“-So you’re saying that your equipment recorded the event before it occurred? How is that even possible? -Whatever it is, it seemed somehow to affect time. -What are you thinking, Walter? -I’m not sure it caused a time effect before. -Before? I thought you said you’d never seen anything like this? -Exactly like this, no, but something similar. Twenty-five years ago, when Belly and I did the Cortexiphan trials, there was a boy who displayed the beginnings of an ability for astral projection. -Astral projection? -The ability to travel outside the physical body. And the matter-to-energy transformation had similar results. That would explain the radiation levels in Olivia’s apartment. But the ability came with a harmful side effect. Every time he astral projected, he would create a distortion in the magnetic field and attract metal objects to him.”
“-And the harmful side effects are unintentional. -But why me, and why now? -I can’t answer that. But I can say that… some of the children didn’t handle the treatments as well as you did. Some had adverse reactions… emotionally. You were always the strongest. The others recognized that. You were always their favorite. It burned you by touching you. It trapped you in a room. Who’s to say what will happen next time? We have to find him before he does more damage. -So what was his name? -I remember! He was Subject Nine.”
