Attacking The "R"-Complex (discretely.)

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