Treize invites Lillia to come to Ikstova for the winter, and Allison takes a vacation from work to go with her. After a long trip, they meet Treize at the station and go to a cabin in the mountains. Allison leaves shortly after to go to the New Year's Eve celebration in town. Benedict and Fiona are enjoying their own private party, and invited members from a movie studio named Lowry Productions, headed by Elicia Lowry. At the stroke of midnight, however, Lowry and her accomplices stick up the members of the party with revolvers.
