Ultraseven X Reimagined Ep. 4 pt 2

At the safehouse, the kitchen has been set up as a makeshift office. Jin, K, and Elea are at the table. S has a box of chocolate candy with her that she eats from and has a futuristic laptop set up at the table. She reveals that as of this morning there are now twelve bodies that have been discovered. All have been mummified.

 Once DNA profiling had been used to discover the identities of the victims it was discovered that all had been consuming a new health drink called Shiner 05. Five of the victims were simple consumers while the rest were discovered to have been. Taste testers. Jin asks what the drink is. Elea says she'd heard of it. It was a health drink series of products.

S replys correct, and states that the new brand also had medical properties, specifically is supposed to have certain non addictive additives that improve mental faculties and cognition. K asks if there is any evidence that the additives may be responsible for the deaths. Elea pipes up, saying that while the autopsies haven't definitvely uncovered anything to confirm or deny that, there is something buried in the reports that interested her.

Jin asks what that is. Elea tells them that each body has been found to weigh only about 2 pounds or so. K says that would fit with having been mummified. S says that the mummifications seem to have been incredibly fast as the tissues in the bodies aren't fully mummified. Elea says that proves that there is more going on than simple mummifcation. Jin realizes the implication and asks if that means that tissues could somehow been removed from the bodies, and the mummification could be a means to throw off investigation.

Elea says that she thinks its more than that. She thinks that through some process the drink is causing the mummifications dye to metabolizing or otherwise dissolving the tissues of each victim. S asks exactly what she means. Elea says she thinks someone may be dissolving these tissues and maybe using the dissolved tissues for sonething, possibly to use in producing more of this drink. K stares at the ground, saying "Soylent Green is the people?"

Jin says they need to find out who is doing this. He asks if there are any leads. S says that the only lead is the previously mentioned fact of some of the victims being testers for the producers of the product, Nano Cybertech. She says they need to start tgere. Jin says that he and K should investigate undercover. Elea says she wants a sample of the drink. S, smiling, hands her a small freeze dried chunk in a small plastic contaiber. She says she had a sample prepared when she was informed by DEUS command that they would be assisting her.

K asks what they will do to get in the place. S simply smiles and says she has that covered.

The next day, K and Jin arrive at Nano Cybertech. Jin is wearing a black business suit, and K is dressed as a nerdy cameraman. Both complain about their disguises. Jin is very uncorttable, and hates having to wear his hair in a small ponytail. K hates that S's disguise for him makes him so nerdy looking. He should be the one dressed like Jin is. Jin smiles and says that maybe S made up their disguises as she sees them. K glowers at him. Jin looks at his watch he is now wearing and says they better get in there.

Jin and K are in a comfy looking but futuristic office. The secretary comes in with the president of the company right behind him. The secretary introduces the president, a Dr. Shinkami. The secretary leaves as Shinkami is greeting Jin and K, using the names Akira Honda and Ken Fukuda respectively. They sit at a small sitting area to the side of the office. They discuss Shiner 05, which has just gone on the market. Shinkami states that its the fifth Shiner health drink and he thinks the best. He tells them that they use a special blend of medical compounds as additives to boost brain function and help overall well being.

Shinkami says that people using Shiner 05 have become important and productive. Jin says that he was also windering about the rumors of a connection between Shiner 05 and the rash of mummified bodies. Shinkami laughs and says there is no connection at all, and that he has an interest in finding out what is happening for those poor people himself. There is a knock at the side door next to the sitting area. A woman comes in holding a tray with tea cups. Shinkami tells them to have tea. Jin takes a tea cup, as does K. Jin realizes the woman is S, in disguose, who smiles demurely at him. K glances up as he takes a sip from his cup and chokes. S smirks as she leaves. Shinkami asks if he is ok. Jin claps him on the back and says he has trouble with hot drinks. K glares at him.

Later, S, still in disguise, is talking with other office workers. They have some brief small talk. S asks if they think she'd be more productive if she started taking Shiner 05. One of the other women laughs, saying that only the higher ups get to use it. If you work for Nano Cybertech and are below the level of lower executive, you are SOL.

Jin and K are back in their normal clothes. They are about to head to the safehouse when Jin gets a call from Elea. She asks if they are with S. She has some information. Jin says she is undercover at Nano Cybertech. Elea says they will need her for this. Jin says that they will wait for her to leave. Elea says ok, and after a second says, "Jin... Apology accepted." Jin smiles and says he is glad. Jin ends the call as K, grinning, teases him, saying the makeup sex ought to be great. Jin laughs and punches K, who grabs his arm as if its broke.

Nano Cybertech is closed for the night. The building is empty... So it seems. S, now wearing a dark bodysuit, is sneaking around the building. She puts a small earpiece in her left ear, and takes a small pen like device out of a pouch on her belt. She ducks out of sight as a guard almost catches sight of her. She runs down a flight of steps marked TO LABORATORY. Her boots make no sound.

She reaches what appears to be the basement and lab area. She sneaks along a wall, holding out the penlike device. She hears voices, one of which is Shinkami's, though it sounds distorted. He says that they need to hurry as the body needs more material. Not enough subjects are being harvested. S then realizes the voices are coming from a large vault type door that looks like it could withstand a tank. She curses and leaves the area.

Not long afterwards, wearing the outfit she'd been wearing when posing as a secretary, S leaves the building. She has a troubled look on her face, she is walking towards a bus waiting shack when someone grabs her. She lets out a cry of surprise, then immediately punches her attacker, who cries out.

It's K, who shouts "WHOA LADY! First Jin and now you! Really??!" He holds his face. Jin appears, saying sorry to have scared her but Elea has information for them. She nods and says she has some for them too. K whimpers as he feels the bruise on his face that is already forming and swelling.

They are at a bar. Elea is with them. K is holding a bag of ice to his face. They are lined up along they bar, all with drinks. S has another box of choclate with her and eats as Elea speaks. She has discovered that the biological component she detected turns out to be similar to a virus, but unlike viruses seems to be alive even when not in a host body.

She believes that the "virus" is being used to consueme the victims and then collected to prevent its exsistence being known. And Nano Cybertech is using it as some kind of weapon. Jin asks what the purpose would be. Testing? K says it doesn't make any sense. Why would they be testing a bioweapon in such a matter? They would be found out.

S simply states that the reason is because they don't care. They are not human. They are aliens disguised as humans. Elea says that if true, they must not have followed the proper procedures to obtain citizenship. S agrees. She tells them about the door. Jin says whatever is behind that door is their objective. K notices S obsessively eating the chocolate and comments on why she eats so much chocolate. She glares at him, leans towards him so close she could kiss him, and says "Mr. Giant choclate pudding."

He turns red and says there is nothing wrong with that, he just likes chocolate pudding. Elea holds up the sample and says that they need to stop these people now. S takes the sample and looks at it. She says they might need to prove to the government first hand that there is something wrong with Shiner 05... Maybe by one of them takng it. K snatches it from her and says that will be a last resort. Jin says they need a plan. And they need in that lab. Soon.

Shinkami and another are sitting at a table in a large room. The wall behind them has portholes in them. We can see flashes of what looks like something moving through the portholes. Shinkami is looking at a job application that has S's picture on it. He says that they nesd to hurry finding the other specimens. The body is almost ready, and they can't afford being stopped. The other man asks what to do about the woman. Shinkami says that she will come to them. Curiousity killed the cat.

The next day, S, in disguise is back in the office. She is having small talk with the other workers, and proudly shows off what we see is the sample of Shiner 05, saying a friend got some for her. She can't wait to try it. She doesn't notice that Shinkami is standing in a doorway behind her, smiling.