Controversial writer Jose Chung (portrayed by Charles Nelson Reilly, reprising his role from The X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space") comes to the aid of criminal profiler Frank Black and the Millennium Group when a bizarre religious group known as Selfosophy (a parody of real-world Scientology) targets him for harassment because of his authorship of a short story concerning the cult.

As a series of still photographs pass into view, author Jose Chung describes the life of Juggernaut Onan Goopta, who went to college hoping to become a famous neuroscientist and instead was overcome by dementia and institutionalized.

When that publication folded, a desperate Goopta "changed the course of human history" when he published the first in a series of highly successful self-help books and founded the "Institute of Selfosophy," which taught members how to shed negative thoughts.

He explains that when Playpen magazine ran an excerpt from his short story, the Institute grew offended and instructed members to buy up all existing copies.

Frank and Giebelhouse meet with a Selfosophist spokesman, Robbinski, who insists his fellow members are incapable of murder.

Chung contacts Frank, explaining that the antagonist in his story sends similar threats before committing murder.

Frank concludes that the perpetrator is targeting victims he considers to be Nostradamus' three antichrists — and will attack two more authority figures.

Chung does some profiling of his own and determines that the killer, who was fulfilling self-interpreted prophecies, targeted his ex-girlfriend's teacher.

The trail, Chung believes, leads to a Hollywood movie theater where the victim is revealed to be the ticket girl.