"Dead Reckoning, Part Two: Accidentally Like a Martyr"
Cole Cash has gone back to Russia, looking for answers for what happened during the Leningrad mission. He is captured, and finds that Dbovchek was a scientist working on psi-agents who was a democratic activist. When the Soviets find out that Cash's powers are waning, they send him off for experimentation. But Lynch and Callahan show up just in time to rescue their former teammate.
Meanwhile, Callahan is informed that his wife and child were lost in childbirth, but in reality they were abducted by I.O. Becky manages to escape with young Sarah by knocking out a young Dr. Richard Markus.
Elsewhere, Lynch's wife leaves him and Chang, under Craven's command, helps Deathblow find the man who ordered his father's death.
All the while, the residents of Level Nine are strengthening Dane to use as their means of escape.
Jason Johnson and John Tighe are credited with a pinup in this issue that was not included.