 Tomas feigns innocence despite the fact that the Vulcan gun's barrels are still smoking.Polgas and Tomas go and meet Bab, who just organised an auction of his pornographic cards with Estong as the auction master and a bunch of dirty old men as the bidders.Polgas then deduces that a recent series of robberies against the bank's customers were made possible because Estong used his business as a spotter for the suspects.