The masked man calls Nash. As the gang members exit, he guns down all three gang members, including their lawyer, with a silenced sniper rifle as Nash watches with outrage. But Hagen mistakenly thinks their stalker is a young woman. Hagen attacks her, but she defends herself vigorously, forcing Hagen to use the dirk. Tor intervenes and grabs the dirk, but not before Nick punches Tor in the face.
Tor escapes with the dirk.
Back at the SIU, Hagen miraculously picks out Tor Thornston in the very first mug book he looks at. Antwon and Cassidy visit the PO, but he is new. The former PO to Rafael Watson and Chili Gun - Edward Bender, quit. Bender also has asthma. The SIU raids Bender's apartment and find a shrine to his murdered wife.