Formula for murder

After a fatal slip on a massive orbital laboratory, young engineer Jim Britten is rescued but left shaken, his mind fragmented by the sight of his colleague falling into the void. Back on Earth he is confined to a stark hospital room where a calm psychiatrist urges him to relive the accident, while a terse female doctor prepares a suite of experimental brain‑stimulating equipment. As Britten is strapped to a table and injected with a memory‑enhancing serum, the line between genuine trauma and hidden agendas begins to blur.

The narrative follows the tense interplay between Britten’s desperate need for answers and the clinicians’ unsettling curiosity about the incident’s timing. Subtle hints of a larger corporate and governmental interest in the space station’s secrets creep into the sessions, suggesting that the tragedy may be more than a simple mishap. Listeners are drawn into a claustrophobic psychological thriller that probes how far one will go to conceal a crime behind the veil of insanity.