During a demonstration of Dr.Octavius"" fusion-energy-producing apparatus (fueled by rare tritium) with 4 mechanical tentacle-arms ("impervious to heat and magnetism") attached to a waist-harness and controlled by a spinal-computer-brain interface, the device overheated, exploded, and the apparatus became fused to his body - and his wife Rosalie (Donny Murphy) lost her life.OtherDaily Prophetheadlines: "Ministry Angers Centaurs." Fudge announced that the mass breakout was thought to have been engineered by "notorious mass murderer" Sirius Black.To assure he was incapacitated, he fired one more shot into his head.When Stryker walked over to Kayla, she grabbed his leg, and with her mutant hypnotic powers, was tempted to have him blow his own brains out, but she changed her mind: "I should make you pull the trigger, but that would make us no better than you.Bruce transported her via canoe.[Note: He only paddled on the right side of the canoe, something hat would cause the canoe to go in circles.I set ""em up and you drink ""em down....(A cut-away to a befuddled Dimsdale)...This is getting monotonous.Dimsdale takes a swig of the free whiskey from a bottle, but then spits it out.Taking his new position seriously, Dimsdale reforms himself and smashes the bottle to the floor: "Then I""m off the liquor.