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Well, he did not get up

and walk out of here, guy's at death's door.

Tell me you did not misplace my patient.

I went to check the urine output in 1052,

I was only gone a minute.

Palliative care? - Social work found a hospice.

If he lasts that long.

No family, no insurance.

Check the morgue.

You know, there is such a thing as harvesting organs

and trafficking in cadavers, or such

is the public perception. Let's not play into that.

Got him. Celestial discharge at 9:15.

Okay, my patient expires and nobody pages me.

Wait. Morgue says body never got there.

Give us a few minutes?

Track him down before your shift change so that I can

go home. - Okay, thanks.

We got trouble. Transportation

never picked him up.

Who is that?

Who is she?

Dan. Dan.

This nice lady seems to have made a wrong turn.

Sure, right. Ma'am if you could come

Get away from me.

Yeah. All right.

All right. Okay.

This area is off limits.

I'm sorry, but we're

at a critical phase in a very dangerous experiment.

You have my patient, show him to me

or I call campus police.

And then the department chair.

That would be me, Marjorie Kane

Chair of the Graduate School of Neuroscience.

You're in charge.

Yes, Dr. Emma Holloway.

So regarding your patient, perhaps we could delay your fears

by showing you our grand experiment.

So what we've done is we've, we've surrounded this chamber

every type of detection device we could think

of air pressure, motion, light sensors,

ultraviolet infrared, all spectra,

Temperature

Temperature, temperature to a hundredth

of a centigrade actually,

an electric grid to a fraction of a millivolt,

magnetic, electromagnetic.

On, on the quantum level

we have we've constructed an atomic net

exactly one particle thick, right?

So if anything passes through it, anything

be it strange or charmed or up or down or backwards.

It'll create a wave pattern, measurable disturbance.

The room is a vault, not of steel, but of detection.

I'm happy for you. Now, my patient.

Dr. Holloway, tonight in this very room

we intend to verify empirically in the human species.

The existence of a soul. Nature does not know extinction,

all it knows is transformation and everything that science

has taught me and continues to teach me

strengthens my belief in the continuity

of our spiritual existence after death.

Nothing disappears without trace.

Soul.

Yes, you clinicians don't have a monopoly

on the spiritual element.

As in Faustian bargain.

As in Jesus died to save it.

And for this, you steal a corpse?

Doctor, your patient is not deceased.

Not yet.

We got a live one, not by much.

We need to transport this patient back to ICU immediately.

George Lockwood, 73, history of portal hypertension,

cirrhosis secondary to chronic alcohol abuse

presented with acities and jaundice.

Status post massive hemorrhagic stroke

DNR, he's not expected to survive the night.

DNR does not imply consent for an experimental study.

He's obtunded, he could not have given consent.

Right now, our gentle Mr. Lockwood

would be lying in a hospital ward alone and waiting to die.

And so a lost man, in a small hospital,

in a city of no consequence passes on

as have millions before him and millions will after.

An underpaid, overworked nurse makes a notation

on his chart and his body is discarded

with the morning trash, but here his death can have meaning.

No, he did not give consent for the study.

Mr. Lockwood, can you hear me?

Doctor, it's not like we can ask for volunteers.

Don't take the moral high ground Holloway.

If he coded you wouldn't intubate.

Aren't you curious?

Let's see what happens.

I want a steroid drip to

decrease intracranial pressure, morphine for pain.

Entering!

All right guys, let's fire it up.

All closed.

Chamber sealed.

You're not troubled by this?

No, actually I think we ought spend more time

on things like this, death, life.

What came before?

What comes after? It's basic.

So die already.

There is no real moment of death.

It's a legal construct, something to put down

on a form.

Long after the heart has stopped,

we can still detect pulseless electrical activity.

Moment of death, its a fiction.

Til tonight.

True moment of death, when the soul leaves the body.

Spark of the divine on its journey home.

So where do you put your money doctor?

When cerebral blood flow is

in adequate to support synaptic function or when the

when the reticular formation shuts down?

I've I mean, will the soul exit the body

all at once or will it seep away?

Like, like sand?

Yeah.

Is that it?

Decerebrate posturing, primitive response

common in brain injury.

Here we go, here we go, here we go.

This is it guys.

All right.

Fundamental question with human existence,

soon we're gonna know.

And this is a good thing?

There is such concept as faith you know.

Faith, you've done some of the things I've done.

You start dancing towards the edge of the abyss.

You hunger for something a little bit

more substantial than faith.

Amen.

Anything?

Slight shift in the weight of the gurney

it's within tolerance.

What happened?

What is it?

There, right, right there.

What do you see?

That! He's standing there.

You don't see it?

No. What is there to see?

There's nothing there.

My God.

He.. he's right there.

He's right there.

My God.

My God.

He, he's trapped.

You've trapped him.

You have to let him go.

You're tormenting him.

Okay. You might disagree with what we're doing here.

That's fine.

But the whole performance with the

it's a pretty good performance.

Yeah.

We're gonna shut the grid down after one hour,

one field at a time as per our protocols.

You think I'm hallucinating or lying?

I...

You don't, you don't believe me.

Look, you're asking a lot, doctor.

You're claiming that you can see something

the rest of us can't.

That somehow your eyes are special

or different, or I don't even know.

That certain photons hit your retina, but not ours?

I mean, I I'm sorry, no, I, I don't.

You, you put all those sensors all around the room.

Think about it.

What is the perfect device for your search?

You're gonna say human being. A human being.

My observations are data as valid as any.

My God.

Is it local?

In the northeast corner?

What the hell?

Yeah, the movement goes inward, not outward.

Help me! Help me!

That almost looks, something is trying to get in.

My God, this is so much bigger than we thought.

The hand of God reaching down to collect a wayward soul!

It's not the hand of God.

That's not the hand of God.

He is trapped.

He's hanging there like bait and something has come.

Pleased to meet you

won't you guess my name...

Look, it's almost there.

It's almost there.

There it's inside.

Go get her, run!

Don't!

Anything?

No, all movement stopped.

No, no. No, no, no, no.

Come on!

Hey. I didn't know they abducted the body,

she never told us that.

It's all right, It's all right.

He made it, he made it.

I saw it.

I saw it.

All right.

Well what about the next patient?

And the one after that?

What?

I can feel it.

What?

In my body I can, you can't feel that?

No. I want to!

Whatever caused the disturbance is manifesting itself.

You felt that right?

Maybe. I don't know.

The doctor kind of freaked me out.

Dan, you felt it.

You felt it.

Describe it.

Just gimme one word.

Gimme one word.

Evil.

Yeah. I was gonna say malevolent.

It's still here.

I still feel it.

All right, um...

Maybe when the fields dropped something got in,

and then when we brought them back up...

We trapped it.

Trapped what?

Robbins, I unlock the door I want in.

All right.

I want in.

I don't...

Dr. Holloway, do you see anything in there?

I have to go in there, I have to know.

I know, just, just!

Tell me, is there anything in there?

Is there anything there?

No there's nothing in there.

Go ahead, open it.

Let's see what happens.