There's a loss of Initiative, Caution,
many of the Human cognitive functions.
Apparently the result of decay
in the frontal, parietal,
temporal and occipital lobes.
On revival, the rate of decomposition
slows substantially.
Indications are that these beings...
could function over a period of years...
In cases of early revival, 10 to 12 years
before decay would threaten mobility.
The Brain is The Engine, Sarah,
The Motor that Drives Them.
They don't need any blood flow,
don't need any of their internal organs.
Now, I've severed all
the vital organs in this one.
There's nothing left of The Corpse
but Brain and limbs, and still it Functions.
Oh, look, Sarah. Look.
See, it wants me.
It wants Food, but it has no stomach.
It can take no nourishment
from what it ingests.
It's working on Instinct,
a deep, dark, primordial Instinct.
Decomposition occurs first
in the frontal lobes,
the neocortex, and next
in the limbic system,
the middle brain.
But The Core... The Core
is the last thing to be
attacked by the decay.
It's the "r" complex, Sarah... that central bit of
prehistoric jelly...
that we inherited
from the reptiles.
Here. I've gone into the center here
and attacked The "R"-Complex discretely.
I've removed it from the equation...
this corpse.
I believe this creature would be benign even
if it had its eyesight and its other senses.
Its primitive instincts
have been erased.
It still has motor function,
probably still has powers of Deliberation.
It can be domesticated,
Sarah, don't you see?
It can be conditioned to behave the way
we want it to behave.
And all that's required
is 15 hours of fancy surgery...
that only a handful of people
are trained to do.
We were going to stop work on the neurophysical, concentrate
on something more practical.
These finds are central to the condition.
I will not stop work...
that might lead to an answer, let alone
in an area that is central to The Condition.
But you're just proving theories
that were advanced months ago.
And you're not even proving them correctly.
You're making a lot of assumptions.
You're wasting time trying
to define what's happening...
instead of looking
for what's making it happen.
And just slicing up too many specimens.
It's extremely dangerous...
to go up on top
and round them up in the wild.
Well, we can't control them.
What happened to this one?
It was too unruly.
I couldn't handle it. I had to Destroy it.
We can still get Information from it.
Dr. Logan,
we are losing
the cooperation of the men.
I'm not even sure they'll go up top when we
run out of the specimens we have.
I'm not sure they won't just try to
shut us down completely.
Well, I'll show them results.
I'll show them results.
I'll show them that these creatures
can be domesticated even without the surgery.
Knowing what they are, we can
begin to approach them properly,
condition them, control them.
We've got to do this, Sarah.
It's our only hope.
Yes, This is Major Cooper.
I needed him, Sarah.
He's helping us more now
than he ever did when he was alive.
But I saw the grave.
They buried one of the specimens.
Jesus. God, Logan.
Do you know what they'll do to you
if they find out about this?
Do you know what they'll do to all of us?
They'll never find out.
He can't be recognized.
Not a peep. Long-range or
