Ed is settling into his new life as a PI, modelling his image on a cross between Raymond Chandler's Marlowe and Charles Bukowski's Belane. Across his desk comes a case that requires his specific skills as a Quantum Detective. The stakes are higher than ever before and his entanglement with the technology more extreme and invasive. Ed's power of intuition allows him to confront a major company who, along with the military, are utilising the confusion of time for their own ends. This situation merges with an old foe just as Ed is about to expose their goal of adjusting the public outcomes of real-world situations.