In which the gang:
- Flees the Ecstatic Metamorphosis
- Is given a shuttle ride to the surface of Mars by Juanita
- Meets their firewall handler Jake Carter
- Learns the location of Grey Xu's weapons cache
- Travels to the weapons cache, deep in Mars' Titan Quarantine Zone
- Narrowly avoids an encounter with a TITAN war machine still active in the TQZ
- Arrives at the cache, an old pre-Fall geothermal station, and is shot at repeatedly by a Lars Mueller security team
- Shoots the Lars Mueller security team repeatedly
- Hacks the depot's transmitter to prevent a broadcast
- Finds a hatch to an underground bunker, most likely dating back to the Fall
- Finds an injured woman — Helena Krawczyk, a registered co-owner of the Lars Mueller joint stock collective — inside the bunker
- Fails to prevent Helena Krawczyk from sending her transmission
- Fails to prevent Helena Krawczyk from telling them to fuck themselves and shooting herself in the head
- Realizes there is something very, very, very bad inside this bunker