 "Ghost Machine" depicts Owen filled with rage after experiencing a young woman's rape, capable of murdering her rapist.In "Combat", having lost his lover Diane, Owen succumbs to a nihilistic underground belly in which he attempts suicide-by-Weevil.In "Greeks Bearing Gifts" Toshiko, consumed with the loneliness of her job and feeling isolated amongst her peers, accepts a gift from an alien which allows her to read her co-workers' thoughts.