He is an elderly man crucial to Brad and Jessie's investigation, who seems to know more about the true nature of the outbreak than anyone else. He was the head of the U.S. research facility in Santa Cabeza. Dr. Barnaby and his research team were experimenting with the Ampulex Compressa Giganteus in an effort to mass produce cattle to reverse the trend of dwindling meat supplies. Consequently, Santa Cabeza is ravaged by the resulting parasite, and the U.S government represses all rumors and indications of the incident ever occurring.