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Clips from Pure Genius - Fire and Ice (S01E01)

"I need all of you to make a circle around him."
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"Okay? Get in tight."
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"Protect him from the fans."
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"Thank you. Alcohol?"
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"All right, stabilize for the burr hole."
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"Okay."
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"- Okay. - WALLACE (softly): All right."
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"Got it."
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"Pupils are equally round and reactive."
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"Billy?"
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"Billy, can you hear me?"
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"Yeah... yes."
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"I can't feel my feet."
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"(whimpers)"
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"♪"
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"It's a C-6 complete spinal cord injury. That's not how we do things down here."
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"Paralysis of the hands, trunk,"
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"Billy Watts."
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"Rookie center, came off the bench"
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"to lead the team in scoring."
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"population, 311."
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"Oldest of eight kids."
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"Peaked out at five feet, seven inches;"
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"First in his family to go to college."
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"and is now poised to sign a multi-million dollar contract"
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"at the end of the season after a break-out year."
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"Hockey wasn't supposed to just change his life,"
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"it was supposed to change his entire family's life."
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"So, what can we do for Billy?"
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"CHANNARAYAPATRA: Unfortunately, we've had very little success"
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"Well, we have had some success"
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"with epidural spinal cord stimulation."
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"True, subjects showed some limited improvement"
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"in lower extremity movement."
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"Where are we with stem cells?"
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"- Gliomas. - Huh?"
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"Here's the trouble with stem cells... theoretically,"
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"we can get them re-growing new nerve cells,"
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"but we don't know how to reliably stop that growth."
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"Which creates a risk of cancerous spinal cord tumors."
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"Gliomas."
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"nasal olfactory ensheathing cells."
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"Yeah, OECs"
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"are unique to the central nervous system."
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"to the nervous system."
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"CHENG: Right, so they take the regenerative cells"
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"in the nose and suspend them in a hydrogel,"
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"creating like a liquid scaffolding, which"
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"fills in the injured parts of the spine."
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"Scientists did it to this guy who'd been"
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"paralyzed from the chest down, and"
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"(indistinct talking)"
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"- That's incredible. - (people cheering on video)"
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"Can we do it?"
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"We can definitely try."
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"Spinal cord was cleanly severed."
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"This is different."
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"CHENG: I mean, we won't know for sure"
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"how Billy's injury would respond."
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"- Or if it would at all. - Yeah, but it might."
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"Yes. But it's a moonshot."
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"The greatest predictor of"
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"a spinal cord victim's future success"
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"is the grueling work he needs to put in"
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"post-accident."
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"Physical therapy, rehab, talk therapy."
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"It's going to take a herculean effort from Billy."
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"I'm gonna need him to give me everything that he's got"
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"I cannot have him wag for a miracle, James."
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"- Noted. Let's go talk to him. - James?"
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"Fine, you do the talking."
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"I promise not to over-promise."
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"Oh, and W, your wife is here. How do you know that?"
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"I see everything, W. Go."
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"(clears throat)"
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"We're sorry."
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"We know it's a tough diagnosis, Billy."
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"How long did it take me to rehab my ACL?"
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"Six weeks."
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"They said it was gonna be a year."
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"BILLY: People tell me no all the time."
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"If I listened to them, I wouldn't be"
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"a professional hockey player."
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"Billy, I believe that 100%."
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"But a spinal cord injury is very different"
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"to a torn ACL."
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"But people do still sometimes recover, right?"
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"If anyone can, Billy can."
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"His coach says he works harder than anyone he's ever seen"
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"in his whole career."
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"And that is gonna come in very handy"
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"once we start rehab."
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"But I have to warn you,"
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"we start at the very beginning."
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"Learning to sit up,"
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"to move your hands."
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"You don't understand."
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"My contract's up at the end of the season."
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"I was gonna buy my parents a house."
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"You guys are supposed to be the best hospital in the world."
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"You got to fix me."
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"There is..."
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"one... possibility."
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"It's highly experimental."
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"I don't want you to put too much hope in this,"
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"but he had similar injuries."
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"CHANNARAYAPATRA: Just to be clear,"
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"MAN (on video): You can do it."
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"Yeah. Come on."
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"(cheering)"
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"Oh, my God."
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"Billy, did you see that?"
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"I want that."
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"This is one isolated case. There's no guarantee that..."
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"But that guy's just a regular guy."
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"I'm a professional athlete."
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"If he can swing a baseball bat again,"
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"I can play hockey again."
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"I want the surgery."
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"Hey."
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