Dirk Gently, a.k.a. Svlad Cjelli

Dirk Gently is a bizarre character. He is a scheming con artist who, during college, tricked people into believing he was psychic while maintaining plausible deniability by couching his claims as denials. Unfortunately for Dirk, the psychically predicted exam questions, which he believed would be only as correct as the average intelligent student's guesses turned out to be word for word, period for period exact reproductions of the actual tests. Dirk was kicked out of school and arrested for what he can only describe as a bizarre coincidence.

Dirk continues trying to make his living by scheming and scamming, with a fly-by-night detective agency that specializes in finding old ladies' cats through quantum mechanical theories of interconnectedness. Dirk reassures Richard that he's scamming no one, since no one ever pays Dirk's bills.

However, Dirk proves himself to be an apt investigator with...