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Opening scene of a child darting in and out of traffic as he plays chicken with a trolley car.

Fast forward to next scene where he is now a chemistry professor and walks into his lab to find two students have spilled a container of some chemical. Students are obviously dating/in love so professor says to not worry about it and he will clean it up. Off they go and the professor discovers that the spilled chemical is quite lethal when accidentally inhaled...he calls the authorities to tell them someone should pick up the kids and bring them to a hospital. Strangely he does not go himself. Instead he apparently knows he is soon to be dead so he goes around tying up loose ends. The police get involved and spend a lot of time and resources trying to find him when he doesn't go to the hospital. Not sure why the police get so involved in a search for a man who is not a criminal or contagious or a danger to anyone! Perhaps someone could tell me what I am missing? Just a strange episode to me.

It turns out to be a pretty sad story but just not sure what it is doing in this fabulous series.

Halfway through this, Dt. Flint consults a psychiatrist as to why the professor is trying to elude the police dragnet as if he wants to die in what should be his moment of greatest triumph.

The doctor tells him that it's "very frequent" that this should happen, adding that "I can name you a number of famous people who did themselves in after a brilliant success." Can you think of any such 'famous people'? I can't. The Doc then goes on to refer to 'primitive people'', such as a native who told his Gods that if they wanted him to be miserable, "OK, I'll be miserable"..."so he drives joy and success out of his life and then an only then can he be happy. If the joy won't go away, e might just die of fright."

if that isn't the definition of mumbo-jumbo, I don't know what it. How could the professor have been any kind of success at life with that kind of attitude? And why was such a dangerous chemical - something created by the Nazis as a weapon - doing sitting around in a college lab where a couple of students could accidently spill it?

Anyway, it turns out that the professors father thought that joy was sinful and refused to have happiness in his home. Is psychology that simple?