You Know I Said I Needed Him Alive, Right? - Panam Palmer
- Brian Church
- Apr 2
- 2 min read
This week’s episode was chaos in all the best ways. We picked up right where we left off—with Panam Palmer back in action, cooking a wild plan to help us track down Anders Hellman. If you thought part one was a fun ride, part two rockets straight into “What the hell is going on?” territory.
So we wake up at the Sunset Motel, get a text from Panam, and roll out to find her posted up in a garage, wrenching on her rig. She’s got that energy—half “I got this,” half “I haven’t slept, but I made a plan.”
Her solution? Blow up a power station to knock Hellman’s AV out of the sky with an EMP.
Yeah. EMP.
Cue me immediately asking the only question that matters: “You do remember I need this guy to talk when we find him, right?”
Panam’s reply? Classic Panam (sorry, Liz, stealing this).
Anywho, she says something between “don’t worry about it” and “buckle up.”
Spoiler: I worried.
We head out to Jackson Plains, deal with some seriously frustrating drones (why do half the bullets miss?), crank every meter to 100, and prep for detonation. Johnny Silverhand pops in with his usual snark, especially when Panam’s software detects the “malware” that is…well, him.
It's a nice moment of levity before things escalate.
EMP goes off…and the aerial vehicle (AV) doesn't crash. It just wobbles. So Panam does what any responsible person would do—grabs a rocket launcher from the back of her truck and actually shoots it out of the sky.
You know I said I wanted him alive, right?
From there, it’s a frantic chase. Panam takes a ricochet to the ribs, we’re back on the gun, and things unravel fast.
Somehow, Mitch and Scorpion show up (don’t ask how even we can’t figure it out), only to get wiped out by Kang Tao’s death squad.
We finally reach the crash site, and it’s carnage. For all the effort and insanity, we’re left with more questions than answers—and a real concern that our key to survival might’ve been vaporized.
Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t pull its punches. And neither does Panam.
