at school, kyle angrily confronts cartman over his fraudulent psychic abilities, but cartman defiantly insists that he has such powers, and convinces the other frightened school children of this, though not kyle, stan, and kenny. the left-hand murders resume, but instead of realizing his mistake, yates rationalizes that these are copycat killings. at the next crime scene, the boys meet a disturbed man named michael deets who is quite obviously the murderer, but yates refuses to listen to kyle's pleas, focusing instead on cartman's fake visions.