Refusing to collaborate with Dr. Zinberg on blood-transfusion research, an increasingly paranoid Thackery pushes himself to the limit, and beyond, in an effort to “solve the riddle” and beat his…

Already fuming over the hospital’s faulty new electrical system, Thackery tasks Herman Barrow, the Knick’s crooked superintendent, to deliver more cadavers so that he and his team can test out…