Mendoza has dragged Henry to a torture chamber where he is placed in chains so that Mendoza can begin the process of saving Henry’s immortal soul. By the time Vicki and Mike make their way out of the sewer through a manhole cover, Vicki is so hopping mad at Mike that she suckerpunches him in the jaw. Now contrite, Mike offers to help her find Henry. Vicki orders Mike to go down to the station and pull everything he can on Javier Mendoza. When Coreen comes in, Vicki sets her to find out whatever she can about the illuminatione del sol. Mike gets rookie Kate Lam [Françoise Yip] to take over the search on Mendoza so that he and Vicki can go to the streets and see what they can dig up on the murdered "working girl", identified as Amy Davidson, street name "Champagne." They corner another "working girl" named Cassis who, for a price, is willing to tell them about Champagne. When they show her a photo of Javier Mendoza, she recognizes him as one of her own past clients. About a week ago, he took her to the basement of an abandoned church, she says, where he had another girl in chains. When the girl tried to bite her, Cassis let them have it with Mace and got the heck out of there. A little more money, and Cassis is willing to take Vicki and Mike to the church where it happened. Morning is approaching when Mike and Vicki break down the doors into the church basement. Instead of Henry, however, they find Delphine. She is close to death, so Vicki slits her own palm and feeds Delphine some blood. Before Delphine can answer any questions, however, a warning buzzer is heard, and the curtains on the windows automatically open. Within seconds, Delphine is reduced to ashes. In the mess Mendoza left behind, they find plant containers from Hollenbeck Nurseries and a chalice with some vile-smelling residue in it. Mike thinks maybe Coroner Rajani Mohadevan can identify it, so they take it along with them to HQ. Rajani identifies the residue in the cup as a mixture of...