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S1 E15Unfinished Business

Let me ask you something. My father... not my favorite. He is without a doubt the most self-absorbed, twisted, abusive, brilliant, myopic son of a bitch on the planet... So he was a chemist. That much I already know. He worked out of a basement lab in Harvard doing research for a toothpaste company. I also know that there was an accident at the lab one night and my father was arrested, beginning the first truly peaceful period in our home. But here's the thing, Olivia. My gut tells me that your friend's life... the one hanging in the balance... not gonna be saved by a tube of toothpaste.

[Pause] He worked out of Harvard, but not on toothpaste. He was part of a classified U.S. Army experimental program called Kelvin Genetics. They gave him their resources to do whatever work he wanted, which was primarily in an area called Fringe Science.

When you say 'Fringe Science', you mean pseudo science?

I suppose. Things like mind-control, teleportation, astral projection, invisibility, genetic mutation, re-animation--

Whoa, excuse me for a sec, re-animation? Really? So you're telling me... what? My father was Dr. Frankenstein?

[about John Scott] What's happening to him? Can it be reversed?

[Walter looks down]

What is it?

They... They have this horrible pudding here. Butterscotch pudding on Mondays. It's dreadful.

It's Thursday.

Oh! Oh, that's fantastic news!

[Upon seeing his son, Peter] I thought you'd be fatter.

You thought I'd be fatter? Excellent. First words, perfect.

Dr. Bishop, I was curious. Did anyone else ever have access to your work?

Well, the assistants had bits and pieces. God, I suppose. I suppose the only one that really knew what I was doing was Belly.

Who?

Belly. William Bell. He and I shared the lab.

William Bell?

You shared your lab with the founder of Massive Dynamic?

I'm sorry, I don't know what that is. Massive Dynamic...

Ah, nothing really, just a tiny little company. That's perfect. One guy becomes one of the wealthiest men on the planet. The other guy becomes an institutionalized psychopath.

Oh!

What? What happened?

Oh, I just pissed myself.

[smiles] Excellent.

Just a squirt.

[Car passes a Massive Dynamic billboard]

[about dream state] Have you done this before?

I have used this technique to extricate information from a corpse once. You can do that if they haven't been dead longer than six hours.

[sarcastically] Right, cause after six hours, that's when they're really dead.

[about John Scott] How long has he been dead?

TTechnician

About five hours.

...Question him.

Dr. Bishop, hello. I appreciate you coming out tonight.

[about car seat warmer] I've never seen a feature like this before. It warms your ass. It's wonderful.

[over the phone]

Charlie, it's me.

Dunham, what's up?

I need a cross check on recent unsolved homicides. See if any bodies have turned up with a missing pituitary gland.

Oh, you say the sweetest things.

Only to you, Charlie.

I'll get somebody on it.

[Over phone, Peter calls his father Walter when woman goes into cardiac arrest]

[after being handed the phone] Just making some popcorn.

Walter, I'm with a woman in her mid-twenties. She is going into cardiac arrest due to an overdoes of anesthesia. :[machine beeps] Her heart just stopped.

Do you have any cocaine?

Cocaine? No, I don't have any cocaine.

Oh, that's too bad. Going to have to shock her heart.

(After John Scott's funeral)

Did you see John's mother? She wouldn't stop looking at me.

His mother?

Yeah, like she was blaming me for what happened to him, like it was my fault he was dead.

As far as John's mother knows, her son died a hero serving his country.

A hero? He used me, Charlie. And he told me he loved me.

I wasn't going to tell you this... but he said he loved me too.

Wait, you want to rewire his brain?

Not without his permission. It would be a minor surgery.

Minor brain surgery. Emphasis not on the minor.

Forgive me, Dr. Bishop. I like to think I have an open mind. but I have a hard time accepting that that man is hearing another person's thoughts.

Oh yes, so do I. Which is why I would like to prove it.

And how would you do that?

Am I required to keep him alive?

That would probably be best.

If my hypothesis is correct, he is picking up the thoughts of another human being, they will leave a distinct signature

And you think we'll be able to identify whose thoughts they are?

That's preposterous. But I may be able to intercept them.

[Walter is about to drill into a patient's skull when there is a pounding on the door. Olivia goes to open it.]

SStudent

Is this Poly Sci 101?

[beat] Not remotely. [closes door on the student's response.]

Who was that?

Freshmen.

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