A murder victim bears a striking resemblance to a well-known avatar in the online role-playing game "Second Life." Mac is forced to enter the game himself to solve the mystery surrounding her death.
A notorious hotel owner known for her meanness is found dead under an ice sculpture, and the clues to the demise of a second woman who fell to her death onto a school bus can be found in the book, "Peter Pan."
Cliff has a nightmare about spores which poured out of an erupting volcano and into the water which makes all the men pregnant, including: Theo, Elvin, Martin and himself.