Since Mist’s public relations aren’t that great and Phantasm is a skulk-in-the-darker, it’s up to Dr. Jackal to get his call on his 1-800-4-JACKAL to get him to be Grand Marshall of the Seattle Thanksgiving Day parade.

Phantasm and Dr. Jackal are still stymied by the influx of Q into Seattle. Info gleaned from UNCLE’s new base in town, specifically from Sgt. Williams, a rather enthusiastic temporary commader points to Seattle as a “test market” for Q. Q is able to be orally ingested, and stored in extra-cellular fluid throughout the body. It builds up and “crashes” the body’s major systems, and is very addictive. It is synthetic, but authorities have not had very good samples to analyze.

Phantasm gets the Sgt. to aid our heroes in a raid on Taco Hut. Turns out he had stopped a robbery by addicts that needed money for a fix. Sgt. Williams takes Sgt. Bill’s TV and the little group set up a “sting”.

Unfortunately, Williams drops lingo that is too street smart, alerting the pawn-house to a raid. Our heroes charge in, and come face to face with The Sorceror, a rather windy magician, and Radion, a while-haired energy projector, who tries to take off immediately.

Phantasm flies over the roof to fight Radion, who rather fearfully admits she’s radioactive. When one of her blasts misses, she shows Phantasm there is now way he’s going to stand up to that.

Inside, Dr. Jackal and the Sorcerer are busy trading blows. The Sorcerer’s force-shield is barely keeping Dr. Jackal’s blows from doing major damage. Finally, The Sorcerer is forced to summon an elemental to lift Dr. Jackal several hundred feet in the air, then release him so he falls into an old Studebaker plant. Ouch.

Meantime, out front, Phantasm smashes the hell out of Radion and takes the opportunity to bust the face of a gun-wielding goon. Radion regains consciousness and suddenly disappears.

Phantasm gets over in time to slam The Sorcerer against a wall, since his force-field ran out of juice. Unfortunately, he could not do a blasted thing about Dr. Jackals’s lovely fall and his meeting with the insides of a Studebaker plant.

Turns out Taco Hut was a front for an illegal scheme to purchase stolen goods.

UNCLE – Seattle

Sgt. Gary Williams
Sgt. Bill Reynolds
Sgt. Cathy Gregario
Corporal Lance Pertwillaby.

As an aside, Blue Jay is still hospitalized with internal injuries and radiation burns.