Chapter 10 Summary

Case and Molly enter Freeside, check into a hotel and get some sleep. Case has nightmares. In the morning, Armitage sends Riviera and Molly off on scouting missions and sends Case to the Garvey. On the Garvey, a package has been delivered for Case, a Chinese virus program which he identifies as a computer virus designed to work with his brand of cyberspace deck and capable of penetrating military systems and artificial intelligences. Case quickly discovers that the Kuang Grade Mark Eleven virus was coded by a subsidiary of Tessier-Ashpool S.A.

Case enters cyberspace and talks with the Dixie Flatline construct. Case says that Wintermute is linked to a second Tessier-Ashpool S.A. AI through a connection made at the Villa Straylight. Case and the Dixie Flatline construct discuss possible motives, but they realize that the AI's motive is probably unintelligible. The...