Jason Nichols (played by Joseph Fuqua and Michael Fairman) was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was working in cryobiology. Along with Lucas Menard and Lisa Ianelli, he was completing a thesis on cryobiology applications in which living organic tissue could be preserved indefinitely and thawed and revived later. However, Inelli fabricated some of the findings to ensure that Nichols would be rewarded an NSA grant. Menard, also seeking the grant, learned of the fabricated evidence and threatened to report it. He and Nichols were arguing while leaving one evening and an old man warned them to stay away from a certain street and that Menard would be hit by a bus. He was apprehended and taken away by campus police. However, Menard was then struck and killed by