in 2002, a cult named sample launches a heist to replicate the flying pussyfoot incident via a twin cruise ship named exit and entrance only to be thwarted by claire stanfield and chane laforet's descendants, claudia and charon walken with jaccuzi splot and nice holystone's descendant, bobby splot along with his gang with unwitting aide from another faction called mask makers led by huey's descendant luchino b. campanella. it is eventually revealed that czes's tormentor fermet is in fact the mastermind and overall villain of the series after szilard quates.