Lucius Krell orders Rainbow to act as an escort to South American General Cambio to secure mineral rights for Matrix. The evening is interrupted by the assassin Stiletto. Rainbow saves the general's life but Stiletto escapes. Krell then learns the mineral rights had already been sold to a competitor. Meanwhile, Dr. Harding has been hiding the original body of Angela Krell.; Tank and Sham suspect that Professor Alexi Vlasov (see issues 1-3) is still alive and running the college's science department. When they investigate they find that an ape subjected to Vlasov's experiments has been successfully impersonating him by phone since his absence.