Air Raid

While trying to satisfy a Sinanju good-deed obligation before formally becoming Reigning Master, Remo investigates the deaths tied to the Congress of Concerned Scientists’ engineered C. dioxa trees. St. Clair seals Brice Schumar in the greenhouse and leaves him to die in its toxic atmosphere; the scene’s speaker is once labeled “Carlin,” an unresolved source wording despite the surrounding St. Clair actions. Remo and Chiun are assigned to protect surviving scientist Amanda Lifton. St. Clair and hired killer Herr Hahn trap them in a simulated acid storm and later trigger an oil-fed chalet explosion, but the trio survives and Hahn escapes by boat. Remo finds one seed and infers that St. Clair removed the rest before destroying the trees.

In Chim’bor’s account, his brother Sor’acha reaches for blue fruit in a dangerous forest, struggles to breathe, and falls to his death; the text does not say he eats a seed or establish the cause of his breathing trouble. Chim’bor later sees St. Clair’s group ship seed sacks from Macapa toward the rainforest; a monkey eats one seed, spills more, and is stopped while the men gather the seeds back. Smith sends Remo, Chiun and Amanda to Brazil. In a separate scene, retired American Benson Dilkes warns Olivier after identifying two unnamed men as Masters of Sinanju. Singer and activist Prick, formerly Albert Snowden of Fuzz Patrol, arrives in Macapa for the Pan Brazil Eco-Fest with two unnamed Indigenous attendants whom Remo recognizes from the New York benefit.

Remo and Chiun find a planted map on the CCS jet. Hahn says they took the bait and follows them, expecting the pursuit to continue into the Amazon. The supplied text ends before they reach the marked site or resolve St. Clair, Hahn, Prick or the seed threat.