Lieutenant Bustybottoms and Detective Schmegly are working on the hunt for "a girl" when Rajiv comes in to buy handcuffs. He is rebuffed as "Only officers of the law get handcuffs." Rajiv asks about becoming an officer, but is rebuffed again, forcing him to leave and search for cuffs elsewhere...
The strange proprietor of a strange junkshop lurks among the stacks of strange junk. Rajiv enters and is told, "It is the handcuffs that choose the pervert, not the pervert who chooses the cuffs." Magnus enters, thinking the shop is Rajiv's Coffee Shop. The proprietor goes through several boxes of cuffs before finding the right pair: gold, heart-shaped, bedazzled with cubic zirconia, dated 1963, made for Frederick's of Hollywood. The handcuffs, Rajiv is told, come from actual Hollywood and have been on the wrists of some of the most famous starlets. Magnus senses danger, but Rajiv buys the cuffs anyway. For Magnus: an odd necklace, for free. Magnus and Rajiv are finally convinced to close their eyes so the proprietor can disappear mysteriously. When Magnus and Rajiv open their eyes, they are in Rajiv's Coffee Shop. Rhubarb pie is eaten.
There is an archaeological dig in Solomon's River. Dr. Spang and her graduate assistant Sheila, while digging for plesiosaurs, are surprised to find a human skeleton in a strata which shouldn't have had humans. Dr. Spang goes for the camera while Sheila finishes the fine digging using her toothbrush. The GA has found "some sort of silver, black-looking rock thing." Dr. Spang sees it is actually worked metal with the black tarnish removed by toothpaste remnants. Jimbo, another graduate assistant, casually remarks, "Wow, petragulite! From the Corathian Area. Right after the Dionecian." They are digging, however, in the Faluvian Era, which is before the Dionecian. The Sheila reveals that she found the petragulite in the fallopian tubes of the skeleton--a skeleton which shouldn't be there at all, much less with viable fallopian tubes! The GAs will continue to dig out the area while Dr. Spang takes the petragulite back for analysis.
- Will vintage handcuffs spark the magic between Rajiv and Princess Lakshmi again, or some other sort of magic?
- What's with Magnus' free necklace?
- Will the police department ever find "the girl"?
- What archaeological mystery has Dr. Spang and her bevvy of graduate assistants uncovered?
