Alex Whitacre Post 2

When Lanyon chooses to see what happens as the visitor downs the potion, he makes the wrong choice. By watching the visitor transform into Dr. Jekyll, everything that Lanyon has seen and heard about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde take on a whole new demention. He now knows that they are one in the same person, and this did not go well for him. The inability to admit to himself what happened and the sheer complexity of the matter clearly caused the death of Lanyon.