The operational environment defined across the previous material establishes a reality where adversaries can adapt, self-modify, and coordinate across multiple domains faster than traditional incident response can cycle through detection, containment, and recovery. The AI-enabled threat landscape described in earlier sections demonstrates that the breach is no longer a discrete event but an ongoing engagement in which the attacker and defender continually learn from each other’s actions. This chapter, Picking Up the Pieces, is positioned within that continuum to address how incident response must operate when the opponent is capable of rewriting its attack chain in real time, falsifying telemetry, and fabricating complete evidence trails designed to mislead forensic processes.