Autopsy Report

A video recording of the autopsy report of a John Doe (Nicolas Bolton) by a pathologist from the Biomedical Sciences department of the ASYNC group, posted Feb 23, 2022 and dated Feb 05, 1990. Report given directly to vice-director Ivan Beck.

#### Transcript

*[light blue screen with ASYNC logo (white + slightly transparent?) overlaid]*

*["FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY" in glitched white text flashes for a frame or two]*

>  `John Doe autopsy report`
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>  `(02/05/90)`
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>  `ASYNC DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES`
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*[A transition glitch leads into an audio recording of a pathologist, likely from the above-mentioned ASYNC Department of Biomedical Sciences, reporting to Ivan Beck on the autopsy of the body of a John Doe.]*

Transcript:

"Subject is male... somewhere between 18 and 21 years old. I estimate that the time of death was around five days ago, but due to the severe tissue damage, it's - it's hard to say for sure.

"Cause of death was likely malnutrition - I was able to recover most of the digestive tract.

"So... here's where things start to deviate from what we would consider to be natural: the decomposition process appears to have been stunted. Somehow. It's like...

"It's like portions of the body stopped decaying and - and were sustained... other areas, however, were *completely* overtaken by culture.

"So... I took a couple samples of some of the material. Here - at first, I thought it was an aggregated collection of *pseudomonas fluorescens*, but, uh - it seems to be closer to a mutated strain of simple hay bacillus.

"Which... ... it should be completely benign, but... ... well... really, I don't know what to make of this.

"Mr. Beck... may I ask where this subject came from?"

*[During the transcript, various images are shown, displaying various shots around a chemistry lab with an ASYNC poster ('Compromise is the death of innovation'), the body, various parts recovered from it, examples of certain samples of bacteria, the discovery of the body in the Backrooms, etc.]*

*[Abrupt cut to a television on a desk, in what seems to be a cubicle; beside the television is a cup or can holding pens, pencils, a ruler, and a pair of scissors and behind the television is what appears to be a whiteboard. Various very short, staticky clips are played - footage from this and other installments the series, interspersed with (including, but not limited to:) diagrams; microscope slides; images taken of space; a document that says: ASYNC Contract Termination; an image of former President of the United States Ronald Reagan giving some sort of address; a cropped image of a piece of text, the portion legible to the audience reading:*

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*[Footage on television now shows footage of the Threshold with heavy distortion and what appears to possibly be a brief overlay of a sunset at a beach.]*

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Notes: Pathologist's confusion as to the origin of the body seems to imply that 1. not every department of the Foundation/Institute knows that the Backrooms exists, and 2. that the Backrooms is worked on by its own department or set of departments.