The first part of a two part series finale. The UNSC has deployed two officers to execute John Brent (Deus Ex Machina), and John is feeling like he is beginning to lose his mind. After John decides to abandon his friend Michael and his role as Deus Ex Machina, he encounters a new dangerous villain who threatens the city by unleashing a powerful robotic duplicate of Deus Ex Machina built to dispense a lethal biological virus in exactly twenty-four hours.