William Boone enters St. Michael's and heads to the secret entrance to the Liberation's "Lair." There, he finds Sahjit Jinnah working on the Scarecrow Probe. Sahjit introduces Boone to his girlfriend, a fellow scientist, Rayna Armitraj. Sahjit says that the couple met as students in Paris. When Rayna drills into the probe there is a brief power fluctuation and then the probe emits a beam of energy which absorbs Rayna.