Dr. Halstead has a point. Is this man, this pedophile, really being rational?
Funny enough, it sounds to me like he is.
So we just have to, uh, stand by and watch him kill himself?
Not treating your cancer is not the same thing as committing suicide. I mean, it's his decision. He's allowed to make it. More to the point, I think what he may be trying to do is looking for a way to... escape his urges.
By dying.
Dr. Reese, have you ever seen a pedophile's PET scan?
[she shakes her head 'no']
The prefrontal cortex and the putamen, they... they light up. There's a very good chance that pedophilia could be genetically hardwired into the brain.
There-there-there's nothing he can do about it?
Well, yes and no. I mean, the thinking is you can't change the hardware, but the software is another question, and it sounds to me like... like that's what Mr. Thomas has been trying to do. If you look at it from his perspective, the whole thing seems quite rational.
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