Dr. Richard Stone is the head of the Tropical Disease Laboratory of Columbia University Medical Center. Stone and his team open a package and find the frozen remains of the lizard that had been shipped by Dr. Guitierrez from Costa Rica. Almost casually, they begin their work, reading from the Costa Rican researcher's notes. They determine that the lizard body contains no diseases. They immediately send their findings to Dr. Guitierrez and go about the rest of their day-to-day routine. Dr. Guitierrez misinterprets the memo as a confirmation of his initial assumption that the lizard is a basilisk lizard. His curiosity is allayed. The chapter finishes off with an alarming and gruesome description of a.....
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