One day, Jeremy, the Carnival's monster man, bumped into Eliot Franklin before they saw Johnny Blaze practicing a new entrance for his act. Quentin introduced Eliot to Johnny before the boy's father Corky appeared. As Eliot turned his attention towards his father, Jeremy turned his attention towards Cynthia and gave her a drawing of her that he made. Cynthia got the impression that Jeremy loved her and rejected him, although he claimed that he only wanted to be her friend and Quentin introduced her to Eliot. She attempted to get an interview out of Eliot, but he turned her down. As the carnival drove, a man named Renaldo was tasked by his employer with recruiting the Monster Man from Quentin's Carnival.
Three days later, the carnival relocated and Johnny thought about how he was able to stop transforming into Ghost Rider for days before he saw Quentin refusing Renaldo's offer to buy Jeremy's contract. Johnny threw out Renaldo, who claimed that the carnival performer would regret what he had done. After the carnival goers left during the evening, Renaldo returned with a van and released a gang of freaks while Red invited Johnny to join a poker game. While Red and Corky played poker in the latter's tent, they were attacked by the freaks before they captured both Johnny and Jeremy.
