Issue #1: The Shanty House

Black Bill (under the Watcher's guidance) investigates a missing persons case; Tom, altering himself to look like a federal agent, also appears at the missing teenager's house; Bill follows Tom into an alley, where they interfere with a CoT ritual; they meet Declan DeLight, who mistakes Solidream for the baddie; later they discover the leader of the ritual was initiated by Jericho Jackson; Richard Hughes hears thugs intimidating a shopkeeper to give them info about DeLight; he meets Melody Paine, a teenager who works in the shop and is into CoT; later he follows DeLight in the Tangle and they exchange words; DeLight invites the Bill and Tom to his loft and Hughes crashes the party; DeLight wants them to handle some of the mystical crime and occurrences which he doesn't get around to; they investigate CoT revealing a cop called Douglas McKee who is holding the procedures about the missing teenagers; The Watcher discovers McKee is a part of the Brotherhood, a group of corrupted cops he has a grudge for, and gives him a serious scare; through Bill's field work and Hughes' magic bug on Melody they discover there is a 'test' for the CoT teenager initiates that night in an abandoned train station; they three tackle the well-prepared teenagers in the station and eventually stop them from killing themselves, although the building is ruined, Hughes is severely wounded, and most of the kids flee after successfully lighting a green circle of fire on the clock tower.