Nick Crane awakens chained to a bed in a Roanoke, Virginia,
motel. Black Widow explains that when he tried to shoot her in the face, she
responded with a Widow’s Kiss, an instant knock-out drug. And now she wants to
know his source, the anonymous person who identified her as the one behind a
series of political deaths including his own father’s suicide. Nick, like a
good journalist, refuses…
…then a band of armed men break in and take Nat and Nick
prisoner. They are flown to a secret CIA base in Poland where they are dumped
in a pit in the middle of a deserted factory. This was arranged by Nat with her
CIA contact, Agent Mitchroney, so she could be alone with Nick to question him.
But then they are taken out and strapped to tables in a medical lab, which is a
surprise to Natasha. Mitchroney reveals that Nat and Nick are wanted for the
murder of Senator Whit Crane, Nick’s father, and are about to be interrogated.
Natasha spits a pellet into Mitchroney’s neck, picks her handcuff with a hypo,
and shoots her way out with his gun. They flee the building to face a band of
guards in the snow; Nat takes them all down with her Widow’s Bites and they
speed off on a snowmobile….
In a nearby city, Natasha contacts old friend Fryderyk the
Fixer to get her and Nick new identities and they board a train heading for
Warsaw, Fatale’s home base. On the way, the train is derailed and two people
come looking for Nat and Nick: Fantasma and the Crimson Dynamo….