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Patient #23, a young girl suffering from dissociative amnesia is currently one of only five patients at St. Vincent Hospital, a financially struggling mental health sanatorium in the Hudson Valley. She was brought here, together with her little daughter Tess, whom she doesn’t recognize, after being found meandering the streets without memory of her past, lost and disoriented. Dr. Jane Chu, the caring and good hearted head therapist of St.Vincent has tried every conventional treatment wit...

We learn more about Dr. Jane Chu and her strained relationship with Elizabeth, her wife, who is desperate to adopt a child. 23’s daughter, Tess could be the perfect candidate, as her mother is emotionally dissociated from her and doesn’t recognize her.Wavering between Elizabeth’s happiness and her ethical obligation to cure a patient, Dr. Chu tries another P.A.T. session with 23, but again, instead of recovering her own memory, 23 slips into the mind of a Valerie Harper, a computer scie...

Dr. Jane Chu delivers Tess, 23’s daughter, into Elizabeth’s custody and eases the strained marriage, whereas at St. Vincent the pressure to deliver results for 23 is rising. While searching for more information about P.A.T. on Dr. Sermon’s tapes she discovers his stern warning about conducting no more than two P.A.T. session; the results could lead to total catatonia in the patient. Dr. Chu refuses to conduct any further sessions, but 23 prepared a waiver releasing Dr. Chu and the institution...

While skimming through Dr. Sermon’s tapes for answers, Dr. Chu makes the crucial discovery that he invented a method to digitize electronic brain signals of his patients and eventually store them on a medium that was not yet invented at the time of his departure from St. Vincent. Is that what happened? Are Teresa’s, Valerie’s and Aura’s memories digitized and stored somewhere on a hard drive, Jane wonders, maybe even here at St. Vincent? Dr. Chu reluctantly performs a final session with ...

Dr. Chu arrives at an abandoned, nondescript home in a residential area of the Hudson Valley, and is about to leave again, when she discovers an underground laboratory, where an AI named Eden, a sentient supercomputer, oversees a ground-breaking experiment. There are 18 cells and a tank with a gooey mass connected to the AI. Eden can talk and reveals a connection to Dr. Chu, who inadvertently created her moral profile years ago, which Dr. Sermon, the mastermind behind Eden, stole from her.He ...

When Dr. Chu comes back to, she is joined by 23. The plan worked; During Dr. Chu’s own P.A.T. they connected for a moment and 23 tracked her down to the underground laboratory. Together they unveil that Eden and Emerson have removed 23’s memory, because of her role in preventing them from developing a superior being. She had nearly achieved her goal and shut Eden down two years ago, unbeknownst that there was a back up located at CERN. They have captured 23 and erased her memory during a P.A....