The Crazies
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Russell Clank: Is he dead?
David Dutton: Well if he is, he won't mind waiting.

Bill Farnum: She worries too much. I'm fine. Just a little tired.
Judy Dutton: So, what are you doing for the weekend?
Bill Farnum: She worries too much. I'm fine. Just a little tired.

David Dutton: Don't ask me why I can't leave without my wife and I won't ask you why you can.

Continuity mistake: When the police car rolls out of the car wash, both passenger and driver's doors are open. When the shot changes to the deputy holding the rifle, the driver's door is closed. In the next shot both doors are open again.

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Question: Why did the soldiers shoot the non-infected people in the cattle trucks? Is there something going on here that I missed? Does everybody have the virus?

Answer: Possibly because the Government didn't want word about the virus getting out to the general public so they ordered the solders to shoot the non infected people in order to silence them all, and then created a cover story about a chemical plant exploding in the town.

Trainman

Answer: At this point, the army had decided to simply kill everyone from the town, rather than risk the infection spreading and to save the time and trouble of checking whether people were infected or not.

Also, they probably wanted to contain knowledge of what they'd done. No witnesses.

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