Recaps

Lier and V broke into Rochelle’s fortified gun shop to force her to sell a batch of corporate weapons, and Lier used the shop’s outdated security system to disable its turrets. He left Rochelle terrified and ordered her to close the shop until further notice, then demanded a case of grenades.

• Lier and Jackie entered Rochelle’s shop, where its turret guns made a direct confrontation dangerous, while V searched for another way inside.
• V reached a second-floor terrace but found its old iron door could not be hacked, so Lier identified the shop’s outdated ICE as their best opening.
• Lier told V to break through the door as he distracted Rochelle, and V shattered the lock, entered the room, and connected to the server.
• Lier breached the local network and stopped the turrets from hitting him and Jackie, then turned their aim on Rochelle and made the guns malfunction.
• Lier ordered Rochelle to close Rama’s Firearms Shop until further notice and demanded a case of grenades, while she nodded in fear.

Lier, V, and Jackie traced Sixth Street’s secret weapons shipments through Roshan’s records and set out to intercept the next convoy in the Badlands. They ambushed five cargo vans, and the chapter ended as a grenade exploded inside the lead vehicle.

• Lier cracked Roshan’s Militech firmware and extracted camera footage while V and Jackie reacted to his netrunning skills.
• Lier found messages showing Sixth Street was smuggling cargo under Roshan’s name, with another shipment due across the border in two days.
• Lier planted backdoors in Roshan’s database, hacked Woodhaven Street’s traffic system, and led V and Jackie toward the Badlands.
• Six hours later, a Viper pulled alongside the five-van convoy, and its passenger fired a Tanto Submachine Gun at the vehicles’ tires.
• The convoy crashed together, and a grenade went off inside the lead vehicle.

Lier, Jackie, and V ambushed a Sixth Street convoy and seized its weapons and hidden medicine shipment. After uncovering a route linking Militech, Biotechnica, and the Red Ochre Tribe, they planned to sell the weapons to Padre and investigate the medicine’s buyers.

• Lier, Jackie, and V defeated the Sixth Street convoy, and Lier told the surviving driver to warn his boss that the supply route was closed.
• The trio examined the cargo, including a heavily modified Satara that Lier said Jackie could use only after getting Gorilla Arms.
• Lier discovered medicine hidden in a crate and installed a communications backdoor in the wounded driver.
• Lier found a transport Shard detailing planned stops at Dry Creek, the Red Ochre Tribe, and Arroyo headquarters, with Biotechnica medicine concealed in weapon crates.
• Lier proposed selling the seized weapons and ammunition to Padre while they tracked down the medicine’s buyers.

Lier brought medicine to the plague-stricken Red Ochre Tribe and learned its members were suffering from Gamma Rabies. He offered Chief Hector Krois six canisters for their remaining money in exchange for ending all dealings with Sixth Street, and Hector accepted.

• Lier, V, and Jackie drove to Red Ochre’s camp, where they found sick tribe members and children guarding the entrance.
• V intimidated the armed youths, and Lier showed them the medicine he had recovered and asked to speak with their leader.
• Chief Hector Krois told Lier that Red Ochre was sick with Gamma Rabies and that Sixth Street had doubled the price of its medicine.
• Lier deduced that Hector had signed a human experimentation agreement with Biotechnica and learned the tribe had only two hundred thousand Eddies left.
• Lier offered Hector six canisters of slow-release medicine for two hundred thousand Eddies if Red Ochre ended all cooperation with Sixth Street, and Hector agreed.

Lier, V, and Jackie delivered medicine to the Red Ochre Tribe, saving them from an epidemic and earning their gratitude. As the three prepared to leave in the tribe’s vehicles, Nawei warned them that Sixth Street might be waiting at the intersections.

• V was briefly flustered when Saiwei complimented her shaved hairstyle, then Lier finished speaking with Hector and explained that the Red Ochre Tribe was suffering from an epidemic.
• Lier said he had sold the medicine to the tribe at half price and included a free canister, and Jackie shared how he had first drawn his gun after Maelstrom killed his brother Diego.
• Lier reassured Jackie that his ambitions could still come true, then offered Nawei three sets of tactical gear alongside the tribe’s medicine.
• Nawei announced that the tribe had medicine and thanked Lier, V, and Jackie, while they distributed supplies and reflected on Nomad life and education.
• Nawei returned Jackie’s Ajax, which Jackie gave back to him, and warned the trio that Sixth Street had asked the tribe to watch for them.
• Lier accepted the tribe’s vehicles and proposed returning to Night City to sell the goods to Padre and split the money.

Lier explained that he charged Red Ochre for supplies to push them toward breaking with Biotechnica, then sold salvaged weapons to Padre and split the earnings with V and Jackie. After checking on his projects and family in the other world, Lier was invited by Jackie to try Misty's tarot reading.

• On the way back, Lier admitted to V and Jackie that he wanted Red Ochre to run out of money, confront Biotechnica, and eventually side with him.
• Lier sold Padre twenty-eight Saratogas, nineteen Ajaxes, ammunition, and body armor for 150,000 eddies, while warning him that Sixth Street had acquired more merchandise.
• Lier split the proceeds with V and Jackie, giving each of them 110,000 eddies, and V went to get Mantis Blades installed while Jackie showed Misty his gun.
• Lier sent Dr. Connors the iguana biological model, checked Skye's work and the NYPD project's progress, and sent traffic data to help develop ctOS.
• Lier learned that his family still owed US$320,000 and decided to pay off US$100,000 before Jackie asked if he wanted a tarot reading from Misty.

Lier, Jackie, and V prepared to target Qieshen Weishidun at the Factory trading market, while Misty’s tarot reading warned of a deadly confrontation. As the crew set out with help from a captured Sixth Street soldier, a sergeant accused Padre of sending them to sabotage him.

• Misty read Lier’s tarot cards, drawing the Magician, Death, and Chariot and predicting a dangerous battle that could still end in victory.
• Jackie proudly showed Misty footage from the Rama Arsenal, but the video revealed him fumbling after the attack began, and he hurried Lier out before she could tease him.
• V came out with one Mantis Blade installed, and Jackie showed off his Golden Badass Bitches and the Satara as the crew prepared to leave.
• Lier said they would target Qieshen Weishidun at the Factory trading market and revealed that a Sixth Street soldier they had spared would drive them in.
• Padre celebrated making a profit on the arms deal until a sergeant called and accused him of sending the crew to attack the Sixth Street.

Lier, V, and Jackie used a vaccine taken from a stolen Sixth Street shipment and disguised themselves to move through the gang’s heavily patrolled territory. With Archido’s help, they passed a suspicious patrol and continued their covert trip.

• Jackie told V that Vic had once been a champion boxer and had offered to sell him a pair of Gorilla Arms for two hundred thousand Eddies.
• Lier learned about Gamma Rabies in class, then vaccinated himself, V, and Jackie with a dose from the stolen shipment.
• Lier explained that Sixth Street planned to profit from selling sustained-release medicine while keeping the vaccine for its own use.
• Lier, V, and Jackie disguised themselves as infected Nomads and entered Sixth Street territory with Archido driving.
• Lier posed as a Red Ochre member seeking medicine and distracted a suspicious motorcyclist, allowing the car to pass without discovery.
• Lier gave Archido ten milliliters of sustained-release agent for helping them, and Archido accepted it to help pay for his mother’s medicine.

Lier and V entered The Manufactury to meet Cheson, a weapons dealer with ties to Sixth Street, and pressured him into providing help against the gang. After Cheson offered information about a heavily augmented Sixth Street recruit and access to corporate weapons, Lier installed a communications backdoor in his cyberware and arranged for it to be removed later.

• Archido led Lier and V into The Manufactury, where they pretended to be sick to get past Sixth Street guards.
• Archido explained that he had joined Sixth Street and secretly bought its medicine to treat his mother, whose coworkers had died.
• Lier confronted Cheson, who explained that his business depended on Sixth Street's protection, suppliers, and customers.
• Lier threatened Cheson, who offered intelligence about a cyberware-equipped Sixth Street recruit and promised help with weapons and a shipment of hot goods.
• Lier negotiated a forty-sixty split with Cheson and secretly installed a communications backdoor during their handshake.
• Lier told Cheson to meet them at a Ripperdoc on the Coast of Preaching, but Cheson chose to find someone to remove the backdoor in three days.

Lier, V, and Jackie tracked down the ripperdoc who had upgraded James Norris’s implants, but their search coincided with Norris’s scheduled appointment. As a vehicle arrived outside the clinic, Lier ordered the others to retreat.

• Lier completed the traffic-routing AI and used its data to summon dump trucks, while deciding the crew should lie low after their job.
• Lier, V, and Jackie entered a clinic and questioned its ripperdoc about a Sixth Street member with military implants.
• Lier found James Norris’s surgical records and learned that the heavily augmented former corporate soldier had an appointment for a Sandevistan upgrade that evening.
• A vehicle stopped outside the clinic, and the ripperdoc anesthetized himself as Lier told V and Jackie to fall back.

James Norris and Sixth Street attacked the clinic, where V, Jackie, and Lier fought back and tried to escape. As traffic descended into chaos, James pursued the three and fired at their getaway car.

• Nolan Frequez brought James Norris to investigate Archido's car, while Archido spoke with his mother.
• Lier warned Archido to flee and take his mother to Padre, and Archido sped away as James fired a projectile at his car.
• V, Jackie, and Lier fought James at the clinic, but his armor withstood their attacks and he forced his way through the entrance.
• A convoy of vehicles surged through the area, creating chaos that Lier and the others used to run toward their getaway car.
• James bounded across the car roofs and aimed his hand-cannon cyberware at the car as the three tried to escape.

Lier, V, and Jackie escaped Sixth Street after James Norris nearly killed them, but Jackie lost an arm and was critically wounded. They raced toward Vic’s clinic with the Valentinos covering their escape, while David and Gloria witnessed the battle.

• Lier, V, and Jackie fought James Norris, and Lier’s Yinglong bullets triggered an EMP that disabled him long enough for them to escape in the G240.
• James Norris killed a Sixth Street veteran after Nolan failed to meet his demands for better cyberware.
• Lier treated Jackie’s severed arm while V defended the car, then used a neural stimulant to keep Jackie conscious as they sped away.
• Lier contacted Padre for help, and Gustavo Orta’s Valentinos opened fire on the pursuing Sixth Street car to clear the way to Vic’s clinic.
• David and Gloria watched the gang battle from their car, and David was impressed by the three escaping figures.

Lier negotiated with Cheson for Kang Tao support and warned Padre about James Norris, the cyberpsycho Sixth Street planned to upgrade. After striking a deal with Padre and learning Archido had reached him, Lier returned to the clinic and found V angry about a debt in his name.

• Lier told Cheson that James Norris was a cyberpsycho and demanded a military-grade ICE terminal, a Sandevistan, and heavy weapons in exchange for helping Kang Tao obtain cyberware data.
• Lier told Padre that Sixth Street planned to send James into Vista del Rey and offered him neuro-relief medication and vaccines as leverage.
• Padre asked Lier to help end the gang fighting, and Lier agreed to handle James and look beyond their personal score.
• Padre revealed that Gustavo Orta's people had stopped Archido, who had driven through a defensive line with a broken leg while trying to reach him; Lier told Padre to take Archido in.
• At the clinic, Vic told V that Lier had bought a Biometric Data Modeling Collection Device on credit in V's name, and V cracked her knuckles as Lier arrived.

Lier, V, and Jackie prepared to confront the cyberpsycho James Norris after Kang Tao gave them an NCPD subcontract and Padre warned that Sixth Street was moving toward Vista del Rey. With new cyberware, weapons, and a Valentino convoy behind them, they set out for Arroyo.

• Jackie received extensive Gorilla Arms, skeletal reinforcement, stronger lower-body muscles, and heavy Subdermal Armor, while the team spent beyond its budget and owed Vic 71,000 eddies.
• Lier told V he trusted her judgment about installing Kang Tao's prototype Sandevistan, and V received the Kiroshi Type 5 implant.
• Cheson reported that James Norris had gone berserk and escaped Arroyo, while Padre warned that Sixth Street was heading toward Vista del Rey and asked Lier to protect the neighborhood.
• Lier assembled the Nekomata, a modified Satara, and an MK31 heavy machine gun for the mission against James Norris and Arroyo.
• Gustavo gathered the Valentinos behind Lier, V, and Jackie as they left in a black Mackinaw, and the convoy followed them toward Arroyo.

Lier, V, Jackie, and the Valentinos intercepted James in a highway pursuit, where V and Jackie damaged him while Lier breached his military-grade ICE and disabled his spinal implant. Jackie killed James, but the battle left their vehicle wrecked, and Jackie led the Valentinos onward as Lier arranged for James’s body to be recovered.

• David told Gloria that he wanted to leave school and find work, but she urged him to pursue education and become an Arasaka elite.
• James and his convoy attacked through traffic, causing Gloria’s car to be struck and overturned.
• Lier breached James’s military-grade ICE while V and Jackie fought him, and V’s Nekomata shot damaged his chest armor.
• Jackie blasted James’s abdomen with the Satara, and Lier’s EMP disabled James’s spinal implant after the Mackinaw blew a tire.
• Jackie shot James dead with the Satara, and Lier ordered Archido to haul away the corpse before Jackie rallied the Valentinos to continue.

David was rescued from the wreckage but had to carry his injured mother toward a hospital himself, while the Valentinos routed Sixth Street and forced Sergeant to surrender Arroyo's warehouse headquarters. Lier, Jackie, and V entered under the ridiculous fake names Burger King, Big Shot, and King.

• Archido freed David from the wrecked car, gave him a Liberty handgun, and told him to get his mother to a hospital and trust no one.
• Sergeant called Padre to demand that the Valentinos stop their assault, but Padre refused and the call ended as an explosion sounded.
• Lier led Jackie and V's convoy through the Arroyo industrial district, where the Valentinos overwhelmed Sixth Street's defenses and advanced on its warehouse headquarters.
• Sergeant surrendered and opened the warehouse gate after Lier demanded camera access and warned him against tricks.
• Lier, Jackie, and V entered the warehouse and gave Sergeant their fake names: Burger King, Big Shot, and King.

Lier negotiated a ceasefire between the Valentinos and the Sixth Street, earning money and new connections while splitting the proceeds with Jackie and V. As the group looked forward to visiting Afterlife, Lier received a warning that unstable energy was about to erupt.

• Lier persuaded the Sergeant to settle the dispute, paid him for medicine samples, and secured a ceasefire between the Valentinos and the Sixth Street.
• Lier told Padre that Rama Arsenal was no longer affiliated with the Sixth Street, and Padre said the Valentinos would take over the shop and gave the crew Afterlife memberships.
• Cheson arranged a meeting with Kang Tao and split the deposit with Lier, while Roshan praised Lier for helping the Red Ochre people.
• Lier, Jackie, and V divided 360,000 eddies, and V collected debts from Lier and Jackie.
• Jackie grew excited about visiting Afterlife, but Lier received a warning that unstable energy was about to erupt.

Lier warned Skye that expanding her AI into public safety and recommendations could enable political manipulation, and urged her to keep the technology neutral and focused on useful services. As their Safety Network improved NYPD results and a councilman opposed to it vanished from public view, Lier told Skye to monitor United Construction and pass suspicious financial information to Rising Tide; he then offered Skye a special way to learn his ideas.

• Lier discussed the ethical risks of using Skye’s AI for crime prediction and personalized recommendations, warning that politicians could exploit it to manipulate the public.
• Lier told Skye to keep their services neutral and useful, and Skye showed him reports that the Safety Network had improved NYPD clearance rates and slowed crime growth.
• Skye reported that a councilman opposing the Safety Network had disappeared from public view after Anthony’s speech, and Lier asked about United Construction’s activities.
• Skye said United Construction’s building could sell for millions amid rising land prices, and Lier told her to watch the company and leak suspicious financial details to Rising Tide.
• Lier’s mother reassured him not to overwork himself, and Lier told Skye he had a fully developed idea he could teach her through a special method, asking whether she liked games.

Lier introduced Skye to a text-based interaction with Aiden Pierce, a hacker targeting the Merlot Hotel’s ctOS network, and Skye began helping him investigate the people behind the attack. After Aiden’s niece and nephew were hurt, he agreed to work with Skye to uncover Bloom’s activities and the contents of the hotel’s encrypted videos.

• Lier explained ctOS and introduced Skye to Aiden Pierce through a hacker forum, where Aiden sought information about the Merlot Hotel’s security network.
• Skye offered Aiden technical help in exchange for data, then warned him to lie low after he reported that Fixers were pursuing his partner and that a hacker was watching the hotel.
• Aiden told Skye that his niece and nephew had been attacked and that Lena might never wake up, then asked for help identifying who was behind it.
• Skye advised Aiden to investigate ctOS access logs and the encrypted videos, and they agreed to uncover what Bloom was doing and who the videos threatened.
• Lier left the workshop to handle matters on John’s list.

Lier visited Dr. Connors to review promising iguana gene-editing results and discuss funding and lab renovations. He met Connors’s new assistant, Peter Parker, and left after treating his worsening health symptoms, noticing Peter watching a Spider-Man video.

• Lier arrived at Connors’s laboratory and learned that Connors had hired Peter Parker as his assistant after turning down an Osborn Group offer.
• Connors showed Lier calculations indicating that Lesser Antilles iguanas could give their planned genetic experiments a 96.5% survival rate.
• Connors estimated that renovating the laboratory would cost two hundred to three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and warned that they might need a new gene-editing method.
• Lier offered to provide a more powerful computer and asked Connors for medication to treat his high temperature and inflammation.
• Lier took immunosuppressants and an anti-inflammatory injection, then noticed Peter watching a video titled “Spider-Man” as he prepared to leave.

Lier negotiated a patent partnership with XMSC after learning that the foundry was struggling under pressure from competitors and new owner Martin Li. After dinner, Maya revealed that she had escaped a hellish life in Latveria and asked Lier to cherish their present life.

• Mr. Wang invited Lier to join XMSC, but Lier declined and offered to license his chip designs to the foundry.
• Lier discovered that XMSC had lost orders and been pushed to the margins, while Martin Li had invested in the struggling company.
• Mr. Wang accepted Lier's offer to discuss a partnership, and Lier called Maya to bring tea.
• Lier explained that his chip designs included consumer processors, GPUs, and SoCs, with products intended to earn money and advanced AI hardware meant for his own use.
• At dinner, Lier asked Maya about Latverian customs, and Maya described the country as hell and asked him to cherish their life together.

Lier strengthened the cross-dimensional data barrier while Skye helped Aiden Pierce investigate ctOS and learned what the system’s compromising footage contained. After signing contracts and talking with Matt, Lier returned to Night City, where he prepared to go to class as Jackie slept off a night of drinking.

• Lier linked devices along the trio’s past routes to a data barrier that would mislead anyone tracing them toward a server in another world.
• Skye used ctOS code to help Aiden investigate Damien’s plan, and Lier explained that footage of Chicago’s mayor had enabled a mob boss to control ctOS and blackmail political figures.
• Lier and Matt signed contracts with Professor Connors and XMSC, then discussed Matt’s work defending Hell’s Kitchen residents and Lier’s need to hire an accountant.
• An unstable energy warning sent Lier back to Night City, where he found Jackie asleep on his floor after drinking and arranged for Archido to drive him.
• Lier got ready for class, took his medicine, told Jackie to speak with Mrs. Wells, and packed Yinglong despite its nearly empty magazine.

Lier visited George Stacy’s home and proposed expanding his company’s camera network into a Smart City System for traffic management and crime prediction. George warned that the system’s surveillance features were dangerous and politically sensitive, but found its traffic-management benefits appealing.

• Lier arrived at George Stacy’s home for dinner, but Gwen was away at a club activity.
• Helen Stacy questioned Lier about his age, education, and family before George sent her to call Gwen.
• George told Lier that the mayor and Government wanted to expand cooperation on his camera-recognition network, and Lier said he could hire unemployed workers and find idle factories.
• Lier pitched a Smart City System that would analyze traffic and camera images to predict crime and use public safety records to assess people.
• George objected that the proposal threatened privacy and could resemble a state version of the Patriot Act, so Lier offered to focus instead on traffic management and enforcement.
• George said he had not agreed to the plan, but admitted that its traffic features could reduce the NYPD’s workload.

Lier recalled how David had forced a corrupt hospital doctor to let him watch Gloria’s treatment, then arrived at Arasaka Academy and witnessed Tanaka Katsuo bullying David. When Tanaka turned his insults on Lier, Lier admitted he did criminal work and demanded Tanaka hand over his valuables.

• David carried Gloria to Redshirt Psychiatric Hospital and refused to let the doctor take her into treatment without him watching.
• David slapped the doctor and fired his pistol, frightening him into letting David accompany Gloria into the treatment room.
• Archido told Lier the story during their drive, and Lier recognized the hospital’s name before heading to Arasaka Academy.
• Lier planned to investigate Biotechnica’s experiments, abduct Joanne Koch, and steal a DNA editing device to complete his serum.
• Lier came upon Tanaka Katsuo and two students bullying David, who recognized Lier from the Santo Domingo incident.
• Tanaka insulted Lier, and Lier admitted he was a criminal before demanding Tanaka’s valuables.

Lier robbed Tanaka Katsuo and his companions, then David followed him and asked to become his partner. Lier discovered that David’s mother might be in danger at the hospital and warned David that Scavengers could be waiting for him.

• Lier used a cyberattack to lock Tanaka Katsuo’s cyberware, took money from him and his two lackeys, and stole the Gorilla Arms 400-Series Shard.
• David decided school was pointless and followed Lier, asking to work with him.
• Lier questioned David about Gloria’s hospital stay and told him to call her, but she did not answer.
• David contacted the Ripperdoc, who sent a photo showing Gloria asleep with stable vital signs.
• Lier warned David that the Ripperdoc might be working with Scavengers who planned to ambush him and Gloria.