Bombings begin at embassies and Liam believes they may reignite the SI (Sino-Indian) War, which ended with an armistice several years before. An old intelligence agency friend of Renee's has interesting holographic technology.

Zo'or kidnaps a comatose policeman in order to use the man's body as a 'vessel' in a consciousness transfer experiment that will allow him to 'test' the human survival instinct and cause havoc on Earth.