On top of a hotel in downtown New York City various tables are set up. Various trays of food sit on a buffet table and bottles of multiple types of liquor on a second table. The spread is fancier than The Expendables are used to; they opted for Tool's biker bar in New Orleans when they lived there. But tonight they don't mind they are drinking from crystal glasses instead of dirty beer mugs. For The Expendables are reunited with two of their own – Lissa and Billy. Four months ago Billy and Lissa left The Expendables to take on outside jobs – Lissa working with Church on a security program and Billy working with Jasmine on a weapons project. For the first time since Billy and Lissa left Maine the group is together again.
Billy and Lissa sit at a smaller table towards the edge of the roof, offering them a few of the city lights and traffic. The two are holding hands across the table, smiling and laughing as they catch up on the events of the time they spent apart. Billy's work kept him at an undisclosed location in California while Lissa was based in New York. It had been weeks since they were together.
As laughter rings out on the roof so does Billy's cellphone. He glances down at the caller ID, it's a jumble of numbers and letters not a real phone number. Some sort of secure line or a burner phone. "Hello?" He asks after bringing the phone to his ear.
There's a few quick beeps and then a computerized voice says, "Voice Identification Match. Message will play. For security purposes please move away from anyone who can overhear this message." There's another couple of beeps and then the message begins to play. Billy uses the time between beeps to move to the side of the roof, waving Lissa off that it's just some business call.
"Billy, if you're listening it means something bad has happened. I don't know who you are with, where you are or even when you are. I'm recording this video from the hospital in Australia, just after we escaped North Korea. It's important you don't react until I'm done." Lissa's voice comes over the phone. She sounds tired and weak, as to be expected if it really was after she nearly bleed out from the stab wound she sustained in North Korea. "Billy if you're listening to this video it means I'm most likely dead. This video broadcast is tied into a bio chip inside me. If my heart stops for more than thirty seconds, it will broadcast. So I hate that this video may mean I'm saying goodbye for good. I truly hate it and I am so sorry. But there are more important things at stake than just goodbye. The world thinks the ROSS program died with the person Church covered up to me. The story you and the others know is that Church removed the memories of the ROSS program from mine and Chaos's heads. A blank slate so a program that dangerous couldn't be unleashed ever again." There's a pause and he hears Lissa sigh, he knows she's conflicted.
"I couldn't let it be destroyed, Billy. We used it to save our country. What if we needed it again? So I did have Church wipe it from my mind. But only after I secretly copied it and left it on a security hard drive in a place only you would know and in a way only you could access it. For if I'm dead, then it's up to you to protect it and while I hope you never need to use it, it is there. Don't overlook, don't over think. You know right where it is Billy. And if this is my last goodbye, then know my thoughts were always of you until the very end. I love you." The message ends and the call is dropped.
Billy's heart is in his throat and tears in his eyes. The message seems so real, so full of confliction and pain. But this has to be a joke, Lissa is right there alive and well. The bio chip had to of malfunctioned, it's the only possible conclusion. He makes his way back to the table.
"Was it important?" Lissa asks reaching to pick up her water glass.
"Actually it was…" Billy trails off, his eyes got to the glass in Lissa's hand. Not the glass but her hand. The scar on her hand from where Garrett nailed her hand down to a desk is perfectly round, shaped exactly like a nail. It's too perfect. They had to run through the woods with part of the desk crudely tied to her hand and then Tool pried it out. The scar is supposed to have little ridges to it making it irregular. The scar isn't right.
He thought something was off all night, he thought it was just the time apart that made things weird. But now the bio chip message and the scar not looking right he realizes something is wrong.
"It was what?" Lissa asks him with a small smile.
"Who are you?" Billy asks her.
"Billy what? You know who I am." Lissa says with a nervous laugh.
"I know who you look like." Billy says, "Not who you are. Now tell me where is my wife?"
Lissa begins to slowly pull her hand back and looks around nervously, "Billy are you okay? I knew working with the military again was going to be hard for you…"
"Where is my wife?" Billy shouts grabbing ahold of a steak knife on the table, he slams it down into Lissa's retreating hand.
Lissa screams out in pain which attracts the attention of everyone on the roof. Soon all of The Expendables are on their feet making their way to the table. "He's gone crazy!" Lissa screams out to Barney and pulls the knife free from her hand.
"Billy what the hell?" Maggie asks rushing over to Lissa with cloth napkins in hand.
"That's not Lissa, that's not my wife." Billy shouts, getting to his feet. "Her scar is wrong! I just got a dead chip message from her!"
"Billy, listen to me." Lee says, "You're not making any sense." He begins to close in on Billy. "You need to calm down. You're being irrational."
Billy pulls his gun free from his hip holster and raises it, clicking the safety off. "That's not Lissa."
"Billy." Barney begins putting his hands up in the air, "You need to listen to me. This isn't you. Look, it's hard out there, hard going out and facing demons. But we're here, you're not alone. We'll fight this."
"Guys." Maggie says.
"I'm not crazy Barney! Damn it, look at her, she's not Lissa." Billy demands.
"Guys!" Maggie shouts louder this time.
Everyone turns to Maggie and Lissa. Instead of Maggie helping Lissa with her hand wound they find Lissa and Maggie standing close to the edge of the room. Lissa has her good hand wrapped around Maggie's throat and her had hand holding a gun to her head.
"What the hell is going on here?" Gunnar asks.
"I'm getting off this roof or she gets it." Lissa says jerking the gun closer to Maggie's head.
With that every Expendable on the roof raises a gun on Lissa.
"Sorry love, that's not happening." Lee says, "Let her go."
Lissa looks to Barney locking eyes with him, "There's no other way." She says and then shoves Maggie at Cesar who is standing the closest to them. She climbs up onto the ledge and before any of them can react she jumps to her death.
