In Tokyo, Private Eye and ex-marine, MEAD has been hired by Madame Nomura, matriarch of a powerful Yakuza clan, to investigate the murder of her two daughters. Meanwhile, Mead’s partner STIX – an ex-combat model REPLICANT has been recruited by a corporation called Cheshire to guard three of its most valuable scientists who are working to manufacture bootleg Replicants. The Tryell Corporation on learning of Cheshire’s ambitions have dispatched a BLADE RUNNER called Rumika to destroy the Cheshire facility.