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- You wanna stay with me? - I'd like that.

- I have Alzheimer's disease. - I know.

- I don't want it. - I don't want you to have it either.

- How do we test it? - On my dad.

He might die within a month, or a week.

You prepared to do that to your father?

If these soldiers don't get better we'll have to call up more troupes.

They need us in the Oval, now.

If we don't stop this, all hell's gonna break loose.

Headaches, flu-like symptoms, blurred vision, severe muscle pain

and then the psychosis.

- What you've got the cure? - I do indeed!

I would really love to take a look at what's in that vial.

- I can be up there tomorrow. - Great.

All the Guardsmen have Lethargica located at 11P43 on the genome.

The question isn't how it's spread...

The question is: what woke it up?

We came up with a plan to make our soldiers in Iraq sick.

But they would come home and we would save them.

We didn't want to hurt anyone.

- Who isn't involved in this? - It's the Middle East.

Whoever controls it, controls the future.

I thought Wes was fired.

He is, it's his last day.

First it's Al-Qaida, then it's Jewish Fundamentalists,

now some Christian at the White House. Wes!

McGuinn has spun this every way but loose.

- Why did you tell McGuinn I fired you? - I didn't.

I'm so sorry David. You were right about McGuinn.

If one can get the Muslims and the Jews to go at each other's throats,

the US can just walk in to clean up the chaos.

How did we fall into such a mess?

- How much further? - There it is.

Relax, Bob. We're here.

Wherever the hell "here" is.

- Sandstrom? - Hicks?

- Yeah, thanks for coming. - Bob Melnikov!

So we've been investigating a little over 36 hours now.

- Too long to be where we're at. - Which is?

"Which is" why you're here.

We got more questions than answers.

The car is registered to a Leslie McCaine

but we haven't got a positive I.D. on the body yet.

She was so young. Just got her PhD in biochemistry.

M.I.T. they tell me.

I'm gonna need to take some tissue samples for DNA matches.

Our forensic team took care of that. We want you to concentrate on the lab.

I'm gonna need to take some tissue samples for DNA matches.

It's kind of a thing with Dr. Melnikov. He only trusts his own DNA tests.

Can't blame him after that whole O.J. thing, eh?

I guess I can arrange it with the coroner.

So you boys ready for the main event?

Yeah.

We think it went up at the same time as the car.

- You think that's just a coincidence? - Wouldn't be here if I did.

Jesus!

Bodies we pulled out of here were in the same shape as the one outside.

- That hot, eh? - Oh yeah.

Structural deformations, char depths...

All indicated the fire had multiple points of origin.

You got one over here.

One here.

One over there.

Couple in the other room.

Textbook arson scenario.

- Except for one thing. - What's that?

Accelerants.

Chem team couldn't find anything. Gasoline, kerosene, turpentine. Nothing.

So what are these? What started the fire?

Which is why we're here.

I understand you had a little problem up in Canada too.

Somebody help me!

Eight of our friends were killed in the explosion, 15 were seriously injured.

Yeah, we had a little problem up in Canada too.

ReGenesis 3x01 A Spontaneous Moment 3x02 Dust in the Wind

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What do you gotta do to get a signal out here?

Go outside. Try the north side of the building.

Fuck it.

What can you tell me about this place?

Well, last year Greenway was an open book.

Mainly applying for grants in leading-edge bioengineering.

About 6 months ago, they were contracted under some kind of secrecy clause

and the door was slammed shut.

Looks like somebody wanted to make sure that door stayed shut.

It could have been an accident.

Maybe in here, Bob. But the same kind of accident outside? No.

Somebody took these people out.

I guess. Yeah, I guess so.

Bob, have a look at this.

What do you think?

Electrolysis. They were definitely experimenting using electrolysis.

That's not exactly cutting-edge science.

Well, maybe they were working with a volatile material.

We catalogued every piece of equipment, every drug, liquid,

chemical, that survived the fire. This place is as benign as a high school lab.

What else you got?

This is about the only place that didn't get hammered.

My guys fired up a portable generator to keep this stuff from turning to goo.

- Good thinking. - I love cold rooms. They're so quiet.

- They tell me we got a room full of... - Cyanobacteria.

- Pond scum. - Yeah, algae.

That's what my guys told me.

So. That's the 10-cent tour, fellas.

That's it?

There's no other storage lockers or

isolation rooms, hazardous waste disposal systems?

Files, hard drives, lab books. All went up in smoke.

So 6 dead scientists in a top-secret lab

doing grade 9 experiments in the middle of nowhere. What the hell is going on?

- You hear anything from David? - No, nothing yet.

Hey. Did you read the ATF report on Greenway?

- Yes, I did. - And, do you think it was intentional?

Let's wait and see what David has to say.

They brought us into this because they think there might be a connection.

I don't know. It could have just been an accident.

Oh, come on! You believe that?

- Let's not jump to any conclusions. - Well, I haven't jumped...

yet.

- ... anything from David? - No, nothing yet.

You have a minute?

You bet. What's up?

Rachel, you're new but I need to talk about this requisition for a DNA test.

I wanted to do a haplotype, just to be as accurate as possible.

We do those in-house.

I guess I'll have to reread that orientation manual, huh?

Is this about the Greenway labs?

No, this is... This is something I'm doing on my own.

- On your own? - I hope that's alright?

It's a...

Good friends of ours back in Georgetown, their son Tyler was assaulted,

last month just before I moved up here, and...

Is he okay?

Well no, he never regained consciousness, so...

I'm sorry.

We're all having a hard time with it.

Anyway, he and my son Jeff have been friends forever, and..

That's gotta be tough.

Wes there?

- I'm here. - Call for Caroline Morrison on line 3.

I'll be there in a second.

- Take a walk with me. - Yeah.

You know, the frustrating thing is... the police had a suspect in custody...

A security camera caught her shoving him down a flight of stairs.

- Caught her? - Yeah.

D.C. Senator's daughter, Julie Henshaw. She's 17,

a year ahead of Tyler and Jeff at school.

- Why'd she do it? - Well, Tyler was very...

He was fairly open about his sexual orientation, his politics,

a lot of stuff Julie didn't like, apparently.

- So she shoved him down the stairs? - And then she spit on him, but...

- Why is this girl not in jail? - Well, it's the spit.

The police ran a DNA. Didn't match Julie's.

And Mary and Harmon are... That's Tyler's parents. They're convinced

that there's been a mistake. So I offered to redo the test for them.

- Just tell David what you're doing. - What? Do you think he cares?

No. But he likes to feel he's in charge.

Does anybody know anything about these guys? Read any papers by 'em?

And this is Leslie Ann McCaine, the most senior of the group.

PhD in Biochemistry, graduated in 2004.

She was the one in the car.

Louis Prasse. University of Buffalo.

PhD in Chemistry. Graduated last year.

There's not much to know, David. 6 PhDs. Greenway was their first job.

No, Wes, it was their last job.

Did Bob find out anything at the morgue?

I don't know, he just got back. Bob, get the samples?

I did, but it wasn't easy. I had a hard time finding intact tissue.

- What was the condition of the bodies? - Well, they were...

100% body-surface burns and on the inside they were...

They were toast, Mayko.

What about the cyanobacteria?

I've catalogued and shipped 73 different species, electrolysis plates,

and scrapings from the flash points in the lab.

Okay that's it.

These guys found something, invented something, did something

that buried them. We find what it was,

we might get closer to what killed them. See you tomorrow.

- Tell me you're gonna figure this out. - This is Mr. McCaine.

The husband of the young woman...

- The woman who the car's registered to. - The woman who died in that...

Why won't anyone tell me, any of us, what happened out here?

- We don't have any answer. - Mr McCaine, we're doing our best.

Your wife, Leslie. She was a microbial bacteriologist. Did she say anything

- about what she was working on? - She couldn't.

Oh God, she wanted to. She'd come home all pumped up.

So excited.

We think they were working on electrolysis.

Production of chemical changes by the passage of current through electrolyte.

They were so naive. They thought their secret could change the world.

Well, that secret's probably what--

... Killed them. I know that.

The money guys here, they don't give a shit.

- To them, it's about the bottom line. - Sorry, we gotta go.

We have to go now.

If you think of anything, you can reach us here.

I'm sorry. Bye.

- How's it going? - Good.

I'll be finished these DNA samples tonight.

Good. David and Bob should be in in the morning.

And those samples should be here from Greenway lab in a couple of hours.

I'll be ready to go to work on them.

You should maybe go home and get some sleep.

David's gonna work everybody pretty hard tomorrow.

How are you doing? You look beat.

That call for Caroline,

earlier, it was...

She's been gone for 6 months but...

I don't know... it's still a shock.

Yeah, I can imagine.

I mean, I don't know how you guys dealt with that, the bombing and the...

Everybody has their own way of working through it, I guess.

The funny thing is

that that phone call was...

It's from her vet.

Because her dog needs his shots.

And the thing is, after all those years, I didn't know that sh...

She had a dog.

I'll see you in the morning.

Wes.

No dogs.

One cat.

Two sons.

So, what do you think of her?

- Her? - Yeah, it's the girl downstairs.

She's been posing for me.

Beautiful woman, David. Smart.

Runs a restaurant in Cabbagetown.

Loves to get naked.

Sounds like the two of you have a lot in common.

I never ran a restaurant in my life.

What are you doing?

Got a headache.

So, how'd it go in... Where were you? Montana?

Utah.

Six dead and a lot of soot.

Think they're trying to shut people up?

- The way they shut you up? - Nobody shut me up, Dad!

So do you believe it was a deliberate attack?

Who destroyed your lab, Dr. Sandstrom? Was it terrorism?

The bombing at NorBAC was investigated by the Metro police and the RCMP.

- The conclusion is... - Bullshit! You want the truth?

- You talk to Washington! - He believed God was talking to him.

Now, please give us a bit of privacy. I'll release a statement later.

Nobody shut me up.

You shut yourself up.

- How are you doing? - Great!

Went for a walk today.

Played a little chess in the park. Won 2 out of 3.

Any headaches?

Fine, I'm fine. When are you gonna admit it?

You succeeded. You cured my Alzheimer's.

Cured? I don't know about that. Maybe slowed it down a little bit but...

It works. Patent it, put it on the market.

One step at a time, okay?

What's the hell with that ?

Fuck, I'm tired.

So go to bed. You worry too much anyway.

I will stay up for a little while, while I still have that

pretty girl in my head.

Okay.

Dad?

Go to bed.

Any headaches?

- The conclusion is... - Bullshit!

- You shut yourself up. - Nobody shut me up, dad.

This is Nodularia.

- Nickel. - Thank you.

- Chromium. - Thank you.

So, what are your son's names?

Craig. He's 22.

He's doing wildlife surveys

for the Department of Parks and Forestry.

He's my restless soul.

- This is magnesium. - Thank you.

And Jeff is 16.

Conveniently parked at Hamstead.

The boarding school in DC.

You don't want him there?

I don't... I don't know.

I mean...

I guess maybe it's for the best.

He gets a little shelter from the storm.

I'm in...

the middle of a messy divorce.

"Storms make oaks take deeper roots."

George Herbert. My favourite metaphysical poet.

- Iron. - Thank you.

You okay?

Gassy. Better everyday.

Could we take a break?

Maybe a short one.

Might be a good idea.

What are you doing?

We're mirroring their experiments. 16 different metals,

73 kinds of cyanobacteria.

That's 1,168 possible combinations of electrolysis.

I meant what are you doing out here?

It's going to take them minute to get started.

- So why aren't you in there doing it? - Because we're taking a break.

- Make it a short one. - David!

- Figure a cup of coffee's a short one? - Instant.

Ultraviolet, infrared, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy

- all agree with the ATF findings. - No accelerant?

Nothing in the lab. No gas leaks, no electrical shorts.

- What about the car? - Gasoline all over.

ATF attributes it to the tank exploding after the fire started.

Hard to disagree.

- No cordite? No... - There was no bomb, David.

What the hell lit them up?

- You got a minute? - I'm running out of tests.

I've been going through all funding requests on Greenway.

Check this out.

So in may, they applied for money to build a staircase

using piezoelectric technology in the risers.

- Piezoelectric? - Certain crystals,

when you apply pressure to them, like stepping on them, they generate voltage.

They wanted to power a building with a staircase?

It's pretty cool? Didn't get any takers though.

Okay, and then before that, they were presenting

a project to Israel's Public Utilities Authority about

a 5-square kilometre array of next-generation solar panels

in the Negev desert.

So they were into alternative energy. Why all the secrecy?

The secrecy only started 6 months ago when they got 72 million

from a company called Auflander Docheimer.

- Who? - Auflander Docheimer.

From what I can tell, they're venture capitalists.

Pouring money into microbial fuel cells,

human cloning, nano replication, all the glam scams.

Okay. So 72 million, alternative energy, secrecy.

What the fuck? Were they turning pond scum into gold?

Well, that I couldn't google.

And Auchtung, what do they have to say?

I can't find them. They're registered in the Caymans.

Oh, and David get this,

the board of directors is loaded with ex-Pentagon and CIA brass.

Oh fuck. Here we go again.

So Greenway comes up with an alternative fuel source,

Big Oil gets wind of it, Big Oil's not happy

and "boom" up goes the lab.

Take the information. Get rid of the informers.

Information is power, baby.

Here's what I want you to do. Go to Wes... Fuck it, I'll go.

Wes!

I want to speak to somebody at Auflander Docheimer.

- Okay. - Now.

How do you spell that?

N-O-W!

Is there anyone in particular you'd like to speak to at this organization?

Let's get something straight, Wes. You got one job

and that's to do what I tell you. Find these guys.

You have a real gift for pissing people off.

And when people get pissed off, they tend to go away.

As in take the financing for all your little toys and go home.

Then why are you still here?

Because I'm the interim director at NorBAC, David.

I clean up the mess.

You're not Caroline Morrison.

David, are you ready?

Yeah, sure.

I spoke to Bob. His surgery went well. He says he's sorry he couldn't be here.

A lot of people are sorry.

So when are we going to Washington, Wes?

What do you mean?

I mean, when are we going to Washington to get to the truth

- about what happened at the lab? - I'm working on it.

I want the truth, Wes.

The truth is, it was a lone terrorist act. David...

I mean the real fucking truth, asshole!

Who gave the order, Wes?!

Why'd they blow up the lab?! You know!

- You know! - Relax.

- I'll find Auflander Docheimer. - Thank you.

So what happened? I thought you had training to kill me

with your bare hands.

With a finger.

Well, thanks for holding back.

No.

I don't give a shit how long it takes, Wes.

We have got to get the fuckers that did this.

We've got nothing that ties Washington to the bombing.

They played us. They fuckin' played us. You can't believe that guy acted alone.

- It doesn't matter what I believe. - You don't want the truth?

Fine. Which truth would you like?

A lone gunman with Allah whispering in his ear?

A rogue cabal in the Pentagon that wants to control the middle east?

Evangelicals in the White House waiting for the second coming?

All of them working together? You can pick.

Whichever way it plays out, someone wanted NorBAC shut down.

That still doesn't tell me why.

What difference does it make?

Camelot is gone, and the Towers are rubble.

So, what? That's it?

We just turn our backs, we give up?

Yeah.

And you know why?

Because you'll never know the truth.

The truth is buried with McGuinn.

And if you don't learn to move on,

you're gonna turn around and look in the mirror,

and you're gonna see a paranoid son-of-a-bitch who jumps at shadows.

And that's how people lose it, David.

- It's about the burned victims. - Yeah. What about 'em?

I was having trouble getting DNA that wasn't degraded by the fire.

- Yeah, you were gonna go deeper. - Well, that's just it.

I began to realize that the deeper I went into the bodies,

the more degraded the DNA became.

Which is exactly the opposite of what you see in normal burn victims.

The least damaged samples were closer to the epidermis.

Are you saying these people burned from the inside out?

Almost like they were cooked in a microwave oven.

Or like they spontaneously...

The point is, we do have evidence that fire started within the victim's bodies.

And then I think they exploded.

Which would explain those flash points, burning tissue,

blood hits, the walls, the floors.

The fire totally degrades them. So, to the arson investigators,

it looks like there is no trace of an accelerant.

When in fact it may have been the scientists themselves.

In theory.

- Make it real. - Okay.

What?

Hello Doctor Sandstrom, it's Robbie McCaine.

I came down to the lab looking for Agent Hicks.

Oh right. I think he finished out there.

So where is this investigation going ?

It's going a lot of places.

We're looking into alternative fuels and...

we're looking to see if maybe it was an accident, or...

a premeditated,

you know, intervention.

We'll let you know when we narrow it down.

- I have something. - I'm all ears.

I had to go through Leslie's safe-deposit box.

There was a contract in there. It's with a numbered company.

Yeah, we know, in the Cayman Islands.

- No, this is with a company in Zurich. - Got a name?

Guy who signed the contract's, Titus Muyrbridge.

Okay, can you hang on a sec. Can you spell that for me?

Go ahead.

M-u-y-r-bridge.

- Here's the guy. - What guy?

- The guy who bankrolled Greenway. - Where is he?

- Zurich maybe. - Titus Muyrbridge.

Find him.

Everybody's waiting for you in the conference room.

We've gone over everything, we've come up with a few ideas.

We think the scientists at Greenway found a way

to turn ordinary pond scum into a renewable pollution-free source of fuel.

Is that possible?

We know Greenway was working on alternative energy sources,

and we know they were working on cyanobacteria.

And cyanobacteria, as part of their existence,

releases hydrogen into the environment.

And hydrogen is the Holy Grail of alternative energy sources.

The problem is, in nature, cyanobacteria releases nowhere near enough hydrogen

to cause the sort of damage we saw over Greenway.

So they amped it up, that it? They actually succeeded?

Well, that's what we're thinking, but we don't know how.

But all the pieces fit. You've got explosive hydrogen

- and a series of mysterious fires. - Okay, so...

What went wrong?

Something happened inside that lab.

While working with the cyanobacteria

somehow they must have ingested some of it

and it began to process the water inside their bodies.

Splitting it into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen reached a critical level

and then anything, a random spark, static electricity, could've ignited it.

Think Hindenburg.

We'll get back to you on the science.

What do you mean you're not hungry?

You eat for me.

Talk to me about that lab.

What do you wanna know?

What happened? They blow themselves up?

I suppose it's possible that they fucked up.

So they made a mistake trying to do something good?

You gotta take a chance sometime, right?

What would've happened if you hadn't given me those prion injections?

Dad, I want you to know that...

what I did...

the decision I made...

that was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

But I wanted you to do it.

I told you to do it, right?

Yeah.

And it's fine, David.

It's all gone. Everything I had is gone.

And it'll be fine...

in Paris, in Spain, in St. Tropez.

I haven't been there in years.

No. You... You can't go. I need you here.

I've gotta do blood work and I have to watch your progress.

And I still have a paper to write.

How 'bout I just write you a letter?

Dad, I'm not letting you go!

I thought you hated me.

- What are you doing? - I got another headache.

I'm tired.

I just don't want to keep going over this, okay?

Why can't we just let it go? Goddamit, you're not going anywhere!

David...

You don't have a say.

- Hello, Harmon? - Hi.

- Hey, it's Rachel. - How are you, Rachel?

Yeah, I'm fine. How are you two doing?

- We're taking it a day at a time. - How's Mary?

I just dropped her off at the airport. She goes to Miami to see her sister.

- She's having a hard time. - I'll bet.

- You have the test results? - I do.

Harmon, I used the most sophisticated DNA tests available.

These things compare hundreds of thousands of DNA features.

That's better than what the police did?

Times a thousand.

I compared the DNA in the blood taken from the suspect

with DNA found in the saliva on Tyler's body.

Rachel. Did she kill my son?

If I had to testify under oath,

I would have to say...

that was not Julie Henshaw's saliva.

Harmon?

Did you look at the tapes?

Grainy security footage can be misinterpreted.

DNA can't.

I looked at it a 100 times, Rachel.

I close my eyes and I see that girl.

I know this is not what you wanted to hear.

I know, I know.

We appreciate your help, Rachel.

- I'll tell Mary. - Take care.

Hey, how's it going?

I'm getting some reactions, but nothing in line with our hypothesis.

We can start scraping the probes.

- You okay? - Yeah, fine.

You should talk to David about it. That's what I'd do.

Maybe I'll talk to him in the morning.

- He's in the lounge. - Didn't he go home?

He came back while you were on the phone.

He said he couldn't sleep.

He's on a bit of a rough road these days, isn't he?

David tends to live in a world of hysterical realism

expressing himself through colourful language.

That's just my theory.

- So you think he'd give me some advice? - Oh sure...

I think...

Maybe...

Depends.

- I'll be back in a minute. - Take your time.

- Oh shit. Stop.

- What happened? - It just started smoking and...

David. You set the timer for 30 minutes.

3 min... Shit.

Well, I guess you could just avoid the black stuff, but...

I thought you went home.

It's hard to be there sometimes. My dad...

- If he's anything like my dad... - I don't want to talk about it now.

He just pushes my buttons.

Can I get your advice about something or are you in too foul of a mood?

Sorry. Sure.

That's the girl, Julie Henshaw, going into the boy's dorm.

- Boyfriend? - Yeah.

Claims she was with him entire time.

Now I checked the entire tape. No other girl

came in or out of the dorm.

I was known to slip through a few dorm windows in my day.

Well now, thanks to juvenile delinquents like you,

doors and windows are secured, barred, and alarmed all over America.

And that's her leaving exactly 23 minutes later.

All right, this next part gets a little intense.

I'm a big boy.

Jesus.

She spit on him.

I was his godmother, David.

Maybe it was a guy dressed up to look like a girl.

The DNA was female. How do you dress that up?

Did you take the swab?

- No, DC Police took the blood sample. - You sure it was hers?

I don't know.

Maybe you need to get a new sample.

But legally Julie Henshaw does not have to submit to another blood test.

One thing you should know about working in my lab...

getting to the truth is a little higher up the ladder

than colouring inside the lines.

If it was me, I'd go to Washington, get my own fucking sample.

Yeah?

Bob! Bob, get out of there!

Come on. Come on, get outta there.

I had one more sample to go, I wanted to finish up.

I had 10 electrodes going and I lit the burner to sterilize the loop

- and everything flashed. - Bob!

I'm fine.

Something suddenly just happened.

Like something suddenly just happened in that lab.

Cyanobacteria.

Bob, what's the last cyanobacteria you were working on?

Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii 1123-4.

We'll just call him 1123-4. Now,

Cyanobacteria just need 2 things to be happy, right? They need food.

Which can be nitrogen, carbon, any minerals they can find

and energy.

Sunshine, out in the big wide world. In the Greenway lab,

they replaced the sun with an iron electrode attached to a power pack.

And ?

And that was the hydrogen going up.

Splitting from the oxygen right out of the water.

One thousand times faster than any ever before.

Wait, that's not natural,

more like impossible. What'd they do to it?

So U of T sent over electron microscope pictures of the sample that lit up

and we are definitely on to something.

Okay, everything looks normal. Right?

- Except for... - That's what I was hoping for,

- right there. - Some sort of metal, I'm not sure what.

My guess, it's not supposed to be there.

You are looking at customized pond scum.

1123-4. It's not what they called the cyanobacteria.

It's their code for these fucking dots. They bioengineered them onto the cell.

- You get a chemical analysis? - The dots are nano scale,

so if you want a complete atomic analysis,

- we need a synchrotron. - Then get one.

- Sure. What's a synchrotron? - Like an X-ray machine on steroids.

Saskatoon has a brand new one.

- I'll see what I can do. - Okay.

Now wait a minute. 1123 needs energy to survive.

So, where's the e-power-pack in the scientist?

- The current between the nerve cells? - Too small.

- Static electricity?

- Electrolysis needs a sustained charge. - Fuck !

Mayko, you coordinate with Saskatchewan.

We have to find out what these nanodots are.

The rest of us...

If cyanobacteria even survives in the scientists

it needs a power source. Okay, let's find it.

Damn.

- Hey, Bob. - Hi, Rachel.

You know, I don't understand

why David won't entertain some of my more esoteric theories:

spontaous combustion, red rain, Morgellons Disease.

We're routinely involved in strange occurrences, I don't see why...

How have you been feeling since you've been back?

I'm not a very good traveller and planes bother me.

They dehydrate me. Why?

Nothing, just developing an esoteric theory of my own.

- Carlos. Do you have a minute? - Sure.

How do you think that 1123-4 is being transmitted?

- Water supply, physical contact. - Airborne?

- Could be. Why? - Could?

I don't know. I'm just gonna go talk to David.

You find the power source?

What if some cyanobacteria survived that fire?

You and Bob were there.

Shit.

Call Agent Hicks.

Tell him to test everybody fluid on all ATF personnel, firemen,

anyone who went near that lab will have to be tested, starting with me.

Synchrotron analysis of the nanodots came back.

- Iron. Right? - Right.

A very reactive iron compound.

It would be. It's a catalyst.

That's got to be it.

- Conference room. - Good work, Mayko.

A top-secret lab in the middle of nowhere,

staffed by a bunch of... kids, completely out of their depth

and focused on finding an efficient way

of splitting hydrogen gas from water.

- That's tough to do. - Because?

It takes more energy to split the hydrogen from the oxygen

than the entire process can produce.

It's like throwing down 5 bucks to buy a buck.

So Greenway starts from scratch. Okay? Pond scum.

But to make any economic sense, they've gotta improve a little on Mother Nature.

Greenway genetically engineered cyanobacteria

- to be more efficient. - A lot more efficient.

- How? - These nanodots on the skin's cell.

They're made of iron. 1123-4 grows them.

Bioengineered.

How do they do it?

The iron nanodots act as catalysts

allowing the bacteria to separate hydrogen from water using less energy.

A lot less energy in a lot less time.

Now 10 cents buys you a buck.

It would take 1,377,000 years for a normal cyanobacteria

to releases as much hydrogen as one modified can in less than 20 minutes.

So if that got out, into the environment,

- there'd be no way to control it. - That's right.

And with the wind to carry it, 1123-4 can go wherever and wherever it lands,

it'll start to feed and grow continuously breaking down

every water molecule it comes across,

until the planet is one big cloud of hydrogen gas waiting to blow.

'Cause it has the biggest battery pack in the world strapped to it.

- The sun. - That's right.

So the question is: "Did it survive the fire?"

Did it get out?