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Hand, please.

Gary Lester.

What's the nature of your visit?

Um... Visiting a friend.

You traveling alone?

Uh, yes. Alone.

Nothing to declare?

No... Sir.

Nothing.

Khartoum to Atlanta.

What's that... 19 hours, give or take?

You must be running on fumes.

What were you doing in Sudan?

Uh... just hanging out.

You know, tourist stuff.

Yeah, fascinating.

Tell me about the bottle.

Um, it's... It's an antique.

It's very precious.

Oh, please.

Don't touch it.

Yeah, the residue test didn't turn up nothing.

But here's the wrinkle, Mr. Lester.

This ain't my first rodeo.

Look, I'm warning you, man,

this is not a game.

Don't open the bottle.

Please... Please.

The hell?

You were right about the park.

This closeness to nature,

the energy, the people.

Yeah.

My senses, they feel heightened.

It's... It's like a...

A drug?

I wouldn't know.

Seriously?

You've never dabbled?

Seriously.

You try having visions like mine,

and see if you're still interested in dabbling.

I need more control, not less.

Huh.

Well, sometimes control is about letting go.

Psychic energy is all around us.

It's like a network.

You have the ability to travel that network.

But you have to lower your walls first.

And then you'll be able to see

how far you can really go.

I see coins.

They're falling all around us.

It's so beautiful!

Pennies from heaven?

Subtle as a serpent.

People have their own unique markers

for when celestial beings are close by.

She's, uh, rather traditional, it seems.

How's she doing? You think she can help us?

Well, she's more than handled herself this far.

You're putting a lot of time and effort into her.

Let's hope it's not wasted.

Wouldn't want to go down that road again.

Well, she's as tough as they come, this one.

And it's just until we can sort out

this, uh, Rising Darkness nonsense.

Then she's free to go on her own merry way.

Unless you scare her off before.

Not everybody's cut out to do what you do.

And not everybody has the stomach to watch you do it.

Well, then I'll have to go it alone.

Like I always have.

Now, you gonna make me guess?

Or are you gonna tell me what's going on?

I know something is.

Why else would you be here?

I'm not.

Where's Chas?

I told him to fix that cab of his.

Figured we'd work on your training today.

So, how am I doing?

You're showing flashes of precognition,

retrocognition,

clairtangence. You're a real bitsa.

- Come again? - Uh, a bitsa, you know?

You've got bits of everything in you.

Hold up.

A break-in.

Pretty clumsy one, too.

You might want to stay out here.

The intruder... Whoever or whatever it is...

will still be in there.

How do you know that?

Ol' Jasper went to a lot of trouble

to safeguard everything contained in these walls.

I almost feel sorry for whatever's inside.

Seriously disgusting.

Khapra beetles.

One of the most destructive pests in the world.

I'll assume that's not a good sign?

It's a pretty safe bet.

John?

John, is that you?

Well, bugger me.

Gary bloody Lester.

I... I knocked, but nobody was home. So...

You got yourself caught in the zero gravity trap?

I don't know what you call it, man. I...

Oh!

I just want it to stop!

It's been a long time, Gary.

I haven't seen you since, uh...

- Newcastle. - Yeah.

I know.

You know, nobody knew where you went, Gaz.

You just vanished.

I had to get away. I needed to straighten myself out.

Oh, yeah.

Bang-up job you've done of that, mate.

Well, with everything that happened, you know,

with Astra...

I just needed to escape, man.

Well, good for you, Gary.

Who's Astra?

Well, go on then.

What daft mess have you gotten yourself into now?

And why is this place

crawling with bugs?

It's bad, John.

It's really bad. But I di...

I didn't mean for it to happen this way, I swear it.

It started out as a bender.

Uh, then one night turned into two and then a week.

And then, well, I... I just got lost in it all.

I don't even know how, but next thing I know,

I'm in Sudan.

And, uh, I'm looking to get on.

But as soon as I saw him... I knew.

He had these, these containment markings all over his face.

You know, the power patterns for binding.

Some bastard had trapped a demon in him.

I knew what I had to do.

This was my chance to make up for Newcastle.

This was my chance

to atone.

It was like an irresistible passion

just seized me.

It wasn't that I wanted to do it.

I needed to.

You should've seen me, John.

You really should've seen me.

I did it, John.

I trapped a demon in a bottle.

Where's the bottle now?

Hey!

What's your problem, man?!

Hey!

What's going on here?!

Hey! What do you think you're doing...?

Hey!

Someone get security! This guy's crazy!

Hey! Hey! What are you doing?!

It looks like the Star of David.

No, this is the Seal of Solomon.

And this is the Taba'at Shlomo.

Also known as the Ring of Solomon.

It was passed down to Solomon

directly from heaven to trap genies.

So, you're gonna put

Gary's genie back in the bottle?

The Taba'at Shlomo has strong containment magic.

It's perfect for preparing

any demon binding vessel.

Should be sufficient

to clean up that tosser's mess.

You know, he's lucky to have you as a friend.

He's all right.

He's just bloody hopeless.

Nobody's hopeless.

I wish that were true.

His old man used to have a car dealership

and more money than he could count.

So, Gary always had everything he ever wanted.

Gary was good for cash and...

well, that's about it.

We had a bit of a crew that used to run together back then.

Gary was the only one with a car.

So, you used him.

That depends on your perspective, doesn't it?

Maybe he used us,

bought our friendship.