Gina, a research scientist studying for her Ph.D., has
been developing a drug that increases intelligence.
She is summoned to her boss’s office in New York to
report on her findings. She is questioned by
Mr Dimitri about her work with Max the monkey,
who now has the intelligence of an eight-year-old
human. He is curious to learn whether the drug could
be used on humans. Anna admits this is possible, but
she is taken aback when Mr Dimitri orders her to
cease her research in this field. He explains that Gina’s
research findings could be challenged as people might
accuse her of taking the drug. Gina is offered work
and funding in a different field and accepts.
Meanwhile, we learn the real reasons for Mr Dimitri’s
objections to Gina’s research work; a drug that raised
intelligence would be bad for business, since intelligent
customers would be much more discriminating about
what they bought. Unbeknown to Gina, Mr Dimitri
orders that Max the monkey should be killed so as to
destroy the evidence of Gina’s experiment.