Orchestral Movements in the Dark

• Writer - Robert Weinberg
• Penciler - Michael Ryan
• Inker - Ted Pertzborn
• Inker - Harry Candelario
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Saida Temofonte
• Colorist - VLM
• Ass't Editor - Pete Franco
• Editor - Mark Powers
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Summary

  2 weeks ago: Irene is in the river under a pier, scared for her life. She gets to a payphone and calls a number Cable gave her; a van picks her up, and she realizes she has entered the world of espionage. The Clean-Up Crew is a covert-ops team of people who owe Cable their lives. They give Irene a new identity and want to make her black, but this will expose her to racial prejudice.

  Cable sent a telepathic message to warn Phoenix about the Dark Sisterhood. Xavier never heard of them, and neither of them can contact Cable now. Beast says his safehouse was blown up, and Phoenix wants to rush over, but Xavier thinks Cable has gone rogue. He was disturbed after Moira's murder (iss. 88) and suspiciously failed to stop Kelly's (X-Men II:108). The student responsible was killed, his heart crushed. On his cell wall, he scrawled: "Cable made me do it."

  Bridge is transferred to Alaska; his friends Austin and Sherman were both suddenly killed (car accident and heart attack, arranged by the Sisterhood), and he realizes Deutsch is a villain.

  In college, Rachel hears about the prison killing and realizes Cable was framed. She packs a gun and goes to a student anti-mutant rally, to learn more. Anderson, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, wants both her and Cable killed before Plan 6 begins.

  Alone, Cable contemplates the Dark Mother and crushes chess pieces. Some of his resources have been compromised, but he has an arsenal ready.