In a dim, forgotten corner of Berlin, Jimmy, Klara, Graves, and Powell meet with a shadowy fixer named Anton Volker—a man who makes people vanish. The team needs a route into East Berlin, but Anton doesn’t deal in charity. He offers passage, but only in exchange for a dangerous favor: track a Soviet officer hiding in Friedrichstraße, a man other predators are already circling. As forged papers change hands and unspoken threats hang heavy in the air, the team realizes this isn’t just an infiltration—it’s an entry into a game they don’t fully understand. And in this part of Berlin, every identity has a price.

Jimmy and the team arrive in East Berlin to find a city steeped in tension, its people moving with the quiet caution of those who know something big is coming. As the team slips through Ostbahnhof under the watchful eyes of the Stasi and KGB, it becomes clear that Berlin is the epicenter of Atlas’s endgame. Every street corner feels like a trap, every checkpoint a potential dead end. When Klara proposes contacting one of her father’s former allies—a man skilled in making people disappear—the stakes become personal. With the city on the brink of collapse and the shadows closing in, the team must navigate deception, fear, and their own haunted pasts to stay one step ahead.

As Jimmy, Klara, Graves, and Powell ride a midnight train through East Germany, the tension becomes suffocating. Border guards patrol with precision, searching for signs of unrest as the train nears Gerstungen. When their forged identities are tested, a single misstep could mean capture or worse. But it’s not the team that draws fire—it’s a young dissident carrying leaflets, gunned down in plain sight. The chilling violence unfolds in total silence, a clear signal from the regime: the time for subtlety is over. With each mile, the team sees the truth—East Germany isn’t holding the line anymore. It’s unraveling. And Berlin is about to become ground zero.

Inside a NATO communications bunker, the team discovers the chilling truth—Berlin is the final domino. As Phase III unfolds, Atlas has manipulated both NATO and the Soviets into preparing for war, each convinced the other is about to strike. With the city on edge and military forces redeploying under false pretenses, Klara realizes the plan isn’t to stop the Cold War, but to let it collapse—violently or symbolically. If the Wall falls by force or fear, Atlas wins. Jimmy and the team now face a race against time to reach Berlin before a single spark ignites global chaos.

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As Jimmy and the team cross into the Netherlands under false identities, they race toward Brunssum—the nerve center of NATO’s encrypted communications. Their mission: break into the underground data hub before Atlas initiates the final phase of its operation. But what they uncover inside changes everything. A young officer with shaking hands delivers a warning and a classified report that confirms their worst fears: Phase III is live, and Berlin is the target. With NATO compromised at the highest levels, the team must decide whether to run or stop the collapse of the Western alliance from within.

The team infiltrates NATO's SHAPE command center in a last-ditch effort to uncover the truth about Phase III. With the help of a compromised insider, they learn the horrifying truth: Atlas isn't just inside NATO — it may be NATO. A high-ranking general is revealed to be at the center of the conspiracy, and a purge is already underway. With time running out, Jimmy, Klara, and the team realize their only shot at stopping Phase III lies beneath a heavily guarded U.S. base in the Netherlands. What started as espionage has become all-out survival.

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As the sirens close in, Jimmy and Klara escape the scene of Voss’s murder—but not fast enough to avoid a trap. Hunted not just by Belgian authorities, but now by NATO itself, the team realizes the betrayal runs deeper than they feared. A kill order has been issued. Voss’s ledger reveals the unthinkable: Atlas wasn’t the only operation he was financing. Some of NATO’s own are on the take. With nowhere left to run, the team makes a bold call—break into SHAPE headquarters and expose the truth before they're eliminated.

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The cassette recorder clicked off, its message hanging in the air like smoke. Voss was dead—and the voice on the tape wasn't from Atlas.

It was NATO.

Jimmy and Klara stood frozen in the townhouse bedroom, staring at the small black device that had just turned their entire mission inside out. The voice was calm, amused, and confident in its betrayal.

Over the radio, Graves demanded a report. Klara confirmed the kill: clean, suppressed, professional. Execution-style. The assassin had been there just minutes before.

And then the message played again.

“You’re just a little too late… Voss had such valuable information… Atlas isn’t the only problem…”

Whoever this was, they knew Hart. Knew his name. Knew what the team was chasing. And they weren’t afraid.

This wasn’t just a warning—it was a declaration.

Phase III wasn’t a Soviet operation. It wasn’t even fully Atlas. It was something deeper, something festering inside the very organization meant to protect the free world.

And now, it was personal.

Powell’s warning came through fast: an anonymous tip had gone out to the Belgian police. Two unidentified agents spotted entering Voss’s home—matching Jimmy and Klara’s exact profile. They had minutes before local authorities—and possibly something worse—locked down the scene.

There was no time left to analyze. No time for doubt.

Klara grabbed the ledger—the last link to Atlas’s financial web—and they slipped out the back, fading into the streets of Brussels as sirens closed in.

They hadn’t just uncovered a conspiracy.

They were now targets of it.