- Whelk looks annoyed when he sees Adam there, even as Adam demands to know why he killed Noah, who is such a nice and loyal friend. Why wouldn't Whelk choose someone horrible instead?
- When Whelk doesn't answer, Adam pulls out his father's gun and points it at him. Whelk puts a knife against Neeve's face and threatens to slice into her if Adam doesn't throw the gun toward him.
- Without any other choice, Adam tosses the gun into a bush. Neeve tells Whelk that killing her wouldn't even work as a sacrifice, because it has to be a personal sacrifice, and she doesn't mean anything to him.
- When he counters that she was the one who was planning on killing him, she says that killing someone is a huge personal sacrifice for her—she's never done it before, so she'd be giving up her innocence.
- That's when Gansey, Blue, and Ronan show up on the scene and announce to Whelk that the police are totally coming to get him. While they're all distracted, though, Neeve disappears.
- Whelk, realizing this, bursts out of the pentagram and toward the gun. He manages to get to it and points the pistol at Gansey… again. He just really wants to shoot this kid, huh? Is he that annoying in Latin class?
- At this moment, Adam does something crazy: He throws himself into the middle of the pentagram. As his friends yell at him to stop, Adam says that he sacrifices himself.
- And the ground begins to shake. Uh-oh…