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"This will tell us everything we need to know."

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"Anything on the blood sample I sent you?"

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"When I promoted you to be my executive science advisor, you said you could do the impossible. Well, now's your chance."

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"You are in the hig leagues now, Peter. Commitments have been made. The fallout, should we fail to live up to those commitments, would be less than pleasant. "

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"That's not your concern now, is it?"

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"This is not a false deadline!"

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"And Peter, congratulations on your promotion."

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Elsinger: "I know how he works. What did you tell him?"
Axon: "Nothing. I told him the work would be done this week."
Elsinger: "Not at this rate, it won't."

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"Yes, Curtis, from now on your team will report directly to Axon."

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"Then drop them. I set the priorities here. You will provide Axon with all necessary
support, including full security."

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Elsinger: "I really don't have time for this, Matthew."
Praeger: "Make the time."
Elsinger: "They weren't my men."
Praeger: "So whose were they?"
Elsinger: "How should I know? They didn't have identifying features."
Prager: "Yeah, small brains, large guns."

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"Seeing you always brightens my day, Matthew. I thought you'd be enroute to Cooley.
He's quite excited by his Yeti sighting."

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"That's a dead issue, Matthew."

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"Wrap out your case, and go find Cooley."

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"What are you doing here?"

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"I'll keep after him."

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"We're close - three, maybe four weeks."

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"I don't hide behind some outdated school boy code of loyalty."

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"Because I trusted you; because you were my friend. And I needed my friends around me."

day20.wav
"Now, I know that you see me as some sort of bad guy. Of course, from your perspective that's justified, but it many ways, I share your frustrations."

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"I can't, Matthew. For your own safety, I can't. "

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Elsinger: "Right now, I'm your only protection."
Praeger: "What a comfort."

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"As long as it takes. Our security's been compromised and the threat is serious. Central Lab will remain locked down until the threat has been removed."

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"You will complete your work. I still have people to answer to."

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"And we're at the stage where we could use the contribution of a medical doctor."

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"Well, I can't hold a gun to your head, Anton."

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Elsinger: "That's where you come in. We need you to marry the replacement gene to a non-harmful virus."
Anton: "You want me to inject this cocktail?"
Elsinger: "Oh, yes, thereby slowing down the aging process and giving us our first glimpse of immortality."

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"Yes. Is Axon sleeping?"

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"You're joking."

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Elsinger: " I expected no less."
Anton: "It'll still require years of clinical testing."
Elsinger: "Of course. Thank you, Anton."

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"What can I do for you?"

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"He wants a cure for his condition. For his newfound mortality."

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"Let him go."

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"Replacement genes - the end result of all your resources."

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"It's alright, Matthew, I've made my deal. I just have to live with it."

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"Keep the rest clear; make sure the ambulance can get to him."

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"I knew that I could trade your work to save Praeger's life."

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"You should go now to help your friend Peter."

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"I have what I need. Burn it. Burn it all."

Synopsis

Episode #322: "Forever and a Day" Part 2
Case File #298-321
Written by James Nadler
Directed by Stephen Williams

Michael Kelly (Michael Moriarty) and senior data analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) continue their discussion, with Kelly explaining the OSIR needs to exorcize its own demon - namely The Chairman - the identity of whom has remained a mystery to the team. After the two are joined by case manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer), Kelly produces a series of photos of the man he believes to be The Chairman. While the pictures were taken over the past hundred years, the image of the man hasn't changed at all. Kelly suggests that The Chairman is this evil, immortal being who controls a series of interlocking companies, including Veritec, Tessler Industries and the OSIR. Although skeptical, Praeger decides to investigate Kelly's claim.

Praeger is visited by chief science analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope), who's been working on a secret project for OSIR head Frank Elsinger (Nigel Bennett) that, as Axon tells Praeger, seems to have special and very personal significance for Elsinger. In fact, Elsinger is so concerned that the work be completed quickly, he assigns case manager Curtis Rollins (Maurice Dean Wint) to provide security for Axon as he finishes the project.

Rollins meets with Praeger and tells him the secret project involves mapping out an anonymous individual's genetic code. They are joined by another OSIR case manager, Jane Halliwell (Leigh Lewis), whose team has been studying progeria, the same age-causing disease that killed Michael Byrne (Alex House), the 12-year-old who had been used in Elsinger's recent psychic healing experiment. Rollins tells Praeger that the genetic code of the subject in Axon's research is a close match to that of Michael Byrne.

Tracing the drugs that had been prescribed to young Michael, Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) learns that the boy had been kept at Ste. Beatrice's Hospital. Meanwhile, pathologist Claire Davison (Soo Garay) compares DNA found on the bed sheets where the boy died with data provided by Axon about the individual whose genetic code he has been mapping. Davison concludes that Axon's subject and Michael were father and son.

Elsinger shuts down OSIR central lab, sealing Hendricks inside with Axon and asking the doctor to help Axon complete the project. Donner and Praeger, meanwhile, break into the basement of Ste. Beatrice, where Donner hacks into the mainframe of the hospital computer. She is able to learn the identity of Michael's father. He is Francis Xavier Byrne. Returning to the OSIR field lab, they find a picture of Byrne in Veritec's annual report. He is the same man who was in Kelly's photos. He is indeed The Chairman, and he is immortal.

Back at the central lab, Hendricks gets a firsthand look at Axon's work and learns his colleague is experimenting with gene splicing, trying to come up with a cure for progeria by creating a replacement gene that could be injected into a patient suffering from the disease. If successful, Axon's new drug would not only cure progeria but would be the first step in artificially creating immortality. Elsinger obtains some vials of the untested substance developed by Axon, then sneaks into Axon's office and deletes the scientist's research files from his computer.

Byrne goes to Praeger and Donner, demanding they find Elsinger and the vials. Hendricks' research reveals that while Byrne has lived an extremely long life, his metabolism is beginning to slow down. In fact, the doctor estimates that Byrne will be dead in a few months.

While the new drug is too late to save his son, Byrne believes there is a chance it will save him and, in desperation, takes Praeger hostage in order to force Elsinger to return and give him the cure. His plan works. Elsinger and the team go to Ste. Beatrice's, where Byrne is holding Praeger in his private office. Elsinger provides Byrne with the vial and a syringe. Thinking it will cure him, Byrne gives himself an injection — and undergoes a horrific transformation, literally growing hundreds of years old in just a few seconds. He falls to the floor, dead. Axon accuses Elsinger of knowing that the injection would kill Bryne. Because the genetic deviations that made Byrne stay young while his son grew old were the opposite of each other, Axon's drug would logically be a cure for one but a poison to the other. Elsinger refuses to deny or admit to the accusation.