At 7:39 she arrives at Gabriel's and admits she's using his machine because he was closer than her home. He asks about the personal files on Irons, she explains Irons is Nottingham's "keeper". They begin to read, he lives in a 12-bedroom mansion, sleeps in a different room every night, has 11 cars, randomly rotates them, Gabriel is brought up short, there's a picture of Nottingham, no information is available, but he is labeled "extremely dangerous".
Vicki Poe tells Dante one shot got both victims. She suggests she'd like to round up several cadavers and see how many heads the weapon could penetrate. Dante doesn't know if he should be amused by her "professional curiosity" or as green around the gills as Jake seems to be.
By 8:18, Sara and Gabriel have found the personal pages, Irons is highly sexual active, and one picture is of Sara, she's assumed to be his lover!
Jake reflects: it was a world-class hit; he points out to Dante there's no shame admitting Sara was right. Dante tells Jake the list of suspects is short - look up military trained gunmen and then report back to him, because Sara isn't there. Jake agrees.
Sara is sickened, she denies any relationship to Irons, she laments why did she ever come to Gabriel's? He lists a few sensible things, she didn't want to find this out alone, she wanted a witness, she needed help, then he pushes the envelope, she wants to keep working on Sly's murder. She says she hasn't *stopped* working on it. He asks if she noticed the last screen... Nottingham is suspected to be Kenneth Irons son! Sara flashes to the parapet, she sees Nottingham with the gun - she turns to Gabriel to tell him to get out of town, only to realize it's 11:11 and Gabriel is long gone. Irons calls her at Gabriel's, he is unruly, there are black circles under his eyes, he is eating ravenously. He tells Sara he knew Sly because he offered a scholarship to the artist, he kept tabs on him. Sara asks if he knew Parsigian and Irons comments he'll miss the man, Sara says the news wasn't released, how did he know he was dead? Irons sends her back to the station, someone is waiting there for her.
Gabriel is in jail: Sara went into a trance, he left for a wake, he got there and Sly's business partner was trying to rent his house. He broke the guy's nose, he was furious. Sara tells him she understands, she has lost many people, she tells him not to be upset. She tells him to sit still and hurt, and Danny is there. She says time isn't linear, it doesn't have a start and an end, he can look at photographs and he'll see Sly again, as many as he wants. She says she still has meaningful moments with her late partner. A tear runs down Danny's face and he smiles wanly. She releases Gabriel but warns him if he does anything else stupid, she'll kick his ass.
She enters her office and Ian is there, perched on her filing cabinet. He tells her, "I love you - in unguarded moments." He turns himself in for the murder of the arms dealer and his bodyguard.
Sara and Jake question Ian, he's evasive as Jake repeats the Miranda rights. Ian pushes Jake asking why he's there, why the lie about his surfing history, why were several worthier applicants to the police department passed over for him? Jake asks where Nottingham was from noon to three, and he says he was sound asleep at home. Jake is disbelieving, Nottingham says he was alone, would Jake like to keep him company tomorrow? He asks Jake to repeat the question, he says he wants to hear Jake repeat in his hollow way, he asks if Jake remembers why he's there, who he really is, and Jake gloms him. Sara sends him out impatiently and Ian says, "Alone at last." Sara says he didn't have to kill to impress her. Nottingham asks to hold her hand, she refuses, finally giving him her left, but he wants the right hand, the one with the Witchblade. It begins to flash, she sees every time he has saved her life, every time she has seen him. He tells her the murderer of Parsigian saved thouisands of lives, and comments that murdering him was a favor to society, instead the assassin will be punished for it. Sara points out only 3-4 people are capable of the shot, one's in jail in Hong Kong, one's in the Iraqi army, one was Wolf - and between him and her, "it was a beautiful hit."
Jake punches a table, Dante tells him to calm down, Jake says next time he'll punch him more, Dante slyly asks why is Sara holding Ian's hand in interrogation? He leaves an unhappy Jake.
As Ian reflects on death and killing, Sara sees Elizabeth Bronte who tells her as a warrior she needs to walk with death, meditating and reviewing it daily as a measure of her life. As Ian continues to wax philosophic, Jake watches angrily behind the two-way glass. Ian asks how many people *she* has murdered, she says none, it was all in the line of duty, and Jake stalks out of the observation room again. Ian asks about Sara's killing of Fay, and she says that was justified. She demands the return of her hand, Ian is contrite at first, but asks if Sara is curious about the questions he asked Jake. She tells him maybe he should spend the night in jail and become a little more cooperative, and he responds, "For the promise of another tryst like this one, you can keep me here forever."
Gabriel receives his latest copy of Parricide, and sees disturbing images of drugs and a rope and razors slitting the wrists of a central figure who resembles Sly, while a shadowy figure on a railroad track watches from the background. He reads Nietzche as paraphrased by Sly, and as he reads, Nottingham roosts bat-like in jail. Irons sleeps restlessly, looking at his watch nervously, his eyes feverish. Gabriel reads what sounds like a suicide letter in the comic.
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