Among colleagues tensions flare when Karlie keeps insulting Jaycee and someone's fiancé, refusing to apologize despite pleas and Gael's intervention. To settle it, Gael says they'll handle it the mecha engineer way and brings in a top Mecha Department operator to demo the latest neural-link. The live test defies expectations—left mecha +32% and an impossible right-side +287%—prompting accusations that the old link style wastes power and that the result was luck. The demonstration cuts off when someone demands, "Who allowed you to touch her?", leaving an accusation of improper contact unresolved.