Synopsis
| - Late at night, Abigail Holland is awakened by a loud noise from downstairs. She and her husband, the Swamp Thing, decide to investigate together. It turns out to be Otter, one of the young activists they had met recently, claiming to be in great danger.
- Afterwards, Otter and Michelle decide to go live under the radar in Colorado. As they leave, Chester announces that he is considering going back to school and becoming a teacher; doing something that actually helps beyond joining environmentalist groups. Meanwhile, Abby and Swamp Thing wonder if the Sunderland Corporation will leave them alone.
- Of course, the Swamp Thing survives, and declares that he will be turning Neiderman over to Officer Rawls. Stubbornly refusing to cooperate, Neiderman chomps down on a poisoned capsule hidden in his tooth, and then dies.
- While Abby uses the phone to contact Michelle, another of Otter's activist friends, Chester's neighbour, Lester Boudreaux brags to gubernatorial candidate Ben Barron about what he perceives as perversion and obscenity going on in that house. He points out that Abby is married to the Swamp Thing, and condemns her choice of attire as scandalous. Representative Barron promises that he will do something about this reprehensible behaviour.
- Otter explains that after he had hacked into the Sunderland Corporation's mainframe, he had discovered Prof. Clark Johnson, his mentor, murdered. The police believe it to have been a routine burglary gone wrong, but Otter is certain that the professor was killed to get at him. Abby encourages him to try to sleep for the time being, and work out what happened in the morning.
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