Not long after the meeting with NBC and BBMC took place, R.U.S.T.'s second-in-command, Seano Blackthorne, also known as "The Chemist", eventually tweeted, prompting CG to go to City Hall to do research on him. They discovered he worked for Betta Life Pharmaceuticals, prompting Randy to bait him there by calling him and pretending to be a legitimate customer. Once there, they ambushed, blindfolded, and kidnapped him, taking him to the gallery tunnels torture room to interrogate him about the alliance.
The Chemist provided very little new information regarding the alliance, only saying that he knew Speedy was organizing it, R.U.S.T. was indeed apart of it but the decision to join was "above his paygrade", and that its purpose was for cases in which "multiple gangs go up against a smaller gang". He explained that Speedy gave an example of a situation in which two gangs got into a war with one gang with lesser numbers, the alliance would request one other group to help "match numbers". The Chemist asked CG why don't they just talk to Speedy directly, to which K countered that Speedy was going around asking every other gang in the city to join except CG (and BBMC), and how examples somehow always included CG or CG's associates. K, Randy, Ramee, Wayne, and Hutch had a sidebar and agreed they would continue gathering information by kidnapping alliance members. They then burned the Chemist alive and left him in the tunnels, with the next step being to kidnap Ray Romanov for interrogation but then let him go so he would remember it.
Ray Romanov later woke up and discovered that his second-in-command had experienced amnesia. Ray then called Randy asking to have a meeting, but Randy played dumb, as K said they would kidnap Ray in-the-moment rather than during an organized meeting. Meanwhile, Ray conferred with Marty Banks at Xmart (Gulag Gang's gast station), with Marty insisting he was ready to fight CG if necessary.