Irons is in his office, reading what appears to be a old book, and asks Ian what Sara learned during her fight with Del Toro, but Nottingham is unsure, Sara was conversing with other realms, and he could not see everything. Irons is incensed, Ian should have stopped her. As he turns toward the credenza, Nottingham proudly raises his head, saying maybe it was a good thing that he did not intervene. Inexorably, Irons pushes Nottingham's head forward until his eyes are again properly downcast. His fury restrained, Irons tells Nottingham he has always trusted him before, but now he will expect Nottingham to follow more explicit orders. He returns the book he was reading to its place among the set of books resting on the credenza: they are the missing journals from Father Bellamy's study.
Edward Nolan is the prime suspect in Father Bellamy's murder. He has a history of criminal activity and mental illness. He is running down a fire escape, trying to get away from the police. In the alley, he is blocked both ways by police cars, and Jake, Sara, and Dante are there. Dante tells his men to fire upon the unarmed man, but Sara jumps in and the fire is held. He ends up being taken to the station and loaded into a holding cell. Sara is greeted at the station by another priest, Father Aloysha, who is basically taking over for Father Bellamy. He tells Sara that Edward Nolan could not have committed this crime, as Bellamy and Nolan were like father and son. Bellamy believed that Nolan was possessed, that his problems weren't mental, but spiritual.
Later, Sara, Jake, and Dante are arguing about how Nolan should have been shot in that alley, when a man interrupts them. He introduces himself as Father DelToro, and said how he'd be happy to help in any way he could. He believes that Nolan killed Bellamy, that Nolan had severe mental problems, and that people had warned Bellamy of the dangers of being around Nolan. People had expected something like this to happen. He also said how Father Bellamy was New York's leading expert in exorcism.
Sara goes to Edward Nolan's cell to talk to him. Sara asked him if he killed Father Bellamy, and after Nolan told her how Bellamy was his best friend, and said that he did kill him, Sara asked him what the murder weapon was. Nolan responded, "You know what I used..." Sara says, "Yes, I do, Nolan, but do you?" She tells him that she thinks he's innocent.
Back at the church, Sara asks Father Aloysha about exorcism. While they're talking Sara notices several books on a shelf. They are Father Bellamy's journals that he'd been keeping since he was a novice. The only thing was that several volumes were missing, from 1936 to 1944, or during the WWII years. Danny appears at the desk, and Sara hurriedly ushers Aloysha out of the room. She asks Danny if he could talk to Bellamy for her, because they were both dead. Then she thinks that's why she was chosen to wear the Witchblade, and Danny disappears.
Meanwhile, Nolan is confessing killing Father Bellamy to Dante and Jake.
Later, Sara's banging away on the drums Gabriel Bowman gave her when Danny shows up. She turns around and Father Bellamy's ghost is standing in her house. He tells her that he knows of the Witchblade, Digitablum Magi. He knew it was taken from Joan of Arc, and the Vatican took it in. In some agreement between Pope Pius and Hitler during WWII that he had translated, the Witchblade was traded and given to Hitler as reassurance. He also said that Nolan was a good boy, and although he didn't see his killer's face, he knew it wasn't Nolan. He said it was Satan himself.
Sara is talking to Nolan again, and she told him that she thought Bellamy didn't think Nolan was possessed, but he was just trying to keep him out some state-run institution. She also said that Nolan was turning himself in because he didn't have any reason to live, now that Bellamy was gone. "Suicide-by-cop" she says.
While Sara wails on the punching bag, Jake comes up and tells her how she was leaving him in the dark. Everyone else was attached at the hip to their senior officers, but Sara was leaving him out of the loop all the time. They talked for a while, then the two came to an agreement. They thought that Father DelToro had a big part in Bellamy's death.
Sara goes to talk with DelToro, but he doesn't say anything to accuse himself. Sara turns down an offer from Jake to go have a few beers and act like normal cops because she has a date. And Ian Nottingham is waiting on top of the church.
Back at the station, Nolan is seemingly talking to himself in his cell. However, he is really talking to Father DelToro, but the priest doesn't show up on camera. The guard is looking at a dirty magazine and pays no attention to the screen he's supposed to be watching. Father DelToro somehow convinces Nolan to commit suicide, and he does. By banging his skull on the stone wall of his cell. And the guard doesn't know, because he's busy looking at dirty magazines.
Sara gets a call from Jake, informing her of the suicide, and she heads to the station. The guard there says that Sara was Nolan's last visitor.
Then she goes to the church. She tells Father Aloysha of Nolan's death, then heads to a different part of the church. There, she meets Father DelToro. Sara tells him that Nolan is dead. DelToro said, "Nolan has tried to kill himself, three times. If he's finally succeeded, then it's not such a big loss." Sara replies, "I never said it was suicide." Then she accuses him of killing Bellamy and giving Nolan a big push. She said the Bellamy knew DelToro was Satan, and was going to expose the truth. DelToro had used Nolan as the scapegoat.
Father Aloysha shows up and hides behind a pew to watch. Ian is also there, watching the scene. And Father Bellamy's ghost is also present.
DelToro demands that Digitablum be returned to him. Sara, of course, refuses, and she and DelToro fight, a large portion of it suspended in the air. Sara seems to perform something of an exorcism on DelToro, and he vanishes.
Someone is looking through a journal (one of the missing volumes), and it turns out to be Irons. Irons is mad at Ian for not stopping the situation at the church because he said that Sara has learned too much about the Witchblade. Irons tells Ian that he would have to be much more clear and explicit in his direction in the future.