Once there, he appears to be under her command. Strange visits Lake, but le Fay interrupts, promising him that she will not harm Lake so long as he comes with her to the demon realm. She then defeats Lindmer, but she cannot kill him in this world, so she summons Asmodeus to transport Lindmer to the demon realms. The cat transforms into le Fay and bests Wong, seemingly killing him. Without meaning to, he lets the possessed cat into the house. As he leaves, he tries to remove his father's ring and finds he cannot. He goes to see Lindmer and rejects the reality of magic despite his recent experiences. Strange checks on Lake, and agrees to dinner with her later. She confesses to being attracted to him, and the demon threatens to make her suffer eternity as an elderly woman. The evil entity asks le Fay why she spared Strange. Strange and Lake return to the physical world. Strange is dispatched to the astral plane and confronts and defeats the demon Balzaroth, whom le Fay had sent to stop Strange from rescuing Lake. He says there are different realms, and that Lake is trapped in them and only Strange can save her. He says Strange is special, and that his parents died protecting him. Strange demands the truth, and Lindmer says that he knows about how Strange's parents died when he was eighteen. Lindmer tells Strange that his ignorance is a form of protection, and asks him whether he wants to know the truth or remain ignorant. Strange visits Lindmer, and Le Fay sees an opportunity to kill Strange, but she hesitates instead. Meanwhile, le Fay possesses a cat and tries to enter Lindmer's house, but magical barriers repel it.Īt the hospital, the head of Strange's department sedates Lake against his directions, and she appears to slip into a coma from which Strange is unable to revive her. Strange takes Lindmer's card and notices that the card bears the same symbol as his ring. Lindmer contacts Strange at the hospital and tells him that Lake needs more help than what can be offered by medical science. Strange intuitively senses something very wrong, sharing Lake's nightmare about the previous day's events, but does not understand what is going on. Strange has the potential to become Lindmer's successor by virtue of abilities and items inherited from his father, including a signet ring. Stephen Strange at a psychiatric hospital. Suffering from psychic aftereffects of the possession and haunting dreams of le Fay, Lake is under the care of psychiatrist Dr. His friend, Wong, looks after him and locates Lake for him. Le Fay possesses a young woman named Clea Lake and uses her as a weapon against Thomas Lindmer, the "Sorcerer Supreme." She pushes him off a bridge to his death, but instead of dying, he slowly gets up and magically heals himself. Somewhere, an evil entity tells Morgan le Fay that she has been prevented from breaking through to the earthly realm by a great wizard, and that she has three days to either defeat or kill the wizard and win over his successor to her master's side. ( April 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.