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CW: Mutilation and Implied Child Violence

Assembled in Yuma, Arizona, R Cell (with their new member Quinn) begins the investigation. Their first stop is the Yuma Police Department where police and medical examiners agree that this is a particularly brutal case. But though R Cell can ready themselves for the ugliness of the Abril family’s murder, there’s no way they can know how deeply it will disturb them.

It’s been eight months since Operation Big Sky ended with an anti-tank rocket and a helicopter on Devils Tower. Now a new mission leads to Yuma, Arizona. A brutal murder scene has ritualistic overtones. Agent Rory is unavailable. The temperature is in the triple digits. But at least it’s a dry heat. Welcome back, R Cell. It’s time to start digging.

Rowan thinks she's found her feet in this strange underground interrogation facility. It won’t last for long.

Mission Big Sky is complete, so the agents of R Cell return to their normal lives and their real names. Rory continues an experiment, bringing his partner Andrew deeper into the world of the Unnatural. River learns how to shoot from Rooster and digs into his personal past. Rooster goes on his first job for Breckenridge in the Amazon. And Rowan gives a statement in court, seeking closure on the events that brought her into Delta Green.

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This is where it ends. R Cell speeds across the Montana countryside, racing against time to catch the infected Benthic employees. McCastlin cannot be allowed to do whatever he has planned. So R Cell drives through the night toward Devils Tower, the stone monolith known in indigenous traditions as “Ghost Mountain.”

R Cell knows their quarry has fled toward Devils Tower, but there’s cleanup to be done at Benthic Pharmaceutical first. The trail of destruction and infection leads deeper into the underground complex. And they have to take out whatever Unnatural horror may lurk down there.

The sample has been destroyed, but R Cell's mission isn’t complete. The team tends to their wounds and gears up before heading to Benthic headquarters in an attempt to track down the last loose threads. But something there is amiss, and R Cell will have to decide how to handle the unsettling consequences.

Their timeline escalated by the phone call from EPA Agent Gaylor, R Cell races for the Oakland Pit. There they find that Benthic has deployed black-ops agents to move their “proprietary organism” from the toxic waters. Can R Cell defuse the situation with diplomacy? Or will they be forced into a more lethal course of action?

After some much-needed sleep, R Cell faces two loose ends: The Benthic Corporation and Detective Eric Hayes. All clues seem to point toward Benthic, but Hayes knows more than he’s telling about Deputy Fred Jacob’s death and autopsy. Fortunately the detective is very easy to find, and he has some questions of his own for R Cell.

R Cell must make an impossible decision. What should they do about Christina Jacob and her Star-Child? Can they be saved? And can this contamination be contained? Whatever they decide, there will be consequences that must be faced. And the clock is ticking.

CW: Child Violence