 In the parking lot of a supermarket, a young man shoots a well-dressed businessman after making a strange speech. As Frank watches the event, however, it appears that the young man killed his target with a bolt of lightning rather than a bullet. The scene then flashes back several days earlier, with Frank being called in to help with a series of very elaborately staged satanic murder rituals. A rather dull-witted man with no history of violent crime is arrested for the crimes and then confesses at his bail hearing to killing Bob Bletcher as well. As this is going on, the defendant s lawyer, Al Pepper, keeps hounding Frank to leave the Millennium group and work for him. Frank, however, senses something very wrong with the slick lawyer.