Shoshone Station: The Galactic Consortium season 2

Episode Three: The Egg #22

When Zeta returned, just after lunch, she had four new patients in tow. One was a teenager with a cervical spinal injury, along with his parents. Two had inoperable cancers and the fourth was an obese women riding on a scooter.

Bankim pulled Zeta aside, his face and voice more subdued, while Katja and another healer took the boy in the wheelchair down to the one of the rooms to see what it would take to treat him.

But Bankim's bad day wasn't over just yet. He led the woman down to one of the rooms to discuss her health condition. They were back a few minutes later, Bankim practically fleeing in front of her scooter. She was shrieking loudly and gesturing with her free arm while she steered into the lounge.

"With all your advanced technology, you are telling me there is nothing you can do?" She demanded angrily.

Sophia looked at her in shock, wondering what sort of condition she had that they couldn't treat.

"I told you," Bankim protested. "I will gladly help you work on a diet, exercise routine, we can help you."

"And I told you that doesn't work for me," the woman demanded. "I can't. I just can't. You've got to do something."

"There is nothing else," Bankim said. "You are healthy, just overweight. You need to eat less, exercise more. The tank, it can't just make you skinny. It don't work that way."

She glared at him. Sophia bit her tongue, trying not to laugh.

The woman snorted loudly and steered her scooter towards Zeta next. Zeta took a couple steps back fearful. "Take me back to the surface," the woman demanded. "This guy is worthless."

"Yes, okay," Zeta stammered out. "The next elevator the surface will be in a few minutes. We can go at once."

When the woman had left Bankim looked to Sophia, imploring. Sophia burst out laughing.

"What was I supposed to do?" he asked.

"Nothing," she told him. "There's nothing you can do for some people."