Quatrain 6, Century 8. "Where ivory towers meet the eastern sea Young trees of knowledge will fall crushed by the thorny vine of a red rose."

If Crazy Eddie's right, Nostradamus' idea of an ivory tower is here at the National Institute of Applied Mathematics in Boston, Massachussetts. A young Einstein named Ted Eichmann dropped dead with bubbles in his blood, like he's a can of soda someone shook too fast.

Word on campus had it he was working on a government project. The program needed a new boy wonder. Looks like I finally made it to college. Mom would've been proud.

Crazy Eddie wired me up with a microphone and earpiece so I could play genius to all the real geniuses. I fooled them with Eddie's help and made the grade. They told me we were working on a "communications satellite system." I didn't buy it. With the level of secrecy surrounding the project, I was betting this project was far more dangerous than anyone was letting on.

Als das junge Genie Ted auf rätselhafte Weise zu Tode kommt, schleicht sich Cade in dessen College ein. Ted entwickelte dort ein Verteidigungssystem für die Erde, das mit nuklearen Raketen eine Alien-Invasion verhindern könnte. Bei seinen Recherchen trifft Cade auf die mysteriöse Lara, die offenbar über telekinetische Kräfte verfügt.