I'm going against the very obvious, and say that the dead woman mentioned in the title is NOT Teresa, but Kusari.

Oh, that and Schlock is going to do something very very bad by the end of this chapter. Or maybe the next one. And it will involve Teresa and how they get a "replacement Kusari".

I was thinking something kinda similar Kes, but I don't think it'll be Kusari. My guess is either Dr. Diyu or Agent Drake, but I don't have a clue which. Leaning toward Drake, simply because she's gotten more screentime this chapter, but Diyu just got engaged which is a huge Doom flag..

Well, we know that the backdoor does get open, so my prediction is that this coming on to Tyler is a ruse. She purposely overdid the come on, so that even Agent Tyler could 'see through it'. While everyone converges on Agent Drake's office, Teresa slips out to somewhere else (Agent Sharpe's office??), gets the backdoor open and then manages to narrowly escape hC headquarters (I hope).

Now the question is where is Riff's communication relay going through? If he's "calling" on regular phone lines, he may not have compromised the casino - they will only be able to tell that the call came from space... Something that they ought to figure out anyway, since the satellite attack had to have come from space.

That leaves the question - how does an inflatable spaceship re-enter the earth's atmosphere without popping? Or being detected?

And... ...are we going to see yet one more timeline? In the DOR Nash (etc.) played a key role in helping take down hC during the mech attack. Is he going to be part of the convergence now?

Good thinking! Especially considering that the uplink in Drake's office never worked. We know that a back door will be opened, and it can't be from Drake's office. So you're probably right!

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Riff is being a major A-hole by calling Teresa, but Izzy is wrong in calling him out on it saying that he's compromised the entire operation.

Inflatable heat shield?

We might. I have no idea.

Unless Teresa's the reason it never worked.

Ha! Well, it looks like I gave Tyler far more smarts credit than he deserved... (although, balthazar's comments in the 10.27.16 Reactions sums up Tyler's response quite well).

I hadn't thought about Drake's problems syncing with Flux-Nut-1, but Riff doesn't need to talk or sync with Flux-Nut-1 - he just needs to locate it. So Teresa's job (now) is far easier than Drake's....

Kesandru, as for your suggestion... I understand Pete's limitations here, but Reseta's interactions with the hC folk seemed amateurish (especially for Teresa), and also made it seem like she was only just getting started gathering intel. Obviously she was doing something for "months", but from this interchange it didn't seem like she'd even laid the foundation yet - or what else she needed to do other than to open the backdoor... But that is very unlike Teresa. So your suggestion makes sense - after the test firing, Teresa managed to sabotage it somehow (although why she didn't just open the backdoor at that point is a question), which is why Drake failed in her task. And so once again Teresa's ditz is to obscure the fact that she's actually already accomplished a lot?

I hope that we don't lose Teresa here - Riff is starting to annoy me, and I'd outright dislike him is he costs Teresa her life. It seems like he learned nothing from Torg quitting on him.

I think at some point Oasis will get that stock realization that fire is energy/light/whatever and that it doesn't have to be just destruction. It was certainly building to that in The Mystery Woman, with her refusing to go near Katie out of fear that she might accidentally kill her.

Hmmm... that last conversation between Chen and Theresa looked a little like sign and countersign to me.

We know Torg had been in touch with Chen months previously via digbot-o-gram and had Aylee lined up to rescue Izzy from the cell block at one point.

I wonder if there is a Plan-B? Would have been like Torg, if not Riff to set something up.

Izzy's simply assuming Theresa will be caught, tortured and reveal all. Because of Riff. Acting on worst case assumptions is probably why she's still alive.


Very, very slowly. Doable with enough power and patience.

Short term - Schlock will appear in the Friday strip and stop the interrogation.

I'm more with erewhon's sign-countersign theory. Establishing that the horrifying truth serum that's about to be injected was made by Diyu further puts her in the crosshairs of the subchapter's title. It goes without saying that if Teresa survives this - perhaps due to the breakout of HC's single most dangerous prisoner - a recently engaged happy couple is about to have a really bad day.

Spec: Theresa isn't bluffing. That's why she was so concerned with what time it was when she woke up in her cell.

Teresa isn't bluffing, but the smoke grenades are just smoke grenades. The bomb is elsewhere, someplace strategic.

Well, she wasn't bluffing. She was lying. I think we should still get partial credit. Well played, Theresa!

EMP bombs sure would be a pretty good way to release prisoners, assuming the doors are locked electronically. Is this Chen's chance to wreak havoc anew?