Recaps

Su Xiao hired Rogue’s Rayfield Holy Sword and two gunners to reach the Biotechnology building, where Mann and the others were under attack. After surviving missiles from a Heavy Armored Hovercar, Su Xiao leaped onto it and destroyed its missile launcher, landing on the building’s platform.

• Su Xiao called Rogue, rented a Rayfield Holy Sword, and set off with Emmerich and Crispin toward Corporate Plaza.
• The Heavy Armored Hovercar targeted the AV with missiles, but the AI’s flares and Emmerich’s gunfire kept them from being destroyed.
• Su Xiao ordered the AV to approach the hovercar, and Mann and the others feared he had died when explosions swallowed it in smoke.
• The Rayfield Holy Sword emerged from the smoke, and Su Xiao jumped onto the hovercar’s roof.
• Su Xiao used Cannon Fist and his Power Gauntlet to knock the missile launcher into the Biotechnology building, then landed on its platform.

Su Xiao rescued the wounded Sasha from the Biotechnology office while she tried to upload information about SECURICINE to News 54. He carried her out before the upload finished, and the group escaped in the Rayfield Holy Sword as more Biotechnology reinforcements arrived.

• Su Xiao offered Crispin a Power Gauntlet, and Crispin agreed to buy one after Su teased him about saving his money.
• Su Xiao destroyed the security robots surrounding Sasha’s office and gave her a Type 3 Pneumatic Syringe for her injured thigh.
• Su Xiao fought through the security robots outside the office while Sasha waited for her SECURICINE upload to finish.
• Su Xiao pulled Sasha’s link cable from the terminal and carried her out, leaving her without a copy or backup of the information.
• Emmerich and Crispin dealt with the Biotechnology hovercar, and Su Xiao and Sasha escaped in the Rayfield Holy Sword as more reinforcements approached.

Su Xiao brought the wounded Sasha to Old Wei’s clinic, where Victor and Misty began treating her, and learned more about Rogue’s intelligence on Biotechnology’s SECURICINE. Rogue secretly moved against the corporation and arranged to erase evidence from Corporate Plaza, while Su Xiao later attacked Mann when he and the others arrived asking about Sasha.

• Su Xiao forced his way into Old Wei’s clinic and asked Victor to operate on Sasha, then went to fetch Misty.
• Rogue told Su Xiao she would provide intelligence about SECURICINE at Afterlife without charging him for it.
• After ending the call, Rogue ordered Biotechnology stock sold and Corporate Plaza surveillance footage erased before the site was cleaned.
• Mann and the others arrived at the Divination Parlor asking about Sasha, and Su Xiao punched Mann into a shelf.
• The others intervened as Mann got back up and demanded to know why Su Xiao had attacked him.

After Sasha was injured during the mission, Su Xiao and Mann reconciled, and the team discussed how to fulfill Sasha’s goal and deal with Faraday. Faraday secured one last chance from Arasaka and arranged to meet Mann that night, unaware that Su Xiao was planning to eliminate him.

• Su Xiao explained that Sasha had stayed behind to transmit information about SECURICINE to News 54, and the team learned that her data upload had been interrupted.
• Su Xiao pulled Mann to his feet instead of hitting him again, and the two made peace.
• Su Xiao said Rogue could help obtain intelligence and asked Mann how he wanted to deal with Faraday; he suggested killing him without attracting attention.
• At Tom's Restaurant, an Arasaka employee berated Faraday for failing to obtain the data but gave him one final chance.
• Faraday called Mann angrily, and Mann claimed the team had the data but asked Faraday to meet them that night because a teammate was injured.
• As night fell, a Villefort Cortes V5000 Valor (2040) drove along the roads of Santo Domingo.

Mann confronted Faraday over his treatment of the crew and exposed his ties to Militech, then tried to turn the meeting into an ambush. Faraday revealed he had prepared armed Sex Dolls and outside reinforcements, leaving Mann and his team under heavy fire.

• Faraday demanded the data from Mann, and Mann said the team had failed to obtain it.
• Mann argued with Faraday about his dangerous orders and mocked his resentment toward the Old Captain, Muammar Reyes.
• Mann revealed that Faraday had come from Pacifica and was trying to become a corporate operative through Militech.
• Dorio, Rebecca, and Pila drew their weapons as Mann threatened Faraday, but Faraday pretended to surrender before deploying a rotary gun from his abdomen.
• Faraday's three Puppet Chip-equipped Sex Dolls emerged from his car and used their firepower to pin down Mann's team.
• Faraday called for his reinforcements outside to enter the garage and kill the mercenaries.

Su Xiao helped Mann and the others kill Faraday, then obtained Rogue’s intelligence about Project Nightingale and brought it to Sasha. The chip revealed that SECURICINE was only a by-product of a deadly experiment, and the group began reading the information.

• Su Xiao used Time Zero to kill the Sex Dolls and disabled Faraday before leaving him to Mann and the others, who shot him dead.
• Su Xiao visited Rogue at Afterlife and received intelligence about Project Nightingale, a Biotechnology experiment for Militech that killed more than seventy members of the Red Ochre Nomad family.
• Mann and the others told Su Xiao that Faraday’s Trauma Team Platinum membership had brought Trauma Team to collect his corpse.
• Su Xiao checked on Sasha at Victor’s clinic and gave her Rogue’s chip after she regretted losing the SECURICINE data.
• Sasha, Mann, Dorio, Rebecca, and Pila read the chip’s contents in turn.

Mann considered using the Project Nightingale data to get revenge for his teammates, but Su Xiao warned that corporate executives would use the delay to identify and target them. Su Xiao offered to help with another plan, and two days later Dr. Diana began her morning at her North Oak mansion before a servant urgently interrupted her.

• Mann asked Su Xiao to sell him the complete Project Nightingale data and proposed threatening its leaders, Joanne Koch and Diana Kuno, with exposure through WNS News.
• Su Xiao warned Mann that the executives would stall, investigate his team, and put them in danger; Sasha urged Mann not to risk everyone for her sake.
• Mann lowered his raised fist at Victor's clinic, remembering Old Wei's help, and Su Xiao offered to share a different plan.
• Two days later, Dr. Diana woke at her North Oak mansion, enjoyed breakfast while looking down on the poorer districts, and imagined the residents' misery.
• A servant urgently interrupted Diana and asked her to look at something.

After WNS News exposed Project Nightingale, Diana tried to contain the scandal by finding scapegoats, but Joanne turned the plan against her and forced her to flee. Diana escaped her villa and drove toward Santo Domingo.

• Diana learned that WNS News had exposed Biotechnology and Militech’s experiments on more than seventy members of the Nomad family and called Joanne for an update.
• Joanne told Diana that the Biotechnology building had been infiltrated and damaged, then said the public-relations team was preparing a response.
• Diana suggested finding scapegoats and privately considered making Joanne take the blame, but Joanne instead thanked Dr. Diana Kuno for her noble sacrifice and ended the call.
• Diana discovered that her bank account and Trauma Team Platinum membership had been canceled, while her villa security system labeled her an intruder and summoned Biotechnology security.
• Diana escaped in a sports car she had bought with embezzled funds and drove toward Santo Domingo.

After Biotechnology scapegoated Diana Kuno for Project Nightingale, she tried to flee Night City but was killed by the company’s security forces. Emilia Morton then discovered that Biotechnology had revoked her employee access, leaving her barred from entering the building.

• Diana called Okada Wakako for help escaping, but Wakako refused and warned her to leave immediately.
• Diana decided to flee to the Badlands and use her knowledge of Biotechnology to bargain with other Mega Corporations.
• Biotechnology security ambushed Diana’s car on the road to Santo Domingo and shot her dead.
• Emilia’s employee card failed at Biotechnology’s entrance, and a guard refused to let her inside.
• Emilia argued with the guard and threatened him, but backed down when he drew his gun.

After Biotechnology fired Emilia and blamed her for Project Nightingale, she threatened to expose evidence of Joanne Koch’s crimes unless Joanne reinstated her. Joanne took refuge in a locked-down Biotechnology hotel, where security prepared to inspect everyone.

• Emilia learned from a friend and WNS News that she had been fired, while Dr. Diana Kuno had died by suicide and other Project Nightingale engineers had been suspended or demoted.
• Emilia bought a new phone and eSIM in Kabuki District, then called Joanne Koch and accused her of framing her.
• Emilia threatened to publish video and audio evidence showing Joanne’s role in poisoning the Red Ochre family’s camp and passing poison off as an antidote.
• Joanne said she needed time to consider Emilia’s demand, and Emilia gave her until the next day to respond.
• Joanne arrived at a Biotechnology Corporation hotel with an armed escort, and a major ordered the hotel placed under martial law with all guests subject to inspection.

Emilia Morton removed Biotechnology’s tracker and escaped the soldiers Joanne sent to hunt her, but she was left shaken and uncertain about her future. She decided she would leak her evidence to WNS News.

• Joanne ordered a major to send soldiers after Emilia, who she considered a Level Two threat to Biotechnology.
• Emilia went to a Cybernetics Clinic and paid the Cybernetics Doctor to remove her Biotechnology Employee Tracker.
• Biotechnology soldiers raided the clinic after Emilia left, but the sergeant found only her removed tracker and soon reported that they had lost her.
• Emilia watched the raid through a hacked camera while hiding nearby, then sat in an alley, furious at Joanne and unsure what to do next.
• Emilia decided she would leak the evidence she possessed to WNS News.

Emilia agreed to meet Rogue at the Silent Motel after a young man offered her a job and asked for evidence against Joanne. Back at the Afterlife, Su Xiao’s crew reacted to his apparent connection with Rogue, and he turned his attention to Kiwi.

• Emilia received a call from a young man who offered her work as a fixer and asked for evidence against Joanne.
• The caller said Rogue wanted to recruit Emilia, and Emilia agreed to negotiate her pay and demand two hundred thousand euros in compensation.
• After haggling over the meeting terms, Emilia chose Room 106 at the Silent Motel and allowed Rogue to bring several bodyguards.
• At the Afterlife, Mann and the others expressed surprise that Su Xiao seemed to know Rogue and had called her about Emilia.
• Su Xiao addressed Kiwi, the team’s new hacker, and Kiwi extended her hand in a friendly greeting.

Su Xiao used Emilia Morton as bait to draw Joanne out and prepared to confront her at Silent Motel. When the motel’s entrance camera went dark, Emilia realized someone was acting and decided to flee.

• Su Xiao told Rogue to retrieve the evidence in Emilia’s Cyberbrain, explaining that Emilia had participated in Project Nightingale and was only useful as bait.
• Su Xiao, Kiwi, Rebecca, and Pila waited in a medical-center van while Mann and Dorio took positions at the motel’s back exit.
• Su Xiao assigned Rebecca and Pila to guard the front entrance, then used his goggles to locate Emilia in Room 204 instead of their agreed Room 106.
• Kiwi disabled the motel’s entrance camera, and Su Xiao and Kiwi entered the motel; he gave her a Yukimura smart pistol as a welcome gift.
• In the van, Pila tried to pat Rebecca’s head, but she glared at him and told him she hated being touched.
• Emilia saw that the entrance camera had gone offline, suspected a hacker was involved, and decided she could not stay at the motel.

Su Xiao captured Emilia Morton and had Kiwi extract the files he needed before killing her. He then contacted Joanne with proof of Emilia’s death, leaving Joanne unsure whether Su Xiao knew about their secrets.

• Su Xiao and Kiwi subdued Emilia in the motel and carried her out in a body bag.
• Su Xiao and Kiwi brought Emilia to a hacker hideout, where Kiwi used professional equipment to obtain the files Su Xiao wanted.
• After Kiwi transferred the files, Su Xiao confirmed them and killed the unconscious Emilia.
• Su Xiao used Emilia’s phone to call Joanne and sent her a photo of Emilia’s corpse.
• Joanne froze at the photo, relieved that Emilia was dead but worried about what Su Xiao knew.

Su Xiao blackmailed Joanne Koch with evidence of her crimes and arranged a cash handoff at Stone Ridge Mountain Town, while secretly preparing an ambush. Joanne arrived with an armed convoy intending to kill him, and a Nomad rider drew alongside as the chapter ended.

• Su Xiao exposed Joanne Koch's crimes with a video and demanded one million in cash at Stone Ridge Mountain Town, threatening to publish her secrets in WNS News.
• Su Xiao destroyed his phone to prevent Biotechnology from tracking him, then planted inactive Electromagnetic Pulse Mines in the eastern Badlands.
• Joanne decided to attend the meeting with an armed convoy, planning to eliminate the person who held her secrets instead of paying him.
• As Joanne's convoy traveled toward Stone Ridge Mountain Town, a Brennan Apollo motorcycle pulled alongside, and Joanne reacted with disgust at its Nomad rider.

Joanne ordered her convoy to kill Su Xiao after he refused to leave, but he shot at them and lured their pursuit deeper into the Badlands. He disabled one SUV’s Auto Turret with a sticky bomb as the soldiers fired back.

• Joanne told her driver to kill the nomad following the convoy, and Su Xiao drew a Kinetic Handgun and fired three shots at them.
• The driver braked to evade the bullets, and Joanne ordered the soldiers to catch and kill Su Xiao.
• Su Xiao sped away on the Brennan Apollo, drawing two Armored SUVs after him before Joanne ordered the entire convoy to follow.
• Su Xiao led the vehicles deeper into the Badlands and slowed down until the SUVs’ Auto Turrets locked onto him.
• Su Xiao braked, maneuvered between the SUVs, and attached a sticky bomb to the right SUV’s Auto Turret, destroying it.
• A soldier lowered the SUV’s bulletproof window and fired at Su Xiao.

Su Xiao used his Sandevistan and sticky bombs to destroy two Armored SUVs, then drove Joanne’s convoy into a trap. An Electromagnetic Pulse Mine disabled the vehicles and incapacitated the convoy, leaving the major and his people stranded.

• Su Xiao used Time Zero to evade gunfire and killed a soldier in the passenger seat of an Armored SUV.
• Su Xiao dodged the Auto Turret’s fire, causing it to shoot into another Armored SUV, then planted sticky bombs under a vehicle and destroyed it.
• Joanne and the major realized Su Xiao had a Sandevistan and ordered the convoy to withdraw toward Night City.
• Su Xiao pursued the convoy but stayed back under its covering fire.
• An Electromagnetic Pulse Mine disabled the convoy’s vehicles and communications and left the major and the others unable to move.
• The major realized Su Xiao had lured them into the minefield as his people asked what to do.

Su Xiao and Mann’s team ambushed Joanne’s convoy, killed its security forces, and executed Joanne after she tried to bribe them. Several days later, Biotechnology was distracted by Joanne’s death and its falling stock price, while Su Xiao and the others returned to their quiet lives.

• Mann, Dorio, and Jack attacked the disabled convoy, and the EMP-damaged Biotechnology soldiers were quickly overwhelmed.
• The major threatened Su Xiao’s group, but Su Xiao shot him dead.
• Joanne offered money and company positions to buy her freedom, but the mercenaries shot her dead.
• A Night City broadcast reported that Biotechnology’s stock had fallen eleven percent amid renewed Nightingale Project revelations.
• Several days later, Su Xiao reflected that Biotechnology had little reason to pursue Joanne’s killers, and Mann’s team had resumed their peaceful lives.

Su Xiao advanced his weapon-making skills, strengthened his body and defense, and grew his crew’s reputation across Night City. Six months after arriving, he accepted a rescue job from Okada Wakako to recover a corporate employee kidnapped by the Scavengers.

• Sasha returned to Mann’s crew, which continued building a successful partnership with Old Captain.
• Su Xiao arranged to use a Mox Gang warehouse and raised Firearm Maintenance to LV9, then successfully built a Shingen smart submachine gun.
• Su Xiao decided to manufacture stripped-down smart weapons for sale while reserving the best models for his allies and crew.
• Su Xiao raised Strength and Block to LV9, tested his increased punching power, and reflected on the physical demands of operating powerful equipment.
• After six months in Night City, Su Xiao, Jack, V, and Lucy had established a reputation across the city and received more jobs than they could handle.
• Su Xiao accepted Okada Wakako’s request to rescue a corporate employee kidnapped by the Scavengers.

Su Xiao’s team accepted Wakako’s job to rescue Sandra Dorset after Scavengers blocked her Trauma Team signal, while Arasaka investigated a stolen relic and Saburo Arasaka decided to travel to Night City. The chapter ended with Su Xiao, Jack, V, and Lucy searching a rundown Westbrook apartment building for Sandra.

• Arasaka counterintelligence identified Raijin Arasaka as the prime suspect in the disappearance of Saburo Arasaka’s relic after finding his emails to NetWatch.
• Goro Takemura offered to retrieve Raijin and the relic, but Saburo Arasaka chose to go to Night City himself.
• Two Arasaka representatives asked Mayor Lucius Raine and Vice Mayor Wilton Hort to lock down Watson District, and they negotiated a limit of one week.
• Su Xiao explained that Sandra Dorset, a Platinum Trauma Team member, had likely been kidnapped by Scavengers using a Blocker Chip to jam her signal.
• Su Xiao, Jack, V, and Lucy entered a rundown Westbrook apartment building and headed toward room 1237 to find Sandra.

Su Xiao, V, and Jack infiltrated a Scavenger hideout and found that the gang had already harvested one hostage, while their rescue target remained alive in the bathroom. After V silently killed a Scavenger, the team reached the living room and overheard two gang members discussing the hostages and their implants.

• Su Xiao scanned room 1237 and confirmed that the rescue target was alive among the Scavengers’ captives.
• The team found a mutilated corpse on an operating table and realized the Scavengers had already harvested one hostage.
• Su Xiao warned the others about a Scavenger by a bathtub, and V killed him quietly by forcing his head underwater and shooting him.
• The team hid outside the living room, where two Scavengers discussed their three captives and planned to sell the implants and the corpo hostage’s cyberware.

Su Xiao and his companions wiped out the Scavengers and found Sandra Dorset in their hideout, barely alive after being used to transport glitter. Lucy removed a signal-blocking chip and summoned Trauma Team, while V stabilized Sandra as they waited for help.

• Jack opened fire on the Scavengers, while V and Lucy helped kill the rest from behind cover.
• Su Xiao deflected a burly Scavenger’s machine-gun bullets with Muramasa and killed him.
• The group found Sandra Dorset in a bathtub beside a corpse whose organs and cyberware had been removed.
• Lucy resisted a neural virus, removed the blocker chip from Sandra’s neural expansion port, and sent an emergency signal.
• Trauma Team confirmed Sandra’s location and began its three-minute arrival countdown.
• V injected Sandra with a Pneumatic Syringe to keep her heart beating until help arrived.

After rescuing Sandra, Su Xiao and his companions headed back, but learned that Watson District was under an unusually swift NCPD lockdown. They were stopped at the district cordon, where they encountered Li Nali, an officer Su Xiao had rescued before.

• Trauma Team recognized Su Xiao as the man who had saved their team and took the critically injured Sandra away for treatment.
• Jack celebrated the rescue payout, and Su Xiao called Wakako, who warned him that the NCPD was sealing off Watson District.
• Su Xiao, V, Lucy, and Jack decided to travel together toward Watson District despite the lockdown.
• The group reached the bridge and found patrol cars and Militech Walking Mechs guarding the cordon.
• Officer Li Nali recognized Su Xiao and Lucy at the checkpoint, and they greeted her.

Su Xiao met Jack outside Misty's Divination Parlor and learned that Dexter DeShawn had offered them a major job, though Jack did not know its details. Jack brought Su Xiao to meet Dexter, who was waiting in an armored Chevrolet Thrax.

• Su Xiao left the hotel and ran into Jack, who told him Dexter DeShawn had offered them a big job.
• Su Xiao questioned Jack's decision to work with Dexter and asked what the job involved, but Jack admitted he did not know.
• Jack revealed that Dexter was waiting nearby and wanted to meet Su Xiao, and Su Xiao agreed to go.
• Su Xiao approached Dexter's Chevrolet Thrax, passed his bodyguard, and saw Dexter in person for the first time.

Su Xiao met with fixer Dexter, who wanted him to retrieve a combat robot called Flathead from the Vortex Gang as a prelude to a larger job. The chapter ended with Su Xiao demanding to know the payment before agreeing to anything.

• Dexter questioned Su Xiao about whether he wanted a quiet life or fame, but Su Xiao argued that ordinary people in Night City had little chance of living peacefully or growing old.
• Dexter explained that the Vortex Gang had stolen Flathead from a Militech convoy and that he had paid Brick for the robot before Royce took control of the gang.
• Dexter said Meredith Stout was searching for the person who had leaked the convoy route and had detained a suspect who still had not confessed.
• Su Xiao asked Dexter how much he would pay to retrieve Flathead and challenged him for withholding the details of the larger job.
• Dexter questioned whether Su Xiao’s bluntness would cost him the opportunity, while Su Xiao said he would not blindly trust a promise of future work.