Knowing all the possible risks is not the same as understanding the consequences. R Cell has always known that someday this could be the outcome, and now they will have to understand what it means to go forward when it's happened. But first, a toast.

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(CW: Gore sounds, misophonia, sirens)

“Either way, sorry bud: it’s partially your problem.” “Yeah, well, I guess, uh…what happens, happens.” “Yeah, well, we will see what happens...” - from the files marked Operation: Ancestors

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Following the individual strings has led all the Agents back together, and no one likes what they’ve found on the other end of the tether. But when R Cell has already come this far, there’s no way they won’t see the mission through to the end…even a mission that they weren’t supposed to pursue.

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Hunter becomes hunted becomes hunter again. Rowan has been pushed past her limits and come out the other side, but this chapter is far from resolved. It’s time to recover your senses, reassess the situation at hand, and reconvene the troops. Because after all: it’s not paranoia if they’re actually out to get you.

(CW: Explosions, Vehicle Sounds) No one expected “let slip the dogs of war” to literally be the next big influencer trend. Regan and Ross try to connect the dots between their respective meetings with Alexia Preston, but another mysterious meeting awaits in the verdant secrecy of yet another exclusive group. Still, it might be worth hearing out the offer; at least these two already know that books can indeed be very dangerous…

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Ask a question, get an answer and seventeen more questions. Interviews complete, River now returns to one of the biggest of those questions: how to deal with the Hound now that it seems to have resurfaced. The trouble is that if you look into mirrors for too long, you might not like what starts looking back.

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(CW: Misophonia, Gore Sounds) Influencers are supposedly just people too, but Regan is rightly wary of applying that assumption to Alexia Preston. However, more information is always better than none, and if that requires diving deep into the sordid underbelly of Insta-perfection, so be it. Time to “yaaaas-and” into yet another mystery.

It’s not the way R Cell usually gets activated, but when Lt. says go, the Marine doesn’t question the order. Rooster turns his attention to a different blast from the past, seeking someone who might connect back to a certain DJ from the Burn. But once you tug on the web, it’s hard to say what might come crawling after you…

Mysterious meetings sometimes come with the lawyer territory, but even those can hardly compete with what the “other job” offers. Still shaken from the return of nightmare best forgotten, Ross can’t help but feel like this appointment might bring more danger than disclosure. Still, maybe it is safer to try and make a deal with the devil you know, because the other ones are still a mystery so far…

R Cell is used to having more questions than answers, but then again: scientists do love asking questions. With a handful of names and a full tank of gas, River sets off to interview more of the “blue goo people” to see if they can fill in any of the missing gaps of what happened out in the desert. After all, if you don’t ask questions how else can you turn a hypothesis into a theory?