- Tina tries to escape in a laundry cart, but she's caught.
- Connie is having trouble reaching the future. Finally she gets through and finds Luciente and friends fighting up at the front.
- Luciente says it's been harder to make contact because of probability static… which is a fine, old-school, pseudo-science sci-fi explanation.
- Presumably the idea is that the future is in weird flux for some reason. What reason?
- Luciente and Bee fuss over her wig; Bee is very sad to hear she's had a brain implant.
- They talk about how they hope that the war will end and all will be well.
- Then there's an attack and they scatter and Connie bumps back to the past.
- Where the doctors gather around and worry that she's hallucinating.
- Then Connie bounces back to the future.
- Back at the front, and cyborg/robot things are attacking.
- Connie remembers when Martín was in a riot. The cyborg/robots remind her of the police—one of whom shot at her in the window.
- And back at the hospital they're trying to find Dr. Redding; they think there's a crisis in her brain.
- And whoops, back in the future, where Hawk (who used to be Innocente) is piloting a craft into battle.
- They chat about what Hawk will do with herself as an adult, and then they attack.
- So this is laser-battle sci-fi, but the excitement is somewhat mitigated by the fact that it's really not clear what's going on.
- Also, is Connie in the future? Which future? Or is her brain just messed up because of the implant?
- And when she wakes up they've taken out those implants.
- And she seems to be getting better… but secretly she's decided she's at war.