#TheSuffers

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[silveredsticks]

not me trying to decipher your redacted tags lol

(but i would read it)

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[deceptionpasses]

AND THERE WAS BLOOD?

YANNI

[himejoshiangels]

phone doodles of steph as the rose bride (cuz im nuts) w the hyperspecific vision I have in my head and bcs of all thesuffering, cass would pretty obviously be utena w the emotionally oblivious baby dyke jock thing she has going on and the. suffering

[wilcze-kudly]

(This is a Beifong blog, but i want to ask you a non Beifong question).

Why didn't Katara told Korra about her anger and vengance when she and Zuko went searching for the fire bender that killed Kya? (This took place after Korra was poisoned, and went back to the South Pole to get healed).

That's actually an interesting question!

Katara does touch on her own trauma during the flashbacks in which we see he healing Korra.

Katara: I know what it's like to go through a traumatic experience. And I promise you, if you dedicate yourself to getting better, you'll recover, stronger than ever.

There's a few reasons she didn't elaborate. Her and Korra have known each other since Korra was a small child and therefore Korra may already know that story.

It might also be that Katara didn't see this as a relevant story? Or that Korra wouldn't be in the mindset to recieve it.

In any case, I find it interesting, since it shows a change has occyred in Katara's mindset and in how she interacts with thesuffering of others.

Wheras previously, when she was a young girl in atla, she saw the suffering of the people around her through the lense of her own trauma (C'mon we've all seen the "the fire nation killed my mother" jokes), as an adult in Korra's time, she seems to be able to see it more objectively.

Soo... do of that what you will, but I wonder if it's due to her hsving gained a healthy enough distance from her own trauma.

Of course, the doylist (and therefore boring) explanation would probably be that the writers didn't want to tell the same story twice (they did a similair thing with Toph). You'll notice that the writers don't make that many references to the actual events of atla. At least not in specufic detail.

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Thought for the Day – 5 November – The Consolations of the Suffering Souls in Purgatory

Thought for the Day – 5 November – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) The Consolations of theSuffering Souls in Purgatory “That is the way it is in Purgatory.The suffering soiuls endure dreadful torments but, they are resigned to the will of God and are happy yo suffer indefinitely in order to become holy.Nevertheless, we can and should pray that their sufferings may be…

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Franquia The Suffering será removida da GOG em 1º de setembro

Franquia The Suffering será removida da GOG em 1º de setembro de 2024. #gog #gaming #thesuffering #survivalhorror

A GOG, em seu fórum oficial, anunciou que estará removendo os jogos da franquia The Suffering da sua loja oficial no dia 1º de setembro. Eles não mencionaram os motivos específicos, apenas relataram que a editora detentora dos direitos autorais do jogo efetuou o pedido de remoção. Com isso, os títulos The Suffering (2004) e The Suffering: Ties That Bind (2005) estarão inacessíveis após a data…

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Trying to gaslighting myself into believing being alive is worth thesuffering.

Failing

[run-aled]

RED VALLEY: SEASON 2 EPISODE 2‘Premium Dead Forever’

[transcript]

SCENE 1

2020. BRYONY AND GORDON PACETHROUGH RED VALLEY - FROMOUTSIDE, THROUGH THE BASE, TO THEFIRE DOOR TO THE FACILITY.

BRYONY: -Are you recording this as well?

GORDON: Oh, um, yeah, if that's okay-

BRYONY: Yes, it's fine. Can you carry this?

GORDON: Oh, sure, sure. Bryony, is it just you?

BRYONY: Yes.

GORDON: Oh right, I just thought– well, maybe it was time-

BRYONY: It is time. Grace and Pamela are following ontomorrow.

GORDON: Oh, ah, great! So, we… I mean y… -you're goingto - to wake him up-

BRYONY: If he's still in one solid piece, yes, that's the plan.

GORDON: Great.

BRYONY: Is my room made up?

GORDON: The quarters in the base, yes, unless you'd like thefarmhouse-

BRYONY: Are you still staying in the farmhouse?

GORDON: Um, yes-

BRYONY: My quarters will be fine.

THEY WALK IN SILENCE FOR A TIME.

BRYONY: So. How have you been?

GORDON: Um. Fine. Had a lot to learn, and a lot of time to thi-

BRYONY: Everything's up and running I assume.

GORDON: Yes, yes, yes, I have a rota I made, making sure Igo through each area systematically every otherday.

BRYONY: And the archiving? How is that going?

GORDON: It's a mammoth task, there's so much and it's sodisorganised, every time I think I've found astarting point something else terrifying and horriblepops up! I mean, fascinating. Fascinating and ve-

BRYONY: I'm sure a lot of it is terrifying and horrible to theuninitiated, Gordon. However, you are initiated,aren't you?

GORDON: I suppose I am.

BRYONY: So, you're not having any problems with it? Thesuffering and the viscera and the blood and so on?

GORDON: No. No.

BRYONY COMES TO A STOP.

BRYONY: Excellent. Look, you've been working hard and I'vehad a long trip so I thought we might do somethingfun tonight.

GORDON: I'm sorry?

BRYONY: Fun. Something I think you'll enjoy.

GORDON: Oh, umm. Sure?

BRYONY: Great. I'm going to unpack and get changed and I'llsee you in the cryosuite at 7, shall I?

GORDON: The cryosuite?

BRYONY WALKS AWAY. SHE CALLSBACK TO HIM.

BRYONY: Wear something comfortable.

GORDON: Oh.

CUT.

SCENE 2

2020. BRYONY AND GORDON ARE INTHE CRYO SUITE, AT THE VERY END OFTHE FACILITY.

BRYONY: - and then just leave it there, you'll need yourhands.

GORDON: Okay, yep.

BRYONY: Blue Sky, are you recording this?

THE TINKLE OF THE BLUE SKY IDENT.

BLUE SKY: Recording.

BRYONY: Good. Help me with this. It'll need a bit of welly.

SOME SHUFFLING AND THE CLANGINGOF METAL LATCHES BEING RELEASED.

BRYONY: Right. I think we're ready.

GORDON: Sorry, I... erm… what's...what are we doing?

BRYONY: Do you know the name Lord Conrad Havershire?Of course you don't. He was the founder of theHavershire dairy empire in Devon and Cornwall.Mainly famed for yoghurt. The Yoghurt Lord of thesouth west.

GORDON: Right.

BRYONY: Anyway, in his later years he cultivated ahandsome tumour the size of a cherry in histemporal lobe and promptly made arrangementswith an American cryonics company called ColdState, a ghastly name, no wonder it didn't last.Cold State was hoovered up by Wheelhouse, andwas absorbed into Overhead in 1998. And soOverhead took responsibility for Cold State'sremaining residents, including the Yoghurt Lord.

GORDON: And he's in here.

BRYONY: Shrewdly observed.

GORDON: But we can't just...open him up... surely we haveto...there must be processes, you need yourteam...

BRYONY: We're not waking him up, Gordon.

GORDON: We're not?

BRYONY: He's very dead.

GORDON: But you'll be exposing him to the elements, you'llcompromise his cryostatic field...

A CREAK AND SNAPPING OF CRUSTEDICE AS BRYONY LIFTS THE LID ON THEPOD.

GORDON: Or not, that's fine I suppose.

BRYONY: You'll not have heard of the Havershire dairyempire in recent years because ConradHavershire was simultaneously one of the world'sleading optimists and narcissistic bastards. Soconvinced was he that medical breakthroughs thatcould return him to health and prosperity were justaround the corner, he had his mind and bodycryonically frozen after his demise and refused toname an heir to his company and fortune.Obviously, that sat rather poorly with both hisshareholders and customers, and the companyduly tanked. I believe they still make rocket lollies.

GORDON: Okay.

BRYONY: Jeremy Havershire is the long-suffering eldest sonof Lord Conrad and as you might imagine hasgrown somewhat… impatient for his father'sresurrection. He approached us recently after hislawyers spotted a little addendum to Conrad'scontract with Cold State - that every 15 years thecompany was obliged to carry out a checkup. Tomake sure the body was still perfectly preservedand that nothing had gone wrong with the storageprocess. The date of that 15-year checkup is?

GORDON: Today.

BRYONY: Correct.

GORDON: But… I've read how you would survey a cryonicpatient's body, they would need to be constantlyimmersed in liquid nitrogen

BRYONY: Yes, yes, yes.

GORDON: while you exposed parts of the body for theabsolute minimum time necessary, we've justexposed his whole body, we've increased the riskof crystallisation on the re-freeze by anunacceptable amount-

BRYONY: Gordon, your study is admirable but your concernis quite misplaced. His son has paid mydepartment a considerable amount to ensure theresults of this analysis are...decisive.

GORDON: You're killing him?

BRYONY: Gordon.

GORDON: No, I know, he's dead, but... any chance in thefuture that...

BRYONY: Let's disabuse ourselves of some notionsregarding cryonic preservation, and far morerelevantly, death. Here's the thing about death. It'sdeath. You can read every clickbait fluff piece fromNew Scientist about the incremental stages of it,cell death, brain death, and how we might slowthose down; theories of how you could one daystop them altogether. Some of them might evenmake some sense. But not to the Yoghurt Lord. Hehad a grade 4 inoperable hand grenade go off inhis head the same year Last of the Mohicanscame out and the process he paid so much for…left quite a bit to be desired. Look at his eyes. Goon.

GORDON: Oh, they're...not even closed...

BRYONY: You can see the buildup of ice on his corneas.They're done. Look at his skin.

GORDON: Oh! Crumbs.

BRYONY: Crumbs, flakes, chips, lumps. Uh… He's a mess.But go back to the tumour. The mind-and-bodydestroying cancer. We have to keep himimmaculately preserved, bring him back to life,cure cancer, and then? Rebuild his rotten brain?His spine, his nervous system, everything else thatturned black and killed him? You might as well tryto rebuild a tree after you've lit a bonfire from itsbranches. It's farce. I can't see the future. But I cantell you this - every person that has so far beencryonically preserved is never, ever, ever comingback in any form whatsoever. They're just a higherclass of dead. Premium dead, if you will. Andthey'll be premium dead forever.

GORDON: Except for Warren.

BRYONY: Except for Warren. Would you like to cut his headoff?

GORDON: I'm sorry?

BRYONY TURNS AROUND ANDPRODUCES A CIRCULAR SAW, A BONESAW. WITH A SWITCH IT WHIRRS TOLOUD, VIOLENT LIFE FOR A SHORTMOMENT.

BRYONY: Well, not his whole head. I never like to waste anopportunity to look at someone's brain and JeremyHaverhshire seems to harbour a medieval resentment for old Conrad so he made a requestfor a little piece of evidence. Not his whole head ofcourse, just the brain. So, would you like to helpme scalp him? Trepan him, maybe. Let's see whatbad spirits come out, shall we?

GORDON: Um...

BRYONY: You can't hurt him, Gordon. He was dead beforeTom Hanks won his first Oscar. And by allaccounts an utter prick. The saw is fun.

GORDON: O-kay.

BRYONY: Just...there.

THE SAW REVS TO LIFE.CUT TO: TIME HAS PASSED. THE SAWIS OFF. THE SOUND OF METALINSTRUMENTS ON A METAL COUNTERAND SOME SQUISHY SOUNDS OFTHOSE INSTRUMENTS ON TISSUE.

BRYONY: And there's an ice crystal.

GORDON: Oh yeah.

BRYONY: You can reach it with those forceps. There.

GORDON: Ack. Oop

BRYONY: Slippery, aren't they?

GORDON: Oop.

BRYONY: Automatic lock in. You won't make it to the crystaldome.

GORDON: Aha!

BRYONY: Success!

GORDON: Yeah. Oh… A bit of a puddle forming now isn'tthere.

BRYONY: Yes. It thaws quicker than you might expect.

A PAUSE AS SHE CONSIDERS GORDONCONSIDERING THE BRAIN.

BRYONY: Not everyone can look at a real human brain,much less dissect one. It's why we're out here inthe middle of nowhere. Why so many greatdiscoveries are made in rooms without windows.Because of everyone else's 'boundaries.'

SHE DISCARDS HER GLOVES ANDMOVES AWAY TO A NEARBY SINK TOWASH HER HANDS.

BRYONY: It's why Clive and I differ so much on how to usethe technology once I've perfected it. He wouldwrap it in a bow and present it to the elites, sell itas a luxury, the ultimate lifestyle choice.

GORDON: Do You Want To Continue.

BRYONY: But people won't buy it. Because people can't takeit. If they could we wouldn't be sent to the edge ofthe world, we'd be at Overhead New York in aglistening research resort designed by NormanFoster.

SHE PACES THE ROOM.

BRYONY: You have to be gentle. That's why I want itintroduced through the penal system.Revolutionise the incarceration process. Save anindustry billions, and the tech is proven aseconomically viable. That viability is crucial ofcourse but not where the true value lies. It'sacceptance that we need. Start at the bottom ofthe societal ladder and you'll catch everyone onthe way up. Once the technology is commonplaceit'll take on a life of its own, everyone will want theirpiece. Clive will get his luxury hypersleep cryopodrange with tinted glass and go faster stripes andcan take all the glory he wants, I don't care.

GORDON: You don't want the glory?

BRYONY: People like us will be the only the place we'rewelcome. Back in the basement.

SILENCE.

BRYONY: Ah. You still object to the 'us', don't you?

GORDON: You...and Clive and whoever else...you're killingpeople...

BRYONY: Speak up, Gordon.

GORDON: People are dying in this place.

BRYONY: No, you said 'you're killing people'. And you'reright, yes I am. I'm killing people. Everyone whohas died in this facility on my watch has had thesituation and the risks explained to them in explicitdetail. And they consented.

GORDON: I know, I've listened to the tapes, that's becausethey were criminals carrying out enormoussentences and you offered them things you surelycouldn't deliver, pardons, appeals, early release, ifthe experiments were successful. You went to thehopeless and the desperate-

BRYONY: And the evil, and the sadistic and malicious-

GORDON: And the mentally unwell or incapacitated ordisadvantaged. You knew the likely outcome-

BRYONY: And the homicidal, and the deviant, and thedisgusting and despicable.

GORDON: And where was Warren? On that list?

BRYONY: You've seen his record, you must've seeneverything we have on him. What do you think?

PAUSE.

BRYONY: You haven't, have you?

GORDON: I didn't think it was right to look when he doesn'tseem to know himself.

BRYONY: Or because you were scared of what you mightsee? What you might learn about your friend?

GORDON STANDS UP, MOVES HISCHAIR BACK.

GORDON: What do you want me to do with this guy's brain?

BRYONY: What's that Godby family motto that's been floatingaround these tapes? 'You should only do what youknow you can live with'. What a bizarre concept.How on Earth would anyone find out what they'recapable of if they only did what made themcomfortable?

GORDON: It's about living to a code.

BRYONY: You just cut a man's head in two with a buzzsawand spooned out his mind, if you'd known that thismorning how would that have sat with your code?

GORDON: I...I don't know…

BRYONY: You just did something extraordinary. Somethingyou never would've done of your own volition. Allyou needed was the push. Yes, we're in an uglyplace doing ugly work but we're creatingsomething. Something real, something worthwhile. I think you know that and all I'm trying to tell you isthat that's okay. That there is a place for theGordon Porlocks of this world. And you managedto find it.

PAUSE.

GORDON: There's a pretty big difference between performingan autopsy on a cadaver and the things you'vedone. You must see that.

BRYONY: Is that what you believe or what you've been toldto believe?

GORDON: I don't even know what that means. So, I shouldonly listen to you?

BRYONY: No, Gordon. The worst thing about Red Valley isalso the best. Here, the only person you have tolisten to is yourself. There's nobody else around.

GORDON: You should do a TED talk. Did this work on Grace and Pamela? And Aubrey Wood, and Ben Thomas?

BRYONY'S TONE CHANGES. SHE HASN'T WON HIM OVER THE WAY SHE USUALLY DOES WITH SUBORDINATES.

BRYONY: For the most part. Well then. Let's do another,shall we?

BRYONY STEPS A FEW PACES ACROSS THE ROOM TO ANOTHER CAPSULE.

GORDON: I think I'm done for the night.

BRYONY: I insist.

HISSING AND THE SOUND OF METALON METAL AND SHE BEGINS REMOVING THE CLAMPS AND SEALSON THIS POD.

GORDON: No really, I-

BRYONY: Just a peek, then.

WITH A WRENCH AND A GRUNT OFEFFORT SHE LIFTS THE LID OFFHERSELF. GORDON STEPS BACK INHORROR AND CLATTERS INTO THE INSTRUMENT TROLLEY.

GORDON: Oh… Jesus Christ.

BRYONY: Yes, funny you should mention Ben Thomas. Youmay remember him from such incidents as 'it's onthe floor oh God it's in my shoes', general lecheryand ultimately the misguided breaking of certaincontractual agreements. Did you ever meet himface to face?

GORDON: Did- I?

BRYONY: In your years of skullduggery around thebasements of Overhead. Ben must have been oneof your greatest sources.

GORDON: I… I never met - anyone – I... I found everything myself-

BRYONY: In places where they were left to be found,Gordon. I just wondered if either of them everreached out personally.

GORDON: Either of them?

A COUPLE OF FOOTSTEPS, THE CLUNKOF SOMETHING HEAVY BEING LIFTED. THE ROAR OF THE BUZZSAW, FOR JUST A MOMENT.

BRYONY: Where is Aubrey Wood?

GORDON: I... I don't know!

BRYONY: Calm down, you knew we would ask where yougot all your information at some point. It wasn't allfrom a Buzzfeed article I assume.

THE SAW AGAIN.

GORDON: I've never met her, or him, I only know what theylook like cos I saw CCTV footage, everything wasanonymous, we used aliases, it was all online orthings left for me in storage units-

THE SAW DIES OFF.

BRYONY: Yes, I thought as much. You see, the board of directors live in cheerful ignorance of what happens at Red Valley, and they go to great measures to make sure the rest of the world is justas blissfully unaware. Given the chance I would've liked to ask Ben here what he did with all ourinformation, what his intentions were, but it was Clive who found him in the end. It was a shortexchange I hear. He thought I could make someuse of him though. What do you think Porlock? Has he been useful?

GORDON: Yes.

BRYONY: Oh good. I cannot abide waste.

PAUSE.

BRYONY: Blue Sky, what's the time?

BLUE SKY: The time is 12.17, am.

BRYONY: It is late I suppose. Off you go.

GORDON: Thank you.

GORDON QUICKLY WALKS AWAY, COLLECTING HIS RECORDER AS HE GOES. AS HE REACHES THE DOOR,BRYONY CALLS BACK TO HIM.

BRYONY: No one is useless Gordon. They just need to findtheir place.

IN THE DISTANCE, BRYONY PICKS UPTHE SAW, ACTIVATES IT AND BEGINSTO WORK ON BEN THOMAS' FROZENSKULL.

CUT.

SCENE 3

2020. THE CRYOSUITE. GORDON TURNS ON HIS RECORDER AS GRACEAND PAMELA CARRY OUT SOME FINALTESTS ON WARREN'S POD. GORDON ISA LITTLE DISTANCE BACK FROM THE OTHERS.

GORDON: Hi Pam-

PAMELA: Gordon- stand behind the door, unless you want you sperm to be vaporised.

GRACE: Doubt there's much to risk there.

PAMELA: Screening.

A SMALL WOMP AS A SCAN PASSES THROUGH THE POD. A HEAVY PIECE OF MACHINERY IS WHEELED BACKWARDS AWAY FROM IT.

PAMELA: Okay, I'm saving that. Dumping the rest. You cancome in now.

GORDON: Oh… Sorry. Morning. I made teas and coffees. There's biscuits too, I know it's early but, big dayand everyth-

HE SETS DOWN A TRAY NEARBY. GRACE CALLS FROM ACROSS THE ROOM, HAVING NOT HEARD A WORD.

GRACE: There's a dirty filter light flashing on the wall overthere. Is everything okay with the ventilation inhere?

GORDON: Oh… Um… I... I think so.

GRACE: Then why is it flashing?

GORDON: Oh no, I'm not - that's not my-

GRACE: Well, go and look.

PAMELA: It's not his job Grace, he wouldn't know what hewas looking at.

GRACE: He's a caretaker. He is supposed to take care.

PAMELA: Thank you for the coffee, Gordon.

GRACE: Is it fresh or instant?

GORDON: It's instant.

GRACE: I brought fresh with me, it’s on the counter in the kitchen, go and make some up, please.

PAMELA: He's not your bloody manservant!

GRACE: He's like Igor from the Frankenstein book. I bet hes wings an oil lamp around these corridors at night talking to himself.

GORDON: Igor isn't in the book.

GRACE: What did you say to me?

GORDON: Igor. He was invented for the film adaptations, he wasn't in the novel.

GRACE: Are you stupid? Why don't you spend less time talking shit about monster books and more time making my fucking coffee? Igor?

PAMELA: You know he's recording this right?

GRACE IS ALARMED AT THIS.

GRACE: You're not, are you?

GORDON PICKS UP HIS DICTAPHONETO SHOW HIM.

GORDON: Yeah!

GRACE: Why didn't you tell me?

PAMELA: That's literally his job? Bryony asked him to do it!

GRACE: But I didn't think he would be recording already!

PAMELA: We're in the middle of Emergence Prep, if anything he's late! If you're worried about sounding like an idiot on record, there’s an easy way to solve it isn'there!

GRACE: It's like working under the bloody Stasi.

PAMELA: Well now that's on the tape as well isn't it!

BRYONY APPEARS AT THE DOORWAY, NEXT TO GORDON.

BRYONY: Morning everyone.

PAMELA AND GRACE IMMEDIATELYREVERT TO A PROFESSIONAL AND SLIGHTLY FEARFUL MANNER.

GRACE & PAMELA: Morning Dr Halbech.

BRYONY: Ah you made drinks. How kind of you.

SHE POURS HER SELF A DRINK AND FIDDLES WITH MILK AND SUGAR.

GORDON: Have you been to bed?

BRYONY: No, there's always too much to do before an emergence. Particularly one that might actually work. Aubrey Wood said something in one of her incredibly earnest diaries, didn't she- how can you sleep when all you're thinking about is waking someone up? Pam, where's the Echo?

PAMELA: Echo or ECMO?

BRYONY: Echo. The T.O.E. The ECMO is right in front ofme. It's 4 feet long and nearly as big as the suitcase you brought with you this morning, it would be disturbing if I couldn't see that, wouldn'tit?

PAMELA: I didn't think we needed it now...

BRYONY: I want it checked and set up now.

PAMELA: Yes, Dr Halbech.

BRYONY: Thank you Dr Jennings. Grace.

GRACE: Ah… Yes?

BRYONY: Do you have the read out? From the particle generator?

GRACE: Oh, I thought you were happy with the last results-

BRYONY: I was. I'd like to maintain that happiness with acurrent readout.

GRACE: Uh - yes. I can - yes.

PAMELA IS WHEELING IN THE ECHOMACHINE.

BRYONY: We're working on the first successfully revived subject of cryonic preservation, I'm not the headchef at the local carvery and grill.

GRACE & PAMELA: Yes, Dr Halbech.

BRYONY: Yes, chef.

BRYONY SIPS HER DRINK.

BRYONY: I can feel your questions radiating through your cardigan.

GORDON: What's a particle generator do?

BRYONY: We have to infuse each of Warren's IV lines with nano particles. It's what I spent most of the night doing actually.

GORDON: What on earth do nano particles do?

BRYONY: Once we activate the particle generator a magneticfield will be created within the cryopod and the particles will start to warm up. And eventually we'llhave a nice warm human marinading in a fine cryonic jus.

GORDON: Does it get boring putting 'cryo' in front ofeverything you invent?

BRYONY: Like you wouldn't cryobelieve.

GORDON: What's an ECMO do?

BRYONY: Reoxygenate the body.

GORDON: What's a T.O.E.?

BRYONY: A probe that goes down the oesophagus to mapthe heart.

GORDON: What's that in the corner?

BRYONY: That's a dehumidifier, there's damp on the ceiling.Are we going to go round the room pointing at everything you don't understand?

GORDON: Oh no… That's probably fine for now. Thanks.

BRYONY: What do you think of them? Grace and Pam?

GORDON: Oh, Um. They seem very...slick.

BRYONY: Not my choice. Either of them. Clive picked them,with his vast knowledge of cryonic biology and emergency medicine. Rather more...aesthetic choices, both of them.

GORDON: Aesthetic?

BRYONY: Degracious Melé has a name like a finishing move in Street Fighter, he's very tall, he's very young, he looks like an Abercrombie and Fitch model.Pamela Jennings has two PhDs and looks like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They are adequate in their fields but not exceptional. Clive believes the hard work is over and he wants the right faces to get on the front of Time magazine.

SHE ADDRESSES THE ROOM.

BRYONY: And how do I feel about Time magazine,everyone?

THEY ANSWER SIMULTANEOUSLY.

GRACE: You do not care for it.

PAMELA: Print media is basically dead anyway.

BRYONY: Yes chef, yes chef.

SHE PUTS DOWN HER DRINK.

BRYONY: This is making you uncomfortable isn't it, Gordon.

GORDON: Everything here makes me uncomfortable.

BRYONY: Keep telling yourself that, champ.

BRYONY STEPS FORWARD TOADDRESS THE ROOM AGAIN.

BRYONY: Right, everyone. It's the day you've all been waiting for. Before we push the big red button, I'dlike to thank you all for your hard work so far.You're all committed, and whatever else might besaid about any of you, commitment is the attributeI require the most. You may think due to our previous success that our subject's survival is some how more of a sure thing. Let’s remind ourselves of the mortality rate up until this point.It's 100%. Do we know for certain exactly why Warren Godby is the only survivor of our treatment? We do not. So, whatever we scoop out of that pod, alive or dead, the work is just beginning. That said, there is champagne in the fridge, and we will be drinking it tonight what ever happens, I'm not a monster.

NERVOUS LAUGHTER.

BRYONY: Alright beautiful people. And you Gordon. Get To

yota places, final checks. Particle generator?

GRACE: Check.

BRYONY: ECMO?

PAMELA: Check.

BRYONY: Resus?

PAMELA: Check.

BRYONY: Transfer?

GRACE: Check.BRYONY: Okay.

BRYONY PACES ROUND TO THE CONTROL PANEL OF THE PARTICLE GENERATOR. SHE FLICKS ONE BIGSWITCH. A BEEP, AND A DEEP MECHANICAL CHUGGING AS THE MACHINE COMES TO LIFE.

BRYONY: Hot… dog.

SHE FLICKS A SECOND SWITCH. ADIFFERENT BEEP, AND A LOW HUMSOUNDS, SLOWLY BUILDING IN PITCHAND VOLUME. THE CHUGGING BEGINSTO ACCELERATE.

BRYONY: Jumping frog.

A FINAL SWITCH. A SUPER GOOD SCI FINOISE ADDS TO THE MIX.

BRYONY: Albuquerque.

CUT.

SCENE 4

2064. AUBREY AND GORD IN THE RECORDS ROOM.

AUBREY: Stop.

GORD: Would you like me to play the next entry, Aubrey?

AUBREY PAUSES FOR A MOMENT,DEEP IN THOUGHT.

AUBREY: I remember that. She would say that a lot, the Albuquerque line. It was probably the most human thing I ever witnessed her doing.

GORD: Would you like me to play the next entry, Aubrey?

AUBREY: It's surprising. To get that on record, her facadecoming down like that, even… even just a little. Ionly saw it once or twice. And never for long. But she just couldn't help herself. Under all the cloaksand daggers and bluster and put downs, she couldn't hide her excitement about the work. It was magnetic. I wanted to be like her.

GORD: Well, you are also waking Warren Godby from hypersleep.

AUBREY: Yeah, thank you Gord. We'll stop drawing comparisons there, shall we?

GORD: Her reasons for waking him could not be further from your intentions. You want to help him.

AUBREY: Well, that's...that's a kind thing for you to say.

GORD: It's nice to be nice.

AUBREY: What's everyone done today. Is it still today? Or isit tomorrow?

GORD: You'd like a progress report?

AUBREY: Yes.

GORD: Vig and Robyn have completed and log ged the supply inventory. Hester worked beyond the end of her shift on the ward due to Jacob having adisagreement with Malcolm. Malcolm required sedation.

AUBREY: Shit, really?

GORD: And Jade has been putting together a playlist for her party.

AUBREY: She's really going through with it.

GORD: Grace has been carrying on with-

A TONE FROM HIS UNIT.

GORD: In coming from the Quarantine Suite. Patching.

HESTER IS CALLING THROUGH THE BLUE SKY SYSTEM. THERE IS SOME COMMOTION IN THE BACKGROUND.

HESTER: Hey, are you still up?

AUBREY: I'm here, Hester.

HESTER: Of course, you are. Well, if you insist on livingnocturnally, could you at least come down hereand help me. Warren's pulled out his drip again.

AUBREY: Put another one in.

HESTER: I had actually thought of that sir, he hasn't got any bloody veins left. No, don't, Stevie watch out, he's going to pull out - yep. Well, that's what happens.Put some gloves on next time.

WARREN GRUNTS IN PAIN WHILE ANOTHER MAN MISERABLY CURSES GETTING COVERED IN URINE.

AUBREY: He pulled out his catheter again didn't he.

HESTER: You're going to be able to kick a football down hisurethra if he carries on like this.

AUBREY: I'll be there in a sec.

THE TONE SIGNALS THE END OF THE CONVERSATION.

AUBREY: Gord, you're meant to be in all places at all times,why didn't you tell me they were struggling down there?

GORD: You were having a valuable moment of reflection.

AUBREY: I swear to God, people only ever pull out their own IV lines cos they see people do it in movies. It's soannoying.

GORD: Is that why he pulls out his catheter?

AUBREY: Shut up.

GORD: I can find no motion pictures that feature the forced removal of catheters?

AUBREY: Shut up!

END.

[thesuffers]

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