1982 walt erskine in dc for march to vietnam veterans memorial dedication 1983 aug : jack : secret histories sept : kate starts umdnj ( jack : secret circles ) oct : jack : secret vengeance year zero minus six : walt erskine moves briefly to new york ; meets martin spano year zero minus five : the then sections of reprisal end with danny gordon buried ( late december ) year zero minus four : bill ryan ends up on west end in bahamas ( january ) year zero minus three : sibs ( february ) `` faces '' ( early summer ) the tomb ( summer ) `` the barrens '' ( ends in september ) `` a day in the life '' ( october ) `` the long way home '' legacies ( december ) year zero minus two : bill ryan becomes will ryerson and returns to us conspiracies ( april ) ( includes `` home repairs '' ) all the rage ( may ) ( includes `` the last rakosh '' ) hosts ( june ) the haunted air ( august ) gateways ( september ) crisscross ( november ) infernal ( december ) year zero minus one january harbingers april early dawn pickering conceives ( bloodline ) alan gets dat-tay-vao / walter erskine dies ( the touch ) may ( late ) by the sword dawn escapes mr osala ; jack meets glaeken and they retrieve the gaijin masamune july alans house burns on a monday ( later ) 2 kickers ( sammy ) found dead in manhattan of a host of diseases and avulsed intestines ( touch ) jack reconnects with weezy , the lady dies a 2nd time ( ground zero ) august the touch ends rasalom settles in pendleton , nc as rafe september the peabody-ozymandias traveling circus & oddity emporium ends october / november / december the order develops the jihad virus rafe/rasalom begins at seducing lisl year zero january dawn 's baby boy is late rasalom in pendleton , nc february rasalom in nc setting up ev and lisl renny augustino in nc tracking bill ryan ; then in nyc with bill to dig up grave in st. anns cemetery ; meets glaeken and they burn remains glaeken goes to nc where rasalom kills renny and discovers glaeken is mortal ( reprisal ends ) fatal error end with the lady terribly wounded but still alive march the dark at the end : jack goes back to johnson to find the old sigil w. rasaloms other name ( first seen in jack : secret circles ) rasalom steals the gaijin masamune and uses it to kill the lady for the 3rd and final time , thus paving the way for the otherness .