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Now, this is where we work with all our test subjects.

As you can see, we test the entire range of emotions, from happiness to sadness

and fear and so on.

It's one of our newest patients, Jennifer.

Poor dear.

Most kids would be laughing.

Jenny, we call her.

She's also one of our most severe cases.

Hi, Jenny.

That's a perfect example of what I've been talking about.

She has no desire to play with the puppy or to cuddle with it or anything else.

Jenny doesn't know what it's like to laugh or cry or be happy, sad, afraid,

angry.

She doesn't experience any of the basic emotions, emotions that the rest of us

take for granted.

It's kind of amazing that you would talk this way in front of her.

Oh, you think I'm insensitive?

No, no, no.

Jenny was born with this condition.

Alexithymia. Primary alexithymia.

Caused by a genetic neurophysiological defect.

Which means she's never had any feelings that can be hurt.

Well, if you could graph emotions the way you graph a heartbeat or a

most of my patients would be flatlining. If they don't feel anything, how do

they survive in the outside world? Oh, well, just because they're void

emotionally doesn't mean they're void intellectually.

But most of them fake it as they grow older.

They see someone laugh and they laugh. Or they fake a smile or two.

Yes, come in.

I'm sorry to interrupt, but there's something on television I think you

see. Excuse me.

You are seeing live pictures of a hostage taking currently in progress in

downtown core. We go now to our reporter on the scene, Adrienne Wheeler.

A little over 40 minutes ago, two men, both of them armed, apparently robbed

store. A shootout with police occurred outside as the robbers attempted to

escape. As a result, one of the robbers was dead and the other suspect...

holding a hostage at gunpoint in this parking lot right next to the store. The

hostage? I think it's Beth.

A police detective is now entering this parking lot. We believe he'll attempt a

face -to -face negotiation with the suspect.

The suspect, as I mentioned, is armed. He's holding a store employee, a woman,

as hostage. Can you zoom in on this, Jimmy? We have a name now on the

Her name is Elizabeth Carter.

She looks remarkably calm considering the situation that she's in. She's one

your patients.

She's completely without emotion.

Is the hostage okay?

Yes, she's still standing, but the robber is down. Once again, the hostage,

Carter, is unharmed, and she looks surprisingly unaffected by what she's

been through.

There is nothing wrong with your television.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can delude you with a

channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond.

We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive.

For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest

inner mind to the outer limit.

It is said that emotions are the language of the soul.

But what happens when that expression is muted?

What becomes of feelings that have no voice?

Hi, Beth, how are you?

Fine.

Come in.

Senator. Oh, yes, sure, Senator.

Beth, hi.

Please sit down.

How are you today?

Fine. That was quite an experience you went through the day before last.

Experience? The armed robbery.

Being held hostage.

The police shot the man.

Yes, I know.

Did you feel anything about that? The man who held

you hostage being killed?

No.

Well, that's why I brought you in here today, Beth.

I think it's possible for you to take a huge step forward in your therapy. It

would require that you undergo an operation where an implant, a tiny

designed to stimulate the neurotransmitters responsible for

directly inside your brain.

Emotions? Yeah.

And you'd be the very first person to try it. Now, this is something we've

working on for a very long time.

For me?

Yeah. Well, your disorder makes you a perfect test case for the implant.

If we're successful, this could help many more people.

Millions of people, Beth.

This technology could make antidepressants, antipsychotics, Prozac,

obsolete.

This would not only change your world, Beth.

It would change the world.

Okay, everyone.

I'm cutting through the juror now.

How's she doing, Bill?

She looks stable.

Okay. Clamp, please.

You look like an expected father.

Well, if this works... You've reinvented the treatment of mental illness in one

fell swoop.

Hopefully so.

That's what this is all about, isn't it?

Honestly, I was thinking about that.

A little suction here, please.

We have a chance to introduce Technicolor into the life of a woman who

ever lived in black and white.

That's what this is about, isn't it?

And the billions of dollars we'll generate has nothing to do with it.

I'm inserting the implant now.

that were more reliable than others.

But now we use the latest technology to bring you accurate and up -to -the

-minute weather reporting.

Any change?

No.

Damn!

We checked the implant just before lunch.

It was working beautifully.

You'd never know to look at her.

Twice the normal amount of snow cover on the ground.

Last spring, of course, flooding affected a massive area in the southern

the state.

Flooding fields... Is that something we've seen before?

Is that an expression?

The program should watch it.

Who wants to change the channel?

They're bored of it. They're dissatisfied with it.

She did it!

She did it! Look at her.

Look at her. She felt the need. She expressed a desire.

She did that all on her own.

But the implant's starting to work.

You can't be thinking of going in there.

Okay, now you know the rules.

Smoke before fire.

That means you start.

Did you know a good goat will do that?

What do you think?

Is this really yours?

Come on.

It's so pretty.

One day you'll have a place of your own just like it.

Hey, Mulligan.

Come here, boy. You have a cat?

Yeah, what's the life without a cat, huh?

Want to pet him?

Yeah.

Would you like to hold him?

Yeah. Okay.

It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

There's some workmen, they're doing renovations upstairs.

That's all it is, okay?

Nothing, I should have warned you, I'm sorry.

Actually, you know, some of them are kind of cute.

The workmen, I mean.

Okay, maybe I'm moving a little fast there, yeah?

You know, I think the first thing we need to do, we need to do something with

this look of yours.

My look?

Yeah, yeah, come on.

I don't know if I can do this.

Oh, sure you can.

Not like the first day at a new job.

Just picking up where you left off.

Everyone will want to know how I am.

How are you?

I'm scared.

That's good.

That's how it should be.

You look great.

Thank you.

For everything.

I don't know.

We knew that fear would be one of the hardest emotions for her to deal with.

She's fine. She's showing a tremendous amount of courage.

Lady, you've got to pay me.

I've never been excited before.

Sorry.

Hello?

You had a real scare thrown into you.

Are you all right?

I think so.

Oh,

you don't have to be afraid of him.

True, that's a face that only a mother or someone like me could love, but he's

harmless. I ought to know. I've been married to him for 40 years. I'm sorry I

scared you. The front door was ajar. I wanted to make sure the place wasn't

getting robbed. We are new neighbors from down the hall.

I'm Dolly, and this is Mike. Mike Kellerman. Nice to meet you. And you

Joan's new roommate.

Yes. I don't know who's prettier, her or Joan.

Oh, Joan is much prettier than I am. Oh, don't sell yourself short. You're no

slouch in the looks department either.

Beth, what happened? Nothing happened.

Mike saw your front door was ajar and thought he'd stick his considerably

nose in here to investigate.

Scared her a little.

That's all.

That's all? You left the front door open?

I don't remember.

I just...

What voices?

Beth.

What voices?

It was nothing. It was nothing.

You need to be a little more careful.

I mean, this is a pretty safe building, but you should always leave the front

door locked, especially if you're in by yourself.

Okay. So I see you've met Dolly and Mike.

Yes, actually, they've been very nice to me.

The rumors that we're a couple of old ogres have been greatly exaggerated.

Beth, you still look a little weak.

I'm going to call Kevin and tell him no about tonight.

Kevin? Yeah, he's a friend of mine who lives downstairs.

In 1A?

Yeah. He invited us to dinner on his boat, but I'll tell him we'll take a

check. No!

I'd like to go.

I would really like to go.

So I went from hammering nails for a living to hiring other people to hammer

nails for me to buying and renovating an old apartment building, including the

one we live in.

You're a landlord?

You say that with such detail.

No, you don't look like a landlord.

And what do landlords look like, pray tell?

Like Mike Kellerman now. He looks like a landlord.

Beth bumped into Mike today.

Oh.

I hope he's okay.

So, who are you?

That's what I'd like to know.

I hear I've been rambling on and on about myself all night.

Typical. Hey, watch it now.

Besides, you've been hanging on every word.

You're my mom, buddy.

I love hearing you talk.

I mean, this has pretty much been the best dinner I've ever had.

The food, the conversation.

I used to pretty much always eat alone.

Well, this...

It may not be the best meal I've ever cooked, but I can't remember when I've

two more charming dinner companions.

Joan?

I hate doing laundry.

I don't mind.

You still seem sort of jumpy. Is everything all right?

I think my imagination is playing tricks on me. Mike accuses me of that all the

time. You know what I tell him?

You believe anything you want.

But I've seen what I've seen.

And I know what I know.

What have you seen?

Would you believe?

The inside of an alien spaceship.

You've heard about people being abducted by aliens, haven't you?

Well, of course you have.

It's all over the TV.

I thought all that stuff was, you know, that was made up. That's what the

government wants you to think.

But it's really happening.

Take my word for it.

What do they look like?

Same ones who abduct everybody else.

The grey ones.

Their faces look dead.

Except for their eyes.

And it looks like they could see right inside me.

Right inside my brain.

What did they do to you?

Anything they wanted.

They had this sort of long metal probe thing.

I want to go into details, but it doesn't take much imagination.

You know what I mean?

It's awful.

Awful. Yeah.

I still have nightmares.

I still hear their voices.

Voices?

Yeah, inside my brain.

This constant chattering, like they were all talking at once.

This is Dr. Molstad. Dr. Molstad, I was trying to reach Joan.

Are you all right?

I'm fine. I just need to ask Joan something.

She's already left.

I don't know if she was going straight home or not, but I'm pretty sure she'll

be there shortly.

You sure? I can't help you.

No. I mean, yes.

I'll just wait till she gets home. Thank you.

Mulligan!

You're not real.

I'm just hearing this.

There's nobody here. There's nobody else here.

I'm not going to let you get in the way of my new life.

This is some stupid mindless chatter that doesn't really...

But Kevin came up here first. He didn't see any sign of a cat or an intruder.

And I'm sure he's not dead. He has a kitty door. He comes and he goes. I'm

he's going to be back.

Yes, I'm sure he will.

She said something. It was in the apartment with her, not someone. But she

refused to say what.

Whatever it was scared her half to death.

If there really was something.

Do you think she hallucinated the entire episode?

She said something to me the other day about hearing voices.

But you don't want to talk about that.

You need one of my... Super gourmet home -cooked meal served by Ken Robinson.

What do you say?

We'd like to speak to Beth alone.

Sure, no problem.

Think about what I said.

Tomorrow night, I'll come up here.

Okay.

Thanks, Jeff. No problem. I'll be downstairs.

It might be a good idea for you to come back to the Institute for a few days.

Just for observation.

It might be best just for now. It's possible the implant is creating some

effects for you.

I don't want to go back.

You don't understand.

I never knew how amazing it all was.

How ice cream tastes.

How flowers smell.

How someone smells at your work.

Just because.

Before, people always talked about these feelings.

Feelings. Feelings I thought they just seemed to be something that other people

had.

And now I know.

And I know how precious they are.

And I never want to lose them, ever.

I'm not suggesting that the implant be removed. I won't let you.

I won't let you. I mean, it's mine now, right? It's in my own head. I own it.

I just need to learn how to control my imagination a little bit better. That's

all.

What was it you thought you saw?

Nothing.

It was nothing. I just got frightened.

It's over now.

It's over. I'm okay.

And I'm not going to go back.

All right.

I want you to stay here tomorrow. Keep an eye on her. See how she's doing.

Another incident like that, and I want her back at the Institute immediately.

No ifs, ands, or buts.

Would you like some water?

Please.

Where's your partner in crime?

She's out with some friends. I could call on her cell phone if you like. No,

that's okay.

I was just curious.

And I've made enough for three just in case.

Oh.

You don't like it?

No, it's fine.

Not bad.

Not bad.

I hope you don't think this is the reason I cooked for you.

No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. No, it's okay. I'm sorry. No, no, no, no,

It's okay.

I just didn't want you to think. I mean, I didn't expect.

Can you turn the lights off?

Sure. No problem.

This one, too.

No! No!

Beth?

Beth?

Beth?

Beth, look at me.

Look at me.

It's me.

It's Dr. Molstad.

Now, you've got to hold on a little while longer.

You're going to have to take the implant out.

Do you understand what I'm saying? The implant is malfunctioning. We're going

take it out. Take it out?

Yes, it's not working properly.

No! I'm sorry.

The neurosurgeon can't get here for another hour.

Oh, damn it. That's not good enough.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

No, I don't want an operation. I know. It has to come out. It's too dangerous.

Ma 'am, that's not good enough. You're not listening to me. I need you here now

as fast as you can get here.

It can't wait. It's got to come out now before something else happens. She wants

to see you right now.

Oh, okay.

Okay, please.

Yes, how long?

20 minutes. Great, get going. I'll be here waiting for you.

You left her alone?

She got agitated when you weren't there. I didn't know what to do.

Mulligan, how's it going?

Hey, get back here.

Mulligan, come here, boy.

Come here, Mulligan.

Here, boy. Come here, boy.

How the hell with you?

You can stay in here and rot for all I care.

How the hell did she escape?

Who knows? Who cares?

The important thing is that she's going to come back here. And when she does, I

want her to see Mulligan alive and well.

Did you tell Dolly and Mike?

Yeah, they know to keep up the act. They want more money. It's a prize.

Come on, I'll help you.

Mulligan!

Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!

You know, she might not even come back here.

I mean, that implant had to be fried after we put her through.

I can't believe you slept with her, Kevin. Hey, sorry, babe.

I had to occupy her somehow until the drugs kicked in.

Besides, she was out of it before we even met. Yeah, right.

I won't miss these guys.

How much did the corporation spend on them?

A hundred grand, maybe more.

I can't believe they spent that much.

When most have impact, it's a failure.

Our company has the market cornered with our own version.

Do you have any idea how much money we're talking about?

As long as I get a piece.

Mulligan, where are you?

Come on.

Come on, Lord.

Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.

Mulligan, come on out.

Oh, here he is.

Very funny.

Oh, no, there he is.

There he is.

Mulligan.

What are you doing in here, crazy?

Let's get out of here.

Morgan!

Forget about the stupid cat.

We did it. We're rich.

Let's celebrate.

Maybe we should get down.

Quit worrying.

If Beth does show, we'll just wrap her up again and take her back to Molstead.

He'll dig the implant out of her brain and slap a label on it.

And that's it.

The results of the hearing are in.

Because of the unusual nature of the case, and because you've reverted to

old self, and cannot now possibly understand the emotions behind what you

you won't be held responsible for the deaths of Joan Garrison and Kevin Flynn.

And the Kellermans' confession helped.

They said they were actors playing roles they were hired to do. And of course,

with that spaceship and... The accoutrements right up there in that

That would have been pretty hard to deny anyway.

But what about you?

Are you all right?

I'm fine.

It doesn't bother you that implant is still in your brain?

No.

But it's...

It's harmless. It's burned itself out, and all the behavioral tests confirm

that. There'll be no point in going through painful surgery to remove it.

I'm truly sorry that it's turned out this way, Beth.

For both of us.

Don't worry, baby.

I'm home.

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