Archie brings a suspicious cereal box to work • URIEL discusses the implications of breakfast advertising • Archie learns about an LA animation outfit called Venture Toons • Roger and Charley discuss the ways of spirits • Jocasta researches a company called Beale Farms • Mitch and Marshall visit Dixon, California

Archie reveals the existence of the Sixth Man to URIEL.

Oh my sweet heavens. Archie goes pale and gets up and goes to the Xerox that has been taped onto the door of URIEL since he came here 5 years ago. The timeline fits. The portfolio fits.

Genevieve returns, but isn’t quite herself • URIEL learns more about the nature of “being in the Club” • Marshall makes a radical proposal for the sake of unit survival • The team decides to take Charley camping at Mount Shasta

Jocasta updates Marshall and Archie on her weekend’s research into comic books and comic book “culture.”

Jocasta spends a weekend doing her two (three?) favorite things.

Charley and Roger, helped again by Roger’s old “friend” from the Simulated Future, hack into the Augmentation Reality Center’s computer network.

Roger and Charley kill some time with a dance party while waiting for Charley’s computer to download the ARCNET data.

Marshall tries thinking differently and has a candid conversation with Archie.

Charley and Roger — aided by a spiritual acquaintance from Roger’s time in GRAIL TABLE’s predictive future simulation — consult ORACLE.

Rogers updates the Archie, Marshall, and Jocasta on Mitch’s infiltration of SRI.

Viv agrees to help Roger by talking to Papa Legba on his behalf about the emergent loa, Agent 00.

URIEL explores further connections between SRI and everything else that’s been going on in the Bay Area this year.

Charley makes a new … friend? over ARPANET.

Jocasta updates Marshall on her psychometric findings about Sophie.