The opthalmologic method of Capdevielle was next explored by Jake to show that the eyes of Tony Corfino were not the eyes of Tony Corfino. The technique of Tamassia and Ameuille was employed to prove the same point about Tony's veins. The umbilicial method of Bert and Vianny intrigued the courtroom and TV audience with structural dissimilarities of Tony's navel. By means of projection on a large screen, Jake demonstrated to the jurors and Judge Hayward that Tony Corfino, defendant, had an entirely different electrocardiagram from the Tony Corfino whose crushed body had been pulled, more dead than alive, from the wreckage of a burning automobile.
Late that afternoon, Ed Murrow commented to his news audience in the cadence that had been his trademark for more than forty years:
"We know not yet where this trial is taking us, though Jake Emspak is beginning to show the direction. Perhaps, we, too, could ask ourselves the question: What is a man?"
Less philosophically, a space-weary young captain, sending in his nightly report from the satellite station, Vanguard VI, queried:
"If this Tony Corfino isn't Tony Corfino, who or what in the hell is he?"
Part of the answer to this question was on display the next morning when the jury filed into Judge Hayward's courtroom. Before them, and angled toward the TV cameras, was a chart nearly eight feet tall. It showed, in outline, the figure of a man. The figure was covered with small black dots, each bearing a white number. In all, there was seventy-two dots.
As soon as court was in session, Jake called a short, squarely-built man of about fifty to the stand. There was a bulldog set to his jaw and mouth. He identified himself as Dr. Theodore Clendenning, Chief of Staff at City Hospital.
"Dr. Clendenning," said Jake, "I assume you are familiar with the medical and surgical care received by the defendant at your hospital?"
"Quite familiar," the doctor retorted, impatiently.