Remaking Martin

A genius scientist is required to be cloned and then befriend his replica to ensure they are identical. If he approves the clone takes his place and he dies!(See excerpts below)Professor Martin Finch supervises a $2 billion energy project. When his life is put at risk because of a health problem his company proposes a radical solution to ensure the projects future. In a top-secret genetics institute Martin will be cloned and his memory transferred to his clone Martin2 who will replace him. Martin2 will then finish the project and also take care of Martins family.During the final stage of the cloning process Martin must spend time with his clone testing Martin2 to determine if he is a perfect copy. Martins verdict will determine which one will leave the institute alive-and which one will have to die.While at the institute Martin befriends another patient Sarah Joyce a celebrity Hollywood actress who is also undergoing a cloning procedure. As they walk their strange path together they become intimate friends and share a secret that will alter the course of their lives.EXCERPT 1When we produce your healthy clone or Martin2 well proceed to the confirmation phase said Dr. Spence. The only person who can do this is you as no one else can know you better than you. Martin didnt respond. In short after the mind transfer you and Martin2 will spend some time together. Youll inspect him in detail and decide if hes a perfect clone of you. Then there will be two of me. Only for a short time... as a principle the Institute cannot accept two versions of the same person going around for reasons of confidentiality. This means that only one of you can stay active. So after evaluating your clone in the final stage youll have to decide who continues to live. Martin spoke with difficulty. ...And who dies!EXCERPT 2The two Martins sat silently for a while. Trying to examine each other with curiosity they avoided eye contact. Martin felt that being confronted by himself created an insane resonance just like when he watched himself in the mirror for a long time.He remembered his fathers words Silence is the hardest thing to listen to. Probably no silence in the world could be as difficult to bear as the silence between a man and his clone sitting together. What was he thinking about now? Exactly the same things? He knew all his secrets all his moments of embarrassment his petty crimes. The moments of lovemaking with his wife were also the others memory now. His children were also the others children. What he had been doing with Alessandra was now a secret shared by three.I thought I was better looking he said.Your voice sounds strange Martin2 replied with matching disappointment.The being together of two bodies of the same person-one sick and one healthy-revealed something that no living thing possessed in their genetic memory. Martin was experiencing a clash between feeling both envious and blessed. The one sitting across from him was just another opponent in a duel where only one could walk away alive-and also his only hope to survive.​EXCERPT 3Lets have a word with Dr. Spence first. Besides we have time up until the last moment to make the final decision.Lets go see him together okay?Their eyes met. While Martin marveled at this close-up of the eyes of a Hollywood star Sarah drew power from the gaze of one of the smartest men in the world unaware of the anxiety behind those eyes.