After his wife, Leora, and all the other people who came with him from the institute to the island die of plague, he reluctantly abandons rigorous science and begins to treat everyone on the island with the phage.
Nakon što njegova žena, Leora, i svi drugi iz instituta koji su došli s njim na ostrvo umru od kuge, on nerado odbacuje naučne principe i počinje da leči sve na ostrvu bakteriofagom.