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Dr. Ekaterina “Kat” Pavlichenko is a biomedical engineer at a Military Hospital in Moscow working on cutting edge cybernetic technology to help patients with brain injuries. Her star patient, Yuri Marakov a disgraced Spetsnaz Captain from the Chechen Theater, suffers from debilitating PTSD and requires her device to help suppress traumatic memories and reduce pain and anxiety levels. Or so she believes, until one day a lab accident reveals that her device has actually allowed her patient to be turned into an unwilling tool of the FSB, forced to carry out terrorist attacks around Moscow that he cannot clearly remember or resist doing. With Yuri now lucid, and beginning to recall suppressed memories, she decides to work with him to find out more about what is really going on when her boss, the head of the hospital and Psychiatrics Department, Dr. Satanovsky, takes him away each day for drug induced hypnotherapy sessions.

By faking the memory erasure and using drug antagonists, the two soon learn that Dr. Satanovsky’s boss, FSB Colonel Karpov, has been running the terrorist campaign as a special project for Vladimir Putin to gain support for the Chechen war and help him get re-elected as President. But now Colonel Karpov wants to use Yuri as his human puppet to kill Putin and the general staff in a suicide terrorist attack that would further his own political ambitions of a military coup.

Kat cannot let this continue and suspects Karpov may be on to them, Yuri would rather kill himself now than go any further. They are desperate for an answer and have no one they can turn to except a wounded, hunted, and disavowed CIA agent, Jack Kilbourne, who also happened to stumble across the plot. Together they realize the only way out for them is to hijack the plans for the coup, save Putin, and thus save themselves.