"Please. My shoulder is killing me."

The next morning, they get a phone call.

Zoe answers the phone.

Oh good.

"Hello?"

If this turns out to be silence or heavy breathing or something she is going to KICK herself.

"Hi, Zoe, it's Walter. I have... bad news about your case."

"Oh no."

"I tried to report it and." Walter sighs. "It's not that anyone told me not to look into it. But it was quite obvious that they're slow-walking it."

"God dammit. Who is that guy? I've never met him before in my life and he came up behind me and hit me."

"Jack Pizner. He's a private investigator. Works with Hollywood types. Slimy fellow."

"Ugh. Sounds like exactly the sort who one of those cult types might send after us. Do you have any recommendations for how to protect ourselves? We've been kinda afraid to leave our hotel room."

"Buy a gun?"

"Point. Do you have any recommendations for someone who could show me how to shoot it?"

"I'm going to get off work this afternoon, I could show you."

"Walter you are a dream. I'll meet you back at that coffee shop once you get off?"

"Sounds good."

She hangs up.

"Okay, well. I guess I'm going to be getting a crash course in firearms later today."

Carrie does not know if she is actually Invited but presumably even if not either she can figure something out or a gun will be a Deterrent.

Zoe and Carrie look through the newspapers and the phonebook for any information they can find about Abraham Buchwald. 

The phonebook contains an ad for Buchwald; he is an independent CPA who focuses on accounting for movies.

"Okay, so - given that Echavarria was a producer, and a lot of his cultists were involved in moviemaking in one way or another, and we have reason to believe he's involved somehow in all of this, I think it's safest to assume for now that he was working with them at least to some extent?"

"Accounting for movies sounds like he's probably part of Echavarria's gang, yeah. I wonder what that 'towncar' thing was about."

"And 'Black'. - Codenames? - Cipher keys??"

At that moment, Anemone's acquaintance calls to say that she's decoded the books and she is happy to explain to them what the books are about.

Books of Account

-The books of account record information about the inventories and sales of a product identified by the letter N.

-N is tracked in very small volumes of liquid ounces.

-The distribution occurs through a network of anonymous retailers identified by code names such as “Slick,” “Moses,” and “Umbrella.”

-A single unit volume of N appears to have fetched roughly $3 at retail price (roughly equivalent to the cost of a car tire or a pair of prescription glasses).

-The codenames “Black” and “Towncar” are used in the book. “Towncar” is the name of the accountant who kept the books. "Black" appears to be the head of the operation.

"The drug! Buchwald was their accountant for the drug money!"