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Panel One: Hope now sitting at the table. SA Macneil has a cool, professional expression on his face, Lehman is impassive. Hope is leaning forward.

Macneil: Dr. Montclair. I came as soon as I got the call from the State Police.

Hope: Thank you, Special Agent Macneil.

Panel Two: Close-in view of Hope, who looks a bit like she’s straining to keep herself level and professional.

Hope: I think I have thought of a way to help you with your…laboratory issue. I understand of course that you want it kept confidential…

Panel Three: Macneil, his expression now one of seriousness and concentration.

Macneil: Yes. I understand.

Macneil: Dr. Lehman, could I speak with you for a few minutes?

Panel Four: Macneil and Lehman standing in a corner of the room, conferring. They look quite irritated with one another.

Lehman: This patient, Special Agent, is suspected of being delusional and having suicidal tendencies. I am not letting her out of my care. And I can call the director of this institution have you removed…

Macneil: And I can call the United States Attorney and have you arrested for obstructing a Federal investigation…

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Panel One: A male state trooper, holding a large flashlight and looking down at the business card. His face is illuminated by the light of the flashlight which he is pointing down at the business card, which he is holding in his other hand.

Caption: They’re skeptical of what might be a crazy woman. I ask them what they think will happen if they kept material information from a Federal official.

Panel Two: Hope, viewed sitting on a bed through a small panel window in a closed room. She is wearing a hospital gown.

Caption: I have to be medicated and wait for quite a while under observation, a profound indignity.

Panel Three: Hope in a robe being walked down a grim-looking institutional corridor by a large orderly in white.

Caption: The next day I’m told I have a visitor. I really hope it isn’t Brian. I am so not in the mood for that.

Panel Four: Hope in a grim-looking institutional room. At a dingy table sits Special Agent Macneil, facing her. Also at the table is DR. JOHN LEHMAN (“Lehman”), a middle-aged psychiatrist.

Caption: Praise Yog-Sothoth.

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Panel One: “Long shot” showing Hope’s little car driving along a rural road at night.

Caption: I drive for a long time thinking. Am I really insane?

Panel Two: View through the windshield again. It is still night. Through the back windshield of her car we can see the flashing lights of a police cruiser.

Caption: It must have been hours later when I was pulled over by the police.

Panel Three: Hope outside her car. She has her hands on the roof of her car and she is being patted down by a female state trooper on the roadside.

Caption: The nice cops politely explain that they have an emergency civil commitment order for me.

Caption: And I can guess why, too. Fuck you, Brian. This is my decision.

Panel Four: Close-up view of Special Agent Macneil’s business card.

Caption: I get the inspiration to hand them this and ask that he be contacted.

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Panel One: View of Brian, looking tormented.

Brian: Those technologies are speculative, decades off if they happen at all.

Panel Two: Brian staring bleakly down at the kitchen table.

Brian: You’re telling me you that you want to give up on us having a future together.

Panel Three: Silhouette of Brain staring at the wall in the kitchen.

Caption: I suppose I am, Brian.

Caption: I guess I love science more than you.

Caption: It must hurt. I know. And I’m sorry.

Panel Four: Hope in a bedroom, about to pack something into a small suitcase.

Caption: I begin packing to leave, although halfway through the utter incongruity of doing so strikes me.

Caption: After all, it’s not like I’ll need clothes or a toothbrush where I propose to go.

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 31 written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)