Recaps

Su Xiao survived the Buckle Family’s destruction, reached Night City, and teamed up with Jack and V to resolve Peppy’s debt by exposing a Vortex Gang smuggling operation. The trio left Kirk fleeing, while Su Xiao began planning to make weapons and find a place in the city.

• Su Xiao escaped the Serpent Nation attack on the Buckle Family camp and helped a hacked sentry turret kill the attackers before McCoy told the survivors the family was finished.
• Su Xiao left for Night City, killed the cyberpsycho Troy, and met Jack Wells while delivering a sealed crate through the border.
• Su Xiao and Jack reached Heywood, where Jack proposed working together and showed him a job to steal a Rayfield supercar.
• Su Xiao’s suspicions kept him from joining Jack in the theft, but he used grenades to help Jack and V escape the NCPD, after which V explained Kirk’s job and Peppy’s debt.
• Jack and V refused Kirk’s demand to work for him, so Su Xiao suggested using Kirk’s criminal dealings as leverage and V copied files from Kirk’s laptop.
• Su Xiao, Jack, and V used Kirk’s files to expose a Vortex Gang glitter shipment, leading the NCPD to raid the All Foods Factory and Brick to seek revenge on Kirk.
• Su Xiao asked Jack and V to help him find an apartment and gun-making supplies, and they offered to introduce him to Padre.

Su Xiao built his weapons business, rescued Lucy, and brought her onto his team while taking on dangerous jobs across Night City. After recovering the recording of Bryce Stone’s son’s murder, he met Regina at Afterlife to learn that Bryce had found a lead and was in serious trouble.

• Su Xiao agreed to sell his tech weapons through Padre, built Tactical Goggles, and joined V and Jack on an ambush against the Animal Gang, where he killed their leader and examined the leader’s mechanical arms.
• Su Xiao bought a luxury apartment, then protected reporter Max Jones at Esteban Ramirez’s camp, where he met Lucy after mistaking her for the Cyberpsycho responsible for the massacre.
• Su Xiao rented Lucy an apartment and later recruited her after she agreed to join his team, while he built Power Gauntlets and helped Padre rescue Fidel from Malmer and the Sixth Street Gang.
• Su Xiao saved Lucy and Trauma Team members from the Ripper, killed him, and learned Lucy wanted to reach the moon before she joined Su Xiao’s crew alongside V and Jack.
• Su Xiao’s team tracked down the Black Market Dream recording of Bryce Stone’s son’s murder, killed Gottfried and Frederick after questioning them, and returned the original footage to Regina.
• Regina told Su Xiao that Bryce had found a lead in the murder case and was in serious trouble, so Su Xiao went with V, Jack, and Lucy to meet her at Afterlife.

Su Xiao exposed Redwood Psychiatric Hospital, killed Ichijo Daisho, and helped his friends upgrade their cyberware. When the Tiger Claws Gang hunted Chihana and Ryoko, Su Xiao and Lucy rescued them and fought off their pursuers, leaving Chihana badly wounded and in need of treatment.

• Su Xiao and his crew raided Redwood Psychiatric Hospital, exposed its abuses and secret drug trials to Jefferson and Elizabeth Peralez, and helped Bryce Stone take revenge on Ichijo Daisho.
• Su Xiao killed Ichijo Daisho, took the fortune hidden in his estate, and shared most of the proceeds with V, Lucy, and Jack.
• Su Xiao gave Rebecca a Kenshin and a Chao Shi on an installment plan, helped Mann and Dorio obtain Power Gauntlets, and funded cyberware for Jack and V.
• At Victor’s clinic, Su Xiao and V drove off Tiger Claws Gang members seeking Chihana and Ryoko, then learned the gang was hunting them after they fled its control.
• Chihana fought the Law Enforcement Group and Nantong Zhengshuang while escaping with Ryoko, but she was injured and her neural network was attacked.
• Chihana sent Ryoko to find Victor, but Scavengers abducted the girl before Su Xiao crashed their van and rescued her.
• Lucy found and treated Chihana while Su Xiao fought Nantong Zhengshuang and the gang, killing their leader and clearing the way to take Chihana for medical care.

Su Xiao builds stronger ties with Chihana, Jack, V, and Lucy while preparing new gear, then helps Lucy rescue T-Bug from the Eden Gang. The extraction ends with the NCPD shattered, the Eden Gang routed, and Su Xiao’s group sent to investigate Juliette’s disappearance and her Zeta Tech information.

• Su Xiao saved Chihana, helped her and Ryoko find a place in Night City, and arranged for Chihana to work at the Wolf Bar.
• Su Xiao and Chihana identified the smuggler who had betrayed them, and Chihana took him into the wilderness after McCoy handed him over.
• Su Xiao bought cybernetics and made customized bulletproof combat suits, then gave Jack, V, and Lucy their suits as they presented him with a Fenrir motorcycle.
• Lucy told Su Xiao that she was Lucyna Kushinada and had grown up in an Arasaka facility, and Su Xiao promised to protect her and help her face Arasaka.
• Su Xiao and Lucy infiltrated the Eden Gang compound and disconnected T-Bug from its subnet, but an accidental NCPD arrival triggered a siege and a shootout.
• Su Xiao, Lucy, and the surviving officers fought through the compound as Xiang Sheng Lindo died, Rebecca arrived to help, and the group escaped the Eden Gang’s assault.
• Lucy summoned the Riot Control Unit by hacking its subnet, and its aircraft attacked the Eden Gang as Su Xiao’s group and the NCPD survivors reached safety.
• The Old Captain doubled Su Xiao’s payment and asked him to investigate Juliette’s disappearance and retrieve her Zeta Tech information, so Su Xiao, Lucy, and Rebecca went to Juliette’s house.