In many narratives of this ilk, the antagonist is not a person, but a system. "Dragon Media" posits a world where information is currency. If the heist involved stealing data, prototypes, or sensitive documents, the "After" becomes a game of digital cat-and-mouse. The Dragon is the entity that owns that information, and they will burn the world to get it back.
Chen, now an independent consultant, describes the post-heist atmosphere as “a slow puncture.”