Gertie the old barmaid detests Lyle and resists serving him a second drink at closing despite the “Twenty” he offers her. Flo starts pressuring Lyle to give up his pathetic longing for Silk when suddenly the bar owner appears and throws them both out. Walking to Lyle’s house, Flo notes the cemetery across from his home, which is totally toilet-papered by locals! Georgie drives up and argues with Lyle. Flo gleans his secret: Georgie will die, and soon! And on his porch, lies something big. It’s twitching.

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Cameras rolling, Silk connects Lyle’s history as a ladies’ man with how a girl from a brothel chose him to talk to. She posts the police sketch of Jewel onscreen for all to see. Flo adds that Jewel promised a return of “full function” to his injured legs. Silk suggests that could be sexual. She asks what Lyle and Fr. Matteo experienced inside Old Vic. Lyle is candid: he was possessed by invisible spiders and “pure evil” while Matteo “set free” prostitute ghosts by praying. Silk promises they’ll return to Old Vic next, and Lyle freaks.

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Rooney provides his old customer Lyle with his favorite scotch. He’s “over-served” before he sits down with Silk, his head full of bad TV news reports about Old Vic. Frank alerts Georgie that TV trucks are at the motel. Georgie is angry and calls Lyle, demanding he end his Old Vic antics. Just then Lyle is summoned to sit before the cameras. Silk is skilled at describing the Old Vic phenomenon and Lyle’s own foibles on live TV. Flo joins in. Silk asks why a “haunted whorehouse” would have a young girl talking to him.

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At Gurney’s Inn, Lyle cleans up and changes into the resort’s “leisure wear.” Flo notes how inappropriate his sweatsuit’s color–peach–is for TV. Riding back to the motel, Flo tells Lyle he had a near death experience driving past the site of his deadly crash and Lyle shares personal details about the incident. At the motel taproom/TV set, bartender Rooney is upset–the shoot will ruin his business–but Lyle gets him happily paid off. Then Lyle spots the object of his desire being made up for her on-camera interview: Silk.

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In her police car, Georgie vents to Sgt. Frank, her secret boyfriend, about the workplace harassment Lyle is causing. Frank tells her Lyle has been spirited away in a van marked FEARcom and Georgie freaks. At the motel in Montauk, Lyle is unhappy with the accommodations but Flo takes him to his favorite spot, Gurney’s, for lunch. Lyle orders wine and seafood and Flo probes him and softens him up for the interview.

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Meeting Silk is all Lyle imagined: she’s gorgeous and focused on success. But she abruptly leaves him to Flo and the guys in the FEARcom van. They’re taking Lyle to Montauk to shoot an interview with Silk for “Entertainment Tonight.” Passing the scene of his deadly crash, Lyle re-lives it, and clairvoyant Flo can also observe the violent accident. At her police station, Georgie confronts the desk sergeant, and Chief Queeley threatens her job. Back in her squad car, another inflated “ghost condom” awaits her.

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Alone finally, late at night, Lyle calls “Linder,” a police-sketch expert. Lyle offers him cash to recreate “Jewel” from Lyle’s memory: a young girl dressed in adult Victorian garb. Lyle has a fitful dream, seeing Jewel again, this time holding a newborn. Next morning, Fraser calls to berate Lyle and remind him his court date is this morning! Courthouse is jammed. Judge Sloane erupts when Lyle decides to withdraw his stay of demolition. Outside, Flo and Silk block Lyle’s path–he’s dumbstruck seeing Silk.

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Exhausted but smitten with the striking photo of “Silk,” Lyle signs Flo’s exclusive FEARcom contract without reading it. Flo, a clairvoyant, grills sleepy Lyle about his daughter, Georgie, picking up on their estrangement and Lyle’s belief that she is in mortal danger. Flo leaves, but now elderly, kindly “Glen” appears offering insights into the campers outside–the neighborhood is filling up with these motley people. Georgie calls: she is being sexually harassed at work because of Lyle’s ghost story–with ghostly condoms.

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