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Marigold tries to have a Premonition to threaten the agent with: You see him in a car at a Starbucks. A little blonde girl gets in the back seat. She's wearing a Paw Patrol shirt and has pigtails.
Theodora has him Entranced and he tells his name and the girl's name: Brian Johnson and Sally. She says he has to work for her or we'll come after her. Theodora drinks from him and Frenzies. The agent's head hits the floor and Marigold gets Mirpuri to check him. Mirpuri is furious with Theodora and helps Chou stop her.
Kaspar tries to get to the top level of the Silver Palace but gets hungry.
Theodora calms down and ghouls Brian when he comes to. Tells him to tell his superiors that there was a misunderstanding with security and to check with LAPD for confirmation. Marigold calls Gary Golden and he agrees to watch Brian for Theodora - Minor Boon for small info, Major for big. She gives him the bluetooth glasses and phone to investigate and asks him to change up LAPD's records a bit if he can. He says cost can be discussed later. Theodora tells Brian to come back to the Asylum at 9 tomorrow and lets him leave.
Marigold renews Share the Senses on Christina and walks toward the Silver Palace to get a better look.
Kaspar sees Fordham in the upper level. A model has a small dog in her purse. Kaspar uses Animalism to call it to him and accidentally kills it while feeding. He pretends it bit him and throws it over the balcony. He becomes paranoid and flees the club.
--- NEXT NIGHT ---
Theodora gets a text from an unknown number: "They think something is up in Culver City." She goes to see Gary Golden and he says the text was from him. Says Brian told his handlers in Culver City that he got fresh with a waitress but they don't seem to believe him.
Marigold stomps Kaspar's foot "for Christina and Bijou."
Theodora meets with Brian who drinks from her again. Temple shows up and tells her about Yung Sixxy -- he fed on someone and fell into torpor. Theodora tells him about the CIA agent.
Dean shows up at the Bite Club haven. Says someone's opening a biker club across from Sweet Dean's but investigating only leads to LLCs. Kaspar tells him to be on the lookout for strange people -- sometimes cops, sometimes gangsters.
Bite Club meets with Yung Sixxy at the Maharani. Marigold is snippy with him for not coming to the Asylum party. Theodora tries to use Shape of the Sanguine Sacrament to remove the tainted blood from him.
Mirpuri studies the blood in her lab. It's infected with something similar-looking to Foot and Mouth Disease but modified. Theodora tells Marigold about the stars and Marigold uses Everything is Connected to remember a friend who was into astrology who told her about the government making diseases in labs, and a story she heard about a British scientist making Kindred fall into torpor. Mirpuri and Kaspar search the internet and find out that Edgard Yancy was working on a compound called EV-H07.
Mirpuri in the lab working on the virus -- not magical, probably genetically modified. She gets Pam's permission to inject her with the virus to track what symptoms humans may show. After a few days she gets a cough and acne-like sores.
Kaspar makes financial moves to bring the rest of the California clan to LA.
Brian tells Theodora that the Agency has been low-key involved in local rapper/mogul Mugshot's revitalization of a south central LA neighborhood. Gang called Abraham's Warriors has been involved -- they fight cryptids. Nicole Strickland is name of agent heading the operation. Brian says they're the reason behind animal clean up and gentrification in the neighborhood.
Marigold hears word on the street is that Anarchs want Dracula while some of the more wealthy power players want Fordham. She hears that Fordham may be thinking of backing out but thinks he's still planning on finding some kind of powerful role. She tells Dracula and advises him to go ahead and declare himself Baron. He says he will hold a party on Black Friday. She tells the Council as well.
Theodora tells the coterie she wants to hold a meeting about Hunters. We set it up for Sweet Dean's and invite all the Barons, including Dracula, and the Council.
--- THANKSGIVING ---
Marigold and Kaspar scope out the outside and find nothing out of the ordinary outside of a camera in the window of the building across the street being converted into a bar. We warn the others to come through the back.
Chou, Valdez, Armando, Damsel, Dracula, Delilah, Nelli, Temple, Fisher, Amethyst, and Fordham attend. Irena of the Inland Empire does not.
Mirpuri discusses her finding about the virus. Theodora discusses the CIA info we've recently learned and suggests giving up some information strategically so that the agency will still trust Brian. Nelli gets snippy so Marigold uses Dementation on her.
Temple will look into Mugshot; Damsel will look into the gang; Theodora will try to find out what the SI knows and how; Mirpuri will research Edgar Yancy; Nelli and Fordham will look into the new businesses; Chou will look ito the animal-trapping operation; Armando and Delilah will scope out Culver City; Katie, Fisher, and Amethyst will track movements in and out of the city, Marigold and Kaspar will look into Dane.
Temple says debts to Gary regarding information gathering on the SI can be spread around. Nelli and Fordham are way too eager to give up the Barony of Santa Monica.
Marigold visits her Herd and asks some of them to grafitti over the camera across the street.