Summary:Legion: Skin Deep

This page contains a chapter by chapter summary of Legion. We hope this summary will make it easier to find specific areas of the book, as well as providing a quick plot refresher for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to reread the entire book.

Chapter 1

Steve tries to ignore Ivy and Tobias, two of his aspects, while on a blind date with Sylvia, the daughter of a Real Estate Magnate. Things go poorly when he starts talking to his aspects, and while he briefly savlages the situation with the help of Tobias, things go down hill when J.C. arrives uninvited. J.C. tells them that the perimiter is secure, but sees a woman he thinks looks suspicious. Sylvia leaves after Steve tells her about J.C., who shortly returns telling them that they have a problem.

Chapter 2

J.C. reveals that the woman he saw was Zen Rigby, a private security contractor who is paid to fix problems in "legally ambiguous ways". Steve texts Wilson, his butler, to bring the car around, and receives a reply back telling him that Yol Chay wanted to speak with him. Steve agrees to to meet with him. When Steve's limo turns up, Yol is in it. They start to chat, briefly talking about women. Yol asks if J.C. is present, and if he's annoyed to see him. Yol then donates $10,000 to a Gun Violence prevention charity under J.C.'s name, which causes J.C. to growl. Eventually he gets to business. He wants Steve to help recover a corpse, and more importantly, what the corpse knows.

Chapter 3

The car pulls into Innovation Information Incorporated, a company Yol has bought out. Yol offers financial independence in the form of a 10% share of the company to Steve, with the shares being non-conditional, relying on the fact that for the shares to be worthwhile, Steve will need to solve the case. Yol just asks that he goes into the company and hears what the case is. Steve agrees, pocketing the envelope with the shares.

Chapter 4

They walk through the building, which likes very modern and welcoming. J.C. just complains about the security.

Chapter 5

The engineers Steve meets with explain their technology: they are making use of the human body as a way of storing a lot of information in a really compact manner. They say that storing works fine, but the problem has been reading and writing the information. One of their teammates, Pano Maheras had been working on a delivery mechanism involving viruses. His virus worked, but had the potential to be used in a dangerous manner. Their problem, however, is that Panos is now dead, he stored his researched in his body, and now his corpse has been stolen.