Introducing…Pancake Special! Everyone’s called into Jean McCleud’s office to meet the new addition to our team. Maroon plaid suit, short red hair, sparkly fingernails, carrying a holstered frying pan. McCleud says that PS was on a covert ops team but all the other members are on a long quarantine from their last mission, so has been assigned to us.

The camera pans in from an aerial view to Jessica’s home in the suburbs. We zoom into her dreams: she’s Spiderman in San Francisco. A raspy voice whispers “All this and more can be yours…” Jessica awakes!

Malik comes bearing donuts, which means the case isn’t one we’re going to like. But it’s right in DC.

Malik is called into the director’s office—Jean MacCleod re: forest fire. Very unhappy with covering for that, also the sample from the fungus we’d captured is inert. This next assignment seems almost like a punishment, “back to the basics”—Hollow Lake.

Dr. Stillman gets a call from former grad student Irene Stolz, studying zoology. Her supervisor Dr. Cornwall is missing.

There is a radius of accidents that have happened that are in a circle around the town, always between 9pm-6am, on the roads that pass through the edges of the circle. Tanner’s End is in the center of the circle.

Three cars crashed last night around 9pm off Hwy 54 outside of Robinson, all drivers claimed fatigue. Two in nearby hospital, one wasn’t injured too bad, lives a town over. Were all passing through, crashed just before reaching bridge.