Smoke and Steel

Plot:

Now Joe is unmasked as one of the manipulators, Bill and Erica see that the gang abuses him horribly, despite his claim to have been 'promoted' years after his own abduction. Colleague Tom is ordered to extract him at gunpoint, but ends up fatally shot himself. Next the survivors find their elaborate personal files planted in Joe's room, and shortly after removed again. Stefano D'Angelo promises his organization will get Renbe and his lover-editor back safely, but it's Franklin Fairchild's connections who arrest them and the ambassador explains he's member of an omnipresent, almighty organization, invisible even to himself, which generously made his career and ordered his Tori's execution.