Dan agrees to be Roger's interview subject but under unusual conditions. Dan expands on the philosophy of the Oneida commune but Roger is seemingly distracted by its apparent practice.
Dan has been missing for many years. On a hunch, Frank, Fleur, and Dee (along with outsider Roger) have traveled to a remote cabin in Canada to search for him. They arrived the previous night, found it unoccupied, and slept there. Our story opens as they awake.