Elle is a patient going through experimental treatments for cancer. Her doctors Dr. Jamie Wills and Dr. Brian Loquit insist the drugs will make her better but she knows something is wrong, plagued by memories of this exact experience she shares with her nurse, Joan Littleton. The end reveals her as an Artificial Intelligence being tested on; reanimated over and over again to suffer for the 'purpose of science'. This introduces us to the true star of the series; The Project L Elekta Corporation and their less than humanistic approach to the advancement of future technologies.