 Lister sneaks aboard the "Leviathan" with some explosives, intending to kill both himself and Epideme, but the virus talks him out of it by revealing that the destination of the "Leviathan" was Delta VII, a research base that might have a cure.When "Starbug" arrives at Delta VII, it turns out that the planet has been destroyed in order to deal with a massive Epideme outbreak – a fact that the virus was fully aware of, and used in its attempt to prevent Lister from killing himself.With Lister on the verge of death, Kochanski injects Lister with a drug that stops his heart, then gets his corpse to bite her left hand, infecting it.