All Fall Down

• Writer - Terry Kavanagh
• Penciler - Luke Ross
• Inker - Bud LaRosa
• Colorist - Mike Thomas
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Jason Levine
• Lettering - Troy Peteri
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras
• Editor - Jason Liebig

Summary

  Breda MacAleer rushes back from the hospital to find her inn under attack by Gauntlet. Maddie wants to flee, but Ness convinces Nate he'd just be found again, so they stay and fight. Maddie is knocked down, and Ness tells Nate to bury her alive to shield her.

  Scanlon has been overruled by the Overreach Committee, so Vise kills him, which Fontaine feels in her head. Vise confronts her, so she uses their comm-link to get through her armor and take over her mind. Vise is a mole, she's not the only one, and they have nukes. Fontaine jams Gauntlet's comm-system, and during the chaos mind-dumps the whole story to Nate and Ness.

  Nate leaves Ness to guard Maddie, who ports herself away before he can dig her up. Fontaine uses Scanlon's code to order all the loyal Gauntlet to evacuate the area; she and Nate get into the command ship through the exhaust vent, shielded in a psi-bubble. He blasts the engines, crashing it onto the remaining Gauntlet and an entire Dublin neighborhood. The MacAleers are furious about the personal devastation, and Nate explodes with anguish.

  Threnody reads about his death in the Bugle.