WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.360 The car speeds towards the boy.  The driver isn’t looking. It’s   00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:09.480 too late to stop or swerve. And  it’s heading straight for him… 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:16.000 New York, 1984. A young boy is playing ball  in the street on a hot day. He's by himself,   00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.040 because his mother doesn't let him play  outside when there are other children   00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:24.040 around. Suddenly a car comes barrelling down  the street. The boy doesn't have enough time   00:00:24.040 --> 00:00:29.080 to run away. He instinctively opens  his mouth in surprise and when he does… 00:00:29.080 --> 00:00:31.920 The car vanishes into it. 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.360 Hearing the squeal of brakes  from inside the house, the   00:00:34.360 --> 00:00:38.480 boy's mother comes rushing outside. She's furious. 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:43.440 Once he's spit the car back out, she drags him  back inside. She locks him in his room before   00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:48.320 pouring herself another drink. This isn't the  first time something like this has happened.   00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:53.960 The boy's mother makes no secret about the fact  that she wishes he'd just let the car hit him. 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:58.360 The boy doesn't know why his mother is so  horrible to him. Maybe it's because she's   00:00:58.360 --> 00:01:03.520 afraid of his anomalous abilities, but he's  never hurt anyone. He's done tests before with   00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:08.560 bugs and rats and even a neighbor's cat once  or twice. Every time he swallows something he   00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:12.720 can always retrieve it later without causing  it any damage, even if it's something living. 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:15.640 His mother should know this by  now, because sometimes when she   00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:19.720 pulls his arm a little too hard, or  accidentally slams a door on his foot,   00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:23.880 he retaliates by spitting a dozen  live rats onto the kitchen floor. 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:27.360 When he gets a little older the boy will  develop the theory that the real reason   00:01:27.360 --> 00:01:32.320 she hates him is because he reminds her of his  father, who might have had the same powers as   00:01:32.320 --> 00:01:37.600 him. Not that he can ever confirm that, since  his dad skipped town long before he was born. 00:01:37.600 --> 00:01:41.040 But for right now, he is 8 years old  and wishing he could run away from   00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:45.560 home. He's never seriously entertained  the thought, because anomalous or not,   00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:50.440 he knows that a kid like him would not make  it very far on his own in the big apple. Best   00:01:50.440 --> 00:01:55.080 case scenario, the cops pick him up and  drive him straight back home. Worst case,   00:01:55.080 --> 00:02:00.040 he runs into one of those scary guys in white  vans they're always talking about on the news. 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:04.320 That night, all of his prayers  are about to be answered. 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:07.880 But before we go any further,  I have a question for you -  00:02:07.880 --> 00:02:10.960 Are you feeling like something’s  off? Is something getting in the   00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:15.440 way of your happiness or your goals? You don’t need a clinical mental health   00:02:15.440 --> 00:02:20.920 issue to benefit from therapy—sometimes life’s  challenges are enough. 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It's the silhouette  of a man, who seems normal at first,   00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:38.360 but when the boy turns his lights on he realizes  the man's eyes are where his mouth should be,   00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:44.080 and his mouth is where his eyes should be. Under  normal circumstances this might have been scary,   00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:48.800 but the boy is thrilled to meet  the man with the upside down face. 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:53.360 After all this, he knows he's  not the weirdest person on earth. 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.720 He asks the man with the upside down face  if he's his dad, because that seemed like   00:03:57.720 --> 00:04:01.440 a logical thing for him to assume  at the time. The man says he isn't,   00:04:01.440 --> 00:04:05.840 but that the boy can call him Manny, since  that's what all his friends call him. 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:08.400 Manny says that he heard about  the incident with the car,   00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:13.240 and that he's sorry that happened. He asks  the boy if he's okay, and the boy just gives   00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:17.760 him a shrug. He tells Manny about his mom,  who is currently passed out in front of the   00:04:17.760 --> 00:04:23.120 TV down the hall. He tells Manny that she  doesn't let him have friends, or go outside   00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:28.920 very often. Manny is very understanding- he  says his parents weren't very nice either. 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:33.960 It's here that Manny offers the young boy a  deal. He tells him that his strange ability   00:04:33.960 --> 00:04:39.320 makes him special. Freaks deserve to be loved  for who they are. They don't belong in boxes,   00:04:39.320 --> 00:04:44.720 they belong out in the world, where they can make  people laugh and scream and throw up. And if the   00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:49.520 boy comes with him, he can go to a place where  everyone else is a freak, too, and where his   00:04:49.520 --> 00:04:56.240 powers can make him a star. The boy doesn't even  have to think about it, he immediately agrees. 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.280 When his mother wakes up  at 3 am to turn the TV off,   00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:05.200 she is in an empty apartment. She never  files a missing person's report for her son. 00:05:05.200 --> 00:05:09.320 The boy is taken to the circus, where he's  introduced to both kids and adults with a   00:05:09.320 --> 00:05:13.840 variety of strange abilities. The circus  is a very strange place in general. The   00:05:13.840 --> 00:05:18.480 cotton candy is jet black, the tents can  seemingly travel anywhere, and most of the   00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:24.200 clowns never take their makeup off, and act  more like over-excitable dogs than people. 00:05:24.200 --> 00:05:28.160 Nonetheless, the boy quickly makes friends.  He's trained in performance skills,   00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:33.200 and as he gets older he starts to come out of  his shell. He had been shy before but once he   00:05:33.200 --> 00:05:37.440 starts talking the other performers  find that they can't shut him up. 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:41.720 So, his new circus family gives  him a new name- Motormouth. 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:46.920 Motormouth learns clowning from some of the few  human clowns in the circus' employ. One of them,   00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:52.920 Wembly Pinhead, performs in a classic pierrot  costume and takes his career as a clown extremely   00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:58.640 seriously. He has little patience for the young  Motormouth, as he considers being a clown to be a   00:05:58.640 --> 00:06:04.200 serious and mature performance art. This statement  may be the funniest thing he's ever said. 00:06:04.200 --> 00:06:09.360 Motormouth's other mentor is a grizzled hobo  clown called Scruffy McGrubbins. Scruffy   00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:15.120 is a big man with a deep, gravely voice, who  always smells like cigarettes. He's very wise,   00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:19.800 as clowns go, and always makes sure to share  a piece of his wisdom with Motormouth whenever   00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:23.160 they see each other, Whether it's a  proverb his great aunt once told him,   00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:27.040 or setting him straight on rumors he  might've heard from the other freaks. 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:31.000 One day Motormouth asks him about a name  he's heard around the circus, or at least,   00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:37.000 he assumes it must be a name because it sounds  like one. He asks Scruffy who Essie P. is,   00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:40.600 and why so many of the freaks are  afraid of her. Scruffy assures   00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:44.200 him that it's all baloney, and that he  shouldn't worry about things like that. 00:06:44.200 --> 00:06:47.440 Other adults at the circus are far  less accepting towards the boy as   00:06:47.440 --> 00:06:51.720 he starts to develop his talents.  Manny remains a fixture in his life,   00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:55.080 and while he's nowhere near as cruel  as Motormouth's mother had been,   00:06:55.080 --> 00:07:00.960 Manny is definitely a believer in tough love.  This is to say nothing of Herman Fuller himself,   00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:05.520 who never lets his performers forget that  he sees them all as totally expendable. 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:10.000 Motormouth is taught juggling by a man called  Scythe, who performs in the circus as a human   00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:14.320 blockhead. His anomalous ability allows  him to be stabbed anywhere without any   00:07:14.320 --> 00:07:19.440 lasting harm. He's an ill-tempered man who  wears a lot of leather and black eye makeup,   00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:25.080 and Motormouth suspects that maybe he's the way he  is because he couldn't cut it as a rock frontman. 00:07:25.080 --> 00:07:29.640 Scythe doesn't like having to teach Motormouth  juggling, but nobody else wanted the job either,   00:07:29.640 --> 00:07:34.960 so he was stuck with it. But Motormouth is used to  having to spend time around adults who resent him,   00:07:34.960 --> 00:07:39.720 and he's a lot bolder now than when he was 8.  Whenever Scythe tries to make him feel bad,   00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:43.960 he's always ready to strike back  with a barb of his own. Even so,   00:07:43.960 --> 00:07:48.680 he wants Scythe to respect him. One day he  suggests that they should try a double act   00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:52.720 together. Scythe responds by hitting  him over the head with a juggling pin. 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:56.680 Motormouth's first role in the circus is  while he's still a pre-teen. Even though   00:07:56.680 --> 00:08:01.400 he's learning quickly, he's still lacking  the confidence it takes to be a solo act. 00:08:01.400 --> 00:08:07.120 So, initially all he does is act as a human clown  car, walking into the ring and letting a dozen or   00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:12.320 so clowns climb out of his mouth. The performance  starts with the ringmaster introducing the clowns,   00:08:12.320 --> 00:08:16.320 only to be confused when no clowns  show up. He scratches his head and   00:08:16.320 --> 00:08:21.160 asks the audience if they've seen any clowns  around. Nobody in the audience says they have. 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:25.240 The spotlight moves towards Motormouth, who  looks like a perfectly normal young boy, and   00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:30.760 is waving to get the ringmaster's attention. The  ringmaster asks the boy if he's seen any clowns,   00:08:30.760 --> 00:08:36.800 and he nods. Then the ringmaster asks where they  are, and without saying anything, the boy opens   00:08:36.800 --> 00:08:42.480 his mouth. A small clown does a forward roll  into the big top, then another, then another.   00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:48.040 Each clown is taller than the previous one, with  the culminating one being on six-foot tall stilts. 00:08:48.040 --> 00:08:50.800 The clowns run around the big  top while the crowd cheers,   00:08:50.800 --> 00:08:55.240 until the ringmaster blows his whistle and  they all stand to attention. The ringmaster   00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:59.440 thanks the young Motormouth for returning  the clowns to the circus. As a reward,   00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:04.920 he gives the boy an oversized rainbow lollipop,  that, of course, Motormouth swallows in one bite   00:09:04.920 --> 00:09:09.800 before he takes a bow and runs off. This  act entertains the crowds well enough,   00:09:09.800 --> 00:09:14.920 but Motormouth quickly gets bored of it and  starts dreaming of bigger and better things. 00:09:14.920 --> 00:09:19.840 More than anything he wants to perform as  a juggler. He likes to make people laugh,   00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:24.720 of course, but having to wear big silly shoes  and greasepaint every day doesn't gel with the   00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:29.840 teenager's developing sense of pride. He's about  15 at this point, and he wants people to take   00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:35.000 him seriously. He endures spending more time  with Scythe just so he can practice juggling   00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:40.400 every day. His training only comes to a close  when Scythe dies suddenly in a freak accident   00:09:40.400 --> 00:09:45.800 during a performance involving flaming swords.  It's a great loss for the circus, but no great   00:09:45.800 --> 00:09:51.480 loss to Motormouth- who finds himself needing to  come up with a juggling act on very short notice. 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:55.760 At first it's just juggling and joke-telling,  but as he becomes a more established part of   00:09:55.760 --> 00:09:59.680 the circus troupe, he feels like he  ought to switch things up a little.   00:09:59.680 --> 00:10:04.440 No doubt emboldened by hormones, he comes up  with the idea of having a beautiful female   00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:09.000 assistant that he can put in the audience  as a plant and swallow as part of his act. 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.040 The new act is a runaway success. 00:10:12.040 --> 00:10:15.480 Motormouth starts it off with a mix  of juggling and jokes, making use of   00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:19.600 his anomalous abilities to swallow and  regurgitate increasingly unusual items   00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:24.960 to juggle with. He starts with tennis balls,  then fruit, bowling pins, then bowling balls,   00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:29.520 and of course, a set of flaming torches.  Just as his juggling act is about to wrap   00:10:29.520 --> 00:10:34.920 up, a woman in the audience starts heckling  him. She accuses the whole act of being fake. 00:10:34.920 --> 00:10:39.600 Other members of the audience gasp in surprise,  not knowing if this is real or all part of the   00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:44.920 act. Motormouth and the heckler argue, and he  tells her that if she's so sure that he's a fake,   00:10:44.920 --> 00:10:50.000 she can come into the ring and see for herself.  She stands up and walks down to the ring,   00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:53.720 climbing over the barrier to stand  right in the spotlight with Motormouth. 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:58.720 He invites her to put her hand in his mouth. She  does, her arm disappearing up to the shoulder.   00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.120 She grabs onto the first object she can get a  hold of, and when she pulls her arm back she's   00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:09.880 holding a wooden baseball bat. The crowd laughs.  The heckler says she still isn't convinced, so   00:11:09.880 --> 00:11:16.520 Motormouth lets her grab his chin and pull, just  to see how far his jaw can open. Using both hands,   00:11:16.520 --> 00:11:21.640 she's able to stretch Motormouth's lower jaw to  the width of both her arms. The crowd starts to   00:11:21.640 --> 00:11:26.680 laugh again. Overcome with curiosity, the heckler  sticks her head into Motormouth's mouth and   00:11:26.680 --> 00:11:32.600 seemingly without warning, his jaw snaps closed  like a rubber band and the woman disappears. 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:36.680 He resumes his juggling routine as if nothing  happened, and the crowd erupts into a mix of   00:11:36.680 --> 00:11:43.160 shocked gasps and hysterical laughter. For the  piece de resistance, after juggling 5 pineapples   00:11:43.160 --> 00:11:48.640 with a sixth balanced on his head, he spits the  woman back out, and the two of them take a bow. 00:11:48.640 --> 00:11:52.880 During this period, he develops a close  relationship with another performer, Theo,   00:11:52.880 --> 00:11:58.720 an anomalous acrobat who can flip his skin inside  out. Theo is a little older than Motormouth,   00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:04.400 but their bond soon develops into romance. The  two performers develop a double act together.   00:12:04.400 --> 00:12:08.080 Theo does a jump from the high-dive and  Motormouth catches him in his mouth. But   00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:14.120 soon they learn what many people have to learn-  that workplace romances never endure for long. 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:18.720 The two boys break up and the double  act falls apart. Theo stops performing   00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.880 in the big top and moves his act to the sideshow. 00:12:21.880 --> 00:12:26.000 During Motormouth's time with the circus, a  rift starts to form between the ringleader,   00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:31.360 Herman Fuller, and the man with the upside down  face. Herman knows that his performers have it   00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:37.400 out for him, and becomes increasingly paranoid as  a result. Manny calls him out and in retaliation,   00:12:37.400 --> 00:12:41.880 Herman ties him up and nearly kills him  in front of the entire circus troupe. 00:12:41.880 --> 00:12:46.120 But instead of making them afraid,  as intended, a huge riot breaks out,   00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:51.560 with every freak, clown and acrobat banding  together to beat Herman Fuller into submission   00:12:51.560 --> 00:12:56.240 and kick him out of his own circus for good.  Manny takes over running the place after that,   00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:59.120 with one of the clowns, Icky,  taking the role of ringmaster. 00:12:59.640 --> 00:13:05.480 Things are better under Manny and Icky. Motormouth  continues to draw crowds to the big top. But   00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:10.800 it's not too long before something starts to  seem a little bit off. Manny isn't himself,   00:13:10.800 --> 00:13:14.520 he starts losing his temper more  often than usual. It's clear to   00:13:14.520 --> 00:13:19.120 everyone around him that the stress of his  new position is starting to wear him down. 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:22.880 Every so often, Manny will introduce a new  child to the circus troupe. They will have   00:13:22.880 --> 00:13:26.720 some sort of anomalous ability, and Manny  will explain that he rescued them from a   00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:31.440 neglectful home. Motormouth is sympathetic  to these kids, since he can remember when he   00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:36.760 was in the same boat. He offers to take care  of these kids and teach them how to perform.   00:13:36.760 --> 00:13:42.520 Some of the kids seem overwhelmed, or even  scared, but Motormouth is always patient. 00:13:42.520 --> 00:13:46.600 Of course they're frightened- Herman Fuller's  circus can be a threatening place for a kid,   00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.080 and most of these kids have  come from terrible home lives. 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:54.920 One day, a young girl comes to him in tears.  Motormouth has been teaching her to juggle,   00:13:54.920 --> 00:13:59.200 so she feels comfortable going to  him. He asks her what's wrong and she   00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:04.120 tells him how badly she wants to go home.  She isn't an orphan, like Manny had told   00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:10.160 everyone. Her parents were alive and loved her  and were worried sick wondering where she'd gone. 00:14:10.160 --> 00:14:15.840 Hearing this, Motormouth is furious. He  goes to Manny and demands an explanation.   00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:20.040 Manny slaps Motormouth across the face and  tells him never to challenge his authority   00:14:20.040 --> 00:14:24.600 like that again. Manny is doing what he  needs to do to keep the circus running,   00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.400 because it's his job to do  that by any means necessary. 00:14:28.400 --> 00:14:31.320 Even though Motormouth tries to  tell him that he's being paranoid,   00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:37.200 he won't listen. Motormouth realizes then that  he needs to take the issue into his own hands. 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:41.480 He and the young girl form an escape plan- she  lets him swallow her and sneak her out of the   00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:46.520 circus, back to her home where her parents  are waiting. It goes off without a hitch,   00:14:46.520 --> 00:14:51.560 but when Motormouth returns back to  the circus, Manny is waiting for him. 00:14:51.560 --> 00:14:53.320 He's furious. 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:55.760 Motormouth wants to tell  everyone else what happened,   00:14:55.760 --> 00:15:00.120 but they've all made up their minds already.  Manny has absolute authority here and if he   00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:05.080 tells them that motormouth is trying to  sabotage the circus then they believe him. 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:09.880 Just like Herman Fuller had before him, Manny  gathers everyone together to watch as he makes   00:15:09.880 --> 00:15:15.320 an example of him. It hurts him to have to  do it, deep down, since he's known Motormouth   00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:20.640 almost his whole life. But the circus  has to come first. Motormouth is locked   00:15:20.640 --> 00:15:26.560 in a wooden trunk that is locked with chains  and labeled with a card reading 'For Essie'. 00:15:26.560 --> 00:15:33.680 So goes the tragic tale of SCP-2094, better known  by his nickname, Motormouth - Because if one thing   00:15:33.680 --> 00:15:39.760 is true out of the many rambling tall tales that  SCP-2094 is liable to tell, it’s that he has a   00:15:39.760 --> 00:15:45.760 truly extraordinary mouth. He’s since become a  permanent resident at Bio-Site 59, where he’s   00:15:45.760 --> 00:15:50.640 shared the bizarre details of his pre-containment  life - and his association with the infamous Group   00:15:50.640 --> 00:15:55.560 of Interest, Herman Fuller’s Circus of the  Disquieting - with Foundation researchers. 00:15:55.560 --> 00:16:00.240 First, there’s his anomalous ability - Stretching  out his jaw and throat to consume solid matter,   00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:04.560 living or otherwise, of any size.  The matter he swallows seems to   00:16:04.560 --> 00:16:08.680 be transferred to some limitless pocket  dimension inside the subject’s stomach,   00:16:08.680 --> 00:16:13.720 where it remains unharmed and suspended. As  you’ve seen in Motormouth’s legendary act,   00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:18.200 he’s also able to produce up the things  he’s swallowed, intact and alive. 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:20.680 Like many so-called “freaks”, Motormouth was soon   00:16:20.680 --> 00:16:24.200 inducted into the aforementioned Herman  Fuller’s Circus of the Disquieting,   00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:30.400 a sinister and often abusive organization that  exploits humanoid anomalies for monetary gain. 00:16:30.400 --> 00:16:34.840 Despite their mistreatment of him, Motormouth  refused to give up any identifying information   00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:38.440 that could lead to the Foundation -  dubbed by members of the Circus as   00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:43.720 “Miss Essie P. Foundation” - apprehending  other members of the diabolical carnival. 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:48.080 In an interview with Foundation Researcher  Dr. O’Sullivan, he said the following:  00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:50.680 “I'll tell ya right now, the circus  life ain't for everyone, but hey,   00:16:50.680 --> 00:16:54.720 Manny and the gang did the best they could. They  put bread in our mouths and pillows under our   00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.560 heads. I got a whooping now and again, but what  kid doesn't? It's all part of growing up. Kept   00:16:58.560 --> 00:17:02.840 me in line and manned me up quickly. The folks at  the circus loved me like I was one of their own. 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.960 They never made me feel like being a freak  was anything to be hidden or ashamed of.   00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.520 When you're part of a circus family, you  look out for one another. You don't just   00:17:08.520 --> 00:17:12.120 turn around and sell your family  out to the Essie P. Foundation!” 00:17:12.120 --> 00:17:16.760 On the whole, Motormouth has been in high spirits  in containment - always quick to perform a trick   00:17:16.760 --> 00:17:22.040 or crack a joke while under observation.  But like many comedians and entertainers,   00:17:22.040 --> 00:17:27.680 something darker has shown itself beneath  the surface: He wouldn’t admit it, but the   00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:33.400 horrors he’s experienced have left a toll on him,  resulting in a number of unfortunate incidents. 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:38.560 The most severe of which involved Motormouth  trying to swallow himself whole, which is   00:17:38.560 --> 00:17:43.480 admittedly a little hard to even picture. He’s  had closer observation and support since then,   00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:47.360 and has, thankfully, been shown  to be improving on the whole. 00:17:47.360 --> 00:17:53.720 SCP-2094 is contained in a medium-security  residential chamber in Bio-Site 59. Standard   00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:58.560 PG-Class pre-approved luxuries and amenities -  essentially what you’d find in a mid-rate chain   00:17:58.560 --> 00:18:04.560 hotel - on a supervised basis as an incentive to  promote cooperation in interviews and experiments. 00:18:04.560 --> 00:18:08.400 Because of the depression and post-traumatic  stress disorder Motormouth experiences in   00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:13.200 the aftermath of his rough childhood and even  rougher adulthood, he’s granted regular mental   00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:18.800 health counseling sessions with Dr. Anniston, the  on-site psychiatrist at Bio-Site 59. He’s also   00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:24.120 been prescribed a course of psychiatric medication  to help treat some of his underlying issues. 00:18:24.120 --> 00:18:29.320 With so many cursed objects, maniacal monsters,  and incomprehensible beings interred within the   00:18:29.320 --> 00:18:35.040 confines of the SCP Foundation, it’s easy to  forget the plight of anomalies like Motormouth.   00:18:35.040 --> 00:18:40.920 People whose extraordinary gifts and burdens  make them outcasts in society - And often   00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:46.080 end up in the care of an Organization  famous for being cold and unfeeling. 00:18:46.080 --> 00:18:48.800 And in the dark of a Foundation containment cell,   00:18:48.800 --> 00:18:53.160 a little kindness and  compassion can go a long way… 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:57.440 Check out the Doctor Bob Patreon and become  a junior researcher today! 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