Lies Kitty Pryde has left the X-Men for Chicago to recover from her breakup with Colossus. Visiting her father at his bank, she learns that he is in trouble with some Japanese businessmen who seem to be criminals and who want Carmen Pryde to meet their boss, Shigematsu, in Tokyo. Kitty stows away on a later plane to Tokyo, but things turn wrong quickly and soon she finds herself without money, wanted by the police and with an impending case of flu. Just when she is about to confront her father, she gets proof that he intends to allow the criminals to use his bank to launder their money.
