In which Mitch and Archie studiously avoid making small-talk.

Archie finishes his conversation with Ambrose Bierce.

Jocasta goes undercover • Mitch has a strange confrontation • Marshall tries to cheer him up with some cocaine • Archie interrogates an ailing Ambrose Bierce • Dan Miller shows up at Shasta • The Dragon Lady makes an appearance

Mitch and one of his Indigo Children wards happen upon an old worthy, near-dead, collapsed on Mount Shasta, from a different time and place.

Flash forward to 1974! • The abducted heir to the Hearst fortune commits bank robbery • And the Bohemian Club has a fire • URIEL-SF scrambles to action • Mitch stumbles upon … Ambrose Bierce at Mt. Shasta • URIEL-LA considers workshopping a new Andy Krane vehicle • Coincidences abound • Roger is still missing

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