Recaps

Su Xiao entered Afterlife with Jack to meet Regina and helped Rebecca sneak inside after Emmerich barred her for being underage. The chapter ended when Mann’s malfunctioning prosthetic cannon aimed at Claire and Su Xiao lifted the limb as it fired.

• Su Xiao asked Claire where to find Booth Four and heard about Regina’s past as a reporter who opposed the corporations.
• Emmerich stopped Rebecca from entering Afterlife because she was a minor, and she drew her gun on him.
• Su Xiao arranged for Claire to shut off the entrance lights, then used night vision to bring Rebecca inside unnoticed.
• Rebecca reunited with Su Xiao and told him she wanted a Kenshin but could not afford one, so he offered to let her pay in installments.
• Mann showed Su Xiao his new prosthetic limb, which malfunctioned and aimed a cannon at Claire.
• Su Xiao lifted Mann’s prosthetic limb just as it fired.

Su Xiao helped Rebecca escape after Mann’s cybernetic arm malfunctioned, then joined Regina and the others to learn that Bryce had been imprisoned at Redwood Psychiatric Hospital after refusing a powerful official’s offer to settle his son’s murder. The chapter left Bryce trapped in a facility where patients and inconvenient investigators were abused and isolated from the outside world.

• Mann’s Projectile Launch System malfunctioned, and he used a suppressant to regain control while telling Su Xiao to take Rebecca away.
• Rebecca told Su Xiao that Mann’s cybernetic arms had malfunctioned repeatedly, despite Dorio urging him to replace them.
• Su Xiao left Rebecca after promising to contact her later with Kenshin, then joined V, Lucy, Jack, and Regina in private room four.
• Regina explained that her contact Bryce had identified Ichijo Daisho, a City Hall official who murdered Bryce’s son and made a Black Market Dream recording of it.
• Bryce refused Ichijo Daisho’s offer to settle the matter privately and was sent to Redwood Psychiatric Hospital in Santo Domingo.
• Regina revealed that Redwood Psychiatric Hospital held people who were not mentally ill and that staff abused patients.

Su Xiao and Lucy infiltrated Redwood Psychiatric Hospital to rescue an innocent patient before he was lobotomized. After Lucy disabled the cameras, Su Xiao approached the reception desk to find a way inside.

• Su Xiao questioned Regina about the hospital and learned she was funding the rescue herself because she could not let an innocent person be lobotomized.
• On the drive to Santo Domingo, Su Xiao listened to Jefferson Peralez's campaign ad and considered whether the upcoming mayoral election could be useful to him.
• Su Xiao parked away from the hospital and went with Lucy to scout the building while V and Jack waited in the car.
• Lucy hacked the hospital's cameras as Su Xiao overheard Corp Dogs discussing how their company profited from patients' treatment and insurance.
• A young man failed to get permission to visit his father, Bob Gelbaum, and Su Xiao stepped up to speak with the receptionist.

Su Xiao uncovered that Redwood Psychiatric Hospital was secretly using patients in drug trials and decided to expose it while arranging care for those who genuinely needed it. As guards moved to detain him and Lucy, Lucy revealed that she had hacked the cameras.

• Su Xiao used his Tactical Goggles to locate Bryce Stone and sent V and Jack to reach him from the roof.
• V and Jack found Bryce and discovered filthy patient quarters and evidence that Dr. Jacob Shipman and the hospital were conducting secret drug trials on patients, including pregnant women.
• V urged Su Xiao not to leave the hospital's crimes unexposed, and Su Xiao considered contacting Max Jones before deciding Jefferson Peralez could handle the aftermath.
• The receptionist confronted Su Xiao and Lucy with armed guards and ordered them to check into the hospital.
• Su Xiao turned to Lucy, who revealed that she had hacked all the cameras.

Su Xiao and his allies fought their way into Redwood Psychiatric Hospital and discovered its guards had been abusing the patients. After clearing the first two floors, Su Xiao contacted Elizabeth Peralez with a plan to expose the hospital’s abuses, and the chapter ended as he offered her a generous gift.

• Su Xiao attacked the reception staff while Lucy disabled the guards’ weapons, and they defeated the guards in the waiting hall.
• Su Xiao told Lucy to shut down the alarm system and ordered V and Jack to eliminate the hospital staff.
• Su Xiao fought through the first-floor corridor, using the guards’ flashbangs and grenades against them to kill everyone there.
• Jack reported that the second floor was clear, and Su Xiao said he had a solution for helping the patients.
• Su Xiao called Regina for Jefferson Peralez’s private number, then contacted Elizabeth Peralez and offered her a generous gift.

Su Xiao exposed Redwood Psychiatric Hospital’s crimes to Jefferson and Elizabeth, prompting Jefferson to act and Biotech’s stock to crash after the scandal became public. Two days later, Bryce asked Su Xiao’s group to kill Ichijo Daisho, and they arrived at Daisho’s North Oak estate.

• Su Xiao showed Jefferson and Elizabeth the patients and records at Redwood Psychiatric Hospital, revealing the hospital’s abuses and its experiments with Biotech drugs.
• Jefferson decided to go to the hospital himself and help its patients after Su Xiao said he had cleared out the staff.
• A Night City radio broadcast reported the scandal, and Biotech’s stock fell by ten percentage points.
• Bryce came to Su Xiao with Regina and asked the group to kill Ichijo Daisho, the man responsible for his child’s death and his confinement at the hospital.
• Su Xiao and the others entered North Oak in a hacked Delamain Taxi and stopped near Ichijo Daisho’s guarded estate.

Su Xiao, V, Lucy, and Jack broke into Ichijo Daisho’s estate after using two false alarms to delay its guards and the NCPD. Su Xiao confronted Ichijo and his two sumo wrestler bodyguards, killing one bodyguard’s eye with a revolver shot, but the heavily augmented guard remained standing.

• Lucy triggered the estate’s alarm twice, drawing the NCPD to the gate and causing the guards to dismiss the alarms as false.
• Su Xiao, V, Lucy, and Jack approached under cover, killed the courtyard guards and sentries, and entered the estate.
• V and Lucy hacked the cameras while Su Xiao scanned the layout and assigned Lucy and Jack to the surveillance room and V to the courtyard.
• Ichijo Daisho left his Braindance headset and headed downstairs with his two sumo wrestler bodyguards, where Su Xiao confronted them.
• The bodyguards attacked Su Xiao; he dodged their gunfire and club, then shot the rifle-wielding bodyguard through his right eye, but the guard remained standing.

Su Xiao killed the sumo wrestler bodyguard and subdued Ichijo Daisho after disarming him. With Lucy disabling the estate alarm and the NCPD ignoring it, Su Xiao immobilized Ichijo Daisho with a Blocker Chip.

• Su Xiao blocked the sumo wrestler bodyguard's repeated attacks, then shot him at close range with the Achilles.
• The wounded bodyguard smashed the rifle, but Su Xiao seized his spiked club and cut him in half with Muramasa.
• Ichijo Daisho fired his Yukimura at Su Xiao, who blocked the shots and severed his hand.
• Lucy cut off the estate's alarm system, and Su Xiao told Ichijo Daisho that the NCPD would not come to help.
• Su Xiao inserted a Blocker Chip into Ichijo Daisho, paralyzing him and cutting off his Trauma Card signal.

Su Xiao forced Ichijo Daisho to reveal his hidden fortune, then killed him despite promising to spare his life. After selling the gold bars, Su Xiao shared the proceeds with V, Lucy, and Jack, and left them celebrating at the Afterlife.

• Su Xiao used a Blocker Chip to immobilize Ichijo Daisho and demanded the cash and gold bars hidden in his home in exchange for his life.
• Ichijo Daisho revealed a safe beneath a suit of samurai armor, and Su Xiao took its cash and gold bars.
• Su Xiao killed Ichijo Daisho after taking the fortune, having never intended to let him live.
• Su Xiao returned to Heywood, sold the gold bars through several fixers, and received seven hundred thousand euros.
• Su Xiao gave V, Lucy, and Jack 175,000 euros each, accepted only five thousand euros from V and Lucy as debt repayment, and covered their drinks at the Afterlife.

Su Xiao met Rebecca in Harmonious Park and gave her a Chao Shi smart pistol, a Kenshin tech pistol, and a Smart Link implant on a twenty-four-installment payment plan. Rebecca happily inspected her new weapons while waiting for Mann, hungry after the crew's recent job.

• Su Xiao met Rebecca in Harmonious Park and gently ruffled her hair despite her usual dislike of being touched.
• Rebecca recognized the Chao Shi smart pistol and eagerly examined it.
• Su Xiao showed Rebecca a third-generation Smart Link implant and a Kenshin tech pistol, then offered to let her repay him in twenty-four installments.
• Su Xiao gave Rebecca the two pistols and the implant, explaining how the weapons suited her strengths and limitations.
• Rebecca played with the pistols and complained that Mann was late while her stomach growled; she had barely eaten since the crew returned from a job the day before.

Su Xiao took Rebecca to eat after she arrived hungry, and helped her manage the tempura she struggled to eat. As they waited for Mann, Su Xiao reflected on how far his group still had to go in Night City, then promised Rebecca more tempura after they dealt with Mann’s matter.

• Rebecca rushed to meet Su Xiao after his call, while Mann still had not arrived.
• Su Xiao bought two bowls of curry tempura udon and brought them back to Rebecca.
• Rebecca struggled to use chopsticks and repeatedly dropped the tempura shrimp, while Su Xiao patiently slowed down to help her.
• Su Xiao fed Rebecca a shrimp from his bowl, and she enjoyed it and asked for more.
• Su Xiao told Rebecca he would take her to Japantown for more tempura if she was still hungry after they dealt with Mann’s matter.

Su Xiao tested Mann’s combat skills, diagnosed the delay in his malfunctioning cybernetic arms, and sold him Power Gauntlets on installment. After crafting the ordered pairs and sleeping for a day, Su Xiao got a call from Jack, who took him to meet Old Wei, the best ripperdoc in Watson District.

• Su Xiao sparred with Mann and explained that Mann’s cybernetic arms lagged, leaving openings in close combat.
• Su Xiao offered Mann Power Gauntlets on a twenty-four-installment plan, and Mann ordered pairs for himself and Dorio.
• Su Xiao spent three weeks crafting Power Gauntlets for Mann, Dorio, and Jack, then delivered Mann and Dorio’s pairs through Rebecca.
• Su Xiao slept for a day and night, then received Jack’s call before dawn.
• Jack waited outside Su Xiao’s apartment and invited him to meet Old Wei, so Su Xiao got ready to leave.

Jack drove Su Xiao through Watson District to meet Victor and replace his old cyberware, after explaining that his mother had thrown him out for trying to sneak liquor. At Misty's shop, she gave Su Xiao a Tarot reading before Jack led him toward Victor's clinic.

• Jack detoured through Westbrook to avoid traffic, then admitted he had been thrown out by his mother and took Su Xiao to breakfast in Little Chinatown.
• Jack said he wanted to replace his cyberware gradually and hoped to get a basic Sandevistan from Victor.
• Jack and Su Xiao visited Misty's Divination Parlor, where Misty introduced herself as Jack's girlfriend and offered Su Xiao a discounted reading.
• Misty drew four Tarot Cards for Su Xiao, three reversed, and explained that reversed cards were not necessarily bad.
• Jack and Su Xiao left through the parlor's back door and headed for Victor's dim clinic behind the Esoteric Museum.

Su Xiao and Jack visited Victor’s clinic, where Jack asked about installing a reflex-boosting implant and learned that a Sandevistan could be dangerous without proper checks. Su Xiao gave Victor five hundred thousand euros to obtain the best cyberware for Jack and two other friends, and Victor agreed to help.

• Jack asked Victor about getting a Sandevistan, and Victor warned him that the implant required extensive examinations and could kill him if installed recklessly.
• Jack asked about a Kerenzi Ke Fu instead, and Victor said he could look for one and call him with details.
• Su Xiao asked to speak with Victor privately in the back of the clinic.
• Su Xiao transferred Victor five hundred thousand euros and asked him to provide the best cyberware for Jack and two other friends.
• Victor accepted the money as Su Xiao explained that he would cover any additional cost.

Su Xiao and Jack visited Victor, where Jack received a checkup and medicine to prepare for a Kerenzi Ke Fu implant. Victor later met Chihana and her daughter, and one week afterward he finished surgery on V, who was pleased with her enhanced vision.

• Su Xiao told Old Wei that Jack and his friends were worth the money he spent on them.
• Victor examined Jack, warned him about drinking, and gave him an inhaler to prepare for a Kerenzi Ke Fu implant.
• Jack and Su Xiao left Victor’s clinic as Chihana and her daughter Ryoko arrived.
• Chihana asked Victor to remove the trackers implanted in her and her daughter by the Tiger Claws Gang.
• One week later, Victor finished operating on V, and she said her vision felt incredible.

V received a new cybernetic eye system from Victor, while Lucy’s checkup revealed that many of her implants were counterfeit. As Su Xiao considered finding a fixer to replace them, Tiger Claws gang members entered Victor’s clinic and asked about a woman who had brought a little girl there.

• V visited Victor’s clinic with Su Xiao and Lucy, and Victor installed a Militech Cybernetic Eye Model 3 for her, paid for by Su Xiao.
• Lucy declined new implants but agreed to a checkup, which revealed that many of her cyberware components were counterfeit.
• Lucy left the clinic in embarrassment, and Su Xiao asked Victor about replacing her knockoff implants with genuine ones.
• Victor said he could source only some of the cyberware and that Su Xiao would need a top-tier fixer for the rest.
• Tiger Claws gang members entered the clinic, blocked the exit, and asked Victor whether a woman had recently brought a little girl to have something removed.

Su Xiao, V, Lucy, and Victor forced the Tiger Claws Gang to retreat from Victor’s clinic. Victor then explained that he had removed trackers from his old friend Chihana and her daughter, and told them how her husband’s death had left her burdened with debt.

• The Masked Man confronted Victor for treating a woman affiliated with the Tiger Claws Gang, but Su Xiao and V stepped in to defend him.
• Victor prepared his surgical cutting gloves as Su Xiao and V faced the gang, and Lucy arrived and demonstrated her monofilament wire.
• The Masked Man decided to retreat, and Su Xiao taunted him until he led his men away from the clinic.
• Su Xiao asked Victor whom the gang had been looking for, and Victor admitted he had removed trackers from Chihana and her daughter.
• Victor explained that Chihana’s husband, a veteran suffering from severe PTSD, had killed himself after his treatment failed, leaving her with his debts and a daughter to support.

After learning that Chihana and Ryoko had escaped the Tiger Claws Gang, Su Xiao worried that they might already have left Night City. A smuggler revealed their hiding place to the gang, and Seihou Jotaro sent Nantong Zhengshuang to stop them while the gang considered retaliating against Su Xiao.

• Victor told Su Xiao that Chihana had fled the Tiger Claws Gang with her daughter, Ryoko, after the gang tried to use Ryoko to control her.
• The Tiger Claws Gang members who had retreated from Victor's clinic discussed their next move, and their Masked Man received a call from a smuggler.
• The smuggler sold the Masked Man information that Chihana and Ryoko were hiding in an apartment building in Kabuki District and planned to flee to Europe.
• The Masked Man reported their location to Seihou Jotaro, who ordered Nantong Zhengshuang to prevent Chihana and Ryoko from leaving.
• The Masked Man told Seihou Jotaro that Su Xiao had removed Chihana and Ryoko's trackers and resisted the gang, prompting a discussion of whether to punish him.

Chihana tried to flee Night City with her daughter Ryoko, but the Law Enforcement Group tracked them to their apartment and attacked. As Chihana faced armed pursuers outside, metal arms burst from her trench coat.

• Chihana encouraged Ryoko to study so she could escape a life of exhausting work and gang violence.
• After someone knocked at their apartment, Chihana sensed danger and prepared to flee with Ryoko.
• Chihana smashed through the door, killed three Law Enforcement Group members with her Tactical Dagger, and escaped the gunfire by jumping from the window with Ryoko.
• The Law Enforcement Group surrounded Chihana outside and called for her capture, prompting metal arms to emerge from her trench coat.

Chihana fought her way through the Tiger Claws Gang’s Law Enforcement Group while protecting her daughter, Ryoko. She escaped into the alleys but was confronted by Nantong Zhengshuang, who attacked as Chihana opened fire.

• Chihana used her Mantis Blades to kill nearly all the Law Enforcement Group members surrounding her, then killed the last two who tried to flee.
• Tiger Claws Gang vehicles arrived and opened fire, so Chihana used corpses as shields, shot back with her Saratoga, and escaped into an alley.
• Two Law Enforcement Group members pursued Chihana on motorcycles and were caught in a Laser Tripwire explosion.
• Chihana ran through the alleys with Ryoko and reached a market, where the frightened vendors fled after mistaking her for a Cyberpsycho.
• Nantong Zhengshuang attacked Chihana with Black Keys and identified her as a former New America Army soldier and Tiger Claws Gang traitor.
• Chihana fired her Saratoga at Nantong Zhengshuang, who leapt into the air on blue flames.

Chihana fought Nantong Zhengshuang while protecting Ryoko, but his cyberweapon disabled her and left her close to death. She escaped with Ryoko using a Flashbang Grenade and woke in a dilapidated apartment building.

• Chihana sent Ryoko to hide in a guard booth and fought Nantong Zhengshuang, whose BioDynamic Berserk 3-enhanced leap injured her with a shock wave.
• Chihana outmatched Nantong Zhengshuang in close combat, kicked him down, and fired both Saratogas at him.
• A Black Key pierced Chihana's thigh and invaded her neural network, allowing Nantong Zhengshuang to knock her unconscious and approach her.
• Chihana used a Flashbang Grenade to stun Nantong Zhengshuang, then escaped the market district with Ryoko.
• Chihana awoke in an old apartment building with Ryoko clinging to her.

Chihana sent Ryoko to find Victor while she stayed behind to fight the Tiger Claws Gang. Ryoko lost her way and was lured into a van by Scavengers, who planned to harvest her implants.

• Chihana told Ryoko to escape down the fire escape and find Uncle Victor, then injected herself with her last Pneumatic Syringe and prepared an ambush for the Law Enforcement Group.
• The Law Enforcement Group followed Chihana's blood trail to her room, where a tripwire detonated and gunfire erupted.
• Ryoko reached the main street but could not remember where Victor's clinic was, and passing pedestrians ignored her pleas for help.
• Scavengers found Ryoko alone and pretended they would help her save her mother.
• The Scavengers lured Ryoko into their van, strapped her to a stretcher, and prepared to remove her implants.

Su Xiao rescued Ryoko from Scavengers who had abducted her, while Lucy attacked the Law Enforcement Group surrounding the gravely wounded Chihana. The remaining gang members fled Chihana’s apartment, where Lucy fought them on the stairs as a sniper covered her.

• Su Xiao crashed the Scavengers’ van, killed the abductors, freed Ryoko, and took her to his car.
• Chihana lay gravely wounded among the Law Enforcement Group’s dead, relieved that Ryoko had escaped.
• A sniper shot the hand and weapon off a man ordered to kill Chihana, then killed another gang member through the wall.
• The surviving Law Enforcement Group members fled downstairs and encountered Lucy, who disabled three with her hacking.
• Lucy set a Katana-wielding attacker on fire and caught another attacker’s baseball bat with her Monofilament Wire.

Lucy rescued Kakyoin Chihana from the room upstairs, but discovered that viruses had severely damaged her neural network and began clearing them herself. Su Xiao rushed to the apartment building to protect Lucy and cut through the Tiger Claws Gang members, while Nantong Zhengshuang's remaining men still faced him.

• Lucy killed the member guarding the stairs, found Kakyoin Chihana among the corpses, and carried her outside.
• Lucy injected Chihana with two Revival-Kang Type 3 syringes and discovered that viruses had ravaged her neural network.
• Lucy muted the team channel and began clearing Chihana's viruses after warning V that there was no time to take her to Old Wei.
• Su Xiao reached the apartment building, kicked a guard through a window, and confronted Nantong Zhengshuang and the Tiger Claws Gang.
• Su Xiao killed several attackers with Muramasa, frightening the remaining gang members.
• One member drew a Kinetic Handgun, but Su Xiao cut through his demon mask and skullcap before he could aim.

Su Xiao killed Nantong Zhengshuang and wiped out the Law Enforcement Group, then regrouped with Lucy and V to get the badly wounded Chihana to Old Wei. The chapter left Su Xiao carrying Chihana to their car while V arrived with the rescued Ryoko.

• Nantong Zhengshuang attacked Su Xiao with a miniature Gatling gun, and both men took cover after exchanging gunfire.
• Su Xiao defeated Nantong Zhengshuang with a sheathed-blade strike, then smashed his head against the floor until he died.
• Su Xiao gunned down the fleeing Law Enforcement Group members and collected potential points.
• Lucy told Su Xiao she had cleared the viruses from Chihana's neural network but that Chihana was badly injured and had lost blood.
• Su Xiao carried Chihana downstairs to take her to Old Wei, while V arrived with Ryoko.