 On the battlefield, West befriends his commanding officer and fellow medic, Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee, and shares with him his theories and methods on reanimation.Shortly thereafter, Clapham-Lee suffers near-decapitation and dies when his plane is shot down.West immediately begins work on Clapham-Lee's body and injects the trunk of his body with his serum and places the head in a vat.