URIEL’s field team arrives in Ohio to make a deal with the Great Lynx.

Archie and Marshall blanket the Columbus noosphere with patriotic memetics to sedate a nervous populace • Jocasta tells Charley what she’s learned about southern Illinois • Charley investigates the Kincaid mounds • And invents motion-detection technology • Then she travels into the Deep Astral • Mitch bears witness to a mass proxy baptism, of sorts

Charley spends some quality time in her lab, and also in the world of celestial spheres.

Jocasta goes undercover at Agrigenics • Roger engages in some routine sabotage • Charley explores the astral plane and discovers a soul-sucking machine • Marshall fields a call from Archie’s boss