 At the end of "Time Crime" Vall is promoted to Chief of Duplicate Paratime Police, a new system set up on Police Terminal to seek out and destroy large organized crime syndicates operating across Paratime like the Organization described in "Time Crime".Vall is a crack shot with either hand (like most Paratimers, he is ambidextrous) and learned knife fighting from the Third Level Khanga pirates of the Caribbean Islands, who were reputed to be the best fighters in all paratime.In "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen", Vall investigates the wounding of a Paratime Policeman by Calvin Morrison and determines whether or not Calvin should die or live.