Recaps

Su Xiao's group fought their way through the Scavengers' drug lab and discovered the horrors of their Black Market Dream operation. The crew's leaders realized intruders had reached the basement, but their cameras had been hacked and the outside had gone silent.

• Jack killed two Scavengers as Su Xiao's group entered the drug lab.
• Judy, V, Jack, Lucy, and Su Xiao found evidence that the Scavengers tortured victims for Black Market Dreams and harvested their bodies.
• Papayanova and the other Scavenger leaders discussed their operation and argued over an unconscious girl they had been given.
• Gunfire and shouting outside alerted the leaders that intruders had reached the second basement level.
• The fighting abruptly stopped, and the leaders found that the outside cameras had been hacked.

Papayanova and the other bosses were killed by Su Xiao, who then found Evelyn in a horrific state at the Black Market Dreams set. Judy disconnected Evelyn from the terminal, and the group carried her out of the underground facility.

• Papayanova led the bosses into the hallway, where Su Xiao killed them with a Deep-Cutting Personnel Lethal Grenade.
• Su Xiao regrouped with the others and led them to the filming set where Evelyn was being held.
• Judy went to disconnect Evelyn from the terminal while Su Xiao and Lucy approached her.
• Su Xiao and Judy pulled Evelyn’s cable at the same time, and Judy backed away after seeing her condition.
• Su Xiao carried Evelyn out with the group, while Judy rushed to the van and Jack and V helped get Evelyn inside.

Su Xiao arranged Trauma Team treatment for Evelyn, hoping she would recover enough to reveal who had arranged the Relic theft and whether they posed a threat. The Trauma Team took Evelyn to its hospital after Su Xiao deposited five hundred thousand euros into her medical account, while Judy thanked him and the others learned his reasons.

• Su Xiao suggested Trauma Team treatment for Evelyn and offered to pay when Judy said she could not afford it.
• Su Xiao called Trauma Team, registered Evelyn, and deposited five hundred thousand euros into her medical account.
• The Trauma Team carried Evelyn to its AV and flew her to the hospital, while Judy cried and thanked Su Xiao.
• After leaving Judy's apartment, Su Xiao explained to Jack, V, and Lucy that he wanted Evelyn to identify whoever had arranged the theft and assess the danger to him and his friends.
• The group discussed preparing for the Voodoo Boys if they were behind the attack.

Regina asked Su Xiao to rescue her journalist friend Max Jones, who had received a contract on his life after investigating corporate crimes. Max was being held by Scavengers, and his recent inquiry into Zeta Tech had led him into danger.

• Regina called Su Xiao and asked him to find her missing friend, journalist Max Jones.
• Su Xiao recognized Max’s name and agreed to go to Eisenhower Street alone.
• Max remembered that Arasaka had killed an informant and everyone at a nomad camp during an earlier investigation.
• Max pursued an anonymous tip about Zeta Tech but was wounded in a firefight between the NCPD and gang members.
• Scavengers captured Max and brought him to their basement, where he watched them harvest cyberware and organs from a living victim.

Su Xiao rescued Max from a Scavenger hideout and killed the Scavengers holding him. Afterward, Su Xiao shot the hideout’s organ broker and led Max out into the sunlight.

• Max woke in a Scavenger hideout, where Liptov and the others discussed finding the people who had killed Liptov’s brother.
• Su Xiao rushed into the basement and killed Liptov, Fegachevsky, and Trachev before freeing Max.
• Max learned that Regina had sent Su Xiao, and complained that Regina had abandoned her conscience.
• Su Xiao led Max through the hideout’s second exit and shot a man who had been selling stolen cyberware and human organs.
• Outside, Max saw the shop’s OPEN sign and recognized the place as an illegal organ and cyberware business.

Su Xiao convinced Max to give Regina a chance, and Regina agreed to treat him well. In Heywood, Padre asked Marcus to drive him to the Wolf Bar.

• Su Xiao explained to Max that Regina could threaten corporations more effectively as a fixer than as a reporter, and Max agreed to work with her temporarily.
• Su Xiao left Max at Regina's safehouse, and Regina called to thank him for persuading Max.
• Su Xiao told Regina not to let Max down, and she promised she would not.
• Padre arrived at his base and asked Marcus to drive him to the Wolf Bar because Carlo was sick.
• Marcus agreed, and he and Padre climbed into Padre's Vellefor Avarado.

The priest survived a truck ambush only to be shot by a disguised assassin, while Su Xiao learned more about Evelyn’s condition and requested a recording of her dreams. The chapter ended with Marcus calling Su Xiao in distress.

• A truck rammed the priest and Marcus’s car, trapping it in a shop, and the priest shot the driver as he tried to flee.
• The priest accused his personal driver, Carlo, of betraying him and began to reassure the shop’s customers, but a disguised shop assistant shot him in the chest.
• Marcus killed the assassin and drove the customers away before the priest’s men took the critically injured priest to a private hospital.
• At Trauma Team Hospital, a doctor told Su Xiao that Evelyn was stable but badly injured and explained the dangers of her Behavior Chip.
• Su Xiao asked the doctor to record Evelyn’s fragmented dreams, then answered a holo-call from Marcus, who appeared distressed.

Su Xiao learned that the priest had been ambushed, seriously wounded, and hospitalized, while the priest’s deputy Ken disappeared after leading the men into a disastrous fight. With NCPD surrounding the base, Su Xiao took charge of the panicked gang members and ordered them to stay calm and avoid a clash.

• Su Xiao heard that the priest had been shot during an ambush arranged by the Sixth Street Gang, and learned that driver Carlo had been found dead with his blood drained.
• Marcus told Su Xiao that Ken had led the priest’s men into a fight with the Clementi Family, leaving several brothers dead, and Su Xiao suspected Ken was the mole.
• Marcus reported that Ken had vanished and that NCPD was surrounding the base to search for Sparkle.
• Su Xiao had the priest’s men join a communications channel and warned them that fighting NCPD or continuing their internal disputes would serve the Clementi Family’s plans.
• Su Xiao ordered the men to seal the base’s doors and windows, keep NCPD outside, stall them if necessary, and never open fire.

Su Xiao stopped the NCPD from raiding Padre’s base and found the Valentino Gang contained after Nikola’s betrayal. Jack organized Padre’s protection and called in the other Heywood branch leaders, but Gonzalez challenged Su Xiao’s presence at their meeting.

• Su Xiao persuaded Jefferson to have the NCPD officers withdraw from Padre’s base.
• Su Xiao, Jack, and V joined Marcus and learned that the Valentino Gang members were secured upstairs, not seeking revenge against the Clementi Family.
• Jack urged the gang to protect Padre and avoid confronting the Clementi Family until they could gather support.
• Jack selected guards for Padre and sent messengers to the other Valentino branches.
• The leaders of the other Valentino branches gathered in Padre’s office, where Gonzalez questioned why Su Xiao was present.

Jack challenged Juan to a Trial by Combat after Juan tried to seize the priest’s territory, and the Valentino families gathered at an abandoned warehouse to witness the duel. Juan sent Blanca to fight as his proxy against Jack.

• Juan argued that he should reclaim territory the priest had taken from his family, while Jack refused to let him take it.
• Jack challenged Juan to a Trial by Combat, a sacred duel that ended only when one combatant died.
• Marcus explained the rules and religious significance of the Trial by Combat to Su Xiao.
• At night, the Valentino families and the priest’s men gathered in an abandoned warehouse for the duel.
• Juan sent Blanca to fight Jack as his proxy, and Blanca promised to win.

Jack defeated Blanca in a trial by combat without killing him, earning the crowd’s support and Blanca’s pledge of loyalty. After Juan, Gonzalez, and Hernandez promised not to attack Padre’s territory, Su Xiao recognized that Padre’s forces remained isolated and Jack admitted they had no clear way to stop the Clementi Family.

• Jack declined Su Xiao’s offer to fight in his place, and Lucy agreed to intervene only if the fight turned against him.
• Jack subdued Blanca, spared him, and urged the Valentino Gang to unite against the Sixth Street Gang; Blanca accepted his hand and the crowd cheered Jack’s name.
• Blanca pledged to serve Jack, while Juan, Gonzalez, and Hernandez prepared to leave.
• Su Xiao blocked the warehouse entrance and forced Juan, Gonzalez, and Hernandez to promise aloud that they would not move against Padre’s territory.
• Back at Padre’s base, Jack told Su Xiao, V, and Lucy that he saw no way out of their predicament and that confronting the Clementi Family head-on would cripple their forces.

Jack told Su Xiao that Padre's forces lacked reliable support and were at risk from the Clementi Family, so Su Xiao planned to disrupt the family's business. A few days later, Su Xiao and Lucy entered a meeting site disguised as members of the Tiger Claws Gang, where they were searched before being led inside.

• Jack explained that Gustavo and Manuel would offer only limited help, leaving Padre's forces vulnerable to the Clementi Family.
• Su Xiao told Jack he had a plan and called Rogue to obtain details about the Clementi Family's next deal.
• A few days later, Su Xiao and Lucy arrived in River Valley wearing disguises and carrying concealed anti-detection equipment.
• Su Xiao claimed they had an appointment with Bruno as representatives of the Tiger Claws Gang, and the Sixth Street Gang opened the door.
• Su Xiao and Lucy surrendered their weapons and submitted to a search before a Sixth Street Gang member led them into a winding corridor.

Su Xiao and Lucy attacked the Sixth Street Gang’s secret shop, killing everyone there before collecting a Sixth Street Gang pickup from Crispin. They left disguised as Sixth Street Gang members, with their next move unstated.

• Su Xiao used Time Zero to shoot Big Back Head and the Sixth Street Gang members in the shop, then threw grenades into the corridor and killed the gang members who rushed out.
• Su Xiao and Lucy crossed the bloodied corridor, and Su Xiao used Time Zero again to kill the Sixth Street Gang members waiting in ambush outside.
• More than a dozen Sixth Street Gang members arrived too late and found only corpses and blood at the secret shop.
• Su Xiao and Lucy drove to Crispin’s shack in Santo Domingo, where Crispin showed them a Thunderway Mackino MTL1 pickup bearing the Sixth Street Gang emblem.
• Su Xiao and Lucy changed into Sixth Street Gang disguises, took the pickup and travel bags, and told Crispin to dispose of their old car.

Su Xiao and Lucy ambushed the Tiger Claws in Japantown, killing the men sent to collect goods from the Clementi Family. Clementi heard that the family’s secret shop had been massacred and suspected the Kiryu Group, though their previously cooperative relationship made the incident seem strange.

• A-Xin realized a Six Street Gang pickup was following the Tiger Claws’ car, and the men stopped to ask what the Clementi Family wanted.
• Su Xiao shot A-Xin while Lucy killed the other Tiger Claw who approached the pickup.
• The last Tiger Claw tried to flee, but Su Xiao used a rocket launcher to destroy the muscle car before he and Lucy drove away.
• Tiger Claws arriving at the scene found the launcher marked Militech, while Clementi’s subordinate reported that the Clementi Family’s secret shop had been massacred.
• Clementi’s subordinates argued that the Kiryu Group was responsible, but Clementi considered the accusation suspicious given their months of cordial cooperation.

Clementi and Kiryu Baima realized that someone had impersonated their gangs to provoke a war, so they arranged to meet at the Imperial Hotel. Su Xiao and Lucy learned of the meeting, and the chapter ended as the Clementi Family arrived in Japantown.

• Clementi and the Kiryu Group's deputy procurement chief compared accounts of attacks on both gangs and suspected they had been framed.
• Kiryu Baima proposed meeting Clementi at the Imperial Hotel at nine that night, and Clementi agreed.
• A Sixteenth Street Gang member secretly sent Rogue the meeting details and received ten thousand euros in return.
• Su Xiao and Lucy watched their pickup get crushed at a scrapyard, then left after Rogue's message arrived.
• Kiryu Baima and the Tiger Claws Gang waited outside the Imperial Hotel for Clementi, whose cars arrived as the gang members grew uneasy.

Kiryu Baima and Clementi met under armed guard to discuss who had attacked both their groups, and Clementi suspected Father Ibara’s forces. Kiryu believed him but demanded compensation anyway, threatening that the Kiryu Group could fight a war on two fronts.

• Kiryu Baima and Clementi agreed to bring only three men each into the Imperial Hotel and had the private room checked for danger.
• Kiryu Baima explained that he suspected a third party had attacked both groups and warned that the hotel’s food could be poisoned.
• Clementi said Father Ibara’s forces were the likeliest attackers, though neither man knew how they had obtained precise intelligence.
• Kiryu Baima told Clementi he believed the Clementi Family was innocent but demanded compensation for his losses.
• Clementi objected that his family had suffered greater losses, while Kiryu threatened war and warned that Clementi could not afford to fight on two fronts.

Su Xiao ambushed the meeting between Kiryu Baima and Clementi, killing Baima and his three men before taking Clementi hostage. After Su Xiao released Clementi, gunfire from Clementi’s men struck Kiryu Group members entering the room, while the chapter revealed that Kuroda Kazuma and Utsugi Goro had been discussing the supposed misunderstanding ten minutes earlier.

• Clementi agreed to compensate Kiryu Baima after the two men haggled over terms.
• Su Xiao stabbed Kiryu Baima and killed Baima’s three men before the Kiryu Group could react.
• Clementi’s men opened fire, but their bullets bounced off Su Xiao’s Exoskeleton Armor as Clementi tried to flee.
• Su Xiao caught Clementi at the door and held Muramasa to his neck while Clementi’s men froze.
• Su Xiao released Clementi and shoved him forward, causing Clementi’s men to fire at Kiryu Group members entering the room.
• Ten minutes earlier, Utsugi Goro asked Kuroda Kazuma for a light and claimed the afternoon’s attack had been a misunderstanding.

After Utsugi Goro and Kuroda Kazuma entered the Imperial Hotel to find Lord Senma, they discovered that Kiryu Baima and his guards were dead and Utsugi had been shot. Kuroda’s report sparked a deadly battle between the Kiryu Group and the Clementi Family, which drew reinforcements from the Tiger Claws Gang.

• The wakagashira selected Kuroda Kazuma and Utsugi Goro to enter the Imperial Hotel while the Kiryu Group and Clementi Family brawled outside.
• Utsugi Goro found the lobby manager hiding and forced him to reveal the location of the luxury private room.
• As Utsugi Goro opened the room’s door, the Clementi Family men inside shot him, while Kuroda Kazuma took cover and survived.
• Kuroda Kazuma saw Kiryu Baima and his three guards dead, then fled and told the wakagashira that the Clementi Family had killed Utsugi Goro and Lord Senma.
• The wakagashira drew his smart pistol and ordered the Kiryu Group to attack, escalating the brawl into a bloody gun battle.
• Kiryu Group reinforcements arrived, while the distant Sixth Street Gang could not reach the Clementi Family in time.

Su Xiao explained how he manipulated the Imperial Hotel meeting to make the Kiryu Group blame the Clementi Family for Kiryu Baima’s death, triggering war between the gangs. The Clementi Family faced a growing threat from both the Kiryu Group and Valentino Gang families.

• Su Xiao described how he infiltrated the Imperial Hotel under camouflage, killed Kiryu Baima and his bodyguards, then provoked a firefight that made Clementi’s men appear responsible.
• The Kiryu Group rejected Clementi’s peace offers with the code phrase “Tora, tora, tora” and prepared for war.
• The Clementi Family began preparing for conflict as the Kiryu Group’s revenge campaign became unavoidable.
• The Valentino Gang’s Manuel, Juan, Gonzalez, and Hernandez families, along with Gustavo, saw the conflict as a chance to drive the Clementi Family out of the Glen.
• The chapter recounted that the Clementi Family had entered the Glen after a civil war fractured the Valentino Gang.

The Valentino families moved to seize Clementi territory in The Glen despite Su Xiao’s warning, while Clementi’s men had booby-trapped the abandoned establishments. The traps devastated the families’ advancing forces, and Juan was left deciding whether to recall his men.

• Su Xiao warned Manuel and Gustavo not to touch Clementi territory, and Gustavo stayed put while Manuel sent only half his men.
• Juan sent his family’s forces to claim abandoned Clementi establishments, alongside the Gonzalez, Hernandez, and Manuel families, while Gustavo and the priest’s forces held back.
• Juan’s men entered an empty nightclub and triggered a booby trap when an underling took a bottle of tequila from a cabinet.
• Booby traps exploded across former Clementi territory, causing heavy casualties, especially among Juan’s forces.
• Juan heard the casualty report at his base, and his second-in-command asked whether they should pull the men back.

Su Xiao assassinated Juan to weaken the Juan Family, then learned that the priest had awakened and gone to the hospital. The priest specifically asked to see Su Xiao, who entered his ward to meet him.

• Juan learned that nearly half his men were dead and the Juan Family had gained nothing, then dismissed his deputy.
• After the deputy left, Su Xiao shot Juan through the window and escaped across the rooftops under Optical Camouflage.
• Su Xiao called a Delamain Taxi and learned from Jack that the priest had awakened.
• At the hospital, Marcus told Su Xiao that the priest needed a long recovery, and the priest asked to see Su Xiao alone.
• Su Xiao entered the ward, and the priest greeted him weakly.

Su Xiao persuaded Padre to consider Jack as his successor, and Padre agreed to evaluate him after leaving the hospital. Jack and his crew prepared to act, while Clementi considered seeking help from Militech against the Kiryu Group.

• Su Xiao told Padre about events on the streets and urged him to consider a successor rather than fight indefinitely.
• Padre agreed to assess Jack as a potential successor after he was discharged, while warning that Jack still had much to learn.
• Su Xiao told Jack and Marcus that Padre intended to groom Jack, and Jack eagerly offered to follow Su Xiao’s lead.
• Su Xiao said it was time for Jack and the others to stop lying low and get back into action.
• Clementi weighed asking Militech executives to help the Clementi Family deal with the Kiryu Group when someone knocked on his office door.

Su Xiao assassinated Clementi as Jack’s forces struck the Clementi Family’s glitter operations, escalating Night City’s gang war until the Riot Control Unit intervened. On the twelfth evening, Jack received a call from a New American military-looking man who identified himself as Firepower.

• Su Xiao infiltrated the Clementi compound, killed Clementi, and fought his way out past the family’s members.
• Jack led the priest’s men in a counterattack against the Clementi Family’s secret glitter shops, using intelligence from Rogue.
• The gang war spread across Night City, drawing in mercenaries and prompting Mayor Ryan to authorize the Riot Control Unit’s violent crackdown.
• Jack answered an unfamiliar call at the priest’s safehouse, and the caller introduced himself as Firepower.

Su Xiao and Jack rejected Cannon’s offer to end the war between the Clementi Family and their forces, even after Cannon produced Nikola’s corpse. Su Xiao explained that the Clementi Family had forfeited any chance of peace by attempting to assassinate the priest, leaving Cannon with few allies and no credible leverage.

• Cannon called Jack to propose a ceasefire and offered compensation from the Clementi Family.
• Su Xiao told Jack to demand Nikola’s head, and Cannon soon showed Nikola’s dead body during a second call.
• Su Xiao hired Rogue to send Emmerich, Crispin, and her best mercenaries to kill Cannon.
• Jack stalled while Cannon offered up to fifty million euros, but Su Xiao rejected the offer and said the war would continue.
• Cannon threatened to seek help from other Sixth Street families and Militech, but Su Xiao dismissed both claims, leaving Cannon furious.

Su Xiao learned that Padre had named Jack his successor and spent the morning talking with Johnny, who had become a shut-in after waking in a robot body. Johnny decided he wanted to visit Rogue, though he had not figured out what to say to her.

• Emmerich reported that his men had killed Cannon and everyone in the Clementi compound, ending the Clementi Family and allowing the Sixth Street families and Kiryu Group to agree to a ceasefire.
• The Juan Family weakened in a leadership struggle after Juan's assassination, and Padre's forces took its territory.
• A month after leaving the hospital, Padre announced that Jack would succeed him, surprising some of his men but giving Jack years to prepare.
• Su Xiao found Johnny playing a computer game at home and discussed Padre, Kerry, and Johnny's decision to attack Arasaka Tower.
• Johnny asked Su Xiao to take him to see Rogue, and Su Xiao agreed, prompting Johnny to freeze when he realized they were leaving immediately.