He is obsessed with performing surgical transplants and continues to experiment with amputated limbs he steals from the local hospital. While driving to his secret mountain laboratory to tend to an emergency, Cortner’s reckless driving causes an accident and his car careens off the road, killing his fiancée Jan. Not to be discouraged, he goes into the burning wreckage and wraps the decapitated head of his fiancée in his jacket and tries to keep it alive long enough to find a suitable body to re-attach it to. Bill only has 48-50 hours to come up with a new body.