Vin­cent and Stan­ley meet with Wa­claw Szy­bal­ski and John Kirby at Cold Spring Har­bor Lab­o­ra­tory on the oc­ca­sion of its des­ig­na­tion as a Mile­stones in Mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy site. They rem­i­nisce about how the well known lab­o­ra­tory has ad­vanced the sci­ence and teach­ing of mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy, and dis­cuss John's work on the soil dwelling, preda­tory myxobac­te­ria.