"Strix let his imagination run away with itself"
Oh no, there was Gen2 hanging precariously out of a skylight trying to get a "good signal" (these aliens find all sorts of excuses for communicating with their home planets) in order to inform us about the Manxie Queen and her clues.
Meanwhile Pauline was spending a week down the disco in Santa Ponderosa bopping to techno, garage and house whilst necking vodka shots and telling the natives how to cook tripe and chips.
But now Santa Paulina is home and she has to explain why, in her home town, so many of the shops have closed.
Did the shopkeepers flee in fear of her demands, did she tell them never to sell garlic?
Or, more likely, were they never allowed to be open in daylight if they wanted her custom?