User blog comment:GreekRoman/Talk: Sam the Hero?/@comment-5125046-20120907060829

No. Sam has a much more powerful enemy to confront - himself and his own abilities. His has to prove to himself that he is capable of leading the people of Perdido Beach, and that will be his victory. Destroying the Gaiaphage will probably involve at least one death, possibly Quinn or Edilio, and will also probably involve both Sam and Caine, but I think that the defeating of the Gaiaphage will be left to someone more powerful, such as Little Pete.