A protogen visits Rubbish to try to figure out why his limbs aren't behaving as they should. During the troubleshooting process, it's uncovered that malicious software is installed in the operating system that control the protogen's augmentations.

Rubbish finds himself in a sticky situation. On regular computers, a simple system wipe would fix this problem. This is not such an easy decision to make when the OS has a strong influence on a person's personality and memories. Restoring from factory settings would be like killing this person.

His only option is to track down the person responsible for installing or writing this malware.