Joseph Bloodworth is back in the game. Working with Valerie to hunt down Jez, things get more complicated with the military shows up at the base to arrest Joseph for terrorism. Now finding himself in a cell with Raymond Buonarroti, the head of a sexbot producing company, Joseph finds that the next step to getting to Jez is clearing Raymond's name and solving a murder. But when the victim was a former Reality Coder, who knows what secrets from the past could come back to haunt them? Meanwhile, Valerie faces her own threat as a stranger breaks into the base.