Project 117 – Notes 2 –
Walter has become obsessed with Peter's illness. Within reason. The scientist in him can't grieve like any normal parent might. He's allowed to worry, the mother's beside herself too, but this new project... it seems altogether... far-fetched.
Since terminating my physical assessment of his son, he eventually returned back to the lab several days later minus the child. Peter was indeed rushed to hospital – he stopped trying to hide evidence of the disease from his wife and finally face facts.
On returning, he worked mostly alone but William also tried to find a cure. All explorations into the antidote came up short.
In his research, Walter discovered that a Swiss physician named Dr. Alfred Gross (d. 1936) successfully cured a case of hepia and thus prevented pandemic. However, since no other record can be found surrounding Gross' impressive accomplishment, Walter has returned to a project he and William had investigated only ever in theory some two years beforehand.
It was so unpractised, in fact, that the project was never really anything beyond a hypothetical study and can't rightly be entitled Exploration anything. Because nothing was explored.
Walter argued that that was because we didn't have the resources but now more than anything we have the incentive. He actually wants to further develop their idea on how to construct a device that will allow him to cross the time-space continuum, retrieve Gross and have him treat his son.
William, surprisingly, seems to encourage such an exploration and it is my professional opinion that this is a foolish thing to pursue. Their concept dreamed up years ago was at best, shaky. Their motive now, although noble, is desperate and rushed and there is no telling of the new complications they may face even by connecting that arc between our world and Gross' already lived-out world. If, indeed, Walter successfully located the physician from the When and brought him back to the Now, what's to say either of them could survive such a compressed break-down and then rebuilding of human tissue.
Transportation from A to B sounds like a work of fiction, but as for the majority of our work, such a criticism has never really hindered us in the past. But transportation from A to b [b being the same coordinates but in a different era], it seems wholly inappropriate to rush a theory so unsteady, so young.
I think it safer 'to prepare for the worst.' In the event that the child passes, Bell should look to reanimation. But, again, at this stage, in this lab, that thinking is probably, at the very least, ten or twenty years before our time.