Alone at the watchtower in Huntsville, Archie talks with his old friend Hobo Stan and implements memetic controls at ALLOCHTHON.

Marshall has some frank discussions • He also brokers a deal with Sidney Gottlieb and the CWG • URIEL gets to work righting the ALLOCHTHON ship • Mitch does a magic trick • Archie brings Hilary into the fold • Roger, Mitch, and Charley are dispatched to Pascagoula • It’s a real media circus down there • Marshall and Morris fly to White Sands to find Jocasta

URIEL’s preliminary assessment of the data trove mined by Charley from ALLOCHTHON’s computer system.

Mitch heals Marshall. Then he has a conversation with his cards.

Fueled by modafinil and obsession, Jocasta drives cross country with Reinhardt’s body, eventually finding herself in beautiful White Sands, New Mexico.

URIEL confronts OZYMANDIAS • The Devil gets his due • Archie delivers a stern rebuke • Compromises are made • The game board changes • The truth of ALLOCHTHON is (partially) revealed • Mitch works his magic • Charley hijacks the computers • Jocasta takes Reinhardt’s corpse on a road trip

Attempting to think differently, Marshall shoots himself in the head.

Sebastian Stone intercedes.

Forewarned by Maman Brigitte, URIEL races to find Marshall before he cocks everything up.

Roger catches a glimpse of a bona fide UFO • URIEL reassembles in Huntsville • The team shares their discoveries • And debates the spiritual angle of ALLOCHTHON • Word reaches HQ of an “alien abduction” in Pascagoula, LA • Marshall gets tapped by OZYMANDIAS

Marshall, Archie, and Morris take a guided tour of the Alligator Effigy Mound in Granville, Ohio.

Roger does some paperwork before seeking counsel from Lady Erzulie Dantòr at Judy’s Shrimp Shack.

Left for the reader: the question of how plausible it is that Redstone Arsenal would have a gift shop with stationery sets in 1973.

Kendrick Mead, Head of Field Memetics for ALLOCHTHON, distributes a white paper about the UFO memeplex.

Archie and Marshall learn about a UFO sighting in nearby Xenia, Ohio, and tap the remote viewers at SRI for intel on the ALLOCHTHON subduction zones.