Algorithm: BLISS

Take the deal, it's a gift.

No.

They can go fuck themselves.

I'm advising you to take the deal.

This isn't right.

I was so close!

Right's got nothing to do with it.

This wasn't some minor infraction.

If you take this, they've agreed to keep quiet.

If you don't, you go to jail.

It's that simple.

I'll give you a few minutes to think about it.

They want me to leave school.

Never practice medicine again.

I know, I know.

Let's just get this done.

Do it.

I put in all the data, but I can't tell

why there are more outliers than there should be.

Let me see.

There you go.

How'd you do that?

You, my friend, were in the wrong algorithm.

And go.

Time?

Five seconds slower than normal.

Now for the not so fun part.

Okay, withdrawing cerebrospinal fluid

from test subject one.

30, just a little bit more.

40 milliliters cerebral spinal fluid

withdrawing from test subject one.

Jesus, more than ever.

Injecting cerebrospinal fluid

from test subject one into test subject two.

Come on, come on.

Test subject one's experience of the maze

will be transferred to test subject two,

resulting in a lower run time.

Go.

Time differential?

Less than half.

Fastest yet.

I think that we literally put that guy's memory

of the maze into that guy.

This is for the greater good, buddy.

Okay, Henry, take it from here.

I hate these things, don't you?

Yeah.

I'm Elizabeth.

Oh, I'm Vic.

I can play this.

What is it?

It's Beethoven's Piano Sonata Number 14.

Most people know it as "Moonlight Sonata."

It's nice.

Kinda sad, though.

He wrote it about a student he fell in love with,

and it ended badly.

Huh.

What class are you?

Med school.

'09.

Nice.

You?

I coordinate housing and social services for the homeless.

Always thought I'd like to volunteer at a place like that.

Really?

Yeah.

Well, you should come by then.

I mean, we could definitely use a doctor there.

Oh.

I'm not a doctor type doctor.

Research is more fulfilling.

I like to help the masses, so to speak.

There's this thing that we're working on right now

that if it works out, it could be pretty huge.

What is it?

I can't really tell you.

Oh come on, you can't just say that and then not tell me.

Alright, I can tell you that if it all works out,

it could change the world.

For better or for worse?

Hey babe, Vic.

Robert.

Hey babe, why don't you just give us a second here,

just gotta have a little chat with my boy here.

I didn't know you two know each other.

Yeah we were roomies.

Not that I saw him much, I think he spent like what,

about two nights at home the entire time we had the place?

Well, I will let the two of you catch up.

I'll be back in a minute.

Hey man, what're you doing here?

Same as you man, just catching up.

This is my graduating class.

You didn't graduate, you remember lab rat?

You don't belong here, and you know why.

You gotta get out of here.

Leaving so soon?

Yeah, I got a big experiment at the lab.

I should, should get back.

Oh, I understand.

Well, you should definitely come by the clinic.

I will.

Promise?

Yeah.

Okay, see you then.

Hand me last night's report.

Vic?

Vic?

Vic?

Oh, sorry doctor.

Sorry doesn't get me the report.

Haha, excellent.

Even you two can get repeat results

by following the procedures.

Think it's time to publish.

Oh doctor, before we do, I just wanted to discuss

the non-invasive method I've been developing.

- It's really coming along... - Vic, Vic,

we talked about this.

No need to fix what isn't broken.

Keep your hobbies where they belong, okay?

Yes doctor.

Good.

Oh, one more thing?

I've observed that there's a secondary side effect

when we do the procedure.

I don't wanna be distracted Vic.

Jesus, just stick with my directives.

I can't take it anymore.

He's just old.

He misses the point every single time.

He's never ready for a result

that he doesn't already expect,

and when something new happens, he just ignores it.

What are you talking about?

Have you noticed when we do the cerebrospinal transfer,

the rat's personality changes?

I think notice some change sometimes, yeah.

No, no, no, not sometimes, every time.

Every time?

Remember yesterday's rat?

How agitated he was?

Yeah.

After I did the transfer, it relaxed like that.

I don't know think that we're just

transferring sense memory,

I think we're actually transferring emotions as well.

This non-invasive technique that you've been working on,

does it work on memory transfer?

It's experimental, but so far the results are good.

Would it work on emotion transfer too?

No needles, no injections,

no need for unnecessary dissection.

Okay.

Here's your regular, boys.

Thank you.

Anything else?

No, I think that's it Doreen, thank you.

To Doreen...

The most unhappy person in the world.

So, last night was revolutionary.

I think we should tell Stein.

Wait, why would you even consider

letting him take credit for this?

Because this thing can be huge for all of us,

and we need Stein, we need him for grant money,

we need him for legitimacy.

What we need is human trials.

We'll be lucky if they let us try this on dogs.

Then it's gonna be months of paperwork