Then 150 years later, the story features Maddy, now 18, living in a world where the privileged elites have it all while the rest of the population is left to live in decaying slums and kept in their place by armoured police.
Instead, under the influence of Maddy’s mind control power (she discovers she has it), Poole sends her to an abandoned warehouse near the docks to pick up the inheritance. It turns out to be a man - Lamont Cranston - whose body had been preserved since the night he was poisoned but kept alive by a machine.
Maddy, together with Dr Julian Fletcher, the caretaker who is also a chemist, successfully revived Lamont from his deep sleep state.
Meanwhile, Maddy is quite familiar with The Shadow and Lamont Cranston from her collection of bootleg pulp magazines and old-time radio shows. Initially, she thinks this crazy person whom she has inherited just takes on the name of her hero. To save time in convincing her, Lamont uses his mind power to imprint his entire backstory directly into Maddy’s consciousness.
Khan, too, has that ability and in one scene, he uses it to destroy the building Lamont, Margo, and Maddy have just left, seemingly killing Maddy’s grandmother. As the story develops, they are all linked as a family. By the time we find out that Maddy is Margo’s great-great-great-great-granddaughter, it’s anticlimactic.