McKee burns the out-of-control nano-tumbleweeds in Bruce and Georgie's lab, but not before it crawls up his leg and slimes his jeans. He considers eating it and becoming wool-man...
Henry and McKee look for Mujahedettes.
John meets a woman called Glenda (or was it Brenda), who knows him from elsewhere.
Egg gives a lecture / party. He calls Henry and McKee and has them come over after Jo-Anne, a qusit Asian IT chick shows up.
John notices someone suspicious in the party wearing a gold wristwatch.
McKee approaches the suspicious guy, and snatches his wristwatch, putting it on his wrist.
Egg is talking to someone when he gets poked in the back and then shot. In the chaos, McKee knocks out John and begins pounding on Henry.
Egg calls Avis, and then borrows a gun and shoots the watch off McKee's wrist.
Egg is rushed to the hospital.
Henry investigates the shattered watch and discovers it has a bizzare communications component which works telepathically. John investigates it and as he examines it, feels a call from "Home".
The doctors tell Egg he will never walk again, and it's a miracle he's alive. McKee talks him into eating a bit of his mineralized African nanotech crystal, but it passes whole without effect.
One night John is leaving the University (while Henry stays to talk to Bruce & Georgie there) when he picks up a telepathic broadcast targeting the communications device in the wristwatch. It's coming from the Hospital.
John alerts McKee at the hospital. McKee goes into the foyer and fights off an assailant that comes up from the elevator, dismantles a bomb that came taped to a hospital dolly there, and uses ball bearings from the bomb to ambush mind-controlled zombies coming up the stairs.
Meanwhile, in Egg's room, there's a strange glow and a hand rests on his shoulder. He looks up and sees Pauline, wearing sunglasses.
"It's time you checked out," she says.