Meanwhile at the Shadow Dealers compound

  Malcolm Whitmore strode into the chamber to find Operator 47 pulling a sheet from a table, revealing a teenage-looking boy.

  “Is that him?”

  His agent gave him a nod.

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  “Good, if Birney cannot bring her in then we have leverage.”

  “How… are we going to revive him? It’s been more than a month since he past.”

  “If Jack did his job then there’s a swarm of nanites living within poor Liam here. The mortician is on our payroll. Mrs. Henderson won’t even know that we’ve enlisted her dead son in our plan.”

  “He looks dead as roadkill to me,” Operator 47 said.

  “Looks can be deceiving old friend. The nanites has put him… in a hibernation state. And, I can’t wait to see what young Aiko’s face when she sees her boyfriend again.”