We Must Boost the Signal, Page 10

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Meanwhile, there's always science.

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PAGE 10 (Four panels)

Panel One: DR. HOPE MONTCLAIR (“Hope”) is seen lying in an MRI tube, wearing a hospital gown.

Character design note: Hope is a woman in her late twenties, pretty with short black hair and intense black eyes. She should be pale (spends a lot of late nights in the lab) and a little short.

Caption: There might have been more tedious things done for the sake of science than what I’m doing now.

Panel Two: Close up on Hope’s face as she lies in the tube. She is wearing a look of intense concentration.

Caption: Something having to do with the classification of beetles, maybe.

Panel Three: A P.O.V. for Hope. She is looking at the projection of four images of an eye, a tin can, waving lines representing water, and a female sheep (thus a rebus Eye-Can-Sea-Ewe=”I can see you.”).

Caption: The hope is that I can focus on images and their relationship to language really hard and for a really long time.

Panel Four: A “scan view” of Hope’s brain, projected on a screen outside the MRI tube.

Caption: The hope is that eventually we will have a comprehensive mapping between concepts in my mind and activity in my brain.

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 09

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A horrifying fate for Amy.

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PAGE 9 (Four-panels)

Panel One: An autopsy table. An array of clean white bones, comprising most of a small adult human skeleton, lie arranged on a table. Note that the bones should not be joined but laid out on the table separate. Also, the skull should not be intact, but rather separated into its separate parts, and some of the bones should clearly be missing.

MacNeil (out-of-panel balloon): Jesus

Panel Two: Glimmerbeck, holding up one small bone in his surgically-gloved hand. Glimmerbeck: This is what we found, Agent Macneil. The bone is clean, no soft or connective tissue or even marrow.

Panel Three: Faces of Macneil (who looks shocked) and Glimmerbeck looking down.

Macneil: But how do you…

Glimmerbeck: DNA in the bone cells itself, and also the family dentist identified some work in the teeth.

Panel Four: Close-up on a piece of bone.

Caption: No signs of either animal activity or tool-work on the bones.

Caption: It’s like Amy Ninenger just dissolved.

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 08

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 08

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Panel One: SPECIAL AGENT MACNEIL (“MacNeil”) and SHERIFF JACKSON (“Jackson”) are walking down an institutional-looking corridor together.

Character notes: MacNeil is a sturdily-built African-American man in a conservative suit and tie — the same as the character of the same name in the Tales of Gnosis College. Jackson is a typical American rural sheriff in uniform, complete with boots, Sam Browne belt, and Smokey Bear hat.

MacNeil: You dragged the the lake right away, Sheriff Jackson?

Jackson: The Ninengers have been coming up for summers at their lodge at the lake for years. Solid people. Amy Ninenger was a well brought-up young lady.

Panel Two: Close-up on Sheriff Jackson’s face. His face is lined and tired, his eyes partly shadowed by the brim of his hat.

Jackson: Not the sort to get herself into trouble, so given the facts of the case, we expedited the investigation.

Panel Three: Inside a morgue, Jackson introducing MacNeil to BOB GLIMMERBECK (“Glimmerbeck”), a man in a white coat. Jackson and Glimmerbeck are shaking hands.

Jackson: Special Agent MacNeil, this is Bob Glimmerbeck, our county medical examiner.

MacNeil: Dr. Glimmerbeck.

Glimmerbeck: Special Agent.

Panel Four: Glimmerbeck pulling on surgical gloves.

Jackson: (out-of-panel balloon): Show Special Agent MacNeil what we found, Bob.

Glimmerbeck: Sure thing, Sheriff.

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 08 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.)