Connie and Thomas call up Albie and they all converge outside Connie's apartment, wondering what to do about the upcoming grand Pyramid-scheme ritual the OtherSiders are supposed to conduct today. While waiting for Zeitberg on the street, Connie and Tom run into Mike the street poet, who shows them a tabloid with a story about a peculiar mirror that has gone missing from Buckingham Palace, according to unnamed sources. Zeitberg calls up the palace and demands to speak to the Steward about the missing mirror, and soon after they get picked up by a black van and taken to the Palace, where they are introduced to Mr. Stewart, head of some Royal commission for handling Other Side affairs.

Connie demands to know what Stewart's people are doing about the upcoming Pyramid thing, and he tells her that they have their top agent working on it - Mike. He also tells her that since the three of them have already crossed into the Other Side a couple of times, they are more capable of breaching the barrier into that world again - basically, help us oh PCs, we need you.