Desperate to switch vehicles (because they assume they are being followed), Smith & Jones keep driving the truck for a couple of hours till they get to a truck stop. Smith attempts to commander a driver, but his hunger gets the better of him, and he find the local popularity of the proprietor's niece (a cute mechanic) palatable. He drags her to the restroom and drinks greedily until Magenta stops him. They leave the unconscious girl on the ground, where the cat's wails will hopefully bring her timely assistance.

Smith - telling himself that he would have stopped drinking before killing the poor girl, knowing that he is lying to himself - is shaken up by this; but not shaken enough to ignore the truck that is stopping near by or the plump truck driver emerging from within its bowels.

Determined to not let this become “another Vietnam”, Smith briskly approaches the driver and dives into his mind. But such is his hunger (the mechanic girl did nothing form him, not really being a celeb and all), that instead of bending the guy to his will, he finds him appetizing. Apparently, this guy escorts every once in a while a local troupe of boy-scouts on their excursions into the wild. Moreover, being a man of acceptable outdoor-skillz and taking ever so much comfort in showing off said skillz to wide-eyed children, he has become something of an idol to the younger members of the troupe. “Almost better than a celeb”, thinks the hunger-crazed Smith as he attempts to dig his fangs into the truck driver's neck - not even bothering with Dominate.

The driver is taken aback, mumbles a what-the-fuck, reaches for a supposed weapon and then seems to levitate a few inches off the ground, bending his neck at a fatal angle to a cheerful crack! - all with the kind assistance of Ms. Jones, who knows better and therefore gives Smith the look reserved to those who most aptly demonstrate exactly how much better she knows.

Jones takes the truck and Smith takes the Winnebago (yes, again). A few miles up the road they move the staked Piven to the truck and dump the hot Winnebago, then they proceed to Louisville, Kentucky. Smith makes arrangements for a celeb laden party upon his arrival, which should be about two hours before dawn, if they drive fast.

While Smith attends the party, Jones visits a local paper and feeds of the brilliant night editor. On her way out, she meets an old Toreador acquaintance. He claims to have been spying on the same brilliant editor, whom he was hoping to embrace before Gehenna started and ruined his plans, being of the now sterile twelfth generation.

Magenta does not really buy this likely story, and is being vicious about it (“so when did you realize you were impotent?”). The mood becomes so tense, that when the guy begins to spasm and reach to her in desperation she mistakes his desperation for aggression, tries to kick him and fumbles badly. Only after she lands on her ass and see him decompose and deteriorate to dust does she realize what is really happening.