Shadow tells Wednesday that Lucy was talking to him from the TV and he thinks he's going insane. Shadow returns to the diner, passing by the man Wednesday was meeting with. She is impressed by how Shadow handled the Technical Boy and she won't underestimate him. She offers Shadow a job to work for her because Wednesday isn't even yesterday while she is today and tomorrow. She explains the screen is the altar and she is the one they sacrifice their time and attention to. He unplugs the TV and all of the TVs in the display go black before Lucy appears again. Lucy calls out to Shadow from the TV, stopping him. As he is walking through the store, I love Lucy is playing on one of the TVs in the store's entertainment section. Shadow heads to a superstore to get the items on Wednesday's list, including maps, romance novels, cigarettes, and vodka. He gives Shadow a list and sends him shopping. They stop at a diner where Wednesday is meeting someone. Their first stop is Chicago to get Wednesday's hammer. Wednesday informs Shadow they won't ever take the highway and will take back roads to recruit various people to attend a meeting in one of the most sacred places in America. They take off in Wednesday's car, Betty, and start driving. Wednesday tells Shadow that he only gets to be upset for so long because Laura was cheating on him. Shadow says no because it was Laura's town. After he is finished, Wednesday arrives, asking if he'll miss Eagle Point. He cleans the house, scrubbing the bathroom floor so hard his fingers bleed. He scrolls through her texts and finds a dick pic from Robbie, confirming their affair. Once he's finished packing, he opens the box and removes Laura's cell phone. He avoids the coroner's box with Laura's belongings, leaving it for last. The next day, he arrives at Laura's house to pack up her stuff. He tells her she's dead and she replies that he is having a bad dream and he wakes up to find himself alone. He goes to bed and dreams of Laura visiting him. Shadow goes to his room and draws up a bath. Wednesday promises that he is angry about Technical Boy and has a plan. Wednesday offers him occupational hazard pay and doubles his salary. He tells Wednesday how Technical Boy hijacked him and tried to kill him.
He returns to the motel and pounds on Wednesday's door, disrupting him with a young, blonde woman. Shadow tells him no and to not involve the police. The nurse asks if he was shot because he would have to call the police. Shadow goes to a hospital to treat the injuries he received from Technical Boy's Children. A plank of the destroyed ship washes ashore and Anansi the Spider arrives in America. Okoye frees the rest of the the slaves and they set fire to the ship. Another man says that it will kill them all and Anansi replies that they're already dead and might as well die in sacrifice instead of subjugation. Okoye is angered by what he hears and Anansi tells him to use that anger to go upstairs to kill the Dutch slavers and set fire to the ship. He informs them that they are Black and will be enslaved by white people for centuries, worked to death, murdered, shot in the back by police. Nancy manifests from a spider and begins to tell them a story. A man, Okoye, prays in desperation to Anansi, pleading for help and telling him he would give him gifts if he had them. Ibis writes a story of a Dutch slave ship and the shackled people within its hold who are being transported to America to be sold.
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