 He agrees to go for the money, which would allow him to pay alimony to his ex-wife, naming a newly discovered species of wasp after her.Arriving in Scotland, Dempsey meets Dr. Abernathy's assistant Adrian Foote, who fanatically believes in the monster.Dempsey rents a room at a local inn run by Laura McFetridge and her young daughter, Isabel, who grows close to him.