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Serious bereavement can

cause serotonin levels

in the brain to drop.

Hallucinations are associated

with neurotransmitter

disturbances.

Not a hallucination.

The brain is more than

electrical and chemical

reactions operating

in a chunk of meat.

Consciousness is also in there.

And this combination helped

to alter your perception

from enhanced

observations... fragrances...

To informed visions.

Objective, persistent,

and timeless... those

are the principles any

phenomenon needs to be held to.

If your theory holds

up with those in mind,

I'm willing to pass through

any doors of perception

you're attempting to open.

Yes, Jack.

But we must also remember the

lesson that you taught us.

Honor the elders,

embrace the new,

and applaud the impracticable.

Let's keep thinking about it.

I've got to go.

Hi.

I'm Dr. Jack Sutree.

I work with Dr. Redfield in

the university biosciences

department.

Trixie Tao.

A pleasure.

Is Dr. Redfield attending today?

No.

I'm here to observe

the jury profiling.

Why is that?

I'm going to note any

characteristics that

may not be obvious to others.

Hopefully it will provide

some help for your process.

I assure you we don't need

any assistance in what we do.

Oh, I understand.

It's sort of research for a

new approach Dr. Redfield wants

to explore.

Do you have a way

different from ours

to predict whether or not

a prospective juror may

be dangerous to a case?

Because we already cover

life experiences, predisposed

attitudes, and believes.

We go below the surface.

Let's just say our

approach focuses

on what's behind the person.

Is there an area where

I'll be out of the way?

Through that door.

There's a small room

with a one-way glass.

You'll have all the

privacy you need.

Thanks Ms. Tao.

Here.

These are the

evaluation guidelines

that our social scientists have

developed for each candidate.

I'll make notes for each one.

Knock yourself out.

So as I was saying...

What do you feel is

important about having laws?

Everyone knows laws

were established

for people's own good.

It's dangerous when

laws are not obeyed.

Is there ever a time when

the law should not be obeyed?

Never.

If people don't obey the law,

we would have total chaos.

Whoa.

Someone implies something

about you that is not true.

How does that affect you?

It doesn't.

It doesn't affect me at all.

We can't help it if someone

gets the wrong idea about us.

Hmm.

Can we help it if someone

says something about us

that isn't true?

Which us president

do you admire most?

Why, our current president.

Oh, really?

Have you ever worked as a

janitor, been a business owner,

or worked in a hospital?

In college, I worked

part time as a janitor.

Well, that's refreshing.

Do you play the lottery?

That's one vice

that I don't have.

You sure about that?

Do you feel drugs

should be legalized?

They already are.

What do you expect

when, as you're

approaching a parking

spot, another car

races by and takes it?

The driver is in

the wrong to do that.

And it makes me angry.

Thank you.

Candidate 14, please.

What was the name of

the last book you read?

"Four past midnight."

Thank you.

Roger?

Roger.

Call 911.

What happened?

You passed out and were

rushed to the hospital.

No.

What happened to us?

Your walking shoes.

For a moment, I thought

we were back in Paris.

Rest, Jack.

You're still out there.

Could you close

that cabinet drawer?

Now you're back.

Mm.

I'm serious, Mel.

What happened to us?

Answers would be nice.

I'm just busy doing other

things now, just like you.

Hi, I'm Jim Erlandson.

Mrs. Sutree?

Yes.

Mr.

Sutree, I understand

you were at a jury

selection procedure.

Why were you there?

I'm an expert witness in a case.

Was there any stress

or trauma that occurred

during the process?

None, no.

What about at work?

Would you say the stress

level there is above normal?

Where you going

with this, doctor?

I'm a boring research

scientist at cu.

You appear to be a

normally healthy individual.

But your cortisol...

18, no more than 23

micrograms per deciliter is ok.

You came in here at over 50.

Really?

What is it now?

It's ok.

You're normal.

It's just if it had stayed

that high, it would have

started attacking your brain.

Eventually you would have

gone into cardiac shock.

Look, does your work expose

you to drugs or stimulants?

Cut the crap.

We don't abuse our privileges.

Jack.

Ok.

You need to review your

last few days for anything

unusual, anything

you reacted to,

anything that caused

emotional distress.

Because if what happened

today happens again,

your wife is going to

visit you on a slab.

He came in

like Dr. Jekyll.

But wouldn't you know?

He's Mr. Hyde.

Could you hand me my phone?

What happened today?

I've stumbled onto

something, Mel.

I don't understand it all yet.

But it seems to be something

that will make some noise

and change things.

You are lying in a hospital

bed with your vital signs

on display.

Haven't things changed enough?

He said I'm fine.

What's on the other side?

I'm not chasing

the cat this time.

Your work is removed

from real life.

And I know what happened to us.

Your work removed you

from our marriage.

Dr. Sutree?

Hold on, ram.

Why do you do it?

I guess for the same reasons

you and I walk together

along the left bank.

It's exciting.

And it makes me happy.

Sorry, ram.

Sutree showed up during

jury profiling yesterday.

Why?

How would I know?

He became sick and

was hospitalized.

What?

What happened?

Where is he?

Oh, he's discharged.

We should think

about shifting gears.

He has good predocs

working with him.

We should put them

to better use.

There's a decline effect, ram.

How do you mean?

I lost the ability to

see into people yesterday.

Even after repeated

applications,

the effect never came back.

And I've run out of time.

Any idea what

might have changed?

The effect first

happened within an hour,

when we were driving.

It came back later that

evening at the restaurant.

And then when I went home,

I experienced it again.

No.

No, it went away at that point.

I could no longer see aromas.

The condition progressed

to the visions.

I still think it's related to

one subjective consciousness.

Emotion was part of it.

The first vision was sunny-girl.

But the man at the

nursing home, the lawyer,

the deposition, the

jury pool... none of them

meant anything to me.

No, no, Jack.

The trigger.

I'm talking about

a triggering agent.

It sets things in motion.

You were so distressed when we

scattered sunny-girl's ashes.

Sunny-girl.

Ram, sunny-girl.

Billion-year-old carbon.

The song?

Hey, you tell your students

that using your formula app

is cheating.

It's my app.

Sweet app.

The most important

element in life.

The thing that ties

everything together.

It was added when her

ashes flew into my eyes.

After a few hours, it

altered the effect.

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