After some time, Christine could tell everyone: "We're ready."

"Alright." Riley respond, "Everybody clear the room."

Everybody left the room, which got sealed shut, so nothing else could enter or escape it. Bauers looked at this, somewhat surprised.

"Is this what you do everyday?" he asked.

"It's a drag, but you get used to it after a while." Martin answered.

"Everything's sealed shut, Dr. Shue." Vincent told her.

"Good." she replied, as she sat down behind her monitor, where she could see Jason's heartbeat, "Heart rate normal. For a comatose patient, anyway."

"Elisabeth, since it's your invention..." he motioned her to go to the control-station.

Elisabeth smiled, faintly: "I only hope this won't kill him."

"You do?" Bauers asked her.

"Of course!" Elisabeth exclaimed, "Why shouldn't I?"

"No reason." Bauers replied.

"Oxygen level is dropping in the room." Riley reminded Elisabeth, "Either you release the gas, or the CO2 will kill him."

Elisbeth made her decision. She pressed the right buttons, pulled the right levers, causing the gas to be released in the room. Through a window in the wall, everybody could look into the room where Jason lay, where they also saw the gas entering. As it fills the room, it slowly started to fill Jason's lungs as well. Christine could tell by her monitors.

"It's affecting him." she's warning everyone, "Oh no..."

"What is it?" Elisabeth asked her, quite concerned.

"It's killing him." she answered.

"That's fast." Martin reacted.

"There's no other choice." Riley realized.

"Sending electric current through him now." Christine said.

Everyone could see how Jason's body reacted to the electricity running through his body. His body shook up and down, from one side to another, but his readings on the monitor didn't change one bit.

"Vent the room now!" Christine exclaimed.

Knowing what's best for their test-subject, Elisabeth pressed all the right buttons so the gas would escape from the room. Then the door to that room was opened, allowing Christine and Vincent to enter.

"You resuscitate his heart!" she ordered Vincent, who did as he was told, while Christine performed mouth-to-mouth on him.

But after some time, Vincent saw how pointless it was. He felt Jason's pulse, but sensed nothing. He listened to his breathing, but heard nothing. He then stopped Christine: "Doc. He's dead. It didn't work."

Christine had a difficult moment to accept that, but Vincent was right. The experiment didn't work.

"I... I was so sure..." Elisabeth nearly cried, "What went wrong? Now... "

"It's not your fault." Bauers assured her, as he started wiping of his sweat, finally relieved, "You told me this is a question of trial and error. Besides, there wasn't much of a chance this man was going to get out of his coma, so think of it as having done him a favor."

"How can you say such a thing?" Elisabeth couldn't believe what she was hearing.

That's when Riley had to cut in: "Elisabeth. If anything, this should convince you to go on. If we don't finish this, then Jason would have died for nothing."

This helped her redeem herself: "You're right. I must go on."

"Good." Riley decided, after which he turned to two soldiers who were in the room, each of which wore a red cross on their arms, indicating they're medics, "You guys know what to do."

They nodded, after which they readied the stretcher and a body-bag.

They bagged Jason, placed him on the stretcher and carried him away to the facility's morgue. As they were going, Elisabeth asked Christine: "You made a record of his readings?"

"Yes." she answered.

"Good. Then we can find out what went wrong exactly." she decided.

"I should hope so." Bauers said, "Or else the generals won't be very pleased about your work.

While they were going through all that, the medics brought Jason into the morgue, discussing something among themselves.

"After seeing him do what he did, I really need a cigarette." one of them said.

"Yeah, me too." the other replied, "You know, if we smoke one near that ventilation shaft just outside the door, nobody will ever smell we did anything."

"Good idea." the first one said, "Let's do that."

That's when they left Jason in the room, and left him. But since they were in a hurry, they didn't shut the door behind them, nor did they put Jason in the freezer.