Adam asks what's happening, and Chikane says that the police instituted martial law due to riots in Golem City spilling out across the country. He tells Adam that no one but the State Police are allowed out on the streets, and that they have itchy trigger-fingers. He tells Adam that Miller is waiting for him at the office, but that he'll probably get shot if he tries to go out alone on the streets. As he exits out into the street, a pair of officers gun down a citizen.
After examining his body, they realize that he's not augmented and promptly freak out before their superior orders them to throw the body in the truck. He sneaks past armed officers, bots and vehicles occupying the city streets and eventually finds the clinic.
Inside, he gives her the Orchid sample and asks her to analyze it while wondering why it didn't effect him. She says she'll get some of the Collective's researchers to take a look at it, and says that they're also analyzing the information he retrieved from the Palisade Bank. Alex tells him that things are going to get much worse, and says that the end result will be augs getting thrown into ghetto cities like Golem.
Adam responds that if that happens, it will make Nathaniel Brown rich. Vega says that it must be connected, and that Brown's next step to promote his "Safe Harbor Initiative" will be in London. Adam says that he has a contact who may be able to give him more information, but that he needs to talk to Miller first. Vega warns him to be careful, pointing out that he could be walking into another trap before he leaves. When he ventures down to the sewers to check it out, he finds from some of the journalists that their leaders, K and Bones, were caught by the police and are being held at a police station at the northern end of the city.
Adam is forced to walk through the subway line due to no trains running, and eventually reaches the station. He busts both men out of their cells and gets them to safety at a nearby building, and they tell him after that they're planning to flee the country immediately.
