Dr. Jackal is back at the hospital for his check-up after his contribution to urban renewal the previous week.

Phantasm, aka John Clayton, is Christmas shopping as John when he spots Zack Bently, and old member of C.A.T. One wearing a particularly nasty explosive backpack.

John lures him outside, skulks into an alley and takes him out. Pretending Zack is drunk, John gets him to his car and drives to Hudson Electronics, where Mist, as Sydney Todd, is making the rounds with Dominic. Unable to get Hudson techs to disarm the bomb, John leaves with Zack and shows up at UNCLE as Phantasm.

Mist tries to follow, can’t, and turns back to Hudson, where a nosy technician with good hearing tells her he overheard John call UNCLE. Mist shows up as “Fingers” disarms the bomb, and Phantasm curtly tells her to back off and let him do it, even though Mist could probably do the job, too. Phantasm finds a note on cheeseburger paper that lists Phantasm’s name an address, which he keeps.

Phantasm leaves, Mist goes out to take a taxi that rather conveniently shows up. Rather inconveniently, it sprays knockout gas on her. So she turns desolid and goes through the taxi. The taxi makes another pass and misses, so it drives off into the night. Sgt. Cathy Gregario finds a gold-trimmed card with “Hydrotrophic Shock” written on it. Hmm.

At Samaritan Hospital, Jackal is getting checked out, Phantashia is visiting with Tom Revere and John Revere, and Mist wants to find out what “Hydrotrophic Shock” means. Tom tells her about its application to bullet-proof vests – shock waves in bodily fluid damage organs. And Mist is about as fluid as they come.

Anyhow, the heroes decide to get radios since they seem to be fighting the same fight anyhow. Down the hall a doctor is blown out the door of Hacker’s room, and as the heroes arrive the attacker fades out.

Careful questioning (“What happened?”) reveals that Radion teleported out after grabbing Hacker’s disks, saying she was sorry, and putting a hole in the floor to frighten the doc (he wasn’t hit). The discs have access codes and a secret ID program. Luckily, only Hacker has the password. And Mist. Oops.

Later that week, after Phantasm has purchased an old building next to Taco Hut, Mist sees the scanners at Boeing-AOK light up an area of intense cold – right near there.

The heroes respond, and Cold Warrior is standing on Winchell’s singing “Frosty the Snowman”. Phantasm and Dr. Jackal go in to fetch (rescue) cops, and Cold Warrior reveals he did all this to lure Mist into a trap. Since the heroes are divided, he attacks.

Cold Warrior turns Mist into an ice princess statue, and lifts her high in the air, threatening to destroy her if the heroes didn’t leave. The heroes try to play Raid on Entebe and he drops her, whipping up a blinding snowstorm. By the skin of his teeth, inches from being Hawaiian Ice, Phantasm catches Mist. The heroes attack in earnest, and end up doing major damage to a Ross store, sending 22 people to the hospital with assorted injuries.

Finally, after whacking at him all evening, the heroes bring down Cold Warrior.