The story would open by catching up with Ray Norman. If his rescue was depicted in the previous story, this one would open with his release from the sanitarium and his return to his golf club. The judge determined that Portman had punished Ray worse for his blackmail than any prison term and allowed him to be released on probation.
While at his club, thinking on his life, Ray runs across Coley, staggering over his property. Coley is wounded and burned from an unknown experience and pleads for help. Ray takes him in.
Meanwhile, Jim and Arte find themselves elsewhere in Los Angeles, probably separated, and try to figure out where in the world they are. Posey's gang, if they did not reunite in the previous story, are reuniting now.
Pinto starts watching the Hall of Justice with interest. He discovers that one of Hamilton Burger's deputy district attorneys could pass for his double. Both entertained and displeased that a double of his is on the side of right, Pinto playfully attacks Deputy Sampson in his office, lassos him, and strings him upsidedown. Sampson is indignant, but is more upset about a crook looking like him than anything else. This scene is what inspired the entire idea. I was just so amused myself by these two vastly different characters of H.M. Wynant's.
Another possible way of working said scene, however, is for it to happen much later, and Posey's gang has a definite reason why they want Sampson attacked. In a role-play version I did, some of his casefiles were stolen. This might be closer to the way it would end up, although Pinto would still be highly entertained by attacking Sampson. Considering Pinto's status as one of the six regional leaders of worldwide crime, and considering his and the others' precarious states in being displaced from their time, I doubt he would go after an important figure such as an assistant district attorney without good reason.
Snakes is intended to still be, well, a snake, and to maybe become associated with modern-day criminals and crime rings. Again in a role-play (a different one), he coerced Gallito and Sergei to come with him in the hopes of getting them to join too, as he will receive rewards for any new members he can recruit. Gallito and Sergei are lukewarm, even after Snakes tries to make the case that they don't know if the others are there too, and when the modern gang captures Lucrece Posey and brings her in, Gallito and Sergei rebel. This subplot will likely occur in some form in the story version.