2. I guess the moral here is: you must be careful what you pretend to be because in the end you are who you're pretending to be. - Mother NightTakes place five days before
this: Carbon Copy Plissken“How is he?” Dr, Fry asked as he prepared the room.
“Heavily sedated.” Elizabeth Tanzer responded as she closed the door.
“That’s good.”
“We had to strap him down and the other doctors suggest further restraints on the table.” She seemed nervous as she stood in the room stuffed full of equipment.
“Why?” Finally Dr. Fry stopped his task to face his assistant.
“We... we think he was having violent nightmares. He showed all the signs of a post traumatic event in terms of blood pressure, pulse and brain activity but he was asleep.” Elizabeth was concerned for the patient as much as she knew Fry was. The others here treated him like an animal or less. She had only been around him twice while he was awake. Plissken to her seemed no different than most men when introduced though he was a little standoffish and rude. He had been imprisoned by them and she could see how anyone might react the same way.
“Good.” Fry’s words were flat when he met the questioning gaze. “Most brain’s when sedated slow the transfer of thought patterns. If his is active the procedure will take less time than anticipated. He may only require a week of sedation instead of the month we started with. It will lessen the amount of trauma he experiences waking up.”
“He won’t wake up.” Tanzer couldn’t keep the emotion down.
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