Episode #4: A Valentine’s Day Special!

Dan rushes to Gene Blake’s home, and both the guard watching the house and Dan find Gene Blake dead, and that her neighbor is Marvin Masterson, and his daughter. Dan is interviewed by the police, where dan discovers that the body has been dead for much longer that thought. The call to Dan couldn’t have happened! Dan is sure he has all the clues he needs to solve the case, but it takes him a while to puzzle it out. He goes to the home of the Masterson’s, and accuses the Masterson’s of murder, where Dan hears the same clock chimes as he did on the phone. Dan also notices the Masterson’s have a very fancy record player, that can record as well as play. Dan searches the records, and this scares Marvin’s daughter, who spills the beans about what she did. Marvin shows up, and threatens Dan with a gun, but Dan knocks him out. The police take care of Masterson, and Dan now has a new story to write. However, a letter from his landlord reveals that Dan’s rent is past due. 

Against his better judgement, Phil goes to the Rose Bar, where Gallagher had been, only to find Gallagher dead drunk in a room by himself. They fight about it, but Gallagher is pulling punches, and pretending to be more drunk than he is. When Gallagher pretends to take a punch from Phil and pass-out Gallagher in this room, Phil leaves him behind, puzzling over what’s up. 

Phil arrives at his boat to find trouble: one man runs from The Scarlet Queen, and Phil finds Kang’s messenger, Chalmers, wounded on the ship, with the dead body of McCallister on the floor of Phil’s cabin. As Phil dresses Chalmers wounds, he explains that the other man stole Chalmers briefcase, which contained the instructions and money for Phil inside. Phil searches McCallister’s body, and find’s a keyring that used to belong to Gallagher in the dead man’s pocket along with paper advertising The New Chicago Palace of Joyful Dancing. 

Phil corners the owner, Tallulah, and discovers that she seems to know quite a bit. She leads Phil to a room and tells him that “Chalmers,” who is actually McCallister, who works for Constantino, and has led Phil into a trap, and the real Chalmers is now dead. In the room, Phil finds both McCallister and Gallagher, who tie Phil down, and we discover that Tallulah was part of the con, too. McCallister begins to question Phil about the contents of the briefcase. Phil explains it’s a map of Chesapeake Bay, which makes no sense as a clue. Most of the thugs leave Phil tied up to be watched by one guy, while the rest retreat to Chalmers place, to look for more clues. 

After quite some time, Tallulah decides to seduce the thug watching Phil, waits for the thug to be completely distracted, kills him. Tallulah reveals that she is actually Phil’s contact, but couldn’t make a move with McCallister and his crew looking for Kang’s contact. So Tallulah saw Gallagher on leave, explained the situation, and together they come up with an idea: draw a map of Chesapeake Bay, put it in a briefcase, and give it to Chalmers to deliver. The decoy would then be stolen by McCallister and his gang. Tallulah unties Phil, but gives him a gun, and helps disguise it so he appears to still be tied up. 

Gallagher brings back McCallister and his gang, who want to question Phil for more details. A fight breaks out, and Phil and Gallagher knock everyone out. Gallagher has Kang’s instructions, so the next day they leave Kobe on their way to the next destination, sharing a drink together as they do. 

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Collier denies everything upon questioning, but all evidence points to Collier having used the transmitter. Suddenly, another ship arrives, and Collier finally reveals that he is from Volta. Collier reveals that there have been Voltans on Earth for decades, and that most of the crew and men back on earth are secretly Voltans, and that only Thorson wasn’t in on the secret. Thorson runs off, and finds the Doctor, who reveals that humans who exhibit Space Blues are secretly Voltans. Thorson runs off again to the radio room, and manages to get a message to Charlie, who happens to be a Voltan, too. When others ask what happened to the Starcloud, Charlie says that there’s been “No Contact” with the ship.