Tine in Boston: the Canadian Problem — Concavity politics and the Entertainment become one plot — "The U.S.’s Canadian Problem is U.S.O.U.S…"

Pickup 12's core, and the hinge of the whole plot: the trace on the samizdat "place[s] the likely dissemination-point someplace along the U.S. north border," which routes the case to "U.S.O.U.S. Anti-Anti-O.N.A.N. Activities' Agency" — the "Canadian Problem" desk. Here, for the first time at the federal level, the Concavity politics and the Entertainment fuse into a single plot: the lethal film is not a lone-nut artifact but a suspected weapon of the anti-O.N.A.N. insurgency, and "the possibility of Canadian involvement" is literally "what has brought to metro Boston Rodney Tine." The O.N.A.N. founding grievance and the samizdat war are revealed to be one story.