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In "Excellent Soap," Walter and William find themselves at a crossroads when their experiments face funding cuts—until Richard Bradbury of the Fresh Start Soap Company offers a mysterious lifeline at a hidden Alaska base. There, they meet Dr. Rachael Matheson and uncover a chilling discovery: a cache of decapitated missing scientists, leaving them to question just what kind of research they’ve been pulled into.

In "The Escape," Rachael Matheson seeks help from Walter and William to flee a facility where past scientists are preserved as living heads in glass jars. When Walter reads her mind to verify her story, they devise a plan to teleport out—only to be shot during the attempt.

In "Best Laid Plans," Walter and William are drawn into a dangerous mystery when the USAF delivers a set of mysterious plans seized from a lab in Argentina. Following the blueprints leads them to build a device that unexpectedly sends them back to Nazi Germany—where they’re captured and forced to confront a past that’s far more personal than they ever imagined.

In "It Runs in the Family," Walter and Hans—two versions of the same man from different timelines—must set aside their differences to repair a broken time machine. As they race against time, the stakes rise when they uncover a way to send Hitler back to prehistoric times, but the true cost of their choice remains uncertain.

In "null," Frank finds himself inexplicably swapped with an inmate named Jones, while a mysterious experiment in Montana goes awry—leaving a Russian cosmonaut suddenly host to an unfamiliar presence. The story unfolds with quiet dread, probing the fragile boundaries between mind and body.

In "null," Johnson wakes on a train to find his briefcase gone—only to learn he has one day to recover it, or face death. As he follows the trail to another train, his pursuit leads him to a shocking confrontation that blurs the line between self and stranger.

In the quiet isolation of a research facility, a child known only as Jo is raised in secrecy, his presence a mystery wrapped in tragedy. As he grows, he begins to uncover the truth behind his origins and the world beyond the walls meant to contain him.

In "null," an astronaut's mysterious death on a space station sparks a congressional inquiry, unraveling his past through fragmented flashbacks. As memories of his trial with the experimental drug Provitic surface, the line between human limits and scientific ambition blurs.

In "null," reporter Michelle Taylor finds herself drawn into a web of corporate secrecy when her investigations into strange phenomena lead her to Massive Dynamic. After being invited to tour their research facility, she witnesses an unsettling experiment in organic duplication—only to wake up convinced the company is a force for good, her doubts now replaced by unsettling certainty.