Aftermath of headquarters massacre. Six Hunters remain alive: Frieda, Abigail, Haatim, Dominick, and two others. Counting the dead. Nearly entire Council and Hunter organization slaughtered. Frieda sole surviving Council member. Team shell-shocked by losses.

Haatim awakens after the battle with Belphegor. Abigail contacts Frieda to cancel the strike and report success. Haatim learns that his spiritual knowledge and prayers now have real power against evil.

Abigail confronts Belphegor in the factory. The demon offers to return Arthur alive in exchange for retrieving a hidden knife from the mine tunnels. Abigail refuses the deal to preserve Arthur's ideals. The demon attacks with devastating telekinetic power, hurling machinery and tools.

Abigail hunts Belphegor through town. She sends Haatim away in a hot-wired car. She tracks the demon to a motel where Desiree (Bret's mother, driven insane) reveals Bret was taken to the factory.

Arthur wakes in hospital after a week. Frieda reveals the political fallout - 27 dead, Council furious. When Arthur learns the Council considers killing Abigail as potentially compromised, he threatens anyone who touches her. The Council grants him guardianship.

Arthur enters the nine-sided ritual chamber where thirteen cultists perform the Rite of the Ninth Gate. He slaughters the entranced cultists before they can sacrifice 7-year-old Abigail. Arthur confronts Mal'akheth directly, enduring psychological torment about his family's death.

Arthur fights through the manor, sustaining a gunshot wound to his left arm and additional injuries fighting a possessed cultist. Despite his wounds, he follows the screams of a captive child, dispatching demons and cultists, finally reaching a reinforced door leading to the ritual chamber.

The Hunters approach and breach the cult's Victorian manor. Arthur enters through the front as a diversion, killing multiple cultists. He confronts a demon in the ballroom but breaks past it when he hears a child screaming, pursuing deeper into the manor where the real ritual is taking place.

Arthur Vangeest, grief-stricken after his wife Eleanor and daughter Grace were murdered by the Ninth Circle cult two weeks ago, prepares for a raid on the cult's manor stronghold. He meets with Council mentor Frieda and fellow Hunters (Charles, Mildred Greathouse, Dexter Colson).