Take them out. For fuck sakes, Eridan! You don't leave someone like that! You don't--
[ An intake of breath can be heard, and then the voice drops level again. ]
I'm on the lift now. Don't let anyone else touch them. No one, all right?
[ Eridan can't see, but he's stock still on the platform he's riding... and then sharply beginning to pace. He is a doctor. He knows that it takes only six minutes before the deprivation of oxygen begins to cook the brain. It's been about eight. Even if he could bring whoever it was back --even if Eridan tried now-- they would be practically vegetative. That was science, and John believed in science.
If it was implied to be anyone else, he wouldn't be doing this. He knows it's gone, he knows the chance of Eridan mistaking Sherlock, the man who sat on his back and hounded him with grammatical corrections and took the mick out of him at every turn, for anyone else is very slim.
[ Voice/ Private 30% ]
[ An intake of breath can be heard, and then the voice drops level again. ]
I'm on the lift now. Don't let anyone else touch them. No one, all right?
[ Eridan can't see, but he's stock still on the platform he's riding... and then sharply beginning to pace. He is a doctor. He knows that it takes only six minutes before the deprivation of oxygen begins to cook the brain. It's been about eight. Even if he could bring whoever it was back --even if Eridan tried now-- they would be practically vegetative. That was science, and John believed in science.
If it was implied to be anyone else, he wouldn't be doing this. He knows it's gone, he knows the chance of Eridan mistaking Sherlock, the man who sat on his back and hounded him with grammatical corrections and took the mick out of him at every turn, for anyone else is very slim.
He calls Sherlock's device. ]