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From Wikipedia:

"Sebastian had prudently concealed his faith, but in 286 it was detected. Diocletian reproached him for his supposed betrayal, and he commanded him to be led to a field and there to be bound to a stake so that the chosen archers from Mauretania would shoot arrows at him. "And the archers shot at him till he was as full of arrows as an urchin is full of pricks, and thus left him there for dead." Miraculously, the arrows did not kill him. The widow of Castulus, Irene of Rome, went to retrieve his body to bury it, and discovered he was still alive. She brought him back to her house and nursed him back to his health."

So he survived being shot with arrows, but not being cudgeled to death.

Ironically it was not his hand, but his brain that was brought to Germany. The Millennium Group story about the hand is basically fiction.

This is another episode that does a great job of convincing us that it is happening in a country that is not Vancouver, Canada. We are brought to Bremen, Germany in this one. Clever placards placed over doors in stairwells and in hospitals give us the illusion that these are German institutions. And the clever casting of actors with very colorful German accents and vocabularies put the finishing touches on this illusion.

"If we found out, they already know"

This is the first mentioned that there is a "they", another group working at cross purposes against Millennium. This episode suggests that the rivalry is older than we think, going back to the first Millennium. Peter Watts gives us a little bit of this history. Later the existence of two rival Millennium factions is brought out, The "owls" and "roosters". But always consider that whenever there are two parties jockeying for position, there is always a third-party interfering with that conflict, usually to make it worse.

This episode also brings in references to the "Peat Moss Man", human remains had been found buried in peat in Scotland where the remains were as remarkably preserved as was shown here. And so the Pete Moss man became part of the story, and is used to point Peter Watts to the location of the "Millennium burial Circle".

The location of Peat Moss Man was simply moved from Scotland to Germany, for the sake of the story.

This is also the end of Cheryl Andrew's Association with the group. Her fate is further revealed in the episode "skull and bones" from season three. It is not clear what becomes of her in this episode, and "skull and bones" does not create a clear path from Germany to Homer Pettey's/Mabius' "workshop" and finally his kitchen table, next to a bowl of cereal, where Emma Hollis finds her skull and then lies about it to Frank. At one time Cheryl Andrews was Frank's trusted ally and had helped him several times in season one.

It is almost completely out of character for her to be revealed as a shill for a yet unnamed adversary. But as it turned out, she was either being used, or she had found out things about the group that Frank found out in season three.

It's just unfortunate that her story was not elaborated upon, we are only given small arcane hints of her activities and fate.