Caltech

Josh's rasping commands from hospital sheets summon Caltech's shadowed labs, where physicists claw at 'Theory of Everything'—cosmic threads binding forces in sterile hum of accelerators and chalk-dusted boards. Urgency crackles as C.J. mangles 'physicists' into 'psychics,' prestige curdling into farce amid assassination's aftershocks, thrusting intellectual triumph into briefing-room crossfire.