Mitch gets to planning out The St.-Germain School.

Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate

Roger and Jocasta visit a UFO crash site • Jocasta goes night-diving on acid • Mishipeshu, the Underwater Panther, feasts • SANDMAN recovers a prop saucer and a pair of weird crystals • Archie and Marshall meet Agent RAVEN • “Lily” is reunited with “Rose” • URIEL hands off Sidney Gottlieb and Jolly West • Jocasta dreams of the Pure Tongue

Bertha Cody and Maria Reiche indulge a bunch of white dorks about archaeology, history, language, and the nature of existence.

Mitch, tripping, has another meeting with the Janitor, whom he calls Matt.

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

URIEL reassembles • And quickly splits up again • The field team investigates the site of a future controversial landmark in Georgia • Marshall has a conversation with Mystic Kate • OPEC declares an oil embargo • The field team arrives in Newark, Ohio • Jocasta finds herself at the other end of a causal time loop

Almost heaven, West Virginia / Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River

Archie has a meeting with the Voice of Control • A deal is tentatively reached • Charley stops the Indians from singing using mad science • And delves into the inner astral • Roger communes with the dead • Morris gets shot • He’ll live • Roger and Charley close the subduction zone at Point One • The A Team finds a strange Sumerian hut deep in the West Virginian hills

Mitch, Marshall, and Jocasta arrive in upstate New York to investigate the murky depths of Lake Champlain.

Roger sits in on a police interrogation • Mitch finds a gagkula on the beach • Charley practices her astral projection • Jocasta and Marshall interrogate a motel clerk about Alpha Leonis • Roger, Mitch, and Charley delve deeper into the mind of Calvin Parker • Who delivers a message to Mitch

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.