WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.199 --> 00:00:04.790 Papers fly up in the air in every direction as the office workers run for their lives. 00:00:04.790 --> 00:00:11.679 The PA, brand new at her job, can't figure out where on earth the emergency exit is. 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:15.849 She tries every door, but they are either locked or go nowhere. 00:00:15.849 --> 00:00:23.279 The vast office maze, uncanny in its complexity, stretches along endless hallways and old directories. 00:00:23.279 --> 00:00:27.800 At the end of the corridor, right in front of her, is a door with a touch bar on it. 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:32.770 That will surely be a fire escape, a way for her to get away from the monster. 00:00:32.770 --> 00:00:36.710 She throws her whole body weight against the bar and tumbles through the door, landing 00:00:36.710 --> 00:00:39.230 in… a janitor's closet. 00:00:39.230 --> 00:00:42.180 No way out except back. 00:00:42.180 --> 00:00:46.879 Lying there sprawled amongst the mops and cleaning products, the PA rolls over and stares 00:00:46.879 --> 00:00:47.879 back down the corridor. 00:00:47.879 --> 00:00:49.160 It's too late. 00:00:49.160 --> 00:00:53.219 Somehow, she still holds the Starbucks Iced Latte in her hand. 00:00:53.219 --> 00:00:58.350 A forked tongue appears around the corner, followed by a flattened nose, long razor-like 00:00:58.350 --> 00:01:02.540 teeth, and a pair of blank reptile eyes. 00:01:02.540 --> 00:01:07.720 The hulking anaconda winds its way along the carpets, licking the air, tasting the scent 00:01:07.720 --> 00:01:08.720 of the PA's perfume. 00:01:08.720 --> 00:01:15.140 She is powerless, lying there crouched in the cramped janitor's closet as the enormous 00:01:15.140 --> 00:01:17.049 snake slithers towards her. 00:01:17.049 --> 00:01:21.380 It rears up tall as a human and bares its fangs. 00:01:21.380 --> 00:01:26.540 The PA closes her eyes and readies herself for the inevitable bite. 00:01:26.540 --> 00:01:27.540 * 00:01:27.540 --> 00:01:30.060 The knife and fork land on the table with a loud enough clatter to make all the other 00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:31.390 patrons turn. 00:01:31.390 --> 00:01:36.130 A large man with a bushy beard spills tomato soup down his chest while a snooty food reviewer 00:01:36.130 --> 00:01:39.280 chokes on the seafood she's just been trying to swallow. 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:45.070 A woman, shaking with rage, screams into her phone: “Next time, you'll get my order right. 00:01:45.070 --> 00:01:47.590 It's a caramel oat milk latte with 8 ice cubes… 00:01:47.590 --> 00:01:51.390 no, no, I don't care that one of them melted, it's not good enough." 00:01:51.390 --> 00:01:56.369 In her venomous tirade, she threatens the job, life, and even the family of whoever 00:01:56.369 --> 00:01:57.369 she’s talking to. 00:01:57.369 --> 00:02:01.570 The woman slams her phone down on the table loudly enough to make everyone in the restaurant 00:02:01.570 --> 00:02:02.860 jump again. 00:02:02.860 --> 00:02:08.000 This time, one of the waitstaff spills an entire tray of drinks over a table of guests. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.540 The commotion is loud enough to make the woman's fury shift in their direction. 00:02:11.540 --> 00:02:14.510 "Excuse me, I'm trying to conduct business here. 00:02:14.510 --> 00:02:16.670 Could you please not be so rude?" 00:02:16.670 --> 00:02:17.670 * 00:02:17.670 --> 00:02:20.930 Stalking into the head office of Louis Vuitton, the woman walks so fast that the brand-new 00:02:20.930 --> 00:02:23.730 assistant following her struggles to catch up. 00:02:23.730 --> 00:02:28.820 The PA is still signing her contract of employment as they go, doing her best to multitask as 00:02:28.820 --> 00:02:31.820 she lists off her boss’s itinerary. 00:02:31.820 --> 00:02:36.800 Design meeting from 1 to 1:30, yoga with a personal trainer from 1:30 to 1:45, then into 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:40.769 an urgent meeting to get ahead of the latest animal cruelty scandal. 00:02:40.769 --> 00:02:44.160 The woman struggles to keep track of which issue her colleagues are complaining about 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:48.760 this time—it could be the animal testing from the perfume line, the snake skin rug 00:02:48.760 --> 00:02:52.950 they've just had to discontinue, or the polar bear scarf they've just announced for the 00:02:52.950 --> 00:02:55.120 winter collection. 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:57.480 She can sense the headache coming on already. 00:02:57.480 --> 00:03:00.960 The new PA hands her an iced coffee as they get into the elevator. 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.690 She takes a sip and decides she doesn't even want it, throwing it in the trash as soon 00:03:04.690 --> 00:03:06.620 as they reach her floor. 00:03:06.620 --> 00:03:11.110 She's just about to launch into a rant about animal activists and their oversensitivity 00:03:11.110 --> 00:03:13.270 when the smell hits her. 00:03:13.270 --> 00:03:18.560 Opening the door to her office, she is punched in the face by the stench of rotting fish. 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:24.390 Lying on the floor of her office is a 600 lb tuna fish, staring blankly at the ceiling. 00:03:24.390 --> 00:03:29.750 The woman is so shocked that, for once, she stops yelling and just stares in surprise. 00:03:29.750 --> 00:03:35.439 In her 35 years in New York, never once has anyone so much as said the word "no" to her, 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.040 let alone pulled a stunt like this. 00:03:38.040 --> 00:03:42.250 She turns around and asks her personal assistant and asks for her name. 00:03:42.250 --> 00:03:43.420 It’s Melanie. 00:03:43.420 --> 00:03:46.280 The poor girl is terrified. 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:50.530 She asks Melanie why there’s a fish in her office, and before the girl can even muster 00:03:50.530 --> 00:03:55.090 up a reply, the heartless corporate overlord fires her on the spot. 00:03:55.090 --> 00:03:57.800 She hadn’t even signed her contract yet. 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:02.670 Once Melanie the PA leaves the room, the woman finds herself alone with the giant tuna, her 00:04:02.670 --> 00:04:04.610 anger simmering. 00:04:04.610 --> 00:04:08.570 Looking down at the dead animal, she sees a crumpled mess of cream-colored silicone 00:04:08.570 --> 00:04:12.310 under it, along with a few wet articles of clothing. 00:04:12.310 --> 00:04:15.910 Using the tip of her cigarette holder, she pulls at the crumpled silicone to try and 00:04:15.910 --> 00:04:18.109 extract it from under the fish. 00:04:18.109 --> 00:04:19.199 Strange. 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:23.610 It looks almost like one of those human masks you buy at a Halloween store, except it's 00:04:23.610 --> 00:04:24.729 a full suit. 00:04:24.729 --> 00:04:30.639 In fact, it looks remarkably similar to her head of innovation and product design. 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:34.270 Lying on the floor next to it is something small and innocent-looking. 00:04:34.270 --> 00:04:36.830 It's part of a zipper, broken by the looks of it. 00:04:36.830 --> 00:04:40.860 The black metal is slightly bent out of shape and worn away at the edges. 00:04:40.860 --> 00:04:45.270 It looks cheap and used, not the kind of material one would expect to see anywhere within a 00:04:45.270 --> 00:04:47.830 five-mile radius of this office. 00:04:47.830 --> 00:04:50.550 She picks up the zipper and rolls it between her fingers. 00:04:50.550 --> 00:04:53.139 Her headache is back. 00:04:53.139 --> 00:04:54.460 She needs a coffee. 00:04:54.460 --> 00:04:58.229 Pressing the intercom button, she demands that her new PA immediately go out and get 00:04:58.229 --> 00:05:02.400 one, forgetting that she’d just fired her a few moments earlier. 00:05:02.400 --> 00:05:06.139 Walking over to the window of her top-floor office, she looks down at the crowds of animal 00:05:06.139 --> 00:05:10.280 rights protesters stories and stories below, rolling the zipper between her fingers the 00:05:10.280 --> 00:05:11.830 whole time. 00:05:11.830 --> 00:05:14.050 Her thumb is itching slightly. 00:05:14.050 --> 00:05:18.360 Looking down at the metal tab in frustration, the woman sees that the zipper has somehow 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:20.639 embedded itself into her skin. 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:25.169 Puzzled, she leans in close for a better look, going a little cross-eyed. 00:05:25.169 --> 00:05:28.210 She couldn't have been squeezing it that hard, could she? 00:05:28.210 --> 00:05:33.850 Tentatively, the woman tries to pull the zipper out, but it just tugs at her skin, not budging 00:05:33.850 --> 00:05:34.850 at all. 00:05:34.850 --> 00:05:38.470 A faint sense of panic starts to well up in her chest. 00:05:38.470 --> 00:05:43.460 She pulls at it again, trying her best to dislodge it from her flesh, but it won't move. 00:05:43.460 --> 00:05:48.110 Then a second idea pops into her brain—what if she just...? 00:05:48.110 --> 00:05:51.470 The woman slides the zipper down along the length of her thumb. 00:05:51.470 --> 00:05:56.090 It glides smoothly, feeling just like the one you'd use to open your raincoat. 00:05:56.090 --> 00:06:01.979 Except, as it travels along her thumb, the skin itself seems to separate and flop apart, 00:06:01.979 --> 00:06:05.090 leaving a dark empty space inside. 00:06:05.090 --> 00:06:09.360 The layers of her skin peel back as if they're made of rubber, and a flow of steam hisses 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.860 out from the gap in her thumb. 00:06:11.860 --> 00:06:16.639 The zipper reaches the palm of her hand, and her thumb dangles there limply, empty. 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:18.950 As if nothing had ever been inside of it. 00:06:18.950 --> 00:06:21.060 Her eyes widen with amazement. 00:06:21.060 --> 00:06:25.729 She continues to slide the zipper across her palm, up her wrist, and towards her elbow. 00:06:25.729 --> 00:06:31.669 As it goes, that gentle waft of steam continues to escape from the gap, exposing a row of 00:06:31.669 --> 00:06:34.020 metal teeth. 00:06:34.020 --> 00:06:35.020 She can't stop. 00:06:35.020 --> 00:06:37.590 The zipper glides up her bicep and towards her shoulder. 00:06:37.590 --> 00:06:43.810 In one final move, she slides it directly across her collarbone and falls to the ground, 00:06:43.810 --> 00:06:44.970 lifeless. 00:06:44.970 --> 00:06:48.320 The pile of empty skin sits crumpled on the floor of her office. 00:06:48.320 --> 00:06:50.550 For several seconds, nothing moves. 00:06:50.550 --> 00:06:57.639 Then, the middle of the skin shifts slightly, almost as if something inside it had moved. 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.919 The same happens again and again, just as the woman's newest PA arrives with a nice 00:07:01.919 --> 00:07:03.879 coffee held proudly in her hands. 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:05.730 Why is it so dark in here? 00:07:05.730 --> 00:07:07.639 What’s happened to the lights? 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:09.300 She must have had an episode. 00:07:09.300 --> 00:07:13.770 She doesn't remember falling over, but here she is on the ground in total darkness. 00:07:13.770 --> 00:07:18.820 The only thing she could recall was hallucinating that zipper. 00:07:18.820 --> 00:07:22.169 The woman shuffles this way and that, trying to get her bearings. 00:07:22.169 --> 00:07:26.580 She attempts to put an arm out to lift herself up but... can't. 00:07:26.580 --> 00:07:29.129 She tries her other arm, again nothing. 00:07:29.129 --> 00:07:30.770 No movement at all. 00:07:30.770 --> 00:07:33.600 Come to think of it, she can't even feel her arm. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:35.099 Maybe a leg? 00:07:35.099 --> 00:07:36.879 No luck there either. 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.730 She must have hit her head pretty hard on the ground when she landed. 00:07:39.730 --> 00:07:41.610 Perhaps she's got a concussion. 00:07:41.610 --> 00:07:46.139 The woman does her best to sit up straight and finds that it's actually quite easy. 00:07:46.139 --> 00:07:50.569 Her back arches and curves effortlessly, twisting at whatever angle she wants. 00:07:50.569 --> 00:07:53.510 All of that yoga must have been paying off. 00:07:53.510 --> 00:07:57.240 All of a sudden, she's dimly aware of a light in front of her. 00:07:57.240 --> 00:07:59.510 What's the old cliché they always say in movies? 00:07:59.510 --> 00:08:01.310 "Don't go towards it?" 00:08:01.310 --> 00:08:02.310 Screw that. 00:08:02.310 --> 00:08:05.750 The light in front of her is the only thing she can see right now. 00:08:05.750 --> 00:08:09.979 Without thinking about it, the woman stretches her neck forward and finds that it moves easily 00:08:09.979 --> 00:08:12.170 and surprisingly far. 00:08:12.170 --> 00:08:17.000 She must be concussed; it feels like she's almost gliding in any direction she wants. 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:22.570 She simply moves her head, and she finds her whole body drifting in that direction effortlessly. 00:08:22.570 --> 00:08:24.530 That spot of light she was looking at? 00:08:24.530 --> 00:08:27.289 It's not some mystical end-of-the-tunnel situation. 00:08:27.289 --> 00:08:30.319 It's a gap in whatever material has been covering her. 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:35.140 The woman pokes her head out and takes in a breath of fresh air, doing her best to shrug 00:08:35.140 --> 00:08:38.839 off the rest of the bundle of whatever it was that she had been buried inside. 00:08:38.839 --> 00:08:40.780 Was it silicone? 00:08:40.780 --> 00:08:44.060 She turns her head to look back at it and jumps at the sight. 00:08:44.060 --> 00:08:48.180 She had been inside one of those silicone costumes, the same as the one under the tuna 00:08:48.180 --> 00:08:50.070 that had been in her office. 00:08:50.070 --> 00:08:54.899 Except this one... she had seen that face millions of times on magazine covers, plastered 00:08:54.899 --> 00:08:58.840 across billboards, in her selfie camera, and in the mirror at home. 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:02.640 She's looking at the crumpled husk of herself. 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:07.050 A screen fills her head, and she darts her gaze around suddenly to see a PA standing 00:09:07.050 --> 00:09:09.860 in the doorway with a nice latte trembling in her hand. 00:09:09.860 --> 00:09:12.540 Yes, some good news! 00:09:12.540 --> 00:09:16.589 The woman opens her mouth to talk to the PA, but the words don't come. 00:09:16.589 --> 00:09:20.779 She tries her best to squeeze her lungs and articulate her vocal cords, but the best she 00:09:20.779 --> 00:09:23.990 can manage is a soft hissing sound. 00:09:23.990 --> 00:09:28.180 That's when she spies her reflection in the mirror on the wall and sees the dead reptilian 00:09:28.180 --> 00:09:34.060 eyes and enormous curved fangs of an anaconda looking back at her. 00:09:34.060 --> 00:09:38.959 Pandemonium fills the office of Louis Vuitton as the anaconda weaves its way around the 00:09:38.959 --> 00:09:42.450 corridors, passing the reception desk and through the break room, approaching anyone 00:09:42.450 --> 00:09:45.410 it finds and asking for help. 00:09:45.410 --> 00:09:49.580 The snake tries its best to look very calm and innocent, assuring people that it poses 00:09:49.580 --> 00:09:50.779 no threat to them. 00:09:50.779 --> 00:09:54.840 However, that's a very difficult thing to do when every time it opens its mouth, all 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:59.590 anybody can see is a set of enormous teeth pointing straight at them. 00:09:59.590 --> 00:10:03.750 Within a couple of minutes, everybody seems to have evacuated, leaving the snake on her 00:10:03.750 --> 00:10:08.470 own, winding her way through the corridors, trying her best not to panic. 00:10:08.470 --> 00:10:12.040 That's when she spies her PA lying helpless in the janitor's closet. 00:10:12.040 --> 00:10:16.079 Relief washes over her as she sees that the girl has nowhere to run. 00:10:16.079 --> 00:10:18.450 This should be easy to talk to her then. 00:10:18.450 --> 00:10:22.410 The snake rushes over and stands tall, looking down at the girl. 00:10:22.410 --> 00:10:28.209 She opens her mouth, leans in close… and takes the iced latte from the girl's hand. 00:10:28.209 --> 00:10:31.589 Placing the cup gently on the carpet, the snake slurps a bit of the coffee through the 00:10:31.589 --> 00:10:32.589 straw. 00:10:32.589 --> 00:10:37.380 It's absolutely vile, clashing horribly with the hypersensitive taste receptors on her 00:10:37.380 --> 00:10:38.380 tongue. 00:10:38.380 --> 00:10:42.110 She tries to spit it out but discovers that snakes have very different mouth anatomy than 00:10:42.110 --> 00:10:44.720 hers, and that motion isn't so easy. 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:48.769 Besides, she realizes if she's going to have any hope of convincing this girl of who she 00:10:48.769 --> 00:10:54.630 really is, taking a drink from that Starbucks cup is probably her best chance to do it. 00:10:54.630 --> 00:10:59.040 Coiling herself up to look as small as possible, the snake sips away at the coffee and looks 00:10:59.040 --> 00:11:03.310 at the PA in what she hopes is a reassuring way. 00:11:03.310 --> 00:11:07.570 Very slowly, she can see the cogs starting to turn in the girl's face as she realizes 00:11:07.570 --> 00:11:09.260 what's happened. 00:11:09.260 --> 00:11:13.910 Reaching into her handbag, the PA, in shaking hands, pulls out a notebook and a pen and 00:11:13.910 --> 00:11:15.740 offers them to the snake. 00:11:15.740 --> 00:11:20.470 It's slow progress and takes a lot of work, but eventually, the snake is able to get enough 00:11:20.470 --> 00:11:26.120 control over the motor functions of its tail to grip the pen and scribble out a few words. 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:30.640 Just before the pest control team arrives and tranquilizes her. 00:11:30.640 --> 00:11:31.640 * 00:11:31.640 --> 00:11:35.710 For three weeks, the anaconda is locked up in the animal control center in New York City. 00:11:35.710 --> 00:11:39.529 The center wasn't equipped for dealing with giant snakes, so they ended up putting her 00:11:39.529 --> 00:11:44.139 in the largest dog-holding pen they had, which only just about fits her if she coils up in 00:11:44.139 --> 00:11:45.350 the right way. 00:11:45.350 --> 00:11:48.720 Three times a day, one of the keepers will toss her slabs of raw meat. 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:53.560 She had always been a fan of a rare steak; little did she know just how enjoyable a raw 00:11:53.560 --> 00:11:55.710 one could be. 00:11:55.710 --> 00:11:58.410 Aside from mealtimes, she's miserable. 00:11:58.410 --> 00:12:01.740 Doing everything she can to communicate to the workers there that she's really a sentient 00:12:01.740 --> 00:12:06.590 woman, not only a sentient woman but also the head of one of the world's largest high-fashion 00:12:06.590 --> 00:12:10.019 brands, she quickly discovers she's talking to a brick wall. 00:12:10.019 --> 00:12:12.480 Or rather, hissing up one. 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:16.829 The more she thinks about it, the more her situation reminds her of some of the photos 00:12:16.829 --> 00:12:22.080 that had been passed across her desk over the prior few months at various planning meetings. 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:26.110 Photos from undercover journalists who had visited her company's factory in the Far East 00:12:26.110 --> 00:12:31.230 and discovered cages upon cages of live animals locked up either to be killed for their skin 00:12:31.230 --> 00:12:35.510 or to be hosed down with chemicals to see if they develop a rash. 00:12:35.510 --> 00:12:40.589 It was lying there on the floor that she discovered that snakes don't have tear ducts. 00:12:40.589 --> 00:12:44.269 She would have liked it if they did; maybe that way, she'd be able to get some of her 00:12:44.269 --> 00:12:46.230 emotions out. 00:12:46.230 --> 00:12:47.230 * 00:12:47.230 --> 00:12:48.850 The Foundation moved quickly as soon as the news story broke. 00:12:48.850 --> 00:12:51.810 Agents were in and out of the office within hours. 00:12:51.810 --> 00:12:56.480 The zipper was placed into a sealed bag and transported directly to Site 64, where it 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:59.029 has since remained in a standard secure locker. 00:12:59.029 --> 00:13:05.540 A series of testing sessions were established to ascertain exactly how SCP-3660 functioned. 00:13:05.540 --> 00:13:10.320 As soon as the zipper is pressed against the skin of a human being, it embeds itself. 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:15.070 Test subjects report no feelings of pain and discomfort, just confusion. 00:13:15.070 --> 00:13:18.710 That's how the zipper has been able to press itself in so deep. 00:13:18.710 --> 00:13:23.110 Only a handful of subjects have reported feeling a slight itching sensation and a desire to 00:13:23.110 --> 00:13:25.649 pull at the tab to relieve that feeling. 00:13:25.649 --> 00:13:30.019 It sits just below the layer of the skin in the same way that it would on a jacket or 00:13:30.019 --> 00:13:31.019 hoodie. 00:13:31.019 --> 00:13:37.449 If left untouched within 10 minutes, SCP-3660 will activate on its own accord, sliding steadily 00:13:37.449 --> 00:13:41.500 along the subject's skin and 'unzipping' them. 00:13:41.500 --> 00:13:46.720 As this happens, the subject is instantaneously, and again without pain, transfigured into 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:48.079 an animal. 00:13:48.079 --> 00:13:51.940 This process occurs internally beneath the layer of skin as it unzips. 00:13:51.940 --> 00:13:56.120 According to the basic laws of physics, a transformation this drastic and quick would 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:00.649 require enormous amounts of energy, and so researchers expected to find heat and pressure 00:14:00.649 --> 00:14:04.060 levels high enough to instantly boil the blood of the subject. 00:14:04.060 --> 00:14:08.079 However, the only abnormal thermal readings came from a slight hiss of steam escaping 00:14:08.079 --> 00:14:10.800 the gap in the skin as it unzips. 00:14:10.800 --> 00:14:15.350 The new opening of the skin is now lined with a row of metal teeth on either side, as the 00:14:15.350 --> 00:14:21.290 skin itself appears to be transformed into a slightly different texture and material. 00:14:21.290 --> 00:14:26.709 Researchers note that the empty skin of the test subject looks and feels somewhat uncanny. 00:14:26.709 --> 00:14:30.970 Test samples taken into the lab reveal that the complex carbon-based multicellular organ 00:14:30.970 --> 00:14:35.470 has somehow been transmuted into consistent silicon rubber. 00:14:35.470 --> 00:14:39.899 Several tests involved placing the D-class personnel atop a weighing scale, and researchers 00:14:39.899 --> 00:14:44.410 were shocked to see enormous and rapid fluctuations in weight depending on the animal that the 00:14:44.410 --> 00:14:48.430 subject was transformed into. 00:14:48.430 --> 00:14:50.540 'Transformed' is the correct word to use here. 00:14:50.540 --> 00:14:55.459 The animal that emerges from the opening in the skin is not an entirely new life form. 00:14:55.459 --> 00:14:59.180 It is difficult to build a method of communication with every creature that emerges from the 00:14:59.180 --> 00:15:00.180 testing process. 00:15:00.180 --> 00:15:04.560 Since the animal created seems to be largely random, they can often pose real challenges 00:15:04.560 --> 00:15:08.680 in terms of setting up a method for feedback on how the test went. 00:15:08.680 --> 00:15:13.120 For example, three subjects have been transmuted into various species of squid, which had to 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:17.029 be quickly rushed to an aquatic test chamber before drying out. 00:15:17.029 --> 00:15:21.111 Once inside these test chambers, while the squids were evidently very intelligent, they 00:15:21.111 --> 00:15:25.399 lacked the motor skills and limbs to be able to form any kind of sign language or even 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:27.790 point out letters on a board. 00:15:27.790 --> 00:15:32.090 Great apes, however, have proven much easier to work with as they can quickly adopt sign 00:15:32.090 --> 00:15:36.050 language and even attempt rudimentary vowel sounds with their throats. 00:15:36.050 --> 00:15:40.080 What is clear from this testing is that the animal that emerges retains the memories of 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.100 the person it has replaced. 00:15:42.100 --> 00:15:46.339 It has the same attachment to loved ones, the same fears, and the same idiosyncrasies. 00:15:46.339 --> 00:15:50.759 Or at least it does when these things do not come into conflict with the animal's biological 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:51.759 nature. 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:55.819 One test subject, for example, had always had a strong affection for hamsters. 00:15:55.819 --> 00:16:00.490 However, when that test subject emerged from the pile of silicon skin as a sparrow hawk, 00:16:00.490 --> 00:16:04.620 it had a markedly different relationship with them, something that it expressed guilt over 00:16:04.620 --> 00:16:05.940 for the duration of testing. 00:16:05.940 --> 00:16:11.350 Try as it might, however, the hawk could not fight its urge to feed on the hamsters whenever 00:16:11.350 --> 00:16:13.500 it was offered the opportunity. 00:16:13.500 --> 00:16:16.230 Similar tendencies can be noticed in animals' mating behaviors. 00:16:16.230 --> 00:16:22.060 A survey of the test subjects revealed that 94.7% of male species reported resisting the 00:16:22.060 --> 00:16:27.480 urges of feeding and breeding to be the aspect most difficult to control in their new form. 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:32.000 From all of the testing conducted thus far, only amniotes, cephalopods, and chondrichthyans 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:36.460 (con DRICK thee ins) have been observed emerging from the test subjects' empty skin sacks. 00:16:36.460 --> 00:16:40.660 Testing is ongoing to determine if there is a set pattern to the animals emerging; although 00:16:40.660 --> 00:16:44.100 thus far, no pattern has been observed. 00:16:44.100 --> 00:16:48.529 One particularly memorable test saw a blue whale emerge from the body of one of the D-class 00:16:48.529 --> 00:16:53.079 personnel, causing significant damage to the testing facilities as the room had not been 00:16:53.079 --> 00:16:55.850 constructed with that large of a creature in mind. 00:16:55.850 --> 00:17:01.310 Since then, testing has been temporarily suspended as the Foundation discovered that one of the 00:17:01.310 --> 00:17:05.370 senior researchers was underreporting the level of testing being conducted and quickly 00:17:05.370 --> 00:17:10.720 turning Site 64 into the SCP petting zoo for highly gifted animals. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:15.420 Fortunately, the head of Louis Vuitton and her PA managed to get in contact with the 00:17:15.420 --> 00:17:20.839 SCP Foundation, or rather, the SCP Foundation got in contact with her after she was seen 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:25.839 creating a huge social media conspiracy about the fact that her former boss had been transformed 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:27.510 into a snake. 00:17:27.510 --> 00:17:32.400 The anaconda was soon located and transferred to Site 64. 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:36.720 Several interview sessions with the snake found an animal humbled by her time in a cage. 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:40.530 After a couple of hours of negotiating with the senior researchers, she was able to agree 00:17:40.530 --> 00:17:44.500 on a deal where she would be used as part of a promotional campaign for charities against 00:17:44.500 --> 00:17:46.080 the mistreatment of animals. 00:17:46.080 --> 00:17:49.950 She would attend filming days and perform on camera to show the abuse that animals went 00:17:49.950 --> 00:17:51.880 through in testing facilities. 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:55.909 The general public believes that the footage is computer-generated, and a VFX house has 00:17:55.909 --> 00:17:57.780 been credited in the adverts. 00:17:57.780 --> 00:18:03.170 Meanwhile, the Amazon Rainforest has one new occupant: a colossal snake that is kind to 00:18:03.170 --> 00:18:07.850 humans and has a strange addiction to iced coffee. 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