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    CYNTHIA
    Are you serious? Why that number?
    THEO
    I’ve always used that number, ever since I was a kid.
    THEO looks at his watch.
    CYNTHIA
    Do you know what that is? One one two three five eight. It’s the first six numbers of the Fibonacci sequence… the most fundamental and universal mathematical sequence ever identified!
    Laboratory
    DR. GUZMAN
    Your right. Then your left.
    MR. ADAMSON tries on an imaginary set of pants.
    MR. ADAMSON
    How do you know that?
    MR. ADAMSON circles the room, looking for something he can use to reach the phone.
    DR. GUZMAN
    Over the course of our lifetime, we will put on our pants forty thousand times. And whether it’s right then left, or vice versa, do you know how many times the average person will do it in reverse? Never! From the age of six, we are absolutely faithful to that order. Try doing it backwards sometime. See how awkward it feels. How alien. But why? How does a child even learn which leg to put on first?
    MR. ADAMSON
    From their mom?
    DR. GUZMAN
    Precisely! But not how you think. For fraternal twins, the concordance rate on the pant leg order was sixty per cent. In identical twins… ninety-eight per cent.
Ergo
…
    MR. ADAMSON
    Are you trying to tell me if I put my pants on right leg first, that’s genetic? That’s crazy.
    DR. GUZMAN
    I’ve identified the PLO gene.
    MR. ADAMSON
    PLO?
    DR. GUZMAN
    Pant Leg Order. It’s X-linked. You get it from your mom, who got it from her dad. I’m hoping to publish the results. If I can make it past the damn peer review.
    MR. ADAMSON
    I’m sure the Nobel Prize committee will be all over this.
    MR. ADAMSON finds a book on the floor.
    DR. GUZMAN
    How dare you. I’ve spent a significant portion of my professional career unearthing this gene.
    MR. ADAMSON
    I don’t get it. This is your big idea? One day you say to yourself, before I die, I must figure out the whole pant leg mystery? Then, on to the Colonel’s secret recipe!
    DR. GUZMAN
    I realize it may seem trivial. But what you fail to understand, Mr. Adamson, is that genetics is like real estate. Location location location. It’s not the house. It’s the neighbourhood. Because you just never know who’s going to move in next door.
    Making sure DR. GUZMAN is not looking, MR. ADAMSON throws the book toward the phone on the shelf. He misses, the book falls to the floor.
    To disguise the noise he sneezes.
    Bless you.
    MR. ADAMSON
    Bless me?
    DR. GUZMAN
    It’s just an expression.
    MR. ADAMSON
    People used to believe when you sneeze, you are in that brief moment between Heaven and Hell. And if you were blessed, you’d be saved from damnation.
    MR. ADAMSON tries again with the book. Again he sneezes.
    This time, THEO sneezes simultaneously.
    DR. GUZMAN
    Noroc
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    Auditorium
    CYNTHIA
    Bless you.
    THEO
    Thank you. In Romania, they say
noroc
. To your luck.
    CYNTHIA
    I’ll have to remember that.
    Laboratory
    MR. ADAMSON
    A sneeze means someone is talking about you. One sneeze good. Two bad.
    DR. GUZMAN notices the book on the floor. She grabs it, puts it on a shelf.
    DR. GUZMAN
    You know what three means? You’re catching a cold.
    Auditorium
    CYNTHIA writes on the board…
    CYNTHIA
    Fibonacci is a recursive sequence, where each number is the sum of the previous two. You start with the numbers zero and one. And you add them together, which gives you the next number, which is one. Then you add the last two numbers together, one and one, and that gives you two. Then again, you add the last two numbers together, one and two, and that gives you three. And so on.
    THEO
    Okay. So what does that mean?
    CYNTHIA
    So what’s fascinating is that you have been picking your numbers along the Fibonacci sequence.
    THEO
    I don’t understand.
    CYNTHIA
    Don’t you see? The Fibonacci sequence is seen in everything. In science. In nature. In how honeybees multiply. When you cut open a pineapple or a pine cone, they are