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Panel 1: Something like a giant beach ball blowing up into the tank where Hiram dropped the capsule.

SFX – DETONATING CAPSULE (1): FWOOOM!

Translation (1): ¡BOOOOM!

Panel 2: Hiram pointing to a projected slide. It shows a silhouette of a woman in profile. In the middle of the silhouette, mapped out in white space, is a representation of her digestive tract. A dotted line from her mouth down to her stomach indicates the path that the capsule has presumably taken. Hiram is pointing at a little capsule shown resting in her stomach.

CAPTION – UNSEEN INTERVIEWER (2): How is that supposed to help you capture the creature?

Translation (2): ¿Cómo se supone que eso te ayuda a capturar a la criatura?

Hiram (3): Simple, really. Our subject swallows the capsule at the start of the exercise.

Translation (3): Es muy simple, en realidad. Nuestra sujeto de estudio se traga la cápsula al inicio del ejercicio.

Panel 3: Hiram pointing to another projection. It is a large silhouette of the outline of the creature (or what the research team thinks it looks like anyway). There is a similar white space representing the creature’s digestive tract, and in the middle of that tract, another silhouette of a woman. There is also another dotted line showing the path that the woman took from the mouth of the siphon down to the creature’s stomach.

Hiram (4): In the course of her interaction with the creature, the subject will be ingested and then subsequently digested.

Translation (4): Durante su interacción con la criatura, la sujeto de estudio será ingerida y después digerida.

Panel 4: Another projection, this time showing the creature, change will be detected by but with a FWOOM in the middle of its digestive tract.

Hiram (5): At a sufficiently advanced stage of the digestion of the subject, the chemical change will be detected by the sensors, setting off the explosive charge.

Translation (5): En una etapa suficientemente avanzada de la digestión de la sujeto de estudio, los sensores detectarán el cambio químico, activando la carga explosiva.

Hiram (6): We believe the resulting explosion will both stun the creature and, by changing its buoyancy, force it to the surface, where it can be collected.

Translation (6): Creemos que la explosión aturdirá a la criatura y además, al cambiar su flotabilidad, la obligará a salir a la superficie, donde podrá ser capturada.

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Panel 1: HIRAM WORTHINGLOCK (“Hiram”), a rat-faced little man who wears thick round spectacles and a labcoat, sitting on a stool in another laboratory. He is being interviewed.

SUBTITLE (1): Hiram Worthinglock, assistant to Professor Turpentine.

Translation (1): Hiram Worthinglock, asistente del profesor Turpentine.

Hiram (2): Of course, we have our bait, but you can’t just stick a hook through this bait, heh heh.

Comment (2): “Heh heh,” an evil little laugh.

Translation (2): Por supuesto, tenemos nuestra carnada, pero no puedes simplemente engancharla a un anzuelo, je je.

Hiram (3): So we have a more elegant solution.

Translation (3): Así que tenemos una solución más elegante.

Panel 2: Close-up of Hiram’s hand, in which he is holding up something that looks like a Tylenol capsule at the end of a pair of tweezers.

CAPTION – HIRAM NARRATING (4): This capsule contains nano-sensors and a tiny but very powerful explosive charge wrapped in ultra-strong membranes.

Translation (4): Esta cápsula contiene nanosensores y una carga explosiva pequeña pero muy poderosa envuelta en membranas ultra fuertes.

Panel 3: Hiram standing over an open cylindrical metal tank about one meter across and one meter high. He has just dropped the capsule in the tank, as can be seen by a small drop of fluid rebounding back up and some ripples around it.

SFX – CAPSULE DROPPED INTO THE WATER (5): ploop!

Translation (5): ¡Plic!

Hiram (6): The capsule’s sensors are programmed to be sensitive to chemical changes in the capsule’s environment, as we can see by dropping it in this tank…

Translation (6): Los sensores de la cápsula están programados para detectar los cambios químicos en el entorno de la cápsula, como podemos ver al dejarla caer en este tanque…

Panel 4: Hiram pouring a flask of some sort of liquid into the tank.

Hiram (7): …and then inducing a chemical change.

Translation (7: …y después induciendo un cambio químico.

Hiram (8): You might want to back up a bit.

Translation (8): Te recomiendo que retrocedas un poco.

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