Lamont used to visit a particular picnic spot many years ago, when he was a little boy, and he's taken Margo there to enjoy the scenery and enjoy a picnic together today. It's remote, peaceful and quiet. Or it should have been, except for the boy looking for a boy, who's looking for a dog, who just went by and stole their chicken from the picnic! Finally settling, they're listening to the radio together, when a special appeal is broadcast from the citizens of Old Mill, where a strange and unexplainable force is slowly wiping out their community, and they need help from the man who calls himself The Shadow...