[image description: new scene, outdoors, day. establishing shot of the grand exterior of what the webcomic’s yellow narration box describes as “the stately blue water village mansion of one malcolm landgraab the fourth”. through arched double windows on the ground floor we can just make out malcol, clad only in his grey briefs, having a drink by the bar, and maggie, fully dressed, seated at the dining room table. “but we are fortunate to have been chosen,” she is saying. “don’t you see that, malcolm?” a second narration box continues: “to whom maggie has returned, with his car and something else!”]