Synopsis
An Arab woman is forced to bring a strap-on terrorist bomb to the fence of Camp Liberty in Baghdad. Two experts remove it and take it for safe detonation. But then one of them says "Palmer Addley is dead", and sets the bomb off in the admin building.
War Machine interrupts a lecture given by his old associate Suzi Endo. He asks the computer tech expert to come work with his team at Mackelroy Base looking into the terrorist acts connected to Palmer Addley. Suzi links her sophisticated kit up with Kaylie Harrison at the base, and tracks the bomb plot back to a place in Russia. But Suzi reminds Jim that she doesn't want to work with him anymore.
War Machine heads to the Russian base. He gets another team member Mike Zelinsky to contact Dmitri Bukharin for permission to enter Russian airspace. Zelinsky speculates whether James and Suzi had been lovers. Rhodey won't say.
The Russian base holds nuclear weapons. But all WM finds is loads of bodies pinned to a wall. Then he chases the only living person on the base, but his armour is crippled by what Suzi says is a nanobot infection. The man tells Rhodey to take back the message "Palmer Addley is dead".
Rhodes tries to get out of the base (slowly) using his suit's emergemcy hydraulics. Suzi tells him to hurry, but he's caught in a nuclear explosion.
CharactersGood (or All)Plus: Kaylie Harrison, Mike Zelinsky, Suzi Endo.