In a May 2025 meeting, Commander Beaker and psychologist Melanie Crenshaw discuss five psychically gifted teenage girls who refuse military weaponization of their abilities and have rescued a brainwashed Navy officer named Margaret through a dangerous mental link that cost them their innocence. When the girls demand fair compensation and threaten to quit the program, Beaker faces losing his career unless he resorts to using their psychic skills to blackmail his superiors for funding.