A hired cyborg ominously named Overkill engages Spawn in battle in the alley, forcing Spawn to retrieve some of Al Simmons's old 'tools of his trade' from a guarded CIA weapons compound. After enduring a CIA shootout that necessitated a 'teleportation,' Spawn eliminates Overkill and forces Twist to pledge an uneasy allegiance. Meanwhile, a CIA assassin named Jess Chapel is given his latest overseas assignment from Jason Wynn. Awaiting the green light, the impatient Chapel kills time with a local hooker, but cannot escape memories of his role in the flame-filled death of his onetime CIA partner: Al Simmons.