After sparing Graham Specter's life and earning his loyalty in 1929, Ladd Russo finds himself in trouble three years later. When Graham learns that Ladd has been pushed off the train, he becomes furious. So, as a man of passionate and unusual philosophies, Graham decides to kidnap Eve Genoard and capture Jacuzzi Splot to make an offering to his beloved mentor. While Jacuzzi and his gang take in an unknown woman, Elmer C. Albatross visits a prison to catch up with an old friend, and Czeslaw Meyer comes face-to-face with a man he had hoped to never see again. Despite their separate tales, these storylines soon intertwine, solving several loose ends and revealing the truth behind the strange event that occurred aboard the Advena Avis in 1711.