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Charlie's watching the Glass Door - but he keeps being tailed by a mysterious man in a Grey Suit. He tries to give chase to one, but the man disappears around a corner, and is gone.

Charlie moves closer and sees 01 Boxer emerge from the club. He's with a beautiful young woman. Intimacies progress from kissing to groping; she slides down his body. 01 pulls out a bottle of water and pours it over his head…and disappears into thin air. Charlie is shocked. Now he knows how 01 travels between universes. It has something to do with water. This leads him back to the desert, and the young girl, Jodi. He asks her more about the "invisible people" she sees. Jodi's mother is nervous. Charlie shows her a picture of 01 and asks if he was one of the invisible people. Jodi nods. Charlie tells Jodi's mother that he saw 01 two days ago in Cape Town. The people Jodi sees are real. Jodi's mom leads Charlie to a woman named Andrea, and a buried town whose water was contaminated by Vexcor. Andrea has visions, just like Jodi - and just like Charlie. Charlie knows now that what he's been seeing all his life are visions of the other universes, and somehow it's connected to Vexcor and their experiments with water. Charlie helps Andrea escape Vexcor's clutches, killing Vexcor's head of security in the process. He's no closer to going home - but at least he knows that somehow water is definitely involved.

He manages to corner a man in the grey suit, who warns him that they're watching, and to "be careful.' Charlie still has no idea who these men are.

Julius Galt, meanwhile, grows more and more upset with the irrational and offensive antics of 01 Boxer. 01 orchestrates hand picked "successors" to the board of Vexcor Beta, and Galt feels he's losing control. 01 also manages to sabotage Vexcor's attempts to establish a small "temporary link." 01 wants to maintain his position as the only one who can travel between universes.

Charlie becomes more involved in the ways of our world, and exposure to Lubinsky, and Paula start to melt his "everything for myself" exterior. He learns hard lessons about South African politics, and just how far Vexcor's reach extends into this new world he's stumbled into.

Reena tries in vain to endure her abductors, who subject her to cruel, dehumanizing tortures of a psychological, physical, and sexual nature. She gets to kill one of her tormentors, but it's only a test to see how they've been conditioning her. The leader of the terrorists, MALACHI, tries using her as a human bomb to blow up Galt - but she escapes at the last moment.

01's complicated and tortured relationship with his father, Brion Boxer, is put to the test when Essa arranges a meeting. 01 transfuses his father - and afterward frail, sickly Brion looks younger, and considerably healthier. Whatever he 'gave' to his father - it wasn't just blood. In exchange 01 is given a box of artifacts from his dead mother. He pulls out a hairbrush, and brushes his hair methodically, tenderly - while weeping.

Galt is finally driven to the end of his rope with 01. He orders his new head of security, REN PORTER, to take 01 out. Vexcor gunmen attack 01 in the Glass Door. He's shot, but manages to stagger to the shower. The next thing we see is 01 washed up on a beach - in the Gammaverse.

Charlie is convinced that if 01 can't get him home, maybe Vexcor can. He and Lubinsky track Vexcor's construction sites around Cape Town, and surmise that they must be trying to rebuild the facility.

Charlie's actions against Vexcor have garnered attention inside the company. Ren Porter discovers that whoever's been working against them has teamed up with Karl Lubinsky. He lures Lubinsky to a meeting with promises of secret information, and tortures him to reveal the name of his associate. Returning to Charlie, Karl is guilty and at first says that he revealed nothing. Charlie knows better. In a downtown café, Charlie tells Karl that he appreciates how long he's been fighting Vexcor. He compares him to a character in one of Lubinsky's books, on Greek mythology: Cassandra. Lubinsky replies, glumly, "destined to tell the truth and have no one believe her." Lubinsky admits that he told Vexcor about him: as much as he knew. Lubinsky heads to the bathroom, and Vexcor agents show up at the café, guns drawn. Charlie tells Paula, "get down." In the ensuing gunfight, Charlie kills the Vexcor agents, and Lubinsky flees. Later, Paula tells him that she lied to the police for him. She tells him to get out and never come back. Later, he finds a broken Lubinsky wandering the streets, drunk. He tells Karl not to be too hard on himself. Vexcor gets what they want. Always. And Everybody Breaks. Charlie's now isolated - betrayed by his friend, abandoned by Paula, identity blown: he's a man who needs to disappear. Before doing so, he tells Karl not to worry: there are other companies besides Vexcor. He intimates he may be working for one of them.

Ren Porter and Julius Galt are eavesdropping. They know who Charlie Jade is. But now they're really afraid: if he's working for one of their competitors, they can't kill him til they find out who. And worse: he may be able to travel even though they can't. Galt sighs. "And just when I was getting used to being rid of 01."

In Gamma, 01 is found by a woman and her two children and nursed back to health. He has disturbing dreams of his many sins. When he awakes, the woman asks him how he feels, and he says, 'reborn.' The children greet him with, "Daddy." This is 01's secret family in Gammaverse. And for the first time, we realize that we have no idea why 01 is really doing what he's doing.

We see a low level Vexcor functionary conducting a job interview for the mailroom. "What would you describe as your best quality?" "Determination," answers the interviewee, Reena. "I'm very determined."