To Each Their Own

the long version

She held the key to eradicating all the ills of mankind - yet she held back because the world couldn’t be trusted. After all, disease and its prevention was a multinational business, far too valuable to threaten. For her own protection she stayed hidden. It was a fatal mistake trying to find her. All she wanted was to be left alone - and she would kill, and go on killing, to keep it that way! ‘To Each Their Own’, in exploring a quasi-fictitious set of circumstances, poses a difficult question. What response do you make to an individual who holds the key to something utterly altruistic, the potential salvation of mankind, yet displays a nature and behaviour wholly malevolent? In ‘To Each Their Own ‘ the pivotal event (though in no way pervading) is a clandestine experiment in genetics that took place in the early sixties. One of the participants, a female scientist, is pregnant. The daughter Ursa (born after the experiment is finished) comes to believe that she is the last survivor of the experimental group. Recognising a definite vulnerability, she intends to remain in her own world and protect her anonymity whatever the c