Carson is moments from death, gassing himself with carbon monoxide in his car, when a mysterious redhead, Elsie, pulls him back from the brink. She presents him with a spear, called Ghostreaper, from another sphere—a spear that will make Carson impervious to harm while simultaneously enabling him to rend the souls of others from their bodies. She advises him to use it to take revenge on the people who made him suicidal, and the two set out in search of the person who murdered Carson’s boyfriend, Richard, in a hit-and-run a few months earlier. Elsie, a “bloodhound for strife,” leads Carson to the home of Dana Martin, where they learn that she hit Richard in a fit of rage. Carson stabs her with the spear, then learns that Dana killed Richard after trying to initiate a conversation with him about infidelity: Richard was cheating on Carson with Dana’s husband Harvey. Elsie explains that Dana’s ghost is now indentured to Carson, forced to follow him around and do his bidding. The trio sets off to kill Carson’s next victim, the boss who recently fired him. At Carson’s office, the trio faces a number of obstacles: Dana immobilizes one security guard by inducing a seizure when she sticks her ghostly head inside of his, then immobilizes another by making “his heart skip a little.” Carson kills his former boss, and the foursome head to the roof of the building. They see police below them, and Elsie anticipates that snipers will be on the scene soon—though Ghostreaper makes Carson invincible for as long as he wields it. Elsie urges Carson to go on a massive rampage, killing huge swaths of people, becoming a warlord—or else she’ll take the spear away, and he’ll be sent to jail with the two ghosts of people he hates. Carson opts for a third route, and spears himself with Ghostreaper—becoming a ghost bound to himself. He possesses Elsie’s body and throws her off the roof of the building, then leaves Ghostreaper deep in the water near the Golden Gate Bridge. He tells himself to fly, drifts past an impressed Elsie who urges him to team up with her to seed chaos, and heads toward the stars.