Doland Riven's personal and professional conflict between exposing his failed and unethical experiments and maintaining institutional secrecy to avoid personal ruin

Ruth’s labored breathing turns to sharp warning as the transformation overtakes her body—thick green veins web along her arms, a grotesque leaf sprouting from her skull. Her pleas for Lasky’s …

Doland enters the hydroponics lab and discovers Bruchner shredding computer printouts, evidence of the liner's Vervoid experiments. Doland reacts with outrage at the destruction of shared work, but Bruchner dismisses …