Status Updates From Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

I have no clue what happened and I give up

So Molly was a prostitute. Makes sense I suppose. But why did she get the hand knives installed? Not sure what drove her to get secret weapons or what has caused her to team up with Armitage. Wintermute said it takes a long time to build a team. Maybe he was working on all of them for years, influencing them subliminally.