Dance with Undershaft phase.1.In the past, R met Black in the 1990s with the Balkans under UN intervention before working with him to infiltrate HCLI after the two worked together to hunt down war criminals. Furthermore, Hex was discharged from the disbanded Wide Range Communications Platoon and recruited to the Special Operations Group of the SAD, leading black ops missions against arms dealers, including Echo, one of Koko's subordinates. In the present, Koko has a private meeting with Amalia Torohovsky about Black and his quest to put arms dealers under his thumb for the CIA. Koko later gives her team new weapons to replace their personal weapons while conducting VIP protection exercises. Koko asks R about Black, which R tries to tell Koko a little bit of the truth to hide his cover. R tries to contact Black in order to persuade him to remove Hex from the operation since Jonathan "Jonah" Mar is confirmed to be her next target. However, Black wants to keep Hex under his control, even if that means having to sacrifice Jonah in the process.