Tincke has been dangerously shot after beating up Schele, unaware that brute is Iron Simon's despised son. The gang looks to Jan for a solution, and he promises Tincke's 'porcine head', but delivers a real one and instead of a lucrative deal as brothel boss and opium dealer risks a shooting, during which Schele, who got nothing but paternal abuse even on his sickbed, shoots the old tyrant. Heloise is submitted to tortuous exorcism. Baru is shocked that mayor Coffijn arrested and orders tortured city treasurer Rademaeckers , probably innocent as he claimed, for the disappearance of a fortune bullion. Finding Annemarie badly beaten and back in the outlaw brothel, Baru promises to deliver her and her sister after catching Jan De Lichte, which would also earn him a seat in the city council.
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