Arnulf, seeing that there are no witnesses, picks up the body and puts it into the car. It definitely looks like him, if he were a homeless guy in a USMC sweatshirt, but the body seems oddly lightweight. When he goes around and gets in on the drivers' side, the body is gone.

Meanwhile, Ray and Julia try to talk to each other, but they keep both talking at the same time, saying almost exactly the same thing. Ray tries to hand Julia his business card, but as she touches it, she disappears.

Later, a series of phone calls reveals other strange events in the area, all around the same time (about 8 pm). Janice Wainwright had her bathroom fill up with sand. A traffic-condition sign on a nearby freeway overpass started flashing what looked like some ancient language. And so on. Grabbing a map, the DAE crew notice that the events seem isolated to a particular neighborhood, and that the really weird ones -- Ray's and Arnulf's encounters -- were within a couple blocks of each other. They find the "epicenter" at a particular street intersection, and head out to see what's there.

What's there turns out to be a police substation, Reliable Bail Bonds, a rundown hotel called the Morroccan Arms, and an office building with retail space on the ground floor. They split up into three pairs to investigate. Kellie and Becker go to the police station and use their press credentials to talk to the desk sergeant, who tells them that other than a brief phone and computer outage a little after 8, it's been a quiet night.

George and Arnulf check out the office building. The two retail establishments on the ground floor are a used clothing store (closed) and a sandwich shop (open). There's a directory of the tenants for the upstairs offices. Notable among them are "P. Christian, spiritual advisor" and "S&B Investigations." They go into the sandwich shop where the proprietor tells them he can't sell them anything but canned soda right now. Apparently the coffee pot caught fire around 8, and shortly thereafter they discovered that all the meat in their freezer had gone bad. George and Arnulf get sodas and ask about the building's tenants. The "spiritual advisor" turns out to be a Dutch "police psychic" calling himself Prometheus Christian. "S&B" are not, as they suspected, Scaggs and Bonetti, but two women: Darlene Sand and Emily Blood.

Ray and Floyd go to the hotel, which looks like it was built in the 1920s, redecorated once in the 1950s, and cleaned once in the 1980s. Thinking about the jukebox clue "room with no number," they look for one. It turns out there is an unnumbered penthouse suite that's rented fairly often for private parties. Professing an interest in holding a company Christmas party, they get the woman at the desk to show them the suite. (The other four have joined them by this time.) The penthouse is much nicer than the rest of the hotel. The group surmises that it's the only money-making part of the whole operation. Ray does a quick "Past Sight" to view the last few weeks of activity in the room. He sees that the "Umbrella Men" were in fact in the room, and that they were fiddling with some sort of pendulum/Ouija board device.

The next day, Ray and Floyd research the history of the Morroccan Arms. It was, in fact, built in 1924 by noted LA architect Andrew Scott. In the 1950s, nightclub owner and reported mobster Nicky Murphy was staying in the penthouse when he was murdered. His girlfriend, singer Chloe Welles, was charged with the crime but ultimately acquitted.

That evening, the TV news reports that local psychic Prometheus Christian has held a press conference to renounce his former claims of psychic powers and to announce that he's devoting his life to exposing other fraudulent psychics.