We Must Boost the Signal, Page 24

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The brains are...alive!

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PAGE 24 (Four panels)

Panel One: View down as if from inside one of the cylinders. We see Hope and Xu, their images distorted by the curve of the glass in the tube, making them look as if we are seeing them in a funhouse mirror.

Dr. Xu: That’s right. Dr. Montclair. These brains are alive.

Hope: But…how?

Panel Two: Close-up view of one of the brains.

Caption: The gel in which these brains are suspended appears to be some sort of symbiotic organism. It provides nutrition and respiration to the tissues.

Caption: It also appears to be engaged in a dense pattern of electrochemical interactions with them.

Panel Three: Hope, Xu, and Macneil around one of the tubes.

Macneil: A bioterrorism response team found these five specimens in a sewer somewhere in the middle west. They were able to retrieve them and bring the back for study.

Panel Four: Macneil, looking into another plastic bag, also sealed with an EVIDENCE label. The bag contains Amy Ninenger’s one-piece swimsuit.

Macneil: We think we know the identities of three of them. One was Amy Ninenger, a teenage girl who disappeared while swimming…

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 23

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The ugly reality hits home.

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PAGE 23 (Four panels)

Panel One: Hope facing Macneil and Xu.

Hope: Look, gentlemen, if you’re looking for help investigating a surgically-inspired serial killer I have to tell you, it’s really not my field…

Macneil: Not a killer, exactly, Dr. Montclair.

Panel Two: Dr. Xu, gently touching Hope’s sleeve, directing Hope’s attention to something.

Dr. Xu: Perhaps this will be easiest to understand if you would direct your attention to one of those monitors…

Panel Three: Hope bending forward, looking down at a screen on one of the pedestals. She’s frowning at what she is seeing.

Hope: It’s…no, this can’t be right…not for this brain.

Panel Four: Close-up of the screen. It’s a “brain scan,” showing a human brain, but with different regions of the brain “lit-up” with bright patches of color.

Caption: This brain is teeming with activity.

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Way back when I was in college, I had a much-loved professor who would serve champagne to his seminars on this day, a fact which should confirm the worst suspicions of all you academia-haters out there. I wish I could serve champagne over the Internet, but the technology isn’t quite there yet, so you’ll have to settle for an unusually rich package of delightful images today. These are selected from a photoset; the original post is here.

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 22

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Dr. Xu's laboratory is the vault of the macabre.

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Panel One: Hope is looking up at one of the tubes, her face faintly illuminated by the glow coming from within. Hope has extended her right hand and the tips of her fingers are brushing the glass of the cylinder.

Hope: Dissections? But…

Panel Two: Close-up on Hope’s hand. She has lifted one of the plastic bags slightly off the table next to the cylinder where it rests. We can see a human skull — bone picked completely clean — inside the bag. Across the top of the bag there is a seal reading EVIDENCE.

Hope (out-of-panel balloon): And whose skull?

Panel Three: Dr. Xu, his face also slightly illuminated by the glow of the tube. He is looking up at the tube, which is outside the panel.

Dr. Xu: It once enclosed that brain up there.

Dr. Xu: At least, we think it did.

Panel Four: Close-up of Hope’s face. She looks horrified and perhaps like she’s struggling not to be sick.

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 21

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Tube..brain girls?

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Single Panel: A view (Hope’s P.O.V.) of a large room, dimly lit room. The room consists of several large, transparent cylinders, about resting on pedestals about a meter tall. The cylinders themselves are about a meter wide and two-and-a-half meters tall. The cylinders are arranged in rows through the room. Five of the cylinders are occupied by human nervous systems as if dissected out of human bodies — brains on top, with the heavy nerves of the spinal columns hanging down and nerves branching out. Viewed up close, these should have the give the impression of a faint, ghostly outline of a human being floating in the tube. The interiors of the tubes should be illuminated, so that they are brighter than the rest of the room (the effect might be vaguely lava-lamp like). The pedestal of each tube is ringed with all sorts of electronic instruments, and next to some of the tubes there are also small tables containing sealed plastic bags (we can’t see what’s in them in these panels.)

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