Summerholt Institute
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| Summerholt Institute | |
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Research facility | |
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| Field | Cranial activity |
| Industry | Healthcare |
| Management | Lawrence Garner (Founder) |
| Location | Metropolis, Kansas |
| Status | Operational |
[edit] Technology
Summerholt developed advanced memory manipulation technology which found its way into LuthorCorp and governmental projects.
Agent Carter of Project Starhawk used technology developed at Summerholt to force people to relive their earliest memory, by injecting the meteor rock straight into their veins. He gives Kara a small dose of meteor rock, wanting to know where she came from and when she first arrived on Earth. Clark tried to free Kara from the contraption, and was forced to relive his earlier memory as well. (Lara)
When Dr. Curtis Knox started removing powers from meteor freaks, Lex Luthor insisted that Dr. Knox also remove their memories of their stay at Level 33.1. Given Lex's level of access to Project Starhawk, it's possible that this memory manipulation was done using technology perfected at Summerholt.
[edit] Staff
Dr. Lawrence Garner was the Chief Neurologist and founder of the Institute, specializing in memory tampering, which he used to erase or modify memories in people.
Lawrence Grady worked in the memory department of Summerholt.
Mary was a receptionist at Summerholt who denied that Ryan was a patient.
Cornell was a security guard who worked at Summerholt. (Delete)
Summerholt also employed a number of orderlies.
[edit] Patients
Ryan James was taken into Dr. Garner's legal custody and subjected to experiments on his psychic abilities.
Molly Griggs was an engineering prodigy whose computer skills and mind control abilities were exploited by Dr. Garner in an attempt to prevent the publication of an article about Summerholt.
Lex Luthor blackmailed Dr. Garner into helping him recover lost memories. Dr. Garner fashioned a treatment which involved submersion into a tank filled with a kryptonite liquid. The treatments proved to be dangerous and Lionel Luthor undermined Lex by striking a deal with Dr. Garner to stop treating Lex in exchange for Clark Kent. Although Lex's treatments were stopped before he regained the seven weeks preceding his shock therapy, he successfully recovered a repressed childhood memory of his brother's death.
Clark Kent was kidnapped and placed in a memory-treatment tank full of liquid kryptonite. The equipment connected to it shorted out and exploded, electrocuting Dr. Garner and sending him into a coma.
Kevin Grady's memories were altered by his father to prevent him from knowing the truth about his brother's death.
Chloe Sullivan was caught emailing videos of Kevin Grady's treatments to Lois by Dr. Grady who subsequently prepared to erase her memory. However, the experiment failed and Clark came to Chloe's rescue. Coincidentally, Chloe, Lois and Nancy Adams witnessed Clark's super-strength in the process. Luckily, Kevin Grady erased Chloe's, Lois' and Sheriff Adams' memories of the rescue.
