Dir 02 / Record 004
Episode 4: Behind the Mask
Cipher spotlight. Viceroy's shadow.Abstract
Krachus seized a research facility and the full team deployed to take it back. Cipher got a standout combat sequence that positioned him as the breakout action figure of the line. During the operation, an intercepted communication revealed that Krachus answered to someone above him, someone whose authority he clearly respected and possibly feared.
Archive Notes
First-run syndication date: Thursday, January 2, 1986.
First Viceroy shadow in the series, implied but never shown. The facility contained materials from an old classified program, raising the question of why ENIGMA would want forty-year-old government files. Cipher's combat showcase reportedly spiked the figure's sales in the weeks that followed.
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