

- When this is all over, take care of them?
I don't know...
- See, you don't know...

- Have you ever dealt with the miners?
- No.
- My advice to you: tell the truth. They work in the dark, so you can see everything.

- What will happen to our children?
- What? With divers?
- With divers, firemen, those that were in the hardware room. Exactly how they will be affected by radiation?
Some of them were so badly irradiated that the radiation will break down their cell structure. The skin will blister, become red and then turn black. Then begins the latent period. The symptoms go away, it would seem that the patient is recovering, he is already healthy, but it's not. It usually only lasts a day or two.
- Go ahead.
- Then it becomes evident that the cells are damaged, the spinal cord dies, dies the immune system, organs and soft tissues begin to decompose. Arteries and veins burst, become like a sieve, so it is impossible even to enter the morphine and the pain unimaginable. And then after three days or three weeks death. That's what happens with those guys.
How about us?
- Well, we... we irradiated all the time, but not as much so the radiation won't kill the cells, but it is enough to damage DNA. So, over time, cancer. Or aplastic anemia. In any case - we're gonna die.
- Then, in some ways we got off easy.

Professor Legasov, you are there for only one reason, you know? To stop it all. I don't want to hear questions, I want to know when this is all over.
- If you want to know when Chernobyl will be safe, the half-life of plutonium-239 were twenty-four thousand years. We will not live.

You do this because it's necessary. It is you, because nobody else can. If not millions will die. Can there be a more valid reason? That's what has always distinguished our people - thousands of years of self-sacrifice in our veins. And every generation waiting for his trial. I spit on the people who made it and curse the price that must be paid.