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After the first fifty-six issues, Grell left the title completely and the series was re-launched under the name Sable, which was also the title of the short-lived TV series based on the book.
This timeline will focus on the original series authored by Mike Grell. I may expand it to include other Grell additions to the Sable saga, such as the Maggie the Cat limited series and Jon's appearances in Shaman's Tears. I don't expect to incorporate the Sable series (comic or TV version). During the course of this, I won't be telling every single detail of all the adventures. Many of them have an element of mystery to them and I'd rather not spoil too many of them. If you're interested, you should really track them down and read them yourself. You can start with the Sable novel Grell wrote and don't forget to check out 'Iron' Mike's official web site.
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NOTES: Issue number(s) are given in italics after each entry. If it's a multi-issue arc it will be shown as 3-6. If the info simply comes from two or more unrelated issues it will be shown 1/7.
Jonathan Lightfoot Sable, a bombadier in the Eighth Air Force, is shot down over Belgium. He meets Simone "Moses" Fortin of the French Underground. They spend three weeks training Sable how to walk, speak and act so they can get him out of the country and eventually back to England.
26
May 17
After a night of passion, Sable says goodbye to Simone "Moses" Fortin and returns to the Allies. He doesn't know she's pregnant.
26
June 06
Sable receives telegram - "Moses" captured and presumed dead. She actually escaped and kept working for MI9 after war.
26
After the war, Oberleutnant Karl Schtaffle, a former Auschwitz commander, is given a new identity by the CIA in return for anti-Soviet activities. He will move to the United States and wait for the Third Reich to rise again.
2
March 27
A senate guard and a policeman are charged with the theft of the Capitolio, but the diamond is never found.
11
Six year old Jon Moses Sable arrives at Ellis Island in the US after Simone Fortin's death. He goes to live with the father he's never known. His appearance puts a strain on his dad's marriage.
27
Josh Winters is drafted and sent to Korea
53
Jason "Sonny" Pratt's son Bill's F-4 is shot down in Vietnam during the Thet Offensive. He and co-pilot Rusty Olsen eject and are listed as MIA.
12/13
The North Vietnamese government releases some POWs to Rennie Davis. Some of the POWs are carrying letters from other prisoners. Frankie Abbott is part of a group that remails the letters so they don't become a political circus. Some of the letters list the names of people who never showed on official prisoner lists - Lt. Russell B. (Rusty) Olsen is one.
December 31
Jon "ArcLight" Sable and buddies (including Jerry Fetter) get into a fight with Australian soldiers at a New Years party on Tan Son Nhut AB, Saigon.
12-13
August 26
Munich Olympics begin. Jon Sable (28 years old) is competing. He meets Kenyan gymnast Elise McKenna. Jon comes in fourth in the Pentathlon but looks forward to competing in 1976. Elise misses her chance at a medal and decides she's too old (21) to compete anymore. After the Olympics are over, Jon goes to Kenya with Elise. They marry.
3-6
Milo Jackson gets a silver medal during the Olympics.
1
November 02
Jon's son Mark Andrew Sable is born.
3-6
September
approx: Jon's daughter Heather is born.
3-6
Andrea Hurley arrives in New York, NY from Michigan with dreams of stardom - she ends up stripping.
7
Gangster Carl Stasic meets Andrea Hurley and takes her under his wing.
7
December
Hal Brooks ask Jacob Inyati to track down Jon and stop his bloody quest for revenge. Jacob finds Jon at the graves of his family but Jon won't come in just yet. He almost had Kraut a few weeks before.
3-6
Sable joins Milo Jackson's mercenaries in Rhodesia to save the son of a Senator who's hot air balloon has set down in a bad spot. During the rescue, Jon is wounded in the arm. Later, a patrol Sable misses thanks to his wound is wiped out. It takes them five months to find out that Milo led the patrol into an ambush. By that time, Milo has disappeared.
1/3-6
Paul Bellows in nearly killed by his wife, Carla. She states a horse Paul was training kicked him in the head, but the bloody horseshoe under her car seat tells another story. Paul survives but is comatose. Carla is convicted but gets out on a three-and-half-million-dollar bond while her case goes through the appeals process. Popular theory is she'll skip the country if she loses the appeal or Paul dies.
21
April 18
Zimbabwe celebrates it's independence - Jon Sable is not there; he's back in the States wondering what he's going to do now.
3-6
In Brandon, Vermont, Jon writes about his life, calling it "A Storm Over Eden" and tries to get published. In desperation, he resorts to word association and sends the manuscript to Eden Kendall in New York. She calls him in to her office. She can't sell a men's adventure book but convinces a very reluctant Jon to write more stories about his New York leprechauns. Jon makes up the pen name B.B. Flemm. Convinced he'd failed as a writer, Jon tries to hire himself out as a bodyguard/bounty-hunter/whatever. That doesn't work well, either. Then Jon hears about escaped convicted child-slayer Richard Dahl. He tracks down and captures Dahl for the reward and the publicity. New York police captain Josh Winters isn't pleased, especially when Jon suddenly becomes hot news and has all the mercenary business he can handle.
He's so busy doing this that it takes Eden weeks to get a hold of him to let him know that she sold the children's book. Better than that, the publisher has put a rush on it to make the holiday market. One catch - Jon has to make public appearances to promote the book. Faced with a lawsuit from Eden if he refuses, he begrudgingly dons a curly blond wig, mustache and glasses and become B.B. Flemm for his adoring public. An artist named Myke Blackmon is hired to illustrate the books.
3-6
Grey Adler appears in the film "The Hard Way" along with Paul Goddard. It's never released.
44-45
late July
Jon Sable is back in Africa for a bit. He's nearly killed by old enemies.
Russian dancer Mischa Yukovich defects while in Paris. His wife Anastasia was to go with him but was replaced by another dancer at the last minute.
14
October
Former gangster Carl Stasic is killed by his old partner Joe Baylor. Stasic's wife Andrea is a witness and goes into hiding, eventually being taken into protective custody by the police before the trial.
7
Late in year..
Sable prevents Milo Jackson from killing the President at the United Nations.
1
A week later, B.B. Flemm meets artist Myke Blackmon for the fist time though she's been working on his books for two years. He'd never even known she was a she. He hands Eden a list of changes he'd like made and then leaves. Mad that she's taken half a day away from her drawing board for a two-minute meeting, Myke follows Flemm to his townhouse and finds...Jon Sable.
Jon is called by Laura Peters. Her father, Raymond, was the fifth victim of a killer that's been murdering homeless people. She hires him to track the killer down. Jon discovers that the killings are part of a plot involving Nazis bent on reviving the Third Reich. He kills Oberleutnant Karl Schtaffle but doesn't find out who the leader of the group is.
2
Eden lets Myke Blackmon read "A Storm Over Eden" in an effort to understand the man she works for, telling Myke that as far as she's been able to determine, every word is true.
Meanwhile Sable is back in Salisbury, Zimbabwe where he finally kills the white-haired man. From a telegram in the office, he finds out the man's name is Reinhardt Pike and he's just been appointed head of the national parks - a position the biggest ivory poacher in the country could well use to his advantage. The telegram states the sender is looking forward to "increased business" and is signed simply "J."
6
Jon is on the Tonight Show as BB Flemm. His old fencing coach Jason "Sonny" Pratt shows up and knows Jon's secret. He decides to hang out with Jon because he wants in on the fun. Andrea Stasic escapes protective custody after nearly getting blown up by Joe Baylor's men. She hires Jon to keep her alive through the weekend until Baylor's trial starts on a Monday.
7
The next day Trina Cole breaks into Jon's New York townhouse. She'd been working at an upstate resort called the Eagle's Nest and is accused of robbing the place. An ex-con, she wants Jon to prove she's innocent because the owner, Andrew Sherman, took a chance on her and she wants to show him she didn't betray him. In the process, Jon finds himself between the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, a foreign terrorist named Falana, and a retired AF Colonel with four nuclear bombs and a desire to use them.
8-9
November
Jon invites Sonny over for Thanksgiving but he says he's eating with family. Jon finishes another book just before deadline and takes it to Myke so she can start on the illustrations. He meets her roommate, Grey Adler, who's a dancer in the midst of choreographing a swordfight for a new stage adaption of "The Three Musketeers." When he says he's never seen a real competition, Jon uses his clout to get them tickets to the interstate championships at the Garden. Then Myke tells Jon that Grey is gay. Jon's uncomfortable throughout most of the match but by the end he decides it doesn't matter.
Nervous and unable to sleep before his first live television gig on the Today show, Jon goes for a run. He ends up in the middle of a fight with a gang of thugs which is broken up by the cops before Jon gets himself broken. Captain Winters explains to Jon why he dislikes Sable so much. His men put themselves on the line everyday but get no thanks. Meanwhile, Sable is always getting the press and the mayor wants a briefing on anything he does. Because of this fight, Winters will miss his kid's birthday party. He says Sable wouldn't last a week on the streets if he had to play by the cops' rules.
When B.B. Flemm is introduced on live TV, he's fast asleep in his chair.
When Winters finally gets home to his kid's party, he's surprised to find famed children's author B.B. Flemm there reading to the children. Flemm makes a point of thanking Winters for the fine job the department is doing.
10
December 23
Jon Sable is in Monaco to protect the Capitolio diamond before Sir Henry auctions it off. Sable meets Lady Margaret Graemalcyn.
11
December 24
Sir Henry has a party on his yacht - Sable keeps an eye on Lady Margaret but she drugs him after telling about her father, a Cuban policeman who was accused of taking the Capitolio.
11
Sonny Pratt tries to drop off Xmas presents for his grandkids, but his daughter-in-law Hollis shuts the door in his face
11
December 25
Just after midnight, Lady Margaret - Maggie the Cat - steals the Capitolio diamond.
11
21 January
He gets in touch with an old Army buddy named Jerry Fetter who lost a hand during the war. Jerry tells Sable to give him three days and he'll get with a guy that can help get them in country.
12-13
24 January
Jerry introduces Jon to Nguyen Van Tran, a small-arms and explosives expert. Jon tells them they have ten days to establish cover and meet in Bangkok on the third of the next month.
12-13
February 03
Sable, Jerry and Tran rendezvous in Bangkok for the mission.
12-13
Jon, Jerry and Tran search for signs of POWs. Jon gets sick after losing his quinine, then gets injured by a charging water buffalo, cracking a few ribs. Patrols hear Jon's shot at the buffalo, and he ends up getting captured and tortured before Jerry and Tran can rescue him.
12-13
February 15
They don't make the rendezvous. Jon Sable spends 39th B-day in Vietnam after missing the first pickup.
12/13
Staying at a Montegnard village while waiting for the next boat, Jon sees the tail section from Bill Pratt's plane being used as part of a wall. The villagers direct them to the cave where they'd tried to hide the pilot, who died of his injuries. It's Bill Pratt. They bury the remains.
12-13
February 18
Jon, Jerry and Tran are finally picked up.
12-13
Jon Sable goes to Berlin, Germany to help Mischa Yurkovich rescue his wife, Anastasia. Later, in New York, Jon tries to get Myke to go to the ballet with him but she has a deadline. Grey goes with him instead.
14
Jon is recruited for a South Amercian expedition by Dr. Stephanie Elizabeth Maxwell after she discovers an Incan artifact at Teotihuacan - an Aztec city. She needs Sable's help to go to the location revealed on the artifact - a location in Nicaragua. She's determined to go because she thinks it might point to the tomb of Christ.
15
At a museum showing of artifacts Sable and Dr. Maxwell recovered from South American, Jon once again meets Maggie the Cat. She gets Jon's help to recover a stolen formula.
16
Maggie leaves New York and steals a painting from Jon while she's at it. Meanwhile, Mischa Yurkovich is shot dead on the street in front of his building. At the funeral, Jon's police informant relays the information - the assassin was probably KGB. Three other defectors have been killed the same way in the last eighteen months. The CIA says it's the trademark of a killer known only as the Sparrow. Anastasia refuses the CIAs request for her to go undercover. She's going to Los Angeles with her dance company no matter what. She decides to let Jon go along as her bodyguard.
17-18
July 28
An encounter with Sparrow ends with Sable taking a tumble off the train with a knife in his side. He gets help from Bonnie Shields, who patches him up and takes him to her friend Greg - or "Pappy" if you prefer - who flies him to Los Angeles. When the train arrives, there's no sign of Anastasia or Sparrow. Jon finds evidence that Sparrow has something planned for the opening of the Olympics that evening. Sable finds and defeats Sparrow and then finds Anastasia ready to blow up the Olympic flame with a heat-seeking missile. She's a sleeper agent and had Sparrow kill Mischa when he found out.
17-18
late July
Jon is back in Africa, on the run from bounty hunters.
Chasing a liquor store thief, Jon is shot by rookie police officer Rhodes. Luckily for Jon, his latest manuscript is in his jacket and stops the worst of it. Unlucky for Jon, Capt. Winters finds out that Sable was carrying a manuscript for a new B.B. Flemm book.
20
In the hospital recovering from his gunshot wounds, Jon is intrigued by a woman he sees visiting most days. A nurse tells him it's Carla Bellows - the White Widow. Her husband has been in a coma for five years and she constantly checks on him. Out on bond after being convicted for his attempted murder, everyone knows she'll flee the country if she loses her appeal or if her husband finally dies. Jon follows her when he's recovered enough to walk and realizes he knows her husband. It's his old equestrian trainer, Paul Bellows. He tells Carla she won't get away with what she did to Paul. Jon checks himself out of the hospital against the advice of his doctor. He begins following Carla Bellows around, and making sure she knows he's doing it, eventually going to her estate to see Widowmaker, a horse of Paul's and an "old friend" of Jon's. He tells Carla he's surprised she hasn't already fled the country but she still remains cool and says she'll win the appeal the next day, while not denying she did try to kill Paul. She rides off on Widowmaker. She arrives at a car hidden in the woods but the key isn't there. Sitting atop a nearby wall, Jon has it, along with her passport and other papers. He'd wondered why she wasn't worried about the appeal and then realized that it was because she'd already had her escape planned. She tries to jump the wall but Widowmaker trips. The horse lands on Carla. Jon visits the hospital where a now-paralyzed Carla is staying, delivering the news that her conviction was indeed overturned. She was free.
The following Saturday, Myke Blackmon shows up at Jon's townhouse, surprising him by finally agreeing to go out on a date.
21
On their date, they take a horse-drawn carriage - Widowmaker is the horse. Carla was going to have him put down but Jon bribed the vet. Jon asks why Myke agreed to the date and she tells him it's her twenty-fifth birthday and she didn't want to be alone.
The next morning, Sonny wakes Jon up at seven and starts him on a harsh training regimen to get him back in shape after being laid up in the hospital. Over the next three weeks, he not only writes two more books but an article for Outdoor Life that he wants Myke to illustrate. He talks about giving up the merc business but Eden tells Myke not to hold her breath.
While Jon and Myke are out playing with Jon's 1953 Studebaker Commander, a CIA agent Jon met during the Sparrow incident at the Olympics shows up. The terrorist Falana is at it again. Her group took a plane hostage and started killing hostages until their demands were met, then they blew up the plane anyway. The CIA agent tells Jon the payment the terrorists received wasn't money but a man - Sparrow. They want Jon to track down Sparrow and kill him for two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Jon initially refuses but something - the money, the danger, the desire for revenge - causes him to go despite his better judgment.
In Israel, Jon meets up with IDF intelligence agent Rachel Elazar, his contact. Jon's hotel room is blown up shortly after his sniper rifle and other weapons are delivered. He makes it out and Rachel nails the guys that did it. A tour bus they use as cover on their way to Jerusalem is also attacked. Sparrow somehow knows Jon is after him.
Jon realizes Sparrow's plan is to destroy a mosque, the Dome of the Rock. If it is destroyed, Israel will be blamed and a holy war will erupt, leaving the area in chaos and ripe for the picking by Sparrow's people. Jon and Rachel track down Sparrow's suppliers and Jon goes after Sparrow, hoping to take him alive if for no other reason than to prove to himself that he's not just a cold-blooded killer anymore. Jon catches Falana and she tells him that Jon is just bait to draw Sparrow out. That's how the terrorists knew Jon's plans - they'd been warned. By Rachel. She was one really meant to kill Sparrow. Falana gets away and Rachel is killed in the process. Jon makes it to the docks where Sparrow is at. Falana is with him. Jon has them both in his sites. He takes one shot.
22-24
Jon has a nightmare about Sparrow killing Myke. He tells Myke about Sparrow, and how he knows Sparrow will come for him someday.
When Jon arrives back in New York, he finds Sonny having a party with a few of his old stuntman buddies, including Wichita Kaintuck. They're together because Mae Aston, daughter of film producer Miles Aston, is having a fund-raising auction at her estate on Long Island. It'll be full of great old movie memorabilia. They invite Jon who calls Myke but she can't go. She suggests he give Eden a call. One of the props is the original Maltese Falcon, which gets stolen. Before the case is cracked, there's also a murder.
28-30
late July
In New York, Jon is with Myke when he realizes he's forgotten it's Elise's birthday. Myke suggests maybe it's a sign Jon is ready to move on.
Jon is contacted by his buddy Jerry Fetter. The Soviets are suspected of shipping weapons including MiGs to Nicaragua. Since Jon has been there, Jerry wants him to join his group. They're going to find out if the mysterious crates the SR-71 photos show really are for weapons. If so, they take pictures to prove it and let a US aircraft carrier bomb the place flat. If there are no weapons, they broadcast a no-go.
They make it in country and sneak into the compound. The crates don't contain MiGs. They contain medium-range nuclear missiles on mobile launchers. The team realizes they have to take the missiles out themselves because the missiles are ready to go and could wipe out the US aircraft carrier before the planes are launched.
31-32
After Jon gets back, he, Eden and Myke fly to Los Angeles to check out storyboards for a animated special based on Flemm's books that is being rushed to air for St. Patrick's Day.
33
Young actor Paul Goddard dies, becoming the "James Dean of the eighties."
44-45
With winter coming on, Jon goes to Idaho to meet with the Native American Ben Winterwolf. Jon's hoping to get back some of what he feels he's lost. Winterwolf teaches Jon the old ways of hunting and surviving in the wild. They stumble across a racist para-military organization that's been kidnapping female campers to use to mother the 'new generation of the white race.' Jon and Winterwolf are spotted. Escaping from the racists, Jon is whacked in the head and temporarily blinded. Winterwolf gets him food and a place to hide, then takes advantage of a snowstorm to try and get back to town to bring help. Jon's eyesight comes back pretty quick and he heads out. He finds Winterwolf's body frozen in the snow. The racists found him but he managed to take a few out first. Jon heads to the compound and rescues the women on his own, blowing the place up in the process.
34-35
December 25
Myke and Jon spend Christmas together.
Meanwhile, work on the broadway play is progressing nicely with Grey doing the choreography. Jon shows Myke his article in Outdoor Life that's finally been published and tells her they want him to go to Alaska and write another article. He agrees to do it if Myke can go with him. Myke asks if it's a new start for Jon, and he thinks maybe it is. They go to a gallery ran by Alfred Queen to see an exhibit of expensive African art. Much of it made from ivory. Queen introduces Jon to Claudine Jobert, from Johannesburg, South Africa. The exhibit is from her private collection. She later asks to meet Sable privately. She's putting an expedition together to go on safari to Africa and track down Trader Horn's legendary Ivory Ape. Supposedly it's a life-size statue of an ape, carved from thousands of pieces of ivory. Jobert knows of Jon's reputation in Africa but is willing to take the risk and make it worth Jon's while. There's still a few months before the Alaska trip is scheduled so Jon agrees and invites Myke along to see where he comes from. Jobert sends a telegram back to Africa announcing Jon's arrival in ten days. She signs it simply "J."
36-39
As they leave the restaurant, Jon goes ahead and gives Myke the ring he'd intended to be for their engagement, in case she changes her mind.
Jon picks up some new guns and then tells Eden he's going to Texas for a few days, a fact which thrills her because he still owes her a book in three weeks.
In Texas, Jon is in a shooting competition. When questioned about his choice of an "outdated" weapon like the broomhandle Mauser he says he'd use a rock if it got the job done. Jamie Walters doesn't believe him and challenges Jon. Jon is to throw a rock at Jamie while Jamie tries to shoot a target. Jon nails Jamie in the face with a tomato and Jamie misses the target. Jamie walks away mad because he's Jon's biggest fan and Jon humiliating him like that wasn't nice.
Back in New York after the competition, Jon gets a call from a woman who's daughter has been kidnapped. She wants Jon to deliver the ransom with him her. At the drop point, Jon suspects a trap just in time and bullets start flying. The woman with Jon is freaked that they're using real bullets. Turns out she's a hooker and the whole thing was a set-up. She runs but Jon pulls her down just before she gets shot. Someone's trying to kill them.
It's Jamie Walters, out to prove he's better than Jon by killing his 'client.' Jon gets the hooker, Katherine Bellows, to Myke's place for safe-keeping then goes after his fan.
40-41
After Jon and Myke get back from the Alaska trip, Jon dons his B.B. Flemm disguise and accompanies Eden to the Marchand Estate. During the party, Jon notes not only a large number of bodyguards, but also a known terrorist - Asheraf Ali Abd Al Fatah, a friend of Carlos the Jackal. He's also introduced to Rachel Elazar, whom he thought Falana killed in Israel when he was after the Sparrow. That night, he sneaks into her room and confronts her. She tells him how she escaped from the explosion Jon thought had killed her. She also tells him that she's on a mission concerning Marchand and Asheraf and Jon should stay out of the way. And that she's married.
Rachel is acting as Asheraf's girlfriend. He's got something planned but she doesn't know exactly what. A meeting to buy explosives goes sour. Jon shows up and saves Rachel's life but Asheraf gets away.
4 July
Jon and Rachel track Asheraf through underground arms merchants in New York City, knowing he'll have to get his weapons and explosives from somewhere else. They realize he plans on using the explosives to crack open a supertanker full of natural gas in New York harbor, releasing a cloud of the gas. The Fourth of July fireworks will ignite the cloud and destroy a good portion of the city. Jon and Rachel race to intercept the tanker and save New York.
42-43
Grey is ecstatic. His film "The Hard Way" is finally being released to capitalize on Paul Goddard's posthumous fame with a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The producer, Frederic Myles, invites the surviving featured players to the premiere. Aside from Grey, those players include the likes of Glenn Forrest and Debra Lawson. Unknowns at the time, Glenn has become a he-man action star and Debra Lawson has received two OscarTM nominations. Though Grey knows it's a bad film, he knows that it will make money and is his last chance at stardom.
After the print for "The Hard Way" is picked up, the van carrying it explodes. Producer Myles has the one surviving print and refuses to duplicate it because of the publicity. He hires Jon to accompany him to Cannes to guard the print. Jon joins the producer and the cast on a yacht where they're all staying during the festival. It's not going to be a pleasant week, as the stars who've gone on to become successful don't really want the film released for a variety of reasons.
An unsuccessful attempt is made on the film, but no one knows who tried for it. Then a shot is heard and they find Glenn Forest dead in his locked cabin. It looks like suicide but Jon is certain it wasn't. Jon is knee-deep in a murder mystery with a yacht full of suspects.
44-45
December 21
Jon celebrates the shortest day of the year by taking Myke on a climb of Devil's Tower, Wyoming. Then she and Jon celebrate the longest night of the year at the top.
Meanwhile, a Barnett Group Christmas party at the top of Barnett Tower in Chicago, Illinois, is taken over by a group of armed men. Jon gets a call from Sonny who says a woman in Chicago needs to see him - it's a matter of life and death.
Jon goes to see Ellen Kory in Chicago. Her husband Stanley worked for Louis P. Barnett. He found himself stuck in a job with no opportunity to advance. In desperation, Ellen went to Barnett to try and get him to transfer Stanley into a position better for his career. Barnett agreed...for a price. For the past year, Ellen had been secretly sleeping with Barnett. The night of the Christmas party, Stanley found out about the affair and stormed off to the tower. Ellen is afraid that he will do something drastic, especially since he now has the cover of armed hostage-takers. Jon agrees to sneak into the building and prevent Stanley from killing Barnett, providing a handy diversion for the SWAT teams to use in the process.
46-47
Before the opening of the Broadway play "Leprechauns," Jon (as B.B. Flemm) attends a cast party with Eden, Myke and Grey. After he does his Flemm duties, he returns to the party as Jon and notices a certain guest. It's Lady Margaret Graemalcyn - Maggie the Cat. She's there to ask Jon for help. Back at his place, he notices she's bleeding. During a robbery at the penthouse of a girlfriend of a Mafia guy named Tony Segretti, she was nearly caught. During the caper, she ended up not only with the jewels she was after, but a record book. She has to get the book back to the Mafia before they come after her and wants Jon's help. Jon approaches Segretti's boss, Secundo Dallagrana, to make the deal. But there's more to it than that. There's a code in the book that reveals that Segretti was skimming off the top and he'll stop at nothing to make sure Dallagrana doesn't see that book. Jon approaches Capt. Winters, but of course he can't do anything about it because the book was obtained illegally. Jon points out that if the police happened to come into possession of the book during the investigation of another crime, it would be perfectly legal. Jon and Maggie break into Secundo's house and Jon tells Secundo what Segretti has been up too. Then he signal's Winters who responds to an attempted burglary call at Secundo's estate, catching the mob bosses and the evidence.
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April
During Spring Break, Eden Kendall's son Adam Kowalski (Eden changed her name when she moved to New York) arrives in NY from Racine, Wisconsin to visit his mom. But his timing stinks. Eden is flying off to Paris and can't take Adam with her, so she gets Jon to agree to watch out for him for a day or two until she gets back. Despite Myke's assurances that everything will be fine, Eden can't help but feel like she just hired Laurel to watch Hardy.
Back at his brownstone, Jon gets a call from a Shareen Wilson who says some men are after her. Jon leaves Adam and goes to meet her. After he leaves, she calls back and leaves a message telling that the men after her came to her apartment so she's heading to a club where a friend works. Adam takes one of Jon's guns and goes to the club himself.
After checking out the now-empty apartment, Jon calls Sonny and asks if anyone called. Adam had told Sonny Jon had a message on the machine so Sonny tells Jon where she's at. Sonny doesn't know Adam has gone after her himself. Adam arrives at the club as Shareen is being "escorted" out the back. He fires at one of the men, but has only grabbed one of Jon's paintball guns. Adam and Shareen run from men with real guns.
They make it to Shareen's car and escape. Shareen tells Adam they're running from Nicky Charles, her manager, and Gus, who does Nicky's dirty work most of the time. At the mention of the word manager, Adam thinks Shareen is a singer but she's not. It takes him a second to realize she's a hooker. Nicky is after her because Shareen called the cops after Nicky cut up a friend of hers who was also working for him.
Shareen and Adam try and keep ahead of Nicky and Gus while Shareen makes a few stops to pick up some cash she has stored and Jon trails them, hoping to catch up to them before Nicky and Gus do. Adam and Shareen make it back to Sable's place just ahead of Nicky and Gus. With Sonny, they manage to hold off the thugs until Sable arrives.
When they meet Eden at the airport, she's happy to see everything is okay and wonders why she was so worried. What could've happened in twenty-four hours, anyway?
51-52
April
Myke's been getting upsetting calls for a week. She finally tells a concerned Grey that it's Geoff Markham, and old boyfriend she'd almost married. It didn't happen because Markham didn't want her to have a career. He'd also switched out her birth controls pills for placebos causing Myke to get pregnant. She's planned on putting the child up for adoption but miscarried. Geoff accused her of having an abortion and they split up. He'd gotten married to someone else after that but his wife dumped him and now he's after Myke again.
The press is on Winters' back because Sable brought Nicky Charles in. Officer Rhodes tells Winters he doesn't think Sable is that bad, because Sable covered for him back when Rhodes shot him.
At a jazz club, Myke sees Winters and drags Sable over to say hello to him. Winters invites them to join him because the club is so crowded.
Later, as Myke and Jon are leaving Jon notices two men going into the club. He tells Myke he needs cigarettes and goes back in. Sure enough, the two plan on robbing the club, but Sable and Winters and several undercover cops who were in the club on a stakeout arrest them.
At home, Winters wonders to his wife why he hasn't used Sable's secret against him. His wife tells Josh that maybe...just maybe he likes him. A little bit. Winters admits that Sable is "interesting."
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Small-time CIA agent Geoff Markham goes to New York to enlist Sable's help. A two-bit hood in Miami revealed knowledge of a shipment going to the IRA out of NY. They want to enlist Sable to help them out since he has mercenary connections that can help them track it down and they don't have time to put anyone in undercover to do it. He eventually agrees for fifty-percent of the value of the contraband. Of course, Markham has another angle. He knows Myke is seeing Sable and hopes Jon won't make it back alive. And if he does happen to make it, at least Geoff and his partner will be in good with the CIA and probably get promotions.
Jon tracks down the the contact who's going to channel the shipment into Northern Ireland. A man known only as "Jacklight."
In Marseilles, Jon is approached by a man calling himself O'Grady and other members of the IRA. They know Jon has been following a shipment for them in an attempt to 'divert' it. But, the strange thing is, they don't know about any shipment. Jon escapes before they start to torture him for information, but lands in the hands of Jacklight's men. They take Jon to meet Jacklight, or, as Jon knows him better, dad.
Jon's dad is upset that Jon has been asking all these questions and blew a deal that's taken him almost a year to put together, but when Jon tells him that the CIA put him on the trail, Jacklight figures if the CIA knows, everybody knows. Still, he's not sure why the CIA even cares. Jon is amazed and tells Jacklight that there's no way he'll let his father supply guns to the IRA. At that, Jacklight realizes what is going on. He shows Jon the shipment in question and they all smile.
Geoff and his partner arrive in Dublin to meet with the Irish Naval Attache'. Geoff's plan is to make sure the calvary arrives just a little bit late, in an effort to make sure Sable is killed during the round-up.
Jacklight tells Jon about how after his wife, Rebecca, died, he went back to Europe to retrace the "Moses Line" one more time. During the trip, he met a few of Simone's old compatriots. None of them ready to retire, they spent the last year using their skills to put together a smuggling network that spans half of Europe. Now, thanks to Jon's questions, the IRA is onto their network and that's trouble. The CIA knows too, but Jacklight isn't too worried about them. Jon arranges a plan to get the IRA and Geoff and CIA off his dad's back.
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And with that...Jon Sable, Freelance comes to an end.
Special thanks to Clayton Moore (September 14, 1914 - December 28, 1999) for being a hero.
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