Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
Logically he should try to kill the gold tooth and pry the philosopher's stone from his dead fingers. I mean, if somebody uses human meat shields and has a hostage's throat slit to force your hand, you can't really trust his word, can you? Especially when obeying him will only worsen your own position considerably.
Good idea, but it still wouldn't help Riza. Mustang has no clue how to use the stone to heal her, but the doctor, since he's a doctor/alchemist, probably can.

I'm also a little perplexed about the whole human transmutation and sacrifices thing. Maybe quite a few things need to go into the mixture. For the plots sake, lets just assume that normal alchemists can't really perform it, and even if they could, they wouldn't survive it. Plus something else explaining why Kimbley couldn't do it.