Dialogue Essay: New Isotope Ice-Nine

The next morning, when John met up with Dr. Asa Breed, Dr. Breed told him that Felix had once randomly left his car in traffic. Felix's wife, Emily, went and picked it up. While she was driving it home she got in a terrible accident where she badly hurt her pelvis. Dr. Breed blames her death (in giving birth to Newt) on her injury. Dr. Breed then introduces John to Francine Pefko, the secretary for one of the scientists at the laboratory. She knew nothing about the work her boss did, and she kept saying that scientists spent too much time thinking. After, Dr. Breed took John on a tour. John began asking him questions about the day the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, but Dr. Breed was becoming more and more angry because John was not directly focusing on him. Dr. Breed repeatedly complained that people didn'y understand …show more content…
He called this isotope ice-nine. It became solid at room temperature. If the seed was then dropped into mud, it would crystallize and then the mud would solidify. John frightfully asked what would happen if this isotope was made and dropped into the mud. Dr. Breed, getting more angry, told John that the mud would freeze. However, the ice-nine would set off a sort of chain reaction, causing the rest of the water on the earth to freeze as well. John asked if Felix had actually created some type of ice-nine, but Dr. Breed repeatedly denied so. Dr. Breed abruptly and angrily ended the interview with John because the questions John kept asking him made him quite angry. John went on a tour of the lab that belonged to Felix. It was cluttered with many toys and strange knick-knacks. Miss Faust told John that no one really knew Felix because he was more concerned with truth over people. She said that Felix once asked her to tell him one thing that was actually true. Miss Faust told Felix that God is love, but then Felix asked her what God and love were, and she couldn't give him an