Barry pg 1
Barry is a cop and he's trying to stop a building jump suicide attempt. Ann has FMS (False Memory Syndrome) she remembers a life with a husband and son in Vermont along with her real life. This life feels hollow and meaningless by comparison. Barry tries to talk her down by telling her about how his daughter died and he felt similar but got better. She ends up jumping.
Helena pG 8
Helena is a memory scientist and she's applying for more funding. Her main motivation is her mother's altzheimers. A mystery man shows up in her lab and offers her unlimited funding for her work if she's OK with complete secrecy. She accepts .
Barry pg 13
Barry is "celebrating " his dead daughters birthday by having brunch with his ex wife. It's nice, he gets a text from a female cop that's currently a friend but was previously a drunken hookup asking if he needs company. He gets disastrously drunk and comes to on her couch at 4 am.
Helena pg 24
Helena is transported via helicopter to meet her new boss Marcus Slade. Billionaire philanthropy type. He's psyched about how much money they'll make if they can cure altzheimers.
Barry pg 28
One of the things the suicide told Barry was that her husband from her other life has a 0revious wife that committed suicide by jumping off the same building. Barry gets the police report and in this world she didn't jump. He knows he should let it go. But he's too curious. He's gonna get on a train to long Island to harass these people that don't really have any relationship to his suicide.
Helena pg 30
The whole oil rig r and d thing Slade has is awesome. But shit get real when he brings in a couple quantum processors. Then they've got all the processing power they need to map the human brain and isolate specific memories. The memory chair that was just a private idea a year ago is now a reality. Helena is gonna be the first experiment.
Barry 41
Barry goes out to Lon Giland to harass the guy that was married to his suicide in another life. He feels firmly harassed. Barry is sure even though he harassed the guy but good, he was lying to him. Barry has FMS in a coffee shop. Maybe he got it from the suicide.
Helena pg 47
They can now do a thing where they stimulate certain parts of your brain and you remember a specific memory super vividly. Slade says it's not emersive enough. The next step is to put it in a sensory deprivation chamber and stop your heart for a second so you get that whole life flashing thing.
Helena is now a little worried about her safety.
Barry pg 55
He wakes up on the train. Old man asks for his ticket. He has missed calls from Joe the lon Giland harassed. He calls back and Joe tells him all about a building he went to that messed up his brain. Barry goes there. There's a bar. He is drugged. He wakes up strapped into one of Helena's chairs and also tunes are in him. Crazy bearded guy (I'm assuming this is Slade and the 10 years since Helena invented this thing have not gone as planned ) says tell me about when you last saw your daughter alive
Helena pg 67
Nobody liked Slade's stop someone's heart idea. Pretty much everyone has left. Slade is trying to convince Helena to keep going.
Barry pg 71
He is telling Slade about the last time he saw his daughter.
Helena pg 73
Slade has found a heroine addict to do the experiment on. They do it and the man dies and they're all screaming at Slade to bring him back. At the current moment he's been dead for 304 seconds.
Barry pg 80
I am never getting into a sensory deprivation chamber. Barry is killed via chemicals and then he's in the memory of the last time he saw his daughter. But it's more than that. He can control his former self. He goes running down the street after his daughter.
Helena pg 88
This chapter starts like chapter starting 0age 67. But after a page it's different. Slade isn't telling Helena to come to the experiment. He's popping champaign and telling her they're celebrating their success. He show her a video of the heroine addict telling him his mother is named Susan. Helena has never seem this man before so she doesn't know what's going on. But then at 10:15 ish the memory of what happened in the previous chapter floods through her. Slade tells her that her chair doesn't let people relive their memories, it actually returns them to the moment of that memory.
Barry pg 92
It's all real. Barry saves his daughter. Vince shows up and verifies that it's all real. He gives him some ground rules and says goodbye 👋 forever.
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