A Twist in Time: Finale
Intracellular
Scene 2 - Epidermis
The vehicle then appears directly below the skin in the epidermal layer - the stratum corneum to be specific, and then begins to trek through the different layers of skin. An on-board controller from the lab narrates your dive, along with other Doctors in the control room.
"Through the stratum lucidum, granulosum, spinosum, basale...into the dermis"
"Oh there's a nice Langerhans Cell!"
"No time for a field trip Dr. - we have to keep descending"
"Through the papillary dermis...into the reticular dermis.
"Almost there...we got a clock on this?"
"30 seconds and counting"
The scenery around you becomes more condensed and veiny, as you approach the layer that you want. A nerdy science eye can see the cytoplasmic processes appear on the right hand side - as several dendrite cells, Langerhans cells, and keratinocytes continuously prowl the dermis for microorganisms - to engage them and protect the body in the process.
The vehicles turn individually to the right so that you can get a closer look at the inner workings of the dermis layer of skin as you continue to glide down the various layers, getting deeper and deeper so you can pick up an antery.
"There...into the subcutaneous level"
"Perfect, let's catch the axillary artery and get to that heart"
"Engaging in the axillary artery - now"
The transition of the scene then goes through a red artery and into the new scene, which is a 360 degree large artery with red blood cells seemingly traveling up it with the arterial flow.
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Scene 3 - Subcutaneous
"Alright team, we ride this to the heart and....
*there's some turbulence*
"Sir, we are coming up on some white blood cells from behind"
"Ah they are probably going to the sedative we gave the patient, shouldn't be too harmful"
*turbulence again*
"Dr. Gates, it's not only white blood cells, it's macrophages, neutrophils, the entire immune system army is tracking us.
*There's a pause...and it's silence...so silent you can hear the heart rate monitor outside of the patient, and the on-board timer ticking as well...as you wait for the Doctor's response.*
"It's not us...it's not the meds"
- "Embrace for impact"
- "Impact, how much danger are these people in?"
- "Dr, they are multiplying - all sorts of antibodies -- there's a virus in here, how did we not see this?"
- "Oh my gosh - we need to get these people out of there"
*Sirens go off on your vehicle*
- "Dr, all sorts of antigen binding complexes are coming - we aren't going to be able to contain it - B-lymphocytes, T-lymphocytes, all through compliment activation
- "The kitchen sink is being thrown at this thing...oh gosh..."
As you round the edge of the artery and curve into the heart, you see a massive virus army attached to cells in front of you, and behind you, an army of the patient's immune system is forming to fight it.
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Scene 4 - Anti-Body War
"Get them out of there now!"
"Go! Go! Go!"
"Tracking new course - we need to get to a new flow - the current is too strong"
- What about the lungs, they're close by"
-It's their only hope!"
The giant immune system battle continues and you dive out of the way - hundreds if not thousands of immune cells taking on the bacteria that had infected the patient - at an inopportune time for you and the crew.
You glide out of the artery and fall into the lungs...the lungs, breathing back and forth, make the vehicle rock to the left and right to the motion of the breathing.
"How do we get them out?"
"Use the booster engines!"
"But that might damage the bronchioles and alveoli"
"Be careful - we need to get those people out of there!"
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Scene 5 - Lungs
Around you are sacs of alveoli - large in comparison to the size of you, but one of the smallest aspects of the lungs. The cool special effect here is that you can feel the wind of the gas exchange occurring in the alveoli before you rocket out of the lungs and into a new artery and away from trouble.
"Gotta get this angle right"
"Locking on to the intracostal capillary - now!"
"This will take us to the aorta - go go!"
You then proceed up an incline up a new escape route and make your way up to the heart.