Panel 1
"AUGUST 1945. OCCUPIED BERLIN" - AGENT GIVENS office.
Panel 2
AGENT GIVENS gets a call.
Panel 3
"AN ICARUS EVENT" - craft down.
Panel 4
A phone, it looks like a Reichspost Mix & Genest Model 36.
Panel 5
AGENT GIVENS gets a gun from her drawer, it has no trigger guard, and the handle is wrapped in tape. (From Neuromancer: "The front of the trigger-guard had been cut away and the grips wrapped with what looked like old masking tape").
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Her gun sits on the February 1940 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction, with Robert Heinlein's If This Goes On— featured on the cover.
She slips the gun into her bag.
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Panel 8
She exits her office, it's a dump.