 The couple move to New York and Lansdale is approached by his friend and agent Karen Wagner (Rosemary Murphy) to co-produce his comic with another artist, David Maddow (Charles Fleischer).Lansdale however, begins to show signs of a mental breakdown, and when he shows the test boards to Karen, they are all marked up.The deal is off and Karen fires Lansdale, who cannot recall marking up the boards while questioning his daughter about the incident.