In another room, Jake and Dante show Sara the murder weapon and keys to church, found in Nolan's apartment. Sara wants to know why they're showing these things to her, and they side together, she saved the life of a guilty man, who they're both certain will "probably plead insanity and do soft-time". Sara defends her actions, she thinks they're both very wrong, and as she argues, Father Del Toro politely interrupts; Dante introduces him as the church's attorney, and Jake jokes that he's a lawyer-priest, does this mean he can forgive his own sins? Del Toro smiles at the joke, then says he is there to help, Bellamy was his good friend: but he says he tried to warn Bellamy, Edward Nolan had mental problems and needed constant care and medication. And despite his best intentions, he says that Bellamy was preventing the boy from getting proper care. Sara interrupts, what Del Toro is inferring is Bellamy thought Eddie Nolan was possessed, and he affirms that, yes, that's what he believed. Del Toro says John was the authority on possession, but Del Toro seems disdainful, he thinks Bellamy was getting a bit senile.
Sara visits Eddie in holding, she asks if he remembers who she is, he says he does, she saved his life today. She asks if he killed Bellamy, and Nolan replies sadly that Bellamy was his best friend. She asks again, and Nolan can see the image of the Witchblade: he rants about killing the priest, accusing the Father of being a homosexual. Sara asks if he did the murder, what did he do it with, and Eddie approaches the bars, he tells Sara to weld the cell shut, lower it into the ground and pour concrete over it. Sara asks if it's Edward talking or someone else?
Sara goes to the church and speaks with Father Petrozi, who shows her to the Father's study. Pez fishes, she asks about exorcism, does Petrozi believe in it? He is hesitant to answer, and she confides in him she's seen too many things, seen too many people who have made her believe. Petrozi confesses he does believe in it, and Sara reassures him it's nice to meet someone honest. She expounds that she isn't sure if Edward is really possessed or just naturally insane. Petrozi tells her that there are two kinds of possession, those who are willing vessels of evil, and those the devil chooses for his own. Interested, Sara asks him, does he think that Bellamy was senile? Father Petrozi is affectionate, he thought Father John was older and more forgetful, but not at all senile. Wandering around the office, Pez notices journals on a shelf, kept by the father through all his years as a priest - only there are 10 missing years, 1936-1945. Danny, appearing suddenly as he does, points out are the years before and during World War II. Ushering the young priest out the door, she turns on Danny, once again he has startled her, and why is he here, and why are the books missing, and since Danny is dead, why doesn't he talk to the priest... and she realizes Danny has become quite still, obviously disturbed - Sara becomes animated, can she do that? Talk to a dead man? Can Danny bring him to her, this is exciting, this is every homicide cop's dream, to be able to ask the victim who it was instead of having to sift through clues - and Danny quickly exits.
Nolan is in a room with Dante and Jake, ready to confess. He's alternately contrite and flippant, weaving a tale that his mother seduced her own father, got pregnant, and then tried to abort him (Eddie) with a vacuum cleaner hose. Jake is greatly disturbed and angry, but Dante is nonplussed, he wants Eddie to keep talking and he isn't interested in the dramatics. He sends Jake out of the room for coffee, unobtrusively turning off the recorder, and Eddie looks at Dante with cold fear.
Conchobar walks down the street with Sara telling her he was thrown out of the church when he was 12 by a priest he describes as a drunkard. He had confessed his sins, he had stolen an apple, lusted after a pretty girl and masturbated, and the priest declared him wretched as Camus [the French author]. He was warned not to return unless he was truly sorry. Sara sympathizes, but Conchobar admits with a wicked grin he certainly was not sincere in his repentance, especially for lusting after the girl who he describes as looking very much like a young Sara Pezzini. She teases him that it's time for him to come to her apartment for long overdue penance, and kisses him in the street.
The young priest goes to his confessor for his weekly litany; he admits his first sin is lust for Sara, and he is absolved. Then he says he knew a secret a friend had confided in him, but the friend is now dead, and the secret could be key to his death, would it be wrong for him to expose the truth? His confessor tells him to pray, and return tomorrow for an answer. As the young man kneels before the altar to pray, his confessor sees Father Del Toro approaching and speaks quietly in his ear. The priest leaves, and Del Toro watches Petrozi at his penance.
Later that night, Sara is "banging" her drums and Danny applauds. She teases him, he's here twice in a day, what did she do to deserve a second visit, and he says she asked for it: there's Father Bellamy behind her. The priest explains that Digitablum Magi, the Witchblade, allows her to speak with him just as it does with Danny. He explains it was taken from the wrist of Jeanne d'Arc and hidden in the Vatican for over 500 years, allowed out only in extreme situations. He says Satan is responsible for his death, not Eddie Nolan: he gives Sara a message for Eddie, he misses him, he's a good boy. Sara says she needs the name of a person, and Bellamy tells her the church was dark, he couldn't see a face. He says many could have been responsible, the Devil's Legion, but he can't name anyone specific.
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