An explosion of apocalyptic meta horror.  And it ends.  As much as it ever does.

Everything is pushed to the brink.  Everyone is tested to the limit.  Death comes knocking.

All paths have led to this place, this moment, this confrontation.  The three stare into the face of death.

Hank stands at the crossroads.  The final puzzle pieces fall into place.  The three stake their lives on the question: Is the inevitable evitable?

A betrayal is discovered, violence erupts, and links in the chain of events are tested.

It all comes together.  Just as it falls apart.

The rise and fall of Carl Pregerman.  An old acquaintance is introduced, a demon revealed, a strategy devised.

A meeting at the Pathways.  A theory is put forth.

Centerville.  October 31, 1939.

Ethan, Vivian and Hank embark on parallel, intersecting paths.

Ethan discovers a piece of the puzzle.  Vivian gets a lesson in chaos theory.

Hollywood Boulevard: Now.  Perd Kronk has an apotheosis.

Jimmy stays late after rehearsal and has an unsettling exchange.

Vivian calls a friend and unearths obscure history.  Hank travels north.

Jimmy rehearses for the night of his life.  Ethan vivisects the interference and reveals a clue.

Hank lives the dream.

Ethan thinks he's over his ex-girlfriend.  He's wrong.  Vivian tries to alert the authorities.  And pays the price.

Vivian's audiobook turns brutal.  Hank sinks deeper into nightmare.

Ethan is seduced by the dark, erotic world of his audiobook.  And pays the price.

Things are looking up for Jimmy when he gets cast in the hometown production of War of the Worlds and walks home with the most beautiful girl in any world.

San Diego: Now.  Hank Keller discovers an audiobook that's everything he's dreamed of,  and more.  Much, much more.

San Francisco: Now.  Vivian Antonelli finds an audiobook to distract herself from her daughter's absence.  It has the opposite effect.

Los Angeles: Now.  Ethan Harding is out of a job, out of love, and out of luck.  His only chance is to discover how to… BREAK THROUGH.

Halloween: 1938.  Jimmy Morton listens to Orson Welles' War of the Worlds.  He will try to forget this night for the rest of his life.