Musket leaders meet with their benefactors in Yemen and encountered a strange combination of individuals and personalities. Eric and Tiffany arrive a day later after the others have left for the Amran hills. Eric meets the mysterious Persian cleric, Fahad, and encounters Spritz, who had been flown in separately. During the meetings, operation Milk Truck is planned in detail, and a working paradigm is established between the Americans and their international collaborators. This segment deepens the character study of Spritz and Eric in particular, but of all protagonists generally.