Assisted Suicide.When Brock discovers Dr. Venture is in his car, attempting to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, Brock reveals he had converted to electric. However, the group realizes something odd is at play because Rusty is not acting himself. Orpheus realizes someone else is controlling Dr. Venture's body, while elsewhere the Monarch is using a new device to do so, with 21 and Dr. Mrs. the Monarch observing. Dr. Orpheus prepares to astral project into Dr. Venture's mind to free him, but several failed attempts at using the things Venture loves to gain access fail, until he removes both of the sons from the equation. Dr. Orpheus successfully enters Dr. Venture's mind, finding Billy and Pete White as the Freudian personifications of Eros and Thanatos, having to navigate Rusty's mind by means of his id, ego, and super-ego. However, something else lurks in Rusty's mind: the guilt from all of the dead Hanks and Deans. It is these that overwhelm the Monarch controlling Venture, who awakes from his fugue to berate Hatred and Brock for fighting over parenting the boys when it his duty. At the Cocoon, Dr. Mrs. the Monarch and 21 get drunk while watching over the Monarch's lifeless body, and kiss, as well as pose in an oddly sexual position to prevent Tim-Tom and Kevin from finding the Monarch using a device banned by the Guild.