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Clips from Pure Genius - Touch and Go (S01E01)

"Nathan!"
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"Oh, my God."
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"Daddy?"
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"You know this man? Yeah."
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"He's my husband."
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"Hey, Nathan."
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"We're here."
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"Who are you?"
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"Earlier this week, he was totally normal."
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"Then two day's ago, Bobby's preschool called me."
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"Nathan never showed to pick him up,"
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"and he wasn't answering his phone."
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"I was on a business trip in Arizona,"
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"and I flew back right away."
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"and he couldn't adjust his blood sugar,"
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"which made him confused and combative."
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"Nathan's not diabetic."
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"Yes."
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"Has he taken any new medications?"
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"No, nothing. He's been healthy."
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"How could this happen, just out of nowhere...?"
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"Dr. Wallace."
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"Nathan?"
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"Nathan, can you look straight ahead at me, please?"
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"- Get me out of here! - What's going on?"
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"The muscle responsible for his eye movement is paralyzed."
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"His oxygen saturation level is dropping."
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"His diaphragm's weakening."
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"- Paralysis is spreading. - Doctor?"
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"Daddy?"
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"I need a BiPAP machine in here right now!"
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"- Yes, Doctor. - Okay, we're gonna have"
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"to ask you to leave. Please. He's okay."
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"He's in good hands, trust me."
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"Don't sweat it, Lydia."
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"I'll take tons of pictures and"
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"I'll come visit you on Monday."
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"We'll have a Nick Cage marathon."
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"I thought the point was to make me feel better?"
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"Oh..."
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"Uh, hey, I got to run."
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"Doc's here."
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"Okay. See ya."
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"Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt."
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"Okay, you're all done with the infusion."
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"We'll just have to monitor you overnight."
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"Was that your boyfriend?"
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"No."
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"Pete's just a friend."
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"He asked me to go to the prom a few months ago,"
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"before my EB came on."
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"I called to tell him that I'm not going to be able to make it."
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"Well, I'm sure he understands."
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"He's your friend, right?"
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"But you want him to be more than that?"
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"Pretty sure that's not gonna happen."
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"Why do you say that?"
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"Well, he's never really seen me in that way."
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"Pete could have asked anyone to prom."
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"But he chose you."
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"Don't give up on him."
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"He'll probably ask somebody else now."
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"I just had this image in my head"
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"of strutting into prom wearing my kick-ass dress."
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"My hair and makeup on point and..."
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"...and Pete would see me in this whole new light."
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"It's so stupid."
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"I don't think that's stupid at all."
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"Nathan's MRI shows white spots"
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"in the areas of the brain"
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"that control eye movement and respiration."
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"This inflammation is causing his paralysis."
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"What is the commonality here? What would explain"
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"the eye deviation, confusion and high blood sugar?"
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"So we know his immune system's reacting to something."
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"Bacterial cultures on the spinal fluid were negative."
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"Yeah, but the lymphocytes are more"
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"indicative of a viral infection."
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"So if it is a viral infection,"
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"we don't know what's causing it."
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"The fact that it's affecting multiple organ systems"
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"concerns me."
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"This could get worse very quickly."
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"When I was a programmer and I had a virus"
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"in one of my codes, I'd go line"
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"by line to try to pinpoint the problem."
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"What if we do that with Nathan?"
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"Study each strand of DNA piece by piece."
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"That can only be done at the CDC."
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"Not anymore. We have a DNA sequencing machine right here."
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"We can do all this in-house."
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"Certain types of viruses can integrate themselves"
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"- into our DNA. - Once you locate"
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"the problematic strand, the one that doesn't belong,"
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"you can identify what's making him sick."
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"But isn't that like looking for a needle in a haystack?"
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"Doesn't it take an entire day for current"
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"DNA sequencing machines to run their algorithm?"
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"We've been developing new algorithms"
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"that should cut the time in half."
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"Maybe."
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"Hey, it's worth a shot."
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"Right now, it's the best option we've got."
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"- Broccoli? - More specifically,"
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"It's shown great promise in studies on lab mice to quickly"
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"heal blisters and improve the integrity of the skin."
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"This process allows us to take broccoli and extract"
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"sulforaphane from it through solid-phase"
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"extraction distillation."
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"Like taking vitamin C out of an orange."
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"We already have a good plan for Lydia."
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"Yes, but that plan won't get her to prom."
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"How about we use virtual reality?"
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"I can get her in the gym using VR."
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"Such a male idea of prom."
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"You cannot virtually go to prom."
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"- Mm-hmm. - You have to physically be there."
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"that make 99% of the students miserable"
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"so that the one percent can have a magical night."
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"Guessing you didn't have a good senior prom."
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