In this opening issue titled “Don’t Look Back,” Team 7 undertakes a covert extraction mission in Leningrad, where they encounter severe psychic/telepathic opposition, resulting in traumatic casualties and internal fractures. John Lynch suffers a grievous injury (extracting his own eye to fire a psionic blast), and several members resign in disgust. Meanwhile I.O. manipulates events behind the scenes, hinting at larger conspiracies.