With CIA satellites disabled, Stitch is free to broadcast the Numbers Program globally — a mind-altering signal that turns allies into enemies. As that broadcast takes effect and everything becomes contested, the fight to keep perspective and push forward intensifies. Meanwhile, the organization known as Perseus continues its offensive: Wraith passes Drakovitch's stolen data from Mount Yamantau to a mysterious operative, laying out the next phase of the plan. In the early hours of July 23rd, 1984, Woods leads an assault team to a NATO listening station in Teufelsberg, Germany — responding to a distress signal that has gone unanswered. Inside, he finds something he believed was buried — a weapon from the past that could change the course of everything.