 A doctor uses a man who is highly susceptible to suggestion to simulate any disease through hypnosis. The only carrot keeping the subject there was the attraction between him and the doctor s much younger wife. Finally the doctor decides to have this young man cheat death. When the doctor can t bring him back by signal or medical means the young man is buried, the result of an unfortunate accident. The doctor s colleague goes through his notes and discovers that unconsciously the jealous doctor gave him the wrong signal to revive him. His wife hears this discussion and runs for the cemetery.