Randi's ex-fiancee movie producer Charlie Beaudine falsely promises to option Ian's book; Ian's department head apparently kills him, adding him to her horde of cannabalistic zombies.
When Randi's California friend Ellen Cravitz is killed by a troll in league with aliens, Ian and Randi go to the U.S. to investigate, and decide to stay when Ian becomes host of his own talk show about the supernatural, How Strange, on station KBLA.