[Mason and Goodspeed are defusing a poison gas rocket when Goodspeed notices a twitching corpse]
You've been around a lot of corpses. Is that normal?
Yeah, the feet thing.
Yeah, that happens.
Well, I'm having kind of a hard time concentrating. Can you do something about it?
Like what? Kill him again?
Listen, I'm just a biochemist. And most of the time I work in a glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo--a beige one. But what I'm dealing with here, is one of the most deadly substances the Earth has ever known. So what do you say you cut me some friggin slack?
[Goodspeed composes himself for a brief moment before removing its contents]
A really elegant string-of-pearls configuration. Unfortunately, incredibly unstable.
And what exactly does this stuff do?
If the rocket renders it aerosol, it could take out an entire city of people.
Really? And what happens if you drop one?
Happily, it'd just wipe out you and me.
How?
It's a cholinesterase inhibitor. Stops the brain from sending nerve messages down the spinal cord within 30 seconds. Any epidermal exposure or inhalation and you'll know. A twinge at the small of your back as the poison seizes your nervous system- [Mason has lifted the chem round to look at it] DO NOT MOVE THAT! Your muscles freeze, you can't breathe, you spasm so hard you break your own back and spit your guts out. But that's after your skin melts off.
