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"Does Doctor Zenon really exist? I don't know. For that matter, do we three standing in this room really exist? Who knows? The real and the unreal. Where does one stop and the other begin. Maybe we're just a figment or product of someone else's fevered imagination. Someone from another world perhaps."

- Doctor Bob Tyrell

Two neurosurgeons named Doctor Foyle and Bob Tyrell come out of surgery and into Foyle's office. Foyle is upset with Doctor Terrell for undermining his authority during the surgery. After admonishing him at great length, he leaves the room. His assistant, Martha Larson tries to give Doctor Terrell some reassurance, but he is agitated by Foyle's lack of faith in him. The team has a high-profile surgery to prepare for and the patient is a famed nuclear physicist named Professor Ross.

A short time later, a strange man named Doctor Xenon comes to Tyrell's office. Xenon is a graduate of Reisberg University in Munich. He knows of the pending surgery to take place on Professor Ross and emphasizes the importance of making sure that Ross survives the procedure. To facilitate this objective, he lends Doctor Tyrell a pair of special eye glasses and a cleaning solution. He indicates that these spectacles will most assuredly aid him during the surgery. Tyrell is skeptical and tells Xenon that it is Doctor Foyle who will be performing the operation, but the strange man tells him it will in fact be he who conducts the surgery. After leaving him the glasses, Xenon leaves.

Doctor Tyrell takes a nap and Martha awakens him a few hours later. She hands him a file containing data on Professor Ross' surgery and tells him that Doctor Foyle has taken sick and will be unable to perform the operation. As Xenon predicted, Doctor Tyrell is now slated to take over. He tells Martha about his encounter with Doctor Xenon and asks her to check up on his background. He suspects that Doctor Foyle might be deliberately passing up the surgery so that should anything go wrong, it would be Doctor Tyrell who ends up shouldering the blame.

The following day, Doctor Tyrell and his team perform the surgery. The process proves difficult and Tyrell is nervous about continuing the procedure. He hears Doctor Xenon's voice in his head telling him, "You must perform the surgery". He asks Martha to get him Doctor Xenon's glasses. When he puts them on, he finds that he can see things on a cellular level now. This type of acute perception enables him to continue with the process and the operation proves to be a success.

The following day, Doctor Foyle reads the report concerning the surgery and cannot believe his eyes. He arranges to meet with Doctor Tyrell immediately and tells him how shocked he was to hear that he stopped to get a pair of glasses during the middle of the operation. Tyrell tells him about his meeting with Doctor Xenon. Foyle scoffs at the story, citing that the character of Doctor Xenon is nothing more than an urban legend that circulated around medical schools in Europe. He demands to see the pair of glasses that Tyrell wore during the operation. He has Martha retrieve them, but the lenses are missing. Tyrell and Foyle have no idea what to make of the situation and Tyrell wonders if Doctor Xenon ever really existed at all.

Professor Ross, nuclear physicst.

Martha Lawrence.
 * Doctor Zenon - graduate of Reisberg University in Munich.


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