The Patient

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Scene Title The Patient
Synopsis A disruption in the monotony of life at Fort Irwin.
Date July 4, 2018

Fort Irwin


Marvin Whitlow's day goes something like this:

  • wake up at the usually scheduled hour of 0615, under lights designed to simulate the rising of the sun
  • physical therapy for 15 minutes
  • a vegetarian breakfast and supplements (no later than 0700)
  • visit his patient
  • review security reports of the past 24 hours
  • review facility functionality of the past 24 hours
  • tend to his plants
  • a vegetarian lunch and supplements (no later than 1230)
  • low-intensity exercise for 1 hour
  • visit his patient
  • continue his research
  • a vegetarian dinner and supplements (normally after 2100)
  • low energy recreation
  • take his pain management medication
  • retire to sleep at the usually scheduled hour of 2300, under lights designed to simulate the rising of the moon

Every day.

While the material content of each segment may vary, particularly with regards to the needs of his patient, particularly if his reviews of facility security and functionality contain content that demand further attention, the schedule holds. It had been important, in the beginning, to keep to a schedule for the sake of the work, but increasingly, it had been important to keep to a schedule for the sake of himself.

Although he would not care to admit it, he'd found himself operating within a leadership capacity.

(Which he didn't care for at all.)

And so time had been his dictator, and the order and allocation thereof.


July 4, 2018


And then, Marvin Whitlow's day went something like this:

  • wake up at the usually scheduled hour of 0615, under lights designed to simulate the rising of the sun
  • light physical therapy for 15 minutes
  • a vegetarian breakfast and supplements (no later than 0700)
  • visit his patient
  • review security reports of the past 24 hours
  • review facility functionality of the past 24 hours
  • request extraction
  • tend to his plants
  • a vegetarian lunch and supplements (no later than 1230)
  • low-intensity exercise for 1 hour
  • visit his patient
  • review viability of Project Severance
  • take his pain management medication
  • lie awake under lights designed to simulate the rising of the moon
  • await further instruction

July 5, 2018


  • await further instruction

July 6, 2018


  • await further instruction

July 7, 2018


  • await further instruction

July 8, 2018


  • await further instruction

July 9, 2018


Further instruction comes under heavy encryption, which takes time enough to decrypt that Whitlow has finished tending to his plants by the time he had sits back down within the confines of his private laboratory.

It reads:

confirm completion of Project Severance
retrieve assets 78,02,16
rendezvous at extraction point when instructions confirmed

Unflinching, unconcerned, Whitlow constructs his reply:

Project Severance incomplete
requesting immediate extraction with the patient
extraction of assets 78,02,16 not possible

It's during his review of security reports within the last 24 hours that Whitlow receives response.

confirm completion of Project Severance
retrieve assets 78,02,16
rendezvous at extraction point when instructions confirmed
extraction of the patient not possible
good luck

After meditatively cleaning his glasses, Whitlow composes the following:

Project Severance in progress
retrieving assets 78,02,16
standby

And for the last time, he visits his patient.

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