Tyler Struhl first appears in "Love Sick" as a socially inept computer store employee who is a Peeping Tom. This tendency causes him to be fired from his job, but he possesses hacker skills on a par with Claudia Donovan, and has written a virus with the ability to access clients' computers and to shut down the systems of his former place of employment. Regrettably, he unleashes his virus whilst wearing a family heirloom, Judah Loew ben Belazel's Amulet, the artifact used in the creation of the original Prague golem, and his work, which is inanimate, is animated by the "truth" (the Hebrew characters for Emet) inscribed on the amulet, bringing forth a hybrid of technology and magic capable of rewriting human DNA to a silicon base, thereby simultaneously killing and effectively petrifying the