Episode #1.7

Jan has been arrested by Baru, whom this earns a promotion into the city council and the liberation of Anne-Marie's sister Isabella from the abusive orphanage. Baru expresses sympathy for senselessly tortured, summarily hanging-condemned Jan's intentions, while condemning his criminal methods and pleads in vain against executing Jan in prison the evening before the scheduled public hanging. This prevents Tincke's half-cocked plan for an armed liberation, which Baru was already tracing. Jan's arrest decided Schele to renege his plot with Tincke, resuming father Simon's deal to exploit the 'bannished scum' with the mayor's clique, notably Benoit Van Gelderhode, whose son Nicolai finally gets to wed 'exorcised' Heloise. —KGF Vissers