| INHALT
| - R: Listen: I might not be from the Times, but if you walk out that door, the people knocking at your door tomorrow, they -will- be!
- Z: I... I didn't know what I was getting into when I took this job.
- R: Smile, you're on pursecam. I'm about to meet with Armand Zander, director of the Vik Institute, where that mathemetician just happened to be visiting a mental patient. Wish me luck.
- Z: We are, of course, very strict about enforcing visiting hours, but mistakes do happen—
- Dr. Mittelwerk:
- R: You -need- to show me them.
- R: And what are you getting into?
- R: I -read- your letter.
- R: Just a concerned citizen--
- R: Representational of what?
- R: What about them?
- R: What kind of equation is this?
- Z: What letter?
- Z: I can't talk to you—
- Z: I, uh... Who are you?
- It is with profound anger that I submit this complaint. I understand that The Hanso Foundation prides itself on experimentation and innovation -- but what is going on in my own hospital has left me extremely confused about my mission.
I was recruited to the directorship of the Vik Institute with a promise that I would be given the cutting edge of technology for the benefit of my patients. Instead, I find myself prisoner in a hall of mirrors.
Day in and day out, new doctors not in my staff enter and exit the hospital. Last night, twenty of my autistic savant patients were administered secret proprietary memory tests without my consult or consent by doctors whom I have never seen before -- and then there is, of course, the third sub-basement.
Never in my thirty years of treating the mentally ill have I seen the like. A secret ward containing patients whose illness is unknown to the hospital's director? It is, I regret to say, absurd and offensive.
I am responsible for the lives of hundreds of patients, but I cannot, in good conscience, take that responsibility if I am hamstrung by a secret program of experimentation taking place under my own nose.
The bottom line is, I expect a full accounting of the activities taking place in my hospital. If you are unable, or unwilling to comply, I may just be forced to tender resignation.
Regretfully yours,
Armand Zander
- Z: I've answered your questions, Miss Blake, now answer mine— Who are you? Why are you doing this?
- Z: I've always thought they looked like... egyptian hieroglyphics. There are 5, maybe six of them in there, and, it's a vulture, a staff, a—
- Z: These are autistic savants, Miss Blake, their computational powers are unsurpassed! They keep them in this room—it's comfortable, I've seen to that, first and foremost I am a doctor—but all day, they are running this equation over and over, over...
- R: I know that's the story you practiced, and it's convincing, but I'm not from the Times, Doctor.
- R: The answer to that is the reason that I can't tell you. Trust me, you're safer not knowing. Dr. Zander, while you still have a chance, GET AWAY FROM THEM.
- Z: It's like nothing I've seen. There are these... symbols. I asked one of the mathematicians, and he said they were representational.
- Z: You... You read my letter. The third basement, Miss Blake, it's not full of mental patients! They are mathe-- mathematicians! Pulled from the world's finest, paid to come in, undercover, and work in secret, only I'm sure some of them don't want to be there. ... I don't know... they work day and night on this equation. And there's the savants.
- A tragic fire struck a hospital in the town of Vik, Iceland at 3 a.m. today, leaving one man, renowned mathematician Vigi Benoffski, dead, and several others hospitalized for burns and smoke inhalation. Authorities released only the names of three of the injured: Janos Backh , Orhan Hikmet Ran , und Vikram Sahani . Their families refused comment
The coastal community was awakened in the early morning hours by sirens, as rescue and fire units rushed to contain the blaze that erupted on a basement level of The Vik Institute. Hospital Director Armand Zander, "We are most thankful more were not put in harm's way. What happened to Mr. Benoffski is a horrible tragedy."
While the fire has been ruled accidental, uncertainty still lingers. It is not yet known whether the injured included any hospital patients. And, while Zander asserted that Benoffski "must have been visiting," he refused to comment how a visitor could have obtained access to a basement level well past visiting hours.
- R: The one to Mittelwerk, about the savants, the forced memory tests, the THIRD BASEMENT? They lied to you, they're lying to everyone, they don't want the world to know that Vigi Benoffski was at your institute, WHY?
- Z: There is no getting away from them... Haven't you realized that yet?
- Z: No, you have 3 seconds to come clean before I walk out.
- Well if you need me I’ll gladly be there when I…
- It’ll be fixed.
- OK, which institute?
- Of course I’m working.
- What fire?
- When I’m finished here!
- You hire me to fix things.
- TM: I admit the fire sets us back, but all we’ve really lost is time.
- TM: They won’t, I’ve seen to that.
- Yes?
- Woman: We’re already funnelling millions into your mental programmes without knowing if this equations even…
- TM: You say it like its an insult, “mental programs”. The Mental Health Appeal is the centre-piece of all our future plans.
- Woman: And Vigi Benoffski. If his family goes public…
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