Alice, at last, understood the Bridge’s purpose. For so long, everyone had assumed it was a nexus for Fourth Ward’s push into Brooklyn. It wasn’t. The Bridge’s primary role was to provide a framework for the power and cooling systems required to mass-produce augmented people. People worth a huge amount on the open market, more than enough to buy a place in the towers. Augmenting was outlawed by a whole range of UN resolutions, though. The moment Bank shipped them he’d be guilty of weapons trafficking. Was he really so powerful he didn't fear the UN’s inspection teams based a few miles north of here?