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INT. HARRY’S NEW OFFICE – DAY

Harry, Arthur, and Joe are sitting in Harry’s new office, which is quite spacious and richly appointed even by the standards of his last office. They sit around a teak conference table.

ARTHUR

Tell it to us again, Joe, and slowly this time.

JOE

This girl…she has figured out the creature likes to eat women and apparently in exchange, gives us things.

(looks around apprehensively)

And then she volunteered to be its next meal, suggesting that perhaps the next thing it gives us would be the answer to the Thanatos virus.

ARTHUR

Well, that’s about the most insane thing I’ve ever heard.

(puts a reassuring hand on Joe’s shoulder)

I’ll talk to company security about measures to make sure that this girl doesn’t make more of a nuisance of herself.

HARRY

(holding up a hand)

Wait.

ARTHUR

Wait?

HARRY

You might not be aware of this, Arthur, but our relationship with the national security community has been good and growing better ever since we did them a favor by letting them take credit for the Mediatrix. They’ve been kind enough to keep our research side appraised of intelligence reports on the Thanatos virus.

ARTHUR

And?

HARRY

It’s bad, Arthur. It’s really bad. How bad is classified, but…the science is baffling, and it’s about one mutation away from from being an extinction-level event.

ARTHUR

I agree that is bad.

HARRY

Right now, I’m not saying that we get into the human sacrifice business. What I am saying is that it would be irresponsible of us not to consider all possible options.

JOE

What are you saying, Harry?

HARRY

Before we jump to conclusions about who is sane and who is no,t can we at least reach out to this young woman and offer a proper psychiatric evaluation?

ARTHUR

I don’t know Harry, it just seems…

HARRY

We’re scientists here, right? So why don’t we try to make our decisions based on as much scientific information as we can gather.

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