Operation: Osiris - Scene One:

It all began when the scattered former members of an Agency team received mysterious messages on their personal PDAs, tagged with an old code from an Agency that had been defunct for two years. "You are desperately needed in Tokyo. Need to sort out a problem. Your new identity could be at risk" was the message, followed by a seemingly random string of numbers.

Steel Wolf, undercover as the Red Ghost, was meeting with a mobster he had been dealing with when he got the message. He completed the deal quickly, after being badgered into delivering free security on his next job, and made arrangements to fly out of Moscow and into Tokyo. He also placed a newspaper ad in code in a French newspaper (the last place he'd heard of Dom Perignon surfacing, several months ago) along the lines of "Lead singer called, wants to get the band back together, call me."

Dom Perignon got the message as he was climbing out the window of the married heiress he had recently bedded. He returned home to find his old college friend pissing against the wall of his Monaco home, and soon learned that his friend was so high and drunk and generally bewildered that he didn't realize where he was. The friend did, coincidentally, have some news for Dom; he had heard rumors that Dom's old friend had died in a firefight protecting the prime minister of Israel from an assassination attempt.

After the friend crashed on Dom's couch, Dom's personal assistant Ms. Chesterfield came down to check in. She had some bank papers to sign in the morning, but Dom went ahead and signed them right then and told her to arrange the earliest possible flight to Tokyo, dealing with problems from his "former life."

Booster's reaction, when he received it in his East L.A. home, was perhaps the most simple of the group. "It's About Time." He arranged to pilot a jet to Tokyo for a private concern.

Ms. Chesterfield found the personal ad in the French paper and Dom got in contact with Steel Wolf. The two reminisced a little, shared the information they had and arranged to meet in the Tokyo airport. They did this, and shared a drink while Ms. Chesterfield procured a rental BMW for them. Another message on the former agents' PDAs came in that said "Ching Lau's. Ginza District. 10:45 PM."

Booster, after trying to locate the Neon Tigers and then stealing a motorcycle in an attempt to rile them up and draw them to him, went to the restaurant several hours early. His inability to speak Japanese prompted some problems, but he did get a table, and plenty of free soup when his boorish manner and inability to speak the language lead to him yelling at an American at the bar that Booster thought had been staring at him.

The man at the bar was Father Binary, the hacker who had sent the messages to the team in the first place. He quickly left, wanting to contact the whole team on his own terms rather than in such a public place. Booster, meanwhile, learned that yelling in English got him free food, so when the other two agents arrived at about 9:30, he was surrounded by several bowls of sharkfin soup.

The agents reminisced, talking their way into a private room that was being cleaned. They discussed the possibility that it was a trap, as well as their feelings on the matter of Mr. Gray's demise, something none of them really believed.

At 10:45, Father Binary re-entered the restaurant and went to the private room the agents had procured. He asked them to come with him to the private room he had arranged (since he knew that it was bug-free and otherwise safe), and sat down with them to talk. Father Binary explained that he had been working freelance for the Japanese government, trying to prevent attacks from the hacker gang known as the Neon Tigers, and he'd come across some bits of code that indicated the agents' identities and that a hit had been ordered on them. He made contact so that he could warn them, but wanted to do it in person to avoid security risks of online or phone conversation.

At this point, the waiters entered the room to provide appetizers and a large covered metal dish that took two waiters to lift. All of the waiters exited except for one, who removed the metal covering. To his horror, the cover was attached to a cord that pulled the pin from a grenade, which sat in the mouth of Akune Uchida, the former head of the Neon Tigers and former ally of the agents. The grenade exploded, but the agents dove for cover and protected themselves with metal dishes, chairs and bits of the table so that the damage was minimal. They quickly sprung into defensive positions, and were not surprised when a half-dozen of the former geishas and waiters rushed into the room, dropping into martial arts stances and wearing katanas on their hips.

A quick battle ensued, with the agents gunning down most of the assassins without much trouble, although Steel Wolf took a particularly nasty katana wound that was bleeding, and Father Binary had the most good luck, providing the kill shots on five of the six assassins. Early in the fight, Dom contacted Ms. Chesterfield to tell her to bring the car around the back. Booster emerged from the room to find that there were five more waiters holding MP5s, and they opened fire as Booster rushed down the hall to the emergency exit he had spotted earlier. Booster fired on the gun-wielding assassins, but they had a good position at the door, waiting for the agents to emerge. Dom grabbed a metal caster from one of the destroyed chairs and, rushing out the door, mimed pulling a pin and threw it at the assassins, causing them to dive for cover. This distraction allowed the rest of the team to rush past Booster and down the exit hallway.

The agents leaped into the car, and Ms. Chesterfield began patching up Steel Wolf's wound as Booster took over driving. About a dozen headlights from pursuit motorcycles loomed in the rearview mirror, and they were getting closer...