Scene 6:

REALLY ROUGH OUTLINE TIME

• Harper and Bastien in the hallway
• Bastien seems confused
• Is still stuck on the coffee/tea incident
• Harper ignores his beverage related anxiety
• Harper is angry and insists that this woman can’t stay in his house
• They need a real doctor
• They should tell the authorizes
• Inform her family

• Bastien dismisses his concern
• her family has been traveling through Europe for years and don't care about her
• Harper is a medical doctor it will be fine
• They can’t tell the authorities, not until Bastien publishes his results

• Frustrated Harper insists once more that she can’t stay; who is she? they don’t even know her name
• Bastien snaps that her name is Penelope Woolridge, and then adds, at least that's what her medical papers say.  
• At this point, Penelope, joins them in the hall, looking pissed off.
• I’ve lost my memories not my hearing
• the conversation ends abruptly
• After some awkward silence Harper gives them one month. One month for Penelope the get her memories and for Bastien to publish his results. After that, Harper insists he will inform the authorities.   

Scene 7:       

REALLY ROUGH OUTLINE TIME

• a day or two has past
• Harper is busy in his study, researching possible cures for Penelope's amnesia
• Spread out across his study are diagrams and detailed drawings of brains and nerves etc
• Penelope enters and Harper is very surprised when he looks up and sees her.  
• Flustered he greets her and attempts to cover up the various anatomical drawings
• Bemused, Penelope asks what he’s doing
• Harper awkwardly tries to explain that she, as a woman, would probably finds the pictures of brains and organs disturbing.
• Penelope laughs and ignoring him, begins to pick up the drawings and study them.
• After a moment Harper sits back down and lets her look through his paper in silence
• eventually she holds up one pictures that has some parts of the brain circled and annotation on the side
• “So this is what's going on inside my head...?”
• Harper nods sadly and explains a little bit about the damaged regions in her brain.
• She seems solemn and nods her acknowledgement  as he finishes his explanation.
• However, she perks up after  a moment and wander over closer to him too look at what he is reading.
• Harper explains about the case study of another man who had amnesia and how he recovered his memory.
• He mentions that it’s kind of a sweet story; that the man who couldn’t remember his fifty years of marriage, fell in love with his wife all over again during his recovery process.
• Penelope laughs, “Sounds too much like a fairytale, for me”
• Harper laughs in agreement
• At this point, Bastien bursts into the room, he looks a little wild, like he hasn’t slept in a few days
• “Whats going on in here? Harper why are you letting her look at these things, Penelope can’t stand the sight of gross things”
• Taken aback Harper beings to say that, “He was just explaining to Miss Woolridge a little about her condition”
• But Penelope interrupts them both, “I’m looking at these things because I choose to look at them, I have a right to know what's going on inside my own head. And I may not have all my memories, but I can't tell you, I’m hardly going to faint because I see some organs drawn on paper, thank you very much”
• After a few moment of stunned silence Harper says, “God, Bastien, you look terrible. What have you been up to”
• Bastien begins an animated and almost manic explanation of his plan to return Penelope's memories. He is convinced he can use the electroshock to return her memories, he has been testing it all night.
• Harper looks skeptical. There is no precedent for shock therapy ever returning memories, memory loss, sure that was documented side effect, but returning them? He’d never heard of such a thing.
• Bastien seems immune to Harper's criticism, he is positive that in a few days time he will be able to return Penelope's memories.  

Scene 5:




The three have moved into the kitchen, Harper leans against a counter drinking a hot beverage while Bastien finishes preparing two others. Harper asks the woman what things she can’t remember, to which she responds how does he expect her to know what she has forgotten if she has already forgotten it? Bastien interrupts their banter by handing the woman a cup of tea and inquires if she remember him at all? If he seems familiar? The woman shakes her head no, he is a complete stranger to her. Bastien beings to explain the he is her- but then seems lost for words. Not thinking much of it, Harper helpfully supplies that Bastien is her doctor.




The woman accepts the drink Bastien holds out to her, however, after taking a sip, she almost spits it out. She insists that it is terrible, what had he put in it? Bastien seems surprised, cream and four sugars, he admits, the way he has always made it. The woman shakes her head to apologise, but insists that it is far far too sweet for her taste. Still looking confused Bastien suggests that maybe that is the amnesia talking? But the woman continues to shake her head, no, she may not remember much but she is positive that she has never liked sweet things. Abruptly, she asks Harper what he is drinking. Harper is drinking black coffee, he asks her if she would like to try that instead. She does and Harper hands her his cup. The woman is immediately much happier with this drink. Harper tells her to keep it, he and Bastien needed to have a word in private. Harper takes Bastien's arm and leads him from the room.

New Adult Story Overview Part 1

Scene one:

     It is evening and Harper and Bastien are sitting together in a small but well furnished room, their evening of conversation and drinks coming to an end. Harper finishes some anecdote about his own recent studies in neurosurgery, concluding that the recent progress in the field has been quite remarkable and has a very promising future for young surgeons like himself. He goes on to ask Bastien how his own work, in neurophysiology, has been going. Bastien seems disinclined to answer Harper’s question, but eventually begins to explain his current medical study. Bastien admits that his foray into shock therapy has been not fruitful. The effectiveness of shock therapy as a treatment for epilepsy has been negligible, and without positive results, he would soon lose his funding and be forced stop his research. However, Bastien insists that his last patient will be his break through. She is a young women with severe epilepsy and unlikely to survive her next seizure, but Bastien knows he can save her. 

     The evening concludes and Bastien begins to depart for his own dwellings. Harper insists they must meet up like this more frequently, and Bastien agrees that they should, just like when they were in university together not so long ago.

Scene Two: 

     Harper absent mindedly fumbles about his office, not entirely sure what it is he was looking for in the first place. It's late and outside rain is falling heavily along with the occasional lightning strike. Harper seems to have given up his search and looks ready to retire, however his plans are interrupted by a loud banging on his door.

     Harper is shocked, and slightly horrified, to see Bastien outside his door. Bastien himself, is a mess and over his shoulder he supports another equally bedraggled limp figure. Bastien shouts at Harper to let him in, and this shocks Harper back into the moment and he quickly ushers them inside.

Scene Three:

     A young woman, presumably the one Bastien was carrying, is now laid on the couch with a blanket wrapped around most of her body. Harper, being the more medically proficient of the two, is kneeling next to her taking her pulse and checking her breathing. Bastien anxiously paces the room, apparently having changed into slightly ill-fitting but dry clothes. Harper concludes with relief that the sleeping women is safe for now, however, his attitude changes as he demands Bastien explain who this woman is and what is going on. Bastien beings an excited and disorganized explanation about everything that had happened. This woman was in fact the patient he had mentioned last they spoke, and that he had cured her epilepsy. His research had been a success, though it had ultimately required some unorthodox and ethically questionable means. At this point in the explanation, Harper stops him, insisting that Bastien explain exactly what he had done to this woman and why she was in such a state. Bastian admits to administering the shock therapy far above safe levels and inducing more seizures as part of the treatment, however, he claims that his patient was in full cooperation, knowing that if this aggressive experimental treatment didn’t work she would most likely die anyway. Harper seems displeased but allows Bastien to continue his story. The rest of the tale mostly consists of Bastien realizing that, though he had cured her epilepsy, his patient was now quite unwell and in need of medical care. However, Bastien’s own paranoia about his work being stolen and the potential criminal charges from an unsympathetic ethics board, lead him to Harper’s doorstep, the only person he felt he could trust.

     Harper appears wearied by the whole story, but he hardly seems inclined to cast Bastien and his patient out. He agrees to let them both stay and to help look after the women until she is awake and better. However, Harper makes his disapproval of Bastien’s methods obvious, and warns him that his help will only extend so far.

Scene 4:

     It is now the very early morning, Bastien is asleep in a nearby chair and the young women is still on the sofa. Harper has not left her side and is uncomfortably asleep on the floor, his head awkwardly supported by the sofa arm. He must have fallen asleep listening to her pulse, because his hand is still gently holding her wrist.

     Harper wakes up and is momentarily confused, not yet remembering the events from last night. He is surprised to see the woman on the sofa and alarmed at their proximity. He quickly attempts to disentangle their hands and move away, but in that moment she also begins to awake up. Harper becomes caught in her gaze as she opens her eyes. Seeing his intent to leave, she calmly asks him not to go yet, to at least wait till it is fully morning. Harper freezes unsure what to do but eventually acquiesces to her request, settling back onto the floor and letting her hold onto his hand. After a little while, Harper asks her what her name is. The woman begins to respond but stops suddenly, she looks alarmed. And in that moment, they both realize what has happened- she has lost her memory.