In Stone's case, this means he awakens to find his badge, his fully loaded service pistol, and $36.27 - the amount of money he was carrying when he was murdered - on his person. Any material items they had in their pockets when they died continuously regenerate each morning. Even with the relatively restricted ways in which a soul can be harmed, as told by the Devil, they can only feel pain if it is inflicted by another escaped damned soul.Д®ach morning the souls (including Stone) wake up in the clothing they were wearing at their time of death. The souls cannot be killed, and injuries can only be inflicted to their eyes (it is shown the Devil can alter this rule somewhat, as he did in the episode 'Encore'), by the living or dead. They do not bleed, nor do they have a heartbeat. Throughout the series, they are shown to be unharmed by traditionally fatal encounters with fire or falling from great heights. Being deceased, immortal souls, both Stone and the escapees he chases do not display many of the same physical limitations and weaknesses as the living. It was suggested by an angel (in the episode 'It's a Helluva Life', played by John Glover in a dual role) that Stone served God's purpose as well as the Devil's in his former life when he killed his wife's rapist.Д«oth Stone and his quarry have superhuman powers related to the amount of time each individual had spent in Hell. The Devil seems to hinder Stone's work almost as much as he helps it, however, divulging some information but withholding crucial facts or giving only cryptic clues to where Stone will find an escapee, apparently delighting in watching him become more irritable with his interference.

Because the Devil is largely powerless on Earth, he makes a deal with Stone: Stone will be returned to Earth to track down these 113 escapees, and if he can return all of them to Hell (before one of them kills him), he will earn a second chance at life on Earth (and thus, possibly, Heaven). The Devil explains that, over the centuries, a few souls have escaped (and presumably been returned to) Hell, but nothing of this magnitude, which includes 113 souls.

Stone died the most decorated cop in NYC history.ДЇifteen years later, a breakout from Hell occurs, led by a 4000-year-old Canaanite priestess named Ashur Badaktu ( Teri Polo). Later in the show it was revealed that it was not the killing itself that condemned Stone to Hell, but the fact he took pleasure in it. Two months later, Stone was killed in an unrelated incident and went to Hell for murdering Jax. He tracked down and arrested the offender, Gilbert Jax, who was cleared of the charges. In 1983, Ezekiel 'Zeke' Stone ( Peter Horton) was a New York City Police detective whose wife, Rosalyn, was raped.

Two young souls motivated by the pain