Important Work

Dr. O’Reilly watch his colleague, Dr. Park, come into the lab each day and spend about a half hour running electrical current through a brain she kept at her station. This when on for several months before he asked why she was doing this.

“I’m keeping it alive,” She told him, “It’s cutting edge research, and it’s very important to me.”

“What’s research? Whose brain is that?” Dr. O’Reilly asked, as confused as ever.

“It’s mine.” She paused. “Perhaps more accurately, it’s Dr. Park’s. It was swelling and had to be removed, or she would have died. I agreed to keep it alive and look for a cure.”

This begged an obvious question from Dr. O’Reilly. “Then who are you?”

“I would’ve thought you’d recognize your old professor by the quality of my work.”

“Mark Steincroft? Professor Mark Steincroft? But you died five years ago!”

“And now you understand just how experimental, groundbreaking, and important Dr. Park’s work was, and why I must continue it while aiding her brain here.”