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Mon, May 11, 1998
The attempt to steal the Defender results in Thomas Cole being kidnapped by a criminal named Giles Seton. Ignoring that the Viper is the Defender, Seton teams up with Terry Hawkes, a man who looks like Cole in order to carry out the plan to steal the Defender. Cole fails to tell them how to shut off the car's homing device and Hawkes gets greedy. The parting shot is the destruction of the Viper during the final showdown.
Mon, Sep 21, 1998
In the aftermath of the Viper's destruction and the death of Terry Hawkes, Cole is reassigned to work undercover while Westlake and Frankie are suspended. With the team gone dark, another crime wave grips the city in a form of truck hijackings . The Feds decide to reactivate the Viper Project, with Julian Wilkes returning to the front to deliver the new improved Defender disguised in a Cobalt Viper GTS. But with Cole off the Project, there is one missing key element...a new driver.