Realizing he cannot leave the room in his current condition, he then fashioned himself a mechanical suit made of various prototypes to allow himself to survive in environments that aren't sub-zero temperatures. However, upon leaving the room, he ended up collapsing and dying from heat-stroke, as Fries watched. The guard, unaware of his new condition, then knocked Fries down onto the ground and left the room.

Fries and the remaining guard, however, were not as lucky, as they were exposed to the cryovapors, thus altering their body metabolism to such an extent that they can't survive outside sub-zero environments. Boyle instantly fled, and was knocked back by the shockwave, also losing his gun, but he managed to escape unscathed, and ordered for the lab to be quarantined. The resulting blast also ruptured a cryofluid container nearby. During the struggle, with Fries fending off his attackers, a prototype cannon was knocked over and proceeded to fire a round, instantly flash-freezing one of the guards. Eventually, Boyle found out about Fries' decision, and, angry at his disobeying orders, led several guards into the research lab and, armed with a gun, ordered for several personnel to retrieve Nora's cryostasis pod as well as two guards to restrain Fries while he proceeds to beat him, including pistol-whipping him. eventually, Fries wised up to Boyle's false promise, and proceeded to do the research himself with the funding meant for cryogenic weapons. Secretly, however, Boyle had no intention of actually pursuing the research, as he cared more about how Fries actually managed to successfully put Nora into cryostasis. This eventually devolved into a heated argument with Fries threatening to cease research if he doesn't supply the current stats, with Boyle, after calling his threats empty, stating there is nothing to report and that he continue with the research.

He then demanded for Boyle to show the results, with Boyle claiming the disease was incurable, and as such he can't produce results overnight. As time went on, including the development and testing of the first cryo-weapon prototype, however, Fries did not get any results regarding the funding for a cure. Boyle agreed to Fries' request, although under the condition that he help develop his illegal cryogenic weapons program. Unwilling to let his wife die, Fries, in desperation, placed his wife under cryogenic stasis, and begged his employer, GothCorp CEO Ferris Boyle, into giving him funding to help him find a cure.

3 Casefile details (after scanning the computer the Gurney was at)Īt some point before New Year's Eve and possibly Christmas Eve, a cryogenics researcher employed at GothCorp, Victor Fries, discovered that his wife, Nora Fries, had come down with Huntington's Chorea, a degenerative disease.

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