Extreme Measures Page #7

...to change that?

I have a C6 break in my cord.

What if I told you there was a chance

you could be healed?

That there was a procedure

that offered you...

...a good chance...

...that you might walk again?

What would you do to make that happen?

Anything.

Anything?

You'd better think about that.

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

Wait!

Dr. Myrick?

Quiet.

We have to be quiet.

You're not paralyzed.

It's an epidural drip. I turned it off.

You're not at Riverside Hospital.

This is Triphase. You're not paralyzed.

I don't know how you get out.

You're on the seventh floor.

There's a hallway just outside.

Listen to me. You have to get out of here.

- This is Triphase?

- Yes.

I found some clothes. Put them on.

What are you saying?

I'm sorry. It's just the stitches

from your gunshot. I can't stay.

- Oh, God, they're looking for me.

- Wait.

How can you be part of this?

For my brother.

I was driving the car when he was hurt.

Because I was drunk.

I have to go.

Just try to get downstairs.

I'm sorry.

- But how?

- I don't know.

They're still warm. He can't go far.

This is Helen in reception.

What's going on?

- Luthan's out of his room.

- What?

- We don't know where he is.

- I'll take the east area.

I'll grab the other side.

Don, go to one.

Stone still want that address

or you going home?

You kidding? We're going home.

He still wants it.

Okay, can you hold one second?

The guy's a cokehead, for chrissake.

I told you. He saved my guy. I owe him.

Okay, Triphase. 403 East 14th Street.

Look for Biosyntex.

Got it.

My God.

I know you can hear me.

We know you're in the building.

You've gotta listen to me.

You need to listen to me

before it gets out of hand.

Guy, you have to understand.

We never wanted you involved.

All the way along,

we tried to get you to walk away.

I'm not a murderer.

I didn't know what to do with you.

It was terrible to put you through it,

but I had to do it.

I had to make it real.

You had to feel it to understand

what it is we're trying to do.

And it is real.

The hope I offered in that room...

...it's real.

I can grow nerves.

I can grow nerves

and control their patterns.

Thirty hours before he came to you,

Claude Minkins...

...had his spine surgically severed

at the fourth vertebra.

Teddy Dolson lived for 12 days.

I can show you their charts.

Complete neural regeneration.

I can grow nerves.

We just have to stop them overgrowing.

We are that close.

I needed human subjects.

That's the awful truth.

Growth factors only code to species.

To do the work, you need human subjects.

And most of them will die.

These men...

...they're not victims.

These men are heroes.

Because of them...

...millions of people will walk again.

You see them every night.

They're lost or cold...

...or stoned or worse.

They have nothing.

No future.

No family.

Nothing.

But here, with us...

...here they're performing miracles.

I've spent time learning about you.

You're a brilliant doctor. I'm understaffed.

I need you.

That's why you're here.

That's why I put you through this.

Let me show you what we do.

Let me explain it to you.

We need to talk. We need...

Hey, how you doing?

You need to see what it is we're doing.

There's a Detective Stone down here.

He'd like very much to speak

with someone in charge.

Someone's coming down.

Great.

Lock these doors. She stays here.

I don't want him leaving here alive.

Find him, okay?

Gentlemen...

...how do you do?

I'm Dr. Myrick. How can I help you?

This is Triphase.

- You've got the right place.

- And it wasn't easy. It took us...

Had a guy, spent four hours

trying to get your phone number.

So let me get this straight.

Triphase is like a part of Biosyntex, right?

That's it. Yes. Look, I'm right

in the middle of a procedure upstairs.

Could we...

You know a Dr. Judith Gruszynski?

From Gramercy Hospital.

- Is she all right?

- She's fine.

She got this nutty call from a guy

named Luthan. Dr. Luthan.

You know him?

Is he a student?

No, he's in Emergency. He's a Brit.

Did you check the scrub room?

Nothing.

Do it again.

I'm going down.

Can I ask what the hell you do here?

Research. Medical research.

I'm a neurologist.

Is that right?

Are you talking about the doctor

arrested for drugs?

That's right.

I really do need to get upstairs.

We're freezing samples.

It's a delicate procedure.

We gotta get a statement.

Later? Could I call you?

Or come by the precinct?

You know...

...I'll be done here in about 45 minutes.

All right. We'll eat.

Perfect.

It's nerves, right?

Excuse me?

Neurology. It's...

...study of nerves.

Yes, nerves.

Are the doors locked?

No.

I'm 68 years old. I don't have much time.

Three years with a rat to get to a dog?

And after five years, if I'm lucky,

maybe I can work on a chimp?

We have to move faster than that.

I'm doing medicine

no one's ever dreamed of.

This is baseline neural chemistry.

You're killing people.

People die every day.

For what? For nothing.

Plane crash. Train wreck.

Bosnia. Pick your tragedy.

Sniper in a restaurant, 15 dead.

Story at 11:
00. What do we do?

What do you do?

You change the channel.

You move on to the next patient.

You take care of the ones

you think you can save.

Good doctors do the correct thing.

Great doctors have the guts

to do the right thing.

Your father had those guts.

So do you.

Two patients on either side.

One, a gold-shield cop...

...the other, a maniac

that pulled a gun on a bus.

Who do you work on first?

You knew.

You knew.

If you could cure cancer by killing

one person, wouldn't you?

Wouldn't that be brave?

One person and cancer's gone tomorrow?

When you thought you were paralyzed...

...what would you have done

to be able to walk again?

"Anything. "

You said it yourself. Anything.

You were like that...

...for 24 hours.

Helen hasn't walked for 12 years.

I can cure her.

And everyone like her.

The door's open.

You can go out there...

...and put a stop to everything

and it'll be over.

Or we can go upstairs

and change medicine forever.

It's your call.

Maybe you're right.

Those men upstairs, maybe...

...there isn't much point to their lives.

Maybe they're doing a great thing

for the world.

Maybe they are heroes.

But they didn't choose to be.

You chose for them.

You didn't choose your wife...

...or your granddaughter.

You didn't ask for volunteers.

You chose for them.

And you can't do that.

Because you're a doctor.

And you took an oath.

And you're not God.

So I don't care if you can do

what you say you can.

Or if you can cure every disease

on this planet.

You tortured and murdered

those men upstairs.

That makes you a disgrace

to your profession.

I hope you go to jail

for the rest of your life.

I'm sorry.

Help him, please!

Please help him.

He's been shot!

Oh, no, no! God, no!

Help him, he's been shot.

Help me.

Please.

Get some backup.

You okay?

I didn't think it was possible,

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