Still looking for clues about the House of Renunciation, Floyd gets some Dirk Allen books from the library, including God's A-Bomb and a collection of TV scripts called Turn That Thing Off!. Arnulf looks online to try to find a library with a copy of either Perea-Robles book and finds a record for it at the University of Idaho library.

George and Ray play the jukebox at Oscar's, asking questions about Prometheus Christian and the House of Renunciation:

Q. What happened to Prometheus Christian?
A. There's a stranger in the house no one will ever see, but everybody says he looks like me (from "Stranger in the House").
Q. What does he want?
A. One day you're gonna have to face the deep, dark truthful mirror (from "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror")
Q. Where is the House of Renunciation?
A. And in every home . . . and in every home . . . and in every home (from "And In Every Home")

At the DAE office, Becker gets a strange phone call. "Do you have a wound that won't heal?" the voice on the phone asks. Becker replies, "Don't we all?" The voice asks, "There are more than one of you?" and Becker says, "I meant people in general." There's a pause, then the phone goes dead. Using the dial-back feature on the phone, they trace the call to a pay phone at Oscar's. Arnulf and Floyd head out there, where they meet the person who called them, a dwarf named Eric Snow.

Eric is looking for the Fisher King. ("Do you have a wound that won't heal?" "Have you abandoned a position of authority?" "Are you searching for the Grail?"). He explains that he dreamed that a new King would be crowned in LA, and he assumes it will be a Fisher King, although he admits that it could be a True King. Floyd has some inkling of what he's talking about (an Archetype ascension), and asks who the last King was. "Probably Huey Long," Eric says. "Some people say JFK was the Fisher King, but I don't buy it. Bugsy Siegal is another name you'll hear." Eric seems to think that he'll get some "mojo" by being present at the Ascension. He says he got the DAE phone number from his Tarot cards. George plays the jukebox a little more, getting no additional information, but reaffirming the David Temple/"King of America" connection.

A couple of men with umbrellas walk in, see Arnulf sitting at the bar, turn and walk back out again. Arnulf tells Ray, who walks out and uses "Past Sight" to see the car they drove off in.

Ray gets a copy of the script for the final Out of the Night episode, "Stranger in the House," written by series creator Spencer Nichols. The plot, in summary, concerns a mysterious man in a dark suit and mirrored sunglasses (in the script he's referred to as "The Agent"), who's trying to track down Desdemona Blacke -- or rather, he's trying to track down the spirit of Desdemona's ancestor, Sarah Prescott. Meanwhile, Sarah/Desdemona has learned to transfer possessing spirts from one body to another. As the episode progresses, Sarah possesses Angela, Jennifer, Victor. After Sarah possesses Angela, Priscilla possesses Douglas, Jennifer, and Desdemona. The episode ends at the House of Renunciation, a Gothic mansion ("like the Addams Family house" says the script) in a desolate, other-worldly landscape. Angela and Desdemona fight just outside the open door, as the Agent tries to get them into the House. Each of them is possessed by a spirit at this time, but it's not clear which is which. Douglas, Jennifer and Victor show up, and in the confusion Angela and Desdemona both fall through the door into the House, from which a blinding bright light emerges. Victor reaches in and grabs Angela's wrist, pulling her out. "Are you all right?" he asks. The camera zooms in for a close-up on Angela's final cryptic line: "Everything's all right now."

Looking for information on the House of Renunciation, Floyd finds a reference to a 1958 novel by that title by the Brazilian author Javier Perea-Robles, who also wrote a 1956 book called The Invisible Clergy. Both books are referenced in Dirk Allen's God's A-Bomb, in which he says that Perea-Robles is not the man's real name, but a pseudonym Allen uses to protect him from the Brazilian cult who are the villains of Allen's novel. A pair of books, reportedly English translations of the two "Perea-Robles" novels, were published in 1968 by Golden Goblin Press, but opinion is divided in both the scholarly and occult community. As Golden Goblin went out of business before the end of 1970, the books are very rare, and at least one bibliographic source says that The House of Renunciation never appeared outside of Golden Goblin's 1968 catalog. Checking online, Becker finds that the Los Angeles Public Library owns a copy of each of the books, but that they're both marked as "Lost." Further investigation shows that they were checked out in 1993 by Spencer Nichols.

Ray calls Nichols' widow, Glynnis, and learns that Spencer always had lots of library books around. She remembers paying the fines for the Perea-Robles books, since she couldn't find them anywhere. Ray thinks the books may have been on the set and destroyed in the explosion. Becker sets up a script to search online used book and auction sites for any copies that appear and Floyd makes an Interlibrary Loan request for the books.

Floyd and Kellie interview Prometheus Christian, who tells them he doesn't have much time as he's on his way to Florida to help expose a fake psychic. Looking at his office walls, they deduce that he's recently taken down a lot of framed pictures or documents, probably newspaper stories about his career. He tells them he started out as a well-meaning and self-deluded believer in his own abilities, but quickly became a mere charlatan. When asked about his recent change of heart, he replies that he felt he could no longer live a life based on deceit. Asked if he believes in any paranormal phenomena, he says he's not convinced one way or the other, but that he's never personally had an experience he couldn't explain. Asked about the strange events of Monday night, he admits he heard some wild stories from the sandwich shop downstairs, but that nothing unexpected happened to him. Floyd notices that Christian answered these last two questions very carefully, as if he wanted to conceal something without actually lying.

That night, Ray, Floyd and George break into Christian's office so Ray can use "Past Sight" to see what happened there Monday night. He sees Christian seated at his desk, answering letters. A glass paperweight, in the image of the comedy and drama masks, suddenly shatters. Christian looks up and a bright light appears behind him, through which Ray can dimly see the outline of a spooky old house. A man who looks exactly like Christian, wearing a plain gray jumpsuit, steps out of the light, puts his hand on Christian's shoulder, and disappears. Christian slumps forward on the desk for a moment, then sits up, glances briefly through the papers on the desk, stands up, and walks out of the office.