dr. mason meanwhile learns of sean's past as an entrepreneur and successful seller of a biotechnology firm and sets sterling, a 'consultant' (in reality, an industrial espionage expert), on sean's tail. driven by his own idealism, sean decides to look into the 100% remission of medulloblastoma on the sly (with help from janet in procuring the medicine samples and patients charts). helen cabot, an ex-patient of sean's, dies in boston; sean and janet steal helen's brain from a funeral home. sean decides to go to naples with janet to visit malcolm betancourt, a beneficiary of the treatment provided by forbes. tom follows janet to naples, followed by (robert harris (forbes chief of security), with both yamaguchi and sterling following sean. harris catches tom trying to assault janet. sterling foils an attempt by yamaguchi to kidnap sean and janet and convinces him to back off. sean and janet escape to key west where forbes has its diagnostic lab.