Leo looked at his bricked ECU. He grabbed a fresh cable.

And then he saw it: a hidden backdoor labeled "Kessel-Auslösung" —Boiler Trigger.

"Why are you giving it to me?"

"The Dane isn't just a client," Nina said, pulling up a laptop. "He’s building a fleet. Ten identical RS7s. He’s going to use them to breach a crypto vault in Zurich. The security system relies on thermal and acoustic signatures. If all ten cars have the same flawed tune, the alarms will cancel each other out."

His client, a shadowy figure known only as "The Dane," wanted 700 horsepower. Leo had tried to flash a file he found on a forum. The car now idled like a tractor and threw more fault codes than a NASA launchpad.

"Give me an hour," he said, loading the Damos into WinOLS. "I need to learn the language of God first."

"We're not tuning the Dane's cars," he said.