Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest needs, Heart Life.

These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history.

So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need.

The saying, if you want something done right, do it yourself, is equally as true in heart life as it is in any other city, in any other world.

It is, however, remembered with a frequency disproportionate to

its verisimilitude. As with every other world, those in power seek to have others achieve on

their behalf. So it has been for Dr. Emily Caligari. We return to her in her laboratory as she implores her freshly minted minions, an army

of burgeoning, scientific thinkers, led by the fiery Dean Gates and her associates, Dr.

Erlenmeyer and young master Podwell, to carry out her will.

Well, you have poked through my petri dishes, toyed with my test tubes, and named several

of my nanobots.

I have given you the access you demanded.

I have even prevented you from destroying yourselves in the process.

Now it is your turn to do me a favor. What sort of favor might this be?

I need for you to retrieve an item that was stolen from me by Herbert West. It was a rather

ordinary containment tube with rather extraordinary contents. It isn't in his lab, so we must

assume he has used it. I'd stake your sorry lives that he's created

something with my engineered genetic material. And whatever it is, I want it. Of course you do,

but this Dr. West is a dangerous man, and you've been very clear about that. What do you expect us to do?

Break in through his window while he's away.

Walk up to him and ask politely if he would kindly return your...

Well, hell's bells, you don't even know what you're looking for.

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