Near misses in the Greek tutorial.
The first time, though of course he doesn't know it's the first time, everything went exactly according to plan. Crowley got the baby, right on time. He took it to the nunnery, and didn't stop to talk to the man waiting outside. He observed the whole thing, and made sure no funny business happened. At the end of the night, the Antichrist went home with the Dowlings.
It takes 600 more tries to get it going exactly according to the right plan.
October 14: En route to Varna, Seward must tell a fellow suitor what transpired one night at Hillingham.
Gibson surveys the evidence of his recreational activities as he readies himself to serve.
Aumerle doesn't seek absolution.
Peter loses, and Ego patches him up afterward. Okay, this is only going to suck a lot.
But thou dost in thy passages of life
Make me believe that thou art only marked
For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
To punish my mistreadings.
Tris and Four take a detour.