The Skeptic Page #4

she was not a patient here.

- Then how did you know her?

- She had an interest

in a different lab

that I run here at the Institute.

- Another sleep lab?

- No, actually, it's a lab

where we conduct special experiments

on various topics

of personal interest to me.

- And would that be the lab

that was mentioned in her will?

- Probably.

Yeah.

- Then I believe that's the lab

I'd like to see.

- Three.

- Welcome to the Coven Project.

Tonight's concept is a very simple one.

Oases meditates as random

single-digit numbers pop up

on Dillon's screen.

A vibration signal is sent down

into the studio

through this one-way glass

to the electronic ball

in Oasiss left hand

where she makes the determination

whether the number

is odd or even.

- She makes a determination about what?

It seems to me it's just a guess, right?

- Well, there we go.

That's the million-dollar question.

Is it a guess?

See, what we're trying to do here,

under the most stringent

conditions ever applied,

is to quantify one human being's

psychic ability to read another.

- Oh.

Psychic.

- Well, ESP, to be more general.

- Warren, she's gone below 50%.

- All right.

Excuse me one second.

Derek?

I need you to drop the room

to 56 and heat the bed.

- Are you sure you want to do that?

You want to heat the bed?

- Yeah, she won't notice.

She's been down too long.

- All right.

- So that's what you study here, ESP.

- Yes, amongst other things,

mostly dealing with psi energy

in aural paranormal activity.

- Paranormal activity.

And you're telling me

that my Aunt Marlene

believed in all this stuff?

- Absolutely.

I mean, that's why she's funding us.

See, your aunt experienced

some paranormal disturbances

around the house.

- I'm sorry.

She what?

- She experienced paranormal

disturbances in her house.

- Meaning what?

- Well, meaning that she,

you know, she thought the place

was haunted.

- She wasn't serious.

- Oh, no, she was very serious,

very analytical.

She even brought us photographs.

- Photographs of what?

- What she believed to be the centre

of the disturbance in the house.

- This is absurd.

- I believe that's a closet

on the second...

- Yes, I know where it is.

Taking pictures of it means...

- I'm not saying her house

is haunted or anything.

But I am saying that she

witnessed sonic...

- Doc.

- Paranormal disturbances,

which is not...

- Warren, we got a problem here.

- Oh, sh*t!

God damn it.

- She f***ed up the entire TLS.

- F*** you!

[crashing]

- Jesus!

- Jesus, she's out of control.

- She's coming' up.

- What?

- Ross.

- I called it.

- You weren't concentrating.

The fulcrum on the...

It sucked?

- No.

- I sucked?

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