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