from a one-night stand in Las Vegas and has exposed his wife. Lucy finds herself in a mental hospital in England after she had been afflicted with the same insanity as the people of Noshri. She describes the horrors of the riots. A similar occurrence happens in Honduras. Hugh runs away from home after he confronts Jacob about his role in the Noshri disaster. March Peg and Decimus's sister Felice are driving to the Colorado commune that Decimus was a part of, known as the "wat", and pick up Hugh, whose car had broken down. At the wat, they meet Zena, Decimus's widow. They present the wat with a canister of imported earthworms. A Honduran man from a boat on the heavily-polluted Pacific, sets off balloons carrying napalm that cause death and destruction all over San Diego. Philip loses his job, the result of Angel City's woes from the Towerhill disaster. He is then drawn into a business scheme by his friend Alan Prosser, who runs a plumbing firm, to sell household water filters manufactured by the Mitsuyama Corporation of Japan. Alan wants to use Pete Goddard as their spokesman to take advantage of his hero status. Michael conducts an analysis of the Nutripon at Noshri and discovers that it contained Ergot, a substance known to cause hallucinations and dementia. As he is flying to New York, Lucy happens to be on the same plane and tells him her theory that the food was intentionally poisoned in an attempt to weaken the governments of third world countries to allow the exploitation of their resources. April Gerry Thorne, an executive at Bamberley Trust, is at his home in the Caribbean to talk to fellow executive Moses Greenbriar when he hears Moses's wife screaming. Gerry's wife, Nancy, who was out swimming, has been exposed to a nerve agent that was dumped into sea by the military at the end of World War I and is contained in barrels that periodically surface. She dies from the exposure, and Gerry vows to get justice. Hugh is becoming accustomed to life at the wat. He starts smoking marijuana with another member of the Wat, Carl Travers, who is also Pete's brother. They wind up making love. In New York, Michael meets with Jacob to discuss potential poisoning of Nutripon. Jacob wants Michael to certify the plant's new safety equipment. During the meeting, a Trainite car