Althea has second thoughts about her mark when they arrive in the Financial Consortium building, and Viekko gets an unexpected visitor.
The emissary leads the team into Cytherea city, and Viekko gets a bad feeling as he sees, for the first time, the strange perfection...
As the team reels from Viekko's disappearance, Cytherea's soldiers mobilize. Althea and Captain Colton find themselves under seige at the shuttle.