pencil: Dustin Nguyen

story: Tom Peyer

inks: Rich Friend

colors: David Baron

The new Authority discovers that the Career was full of refugees and most of them died in the crash they caused.
To avoid being discovered by their leaders, they dump all the bodies (living and dead) into the bleed.
As they begin to gain publicity around the world, the wealthy of Washington are struck by a mysterious energy that turns them homeless.

pencil: Steve Dillon

story: Joe Casey

colors: Wildstorm fx

Jeremy Stone, aka Maul, comes into contact with an artificial intelligence who falls in love with him, Madge.
The government starts looking for him, believing him to be a hacker.
Cole Cash joins him at the hotel, near where Priscilla Kitean is hospitalized.
While they are together in the hotel they are tracked down by government agents.

pencil: Steve Dillon

story: Joe Casey

colors: Wildstorm fx

Maul tries to convince the agents that he is not a hacker, but they attack him anyway.
Grifter comes to his aid, but he can't beat their strongest agent, Orange.
Madge comes to their aid, remotely electrocuting the government agents.

pencil: John Cassaday

story: Warren Ellis

colors: Laura DePuy

In 1995 Elijah Snow recovers a weapon of the 4 (Thor's Mjolnir, which when transformed into a staff opens a dimensional rift in the Bleed).
Planetary tries to capture the 4, but Dowling surprises them and captures Snow.
The 4 enjoy “playing” with Planetary, but hate losing, so they force Snow to forget her past.