on seeing echsenfriedl, ayn gets turned into stone: echsenfriedl is a basilisk. hiding behind a corner and out of view, echsenfriedl tells alalia and fratt about his life. by dating the comtesse, he upset his greedy partner pjölk. pjölk's sinister plan was to murder all the early adopters of tele-o-vision with a single broadcast of echsenfriedl's deadly eyes. the nerds can hear the audio of this broadcast, and react with repulsion and anger, attacking pjölk's office. echsenfriedl hires alalia and fratt as his crew to build a new media empire based on his marvelous new technologies. the films ends with alalia and fratt live broadcasting a lynch mob of book-burning nerds, who are the fervent supporters of echsenfriedl's new world order of technological dominance.