The Hand" is Johnny's "cyberpsycho expression," with Johnny blaming all of his horrible acts on his cyber-arm. [6] No way in hell you could turn her in. You've been saluting the system with your middle finger all your life. If anyone's got a shot of escaping captivity and this neon-soaked hellhole, they deserve your help. Your help and Johnny's. It was a must-do move, personal motivations aside, and Johnny understands that all too well. As Johnny and his team infiltrated the tower, Alt attempted to find a way to escape the Arasaka mainframe and return to her body. The team reached the room where Toshiro and Akira were keeping Alt, and as a rage-fueled Johnny came upon Toshiro standing over Alt, he shot Toshiro dead. Johnny then disconnected Alt from the netrunning chair she was plugged into, assuming she had died as he gathered her still warm body in his arms.

During this time, Samurai's keyboard player, Nancy, was in an abusive relationship. She reached a point in the relationship where she could no longer stand the abuse, and she pushed her boyfriend out of a window. After the NCPD discovered the body, Nancy was arrested and taken to prison. Johnny's engram as coded on the Relic in 2077 holds a different tale of the events. In Johnny's version of the story, he escaped the initial fight with Smasher and attempted to reach the helicopter where Rogue was waiting, but was again cut off by Smasher. Johnny was then presumed gunned down by the borg and dead, but was instead recovered and detained by Arasaka. Johnny Silverhand emerged from the debris of his own rebellion; in his arms, the body of his beloved Alt Cunningham. After giving a concert at The Hammer on August 4th in 2013, Johnny re-connected with his former girlfriend, Alt Cunningham. When the two went for a walk together that night, they were ambushed by a group of thugs hired by Arasaka. The thugs injured Johnny severely and kidnapped Alt as a helpless Johnny watched them take off in a van.PONDSMITH, M. Cyberpunk 2013: View from the Edge. 1st ed., Berkeley, CA, R. Talsorian Games, 1988. (p.9) Mike Pondsmith on Reddit: " Nice catch there. The CDPR and RTG crews have worked long and hard to match characters up to where we figured they would be between the two times. I did retcon the braid line, but I was actually explaining the fact that Keanu's Johnny wasn't the blond David Bowie type I'd envisioned when I wrote NFW-- the additional Spider line was with the permission of my wife, (who created Spider as her personal character) and was to show the typical kind of interaction between Johnny and Spider." PONDSMITH, M. Cyberpunk 2020 Corebook. 2nd ed., Berkeley, CA, R. Talsorian Games, 1990. (pp.33,41,43,191–192,218,225) Legends take many forms. Maybe you do great deeds, win the respect and admiration of others, maybe you slot a legend in your skull and gradually melt with his psyche? So what really happened here? Hard to tell from Earth. Better to blast off into space, look straight into the Sun - maybe then you'll see the light.

That was some heavy shit, and you hate to call it a sigh of relief, but there's no denying it's given Johnny a light at the end of the tunnel. Even with the heavy cloud over head, a ray of hope shines through. There isn't always a path to freedom, but there's no telling what the future holds for you two. What would Songbird have done in your place? Johnny's feeling increasingly more at home in your skin and it's getting easier for him to take over. No surprise there - before long he'll stop riding shotgun and get behind the wheel for good. Question is - who's really in control right now? Does the old V still have a say in things? Presumably Johnny was uploaded using Soulkiller at some point before his meat body took a dirt nap, explaining how he's still around in 2077. Alt is probably still out there somewhere, too. And if Johnny's managed to survive as a digital ghost on a brain chip holding the secret to digital immortality, that sounds like a perfect excuse to have everybody in Night City gunning for it—and you.Mike Pondsmith has elaborated on the verity of Johnny's memories encountered through his engram in Cyberpunk 2077: If V and Johnny go on a suicide run in (Don't Fear) The Reaper: V did not like the options before them, fearing they could hurt other people. Johnny saw V as his only true friend, and so offered a fourth option: assault Arasaka Tower, just the two of them. While this seemed to be a clear suicide run, they both agreed to trust in each other. Together, V and Johnny brazenly walked through the front doors of Arasaka Tower. V fought against several waves of Arasaka soldiers as Johnny coached V on how to keep pushing ahead, guiding V through to the end and encouraging V by sharing that V was better then any of them. As the two fought their way down to Mikoshi, V and Johnny received support of Alt Cunningham, who took control over the tower and eventually destroyed Mikoshi. V and Johnny faced off against Adam Smasher and were successful in the end. Johnny was pleased with V's work as they finally made it to Mikoshi's access point. From there, Alt instructed them. Once in the Net, V and Johnny met with Alt, who told them that even though the two had finally been separated, the Relic had altered too much of V's brain. Once V returned to their body, they would die after six months. As an alternative to this, Alt advised Johnny to return V's body instead, as it would not reject his psyche.