BRC main laboratory

The "BRC main laboratory" is the central room of the Bioweapon Research Center. It appears in Metroid: Other M.
==Description==
The main laboratory is a large room with multiple computer terminals that provide access to the Bioweapon Research Center Database with a password. The computers cannot be accessed in gameplay. The floor has a mixed pattern, divided by a zigzagging line. On the left is a pattern of diamond and octagon-shaped tiles, and on the right side is a pattern of square tiles with a screw or marking in each corner. A staircase is present near the entrance to the room, and is lined with the same black and yellow striped pattern as certain ledges and other environments on the BOTTLE SHIP.
On the first visit, the door leading further into the center is blocked by a Desbrachian gate, which is gone on the next visit. No Desbrachians are encountered here in gameplay.
Notably, the sound Samus's footsteps make when she runs in this room are different compared to most other environments in the game. Here, her steps sound as though she is running on marbled or glossy floor.
Curiously, if the computer screens are examined closely with Search View, they display "Living body arms development lab". This was the original name of the Bioweapon Research Center, as seen in the E3 2009 trailer that revealed Other M.
==Role==
Samus cautiously enters this room, and notices the Desbrachian gate. Her attention is quickly diverted when the computers in the room suddenly come online, and she moves towards them. From here, a prerendered cutscene begins where she attempts to access the Bioweapon Research Center Database, but the password she uses does not work. The last three keys she enters are "E-Y-K".
Suddenly, a nearby door opens and the survivor Samus saved in the Materials Storehouse walks in. Startled by Samus's presence, she quickly runs back into the room she emerged from and locks the door. Samus approaches the door and insists she is not a Galactic Federation member, but that she was responding to the distress signal. The survivor opens the door and introduces herself as Madeline Bergman. Samus follows her into the storage room, where Madeline explains the special-forces unit, and indicates the BOTTLE SHIP was home to an even more dangerous plan. She brings Samus back into the main laboratory to show her.
As Madeline and Samus approach the terminal, someone is seen watching them. Madeline accesses the database (the last three digits of her password are "O-T-4") and produces a military order authorizing Project Metroid Warriors, an effort to use Metroids - supposedly eradicated by Samus in her previous mission - as bioweapons. Madeline explains they were cloned from tissue and cell structure found on Samus's Power Suit, and this was also how Ridley was resurrected. She further reveals the existence of an AI, MB, which controls the Metroids much like Mother Brain did, and tells Samus they are located in Sector Zero.
Samus instructs Madeline to stay in the laboratory until she returns from destroying the Metroids and MB, and tells her that Adam Malkovich will assist her if necessary. However, Madeline states that Adam authorized the Metroid project. As Samus leaves, someone is seen approaching Madeline, who looks at them calmly before the screen turns black and a gunshot is heard.
When Samus returns to this room after leaving Sector Zero, Madeline is gone. Samus is locked in Search View until she examines the body of James Pierce, whose visor has been smashed open, on the floor to the right. His presence here confirms that he had been the traitor within the 07th Platoon.
Samus then sees that the gate blocking access to the rest of the center is gone. She proceeds into the center, eventually encountering the real Madeline Bergman, while the woman she met earlier is revealed to be MB in android form.
After the credits, James' body has been removed, likely by the Galactic Federation Army who stormed the Bioweapon Research Center. At the end of the game, when Samus finds Adam's helmet, which he left behind in the BOTTLE SHIP Control Room, a flashback shows that he witnessed Samus's conversation with MB here and rushed off to Sector Zero to stop her from entering it.
===Transcript of conversation===
Note: "(M)" means this line is part of a monologue.
==Connecting rooms==
*"Laboratory access" (via automatic door)
*"Storage room" (via automatic door)
*"Spare room" (via automatic door)
*"BRC transport" (via automatic door, initially Desbrachian gate)
==Inhabitants==
*MB (first visit, cutscene)
*Desbrachian (inactive, disappears after first visit)
*James Pierce (cutscene, found dead on second visit)
==Gallery==
File:BRC main laboratory - Search View.png|The room in Search View upon entry.
File:BRC main laboratory - Desbrachian gate.png|The Desbrachian in the room.
Samus enters Bioweapon Research Centre HD.jpg|Samus enters the room.
File:BRC main laboratory - terminals come online.png|The terminals come online.
Bioweapon Research Center Terminal.png|Samus attempts to access the computer.
File:BRC main laboratory - survivor walks in.png|The survivor appears and Samus notices.
File:BRC main laboratory - Samus appeals to MB.png|Samus tries to convince the survivor she is not a threat.
File:Melissa Bergman 6.png|Samus listens as Madeline explains Project Metroid Warriors.
Bioweapon Research Center Terminal 2.png|The survivor reveals Project Metroid Warriors to Samus.
Melissa Bergman 10.png|Samus reassures "Madeline".
File:BRC main laboratory - stay here until I return.png|Samus instructs Madeline to stay here until she returns.
Melissa Bergman 9.png|"Madeline" is approached by the Deleter.
File:BRC main laboratory - Examine.png|Samus locked in Search View on her second visit.
File:BRC main laboratory - body examined.png|Samus examines the body.
File:BRC main laboratory right side.png|The right side of the room.
Category:Rooms
Category:Bioweapon Research Center
Category:Rooms with Samus monologues