“It’s an asymmetric weapon, and it’s in the hands of a billionaire psychopath”

“All the power at our disposal… We can’t find one man with a laptop.”

“Gerhardt has the resources to become invisible. He has gone to ground and we can’t find him.”

The invisible billionaire “Bond Villain” of season 1 of XIII: The SeriesRainer Gerhardt taking down the world’s infrastructure, whilst lying on a couch in an unknown location.

Call back to piece on Spartan by Matt Jones:

…the modern Bond villain (and he might have added, villains in pop culture in general) is placeless, ubiquitous, mobile. His hidden fortress is in the network, represented only by a briefcase, or perhaps even just a mobile phone.

Or a rugged laptop.

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