Gray finds him there and begins to torment the doctor with references to their shared dark past. After Georgina's incision heals, however, the little girl is still unable to walk, and MacFarlane, tortured by his failure, goes to the inn to console himself with drink. On the day of Georgina's surgery, Meg Cameron, MacFarlane's housekeeper and secret wife, comforts Mrs. Warning Fettes that he could be arrested as an accomplice, MacFarlane advises him not to notify the police. The next morning, Fettes shows MacFarlane the body and accuses Gray of murder, a conversation overheard by Joseph, the doctor's assistant. Along the way, Fettes offers alms to a street singer and is horrified later that night when Gray appears at the lab carrying the singer's dead body. Later, when MacFarlane tries to renege on his promise by claiming that he has no spinal column on which to experiment before the surgery, Fettes visits Gray to ask him to procure another specimen. When Fettes pleads Georgina's case, Gray challenges the doctor to operate, threatening to expose a dark secret if he refuses. At the inn that night, the doctor and his assistant are greeted by Gray, who begins to taunt MacFarlane. Filled with remorse, Fettes tenders his resignation to MacFarlane, who refuses it on the grounds that human specimens are necessary for medical advancement. While strolling through town the next day, Fettes meets the boy's grieving mother, who is carrying the body of her son's guard dog from the cemetery. Later, Fettes is awakened by a pounding at the door, and finds John Gray, a cabdriver by day and grave robber by night, delivering the body of the little boy from the cemetery. In the lab that night, MacFarlane confides to Fettes that not all of the cadavers dissected by the students come from the morgue.
Later, after Fettes discloses that he must give up his medical studies for lack of funds, the doctor offers him a job as his assistant. Although the doctor advises an operation, he refuses to perform the surgery, claiming that his teaching responsibilities preclude his practice of medicine.
MacFarlane orders his student, Fettes, to examine the girl. Toddy MacFarlane, seeking a cure for her paralyzed daughter Georgina. In an Edinburgh graveyard in 1871, medical student Donald Fettes reassures a bereaved mother about the security of her little son's grave.
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