Something clawed and robed reaches for the baby in the night - but the mother wakes up and screams. When the nun gets to her, her throat has been slashed and the baby is gone.
To the Mill where Zed is having dreams and drawing them - John identifies the creature as an Invunche which he thinks are extinct (he puts her visions down to a side effect of touching the fallen angel's heart last episode).
And then a nun in her nightclothes appears looking for John (though not for the reasons Zed guesses). John recognises her as Anne-Marie - and she's not really there, she's a projected image from Mexico. She tells them about the attacker including the scar her cross left on her chest due to its presence - it's clear she doesn't like John much, but he owes her.
She returns to her body - and she has a picture of herself and John in younger punk days. Elsewhere a clawed, robed figure puts the baby in a cage.
John wants to leave Zed behind because of the whole Fallen Angel thing - Zed points out she's the Spanish speaker and he's going to Mexico. Zed guesses Anne-Marie was an old flame and John and she did sleep together - but she also got him into the occult and was there at Newcastle when the Bad Thing happened, like Gary. She also swore to kill him. Because of the personal drama, John is still leaving Zed behind and taking Chas.
So to Mexico, the Convent and two people who don't speak Spanish, but they do find Anne-Marie in her habit (John did not know she was a nun) and she knows Chas. Alone, Anne-Marie tells John what happened and he attempts to flirt and be his usual self - much to Anne-Marie's disgust since she thought Newcastle and Astrid's fate should have changed him. She became a nun to repent for the s'eance - he throws back that he does help people (like flying to Mexico at a moment's notice) and she brings up the names of the other people who experienced the s'eance. Definitely a lot of unpleasant tension there.
In the nursery John finds a big hole that Anne-Marie puts down to mice but John rattles off a list if "wall dwellers" that target children. Time to use woo-woo to discern what (and try and get rid of nosy nuns). Anne-Marie snarls at John for flirting with a nun (who was flirting with him, as he points out). They cast the runes and they catch fire - the monster is cloaking itself which means it's more sophisticated than your average baby snatching monster. So they need to find the child - which means digging up a placenta.
On the way Anne-Marie and John keep sniping and their issues go deeper than Newcastle - John's womanising and cheating on her also comes up and John's vast ego. They dig for the placenta and find that the tree it's buried under is now producing fruit made of flesh. Hey, does that count as vegetarian or not? When he cuts into one, it bleeds - and so do all the fruit on the tree. Human fruit means John knows who took the baby.
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