The Shooting Eye

A video file is found on a hard drive, containing footage of a man known as "Number 3". He is suspected of having a surgically inserted "death's head" coin in his body as he is monitored by security cameras to track physical and mental changes. The coin is rumored to be forged from WW II death's head rings, said to contain the souls of the soldiers that wore them. These coins were surgically inserted into "patients" to test the efficacy of the lore.

A recovering alcoholic, with a gambling addiction, has burned most of his bridges in the east end of the city where he lives. He has a sobering moment when he realizes that his estranged daughter is about to turn 16, and he wants back into her life. The road blocks he faces along the way are, his ex-wife, his criminal past, and his inner demons.

A new batch of automatons are put through their paces by an unseen foe and when they begin to fail, each is brutally decommissioned. When JO 3.0 receives a memory flash it causes a serious problem as she begins to question her purpose... and whether she is a machine at all.