Happy Birthday to Me Page #2

I love you too.

This sort of behaviour

simply must stop.

As students of Crawford Academy,

you have a responsibility

to uphold the traditions

established by your predecessors,

which include being on time,

Miss Wainwright, Miss Thomerson.

Now, a full apology will be made

to the owners of The Silent Woman.

And if I hear of any more

of these outrageous incidents,

I will be forced to declare

the inn out of bounds.

It's all your fault.

Is that perfectly clear?

I take it that Bernadette O'Hara

is late also.

Has anyone seen her this morning?

I know she was with you last night.

Maxwell?

Miss Wainwright?

That's true, Mrs. Patterson.

We waited for her at the inn,

but she never showed up.

Well, I will get to the bottom of it.

Good morning, professor.

So, finally comes peace.

Now, class, enough time wasted.

Gather over, please.

This morning, a treat.

The galvanic response

of the nervous system.

You recall

the electrostatic generator,

the galvanic probe,

and, finally, frogs' legs.

Wonderful fried, la franaise.

By applying the electrical charge

of the galvanic probe

to the nerve in the frog's leg,

Galvani induced muscle contraction,

as though the leg were alive.

What's so funny?

Yes, Mr. Van Der Pall,

quite the comedian.

But the really funny thing

about static electricity

is that it can be discharged.

Now, let's get serious.

Power, please.

I apply the probe

to the nerve of the frog's leg.

Doctor?

Doctor! Why is she doing that?

A random discharge, Mr. Wainwright.

The brain tissue is rebuilding itself.

There's no way of knowing

whether the new tissue

will function normally or not.

In the past year, we've had marvellous

results with the new technique.

The principle is sound, and I think

we'll succeed with Virginia.

In fact, we are succeeding.

Then why isn't she conscious?

She's been like this for months.

She only moves when you turn on

that goddamn machine.

Dr. Feinblum, her alphas are up again.

I'll switch out.

What's happening?

Virginia, can you hear me?

My...

...birthday.

I was an experiment, David.

Just like that frog in the lab.

The principle is very simple.

When a salamander loses its tail,

it grows a new one.

And Dr. Feinblum found

that when this happens,

the salamander's nervous system

creates a kind of electric field

around the site of the wound.

So what he did was,

he developed this apparatus

which reproduced this field

in human beings.

And this field brought about

a regeneration and a healing

of broken bones, damaged tissue,

and internal organs.

And brain cells.

You were the first.

A guinea pig.

Yes, but a very successful guinea pig.

What you remembered today proves it.

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