Kenji saw Alex's car in the mist of the road, his car comes to her.

"Didn't expect you to show your face again. Things have changed around here. This place is a battleground now. Tuners...Muscles...Exotics. Crew's fight for territory in the city, and it all gets settled in the canyon... but you'd never survive it." Kenji tells Alex of the new stuff in Palmont City.

Alex is driving down the canyon roads, passing a sign for Palmont City in 10 miles. Reminding her about that terrible night that happened. Her old friend, Nikki walks quickly to the car.

"Start it up." Nikki tells Alex to do.

"Don't disappoint." Darius reminds Alex as he gives her the car keys.

The race was on between Kenji; Angie; Alex and Wolf. As the race started, the cars roared on into the incoming traffic. Until later, as the cars turned from the corner, Kenji; Angie and Wolf's cars were hit with a blue shining light that missed Alex. Alex turned her car around to see cops capturing the other three racers. Alex panicked and ran out off the scene.

"Look, between the heat and the crews you need to walk away. Take my car, go, get out of here!" Darius reports to Alex ending the flashback.

In the present day, Alex is at Carbon Canyon. What she doesn't know that Cross, from Rockport is back; He bumps into Alex saying to her.

"Hey, guess who's back?"

She tries to escape his path before landing in traps that slow her down. Cross gets out of his car and runs towards Alex.

"Sit down! How you've been?" Cross, scares her before finishing his sentence. "It's time to settle a little score from Rockport, ya' think?"

Darius appears from Silverton, sighing about what Cross and Alex have done.

"I don't remember asking for your help, Crog. What makes you think you can bounty hunt in Silverton without my approval?" Darius scolds Cross.

"It's Cross...and this girl is from out of town." Cross corrects Darius while pointing to Alex.

"Been a long time, kid... What's his bounty?" Darius checks with Cross.

"$150, 000." Cross tells Darius.

"David, take care of this guy." Darius asks one of his goons to check with Cross.

"So that's what you have been up to..." Darius says before a car from the same territory appears. It's Nikki from the flashback.
"Nikki. This should be interesting."

"How dare you show your face here? Let go of me!" Nikki says while trying to hit Alex.

"Woah, hey, control yourself!" Darius tells her to do before one of his cars is stolen by Cross. " I still don't know what happened that night you took off, but I do know you're into me now for some serious cash. Things have been getting a little too close to comfort around here with all these crews battling for new territory. I think I could use someone with your skills to help me out. The way I see things, I've bailed you out of a serious jam twice now. Time for you to return the favour. Nikki, what do you say you show your old friend the ropes?"

"You got to be joking, right?" Nikki nearly declines.

"You got a better idea? Then let's get her started. Right away." Darius demands Nikki to do. "Don't disappoint. Not again."

Nikki drives Alex to a car park somewhere, where three cars and a man are sighted. The man goes towards Alex, but she recognises him. It's her old cousin Adam.

"Thanks for waiting up." Nikki tells Adam.

"Yeah, yeah, sure Nikki. Hey uh, why did you bring Alex?" Adam whines.

"Doesn't matter. Darius made all these cars available to you. Pick one, whichever one you want." Nikki asks Alex.

"Hey uh, if there's three, do I get one? I mean I don't care which one, although I am partial to the one with the sweet rims." Adam tells them.

"Adam, why don't you just shut up and let me pick one." Alex shouts at him.

"That's great. I'M THE MONKEY!" Adam expresses himself.

"There! That's all you need to get started. I'm done wasting my time on you. Later, Adam." Nikki scolds him.

"Well, guess it's just you and me again. Let's go find some trouble." Adam bribes Alex.

"To me Adam, you are the trouble." Alex tells him.

"Of course I am." Adam uses sarcasm.

They drive off into the Silverton to Fortuna motorway.

"So you've been gone a while... You got in Rockport, huh? Man, a lot has changed since you took off. There are tons of crews in this town, everywhere man, crazy!" Adam reminds Alex of Most Wanted (the 2005 version and yes I am getting to that after this)

Adam and Alex drive so fast that a cop from a hidden passage in the motorway spots them and starts a pursuit.

"Look out, cops!" Adam shouts the obvious.

"I would have not known that over the sirens?" Alex scolds him while them two are shaking off more of the cops.

"Watch this!" Adam tells Alex before he does two cool tricks to the police car to damage them. He drives to Fortuna while Alex drives down the Downtown way.

"Who's the coffee grinder, baby?I got your back. I'll lose the heat, stay on the pedal!" Adam demands Alex to know until they're connection is broken from each other.

After, Alex has evaded the cops; she drives to a house where Adam is located.

"Darius gave you this safe house. You can use it to fix your car or chill out when the heat's on. You need a wingman and it looks like I'm in. Let me show you inside." Adam says the basics to Alex.