Doctor Peck is a character appearing in Breakdown, and one of the three people who needed rescuing. He is a scientist who has studied Cheevers disease throughout his career, a disease which his daughter, ironically, ended up suffering from. Becoming even more desperate to find a cure, he discovers that an ancient bacterium within an ice shelf in the Arctic Circle, Bacterium C Platensis, may be able to cure the illness. Doctor Peck led a dangerous drilling operation alongside Professor Goncharov to pick up a sample of the bacterium, but the drilling machine ended up breaking down.