Set in 1935. Pilot Jesse Bravo is hired to act as stunt-co-ordinator on a movie shooting in Lone Pine. The cast of characters who converge on Lone Pine include crime boss Kardos trying to find Bo Bannon, who has run up a large gambling debt to him. Bannon is engaged to Vivi Powell, who breaks it off with him when she finds out about the debt. Kardos is involved in a car-crash en-route and shows up at the airfield in bandages, hotly followed by the police who have gotten a lead from the number-plate of his wrecked car.; The mysterious MacQuarb shows Bishop and Wells the past and the future, then sends them into the future to rescue Restin and Adam, destroy the Morlocks, and restore the correct order of things. Adam and his wife Louise have to remain in the future were they will rebuild the world.; Voltar and Minorca journey to the Forest of Thorns which guards the entrance to the Goblin underworld. The thorns attack them, killing Minorca and disabling Voltar.