During Cassaday's search for answers and help, he meets this timeline's versions of his past allies, including Kaito (now a successful cop in the LAPD), Ruby (Kaito's wife of four years, and not a robot), a Sabine Seychelle (a woman who owns an enigmatic bookstore). He also meets McShane, Kaito's hard-punching partner at the LAPD, and Thelonius Godchild, a magician and informant who remembers Boutique's past but won't admit it for his own safety. Meeting Cassaday invites trouble for all of them, as they are attacked by two triplets all named Fabulon, and Kaito is seriously injured with a stab wound to his midsection. The third Fabulon attacks Cassaday and Boutique, but upon his death warns Cassaday that everyone from his previous timeline is coming after him.