John Smith confirms that Patrick Huge was the "Good 1%er" supplying the bandits with weapons, then escorts the GHOST squad to a secret government facility where he is holding Gary Harts, a retired US Army Master Sergeant and the first known "Posthuman" who almost single-handedly launched a nuclear missile at Moscow until he was rendered inert by a lucky shot to the head. However, the supposedly brain-dead Gary uses coded messages to perform a buffer overflow attack on the facility's emergency systems, taking control of the security robots. Motoko orders Batou to kill Gary before he can escape his confinement.