Mac’s father wakes Mac up at one in the morning to take a ride in his spaceship. He flies them to a McDonalds on the edge of town, and Mac tells his dad about the censorship issue, who laughs at Mac’s recounting of the black marks in his book. When Mike asks Mac what Denis thinks, Mac says that Denis is too worried about a bug bite that he worries is a botfly that has burrowed into his skin. Mike says that the bug is actually an alien species and that it will hatch and grow into a cat. He explains that, like him, cats are from another planet and are doing anthropological research on earth. He and cats both report back to their planet and write articles about humans for magazines, like National Geographic for aliens.

Mac asks Mike if he is really his father and whether it’s approved for aliens from another planet to have babies with humans. His father replies that he wanted to learn about love and that when he met Mac’s mother, he thought she could teach him. Mac asks if he loved his mom, and he replies that she loved him, but he couldn’t love her the way humans do.