Painkiller Jane

My name is Jane Vasco.

I could use you one my team.

I work for a secret govenement agency that hunts neros.

People who can do dangerous things with their minds.

On my first assignment...

Something a little weird happened, okay, something really weird.

Until i get some answers i'm getting on with my life, doing my job.

Stocking up on aspirin, because let me tell ya,

pain's a bitch!

What the hell are you doing?

We're not supposed to hit this sector past seventy!

We're not going to jump the tracks!

Throttle back!

Throttle back now!

I...

I don't know how.

What the hell are you talking about!?

I don't know how!

They say you can feel lonelier in a crowd than when you're by yourself.

Maybe.

I'll tell you this though,

whoever said it, never had to wade through the crowd that i ever did.

It's hard to feel lonely when your every walking moment

is spent trying to avoid being pick-pocketed,

jostled, hassled and cursed at.

Did i mention pinched?

I realize i don't live in one of the better parts of town,

not that there are many better parts anymore,

and i couldn't afford one anyway.

When is your environment an excuse for bad behaviour?

I mean, what happened to common courtesy?

Is everyone so completely absorbed

in their own personal drama today.

Let's just pretend i didn't ask that.

I realize that appearances can be deceiving sometimes a lot deceiving.

I mean, let's face it, life can be deceiving.

Just when we think we got it all figured out, it get's turned on its head.

We're not supposed to hit this sector past seventy!

We're not going to jump the tracks!

Throttle back!

Throttle back now!

I...

I don't know how.

What the hell are you talking about!?

I don't know how!

Black box showed everything on line and working perfectly.

Unity rail attributes it to driver error.

Pull up the driver.

Jason hampton.

Good man.

You know him?

It's a small world when it comes to trains.

He worked with the rail company as long as i worked with the subway.

For the record, his record was spotless.

Well it just got smudged.

Okay, this might fit the pattern of other skill-specific

amnesia cases that we've been tracking.

Any medical?

Nothing significant.

Angio-plasty five years ago.

Maybe he was suicidal.

He sounded terrified and confused, not suicidal.

Last week at the hospital, a patient came in for a full neurological workup.

He was worried because he suddenly couldn't remember

a critical part of his job.

How often does that happen seth, where a person

loses part of their memory?

It's rare.

Usually accompanied by trauma, an aneurysm, something psychological.

Edgar dawson had none of those.

Edgar dawson?

Software fricking genius.

He formulated his own bbs string matrix network.

Wow.

Vasco,

why don't you have a word with this edgar,

see if he fits the pattern we've been tracking.

Better take an interpreter.

Me?

It's your big shot.

Don't get in her way.

Hash four cat algorithm coded logs converted by a quad matrix.

No man,

unless you're operating from a...

There's a place for people like them, anywhere i'm not.

We had an optical failure in a fifteen circuit and i...

I... I still can't even tell you the formatted triangulation.

Code protocol for x-juncture phase development.

Secondary milli-ohm diversion, code nanex, octo, td... T.d...

They took me off the project.

Two years of work and it's just... Gone.

My whole life changed in, like five minutes.

Mr. Dawson, can you remember encountering anyone new

just before this happened?

A stranger?

Someone you might have been introduced to...

Shook hands with?

If it happened...

I'm sorry, i don't remember.

That ever happens to me, just put a bullet in my brain.

Life would not be worth living.

I'll try to keep that in mind.

Which part of his did dawson lose?

He's still fluent in most of what he knows...

Except for what he doesn't.

And what is that?

Edgar dawson has completely forgotten

a series of third level code algorithms.

Algorithms that he created.

It's related to his patent on high speed electronic relays

that transfers electronic pulses across a hypernetwork.

Riley, what's it used for?

Train switching routers.

They use that kind of electronic relay system now.

Rail conglomerate grew so fast,

switch operators couldn't keep up.

A train engineer and the guy who designed

the switching systems lose part of their memory

within three days of each other.

Riley, check unity rail's personnel files

see if anyone had a reason to have a grudge.

Will do, boss.

Thank you.

Get off me!

What the hell are you doing, man?!

What are you doing, man?!

Are you alright dude?

You need a paramedic, dude.

Easy, easy, easy!

Stay still man!

Stay still!

Easy, easy, i'll get a paramedic.

Lost consciousness, pulse is 170, rapid and thready.

Stay back, please sir.

Stay back, please sir.

A- fib with rapid ventricular response.

Push 20 c. 's cardiazem in the i. v.

No!

You could kill him.

We've got it covered.

Then why are you trying to skyrocket his heartrate and send him into v-fib?

Wpw syndrome, vitals might read the same

but the ekg's got a delta wave, qrs is wide.

Cardiazem's going to block the av node,

push his heart rate into the 200s!

We've got to shock his rhythm so it slows back to sinus.

Get me paddles and charge it to 200 joules.

He might be right.

Now!

Clear!

He's stabilizing.

I don't believe it.

Hey, hey, stick with us.

Grab the bag.

Stay with us.

When paramedics started to initiate an i. v. Drip

with a semplar push subject informed them

the patient had tertiary anemia.

Caller reported he had diagnosed

from the pulse pattern and dried blood.

The trick is to only suture the first fifteen millimeters

of the primary sheath.

That way the tissue can accept

the artificial intrusion as organic.

You're an m. d.

Uh-huh.

Where did you study?

Johns hopkins.

I specialized in neuro-muscular syndromes.

I've written extensively about it.

Oh?

The nordic degeneration and the middle aged male.

Dr. Allen rafferty wrote that article.

That's right.

Five months ago,

allen was in the middle of an aortic bypass.

He's done hundreds of them.

They said he just, froze, he couldn't remember how to continue.

The assisting had to take over.

The patient almost died.

Neurologist checked him out?

They couldn't find anything wrong.

Everything allen knew about medicine, it's just... Gone.

Allen knew it was over.

Medicine was his life and he just couldn't face it.

He started drinking..

And then...

he tried to kill himself.

I got to him in time but now...

How could something like this happen?

There's only a handful of surgeons in the city

who can do what dr. Rafferty does.

This homeless man knew his procedures as well as he did.

So we're not talking about sudden partial amnesia...

It's about picking people's brains.

Looks that way.

And no, he's not a neuro.

I tested him.

In order to have acquired rafferty's knowledge,

there must have been a middle man.