Ulla Chiaki, the leader of the Hound, appears on national television and accuses the Vipers of killing his fellow members. Jimmy, an AGS technician, assists Kariya in escaping from AGS custody with the assistance of a hacker named Ageha. The Viper members gather together in an abandoned warehouse off the grid in order to avoid being caught by AGS security forces and law enforcement. In order to find out who was responsible for framing them as terrorists, Saiki then leads the Vipers in storming AGS headquarters to reacquire their Maneuver-Blades. During their escape, Norma is killed while holding off two VTOL jets by ramming her Maneuver-Blade into them after being wounded by Utsugi, one of the kidnappers who was the mastermind behind kidnapping her daughter for ransom.