He had returned to his home in Surf City, Maryland, and crawled into bed with a woman that was not his wife. The woman and her husband were horrified by this stranger in their home but to Adam Burgess, this was his home and he was confused about the whereabouts of his wife. Fleeing what he thought was his home to evade the police, he had spent the night in an alley where he found a cat piss soaked copy of the Lone Gunmen newspaper. Burgess believed aliens had taken him out of a parallel universe and place him in this one where everything was the same except him. Clearly, the publishers of a newspaper with cover stories like "Airport Bathrooms, Is your DNA safe?" would hear him out about being relocated from another reality.