CODE X:Episode 1 by M.R. Vallone Page B

reelected.”
    A man behind Concannon places his hand on
his shoulder. Concannon smiles and waves to his ovation. He leans
close to hear what’s being whispered. Concannon glances and looks
to the right front row, flashes thumbs up to an enthusiastic,
applauding Landau!
    Biggins pulls out her cell phone, hits a
speed dial button, “Dubrowski, get ready.”

Chapter 29
    Two Alomet
security guards enter through the doors of Alomet Research Center
and stop at the receptionist. One is carrying a small silver
suitcase with a handcuff locked to it and his wrist.
    “Dr. Vicki Collins, we have a special
delivery for her, and it can only be personally delivered to
her.”
    “She’s in the rear corner of the lab, with
her assistant, Candy.” She points to the rear of the massive
laboratory.
    They march back to the area and see her bent
over an electron microscope.
    “Dr. Collins?”
    Vicki looks up and answers, “I’m Dr.
Collins.”
    “We have this package to deliver to you on
orders of Dr. Landau. Please place your thumb on the recognizer and
look into the iris recorder to accept delivery.” He pulls out what
looks like an iPad with a small flat camera he extends from its
recess and holds the device out for her.
    She places her thumb on the pad and it
flashes green. Next she moves close to the eye scanner and again it
approves her identity.
    “I just need your physical signature on the
pad.” She signs the pad and a paper receipt prints out for her.
    The guards unlock the cuff and hand her the
case. They turn and walk out.
    Vicki almost caresses the case, and then
turns to Candy. “This is a section of Dr. Einstein’s brain.
Announce to the staff to assemble immediately. I want to get the
whole team heading in a new direction.”
    Candy picks up a telephone receiver, punches
a button, and over loudspeakers announces “Attention everyone. Come
to the outside of Dr. Collins office at once. She has an important
announcement to make.”
    The entire lab rustles to life and start
heading towards her office. They stand and wait for her to
speak.
    “Everybody, I want to head our research in a
new direction. We’re going to use the molecular electric current
detector as the lead tool for this new theory I want to pursue. As
you know, we still don’t understand how the gene’s molecules send
specific instructions for the completion of a perfectly cloned body
part. We have a complete spaceship and all the disassembled parts
of it sitting in front of us, and only a manual for the major
sections of the ship to put it together. We are missing thousands
of pages for the final assembly of the small parts to make it a
working model. That is true for human DNA.”
    She picks up a model of a DNA molecule that
is cut away.
    “Using chemical traces helped identify
approximately 10% of the manual. I think that when life begins,
electric charges in the molecules send out the instructions to
start forming a complete human. We can see life start when the cell
starts dividing. The thinking was the euchromatic part of a cell
was just empty space. That is not true. We will focus on attempting
to discover the electric charges that I believe are the switches
for signaling instructions to the molecules for the formation of an
identical human cell from the clone donor.”
    A young doctor raises his hand.
    “Yes, you have a question?”
    “Are we to stop searching for chemical keys
and aren’t we already successfully cloning mammals? Doctor, what
would be the difference?”
    “Yes to the first part of your question.
Finish the chemical testing. As far as mammals, they are cloned,
but the new cells are older, the animals die early and get sick.
Today, a cloned human part is identical in cell structure, but, it
is not like the identical copy that would allow us to replace the
original. The telomeres are shorter. The cell is as old as the
donor.”
    Vicki paces back and forth, “If we could
find the switch, which I believe is composed of