The next day (Saturday), there's a message for Floyd on the DAE phones: The Invisible Clergy and The House of Renunciation are waiting to be picked up at the library. When he gets there, the clerk tells him the books were already picked up. He says the man who took them showed Floyd's library card, but his description sounds like Ray.

Nobody's seen Ray since last night, and they're unable to contact him. There doesn't seem to be anyone at his apartment, and his car is not in the garage.

Meanwhile, Becker goes over the security tapes and sees that a man in an LAPD uniform entered the building in the night (apparently using the police override key on the alarm) and did something near the phone switch. He goes downstairs to check the phone box and sees that the DAE lines have been tapped. After some discussion, they decide to leave the taps in place and to try and remember to be careful what they say on the phone.

Everybody goes to the hotel where the umbrella men are staying and a brief scuffle ensues. The umbrella men don't know where Ray is, or who the cop is, or anything about any books.

Back at the office, they get a call from Ray. He's in jail in Mexico. They drive down (spotting a couple of umbrella-toting Mexicans at the border crossing) and pay his fines. The jailer tells them Ray was arrested Friday night for being drunk and disorderly. Ray remembers driving home from Oscar's, being pulled over by a police car and then waking up in jail.

The next morning, Ray is in Hollywood trying to pick up charges around a movie studio when a uniformed LAPD officer named Crowe threatens to arrest him for loitering. Ray takes off, and later phones the station to verify that Crowe is a real cop.

That evening, everybody goes to the Moroccan Arms for the company Christmas party. Ray uses Past Sight to see what the umbrella men were doing there earlier. He sees them use a wire frame to suspend a pendulum over a home-made Ouija board. Then one of them takes out a strange set of Tarot-like cards and turns over the top card. "The Fool," he reads. The pendulum begins to swing and the other man starts writing down letters. It spells "Russell McGlynn." He flips through a notebook and says, "We know him. A beach bum, hangs around in Santa Monica." The first man nods and flips another card. "The Merchant." The pendulum spells "Victoria Clay." The man with the notebook looks this name up and says, "Not here." He turns to a blank page and writes for a second. "Go on." The next card is "The Scholar." The pendulum spells "Floyd Sangl". "He's one of those webzine guys." The next card is "The True King." The pendulum stops swinging and points straight down. "Looks like we're done here," the man with the notebooks says. "Better pack up."

After this, the group gets into their cars and head over to Oscar's. On the way, Arnulf sees that he's being tailed by the car the umbrella men were driving last night. He loses them when they almost cause a huge accident at a busy intersection. He circles around and tails them back to a cheap hotel, but doesn't confront them.

Ray and George go to Oscar's and play with the jukebox for a while, after which they're fairly certain that the Blind Man and David Temple are not working together, that the Blind Man knows they're looking into his business, and that the murder of Nick Murphy probably has nothing to do with what's going on right now.

Floyd spots a newspaper article about Prometheus Christian in Florida. It seems that Cora Gleason, the psychic he went down there to expose, has admitted to being a fraud.