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- We are the champions, my friends… At least that's what Marv and Ed's team is singing because they won the game.
- Everyone goes to a party to celebrate, but Ed doesn't recognize anyone, so he catches up with Marv and they joke around for a bit, and then Ed splits.
- He looks at the card that he got. It's the Ace of Spades. He thought that would be last because it's "the most dangerous suit."
- The names on the card are: Graham Green, Morris West, and Sylvia Plath. Hmm… those sound familiar.
- Ed goes to sleep and has a dream where a bunch of weird things happen: (1) There is a school where he cannot understand the writing on the wall. The teacher there ignores him and then suddenly asks him to read the words, but he can't. (2) A woman is whipped and he can barely breathe seeing her. Then she asks him if he can read the words now. He can. They say: Barren Woman.
- Then he wakes up; he repeats "Barren Woman" to himself. Oh yeah… all the names on the card belong to writers.
- Audrey pays him a visit and they watch a movie—Ed wants to ask her where she was last night and who she was with, but he doesn't.
- Instead he tells her about the next card. Then he starts thinking that he wants—no, deserves—more than this weird more-than-friends, less-than-lovers relationship he has going with Audrey.
- Ed kisses her, and starts to taste blood. He knows he's messed up. Audrey tells him not to worry, and that they will be okay; then she leaves. Awkward alert.
- Ed heads over to the library because, well, he needs some books. He asks the librarian for help tracking down authors, but doesn't share who the authors are. That's his little secret.
- He finds at least five books for each author and wants to check them out, but the guy at the register says he can't check that many out… but then lets him anyway.
- Ed lugs the books home and reads all afternoon. After a little cat nap, he finds a note.
- It tells him that his task is easier than he thinks, which gets him thinking. He searches the book titles for street names, and eventually finds them in The Power and the Glory (Glory Road), The Clowns of God (Clown Street), and The Bell Jar (Bell Street). Yippee.
- But where does he go on each of these streets? Within the books, he finds a little spade on a random page—now he's got the addresses. He drifts off to sleep knowing that was a success.