The old man who stole the bottle turns out to be John Barleycorn, a dipsomancer from Chicago. He tells the group that he was hired by William Queen, an associate of David Temple's, to get the bottle. He agrees to go back to Chicago and leave them alone. Spooked by how easily the bottle was taken, they pile into a rented van and drive up to San Francisco.

Hearing that Scaggs and Bonetti have made some progress on the Vince Jenkins murder, they return to LA the next day. Bonetti gets Ray into the police impound lot and shows him a torn piece of a black trenchcoat caught in the door. Ray uses Past Sight to watch the murder, and gets a look at the Street Phantom's face. It's not anybody he recognizes.

Meanwhile, Floyd, George, Kellie and Arnulf decide to track down T-Joe and find out how he got the bottle. They find him and a brief struggle ensues, prolonged by the sudden appearance of an angry Rotweiller coming to T-Joe's defense and taking a nice bite out of Arnulf's arm. George frightens the dog off with a pistol shot and they make off with T-Joe. T-Joe tells them that he got the bottle from a crazy old man. They drive around for a while and T-Joe points him out. George talks to the man, who turns out to be a borderline schizophrenic named Elijah McGillicuddy who's in the habit of guzzling Coke and handing the empty bottles to whoever is standing nearby. T-Joe also tells them that the dog was a stray that Vince Jenkins fed the 'Immortality' formula to and was subsequently possessed by a demon. He's been trying to figure out how to get the demon out of the dog.

Later, Ray meets up with the rest of the group and they compare notes. Arnulf thinks Ray's description of the Street Phantom sounds like Hector Garcia. They swing by the McDonald's so that Ray can get a look at Hector. Hector is the man Ray saw in his vision.