After floating in space for nearly five and a half centuries, Jedikiah receives rescue from Count Rabowski, a wanted criminal mainly hiding out in hyperspace. The count shares his dream plan of using a young male telepath (Peter, imprisoned below) to open the Time Key and loot Earth of its past riches, but the kid proves resistant. While Jedikiah plays good-cop-bad-cop to help the count coerce Peter, Stephen, keen to prove he's lately seen something in hyperspace, takes Carol with him to test for evidence. As Peter (successfully tricked into opening the Time Key) brings Rabowski to the Tower of London, 1973, Carol and Stephen return to the lab to find everyone apparently dead.
—statmanjeff