Project E.1337: Alpha

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- Help.

Help.

- Almost there!

Are you guys ready to party?

Nope, fine.

We're here!

Paxton says that girl you're looking

for will be there sometime tonight.

I also made you guys these watches.

I programmed them myself,

and if you get close to her

then they're gonna beep and stuff.

This is really my

favorite thing in the world to do,

I really wish we could do it more often.

Maybe after this we could go

like get pizza and ice cream,

and just, you know, hang out,

because I think you're so cool

and what you do is so cool,

and I really like pizza and ice cream,

so that's why I think we should hang

out together more often.

What do you guys think?

- Listen, you gotta help me.

Please, I can pay.

- I don't know, Marco, what do you think?

- She doesn't look like

much protecting to me.

- Please, I can pay you, all of you.

- All of us?

You do realize it's 10 grand a day each,

and there's four of us.

- Not a problem.

There's enough to cover a week,

that's more than I'll need.

- It's like two weeks worth, man.

- I'd like you

guys to be enthusiastic.

- Don't worry, you got the best people

in the business working for ya.

- So who are

we protecting you from?

- I um, I don't really know.

- You don't know?

No names, descriptions,

pictures, anything?

- No, I, I--

- What the hell you paying us for, then?

- I don't know, I, I, this

woman, she's not too tall,

blonde, a-and there's

another guy, he's, I dunno.

There's three of them and

they're just really good

at killing people, okay?

They're Eyes.

They're Eyes.

That's one of them!

- Where is she?

- In our near

future, over 90% of the world

will lose their vision to an

unknown airborne bacteria.

I was fortunate to make it

to the safe zones in time.

The ones that didn't are

left to fend for themselves

outside of the walls

until the cure is found.

It's been over five years,

and they've grown impatient.

- Ex-special forces

suffered heavy casualties

yesterday from yet another

attack by the insurrectionists

outside the quarantine walls.

Reports state their weapons

are becoming increasingly--

- Yes.

I know, I've seen the numbers.

I know we're running out of time, but...

I'm checking our team right now.

Yes, I know we delegated her

team to another assignment,

but we need all hands on Oculus.

- Martinez,

do you have a minute?

- Yes, come in.

And who's this?

- This is Billy, our new analyst.

Billy, I'd like for you to meet Martinez,

one of our project leads here at MiraCO.

- Pleasure to meet you.

- Welcome to MiraCO.

- So, the board has been

getting on me for updates.

Is your team anywhere

closer to a clinical trial?

- We haven't made any

significant gains in some time.

I'm not sure we'll beat anyone to it.

- If Oculus is not worth

pursuing at the rate we're going,

what else can we do?

- Well from my standpoint, if

we choose to switch gears now

we'll probably end up pretty far behind.

- Billy, can you give us a minute?

- Of course.

- Ain't it something?

This company started curing

one of the worst killers

in the world, and pretty soon there'll

be nothing left to fix

once we're all sterile.

I don't know what's left for us to do.

May as well start making baby bottles.

- Maybe we should.

- Yeah.

So, I guess this is it, huh?

Time to hang up the lab coats and move on.

- Have you thought about other products

outside of what we do?

- You have ideas?

- Well up until now we've only looked

at fixing the human body.

We really haven't looked

at making it better.

- Oh, so, you want

us to win the next Olympics.

- During the research

for the cancer project

the teams came across

some interesting finds.

I believe we have the resources at hand

to develop something

useful for the military.

- Are you suggesting making bioweapons?

- Sort of a biological weapon.

A human weapon.

- I'm really not sure I'm

following you, Martinez.

- We could increase their

strength, their speed,

their stamina, their mental

capacity, you name it.

The world is still very much in conflict.

We'll be the only ones

exploring it from this angle.

We'd do the impossible again.

It's what will put us back on top.

- No, no we can't.

There's entirely too many

things that can go wrong,

if we pursue any kind of

development of this magnitude.

- Could be, but I believe

we've already done

more than enough work

to make it a reality.

Just think about it.

- Who would run your research?

- I think Dr. Howe.

- Dr. Howe, from Schaefer's team?

Why do you think he'd

do something like this?

I mean, no offense, but his

team has already been ahead

of yours for quite some time now.

- I think if I present it

to him in the right way,

he'll be on board.

- And how certain are you

about what you're suggesting?

- The returns from this will put us past

all previous expectations.

I know Mr. Sander will

go for such a proposal.

- All right, I'll call for

a company board meeting

at the end of the week.

Present your proposal,

and we'll go from there.

- Well, well, well.

Awfully bold move to

have your friend Williams

call a board meeting for you.

- Out of the way, Shaefer.

- We've been at this Oculus

thing for how many years now?

And you think your team's track record

means a project takes priority?

- Oculus isn't going

anywhere and you know it.

We're no closer to curing it

than we were five years ago.

- I wouldn't expect

someone such as yourself

to understand our potential.

We will cure Oculus.

- Let go.

- Ladies and gentlemen, it's May 18th.

We're here to discuss a potential project

to help get us out of this hell hole.

Martinez, when you're ready.

- Thank you Mr. Sander, and

everyone for your time today.

The concept for this new

proposal is to take everything

we've learned from the

cancer research project

and expand its uses

further, beyond medicinal.

- How so?

- The injections that Dr.

Howe engineered allowed

the recipients the ability to

rebuild their genetic code,

with the ability to fight off cancer.

I believe we can modify the injections

to let the recipients rebuild

for military purposes.

Simply put, the gun is only

as good as the handler,

and we will be making the handlers.

- That's a

rather extreme proposal,

outside of what MiraCO does, Martinez.

- I know, and with Dr. Howe's help,

I believe this could work,

and we could save our company.

- Dr. Howe is working

with this company's best team

on the world's next big breakthrough.

- But the research and testing for Oculus

have not had any substantial

gain in the last three years.

At this rate MiraCO has

about two years left

before it runs outta resources.

- It can work.

- What was that?

- Um, Martinez's proposal, it could work.

- All right then, Dr. Howe.

Tell me why we should throw

away years of research

on this new vision of MiraCO.

- Her proposal can work,

but we're just gonna have

to forego the standard lab

procedures in order to test it.

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