The largest Perplex City event on Earth... and perhaps the most nerve-wracking. What was supposed to be a celebration turned into a matter of extreme urgency, when the data link to Perplex City was lost. It was sabotage, apparently carried out by the Third Power. An emergency site was erected by Mind Candy, explaining the situation.

Connecting the new link in San Francisco became a much more important (and much tougher) proposition. Without the Academy on hand to help, the Cube Hunters were left to solve hundreds of online and offline clues to re-establish communications.

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Violet and Kurt come to a decision: they can no longer risk people's lives in this investigation. Their own lives, perhaps, but not other people's. They can't face causing again the kind of misery they've seen in the Heath household. Vi also gives us an insight into how Caine and Scarlett have been reacting.

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Caine reports back from Anna's memorial service. It's a grim affair. And it sounds like he and Violet are going to have a Serious Talk soon.

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Scarlett finally hears about the death of Anna. It all brings back painful memories of when Scarlett lost her own mother.

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The pundits perk up at the release of the new Wave 4 cards. It's a big day for Mind Candy and Earth too.

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Anna becomes the latest victim in this deadly investigation. Her body is found in the catacombs. It looks like she was tortured before she died.

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Violet starts to wonder whether the Cube is really worth the lives of so many people. The shock of finding Anna's body seems to have hit her pretty hard.

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Caine breaks the news that everyone had been dreading: Anna is dead. He and Violet found her mutilated body down in the catacombs.

Now is a time for mourning and drinking.

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Kurt still hasn't heard anything from Anna. The police have been called in. They all fear the worst.

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After the whole AQSYS tracking exercise, Kurt realises that two things are missing: the lost equipment and Anna. She left home last night and didn't return. If she's gone for much longer, it may be time to call in the cops.

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The first worrying signs... Anna hasn't turned up to work. Where is she?

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The debate over the AQSYS funding continues - fuelled by the system's rather odd behaviour the other day. Wonder who could have caused that...

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Having crashed his car, Caine chases after the delivery truck but it's well out of sight when it disappears off the AQSYS scanner.

He checks out the area where it was last seen - near the Brotherhood of the Six temple - but doesn't find any obvious leads.

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Kurt's summary of the evening's work: three of the parts seemed to be delivered as planned, but the fourth went missing - despite the Cube Hunters' best efforts to track it.

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Caine crashes his (well, Crowley's) car while in hot pursuit.

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Kurt switches on the AQSYS hack, giving the Cube Hunters control of hundreds of tiny aerial sensors above the city. As they track the four pieces of tagged equipment around town, he updates his blog to give everyone an idea of the bigger picture.

He, Violet, Caine and Karen are each trying to follow one part by car. Three parts end up at Grand Frederik's station, but the fourth (followed by Caine) suddenly heads south. Caine crashes his car - he's fine - but loses track of the delivery, which vanishes off the radar.

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Kurt tries to get things together in time for this evening's shipment/possible theft. He explains how the Cube Hunters can help online. He, Violet, Caine and Karen will be trying to keep up on the ground.

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The game is afoot. A shipment is being picked up from Crypto this evening - Cube Hunters, be alert!

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In preparation for the AQSYS equipment hunt, Caine borrows his lead singer's car.

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While Kurt complains about having to twiddle his thumbs, Violet seems to be enjoying this hiatus in the action. She's been getting used to normal life again, and has even found time to hit the town with Caine. Just like old times.

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Kurt recaps the whole plan: he, Caine, Violet, Anna and a Crypto researcher called Karen Moro are going to tag a series of high-tech parts, on suspicion that one or more of them may be stolen. They'll be able to track the movement of these parts by hacking into the city-wide AQSYS network of environmental sensors - with the help of Earth's Cube Hunters.

Of course, nobody knows when the potential theft might occur, so everybody is now just sitting and waiting. Karen thinks there will be a pick-up sometime this week. Fingers crossed.

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Anna gets itchy, waiting for the AQSYS plan to spring into action. At least it gives her a little time to enjoy her family.

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Kurt bemoans the limitations of Earth technology, as he struggles to set up the San Francisco event with Mind Candy. He also finds time to work out how to hack into the AQSYS network. She's been busy too, acquiring a handful of isotope tags so they can track the equipment currently sitting in the Crypto stores.

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Anna asks Henrik to switch off some of the Academy's security systems, enabling her to sneak the isotope tags into the Crypto department without setting off any alarms. Henrik cannot refuse.

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Kurt can't think of a decent way to track any potentially stealable equipment - so it's lucky that he has Karen on hand. She suggests hacking into the city-wide Air Quality System (AQSYS), and using its sensors to follow radioactive tags they could place on any suspect kit. It's not a great plan, but it's all they've got...

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Scarlett answers a few players' questions and gives us an update on the release of the Wave 4 cards, Sente's fury, and Violet's shoe collection.

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Council members find a new bone of contention, arguing over the merits of the city's high-tech Air Quality System (AQSYS). It's apparently far too sophisticated and expensive for what should be a simple job.

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Kurt meets up with Karen Moro, the girl who recorded the audio files found in the Crypto file system. She also dated him briefly.

After an awkward chat in the Academy Museum cafe, Karen agrees to help track any future stolen items - if Kurt can figure out a way to do it.

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Anarchic arsonists the Kaplan brothers are cleared of all charges - on the grounds of insanity.

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Scarlett says thanks to everyone who wished her a happy birthday, and talks about the lovely dinner she had with Violet and her dad at Conundra (very posh).

The poor girl hardly has a moment to spare, now that she's maintaining two blogs at once - there's also the one over at MySpace.

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Kurt gives his take on the Crypto backdoor files. He recognises the voice in the recording: it belongs to Karen Moro, a member of the Crypto faculty, whom he had lunch with back in July of last year. It's time he and Karen had another date...

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Caine gives a summary of what the Cube Hunters have found in the Crypto backdoor files. There are everyday office messages; some suspicions about Sente amongst the senior fellows; a dozen documents relating to high-tech devices - and a series of audio reports from a Crypto insider, apparently spying on her colleagues. (Check out the Cube Hunters' wiki for a summary and links to the audio.)

He doesn't recognise the voice, but there are clues within her recordings which should make it easy to identify her...

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Anna takes a look through the files Henrik gave her, and doesn't find much - except a list of reference numbers relating to the kit stolen from the Academy.

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Caine shares a few discoveries he's made after a quick fiddle with the Crypto backdoor. He suggests that the Cube Hunters need to find ways of 'breaking' the system.

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Caine persuades Neville to spill the beans about what's going on in Crypto - at least to some extent. Nev gives him access to some kind of backdoor file system. But what does it contain?

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Anna meets up with Henrik and he reveals all he knows about the vanishing tech gear. He hands over a stash of evidence from his prematurely-cancelled investigation into the thefts - and it all points towards the Crypto department.

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With a little help from the Cube Hunters, Caine entices his Crypto pal Nev with a coded message. Caine pretends not to know what it means... but really, he's just giving Nev a chance to let him know what's been going on in Crypto.

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That Helena Frye, she does like spending time underground. She contacts Kurt, telling him that she's near the Silburn-Griggs mine. Maybe all this digging will finally produce some results...

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Caine gets it in the neck from Violet for not pushing for more information. In his defence, Caine claims that his source at Crypto was never likely to spill the beans.

Tension in the conclave...

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Kurt tries to get hold of Helena Frye, but only gets her voicemail. He manages to track her as far as Gladstone - near the Silburn-Griggs mine, where he killed Miranda - but Frye doesn't want to listen. Is she ignoring him, protecting him, using him...?

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Anna talks Henrik round - not as difficult as she'd feared - and is intrigued when he says that they can help each other. Looks like he has a plan for how the two of them can track down that stolen equipment.

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While Anna, Caine and Kurt busy themselves in the search for truth, Violet sits and waits. And she notices that her father is acting in a strangely similar way.

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Scarlett gives a run-down of her duties in Violet's little conclave: she's been given the task of, well, nothing. At least Vi has promised to keep her informed of any new info.

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Anna starts her approach towards Henrik Tanner. They were lovers, once upon a time, and Anna ended it - rather tactlessly, by the sounds of it - so she has a certain amount of back-pedalling to do before she can persuade him to be helfpul. They set up a lunch date.

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Caine pays a visit to the Crypto department, in a subtle attempt to find out who V might have called the day after the Cube was stolen. His old mate Neville proves very talkative - if not very clear. Crypto has always been a haven of secrets, but just recently, it seems that there have been more secrets than ever. Possibly. It's all a matter of speculation.

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Scarlett raises her perky little head to tell everyone about the winners of the Mind Candy video competition. It seems that Sente has been giving her a hard time for not geeing up the Cube Hunters enough, so she'll be posting more often in future.

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Anna resolves to rekindle her 'friendship' with Academy security chief Henrik Tanner, in an attempt to find out how Bernardo Holyoke could have ended up with stoeln Academy equipment. Her moral fibre seems to be wearing thinner every day.

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The Cube Hunters report back to Caine, having trawled through the Hesh comms logs.

They only found one number that could belong to the Academy - and Caine recognises it. It leads to the Crypto department.

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The Cube Hunters tell Caine that he could sneak into the Hesh party by masquerading as Charlie Specht - an ex-employee whose name has accidentally been left on the guest list. Ironically, Charlie was fired as a result of the last security breach at the company, in which Caine played a pivotal role. Caine feels guilty (for a moment) but is looking forward to the party.

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A long post from Kurt, detailing the aftermath of Miranda's death, his slow emotional recovery, Violet's big Sunday meeting, and Caine's progress with his investigation at Hesh.

It's good to hear that Kurt's on the mend.

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