How to Regulate the Ghosts
The catastrophe at its center begins when Walter Peck (William Atherton), a bureaucrat from the Environmental Protection Agency, visits the basement of the Ghostbusters’ headquarters and finds a machine he does not understand. The nerdy scientist Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) explains that it’s a containment system; shutting it off would be “like dropping a bomb on the city.” Peck doesn’t believe in ghosts, and he sure doesn’t believe in the Ghostbusters, so he orders an electrician to turn the machine off. The ConEd guy, sensing a risk he doesn’t totally grasp, hesitates.
- ▪The catastrophe at its center begins when Walter Peck (William Atherton), a bureaucrat from the Environmental Protection Agency, visits the basement of the Ghostbusters’ headquarters and finds a machine he does not understand.
- ▪The nerdy scientist Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) explains that it’s a containment system; shutting it off would be “like dropping a bomb on the city.” Peck doesn’t believe in ghosts, and he sure doesn’t believe in the Ghostbusters, so he or
- ▪The ConEd guy, sensing a risk he doesn’t totally grasp, hesitates.
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IdeasHow to Regulate the GhostsYou don’t have to know everything to do something.By Josh TyrangielIllustration by Alisa Gao / The AtlanticSeptember 21, 2026, 7:18 AM ET ShareSave Ghostbusters is a movie about friendship and slime and the specific melting point of giant marshmallows—which makes it easy to forget that it’s also a movie about regulation. The catastrophe at its center begins when Walter Peck (William Atherton), a bureaucrat from the Environmental Protection Agency, visits the basement of the Ghostbusters’ headquarters and finds a machine he does not understand.
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