"A brain Injury caused her to lapse Into I coma." "Trapped inside your own brain." "Too expensive, and insurance won't cover it." "The Jefferson Institute is one of only two facilities in the entire country that specializes in the care of patients in an advanced vegetative state." "The institute can house these patients for a fraction of what it would cost a conventional hospital." "Jefferson wouldn't let us in." "Come on." "So we broke in." "Room after room, empty." "What kind of hospital has no bodies?" "What we did find, we can't explain." "Then the guards came." " Hey, hey, stop" " Hurry." " Come on!" " Go!" "Thanks, hon." " Just in time." " Here you go." "Good morning, everyone." " Sweet." " Gang, lot': rock and roll." "Watch the game last night, Chambers?" "Fourth quarter." "Wild one." "In fact, Dr. Taylor': got season tickets." "How was It, Doc?" "My son-in-law used them." "You know how It ls." "Never enough time In the day." "I don't think I've seen one game this year." "I got Muck at an ethics board meeting, than a fundraiser." "Caught the last two minutes on the ride home, though." "All right, that is the last of the fibroids." "And we're good." "Losing a lot of blood, Doc?" "Not more than 100 cc's." "Nice color, very nice." "Why?" "Pressure is 80/58, dropping." "Turn the music off." "What?" "How can that be?" "I don't know." "Give me a second." " It': not coming from me." " This doesn't make any sense." "I..." " Talk to me, Ramirez." " Heart rate is out of whack." "Eyes?" "Fixed and dilated." "I'm showing zero brain activity." "Damn it." "You!" "I'm talking to you." " What are you doing?" " This has got to stop!" "Okay." "Okay." "It's okay." "I was doing nothing!" "He came at me!" "You saw him." "Dr. Taylor, just the man I'm looking for." "You got a second?" " Don't lot them got to you, Mark." " Sr?" " HI, honey." "How': work?" " Hay, Dad." "Is it fair that I'm working at the hospital and here?" "The people are going to rise up one day." "I didn't pick my parents, you know." "I'll do the grocery shopping this week, okay?" "Yeah, you'd better unless you want us surviving on berries and worms." "Susan!" "Miss, can you hear me?" "Can you hear me?" "There you go." "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "Good, good." " Mom." " Call 911." " Thanks." " You're vary welcome." "Anyway, it was so scary." "I thought I was going to have to find myself a new roommate." "I know." "And the weirdest part was opening my eyes and having some strange guy over me." "That was weird for you?" "Speaking of which, looks like someone's trying to get your attention." " Okay." " I'll take the guy from the pool any day." "Come on." "You've got good eyes." "That's why I'm going into ophthalmology." "Seriously, you want mo to got the number of the mouth-to-mouth guy?" " No, don't you dare." "Don't." " Come on." "I can break in his locker at the pool, tell you if he wears boxers or briefs." "Don't worry." "You'll do great." "I'm on six if you need me." "Montoya?" "I'm Paul Carpin." "I'm a medical student." "I'm supposed to report to the head nurse." "Sylvi, lady In 514 yanked out her line again." "Yeah, bye." " Someone find Cartwright." " Nurse, I need some help." " HI." "Is this the surgical rotation?" " Did you find him yet?" "What's her problem?" "That': actually considered pleasant for Montoya." " Okay." " And yes, this ls the surgical rotation." " New student?" " Transfer from New York." "Hey, guys." "Hi." "You, how is your head?" "It's better." "Thanks." "Good." "I'm glad." "My name ls Mark Bellows." "I know you." "From the Georgia Yacht Club." "Paul Carpin, sir." "Good to see you." "Call me Mark." "In front of patients, Dr. Bellows." " Hanna Goldberg." " HI, Hanna." " Geoffrey Fairweather." " HI." " Susan Wheeler." " You're the Wheeler." "Like, as in this building, the Wheeler Pavilion?" "Townes Wheeler performed the very first open-heart surgery in Atlanta." " My grandfather." " That we: beck when they named buildings to honor people, not jun to shake them down." "Well, welcome, Susan." "A legacy will get you In, but only herd work will keep you here." "Okay, show of hands, how many of you are absolutely certain that you want to be surgeons?" "Congratulations." "You screwed up already." "They didn't tell you?" "Never do your first rotation in your chosen field." "Use the ones you don't re about to gain experience." "Follow me." "We can transfer her to a private room..." "Hi." "Hi." "You all right?" "I don't know where I am." "Okay." "Okay, let me see." "Okay, Mrs. Danner, I'm sure somebody will be here any second." "You just breathe." "Okay, guys, there is a liver resection happening in OR 4, so let's go." "I'm coming." "Okay, kids, showtime." "They said I had Alzheimer's, and I don't, and they loft mo out here." "Okay, I'm here with you now, right?" "Okay, Mrs..." " Danner." " Danner." "We're going to take you downstairs now." "Listen, I don't want to cause any trouble or anything, but I just don't think she should be left alone." "Okay, sure." "Hey, Geoffrey, could you help me out here for a second?" "Yeah." " What did you need?" " Could you jun hand mo one of those scrub brushes up there?" "You're tall." "Thanks." "Sorry to keep you waiting." "How have you been feeling?" "Have you been taking your medication?" "Would you say I've boon helpful to you, Arno?" "I feel like I've been very protective toward you, maybe too protective." "No." "Have you been seeing the trees?" "The trees ain't real." "I make the trees in my dreams." "The girl ain't real, either." "Fair weather, do a neuro check." "Hi, Mrs. Sands." "This is Dr. Bellows." "You're looking wall." "Guys, the patient': name ls Marla Sands." "She was brought in on the 21st with nausea, fatigue, weakness and vomiting." " Susan." "Would you like to do the honors?" " Sure." "Mrs. Sands, this la gonna take re of your nausea, okay?" "I find that If you pinch the patient's arm, they barely feel a thing." " Here you go" " Okay." " I'm sorry." " Geez, I got It." "If you drop it, they won't feel it at all." "Don't worry." "It happens to the bani of us, Susan." "Here you go." " Simple." " Very good." "Follow me." "Sorry, you have to leave now." "The surgical team's doing rounds late." " Sorry." " That': okay." "Okay, 9 "VS" "Oh, my God." "I know her." "Susan?" "I see her at the pool." "What happened to her?" "She was diagnosed with simple fibroid tumors." "After a successful hysteroscopy, she lapsed into a coma." "Common procedure." "Incidents of coma after anasthesia are one In 0,000." "Now, I was not there for this case, but I have been in the room when it's happened before, and trust me, it's not something you ever want to experience." "In three days, her coverage for hospital re will end." "Jefferson is the only facility your insurance will approve for long-term care." "Honestly, Mrs. Greenly, your daughter will receive more attention and have a better chance of recovering at..." "At Jefferson." "Hey." "I used to see her at the pool." "Yeah, she loves swimming." "Or loved swimming." "She seems so nice, and, you know, I know she didn't deserve this." "I mean, not that anyone deserves this, but..." "Well, it's what you people did to her." "She was perfectly healthy." "Friend of yours or something?" "That's Nancy Greenly's fiance." "I'm just trying to understand it." "How do I got access to her admittance record and surgical chart?" "You can't, honey." "Hospital guidelines restrict students' access to the records." "And the op report la not available In the chart yet." "Anyone asks, I'll tell them you stole my ID." "Okay, what if I want to look up other cases like hers?" "You can narrow your total down by length of stay, but after that, you still have to go through it one case at a time." " Okay." " We missed you lat night." "The entire board was there." "I had patient tor open some sutures I couldn't gal away." "Get your priorities straight, Mark." "If the board doesn't think you're serious, they'll go with another candidate." "Come on, admit it, you only wanted me there to help you push through the the next phase of your Alzheimer's study." "Yes." "But I also like you, and I'm trying to help you." "And, yes, Stark fails to see the value of my study." "Well, I'll be there next week, scout's honor." "I appreciate everything you're doing for me." "Hey, Susan." "Listen." "When I ask you to join mo In the operating room, hero': the thing, I'm not really asking you, I'm toiling you." "That patient needed someone to stay with her..." "I understand, but this is a factory, and if you walk away from the assembly line, there will be consequences, okay?" "And you can't get attached to every patient that comes in here." "If you do, you won't last long." "Let's leave that for the nurses and the families and the volunteers, okay?" "Thanks." "And, Susan?" "You should have lot Fairweather pus out In the OR." "He wouldn't have done the same thing for you." "Why are there so many comas?" "I don't know." "I mean, it seems like a lot, doesn't it?" "Only coma cases go to Jefferson, right?" "I'll leave a note for the head nurse." "She can ask the doctors to look into it." "Go home." "Hey, Nancy." "How is it out there?" "Rowdy as ever." "Same as usual." " See you later" " Bye." "There have always been two types of doctors, those who attend the ill and those who research in the hope of curing all ills." "The cost of quality care versus the cost of research, and both, sadly, are addicted to profit." "Through research, we n discover cures for many Illnesses, making the human race itself healthier..." "The remodeling ls not until next year, Mr. Fairweather." " Yes, sir." "Sorry." " Thank you." "Now, is it ethical to spend a smaller amount on those loss likely to benefit from a procedure or ls It better to sacrifice..." " You look exhausted." " I know." "I haven't been home." "...that patient and his well-being for the greater good of the community." "Notes?" "Mr. Fair weather." "If we can't cure, aren't we only really biding time until the inevitable?" "Yeah, and who decides?" "The doctor, the patient or the Insurer?" "Well, obviously, we're the only ones in a real position to evaluate the chances of success versus the ultimate cost." "Excellent questions for next week's class." "Susan, I'm so glad you came." "Your grandfather would be proud." "You had a question." "Isn't It our job to do what': bani for our patients?" "Yes." "But the Irony Is that we have done our job too well, and we live in an aging society." "Is it right to devote resources to those who will succumb to some ailment or other, or ls It sensible to discover cures for your children so they'll have better lives?" "So Stark does this every year just to prove how much money he has?" "Stark doesn't take a cent from Memorial." "Really?" "The Stark: were bankers." "Almost totally wiped out by the Civil War." "They lost a bundle in loans against slaves." "Mortgaging human beings?" "Quaint." "Divorced 12 years ago, not long after his daughter died of juvenile diabetes." "No family left." "Ho lives all alone In what': practically a castle." "If I'm gonna marry this guy, I think I'm allowed to Google him." "Wish me luck." "Okay." "Good luck." "Quadruple bypass, '06." "Quack: at Marcy didn't give ma a chance." "I wouldn't be standing here today had it not been for Stark." "One hell of a doctor." "You sure this isn't a fundraiser?" "Every time you throw a party, it costs my clients a fortune." "I think we've made your clients more than they'll ever be able to give away." "But they didn't even call you in for a review?" "I'm not going to call myself in for a review." "Yeah, but a coma?" "Are you kidding me?" "Nelson thought I took too long stitching up a hernia." "Ho had mo In front of the ethics board the next day." " Hay." " How you doing?" "Did you hit that yet?" "No, I did not." "But go for It, knock yourself out." "Could be the fastest way to the top." " Have another drink, Chandler." " I'mjust saying." " Nice party, huh?" " Yes." "We should have more events like this." "I think it's important to remember, especially as a student, that there is life outside the hospital." "A life?" "I'm still trying to figure out when I'm supposed to sleep." "I thought you were doling that during surgery." "You'll have to excuse him, Dr. Lindquist." "Paul's a little on the competitive side." "We're wired to compete." "Our ancestors competed for food, for shelter, for mates." "And those who couldn't didn't survive." "Yeah, it's how we distinguish the best from the rest, Fair weather." "Best from the rest." "Well, it rhymes, so it must be true." "Fool, tool." "See?" "I did it, too." "Hey, Susan." "Over here." "Have you met Susan Wheeler?" "This is one of the smartest students we have." "Susan, this is Dr. Lindquist." "She's the head of psychiatry" "with e PhD In Neuroscience." " HI." "Wow." "A brain surgeon who knows what you're thinking." " What field do you hope to go In, Susan?" " Neurosurgery." "Well, it's always nice to have fresh blood." "If you make the cut." "Welcome to Memorial." "That was, like, really intense, right?" "You think?" "I was dying." "Say the wrong thing to the wrong department head, you end up in proctology." "And Carpin was really into her." "Yeah, well, he's an elitist and a sociopath." "Mon doctors ere only one or the other." "He': the whole package." "Most likely to succeed." "Yeah." "I'm not really sure I'm fitting in here." "You don't." "Trust me." "I don't, either." "You're smart, you're nice." "These people are monsters." "They're Southerners." "I'm gonna get another drink." "You want one?" "No." "I'm fine, thank you." "Is this seat taken?" "Sure." "No, it's not." "Thanks." "I never properly thanked you for saving my life the other day." "No, you didn't." "Are you going to now?" "Did you know Nancy Greenly?" "It's hard to believe, right?" "Yeah." "It's really scary." "I better go check on my roommate." "That sounds like a good idea." "Make sure she's still standing upright." " I'll no you tomorrow." " Okay." "You look too young to be a doctor." "That's 'cause I'm a med student." "That's why you look so tired." "I was beginning to think it was my fault." "Actually, you can't use that in here." "Sorry." "It': okay." "There': something wrong with It anyway." " What': that?" " Your number Isn't In It." "It says there were some tests ordered here, but there's no doctor listed." "It just says, "Admin."" "It's probably Dr. Anything-for-a-buck, M.D." "Anyone mention what these tests were for?" "Who knows?" "Dr. Cartwright did the surgery on my knee last time." "I mean, what do you test for when you have torn ligaments anyway?" "So, you're not married or engaged or anything, ere you?" "So, the only medication you're taking is ibuprofen?" "Usually in the morning." "You know what you need?" "And no allergies to any medications, as far as you know?" "No." "Which knee is it?" " Right knee." " Right knee." "Right knee." "I've got this place on the Sound." "It's beautiful this time of year, and empty." "You could come down and just stare at the water." "Do you wear dentures, partial or full, or have any dental implants?" "Is that ayes?" "Hey." "May I use your ID?" "It's all yours." "At the Institute, we rely on the most advanced techniques modern medicine has to offer to ensure our patients' comfort." "What's that?" "Our business is caring." "It's just some link I got by accident, I guess." "Guess who just assisted Bellows and McLeary." "Yeah?" "Great." "Our business is caring, caring for patients, caring for families, caring for the future." "That': what the Jefferson Institute ls all about." " Jefferson." " Yeah." "I've just been kind of curious." "Do you know about this place?" "An uncle of mine got Into a construction accident and landed in a coma." "He ended up there a few years ago." "My mom was ready to pull the plug, but they took hm." "I only visited once." "It reminded me of a hotel." "Or like a giant funeral home." "Is he still in there?" "I'm not even sure." "The Jefferson Institute is one of only two facilities in the entire country that specializes in the care of patients in an advanced vegetative state." "The institute can house these patients for a fraction of what it would cost a conventional hospital." "Jefferson wouldn't let us in." "So we broke in." "Room after room, empty." "What we did find, we can't explain." "Then the guards came." " Hurry." "They're coming." " Go, go, go!" "Let's get out of here." " Can help you?" " HI." "I'm a medical student at Memorial." "I'm wondering if I could have the tour." "So sorry to have kept you waiting." "We only conduct tours that have been arranged by hospitals or medical schools." "I didn't realize." "Well, since I'm here, there's someone I'd like to visit." " Family?" " No, she': a friend." "Nancy Greenly?" "Oh, my, no." "Sorry." "You would need permission from the patient's life guardian." "Well, she was someone I knew, and she came into the hospital." "I'm a third-year med student." "I'll speak to my advisor." "Thank you, ma'am." "Oh, my God." "I remember you." "Susan, right?" "Very funny." "I'm mooting Anna and Lizbeth at MoCugh's." "You're coming." "No, I can't." "I'm trying to study the coma rate at Memorial." "You know, it's nine cases in just a few months." " You want one?" " No." "It': different doctors, different procedures." "It': different times of day." "And I lost access to the records." "Why?" "This nurse on the floor, Montoya, she was helping me, and then she just quit." "I don't think she quilt." "A nurse on your ﬂoor Mole a patient': iPod." " Montoya?" " Yeah, I think so." "They found it in her bag." "Tell you what." "I'll get you the records if you do something in return." "How do you have access to records?" "They don't care in Ophthalmology." "They log in in the morning, and anyone can look at anything they want to." "Okay, what do you want me to do?" "Just give me a list of what you need," "and other come hang out with mo or..." " Or what?" "Or hang out with Dr. Bellows." "He can help." "You have his number, don't you?" "Yes, he gave it to us, but..." "If he gave It to you, than you n use It." "He': cute." "Have dinner." "Talk shop." "See what else comes up." "Oh, no." "You could turn that thing off when you're hero, you know." "I'm a doctor, remember?" "How did she get your number?" "She is entirely too young for me." "He's a politician." "I'm still jealous, though." ""Baby, don't be jealous." "No, she means nothing to me."" "This isn't personal." "I'm sure she's just calling about the Greenly case." "That's the procedure Dr. Taylor did the day that he killed himself." "I tried to talk to him that day." "Brushed mo off." " You didn't tell mo you saw him." " Yeah." "I know how much he meant to you." "Survivor depression is very common in grieving families and friends, you know." ""Was there something I could have done?" "Was there one thing that I could have said?"" "Dr. Nelson told ma that Taylor': health was falling." " Heart." " I didn't know." "And who knows what was going on with his family, with his wife, his kids." " Yeah." " With his grandkids." " Absolutely." " I'll no you there." "Mark." "What are you doling?" "We got the surgery In 10 minutes." "I know." "Listen." "I went to Jefferson, and for a place that houses only technically dead patients, they make it very difficult to get in." "You don't really have time for side projects." "They said I would need you to arrange a tour for me." "This is your surgical rotation." "You really want to and up In Memorial or not?" "I found eight other recent come es beside Nancy Greenly's." " Well, it's a big place." " In four months." "That's 10 times higher than the average for the same number of surgeries." "If that': true, the hospital': already looking Into It." "It': not something they're going to send e memo out about." "Where did you get those numbers?" "I looked at the transfers to Jefferson." "I don't know If It': procedure or equipment or some particular doctor, but you have access to those surgical records." "I mean, maybe..." "How did you got access to the admittance and the discharge files?" "Montoya." "I think you may have helped get her fired." "So, young man, which knee is it?" "It's the right." " Susan?" " Yeah." "Hay." "There you are." "So, did you think about my offer?" "Como down to the ocean, ﬂare at the waves, wind In your hair?" "Sean, I think you know how I feel about those baby blues, so you do not want to make me jealous." "Now, my fifth anniversary ls tomorrow." "Should I get her perfume?" "Now, that's original." "Speaking of, is someone wearing perfume?" "Yeah, it's mine, Mark." "Do you like it?" "Never wear perfume in the OR, okay?" "Might as well light a cigarette." "What is five?" "I know first is paper." "Wood, I think." "Right?" "Five is wood?" "So I can get her a pair of wooden clogs." "That would make me sign on for another five years." "I hear you." "All right, heart rate is climbing." "It's over 100." "His heartbeat': at 120." "Maybe we should have done the NueroBloc." " Turn the music off, please." " Come on, Connor, can you keep this guy asleep for me, please?" "I think he's breathing on his own." "What's going on?" "Is he gonna be all right?" "You don't..." "BP ls In the tank, GU36." "Call my attending" "Okay, what the hell's going on here?" "Get the crash cart, please." "Yes, sir." "This can't be happening." "This guy's totally healthy." "Start compression." "He': arrested." "I'm giving Epi." "I know, I can see that, damn it." "Look, get a crash cart in here." "Somebody call a code." " Hurry UP" " Go,go,go" " Gal the rt In here!" " Come on, come on." "Como on!" "You should go home." "Get some sleep." "What happened?" "You were there." "We did everything right." "The hospital will review what happened to see if any mistakes were made, and why his body reacted the way that..." "He had the same surgery two years ago." "Same anesthesia, and he did not go into a coma because of some reaction." "Susan, I'm sorry." "Hi." "I'm Susan Wheeler." "Sure, Mark's student." "I'm Ramirez." "Have a seat." "I saw your name in Nancy Greenly's file, and I was hoping you might tell mo about what happened." " Why?" " I know her." "I we: the one who took her hand from her fiance before we rolled her into the OR." "And I was the one who told him she wasn't gonna wake up." "What do you think?" "Do you think she had a make?" "And the procedure itself, was there anything unusual?" "Was her blood a lot darker?" "Which would indicate a loss of oxygen to the brain?" "No." "If anything, it was brighter." "Her color was fine." "Her labs were fine, no problems with the surgery at all." "What did the surgeon think about what happened?" "Did you speak to him afterward?" "The surgeon?" "Dr. Taylor went home and hung himself." "Did you drop this?" "Hey, you got these." "I can't believe you did it." "Jen?" "Wake up." " Hay." "What': going on?" " Hay." "I got those files you wanted." "I know." "I saw." "Thank you." "Where did this come from?" "What is it?" "I don't know." "It was on the floor." "Was somebody in here?" "The landlord said he was gonna come by and fix the light over the sink." "I heard what happened in surgery." "Sorry." "I got to go to bed." "Mark Bellows, right?" "Yeah, that's me." "James Harper." "Yeah, I remember you." "You're Reglne Harper' brother, right?" "She's finally dead." "Oh, God, I'm sorry to hear that." "I didn't know that." "Hey,hey,hey,hey,hey!" " Is everything ell right, Mr. B?" " Yeah." "No, Lawrence." "'We're okay." "We just..." "A little misunderstanding." "It': fine." " Are you sure?" " I'm sure." "Thank you, though." "Thank you." "At Jefferson, they..." "They cremated her." "I picked her ashes up this morning." "My mother has Alzheimer's." "She doesn't have much time left." "The last thing she needs is your damn blood money." "I want you to take this, and I want you to shove It up the use:" "of every nurse and doctor who was there that day." "Going through old cases, Mark?" "I believe it was my first rotation," " I heard it from you." " Heard what?" "'A good doctor never ﬂop:" "looking for answers.'" " I never actually thought you were listening." " I wasn't." " The Harper 0." " Yeah." " Find anything?" " No." "I came to commend you on one of your students, Paul Carpin." "Ho assisted Dr. Gloxon yesterday I was In the room." "Eager to learn, good hands, vary professional." "That': fantastic." "Thank you, sir." "I'll pus It on to him." "Ho stands In contrast to another one of your students." "You have explained the concept of patients' rights to privacy?" " Sir..." " Searching for answers ls one thing." "Violating patients' rights is another." "Susan Wheeler, I'm not sure you've met." "This ls Dr. Nelson." "He': the head of anesthesiology." "One of my interns, Dr. Ramirez, told me that you were questioning him?" "Is there some level of expertise of which we are unaware?" "I'm sorry." "I was only asking." "I'll be In touch with the university s to your conduct." "Dr. Nelson, in fairness, sir, I think she's upset about the Berman case." "Personally, this is the second case I've been involved in that ended in an unexplained coma." "You know vary well that a hospital has a rigid chain of command." "Leave the investigation to those who have the data." "That': their job." "Susan Wheeler Isn't here to interrogate my doctors." "She': here to learn." "That': her job." "I understand, but, sir..." "Your name has come up as a candidate for the ethics committee." "It means a lot more money, and you'll have a chance to shape hospital policy." "You'll want to be a part of that." "In a living subject, this would be coursing with dark and blue venous blood." "First, we take the liver, and you n no the inferior van:" "Professor?" "And if you nick it in surgery..." "Don't." "What's the matter?" "Well, I had a pretty bad run-In with Dr. Nelson." "Ho ls investigating my conduct with the university." "I think he wants to kick me out because I've been digging around." "Look, look, he': just an ass." "And every year, he pick: one student to pick on." "Nothing ever comes of it." "No, I'm not talking about hospital politics here." "People are being put into comas." "They're putting people into comas?" "Do you know what your grandfather would be saying to you right now?" "Ho would be saying that no doctor wants to lose patient, and every doctor loses one." "You have to promise yourself that you loam from It." "I don't understand." "What are you saying?" "I'm saying for you to remember that you're e doctor." "You have a curious medical mind." "Use it." "Use it to alleviate the suffering of thousands of people to come." " Okay?" "That': what..." " Excuse mo, Professor Hillside." "Yes." "Yes, yes." "And if Dr. Nelson keeps on you, let me know about it." "Hey, this is Jen." "You know what to do." "Leave a message at the tone." "Hey, Jen, it's me." "I just got off the train, so I'll be home in a minute." "What do you want to do?" "Stop!" "Don't!" "Get off of me." "Get off of me!" "Help!" "You'll end up in Jefferson, too." "Look, I really don't no the point of this." "Hold you, I didn't no him." "Maybe you sew him earlier In the evening, then he followed you." "It might jar your memory." "Look, truth is, Ms. Wheeler, there's not much else we can do." "The park is full of security cameras." "We checked the footage." "He must've gotten you in a blind spot." "You do believe me?" "Short of a witness coming forward, we don't have anything to go on." "Great." "This is my second case." "I assisted Taylor about a year ago." "This girl, Regina Harper, she was a college track star, and it was a simple cyst removal, and she never regained consciousness." "Neither of them make any sense to me." "That's one of the reasons we invented God." "To pin the blame for senseless occurrences on the whim of s higher power." "I think Nelson dangled that job In front of mo to shut Susan up, which makes mo wonder If there really ls a problem at Memorial." " The position wan'!" "Nelson':" "Idea." " It was your Idea?" "He's just like everyone else, open to the right suggestions." "What's going on?" "L got to go" "Susan." "Susan, you all right?" "Yeah." "I'm sorry to bother you." "I really am." "No." "Please." "My roommate didn't pick up her phone, and I tried my friend Anna." "I tried Geoffrey Fair weather." "'Well, hey, look, I'm honored to be your lat resort, okay?" "Come on." "Let's get you out of here." "Thanks." "Did he hurt you?" "It must have been rally terrifying I'm so sorry." "Did you get a look at him?" "It was just a blur." "I mean, he mo up behind mo and covered my head, throw mo down on the ground, and he just ran off." "I don't even think they believed me in there." "Then we should talk to somebody higher up." "I mean, you were attacked." "They've got to do something, right?" "This might sound crazy, but I think this guy was In my apartment." "What did the police say?" "I didn't tell them that." "They were already blowing me off." "But Jen said she thought the super was in our apartment to fix this light, but that light is still broken." ""You'll end up in Jefferson, too."" "What does that mean?" "That's what he said in my ear when he was choking me." "How come you didn't tell me Nancy Greenly's surgeon killed himself?" "I know that it's awful, but try not to make connections that aren't there." "But what if it's not a pathogen or some piece of equipment?" "I mean, what if it's intentional?" "No, that doesn't make any sense." "Why would you intentionally put a patient into a coma?" "Organs?" "Organs?" "Bioengineering?" "Okay, lot': say you wanted a heart or a lung, or oven a limb." "Why not kill the patient during surgery?" "Why even bother with a coma?" "Death happens, and hospitals and families and judges accept that." "But a coma, fairly or not, reeks of medical incompetence, and the lawyers come in." "So, I mean, can you honestly tell me you think you'd make more money harvesting organs than you'd pay out in litigation?" "I mean, you'd have to be doing something that brought in billions of dollars." "See that house?" "When I was a third-year med student, my father had a heart attack and died." "Add to that the hours and the siren, and I screwed up." "I missed a fever in a patient, and by morning, she was full-blown septicemia." "Dr. Taylor saved her and took me here." "To his home, to have dinner with his family." "Anyway, the reason I haven't said anything, it's not some conspiracy." "I just..." "It still hurts." "I'm sorry." "No, no." "Don't be sorry." "I honestly feel kind of silly, but..." "Are you kidding?" "I'm not leaving until I know you're okay." "Is this your bedroom?" "Where do you sleep?" "Who sleeps?" "My roommate's gone." " Is this her room?" " Yeah." "Boy, I'd say, when she loaves, she really leaves." "Oh, my God." "Hi, Mom." "What?" "No, I'm fine." "What do you mean?" "No, no, I'm home." "I'm not in the hospital." "Well, what did they say when they called?" "No, no." "No, no." "Don't come." "I'm fine." "Really, I'm home." "This is a mistake." "Okay." "I love you, too." "What happened?" "Someone just called my mother and told her I was badly injured in a car accident." "Who called?" "They said they were from the ER at Memorial." "Hey." "I'll see you later?" "Yeah." "Hey." "What are you doing?" "You can't put a coffee cup on another human being." "It's disgusting." "Hey, come on." "Vanya, it's not worth it, dude." "You owe me a cup of coffee, bitch." ""Did you screw her?" What, are we in high school?" "I have a patient, Mark." "I think we should talk about this." "Let's keep our professional and our personal lives separate." "No, but there was a Kathleen Wheeler admitted..." "Susan Wheeler." "I'm a medical student." "It's a big hospital." "Somebody called my mom In New York from the ER lat night." "Let me ask my colleague." "Let me see." "Hey, let me see." "Jesse?" "Jesse!" "Jesse, Jesse!" "Jesse!" "Help!" "He's choking!" "Help, please, I need a stretcher." "Get that stretcher." "He': choking." "We need to get him lntubetad." "On three." "One, two, three." "Buzz open the door, please." "No, no, It': asthma." "Look, we no him twice a month." "This is not asthma." "The mother won't get rid of the cats, the uncle smokes." " Who are you?" " I'm a medical student." " This ls not asthma." " Okay." "Well, excuse mo." "Lot mo..." "My brother has asthma." "It': a different sound." "Trust mo." "Just hold on." "All right, let me take a listen." "Come here." "All right, let's get a tube in him." "Excuse me, ma'am." "Lot': got her out of here." "Marla, got the mother out of here." "Ma'am, please." "Ho': going to be fine." "You'll be more comfortable out hero." "Just calm down." "What can I do?" "Tilt his hood back." "Hold him up like this." "There you go." "Vary good." "All right." "Here we go." "There we go." "There we go." "All right." "Hold him right there." "Good." "All right, this should be getting a good..." "His O2 sat is dropping." "I don't think the tube is in place." "Why don't you just watch and learn?" "On what?" " What do we have here?" " Dr. Stark, It': asthma." "I've lntubated..." "It's not asthma." "He's not responding to the epinephrine." "That's not asthma." "He's choking." "His carina's blocked." "Okay, bronchos copy in the OR, right now." "Jesse!" "Okay?" "There it is." "And to the carina." "And there's where you were blocked." "The air couldn't get through the right main stem bronchus and into the lungs because there is" "a battery in the way." " A battery?" " A battery." "Is Susan in there with Stark?" "The man, the legend." "Well, she is good." "I got to give her that." "I hear she showed up Feldson in the ER." "Hey, why don't you get a life?" "Yeah, I get it." "Get me into a fight, get me voted off the island." "You see right through me, Carpin." "I'm going to need some extra hands here." " You ever done this before?" " No, sir." "It's easy." "Right here." "Here we go." "Gentle, gentle." "In we go." "All right." "You will grasp." "One, two, three." "Beautiful." "Up we come." "With me." "Gently." "With me." "Good." "Well done, Doctor." "Jen, hey." "Hey." "What's going on?" "I've been trying to call you." "Yeah, my phone died." "Sorry." "Sorry to jun leave a note." "My brother drove his truck up from Newnan." "Last night was the only time he had." "Here's your key back." "What's going on?" "They tossed me." "What?" "You know, it's for the best." "My grandma's sick." "This will give mo more time to spend with her." "They said I could probably come back next year." "I'm just hero to sign some paperwork, dot the 'l's,' you know." "I'm sorry I skipped out on you." "My head's still spinning." "What did they say?" "They said my performance ween'!" "up to per." "Up to per?" "There were no tests, no evaluations." "Did they find out about the files that you printed out for me?" "No." "Why?" "If they did, they didn't say anything." "I'm so sorry." "Excuse me." "Hi." "Come on in." "Let's get a coffee." "Are you okay?" "I just found Jen, and I think I may have gotten her thrown out of school." "I found out something yesterday." " Regina Harper, the coma patient." " Yeah." "Her family received a check for $485,000." "Do you think this is connected?" " Hallo, doctors. nice work." " Dr. Stark." "You got a star there, Dr. Bellows." "Yes, this is Susan Wheeler." "This is her first rotation." "Pleasure to meet you under such circumstances." "Sir, the honor is mine." "You know, I took my fisrt anatomy clan from your grandfather." "He was quite the taskmaster." "He didn't let much get by him, either." "I was genuinely sorry to hear that he passed." "Yeah, well, I was only 11." "You're gonna do your family proud, but If you don't, you'll have me to answer to." "Sir." "It's not you that I'm worried about, it's Stark." "I'll talk to him" "It's just that he makes arbitrary decisions based on his God complex, and we have to live with him." "I mean, I don't know if you realize this, but he's looking to scrap your study." "Ho think: his heart program ls a big profit center." "He's already recruited Stafford." "Maybe it's time to replace him." "Yeah, well, good luck with that." "I mean..." "He's the rainmaker." "A:" "long as he keeps bringing In funding, ho': not going anywhere." "I want you to ﬂirt taking this medication three times a day until we see each other again." "That's once every eight hours." "Do you understand?" "And lat': stay away from Ila." "Wheeler for while, okay?" "Listen, I just came by to tell you that I spoke to Regina Harper's brother." "The coma patient, deceased, the one that I was..." "Anyway, I went back into her file." "There': no diabetes, there': no problems with previous: surgeries, and there': no sign of incompetence on Memorial': pert, yet she received some huge check from this brokerage firm." "Now, the memo that I saw said Helix Global Care, Inc." "What's that?" "I have no idea." "I was hoping you could..." "I mean, do they deal with the hospital?" "Who knows?" "Maybe it's insurance." "That would make sense, pay fast, cut your losses." "But why are you talking about this with me?" "The mother has Alzheimer's, Margaret Harper." "I didn't know if you'd seen her as a part of your study." "I don't have any patients named Harper, and you didn't come here to talk about that." "What did I come to talk about?" "You came to dump me." "We have something good, Mark." "We could be a powerful couple at Memorial." "I just think you need to think about it before you do something you'll wish you hadn't." "I've already done something I wish I hadn't." "Nice to see you're capable of some emotion." "Mark, don't go." "Yeah, I guess I just ruined my chances of getting on the ethics board, huh?" "If there was a method that would bring an end to heart disease, lung disease or, say, Alzheimer's, should we pursue it?" "Of course." "What if it involved testing on human subjects?" "Assuming we're working within the law," "I'd say we'd have to weigh the risks against the benefits." "What if the tests were only done on deceased patients?" "What is this about?" "These are the types of questions the ethics board will be asking candidates." "You have my back, I'll have yours." "It's your career, Mark." "Don't let her derail you." "Dr. Bellows." "Dr. Nelson." "Just about to look in on Lefferts." " Wheeler ls done here." " Sir?" "She accessed confidential patient files." "I don't care who her grandfather was." "The friend is suspended, and Wheeler has to go, too." "Now, I've already told administration, and I expect your support." "Sir, I..." "You're making me wonder, Bellows." "Don't." " Mark." " Julia, hi." "I'm so sorry I haven'!" "come by." "I meant to, many times." "I just haven't." "I was married to a doctor for over 40 years." "You don't have to tell me." "Come on in." " It': great to no you." " Hay, Mark!" " HI." " Liza, hi." " How are you?" "Good to no you." " Good." "You, too." "Hey, Donna, sweetie, time for a nap." "Hi, Donna." " Can you shy for lunch?" " I wish I could." " I got to got back to the hospital." " Okay." " Thank you, though." "Sloop tight, though." ".Bye" "Good to see you." "They love him so much." "It': hard to imagine ho': not around anymore." "I know." "I sew him that morning, and I didn't know he we: depressed." "I would've done something." "I would've said something." "You know, just remember all of the lives that he saved, all the lives he brought Into the world." "That': what I'm doling." "Did he give you any indication as to what he was struggling with?" " No." " Did he leave a note or..." "I only wish he had." "Just doesn't seem like him, you know, not leaving his house in order." "He came home from work and went straight to his den." "I know this is awkward, but would you mind terribly if I look through his papers, his files?" "You want to look through his papers?" "Well, he didn't bring his work home." "Laptop?" "His laptop, ha always left the laptop at his office." "And I'm sure that everything': been cleared out by now." "I'm sure." "He's in God's hands now." "Susan Wheeler?" "I'm sorry." "Can I help you?" "Can you come with us, please?" "Dr. Bellows." " Hay, good morning, guys." " Good morning." "I'm a little embarrassed." "Do you mind if we look inside your car?" " What do you mean?" "Why?" " Well, we got a call." "Now, it's within your rights to refuse, but if you do, I have to tell them." "I see." "Is this a new policy for the entire staff or just me?" "That's what they pay me to do, sir." "Yeah." "Okay, sure, knock yourself out." "Joe." "Make sure you look carefully." "Especially under the seats." "That's empty." "You're my witness." "As assistant chief of staff," "I've called for n investigation Into your conduct." "Mr. Powers and Ms. Chen serve as counsel for the hospital." "And Mr. Oran represents the corporation that own:" "Memorial." "Susan, you might not be familiar with my role at the hospital." "I don't meet many students." "I'm in charge of the day-to-day operations." "That means I'm responsible for the privacy and well-being of the patients and for the conduct of everyone employed at Memorial." "I'm a medical student." "I'm not employed by Memorial." "If your actions result In the Injury or death of a patient," "Memorial will be named in the resulting lawsuit." "Although you do not receive compensation, legally speaking, you are an employee." "Now, the first thing I need you to do, Susan, is to take a look at this list." "Now, these are verifiable instances where you attempted to circumvent the privacy policies of Memorial and used another employee's ID to access computerized records of patients, as well as those accessed by another student," "Jennifer Randle, your roommate, I believe." "Each of these patients was in a coma when they were discharged." " Right." " I was jun trying to figure out why." "I need you to sign this." "Is security hereto keep people out or to keep us In?" "Dr. Stark." "Thank you, gentlemen." "Thank you." "This is a disciplinary hearing, Dr. Stark." "Memorial has a problem." "Wheeler here has identified it." "She should be given a pat on the back." "Well, then, I'll tell you what." "You can give the deposition when something this girl does gets the hospital sued." "This really doesn't concern you, Doctor." "I'm chief of staff, Phil." "Everything concerns me." "There are people we all answer to, even the chief of staff." "I wouldn't want this to come back and bite you." "Don't let Phil get to you." "He's got a wife, three kids and a mother he loves." "He's not really a jackass." "It's just part of his job description." "I will bring this up with the board." "Not just the Memorial staff." "The entire board." "I believe in Susan, and I will personally guarantee her future conduct." "All right, vary wall." "You seem to have made a powerful friend." "Hold onto him." "I have something to show you." "This will be the Memorial Children':" "Health Complex." "In a financial climate where other hospitals are going under left and right, we are expanding." "You know why, Susan?" "People who care, people like yourself, will be the foundation upon which this future will be built." "So, let's talk about these coma statistics." "We became aware of this issue a year ago, and a panel was created to study it." "What troubles me is that some of the panel, Dr. Nelson, for example, might be inclined just to cover their asses, and others may actually try to suppress the truth because It does expose certain Incompetence or careless ness on their pert." "You are a fresh pair of eyes." "You're not Involved In the sordid politics of this plea, and so I would be really curious to see what you might come up with if you were to dig around a little bit." "One caveat, one requirement, is that you bring anything you find directly to me and only me." "Well, Mark..." "Dr. Bellows has also been vary helpful..." "Susan, only me." "I know it sounds paranoid, but he's close to Dr. Lindquist, she's close to Dr. Nelson, you get the picture." "Don't trust anyone." "Anyone?" "Almost anyone." "What?" "I feel like there might be some answers at the Jefferson Institute, and I can't even get in there." "Now you can." "Thank you." "Looking to take over Dr. Taylor's office?" "Dr. Nelson." "No, I'm just looking for something." "What?" "Dr. Taylor's laptop, actually." "Probably at the house." " No, no." "Julia said It was here." "'Julia.'" "And what do you want with it?" "Nothing." "She just asked that I find it." "Well, I can assure you the office has been thoroughly cleaned out." "Yeah, yeah, it sure looks that way." "Okay, well, it was worth a shot." "So you know, I tried to have Susan Wheeler dismissed from Memorial." "I heard that." "How did that work out for you?" "Well, loyalty to the family legacy seems to have superseded common sense." "Thanks." "I think you struck a nerve." "There': a lot more going on around here than we think." "Why?" "I just found pills in my car." "Pills?" "What pills?" "Oxycontin." "At least 200 of them." "Somebody's trying to set me up." "I heard Stark came to your rescue." "Yeah." "He promised to get me access at Jefferson." "Are you sure you can trust him?" "That's what he said about you." "Excuse me." "Are you with the tour?" "Yeah, I have an appointment." "Well, come around that way." "I'll take you there." "Identification?" "You like my babies?" "Yeah, they're beautiful." "This one's Chinese, and this one's mulatto." "But still, they'll always be my babies." "You're not with the Helix Global Care group." "No." "Dr. Stark arranged a tour." "Oh, yes." "Now, just stay with the tour." "No use of cell phones." "And no photography, please." "Yes, ma'am." "...with the most modern technology." "This will be a demonstration that only our professional visitors got to soc." "Barry, bring 143 up to Visiting Suite Six." "Families need to feel like their loved ones are in a friendly, soothing environment." "Visits must be arranged in advance, and we try and schedule the same room to establish a sense of continuity." "We n transfer patient:" "to any one of our 10 visiting suites." "Our breakthrough technology allows families to see loved ones in a comforting setting, while eliminating bedding and associated costs for the Institute." "Remember, our families are completely unaware of this technology, and it's only one of the many improvements we've made in the field of long-term care." "And now for our control room." "From this room, we n monitor any patient': vitals." "It's also where we control the transfer of patients to and from the visiting suites." "And I remind you again, no pictures, please." "Barry, will you return 143 from Visiting Suite Six to Area One?" "Roger that Thank you." "And now, if you'll join me for some refreshments, and then we'll have a short presentation." "...Jesus." "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death." "Amen." "Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee." "Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus." "Amen." "Gentlemen." "A young medical student has wandered off the tour." "She's in Corridor B." "Pressure on the floor in Area One." " All security report." " We're on It." "Come on, people, it's one tiny little girl." "End the tour." "Just get them all out of here." "This is where our tour ends." "You are entering a sterile area." "Stay where you are." "Security is on its way." "No!" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Why are they hanging?" "They are suspended by painlessly inserted rods." "The suspension allows us to tilt and rotate the body to prevent blood pooling." "I know it may be shocking at first, but our methods have been approved by the AMA, the CDC, and the World Health Organization." "They are covered by an artificial skin that protects them from infection and injury." "They're more comfortable than they would be in a standard hospital setting." "If there's the least possibility of rousing, then the computers will notify us." "You see, they're not really alive." "But they're not dead, either." "Someone has to take care of them." "It's empty now, ma'am." "Oh, thank you, dear." "There you are." "Will I be allowed to leave now?" "What else would we do with you?" "Hey." "Hey." "What are you doing here so late?" "Another coma." "At least we didn't cause this one." "What happened?" "Guy tried to off himself In a running r locked In his garage." "Guess it was taking too long, so he cut his wrist with a hacksaw." "Sliced right through the tendon." "Good chance he'll lose the hand, but he'll never know." "By the time they found him, he was brain-dead from the exhaust." "Why is the blood so bright?" "Oh, If I had to guess, I'd say It': from the carbon monoxide." "Dr. Ramirez?" "Hey." "Can I ask you one more question about Nancy Greenly?" "I don't think so." "Just which operating room was she in?" "The file says OR 3." "Then that's what it was." "No, wait." "Three': on the left." "No, It was one of the rooms on the right." "Could it have been OR 8?" "Maybe." "I don't know." "It just wasn't three." "When my study is complete," "I believe we will finally be in a position for live testing." "Sounds like Nobel territory." "I just want to kill dementia." "I'm looking for keen minds who can help me take this project to the next level once the data comes in." "Unless, of course, you've chosen s different specialty." "I'm all yours." "All yours." "You've reached Susan Wheeler." "Sorry I missed you." "Luvs I mange, and I'll call you back." "Thanks." "Susan, hey." "It's Mark." "I just got in, and I am just wondering how the Jefferson tour went, so give me a call when you get a second." "Liza." "Hi." "What are you doing?" "Come inside." "No, I can't." "Donna's in the car." "Are you okay?" "What's wrong?" "I didn't want to leave without seeing you." "I'm driving down to Sarasota to stay with friends." "In the middle of the night?" "Why?" "My mother won't talk about it, but they came to the house after he died." "They took all of his papers, all of his financial records..." "Who came to the house?" " I don't know." " Did you ll the pollen?" "My mother wouldn't let me." "Liza, what the hell is going on?" "I don't know what's happening, but I know what happened to my dad." "Stay out of it, Mark." "He loved you." "Okay." "Excuse me, miss?" "You're bleeding." "Can I help you with it?" "No." "I didn't even feel it." "Thanks." "You okay, miss?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "I just cut myself on my way down the stairs." "I'm leaving now." "Yeah, I..." "Let me call you back." "We never see each other anymore." "What's the occasion?" "It's a courtesy call, actually." "I didn't want you to hear this from anybody else." "I'm taking a leave of absence from teaching, actually." "But you love teaching." "It's what you are." "Yeah." "It's what makes me immortal." "Oh, dear." "Well, than number: aren't so good, are they?" "But I suppose If anyone n but them, you n." "I see the lab work was done at Macon." "Should I be insulted?" "No." "Forester's an old, old friend of mine, and it's only an hour and a half away." "But you will have the surgery here." "Justin is the best oncologist." "The best." "Forester is doing the surgery." "I know what': going on, Sam." "I'm feeling It, too." "I mean, we started with her grandfather." "With her grandfather." "It's been that long." "Not that either of us needs to be reminded how old we're getting." "She is like him, isn't she?" "Oh, boy." "I no him every time I look Into her ayes In clan." "Anything you need." "Anything" "In less than six months, the 607CLW therapy has completely altered the gene array in three of the 12 pre-Alzheimer's patients." "Well, that's encouraging." "But Stark': work with the Friedrick-Kane bioengineered heart is getting even better data." "You know, It': tough selling prevention over cure." "Stark's going to fight you on this." "I need one more subject to begin the trial of the 608." "If I begin within the weak, we n publish the results simultaneously." "I thought you already had a full complement oftest subjects." "One subject, a female, proved unviable." "She we: pregnant and we: moved to another study." " It': not going to happen." " It has to." " We are so close." " One more?" "You know it would require the full committee's approval to add another subject to your study, and Stark's backing the heart." "We're talking about preventing thousands of cases of Alzheimer's in screened subjects." "This is the breakthrough that we've been looking for." "I heard you were all up here." "It's all right." "Boy, someone searched my r, and now this." "This must be some presentation." "What are you doing?" "Who put pills in my car?" " Pills?" " Yes, pills." "I'm sorry, Doctor." "I have to ask you to leave." "The ethics board, of which you are not a member, has serious..." "I'm sorry, but what kind of ethical bombshell demands a guard at the door?" "He's your candidate." "This is neither the time nor the place." "We have to protect our intellectual property." "Afraid of another Dr. Taylor incident?" "la that It?" "Maybe we should put a guard at all the doctors' houses." " Mark, you are out of line." " Dr. Bellows," "I'm sure your students need you." "Where is Stark anyway?" "Pull!" "Hell of a shot." " Now I need to hit one." " It': simple, Bill." "You just got to know where your target's going to be before he gets there." "It's like medicine." "Pull!" "If you know where medicine's going to be in five years, say, well, then the rewards would just be there for the taking, wouldn't they?" "We're just a little skittish about when we'll see a return." "We haven't seen much from the Alzheimer's project." "We're putting Alzheimer's on the back burner house I'm advancing a new study, the bio-hybrid heart." "The genetic ton markers on this thing are astonishing." "It's going to be s billion-dollar business right out of the..." "Heart disease is where the money is." "Yeah." "Right out of the gate." "Pull!" "Okay." "Oh, my God." "Mark, it's me." "I really need to see you." "Can you moot mo at the university library after your shift?" "Ramona, I need the department heed:" "In en hour," "and conference in London." " It's evening in London, sir." "Just get them for me, please." "Oh, and I need..." "What': his name?" "Chad Morgan at NIH." " Right away, Dr. Stark." " Thank you." "I'll wait." "Mr. Morgan's wife says he's out." "She's not sure when he'll be back." "He won't pick up at dinner, sir." "Dr. Stark, do you want me to call him later?" " Dr. Stark, can you hear me?" " What the hell?" "Should I leave word?" "Ramona, call 911!" "Dr. Stark?" "I need help!" "I need help right now!" " Ramona!" " Have you been In In accident?" "Dr. Stark, what's wrong?" "Hi, Detective Jackson, please." "Okay, tell him it's Susan Wheeler." "Yeah." "Well, I just found a camera hidden in a light in my kitchen." "Yeah, there's a camera hidden in my kitchen, and it means I'm being watched, so can I speak to him or not?" "Well, he's a fighter, I'll give him that." "I'm not about to tell you how to run things, but events like this just ll attention to bigger problems." "Well, it couldn't have happened at a more inopportune time." "There were no witnesses, but everything points to an accident." " Well, our first concern ls with Dr. Stark." " Of course." "My second question is about personal effects." "Files, charts that might have been loft In his r." "We did a complete search of the vehicle." "Nothing." "But assuming he pulls through," "he might want his phone back." " I'll take re of It." " We got e ll from Susan Wheeler." "Oh, yeah, the attacker with the burlap bag." "She says she found hidden mom In her apartment, but she hung up before we could got anything else." "So what do you want to do?" "After what she said happened in the park, we're going to go take a look." "Okay." "Hey, have you guys seen Susan?" "She's probably busy brown-nosing Bellows." "She's a Wheeler, remember?" "He should be sucking up to her." "Hey, Paul, why'd you choose medicine?" "I didn't." "Medicine chose me." "Oh, well, how fortunate for you and medicine." "I think so, too." "No, my mom's a psychiatrist." "Step-dad owns the largest surgical supply business in the Southeast, and my dad delivered pretty much half the babies in Polk County." "It's in the blood, Fair weather." "I guess it's in my blood, too." "My mother's a hypochondriac, and my father makes me sick." "What about you, Hanna?" "Liked playing doctor so much, you figured you'd get paid for it?" "Wow, that's really funny, Geoffrey," "In a verging-on-sexual-harassment sort of way." "No, I actually want to help people." "And I want a big house." "So why don't you give Susan a break?" "I mean, she wants to heal the sick." "You can't blame her for her pedigree." "I doubt she wants a big house in Buck-head, but otherwise, she's just like the rest of us." "Jeez." "Dude, we're eating here." "All right, listen up." "They chose us for a reason, we're the best students here." "Now, och yer, they choose one student to fast-track for residency." "Now, do we sit back and let it be her, or should it be one of us?" "What are you proposing?" "Did you hear a proposal?" "Look, if she makes a mistake, let's not keep it a secret." " Yeah, like the hypodermic angst." " Yeah." "Or, I have a novel idea." "What don't y'all work harder and get noticed that way?" "Did you hear about Stark?" "No." "What happened?" "He had a car accident." "He went off an overpass." "Is he okay?" "I've heard three different things about his condition." "I don't know what to believe." "He's at Mercy now." "They're going to transfer him here this afternoon." "Well, was It an accident, or was he trying to kill himself, too?" "Mark, you have got to let this thing about Taylor drop." "And what were you saying bout pills?" "What pills?" "Somebody planted pills in my car." "Okay, I don't know what's going on with you, but if you really cared about Taylor and his work and what he left behind, you'll stop causing trouble." ""Causing trouble"?" "What does that even mean?" "It means that I'm trying to preserve his legacy." "Well, maybe Memorial's not the place for me after all." "Susan is what's keeping you from realizing your full potential." "Okay." "Do you really think things are diffrent at any other hospital?" "HI. just need to make sure my name': off the locker list." "It': 825." " Thanks." " Sure." "Excuse me." "Dr. Taylor, he's not 829." "He's just two down from me." "He probably changed it without telling us." "Susan, I got here as soon as I could." "Susan, I got here as soon as I could." " I found mom In my apartment." " They're watching you?" "I called the pollen, but we'll no If they do anything." "Look, there's a company called Helix Global Care, Inc." "Now, they own Jefferson." "They're making payments to the doctors and the families of all these coma patients." "There's some sort of brokerage account." "Look at all these transactions." "He)!" "In all 10 coma es, the procedures were done In OR I." "Of course, they changed all the records so that no one would notice the pattern." "I followed a gas line from OR 8 down to the basement." "It wasn't attached to any tank." "All the blood in the patients was bright red." "Carbon monoxide?" "After they've chosen a patient, they must move in the tank." "Then they control it remotely, and not even the doctor or the surgeon or the anesthesiologist would have any idea." "You're saying that they're choosing the patients?" "They pick them from genetic markers based on pre-surgery blood tests, and I'm just trying to figure out why." "Okay, well, think about it." "The human body is the ultimate laboratory, right?" "Its functions are interrelated and impossible to duplicate." "I think they're performing tests on people who are predisposed to certain diseases." " Yeah." " We got to go to the pollen." "Wait." "If we sound an alarm too soon, they can just destroy everything." "I mean, I think we should gather all the evidence we can." "Ia there any paperwork, any hard copies that the hospital keeps?" "Anything with, like, a signature?" "Yes." "Yes, the blood work." "Most of it goes to outside labs." "Great." " Hare': a list of the 0 numbers." " Okay." " Can you go to Hematology?" " I'll go right now." " I'm going to go to the biology lab." " Okay." "Let's meet back at my place, yeah?" "Okay." "What's at the biology lab?" "I recognize some of the sequences from the genetic research they do there." "What do you mean, you recognize the sequences?" "This is research my grandfather started." " I'll no you soon." " Okay." " Thanks." " How': the log?" "Oh, it's better." "Thanks." "Got you working on Saturdays, too?" "Well, the place is all yours." " Thanks." " Thank you." "Sir, can I help you?" "Oh, I'm meeting the young lady who just went up to the fifth floor." "She's expecting me." "Well, that's a Memorial ID, and it doesn't work here." "I'll only be a second." "Let's start by you stepping out and showing me your ID." "Mark, what are you doing here?" "I got some..." "It's a long story." "You can't be here." "Are you in trouble?" "Did you really push yourself into a meeting upstairs?" "Trying to get yourself fired?" "I..." "It seems I am." "Maybe you're not worried about your job, but I'm keeping mine." "Fiona, come on." "Please, do we have to do this now?" "Why don't you ask Agnetta?" "Maybe she can help you out." "I'm begging you." "Please?" "Please?" "These ere archived lab orders, Mark, It': not life or death." "Actually, it is." " Five minutes." " You're the bani." "Thank you." "Susan." "Are you in there, Susan?" "Susan." "Susan." "Ms. Wheeler?" "It's Detective Jackson." "You called earlier." "Hello?" "Hello!" "All clear in here." "I SPY" "Sir?" "Sir?" "You okay?" "Help!" "Help!" "Help" "Susan." "Don't be afraid." "Susan." "Here I come, ready or not." "Susan." "Susan ?" "Hello?" "Mark!" "Hey, I was looking for you." "We need you In surgery now." "It': en emergency." "I'm sorry." "I can't do it." " You cant'?" "Can'!" "what?" " Got Cortez!" "You've reached Susan Wheeler." "Sorry I missed..." "Susan!" "Who are you?" "Who are you?" "All right, Susan told me to meet her here." "I heard e terrible noise on the other end of the phone..." " A noise, huh?" " We there struggle here?" "How should I know?" "Looks like there might have been struggle here." " Is that her blood?" " Why do you think It': blood?" "That's blood." "I'm Dr. Mark Bellows." "What ls the nature of your relationship with Me." "Wheeler?" "She is e student and e colleague of mine over at Memorial Hospital." " Are you doling her?" "'Well, that': none of your business." "Listen, I don't think we have time for this, okay?" "Susan has stumbled on some kind of situation..." " What kind of situation?" " I don't know, but I think she':" "In danger, and I need to find her, so, please, I'll explain everything, but we have to find her." "She's at the..." "I think you should come with us." "Hold it, Doc!" "Freeze!" "Freeze!" "I'm sorry." "Look, I wasn't running, okay?" "I have no reason to run." "And I'm not chasing you." "Any place but Memorial." "Please don't take me to Memorial." "Susan." "Susan." "I'm very patient." "I like waiting." "Some people don't mind waiting, but I like it." "Ginnie Newberger had long hair, longer than yours." "And curls down her back that ended just at her bra strap." "Susan." "I know you're here." "I can smell you." "Ginnie wore a white blouse, with different colored skirts!" "Can you hear me, class?" "Ginnie..." "Four hundred dreams." "She kept them in a journal." "Nighttime dreams, with dates and times." "She carried it around with her, so her parents wouldn't find it." "And she wouldn't even let anyone look at it." "I wanted it." "'Cause I wanted to see if any of her 400 dreams were the same as mine." "So I waited." "I watched her back." "I watched her bra." "'Cause I knew it was just a matter of time." "One day," "I put a bag on her head and I smashed it" "with a stone they used to mark the edge of the trail." "I had the rest of the day to alt them and mad the journal before they found me." "And you know what?" "Her dreams weren't all that different than mine." "They were even a little bit dull." "All these years later," "I remember more about her crisp, white blouses than a single one of her dreams." "You know what's disgusting?" "Someone donates their body to medical school, and think: they're helping cure cancer, and end: up like this." "It's disrespect." "It's disrespect." "It's disrespect!" "I know you're here, Susan." "I can feel you." "Dr. Bellows." "Where':" "Susan Wheeler?" "Is she okay?" " She's gathering evidence." " What evidence?" "The coma: at the..." "We were supposed to moot at her place." "Tell her I'm okay, please." "Make sure she gets this." "I will." "Captain!" "Commissioner got a call from the Wheeler family." "They haven't been able to get in touch with her." "Asked me to follow up." "Susan!" "Susan!" "I'm not comfortable with it." "I thought we agreed adding another subject was unwise." " The genetics markers ﬂt the protocol." " I don't like It." "I don't like It, other, but It solves a lot of our other problems." "Please, no." "Please." "Please." "It's a dream." "It's a dream." "It's a dream." "Please, don't put me under." "The surgery's over, Dr. Bellows." "You did fine." "They had to put three screws in your ankle, but the bone in your leg should heal up nicely." "You'll be in a boot for about a month or so." " Where am I?" " Marcy." "You're In Mercy." "Mercy?" "Mercy." "Hello?" "You've reached Dr. Mark Bellows." "I can't take your call right now." "Please leave a message after the beep." "Mark, it's me." "Where are you?" "Look, I lost my cell phone, and I'm home now." "But I don't know that I should stay here." "Look, I'm going to go..." "I'm going to go to the place where you saved me." "I know you know where I mean." "Just be careful, okay?" "Susan, right?" "Thank God." "We've been looking for you." "It's okay." "I saw Mark a little while ago." "Mark?" " Where Is he?" " He was In an accident, broke his log." " What?" " They're taking good re of him." "He was very worried about you." "He gave this to me for you." "He said you'd know what to do with it." "Do you know what it is?" "Yeah." "This is proof that Memorial is targeting patients for comas." "Really?" "Marie made the cheerleading squad." "She wore your school ring on a chain around her neck." "It made her feel like..." "So this job is great, but it's in Stanford, and I'm gonna be moving." "Visiting hours have ended for this evening." "We look forward to seeing you again soon." " No!" " Lot': go." "Let's go, let's go." "There we go." "Hello, Susan." "Who found him?" "His replacement found him." "Surveillance footage was wiped clean." "Bellows tried to tell us where she was going." "We've got another one." "Up here." "Detective, got something else." "Find somebody to turn that damn thing off." "Something tells me that belongs to Susan Wheeler." "Detective." "Anything on here about comas?" "No." "It looks like genetic code maybe." "We've got something else." "All right, hold on to that." "True you had a runner hit by a car while you were talking to him?" "Yeah." "Apparently, I needed the exercise." "Through there." "This place gives me the creeps." "Oh, boy." "Is this going to take much longer?" "I have a memorial to attend." "Arno's first arrest was as a minor in Portland." "You know I can't talk about that." "Patient confidentiality." "Yeah." "Well, the file says that he kidnapped a young woman In the woods, put a burlap bag over her head, and bashed her brains in." "I'd say that qualifies him as violent." "Yet you made a recommendation for release." "And then after he was released, you helped him secure a job as an electrician at Memorial." "He was the perfect patient." "He responded very well to an anti psychotic drug trial." "The treatment was augmented by intensive daily psychotherapy." "When you continued to see him as a patient, did you ever have any concerns about his mental state?" "I have concerns about all my patients." "Any special concerns?" "No." "You know Susan Wheeler?" "She's a medical student at Memorial." "You really expect me to believe you don't know who she is?" "Students come, students go." "Oh, jeez." "What's going on in here?" "I just need you to help me got this catheter out." "Sir, you can't be pulling this stuff off." "Sir, you are heavily medicated." "Listen, I need you to gal my phone and n Ir st." "There's no one here that can discharge you." "Okay, I'm a doctor." "I'm going AMA." "I can discharge myself, thank you." "Dr. Bellows." "A little soon for you to be up and around, isn't it?" "Hi." "Did you guys find Susan yet?" "Not yet." "What do you mean, "Not yet"?" "I told the other cop where to find her." "You did?" "Yes, at her apartment." "She was gathering evidence." "I gave him the blood panels." "I'll send a car to Wheeler's apartment." "No, no, don't do that." "She left me message." "We should go to the university pool." "Do you know a Dr. Agnetta Lindquist?" "I do." "She's head of psychiatry at Memorial." "How about a fellow named Peter Arno?" "No." "Why?" "He was her patient." "He just cut his throat in the Lindbergh anatomy lab." "Oh, no, no, no, no, no." "Don't do that." "That's what's going to keep you nice and comfortable." "The hospital's putting healthy people into comas because they fit a study." "You see, this is why I think that the back of the hand is a bad idea." "I actually prefer the scalp, like the neonatal do it." "You're testing them." "Do they..." "Do they know?" "Do the families know?" "When I got back from my honeymoon, my sister's little girl, Theresa, got very sick." "They took her to the hospital and found out she had spinal meningitis." "Pediatrician said we were going to lose her before morning." "I made a promise to God that If he would spare my litle girl':" "life..." "My niece's, Theresa, that I would never ask for anything for myself again, not ever." "That night, Theresa's fever broke." "And when e year, two years, three years passed and It turned out that I couldn't conceive, bear a child of my own," "I never complained." "Never once." "Because that was the promise I'd made with God." "Now I have all the babies I want, right here." "Hey Any luck?" "Nothing in either locker room." "She wasn't on the surveillance footage." "We'll leave some men here in case she shows up." "Any other idea where she might be?" " No." " I'm still waiting to her from the captain." "We're going to go check out Peter Arno': place." "How is that going to help us find Susan?" "He was following her." "We might find something." "I'm coming with you." "You know, I'm not a doctor, but you might want to shy off that foot." "Oh, you think?" " Thanks." " Yeah." "How long ago did he move in?" "Six months or so." "Any trouble?" "Same as all the rest." "I got three apartments I rent out." "It's $80 a week, share the bathroom." "No pets, nothing kinky." "Oh, that's good to know." "He ever say anything about this woman?" "He never said anything about anything." ""You'll end up in Jefferson, too." That's what he said to her." "No." "What are you doing?" "Those numbers are too high." "You're going to kill me." "No, "0." "We'll take good care of you." "Just relax." "Soon you'll be floating." "Floating away." "You won't be dead." "Course, you won't be alive." "That's right." "Yeah." "No." "I think I'll use the eights." "Those tens might shatter her pelvis." "She's quite petite." "Susan!" " Maguire." " You, ma'am?" "Find Ms. Wheeler." "She's up and about." "Although she's definitely under the influence." "And tell Talbot to check the security footage." "I want to know who entered the prep room." " May I help you?" " Atlanta PD, ma'am." "Have you seen this woman?" "Oh, Susan Wheeler." "She did e tour here with us recently." "Why, is she in any trouble?" "So she wasn't here today?" " No." " Mind If we come In?" " Yes." " Yes, we n, or yes, you mind?" "Well, there's no admittance to the facility after 7:00 p.m." "I'm sorry, but I'm under a strict mandate by our legal department." "Susan..." " Help us." " Please." "Get me out of here." "Susan, help me." "Susan." "Help me, Susan." "Hey, you, get out of there!" "You're not authorized to be down there!" "We'd just like to talk to your staff." "I am the staff." "You're not the whole staff." "Code Yellow, Area One." "Code Yellow, Area One." "What's Area One?" "Oh, it's one of our holding areas." "My babies." "My babies." "Hey." "Ma'am, ma'am, please." "Young men, we house severely Ill patients here." "We have to keep any possible contamination to e minimum." "I'm sure you can understand that." "I do, I understand." "But I'm a doctor." "Well, you're not a doctor here." "I'm a doctor everywhere." "I do not have the authority to admit you." "I'm sorry." "I will be glad to answer your questions, but unless you return..." " Ma'am?" "...with e court order, I cannot let you enter." "Please, ma'am, you don't..." "You don't understand." "Please!" " Yeah." " This ls en emergency." "Please!" "Oh, good." "Okay." "We got to get in there." "What if Susan's inside?" "We found the captain." "He's at Stark's." "No!" "No!" "Please!" "We were looking all over for you." "You can't be part of it." "Part of it?" "This is my invention." "Mine and your grandfather's." "The Idea for this was born In conversation that we started 30 years ago." "I'm not naive enough to think that you'll be able to understand what I'm about to say is a compliment, but" "this is all yours." "This is your legacy." "No." "This will never be my legacy." "You know that 200 years ago, surgeons had to sneak into graveyards and steal bodies for dissection." "These specimens ere en enormous advance of knowledge." "We have bioengineering." "We have stem cells from umbilical cords." "Nobody understands the costs until they see benefits." "Benefits?" "This is human sacrifice." "That's exactly the right word. "Sacrifice."" "What are you doing here?" "When these specimens cease to be viable, they're harvested for their tissue and their vital organs and their corneas" "and their skin, and they continue to be of utility to mankind." "Do you think that makes this right?" "I will not apologize to you for what I've been doing." "You don't have the life experience to come to the conclusions that I have come to, to come to the conclusions that your grandfather came to." "When you have spent your life arguing with bureaucrats and begging on your knees for the last $5 of the grant, then you can tell me that we should go back and just fix broken bones, and then tap the fatally ill on the head." "Or you can say, "We can continue."" "I'm Detective Jackson, Atlanta PD." "Excuse me." "Susan Wheeler." "Do you know where she is?" "Have you seen her?" "Dr. Bellows." "Please, I mean, have you not heard" "Dr. Stark passed away during surgery this afternoon?" " What?" " We're hero to honor his memory." "What's the meaning of this, Jackson?" "Look, I'm sorry, sir." "Susan Wheeler was attacked at the university today, and now she's gone missing." "She's not here." "Wait a second." "You told me that you were going to look for her." "After I saw you, I wont to Ms. Wheeler':" "apartment to look for her, and she didn't show." "I came here directly after I heard that Dr. Stark had passed away during surgery." "Now, I have two men watching her place right now." "You've wasted enough time here, Jackson, and you're testing the patience of Dr. Stark': colleagues, who have come hereto honor his memory." "Yes, sir." ""Yes, sir"?" "That's it?" "Hey, wait a second." "We're still looking." "Hopefully, she's found a safe place where she can stay out of sight." " Detective!" " I know when she is." "She's at Jefferson." "You murdered Seen Berman, Nancy Greenly." "They were people I knew, with lives and people who loved them." "I confess that I keep such knowledge at bay so that I can keep a steady hand, but the herd must be culled" "and we must perfect mankind." "Did you know that in this building right now, there is a cure for Alzheimer's and lupus?" "Does that make any difference?" "And we will cure cancer and the common cold and everything else." "And It': taken us thousands of years to got here." "It would have taken thousands more if your grandfather and I had not come to this decision." "Does that mean anything to you?" "You are sick." "No!" "No!" " Stop her!" " Susan!" "All right, now, everybody, just split up." "Make sure we cover all the floors." "Cuff him." "Where is she?" "You have the right to remain silent." "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." "Where's Susan?" "You have the right to have en attorney present during questioning." "Oh, God." "If you cannot afford one, one will be provided to you at government expense." "Do you understand these rights as I have read them to you?" "Help me!" "No!" "Susan!" "Susan!" "'Help." "No!" "No!" "No" "Susan" "Susan?" "Susan." "Mark." "Mark." "Hi." "You're here." "I had a terrible dream." "I dreamt I was underwater." "I didn't think I could ever get out." "Well, you're okay now." "You're safe." "It was just a dream." "It was just a dream."