

The episode begins with Rhys walking around in a desert. A hologram of Handsome Jack appears to Rhys and announces they have found the Gortys Project, which will lead them to a Vault. The others discover the Gortys core inside a secret chamber in the Atlas base. He triggers the briefcase's explosive lock, either dying or escaping depending on Fiona's choice. Ultimately, they locate the money near a secret Atlas facility, and Felix takes it for himself. Rhys installs a Hyperion ID chip he retrieved from the dead body of Professor Nakayama into his cybernetics, hoping it will help locate the briefcase he loses consciousness, but nothing else happens. The money is stolen by Bossanova, and Rhys, Vaughn, Fiona, Sasha, and Felix form a reluctant alliance to recover it. However, Rhys, Vaughn, and August discover the Key is a fake created by con artists Fiona and Sasha and their mentor Felix. Overhearing that Vasquez is purchasing a Vault Key from August, Rhys and Vaughn take a stolen briefcase of money to Pandora to buy it first. Rhys, a Hyperion employee on the space station Helios, is demoted by Hugo Vasquez.

The game opens in medias res: a stranger kidnaps Rhys and Fiona, and forces them to tell their shared story of the Gortys Project.
