Let God rise up, let his enemies be scattered;
let those who hate him flee before him— Psalm 68, v1
There is a big fight in which Atoziel hides in a snow drift and Helophel takes on all the demons. She mainly spits acid at Huzrael, who attacks back with horns while his minions provide a distraction to both sides. Huzrael is good, but not that good, and Helophel wears him down while taking relatively little damage herself. Eventually Huzrael orders two of the brat pack to look out for "the other angel" (Atoziel), moving them out of the fight, where they spot Magariel emerging from the snow storm to help, wielding a tree branch and a manic grin. He does serious damage to Tiny, while Huzrael attempts to take out Helophel with a Song of Thunder. The Spirit smiles on Helophel, so Huzrael only takes his minions out. Seeing this, he decides to run away; Helophel pursues and kills him. Tiny and Bug-eye, meanwhile, decide to run away from the loon belabouring them. Magariel takes one last swipe at them, then turns to the other two who are trying to crawl away unnoticed. Baby spots him coming and gets up and runs, while Magariel fails to pin Drools down. Rolling free, the demon legs it very fast — he is a good runner. Magariel decides to go after the two he let run away earlier, taking Helophel and Atoziel with him. Boriel meanwhile arrives in time to see Drools running away, and pursues. Alas for him, the demon escapes into the crowd.
Inside the plane, Blakely hears the shotgun barrage faintly through the storm, but it appears that no one else does. He doesn't hear Boriel's much closer pistol fire, but Keel does and steps outside to try to figure out what's going on. Since there are no more shots, he doesn't. Blakley then decides that the rest of the medics have the triage well enough under control that he can turn his attention to the fight crew. This is put on hold by the arrival of a pipe-smoking irritable gentleman. Keel tries to chivvy him out, but is foiled when Lord John Strang produces a license to meddle, signed by the queen no less. Keel then phones his boss, Harry Malone, for immoral support, but Malone appears to order him to cooperate. Blakely finds all this fascinating, but is hinted at heavily that he ought to get on with his work.
Back at the fight, Tiny and Bug-eye nearly manage to give the angels the slip, but unfortunately their tracks in the snow are all too clear. They are knocked out in short order. After a teleconference with Boriel, the angels sneak the unconscious demons into Boriel's white van, dump Huzrael's body somewhere it won't be found until spring, then drive the van somewhere quiet to interrogate them. Magariel and Helophel do the interrogation, while Atoziel and Boriel go back to search the crash site some more. The angels are reassured to note that dawn arrives.
Magariel's amazing impression of a Kobalite on loan to Baal works like a charm in intimidating Tiny, who they wake first. The unpleasantly smiling and monosyllabic combat machine staring at him probably helped. He tells the angels that he and the others are sevitors of Valefor, that they were there for the Dagger, and that they didn't specifically know of anyone else trying for it. They certainly didn't know in advance that the plane was going to crash. Well, actually he tells some of this, and the Seraph collects the rest from the Symphony. Deciding that he has told them all he usefully can, Magariel orders him to report to Baal for a debrief when he gets out of Trauma, and Helophel kills him. Cruel, cruel angels. They then kill off the other demon without bothering to wake him.
Blakely does his forensics thing in the cabin. After making sure that the camera and fingerprinting crew have been through, his careful search reveals six bullet holes in the floor and instruments, but only five entry/exit wounds in the crew. Clearly the crew had been shot, then the pilot had been pulled out of his seat. Fingerprints will show if someone else had played pilot afterwards. While he is searching, he is interrupted by a man in a long mackintosh, who leans in and casually looks round the cockpit. After identifying Blakely, the man says, "So the sorceror's long gone then." Blakely professes a lack of understanding, and the man looks amused and leaves. Blakely reports this to the snatch team, who are on site but failed to find the fight in the storm. Concern is expressed.
Atoziel and Boriel go off to check (i.e. hack into) the traffic cameras, wondering whether the plane's controlled crash was part of an intentional rendezvous. Physical security stops them, so they tip off the police instead. Their subsequent attempts to get back to the crash site are frustrated by the police, who are diabolically inspired (yes, it's 666 time) to prevent the angels from getting in.