Knock Out watches Rogue disappear into the farmhouse. Without his uplinks he feels blind, cut off from the easy familiarity of having data at the ready. He sources the nearest cell tower and signals it, but everything's tightly encrypted... moreso than he recalls. He's about to take another crack at it when Rogue comes speedily out of the house clutching a newspaper, and his sensors reorient on her, noting the change immediately.

"Your biometrics are elevated," he observes, concerned. "What happened?"