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Are you all right?

You need to get out of the street, honey

You need to get out of the street Watch out

Watch where you're going

Keep moving

Go on

Hey Excuse me

Champagne, please

- I'll have the same - Yes, ma'am

Here you go

Thank you

You do know it's free

Nobody tell you this is a charity concert?

Well, it can't be that charitable

if they force you to sit through the damn thing

Cheers to that

Cheers

I'm Jacob

Hi, Elizabeth

Pleasure to meet you

So what do you do?

I'm special science advisor to the FBI

How intriguing

Job description would be?

Well, scientific advancements

have greatly benefited humanity, but

if those advancements are abused, could be very dangerous

My job is to make sure that never happens

And what kind of science crimes do you like to handle, Jacob?

Kind of classified

What about your phone number?

That classified, too?

Hood

We have some place to be

Let me give you my card

Duty calls

I always wanted to say that

Sorry to interrupt

The FBI is holding 2 seats on a flight that leaves in half an hour

So what's this about, Rachel?

Okay, Teresa Kimsey

She's 16, went missing July 7th

Suddenly showed up August 9th

Unharmed?

Physically

Benjamin Gonzales, 15

Disappeared August 11th

Reappeared September 8th

And Reggie Leinhart, 17

Missing September 10th, back October 15th

When the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children detected the pattern

they contacted the FBI

Well, the approximate age is the same

Duration of abduction is roughly a month

That's not what they're focusing on

Or why they want you involved

All of the children are severely autistic

At least, they were when they were abducted

- Were? - Now they're exhibiting symptoms of savant syndrome

From mentally challenged to mentally gifted in the space of a month?

That's extraordinary

When they found Reggie Leinhart,

he'd carved 657 squares

in the side of an 18-wheeler with a screwdriver

Perfect quadrilaterals

Benjamin Gonzales's mother

found her recently abducted son

frantically building that

Which means these must be Teresa Kimsey's

I find it hard to believe that these children were diagnosed

with Heller's syndrome

It's a relatively rare form of ASD

Autism spectrum disorder

I have a cousin who's autistic

But he has a mild form

So, what were you saying about Heller's syndrome?

Well, it's one of the most severe

A child can be developing normally

and then sometime between the ages of 2 and 4,

they start to regress

They lose skills that they've already developed

like, uh, language, motor skills

Some of them even stop communicating altogether

Savantism

is an even more uncommon condition

where a developmental disability coexists

with an extreme ability in other areas

like mathematics or art

Yeah, I never understood how that works

Well

Okay

Um, wait Look

Wait That's mine

This is an ordinary person's brain

By ordinary you mean incredibly charming and full of personality

Ordinary people organize

They sort things

They make connections

It's called logic

Now, this

Um, what are you doing?

Is the brain

Hood

of an autistic person

You see, although types and degrees of autism

vary widely across the spectrum,

most of them have trouble with connections

The ability to organize that I was talking about Now

Hood

This

is the brain

of a savant

It's the ability to focus on one thing

to the exclusion of everything else

Now, if you have nothing but toothpaste in your suitcase,

what would happen?

- You'd know a hell of a lot about toothpaste - Exactly

You know everything there is to know about toothpaste

You'd be a toothpaste expert

The question is:

how does a severely autistic

otherwise ordinary person

become a savant

inside of a month?

What happened to these children?

- And why? - Well, we'll start with Teresa Kimsey

She's our first victim, with the thickest case file

And next time,

use your own luggage

I didn't know the FBI had a science division

They don't They have a Science and Technology branch-

deals with all manner of intelligence-gathering

and criminal investigation

And then there's me

Is this Teresa?

Yes. She was 2

when that picture was taken

She was such a funny baby,

always smiling

About 6 months later, she just stopped

No more smiling, no more hugs

Sometimes she'd look at me

like she didn't know who I was

Before we go in, I should warn you

Usually Teresa doesn't like visitors

She can get anxious and upset

But then

she hasn't exactly been herself lately

Wouldn't even go near a coloring book

before she went missing

Hi, Teresa

Now I

can't get her to stop drawing.

And not that I want to

Mrs Kimsey,

would you mind if we spoke to Teresa for a few minutes?

Well, actually, you see,

Teresa doesn't really talk

Oh, it's okay She doesn't need to

There was a 13-year-old girl with autism

at Syracuse a few years ago

She never spoke

Certainly didn't think she could read or write,

and when they gave her a computer keyboard

she typed out the words "I love Mom "

So Teresa's preferred method

Would appear to be drawing

Hiya

This

is me

Sort of

I like science

That's an atom

this is

Rachel

She likes to beat up bad people

Hey

And this

is you

Can you show me what happened to you

when you went away?

You were sleeping?

Were you sleeping?

You're being very helpful,

Teresa. Thank you

What is that?

Some kind of tube

Is that a tunnel?

Were you in a tunnel?

Where'd they take you, honey?

Is that a

Was she in an MRI machine?

Were you in a machine?

You see, these are, uh,

these are surface coils

They increase the magnetic sensitivity

And these

Rachel, can I have the sidewalk picture, please?

These are DTIs-

Diffusion Tensor Imaging

DTI is a specific type of MRI

that tracks the movement of water through the brain

Teresa,

you're drawing what's inside your head?

But

the last time she had an MRI

was when she was but 5 years old

Where?

Well, the Autism Institute of Chicago

We're meeting with the chief administrator,

Catherine Bonatelli

Both kidnap victims

Benjamin Gonzales and Reggie Leinhart

had MRIs taken here

They were also 5 years old at the time

That's got to mean something, right?

Means we're getting closer

I don't understand

Why are these children being taken?

That's what we're trying to find out

Well, I want you to know that the Institute will do

whatever we can to help

Thank you Rachel

Do you have the picture of Benjamin's sculpture?

These were taken of Teresa

over 10 years ago

I hope they still pertain to your investigation

Miss Bonatelli, we'll also need to see the scans

for Benjamin Gonzales and Reggie Leinhart

Excuse me Do you mind if I take over for a second?

Oh, sure

These scans are almost exactly the same

Even if these patients have the same type of autism,

there is no reason their scans would be this close

Brain patterns are as unique as fingerprints

Why would somebody be kidnapping kids with the same brain pattern

I'm going to need to see all the DTIs you've made here

Oh, I'm sorry, but we've confidentiality issues

Without express permission from every patient involved

Or a court order

Our facility's been taking DTIs since '94

We're talking thousands of patients

And if any one of them

matches the 3 we just found,

they're in real danger of being abducted

So the sooner we get started, the better

Hood

Yep

I think I've got one Scott Butler

He doesn't have Heller's syndrome

like the other 3 victims

But his scans were also taken when he was 5

He's 18 now

And they're almost identical to the others

Yeah, that's a match

If these MRIs were taken over 10 years ago,

then it's not these MRIs

that the kids are remembering, is it?

No, I don't think it is

I'm going to try Scott's contact number

Yeah

Voice mail full

We'll need to go check on him

Hold on

I found another one

Cameron Stewart

5 years old when he had the scan done

Now he's 16

Let's give it a try

Hello?

Hello Is this Mrs Stewart?

Yes. Who's this?

Hi I'm Jacob Hood

I'm-I'm with the FBI

Is your son home, please?

Hello?

Did the police call you?

No Is he all right?

Then, how did you know?

Cameron went missing from school this morning

All right now We have to be real quiet Okay?

Don't want to upset our new friend Cameron

Hello, Cameron

You're going to be very comfortable here

I promise

Missing Persons Unit is at Cameron Stewart's residence,

getting a full report

Dr Hood and I found 4 more potential victims

Are they accounted for?

Yeah, they're all accounted for

Placing undercover units at each one of their houses,

24-hour protection

Mr Butler?

Scott Butler?

Scott?

Scott? Hood, look at all of his mail There's at least a month's worth

He's already been taken, Rachel

Taken and returned

Clear

Looks like he lives alone

Well, that explains why no one reported you missing, Scott

Scott

we're with the FBI

Do you mind if I, if I just make a recording of that?

Scott, would you mind stopping playing for a moment

I'd like to ask you some questions

Scott, are you all right?

He's bleeding

Get an ambulance

Code 8 Ambulance needed at 146841st Street, East of Michigan, apartment 307.

You hear that?

What?

Music

The same notes

Same as what?

Full sentences, Hood

Hear that?

Now listen

Same notes

Scott's phrase used the same notes

as a common anesthesia machine

You don't need one of those to get an MRI

I don't think someone was taking pictures of his brain

I think they opened it up

I don't think he was the only one either

Look at the back wall

It's a clean room filter

You don't need one of those to get an MRI either

You only need them for operations

Time of death is 3:47 p m

'Cause of death: rapid blood loss

due to a trauma to the carotid artery

Cause of trauma: yet to be determined

Perhaps I can help with that

I'm sorry Who are you?

FBI

I'm Dr Jacob Hood

If you don't mind,

I'd like to take a look at the body

What is this about?

What are you looking for?

A scar

Would you mind if I, uh

What kind of scar?

Can I borrow a nasal probe?

Right here

Thank you

This should just take a second

Okay I got it

There's the scar

Have you taken X-rays yet?

Cameron?

Cameron

Cameron?

The operation was done through an incision in the gum,

and then you walk the bone up to the pituitary gland

It's a new kind of brain surgery

that doesn't leave any visible scars

Wait You're saying someone secretly performed

brain surgery on this boy without consent?

That's exactly what I'm saying, Dr Fisher

Someone tried to alter Scott's brain neurons

by surgically implanting some kind of microfilament

That sounds risky

The brain is highly prone to infection

Or you can nip the carotid artery during the procedure

and the clot wouldn't hold

One sneeze would dislodge the clot,

and you'd bleed to death

Which is exactly what happened to Scott

Hood, Teresa and the other 2 boys could be walking around

with these wires inside their head

Cameron Stewart could be undergoing

the same procedure as we speak

We need to go

Can you check the wires for serial numbers

when you do the autopsy, please?

No problem

Don't send me somewhere else, please

This is the 3rd place

that I've been to in this hospital

Now where is he?

Where's Scotty? I want to see him

I just I want to see my son

You're Mr Butler?

Do you know something about what's happened to Scotty?

What's happened to my son?

It was a month

A month

The most he'd ever gone without calling me back

was 2 weeks

I should've flown out to check on him

Why didn't I fly out?

It's not your fault

Yeah

Yeah, it is

I never should have let him move away

He had no business living by himself

How long was he on his own?

I lived with him the first 6 months

to make the transition

He was high-functioning in terms of his autism

He had been on his own about a year now

He only wanted to be normal

What did I do?

I promise you, Mr Butler, it was nothing you did

Whoever took Scott would have done it

whether he was with you or not

Still no answer at Teresa's

I hope she's all right

What is up with this damn traffic?

You okay?

I'm fine I just

I just keep thinking about Cameron Stewart,

out there somewhere

Who would do this, Hood?

Put kids through this?

What would their motive be?

Well, some people believe that autism, specifically savantism,

is like some sort of clumsy step forward

on the evolutionary path

to the ultimate potential of the human mind

And if someone could figure out

how to recreate what gives them

certain advanced abilities while preventing the disabilities

then you can significantly advance human intelligence

How does sticking wires in somebody's brain do that?

By forcing the neurons to find

alternate paths to their destination

Those alternate paths could be better paths

I'll try her cell

No

Miss Young

- Hi - Dr Hood, hi

Teresa, look who's here

She spoke yesterday

She said,

"Thanks, Mom

Do we have any ice cream?"

And "Where's Bob?"

Who's Bob?

- Our dog - Oh

Mrs Kimsey

um, we'd like to take Teresa to the hospital

Why?

What is it?

She needs an X-ray

No

No, she's not going anywhere

Mrs Kimsey

Teresa might have been, um, subjected to an experimental neural implant

Her health could be at risk

But Teresa's never been better

Look at her

I mean, she's talking

Not a lot, but she is talking

She called me Mom

for the first time in 16 years

Do you know what that's like?

No, I don't

And that horrible month

No, uh-uh

No, I don't want to lose her again

Of course you don't, Mrs Kimsey,

but this is happening to other teenagers, too,

just like Teresa

One died yesterday

Another was taken from his home

Kidnapped

His name's Cameron, and he's 16 also

You see, the more we know

about what happened to Teresa

the better chance we have to find him

I'm sorry

She's not going with you

Yes, I am

I wanna help you find him.

Cameron's gone

He must be hiding

I searched his room

He's scared

It's not unusual for them

to find refuge in extremely confined spaces

I looked everywhere

He's gone

You okay back there, Hood?

You're awfully quiet

It's nice, but I'm starting to worry

There's probably only 50 or 60 doctors

in the Midwest capable of this

kind of surgery- maybe we should just visit

them all and see if Teresa recognizes anybody

You can't just go around confronting

upstanding members of the medical community

without probable cause

Why not?

I have to go to the bathroom

Cameron?

Cameron?

Cameron?

Teresa?

You okay?

Come on, Teresa You're scaring me

What's going on?

Teresa?

You okay?

Hood

You're drawing again?

Well

I suppose it is still

her dominant form of communication

Teresa, what is this?

Looks like a pattern

It's definitely some kind of sequence

I wonder

What?

Synesthesia

Or, actually, a specific kind

of synesthesia called grapheme

Okay, back up and start

with the first word I don't understand

Um, many people with savant syndrome

experience something called synesthesia

where one sensory experience

triggers an overpowering response in another

Like, um,

every time you hear a door slam,

you get a taste of mint in your mouth

or vice versa

Okay and grapheme?

Well, it's the most common type, where letters

or numbers are perceived as inherently,

uh, colored or textured

So, like, an A could be red?

That's right

Okay, so she could be writing a name

Yeah, or a place

Teresa, do you mind if I borrow one of these?

7 letters or or numbers

Could be a phone number

It's hard to see what you're doing

with all the graffiti, Teresa

Graffiti

No, that's it

She's not writing around the graffiti

She's using it

If she's intentionally incorporating it,

we can use it as a key

That's brilliant

Okay, okay, Teresa,

so the first color in your sequence is

yellow- what's yellow?

I got a 4 here that's yellow

There's yellow scribbling over a 4 over there, too

Okay

Red's next

These 2 Os are red

It's not a phone number

It's a license plate

I have to be honest with you

The very idea that you're considering me

some kind of suspect is

well, incredibly insulting, not to mention absurd

This is your license plate number, isn't it, Miss Bonatelli?

And you got it from a girl who has a severe case of Heller's syndrome

It may be a simple coincidence,

or she may actually remember it

from her earlier visits to the facility

When she was 5?

Do you have any idea how long

we've been doing research on autism here?

Do you?

Over 2 decades,

and we still don't know what causes it

Right now, one out of every 150 children has autism

That means one and a half million in America alone,

and it's growing

Which means we'll have 4 million

in one decade

The research has to continue

What happened to Scott Butler isn't research

It's murder

If that's the case

I certainly hope you capture whoever

is responsible for all this

I can't believe we just let her go

We don't have any proof

Proof?

It's obvious

Law is like biology, Hood

You can't just decide something's true

You got to dig up some dirt,

find a few nasty little microorganisms to prove your point

Good use of a scientific analogy, Rachel

Hey, speaking of digging up dirt

I just got a text

My friend at the Bureau who's running

a background check for me

It seems Miss Bonatelli did some consulting work

for a company that was a cover

A cover for who?

The CIA

You weren't easy to find, Mr Whittier

Means I'm fairly good at my job, Agent Young

Means you are, too, I may say

Must have friends in high places

What we have

is a dead 19-year-old boy

and a 16-year-old who is missing as we speak

Somebody's operating on autistic children

without their consent

Catherine Bonatelli did some consulting work

for you in '05

I'm assuming it involved her work

at the Autism Institute of Chicago

If this person in question did do some contract work for us,

those records would be

part of our HCS

Human Control System

But HCS info is accessible on a need-to-know basis only

Well, unless the health and well-being of innocent teenagers

means nothing to you,

we need to know right now

If the person in question, this Catherine Bonatelli,

did contract work in '05,

it would have involved an interest

in a common trait of autism: superior memory

We would have used her as an easy access route

for information, statistics

Possible test subjects?

Never got that far

People realized that it would be decades

before we got anywhere useful on this,

not to mention the potential

for a public relations disaster of epic proportions

So, if this

theoretical pilot study ever did exist

it was shut down

So, basically, you're telling us nothing

If someone is doing what you say

to these children, I'd like to help

The Agency would like to help

So, prove it

When it comes to passing sensitive information,

the trick is to make sure that you didn't leave behind

physical evidence of any kind:

notes on paper, phone records,

voice recordings, that kind of thing

The best way to leak

is simply lean forward and whisper in another person's ear

What?

- What did he say? - Catherine Bonatelli's

coded cell phone number, we can use it to trace her movements

Stay here I'm gonna go check this out

Rachel?

Rachel

Are you okay?

I'm okay I'm okay

But Miss Bonatelli isn't

Building was rented in Miss Bonatelli's name

Do you think she's our mad scientist?

No, no, she didn't even go to med school

Brain surgery's not the kind of thing

you learn on the internet, no matter what they say

Probably wasn't her idea to blow herself up, either

It's pretty clear there was someone else

Bonatelli provided the test subjects based

on the DTIs from the Institute, but I don't think

she knew the medical details of what was going on

Or how far they'd go to cover their tracks

No

We've gone over the whole site

She's definitely the only casualty

Cameron?

Cameron?

Cameron?

What did you find?

He's nearby

They weren't just doing the surgeries in this building

They were holding them in here, too

So, where's Cameron?

If he's still alive,

they've moved him somewhere

Hey, Hood

Or maybe he escaped

I need an immediate door-to-door search

for a special needs 16-year-old named Cameron Stewart

Yes, ma'am

Have you seen this boy?

In this place?

No

You're welcome to look around if you want

We won't be long

Take your time

Rachel

he was here

Are you sure?

We have no other choice

Are you really going to do this at the hospital?

There's nowhere else left

I can't believe we did that at the lab to Catherine

We have to stop

It's too risky

Don't think about the risk

Think about the reward

Now what?

We've got one clue left

It's not here

What do you mean, it's not here?

How do you lose a brain?

Well, the brain is here,

but the wires- they were in a specimen cup

Okay, who has access to this area?

Hospital staff, cleaning crew

I'm sorry Somebody must have made a mistake

It wasn't a mistake

The wires are gone for the same reason

they blew up the building

Whoever's behind this is getting rid of the evidence

I need to find out what the wires were made of

The compound could tell us where it was made,

and right now, we have nothing

No No, we do have something

Or more specifically, someone

You're doing great, Teresa

Just remain still

And thank you for helping us

You're very brave

The composite of the wires

in Teresa's brain is primarily platinum

As in wedding bands?

As in nerve stimulators

They're like small defibrillators

that are surgically implanted in the chest

to shock the vagus nerve and prevent epileptic seizures

If somebody's dismantling them to make neuroconductors,

they're gonna need more than a few

We need to find out

what local hospital is ordering an abundance of these things

Hold on Those missing wires

It's not easy to swipe something

from a hospital morgue without clearance

You're right

Our doctor must have privileges at this hospital

I have 8 doctors

who requisitioned nerve stimulators in the last year

No Hang on 7

Hmm That's strange

Why?

It's okay It's just,

the stimulators usually go through the thoracic department,

but I've got 25 of them assigned to a surgeon in neurology

What? Why would a brain surgeon be implanting nerve stimulators?

What's the surgeon's name?

Dr Edward Fisher

The doctor who tried to save Scott Butler?

I'll have Chicago PD pick him up

Do you have his address?

Don't need one He's upstairs

Scheduled for surgery about 15 minutes ago

Nobody move

Put that down slowly, Dr Fisher,

and step back from the table

You don't understand

You don't know what I'm doing

Then tell us What are you doing?

Trying to save my son

Your son?

Noah

He's 4

Diagnosed with Heller's syndrome a year ago

He's autistic

So you're trying to fix him?

Find some kind of cure?

Who are you to say he needs fixing?

Just 'cause someone's mind works

atypically doesn't mean they can't experience happiness?

Or thrive on their own terms?

In fact,

one of those atypical people

helped us find you, Dr Fisher

You remember your patient

Teresa Kimsey?

I'm so close to a breakthrough, I can't stop now

You don't understand

I understand you can't conduct

deadly experiments on other peoples' kids to save your own

Noah deserves

a normal life

I have to finish now

Get any closer to that boy's head,

and I'll put a bullet in yours

Why was Fisher working on teenagers

when Noah's only 4?

Our brain stops maturing around 15 or 16

If you operated any younger, there'd be no way of telling

if the changes were due to

the operation,or simple maturation of the brain

Poor kid

Let's hope he has more family

If they're anything like Mom and Dad, maybe not

Any news on Noah?

I wonder if he has an aunt, an uncle

Actually, I've filed for a friend-of-the-court brief for adoption

Not for me

I love kids

I'm a big fan, but all that traveling we do,

along with all the scientific crimes and crises

Then who?

Mr Butler, Scott's dad

He has the experience,

and, uh, I don't know

It seemed like a good idea

What?

That's very thoughtful, Hood

Sensitive

What, scientists can't be sensitive?

She hasn't spoken in a week now

I understand why they had to remove the wires,

but I miss her

She's still in there

We're going to start therapy at the

Son Rise Institute in Massachusetts next week

Teresa?

We wanted to thank you

for your help

Now, we wouldn't have found the bad doctor

if it hadn't been for you

You're an amazing girl

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