Jared Harris credited as playing...
Professor Joseph Coupland
- Professor Joseph Coupland: What is the supernatural? Hm? Anyone?
- Female Student: Like ghosts or spirits or devils?
- Professor Joseph Coupland: Those examples.
- Female Student: Actions or events which we can not explain through science.
- Professor Joseph Coupland: Good. Before the discovery of a pathogenic theory of medicine, people believed that sickness was caused by evil spirits. Show of hands - if you get sick, who here would rather see a priest before a doctor.
- [students laugh]
- Professor Joseph Coupland: Who here believes in God? Heaven? Hell? The apocalypse? Ghosts? Really? No one here believes in ghosts? interesting.
- Professor Joseph Coupland: What if you could prove that the supernatural was merely a manifestation of what already exists in the mind, the subconscious?
- Professor Joseph Coupland: Your job would be to document every step of the experiment. I hope you don't scare easily.