Operation: Mindcrime is the story of Nikki, a kid who aligns himself with an underground revolutionary group. This order is lead the mysterious Doctor X, peddler of anarchy and heroine. Nikki becomes a hitman for the order, and falls in love with Sister Mary, a prostitute-turned-nun who works for the order. When album opens, Nikki is in a hospital bed, heavily drugged, after having been caught by the police next to Mary’s dead body.