Chris Jericho made his triumphant return to the WWE in 2007 by strong-arming a fake Olympic torch carrier, and interrupting then-WWE Champion Randy Orton’s big celebration; a “passing of the torch”, if you will. But leading up to that moment, WWE produced weeks of crypic promos that centered around a set of numbers, and a “code” that Jericho would eventually come to “break”.
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