october

A bald, bespectacled man in a white lab coat sits in a high-tech laboratory, initially holding a piece of paper before crossing his arms and leaning back with a smug expression. As he watches, a small, rectangular image of a woman in a red dress appears on a screen to his right, then slowly fades to red and disappears. The setting is a cluttered lab with glowing equipment, a chalkboard covered in equations, and a large window showing a tropical island with a volcano.