Marshall gives Sophie’s cat to Charley for safe keeping • Jocasta and Roger report on Pat Price • Jocasta reveals she’s a time traveler • And she told Young Pat Price to be on the lookout for Mitch, in the future • Marshall gives Jocasta a needle from Sophie’s apartment • Roger, Mitch, and Charley research Pat Price’s land scheme • Mitch senses History B in the wires at SRI • Jocasta learns Sophie was battling glyph addiction

Viv and Archie sit down for an initial, introductory evaluation.

Charley and Archie discover a hidden device at the Ransom house • URIEL debates what to do about the chip in Charley’s head • Marshall cautions the team about what sort of people they’re dealing with at SANDMAN • Mitch reads his cards and threatens Houdini • “Ehrich, I know you can hear me.” • Charley saves the Ghost of Harry Houdini, again • Roger and Mitch destroy the chip

Marshall and Archie have an impromptu executive conversation on the way to the Livermore cafeteria.

Marshall delivers the goods on the INDIGO Program • URIEL debates what to do about the chip in Charley’s head • Viv settles in • Archie and Marshall field a call from Frank Stanton • Charley starts work on something called a “radio-frequency identification device”

"It's a working, a bringing into the world something that wasn't there before. They’re trying to turn Charley into something more than human. Or less.”

Charley and Mitch have a heart-to-heart over some late-night French fries • Charley tells Mitch about the Ghost of Harry Houdini • Charley comes clean about her fears • URIEL rallies around their Indigo Child • Roger proposes to build a Rooster House

Viv hits the stacks to learn about the Opposition and wraps up her first day in the office by chatting about Irruptors with URIEL’s resident Irruptor expert, Mitch Hort.

Archie wonders about URIEL’s relationship with SANDMAN writ large, and finds himself in an impromptu meeting with Marshall and Mitch.

Jocasta tries reaching further out, away from Charley's poor unconscious body on the operating table. Who's working these fucking robots?

Sophie gets voluntarily reassigned, to URIEL’s shock • The team debates what to do without their Librarian • Marshall is suspicious • Archie gets a call from his boss, Frank Stanton • Charley gets an encrypted warning about what SANDMAN can see • Mitch takes a hike, meets a girl, and prophesizes using French fries

Episode One in The Legend of Jimmy Trocano.

“Not only do [the Illuminated] know more than the common run of man, they know how to use that knowledge. They possess the muscle and the lever.”

Westercon ‘73 gets a little strange • The St. Francis slips deeper into ontological instability • Viv meets the field team • Jocasta arrives at the scene, loaded for bear • Roger runs damage control • The office team debates how to counteract Carl and Richie’s plan • Marshall worries about the PR fallout with Granite Peak • Archie starts formulating the idea of a meme-laden live-action “role playing game” • Mitch and Jocasta go bull hunting

Archie explains a bit about esmology to Andy, and the two invent a new type of game. Or meme. Or game-meme.