They decide to use the Overworld (VR) to track their stalker (the entity sending mind-controlled Zombies wearing Golden Watches at them).

They see a sequence of about eight people, each wearing a golden watch, going about their business. They try to triangluate the signal to it's source.

Egg fills the bathroom sink and scries into the Overworld. John tracks him (projecting his vision on the wall). Holmes watches TV. McKee zombies. Pauline stacks minibar bottles on the counter.

Egg and John home in on a small world in the Overworld. It is a devestated city, or rather a section of one, 15 kilometers in diameter, which repeats on demand. John senses anger and despair coming from the whole city.Their enemy manifests as a black-clad man in a gas-mask. He doesn't speak, but shows them visions from before the devastation, a man and a young girl in an apartment in the city, the man watching on the news with growing concern how the world is being destroyed in a series of violent confrontations between the world's governments and hostile superbeings, who appear similar to Egg, Holmes, John, Angie, Butch, Pauline, Patrick...

The year in these visions is 2048.

Pauline snaps them out of it, saying that they are being scanned, and someone is locking into their location. They open the window, climb up to the roof via the fire escape, and wait for an attack.

They get shot at by a team of snipers using exotic guns which open micro wormholes and fire the projectiles through them. John, who was using big whirling fan blades as a shield, gets shot twice (arm and leg). Holmes flies across to the next building and disables the attackers. He brings back an agent and a gun for them to examine. Egg breaks into a room on the top floor and their interogate the hostage.

The hostage explains that they are a team of governement operatives, a special US Army emergency counter-terrorism squad, and tells them his superior officer received orders sending them to attack "people on the hotel roof". He demands back the gun, and they kick him out.

They take the elevator to the carpark, but there's an ambush waiting for them (McKee tosses some gravel out of the elevator and it gets shot at). So they go back up to the third floor and jump down to the street with the help of a tree.

They catch a cab to the New Jersey Turnpike, find a secluded spot and Pauline opens them a manhole to Australia.

Exit, stage left.