We Still Search for Absolution: In her form as an owl, Jane flies to the location of the meeting, and is surprised to find what appears to be an old chapel with many freestanding crypts surrounding it. She sees an old woman vampire, dressed in what resembles a nun’s habit, step out of the building. Then vampires begin to arrive, followed by a hearse containing a coffin. The two human drivers make a quick exit. When the ceremony begins, with the priestess, Sabina, making a call for blood donations, one vampire, Rafael Torrez of Clan Mearkanis, steps forward to challenge the call, saying it was Katie’s fault she got attacked. After a back-and-forth discussion between Rafael and Leo, Rafael withdraws his challenge. During the conversation, Sabina makes reference to the vampires’ sin of attempting to steal from God, which puzzles and interests Jane. All of the clan blood-masters offers blood from their arms into Katie’ coffin, and once again Jane is startled when she hears them chanting in Aramaic, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The coffin is shut away, the vampires leave, and then Sabina speaks to Jane’s owl form, wondering if she is an emissary from God, saying that they (the vampires) still seek forgiveness. After Sabina goes inside, Jane sees a figure come out of another crypt, recognizes the rogue, and watches him try to get into the Pellissier family vault. The rogue then begins to shape-change.
I’m Psychic: The rogue changes partway into what resembles a sabertooth, and then notices Jane’s bird form. Down too low and unable to gain height quickly, the rogue takes a swipe at Jane. hitting some of her feathers. Sabina come outside, and the rogue goes after her. Jane rushes at the creature, using her beak on the back of his neck. As she flies away, Jane sees Sabina wield a cross that exudes a bright light, which scares away the rogue creature. Jane follows him through the woods, watches him enter a house from which she soon hears cries, but sees another man, not the rogue/liver-eater, come out and drive away. Racing back to her house so she can change back before dawn, Jane comes back to her human form, feeling woozy and out of sorts. Angelina calls her, saying she was frightened when Jane was in bird form, asking her not to do it again. Jane agrees.
Waking once again to someone knocking loudly on her door, Jane finds Rick, who asks her to go horseback riding. Since she is starving, Jane says she needs to eat, and makes steak for both her and Rick. After they eat, Jane says she needs to ride her bike out to Westwego, the area of the chapel and the house where the rogue may have committed a murder. When they arrive at the graveyard, Jane and Rick see the damage done to some of the crypts. Since Leo’s security knows about their entrance, given the sensors at the gate, Jane calls Bruiser to warn the team on its way not to shoot and at her and Rick, and gives him some other information. Jane and Rick leave to go to the house the rogue disappeared into the night before.
Crap. I’m Starting to Like Vamps: Arriving at the house where Jane saw the rogue/liver-eater vanish, she calls the police, at which point Rick says he will be leaving. After he leaves, Jane walks around to find the place where the rogue came in, and she spots some very large prints, some part cat, part human. Despite Beast’s desire to cover them up, Jane leaves the evidence intact. While waiting for the police to arrive, Jane looks over the paperwork Rick gave her from the research he did on the property owners. It turns out that Anna, the mayor’s wife, owns a lot of land that borders on Jean Lafitte Park, something that sets off alarm bells for Jane.
After Jodi and her team arrive, they go inside, leaving Jane to speculate on what she has discovered. She thinks perhaps the man she saw leaving the house last night was actually the liver-eater, having taken on the guise of someone else after killing him. Jodi eventually comes back outside to talk to Jane, and after a brief discussion in which each of them shares information with the other, Jodi reluctantly allows Jane to enter the crime scene.
The Lord of the Manor: Despite her familiarity with blood and guts, what Jane sees inside the house sickens her. She asks Jodi what the psy-meter shows, and the readings go wild. Jodi uses the opportunity to aim it at Jane also, but though the readings are higher than what a human would give off, they are nothing crazy like those of the rogue. Jane heads back to her house, and after showering and eating, Jane heads over to Katie’s. Tom answers the door, and Jane knows that Leo is there—Tom says to feed healing blood to him, Miz A, and the girls. Suddenly Jane is attacked by a vamp, who turns out to be Amitee, who is about to marry Leo’s son. Jane uses one of her crosses, and Bruiser comes to remove the vamp after Leo has calmed her down. Since she had smelled Indigo on Amitee, Jane demands to see the girl to ensure that she is okay. Jane then questions Leo’s moving into Katie’s business operations, since it seems to her that Tom should be in charge. After looking at legal documents that say that very thing, Jane suggests that Tom knew all of this but needed Leo’s help so never brought the subject up. Jane leaves, irritated at Leo’s antiquated attitude but satisfied he is not abusing his position.
All That I Wanted: Learning that Anna plans to attend a social event that evening, Jane shifts into Beast that night in order to track her. Trailing Anna home, Beast and Jane overhear a phone conversation between the mayor and Rick, about land deals. When Anna’s small dog senses Beast in the backyard, Jane has to restrain the overeager cat from making a snack out of the pet. Jane placates Beast by telling her to hunt in the woods before returning to the house. Beast wants a bigger prize, however, and taunts Jane after Jane reemerges. Deciding she needs to hunt again that evening, Jane goes into the garden, and discovers that Beast has taken it upon herself to become a bigger cat, scaring Jane. She shares a memory with Jane, of the time she killed a liver-eater.
Mass to Mass, Stone to Stone: Big-cat Beast and Jane discover the rogue’s newest kill site—a homeless man living in a tent. Hitching a ride on top of a truck bed, Beast tracks the rogue, and Jane is puzzled by the primarily vampire scent it now has. Locating the house where the creature stopped, Beast and Jane see Anna pull up, and hear the conversation she is having on the phone with her husband. Shortly after she goes inside, Rick arrives and rushes in. Beast runs in to find Rick attacked by the partially shifted rogue, and the two big cats fight. The rogue gets away by changing into human form, first Cherokee, then another that Jane seems to recognize. After the rogue gets away, Jane begs Beast to shift, and then she puts on her clothes and goes in to help Rick. After providing some medical aid, Jane calls the emergency contact number in Rick’s phone, which turns out to be Jodi, positioning the phone so Rick can speak to her. Jane spots another area bleeding heavily, and then gets a clear look at Rick’s tatoos—a panther and a bobcat, her two cat forms.
You Should Have Come When I Asked: Hearing the approaching sirens, Jane has to decide whether to stay and face questioning, or leave and risk leaving prints or other evidence behind. With Beast’s encouragement, she makes the choice to stay, and talks to Jodi briefly on the phone. Jane knows for sure now that Rick is an undercover cop. While they are all distracted, Jane leaves, tries to wash the worst of the blood out of her clothes, and calls for Rinaldo to bring his cab and pick her up. Almost fainting from hunger from her shift, Jane needs to eat. After stuffing her face sufficiently and then showering, Jane thinks about the face of the rogue she saw in the car, and knows it is Grégoire, blood-master of Clan Arceneau. Jane calls Leo, to ask for the favor of healing Rick, who will not survive without vampire blood, and Leo leaves immediately. Heading over to the Clan Arceneau house, Jane knows something is wrong when the place is dark. A human servant greets Jane when she kicks the door in, and then Jane spots Dominique, a vamp she met at the big gathering. Jane quickly learns that Grégoire is not the rogue, but that the creature has been holding him prisoner for two months, and has now shackled Dominique and others living there. When she learns the name of the rogue, Jane takes off.