Mirage

2004. Christmas Eve in Thailand. Claire and Gabriel are on vacation, madly in love. But the next morning, Claire wakes up alone in bed to the sounds of screaming.

Now that she knows Gabriel is alive and has witnessed how violent and dangerous he is, Claire is determined to find him. She wants answers-she wants to know why he faked his own death. And what he's involved with here.

Claire helps Gabriel approach Birgit, the cyber security chief engineer of the Al Razah research center and an old acquaintance of Claire's from her time working with Hexatom.

Claire has invited the two Canadian "investors", Doug and Jennifer, and some other expat friends for a romantic dinner in the desert.

As Claire and Gabriel leave their new safe house to go to Al Razah, facial recognition software catches Gabriel's on local CCTV cameras setting the police on their tracks.

To persuade Claire to turn on Gabriel, Doug and Jennifer reveal Gabriel's duplicity. According to them, Gabriel is manipulating Claire, just like when he approached her for his mission in Kazakhstan.