Geoffrey Howell

Biography
Geoffrey Howell was a dentist who lived in San Francisco, California with his girlfriend Elizabeth Driscoll. In 1978, Elizabeth discovered a rare breed of plant which she believed to be a Grex. She put it in some water and left it on the nightstand on Geoffrey's side of their bed. What neither of them realized, was that the plant had pollinated with an alien organism that would seek out human bodies and duplicate them, ultimately destroying the original form. This body snatcher duplicated Geoffrey while he slept. The following morning, he disposed of the remains of the plant as well as Geoffrey's original body. Like all body snatcher doppelgängers, the new Geoffrey shared the same memories and physical characteristics of the original, but without any capacity to express emotion. Elizabeth immediately recognized that something was wrong with Geoffrey and consulted her colleague, health inspector Matthew Bennell on the matter.