Wait. Why is it beeping? It shouldn't be beeping. It doesn't work when he touches it. He just... stares at the screen for a minute. What is this nonsense, seriously.

He blinks, silent for a long moment as he lets Carson's words settle. He'd said it was his ATA gene therapy, and the ATA gene is what let him use the scanner. A frown starts as he realizes what's happened. "You mean t'tell me that whatever was in that little tube changed my genes so I have that ATA gene?"