Connors! The group met the reknowned one-armed scientist, the world""s foremost authority on herpetology (reptiles), who was seeking a radical solution to create a "world without weakness" hrough Cross Species Genetics (or regeneration).He faints into a chair at the sight of food.He has the perfect media profile to impersonate "John Doe":He""s perfect, a baseball player.What could be more American?...that face is wonderful.They""ll believe him...That""s our man, he""s made-to-order.[A desire to return to baseball, after receiving the promise of a contract to have his injured pitching arm repaired by "bone-setter Brown," is the main motivation for Willoughby to accept his assignment and engage in the deal - it shows that he is corruptible.The medic warned: "Bites are killers.Black ants are the worst." He was also cautioned about drinking too much water that would cause cramps.The second more helpful commander, Sgt.Elias Grodin (Willem Dafoe), reduced the weight of Chris"" pack: "You""re humpin"" too much stuff, troop.In the marketplace, the Yellow Man finds the same American sailors arguing with each other.He steps between them and preaches he non-violent Golden Rule from Buddha, bringing them the peace of his Eastern religious beliefs:Do not give blows for blows.It has had a lasting influence on numerous films and other derivative works:the laboratory of mad scientist Rotwang, and Dr.