Our Violent Ends

News of the train attack travels quickly through Shanghai, and people begin to quarantine rather than risk exposure. Benedikt considers how long it has been since a blackmail demand and senses he is being watched. It’s a boy, wearing a White Flower bandana, who asks for “Roman,” Roma’s rarely used full name. Benedikt threatens him, and the boy confesses to spying for Lord Cai, who “knows” that the White Flowers are behind the blackmail demands. The boy escapes. Benedikt returns to White Flower headquarters, where everyone is buzzing with the news that the Scarlets are behind the blackmail—the exact opposite message the Scarlets received. Benedikt tells them the “proof” is fake, stopping them from going out to kill Scarlets, for which he is reprimanded by Lord Montagov. They are interrupted by a true White Flower messenger, who reports that Tyler Cai is attacking.

Roma and Juliette arrive back in Shanghai with the stolen vaccine. The train station is unusually crowded, and an old woman tells them that a gangster safe house is on fire. Juliette runs off, concerned for Marshall, but it isn’t her safe house. Instead, she finds Tyler and a group of Scarlets laughing as they burn a house full of children and the elderly.