The new distractions wildcard means that after acquiring an ally, you end your turn. If you're playing Local Heroes, acquiring an ally should give you a location closing attempt, but the wildcard overrides this, making the scenario essentially impossible in this case.

Thanks for this. I've made a change to make sure this doesn't happen in the next release. For now, you'll probably want to forfeit when faced with that card.

What a new feature that introduces a game-killing bug? Surely not? Let's hope that "next release" comes along soon, we seem to have a number of new (not to mention a huge number of outstanding) bugs.