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Clips from Pure Genius - It's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Silk Surgery (S01E01)

"So..."
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"Um, hey, how's Samantha?"
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"She's fine."
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"Oh, I'm telling you, it's right up her alley."
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"We broke up."
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"Like, a week ago."
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"So, no I didn't tell her about the new Snowden doc."
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"Oh, hey, uh..."
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"I'm sorry, buddy."
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"It's fine, it's not a big deal."
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"I got to go, okay?"
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"Yeah."
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"CHENG: Spider silk web is one of the strongest"
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"naturally occurring fibers."
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"I've been working on medical applications."
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"Yeah, that's actually why I'm here."
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"I want to know if this silk"
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"- CHENG: Ouch. - BELL: This is for the boy."
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"The car accident."
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"You're worried about the chance of infection"
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"so you want to use spider silk screws. Brilliant."
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"CHENG: Spider silk screws have been used before, but there are"
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"- too many small pieces here. - What if we created"
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"a webbing, hold all the pieces in?"
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"- Exactly what I was thinking. - Huh."
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"- Like a scaffolding. - Mm-hmm."
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"It would allow the cells and tissues"
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"to regenerate over and around, so as Klay grows..."
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"The bones would fuse back together,"
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"the webbings and the screws would dissolve."
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"Leaving him with a whole leg."
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"VERLAINE: Now, our plan"
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"is to harvest the silk spiders use for their webs"
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"a biodegradable frame on which we can lay"
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"the fragments of Klay's bones."
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"As he grows, the fragments will fuse together,"
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"the nerves will grow and reattach along the silk webbing,"
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"and, in time,"
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"his legs will be able to support his weight,"
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"and he will be able to walk again."
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"So, you're saying you're gonna put spider webs inside him?"
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"And it's never been done before?"
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"It's been done,"
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"So it's an experiment."
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"You're experimenting with Klay."
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"There is another option."
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"Prosthetics today are very advanced."
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"And there's less risk for infection."
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"But..."
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"that's cutting off his legs?"
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"BROCKETT: It's removing the parts"
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"that are so damaged, yes."
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"runs."
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"Can't keep him in the house, can't get him to sit still."
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"Putting spider webs inside him..."
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"Would you risk infection, risk surgery?"
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"If he were yours."
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"- It's something... - That's absolutely"
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"No question."
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"We'd save his legs."
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"Hey."
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"We have a plan."
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"He's keeping his limbs."
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"You hijacked that meeting."
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"the argument for prosthetics."
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"I hijacked that meeting because I didn't think"
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"you could be objective with Klay's mother."
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"What are you talking about?"
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"That thing you said about moms letting kids play in the street."
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"- Yeah, what about it? - She was with her son in the ER,"
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"who just had a horrible accident."
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"An accident."
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"And your first reaction is it's her fault."
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"She's a bad mom because she let her kid play in the street."
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"Are you kidding me? I'm a pediatrician, I see this a lot,"
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"and it's frustrating. Of course I never"
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"would've said that to her."
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"- No, but you thought it. - Oh, come on!"
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"You let kids play in a busy street,"
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"it's gonna happen again and again."
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"Yeah, you're right."
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"Look, if you think this is about race,"
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"- I would never... - Klay's neighborhood."
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"My neighborhood."
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"BROCKETT: I..."
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"I don't know."
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"There's no green."
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"These kids aren't growing up in some nice suburban neighborhood"
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"in Illinois."
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"There's no park, no... anything."
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"This is what they have."
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"So you tell me, Zoe,"
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"where is a kid supposed to play?"
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"BELL: When I opened Bunker Hill,"
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"I made a promise to myself,"
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"that I would do..."
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"who came through these doors."
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"Which is why I brought your father here."
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"Nobody is forcing you to see him,"
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"anything from him."
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"But he is a match."
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"And he's willing to donate part of his liver."
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"How is this... (chuckles)"
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"How is this even possible?"
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"What about his drinking?"
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"We found a way to possibly undo 30 years of drinking."
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"Restoring enough function in the liver for it to grow."
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"You can't undo 30 years of what his drinking did to me."
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"(scoffs)"
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"he doesn't just do things for people."
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"There's always something in it for him."
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"Maybe he wants something from me."
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"But believe me, he's here for a reason."
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"Look,"
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"Amelia..."
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"you got this disease because you kept trying to go cold turkey"
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"off your antidepressants."
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"You wanted to live your life."
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"Live it on your terms."
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"And..."
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