BLOCKED

Clyde 2.0 : 

That is one of only two existing vials of 

our most promising new memory drug.

The other vial is missing.

I don't need just one Active 

on this. I need An Army.

DeWitt : 

I've already rearranged The Schedule.

The boots are as good as on the ground.

Topher :

If this is about Foxtrot speaking Mandarin 

instead of Cantonese, it was a very simple...

DeWitt : 

Topher. This is...

Topher :

— Clive Ambrose.

Co-chairman of The Rossum Corporation,

third richest man in the country,

nominated for a Nobel Prize.

I might throw up.

…..That's a compliment.

DeWitt : 

Something really bad happened.

There's been an incident at Fremont College.

Clyde 2.0 : 

Owen Johnson — He was a grad student

at one of our premiere labs. But not anymore.

Owen ingested a psychotropic modification

of a phenethylamine compound.

Topher : 

One of the memory drugs Rossum's got in R&D?

Clyde 2.0 : 

N-7316. It breaks down natural inhibitions in 

the hippocampus in order to awaken sleeping parts 

of The Brain. We're still in the experimental stage.

Phase one of N-7316 

manifests like a recreational narcotic.

Giddiness, light hallucinations.

Munchies.

Phase two apparently manifests as 

a complete loss of Impulse-control.

Topher :

Could be phases, could be a little

thing I'd like to call body chemistry.

We're all our own little cesspools of

hormones, enzymes, chemical reactions.

It's the same as any drug.

Heroin, cocaine, caffeine,

how your body reacts depends on 

a multitude of indefinable factors.

You snort Horse once, don't like it,

you go back to your organic tea,

have a nice life; I do it once, whoo,

I'm doing two bags a day for 20 years.

One toot for you, adios, amigo.

That's what's so exciting about drugs.

....Not that I'd know.

We do biweekly drug tests.

Just pure scientific observations.

De Witt :

How did The Drug find its way into 

the general campus population?

Clyde 2.0 : 

We don't know. 

Maybe Owen was selling it.

Maybe he or someone else put it in 

the soda machine in the dining hall.

One vial is enough to take 

out the entire student body.

Topher :

No antidote floating around, I'm guessing.

Clyde 2.0 : 

Right now the best we can do is sedation.

We're hoping you can help us do better.

While you work on An Antidote, 

a team of Actives will secure The Campus

and try to locate the missing vial.

Topher :

Oh, right. They'd be immune.

Clyde 2.0 : 

How did you know that?

Topher :

All right, this baby attacks The Inhibitors 

in the hippocampus to break down

the repressed memory blocks, right?

Actives don't have them.

Stuff would bounce right off.

Clyde 2.0 : 

Think You can Help Us, Mr. Brink?

Topher :

Well, I can't hurt.

— Probably.