Your reflexes hold true. In moments, the would-be assassin is dying on the floor. "I was just tryin' to do a good turn, y'know?" he says. "Never anythin' but trouble for ol' Jimb. You start goin' to off somebody who's never done nothin' but harm the people around him, you get offed before you can off 'im...Always look for a way out, or you become the way out..." He mumbles incoherently and dies. You can smell smoke from a distant fire in the direction Laine went. Whatever's going on over there, either he's taking care of it or it's taken care of him.
Lou's been saved. What's next?