Dr. Solomon Merkmallen (played by Michael Chinyamurindi) was a scientist who discovered the alien spacecraft on the Ivory Coast in Africa. He traveled to America to meet with Steven Sandoz, but encountered Dr. Barnes instead. Barnes murdered Merkmallen and hid his mutilated corpse in a trash compactor. Amina Ngebe was a colleague of Merkmallen at the Ivory Coast university. (TXF: "Biogenesis")