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

Marshall and Archie concoct a meme to cover up URIEL’s pact with the Underwater Panther, then SANDMAN shoots down a legitimate UFO.

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

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.

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

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

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

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