While they wait for the authorities, Cady scouts around the hotel, and finds one other lodger, an older Southern gentleman in his nightshirt, doing the same. Together they find the proprietor upstairs in his apartment, hiding in the closet. There's a straw doll nailed to his door, and the man is cowering in fear.
"They can turn your bones to bugs!" - proprietor
"I think they have to take them out first." - Cady, being comforting
When the police finally arrive, they take them to the station "just to clear things up". Of course, when they get there, they are relieved of their weapons and put in a cell. "Just until we figure things out." Apparently things never get figured out. They keep trying to talk to the sergeant, who is apparently the only one who can sort things out, but he won't come talk to them.
Meanwhile, Robert and Joseph get lost looking for a doctor, and end up spending the night on a bench. Joseph dreams about being a Roman soldier, and crucifying Grimme. In the morning, they go back to the hotel, and, seeing police out front, split up. Robert waits while Joseph goes in past the sleeping policemen to look for their friends. On his way out, the policemen wake up, and take him in as well. While being booked, he does get the sergeant to promise to contact the rangers about them as soon as possible, using his word of honor, but nothing ever comes of it. Perhaps the rangers don't know the false names the posse is using right now.
Robert, still free, starts looking for dynamite, but finds that there wasn't much in the city and someone recently bought a bunch of it. Meanwhile, a guardian angel is thrown into the cell next to the male members of the posse, and starts talking about how the Lord will set him free. This annoys everyone.
Robert manages to communicate with the posse through the tiny grilled windows, and they aren't really thrilled with being broken out by dynamite. Eventually, Tobey uses her question miracle to choose the best way to get out. Apparently, Robert going and talking to the Rangers would be best, but it doesn't matter for some reason.
Late that night, we find out why not, as more guardian angels come to perform a jailbreak. There's a large explosion to start things off, and after Cady's unlocking spell goes a bit awry, Tobey calls her machete. It arrives, embedded in a policeman. They do keep him from dying, and ironically he's one of the only survivors of the jailbreak. Tobey cuts them out and they head upstairs, where Robert has just come in the back door.
The main floor of the station is chaos. Two angels with flaming swords and tattered wings are slaying police pretty much at will, while some robed cultists are also taking pot shots. Robert can't abide the policemen getting slaughtered, and starts shooing at the angels. He gets a desk thrown at him, but manages to shoot one of the angels in one arm, then, when it swaps its weapon, shoots it in the other arm!
The rest of the posse mostly rushes upstairs to get their stuff, which Vorpwhistle deduces is in a second-floor evidence vault. When they get there, the sergeant is too, and there's a brief standoff. Downstairs, Robert and Tobey together down the angels, though one is not dead, and they come upstairs just in time to see the standoff break and Cady get shot in the face. Buffalo to the rescue again! Mysteriously, they let the sergeant live and reclaim their stuff.
Vorpwhistle goes downstairs and tries to use his spirit saw on the still-alive angel, but the saw jams and the surprisingly toothy angel takes a big bite out of the undead scientist. Tobey cuts him free and they flee into the night after a little interrogation. It turns out that the police sold the posse to the highest bidder, who turned out to be Bayou Vermilion. It's unclear whether the police actually know the real identities of the posse.
Afterwards, the posse gets their horses and flees yet another town in the middle of the night, back on the river road towards Baton Rouge.