As if by magic, after a few seconds, the alien creature's tentacles gave up their grip, as if they suddenly recognized Tyler's true identity.
The large green eye remained pointed forward, and the doctor began to walk, moving to a desk on the other side of the room, the surface of which had been completely emptied from each object, becoming a simple, large, metal table.
The doctor leaned the Koinobiont's body on it and walked away again, approaching his closet and opening one of the doors. Then he lowered himself and began to rummage down, between some clothes and hulls, looking for something he had purposely hidden in there.
"Aaah... here it is" he said, standing up again and looking at the shimmering object in his hands: it was a brand new scalpel, still sealed in its packaging, which had been stolen from one of the medical labs on the ship.
