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.

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.

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

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

Operation summary report from ALLOCHTHON central command for the morning of Wednesday, October 10, 1973.

A review of where things stand in the Cold War against the Kings as of Tuesday, October 9, 1973.

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

Roger arrives in Biloxi, where he introduces his new team mate to Papa Legba.

URIEL arrives in Huntsville, AL • It’s a Sandman convention! • Archie and Marshall have a curious conversation with Dr. Hilary Postel • Kendrick Mead and Dr. Sidney Gottlieb explain the situation • Charley takes a sneak peek at some confidential data • URIEL is disbanded and dispatched to various parts of the USA

URIEL gets word that they’ll be traveling to Huntsville, Alabama, for their latest, highly unusual, assignment.

“If you could interview anyone known to have died in the Bay Area, for the benefit of the Project, who would it be, and why?”

Roger takes Sophie out for a martini lunch. Hey, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere.