Chapter 20 Summary

The Enforcers show up en masse to investigate the incident. T-Bone's BMW is brought over by a tow truck. Y.T. arrives with some noodles. Hiro tells Y.T. to stay away from Raven. Squeaky pulls the burnt-out briefcase from the back of the BMW. It's filled with little plastic vials on one side and complicated electronics on the other. The vials have some type of liquid in them, and Squeaky says it's the drug Snow Crash. When T-Bone gets out of his car to go have a drink, he leaves the briefcase in the car. When the owner of the briefcase gets too far away from it, the briefcase self-destructs. Squeaky tells Hiro that he was trying to protect Raven. Hiro is confused, asking Squeaky why he would be protecting Raven. Squeaky tells Hiro that Raven is a Sovereign, and a nuclear...