Part 2 Summary

Case then finds out from Armitage that his new pancreas has toxic sacs that are slowly dissolving and the only was Artmitage will give the antidote to him is if he follows his orders. They then embark on a mission where Case is in cyberspace hacking the system of a big cooperation called Sense/Net, and helping to allow Molly to find a personality matrix called the Dixie Flatline. Finn is the man who helps the two communicate. The Dixie Flatline tells Case that Armitage was  Colonel Willis Corto before he became Armitage. He broke through Russian defines in  Kiev. His mission was to inject a virus named mole 1x (first true virus), however the Russians were waiting, he barely made it out alive, he was blind and legless, when he came back from his mission he got rebuilt then he vanished for 10 years and turned up again as Armitage. After that Case receives a message from Finn from an anonymous messenger saying Wintermute. It turns out that Armitage's financial backer is an Artificial Intelligence name Wintermute.  Wintermute was made by the Tessier Ashpool family who is rich and lives in lives in an orbit in space. To end the second part they go to Istanbul to secretly get information from Peter Riviera. Peter Riviera's talent is that he has one way telepathy so he can out images into other people head without consequence. This is a talent that Armitage wants.