Murray, an old business associate of Alan's, comes to visit after joining the church of Spirentology, claiming that he created Sword of Damacles and demanding royalty payments. Alan sends Victor to infiltrate the Spirentologists in order to convince Murray to drop the claim, but he ends up being drawn into the church as well. Richard and Veronica are both being secretly headhunted by a competing firm.

Misapplying techniques he learned from a new book on management, Alan sets Richard up to figure out how to work an Asian character into Beaver Creek to increase its appeal to American audiences, and leaves Veronica out of the loop on business decisions so she'll think she's about to be fired.