Conrad Hearty For Mayor!

## Plot

We open on Conrad sitting on a scenic hill, enjoying a picnic. The camera zooms in on his eye, revealing the his frozen body in Dr. Blood Zamenhof's office as The Outlaws recover from the events of the mansion incident.

P.T. Sinclair lays on a hospital bed, shouting for Dr. Zamenhof. Zamenhof steps into the room, fiddling with various dials on the apparatus keeping Conrad safely frozen. The device is clearly a meat locker that was retrofitted for this purpose. P.T. tries to convince Zamenhof that Conrad is a lost cause and should be left for dead.

Remy McSquemmy and Robin Renard step into the room to check on the situation. With a loud AWOOGA-AWOOGA, the meat locker defrosts Conrad. P.T. confirms that the melted water on the floor was not from him wetting the bed. A slightly-above-freezing Conrad emerges from the meat locker through a thick cloud of fog. P.T. immediately starts arguing that he is more deserving of the blankets than the hypothermic Conrad.

Blood, having treated P.T. and given Conrad the antidote for his tentacle-based affliction, attempts to shoo The Outlaws out of his office. Before he is successful, they confirm that Blood has put in a good word with the tailor for P.T. to get a new suit. The Outlaws pile into Remy's newly recovered car and head for the tailor for some non-bloodstained clothes.

They pull up at Jackalobe's, the town tailor. Inside, P.T. rings the desk bell twice before shouting for help. After being chastised by Robin for shouting after also ringing the bell, P.T. rings the bell three more times. An excellently dressed man with a top hat and coattails emerges from behind a velvet curtain, announcing himself as Trixie Jackalobe, the proprietor of the tailor shop. Trixie mentions being aware of the newcomers and their acid-based horse crimes. As a sign of good faith, Trixie provides loaner suits to the "sopping wet man" and the "hospital man" in the interim as he puts together the party's orders.

Outside the store, Conrad begins to insist that "Conrad needs to go to a gun store; Conrad needs to go visit a few teens; and Conrad needs to go to City Hall." Trixie points them to a gun store run by Thomas Pickles, another newcomer to town who The Outlaws know from a grenade incident in their past. in a bout of serendipity, an explosion sounds from the direction of the gun store.

As The Outlaws approach the gun store, there is an obvious plume of black smoke rising into the sky. As they question Pickles, he reveals that the person who set off the explosion knew about the previous grenade incident and was wearing a bag on his head. Using her surprisingly powerful tracking skills, Remy catches on to another set of footprints she suspects to be Baggy. Thomas then hands a revolver to Conrad, saying he was told to pass it along from Baggy.

Remy, Robin, and P.T. begin investigating the gun store situation. Robin sits Thomas down in Remy's car and hands him a cigarette, making sure he's okay. Thomas does not handle the cigarette well. Remy examines a set of tire tracks leading away from the scene before regrouping with the other two.

Conrad begins an impassioned speech, spurring the gathered townsfolk to action. They begin forming a bucket brigade to save this quintessential American institution. A couple journalists show up, and Conrad places himself at the front of the bucket line to make himself seen as the center of this rescue effort. The journalists begin taking pictures and interviewing Conrad mid-bucketing.

P.T. examines the footprints, attempting to form a clairvoyant link to the person who created them. He is overwhelmingly successful, seeing a detailed vision of the previous events: Baggy physically attacks Thomas in an empty store; Baggy drags Thomas outside; Baggy hands Thomas the revolver for Conrad; Baggy lights a stack of money in the store and throws a grenade over his shoulder into the store. Exiting the vision, P.T. feels a sharp pull in the direction of where Baggy currently is. Remy, Robin, and P.T. hop in the car and head in the direction of Baggy.

Worried about the pace of the operation, Conrad pops a hydrant to speed up the water delivery. More journalists start crowding around to watch the happenings.

The three in the car follow Baggy's clairvoyant scent to the woods at the edge of town. Seeing that they can no longer travel by automobile, they begin pursuit on foot.

After putting out the last of the fire, Conrad gives a speech to the journalists about the "core o' Auroraboro". Upon the completion of his speech, he announces his candidacy for mayor. The crowd erupts.

As the other three head into the woods, a small group of journalists follow to observe the pursuit of the arsonist. When The Outlaws question the journalists's ability to protect themselves, they reveal a bevy of personal weapons. As the group stalks deeper into the woods, they come across a makeshift village. A journalist informs The Outlaws that this is the hang out spot of "every criminal in Auroraboro".