Robert Cook is a paranoid, spiteful former patient of Hogan-Hayes Diabetic Clinic, and the motive behind a hack in its computers that killed and endangered its patients.
History[]
Robert went for treatment for his diabetic retinopathy, but it was incurable even after a surgery. Robert believed the doctors recklessly endangered his health, so he tried for lawsuits, legislative petitions, committee complaints, and more, but he was constantly rejected even before he could start taking action. Robert believed a wider, hidden conspiracy destroyed his health and covered it up.
When the clinic's computer was hacked to drastically increase doses of insulin for patients, resulting in two deaths and seven comas, his son John was revealed to be responsible. John became embittered from his father's pain and his parents' divorce. When all evidence on John was thrown out, the prosecution pressured John by trying his father Robert, who went into tirades on the stand.
John finally conceded and took a plea to 25 to life, leaving his father exonerated. (L&O: "Virus")