Steve storms out of Oscar's office and drives to a local nightclub where he meets with his young magician friend Murdock (Larry Anderson) to get his thoughts on how a person can snatch top secret files under his nose with him being none the wiser.

In the meantime, Oscar gets the lab report on the blank papers. It appears the ink was erased. In light of this new evidence, Oscar contacts Steve at the nightclub to inform him that he's in the clear. Steve is curious as to how Oscar knew of his whereabouts and suspects he's being followed.

Murdock rules out the possibility of wizardry as he assures that everything in life bears a plausible explanation. He nevertheless offers Steve his help in solving the mystery. First on the agenda is to locate Dr. Arnold Brenner (Robert H. Harris), the project inventor.

He goes back to Dr. Brenner's house to search his study. He breaks open the safe to find similar blank sheets of paper. Madame Marka appears out of nowhere and startles him. She starts feeling the presence of the intruders liable for the theft. She senses two persons who could be one. They are children who could be adults. Steve rolls his eyes in annoyance at her ambiguous answers.

Outside, she places her hand down against the tire tracks and feels the name "Purle".

While Murdock follows up on his lead, Steve spots a car bearing the license plate "Purle". He goes into a bionic sprint after the vehicle that takes him to a suburban house where an old woman, Mrs Wagner (Elizabeth Kerr) is pottering about in the garden. He walks up to her and asks information about the house residents. She informs Steve that she lives there with her two secluded grandchildren and sees no objection in his paying them a visit. When Steve rings the bell, Davey and Margaret telepathically order their grandmother to knock Steve over the head with her shovel and then tends to her business as if nothing happened. Jack carries Steve into the house.

Meanwhile, Murdock goes to a friend, psychologist Dr. Angela Burns (Linda Dano). She relates her study on twins endowed with an extraordinary ability to read each other's minds. More puzzling was their age. They were barely ten years old and looked well over fifteen. There lay the answer to Madame Marka's second vision. Murdock asks for their address.

Steve awakes underneath a mind sensor. With it, the twins intend to open a telepathic conduit within his brain so they can easily order him at will. They can only communicate between themselves and therefore need a special code to access other people's mind. They reiterate the importance of Dr. Brenner's notes on cell degeneration if they wish to slow their accelerated growth, an handicap to their extraordinary gift of telepathy. They also explain how they managed to delete the ink from the paper; by mastering its molecular memory and transferring the data from one page to another.