Scanners

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Sit down. I want to
show you something.

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This was a test campaign
used in 1947
to market a new product.

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The product was a drug
a tranquilizer called ephemerol.

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It was aimed at
pregnant women.

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If it had worked
it would have been marketed
all over north america.

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But the campaign failed
and the drug failed.

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Because it had a side effect
on the unborn children
an invisible side effect.

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It created scanners.

1:31:42

Yes, the man who invented
phemerol was very excited
by this weird mutation it caused.

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So was consec.

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They offered to finance
his experiments...

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so he sold them
his company and himself.

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And that man was Dr. Ruth?

1:32:01

That was daddy.

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Now I said that the side
effects of ephemerol

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were invisible
but that's not completely true.

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Daddy could see them.
He could see them in us.

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He had given the
prototype of ephemerol to his
pregnant wife, our mother

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4 years before it hit the market
and then again a year later.

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These children turned
out to be difficult

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till he realized
that the only thing that
would calm them down

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was his drug, ephemerol.

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That's why we're older
than all the others.

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Not only older
more powerful.

1:32:39

The rest of them
they're nothing compared to us.

1:32:43

Then what did you
need Keller for?

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Consec had hardware.
It had contacts.

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- Keller could see the future.
- The future?

1:32:53

You murdered the future.

1:32:58

That's nagative, Cam.
Defeatist. Disappoints me
to hear you talk that way.