Possible Clues:

• Figure on academic as part of body
• Tissue connecting muscles to bones
• Leg-puller perhaps plants 'X' on professor
• Bodily connector
• Working on care for muscle attachment
• One doing an unexpected stretch for this won't be able to go on the run to catch up with gangster
• Bodily band
• Cord of tissue
• Achilles, for example
• Cord associated with Achilles