In the holding cell, Sara tells Eddie he didn't kill Bellamy, and Eddie says he confessed. Sara says he was trying to impress everyone with how bad he is, but she knows he's innocent. She thinks Bellamy was trying to keep Nolan out of an institution, Bellamy didn't even think he was possessed and she thinks Eddie is not a killer, just a poser; Nolan dares her to come into the cell with him if she thinks he's innocent. Fuming, she orders the jailer to open the door, and confronts Eddie with her visit from Father Bellamy: she gives Eddie the message, Bellamy misses him. Eddie is pleased and sad. She analyzes Eddie: he just wants to die, figured it would be easier if the cops killed him, and Eddie cries, Bellamy was his best friend.
Sara beats up the punching bag, and Jake confronts her, Sara is leaving him out of the loop all the time, he doesn't know what's going on, she's not training him. Pez tells him if he wants her to work with him, he has to leave Nolan off the list of suspects. Jake points out Nolan confessed, but Sara stops him, tells him to think very carefully about everything, and asks him what is the first thing that comes to mind - and Jake says even the Devil can quote scripture to his own purpose: the truth dawns on Jake, now he understands what Sara is thinking.
Sara exits a side door of the church with Father Del Toro, and he is telling her he doesn't believe in possession. Sara tells him Eddie isn't guilty and Del Toro protests Captain Dante seems to believe Eddie otherwise. Sara denies the charge, it's her case, anyway, then she changes the subject, Del Toro admired her bracelet, didn't he; he eyes Sarah balefully, he says it must be a copy, but she assures him, it's the real thing. Taking yet another tack, she asks what did he think of the Pope's recent apology for the Holocaust? Del Toro recites the Japanese manner of apologizing to the point of committing hara-kiri. Sara pushes the envelope, the Pope gave Hitler a token for keeping out of the war, it had to be the Witchblade she wears on her wrist; Del Toro scoffs that Eddie cannot be innocent, and falls back into quoting scriptures before walking away. Returning to the car, Jake asks Sara if Del Toro "bit", but Pez is reticent. Jake offers Sara a night of beer and pool, but she declines, she has a date. Jake is disappointed. As they drive away, Nottingham watches them from the roof of the cathedral.
Back home, Sara and Conchobar talk in bed, Sara tells him the priest who excommunicated him did him a favor, defining him instead of hurting him, but Conchobar says he sometimes feels split in half, wondering about his guilt, what he could have been or should have been. Sara teases him, trying to break the serious mood, she says the priest guided him, molded him: he's a very, very, very bad boy. They make love, and Kenneth Irons feels it through the Witchblade scar, while Nottingham stands outside Sara's building feeling her presence through the cold wall.
Burgess is on duty in holding, and Eddie Nolan is ranting about Sara, she makes him see things, feel things, want to confess what he knows. In the dark, Del Toro sits with Eddie, agreeing that Sara is indeed a woman to lust for, but Burgess, reading a porn magazine with his back turned to the monitor, does not see the priest as he turns down the sound. Del Toro continues to feed Eddie's raving, encouraging Eddie to put himself out of his own misery - and Eddie bangs his head against the wall until his skull begins to split.
Back home, the phone wakes up Sara and Conchobar, and Jake leaves message for Sara on her machine to get to the station immediately. At the station, Eddie is brought out of his cell, while Jake tells a horrified Pez how Eddie killed himself. Sara confronts Burgess, asks who else visited Nolan. Burgess says she was the last person there, but she sees a vision of the Devil, and she asks if Father Del Toro visited. Burgess is defensive, if she wants to check the logs to be certain, she can, and she taunts him about his lack of any discernable skills. As she walks away, Burgess mutters under his breath that she's a bitch.
At the church, Sara tells Father Petrozi Eddie is dead, and then asks if he knows where Del Toro is: he's in the sanctuary; when she finds him, she tells him Eddie is dead also. Del Toro starts rambling that Eddie tried to commit suicide several times and it's probably for the best that he succeeded; Sara asks how could he have known she was talking about suicide? Del Toro knows Sara knows who he is, but he makes one last effort to pretend otherwise. Meanwhile, Aloysius Petrozi has been sneaking quietly into the church, he is watching and listening. Sara recites the facts, Father Del Toro called into 911 (he heard the old woman scream), he named Eddie Nolan (who else could it have been), and where are Father Bellamy's missing journals? She flaunts the Witchblade in Del Toro's face. Eyeing the bracelet rapturously, he tries to tell her it's the church's property, he should give it back, but she says she wouldn't give it to him, Del Toro; also, she thinks Nolan was a poser, but him, she knows he's "the real thing." She asks one more thing: is he really possessed, or is he a willing vessel of evil? As Sara and Petrozi observe in astonishment, Del Toro's face and voice change as he gleefully recounts the evil he knows and what he is. Bellamy and Nottingham also watch quietly, as Sara accuses Del Toro of killing Father Bellamy before he could expose the Devil. Del Toro demands the Digitablum Magi, and the gauntlet forms on Sara's hand: she challenges him to take it from her. Del Toro begins to attack her, his face contorting, and he throws her in the air, into a dimension of hellfire, as Petrozi, Bellamy, and Nottingham are transfixed. Sara finally gets Del Toro in a chokehold, and orders Satan, enemy of mankind, "Begone!" He disappears from under her, and an evil echo resonates through the church, "Do you believe old wives tales?" A bright white light targets Sarah like a lightning bolt, but misses, and she sits on the floor before the altar, stunned.
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