This is a one-shot episode, which takes place before the Brace the Badlands campaign. This means you don't need to have listened to the main series, but there might be characters or events referenced which this origin story ties into.
Inside the administration building of the refinery, the crew continue to investigate the rooms, looking for Rayze. They head upstairs, passing make-shift bedrooms and into a kitchen. Towards the back of the office, they spot a NETrunner who appears to be jacked in and hasn't yet noticed them approach. Rez makes too much noise and draws the runner's attention, so Rama makes a quick push to rush and tackle him. With a critical success, the NETrunner is able to side-step out of the way as Rama misses. Rez dives across a small desk to lunge and stab with her sleep dart, but this misses as well. Gunhead tells Rez to pull out the runner's trodes near the back of his neck, which she is able to step around and yank. As the interface trodes collapse to the ground, the NETrunner collapses to the ground in shock. Gunhead approaches, pulling out his pistol, and interrogates the man to gather information about his architecture. The NETrunner reluctantly agrees that this isn't worth dying over and discusses the main layout, including: monitoring drones, fire suppression systems, and the main refinery start/stop controls. Gunhead logs in as the NETrunner and gains full control of the systems.
The crew continue their discussion about the Raffen Shiv and how to deal with the Oildale Gangers, including Rayze, their leader. Gunhead proposes that there might be a way to remove both parties in one move, to the delight of Fennec who has a long-running history with the Raffen Shiv group. Gunhead confirms that the Raffen Shiv appear to have set up bombs in at least seven locations throughout the city, and Fennec proposes giving them a taste of their own medicine by setting up a bomb in the bar the Raffen Shiv are occuping. They recall that they recently deactivated the explosive on-top of the old corpo building, which could be used, if they can find somewhere inside to plant it.
Rama launches one last blast with the flamethrower, piercing the tank's engine as it bursts alight. He then collapses to the ground in exhaustion.
Gunhead and Nathan are both buckled into Fennec's CH-53 Sikorsky Sea Stallion, while Rez, Rama and Kobeck prepare to drop on the MAXTAC AV-4 aircraft, being piloted by Lyon. Fennec moves the aircraft forward to line up a good shot for Gunhead in the co-pilot seat. Gunhead lines up a shot with the CH-53's onboard light machine gun, and lands a damaging blow against one of the gangers standing guard on the other side of the Kern river.
Out of game, the players discuss how to spend their "Improvement Points" (IP), which is similar to an experience or milestone reward system for their character development. The players have saved their IP from previous sessions, and with a recent additional allotment, agree to spend their IP on improving their Role Ability. In Cyberpunk Red, the role ability is the defining ability or feature tied to each Role.
Rez approaches Warren, who took damage in the last firefight. She stabilises his wounds using her Paramedic skill, and then moves to assess Gunhead's burn wounds. She is able to stabilise him, and chooses to use one of her Speedheal stims, which immediately begins the healing process. Gunhead's wounds turn a fleshy pink, before beginning to heal completely, almost bringing him back up to full health.
As Fennec's car comes into a stop in the lobby of the corporate lobby, the crew enter into initiative order.
The crew spend about 15 minutes in the hired taxi before arriving in a part of Koreatown, in downtown L.A. The driver asks for his fare, with Rez paying him. As everyone looks around, they find a popular, lit-up with neon diner called "Antons" and enter. Towards the back of the diner, they spot Evan Briggs, sitting in a booth, and approach him. After a brief catch-up on what they've accomplished, he offers them a ride back into Bakersfield as he had just finished up work in the greater L.A. District. They agree to grab some food and order some items from the menu, which is served to the table.
While they wait to meet at the Pacific Private Rail train station, Rama sends an outbound message via his agent, providing a tip off to the Night City Police Department (NCPD) regarding what looks to have been pocket nukes that they found in the weapons bunker. Hours later, they travel a freight yard and meet with Connor Stewart again. Connor introduces the crew to the train engineer and operator, and the enter onto the train. Once inside, they begin to look around. Fennec inspects the cargo, finding towards the rear what looks to be the artillery cannons they are transporting. Gunhead gains authorised contractor-level access to the train's localNET and scouts the entire architecture: