When nothing works, she turns to — i.e., Googles — stem cells. She gives no details, even to other doctors, and we don’t even know whether the cells are adult or embryonic (though given her locale, I’ll hazard a guess). A helpful montage of official-looking research documents informs us that it’s all “highly experimental.”

Over the objections of a lugubrious hospital administrator and, ultimately, they boy’s parents, Scully goes ahead with the treatment, which involves injecting the cells — a pinkish goo in a syringe labeled, “stem cells” — into the boy’s brain. (Who knew that she was a regenerative medicine specialist? Or that doctors can apparently have “highly experimental” stem cell therapies FedExed overnight?)

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