I do not imagine the same thing can be said for Mrs. Van der Zee’s hat.

I look up across the valley at the man on his chair with his wine and I think I can see Ottavio Leopold Calvanese applauding in the empty night.

One less person in the world who wants to kill us, I guess that’s good.

A moment later we hear the noise of the impact and that’s all we hear for a while because it is very loud.

“I’ve done my job Doc.”

Doctor Client I guess.

Now it’s done.

Sorry Rex.

Sorry Volodya.

Sorry Evil Hansel because I put you somewhere you likely never wanted to be.

Sorry Marta I’m sure you were a good dog.

Sorry but I am not Banjo Telemark.

My name is Jack Price and I am the First of the Demons.

This is my art.

EPILOGUE

THE VAULT WAS REALLY WELL MADE I GUESS so most of the stuff in it was A-OK. We used one of the little bulldozers to load it up onto a freight container and Doc was all ready with the truck but Mozart landed her butt-ugly plane on the road right there with its vertical doohickey and we just loaded that up instead.

It’s true that the Swiss Air Force doesn’t fly at night.

The Italian one does, though, and they got the call to come fuck our shit up.

But by some chance that no one’s really got to the bottom of, they were given the wrong coordinates by the dispatching officer, who definitely does not work even occasionally for Ottavio Leopold Calvanese that is slander.

So we just flew away and we left Fred’s horrible enormous porno jet right there in the hangar and sold it later to a movie star.

I hear he was real freaked-out about the guy in the crate, we completely forgot about Sean, there was just so much going on but when you keep pets you have responsibilities, and that is my bad.

Agent Hannah got kicked out of Einsatzgruppe JONAS and she left the Swiss police.

I don’t feel like that is entirely my bad but I am reasonably sure she does, so I think it is best if I don’t call her.

We had a memorial for Rex and Volodya. We sang songs and ate ham. Doc did a genetic assay on it first and she promises there was absolutely no human content at all.

Elena Riccardi figured out what happened and she and her husband went on a cruise. She also left a very rude message on our answering service that is just uncalled for but I guess she has cause.