The West Wing (TV Series)

The Fall's Gonna Kill You (2001)

Janel Moloney: Donna Moss

Quotes 

• Donna Moss : Does anybody know if it's gonna rain this afternoon? They're asking me.

  Staffer : The paper said mid-afternoon.

  Donna Moss : So we know it won't be that. Cal the Navy Yard for me, would you?

  Staffer : Yeah.

  Larry : [Ed and Larry approach, laughing]  Donna.

  Donna Moss : Yeah.

  Larry : Have you seen C.J.?

  Donna Moss : No. What's so funny?

  Larry : Ed just got a fax...

  [laughing] 

  Larry : I'm sorry. Ed just got a fax from a man named Byron Talmadge. He's the Associate Administrator for NASA's Office of Space Cadets.

  Ed : Flight.

  Larry : Office of Space Flight.

  Ed : The OSF.

  Donna Moss : What's the fax say?

  Larry : A huge Chinese satellite is gonna come crashing to Earth, and we don't know where, and we don't know when.

  Donna Moss : Seriously?

  Ed : Yeah, it's right here in the fax.

  Donna Moss : A satellite is... crashing to Earth and NASA sent us a fax?

  Ed : Yeah.

  Donna Moss : This is for real.

  Larry : Yes.

  Donna Moss : [terrified]  A satellite is gonna crash into the Earth?

  Larry , Ed : Yes!

  Donna Moss : Why are you laughing?

  Ed : We thought it was funny.

  [the two of them turn to leave] 

  Donna Moss : I'm an assistant. What am I supposed to do with this information?

  Larry : The fax was for C.J., just give it to her when you see her.

  Staffer : Donna, they say it's not going to rain this afternoon.

  Donna Moss : Well, that's a relief.

• Donna Moss : So, NASA's OSF tells us that the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base believes that a Chinese satellite has fallen out of its orbital... flight plan. The last detection the 30th had placed it in what they call a "degrading orbital path" and it's now dropped off their radar, suggesting it's begun a rapid fall towards the Earth's atmosphere.

  Charlie Young : [walks back behind his desk]  Cool.

  Donna Moss : No, it's not! What's the matter with you people?

  Charlie Young : What'd I do?

  Donna Moss : A thing the size of a garbage truck is gonna be in a two-thousand-mile-an-hour free fall and no one knows where it's gonna hit!

  Charlie Young : I'm rooting for Zurich.

  Donna Moss : Charlie...

  Charlie Young : I've had it up to here with the Swiss.