URIEL conspires to get Charley therapy • Not really, they’re gonna spy on Viv • Roger and Mitch case Andy’s place • Mitch deduces that Andy’s Illuminated • Which has really odd implications • Charley talks about her past lives • Mitch and Roger get eyes on Andy • And witness History B vibes emerge from a confrontation with a pair of fanboys • Archie questions whether Viv and Andy are Maoist-equivalents in the War for History

Jocasta has a quick call with her old boss, a certain Lt. Col. Anthony Barnes Reinhardt.

"Those posters weren't real, they aren't real, I was there, Tower of Power man! That was the poster! They're real. I saw them at a show. That other … no, not real!"

"You can be a fan of anything, really.”

“RFK ‘72” posters appear throughout San Francisco • The team debates the existence of History C • And learn about acclaimed sci-fi authors Andrew H. Krane and Genevieve Abeille • Mitch talks “soft sf” and “hard sf” with Jerry and Jerry’s friend at the St. Francis Hotel bar • Roger volunteers for tech-induced regressive memory retrieval by Charley • Westercon ‘73 is three days away

Mitch takes a hike up Mount Shasta with local guide Pete Kraus and, there, is confronted by a strange man wearing a crown.

Jocasta sits down for a session with her SANDMAN-assigned shrink, Dr. Simon Claire.

Archie grabs a “drink” with John Ritchie and learns more about the ontologically unsettled zone around the former Montgomery Block.

Jocasta tags along to one of Roger's races at Altamont but mostly just to wear kicky outfits.

Mitch and Marshall bring the cassette tape bearing the the ghost of Harry Houdini to meet Charley.

"No, you're right, we didn't help you at all," Jocasta says, swallowing hard.

“That’s not a thing,” says Mitch. “Is it?”

Roger stops a terrorist attack by the Children of Guy Debord on the 2020 RNC • Don’t worry, it’s just a simulation • Or is it? • Jocasta and Archie tussle with a kulullû • The birds descend on Dufton • Morgan le Fay arrives • Sophie loses her shit • SANDMAN mortars Long Meg to dust to save reality • GRAIL TABLE dies mysteriously

Mitch, Marshall, and their Midnight Crew hold a Houdini séance • It works! • Except now Mitch and Marshall are trapped in History B • “I think Houdini fucked us.” • Houdini’s ghost finds himself caught on Doug Rogo’s tape recorder • Marshall gets gored by a kusarikku • Mitch finds a magical elixir bearing his doppelgänger‘s visage • The day is saved with memetics, hypnotism, and cocaine

URIEL has a difficult talk with GRAIL TABLE.