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- I'm sorry, do I know you?

- I'm Paul Wesley.

I believe you applied

for one of my grants.

We need to speak to you

immediately about Amelia.

Any other family

members our lawyers

have to worry about?

- She's an only child.

Her parents are deceased.

- Mr. Summerland, do you know

what a non-disclosure

agreement is?

- Yeah.

- Good.

Sign that.

- Max, just in time.

- Mr. Summerland,

nice to meet you.

Max Parker, lead robotics.

We're excited to

show you the lab.

Right this way.

- Now entering

cyber level four, section d.

- All right, all non-essential

personnel, clear out.

Carter, I want you to

meet Dr. Ellen Beckett.

- Very nice to meet

you, Mr. Summerland.

- Dr. Beckett is the

chief neurologist

for Wesley enterprises.

She's been studying

Amelia's scans.

- Most coma patients have seen

significant deterioration

by this point.

I think there's a

wonderful chance

that your wife is

still in there.

- Dr. Beckett is the main reason

we've made such progress

in brain injuries

over the past 10 years.

- You can fix Amelia?

- Better.

- Mr. Summerland, I'd

like you to meet Cindy 69.

Go ahead, touch her.

This is the latest generation

of the Cindy 69 companion robot.

My design.

- Max, couldn't you

have brought down

one of the elderly

assistance models?

- But Mr. Wesley,

this model has the latest

biosynthetic flesh, state of...

- Online.

- That feels real nice.

- Sorry.

- That feels real nice.

- Okay, sorry.

- That feels real...

- Sorry about that.

I didn't think she

was activated yet.

- I don't understand.

- I apologize, Carter.

Max's social skills

aside, you can tell

that this technology is

indistinguishable from human flesh.

- Mr. Summerland,

we can help Amelia

by putting her brain

into a new body.

- Into that?

- We can build an exact

replica of your wife.

Wait, Mr. Summerland,

we can help you.

- You wanna help me?

Put Amelia in a better facility.

Find me someone who

understands locked-in syndrome.

But that?

It's not even human.

- We have artificial

hearts, artificial hips.

We've been replacing

worn out parts

on ourselves for the

better part of a century.

- You can't tell me

that's the same thing.

- Mr. Summerland, can

I put it another way?

Kim.

Okay, say I wanted to replace

the front end of this pen.

I take it off, put

a new front end on.

Ta-da, there's my pen.

But wait, what if I want to

replace the other half of it?

No problem.

I just unscrew that, right?

Screw a new backend on.

There's my pen.

Uh-oh, but look, here are the

two pieces that I replaced.

If I were to put

these back together...

Would that be the original pen?

Or is that the original pen now?

Hm?

Do you get it?

- You've agreed to

complete secrecy.

You discuss this with anyone,

the offer's off the table.

- I once had a daughter.

In five seconds I went

from driving her to school

to a bed just like this one.

We chose Amelia

because she's young.

Her mind is healthy and

we know when and how

she's going to die.

We're offering you

the chance to see her,

to hold her again.

- If I say yes, what happens?

- You would

sign power of attorney

over to Wesley enterprises.

You would give consent

on your wife's behalf

to this procedure.

- When your wife passes

away, they take her body.

She gets officially donated

to scientific research,

but we stay discreet.

We then preserve her

brain and begin a process

we call mapping.

- How long does that take?

- We need to acclimate

her to a new body

and she'll require

therapy, physical, mental.

It's gonna be some time.

- We ask that you

comfort us in this time

and for the future.

It is with our faith in you

that we commit her body,

her heart, her being,

into your hands.

- Insiders suggest

something big on the horizon

for the multi-billion

dollar research facility.

Many may remember

Wesley enterprises

was in a similar situation

just a few years ago.

- What else do you wanna do?

When you're not

ticketing adorable women

for going five over.

- This isn't just Wesley

enterprises playing it safe.

- We've seen

literally everything

from this company.

Solar powered blankets,

mission heat tiles,

robot sex toys.

I think it's safe...

- to expect the unexpected.

- Is Paul Wesley sparking

another scientific revolution?

We'll just have to wait and see.

- And we say they fear

what they do not understand.

Talk about some of the good

that Wesley enterprises...

- It is with our faith in you

that we commit her

body, heart, her being,

into your hands.

Into your hands.

- Hello.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey!

Step away from each other.

- Hey, that's enough.

Back off.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

- You back up and stay there.

Don't move.

- You back off, a**hole.

- Do not move.

- Oh my god!

- Hey, what the f***

is the matter with you?

Hey!

Get in the car.

- I wrote a poem.

- What about the soul?

What about the fact that we

are created in god's own image?

Quite frankly, I'm shocked

that a Nobel prize winner

like Dr. Beckett

would engage in work

that seems to suggest that

being human is nothing special.

Which on the face of it...

- actually, senator,

I think human beings

are extremely special

and worth saving.

- Senator, if someone has

early stage Alzheimer's,

then if the technology

that she advocates

becomes reality, it

could save them, correct?

- I believe there's a reason

why we don't live forever.

We're not meant to.

- Human beings weren't

meant to fly either.

We weren't meant

to travel in space.

We weren't meant to

talk to each other

from across the world.

- Doctor...

- Dialysis,

heart transplants,

bypass surgery.

You're familiar with that

one, aren't ya, senator?

- Well, since I see you

wish to make this personal,

I'd just throw that

question right back at you.

- That's a good

point, Dr. Beckett.

Many are familiar with the

tragedy that took your daughter.

Are you saying in

theory you'd really

be willing to

replace her this way?

Don't you think as

her mother that might

cheapen her memory?

- If you see what we're doing

as frankensteining someone.

Which is absolutely

not the case.

- That is exactly

what you're doing.

- We are talking

about transplants.

- The idea behind the technology

that god has given us?

That's not the problem.

But with what some

people might do with it.

This theory

that Dr. Beckett...

- this is not

a theory, senator.

This will happen.

You will see us save someone's

life with this technology.

And you will know that we did it

and not your god.

- That did not help us.

- These people don't

care about science, Paul.

- We're trying to lay

the groundwork here

to gain some credibility.

You can't go off book like that.

- Since when did credibility

involve arguing with the right?

That's the conversation

you shouldn't be having.

It validates their opinions.

- Dr. Beckett, you need

to come downstairs immediately.

- Why?

- Her patterns spike when

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