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The song the NOTW listens to when he comes home from work is Dillinger's "Home For Better Days", from their 1991 album "Horses and Hawgs". I think you can even spot the beginning of the band's name on the NOTW's tv! "Dilli" is what I see there. Heaps of thanks to Dave V. and Chris Post at DMV Music for this information. Visit their site if you want to know how to get your hands on the album. Here are the lyrics to the song.

"Home For Better Days"

The artist: Dillinger
The album: Horses and Hawgs

It's early in the morning
I can feel the sun on the back of my neck
Such a good feelin'
Going home for better days

The work for me is over
Took a job brought me way out west
Sure been glad to know ya
Going home for better days...yeah

I really gotta tell ya
Being out west is where you wanna be
But now that I've seen and done it all
Goin' home for better days

Travelin' sure been good to me
But a familiar face is what I wanna see
That's where I wanna be
Home for better days

I hear it callin', I hear it callin' my name
Like a good woman, it doesn't change
And now that I know what I been missin'
I'm well on my way

That's where I'm going
Home for better days
On my way
That's where Im goin
Home for better days

Seesaw in the back of my car
Up all night and day yeah
Saturday night is what I'm lookin' for
This time I'm really on my way hey hey

I hear it callin', I hear it callin' my name
Like a good woman, it doesn't change
And now that I know what I been missin'
I'm well on my way...

On my way...
That's where I'm going
Home for better days
On my way...
That's where I'm going
Home for better days

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The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are the words out
When a vast image out image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight; somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethelem to be born?

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The memorable line section points out that the wonderful town of Otis is just like Stepford. This is a reference to the 1975 movie "The Stepford Wives", which was directed by Bryan Forbes. The town of Stepford, Connecticut, is the true old American ideal; men work all day long and women are the perfect housewives, no-one and nothing stands out. The climax of the movie is reached when it turns out that all the women of Stepford are actually robots programmed to think about cleaning, laundry and gardening solely.
Grace mentions "The Manchurian Candidate" when she tells the team of the injection serum that has been used on the victims. It is a reference to an eponymous film starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury. It was directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962. Harvey and Sinatra star as soldiers whose platoon disappeared during the Korean War. Harvey and Sinatra's characters return to civilian life, but both of them have been brainwashed, and Harvey's character has been programmed to act as an assassin who takes his orders from an enemy controller.

The NOTW always sprays the word, "Atar", on a wall of his victims' houses. Atar is an ancient Persian god of fire. His father is Ahura Mazda, "Wise Lord", the supreme god of ancient Persia (now Iran). Atar is the light of truth, which Ahura Mazda gave to his followers. A dragon of evil was sent on earth to bring misery, suffering and death upon the Persians. Atar's heroic deed was to chain the dragon, Azhi Dahaka, to a mountain range.