Catherine goes to Vincent to tell him what Laura is doing now.  Vincent informs Catherine that Laura has been negligent of her helper duties for several weeks.  Catherine reveals that Laura's gang leader may have committed a murder.  Vincent tells her that Laura is subject to the laws of the Tunnel World since she is still a citizen. He promises to talk with Laura.  Laura is sleeping in bed with her friend.  Vincent goes to the fire escape and Laura wakes up.  She goes out and joins him, where he talks to her about her new life and why she didn't come to him for help.  She says she has a new family now and can do things on her own.  Vincent wants to know is she loves the man and she replies yes.  She must go to a Tunnel Council meeting.  At the meeting they confront her with her wrong doings.  She says she hasn't done anything wrong nor has she seen any murder.  Laura leaves the chamber angry because the people above and below have rejected her.  Catherine is  at work lecturing a man and tells him that he knows her better than to get involved with the gang member.  The man she is lecturing is Laura's boyfriend, Jerry.  He says he did not mean to fall in love but he has.  Catherine tells him to stay away form the gang and Laura for the rest of the investigation.  Lincoln is accusing Laura of being the squealer.  He finally gets her to admit that she hates hearing people.  Jerry comes into the room and Lincoln reluctantly leaves Laura alone.  Jerry and Laura go outside to the old car where they dream of driving to Canada.  He asks her to go away with him for real.  She agrees and he tells her that he can really hear and that he is an undercover cop.  Laura now believes that he used her to get close to the gang.  She runs away into the alley crying.  Jerry calls Catherine from a phone booth.  He tells her that Lincoln believes he is the traitor and that he went back to get Laura.  The gang appears around the phone booth with baseball bats.  Catherine can only listen as they smash the booth.  At the hideout, they accuse Jerry of being the traitor.  His punishment is to be Sticks and Stones.  Laura comes in and sees what they are doing to Jerry.  She runs to her old boss to get him to inform Vincent of what is going on.  The gang ties Jerry to a fence.  They approach him with rocks and sticks in their hands.  They begin to terrorize him when Laura comes up.  She puts herself between him and the attackers.  A police helicopter flies over as several police cars pull up.  Lincoln has raised a cinderblock and is about to kill Jerry.  Vincent jumps from the roof and knocks out Lincoln then flees the scene.  Catherine arrives and helps Laura free Jerry.  Laura and Vincent are in the tunnels.  Laura is ashamed but Vincent tells her that she has dealt with the situation and she will be okay.  She explains that Jerry wants to meet him and Vincent answers "someday".  She hugs him and Catherine begins to leave.  Before she walks out, she signs "I love you" to both of them.  Vincent asks Catherine if she thinks Laura will be happy.  She tells him that Laura has learned to follow her heart.  Her life may not be simpler but it will be happier.