Recaps

Angel escaped Cole Granger’s past and joined the Tingen Nighthawks after helping them defeat Mrs. Sharon. At Blackthorn Security Company, she discovered that Roselle’s diary was written in Chinese and watched Old Neil prepare Klein’s Seer Potion.

• Angel awakened in Cole Granger’s transformed body, hid his Witch Beyonder Characteristic, and obtained forged papers under the name Angel Granger.
• After Mrs. Sharon invited her to meet, Angel reported the case to the Church and alerted Dunn Smith that Sharon was tied to Cole’s crimes and might belong to the Demoness Sect.
• Dunn brought Angel to Blackthorn Security Company, where she met Leonard Mitchell and Daly Simone and described Madam Sharon’s abilities.
• Madam Sharon attacked Angel, Daly, and Leonard, but they exposed her with phantom phosphor and killed her after Leonard smashed the mirrors she used for substitution.
• Dunn sealed Mrs. Sharon’s Beyonder Characteristic and offered Angel a choice between leaving Tingen under Church protection and joining the Nighthawks, and Angel chose to join.
• Angel signed her contract, met Klein Moretti, and recognized the Chinese writing in Roselle’s diary pages as a possible clue to a fellow transmigrator.
• Old Neil brewed the Seer Potion for Klein, who drank it and began practicing control of his new powers, while Dunn told Angel to collect a badge and gun.

Angel recovered Mrs. Green’s ring and uncovered evidence of a larger human-trafficking network, while deciding whether to join the Nighthawks. After encountering the wanted Beyonder Tris and completing the Fool’s ritual, Angel accepted full membership and joined the team on an investigation into Ray Bieber.

• Angel attended Tarot Club meetings, learned about potion acting and the Fool’s request for Roselle’s diary pages, and shared information about the Tingen attack and government examinations.
• Angel retrieved Mrs. Green’s ring from the Labor Mutual Aid Society’s warehouse, discovered Jike’s notebook describing human trafficking, and escaped an Assassin who tried to take it.
• Angel reported the notebook and attack to Dunn, who offered her formal Nighthawk membership, and she weighed the risks against the benefits before making her choice.
• Angel shared diary pages and explained the Acting Method at the Tarot Club, then connected reports of disappearing slaves to the trafficking case and learned the Fool’s ritual.
• Angel met Tris at the underground market and refused his invitation, then recognized him when Dunn identified him as a wanted Instigator linked to deadly violence aboard the Alfalfa.
• Angel performed the Fool’s ritual, while Tris escaped the Machinery Hivemind’s attempted capture, and Klein later confirmed that Angel’s prayer had reached the Fool.
• Angel accepted promotion to full Nighthawk, received a new revolver and ammunition, and joined Dunn’s team as they went to Ray Bieber’s home.
• Borgia’s Sealed Artifact “2-049” paralyzed Angel with its lag effect until Klein touched her shoulder.

After helping the Nighthawks recover the Antigonus Family Notebook, Angel fully digested her Assassin Potion and joined a major operation in Enmat Harbor. There she acquired Bloodthirst, clashed with the fugitive Tomaz, and learned that Dominic was selling an Instigator Beyonder Characteristic.

• Angel helped Dunn’s team defeat the Tuxedo Clown and Ray Bieber, secured the Antigonus Family Notebook, and killed the rooftop Assassin Randy.
• Angel realized that killing her attackers had completed her Assassin acting, and her potion was fully digested.
• Dunn paid Angel the bounty for Randy and told her that the Nighthawks suspected the Labor Mutual Aid Society of human trafficking, then Klein invited her to his family celebration.
• Angel traveled to Enmat Harbor, where Kavi appraised her transformed revolver as the Mystical Item Bloodthirst and warned her about its blood-draining effects and vulnerability to curses.
• Angel fed Bloodthirst her own blood, removing its negative effects, and went to the Carrion Bird Bar to pursue trades and leads connected to the Tarot Club and the Instigator Potion.
• Tomaz attacked Kavi at her shop, but Angel fought him off until the Machinery Hivemind arrived, then learned he had used Mystical Items to imitate higher-sequence abilities.
• Angel reported the attack to Clement and met Dominic at the bar, where he revealed that he was selling an Instigator Beyonder Characteristic rather than potion materials.

Angel advanced to Instigator, helped the Nighthawks defeat Tomaz and Mr. C, and returned to Tingen with a mysterious pocket watch and missing memories. There, she joined Klein and Leonard to investigate a wave of deaths linked to an unknown Beyonder and began searching for the killer’s altar.

• Angel bought an Instigator Beyonder Characteristic from Dominic, prepared its Potion, and advanced to Sequence 8.
• Clement led Angel and Rupert in a raid on Warehouse No. 16, where they fought Mr. C and Angel killed Tomaz after Clement’s powers helped expose him.
• Angel and Clement discovered that Mr. C’s remains and Tomaz’s corpse had disappeared, and Angel secretly kept Tomaz’s scorching, backward-running pocket watch.
• Angel returned to Tingen, learned that a day of her memories had vanished, and discovered that the Magician Pocket Watch gave her Flame Leap, Damage Transfer, and Paper Figurine Substitute abilities.
• Dunn praised Angel’s work in Enmat Harbor, invited her to join the Nighthawks, and heard her suggest that Beyonders act according to their Potion names.
• Klein recognized Angel as Miss Empress, and Angel and Klein joined Leonard to investigate a surge of deaths that appeared linked to Instigation.
• Klein’s dream divination showed that supernatural forces had influenced Val Ellison’s death, and Angel, Klein, and Leonard agreed to work together without exposing one another’s secrets.
• Klein’s divination pointed to a gloomy riverside house, and Angel marked a search area in the southwest West Borough where the group set out to find the altar.