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[First comes the video, with Walter in his usual labcoat with a makeshift laboratory in the background. It's obvious he's converted his living room into a lab with the sofa and table pushed up against the wall. He has taller tables arranged around with various types of equipment on it and he's looking down at some notes before he starts speaking, clearly reading what he's written.]

Hello, Luceti. My name is Doctor Walter Bishop. If you are seeing this, which I hope you are, then you are entered into candidacy for a new position as lab assistant. I am looking for individuals who are at least somewhat familiar with a laboratory setting and it's procedures. You must have an open and willing mind to see beyond that which--

[A microwave beeps and he stops reading, hurrying off excitedly.]

Ooh, popcorn's done!

[He comes back with a freshly popped bag of popcorn a few moments later and plops back in his seat, emptying the contents into a bowl off screen as he rereads his note.]

Where was I.... Open mind...lab....experiments... Ah! Yes, here we are.

To see beyond that which modern science calls "conventional." Those with mechanical expertise or degrees in physics or biochemistry are highly favored. It also helps if you can cook well or have an EZ-Bake Oven. Has anyone seen one recently? Such shame not to have one.

Oh, and yes here--

[He holds up his note, written in a careful left-handed slant to the camera so people can read it.]

Position: Lab Assistant
Hours: As necessary

Description: Looking for individuals who are at least somewhat familiar with a laboratory setting and it's procedures. You must have an open and willing mind to see beyond that which modern science calls "conventional." Those with mechanical expertise or degrees in physics or biochemistry are highly favored.

Extra Skills: Ability to cook, access to technology (EZ-Bake Oven), love of music, ability to work well under stress.

[He drops the notice and grabs a handful of popcorn.]

Please inquire within. O-or here, I suppose. I can answer any questions you may have since you'll be working for me.

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[Well, she doesn't have a degree in physics or biochemistry, and as far as 'laboratory procedures' go she's only too familiar with being the subject of them, but she can't help but wonder...]

Are you looking for someone to cook for you in addition to doing all of this laboratory work? That sounds like two positions, not one.

[~~And what the heck is an EZ-Bake Oven?~~]

[Marty had no idea he was in for a punch to the gut when checking out the video on a bored whim, but that’s homesickness for you. And it never lets up as he goes from mild curiosity to rapt attention to anxious excitement in the span of half a minute, his mind constantly drawing parallels between doctors and latching onto the hope of finding an escape from this place.]

Doctor Bishop? [Doc. Can’t call him Doc. God, and his voice cracked already. He swallows and reaches back to rub at his neck, wondering if anyone else called the guy yet.]

Hey, uh, if you’re still looking for an assistant… I've worked with a scientist back home on all kinds of inventions. His… inventions. [The distinction's important to make, even if he worries it'll hurt his chances of being chosen as an assistant. He just doesn't have Doc's brains and can't even try to fake it.]

I’d come over after school and help him with moving stuff around and handing him tools. [He shrugs a shoulder.] I guess I’m… pretty good at making eggs [--and adding milk to cereal because there’s no chance of that exploding ~~or is there~~--], and I love music, definitely. I, I played lead guitar with my band. We're called the Pinheads. [He's rambling a bit, isn't he? He cracks a lopsided, hopeful grin. And then he clears his throat a little after a beat and his smile falls because he needs this distraction and doesn't want to blow his shot at this.]

So, what do you say? Can we work something out?

By laboratory setting, do you mean you have lab equipment?

[This guy sounded more than a little strange, but Fayt couldn't deny he was curious.]

How'd you manage that?

How goes the search, Walter?

[He certainly wasn't going to volunteer. It wasn't his area of expertise at all]

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