(Hellblazer I #260) - John had to avoid the police, because he was the main suspect in Phoebe's death, and Terry Grieves' men were after him for Epiphany being in a coma. Grieves' goons went to John's flat, and he used a spell to make them see him as a bloated corpse, but Grieves was not convinced Constantine was dead. John had Plates forge documents so he could leave the country and head toward India, where he hoped to attain spiritual purity, which would allow him to save Phoebe. Grieves blew up the Granby, and kidnapped John's mate Chas, torturing him until he called John begging for help. John promised to save him, but he was lying, and still tried to make his flight. His documents were suspect, so he had no choice but to flee, and convinced Grieves to free Chas. Grieves and his men worked John over, promising to cut him into pieces, but he convinced them he could help Epiphany. He used magic to enter her subconscious, where her mind had regressed to her childhood self before her life was twisted by magic, the last time she was happy. Initially she was going to stay there and let her father take care of John, but changed her mind and awoke from her coma. Grieves said Constantine could go, but he'd kill him if Epiphany's condition lapsed. Epiphany knew she now held John's life in her hands.

(Hellblazer I #273) - Terry picked up John, asking him to use magic to scare some of his Afghan competitors. John refused, and when Terry mentioned that he hadn't heard from Epiphany in a few days, John reminded him that his daughter was an adult. Terry dropped John off and told him he'd made a huge mistake not playing ball.

(Hellblazer I #274) - Terry's men were spying on John's flat, and Terry brought his goons in, deciding to kill Constantine for being with his daughter. John cast a spell to haunt them with visions of their murder victims, and Terry nearly jumped off the balcony before Epiphany forced John to help him. Terry said they'd get married over his dead body, but reconsidered when John said as his son-in-law he'd help him with his problems with the Afghans.

(Hellblazer I #275) - Terry met with his associate O'Reilly, giving him money to ensure his Afghan colleagues wouldn't target his daughter's wedding. The demon Nergal, not wanting John happy, choked O'Reilly, took the money, and convinced the Afghans to do his bidding. The Demon Constantine escaped Hell, and had been stalking Epiphany. He wanted real sensations and pleasures, and decided to take John's place, cutting him to pieces, and killing him. John's soul. Terry wasn't pleased with John's choice of a deconsecrated church as the place of the ceremony, but Epiphany said it could have been worse, like a pub. The Demon Constantine took John's place at the wedding, and Nergal used Afghan mobsters to raid the ceremony, but John took care of his doppelganger and killed Nergal.

(Hellblazer I #278, 279) - Artist Leo spilled some of his dark secrets to art critic Tom Mott while drunk, and contacted Terry, asking him to lean on him. Terry agreed for $50,000 dollars, half initially, and the other half when Tom was finished. Tom was soon in fear for his life, and when he was sure Terry was following him in a car he panicked and got in a fatal car accident. Leo's goon Darren tried to pay off the remaining $25,000 with one of Leo's sculptures, and Terry smashed it, saying there's be trouble if he wasn't paid. John ahd replaced his missing thumb with Tom's, but Tom's spirit demanded revenge. John asked Terry who hired him, and Terry gave up their names, but then asked John for a favor. Looted art from Iraq was on its way to private collections, and the mafia were involved, but Terry made an enemy of the mob when he diverted some choice pieces for himself. John didn't think taking on the mafia was a little favor, and vanished before Terry had a chance to respond. John threatened Leo and Darren, and Terry had followed him, saving him from a beating from Darren by pistol-whipping him, and saying that if anyone had a problem with his son-in-law they had a problem with him. Darren said Leo had Tom killed because he'd found out Leo's early works were actually made by a recently deceased artist that he'd passed off as his own. John lost interest when he saw that Leo'd used his thumb in one of his sculptures, and recovered it. Terry reminded him he was in his debt before John departed.

(Hellblazer I #282) - Police approached Terry and threatened him with jail time for siphoning public funds when the Thames Barrier was built. They said they could make the charges go away if he sent one of his men to Belmarsh prison, where the demon Julian currently had the run of the place. Terry immediately thought of John, who initially refused until Epiphany begged him to help, because her uncle Pat had escaped Belmarsh and committed suicide rather than go back. John took away Julian's power with a potion Epiphany made, and the inmates beat Julian to death.

(Hellblazer I #283-285) - Terry interrupted John and Epiphany while they were taking a shower, creeping them both out. Terry said his enemies in the mob were coming, so he was calling in his favor. John snuck into the hotel of Terry's mob enemies, putting an occult circle that was supposed to give them nightmares. The spell misfired, blowing off one criminal's face, and exploding the head off the other. Terry was displeased, but decided to make the most of the situation by sending one man's nose back to his boss so she'd lay off him. The mob in NJ declared war, and Terry told John he was going to have to make things right.

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