Then we saw the rim of the Earth melt.Then there was a tornado in the sky." The date meter on the spaceship displayed the present year 1973, but before had registered "3950 something.After a month of time passes, the Warriners"" divorce is due to be final in approximately sixty days.Lucy has rented another apartment which she shares with her feisty Aunt Patsy, but she has become disconsolate and bored ("moping around," according o her Aunt) during the "readjustment" period of her separation from Jerry.Wyatt returns to town, wakes up he mayor, and offers to take the Marshal""s job immediately to tame he community of Tombstone [its name symbolizes death], bring decency o the wild land, and seek revenge - legally - for the killing:Mayor? Is that Marshal job still open?.Out on the street, as Ethan had predicted, three white-coated men and a female Czech agent (undercover IMF agents) from a pollution control van emerged and climbed the stairs, where they were directed by trench-coated Kittridge to assault the apartment with guns drawn.