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He and Coulson return to the Zephyr, as is routine, to renew their pursuit of Quake, following a new lead from her incident in Atlanta. They continue tracking her whereabouts, and hoping to bring her in.[2][3]
Strange goes to the Kamar-Taj Library in order to obtain more books. However, when he calls for Wong, he does not show up. Strange goes to the Ancient One's private collection and starts to read the Book of Cagliostro.[6][7]
Doctor Strange uses the Eye of Agamotto for the first time
Strange finds instructions on how to use the Eye of Agamotto: a magical item kept only a few meters away, and experiments with its power. Strange begins to manipulate time for the apple he has been eating, turning it back in its time to regrow, and forward until it rots. Strange uses this power to recover the lost pages stolen by Kaecilius in the book, and comes to realize the Eye's powers of control over the time of objects. He is caught by Wong and Karl Mordo, who both angrily warn Strange not to disturb the natural law, noting that misuse of items of such incredible power could cause Strange to become trapped in a time loop forever.[6][7]
Wong and Mordo take Strange to the Sanctum Chamber and reveal the real purpose of the Masters of the Mystic Arts: for keeping Dormammu and other mystical evil entities away from Earth. They also tell him about the three Sanctums across the globe in New York City, London, and Hong Kong, as locations from which the sorcerers can protect the Earth.[6][7]
Kaecilius and his Zealots infiltrate the London Sanctum and kill all the Masters of the Mystic Arts defending it, including Sol Rama. Kaecilius then successfully destroys the London Sanctum by creating a massive explosion.[6][7]
In the chamber, Wong and Mordo become worried as alarm bells sound. The trio opens the door leading to the London Sanctum, only to see Kaecilius' destruction.[6][7]
The explosion rips through into Kamar-Taj and knocks everybody off their feet, trapping Strange in the New York Sanctum as he is separated from his allies and unable to return to Kamar-Taj.[6][7]
Stunned from the explosion, Strange starts looking for help, walking through the New York Sanctum. He soon discovers the Rotunda of Gateways, as well as the Cloak of Levitation.[7] He encounters Master Daniel Drumm, who hears commotion downstairs, heading down to face the Zealots attacking the Sanctum, instructing Strange to stay put. Strange, however, chooses to follow.[6][8]
Strange witnesses Kaecilius murdering Drumm. He reveals his presence, forcing the Zealots to attack him, and despite the fact that they had trained for years, Strange manages to fight them with little problem, conjuring eldritch whips and shield mandalas of light to protect himself.[6][7]
During the fight, Strange discovers that, due to Dormammu's influence, they are capable to alter the real world outside the Mirror Dimension. He decides to use the Rotunda of Gateways to his advantage, trapping one of Kaecilius' disciples in the desert and the other, Lucian Aster, in the jungle, leaving only himself and Kaecilius to continue fighting through the New York Sanctum.[6][7]
Strange attempts to intimidate Kaecilius with the Brazier of Bom'Galiath, but he does not use how to use it. Kaecilius throws him into the Cloak of Levitation's glass case, but the cloak wraps itself around Strange's shoulders and helps him in the fight. The cloak guides Strange to the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, allowing him to trap Kaecilius and end the fight.[6][7]
Strange tries to interrogate Kaecilius, but he tells Strange only that time and death are insults, and that the Ancient One extracts powers from the Dark Dimension herself, to obtain extended life. Soon, Kaecilius notes that Strange's Sling Ring is missing, as Aster makes it back into the Sanctum and stabs Strange with a Space Shard, almost killing him. The Cloak of Levitation protects Strange by attacking Aster and removing the Sling Ring from his hand.[6][7]
Strange uses the Sling Ring to transport himself to Metro-General Hospital, where he calls out Christine Palmer so she can tend to his wounds secretly. Surprised to see Strange again, appearing out of nowhere wearing unusual clothes, and after all this time, Palmer soon begins to tend his wounds as they talk about what was he has been doing during all the time he has been gone. Strange apologizes to her for having treated her poorly the last time they saw each other.[6][7]
While Palmer operates on him, Strange projects his astral form and uses it to guide her surgery, leaving her bewildered. Lucian Aster uses his astral form to escape from the Cloak of Levitation, and uses the portal Strange left open so as to follow to Metro-General.[6][7]
Strange discovers Aster in the hospital and a battle ensues between the two of them, disturbing several objects in the physical world as Palmer continues performing the surgery.[6][7]
Palmer eventually shocks Strange twice with a defibrillator, which charges up his astral form enough to kill Aster.[6][7]
Strange returns to his body as Palmer finishes her work on his wound. Strange explains that he went to Kamar-Taj in order to heal his wounds, but instead ended up learning magic.[6][7]
Now sufficiently better, Strange decides to return to the New York Sanctum and continue his fight against the Zealots. He shows Palmer the portal he made with his Sling Ring, confirming what he was saying to be completely true.[6][7]
Strange arrives at the New York Sanctum where he meets with the Ancient One and Karl Mordo, discovering that Kaecilius escaped from the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak. Impressed by his actions, the Ancient One names him the new protector of the New York Sanctum. However, Strange confronts her about drawing power from the Dark Dimension, causing her to leave abruptly.[6][7]
Mordo and Strange argue about the Ancient One, but they are interrupted as Kaecilius and his Zealots return to destroy the Sanctum.[6][7]
The Zealots chase the duo in the Mirror Dimension
Strange drags all of them into the Mirror Dimension so Kaecilius is unable to destroy the Sanctum, and steals his Sling Ring so he cannot escape. Mordo and Strange proceed to run away so they can escape, locking Kaecilius and his Zealots in the Mirror Dimension forever, but Kaecilius and his group start to chase them.[6][7]
Kaecilius distorts the terrain around them so Strange and Mordo cannot reach their portals to escape.[6][7]
The Zealots chase and warp nearby buildings and skyscrapers, causing Strange and Mordo to plummet down the twisting New York City landscape. Kaecilius and the Zealots eventually manage to separate the two before cornering Strange.[6][7]
The Ancient One arrives in time to rescue Strange and Mordo by warping the dimension herself to move them away to safety. In doing so, she unintentionally confirms the fact that she draws power from the Dark Dimension as the dimension's symbol appears on her forehead. A battle ensues between her and the Zealots, led by Kaecilius, resulting in her old student stabbing her through one of his Zealots, and pushing her out of the Mirror Dimension and back into the Earth Plane with a Sling Ring, where she falls to a harsh impact on the streets of New York. Strange and Mordo follow through the portal to help her.[6][7]
Strange rushes the Ancient One to Metro-General Hospital where they are received by Christine Palmer, who proceeds to help her in the surgery room along with other members of the hospital.[6][7]
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Strange talks with the Ancient One before she passes away
A few hours after the surgery began, at 2:42AM, the Ancient One leaves her physical form and goes out onto a balcony, prompting Doctor Strange to astrally project and follow her, realizing what she is doing. The two talk, and she tells him about the Dark Dimension and why she had drawn her power from there, claiming that it was necessary to help protect others. Strange warns that Mordo will not be so understanding of her. The Ancient One also reveals that she has seen the future, and she knows that this is her final moment. She warns Strange of Dormammu's powers, and holds Strange's hand as she watches snowfall over a nighttime New York City, before her form vanishes, signifying her death.[6][7]
In the very early hours of the morning, stunned by the death of his mentor, Stephen Strange washes his hands. He says goodbye to Christine Palmer, before leaving again to fight the Zealots.[6][7]
Kaecilius and his Zealots arrive at the Hong Kong Sanctum where Wong, along with other Masters of the Mystic Arts, is preparing to make a stand. A battle ensues, resulting in the defeat of the Masters and the death of Wong. Kaecilius destroys the Sanctum and prepares to summon Dormammu, who begins to fuse Earth with the Dark Dimension, starting above the remains of the Hong Kong Sanctum.[6][7]
Meanwhile, Strange reunites with Mordo at the New York Sanctum, and they decide to stop Kaecilius and his Zealots together.[6][7]
Knowing that they have no other option, Strange decides to use the Eye of Agamotto, breaking the Natural Laws of Time, to turn back time for the city and reverse what has happened. He frees both himself and Mordo from the time reversal, and the reversal returns Wong and many others from the dead, despite Mordo's protests. However, Kaecilius breaks free of the time reversal as well and a battle breaks out in the rebuilding city. Kaecilius stops Strange from completing the spell, freezing time for the city around them and ensuring that the Dark Dimension will still arrive despite Strange's best efforts. Kaecilius says that Dormammu's arrival could not be stopped anymore, saying that his dimension is "beyond time".[6][7]
Upon hearing Kaecilius' words, Strange figures out a way to defeat Dormammu, and heads to the Dark Dimension, where time is irrelevant. Strange arrives at the Dark Dimension and before he confronts Dormammu, he uses the Eye of Agamotto to create an unending loop.[6][7]
Dormammu fights Strange
He tells Dormammu he wants to bargain, but the evil entity refuses, killing him many times before Strange reveals that the loop he created has put them in a endless cycle for the whole of eternity; the only trap Dormammu could not escape from, since the Dark Dimension was a place beyond time, and therefore Dormammu has no power over it.[6][7]
Eventually, Dormammu begins begging Doctor Strange to end the time loop, which he does, on the condition that Dormammu banishes himself and the Zealots from Earth forever.[6][7]
Dormammu does this, turning the Zealots and Kaecilius into Mindless Ones and dragging them into the Dark Dimension forever, sealing the portal between the dimensions.[6][7]
Strange returns to Wong and Karl Mordo on Earth. Mordo leaves the Masters of the Mystic Arts, disillusioned by their dishonest, questionable, and dangerous uses of magic, after having witnessed both Strange and the Ancient One's rash actions be pardoned.[6][7]
Doctor Strange returns to Kamar-Taj with Wong. He replaces the Eye of Agamotto, saying that he is not yet worthy of wielding it; Wong tells him that this is wise, revealing the Eye's true nature as holding an Infinity Stone, a term Strange does not understand.[6][7]
Strange accepts his position as the protector of the New York Sanctum
Phil Coulson and Alphonso Mackenzie come back to the Playground for a restock. Having been in the air for nearly five weeks, they have almost broken the Zephyr One's record.[2][3]
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Mackenzie and Coulson take off for their longest flight yet, globetrotting on the Zephyr One for meetings, while keeping track of Johnson.[2][3]
The young man at the club invites Bowen over, and they drink together. She tells him that she loves private house parties, and he proposes going back to his uncle's house.[15][16]
In the second half of the basketball game, Tyrone Johnson continually receives fouls from the opposing team.[15][16]
Bowen and the rich young man continue to drink back at his uncle's house.[15][16]
Despite the fouls, the referee does not stop the basketball game.[15][16]
Walsh and Bowen at Rick Cotton's house
Robbery at Rick Cotton's Apartment: The young man makes advances on Bowen, but she stops him. She reveals that she has drugged him so she can rob him, and the man falls to the floor. Bowen opens the door to her boyfriend, Liam Walsh, and the couple loot the house.[15][16]
Tired of receiving so many fouls, Tyrone Johnson loses control and hits the opposition's fouling player. After an exchange of blows, the other players separate the two and Johnson is sent to the bench.[15][16]
Walsh drops Bowen at the abandoned church she lives in. In her makeshift room, she puts on a hoodie - Billy Johnson's, which she kept from 2009 - and takes some drugs that she stole from the rich man. She puts in earphones and starts listening to music.[15][16]
Tyrone Johnson goes to his room, disappointed and angry about what happened at the game. After listening to his parents, angry about the fight, Johnson puts on headphones and lies on the bed, listening to music.[15][16]
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Tandy Bowen expresses her anger to Liam Walsh for the little they have raised from their theft, since they have only obtained five hundred dollars. He proposes to her that she go to a party occurring in a forest that evening.[15][16]
Fusilier invites Johnson to the party in the woods
Tandy Bowen arrives back at her real home. With her mother not there, she takes the opportunity and opens the vent, hiding items in a bag stowed away there.[15][16]
Tyrone Johnson arrives at the party in the forest. There, Bowen intentionally collides with him and spills alcohol on his jacket. She cleans it and they introduce themselves. Bowen claims to decide to leave to get towels. Johnson meets with Fusilier and decides to buy her a drink, but realizes that he has been scammed, and Bowen has stolen his wallet.[15][16]
Johnson chases Bowen until they reach a cemetery. When he grabs her by the hand, a light suddenly emerges that sends them both flying apart away. As they get up, she sees that her hand is emitting light, while his hand emits darkness. Bowen asks him if he was the boy on the beach in 2009. She tries to leave and Johnson grabs her arm, but Bowen's hand begins to shine again and lets off a flash of light. She takes the opportunity to hide behind a statue.[15][16]
Bowen tells her boyfriend about the accident from 2009
After having sex with her boyfriend, Tandy Bowen tells Walsh about the accident she had 8 years prior, and that a miraculous hand had saved her.[15][16]
Tyrone Johnson arrives back at his house, enters his room and lies down on his bed, wrapping himself in his dark sheet.[15][16]
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When Johnson wakes up, he finds he is not in his room, but in fact on the roof of a Roxxon Corporation building. When he descends the stairs to leave, he notices the policeman who killed his brother walking by, proving to himself that he was not deluded about the murder of his brother 8 years prior, and notes the officer announcing himself as "Connors" on the phone.[15][16]
As Tandy Bowen puts items into her bag, her mother enters the house. She jolts in a sudden hurry to hide the bag and accidentally cuts her hand. After bandaging it and putting the bag away, she welcomes her mother, Melissa, who tells her about her new boyfriend. Tandy touches her mother's hand, then suddenly sees a light, leading into a happy vision reminiscent of her childhood with her parents. Tandy retracts her hand, ending the vision, and asks her mother if she saw the same thing, but Melissa is confused, having not experienced anything.[15][16]
Tyrone Johnson is refused by a cab driver due to his half-naked state, and forced to walk home.[15][16]
Johnson arrives back at his house and searches online for a New Orleans Police Department officer named "Connors", finding pictures of the policeman who killed Billy. At that moment, his mother enters the room and scolds him, revealing that the school called to tell him that he did not turn up. She starts to confront him about how poorly he has been acting in the last few days and he asks her for space, saying that he knows she is overwhelmed and afraid of losing him. The mother and son come to an understanding with each other about her fears over him after losing Billy, then she leaves, simply asking him not to miss school anymore.[15][16]
Tandy Bowen goes to the theater to watch a ballet with tickets she stole from the rich young man.[15][16]
Johnson lies down on his bed. However, he again wakes up to find that he has been teleported - this time into the trunk of a car.[15][16]
Attack on Tandy Bowen: At the end of the ballet performance, Bowen leaves but is cornered by the rich young man whom she stole the tickets from, having come to find her in case she used the tickets. He corners her in the street along with some friends acting as henchmen. They force Bowen into an alley to avoid being seen, and the man asks his friends to leave while he tries to rape her.[15][16]
Ambush on James Connors: Tyrone Johnson realizes he is in the back of Connors' car, and surrounded by cocaine. When Connors pulls up, he jumps out of the trunk and hits the policeman who killed his brother, then fleeing.[15][16]
Tandy refuses to surrender to the man, and in her panic, she accidentally forms a dagger of light from her hand, stabbing the man in the stomach and forcing him to back off. The dagger soon disappears, and she escapes.[15][16]
Connors finds Tyrone Johnson in an abandoned building nearby and begins to strangle him. When he does, the room begins to darken for Tyrone and he sees a vision of the officer on the day his brother died, telling another policeman that his uncle will help him cover up killing Billy. The vision ends and Tyrone starts running while Connors shoots at him. Before he can be fatally shot, Tyrone throws himself towards a black canvas and is relieved to find that the dark cover, like his bed sheets, teleports him back to his room along with the bullet Connors fired.[15][16]
Individually, both teenagers look at the garments they took from each other when they were little, on the beach: Bowen puts on the hoodie that Johnson wore, and Johnson inspects Bowen's ballet shoe.[15][16]
Meanwhile, Bowen and Johnson mull over their newfound powers. They try to use them again, to no avail.[15][17]
Tyrone Johnson has breakfast with his family. His father asks him about basketball, and encourages him to look to his mother as a role model rather than his coach.[15][17]
Tandy Bowen meets with Liam Walsh and tells him what happened to the rich young man, without mentioning his powers. Liam proposes to get new documentation, make a change of image and go to a safe place, if the assaulted is still alive.[15][17]
Johnson tells his school priest Father Francis Xavier Delgado that he is not taking the pills he prescribed, because he wants to have complete self-control - that this is the same reason he does not drink alcohol. Delgado says that he has a lot of bottled-up anger, to which Johnson replies that he feels he could direct it towards its cause: the policeman who killed his brother. Delgado disapproves.[15][17]
Johnson has a church service at school, during which he texts Evita Fusilier to apologize for leaving her alone at the party.[15][17]
O'Reilly picks up the rich young man's cell phone and investigates his contacts. She takes the man's friends to the police station for questioning.[15][17]
Tyrone Johnson tries to spy on Connors, but falls asleep.[15][17]
Tandy Bowen and Liam Walsh visit the dry cleaners'
Tandy Bowen arrives with Liam Walsh at the dry cleaners' who secretly work with criminals, to acquire new documentation. The clerk offers Bowen a full pack of false documents, but asks for $11,000. Unable to pay this, Walsh offers to pay a part, since the rich young man will be in the intensive care unit and could wake up soon, so they need the money urgently.[15][17]
When Johnson wakes up, he sees texts from his teammates, angry at him for not showing up to practice and ask him where he is. As soon as he arrives back at school for training, he sees that the coach has punished everyone, making them run suicide sprints because of his actions at the last match.[15][17]
Tandy Bowen enters her mother's house, and is horrified to discover that her mother found her hidden bag and shared its contents with her new boyfriend, Greg Pressfield. Tandy rebukes them for taking the money and the pills. As soon as her mother mentions that her father would be hurt to see that she had pills in her bag, Tandy leaves home.[15][17]
The clerk at the dry cleaners' tells Walsh and Bowen that the money they have produced is not enough. Seeing another, legitimate client heading to a wedding, the duo concoct a plan.[15][17]
Infiltration into Lynn & Tad's Wedding: Bowen and Walsh follow the man to a wedding party and pose as guests. They plan to steal the wedding envelopes, the money from the bar, and the tips that the wedding organizer likely has.[15][17]
Brigid O'Reilly begins to ask people about Bowen, showing a receptionist at the wedding a sketch of her face. The woman nods that Bowen is inside.[15][17]
During the newlyweds' first dance, Tandy Bowen suddenly begins to manifest her powers again and has to hide her hands under the table.[15][17]
Johnson is forced to run suicide sprints like his teammates. When finished, he goes to the locker room to rest, but his companions appear and surround him. They begin to express their anger at him for his actions and push him towards the cage where the sports equipment is. There, they grab him and hit him repeatedly. Johnson rolls into a black canvas to try to escape using his powers, but it does not work.[15][17]
Bowen talks with Deila in the girls bathroom
Liam Walsh discovers that the maid of honor is the one who has the money from the tips. While dancing with him, Bowen has another vision: seeing what her wedding would be like to him. Unable to deal with this prospect, she to go to the bathroom. There, she finds Delia, the maid of honor, who advises Bowen to have fun and leave the problems for another day. She hugs her and Bowen takes the opportunity to steal the money from the bag.[15][17]
Delia realizes that the money has been stolen. Tandy Bowen takes the envelope cage and steals the bride and groom's car with Liam Walsh to get away.[15][17]
Upon arriving home, Tyrone recognizes that his mother needs help, and she advises him to turn his fears and faults into positive energy. When she kisses him on the forehead, Tyrone has a vision. In it he sees his mother, his brother, as a young boy, and himself, also young, in a supermarket. When Billy runs into the next room, a shot is heard, and when the little Tyrone follows, another. Tyrone sees his mother run only to find two graves and cry before them. After the vision ends, Adina feels tired and Tyrone tucks her in. He is determined to put an end to the policeman who killed his brother.[15][17]
When Tandy and Liam arrive back at the dry cleaners', she refuses to reveal what she was thinking earlier. He reveals that he knows that she lives in the abandoned church and offers his help in dealing with everything she faces. Scared of what problems his commitment to her might cause, she replies that they cannot deal with the problems together and leaves with the new documentation.[15][17]
Brigid O'Reilly arrests Liam Walsh
Arrest of Liam Walsh: Tandy Bowen flees in the stolen car. Meanwhile, Walsh is arrested by Brigid O'Reilly. Shortly after, he uses his one call to phone Bowen and ask for help, but she hangs up and keeps driving.[15][17]
Attack on James Connors: Tyrone Johnson arrives at the house of the policeman who killed his brother, prepared to kill him. When he is about to shoot, a black curtain touches him and he unintentionally disappears from the place just as he pulls the trigger.[15][17]
Johnson's teleportation makes him appear on the road where Bowen is driving, with his bullet going through the windshield without hitting her. She swerves the car but ends up crashing into a tree, invoking her daggers of light in self-defense without knowing it.[15][17]
Bowen gets out of the car, bleeding from her forehead. Johnson approaches her and believes that she has been traumatized. She asks him about his gun, and he replies that he did not want to shoot her and that appeared before her without knowing how. Angry, Bowen gets back in the car and starts it, driving away, not wanting to see Tyrone again.
Detective O'Reilly visits the rich young man in hospital. He tells her that he does not remember much of the attack, but she does not believe him. O'Reilly states that the night of the accident he had his pants pulled down and cuts on his face, deduced to be fingernail scratches from self-defense. At this, he urges her to leave, claiming to need rest.[15][18]
Brigid O'Reilly talks to Melissa Bowen
Tandy Bowen parks the car and cleans her tracks with a rag before entering her mother's house. Once inside, she washes the blood from her forehead. Melissa opens the bathroom door, intending to talk to her daughter, and expresses concern about her daughter's bleeding. At that moment, Detective O'Reilly knocks on the door. Melissa answers and starts talking to the detective. O'Reilly asks Melissa about her daughter's whereabouts, but Melissa says she has not seen her in awhile. She asks her to enter Melissa's home, but Greg Pressfield calls out to remind her that she cannot enter without a warrant. Detective O'Reilly explains that she believes that Tandy was the victim of an attack and gives her her details on a card to be delivered to Tandy if Melissa sees her. When the detective leaves, Melissa goes to look for her daughter, but Tandy has already left.[15][18]
Tyrone Johnson tries to talk to Father Francis Xavier Delgado, but he is not in his office. He decides to kneel and pray, but not to God - to his late brother, asking what is happening to him and why he cannot control himself, wondering if he is cursed. Evita Fusilier enters the room, having listened to him. She tells him that believes she can help him with his supposed curse and offers to take him on a voodoo tour that she leads herself after school.[15][18]
After school, Johnson attends the tour. Fusilier explains that voodoo can protect and break curses, among other things.[15][18]
Evita Fusilier's tour ends at her aunt Chantelle Fusilier's voodoo shop. She takes Johnson to Chantelle for help and introduces him. Chantelle concludes that Johnson needs a special bath to open his mind.[15][18]
At night, Tandy Bowen gets on a bus. Once in her seat, she falls asleep. When she wakes up, she sees the bus completely empty, so she decides to leave it. However, once outside, she realizes she is having a vision, seeing a young Tyrone Johnson playing basketball while watching her intently.[15][18]
After getting the ingredients, Johnson and Fusilier head back to Johnson's house. He gets into the bath, takes a deep breath, and falls asleep. When he wakes up, he finds he is in a vision. He is in his house, but when he opens the door, he finds himself on the roof of the Roxxon Corporation. There he sees Tandy Bowen, as a child, dressed in her ballet outfit.[15][18]
Tandy Bowen's vision
In Bowen's vision, she sees Billy Johnson arrive and start to play with Tyrone. Billy's friends propose to him that they steal a car radio, but, this time, Billy decides to stay playing with his brother. Bowen's vision suddenly moves to a clearing. There he sees Tyrone, in a historical suit, grabbing a gun and shooting Detective James Connors. Tyrone is then chased by police into a noose, from which he is hanged. The vision repeats itself and Bowen begs him to try something different. She leaves him a dagger of light, which then turns into handcuffs, and Tyrone decides to cuff Detective Connors instead of killing him.[15][18]
In Johnson's vision, Tandy Bowen is dancing near a puddle of water, which is next to an exposed live wire and going to electrocute her. He tries to protect her, but the vision shifts to a swamp. There, he sees Bowen waiting outside her father's boardroom, watching as his coworkers drown him by forcing water into his lungs.[15][18]
Tyrone Johnson's vision
She tries running away twice, but each time the vision just repeats. The third time, Johnson asks her to stop running and try to do something else. Bowen produces a dagger of light and touches the glass of the boardroom. Johnson's vision then shifts again to large door. He opens it without hesitation.[15][18]
Meanwhile, in Bowen's vision, she enters a room and sees Tyrone Johnson, as a child, surrounded by memo letters written by Billy and crying.[15][18]
Tyrone Johnson finds himself in a church, where the young Tandy Bowen is giving pills to several men, including the rich young man who attacked her, and her own boyfriend, Liam Walsh. After taking the pills, each of the men die.[15][18]
Simultaneously in their respective visions, Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson look at a stained glass window. When they touch it, they both awaken from their visions.[15][18]
Detective O'Reilly enters her car, and Detective Connors knocks on her window. She lowers it and he hands her the identity card of Rick Cotton, the rich young man who was attacked, claiming he found it on a dead drug addict. Connors says that it was clearly a mugging gone wrong, and that the case is closed, despite O'Reilly insisting it does not fit the evidence.[15][18]
O'Reilly is contacted by Bowen
Just as Detective Connors leaves, O'Reilly receives a call from Tandy Bowen, saying she got her card and wants to talk about what happened.[15][18]
Tyrone Johnson and Evita Fusilier walk together. He says he feels better and thanks her for her help. She asks him if his wish was fulfilled, and Johnson replies that, although he did not get answers, he believes he now knows how to find them. Fusilier confesses that she also made a wish, a couple of days prior. Johnson decides to kiss her, and she reciprocates.[15][18]
Detective O'Reilly reluctantly reveals to Bowen what has happened with the case, and apologizes for it. Angry at being helpless, Bowen gets out of the car and leaves.[15][18]
Chantelle Fusilier uses a 3-D printer to make a figure of Tyrone Johnson. She places it next to her other voodoo dolls.[15][18]
Tandy Bowen enters the church where she lives. There, she finds Tyrone Johnson, who asks to speak with her.[15][18]
Tyrone Johnson and Tandy Bowen in the church
Tyrone Johnson confesses to Tandy Bowen that he discovered the church through a voodoo dream. She agrees to talk to discover together what is happening to them.[15][19]
Johnson talks to her about the voodoo bath. Bowen scoffs skeptically, but Johnson explains what he saw in his dream, and how Roxxon's men tortured and killed her father. He tells her that she was running away, except for the last time.[15][19]
Bowen reveals to Johnson that she had visions about him and the death of his brother. She explains that while he sees people's fears, when she touches someone, she can feel their hopes. Bowen suggests to Johnson that he should get more information from the cop who killed his brother, but he says he does not like that idea. She proposes, however, that he build a story and act as a victim, so as to convince the police that he is a ruffian.[15][19]
Johnson explains to Bowen how his powers work, and says he believes that they guide him to where he needs to be. Bowen explains that she produces a dagger of light when he feels upset. Suddenly, she realizes that his powers began to manifest when they touched in the cemetery, so she suggests touching again.[15][19]
Tyrone Johnson and Tandy Bowen try to touch each other
They close their eyes and try to touch each other again, and their powers manifest. Just before touching, however, their powers throw them to opposite sides of the room. While they are lying on the ground, the duo confess that they have not told anyone about their powers, not even their respective parents. Thinking of possible people to trust, Bowen says she would have told her father, while Johnson says he would have told his brother.[15][19]
Bowen thinks Johnson is too sincere, and he says he believes she actually has hope. Both agree that the universe seems to both unite them and separates them at the same time. Johnson confesses to Bowen that he feels guilty, like he must be perfect, and that he has to do everything right and is living two lives. She replies that she feels the opposite - that she should have died and not her father.[15][19]
Johnson criticizes Bowen for her suicidal thoughts and tries to remind her of her reasons to live. They begin to argue, because Johnson believes that she is taking her privilege for granted. Johnson angrily suggests that if she thinks about it so much, she should just commit suicide. Annoyed, she reminds him that she felt his hopes and saw him indirectly committing suicide himself by repeatedly leading the police to cause his death, accusing him of hypocrisy.[15][19]
Shortly after Tyrone Johnson leaves, Tandy Bowen takes some pills. Johnson takes out his negative energy at home by doing push-ups[15][19]
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Otis Johnson scolds Tyrone for not wanting to eat breakfast with them, but he refuses to do it because he is in a hurry.[15][19]
Melissa and Tandy Bowen speak
Tandy Bowen visits her mother, Melissa, who asks her about Detective O'Reilly's visit. Tandy says she simply mistook her with another girl. She asks her mother about the Roxxon case, and Melissa confesses that her father was a scapegoat for the company, and that he had nothing to do with the explosion of the oil rig. After this, Tandy argues with her mother about Greg Pressfield, believing him to be another lying boyfriend of hers.[15][19]
Tyrone Johnson and Evita Fusilier enter the school's photography dark room. They look at some photos briefly, but then begin to kiss.[15][19]
Tandy Bowen asks Pressfield what his intentions are, but he replies that her mother is genuinely important to him. Bowen takes the knife to cut peppers for him so as to get the opportunity to touch his hand. When she does, she sees that Pressfield honestly just hopes to start a family with her and Melissa.[15][19]
20th
Tandy Bowen visits Greg Pressfield in his office. She talks to him about the Roxxon case, and his insistence to not let the case die, and the pair begin to work together to fight against Roxxon.[15][19]
Meanwhile, following Bowen's advice, Tyrone Johnson makes it look like his bicycle has been stolen.[15][19]
Tyrone Johnson at the police station
At the police station, Tyrone reports the theft of his bicycle, but when the policeman decides to take a form, he decides to leave, feeling overwhelmed.[15][19]
When he arrives at his house, Tyrone's father, Otis Johnson, reproaches him for what happened at breakfast time. Otis tells him that he found out his bolt cutters were missing that morning. He takes Tyrone's backpack and finds the bolt cutters inside, accusing him of stealing. Tyrone tries to defend himself, but his father asks that he follow him.[15][19]
During a car trip, Otis Johnson advises Tyrone not to talk when they arrive, unless he is asked. They reach a garden, where there is a meeting going on. Otis begins to sing, and it is revealed to Tyrone that those who are there belong to the "Wild Red Hawks" group of the ninth district. The leader of the band introduces himself as Roland Duplantier and welcomes Otis and Tyrone.[15][19]
Tandy Bowen looks at Roxxon's papers on the floor. She asks Greg Pressfield if he is married, and he replies that he is undergoing a divorce.[15][19]
At night, Tandy Bowen, Greg Pressfield and Melissa Bowen meet for dinner. Pressfield's wife calls him on the phone, but he prefers not to answer the call. At Melissa's insistence, however, he walks away to take it. After a while, however, when Pressfield returns, Melissa decides to go to bed.[15][19]
Tyrone Johnson finds his brother's coat
In the house of the Wild Red Hawks, Tyrone Johnson finds a newspaper cutting that reports on Billy's death. Roland Duplantier reveals to him that his brother was training to be a standard-bearer; that is, a spy for them. Otis teaches Tyrone the importance of the badges and bead-work that the Wild Red Hawks do for Mardi Gras. Soon after, Tyrone looks among the spare unfinished pieces of work, and a black and navy blue cloak attracts his attention.[15][19]
Tyrone Johnson takes the cloak. Otis asks him to put it back and asks why he chose it, but Tyrone replies that he felt as if it was calling him. His father confesses that it belonged to Billy. Given this, Tyrone decides to finish the bead-work of the cape in his honor.[15][19]
Tandy Bowen tries to talk to her mother about Pressfield and say that she now has a good opinion of him. Melissa says that she does not want to have anything to do with him, however, and has broken off the relationship.[15][19]
Otis Johnson teaches his son how to work with the beads.[15][19]
Greg Pressfield's death
Assassination of Greg Pressfield: Tandy Bowen goes to Greg Pressfield's office, when something catches her attention. She watches through the window as, in the office, while Pressfield is ordering some papers, a woman delivers a water dispenser, only to then shoot him in the head. The woman pours flammable liquid over Pressfield's work and sets it alight, as Bowen watches in horror.[15][19]
Tandy Bowen returns home to talk with her mother. She hears Melissa leaving Greg Pressfield voicemail, apologizing for breaking off the relationship, and Tandy starts to cry when she hears that it is Melissa's sixth message, knowing why Pressfield has not picked up.[15][19]
21st
In the morning, Adina Johnson, Tyrone's mother, is surprised to find her husband and son very happy, and Tyrone having cooked breakfast. Neither of them reveals about joining the Wild Red Hawks.[15][19]
Tandy Bowen goes to the dock and ties some chains to her feet, then throws herself into the sea to commit suicide. However, after a while, Bowen emerges from the water with a dagger of light in her hand, deciding to keep going.[15][19]
Tandy Bowen enters Greg Pressfield's office, hoping something has survived the burning. She finds a safe and breaks it open with a dagger of light, discovering that Pressfield protected some folios from the Roxxon case. Without hesitation, she takes them away.[15][19]
In Walnut Park, Los Angeles, a burned body is found, being the signal of a "murder epidemic".[20][21]
Tandy Bowen watches an advert of a man called Louden Swift cleaning the beach and introducing himself as a member of the navy who lost his arm. He explains that Roxxon Gulf hired him to use his skills in the place he calls "home". While watching, Bowen analyzes the Roxxon documents that Greg Pressfield had kept protected.[15][22]
Detective O'Reilly is having sex in her car with fellow officer Kenneth Fuchs when she receives a phone call telling her to go to the police station. There, she talks to Tyrone Johnson about how complicated it would be to catch and prosecute James Connors for Billy's murder. Given this, Tyrone proposes to capture him for drug trafficking instead and tells her what he witnessed the other night. O'Reilly promises to investigate.[15][22]
Johnson prepares to open his locker
At school, Tyrone Johnson is opening his locker when Tandy Bowen appears. She apologizes for her behavior and reveals that she can now generate daggers at will. Bowen asks him to take her to a computer room to continue her research into Roxxon. There, she tells him that she is trying to unite several points of her investigation to discover the identity of an important man in the Roxxon case. Johnson asks how she controlled her powers, and she tells him about her suicide attempt. She encourages him to use their powers together to their advantage to see people's fears and hopes. Then, after printing some files, she leaves.[15][22]
Johnson prepares with his teammates for the basketball state finals. Meanwhile, Bowen steals a uniform from a locker.[15][22]
O'Reilly is investigating Billy Johnson's death when Fuchs appears. He explains that problems with drug dealers decreased in District 12 as soon as Connors entered, so the streets are now safer. However, O'Reilly thinks that Connors simply cleared space for a drug dealer, since there is still a lot of product on the streets.[15][22]
Johnson talks to his mother, Adina
Tyrone Johnson arrives at his house and observes a picture of Billy with his friends, while listening to his mother on the phone, discussing her biggest client holding an event that night: Roxxon. When his mother finishes talking, Tyrone asks her about Billy's friends and she replies that one of them went on to do well for himself. After congratulating him on reaching the basketball final, Tyrone tries to hang the photo on the wall, but is teleported to a warehouse.[15][22]
In the warehouse, Tyrone Johnson finds Duane Porter, one of Billy's friends. Porter tells him that his business started fixing houses and now he is the store owner. He tells Tyrone that he is expecting a lot from him in the game, and discusses how moving on and making the most of your life is important.[15][22]
In the church, Bowen places the profiles of Roxxon employees she has printed on the floor. She begins to investigate the company's employees on social media. After discovering that the employees meet with escorts, she decides to put on the uniform she stole and visit an agency.[15][22]
Tandy Bowen manages to pass the interview successfully, thanks to a false profile, and is hired. She asks to start that same night.[15][22]
Before the match begins, Tyrone Johnson asks Evita Fusilier to go to a private room with him. There, they talk about their relationship and he gives her his jacket, as the team-members do for a cheerleader of their choice. They share a kiss.[15][22]
The basketball game starts and Johnson scores minutes later. However, the referee whistles and orders him to shoot again due to a foul. He thinks about telling the referee that they did not need him, but, in the end, he does not object, and scores the penalty.[15][22]
In the police interrogation room, Detective Brigid O'Reilly sits with Liam Walsh. He is upset because Tandy Bowen has not come to help him. O'Reilly asks him about the identity of the drug dealer who offered quality drugs in a club and lets him know that she will offer something for the information.[15][22]
The match continues. A teammate passes the ball to Johnson, but he finds himself surprisingly unable to catch it. The referee says that the St. Sebastian's Preparatory School team has the shot nonetheless.[15][22]
At the gala, Bowen begins to search for the men she has been investigating. After a while, she finds one of them.[15][22]
Johnson fights for the ball during the basketball game
Johnson fights for the ball with another player. The referee touches him and he has a vision in which he sees men stabbing the referee in front of a marker. When Johnson opens his eyes, the ball has disappeared - it has in fact materialized near Bowen at the gala.[15][22]
Bowen meets a young woman at the gala, who is nervous about having to deliver a speech.[15][22]
At half time, Johnson tries to process what is happening to him, while Bowen touches several of Roxxon's workers to see their hopes and find someone who is a common denominator. Johnson towels his face, and suddenly finds himself teleported to Bowen.[15][22]
Johnson asks her what she is doing at a Roxxon party and accuses her of teleporting him there, pointing out that her repeated use of her powers, connected to his, have caused him to lose control. Bowen pays no attention to him and says she is close to finding the mystery man who appears in the hopes of Roxxon employees.[15][22]
Noticing a photograph with the man in it, Bowen finds his name in the caption: Peter Scarborough. She realizes that he is the man was the one who entered her house 8 years prior and took things supposedly belonging to Roxxon.[15][22]
Johnson asks her to help him return him to the basketball changing rooms, and Bowen suggests he put himself in danger to activate his powers. He begins to doubt her, but she pushes him towards the railing so he falls off and his powers instantly teleport him back to the bench in his team's changing room.[15][22]
Detective O'Reilly continues her investigation. After questioning the drug supplier of a club, she discovers that she is not the main dealer. However, the supplier explains that she does not know who is pulling the strings.[15][22]
Tandy Bowen returns to the church and begins to investigate further into Peter Scarborough.[15][22]
In the second half, Tyrone Johnson dodges the players of the opposing team, but, they touch him and he sees their fears, realizing that they are from struggling backgrounds. In the last second, he has the chance to score and win the game, but, knowing that if he allows the other team to win he might give them the boost in life that Billy has always wanted, he intentionally misses the shot.[15][22]
Bowen sees Scarborough in the water, collecting money from his dead employees
Bowen rings the doorbell of Peter Scarborough's house. She asks him to use his phone to call roadside assistance, having punctured her own tire as a cover for speaking to him, but he offers to change them himself. As he does so, Bowen creates a dagger in a moment of anger, but vanishes it again, instead touching the back of his neck to see his hopes. Bowen sees Scarborough in a body of water collecting the money from his dead employees.[15][22]
Tyrone Johnson enters his room and finds Evita Fusilier waiting for him in his bed, having climbed through the window. She tells him that she knows what he did for the referee and the other team, having paid attention to his skills and motivation. She takes off the jacket he gave her and they begin to kiss.[15][22]
Detective O'Reilly snorts a few lines of cocaine in a back office at the police station. Suddenly, Detective James Connors appears and asks if he can share them. They talk about taking drugs while working as undercover cops and O'Reilly pretends to be a big drug user so as to get him to open up. She then leaves, pleased with herself for getting closer to catching him.[15][22]
22nd
Tyrone Johnson and Evita Fusilier kiss
The next morning, Fusilier says goodbye to Johnson and leaves through his window. Johnson takes a black shirt and, accidentally, teleports to Duane Porter's store. There, he sees Porter talking to James Connors, discovering that they are partners in drug trade and that Porter's business is a cover.[15][22]
In her church, Bowen analyzes the plans of the oil platform and discovers that it was signed by her father and a man called Ivan Hess. She starts looking for other items and finds one that says Roxxon found previously unknown marine life in the gulf.[15][22]
23rd
Tandy attends the recording of a commercial by Mina Hess, Ivan's daughter, who turns out to be the woman she met at the gala. Hess affirms that Roxxon helped her after her father had an accident, and that she will help save the world.[15][22]
Johnson follows one of Porter's workers. The man discovers him, however, and threatens him with a gun, ordering him not to follow him any further.[15][23]
Evita and Chantelle Fusilier continue with the voodoo reading. Chantelle explains that New Orleans has a past of destruction and rebirth, and that she has a feeling that Tyrone Johnson will be involved in the next disaster.[15][23]
Tyrone Johnson visits Tandy Bowen in the church. He tells her of his failed attempt to follow Duane Porter's drug dealer and that he tried to infiltrate the company to trap Connors. In turn, Bowen reveals that she is incognito in Roxxon, as an intern for Mina Hess. She advises him to use his powers with the drug dealer to find leverage and then steal his work.[15][23]
Mina Hess and "Liz" talk
Tandy Bowen enters the abandoned amusement park and looks for Mina Hess's house. When she finds her, Hess greets her and offers some cookies. Bowen looks at a model of Roxxon's old oil rig and asks about it, but Hess changes the subject. Soon after, they prepare to go to work.[15][23]
O'Reilly is studying a case when Connors approaches. When he realizes she is closing in on him, he offers himself as a partner to help her find the head of the drug dealers so as to in fact prevent her.[15][23]
At their voodoo reading, Chantelle Fusilier tells Evita Fusilier about the New Orleans disasters of the past and affirms that Tyrone Johnson is likely one of the latest "Divine Pairing", with prevention of these disasters always linked to two people. They both wonder who the other could be.[15][23]
Tandy Bowen and Mina Hess wade through the swamp water, looking for a species of American bumblebee to monitor their disappearance. Bowen asks her if her father still works for Roxxon, but Hess focuses on looking for the bees. They begin to get along.[15][23]
Johnson steals the backpack
While O'Reilly drives, she and Connors talk about the case and the drug dealers. Connors asks him to stop the car when he spots drug dealers, and starts to chase them while she looks for the backpack that one of them had been carrying and left lying around. When O'Reilly leaves, Tyrone Johnson walks away, having already stolen the backpack.[15][23]
Hess says that she wants to show "Liz" the valve she has designed for the new oil platform. She reveals that Roxxon do not drill for oil, but instead search of a material that burns ten times better and that twice as hot. She adds that, because of that, the old rig could not stand it, but that now it can. On arriving at the valve, Hess' colleague, Stan Bartlett, warns her that her heat shield is failing, so she decides to check why it happens.[15][23]
James Connors catches Porter's drug dealer, whom he actually knows, and starts hitting him. He warns him that they are starting to attract attention and that Porter should be cautious. When O'Reilly arrives, Connors lets the man go.[15][23]
Tandy Bowen punctures Stan Bartlett's tire with a dagger of light
Tandy Bowen checks the valve and heat shield along with Hess. She looks at the plans and points out that the valve should be 10 meters away. Hess appreciates the help and scolds Bartlett for placing it incorrectly, saying that she will return tomorrow to fix the mistake. Bartlett insults her. After the argument, Hess leaves and Bowen punctures Bartlett's car with a dagger of light in retaliation.[15][23]
The drug dealer who lost the bag finds Johnson and asks for it back. Johnson grabs his arm and shows the dealer his nightmares, and the man flees in fear.[15][23]
Chantelle Fusilier continues with the voodoo reading. Evita realizes that only the Divine Pairing can prevent a looming evil. She asks how they might know when a disaster is building and what the point of no return might be, but Chantelle says that that point is just the end.[15][23]
Tyrone Johnson enters Duane Porter's warehouse and returns the backpack, making it clear that he knows what is inside. Johnson asks again to work with him and Porter accepts, hoping to ultimately deter him from getting into drug dealing.[15][23]
Bowen and Hess talk
Tandy Bowen and Mina Hess return to the abandoned amusement park. Bowen continues asking about Hess' father and asks to see him, but she refuses. Hess notices sees one of the bees they were looking for on Bowen's neck and blows it away.[15][23]
Connors reminds Porter of his message about laying low over the phone and asks him to meet that night to sort things out. Connors then tells O'Reilly that he has a contact who can take them to whomever she wants. They plan to catch the drug dealer that night, but Connors plans instead on taking her out.[15][23]
Porter drives with Johnson and explains that they are survivors. He says that their acts have consequences, even if it is not fair.[15][23]
Back at Mina Hess' house, Tandy Bowen asks again about her father. Hess confesses that she has worked out "Liz" is in fact Nathan Bowen's daughter, Tandy.[15][23]
At the voodoo reading, Chantelle Fusilier affirms that one of the members of the Divine Pairing must die every time a disaster needs to be stopped.[15][23]
Back in the warehouse, Porter tells Tyrone Johnson that he recognizes he has value, from acts such as when he jumped into the water to save Billy. Tyrone is horrified to learn from this that Porter saw James Connors kill Billy and yet chooses to work with him, as well as reproaching him for not having helped him when he tried to explain to police that Billy was shot. He asks Porter to do something better to honor Billy's memory. Connors and Detective O'Reilly suddenly knock on the store door, and Porter asks Johnson to leave.[15][23]
Tandy Bowen apologizes for the lies
Mina Hess visits her father, Ivan in his nursing home. He does not respond to any stimulus, having been like that for 8 years. Bowen enters the room and apologizes for having lied to Mina, and Mina says that if she had just told her the truth, she would have introduced her to Ivan. Tandy replies that honestly, it never crossed her mind to tell the truth.[15][23]
Bowen asks her to talk to Ivan, and Mina agrees. She touches him and has a vision, in which Tandy sees a door from which a black smoke like Tyrone Johnson's is emanating. When she touches it, she leaves the vision. Mina regrets that talking her father cannot help her.[15][23]
Connors meets with Duane Porter and warns him that O'Reilly will be entering soon. He says he wants him to shoot her, and Porter protests, but eventually reluctantly accepts. Johnson, still present, tries to warn O'Reilly by phone, but does not succeed.[15][23]
O'Reilly shoots at Porter
O'Reilly enters the warehouse but Johnson shouts to warn her. With the extra moment to prepare, she turns the corner and shoots Porter before he can act. Johnson screams at his brother's friend's death and runs away, with Connors chasing him. During the chase, Connors shoots at Johnson several times, but his powers kick in to teleport him away momentarily for each bullet fired.[15][23]
Johnson teleports to the church, near Tandy Bowen. When she sees how devastated he is, she tries to hug him, but his powers repel her. Johnson breaks into tears.[15][23]
Tyrone Johnson asks what he should do now that the one other witness to Billy's death is dead. After reassuring him that failures help in the long run, Bowen informs him that there was a survivor of the oil rig explosion, and that she needs his help to open the door of her vision.[15][24]
In Ivan Hess' room, Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson touch him at the same time to enter into the vision together. There, Johnson touches the door without difficulty, but the vision shifts to the oil rig, in the moments before the explosion. Immediately, one of the workers present attacks Johnson, but Tandy stabs him with a dagger of light. They realize that they can be seen and heard in this vision.[15][24]
Bowen and Johnson hide in a room, and there they find Ivan Hess, who is glad to see people without hostile intentions. They call him "Ivan Hess", but he does not recognize this, not remembering his name. Bowen asks where they are, to which Hess replies that they are "here" and that the phone usually rings "halfway", before the "end" of "everything". Bowen realizes that they are on the oil rig that exploded and Johnson asks Hess how to stop the explosion set to go off in under 2 minutes. He explains that they have to get to the core room, press the emergency shutdown button and turn off the shut-off valves, but that it is impossible to do so in the remaining time.[15][24]
Despite having little time, Bowen and Johnson try to reach the core room, but are forced to fight with several crazed workers. Soon after, time runs out and the explosion occurs. They suddenly find themselves minutes before the explosion again, in Ivan Hess' office. Hess explains that he lives in a loop, and that he believes the energy of the initial explosion instills fear in the workers and makes them hostile, naming them "terrors".[15][24]
Bowen explains that they have come from the real world to help Hess get out of the catatonic state he has been in for 8 years, but Hess does not understand or believe her.[15][24]
Tandy Bowen talks to "Nathan"
Bowen mentions the name of Hess' daughter, but he denies ever having a child. She mentions Nathan Bowen, however, and Hess recognizes this as the name of the person who calls him on the phone in every loop. Bowen realizes that it was Hess who had been talking on the phone to her father before the fateful accident. As soon as the phone rings, Bowen takes it and talks to her father, becoming emotional. The explosion then happens again and Bowen and Johnson are transferred back to Ivan Hess' office as the countdown is restarted.[15][24]
Tyrone Johnson asks Tandy Bowen to help close the valves, but she wants to talk more with her father. Johnson tries to go to the core room and close the valves by himself, but is attacked by the workers and is forced to teleport away. Bowen picks up the phone and talks to her father again, while Johnson avoids the workers, presses the button, and closes the valves. After this, however, the explosion still happens again and the countdown restarts. Johnson tells the others that it has not worked and Hess is impressed, but unsurprised at it not solving anything, and leaves the office. The duo agree that considering their plan has not worked, they need to release Ivan Hess' hand in reality.[15][24]
In the real world, Johnson wakes, but finds that Bowen lied, wanting to stay to talk to her father, and is continuing to use her powers with Ivan Hess. On finding this, Johnson gets frustrated and reenters Hess' mind to get Bowen out. When he finds Bowen, however, she does not remember anyone, having been in the loop many times.[15][24]
Johnson talks to Bowen, trying to remind her who she is
After talking to her, Bowen manages to remember Johnson and tells him that her real life is horrible, since she has no father, home, or friends to return to - no one who would ever call her. Johnson says that he is her friend, but she claims she just played with his feelings so he would help her.[15][24]
When the explosion occurs and the countdown is restarted, Bowen tells Tyrone Johnson that if Billy were the one on the phone, he would also stay. When the phone rings, she tells him not to touch it and threatens him with a light dagger. He pulls the cable from the phone and Bowen begins to throw daggers at him in anger, which fail to hit him thanks to his powers teleporting him across the room to safety each time.[15][24]
The explosion occurs and the countdown restarts again. Tyrone Johnson recognizes that he would stay if the one on the phone were Billy, but admits that he cannot remember what Billy even sounded like anymore. He promises to leave her in Ivan Hess's mind if she just asks a question to Nathan Bowen that Hess would not know, to prove it is really him and not just a construct of Hess' memories. When the phone rings, she asks her father who is in the back of his car while he talks, knowing that her younger self should be there. As Tyrone expected, he is not able to answer correctly, and Tandy starts to cry as the big explosion occurs again.[15][24]
When the countdown is restarted, Tandy Bowen takes Ivan Hess' cookie and tries to remind him of Mina having made it, and his responsibility as a father. The phone rings again, and Bowen reluctantly hangs up on her father. After this, Bowen reveals that Mina's secret ingredient for the cookies is cardamom, and Ivan cries, suddenly remembering his daughter. He asks them to see Mina and they tell him that he has to press the button and close the valves himself if he wants to return to reality. Ivan explains that he has tried many times before, to which Tandy replies that he never had their help before.[15][24]
Time restarts, and Hess agrees to try. He makes his way to the core room with the help of Bowen and Johnson. While they protect him, he manages to press the button and close the valves before the big explosion occurs.[15][24]
Back in the real world, Tandy Bowen, Tyrone Johnson, and Ivan Hess open their eyes. Bowen and Johnson breathe a sigh of relief, although Ivan does not recognize them. He asks them to see Mina, who arrives later when notified, with a bag of cookies to give her father. Bowen and Johnson are happy to have helped and go leave.[15][24]
Johnson enters his room
Back home, Johnson opens a shoe box and finds an old voice recorder he and Billy played around with.[15][24]
In the church, Bowen tries to sleep, but receives a call from Tyrone Johnson. Glad to have a friend in life who actually cares enough to call her, Bowen picks up and Tyrone explains that he wanted to talk because he has found a recording with Billy's voice, and needs some company while he listens. She recommends he play it, and they hear Billy attempting freestyle rap with a 6-year-old Tyrone beatboxing. Tyrone is emotional at hearing his voice again, but Tandy jokes with him to keep things happy, and asks him to play it again.[15][24]
25th
Brigid O'Reilly has pancakes with Kenneth Fuchs, who starts to call himself her boyfriend. She nervously explains that she passed the psychological evaluation after shooting Duane Porter. She is upset for having shot him and is determined to stop James Connors, because he believes that he was behind what happened. Fuchs decides to help her.[15][25]
Tandy Bowen is taking flowers to Ivan Hess when she suddenly meets Peter Scarborough. After some uncomfortable glances, she enters Mr. Hess' room. Bowen asks him about Scarborough and Hess replies that he was worried about how much Hess remembered, but explains that he remembers nothing after the accident. Hess reveals to Bowen that her father warned Roxxon about the design of the platform and the problems with reducing costs, through a report which he stored in a safe along with other tests at Metrolake Bank.[15][25]
Tandy Bowen visits her mother and tells her that she wants to be part of the tribute later in memory of her father, having not partaken for a few years. She asks Melissa if her father had a safe deposit box, and Melissa says he did, but that she does not know where it is. Tandy says that she thinks she might knows.[15][25]
Tyrone Johnson has breakfast with his parents, with the three Johnsons upset by the anniversary of Billy's murder.[15][25]
Tandy and Melissa Bowen find the key to Nathan's safe in a box full of memories of him. Melissa talks to her daughter about a special date she had with Nathan when she was pregnant.[15][25]
Johnson sees how Bowen introduces to his parents
After breakfast, Otis Johnson tells his wife that he wants to invite the Wild Red Hawks to his house to finish their costumes later. Shortly after, Tandy Bowen knocks on the door and Tyrone reluctantly lets her in. Otis and Adina appear and Bowen tells them that she was worried about Tyrone, since she herself lost a relative, her father, on the night Billy was killed. When his parents confess that they will not be paying homage to Billy later, Bowen decides to invite Tyrone to her house that night to pay tribute with her and her mother. Before leaving, Bowen steals Adina's Roxxon identity card.[15][25]
At the police station, Detective James Connors asks O'Reilly for help in identifying the boy who fled when Duane Porter was killed. She tells him that she does not recognize him, but he is sure she knows who he is. A portrait is drawn based on his description, and he confirms it to be accurate.[15][25]
The Wild Red Hawks are presented with their costumes at the Johnson residence. While Otis Johnson picks up Billy's cloak, Roland Duplantier explains to Tyrone the difference between a cape and a cloak. Tyrone spots his father crying and tries to cheer him up.[15][25]
Johnson talks to O'Reilly
Tyrone Johnson receives a message from Detective Brigid O'Reilly, who says she is waiting outside. He steps out onto the sidewalk and tells O'Reilly he is worried because his parents would be frightened if they knew she was from the police. O'Reilly warns him that Connors is going after him and that he should try to go unnoticed, but Tyrone refuses to do so, since he wants to catch Connors at all costs. She realizes it is the anniversary of Billy's death, and says that she believes Connors is also aware.[15][25]
Johnson prepares a shirt with red stains so as to simulate gunshot wounds.[15][25]
At O'Reilly's house, Tyrone Johnson reveals his plan to obtain a confession from Connors: he wants to disguise himself as Billy and make Connors believe he is Billy's ghost, haunting him on the anniversary, to extract a confession. Tyrone asks O'Reilly if Kenneth Fuchs is trustworthy and, after she affirms this, he confesses that he has powers and that he can control them with Billy's cloak.[15][25]
Tandy Bowen uses Adina Johnson's identity card to sneak into Roxxon.[15][25]
Tyrone Johnson pursues James Connors
At night, Tyrone Johnson begins to follow James Connors using his powers and Billy's cloak. When the detective arrives at his car, he realizes that his gun has been stolen.[15][25]
Bowen uses light daggers to destroy the electrical systems in the building.[15][25]
Tyrone Johnson grabs Connors by the neck and uses his powers to remind him of Billy's death, then whispers in his ear, "You killed me." After this, Connors notices that his gun is back in its holster.[15][25]
Arrest of James Connors: Connors meets O'Reilly and says that she has a clue about the boy in his drawing, showing him a drawing of Billy Johnson and claiming it is the same drawing as earlier. He begins to wonder if the boy he saw was in fact Billy. Then, in the middle of the street, Connors sees Tyrone with Billy's cloak. He doubts if it is real and O'Reilly says that she does not see anyone. Connors begins to chase him until he reaches the place in the shipyard where he killed Billy. There, Connors tries to shoot him, but Tyrone avoids the bullets with his powers. Pretending to be Billy's ghost, he gets Connors to confess his crime. Once they have the necessary statement, O'Reilly arrests Connors and Fuchs reveals that he has recorded everything.[15][25]
Tandy Bowen threatens Peter Scarborough with a dagger of light
In Roxxon, Tandy Bowen finishes tying up Scarborough. She shows him that she knows everything about the explosion and why they killed Greg Pressfield. After claiming that her father not as good of a man as she believes, Bowen threatens him with a dagger of light. Scarborough offers her money in exchange for her silence. Angry, Bowen instead decides to leave.[15][25]
At the police station, O'Reilly tells Fuchs that she has met people with superpowers in New York City, and should tell him about her friend named Misty.[15][25]
By Lake Borgne, Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson meet to pay tribute to their lost loved ones. Johnson tells her that he got a confession, while Tandy says she is content to have scared Scarborough. Melissa approaches them and Tandy introduces her friend.[15][25]
Before lighting a lantern, the trio hold hands. Suddenly, Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson discover that they have entered into a vision. They enter through a door and appear in a movie theater. Tandy worries that they are in a fear, but Johnson believes that they are facing a mixture of memory and fear. Melissa sits in the theater, and her memories are projected. In them, they see that Melissa remembers having a perfect relationship, but, than in reality, Nathan would hit her, one time being when she accidentally spilt a drink on some of his documents.[15][25]
Upon returning to the real world, Tandy and Melissa Bowen and Tyrone Johnson light the lantern and let it fly.[15][25]
Tandy Bowen walks alone, upset by what she saw.[15][25]
Tandy Bowen calls Peter Scarborough and tells him that she has changed her mind and wants the money he promised.[15][25]
Back home, Tyrone Johnson looks at Billy's cloak.[15][25]
In the abandoned church, Bowen hides the money from Scarborough inside a broken statue.[15][25]
Detective O'Reilly comes home after a long night. When she opens the refrigerator, she is horrified to find Fuchs' dead body stuffed inside.[15][25]
Tandy Bowen burns a family photo in anger at her father and takes some money from the statue.[15][26]
At O'Reilly's house, the police investigate Fuchs' murder. She notices a blood stain on an umbrella and that leads her to discover the murder weapon, a pipe covered of blood under the sofa. A policeman snatches it and asks her to be removed from the place.[15][26]
Tandy Bowen enters a rich man's house. There, she drugs him as she used to do to other men, and touches him to see his hopes. While doing so, she tells him that she has discovered that she can steal and feel the hopes of others. After leaving the vision, Mina Hess calls Bowen, but she chooses not to take it.[15][26]
27th
Chantelle Fusilier performs a voodoo ritual in the middle of the street. She comes across a Roxxon pipe in an alley.[15][26]
Billy Johnson's case is reopened at police station
At the police station, officers inform Otis and Adina Johnson, alongside Tyrone, that Billy's case has been reopened thanks to a recorded confession. As they head back to their car, Tyrone shouts at them for not appreciating the confession and the proof that they were wrong to have not believed him until now.[15][26]
Chantelle Fusilier returns home and Evita is worried about not having seen her all night. She tells Fusilier that Roxxon will destroy the city, and that only the Divine Pairing can stop it. Chantelle asks Evita to talk to Tyrone Johnson who the second member of the Divine Pairing is, since she believes that the two members will already know each other.[15][26]
Tyrone Johnson does not pay attention in his school choir practice.[15][26]
Adina Johnson takes a look at a Roxxon press release.[15][26]
Benny, the fellow basketball player who led the attack on Tyrone Johnson recently, knocks him in the corridor.[15][26]
Adina Johnson yells at her superior for Roxxon's project.[15][26]
Tyrone Johnson gets into a fight with Benny, letting out his anger on him.[15][26]
Tandy Bowen visits the Hess family, and Mina invites her to eat with them. Bowen accepts and sees that Ivan is improving, now walking again.[15][26]
Father Francis Xavier Delgado explains to Tyrone Johnson in his office that he believes, after Billy's death, Tyrone continues to fight to keep his rage at bay. Delgado makes him carry books in either hand and balance, and advises him to stop his attitude.[15][26]
Bowen steals Mina's hopes
During brunch at the Hess residence, Tandy Bowen is scattered. Mina Hess decides to make tea while Ivan tells Tandy how much he misses Nathan, and that he was a good man. Upset to hear this again despite discovering Nathan's domestic abuse, Tandy gets up and goes to the kitchen. There, Mina confesses that she wants Tandy to work with her at Roxxon. Tandy grabs her hand and sees her hopes, and witnesses Mina enjoying a walk through flowers. Tandy steals her hopes and they return to the real world, with Tandy telling her that now she knows how she feels. When Tandy leaves, Mina kills a bee of the species she always used to look out for.[15][26]
O'Reilly goes to a bar and starts drinking to drown her sorrows.[15][26]
Tandy Bowen takes more money and goes to the police station to pay Liam Walsh's bail. While waiting, she notices the woman who killed Greg Pressfield on the street. Walsh arrives and confesses to Bowen that he feared she had abandoned him.[15][26]
Father Delgado returns to his office and tells Tyrone Johnson that he is close to being expelled.[15][26]
Bowen and Walsh enter the abandoned church.[15][26]
Johnson and Father Delgado begin to argue as Delgado tries to tell Johnson that nothing will improve if he encloses himself as he does. Johnson says that he thinks Delgado is only a priest to escape his own feelings.[15][26]
Walsh talks to Bowen in the church
Bowen tells Walsh that she always wanted to get married in the church. Walsh is surprised by her hopeful behavior and Bowen explains that she knows that she has never done anything to improve her life. She tells him that now she wants to build a happy life with him.[15][26]
Johnson tells Delgado that God has no answers for him because He does not exist, and tells Delgado that he cannot possibly know what he has been through.[15][26]
Johnson tries to leave, but Father Delgado does not allow it. At this, Johnson angrily tries to hit him.[15][26]
Meanwhile, Bowen kisses Walsh, and she sees his hope of marrying her.[15][26]
Father Delgado grabs Johnson and tries to calm him down. Johnson enters his mind and sees his fears.[15][26]
In Walsh's hopes, Bowen watches as she and Walsh kneel at a pew to marry.[15][26]
Johnson sees in Father Delgado's fears that he ran over a girl and killed her while drink-driving.[15][26]
Walsh and Bowen take communion in Walsh's hopes.[15][26]
Johnson is shocked to see what happened to Father Delgado.[15][26]
In Walsh's hopes, Bowen touches her boyfriend to take his hopes away, and everything starts to shake. At that moment, Tyrone Johnson sees a door in the fears of Father Delgado, which takes him through to Bowen and Walsh's vision. When he sees her, the duo are both woken in the real world.[15][26]
Walsh and Bowen break their kiss, and Bowen looks around, but sees that Johnson is not there.[15][26]
Father Delgado orders Johnson out of his office.[15][26]
A beaten O'Reilly lies on the floor
At the bar, O'Reilly is disgusted as Connors enters and claims to mourn Fuchs. Furious, she picks up a bat from the wall and hits him. While all the policemen observe, Connors turns and begins to beat her to the ground, telling her that her video was never going to keep him behind bars.[15][26]
At St. Sebastian's Preparatory School, Evita Fusilier approaches Tyrone Johnson and says she can help him. Suddenly, the conversation is interrupted by Tandy Bowen, who shouts at him to stop getting into her head. Fusilier tries to take her away from Johnson, so Bowen decides to grab her to steal her hopes. In a vision, Bowen discovers that Fusilier dreams of being a doctor. She tries to take away that hope, but Fusilier takes control and expels her from the vision. In the real world, Fusilier flees, now knowing Bowen to be the second member of the Divine Pairing.[15][26]
Bowen and Johnson begin to argue about what happened, as Johnson explains he is trying to fix things for his family and that she is out of line, but she claims that things cannot be fixed. The argument becomes tense and Bowen threatens him with a dagger of light. At this, Tyrone leaves.[15][26]
Evita Fusilier attends one of Father Francis Xavier Delgado's classes. He talks about heroes and what makes them so.[15][26]
Father Delgado's class about heroes
Father Delgado explains that heroes always resurface from the ashes after a downfall, when they believe they cannot continue anymore. Delgado points out that the regression in the heroes is due to consequences caused by themselves, and that it can generate a trauma that deepens their fears and may cause the destruction of their lives.[15][26]
Father Delgado explains in class that heroes cannot return to who they were or undo traumatic events, but that regression is a trick.[15][26]
As he teaches, Delgado points out that many heroes try to escape to their previous life. He explains that when the heroes enter a spiral of despair, it can cause their death or for them to become a villain if they do not resist the spiral.[15][26]
Delgado explains why regression happens in stories, as stories are supposed to reflect our real human experience. However, the important thing is that we can ascend.[15][26]
The class finishes with Delgado explaining that when things go wrong, it can give a chance for a character, and for us, to ask the question that is always at the center of myth: "Who are we?"[15][26]
Evita Fusilier sculpts a voodoo figure for Tandy Bowen.[15][26]
Tandy Bowen returns to the church to apologize to Liam Walsh and sees that the place has been ransacked. Walsh has found the money and left with it.[15][26]
Hess presences the effects of the Dark Energy on people
Peter Scarborough calls Mina Hess to fix a valve in the lake pipe. On arrival, Hess witnesses a dark energy burst from the pipeline and instil terror in the workers. Immediately, the workers begin to chase Hess.[15][26]
When Brigid O'Reilly arrives at her car, she hears a transmission announcing that the police have identified Kenneth Fuchs' killer and that they must meet urgently.[15][26]
Tyrone Johnson arrives home and his mother expresses her feelings about Billy's death. Adina confesses that she knew they could have covered up the crime, but was afraid that if what he had always said were true, then that meant they could want to kill Tyrone as well to tie up the loose ends, and this was why she was not pleased to find out the truth. She adds that Connors' confession will likely not help because of institutionalized racism. Tyrone tells his mother that if he does not confront the police, nothing will change.[15][26]
Chase of Tyrone Johnson: While Tyrone and Adina Johnson are still talking, the police and a S.W.A.T. team arrive outside the house. The force announces by loudspeakers that they have identified Tyrone as Fuchs' killer. Quickly, Adina orders him to flee and he does, but forgets to take his brother's cloak.[15][26]
Tandy Bowen enters her mother's house, with the idea of telling her what happened, but finds that the woman who killed Greg Pressfield has Melissa as a hostage. The hitwoman shoots at Bowen, but she avoids the bullets. Bowen hides behind a wall as the hitwoman calls to her to step out, and her hands begin to shine.[15][26]
Chantelle Fusilier recounts how the Choctaw people had to let a member of the Divine Pairing die to stop the famine and infertility of their lands. Evita Fusilier looks at the Divine Pairing voodoo figures on the shelf, ending with Tyrone Johnson and Tandy Bowen.[15][27]
At the Bowen residence, Tandy confronts the attacker and distracts her to buy time. Melissa is able to stab the woman in the shoulder and Tandy cuts her with one of her daggers of light. When Melissa takes the gun, the woman flees the house. Tandy convinces her mother to go to a friend's house for protection and leaves.[15][27]
Tyrone Johnson enters the Wild Red Hawks shelter and is searching for Billy's cloak when Otis approaches him. His father offers him the cloak and asks him not to contact them so that he can stay safe. As soon as the police arrive, Tyrone uses his powers and escapes.[15][27]
Rescue of Mina Hess: Tandy Bowen runs to Mina Hess' house, but is attacked by a terrorized worker. She ends up stabbing him with a light dagger in self-defense. Bowen then enters the house and rescues Hess from another attacking worker. She explains what these "terrors" are, and how people have turned into the terror state. Hess realizes that the other nine valves across the city could fail soon and each spread dark energy. Due to lack of time, she says they must go to Roxxon to shut them all off centrally.[15][27]
Tyrone Johnson tries to go unnoticed as he walks through a Mardi Gras parade in Billy's cloak, but a police officer discovers him. Johnson flees and is met by Brigid O'Reilly, who tries to help. When several policemen surround them, she encourages him to escape with his powers, but he decides not to as there are too many witness. O'Reilly and Johnson are arrested.[15][27]
Chantelle Fusilier tells the stories of the Divine Pairing
Chantelle Fusilier tells Evita of another event involving the Divine Pairing, this time in 1793, when two brothers fought for a woman's love as a devastating storm ravaged New Orleans. During the duel, the older brother decided to sacrifice himself so as not to destroy his family, and when the other shot him, the storm ceased. Chantelle believes that Johnson and Bowen can defeat the fear in the town, but that for Fusilier to understand how they can help, first they must recall the history of the city.[15][27]
Tyrone Johnson and Brigid O'Reilly are taken to the police station and the cloak is taken away from Johnson.[15][27]
Tandy Bowen and Mina Hess travel by car to Roxxon. Hess is upset for helping Roxxon, but Bowen encourages her.[15][27]
Johnson and O'Reilly are locked in the evidence room to be dealt with by James Connors. O'Reilly asks Johnson to use his powers, but he is incapable since he does not have the cloak. Johnson appeals to the feelings of the guard and convinces him to release them, but then another policeman arrives before he can follow through. He tells his partner that Connors has arrived at the police station and that he has closed the place.[15][27]
Hess and Bowen confront Scarborough
Ambush on Peter Scarborough: Hess and Bowen confront Scarborough in an elevator after he has smashed several hard drives with incriminating evidence. Bowen asks him what he is looking for and recognizes that he wants more power, which he claims is necessary to match the rival companies such as Stark Industries and Rand Enterprises. He confesses that they have tried to turn off the drill, but it does not respond to the remote control, so Bowen and Hess will have to go to the core and turn it off manually.[15][27]
Wanting revenge for his attack on her mother, Bowen touches Scarborough to see his hopes. There, he says he seeks to be God, so Bowen leads him to a door, claiming power is on the other side. What he sees on the other side, however, scares him.[15][27]
In the evidence room, Johnson thanks O'Reilly for her help. Connors enters and explains his plan: they will take a walk, let Johnson escape, kill O'Reilly, incriminate Johnson, and then kill him as well. As they are removed from the room, however, terrors break into the police station.[15][27]
Chantelle Fusilier explains to Evita that in 1815, a soldier died trying to deliver the news of a ceasefire, but handed a letter to a maiden, the other in the Divine Pairing, who was able to deliver the message. Chantelle asks Evita to tell the pair that one of the two must die.[15][27]
Outside of Roxxon, Scarborough's hired killer and a group of terrors surround Tandy Bowen and Mina Hess. They manage to take refuge, but a terror breaks a window and touches Hess.[15][27]
Tyrone Johnson heads to a back room to recover Billy's cloak.[15][27]
Hess, who has been turned into a terror, hunts for Bowen.[15][27]
Johnson recovers his cloak. O'Reilly decides to stay in the weapons room while Johnson lures the terrors into an office with the help of the policeman he spoke to before, having them locked in.[15][27]
Just when Mina Hess is going to attack Tandy Bowen, Tyrone Johnson arrives by teleport and incapacitates Hess with a taser.[15][27]
Chantelle Fusilier tells the story she also told on a tour in 2009, of a doctor who saved his lover from the Spanish flu with a donation of his own blood. When he collapsed, all the sick patients in the vicinity were miraculously healed.[15][27]
The Divine pairing reunited in the church
In the abandoned church, Tyrone Johnson laments that Billy's cloak has been torn. At that moment, Evita Fusilier enters and tells them about the Divine Pairing, in addition to the sacrifice that one of the two must make. Johnson asks her to get to a safe place and kisses her goodbye.[15][27]
Tandy Bowen prepares a plan with Tyrone Johnson, but he says he feels useless without his cloak. At this, Bowen hands him Billy's hoodie, stolen by her from the beach 8 years ago, but reminds him that he does not actually need it.[15][27]
The Divine Pairing try to make their way through the terrors, down the street of the parade, while O'Reilly helps them by shooting terrors from a nearby rooftop.[15][27]
Afterwards, O'Reilly returns to her car but is stopped by James Connors. The detective shoots her, with one of his shots hitting the Roxxon pipe next to her, which transmits dark energy to her. Connors kicks her body into Lake Borgne.[15][27]
Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson arrive at the Roxxon core building, but are confronted by Connors. Quickly, Bowen cuts his gun and Johnson teleports with Connors onto the roof. He threatens Connors, but eventually decides to let go of his anger, letting him go. Connors instead tries to kill Johnson again, but Johnson's hoodie instantly emits darkness and swallows the detective into its dimension.[15][27]
Teleporting back to the sidewalk, Tyrone Johnson believes that Fusilier was right and that he must sacrifice himself. Despite Bowen's refusal to let him, Johnson teleports to the core valves and tries to close them on his own.[15][27]
Bowen catches up with Johnson and cuts open the door, telling him that they will both sacrifice themselves together. She realizes, however, that the dark energy seems to be a mix of light and darkness like theirs. The Divine Pairing put their hands together and fight against the dark energy with their combined powers. After absorbing it all, they are teleported to the roof and the power is ejected into the sky.[15][27]
March
1st
An unidentified body is found by the West Covina police.[20][21]
Evita Fusilier watches TV, where it is announced that the hysteria from Mardi Gras has disappeared, stopped after a flash of energy.[15][27]
Peter Scarborough's hitwoman finds him in an elevator, induced by Tandy Bowen into the same catatonic state his actions caused Ivan Hess to experience for 8 years.[15][27]
At the Johnson residence, the police question Adina and Otis Johnson as well as Father Francis Xavier Delgado. Adina hears a noise and goes up to her son's room, where she sees that Tyrone has left his basketball jacket to let them know he is okay.[15][27]
Tandy Bowen moves back into her house, carrying all her belongings. She shows a newspaper to her mother announcing that Roxxon has been found guilty.[15][27]
Tyrone Johnson decides to live in the abandoned church that Bowen has now left. Shortly thereafter, Tandy Bowen enters the church and hands him bags of food, having learned from their time together how to care.[15][27]
Mayhem, a copy of Brigid O'Reilly created by O'Reilly's exposure to the Roxxon dark energy, crawls out of Lake Borgne, moving quickly due to powers she has.[15][27][28]
2nd
A video recorded on a man's cell phone is released online, catching Ghost Rider driving away in the Hell Charger from a distance.[29][30]
7th
The councilman Roger Perez visits a construction site in Boyle Heights. However, Perez is suddenly ambushed by the Ghost Rider, who brutally murders him, after founding him guilty for his actions.[20][21]
8th
Perez's corpse is found by the construction workers on the site.[20][21]
Thomas Wright, a teacher at San Gabriel Valley High School, is tracked down to his house in Alhambra by the demonic vigilante Ghost Rider, who discovered that he was a pedophile. Ghost Rider kills him and burns down the residence.[20][21]
16th
The Ghost Rider sightings are becoming more frequent. He becomes considered as some kind of vigilante by the people of Los Angeles.[21][20]
R. Moore, D. Anderson, M. Scott, and T. Mitchell of the Aryan Brotherhood steal the crate containing Lucy Bauer. They manage to deliver the box, before being attacked by the Ghost Rider, who brutally wounds Scott. They escape as Ghost Rider follows them.[32][20]
In their getaway, they are attacked by Quake, who has been tracking them too. When Johnson attempts to question Scott, she discovers that he was already attacked and is bleeding. Before passing out from blood loss, Scott warns Quake of the presence of Ghost Rider. Suddenly, Robbie Reyes drives up and transforms into Ghost Rider as Moore fires a rocket at him. He crashes into their truck, causing a fire, and blocking Johnson from them.[32][20]
He proceeds to brutally murder Moore and Anderson, then kidnaps Mitchell, before getting in the Hell Charger and driving away. Johnson, who could do nothing but watch in horror, is forced to leave when the police arrive.[32][20]
Phil Coulson and Alphonso Mackenzie return as May is training a new team of specialist agents. She reveals the details of the Ghost Rider incident to them, and in private, tells them Quake was there. She also reveals the officials are tracking Johnson with the intention of killing her.[32][20]
Scott is visited by Johnson
Johnson breaks into M. Scott's hospital room to question him about the crate and Ghost Rider. However, before he can say much, Scott dies after warning her of Ghost Rider's terrifying nature. Johnson then escapes from the police a second time.[32][20]
Later, Coulson and Mackenzie pick up Elena Rodriguez, who starts to flirt with Mackenzie. She secretly steals some pills for Quake.[32][20]
Leo Fitz meets with Holden Radcliffe to watch the Scottish League Cup final. However, when Radcliffe steps out of the room, Aida, in her new Life-Model Decoy body, walks up to Fitz to greet him, but ultimately glitches.[32][20]
Fitz begins to panic because Radcliffe has built her body without permission and could get arrested.[32][20]
Quake continues research into the Ghost Rider in an attempt to find him. She meets Yo-Yo on a bus to receive the pills and briefly catches up with her.[32][20]
May begins to complain about the new color-coded Clearance Level system, now called the "Spectrum of Security". Simmons discovers Coulson and Mackenzie were sent to Los Angeles by May against orders.[32][20]
Investigating the crime scene, Coulson and Mackenzie discover that the crate that was being transported by the Aryans was scheduled to be delivered to the Chinatown Crew that night. They decide to operate without authorization. However, Simmons sends Melinda May and her team to stop Coulson and Mackenzie.[32][20]
Ambush on the Chinatown Crew: The box is delivered by the Aryans to the Chinatown leader, Chen, who opens the box with Lucy Bauer inside, allowing her to escape and infect him. The infection causes him to hallucinate his co-workers with demonic faces. Melinda May and her team arrive to arrest them, but Bauer infects May before fleeing.[32][20]
Ghost Rider judges Johnson
Duel at El Monte Junk and Salvage: Quake, having found Robbie Reyes' location, meets him at Canelo's Auto and Body to try to get information out of him. Reyes attempts to get her to leave unsuccessfully, and after being questioned, he transforms into Ghost Rider and attempts to kill her. Johnson manages to fight back, but Reyes pushes a shelving unit over to topple onto her as she lies on the ground. Johnson struggles to quake it to stop it falling and injuring her. The Rider stands over her and peers into her soul, but then walks away, deciding to let her live.[32][20]
Lucy Bauer visits her old house in the middle of the night, which scares the family currently living there. On her way out, she infects the father.[32][33]
21st
Robbie Reyes travels to work and briefly interacts with his co-workers. As he is working, Quake visits him with a made up story of her car engine lighting on fire, forcing Reyes to play along. When they are finally alone, they discuss the Ghost Rider. Reyes claims he is not an Inhuman, but rather something very different, and that he "sold [his] soul to the devil". When Johnson mentions Gabe Reyes, Robbie decides to attack again. They briefly duel, but Reyes knocks her out.[32][33]
As Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz are researching a bizarre invisible material, Alphonso Mackenzie brings them details on Lucy Bauer and the house incident. The three question the existence of ghosts, then Fitz and Mackenzie get a lead and go to find her, without Simmons.[32][33]
Phil Coulson and Melinda May talk to Jeffrey Mace, the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D., after a two-hour wait. They discuss Quake, and although Mace assures he forgives them for chasing her, he still says she needs to be stopped before they legitimize S.H.I.E.L.D. again. Before she leaves, May hallucinates Mace's face becoming demonic.[32][33]
Mace gives Coulson the assignment of leading a tour group, and as he and Coulson lead the tour, they briefly discuss S.H.I.E.L.D. history and Peggy Carter. May hallucinates multiple tour members becoming demonic the same way Coulson's head.[32][33]
Desperate for answers, May visits Chen in his cell and begs for a way to cure her infection. Chen only says that it is "everywhere", and suddenly bangs his head on the glass until Jemma Simmons comes and knocks him out.[32][33]
Lucy Bauer enters Momentum Labs and frees Hugo and Frederick from boxes similar to the one that held her. They blame Bauer for getting them there, and they discuss how the book that locked them away could now be used to help them. They decide to kill Eli Morrow, the one who betrayed them, and continue to free people like themselves.[32][33]
Ghost Rider gets rid of Johnson
Quake wakes up to discover Robbie Reyes tied her up, while looking for an excuse to kill her. They begin to discuss the Aryan Brotherhood, and Johnson mentions that Momentum Labs could be involved with the crate that they were transporting. Reyes realizes that this is a lead and leaves, but Johnson uses her powers to escape and follows him.[32][33]
Leo Fitz and Alphonso Mackenzie infiltrate Momentum Labs, but are attacked by Frederick. He traps Mackenzie in a machine that will turn him into one of them, but when he goes for Fitz, Robbie Reyes intervenes. Reyes transforms into Ghost Rider and murders Frederick, allowing Fitz and Quake to rescue Mackenzie. Ghost Rider grabs a picture of Lucy Bauer and the others before they were ghosts, before he walks out.[32][33]
Melinda May's infection makes her go insane so she lashes out against her team until Jeffrey Mace intervenes, revealing his powers, and knocking her out.[32][33]
Robbie Reyes picks up Daisy Johnson from the street, and tells her that he thinks that he might be the connection between everything that has been happening.[32][33]
The Watchdogs anonymously send a threatening online message, claiming to be Inhumans who will shut off more cities hour by hour if the Sokovia Accords are not shut down.[32][34]
Simmons realizes the same will happen to May in just hours if they do nothing, so Mace assigns Simmons to go to save May, and assigns Phil Coulson to Miami.[32][34]
Robbie Reyes and Quake stop for gasoline and briefly discuss Reyes' uncle, Eli Morrow, when the same blackout happens to Los Angeles. They quickly go to check on Gabe Reyes, who is about to be attacked by a gang when they arrive. The two vigilantes take down the gang members and bring Gabe home.[32][34]
At this point, Melinda May is hallucinating almost everything around her to be demonic, and after they calm her down, Simmons and Radcliffe begin figuring out how to save her life.[32][34]
Watchdogs invade the party that Elena Rodriguez is attending, looking for an Inhuman there. Yo-Yo uses her super speed to subtly disarm the Watchdogs, but her friend notices and freaks out, blowing Rodriguez's cover.[32][34]
Radcliffe and Simmons discover the source of May's hallucinations, and realize the only way to save her is to stop her heart, and then quickly bring her back to life before her body completely shuts down, which would "reset" her brain. They stop her heart as planned, but before they can defibrillate, the power goes out.[32][34]
Simmons panics and begins to perform CPR, to no avail. Radcliffe eventually uses Aida's battery to charge the defibrillator, allowing them to restart May's heart, bringing her back to life and curing her.[32][34]
Robbie Reyes and Daisy Johnson, now at the Reyes brothers' home, discuss how Robbie can recover so fast. He explains that his strong healing factor means his injuries do not last long. Robbie then heads out to make sure people are safe, as the Ghost Rider. He uses work as an excuse, not wanting Gabe to know what he truly does.[32][34]
Gabe and Johnson have a conversation after Robbie leaves, but Gabe tells her he knows of her abilities and that she is Quake. He says that he believes she is a good person, but he wants her to stay away from Reyes, to keep him surrounded by trustworthy and safe people, threatening to expose her to the public if she does not.[32][34]
Coulson receives a call from Melinda May, who tells him that he should be the one declaring S.H.I.E.L.D. an official agency, not Mace. Coulson replies saying that he is right where he belongs.[32][34]
Ellen Nadeer, a senator secretly working for the Watchdogs, speaks with her boss about S.H.I.E.L.D.. As she leaves her house, she says goodbye to her brother, an Inhuman captive who has been stuck in his Terrigenesis shell for months, as opposed to the usual mere seconds.[32][34]
April
2nd
Daisy Johnson gets injured in a confrontation with the Watchdogs while she is trying to obtain information on how they are managing to find every Inhuman they have killed. She decides to reunite with Simmons in order to get some help.[35][36]
3rd
Quake asks Simmons for help
Jemma Simmons goes to look at a new apartment opportunity for her and Leo Fitz, only to discover it was a decoy set up by Daisy Johnson. Simmons treats Johnson's injuries as they briefly catch up, before Johnson asks for help hunting the Watchdogs. When Simmons refuses, Johnson pulls a gun on her to force her to help.[35][36]
Holden Radcliffe tells Melinda May about what happened to her when they cured her infection days prior. Leo Fitz arrives and panics when he discovers Aida is helping to treat her, but Radcliffe says that she is becoming so advanced it is easy to mistake her as human. Fitz reluctantly agrees, as May has fallen for it.[35][36]
Simmons and Quake working together
Jemma Simmons and Daisy Johnson plan to steal information from Elizabeth Albee that will help them track Watchdogs. However, because of her high clearance level, Simmons simply asks Albee for the information, to Johnson's surprise. After they get the info, they find JT James is trying to find information on Inhumans, and Simmons insists that they work together in confronting him.[35][36]
They meet James at a fireworks shop, where he works, to make a deal with him. James tells them to meet him on the 2nd floor of a storage base later that night.[35][36]
Phil Coulson and Alphonso Mackenzie question Robbie Reyes about the Ghost Rider, and then decide he can help with the Momentum Labs case, letting him out so as to make a deal. They form an alliance to find answers. Reyes visits Eli Morrow for to question him, with a device relaying the conversation to the agents, but Morrow figures out he is working with Coulson. Morrow tells him about Lucy Bauer and what happened to them, and of a book that he calls "evil".[35][36]
Aida asks Holden Radcliffe why Leo Fitz is not being honest about what she actually is, having been programmed to be completely honest herself. Radcliffe does not tell her about S.H.I.E.L.D., instead just telling her it is sometimes OK to lie.[35][36]
Daisy Johnson and Jemma Simmons meet JT James at the arranged place. However, they discover it is a trap set by James and the Watchdogs, whom James/"Hellfire" is working with. Surrounded by Watchdogs, Johnson and Simmons manage to briefly distract them and then hide.[35][36]
Ghost Rider vs. Hellfire
Eventually, Hellfire finds them and attacks them with a fiery chain, when Robbie Reyes suddenly intervenes and takes the chain himself. He transforms into Ghost Rider and attempts to subdue him, but Hellfire knocks them to the lower floor. Johnson and Simmons reunite with Phil Coulson and Alphonso Mackenzie, just before Ghost Rider's flames blow up the firework shop. Reyes delivers an unconscious James to them.[35][36]
Fitz points out the stakes if Jeffrey Mace were to find out about Aida, and Simmons realizes she will have to somehow lie to Mace during her lie detector test the following day.[35][36]
4th
Coulson arrives to see Joseph Bauer, who tells him that Lucy Bauer has the Darkhold, just before he dies from her ghostly infection. Coulson decides to use Morrow against Lucy.[35][37]
Simmons confronts Mace about the "truth" of Vienna
When Jemma Simmons says she knows the truth about what happened in Vienna, Mace exempts her from any lie detector tests.[35][37]
Jeffrey Mace, whose public approval is high after his supposed heroics during the Bombing of the Vienna International Centre, becomes even more popular after he reveals his Inhuman status in a television debate with Ellen Nadeer. Nadeer also mentions that she has heard about recent incidents, one of those involving Hong Kong.[35][37]
As the team arrives, Lucy Bauer infects the prison's staff. In order to get to Eli Morrow, Fitz has to unlock all the doors in the prison, which releases a number of criminals associated with the Watchdogs.[35][37]
Johnson and May fight them, but Johnson is injured. Meanwhile, Reyes and Mackenzie fight and kill Vincent and Hugo.[35][37]
Ghost Rider after murdering Santino Noguera
Reyes rescues Morrow, but on the way out, confronts the last member of the "Fifth Street Locos" gang who had paralyzed Gabe in a paid hit, Santino Noguera. Reyes loses control, and the Ghost Rider kills the prisoner. However, Reyes' distraction unintentionally allows Bauer the time to kidnap Morrow and flee to an abandoned Roxxon Corporation power plant.[35][37]
Lucy Bauer forces Morrow to read the Darkhold, as she herself is not able to.[35][37]
Daisy Johnson picks up Gabe Reyes, because he might be in danger. After the two brothers reunite on the plane, Gabe comes to the incorrect conclusion that Robbie Reyes is a secret agent.[35][38]
Daisy Johnson, Robbie Reyes, and Gabe Reyes hide in the Containment Module. Gabe starts asking questions, so Robbie finally tells him the truth about the car crash, and how he became the Ghost Rider. Jeffrey Mace finds the fugitives, but the Ghost Rider escapes the module and overpowers Mace in a fight. Gabe manages to calm Robbie down, and Mace reluctantly agrees to let Phil Coulson use Robbie against Lucy Bauer. Leo Fitz tracks Bauer to the abandoned Roxxon power plant.[35][38]
After the team gets there, Robbie Reyes finds Lucy Bauer, who warns him that Eli Morrow craves the Darkhold's power himself, that he had created the ghosts, and that Joseph Bauer had ordered the hit on Morrow's car. Robbie then kills her.[35][38]
However, Morrow activates the machine in time and gains the power to create matter. A big shock wave runs through the power plant, trapping Coulson, Fitz, and Reyes in another dimension.[35][38][39]
Alphonso Mackenzie and Melinda May investigate the aftermath and discover Coulson and Fitz to be missing. However, they are actually right in front of them, just invisible to them, trapped in between dimensions. Eli Morrow, with his new matter-creation abilities, takes down a few S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and builds a wall to escape and block the rest off. Robbie Reyes, who is also trapped between dimensions, sees the whole thing, but is unable to interfere.[35][39]
Jeffrey Mace, Daisy Johnson, and Gabe Reyes look at footage for information on the men's disappearances, but are unable to find the slightest clue. Phil Coulson, Leo Fitz, and Robbie Reyes attempt to communicate with them, all in vain. Fitz concludes they are indeed in another dimension, one which is like a backdrop to their main dimension, takes over Alphonso Mackenzie and theorizes they are being sucked into Hell. Mace lies to everyone about where Jemma Simmons is, which leads Fitz, still invisible, to follow him. He discovers Mace's secret alliance with Ellen Nadeer, and that he lied about Simmons.[35][39]
Suddenly, the spirit which inhabits the Ghost Rider, the "Spirit of Vengeance", leaves Reyes in favor of Mackenzie. Mackenzie, influenced by this new possession and power, leaves to track Eli Morrow.[35][39]
Jemma Simmons is sent to investigate the brother of Ellen Nadeer, who has been stuck in a Terrigenesis shell for 7 months, arousing concerns that he may be a very powerful Inhuman when he finally breaks out. Simmons manages to comfort him out of his shell, which causes the other scientists to remove her from the room.[35][39]
After Johnson tracks Mackenzie to a warehouse, Reyes attempts to convince the Spirit of Vengeance to keep their deal and return to him. When Johnson gets to Mackenzie, he transforms into the Ghost Rider in front of her, however, after more persuasion, the Spirit of Vengeance returns to Reyes.[35][39]
Aida rescues Fitz and Coulson from Hell
Rescue from the Interdimensional Void: S.H.I.E.L.D. brings in Holden Radcliffe to help bring back Phil Coulson, Leo Fitz, and Robbie Reyes with the Darkhold. Radcliffe is overwhelmed by the book, so Aida offers to read it instead, after an invisible Fitz attempts to tell her to from the other dimension. Fitz admits her true nature as an android to Coulson, and Radcliffe decides to admit she is not human to Melinda May as well. After Aida learns the info, she puts together a portal between the two dimensions, which rescues Fitz and Coulson, just as Coulson is almost sucked down into Hell.[35][39]
Jones later meets with her client, Mavis, at her pizza shop Slice City, and shows her the pictures of her boyfriend cheating. Just as Mavis is about to pay Jones, Rafi walks in, and Mavis angrily offers Jones more money in return for killing him. Disgusted, Jones informs Rafi of Mavis' request, and he runs out of the store. Mavis asks Jones why she told him and why she was unwilling, pointing out that Jones is a killer, having killed before - a fact she heard on Trish Talk - which infuriates Jones. Managing restraint, she tells Mavis that she is not a murderer and leaves, spitefully taking a box of pizza with her.[41][42]
Trish Walker sings the It's Patsy theme song at a child's birthday party in exchange for a favor from the child's father, much to the delight of the kids. When she is done, she approaches the father, Kyle, and asks for the file he has promised in return. Kyle gives her a hospital file, much to the dismay of his husband. Upon perusing the file's contents, Walker finds vital information and leaves to find Jones. Unbeknown to her, she is being followed by Will Simpson.[41][42]
Walker meets with Jones on a roof where a man they know screens a film on the first Friday of every month, which Jones is currently watching. Jones tells her about the annoying clientele she has been getting lately after what happened with Kilgrave 2 years prior, as people now view her as some sort of murdering vigilante. She says that Walker is only escalating the situation by discussing it on Trish Talk, and is making it harder for her to move on, but Walker says that to move on, she needs to first face what happened, and pulls out the file from Kyle. She tells her that the file shows she was not assigned a hospital bed until 20 days after her family's car accident, and speculates that this was due to IGH experimenting on her in that time. Walker encourages her to investigate IGH more, believing that knowing what IGH did to her might help her to move on, but Jones refuses.[41][42]
Eli Morrow, who is using his abilities to build a bomb that is tearing apart space-time and causing earthquakes, captures public attention when S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives. He is alerted by his men that S.H.I.E.L.D. is coming for him. After his men begin complaining about lack of pay, he fills one of their lungs with diamonds.[45][1]
Daisy Johnson, Robbie Reyes, and Yo-Yo Rodriguez prepare to enter the facility. Rodriguez checks for traps, but accidentally sets one off, burning her quite badly. Reyes then enters alone. He finds the bomb and investigates, when Eli Morrow suddenly finds him and stabs him with a carbon shard, trapping him against the wall. Morrow pieces together that he is the Ghost Rider, and as Reyes tries to convince him against using his matter powers for evil, Phil Coulson gets in by allowing himself to be caught by the guards, while Daisy Johnson, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Holden Radcliffe, and Aida build a machine on the lower floor to send the bomb to another dimension. Coulson, Melinda May, Rodriguez, Alphonso Mackenzie, and Jeffrey Mace fight off the army.[45][1]
Ghost Rider kills Eli Morrow
Reyes transforms into Ghost Rider and manages to grab and kill Eli Morrow, just as Aida's machine activates and sends them to an unknown dimension.[45][1]
Johnson, who has been deflecting the growing earthquakes, jumps in the air several stories to let them go safely, and upon landing, the press questions her about her involvement. Jeffrey Mace publicly announces that she was never an outlaw or vigilante, but rather an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. with good intentions, clearing her name.[45][1]
Agent Nathanson is packing up Holden Radcliffe's gear when he discovers that the real Melinda May has been kidnapped by Aida, and was replaced by a Life-Model Decoy duplicate. To cover her tracks, Aida snaps his neck.[45][1]
After killing Nathanson, Aida cleans the blood stain she has and changes her clothes, then goes to the room where Agent Melinda May is being held, and administers the serum to keep her unconscious.[45][47][2]
13th
Johnson deletes the details of the night where Yo-Yo tried to get revenge on her cousin's killer
The team reunites in Jeffrey Mace's office, and Mace tells them that the Darkhold must be hidden. He orders Phil Coulson to take May and Mackenzie to transfer the Darkhold to a specific agent.[45][47][51]
Jemma Simmons and Agent Daisy Johnson investigate Vijay Nadeer by checking his social media pages. Agent Burrows tells Johnson that Jeffrey Mace wants her in his office. She goes to see him, and Mace shows her the newspapers, pointing out that the press admires her as one of the best superheroes of current times. They discuss her recent reaffiliation with S.H.I.E.L.D.[45][47]
At the Radcliffe Residence, Leo Fitz and Holden Radcliffe, with some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, arrive in order to stop Aida on Director Mace's orders. Fitz tells her to calm down, but she attacks them. As Fitz tries to stop her, she grabs him by his throat and throws him to the other room, where he discovers Nathanson's corpse.[45][47]
Ellen Nadeer having breakfast with Vijay
At home, Vijay is talking to his sister Ellen as they eat breakfast outside when a Watchdog crew suddenly arrives to take him. He realizes that his sister is behind it all as he is forced back into the house.[45][47]
Upon arriving in D.C., Simmons enters Ellen Nadeer's office to find evidence, while Jeffrey Mace relays instructions to Quake. Nadeer's assistant, Zach Bynum, welcomes Jemma Simmons. Bynum calls Tucker Shockley, who needs to talk to Ellen Nadeer. He tells Shockley that the person who arrived is the same person who attended to Vijay Nadeer in his Terrigenesis. After hanging up, Bynum attacks Simmons, but she manages to defend herself.[45][47]
Infiltration into the Playground: While Melinda May's LMD meets with the team, Aida blocks the signal in the compound and takes down the Playground system by turning off all power. Coulson, with May's LMD, goes to find the Darkhold. Aida suddenly appears, attacking them and knocking them out. After a few minutes, Coulson wakes May, explaining that he thinks that Aida's plan is to get the Darkhold. Meanwhile, Leo Fitz and Holden Radcliffe discuss Aida's behavioral change since she read the Darkhold.[45][47]
Aida raids Jeffrey Mace's office and finds the Darkhold. Upon arriving at the entrance to the Playground, Rodriguez and Mackenzie are attacked by a Quinjet controlled by Aida, when Holden Radcliffe and Leo Fitz restore the energy to the compound. Coulson and "May" leave, while Fitz, with Radcliffe standing in front, find Aida and order her to return the book.[45][47]
She attempts to flee, but Fitz reveals that he has deactivated the energy to the entrances, preventing her escape. Aida is ambushed as Mackenzie cuts off her head with the Shotgun-Axe.[45][47]
A member of the Watchdogs crew keeps an eye on Vijay Nadeer. Shockley arrives to kill him, but Nadeer retaliates with his new Inhuman powers. As Quake fights the Watchdogs, Vijay meets with Mace and Ellen. Simmons tells him to go with them, but he decides to go with his sister instead.[45][47]
Escaping in a helicopter, Ellen Nadeer betrays her brother and shoots him in the stomach before throwing him into the sea. When he lands in the water, Vijay Nadeer undergoes an unprecedented second Terrigenesis.[45][47]
Leo Fitz picks up Aida's head and hides it from the team so he can investigate what really happened to her.[45][47][2]
Radcliffe and Aida discuss how May's LMD will help them to obtain the Darkhold
Meanwhile at the Radcliffe Residence, Radcliffe talks to a second version of Aida. He tells her that he is upset at their recent failure to obtain the Darkhold, having programmed the first Aida to steal it for him in secret.[45][47]
14th
Malcolm Ducasse wakes Jones up in her apartment to prepare for the day's meetings with potential clients.[41][42]
The duo meet with the potential clients. One of them wants to find her son, whom she put up for adoption years ago. Another is concerned about conspiracy theories of lizard-people taking over. A man calling himself the "Whizzer" claims that someone is trying to kill him because he has super-speed powers, which Jones is skeptical of. Afterwards, Ducasse says he wants to take the adopted son case, but Jones is concerned it will just attract more sob-story clients. He writes down her advice, but Jones points out she is not giving him lessons.[41][42]
Another client arrives, Pryce Cheng, who tells them his desire to absorb Alias Investigations and hire Jones. Jones refuses, saying he just wants to eliminate the competition, which Cheng does not deny, but he replies that if she does not accept his offer, he will run her out of business.[41][42]
Cheng leaves and Jones attempts to follow him, but is cut off by a large fridge being moved in front of her into an apartment. The people carrying it are Oscar Arocho and his son, Vido, who are moving into Apartment 6F, previously belonging to Robyn. Seeing them struggling, Jones uses her super-strength to move the fridge with ease, much to Vido's awe.[41][42]
In the Playground, Agent Crawford checks Aida's head as Melinda May's LMD talks to Glenn Talbot about the attack on Mace. Simmons joins the conversation, and Talbot sends May to interrogate Yuri Zaikin so they can get some answers.[53][52]
Meanwhile, at the Radcliffe Residence, Leo Fitz and Holden Radcliffe also discuss the attack. Fitz tells Radcliffe that he should not come to work at S.H.I.E.L.D. for some time after his blunder with Aida led to Nathanson's death, before leaving the home.[53][52]
After Fitz's departure, Radcliffe and Aida discuss their plan, and how the Life-Model Decoy they have planted replacing Melinda May is programmed to be unaware of her true nature and of her mission to retrieve the Darkhold. Radcliffe also worries about the fact that they cannot seem to stabilize the real May's condition so that she can remain calm and sedated, programming her a virtual simulation so she can believe she is relaxing on a beach.[2]
May wakes up and tries to escape before being stopped by Aida, who sedates her once again.[53][52]
"May" and Quake interrogate Zaikin, who reveals that he was not the only terrorist sent to kill Mace.[53][52]
As the team fly in the director's Quinjet, the vehicle is attacked in the air and Burrows falls to his death before the plane crashes, killing agent McCafferty in the process. Coulson, Mackenzie, and Mace are unharmed and realize that the Quinjet's systems were hacked. Figuring out that they are in danger, they decide to leave, but Jeffrey Mace insists that they must first find Burrows' body.[53][52]
At the Playground, Talbot and the others cannot locate the missing S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. After Quake, Simmons, and May leave Mace's office, Talbot reports the investigation to the president, telling him that they do not know whether "the package" is safe.[53][52]
Fitz returns to the Playground, and reunites with Simmons, but they soon fall out about his involvement in Aida's design. They put the argument aside for the time-being so that Fitz can help her to locate their friends.[53][52]
Talbot carries on Yuri Zaikin's interrogation but cannot get any information from him. Shortly after, Simmons discovers that she has access to something called "Project Patriot", and she and Fitz ask Talbot about the significance of the suitcase Burrows used to carry around for the director.[52]
Talbot reveals the truth about Project Patriot to Fitz and Simmons
Glenn Talbot reveals that Mace is not really an Inhuman. Instead, he gained his super strength from injections of a serum inspired by Calvin Zabo's Formula, which Burrows carried in the suitcase to administer to Mace regularly.[53][52]
Meanwhile, Coulson, Mace, and Mackenzie discover that the terrorists are using HYDRA equipment. Mace reiterates his insistence on finding Burrows' corpse, but the terrorists already retrieved it, as well as the suitcase. Phil Coulson and Alphonso Mackenzie attack the terrorists, but are surprised to see that Mace simply seizes the suitcase and flees, without fighting alongside them. He is stopped by a terrorist who shoots him in the leg, before being killed by Coulson and Mackenzie, who both now realize the truth behind Mace's powers.[53][52]
After obtaining the location of the crash site from Zaikin by scaring him with Aida's decapitated head, May's LMD and Quake arrive at the site just in time to help Phil Coulson, Alphonso Mackenzie, and Jeffrey Mace to defeat the Watchdogs. The team manage to take down all the terrorists before returning to the Playground.[53][52]
May's LMD realizes that she is an android after a wound from the battle opened up her skin and revealed her substructure.[53][52]
Fitz downloads the data of Aida's head on his phone to keep working with the data in secret.[53][52]
In his office, Mace apologizes to Coulson, revealing the truth behind his "heroics" at the Bombing of the Vienna International Centre and his work with Talbot in the following months, and he concludes by offering his resignation. Coulson declines, however, and Mace agrees to remain the official director of S.H.I.E.L.D., while Coulson will take leadership of the field operations.[53][52]
17th
Aida and Holden Radcliffe discuss May's fate, and Radcliffe tells Aida that he does not intend to kill May unless it is an absolute necessity.[53][2]
In the new simulation, Melinda May believes that she wakes up once again and manages to get free of her bonds. She is found by Aida who chases her through the Radcliffe Residence. Eventually, May discovers that she is still in a simulation where she has been given someone to fight, corresponding better to May's nature than the previous relaxing environment. Aida informs May that she has attempted to escape in this Framework simulation several times and got further and further each time, but that she keeps resetting May's memory every time she catches her.[53][2]
Alphonso Mackenzie receives a text message from Nicole and informs Rodriguez that he cannot join the mission and that he has something else to do.[53][2]
Leo Fitz still struggles to find answers regarding the reason behind Aida turning on them and attacking, and talks to "May" about the influence that the Darkhold could have had on her.[53][2]
Jeffrey Mace, Glenn Talbot, and Daisy Johnson attend the public hearing prior to the signing of the Sokovia Accords in the presence of Nadeer, while Phil Coulson and Rodriguez try to infiltrate the senator's office. Nadeer confronts Johnson about her Inhuman nature and her illegal activities while she was fighting the Watchdogs as the vigilante nicknamed Quake. She then reveals that she is aware that her office is currently being broken into, just as Coulson and Rodriguez are spotted and arrested, which leads to S.H.I.E.L.D. being put under public investigation. This makes Coulson and the others think that there must be a mole within S.H.I.E.L.D.[53][2]
Jemma Simmons and May's LMD discuss the leak, and Simmons confronts Fitz about his work on Aida's first version's severed head which he had kept and secretly worked on. Simmons thinks that the footage from the head's eye camera could have provided Nadeer with the intel, but Fitz refutes this, informing the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that he investigated the real cause of Aida's insubordination and finally found it: Holden Radcliffe himself.[53][2]
A team is sent to the Radcliffe Residence, where May's LMD had gone first to confront Radcliffe about her own true nature. The LMD realizes that she cannot go against Radcliffe's secret programming to retrieve the Darkhold, neither can she overcome her programming preventing her from attacking Radcliffe or even disclosing her true identity to the others.[53][2]
The S.H.I.E.L.D. team finally breaks in and arrests Radcliffe, who is locked in a Containment Module at the Playground.[53][2]
Once he returns, Alphonso Mackenzie tells Yo-Yo Rodriguez about his daughter, Hope Mackenzie, who died 11 years ago, only four days old. He explains that went to see his ex-girlfriend Nicole to support her, as the next day would have been Hope's birthday.[53][2]
Fitz later visits Radcliffe and confronts him about lying to everyone. However, Fitz figures out that the person he is speaking to is not human, but a Life-Model Decoy, and he shoots the android in the head, revealing its true nature. The real Radcliffe watches the whole scene through the LMD's eye camera while he makes an alliance with Ellen Nadeer and the Watchdogs.[53][2]
As the first change to the Framework's rewritten history, May succeeds in rescuing Katya Belyakov
In order to prevent May from escaping the simulation, Radcliffe reprograms the Framework world to allow her to live a rewritten life: a life where she can look back happily on the Rescue on Bahrain, having managed to save Katya Belyakov instead of killing her, May's greatest regret.[53][2]
21st
Jeri Hogarth gives an acceptance speech for an award she has received, and talks about empowering women. She then sits down with her business partners, Steven Benowitz and Linda Chao. Benowitz says they are going to settle the lawsuit against their firm, which is being filed by Hogarth's former assistant Pam for having gone to prison for Hogarth and supposedly being harassed by her, exploiting her position as her boss. Hogarth disagrees and says Pam was very consenting and never harassed, but Chao highlights that Pam has a strong case. She talks about how Hogarth's actions stained her and Benowitz's good names and the trouble they are going through trying to restore their reputation.[41][42]
Coulson immediately understands that the attackers are looking for the Darkhold, which he gave to Billy for safekeeping, under Holden Radcliffe's instructions. He then welcomes Sam aboard the Zephyr One.[54][51]
Meanwhile, at the Playground, Leo Fitz repairs Holden Radcliffe's Life-Model Decoy and interrogates him with Alphonso Mackenzie and Jemma Simmons in order to determine where the original Radcliffe is - though they discover that the android's programming is too sophisticated for them to break into. Radcliffe's LMD then angers Fitz by referring to Fitz's abusive father, stating that Radcliffe knew him. Enraged, Fitz unplugs the android and leaves the room.[54][51]
Meanwhile, Billy Koenig is brought into a dark room inside a submarine, where Radcliffe is also being kept, faking imprisonment so as to gain Billy's trust and extract the whereabouts of the Darkhold.[54][51]
However, as Koenig insists in front of the Superior, the leader of the Watchdogs himself, that he is willing to die regardless of any torture he might receive, Radcliffe decides not to torture him, but to look into his mind using some Framework equipment.[54][51]
Daisy Johnson manages to identify Leo Babikov, one of the Watchdogs who attacked the Koenig brothers, proving that Radcliffe has allied with the organization, and thus with Senator Ellen Nadeer. Sam Koenig then reveals that he knows about the Darkhold because Billy gave it to him, and he then gave it to another Koenig agent, LT Koenig.[54][51]
S.H.I.E.L.D. takes LT Koenig aboard the Zephyr One where she talks to Coulson and the others, explaining "Operation Hot Potato": passing the Darkhold back and forth between the three Koenig agents before hiding it in the Labyrinth, a secured S.H.I.E.L.D. facility.[54][51]
Since Billy is the Koenig who had the Darkhold right before hiding it, Radcliffe is able to locate the book from studying his memories. Despite this, Ivanov does not trust Radcliffe's methods and orders that Billy Koenig should be interrogated to confirm their intel. However, after a brief confrontation during which Aida beats several Watchdogs and reveals her android nature, Ivanov agrees to head to the Labyrinth immediately.[54][51]
While talking to Simmons, Leo Fitz figures out that Radcliffe's LMD does not run on pure computer programming: he is equipped with a Quantum Brain created by Aida with knowledge from the Darkhold.[54][51]
Horrified, Fitz, Simmons, and Mackenzie realize that Radcliffe and Aida created another Quantum Brain inside another LMD: one which has replaced Melinda May.[54][51]
Kidnapping of Billy Koenig: Phil Coulson, Daisy Johnson, May's LMD, and the Koenig siblings arrive at the Labyrinth and retrieve the Darkhold right before the Watchdogs attack. When May's LMD finally takes the Darkhold, her secret programming takes over and she refuses to hand it over to Coulson, threatening to kill him. Coulson figures out that he is dealing with an android, and May's LMD is quickly taken down by Johnson, who was warned by Fitz and Simmons. S.H.I.E.L.D. then fights the Watchdogs but lose the Darkhold, which is taken by Holden Radcliffe.[54][51]
Meanwhile, Ivanov reveals that he seeks to kill Coulson, claiming that he is at the center of all the alien-related phenomena which have occurred in the past several years.[54][51]
27th
At the Playground, Director Jeffrey Mace learns from Jemma Simmons that the super-serum that he has been using to pose as an Inhuman could endanger his health, and that he must stop using it. Having to step away from the field, Mace still serves as the public face of S.H.I.E.L.D., arranging the relocation of Inhumans to avoid the Watchdogs.[54][55]
Karen Page walks by Matt Murdock's apartment and knocks, with the faint hope that maybe he might have returned. With no response, she enters the apartment, picking up the mail left for him, and thinks about when Murdock revealed to her that he was Daredevil. Foggy Nelson arrives and Page explains that Murdock is being evicted, but she wants help convincing the landlord to keep the apartment. Nelson says that they need to face the facts: Murdock is almost certainly dead, and they need to let the apartment go. Page says that while it is irrational, she can just feel that he is likely alive, and Nelson agrees just to pay for this month's rent.[56][57]
Coulson and Mackenzie convince Kitsworth to arrange a meeting with Radcliffe, so that they can find out Melinda May's location and rescue her.[54][55]
S.H.I.E.L.D. sends a team to investigate Tucker Shockley, unaware of Shockley's true nature. He is arrested and brought aboard the Zephyr One. He prepares to explode again, before being ejected just before he can take down the plane.[54][55]
In Spain, Radcliffe attends the meeting with Kitsworth and persuades her that he has a way to save her: the Framework, a whole virtual rebuilding of the real world, built by Aida, thanks to the knowledge found in the Darkhold. Radcliffe, much to Coulson's dismay, takes Kitsworth with him to connect her to the Framework.[54][55]
Shockley is captured
Kidnapping of Jeffrey Mace: A field mission is planned to capture Shockley, and the team carry it out, successfully trapping him in a containment sphere designed by Leo Fitz. Mace, however, is taken down and captured by the Watchdogs while ensuring the other agents' escape.[54][55]
Agnes Kitsworth's consciousness is uploaded into the Framework. She wakes up in a private place located away from civilization, where she can live completely in peace, even if her body perishes in the real world.[54][55]
Trish Walker finishes a Trish Talk broadcast and talks with her friend and business associate, Ian. They talk about the sliding ratings of the show, and he urges her to go back to discussing lifestyle topics to save it and get a bigger reach.[59][42]
Jessica Jones takes pictures from afar of Pryce Cheng meeting with clients, hoping to find dirt on him, but he notices her hiding.[59][42]
Malcolm Ducasse is fixing up the Alias Investigations Office when Walker arrives to wait with him for Jones. When Jones arrives, Walker says she found something of hers, and places a box on Jones's desk. Jones is angry, and when Ducasse asks why, she explains that the box contains her family's ashes. Ducasse leaves, and Walker says they need to honor the other victims and look for IGH, but Jones accuses Walker of only wanting ratings for her show. She refuses to investigate what happened as she is desperate to forget the crash, and insists Walker let it go, saying that if she does not, she will have to cut her out of her life.[59][42]
Trish Walker leaves Jones' office, and is again secretly watched by Will Simpson, dressed a black hoodie. Simpson takes an inhaler.[59][42]
Jessica Jones researches the client she photographed visiting Pryce Cheng in his office, and finds the man is looking for his missing dog despite him winning custody over the pet when he divorced his wife. She takes out the boxes of her family's ashes and looks at them while drinking.[59][42]
Ivanov's investigation on Coulson
The agents fly to the new destination, where they find the suit, but not the Patriot. They also discover a wall covered with newspaper articles and photographs retracing the life of a single individual: Phil Coulson.[54][60]
Jeffrey Mace, who is imprisoned in a naval base in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, manages to break free of his chains and tries to escape, but is soon found by Ivanov, the Superior. Without his super strength, Mace is quickly overpowered by his captor and brought back to his cell, where the Superior interrogates him.[54][60]
The Superior then leaves the cell with Aida, and tells her that each one of them has a purpose in life, even "filth" like Mace.[54][60]
The S.H.I.E.L.D. team heads to Russia, while Alphonso Mackenzie and Fitz argue about the latter's responsibility for their recent problems. Coulson remembers the time he was sent on a mission with Melinda May to retrieve an 0-8-4 many years ago, and how it might connect to the Superior.[54][60]
Meanwhile, Phil Coulson and his team finds the same safe that he and May had cracked in the past, and they discover the skeletons of several SVR soldiers, with one skull containing a ringing cell phone. Coulson takes the call and finally speaks with the Superior, who blames Coulson for the deaths of the soldiers from his unit in 2003. Ivanov then tells Coulson that Mace and May will suffer the same fate of his former colleagues. After hanging up, he tells Mace about his belief that Coulson having engineered all alien-related events on Earth in the past few years.[54][60]
The S.H.I.E.L.D. team returns on the Zephyr One, where they try to locate Mace and May. Using the intel provided by Ivanov, they learn about the Krasnoyarsk Krai naval base. They immediately fly to the base and begin their infiltration, with Fitz and Simmons taking over the communications room while Coulson, Johnson, and Mackenzie search for their captured friends.[54][60]
Jessica Jones wakes up at her desk, with Malcolm Ducasse in her kitchen, who gives her a package that has been sent by Cheng Consulting Management. Jones answers an urgent knock at the door, only to find the man who previously visited her for help, "Whizzer", who is spouting more stories of people trying to kill him, but she shuts the door in his face. Jones opens the package from Cheng, which contains all his information and message saying, "I am an open book," telling her to give up trying to find leverage on him as there is none. Jones also realizes a potential client has hired Cheng instead of her, and becomes angry. She remembers Cheng's client's missing dog, and realizes she can steal a client from Cheng in return.[59][42]
Coulson soon encounters Ivanov, who proceeds to tell him the story of his unit from 2003, and how they were executed for not being able to retrieve the 0-8-4. However, Coulson dismisses Ivanov's speech as irrelevant,since he only cares about finding Mace and May. He then lets Johnson fight Ivanov while he leaves to continue searching. Coulson and Mackenzie find Mace, who is being beaten up by several Watchdogs.[54][60]
Robert Coleman comments on the Trish Talk website again.[43][44]
Though Ivanov is a tough opponent, Johnson is able to overpower him with her Inhuman powers, and buries him under a pile of rubble.[54][60]
Meanwhile, Fitz and Simmons learn that Aida is present at the base. Simmons decides to find her with Agent Davis while Fitz remains in the communication room.[54][60]
The Framework is updated as each of them enter, removing their biggest regret from their lives, and thus altering the Framework's history from those points. The Framework's history is now fully created and updated, including the pivotal Cambridge Incident.[54][61]
Nick Fury approaches Phil Coulson soon after he leaves high school and asks him to become part of S.H.I.E.L.D.. However, Coulson refuses, because he feels unready to accept that much responsibility.[65][66]
Victoria Hand meets a young Grant Ward, who is being held in a juvenile detention facility in Massachusetts for burning down his family's home. Seeing his potential, Hand recruits him into S.H.I.E.L.D., convincing him that he can do something for the greater good.[65][67]
Eva Belyakov, a member of the Inhuman community in Afterlife, goes rogue after Jiaying refuses to allow Belyakov's unstable daughter, Katya, to go through Terrigenesis. She takes with her an assortment of stolen Terrigen Crystals, which she uses to transform Katya without the proper mental conditioning. Katya develops sensory manipulating powers and a hunger for pain. The mother-daughter duo travel to Bahrain, where they create chaos by using Katya's powers to sap the emotional energies from local civilians.[2][58][67]
S.H.I.E.L.D. takes notice of Eva Belyakov's activities and tracks her down to Manama, Bahrain. A team led by Melinda May is dispatched to analyze Belyakov for the Index; they are unaware of Katya's involvement or powers. Eva and Katya assume control of a group of gangsters and hold the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. team, minus May, hostage within a warehouse. Before breaking in, Melinda May calls Andrew Garner in order to say goodbye if anything bad happens to her. May breaks in, managing to successfully kill Eva and the gangsters, saving Katya and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. May does not realize that Katya was also Inhuman.[2][58][67]
As S.H.I.E.L.D. loses credibility, the sleeper agents of HYDRA within S.H.I.E.L.D. take advantage of the situation and reveal themselves to the real world, and a war begins between the two factions.[58]
The government authorize HYDRA as the new agency of defense and espionage. HYDRA begins a campaign of hate against the Inhumans, and take control, establishing a new world order. The massacre is covered up as an accident.[58]
2012 (Framework)
May
22nd
Sick of the world's situation, the Patriot assembles many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents willing to fight against the new world order. Among the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are Grant Ward and Billy Koenig.[64]
2013 (Framework)
June
1st
Coulson goes through a divorce when his wife believes he is going crazy as he theorizes about the world not being correct.[64]
Billy Koenig uncovers the location of a Strategic Scientific Reserve facility known as the "Playground". After giving the base's location to the Patriot, Koenig is killed.[64][71]
2016 (Framework)
April
1st
HYDRA organizes a parade for Felix Blake because of his Humans First advocacy.[58]
S.H.I.E.L.D. liberates a Quinjet for their resistance movement.[64][72]
June
May 2016 Calendar Page
Phil Coulson keeps a "May 2016" calendar page, believing there is something special about it. Unknowingly, it is his subconscious remembering parts of his life in the real world; recalling the significance of the name "May".[58]
December
11th
Holden Radcliffe receives a prize for his work on trying to find an Inhuman cure. He is never seen again after.[64]
2017 (Framework)
April
29th
Skye asks HYDRA for cohabitation permission, to allow her and Grant Ward to live together. The permission is granted. However, Ward turns down the offer, saying that he needs more time. His true motive is to hide the truth from her, that he is a member of the Resistance.[58]
Real World
While their communications are briefly cut, Simmons figures out that Aida fled with the submarine. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents finally regather and Coulson orders them to return to the Playground, despite not rescuing Melinda May.[54][60]
"LMD detected"
Back at base, Simmons struggles to understand the timetable of the mission, feeling that something does not seem right. While sharing these feelings with Fitz, she receives an alert from a Life-Model Decoy detector in the base which indicates that four agents have apparently been replaced by androids while battling the Watchdogs in Russia. Simmons is led to believe that this is Coulson, Mace, Johnson, and Mackenzie.[54][60]
Meanwhile, Aida retrieves Ivanov, who is barely alive following his fight with Quake.[54][60]
Aida proceeds with her plan to have someone protecting the Framework while she tries to make herself human. She cuts Ivanov into pieces, promising the preservation of his mind.[54][61]
Meanwhile at the Playground, Jemma Simmons and "Leo Fitz" try to keep calm after finding out about four LMDs infiltrating the base. Simmons does not know that Johnson is not an LMD, but one of the four LMDs is actually Fitz.[54][61]
Mace's LMD talks with the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team
Coulson's LMD approaches them and tells them that they need to bring all Inhumans to the base, saying that it is to protect them from the Watchdogs. In reality, he is planning to execute them at the request of the Superior and Aida. Mace's LMD comes along with Daisy Johnson, claiming he is healed and ready for the next mission.[54][61]
Mack's LMD and Johnson contact Yo-Yo Rodriguez and order her to get ready for being collected.[54][61]
Inside the director's office, the recently reactivated May LMD is shocked to find out that Coulson has also been replaced by an LMD copy.[54][61]
Late into the night, Simmons and Fitz walk through the Playground, and a hidden LMD detector is triggered. The two realize that one of them must be an LMD, and Simmons forces Fitz to cut his wrist to prove he does not have a substructure. When blood begins to pour out, she panics as she realizes she has just got her boyfriend to slice an artery. She approaches him to help, only for Fitz to turn around and attack her, knocking her out and revealing himself to have been an LMD all along.[54][61]
Meanwhile, Holden Radcliffe is brought back to the real world by Aida after spending 24 hours in the Framework, and he asks her why there were changes to the reality of the Framework while he was in there.[54][61]
Aida reveals that the changes happened due to the recent uploading of the consciousnesses of Phil Coulson, Jeffrey Mace, Alphonso Mackenzie, and Leo Fitz, and thus the Framework being adapted to accommodate them. Radcliffe is concerned at Aida's actions, saying that she should never have changed the reality of the Framework with him being inside, because it could have caused him severe brain damage. He worries further when she reveals that the four LMDs she sent to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. are ready to kill in order to complete their missions.[54][61]
When Simmons wakes, Fitz's LMD discusses Fitz's desire to marry her and settle down. Simmons is pleased to hear this, but does not fall for the LMD's attempts to bring her over to his side. She manages to escape by destroying his neck and stabbing him several times to incapacitate him.[54][61]
Daisy Johnson accidentally finds several copies of herself in the Containment Modules, to her horror. She realizes that the base has been already infiltrated by some LMDs, but she does not know which of her friends were replaced. Johnson dresses as one of the LMDs and hides herself among the fleet.[54][61]
Alphonso Mackenzie's LMD enters the module with the intention to kill Johnson. He spots an LMD with her clothing imperfect, and believes it to be the real Johnson. As he moves to attack, however, the real Johnson assaults him from behind, defeating him and running away.[54][61]
Johnson reunites with Simmons
Johnson and Simmons meet, and are terrified that the other is lying and is secretly an LMD. Johnson quakes her, proving that she is not one, as they cannot replicate Inhuman powers, and simultaneously proving Simmons is also real as she feels the vibrations of her bones. The two embrace with huge relief, and decide to fight back against the LMDs and rescue their friends.[54][61]
Aida shows Radcliffe the new body she is building for the Superior, and tells him how she is starting to know the feelings of human behavior, but cannot understand it with logic. She also explains that her two main orders are to protect the Framework, and to protect Radcliffe's life, but that that creates a paradox in her programming. She sees them as a contradiction, because he might become a major threat to the Framework if one day he regrets its creation. Aida kills Radcliffe and submits him into the Framework where his consciousness will be preserved, even if his body has perished, to fix the paradox by keeping him safe in a place where he cannot threaten the Framework.[54][61]
The base is locked down as Mace's LMD and Coulson's LMD make the agents believe that Johnson and Simmons are LMDs that are trying to destroy the Playground.[54][61]
30th
Real World
Johnson fights Mackenzie and Coulson's LMDs
Simmons and Johnson use sleeping gas to knock out the human agents and prove that they are not the LMDs, but Mace, Mackenzie, and Coulson are. A battle ensues between Mace's LMD and Johnson, who manages to destroy him. Johnson is then attacked by Coulson and Mackenzie's LMDs. She uses her powers to attack them, shattering Mackenzie's LMD completely, and escaping from Coulson. Simmons reunites with her and convinces Agents Davis, Piper, Fisher, and Prince that she and Johnson are not LMDs. Together, they prepare to use the Zephyr One to escape the compound and rescue their friends.[54][61]
Framework
The Hydra Observer newspaper publishes an article titled "The Inhumans Next Door, Are Your Neighbors Harboring Husks?"[54][58]
Real World
Johnson and Simmons are stopped by May's LMD, whose orders, given by Coulson's LMD, are to blow up the compound with everyone inside if necessary.[54][61]
May's LMD helps the agents escape by blowing up both herself and Coulson's LMD
However, May's LMD realizes that the order goes against her programming to protect them, and lets the agents through to escape. As Simmons, Johnson, and the other agents start to escape from the base in Zephyr One, Coulson's LMD arrives at the exit in pursuit. May's LMD reveals that she let them go, and as he attempts to move past her, she ignites an explosion to destroy the LMDs and allow the agents to get away. The blast destroys the entire hangar of the Playground, but the Zephyr flies out safely.[54][61]
Vijay Nadeer is arrested by HYDRA while trying to obtain Terrigen Crystals for the Resistance.[54][58]
An Inhuman child is arrested near a market by HYDRA.[54][58]
Real World
In the air following their escape from the wreckage of the Playground, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, along with Yo-Yo Rodriguez, plan to submit Daisy Johnson and Jemma Simmons into the Framework in a neural link so they can find and rescue their friends.[54][61]
Framework
Daisy Johnson enters the Framework, replacing the former virtual avatar of herself. She wakes in the bath confused, and receives a text message from Pinsky, who tells her to wake up her boyfriend because they have an assignment.[54][61]
Eventually, Ivanov awakes, seemingly finding his body repaired and able to move again. Suspecting her tampering, he confronts Aida and tries to attack her, reminding her that he did not want his mind meddled with. Aida calmly informs him of what has transpired, explaining that his body is mechanical, while his mind is not. She shows him his own severed head and notes that his strength has now been enhanced. Aida explains that she learned how to do this by reading the Darkhold, and tells Ivanov that she needs him to protect the Framework, stating that despite being a machine, Ivanov can still feel emotion from his mind - an ability she intends to find for herself very soon.[54][61]
Framework
Believing her "boyfriend" is Lincoln Campbell, alive in the Framework, Johnson leaves the bathroom and approaches him, only to discover that it is the virtual avatar of Grant Ward. Shocked, she instinctively tries to use her powers against him, only to realize that in the Framework, she has not yet received her powers. Ward calls her Skye, and asks her who texted,. She attempts to answer without arousing suspicion, giving a vague response, but Ward deduces that it was Pinsky. Johnson sees a picture of her Framework "Skye" self and Ward together, looking happy, then Ward hands over her HYDRA badge, who, in this virtual recreation of the world, took over control years prior.[54][58]
HYDRA statue at the Triskelion
Johnson and Ward travel to the Triskelion, and the news on the radio discusses the arrest of the Inhuman child that morning. Johnson is shocked at the new reality Aida and Holden Radcliffe have built.[54][58]
Johnson uses HYDRA's servers to search for Lincoln Campbell, only to find out that he died during experimentation. She also discovers, to her dismay, that Jemma Simmons has died in the virtual reality years ago. Melinda May then approaches Johnson and tells her that she needs to attend a meeting.[54][58]
Jemma Simmons wakes up in the Framework, replacing her avatar, who was buried. She claws her way out of the ground, discovering that in the virtual reality she had been murdered. Simmons receives help from a woman driving past the closed off zone of the massacre. The woman lets Simmons into her car for a ride to Washington, D.C., and Simmons beings to realize how the history of the real world has been changed in the Framework. The woman stops the car when she sees that HYDRA's patrols are doing a check on the freeway. She tells Simmons that she needs her ID, and Simmons finds one in her pocket, but when the woman sees that it is a S.H.I.E.L.D. ID, she forces Simmons to leave her car in fear.[54][58]
Johnson attends a meeting where they are informed that "Jason Rajan", a potential Inhuman with possible links to the Resistance, has been captured. Johnson recognizes him as Vijay Nadeer from the real world. Melinda May reveals that the assignment has been given to her and Ward.[54][58]
Interrogation begins on "Rajan", but he denies everything that Johnson asks.May texts Johnson saying that she needs to be more persuasive. Because she knows his real name is Vijay Nadeer, Johnson reveals that Rajan's ID is fake, and asks him if there is a mole within HYDRA who helped him obtain such a convincing ID. She also reveals his real name: Vijay Nadeer. Nadeer starts to panic, and before he can reveal that Ward is the mole, Ward knocks him out.[54][58]
Simmons enters a coffee shop, but on her way out she is stopped by two HYDRA agents due to her rough and questionable appearance. When they discover that she is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who died some time ago, they attempt to arrest her, but Simmons manages to defeat them and escape in their car.[54][58]
He states that it all started after the Rescue in Bahrain in 2008, when S.H.I.E.L.D. allowed an Inhuman girl to remain as a citizen in their country as an act of goodwill, but it all resulted in a tragic incident in Cambridge that killed hundreds of students. He explains that eventually S.H.I.E.L.D. was shut down and HYDRA revealed itself to the world, presenting a new world order preventing further Inhuman incidents like the one in Cambridge.[54][58]
One of Coulson's students, Burnell, asks Coulson if it is true that HYDRA came from Nazis, but Coulson denies it, saying that HYDRA's true origin comes from centuries ago. He is interrupted when two HYDRA agents enter to take one of his students, Chris Adler, with them. Coulson lets them take Adler so as to show his supposed loyalty to HYDRA.[54][58]
Meanwhile, May enters the interrogation room to wake up Nadeer, who recognizes her as the one at fault for the Cambridge Incident, having letting the girl live. She orders "Skye" to take him to "the Doctor". Johnson takes Nadeer with her and asks him about the rescue in Bahrain, finding out that in the virtual reality, May never killed the girl. Nadeer distracts her and tries to escape, but is apprehended by the Doctor's agents. Johnson is surprised when Fitz enters, but she notices that he is nothing like the Fitz she knows.[54][58]
Simmons uses the servers from the HYDRA agents' car to find Johnson and Fitz, but she discovers that Fitz's data is hidden from the public. However, she manages to find Coulson's details, and leaves to find him at his school.[54][58]
Simmons tries to remind Coulson of his real world story
Simmons visits Coulson and talks to him, but he does not recognize her. She tries to explain that this world is not real, and tells him of his life in the real world, especially after she notices hints of his real life in his office. Simmons brings up the subject of Tahiti, and how it is "a magical place," but he claims not to believe her words, and forces her to leave after she shows him her S.H.I.E.L.D. badge.[54][58]
Simmons exits the school and meets Burnell, who is vandalizing her car with graffiti stating "HYDRA LIES". They talk about HYDRA and how Coulson is a HYDRA supporter, but Simmons tells him that Coulson used to fight HYDRA, more than anyone else. Burnell regrets spray painting Simmons' car, and gives her his car to make up for it.[54][58]
Coulson calls HYDRA after Simmons leaves, and reports her as a subversive, due to her S.H.I.E.L.D. ID.[54][58]
HYDRA's D.W.A.R.F.s take surveillance photos of Simmons. The pictures are sent to HYDRA servers.[54][58][64]
Coulson starts to think over all the things Simmons told him. He looks through paraphernalia he has kept over the last few years that he felt had strange significance he could not explain, like the article reporting on Doctor Winslow's capture, a drawing he made of an eagle, a leaflet for a string quartet in the Burkhart Theater in Portland (a glimpse of his beloved Audrey Nathan), a May page from the 2016 calendar, a ticket to Tahiti, and a page on which he had compulsively written, "It's a magical place."[54][58]
Real World
Angry at Pryce Cheng for his threats and arrogance, Jessica Jones goes to confront him. Cheng is meeting with the client looking for his dog, and she arrives during the meeting walking the dog, Felipe, in herself, explaining that she found it at his ex-wife's boyfriend's place. Cheng's client gets angry at him, saying Cheng had told him that he had already gone to look there and found nothing, but Cheng defends himself, saying the boyfriend would not let him in. Jones tells the client she can go to lengths Cheng will not and hands him her card as he goes to leave.[59][42]
Attack on Pryce Cheng: Cheng gets in her way when she attempts to leave, and provokes her with taunts about being a killer and her family's deaths. She knocks him to the floor and warns him to stay away from her and her clients, when he pulls out a taser. It has no effect on her due to her resilience, and she throws him through a glass door in anger. Jones goes to attack him further but then stops herself. She is restrained by security arriving on the scene as Cheng's co-workers call the police, and Cheng spitefully calls her the "weakest human being [he has] ever met".[59][42]
Framework
Daisy Johnson arrives at the park where she and Simmons were supposed to meet earlier that day. She finds Simmons, who is running from HYDRA agents, but before they can escape, Grant Ward stops them and confronts "Skye" about what is going on. Ward asks them if they are allies of the Resistance, and Skye insists that they are not. Ward surprises them, suddenly revealing he is a sleeper agent himself, secretly working for S.H.I.E.L.D. within HYDRA (the opposite to his real world counterpart), and he helps them to escape.[54][58]
Melinda May talks to the Doctor
Melinda May informs Leo Fitz that Simmons escaped, and tells him she thinks Simmons received help from the same person that made the fake ID for Vijay Nadeer. Fitz asks May for the images taken by the D.W.A.R.F.s, but May replies that the director herself ordered the intel to be given only to her.[54][58]
Simmons and Johnson discuss the history of the Framework, then they try to use the backdoor device they created to escape the virtual reality, only to realize that Aida destroyed their way out.[54][58]
Fitz visits Madame Hydra in her office. He asks her for the pictures of Simmons, but she refuses to give them to him, saying that she needs him to finish Project Looking Glass. They share a kiss.[54][58]
Johnson approaches Coulson in his car as he is leaving the school. She talks to him about his life in the real world, and he finally recovers some details from his real life, remembering her enough to call her "Daisy".[54][58]
Jessica Jones is released from the courthouse after Trish Walker bails her out, with a court order to take anger management classes and a fine for property damage. Walker and Jones talk about how she is going to need to face her past and IGH, but Jones says she thinks facing it will make her worse, worrying about the fact that she has already killed someone. Walker's boyfriend, Griffin Sinclair, then arrives and they leave for a charity gala.[59][42]
Walker and Sinclair attend the fundraiser together. Walker talks about her concerns about Jones, and how the story she is planning to run will affect her. She looks out of the revolving doors and is shocked when she sees Will Simpson, seemingly stalking her, but when she moves closer he is gone, and she wonders if she imagined him.[59][42]
May
1st
Framework
Hope Mackenzie finds the remains of a D.W.A.R.F. and takes them home, where she lives with her father, Alphonso Mackenzie.[54][64]
Coulson and Johnson discuss the real world
Before Phil Coulson's school day starts, he and Daisy Johnson discuss how HYDRA took advantage of the Cambridge Incident to rise and take control over the world. Johnson is called and alerted by Grant Ward about how HYDRA is sending a unit to capture Phil Coulson.[54][64]
When Alphonso realizes what Hope has done, he worries and warns her to stay away from everything involving HYDRA. As Alphonso Mackenzie waits with Hope for the school bus, HYDRA operatives arrive and round up the citizens at the bus stop. Alphonso is terrified that they know about the drone, but it transpires that they are, in fact, taking a potential Inhuman into custody. The Mackenzies are relieved, but still horrified at the brutality against the man who is taken.[54][64]
Johnson decides to go to the Triskelion and obtain the intel on Radcliffe's location as Coulson and Simmons go to a secret location where they will be taken to a meeting with the leader of the Resistance.[54][64]
The Doctor goes to Madame Hydra's office
Leo Fitz reunites with Madame Hydra and asks her for information about the person who is causing them problems. Despite her fear that he might recognize Jemma Simmons from fragments of memories of the real world, Madame Hydra decides to finally show him Simmons' picture. However, Fitz does not recognize her, and assures Ophelia that she will be killed.[54][64]
Real World
Jeri Hogarth meets with Pryce Cheng in her office. He blames her for him being assaulted by Jessica Jones, saying she did not warn him of Jones' temperament when she used him to try to hire Jones. Cheng says, however, that he wants to sue Jones, believing he thinks she got off too easily, and tells Hogarth he wants to hire her to help him. She agrees.[59][42]
Johnson goes to the Triskelion and obtains the coordinates of Holden Radcliffe's location, then prepares to leave with Ward. However, they are stopped by May, who orders Johnson to go on an assignment with them. Johnson agrees, but not before slipping the coordinates to Ward.[54][64]
Coulson and Simmons are reunited with Jeffrey Mace, who in this reality is an Inhuman and the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D. Mace explains how things are in the Resistance, and that he only trusts them because Ward does. Ward arrives at the base.[54][64]
After school, Hope Mackenzie talks to her father and they prepare to have a relaxed night in.[54][64]
Ward gives Simmons the coordinates of Radcliffe's whereabouts. Simmons convinces Mace to lend them their Quinjet and go after Radcliffe by saying that he is the only one who can help them to defeat HYDRA for good.[54][64]
May, Johnson, and a team of HYDRA agents arrive at the Mackenzies' in order to arrest Alphonso and Hope for taking the remains of one of the D.W.A.R.F.s.[54][64]
Jeffrey Mace and Grant Ward take Coulson and Simmons to the Playground's hangar. They board a Quinjet the Framework agents had acquired and take off for Ogygia.[54][64]
Fitz and Madame Hydra talk about Simmons, and Ophelia reveals to Fitz that Simmons has come through from the "other side," and that this is why she needs him to finish Project Looking Glass quickly. Fitz asks her about her own life in the other world, and Ophelia responds saying that she is their slave, with no free will. Fitz promises that no one will ever hurt her again.[54][64]
At the Triskelion, following Madame Hydra's orders, May tells Mackenzie that if he is fitted with a microphone, and subtly obtains a confirmation from "Skye" that she is indeed an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. by pretending to know her from the agency, he and his daughter will be released.[54][64]
Mackenzie pretends to know Johnson as he was ordered, and she falls into the trap, revealing her true allegiance. As she tries to escape, she is subdued and knocked out by HYDRA agents.[54][64]
Ophelia and Fitz assemble a team to visit Holden Radcliffe, the creator of the Framework, so as to make sure he has not made contact with either Johnson or Simmons.[54][64]
The virtual island of Ogygia
Meanwhile, Ward, Simmons, and Coulson find Holden Radcliffe spending time playing croquet peacefully on his virtually created island Ogygia. When Simmons asks if there is a way to exit the Framework, Radcliffe answers that there is no such thing, as he believes that Aida must have had already closed it. He tells Simmons that he is dead in the real world, and that that is why he cannot help them.[54][64]
Fitz and Ophelia arrive at Radcliffe's residence, where Fitz threatens him at point gun. Simmons, Ward, and Coulson hide as they watch the situation from a safe distance.[54][64]
Hope Mackenzie is released from HYDRA custody and is reunited with her father. May approaches and thanks Alphonso for his service and loyalty to HYDRA, shocking little Hope.[54][64]
When Aida sees Agnes Kitsworth wandering the grounds, she tells Fitz that Radcliffe intends to replace her with the woman, and HYDRA soldiers bring her over.[54][64]
Fitz aims his gun at Kitsworth instead, as Radcliffe begs him not to kill her, saying that he is not acting the way Fitz would act, and is being brainwashed by Aida. Ward aims his gun at Fitz in order to prevent him from killing Kitsworth, but Simmons begs him not to shoot, and he reluctantly backs down.[54][64]
To her shock and dismay however, Fitz proceeds to kill Kitsworth. Simmons screams at him in horror, revealing their presence, but the trio escapes as Madame Hydra and Fitz take Radcliffe with them.[54][64]
Regretting his actions and ashamed, Mackenzie decides to join the Resistance in order to help them to fight HYDRA and rescue Johnson, to make up for his actions.[54][64][63]
Meanwhile, Fitz visits Johnson in her cell after discovering she is a potential Inhuman. He takes her for experimentation.[54][64]
Real World
Jessica Jones goes to enter her apartment but is suddenly attacked from behind by the Whizzer. She throws him to the floor, but he pulls a gun on her and insists that someone "like them" is trying to kill him and he needs her protection. He reveals that he is on medication, making Jones assume he is psychotic, but he explains that it is to repress his powers. Jones attacks him so he will drop the gun, and he exhibits super speed as he runs throughout the room, surprising her as he had been telling the truth. He throws a box at her, not realizing it contains her brother's ashes, and when she deflects it with her arm, they end up scattering across the room.[59][42]
Chase of Whizzer: Jones chases Whizzer into the street, where he once again demonstrates super speed. However, as he runs, a pile of scaffolding falls on him and he is impaled by one of the metal poles, killing him. Across the street, Oscar and Vido Arocho are walking by, and Oscar is forced to shield his son's eyes from the horrific sight.[59][42]
Hogarth visits her doctor after receiving a painful cramp, wanting to be done with appointments. Instead, the doctor informs her in private of what tragic results their tests have yielded.[59][42]
Jessica Jones sits, devastated, in her office with her brother's ashes still scattered on the floor. Malcolm Ducasse enters and cleans the ashes up with a piece of paper to help her. They discuss Whizzer's death, and how Jones believes that the scaffolding falling was not a coincidence, but rather the work of another powered person. She looks through Whizzer's bag, which he left in the apartment, and finds a pill bottle. There is no prescribing doctor, but she finds the manufacturer, "Salento". She and Ducasse find Salento's local distributor, and Jones goes to visit the place where they delivered the pills.[59][42]
Jones finds the facility, labelled "Industrial Garments & Handling", which she notices in acronym form is "IGH", realizing it must be a front. Inside, she discovers an experimental clinic, which trigger flashes of memories of when she was experimented on there 17 years ago, including a memory of being attacked by another person. She finds the resolve to open the door into her past, and investigates further.[59][42]
2nd
Real World
Jessica Jones sits in a bar and asks for multiple shots of whiskey, hoping it will help her deal with the trauma of revisiting IGH. She tries to call Trish Walker about her discoveries, but Walker's boyfriend, Griffin Sinclair, answers instead, not wanting to wake Walker up. He asks Jones to put off the call until morning, and she hangs up. Jones goes to leave the bar, when a man calls after her, lewdly commenting on her backside. Wanting a quick hit of pleasure, she turns around and takes him to the bathroom to have meaningless sex. They do so, but when she accidentally uses her strength, crumpling the metal of the stall, the man calls her a freak and Jones makes him leave.[59][44]
Jones orders Ducasse to stay at his home
Malcolm Ducasse calls Jones and tells her that a man named Dr. Miklos Kozlov leased the IGH facility she discovered, and gives her Kozlov's address. After hanging up, he receives several texts from a woman he met on a dating app.[59][44]
Jones arrives at Kozlov's home in the morning, only to find that he has died in a "freak accident" car crash. She enters the home and finds his friends and family attending a mourning minyan.[59][44]
Trish Walker has a brunch date with Sinclair and her mother. Sinclair leaves immediately however, to allow Trish to talk to Dorothy. Trish asks her mother for the address of Max Tatum, a film director from her past, but Dorothy calls her desperate, discuss her radio show's diminishing popularity. Unbeknownst to Trish, Will Simpson continues to stalk her from across the street. Dorothy reluctantly gives Trish Max's details.[59][44]
Jeri Hogarth sits in her car and becomes dazed, ruminating on her tragic diagnosis. She pulls the car to the side of the road, and a female prostitute approaches her, asking if she wants to "party". Hogarth agrees and the woman gets into her car with her.[59][44]
Jones enters and investigates Kozlov's Residence
Jones roams Kozlov's home and investigates his office, noticing Will Simpson in a photograph with the doctor and several other soldiers. One of Kozlov's soldier patients, Isaiah, enters the room in his wheelchair and finds Jones studying the picture. He takes out a baton and demands to know who she is working for. Jones is initially hesitant to fight someone in a wheelchair, but Isaiah uses her hesitation to attack her, knocking Jones to the floor. She gets up and flips him out of his wheelchair, and Isaiah recognizes her strength as the likely outcome of her being one of Kozlov's patients. She says that his "freak accident" was probably caused by another patient, and Isaiah agrees, revealing that Simpson is still alive, and that he believes him to be the murderer. A man enters the room and, finding Isaiah on the floor, kicks Jones out of the house. She attempts to call Trish Walker, but her phone is off.[59][44]
Trish Walker goes to her car after brunch, and notices the missed call from Jones. Dorothy notices, and comments that she is not ignorant of the fact that Trish clearly does not want Jones to find out they are back in touch. Trish ignores the topic and says goodbye, getting into her car. She continues to be unknowingly followed by Simpson in a nearby vehicle.[59][44]
Jones is researching Kozlov and "the Whizzer" online, wanting to find a connection, when she is interrupted by detectives Ruth Sunday and Eddy Costa, who arrive at her office investigating Whizzer's death. They imply to her that she is a suspect, so she takes them to the new superintendent, Oscar Arocho, knowing he witnessed the incident with his son, and hoping he will vouch for her. However, to her dismay, Arocho lies and says he saw nothing. Jones storms off in frustration, telling the detectives she will only come for questioning if the incident becomes a real case.[59][44]
Ducasse wakes up in bed next to the woman who had been messaging him the night before. He gets a call from Walker, asking for his help and requesting that he not tell Jones, and he leaves to meet her.[59][44]
Jessica Jones investigates Whizzer's apartment, hoping to find clues about who was trying to kill him. She traps his hostile pet mongoose Emil in the bathroom and then finds his laptop, with a video on it. Jones watches the video, in which he describes his situation and how he got his powers. Whizzer explains how he believes his powers are killing him, and how powers can cause mental illness. The New York Police Department then arrives and attempt to get into the apartment. Jones escapes through the window with the computer, letting Emil loose as a distraction.[59][44]
Hogarth starts to dance in her apartment
Hogarth spends time in her apartment with three prostitutes: Makayla, Sheena, and Amber. She kisses Sheena and they sniff drugs together. Makayla and Amber also stand up and join them to dance together.[59][44]
Walker and Ducasse arrive at a filming set in Brooklyn, and Walker gives Ducasse a fake ID, saying to pretend that he is a production assistant. She tells him that he is going to hear some things about her that she does not want to talk about afterwards, and Ducasse asks if what they are doing is dangerous, to which she replies, "Not physically." She approaches Max Tatum, the director of the movie being filmed, and he tells her to wait in his trailer so they can talk in private.[59][44]
Jones walks to the door of her apartment and encounters Oscar Arocho. She asks him why he lied to the police before, and he says that he is currently fighting for custody for his son, and getting involved in her "shady power" business would only make things harder for him to take care of Vido.[59][44]
Jones rewatches Whizzer's video in her apartment and searches his browser history to see who he was talking to. She finds comic-book websites and "Friends of Mongooses International", but is surprised to find that he also visited the Trish Talk website, and his videos were posted on comments thanking her for her discussions about powered people. Jones realizes that Walker is the connection between the goings on and calls her, leaving a voicemail when she does not pick up.[59][44]
Walker speaks to Max Tatum in his trailer and asks for him to use his influence at Metro-General Hospital to do her a favor, not telling him the purpose: to research the hospital's involvement in Jones' experimentation. She threatens to go public about his attempts when she was 15 and starred in one of his movies to exploit his position of power by making sexual advances towards her. By Walker's request, Ducasse secretly films their conversation in the next room. Tatum defends himself, saying that she had wanted his advances, and accuses her of blackmailing, but she persists, giving him 48 hours to give her what she wants. He dismisses her threat and gets her to leave, before exiting the trailer himself.[59][44]
Jessica Jones goes to Walker's apartment to talk, but Griffin Sinclair answers the door instead, saying he does not know where Walker is. Jones notice her adoptive sister's files on the floor in her office. Looking through them, she finds crime scene photos from her family's car accident, and her father's death certificate. Sinclair says he wanted to know what she was working on, but found nothing he understood, and lets slip that Trish and her mother had brunch that morning. Jones calls Dorothy, asking where Trish is and what they talked about over brunch, but Dorothy ignores her questions and hangs up.[59][44]
Max Tatum is getting into his car when Malcolm Ducasse angrily approaches him. Tatum thinks he is there to rob him, and offers up his car and personal items, but Ducasse demands instead that he admit what he did to Walker. Tatum says that whatever Walker has told Ducasse, she was the one who "crawled into [his] bed". Ducasse punches him in the face, breaking his nose, but walks away before anything further can happen.[59][44]
Trish Walker sobs by the set trailers and notices her multiple missed calls from Sinclair and Jones. Before she can listen to them, she hears suspicious noises and goes to investigate, only to find Will Simpson. Pulling out a gun, she warns him not to take another step, and when he does nonetheless, she shoots him in the leg. Despite this, Simpson seems barely fazed and continues to limp forward.[59][44]
Jones goes to Dorothy Walker's home and threatens her, wanting answers. Dorothy eventually tells her about Trish wanting Max Tatum's location, and Jones heads to Brooklyn.[59][44]
Jeri Hogarth is visited by Pryce Cheng. He informs her that he has filed the complaint against Jones, but when Hogarth tells him that she will deal with it tomorrow, he expresses his concern, seeing the prostitutes, that she has fallen off the rails. Cheng leaves, telling her to protect her clients better. Hogarth then pays the prostitutes and tells them to take their things and leave immediately, ashamed of herself and upset. She picks up the wine glasses, but drops one due to her lack of coordination and begins to cry at her predicament.[59][44]
Jones arrives at the Brooklyn movie set, which is now empty. She follows a trail of blood to an empty stage, where she finds that Walker has tied up a bleeding Will Simpson. Walker shows Jones some drugs she found on him, commenting on how they appear to be similar to the pills he took before, since they keep him from feeling pain. Jones accuses him of killing Whizzer and Dr. Kozlov, but he denies this, saying the new drugs he is taking prevent him from losing control like before, and that he only wants to protect Walker from IGH.[59][44]
Simpson tells the two women that IGH sent someone to stop Walker's investigation. He says that he is the only one who knows about what Kozlov was involved in because he was recently trapped in an IGH clinic for a year by some other doctor and heard him arguing with Kozlov on the phone, including mention of wanting Walker dealt with. Walker asks why she is still alive if they supposedly want her dead, and Jones suggests it is genuinely because perhaps Simpson has been protecting her.[59][44]
Simpson's corpse
The lights suddenly go out, and Will Simpson warns them that the killer is there. He tells Jones to take Walker and run. Jones unties his bonds and Walker gives Simpson her gun before they run. The two women hurry towards an exit and hear Simpson shouting far away. They run into a shadowy figure, but the person leaps into the air, jumping impossibly high over them, and exits through a stage door behind the women. Jones remarks that they were not after Walker after all, and they run back to find Simpson, but discover him dead on the floor with his neck snapped.[59][44]
3rd
Real World
Jessica Jones and Trish Walker take Will Simpson's body to a beach which had been a vacation spot where Jones used to go with her family. There, they dump the body out at sea. Walker is disappointed that he did not get a proper funeral, but Jones points out that they could not give him to the police, as they have already found her with too many bodies. They prepare to abandon Simpson's stolen car and remove the evidence, when Walker finds an arsenal of guns and the special inhaler he always took. Jones wants to dump them, too, but Walker insists on keeping the items.[59][73]
Jones talks to the hypnotis Walker hired
Back at Trish Walker's apartment, Walker hires a hypnotist to help Jessica Jones unlock some of her memories from the IGH clinic, but to no avail. Jones leaves with most of Walker's files in order to start her own investigation back at her office, just as Griffin Sinclair arrives at the door, worried about Walker and frustrated they did not tell him she was okay.[59][73]
Jeri Hogarth is sitting in her office when her partners Linda Chao and Steven Benowitz enter to confront her. They inform her they know about her diagnosis, and want to push her out of their company. Benowitz seems to feel sorry, but Chao expresses her feeling that it was long overdue. Benowitz advises Hogarth to go willingly, or they may have to force her out.[59][73]
Jessica Jones returns to her apartment and Malcolm Ducasse approaches her about an eviction notice from her landlord, citing that it is illegal to run a business out of a living space. Jones suspects Oscar Arocho might be behind it and when she confronts him he does not deny her claim, and says it is for the best as she would only bring trouble to the building. He tells her she has 30 days left before she has to move out.[59][73]
Walker and Sinclair argue about Walker's behavior
Griffin Sinclair and Trish Walker argue back at her apartment. Sinclair says that Walker is behaving in a way that reminds him of his previous relationships, encouraging her to tell him what is going on, before deciding that he needs some time on his own and leaving.[59][73]
Jeri Hogarth contemplates the offer she has been given by Chao and Benowitz. Foggy Nelson comes into her office, saying that he knows what has happened and wants to help and that no one deals with anything like this on their own. Hogarth pushes him away, however, reminding him that she does not consider him a friend.[59][73]
Jessica Jones begins her investigation, collecting all the evidence on her wall as she drinks bottle of whiskey.[59][73]
Ducasse tells Jones of his findings on Oscar Arocho
Jones wakes up when Malcolm Ducasse knocks the door, and they converse in her office. Ducasse reveals he did research on Oscar Arocho and discovered he had a police record mentioning that he was incarcerated for forgery. Jones realizes that Arocho has something on the landlord and orders Ducasse to figure out what it is.[59][73]
Jessica Jones visits the IGH clinic and goes through the door she had recalled in her dream, but only discovers the name "Leslie Hansen" on the door, and nothing useful inside.[59][73]
Jones and Trish Walker find Leslie Hansen's address and visit her apartment, only to find it empty. A man informs them that he saw someone taking boxes from the apartment down to the basement the week before, and both women descend to the basement to investigate. The room smells horrible, and they find that there is a furnace that has been recently used, thinking Hansen must have burned all the IGH evidence. Jones is horrified, however, when she finds a human skull in the furnace.[59][73]
Malcolm Ducasse visits the landlord's townhouse and tries to convince him to drop the eviction on Jessica Jones. However, the landlord says Jones has been very rude to him in the past, and he is happy to see her go. He suggests that he thinks Jones sent Ducasse to charm him into submission, and tells him that this will not work as he has a boyfriend now who is coming from Cambodia is coming soon, showing Ducasse a painting of him before shutting the door.[59][73]
Jessica Jones and Trish Walker visit the morgue, where Jones sneaks past the coroner to place the skull on one of the tables. She then files the report of the skull into the computer, and tells Walker once it is done that she can now go to speak with the coroner. Walker talks to Maury Tuttlebaum and asks him to pass on intel about the the burnt skull once the police have investigated, wanting the person's identity. Tuttlebaum agrees.[59][73]
Malcolm Ducasse goes to Jones' apartment. He tells her that the landlord will not budge and tells her about the painting of the landlord's boyfriend. Jones realizes something and immediately goes to clog the toilet using tampons, to Ducasse's bewilderment. Oscar Arocho, being the superintendent, has to come to help clear the toilet. When he arrives, Jones takes his keys from his bag and sneaks over to his apartment.[59][73]
Jones enters and finds Vido Arocho awake, to her surprise. He tries to show her his Captain America toy, but while he is distracted getting the action figure, she searches for evidence on Oscar. However, Jones only manages to find some photos, but nothing else before Oscar returns. She accuses him of painting the picture of the landlord's Cambodian boyfriend and forging a fake ID for him so he can get into the United States of America to gain favor with the landlord. Oscar tells her to prove it and she holds up the photos, stating they were taken for a fake ID, but Oscar says that he could prove they were simply for a painting and sends her away.[59][73]
5th
Fuerza by Tony Quattro feat. Nani Castle is released.[9][31]
Trish Walker sits in her apartment in the early hours and watches Whizzer's video. Griffin Sinclair returns from his short time away and approaches Walker to ask about Whizzer's video, but she avoids his questions. When she leaves the room, Sinclair downloads the information from Walkers's laptop onto his flash drive.[59][73]
Hogarth visits Jones and tells her Cheng is suing her
Jessica Jones is visited by Jeri Hogarth at Alias Investigations. Hogarth tells Jones about Pryce Cheng's legal complaint against her. Jones gets angry at Hogarth for backing him, but she replies that things have changed. Hogarth reveals she has been diagnosed with ALS, and probably has 2 to 8 years to live. She reveals that her partners are trying to kick her out of her firm and wants Jones to find dirt on them, and Jones agrees to do so.[59][73]
Trish Walker is about to end a Trish Talk broadcast, but decides first to make up a story about a new series they will be running on doctors, saying that she wants to talk with a woman named Leslie Hansen, asking listeners for information on her whereabouts. Just as Walker is about to leave the station, a woman claiming to be Hansen herself calls and sets up a meeting between them in a bar.[59][73]
At Walker's apartment, Jessica Jones insists on going to meet Hansen instead of her. Walker refuses, but Jones, having anticipated this, reveals she has called the paparazzi and told them that she got into a fight with Sinclair to trap her as she cannot leave without being swarmed.[59][73]
Jones meets "Leslie Hansen" at the bar she specified. "Hansen" is uneasy, saying she agreed to talk with Walker and not Jones, but Jones insists that "Hansen" will talk to her. "Hansen" says that IGH are good people, having saved Jones' life. Jones replies that they put a body in her basement and killed Kozlov and Coleman, but "Hansen" posits that they might just be protecting their reputation.[59][73]
Malcolm Ducasse arrives at Walker's apartment, sent by Jones to ensure that Walker does not leave. He tries to get her to talk about Max Tatum, but she shuts down the conversation. Walker then gets a call from Maury Tuttlebaum, who has identified the human skull found in the furnace, informing her it is a woman named Leslie Hansen. Realizing Jones is in danger, as the woman she is with is therefore not Hansen, Walker implores Ducasse to distract the paparazzi while she gets a car from out the back. Ducasse tells the photographers that Walker is at Griffin Sinclair's place, and all but one of the paparazzi rush off in hurry. Ducass then gets into Walker's car, but the one remaining paparazzo follows them.[59][73]
At the bar, "Hansen" defends IGH as heroes, saying that they brought Jones back from the dead, since she had died on the operating table after the car accident. She insists they were always trying to save lives, and that the powers were merely a side effect. Jones says they should have let her die with her family, which angers "Hansen", who snaps that she should be incredibly grateful to them, and that she survived for a reason. Jones says that if she did survive for a reason, it was so she could take her and IGH down, and "Hansen" panics and tries to leave. Jones uses her powers to push the table and stop her, but the woman then reveals herself to have similar powers to Jones', using strength to push the table back. She runs, but Jones catches her. The woman, however, manages to trip Jones and hurl her across the room, then runs.[59][73]
As "Hansen" leaves the restaurant, Trish Walker and Malcolm Ducasse arrive outside, with the paparazzo still following them, taking pictures. Jones comes out, and "Hansen" makes a huge leap across the street and onto the top of a building to get away. Jones gives up on trying to follow her, but instead takes the photographer's camera, on which the man had managed to take several photos of the woman. Inspecting them, Jones realizes she has got a lead to follow.[59][73]
6th
Jessica Jones in her anger management class during "summer" 2017
Jessica Jones attends a mandatory anger management class after attacking Pryce Cheng. The other attendees tell their stories in turn while bouncing a rubber ball against the wall. Jones tries to leave but the head of the class refuses to sign her court order, stating that she has to stay for the whole hour. She gets up and throws the ball against the wall while angrily telling her, story: her family being killed in a car accident, being experimented on, how she was abducted and raped, and forced to kill someone. She ends by throwing the ball so hard against the wall that it creates a hole and breaks into pieces. Scared of her, the head signs the court order and Jones leaves.[59][10]
Returning to her office, Jones gets angry at Malcolm Ducasse for letting Trish Walker out of her apartment the night before, especially as now the press (who got photos of Walker and Ducasse together) are calling him Walker's supposed new boyfriend. Jones looks at the photos of the fake "Leslie Hansen", trying to find a clue, but finds it is hard to concentrate with Oscar Arocho and his ex-wife arguing loudly in Apartment 6F. Despite this, Jones notices that Hansen was wearing a wig.[59][10]
Jones calls Walker, who is dealing with the press in the aftermath of being pictured with Ducasse. Jones asks her about wigs, explaining that "Hansen" was wearing one. Stating it to have been a good wig, since she had not noticed it, Walker speculates that it must be human hair, narrowing down their search as there are only three human hair wig shops in New York City. Jones agrees to meet her at one of them, and hangs up.[59][10]
Oscar Arocho's son Vido enters Jones' office, not wanting to be around his arguing parents. He asks the private investigator about her powers, while Jones yells down the hallway to inform them that Vido is with her. When she is not looking, Vido climbs onto her windowsill and crouches on the outside, asking if she could save him if he fell. Jones yells at him to get off and he is startled, causing him to lose his balance and slip. Jones runs and catches him, pulling him up into the room just as his parents arrive. Vido's mother is angry, seeing it as another reason for her to have custody of him over Oscar, and drags her son away. Oscar angrily reminds Jones she has 25 days left before she is evicted, before running after them.[59][10]
Walker and Sinclair talks inside the Trish Talk Station
Trish Walker and Griffin Sinclair kiss in front of the press to prove they are still a couple and then enter the Trish Talk station, talking about Walker's future. Sinclair offers her a place at his company, but Walker says she wants to earn her career developments and not just be seen as his girlfriend all the time.[59][10]
Pryce Cheng confronts Jeri Hogarth at her office, asking her why she stopped backing him on his charges against Jones. Hogarth tells him he should stop fighting battles he cannot win, and says he will not find anything on Jones. Cheng informs her that he has hired a new firm and hopes she sorts out what is wrong with her.[59][10]
Jones and Walker meet at the wig shop, and Walker pays the owner, Sally, $300 to give them information on "Hansen". Sally confirms the woman as one of her customers and explains that the woman comes in alone, pays in cash, and had lost all her hair, positing it to have been due to chemotherapy. Jones speculates that "Hansen" was probably saved by IGH after being diagnosed with cancer, and also that if they found her through Metro-General Hospital, IGH was probably paying her medical bills. The women set out to get her hospital records.[59][10]
Jones promises Walker that she will not hurt Max Tatum
Outside, in Walker's car, Walker shows Jones the video Malcolm Ducasse took of her and Max Tatum, saying they could use it as leverage against him and use his clearance at the hospital to get the records. Jones points out that her threats clearly have not been effective as Walker gave Tatum 2 days and it has already been 3, with no results. Planning on blackmailing him further, the duo head off to his movie set.[59][10]
Trish Walker and Jessica Jones find a young actress currently starring in Tatum's latest film and show her Ducasse's video, revealing his history of sexual assault. She quits, much to Tatum's dismay.[59][10]
Malcolm Ducasse is working at the Alias Investigations Office when Pryce Cheng enters. Cheng says that Ducasse has a bright future, offering him a place at his firm in exchange for dirt on Jones. Ducasse refuses, but Cheng leaves him his business card just in case.[59][10]
Jones and Walker confront Tatum at his car. Jones uses her strength to pin him to his car and threaten him until he agrees to give them his clearance at Metro-General Hospital.[59][10]
Jones is working in her office when she gets a call from Jeri Hogarth. Hogarth asks about her progress in digging up dirt on her partners, Chao and Benowitz, but Jones says she has more important things to deal with. She lets her know, however, that she has at least looked into their financial records, but Hogarth tells her to dig deeper as her partners are smarter than to leave evidence in their finances.[59][10]
Oscar Arocho approaches Jones in her apartment. He apologizes, saying Vido told him what happened, and that he cannot express how grateful he is that she saved his son's life. He says he has dropped her eviction and leaves her with a bottle of whiskey, but she invites him inside to drink with her.[59][10]
Griffin Sinclair and Trish Walker have sex back at her apartment, and Walker says she is grateful for Sinclair sticking around, unlike ex-boyfriends. She leaves the bed to take a shower, and Sinclair's phone rings. He waits until he hears the water running before talking, and says to the caller that Walker "doesn't know anything", saying, "Let's keep it that way."[59][10]
Jones thinks of making a move on Arocho
Arocho and Jones share the whiskey on her couch and discuss her powers. He explains that he does not hate people like her, but admits he just hated her in particular. They start to bond, and eventually Jones starts to kiss him, which he reciprocates. She attempts to initiate sex, but Arocho backs away, saying that she is moving too fast. He leaves.[59][10]
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Jessica Jones leaves her apartment and heads for the elevator when Malcolm Ducasse approaches her in the hallway. He tells her about how Pryce Cheng offered him a place at his firm in exchange for information on her. He explains that he said no, but that he still wants more to do at Alias Investigations, and demands 25% of the cases that come in. She agrees to give him 20% before closing the elevator doors to go. Ducasse heads back to his apartment, where a woman he met through his dating app is waiting, but he mixes up her name, leaving her unimpressed.[59][10]
After not hearing from the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents for a while, Glenn Talbot locates the Zephyr One and tries to make contact with them, but the agents on board do not answer.[75]
Talbot comments on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fall in one of his many May 2017 interviews
Jeri Hogarth visits her doctor to ask about a cure for her ALS. The doctor says she cannot give her a cure, but Hogarth says there are illegal drugs from Europe that she can take if she has to. She claims that if the doctor gives her nothing, she will go to a drug dealer in Amsterdam if she has to, but the doctor still insists she can do nothing.[59][10]
At Walker's apartment, she and Jessica Jones look into the people who had their medical bills paid for by IGH: Jones herself, Whizzer, and a woman named Inez Green, whom they speculate to be the person who posed as Leslie Hansen, and the person who killed Kozlov, Whizzer, and Will Simpson. They look her up and find that she is homeless. By looking into her they find misdemeanor citations and are able to narrow down which streets she might be living on. Walker brings the arsenal bag she obtained from Will Simpson's trunk, including the drugs he took and a powerful taser, as they leave to look for Green.[59][10]
Jones and Walker looking for Inez Green
Jones and Walker ask around the neighborhood and a man tells them which building Inez Green lives in. Jones goes upstairs to draw her out while Walker waits downstairs with the taser to ambush her. As Jones searches, she is attacked by Green from behind, but is able to defend herself. Walker, hearing her shouts, takes the inhaler Simpson was using in hopes of helping her, and runs upstairs with the taser, shocking Green and knocking her out. They discover, however, that she is not the woman they are looking for.[59][10]
A friend of Pryce Cheng, Nick Spanos, breaks into the Alias Investigations Office and takes down all the photos Jones put up for her case, stealing them. Malcolm Ducasse also comes in with his one-night stand, who is looking for alcohol, but the robber sneaks past them and leaves. Ducasse believes the door was unlocked because Jones was at home, but soon realizes that someone broke into the apartment when he sees that Jones was not there and her information is gone from the wall.[59][10]
Jeri Hogarth looks up the pills she might need to buy to attempt to cure her ALS.[59][10]
Jones and Walker interrogate Green
Inez Green wakes up and Jones and Walker question her. She tells them she was a nurse working for IGH and that the woman they are looking for was a patient who attacked her and killed another nurse when she worked there.[59][10]
Assassination of Nick Spanos: Nick Spanos gets on the phone with Cheng, he talks about how they have material now to take down Jones, while packing his briefcases with her material into a van. However, as he does so, the woman who pretended to be "Leslie Hansen" appears. She knocks him into the back of the van and then jumps into the vehicle, attacking him and eventually killing him while Cheng is still on the phone.[59][10]
Arrest of Jessica Jones: Jessica Jones and Trish Walker head back to Jones' apartment with Inez Green in their backseat. However, Jones is surprised to find the police outside the building and gets out of the car. Malcolm Ducasse tells her to run, telling her the police think she killed a man, but the police see her and arrest her for supposedly murdering Cheng's friend.[59][10]
8th
Real World
Jones tries to meditate in her cell
Jessica Jones gets angry in her jail cell for being arrested for something she did not do.[59][76]
The mysterious woman who killed Nick Spanos burns the evidence Spanos stole from Jones along with her bloodied clothes.[59][76]
Framework
John Garrett passes away. He is considered, at least by the people at HYDRA, to be an American hero.[77][65]
Leo Fitz enters Daisy Johnson's cell to interrogate her. He asks where the Patriot is, and she insists she does not know. When Fitz then asks if he also came from her world, she tells him that they all did, trying to make him realize the truth. Fitz ignores her and asks about Jemma Simmons, and Johnson says that she wishes she knew where Simmons was, as she might be able to bring him around, but he simply angrily hits her, to her dismay.[78][63]
Melinda May comes across Madame Hydra in the Triskelion corridor, who tells her they might have a weapon ready to use against the Patriot and S.H.I.E.L.D., but that there are risks involved. May volunteers nonetheless.[78][63]
Alphonso Mackenzie offers to help Jeffrey Mace and Grant Ward, and they get him to replace the bus they hijacked's license plate and digital tags and wipe its GPS so they can use it to get into they HYDRA Enlightenment Cultivation Center they have discovered.[78][63]
Dorothy Walker helps her daughter, Trish, who had called her for aid, while she vomits from the after-effects of the drug she took from Will Simpson's inhaler. Dorothy comments that she covered for Trish at the radio station, as Trish had slept for 26 hours and missed a day of work. She informs Trish that they have a big day coming up.[59][76]
Framework
Jemma Simmons tells Phil Coulson that she needs to let Mace know about the real world, but Coulson is concerned that he will not believe her in the way she intends to explain it. Coulson also mentions that Ward makes him uncomfortable, and Simmons informs him of the fact that he killed Ward in the real world. At that moment, Ward and Mace arrive and take her aside to talk.[78][63]
Melinda May meets with Dr. Kenneth Turgeon, who shows her a serum which, when taken, will give her temporary super-strength to take on the Patriot.[78][63]
Jessica Jones calls Malcolm Ducasse, who is looking after Inez Green. He informs her that all her evidence is gone, and she asks for his help, requesting that he question Green about IGH.[59][76]
Framework
Jemma Simmons informs Jeffrey Mace that he is, in fact, in a simulated reality generated by Aida to rewrite his sense of reality. Grant Ward, uncertain if Simmons is mentally ill, keeps a watch on her. He sees the way she reacts to him, and apologizes for whatever his counterpart may have done in the real world.[78][63]
Alone, Madame Hydra tells Johnson that if she simply divulges where the others are, she can make Lincoln Campbell return, and the two of them can live a life together in peace. Johnson refuses defiantly, knowing it would never be the real Campbell.[78][63]
In the Playground, Mace thanks Alphonso Mackenzie for his help. Simmons and Coulson are walking when they come across Hope Mackenzie. Hope sees her father and runs to talk to him, and Simmons is delighted to see her friend so happy, and to see him with a daughter whom he loves dearly. She introduces herself to the Framework Mackenzie, but becomes slightly concerned that it could be difficult to convince him to leave Hope when the time comes. Mace pulls Coulson aside to give him a fake HYDRA ID they have forged to get him into the HYDRA Enlightenment Cultivation Center.[78][63]
Real World
The mysterious woman destroys her piano
At 3:55PM, the woman who pretended to be Leslie Hansen plays the piano in her home. She is interrupted by her neighbor, Sophie, who knocks and asks to enter as the music calms her baby son, Aaron. The woman agrees, but as she plays, the baby's crying distresses her and she ends up losing control, destroying the piano in distress. Sophie hurriedly leaves with her son.[59][76]
Framework
Alistair Fitz talks to his son about a security breach they have been alerted to, saying they have shipped the offender off to the Enlightenment Cultivation Center. He realizes his son looks troubled and asks if it has something to do with Madame Hydra. Leo admits it is, and Alistair takes him away to discuss his problem over tea.[78][63]
Malcolm Ducasse asks Inez Green to tell the truth of her story and offers her protection. Green tells him what happened the day she got seriously hurt and her friend Luanne McClure got killed by a mysterious woman, who seems to be the person Jones is after at.[59][76]
Eddy Costa talks to Jones about Kilgrave, who was killed two years prior
Eddy Costa, who believes Jones, returns and releases her on the proviso that she keeps Costa informed of her investigation. Costa notes that he is thankful that she took down Kilgrave after what he did in the precinct two years ago.[59][76]
Jones tells Hogarth about Green's situation and how she might have useful information. Pryce Cheng approaches the women, furious with Jones' release after she, he states, killed his friend. Jones dismisses his accusations and leaves with Hogarth.[59][76]
Jessica Jones returns to her apartment and talks with Malcolm Ducasse, who has found information about someone called David Kawecki confessing to the murder of Luanne McClure. Green says that the man was not there when McClure was killed, so Jones realizes something has been done to cover the killer's tracks.[59][76]
Malcolm Ducasse goes after Inez Green and finds her at a pawn shop, trying to sell it. He tells her to come back to safety but she is too afraid to do it due to IGH's involvement. He threatens to post her location online to bait the killer if she does not return, and she submits, but not before angrily smashing his TV on the ground.[59][76]
Dorothy Walker takes Trish to a special location where a surprise is being gathered by her family and her friends, under the guise of getting her a meeting with her dream employers. Trish is taken aback by the surprise gathering, and finds that Griffin Sinclair is there, ready to propose. Jones arrives as Sinclair asks Trish to marry him, and she is left scared at this news, as she is not prepared and does not love Sinclair as he is with her. In private, Walker tells him that she could not accept, and their relationship is ended.[59][76]
Johnson and Holden Radcliffe begin to speak through the vents in their holding cells, and Johnson learns from Radcliffe that Fitz killed Agnes Kitsworth. She is shocked, unable to believe her friend could do such a thing, until Radcliffe explains that only one sentence altered in Fitz's life could have changed his developmental course entirely, and in the Framework, Fitz and his father remained close over the years. As revenge for Kitsworth's murder, Radcliffe tells Johnson of a backdoor he installed to escape the Framework that Aida cannot disable, though he admits that she likely has it guarded.[78][63]
Alistair Fitz asks Leo what is bothering him. Leo explains that he is worried he killed Agnes Kitsworth without justification. Alistair reminds him not to get sentimental, and that in their hard world, you cannot ponder what might have been.[78][63]
Alphonso Mackenzie, having joined the S.H.I.E.L.D. Resistance, gets intel on a repurposed radio, which Mace and Phil Coulson use to infiltrate a HYDRA "Enlightenment Camp" to free an undercover agent, Antoine Triplett.[78][63]
Mace fights May
They are tracked there by Melinda May, who uses an adaptation of Doctor Winslow's super serum to fight Mace, but it soon wears off.[78][63]
Coulson attempts to save one of his former students, Chris Adler, whom he sees being held in a nearby brainwashing center, and Mace follows him into the building to help. May authorizes a Quinjet to shoot down the building, and she enters the rubble to ensure that Mace is dead. She finds him stopping debris from crushing the student, with Coulson and Triplett helping other children escape the building. May is horrified to find children being victimized by HYDRA, undergoing the Faustus method.[78][63]
Mace stays to hold the crumbling ceiling as the others are evacuated. When they have safely escaped, the building finally falls, killing Mace. May realizes too late that in serving HYDRA to make up for the tragedy at Cambridge, she became a blind tool of an oppressive force, and has allowed a true hero to die.[78][63]
Real World
Jeffrey Mace passes away in the real world
As he dies in the Framework, Jeffrey Mace also dies in the real world, forcing Aida to disconnect him from the virtual reality.[78][63]
Oscar Arocho is about to have dinner with his mother when Jones arrives. He hands her the fake ID she required and they invite her to stay for dinner, but she politely refuses and leaves.[59][76]
Jeri Hogarth who wants to know if some of IGH experiments might be able to help her get rid off her ALS condition asks Inez Green who is staying on her place about it.[59][76]
Using the fake ID, Jessica Jones gets into the mental facility to meet with David Kawecki. Interrogating him, Jones learns of a shared interest in octopuses that Kawecki had with an IGH doctor called "Dr. Karl", whom Jones is not aware of. However, Kawecki explains that Karl used to visit the aquarium daily, so, deciding to investigate further, Jones leaves to visit in hopes he will show up.[59][76]
Framework
Johnson undergoes her second Terrigenesis
Turning on HYDRA, May sneaks a Terrigen Crystal to Johnson to allow her to obtain her Inhuman abilities within the Framework.[78][63]
Escape from the Triskelion: Johnson and May fight their way out of the Triskelion before being stopped by Madame Hydra and two HYDRA agents. Madame Hydra notes that even in the Framework, May keeps being a fighter, while Alphonso Mackenzie remains a protector, and Leo Fitz sustains a "romantic" temper. After pointing out that Madame Hydra has not talked about her, Johnson uses her recovered quaking powers to project her out of the building. Madame Hydra falls to the ground several stories below, severely injured.[78][65]
Aida returns to the real world after being severely injured by Daisy Johnson in the Framework. She is stunned by May's rebellion in the Framework. When she resolves to work on the issue so that May is no longer a complication, Anton Ivanov offers to simply kill May. However, it soon turns out that he is incapable of doing so; since Ivanov uses a body designed and built by Aida, he suffers from the same limitations as Aida, and thus cannot harm any of their captives. However, Aida tells Ivanov that if one of the agents begin to threaten the existence of the Framework, that overrules their defensive programming - the loophole she found with Radcliffe.[78][65]
Framework
At the Playground, Mackenzie, Grant Ward, and Antoine Triplett watch the broadcast of The Bakshi Report. While the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Phil Coulson and Jemma Simmons, mourn the loss of their leader, the Patriot, they learn of the attack on Madame Hydra.[78][65]
Simmons and Ward quickly understand that Johnson is probably the wanted Inhuman mentioned by Bakshi. Meanwhile, Johnson and May, now fugitives, make their way to a S.H.I.E.L.D. meeting point.[78][65]
Fitz is outraged by the attack on Madame Hydra, especially since it places HYDRA in a moment of weakness. His father Alistair Fitz tells him that he has to lead HYDRA in his lover's place.[78][65] Fitz summons Bakshi to the Triskelion and orders him to broadcast Johnson and May's identities, so as to instill fear against the Inhumans in the people's hearts.[78][65]
Ward, fearing for his girlfriend's life, leaves the Playground to find her, after speaking to Coulson about his recruitment to S.H.I.E.L.D.[78][65]
May and Johnson are spotted by a civilian, recognizing them as the fugitives on the billboards. She reports them to HYDRA.[78][65]
Simmons studies the pictures taken by Triplett while he was working undercover within HYDRA. She quickly recognizes a design for Quantum Batteries, with the mention of "Project Looking Glass". Since the design is more complex that Simmons has seen in the real world, she assumes that these batteries are designed to produce something highly sophisticated, and require massive amounts of energy. She and Triplett borrow the Quinjet for a recon mission to Ivanov's naval base in the Baltic Sea.[78][65]
HYDRA soldiers attack Johnson and May in the Framework
Daisy Johnson and Melinda May reach one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s safe houses. The guard reports back to the Playground just as HYDRA's forces close in and a firefight begins. The guard is shot and severely wounded, but the agents manage to get into the building for safety.[78][65]
Burrows finds Alphonso Mackenzie and Phil Coulson to tell them that he has received the call about Johnson and May. Asking where Triplett is, Mackenzie explains that he left for a recon mission. Coulson makes the call to risk going to save the fugitives, even if it might be a trap.[78][65]
Meanwhile, Johnson and May barricade themselves in while they await any help.[78][65]
Alistair Fitz informs his son that Johnson and May have been spotted, and that a team of HYDRA agents is after them.[78][65]
Before Leopold can lead the chase himself, Madame Hydra wakes and asks him to prioritize finishing Project Looking Glass, saying that this will help her to recover.[78][65]
Johnson and May are nearly caught by the HYDRA agents, but are rescued by Burrows, Coulson, and Mackenzie. Mackenzie threatens to kill May for having kept his daughter Hope hostage, but Johnson convinces him to let her live.[78][65]
Simmons and Tripplet arrive at Ivanov Oil Platform in the Framework
On arrival at the Ivanov Oil Platform, Simmons figures out Aida's plan: creating a reactor which will enable her to produce living matter in the real world, and thus become human herself.[78][65]
Alistair Fitz informs Leopold that the HYDRA team failed to apprehend the fugitives. Leopold gets angry at his father, who quickly chastises him for his behavior.[78][65]
Arriving at the Playground, Johnson confirms Simmons' story of the real world to Ward, which he had previously refused to believe in.[78][65]
Alistair Fitz goes to interrogate Holden Radcliffe, but Radcliffe refuses to talk, mocking him in response. Alistair proceeds to beat him for his insolence.[78][65]
Siege of the HYDRA Broadcasting Center: At the Playground, Coulson has Johnson understand that in order to achieve her goal, she must weaken HYDRA within the Framework. Therefore, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents storm the studio where The Bakshi Report show is recorded.[78][65]
After holding Bakshi and his staff hostage, Ward and Johnson have a conversation about what is real and what is not. They wish each other well as they part ways.[78][65]
Phil Coulson on the S.H.I.E.L.D. subversive broadcast
S.H.I.E.L.D. then broadcasts a subversive message featuring Coulson, where the former history teacher proudly announces his allegiance to S.H.I.E.L.D., and reveals HYDRA's lies and secrets, thanks to the footage recorded by May's body cam during the assault on the HYDRA Enlightenment Camp the day before.[78][65]
Real World
Anton Ivanov informs Aida that his men are on the verge of attacking the Zephyr One, where Daisy Johnson and Jemma Simmons are, both of whom are threatening the Framework.[65] Aida orders Ivanov to prepare for the final phase of her plan, since Fitz has completed Project Looking Glass in the Framework.[78][75]
Meanwhile, ten days after connecting Jemma Simmons and Daisy Johnson to the Framework, the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents aboard the Zephyr One are running out of options - the Framework draws a great deal of the plane's power, forcing them to turn off all the non-vital functions such as heating.[78][75]
In order to keep the Framework running, Piper suggests disabling the plane's cloaking. Prince disagrees, as the cloaking is the only thing which protects them from Anton Ivanov's attacks. However, Elena Rodriguez decides to follow Piper's suggestion, and the Zephyr One reappears in the sky.[78][75]
Framework
Jemma Simmons and Daisy Johnson reunite following Johnson's escape from the Triskelion and Simmons' mission to the Baltic Sea. Simmons tells Johnson about Aida's plan to create a living body to implant her consciousness into, so as to be a real person with her own free will, and Johnson then informs her of the existence of the backdoor built by Holden Radcliffe.[78][75]
The two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents decide to go there to open the portal and get back to the real world with Phil Coulson, Melinda May, and Alphonso Mackenzie. Simmons reluctantly agrees that Leo Fitz is out of their reach for the moment, and that they must leave him in the Framework for now, to get him back later.[78][75]
Coulson tells May about the real world, but despite his explanation, she is very skeptical.[78][75]
Fitz interrogates Radcliffe
At the Triskelion, Leo Fitz interrogates Radcliffe to find out what he and Skye discussed when the two were imprisoned in adjacent cells the day before. At first, Radcliffe refuses to speak, saying that he is already dead in the real world, and that living in such a horrible version of the Framework, without Agnes Kitsworth, means nothing to him. However, Fitz seemingly persuades Radcliffe to change his opinion by telling him of the possibilities offered by Project Looking Glass: Radcliffe could upload his consciousness into a brand new body in the real world, and could even have as many bodies as he desires in the future, thus achieving his long-running transhumanist dream of immortality. Radcliffe accepts, but only because he knows that Fitz will now go to the backdoor's location and hopefully be returned to the real world, ending his time as Aida's puppet.[78][75]
Simmons talks to May about Fitz, and realizes that his ruthless personality in the Framework is due to his relationship with his father.[78][75]
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Real World
Mother and daughter talk
Trish Walker is approached by her mother, who is angry that she rejected Griffin Sinclair's proposal and ended the relationship. Walker explains that the event had made her realise she cared more about being like Sinclair professionally than being with him personally, and therefore that it was not healthy to stay with him. Dorothy tells her Sinclair was a perfect match and is rude to her daughter, and Trish ends up slapping her. Dorothy leaves, shocked. Feeling desperate, Trish rushes to take the IGH drug from Will Simpson's inhaler, starting to become addicted.[59][76]
Jemma Simmons resolves to find Alistair Fitz in order to force him to help her get Leo Fitz back.[78][75]
Simmons confronts Alistair Fitz
Going to his home, when he answers the door, she holds a gun to him.[78][75]
Antoine Triplett and Daisy Johnson discuss the plan to escape the Framework. He tells Johnson that Simmons left base an hour ago, concerning her, as this was not planned.[78][75]
Simmons' encounter goes wrong when Alistair calls his son and asks him to come and arrest Simmons. A brief fight ensues between him and Simmons, and Alistair's avatar is accidentally killed. Simmons, horrified, flees before Leopold and the HYDRA agents arrive.[78][75]
Melinda May reveals to Johnson that Simmons went after Alistair Fitz.[78][75]
When Fitz finds the dead body of his father, he decides to get revenge on Simmons and kill her.[78][75]
Meanwhile, Simmons returns to the Playground. Johnson tells Mackenzie that if he comes with her and the other agents, they have a way of finally defeating Madame Hydra, and does not reveal the truth of why she needs him to come to the backdoor, to get him home to the real world. Johnson, Simmons, Coulson, May, Mackenzie, and Antoine Triplett take a Quinjet and fly to the Framework's exit.[78][75]
Madame Hydra is alerted of the ongoing events such as the assassination of Alistair Fitz before deciding to begin the project that will allow her to have a human body in the real world.
Understanding that the situation is slipping out of her control with the murder of Alistair Fitz and the S.H.I.E.L.D. rebellion growing stronger, Madame Hydra decides to progress to the next phase of her plan as soon as possible[78][75]
Madame Hydra activates the reactor she built in the real world, beginning the synthesis of her new human body.[78][75]
Escape from the Framework: The coordinates provided by Radcliffe lead Johnson and her teammates to a steel mill, instead of a city park like Radcliffe had originally designed for the location. Aida had indeed discovered the backdoor, and hidden it beneath a bulk of molten steel. When the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents begin to argue about what they should do, Mackenzie gets angry at Johnson for not telling him about the real world. Johnson and Simmons then figure out that Johnson could use her powers to reveal the backdoor, but before they can proceed, a team of HYDRA agents storm the steel mill. Several agents are taken down, but Coulson is shot multiple times. May goes to his rescue, and he persuades her to push him through the portal, knowing he has nothing to lose now. He asks her to follow, before making it through; May soon follows him, finally convinced.[78][75]
Real World
Coulson about to wake up in the real world
May and Coulson wake in the real world, and discover Aida, connected to the Framework. Coulson destroys Aida's android body.[78][75]
Framework
Fitz, accompanied by Radcliffe, finds Simmons. She apologizes for what happened with Alistair and desperately tries to make her boyfriend regain his real consciousness, but remains unsuccessful. As Fitz prepares to shoot her, Radcliffe suddenly disarms him, revealing his true reason for coming to the backdoor. He forces Fitz to the portal and pushes him through, successfully taking him back to the real world, hoping he has somewhat atoned for his mistakes. Simmons follows.[78][75]
Simmons wakes up in Zephyr One just as Ivanov's men are about to attack and shoot down the plane.[78][75]
Framework
Johnson tells Mackenzie it is his turn to leave, but despite her insistence, he refuses to return to the real world, since his daughter Hope Mackenzie is alive in the Framework and he feels he simply cannot live a life without her; even if the life is virtual, she feels too real to him to leave her behind for a world where Hope did not make it. Crying at losing her old partner, Johnson reluctantly returns to the real world alone.[78][75]
Real World
Johnson wakes on the Zephyr One and apologizes sadly to Rodriguez for leaving Mackenzie behind. However, Rodriguez does not have time to argue as Ivanov's attack comes.[78][75]
At Anton Ivanov's naval base, Coulson and May try to calm down Fitz, who is horrified by what he has done in the Framework, especially since his actions led to the deaths of Agnes Kitsworth and Jeffrey Mace. While Fitz is still in distress, Aida arrives in her newly created human body. She smiles at Fitz and has him touch her hands, entrancing him again like in the Framework. Fitz, puzzled, is slow to react, and cannot move away, therefore obstructing May from shooting Aida. Suddenly, Aida teleports, displaying an ability similar to the InhumanGordon, and takes Fitz away with her, much to Coulson and May's dismay.[75]Anton Ivanov hears the commotion and arrives in time to watch Aida take Fitz.[78][68]
Framework
Alphonso Mackenzie talks to his daughter
Mackenzie returns to the Playground to spend time with his daughter, telling her that everything he needs in his life is right there.[78][75]
Real World
At the Ivanov Oil Platform, Phil Coulson and Melinda May are confronted by Anton Ivanov, who is now able to kill them since Aida obtained her biological body, lifting all restrictions on killing others. Ivanov attacks May and Coulson, withstanding several bullets and easily knocking May down thanks to his enhanced mechanical body, but is finally destroyed when Coulson uses his Energy Shield in retaliation. However, Coulson and May quickly discover that they will have to deal with several copies of Ivanov around the base.[78][68]
Coulson and May lock themselves in a room and May uses the time to catch up on all the events she missed, including the final assault on Eli Morrow and the disappearance of Ghost Rider.[78][68]
Though the Zephyr One is heavily damaged because of the assaults of Ivanov's men, Piper and Davis manage to get rid of their enemy. The plane then flies to the Ivanov Oil Platform in order to rescue the rest of the team.[78][68]
After teleporting Leo Fitz and herself to a beach, Aida enjoys the sensations provided by her brand new biological body. Fitz then confronts her about what happened in the Framework, holding her accountable for manipulating him. Aida replies that she only repaired his relationship with his father, and did so out of care; she confesses that she feels love for Fitz. She then teleports them again.[78][68]
Coulson works out where he and May are from his Framework knowledge about the Cold War, as a history teacher.[78][68]
Simmons and Johnson learn that S.H.I.E.L.D. is once again considered dangerous by the authorities after the destruction of the Playground, with Glenn Talbot speaking on WHiH about the suspicion that Johnson has something to do with it.[78][68]
In an apartment designed to look familiar to Fitz, Aida walks in, fully dressed. Fitz is still highly troubled and worries about his friends. He tries to make Aida empathize and help him rescue them.[78][68]
At the oil platform, Coulson and May are still struggling to fight their way out. They manage to destroy more of Ivanov's clones. However, the Superior intends to leave the base with his submarine and to destroy the facility.[78][68]
Fitz persuades Aida to help and she teleports into the base and tries to stop the Superior. However, Aida fails and Ivanov leaves.[78][68]
Aida returns to the apartment to get Fitz and then teleports back to the oil platform.[78][68]
In the meantime, Coulson brings May to the surface and at the same moment, the Zephyr One finally arrives.[78][68]
Aida returns to the oil platform, rescuing Mackenzie by teleporting him, and the Framework equipment to which he is still connected, onto the plane. Despite this, Simmons shoots Aida and Fitz with an I.C.E.R. and the team places them in the plane's Containment Module.[78][68]
The team returns to a destroyed Playground and lock Fitz and Aida in one of the remaining Containment Modules, waiting for them to wake. They further discuss what happened in the Framework and how they feel now that they are back,with Simmons fearing that Fitz could still be a cruel and ruthless person, and still in love with Aida.[78][68]
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Real World
Jemma Simmons decides to monitor the Containment Module's video feed in order to hear their conversations. After waking up, Fitz and Aida also discuss what happened in the alternate reality, with Fitz still traumatized by the evil nature he displayed because of the education provided by a father figure, much like Grant Ward.[78][68]
Fitz laments over the fact that his friends may never forgive him and that his future with Simmons could now be destroyed. Aida tries to comfort him, but she mistakenly thinks that Fitz is still in love with her after their liaison in the Framework. Therefore, when Fitz states that he still loves Simmons and only her, it angers her, and with her impassioned new feelings, this anger and heartbreak quickly drives her insane.[78][68]
Escape from Aida: Aida assaults Fitz and tries to escape with him so as to force him to be with her, whether he wants it or not. However, her teleportation abilities are blocked by the Quantum Field Disruptors in the module. Simmons tries to go to the module to extract Fitz, but she, along with Coulson, May, and Johnson, are stopped by U.S. Air Force soldiers sent by Talbot. While Coulson tries to explain the situation, Fitz is pulled out of the module by Piper, Davis, and Prince. Aida, who acquired several Inhuman capabilities like Lincoln Campbell's electrokinesis, uses her powers to escape and chases them. She kills several soldiers, as well as both Prince and Davis, but Fitz and Piper manage to get onboard Zephyr One. Fitz orders them to take off immediately and Talbot reluctantly agrees to let the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents go.[78][68]
Aboard the plane, Fitz remains in the Containment Module. After hesitating, Simmons decides to join him and comforts him. The two of them cry together, traumatized, but finally reunited. In another part of the plane, Coulson and Johnson discover that Rodriguez has plugged herself into the Framework in order to bring Mackenzie to the real world.[78][68]
Filled with anger and a desire for revenge, Aida returns to Ivanov's submarine. Ivanov explains that they could use the knowledge of the Darkhold to rebuild the world of the Framework in the real world, thus restoring Aida's domination over everyone and everything. She agrees, stating that she wants her enemies to suffer.[78][68]
Several agencies of espionage decide to hold a meeting so as to decide S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fate, after realizing they lied about Mace being an Inhuman.[78][79]
Having been trapped in Hell for several weeks, doing the bidding of the Spirit of Vengeance in the wake of the deal he had made, Robbie Reyes finally discovers a way to return to Earth.[78][68]
Several hours after Alphonso Mackenzie decided to stay with Hope, Elena Rodriguez, who has uploaded her consciousness into the Framework in order to rescue him, wakes in the virtual reality to find herself strapped to a chair in a building on fire. She screams in despair at her hopeless situation.[78][68]
Aboard the Zephyr One, Phil Coulson and his team are still trying to figure out a way to fight and stop Aida, who has become incredibly dangerous since she acquired a human body. Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons discuss Aida's powers, which she obtained by assessing various Inhumans in the Framework, such as Lincoln Campbell, Vijay Nadeer, and Gordon. However, they end up arguing about what they have to do next to deal with Aida.[78][79]
Johnson discovers that Aida is deleting the Framework and its contents
Meanwhile, Daisy Johnson keeps monitoring the vitals of Elena Rodriguez and Alphonso Mackenzie, who are still trapped in the Framework. Johnson tries to make adjustments to the programming so as to help Rodriguez, but soon discovers that Aida is shutting down the Framework, deleting every element in it and thus threatening Rodriguez and Mackenzie's lives. Johnson and Fitz try to figure out a way to keep their friends alive as long as possible.[78][79]
Framework
Rodriguez is still tied up to an experimentation chair in the Triskelion when a HYDRA agent finds her. As he prepares to kill her, Rodriguez is suddenly saved by Holden Radcliffe. He explains that he followed a trail of yo-yos, which Rodriguez realizes must have been programmed in by Johnson.[78][79]
Attack on Aida: Aida is telling her LMDs that she wants S.H.I.E.L.D. to suffer, just as Ghost Rider arrives. Ghost Rider quickly dispatches the LMDs, and realizes that Aida has acquired a living body thanks to the Darkhold. Before he can seize either her or Ivanov, however, Aida teleports away, but not before being injured by Reyes' Hellfire Chain - a wound that she cannot recover from.[78][79]
As Simmons realizes that there are 12-20 hours left until the Framework is completely gone, Glenn Talbot calls Coulson and informs him that an International Intelligence Inquiry Committee session is planned for the following morning, and asks Coulson to attend and explain what has happened since the destruction of the Playground. Coulson refuses, claiming that it would endanger the lives of all the people present.[78][79]
Johnson finds Ghost Rider and brings him onto Zephyr One, where he explains that Aida is made of dark matter, just like the Darkhold, and that the Spirit of Vengeance inside him wants to take them both back to Hell, where they belong. He claims that he might be able to stop Aida once and for all.[78][79]
Framework
Mackenzie leads the evacuation of the Playground
Radcliffe takes Yo-Yo Rodriguez to the Playground to see Mackenzie. Mackenzie is organizing the evacuation of the refugees, though he is worried by the sudden disappearances of many objects due to the Framework shutting down.[78][79]
However, Anton Ivanov and Sergei Mishkin infiltrate the meeting and show the Darkhold to the committee, proposing to use it against the Inhumans.[78][79]
Before he can do anything, Talbot is shot in the head by an LMD of Daisy Johnson.[78][79]
Ghost Rider and Quake team up to destroy Ivanov's android and all the LMDs at the complex, including Johnson's LMD.[78][79]
However, Aida escapes again, but this time without the Darkhold.[78][79]
The S.H.I.E.L.D. team and Ghost Rider return to the Zephyr One. Ghost Rider wants to take the Darkhold to Hell, but Coulson asks him to postpone this idea, since they could use it to lure Aida into a trap first.[78][79]
Framework
Yo-Yo Rodriguez tries to convince Alphonso Mackenzie to leave the alternate reality and go back to the real world with her, but he is still not ready to give up on a life with his daughter Hope, even when everything in the Framework is disappearing in front of them.[78][79]
Jessica goes to the octopus tank. She takes a photo of a family looking at the seals.
They all return to the Playground in order to lure Aida. As Fitz and Simmons talk, Aida suddenly teleports in beside them.[78][79]
Framework
Rodriguez talks to Radcliffe about her inability to convince Mackenzie to come home. During the conversation, Hope Mackenzie overhears Rodriguez say that she is not real, upsetting her.[78][79]
Real World
Aida confronts Fitz and Simmons
Ambush on Aida: Aida confronts Fitz by threatening to kill Simmons if he does not comply to her demands. Coulson tells May the reason why he drank the bottle of Haig with her LMD. Fitz tells Aida he is ready to obey, but Aida chooses to kill Simmons nonetheless. However, unbeknownst to her, Simmons was replaced by a Life-Model Decoy first. The real Simmons shoots Aida multiple times as she tries to get the Darkhold from Coulson. Aida mocks them, saying that they cannot stop them, when Coulson reveals that he has borrowed the powers of the Spirit of Vengeance and transforms into the Ghost Rider. After a short fight, Aida is finally killed.[78][79]
Framework
Destruction of the Framework: Rodriguez decides to stay in the Framework with Mackenzie, waiting for their death together. However, when Hope finally disappears, Mackenzie finally agrees to leave the Framework with Rodriguez by using a backdoor created by Johnson.[78][79]
Enoch swims in a pool at his home, then chooses to spend a long period of time completely submerged.[78][80]
Mackenzie and Rodriguez discuss their time in the Framework, with Mackenzie saying that even if it did not last long, he is happy to have had some moments to share with Hope, but he is ready to spend time in the real world with Rodriguez, another person he loves, beside him.[78][79]
Enoch prepares to capture Coulson's team
After his swim, Enoch takes coconut water from the fridge and removes him synthetic human skin to shower in his true extraterrestrial form. Replacing his synthetic skin after the shower, he then dresses and heads out for another job.[78][79]
Enoch drives to work, feeling light-hearted. On arrival, a man greets him and offers him potential disguise designs for the side of his truck, which appear instantaneously. Agreeing on Bendeery English Ale, he boards the truck. Having the knowledge from "The Seer" that Coulson's Team would be at Rae's Restaurant soon, Enoch and his men drive to the restaurant and prepare to abduct them.[78][80][81]
After learning that the authorities are coming after them, Fitz offers to turn himself over while the rest of the team leave in order to make amends for his mistakes. The others refuse, saying that they have forgiven him, and that they must stay together.[78][79]
Framework
Holden Radcliffe, who still imprisoned in the Framework as he no longer has an actual body in the real world, goes to a beach and toasts the end of the only world he has left, before vanishing, finally deleted, killed entirely.[78][79]
Coulson's Team leaves for the diner at 20:17, and arrive at 20:54, where they enjoy a simple meal before their inevitable arrest.[81]Enoch then enters the diner at 21:44, leading an armed squad. They freeze the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents using an unidentified device, and take everyone but Fitz away.[79] When a member of Enoch's team check about Fitz, he confirms that he should not be taken, as he is not on "the list".[78][80][81]
The team, still frozen, is led to the White Monolith before the "window" closes. As soon as they wake back up, it liquefies and they are swept away to a space station 74 years into the future.[78][80][81]
Fitz comes out of the frozen state he was put into and finds his friends gone. The United States Armed Forces arrive and arrest him, confused as to where the other six have gone.[78][81]
The next morning, Fitz is taken for a polygraph test. This shows the army lieutenants and general that he is telling the truth, and Fitz asks to help them in their search.[78][81]
General Hale agrees with Lieutenants Lucas and Evans that she will allow Fitz to have papers, pens, books, and a TV.[78][81]
Jessica Jones finishes spending a fourth day at the aquarium, having still seen no sign of Dr. Karl. She starts wanders as the lights go out and the aquarium closes.[59][76]
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People arrive at the aquarium, and Jessica Jones arrives in order to spend another day looking for Dr. Karl.[59][76]
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Fitz starts to work on what could have happened to his friends
Fitz watches soccer in his cell and has been given some books.[82][81]
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Jones spends an eighth day at the aquarium, but nothing happens. She continues to visit in hopes of finding Dr. Karl, lingering around the octopus tanks.[59][76]
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Food is delivered to Fitz in his cell, and he eats.[82][81]
Jessica Jones waits again for the IGH doctor, but he does not arrive. She paces as the aquarium closes, staying until the very end of the day as a cleaner sweeps the floor.[59][76]
Jessica Jones watches on at the aquarium as lunchtime comes. After several days of visiting, she finally spots Dr. Karl, recognizing him from his fascination with the octopuses and a drawing Kawecki drew her. Seeing him, Jones realizes that he was one of the doctors who worked on her after the accident from 17 years prior. As she continues to watch, she is surprised when the mysterious woman behind the recent killings arrives and meets with Dr. Karl. Jones starts taking pictures with her cellphone, but the doctor spots Jones watching them. When the woman notices her too, she angrily smashes the glass of one of the tanks in order to create a commotion to cover their escape.[59][76]
Jones after failing to chase the IGH duo
The IGH duo escapes in the chaos, and Jones' cellphone is water-damaged. Jones rushes out of the aquarium to find them, but they are gone. She passes a store, where she finds a magazine with a front cover headline about Trish Walker and Griffin Sinclair's break-up.[59][84]
Jones returns to her apartment and places her phone in dry rice to get it working again, as it contains her pictures of Dr. Karl and the killer. Eventually, the water damage is fixed and Jones looks through the photos, noticing that the doctor is wearing a ring.[59][84]
Needing a break, Jessica Jones visits Oscar Arocho's apartment. They discuss his paintings and his troubles with Vido's mother, and begin to get closer. Jones admits that she came over because she did not want to be alone, and Arocho kisses her. They spill a pot of paint, but proceed to have sex on the spilt mess regardless.[59][84]
Trish Walker, now addicted to the IGH serum, boards a bus and finds her senses heightened again.[59][84]
21st
Arocho sees Jones waking up
Jessica Jones wakes up and Oscar Arocho tells her he woke a few hours ago, revealing that he has been painting her asleep. She does not know how to react to the gesture and leaves his apartment to go to her Alias Investigations Office.[59][84]
Analyzing the pictures Jones took of "Dr. Karl" and the mysterious woman, Malcolm Ducasse realizes that the man's ring is not a wedding band, but is in fact a university class ring - the same university Ducasse previously attended. Jones sends Ducasse to his old university, from which he had been suspended for his previous drug habits, to investigate the man.[59][84]
Jeri Hogarth gives Inez Green new clothes and toiletries she has bought her and asks her questions, wanting to dig more into IGH's operations.[59][84]
Leo Fitz does push-ups to keep fit as a soccer game plays on his TV.[82][81]
Jessica Jones and Trish Walker reunite and talk about the last events involving Sinclair and Dr. Karl. To continue their investigation, they enter a jewelry shop by the aquarium. The two women talk with the owner, trying to find out about Dr. Karl's identity, and he shows them that he caught the couple on security footage, and Dr. Karl had drugged the woman to get her into a car.[59][84]
While searching for information on Dr. Karl, Malcolm Ducasse encounters his ex-girlfriend Nichelle on the campus, who has 3 months left of her master's degree. He apologizes for ruining their relationship due to his addiction. Nichelle eventually accepts his apology and the two hug, but Ducasse uses the opportunity to steal her student ID so he can get into restricted buildings.[59][84]
Jeri Hogarth calls Jessica Jones, who is with Trish Walker as they return from the jewelry shop, to tell her that she wants Green gone from her home. Meanwhile, in Hogarth's apartment, Inez Green finds Hogarth's pills for her ALS.[59][84]
At Alias Investigations office, Ducasse reveals to Jones and Walker that she found the man's identity to be "Karl Malus". Ducasse leaves, and Jones tells Walker that Ducasse fancies her, which Walker refuses to believe. Jones discovers that Malus works for Ambyhose, a golf club owned by a man named Justis Ambrose.[59][84]
Jones talks to Ambrose
Jones and Walker visit the golf club. Jones goes to talk with Ambrose and asks him about his funding of Dr. Malus while Trish Walker distracts the guards. Ambrose tells Jones that Malus saved his son, Eric, after he was born with a genetic disease. Walker then starts to throw up, sick from the IGH drug. Ambrose, meanwhile, denies continually funding Malus. However, when Jones leaves, Ambrose calls Malus and warns him about Jones. Malus hangs up and sedates the mysterious woman, as is routine due to the dangerous lack of emotional control that came with her powers.[59][84]
Jessica Jones takes the sick Walker to her apartment and puts her to bed. Once Jones has left, Walker gets desperate for the IGH inhaler again but cannot find it. Malcolm Ducasse, meanwhile, finds the inhaler in the Alias Investigations office and calls Walker.[59][84]
Inez Green approaches Jeri Hogarth and tries to talk to her about her ALS condition. Green tells her that there was an IGH patient she knew who could heal people by touching them, and that he saved her life after the mysterious woman attacked her.[59][84]
Jones returns to her apartment and finds Oscar Arocho's finished painting of her waiting at the door. She keeps it, but puts it to one side.[59][84]
Ducasse visits Trish Walker and gives her the inhaler. She is so desperate that she leaves a conversation with him to take it as soon as possible, and once she does she finds herself filled with adrenaline. Knowing from Jones' comments that Ducasse is attracted to her, she channels her adrenaline into seducing Ducasse and they have impassioned sex.[59][84]
22nd
In the morning, Jessica Jones finds Eric Ambrose, Justis' son. She takes Eric's phone from him and video calls his father in order to blackmail him. Fearing for his son, Justis gives Jones Karl Malus' address.[59][84]
Following Ambrose's information, Jones arrives at Malus' house. She investigates the home and realizes that Malus is living with the mysterious woman. Searching the woman's bedroom, Jones starts to notice that the woman's personal objects are familiar to her. She then is baffled to find a photo of herself and Phillip Jones from years ago in the room. Malus and the woman enter, and Jones says she does not understand. The woman claims to be Jones' mother, still alive after all these years - Alisa Jones.[59][84]
Jessica Jones struggles to accept the truth about her mother
Alisa Jones tells Jessica her story, explaining what happened after the accident 17 years ago. Alisa explains that Dr. Malus and IGH helped her and Jessica, but due to Alisa's injuries being more severe, she was kept at the facility longer while Jones was discharged to normal hospital after 20 days. Alisa tells that her treatment involved genetic editing that changed her face and that she received increased strength, but extreme mood swings and a dissociative disorder when she becomes angry. She explains that she escaped IGH by killing Luanne McClure and severely injuring Inez Green, and had found Jessica and discovered her relationship with Stirling Adams, but seen him seemingly attempting to exploit her and killed him in a fit of rage. She recounts to Jones how she had returned to IGH after in hopes to recover from her side effects, and once she finishes her story, asks for forgiveness. Jessica refuses and attacks her mother in anger, and Karl Malus is forced to render Jessica unconscious with a sedative.[59][85]
Trish Walker and Malcolm Ducasse call Jessica Jones, who has woken and is being watched over by Karl Malus. He allows her to take the call so long as she pretends everything is okay, which she does. Nonetheless, her friends are left concerned.[59][86]
Jones tricks Malus
Jones tricks Malus, asking him to be let out so she can talk with her mother. Malus falls for it and once she is freed, Jones locks herself in the room alone and begins to text Detective Eddy Costa, giving him the address for the police to arrive at Malus' home. When Alisa finds out what Jessica has done, she breaks into the room and takes the phone. Realizing it is too late, she begs Malus to leave as she wants him to remain unharmed by the arriving police. Malus reluctantly flees.[59][86]
Trish Walker starts to become erratic as she wonders where Jones is. Ducasse notices that she has become addicted to the IGH drug and tries to talk to her about it. However, when she refuses to admit this, he leaves and decides to continue Jones' investigation into Hogarth's partners.[59][86]
While waiting for the police, Alisa Jones hopes to prove to Jessica that she is the same person who raised her. The two women talk, and wonder what might happen to Alisa when the police arrest her. Jessica comments that she might get taken to the prison built for people like them, the Raft, which Alisa says she knows about.[59][86]
Jeri Hogarth finds out that the healer, Shane Ryback, is in prison. She asks Inez Green how she ended up on the streets, and Green explains before saying that Hogarth could not possibly understand. Hogarth corrects her, telling her that she in fact built her wealth from nothing.[59][86]
Alisa comments that she and Brian, Jessica's father, were not getting on and had many problems in their marriage that Jessica was shielded from. As Alisa talks to Jessica about their life 17 years ago, Jessica begins to empathize with her and accept that she really is her mother. She changes her mind and decides to find an escape route, discovering a tunnel that Alisa had been using to escape at nights sometimes.[59][86]
The Joneses manage to escape from the house before the police arrive. Eddy Costa and Ruth Sunday find no one in the house.[59][86]
Malcolm Ducasse discovers that Benowitz is secretly homosexual, and frequents a gay bar, unbeknown to his wife.[59][86]
Jeri Hogarth visits Shane Ryback in prison. She eventually convinces him to allow her to takes him on as a client, desperate to be cured by him.[59][86]
Jessica and Alisa head to Jessica's Apartment in New York City
Alisa and Jessica Jones go to the latter's apartment. Jessica is visited by Detective Costa, who wants to know what happened, but she lies and says she found no one at the house and turns him away. When Jessica returns to her apartment, she finds that her mother is gone and starts to panic. She searches for Alisa, only to find talking to Oscar Arocho. Alisa finds out he is the artist behind the painting of Jessica in her apartment and compliments his work. Jessica takes her mother back to her apartment.[59][86]
Ducasse finds Benowitz in the gay bar he frequents and lies, saying that Linda Chao has hired him, but that he feels she is being immoral, and that Benowitz should give him blackmail material that he has on her. He says he has plenty, but leaves without giving him anything.[59][86]
Attack on Malcolm Ducasse: When Ducasse leaves the gay bar, he is attacked by homophobic thugs. Trish Walker, who has been looking for Jones in numerous bars, comes across Ducasse and rescues him, then gives him some of the IGH inhaler to help him heal. However, the effects of the drug and the reminder of his struggles with addiction are too much for Ducasse and he runs off.[59][86]
Jeri Hogarth gets home and celebrates her imminent healing with Inez Green. The two women start to become intimate.[59][86]
Cheng tries to kill Jones with a rifle
Attack on Alisa Jones: Wanting to avenge his friend's death, Pryce Cheng sets up a rifle and takes aims at Jones' apartment, preparing to shoot.[87]Jessica Jones sits with Alisa, when they are suddenly shot at from outside. As Jessica dives to tackle Alisa to the ground to keep her safe, a second shot hits her in the side, enraging Alisa. Jessica tries to calm her down, but Alisa spots the shooter through the window and runs off.[59][86]
Kidnapping of Pryce Cheng: She races to find and kill Cheng, but Jessica is able to render him unconscious first with one of Alisa's sedatives, and convinces her to find a solution other than murder. Once Cheng is tied up, Jessica proceeds to do as her mother has asked and shackle her, as Alisa hopes this means she can cause no more harm.[59][87]
After engaging in sex, Inez Green and Jeri Hogarth talk. Green says that she is still afraid Hogarth will kick her out once Ryback has healed her.[59][87]
Trish Walker arrives at Jones' apartment. Jones realizes that Walker is high on some kind of drug, but Walker dismisses the accusations and leaves.[59][87]
Alisa Jones has nightmares as she sleeps and becomes enraged, dreaming of losing Jessica, forgetting that her daughter is right with her. She wakes and Jessica calms her down after a while.[59][87]
23rd
Jessica Jones talks to Arocho
Oscar Arocho realizes that there has been some kind of altercation at Jones' apartment after spotting glass on the street outside. He goes to check on Jessica Jones, but as he does so, his son, Vido, is taken abruptly by Sonia, Vido's mother and Oscar's ex-wife.[59][87]
In her apartment, Jones check on Pryce Cheng to see if he is still alive after being heavily sedated last night. She then proceeds to text Walker to check if she is okay, after showing symptoms of addiction the night before.[59][87]
Walker receives the message from Jones, but ignores it. She watches the news and sees her ex-boyfriend, Griffin Sinclair, reporting from Syria about the ongoing conflict between ISIS and the United States Armed Forces, having been there for the weeks since their breakup. Still jealous and angered by his success, Walker takes the inhaler again to get another high.[59][87]
Walker visits Jeri Hogarth's apartment and demands that Inez Green go on air to discuss IGH, but Green refuses and Hogarth makes Walker leave.[59][87]
The Joneses discuss how Jessica has felt guilty for the accident since 2000, but Alisa says that it happened because of Brian's poor driving and her not insisting on taking the wheel, not because of Jessica.[59][87]
Kidnapping of Vido Arocho: Oscar Arocho calls Jessica Jones for help, explaining that this time, Sonia's taking of Video was not temporary, but rather a kidnapping, as she is worried she will lose the custody battle for him. Jessica and Alisa leave to save Vido.[59][87]
Jeri Hogarth visits Shane Ryback, whom she has got released from prison. He says he will try to heal Hogarth, but cannot promise that it will work.[59][87]
During a live broadcast of her radio show, Trish Walker, under the influence of the IGH drug, becomes angry at the superficiality of her show's programming. She becomes angry and goes on a tirade about the show and the important issues it ignores, then quits.[59][87]
Investigating Apartment 6F, the Joneses and Arocho figure out that Sonia is planning to take Vido away from New York, as his treasured Captain America toy is gone and passports have been taken. They check Sonia's credit card and find bus tickets have been purchased.[59][87]
The Joneses confront Vido's mother
The trio get to the bus terminal and, using her abilities for good, Alisa Jones helps Jessica to stop the bus Sonia is taking Vido on. Vido is returned to Oscar and they leave to go home.[59][87]
Shane Ryback pretends to heal Hogarth from her sickness, really a hoax planned with Green to rob the lawyer. Hogarth believes it worked and starts to feel a placebo effect, laying happily on her bed as she convinces herself she feels better.[59][87]
Trish Walker gets a call from ZCN News' Ronald Garcia, offering her her dream job as a television anchor, saying he is impressed by her actions on her show earlier that day. She is excited and after the call goes to take more of the IGH drug, but realizes that she has run out.[59][87]
Arrest of Alisa Jones: Alisa Jones sees the potential of a life with Jessica doing good, like with Vido Arocho's bus. However, she still wants to protect Jessica by killing Cheng and having them run away. Jessica frees Pryce Cheng, and when Alisa tries to chase him she is confronted by Detective Eddy Costa and the police, whom Jessica has just called, wanting her mother to have an opportunity to face her actions while safe. Jessica calms her mother down and she surrenders to them.[59][87]
24th
Leo Fitz keeps investigating what happened to his friends
Fitz works into the early hours. His main cell light is turned off, so he turns on a lamp.[82][81]
Meanwhile, following the offer made by Garcia the day before, Trish Walker has her ZCN trial, but she struggles with withdrawal symptoms during her audition. While there, she overhears that the super-powered killer has been caught.[59][88]
Alisa is offered the deal to turn in Malus, but refuses to take it.[59][88]
Walker calls Jones when she leaves the television set, admitting to her addiction. Jones tells her to meet her in her apartment.[59][88]
Jessica Jones explains everything to Walker and Ducasse, but tells them to stay away.[59][88]
Walker talks to Ducasse, who is angry with Jones for keeping all secrets from them. They make sure each other are clear that they feel they are bad for each other, and that what they have cannot continue or turn into a relationship.[59][88]
Jones is comforted by Arocho
Oscar Arocho calls Jessica Jones, who feels bad from the ongoing situation with her mother and being put into moral and emotional conflicts with her friends. Arocho goes to see her and comforts her.[59][88]
25th
Jessica Jones decides that she will convince her mother to take the deal. She visits Jeri Hogarth's apartment to let her know, so she can inform the authorities that Alisa will take the deal. Hogarth introduces Jones to Shane Ryback, to whom she is grateful for having cured her, letting him and Inez Green to stay at her home.[59][88]
Jessica Jones goes to visit Alisa, who agrees to take the deal when Jessica promises to keep Karl Malus safe. But Jessica has other plans for Malus without the police knowing.[59][88]
Dale Holiday, a guard from the prison where Alisa is being kept, is rude and hostile towards her.[59][88]
Jones tries to persuade Malus
Jones finds Malus and convinces him to go to a country with no extradition so Alisa can talk about him without fear of him being caught. Malus accepts, but says he needs a fake passport. Jones realizes that Oscar Arocho can provide them one and takes pictures of him, but when she mentions Shane Ryback, he says that he never gave anyone healing powers.[59][88]
Trish Walker, who is getting desperate for the IGH drug, visits Alisa Jones to have her talk about Malus' experimentation and asks her to turn him over. Alisa rejects her and loses her temper.[59][88]
Walker informs Jessica that she visited Alisa, saying that she was enraged and is not the woman Jessica thinks she is. Jessica insists that since she is her mother, she is her problem, not Walker's. Walker leaves and visits Ducasse and, despite their last conversation, she starts to kiss him. They sleep together again.[59][88]
26th
Dale Holiday continues to mistreat Alisa Jones, awakening her by electrocution.[59][88]
While being informed by Jeri Hogarth about a possible altercation between Alisa Jones and the guards, Jessica decides she has to visit her mother. Jessica asks why Hogarth is being so kind lately, and she responds that she has changed. Jones regrettably tells her that Shane Ryback is a fraud, as Malus never treated him, but Hogarth refuses to believe her.[59][88]
Jessica Jones visits the prison to talk to Alisa. She comes to realize that her mother is being mistreated while in custody and wants to know who is the responsible. She works out from Alisa's reaction that is one of the guards present: Dale Holiday, and Jessica decides to look into what she can do about it.[59][88]
Trish Walker and Malcolm Ducasse get out of bed. When Ducasse goes to Jones' apartment, he opens her laptop and finds her cloud backup of Malus' photos, realizing that Jones is planning to help him get away. Walker and Ducasse decide to find Malus themselves, though Walker has an ulterior motive in mind. Using the location data on the photos, they manage to track him to the Love Motel.[59][88]
Hogarth discovers she has been robbed
Hogarth arrives back at her penthouse, only to find that Inez Green and Shane Ryback have robbed her of all her valuable possessions. She realizes that Jones was correct and that as well as losing all her possessions, she has not been cured of her disease, and breaks down.[59][88]
Investigating Holiday, Jessica Jones finds evidence from an ex-colleague of his that he is linked with past inmate suicides. She waits for him to leave work and has her cab driver follow his bus home.[59][88]
Walker and Ducasse wait for Malus outside of the Love Motel in order to turn him over to the police.[59][88]
Kidnapping of Karl Malus: Trish Walker and Malcolm Ducasse spot Karl Malus. Walker, who wants Malus to give her powers, tells Ducasse not to call the cops. When he turns around, she knocks him out and puts him in the boot of the car, so as to allow her to kidnap Malus alone.[59][88]
Jones sneaks into Dale Holiday's house. She finds that he keeps the prisoner tags of the suicide victims from under his jurisdiction inside a stuffed bear head on his wall, and realizes that he is keeping them like trophies from a hunt, since he is in fact killing the victims for sport.[59][88]
Jones is traumatized for killing Holiday
Having realized he was being followed, Dale Holiday confronts and attacks Jones, shouting that he will claim she attacked first and he acted in self-defense. Jones takes his club from him and hits him across the head with it to protect herself, but to her horror, accidentally kills him.[59][88]
Jessica Jones is traumatized by killing Holiday. She makes his death look like suicide by dropping his body off the roof, but from the trauma, begins having hallucinations of Kilgrave, whom she killed 2 years prior.[59][13]
Jessica Jones continues to have hallucinations of Kilgrave as she enters her apartment and showers. She takes the fake credentials Oscar Arocho left for her, and heads to the Love Motel.[59][13]
Jones is surprised when Karl Malus is nowhere to be found, and realizes that since his room key has been left behind, he must have been kidnapped.[59][13]
Jones decides to visit her mother. Arriving at the prison, she listens to some guards discussing Holiday's suicide, already notified to the staff.[59][13]
Alisa Jones begs her new friend Toussaint to give her 10 minutes with her daughter alone
Alisa Jones, who has become friends with Toussaint, asks her to leave while she talks to her daughter. Toussaint obliges. Jessica and Alisa talk briefly, and Alisa realizes what Jessica has done. She advises her daughter not to let it upset her as Holiday was an awful man, but Jessica does not tell her that her current trauma is not about Holiday, but Kilgrave. When Jessica asks her if Karl Malus has friends, Alisa realizes that she is asking because he has disappeared, and says she thinks it must be Trish Walker who took him, following her comments when she visited her. Alisa angrily states that Walker simply tries to hide her selfish actions by pretending they are noble, but Jessica calms her mother down and promises that she will find Malus. She then leaves prison, still being bothered by hallucinations of Kilgrave.[59][13]
Back at her apartment, Jones finds her laptop has been used. She realizes that Malcolm Ducasse found Malus' pictures and used them to track him down, and Jones breaks into his apartment to try to work out where he is.[59][13]
Trish Walker forces Karl Malus to collect some old equipment needed for his experimentation. A fan of Walker walks past and asks her for a picture. Walker refuses, but the woman takes a picture anyway, catching Malus in the shot. Ducasse, who is kept in the car and tied up, receives a call from Jones but is unable to answer it.[59][13]
Jones tries to triangulate Ducasse's current location
Jones calls Ducasse's Teaser app dates to get them to say how far away their app says he is, allowing her to triangulate his location.[59][13]
While Walker and Malus go to obtain other things necessary for the experiment, Ducasse manages to escape from the trunk. He confronts Walker, who is desperate to obtain powers and threatens to shoot him non-fatally if he tries to stop her. As Walker and Malus get in the car, Jones arrives, but Walker drives away hurriedly. Jones shoots Ducasse an angry look before giving chase.[59][13]
In her cell, Alisa Jones reminisces on when, on a beach trip, Malus informed her that he was closing IGH as Leslie Hansen and Miklos Kozlov had put the project in jeopardy. She also remembers his promise to her that he would find a way to correct her dissociative episodes.[59][13]
Ducasse apologizes to Jones and tries to help, but she attempts to angrily dismiss him. However, he refuses to leave and says that either they work together or he will find Walker on his own. Still mad, Jones asks him if he knows where they are and he comments that they had a bag from a place with a green plant on it. Jones orders him to figure out what the logo is. Meanwhile, the hallucinations of Kilgrave continue to disturb Jones, as he personifies Jones' troubled subconscious. Kilgrave says that Walker is selfish and just worried about her drug, that she has been a hypocrite. Jones manages to stop thinking about him, however, when Ducasse shouts at her, having found the place where Walker and Malus bought items: Greenleaf Veterinary.[59][13]
Jones threatens the veterinary worker
The veterinary worker is difficult with Jones, so Jones threatens the young woman until she gives information. When the woman explains what Walker bought, Jones realizes that Walker does not want the inhaler, but rather full powers.[59][13]
Jessica Jones tracks down Malus and Walker to the IGH clinic where Jones was operated on 17 years prior. She arrives and stops the procedure on Walker, and is almost convinced by her returning hallucination of Kilgrave to murder Malus. She stops herself, but the experiment appears to fail and causes Walker severe injuries. No longer wanting his job to affect other people's lives, Malus decides to end his own life. He destroys the facility with himself inside it, and Jones rushes Walker to the hospital.[59][13]
At Metro-General Hospital, Jessica Jones berates Malcolm Ducasse for not trusting her, and for taking advantage of their working relationship. Their argument leads to a mutual agreement that he should no longer work for her.[59][13]
Jones makes peace with herself
Sitting in the hospital waiting room at night, Jones declares to herself that she will not go down the killer path any longer, happy to have spared Malus' life earlier. She rejects Kilgrave's hallucinations once and for all.[59][13]
Dorothy Walker and Jessica Jones stand over Trish Walker's bed. Dorothy tells Jones that while she has blamed her for Trish's problems for 17 years, she knows Trish is stubborn on her own and now thinks of Jones as Trish's family as well.[59][89]
Fitz has been drawing a monkey face, his favorite animal, for every day of his incarceration. He draws a 17th monkey face on his cell wall.[82][81]
Alisa Jones walks aimlessly through Times Square. She sees a Trish Talk poster and decides to head to the WNEX Station to find Walker for revenge.[59][89]
Ruth Sunday and Eddy Costa visit Jessica Jones. Jessica tries to give them any detail possible to take Alisa into custody, but Sunday is rude to her, saying Jessica's actions caused Alisa's rampage and that she should have gone to the Raft to begin with. Jones reads Malus' journal about Alisa and explains that Alisa's fixation in her dissociative episodes most likely mean Trish Walker is set to be her next victim, as Alisa will blame her for Malus' death.[59][89]
Meanwhile, Alisa Jones terrorizes the Trish Talk studio in order to kill Walker, only to find out that she does not work there anymore.[59][89]
Alisa goes to Malus' room at the Love Motel. When she sees Dorothy Walker being interviewed by Thembi Wallace on TV, discussing what happened to Trish and where she is hospitalized, she realizes she now has a location on Trish and steals a van to get to head to the hospital.[59][89]
Eddy Costa, Ruth Sunday, and Jessica Jones head to the hospital to protect Walker. Worried that Alisa Jones might arrive faster than her, Jessica jumps out of the car when it gets stuck in traffic and runs to the hospital.[59][89]
Jeri Hogarth calls various pawn shops to find out if any of her stolen items have been sold to any of them.[59][89]
Alisa threatens a nurse for information and finds out Trish Walker's room. She gets to the room only to find Jessica protecting Walker, but still attempts to kill her. When Eddy Costa and Ruth Sunday arrive, they try to arrest Alisa. Jessica tries to talk Alisa down, but Alisa grabs Sunday and jumps out of the hospital window, surviving the fall herself due to her powers, but letting Sunday fall to her death.[59][89]
Hogarth exchanges her watch in a pawn shop for the stolen items of hers that the shop has bought and the owner to give her Shane Ryback's address.[59][89]
Dorothy Walker confronts Jones, angry at her for bringing danger to her daughter, Trish, and retracts what she said the night before about Jones being part of the family. Detective Costa, conflicted about his cooperation with Jones, tells Jones that from now on she has to stay out of the way of the police.[59][89]
Jessica Jones talks to an unconscious Trish Walker, who has been hidden in the hospital's morgue. She opens up about how she feels conflicted about having her mother back, happy to have her again but regretting all the problems it has caused. Walker wakes and gets angry at Jessica for stopping Malus' procedure. When she is informed of Malus' death, she becomes especially angry at Jones for not letting her obtain powers, saying she wanted to use them for the greater good, and that this is in contrast to what Jones does with hers. Their conversation is interrupted when Alisa calls Jessica. She tells her daughter that she wants to meet somewhere, claiming that she is not longer in a rage rampage and wants to talk. Walker, who is listening, tells Jessica that she can user her apartment as a meeting point, and Jessica agrees to meet with her mother.[59][89]
Jones manages to escape from the hospital, avoiding the NYPD by slipping into a body bag being transported to make space for Walker in the morgue. She later gets out and forces the driver to head to Walker's apartment.[59][89]
Jeri Hogarth tracks down Inez Green and confronts her for her stealing. She proceeds with her plan and tells Green a fabricated story about Ryback secretly conning multiple women, and how he is likely using her as well. Hogarth gives Green the gun she acquired from Barrett, saying it is so Green can defend herself.[59][89]
Jones arrives at Trish Walker's apartment and prepares a gun, wondering if killing her mother might be the necessary best option for everyone's safety.[59][89]
Hogarth planning the Assassination of Shane Ryback
Assassination of Shane Ryback: Hogarth watches as Green enters her house and confronts Ryback, ending up shooting him. Hogarth then calls the police to report the murder and get revenge on Green as well.[59][89]
Trish Walker talks with her mother, Dorothy. She says she is scared she is dying, but Dorothy attempts to comfort her. However, mid-conversation, Trish starts to have violent convulsions.[59][89]
Ambush on Alisa Jones: At Walker's apartment, Jessica and Alisa Jones meet. Jessica considers killing Alisa, but is unable to make herself do so. Alisa takes advantage of her moment of doubt and knocks Jessica out, then kidnapping her.[59][89]
Later in the night, Alisa Jones drives out of the state with Jessica in the back of her stolen van.[59][89]
Jessica Jones wakes up in the back of the van, and Alisa tries to calm her down. She is confused about what happened and asks her where they are going. Alisa says that she knocked her out as she was afraid to taken by police again, and offers Jessica the chance to decide where they go. Jessica says that this means they will be driving to the Raft, but Alisa then refuses, exclaiming that she does not want to spend the rest of her life locked up. She convinces Jessica that they have to stay together, as they make each other better people when together. Jessica attempts to resist Alisa, but eventually decides to work with her.[59][91]
The Walkers talk
Trish Walker wakes up in hospital, feeling better. She tells Dorothy that she wants to go and find Jones, but Dorothy says she does not want to allow her, stating that they are just human and cannot do anything the Joneses cannot.[59][91]
30th
Alisa Jones admits to Jessica that she wanted to make it difficult for her to leave her. As they drive, they pass a happy family, and Alisa brings up the possibility of them being a family again. They discuss the responsibility they would have to use their powers together, but Jessica says that she does not want to leave Trish Walker behind.[59][91]
Moving on from Alias Investigations, Malcolm Ducasse shaves his hair to a more cropped business style, wanting to act as a private investigator on his own. He calls to confirm a meeting he has arranged with Linda Chao under an alias.[59][91]
Jessica and Alisa drive towards the U.S.-Mexico border. They find the family they saw previously, crashed and trapped under their care with a fire starting. The Joneses help the family, managing to rescue them, and Jessica realizes the good things that they are able to do together, hugging her mother.[59][91]
Hogarth during her yoga session
Jeri Hogarth has a yoga session. Her instructor leaves just as Malcolm Ducasse arrives at her apartment, stating that he is now an independent investigator and has vital information for Hogarth, who had wanted to find dirt on her associates from Hogarth, Chao and Benowitz. He explains that he has recovered information for her to use after his meeting with Chao earlier in the day.[59][91]
Chase of Alisa Jones: After seeing her ability to do good, Jessica Jones decides to try to make it to safety with her mother and settle as a family together. In order to do so, Jessica meets with Oscar Arocho to arrange new papers so they can cross the border. She bids him goodbye, but realizes he has been followed by the police. Fighting her way out, Jessica gets back to her mother, noting that they have to escape fast as the police are coming for them.[59][91]
Using the blackmail material that Malcolm Ducasse obtained from Linda Chao and Steven Benowitz, Hogarth demands her previous associates double the severance money. She manages to leave her law firm with enough money to start her own, and rewards Ducasse for his work.[59][91]
Jones is called by Costa
Alisa Jones claims to Jessica that she wants to do more hero work, saying it feels right. However, Jessica is called by Detective Eddy Costa, and he uses the call to track the phone to find the Joneses' whereabouts. Alisa thinks that they should stop and considers surrendering to the NYPD, but Jessica orders her to keep on their way, saying she has an idea for where they can go. Nonetheless, Alisa feels in her heart that this is where it all ends, and that it is time to embrace justice. [59][91]
Trish Walker sees a news report on the traffic accident. Detective Costa insists that Jessica Jones might be helping her mother to escape, but Walker claims that this is not possible, as Jessica would not help someone who is a killer, and who specifically tried to kill her. Costa asks Walker if she knows a location near Westchester - the site of the tracked phone call - where Jessica might have gone. Walker claims she has no information that can help, keeping it secret that she knows the Joneses use to visit Playland there. Costa leaves, claiming that he will try to stop Jessica without harming her, but Walker realizes that she has to do something to help her adoptive sister.[59][91]
Mother and daughter enter Playland park
Alisa and Jessica Jones reach the Playland amusement park, abandoning the van as Jessica tries to get them to a boat. Though her daughter pleads that they try to escape to the docks, Alisa breaks the chains on the gates and enters the park, heading towards the Ferris wheel. Despite being repeatedly told by Jessica not to turn the Ferris wheel on and attract attention, she expresses her feeling that she has gone as far as she can go. The mother and daughter board a Ferris wheel seat together to spend their final minutes together before Alisa's inevitable arrest.[59][91]
Alisa Jones tells Jessica how proud she is of her, but as they converse Alisa is suddenly shot in the head and killed. Jessica turns in horror only to see that the shooter is Trish Walker, who got out of hospital. Jessica rushes to her, and Walker claims that she did it in order to save her from the monster her mother was, saying the police would have shot both of them otherwise. Jessica shouts at her to run, then gets back to the Ferris wheel and sobs over her mother's corpse as Eddy Costa and the NYPD arrive at the scene.[59][91]
Jones sits by her mother's corpse
Costa concludes that Jessica Jones made the tough decision to kill Alisa and tries to calm her down, kindly saying that she did the only thing that she could to end Alisa's killing spree.[59][91]
June
3rd
Leo Fitz watches another soccer game, becoming angry at a player's performance.[92][81]
He is taken from his cell and asked by the army what information he has for them now.[92][81]
Fitz tells them that he has been wondering if his previous brain trauma was exacerbated by the Framework, and he may have suffered Prodromal Schizophrenia and done something to his friends without realizing. Evans reassures him that everyone in restaurant had the same lapse in memory, and he is not responsible.[92][81]
Fitz asks Evans to publish his letter
Before returning to his cell, Fitz asks Evans to have his letter posted to Liverpool F.C. fanzine Ballblaster Hooligan in the United Kingdom, complaining about the Liverpool goalkeeper's performance at the end of the season.[92][81]
Evans and Lucas discuss what to do about the letter, but ultimately decide to send it once it has been analyzed for any secret code.[92][81]
8 days after her mother's death, Jessica Jones walks the streets of New York City continuing her work as a private investigator. She takes pictures of a man for her work.[59][91]
Robbery at Sonny's Grocery: Returning to her apartment, Jones stops by a store to buy alcohol. While there, the store is assaulted by a man, but Jones takes him down by throwing a bottle at him. She orders the shopkeeper to call the police, pays for the alcohol, and leaves.[59][91]
Jones talks to Walker for the last time in the year
Trish Walker visits Jones at her apartment but Jones says cannot see her as her sister anymore, only as the person who killed her mother. She tells Walker that even if Alisa's death was inevitable, it did not have to be her who put her mother down, and Walker leaves, dejected. While leaving, Walker drops her phone but catches it on her foot, discovering that her reflexes appear to be heightened.[59][91]
Jeri Hogarth takes her daily ALS medication pills for the day, Wednesday, making calls to start her new business. She is visited by Pryce Cheng and his new associate, Malcolm Ducasse, and welcomes them under her new business.[59][91]
Jessica Jones looks through the photos she took earlier. She heads down the hall, where she encounters Malcolm Ducasse arriving home, but the two avoid looking at each other, still on poor terms.[59][91]
Realizing that it took seeing her mother back from the dead to see that she has not allowed herself to live properly for years, Jones goes to Oscar and Vido Arocho's apartment to start building more of a relationship over dinner. She starts to embrace some aspects of normal life with Arocho, and while having dinner, Jones starts to enjoy being in company, thinking that she might be in the good place for once.[59][91]
Destiny Gonzalez, a 17-year-old girl who lived with her foster parents at the Helping Hand Youth Hostel, decides to flee to Los Angeles, hoping to find a new home. She is struggling with postpartum depression after giving birth to her daughter 2-and-half years prior.[94][14]
In Los Angeles, Gonzalez is assaulted by two men. Her screams are heard by two women who work for the Church of Gibborim, who rescue her and offer her the opportunity to go with them for a bed to sleep in, telling her that she could leave whenever she wants. Gonzalez accepts the offer. As she is taken by the women along with other young people, the men that assaulted her shout that she would have been better off with them.[94][95]
9th
Fitz draws his 28th monkey face on the wall.[92][81]
10th
Fitz's 28th monkey face
28 monkey faces are on Fitz's cell wall, having not yet drawn that day's 29th.[96][81]
Fitz looks at the faces, then the timings from the night of May 12th written on his wall, and works on a formula, all while listening to the soccer.[96][81]
Fitz receives the July 2017 edition of Ballblaster Hooligan, shipped over to the United States of America on his request, in which his letter has been published. He continues to write in to each month's issue, hoping to get the attention of Lance Hunter.[98][81]
With a soccer game on, Fitz turns on his light and flicks through his work. He rips out a page and scrunches it into a ball, frustrated at not yet finding an answer to what has happened to his friends.[99][81]
Fitz does push-ups again, keeping to his fitness regime.[99][81]
Later in the soccer game, Fitz becomes angry about a free kick not being awarded. He shakes his TV, angry at both the game and his predicament.[99][81]
Continuing to struggle in his attempts to find out his friends' fates, Leo Fitz perseveres nonetheless, with soccer on in the background in his cell.[101][81]
Attack on Luke Cage Heroin Warehouse: Luke Cage, the defender of Harlem, discovers another location of a drug warehouse where heroin imprinted with his name is being made to tarnish his reputation. Cage manages to take down the facility, but knows that this will be ineffective as for every hideout destroyed, another seems to take its place.[103][104]
9th
Wanting to become closer to his son, James Lucas, Luke Cage's father, has moved to New York City. Lucas continues with his work in preaching the Lord's word.[103][104]
At Pop's Barber Shop, Cage's friend, D.W. Griffith is still attempting to earn himself and Cage some money through merchandise and an app that tracks Cage's whereabouts, something that neither Cage nor Bobby Fish are fond of. Despite this effort, Fish explains to Cage that they have a money problem and cannot afford to maintain the barber shop much longer.[103][104]
Having spent months in recovery after losing her arm in the battle at Midland Circle and then desisting from returning to work over the months following that, Misty Knight attempts to work through her loss of her arm and resumes therapy sessions with Claire Temple. They talk briefly about the events surrounding Midland Circle and the death of Matt Murdock, and Knight explains that even now, she does not want to return to her job at the New York City Police Department, believing herself to be incompetent without her arm.[103][104]
Comanche is released from prison after making a deal with Tom Ridenhour to become a mole in Mariah Dillard's criminal organization.[5] He is picked up by his best friend, Shades. The pair embraces, happy to be reunited after a couple of years. Shades provides Comanche a job at Harlem's Paradise, where he will begin working as security for Dillard.[103][104]
Luke Cage visits Misty Knight, who explains that she is done with getting involved in action.[103][104]
Shades and Mariah Dillard continue to discuss their idea of retiring from the world of crime and focusing on their relationship. As a way to ensure their incomes, the couple meets with Raymond Jones in Ginny's Supper Club. Jones suggests that they should invest their money in plastics, explaining that Mark Higgins and his company Atreus Plastics are sitting on some brand new plastic-based technology which the rest of the world are still unaware of, giving Dillard and Shades the perfect opportunity to get involved. Jones reveals that he wants to take over control of Higgins' company before their latest technology is announced, so they can all come away with a massive profit. He explains he wants to use the couple's criminal techniques to blackmail Higgins to give up the company, and talk further about the idea.[103][104]
Luke Cage and Claire Temple have a date. They eat together and discuss his hero status, the drug warehouse he took down, as well as the opportunity to earn money from his work on the streets. They then leave together for their apartment.[103][104]
In her apartment, Misty Knight drinks by herself. She gets emotional over the fact that she is no longer a detective, and finally realizes that she needs help to move forward, as she has not been able to deal with the loss of her arm on her own.[103][104]
Cage and Temple sleep together. Later, Cage goes to patrol the streets and continue with his vigilante activities.[103][104]
Luke Cage finds Sugar, a former criminal that he met 2 years prior when Cage began his vigilantism in November 2015. Sugar assures him that he has retired, following the birth of his daughter. Cage learns from Sugar that Mariah Dillard is planning to go legit and sell her guns to one of the crime bosses in Harlem.[103][104]
While walking down the street, Cage is found by his father, James Lucas. An intense argument takes place between them with Cage berating his father for ignoring all of his letters during his time in prison and not even visiting him after the death of his mother. Lucas defends himself, saying that he could not meet his son due to his emotional state at the time but that he is now ready to talk to him, but Cage says that he would only start talking to him if Lucas managed to bring his mother back. He denounces his birth name of "Carl Lucas" and leaves.[103][104]
D.W. Griffith returns from a funeral and goes to the Pop's Barber Shop, meeting with Luke Cage and Bobby Fish. He comments that more people are dying due to the Luke Cage heroin. Despite his pleas for Cage to do something, he explains to Griffith that he does not have any lead to follow, only the nickname "El Tercero". However, Griffith and Fish work out that the nickname links to a man named Arturo Rey III, running a company called Merlin.[103][104]
Back in Harlem's Paradise, Shades and Mariah Dillard talk. Shades begins to brief her on the men she will be meeting with to take over her criminal empire. Shades mentions Arturo Rey III, noting his progress on the drug deals following Domingo Colon's death. He also comments on Nigel Garrison of the Yardies, reminding her that Neville Barnwell, Garrison's brother, was killed by Diamondback 2 years prior. Finally, Shades points out Cockroach Hamilton, who is present at Harlem's Paradise. Shades tells her that Hamilton was put in prison by Rafael Scarfe and was freed after it was discovered that Scarfe was corrupt. Shades suggests that Dillard should change her mind about selling their business, saying they could sell her Jean-Michel Basquiat painting instead, but Dillard refuses, noting that if their deal with "Piranha" Jones is successful then all of the sins of the Stokes family would wash away, allowing them to live without any risk. Shades accepts her decision.[103][104]
Dillard talks to the potential buyers, Cockroach Hamilton says that he wants to use his power to promote what he considers to be true black people over the other black residents of Harlem, such as the Jamaicans.[103][104]
The meeting is interrupted by Luke Cage. He quickly knocks out Comanche and confronts Dillard. Before he can question his enemy, Dillard points out that Claire Temple is also there, threatening her, and orders Cage to take her home. Unable to risk her safety, Cage takes Temple and they both depart home. On their way, the couple has an argument. Temple says that she wanted to subtly take pictures of Cage's persons of interest, but Cage does not approve of Temple's involvement. However, they reconcile before getting home.[103][104]
22nd
Luke Cage receives a call from Sugar, who informs him that Arturo Rey III had a shipment coming at night. Sugar then calls Rey, however, and says that Cage has fallen for the bait.[103][104]
Misty Knight encounters Cockroach Hamilton, who taunts her, revealing that he was set free due to her late corrupt partner Rafael Scarfe being exposed.[103][104]
Shades finds Mariah Dillard drinking a bottle of whiskey alone, saying that today would have been Mama Mabel's birthday. He tells Dillard to take Hamilton's offer to buy their guns, noting that it would be the deal which would bring them the most risk-free income and allow them both to eventually retire. He also notes that selling to Arturo Rey III would not be selling to the top dog in the crime would, however Dillard insists that selling to Hamilton would put Harlem at risk as she views him as a lunatic. She explains to Shades how the income from this deal could finally allow her to be free of the name "Stokes", which has haunted her throughout her life. She questions if he is getting sick of being a gangster for so long, asking if he wants to go by his real name rather than Shades and finally begin living their normal, crime-free life. Shades informs her that Rey would make his deal to buy their guns that same evening, also commenting that he had already given him a Judas Rifle as well as a Judas Bullet, in order to "sweeten the deal"[103][104]
Ambush at Merlin Discount Furniture Truck: At night, Luke Cage heads to the location and finds the truck. As he enters the trailer, he finds that it is rigged with explosives that Rey has activated from nearby. They go off, but Cage emerges from the explosion unharmed. Rey pulls out a rifle and shots Cage with a Judas Bullet. However, while Cage feels the bullet drilling into his skin, it turns out that his skin has strengthened enough from his second visit to Noah Burstein that he can resist the bullet. Unharmed, Cage quickly knocks out Rey. He sees that D.W. Griffith has followed him, and records a declaration of challenge to anyone wanting to act criminally in Harlem.[103][104]
Upon discovering that nearly thirty criminals have been freed due to Rafael Scarfe's corruption, Misty Knight talks to Tom Ridenhour, the head of the 29th precinct Police Department in Harlem, about returning to her job. Luke Cage arrives with an unconscious Arturo Rey III, and presents the evidence that should be enough to incarcerate Rey. Ridenhour is not pleased, however, telling Cage to stop getting involved, but Cage comments that the Police Department should improve.[103][104]
Assassination of Nigel Garrison: Nigel Garrison returns to his place in Brooklyn, only to find Bushmaster waiting for him, angry that he is doing business with a Stokes. He starts a fight and slices open Garrison's head with a knife. When Garrison's men shoot, he proves his superiority by showing that bullets have no effect on him. Bushmaster claims that he is the new leader of the criminal group and that there is work to do.[103][104]
Luke Cage goes to visit Mariah Dillard in Harlem's Paradise, showing that her attempt to get rid of him did not work. He warns her if she ever speaks Claire Temple's name again, he will kill her, backing up his threat by declaring that no bullets can kill him and no jails can hold him. When he leaves, Dillard angrily breaks the bottle of whiskey.[103][104]
23rd
Claire Temple expresses her amazement at the fact that Luke Cage is no longer vulnerable to a Judas Bullet, and realizes that the second procedure that Noah Burstein put him through 2 years ago strengthened his skin.[103][11]
The couple decides to spend some time testing Cage's abilities, and go to Harlem's Jet's Practice. In view of the people of Harlem and the press, Cage performs a series of impressive athletic achievements. He spends the rest of the time revelling in his accomplishments and interacting with his fans.[103][11]
Back home, Temple expresses her worry that something else might be able to hurt Cage, but he reassures her that nothing can hurt him now.[103][11]
Mariah Dillard and Shades discuss a possible way to harm Cage now that the Judas Bullet is ineffective. They talk about how Cage could ruin their plans to go legit, and Dillard becomes determined to arrange the deal with Arturo Rey III, saying that the life of crime already took Cottonmouth and Mama Mabel, and she does not want it to take her, too. Shades then promises her that the weight of the current situation - Rey being in hands of the police - is not hers to carry alone, while promising that dealing with such a situation is what he specializes in.[103][11]
With the Yardies under his control, John "Bushmaster" McIver prepares for the next phase of his plans before going to Harlem. He removes the bullets embedded in his chest. Bushmaster later walks down the streets of Harlem and spots two children play-fighting as Luke Cage. He asks the children about Cage, and they show him the video of his challenge uploaded the night before. He tells them that Cage better not face him, and goes to visit his uncle Anansi at Gwen's.[103][11]
While at Pop's Barber Shop, Cage receives a visit from his father, James Lucas. After another tense conversation, Lucas leaves after imploring his son to visit him.[103][11]
Claire Temple arrives at the shop. She advises Cage to go and talk to his father before it was too late, however Cage is reluctant to the idea.[103][11]
Misty Knight tries to observe Arturo Rey III's interrogation, but Tyler tells her to leave. As she is about to, Benjamin Donovan arrives and has Rey sprung, to everyone's frustration, but especially Knight's.[103][11]
Along with Claire Temple and Bobby Fish, Luke Cage figures out that Dillard only has two more people to sell her weapons to: Cockroach Hamilton and Nigel Garrison. However, Knight calls to inform Cage that Rey has been freed. Cage tells her his findings and Knight directs him to Hamilton.[103][11]
Cage interrogates people across Harlem until he gets the name of Hamilton's partner: Drea Powell.[103][11]
Inside Gwen's, John McIver sits down at the counter and is told by Anansi that he should not have came back. Despite his comment, McIver expresses that he wanted to see his family and the man who saved his life and gave him power. Anansi insists that the power did not come from him, but instead from within McIver. When McIver explains that he has vowed revenge on Mariah Dillard, Anansi says that she has been smart enough to move on from the past, much to McIver's anger. He then comments that he needs more Nightshade, ignoring Anansi's warning that it would cause more harm than good if he continues to use it. Still, Anansi agrees to gives McIver the address where he can obtain ingredients. When news of Luke Cage comes on TV, McIver asks Anansi if he works for Dillard, but Anansi comments that it is the opposite, with Cage working to take down Dillard. McIver says that he needs Dillard's money and Cage's public love and reassures that he will not need a bullet to kill the defender of Harlem.[103][11]
With her lawyer's advice, Mariah Dillard decides to reconnect with her daughter and make amends, as it could be a good way of increasing public popularity.[103][11]
In the 29th precinct, Misty Knight gets tired of being the center of attention due to her missing arm and stands up for herself. Knight tells everyone to stop picking on her or staring at her. Right after, Arturo Rey III's murder is reported in.[103][11]
At the crime scene, Misty Knight meets with Luke Cage and gets an address on Drea Powell.[103][11]
Mariah Dillard visits her daughter, Tilda Johnson, at her shop "Mother's Touch". She lets her know her wish to reconnect with her, but Johnson is hesitant to trust her.[103][11]
Cage arrives at Powell's apartment and talks to Drea Powell and Cockroach Hamilton's son. Powell arrives at the door, however, and slams it on Cage. Cage reluctantly goes to leave, but the Hamiltons' neighbor, Mrs. Callahan, tells Cage where to find Hamilton, explaining that he spends his time running dice games in a warehouse.[103][11]
Shades and Comanche meet with Mariah Dillard to discuss their current situation. Shades chooses to confess that their dealing with Arturo Rey III had been cut short, and Dillard soon realizes that Rey was killed by him. Despite Comanche backing Shades, saying that Rey had been insulting them, Dillard becomes furious that Shades failed to get the money which Rey had owed to them before the kill. Shades explains his reasons, insisting that he was protecting them from being exposed. Dillard orders Comanche to get out of the room, and Shades reminds her that they still have two buyers who they can sell to, though Dillard claims that Cockroach Hamilton is too impulsive while Nigel Garrison is too ambitious. Shades promises that he will get the money from Piranha Jones, and Dillard finally relaxes.[103][11]
Arriving at the warehouse, Cage confronts Hamilton, but he manages to escape after blasting Cage with a shotgun strong enough to dislocate his shoulder and knock him out of a window. Injured, Cage goes home, where Claire Temple helps him with his injury.[103][11]
Temple confronts Cage about his obsession with fighting crimes just like Matt Murdock did, and how he might die, like how they believe Murdock has. They begin to argue. She confronts him about his unsolved issues with his father, resulting in Cage leaving the apartment in anger.[103][11]
Tilda Johnson goes to Harlem's Paradise, having accepted her mother's wish to reconnect with her. Shades is surprised by Johnson, having not known of her existence.[103][11]
Claire Temple attends one of James Lucas' church services. Afterwards, she approaches him to talk, and they discuss their respective situations, with Temple not revealing who she is. Lucas advises Temple to make amends with the boyfriend she tells him about and try to have him open up about his issues, not realizing she is talking about his son.[103][11]
Following a ritual and procedure, Bushmaster takes Nightshade, a dangerous plant that he uses to heal his wounds and increase his strength.[103][11]
Hearing the situation, Mrs. Callahan calls Luke Cage and alerts him. Cage arrives at Hamilton's apartment and attacks him to stop him beating Powell, but loses control and beats Hamilton within an inch of his life. Seeing Hamilton's family's fear, Cage manages to regain his senses in time before he can kills the man.[103][11]
Luke Cage calls Claire Temple for assistance. Despite Cage's attempt to keep this confrontation quiet, they are forced to call an ambulance and the police. Misty Knight arrives and lets Cage leave the scene before her rival detective Nandi Tyler, as well as Tyler's partner Mark Bailey, arrive.[103][110]
Tilda Johnson has lunch with her mother, Mariah Dillard, but Dillard excludes her from the conversation when Shades arrives. Shades informs Dillard of Cockroach Hamilton's arrest the night before as the situation is putting their deal in serious danger. Dillard reminds him how they need the money to make the deal with Piranha Jones, and that now they only have Nigel Garrison from the Yardies as a potential buyer. He is ordered to travel to Brooklyn so as to make the deal with the Yardies, but gets annoyed at how Dillard treats him. She tells him to do it nonetheless, and returns to Johnson.[103][110]
Luke Cage circles Brooklyn as the next point of interest, before lying down for a nap.[103][110]
Misty Knight visits Cockroach Hamilton in the hospital. He is rude, taunting her in a misogynistic manner, and she becomes angry but is forced to leave the room due to Nandi Tyler and Mark Bailey's arrival.[103][110]
Bobby Fish approaches Luke Cage in Pop's Barber Shop. They talk briefly about Claire Temple, who later arrives to talk about the incident from the night before. Temple expresses her worries about Cage becoming brutal when it comes to his vigilante activities, but he refuses to talk as he has to deal with the search for Nigel Garrison.[103][110]
In the meantime, Misty Knight is reprimanded by Tom Ridenhour for letting Cage go the night before, but explains that he cannot suspend her due to her status within the department as a disabled hero.[103][110]
Luke Cage arrives at Gwen's while looking for Garrison. When he enters the restaurant, he is met by Ingrid Mackintosh, who claims to know nothing. He is told to go away by Jamaicans in the restaurant.[103][110]
As instructed, Shades goes to the Yardies' Hideout and asks to speak with Garrison. However, he is greeted by Bushmaster, who presents himself as the leader of the Yardies. As Shades talks, McIver insists that he should refer to Mariah Dillard as "Mariah Stokes", wanting to hold her accountable to the Stokes family. The negotiation begins, and McIver tells Sheldon to give Shades a bag of money. Shades opens it only to discover that as well as the money, Garrison's severed head is inside too. McIver says that he had reevaluated the value of their gun deal and wishes to be convinced if they are to move forward with it. Shades leaves.[103][110]
When Cage leaves the restaurant, he notices one of the guests conspicuously leaving in a hurry. He follows the man.[103][110]
Mariah Dillard holds a fundraiser for her Family First Initiative. Tilda Johnson attends and meets Alex Wesley. When Jonson leaves to get a drink, Wesley informs her that Mark Higgins has been showing interest in Stephanie Miller as planned.[103][110]
Wanting to de-stress, Misty Knight visits her friend Colleen Wing, who has been supporting her since the events in Midland Circle the year before. They practice fighting, with Knight trying to get used to doing it with only one arm. They eventually decide to get a drink.[103][110]
Claire Temple visits James Lucas and asks him for advice on how to help Cage, trying not to give away that she is talking about his son. He begins to suspect, however, when she accidentally mentions the name "Luke". Lucas advises her to find her purpose first if then wants to help her boyfriend find his.[103][110]
Attack on Yardies' Hideout: Luke Cage keeps following the man, Mouse, who arrives at one of the Yardies' hideouts. Cage enters and confronts Bushmaster and his gang. At first, Bushmaster offers Cage the opportunity to work together, but Cage refuses and demands the Yardies to refuse Mariah Dillard's gun deal. Eventually, a fight breaks out between Cage and the Yardies, but Cage easily defeats each attack. Believing that he has intimidated the gang and his message has been affirmed, Cage leaves the hideout. However, it was all staged by Bushmaster, wanting to learn his fighting style.[103][110]
Attack on Misty Knight: Knight and Wing are drinking together in a bar when they are approached by a man named Mortimer Norris, who tries to flirt with Knight. However, when he realizes that Knight arrested his brother, Norris becomes hostile. A fight breaks out, which ends with the women beating Morty's men. While fighting, Knight realizes how to manage the situation by herself without despite not having her right arm.[103][110]
Bushmaster mixes more Nightshade while he studies Cage's fighting style.[103][110]
Returning home, Luke Cage finds Claire Temple waiting for him. They begin to talk, and Cage stands by his point that she cannot keep keeping him from fighting crime, as he knows that he is following Pop's wishes for him to be a hero. Temple replies that she does not want him back in Seagate Penitentiary and that his recent brutality makes her question his senses of being a hero, as his behavior is scaring the people of Harlem, to which Cage replies that being a black man in a hoodie will always scare people. Cage says that he is willing to use that anger and intimidation to keep people from getting hurt and that Temple should accept him for who he is. The discussion continues until she brings up that she met with his father, further enraging Cage. Temple insists that he should talk with Lucas and stop using his problems with him as a fuel to his anger, or he could become the monster he claims his father is. Cage lashes out, unable to control his anger and punching holes in Temple's wall several times, scaring her. Cage tries to apologize, only to hear from Temple that she thinks she needs a break from their relationship, as the anger is reminding her of her parents when she was a child. Despite Cage's pleas, Temple tells him to leave her apartment, informing him that she will go to live with her mother.[103][110]
Ambush on Luke Cage: Cage walks down the street, dejected and unfocused. D. W. Griffith tracks him using the Harlem's Hero app. Cage is suddenly punched to the ground, and Bushmaster steps over him, telling him that Harlem is not Cage's, but his.[110] Griffith films as Cage gets up and fights back, surprised at Bushmaster's resilience. The attacker wins the fight and Griffith films as he announces himself to the citizens of Harlem.[103][108]
Griffith and other onlookers stand over Cage as he gets up, and tell him the man's name was Bushmaster.[103][108]
Cage stumbles back to Pop's Barber Shop, struggling with a concussion. Bobby Fish enters and asks him about what happened, concerned to hear that someone was as strong as him without the need for equipment.[103][108]
An event, advertised on trains, is held at Harlem's Paradise.[103][108]
Nandi Tyler is getting on Misty Knight's nerves when her work partner, Mark Bailey, finds the newly uploaded video of Bushmaster's attack on Luke Cage. He enjoys watching the video, which leaves Knight unimpressed, disappointed at his lack of respect for the fact that a citizen has been assaulted. When Tom Ridenhour enters and she complains, he tells her that Tyler and Bailey have earned a reprieve and that he sees no particular reason that she needs to be there.[103][108]
25th
The September 2017 issue of Ballblaster Hooligan is delivered to Fitz, containing the third consecutive letter he has sent in.[98][81]
Cage watches the same news coverage of the video back at the barber shop.[103][108]
Cage is annoyed when he finds Griffith is selling exclusive DVDs of the beatdown, disappointed that Griffith is profiting of his failure. Griffith says that it is just important to keep up business, and mentions that he has worked out that Cage and Claire Temple might be going through a bad patch, since he saw her leaving home with luggage.[103][108]
Shades talks to Mariah Dillard privately, having noticed that she recognized the name "Bushmaster". Shades says that he might be after her, and she explains that she does not know him, but admits that the name has history with her family.[103][108]
Shades leaves Comanche to guard Harlem's Paradise. Comanche teases Shades for his relationship with Dillard. Shades lets it go, but Mariah Dillard watches him intently from above.[103][108]
Leaving the apartment, Cage finds Misty Knight waiting for him, having been told by Bobby Fish where to go to find him. Knight explains that she wants him to come to Brooklyn with her to follow a lead, and he gets in the car.[103][108]
Arriving in Brooklyn, Cage asks if he might be able to stay at her place for a while, but she refuses. She dons gear and they head into the Yardies' hideout.[103][108]
Cage and Knight find herbs and a bag from "Mother's Touch", and Cage takes a photo of the shop name to follow up on it. They then pick up on a bad smell from a locked room and break in, finding the headless body of Nigel Garrison. They realize that Knight has to report it in, even though it will get her in some trouble.[103][108]
Comanche tells Mariah Dillard that he learned about stocks during his imprisonment, and that Piranha Jones might be scamming her. When she tells him to leave, he says that she does not scare him. Dillard retorts that she should.[103][108]
Luke Cage and Misty Knight talk to officer Tomas Ciancio, who tells them about the Yardies and Nigel Garrison, and how the new group replacing the Yardies, the "Stylers", are bigger. Knight heads to Jersey with Ciancio to interrogate the owner of the warehouse, Gideon Shaw, who has recently been detained.[103][108]
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram does a soundcheck at Harlem's Paradise while Mariah Dillard looks at old newspaper clippings of family history with the Jamaicans. Meanwhile, Cage sits sadly on the train thinking about his break-up, and in Mother's Touch, Tilda Johnson checks the ingredients she sold to Bushmaster, realizing he has been concocting Nightshade.[103][108]
Cage visits Mother's Touch and asks Johnson about whether she sold to a large Jamaican man, but she pretends to not be sure. She asks him about the source of his strength and he tells her about the experiment. She explains that while the strength is good for his outsides, he needs something for inside, giving him a herbal remedy to help with his pain and admitting that she saw the video of his beatdown. Johnson mentions that she spotted him squinting and diagnoses him with a concussion, recommending he gets help. She tells him her name before he leaves.[103][108]
Misty Knight questions Gideon Shaw. He tells her about a story Anansi told both him and John McIver about people at the top of a hill, content and believing themselves invulnerable, only to be killed by the people at the bottom as they sleep. Shaw explains that McIver has come to end the Stokeses' time at the top of their hill.[103][108]
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram performs at Harlem's Paradise. Mariah Dillard gets out some bushmaster rum, just as Bushmaster arrives at the club. He tells her Harlem is beginning to feel like home and asks how much she knows about the history of the club. When she talks about its founding, he asks if she knows the name "Quincy McIver", and she claims not to have, intentionally aggravating him. As he leaves, he calls her Mariah Stokes to provoke her, saying that she should enjoy her little time atop the hill. Shades asks Ray Ray to guard Harlem's Paradise, and Ray Ray tells him Comanche has left, having mentioned that his mother called.[103][108]
Bushmaster goes back to Gwen's and greets his friends and family, most of whom are impressed with his takedown of Cage. Anansi is a more uneasy about McIver's actions, but McIver tells him that in visiting the club he feels he has now seen his kingdom, and with Luke Cage taken down, Dillad's guard dog is out of the way.[103][108]
Shades waits outside Gwen's in a car, having followed Bushmaster back to the restaurant.[103][108]
Comanche goes to see Tom Ridenhour, having lied about his mother as an excuse, since Ridenhour got him released early on the proviso that he act as a mole at Harlem's Paradise. Comanche tells Ridenhour that he does not want to push for more information in fear that he'll give himself away, but Ridenhour presses him, saying that problem is something he has to deal with.[103][108]
Back at Pop's Barber Shop, Bobby Fish tells Luke Cage that his daughter in San Diego needs a kidney transplant, and that he is a donor match and will fly out tomorrow, proud to be helping her after barely being present in her life. When Fish leaves, a man enters the shop. He explains that he is a process server with the Superior Court of New York County, and that Cage has been legally served.[103][108]
26th
Bobby Fish flies to San Diego to donate a kidney to his daughter.[103][108]
28th
Fitz continues to read in his cell, talking to himself as he works.[101][81]
Nelson tells Cage after the meeting that they need to settle with money rather than going to court, and that Donovan has settled on a price. He reveals, however, that it is $100,000, and needs to be paid in 3 days.[103][97]
Nelson calls to tell Cage about the possibility of being paid to attend a party event, but he turns him down. Misty Knight visits and he tells her about the case with Hamilton. She explains that it was her and Rafael Scarfe who put him away originally, and that Scarfe's corruption was why he was released.[103][97]
Cage calls various people about other options to make himself the money, but does not like any of them, and eventually calls Nelson back.[103][97]
Mariah Dillard readies for the clinic opening. Johnson tells her that she is not sure about taking the job, since she is finding it hard to trust her mother. At that moment, Nandi Tyler and Mark Bailey show up, asking Dillard where Mark Higgins is. Dillard tells them, honestly, that she does not know.[103][97]
In Harlem's Paradise, Comanche tells Shades that they could not find Bushmaster. Shades asks where Ray Ray is, but the crew at the club do not know. Dillard arrives, excited, but Shades is nervous about Bushmaster. He suggests that he buys Harlem's Paradise from her to allow her to get out of the crime boss life, but she refuses. He also expresses concern at Piranha Jones getting drunk at a party he is hosting and potentially letting slip about the blackmail, but Dillard says she trusts him. She tells him about Higgins going missing, but he explains that he does not know what could have happened.[103][97]
Misty Knight visits Cockroach Hamilton in his apartment, demanding he drop the lawsuit against Cage. He is rude to her and insults Scarfe and the rest of the police, eventually driving her out of the room.[103][97]
Luke Cage and Foggy Nelson arrive at Uptown Investments and are taken to Piranha Jones' office. They find that Jones has a collection of items pertaining to Cage's heroic deeds, and when Jones arrives, Cage tells him it is somewhat creepy. Jones is excitable nonetheless, and explains that he wants a celebrity superhero to attend the party he is holding that evening. When Cage notices a photo of Jones with Mariah Dillard, he realizes he is likely where he needs to be, and agrees to do it for $150,000.[103][97]
Cage tells Nelson about the photo he saw. One of Jones' assistants approaches him and gives him a bullet-hole hoodie he has contractually agreed to wear for the evening.[103][97]
Shades asks Comanche about Ray Ray, saying that he has never been known to be unreliable, but Comanche explains that they still have no news. Shades leaves for Piranha Jones' party, and Comanche gets a text from Tom Ridenhour asking to meet later.[103][97]
Misty Knight looks through Cockroach Hamilton's police records, and recalls when Rafael Scarfe had Hamilton arrested, realizing he might have planted a gun just to take him down. Tom Ridenhour approaches Knight and she explains her worries about Scarfe falsely taking down criminals. Ridenhour tells her that Hamilton was guilty anyway, but she fears that others were not. Ridenhour says that they just have to learn to live with how things turned out.[103][97]
Luke Cage reluctantly puts on Jones' bullet-hole hoodie for the party, muttering to himself that it is ridiculous cosplay.[103][97]
Cage arrives at the party with Nelson and finds Ghostface Killah performing. Piranha Jones greets him and takes him around, and Cage finds people treating him as just an attraction, including asking whether he is stronger than the Hulk, and one person smashing a bottle on his impenetrable skin for fun.[103][97]
Misty Knight visits Drea Powell, who is recovering from her partner, Cockroach Hamilton, attacking her. She asks for a statement against Hamilton, admitting to anything illegal back in her apartment so she can take him down, but Powell says she does not thing Knight can do anything to stop him.[103][97]
Piranha Jones shows off to two women about knowing Luke Cage. He takes them with him upstairs, claiming to be testing wine but hoping. He has Cage guard the stairs, which frustrates him, feeling he is being treated as a pet.[103][97]
Tilda Johnson confronts her mother, Mariah Dillard, saying that she knows she has been lying to her. Dillard tells her about blackmailing Mark Higgins and about selling guns, saying that the only line they refuse to cross is selling drugs. She states that the money is necessary to help others across Harlem and she wants her daughter's help. Johnson is unimpressed, however, and leaves.[103][97]
As Cage guards the stairs for Jones, he is asked for a selfie by a fan, and accepts. He then spots a suspicious man in the crowd, and when another woman goes to take a picture, he brushes her aside to go after him.[103][97]
Misty Knight checks her old desk, now belonging to Nandi Tyler, and finds finds Cockroach Hamilton's file. She also comes across Scarfe's old bottle of whiskey, recalling a time she spent with him in the room and how he had joked about the prospect of faking evidence to take someone down.[103][97]
Knight takes evidence from lockup, deciding to plant it on Hamilton to get him arrested.[103][97]
Comanche meets with Tom Ridenhour, who tells him his time is running out for him to pass on information. Comanche says to ask Ray Ray, believing his disappearance to be attributable to also informing Ridenhour, but the police captain says he does not know who that is.[103][97]
Knight enters Hamilton's apartment, prepared to plant the evidence. She recalls talking to Rafael Scarfe after his son, Earl, accidentally killed himself with a gun Rafael had left out, and him talking about how karma had got to him after his misdeeds. Realizing now that he was talking about his immoral actions, she considers whether she is doing the right thing. Before she has to decide, however, she is shocked to discover Hamilton's dead body in the apartment, decapitated and with the head missing.[103][97]
Luke Cage comes across Shades at the party. He is suspicious, but Shades reveals that he too is fighting against Bushmaster. Piranha Jones calls Cage to the stage, wanting to shoot him for fun. Cage tries to dissuade him, worried that a ricochet might kill someone, but they are interrupted when shooters in the crowd suddenly fire at Cage. There is a rush to get out, and in the commotion, Jones is kidnapped by Bushmaster's men.[103][97]
Cage chases after them and saves Jones. Shades witnesses the rescue, but walks away to stay out of the conflict. Jones asks Cage to protect him, but Cage agrees only on the proviso that he doubles his pay.[103][97]
Cage takes Jones to a nearby roof, but Sheldon spots them and they are forced to continue to run. Cage throws Jones onto the next building to safety, breaking his leg in the process. He then grabs Sheldon, but the Jamaican refuses to talk, and Cage eventually has to settle for knocking him out and leaps over to the next rooftop to escape with Jones.[103][111]
At Gwen's, Bushmaster's friends and family are watching a soccer game when WJBP-TV interrupts with a breaking news story. Thembi Wallace reports on the severed heads at the Shirley Chisholm Complex from earlier in the night. Suspecting McIver, Anansi makes it clear that he believes such action is savagery. Bushmaster leaves and Sheldon calls, telling them about Cage escaping with Jones. He instructs Sheldon to have the Jamaicans roam the streets.[103][111]
Sheldon stops Lonnie Wilson on the street, asking about Cage's whereabouts. Wilson tells him, however, that if he asks around, Cage will instead find him.[103][111]
Connie Lin is putting her bins out when she sees the commotion on the streets.[103][111]
Luke Cage and Piranha Jones get to an old theater owned by Uptown Investments. A group of Jamaicans drive past, shining a flashlight in, but do not see them. Cage decides to splint Jones' broken leg, but tells Jones he will have to explain everything he knows about what is going on.[103][111]
Shades has Sugar guard Harlem's Paradise. Comanche gets back to the club after talking to Tom Ridenhour and asks Shades what is happening. Shades is surprised he does not know, not understanding how Comanche could not be aware, or where he has been. Comanche suggests avoiding the war with the Jamaicans by cutting loose from Mariah Dillard. Shades refuses, but instead takes Comanche to secret stash of advanced weapons, hoping to use them to get Piranha Jones back.[103][111]
Mariah Dillard is held at the police station. Tom Ridenhour talks to Misty Knight, asking how she found Cockroach Hamilton's body. She claims she was doing a welfare check on Drea Powell, but he berates her for doing so without an official testimony and for breaking into the crime scene, thus contaminating the crime scene. Misty gets angry but discovers her new arm is powerful.[103][111]
Jones tells Cage that he has known Dillard since he was young, and that she supported him, so he was willing to help her with crooked legal methods to make money.[103][111]
Ridenhour goes to interrogate Dillard, and Knight watches. She is surprised when he calls her "May May", and realizes as the conversation continues that they are old friends, and had been a couple once in high school. Donnie Chang interrupts, telling Knight she is needed to fill out paperwork. She leaves, frustrated she cannot listen in any longer. Ridenhour confronts Dillard about her apparent connections to all three deceased men, but she insists it is merely coincidental. When he explains that he knows about her secret gun deal, she becomes suspicious of a mole working for him, noticing when he mentions hearing about Cottonmouth throwing Tone off a roof. Ridenhour says that if she does not cooperate they cannot protect her, but she leaves nonetheless, saying she will be fine.[103][111]
Piranha Jones explains to Cage how he gave Mariah Dillard insider information, despite its illegality. Cage tells him that they cannot leave yet and need to stay hidden, because everyone is after him. D. W. Griffith calls Cage and tells him that he saw two people entering the barber shop from the back, who did not look like friends.[103][111]
Shades and Comanche sneak into Pop's Barber Shop and sit to wait, preparing their advanced weapons.[103][111]
Misty Knight meets with Gabe Krasner to eat, knowing he will give the good, tough advice she needs. When she asks what he thinks about the morality of planting the evidence, he says there is no right answer, but that she has to now deal with the mess she has caused head-on.[103][111]
Anansi reprimands John McIver for his terrorist actions, calling them too far and disrespectful. He tells McIver he will set back the public status of Jamaicans and needs to find peace in his heart, but Bushmaster replies that he wants war.[103][111]
As they wait in the barber shop, Comanche asks Shades why he allies himself with Mariah Dillard. Shades explains how he had been impressed by her putting Cottonmouth down when Luke Cage caused him to unravel and lost control. Comanche brings up the relationship he and Shades had briefly got into in prison. Shades passes it off as a product of their circumstances, but Comanche tells him that he feels like it was more. When Shades is reluctant to agree, Comanche gets up and leaves, saying they are wasting their time and need to go after Cage.[103][111]
Getting back to Harlem's Paradise, Mariah Dillard becomes angry, feeling that everyone has betrayed her. Alex Wesley joins her and she drinks as she complains to him, and realizes that despite being her enemy, she is now relying on Luke Cage to protect her.[103][111]
29th
Cage boards up a hole as the morning comes, to make sure they cannot be seen from outside. The Jamaicans outside wonder if Cage and Jones could be inside the theater, and call Sheldon.[103][111]
Piranha Jones tells Cage about his father, and how he had left him as a child, only to come back to him for help later in life. He explains that he turned his father away out of spite, but never saw him again. He tries to get Cage to talk about his own father, but Cage refuses.[103][111]
Misty Knight calls Cage from the police station and he tells her about the Jamaicans' cars roaming the streets, describing their logo. Knight notices one nearby and walks up to it. It drives away, but she clocks its license plate as it leaves.[103][111]
Cage walks back into the main room of the theater, only to find that Jones has been taken again. He follows Jones' shouts and takes out the Jamaicans attempting to kidnap him, getting Jones back from them.[103][111]
Shades goes back to Mariah Dillard at Harlem's Paradise and as they embrace, he tells her about following Bushmaster to a restaurant in Brooklyn called Gwen's. She then asks if anyone else knew about Cottonmouth killing Tone, alarmed by Ridenhour knowing about it when he should not, but he says only Turk Barrett.[103][111]
Misty Knight goes to Tom Ridenhour and confesses about wanting to plant evidence. Ridenhour is happy to accept this, glad she is being honest and pointing out that she did not commit an offence since she did not actually do it, but Knight insists that she has to quit the force.[103][111]
Luke Cage takes Piranha Jones to his father, James Lucas' church for safety. Lucas agrees to keep him while Cage goes out to deal with Bushmaster.[103][111]
Cage calls Bushmaster from a phone he stole off the Jamaicans, arranging a duel with Piranha Jones' fate at stake.[103][111]
Duel at High Bridge: At noon, Luke Cage and Bushmaster meet on a bridge for their duel. The fight begins and Cage starts to get the better of his opponent. However, just as Cage is about to win, Bushmaster blows a powder onto him that paralyzes Cage. Bushmaster then kicks Cage over the edge of the bridge and into the water below.[103][111]
As Cage sinks, unable to swim due to his paralysis, he thinks about his parents and starts to lose consciousness. A vision of his father jolts him awake, however, and he finds he has regained mobility, ascending to the surface and catching his breath.[103][112]
Despite Cage's advice, Piranha Jones leaves the safety of the church.[103][112]
Cage staggers back to his father's church and collapses.[103][112]
Cage wakes an hour later and asks after Piranha Jones. Lucas tells him that Jones left half an hour after Cage, on his own accord, and that he did not force him to stay because free will was his God-given gift. Cage worries and realizes he has to find him.[103][112]
Misty Knight tests her new arm on the basketball court, trying to shoot as well as she used to. Tom Ridenhour visits her, asking for her to return to the precinct, and admitting that he has a snitch at Harlem's Paradise. She refuses, but he says to come to him if she changes her mind.[103][112]
Mariah Dillard talks to a group of thugs who work at Harlem's Paradise about there being a snitch among them. She threatens them, stabbing one in the hand, and instructs them to root out the snitch and find Piranha Jones. When they leave, Shades tells her that fear is not always the best tactic, and they need to be better than Cottonmouth and Mama Mabel were. She worries about getting their money back, but Shades promises they will.[103][112]
Luke Cage and James Lucas get in an argument in Lucas' church when Lucas says he worries about him, and Cage accuses him in response of having not been a proper father. Cage leaves, against his father's advice.[103][112]
With Piranha Jones tied to a chair, Sheldon asks him for Mariah Dillard's passwords. Bushmaster hands him a laptop to log in, and threatens him until he eventually does.[103][112]
Back at Pop's Barber Shop, Cage tells Knight about how important it is they find Jones. Knight tells him that she traced the license plate she clocked recently to a taxi place in Brooklyn and they leave to go after the Jamaicans there. She claims she is not his "sidekick" as they go, though Cage disagrees.[103][112]
Cage and Knight follow the man's information, but only find Jones' decapitated head in a fish tank, realizing they have lost.[103][112]
Tilda Johnson plays the keyboard at Harlem's Paradise. When she says to her mother that she should not need to stay in the business, Mariah Dillard says it is not that simple, as the Stoke family needs to maintain the legacy it built. Johnson points out that her mother is a Dillard due to her marriage to Jackson, but Mariah says that while she chose that new start, she still loves her family, and she wants to be able to pass things on to Johnson, so she can pass things on to her own children, and that this would redeem her.[103][112]
Misty Knight talks to Tom Ridenhour at the scene of Jones' head. He reveals that he wants to make a deal with Dillard, which Knight objects to, saying she can feel perfectly comfortable telling him he is doing the wrong thing now, since she no longer works for the force. Nandi Tyler and Mark Bailey show up and try to make Cage and Knight leave. Tyler and Knight get into another argument, but Cage stops it, deciding to leave to find Jones' mother.[103][112]
Tom Ridenhour tells Mariah Dillard about Piranha Jones' death and says that they will likely find information about her insider trading with him. He proposes the deal with her, to put away Shades in return for allowing her to spin the insider trading news to a sympathetic story, but Dillard refuses. He asks that she try to save herself and Tilda Johnson and tells her he knows the truth about Johnson's father, which angers Dillard, telling him to keep her out of matters. Once he has left, she checks her bank account and finds that her money is all gone. She gets angry and Alex Wesley checks on her. She tells him to get Johnson so they can head to a brownstone she owns for safety from Bushmaster.[103][112]
Shades and Comanche discuss the problem of the snitch, and Comanche suggests that it is most likely Sugar. Shades gets a text from Dillard informing him of Piranha Jones' death and tells Comanche as he leaves to keep an eye on Sugar, just as Comanche gets another text from Ridenhour to meet later.[103][112]
John McIver has a suit fitted. He talks to Anansi about his mother, and how when he would come home bloodied and bruised, while she would reprimand him, she would also look with pride at the fact he was a fighter. McIver says that he wants Mariah Dillard's soul in revenge for his mother's.[103][112]
After a service, Luke Cage approaches his father, and says that when he was sinking in the water earlier, he thought of his mother and how she never gave up on him. He tells Lucas that he thinks God was trying to let him know that while the world may be his problem, it is not always his fault.[103][112]
Misty Knight goes into a bar, where she notices a man showing interest in her.[103][112]
Assassination of Tom Ridenhour: Comanche goes to see Ridenhour, but they soon realize they have been followed by Shades. Shades steps out and Comanche pretends to have been threatening Ridenhour, saying that he found out this was who Sugar was reporting to, and pulls a gun on him. Ridenhour offers them both deals, but Comanche is eventually forced to shoot him to prevent him from giving away the truth. However, when Ridenhour calls Comanche "Darius", showing he is on a first name basis, Shades' suspicions are confirmed. He works out his alibi as he then turns and shoots his old friend for the betrayal. Comanche starts bleeding out and they reminisce on times together. Unable to watch his friend die slowly, Shades finishes him off with a second shot.[103][112]
Mariah Dillard and Tilda Johnson hide in Dillard's brownstone. Bushmaster arrives, breaking down the door. Dillard tries shooting him, but the bullet does nothing. He says he should have recognized Johnson for a Stokes and advances.[103][112]
Knight and the man in the bar get closer, and end up kissing. She is interrupted by a call from Mark Bailey and is left horrified to hear that Tom Ridenhour has been killed, leaving in shock.[103][112]
Bushmaster has Dillard and Johnson tied to chairs in the brownstone.[103][112]
James Lucas tells his son that they have to forgive to move forward, but Cage admits he is not sure if he can.[103][112]
Bushmaster tells Johnson the story of how Buggy Stokes killed his grandfather, Quincy McIver, simply because he wanted a profitable deal with other gangs.[103][112]
Lucas admits to Cage that he blamed him for Cage's mother's sickness.[103][112]
Bushmaster continues to tell his story, saying that after Quincy McIver's death, they went to Kingston to live their life in comfort, until one day the Stokes threw a Molotov cocktail of Bushmaster rum into their home. He recounts that his mother told him to run and he did, but because of doing so, he never saw her again as she was burned alive.[103][112]
Lucas admits that he was wrong to blame Cage, but Cage brings up Willis Stryker, and how his father's lies messed him up.[103][112]
Bushmaster frees Johnson in order to give her the same decision he had a child: to risk staying and saving her mother, or to run for her own safety, as he lights gasoline on the floor to burn the brownstone down.[103][112]
D. W. Griffith rushes into Lucas' church to tell him about the fire at Dillard's brownstone.[103][112]
Bushmaster takes Harlem's Paradise, with Sheldon by his side as well as Stephanie Miller, who had been a plant within the club.[103][112]
Rescue of Mariah Dillard: Cage breaks into Dillard's brownstone and picks her up, getting her outside to safety. Dillard is surprised he chose to help her, but states that she wishes to hire him.[103][112]
In the precinct, Mariah Dillard tells Tilda Johnson that even now they still will not tell the police or Luke Cage anything, as they as a family deal with things on their own and protect their history.[103][5]
Cage does not understand why there are barely any police around, but officers say they are not at liberty to tell him. Dillard approaches him, still refusing to tell him anything about her connection to Bushmaster. She asks him to protect Johnson, but Cage says he needs to know what he is protecting her from first. Misty Knight arrives with the other officers and pulls him aside, telling him about Tom Ridenhour's death. She says she believes Dillard is behind it, and that he should have left her to burn.[103][5]
Shades visits Janis Jones, Darius' mother. She asks him to tell the truth about her son's death, but he is interrupted by a call from Sugar giving him information. When the call ends, he avoids telling her what really happened, saying simply that he will look after her for Darius and giving her money to help her out.[103][5]
Tilda Johnson admires the fact that Cage has not been burned. He confronts her for lying about knowing Bushmaster when he came to Mother's Touch, and asks her to tell him what she knows, but she insists that she cannot, at her mother's request. She says she just wants things to go back to normal, but he tells her they cannot with her mother's involvement.[103][5]
Nandi Tyler tells Misty Knight that she knows her well enough to understand she will not give up and want to persist with her job. She says that officer Callahan is away in Maui and that Brigid O'Reilly has moved to work in New Orleans, so news of her quitting has not spread and she can slip back into the job - and that, being the highest ranking detective now, she is in charge. Mark Bailey enters and reveals they have the other victim's name, just as Luke Cage enters, having seen the photos, and says it is Darius Jones AKA Comanche.[103][5]
Knight realizes that Comanche was someone Cage had mentioned in his sleep the night they slept together, and he explains that he was beaten up by him in Seagate Penitentiary, and that he later saw him at Harlem's Paradise. Knight realizes that Comanche must have been Ridenhour's snitch. She says she needs to focus on the Ridenhour situation, so asks him to help her by following up on Bushmaster himself, in the hope that Dillard will also find out he is still after her and be scared into telling them what they need to know.[103][5]
In Harlem's Paradise, Bushmaster changes the paintings to his own to take ownership. A Styler delivers the news that Dillard and Johnson have been seen at the precinct, saved by Luke Cage. He angrily tears a chair apart and tells the Styler to go.[103][5]
Cage asks Johnson to at least tell him what happened in the brownstone.[103][5]
Johnson explains how bullets had had no effect on Bushmaster, and that he seemed to want vengeance on the Stokes family after they killed his father and mother all over Bushmaster rum.[103][5]
Knight pressures Dillard to speak her attacker's name. She asks for Tom Ridenhour to enter, believing him a fairer interrogator, and Knight becomes angry, believing Dillard to know about Ridenhour's death since she thinks she is behind it. Dillard, however, is shocked to find out, though Knight is unsure whether she is acting or being genuine. She reveals Comanche's position as a snitch and asks if Shades might even be snitching as well, but Benjamin Donovan arrives with Shades to spring her. Nandi Tyler informs Knight that they have record of Shades' license plate near the crime at the time of the shooting, and Knight has him taken for questioning.[103][5]
Dillard goes to Johnson and Cage, and tells them she and Johnson will leave once Knight is done with Shades.[103][5]
Knight tells Shades that, having analyzed the shots from the night before, the first shot was aimed too high to be done with Ridenhour's dying breath, and the second was a finishing shot from above that could not have been done by Ridenhour. She accuses him of being the killer. Benjamin Donovan critcizes her evidence, saying it is weak. However, he gets a call and when he returns, he suddenly says he is no longer representing Shades, leaving and abandoning him. Knight tells Shades he is going down, and will end up in prison forever.[103][5]
Anansi warns Bushmaster about the negative effects of Nightshade and comments on how savage his crusade is, but McIver ignores him. He calls in the Stylers and says they need to find someone Cage loves and squeeze.[103][5]
Donovan tells Dillard he is leaving because she no longer has any money, and that is all he cared about. Dillard leaves the precinct and a Jamaican immediately starts firing. Cage saves her again and questions the Jamaican, who tells him there is a bounty on Dillard, Johnson, Cage, and everyone Cage loves' heads.[103][5]
Misty Knight interrogates Shades on her own, accusing him of killing Comanche, as well as Zip. She asks him to make a deal to save himself in return for giving them evidence on Dillard, but he refuses. Nandi Tyler enters and takes Knight away.[103][5]
Tyler informs Knight of the shooting outside. Mark Bailey arrives and says their GSR tests on Shades came back negative and he and Tyler explain that they have no evidence, so have to let Shades go.[103][5]
Knight dismisses Shades, but tells him that she knows how long Donovan has helped the Stokes family, so if he stopped helping, it was likely by Dillard's instruction. She reminds him to come to her before Dillard betrays him.[103][5]
Luke Cage warns his father, James Lucas, that someone could attack him, but Lucas refuses to leave his church.[103][5]
Sugar takes Mariah Dillard back to her burned-down brownstone. Shades arrives and she blames him for bringing a snitch into Harlem's Paradise, even asking if he himself is a snitch. He argues that he dealt with it immediately and that it is her fault he got abandoned, but Dillard explains that Benjamin Donovan left because they cannot pay him. Shades is angered, saying that he warned her not to get involved in the gun deal and just sell her Basquiat painting, but now they are in ruins because of her stubbornness. He suggests that they strike now while Bushmaster is complacent, and they agree to help each other and work together again.[103][5]
Misty Knight and Nandi Tyler enter Harlem's Paradise with officers and a search warrant, discovering that Bushmaster has hired Donovan for himself. They tell Bushmaster they have heard he put a warrant on Dillard and Johnson's heads, but he denies any involvement. The officers do not find any evidence and Knight and Tyler reluctantly leave.[103][5]
In Mother's Touch, Tilda Johnson is scared when her door opens, but finds it is her mother. She accuses Dillard of having tossed her away at birth, but Dillard says Mama Mabel sent her away and that it had upset her. She tells Johnson she has always been in her heart. Johnson tells her she has something to show her.[103][5]
Anansi tells John McIver that while he loves him like a son, he cannot condone his obsession with recreating Nightshade and his crusade, and walks out on him. Shades waits in a car outside the club, seeing him leave.[103][5]
Bushmaster makes more Nightshade, while Luke Cage attends one of his father's services in case he needs to protect him.[103][5]
Attack on James Lucas: Men break into James Lucas' church and start shooting. Cage steps into the path of the bullets to save his father from them, but they chase Lucas. When Cage gets to him, he finds Lucas punching one man in retaliation for shooting Cage. Cage reminds him bullets bounce off, but Lucas proves he still cares for his son, saying that he does not care, they cannot just shoot his child.[103][5]
Skirmish at Mother's Touch: As Johnson tells Dillard about Nightshade at Mother's Touch, they are interrupted by Misty Knight and Nandi Tyler, who warn that shooters have arrived. Stylers shoot into the shop and the group dive for cover. A firefight begins as they break in and Tyler and Knight shoot back, but Cage arrives and stops the attackers. They do not know where might be safe for them to go, but Cage asks Knight to call Danny Rand for a favor.[103][5]
Cage, Knight, Lucas, Dillard, and Johnson arrive at an unopened Rand Enterprises Research Facility that Danny Rand has told them about so they can hide. Father Lucas leads them in a prayer circle for protection.[103][113]
Bushmaster arrives at Mother's Touch and is furious to find out that Dillard and Johnson escaped yet again. He instructs to increase the bounty, but says he wants them alive.[103][113]
Tilda Johnson tends to James Lucas' hand, injured after punching his attacker. She gives him atropa belladonna to help him heal, saying it is also called Nightshade. Lucas is concerned it is poisonous, but she says it has curing abilities in low doses. Lucas sees that Johnson is scared, and reassures her he thinks they will get through the night safely.[103][113]
Misty Knight and Luke Cage tell Mariah Dillard to just testify against Bushmaster so they can take him down, but she still refuses, protecting her family. Dillard eventually begins to consider speaking, but says she wants immunity first. Knight is indignant, but Cage is more willing to consider it, which makes Knight angrier.[103][113]
Talking in private, Knight tells Cage she cannot accept it after her responsibility with Tom Ridenhour and Candace Miller's deaths. She asks him to testify instead, but he says that a black vigilante ex-con will not play in court, and she would be able to twist things to create reasonable doubt. Cage explains that if they make the deal, they can take down Bushmaster and then, if they are lucky, they can get her on something else.[103][113]
Knight returns to the precinct and finds that Priscilla Ridley has been sent to take charge of things. Knight and Ridley agree to talk in private.[103][113]
31st
Luke Cage goes to see Mariah Dillard and tells her that she is no good for Harlem, but she responds that Harlem loves her, that she elevates it while he only oversees it. Dillard states that Harlem does not need a hero, but rather a queen.[103][113]
At the precinct, Misty Knight tells Ridley about the deal they want to strike with Dillard and the plan to get her on something else, reluctantly admitting that it is the smart play. Ridley agrees to call DA Blake Tower.[103][113]
In the research facility, Cage tries to get cocoa from a machine. When it does not work, he becomes frustrated and shakes it hard, but his father steps forward and shows him it simply needs a light tap, advising him to not use brute force all the time, as some things need a lighter touch.[103][113]
Mariah Dillard sneaks around and overhears Lucas and Cage talking. Lucas tells his son he understands the burden he feels due to having his powers and feeling he is responsible for everyone. Cage says he has been struggling since Claire Temple left. His father talks about Johnson having helped heal his hand and Cage says there might be science to it. Lucas replies that science, magic, and faith all come from within, but what comes out when the pressure gets too much is what defines a man and a hero.[103][113]
Riley tells Knight that DA Tower came through with the paperwork. Knight explains that before Ridenhour's death, she was angry with him for wanting to offer a reduced sentence to Dillard, yet now she is agreeing to giving immunity. Ridley reminds her that Ridenhour would want them to stop the biggest current threat: they need to take down Bushmaster, and Knight gives her Dillard's location. However, unbeknown to them, Nandi Tyler stands outside, listening in.[103][113]
Luke Cage approaches Tilda Johnson and asks about her healing techniques. She explains that she followed in her father, Jackson Dillard's footsteps and got into medicine. She says that the ingredients Bushmaster bought from her were arcane and reminded her of ancient rituals she had heard about, involving using Nightshade to gain strength. Johnson sadly admits, however, that she does not know how to counteract it. Cage requests that she recount everything she knows, and Johnson agrees to, on the condition that he tell her everything he knows about her mother.[103][113]
In Harlem's Paradise, Anansi warns John McIver again that Nightshade is not supposed to be used like this and his body will waste away, but he insists he needs some more just to finish his crusade. Sheldon approaches him and says they still do not have a location on Dillard and Johnson. He says that his other task, growing Nightshade for McIver, is proving difficult, but McIver states sharply that he needs it. Nandi Tyler then enters and tells them she knows where Dillard is, if the offer is still open. Bushmaster happily says it is.[103][113]
Mariah Dillard sits to talk with James Lucas, and their conversation quickly turns to their respective struggles with their children. Dillard asks for photos of Cage when he was younger, tricking Lucas into getting his cell phone out to show her. When he is distracted, she steals the phone off the table.[103][113]
Dillard uses the phone to try calling Shades. He ignores the call, however, as he sits in Gwen's.[103][113]
Tilda Johnson approaches her mother, asking for the truth from her. Her mother tells her that the "Dillard" name was a fantasy of escaping the Stokes family, but that the Stokes family was real. She admits that Johnson's father is in fact not Jackson Dillard, that Jackson was in fact gay and she married him because, while they cared for each other, it also helped the other, "proving" to his family that he was not gay and allowing her daughter, who had already been born, to have a good role model father. Johnson confronts Mariah for killing Cornell Stokes, having been told by Cage, and she says she did it because he loved Uncle Pete more than her. Mariah explains that Pete had been kind to her, until he started coming into her room at night and raping her, eventually getting her pregnant - but Mama Mabel had insisted on not having an abortion. She finishes by confessing that she has never loved Johnson, since every time she looks at her, she sees Pete. Johnson breaks down crying, calling her mother a monster.[103][113]
Knight returns to the research facility and reluctantly gives over the deal to Dillard. As soon as she has signed, Knight calls Priscilla Ridley to say they can take in Bushmaster at Harlem's Paradise. However, when Ridley enters, she and her team find the club empty.[103][113]
Bushmaster and the Stylers arrive outside the research facility to attack and unpack Hammer Industries weaponry. Bushmaster calls out that he just wants "Mariah Stokes", and if they hand her over, they will let the rest of them go.[103][113]
Luke Cage points out that if the roles were reversed, Dillard would have handed him over immediately, which she openly admits. He says, however, that he was raisded better, deciding he has to fight the Stylers instead.[103][113]
Bushmaster declares war. The group inside, minus Cage, run to get away. Cage throws a heavy container out of the building then jumps down to attack, breaking their weapons and knocking them down to get to Bushmaster.[103][113]
Stylers break into the building and shoot at the group inside. Knight uses a bed as a barricade and shoots back.[103][113]
Cage anticipates Bushmaster's use of powder this time and knocks some out of his hand. Sheldon throws Bushmaster a metal club to hit Cage with.[103][113]
Cage uses a bar to block Bushmaster's club attacks. They knock the weapons from each other's hands and Bushmaster kicks Cage in the face.[103][113]
Mariah Dillard picks up a stray gun inside the building and starts shooting attackers.[103][113]
Bushmaster trues to drive a knife into Cage's eye, but his opponent elbows him in the side and overpowers him. The Jamaican says that if he wants to stop him, he should kill him, but Cage says that he will simply be there to stop him whatever he continutes to try.[103][113]
Police arrive at the scene and arrest Bushmaster and the Stylers. Priscilla Ridley informs Cage and Knight that Dillard has disappeared, but says that they have plenty of evidence from this attack to take Bushmaster in, so without her around they have been able to throw her immunity deal away.[103][113]
Cage and his father sit to talk. James Lucas warns that the darkness he deals with every day could consume him, simply stating that he has to make sure he does not let it. He tells his son he is proud of him and that he loves him, and Cage reciprocates. The father and son hug, and Cage offers to take him to eat.[103][113]
As he is driven away, Bushmaster tells a story to his guards of how the Jamaican slaves resisted and eventually fought back for independence. He reveals a Hammer Industries explosive in his hand and it detonates, allowing him to escape, but incredibly injured.[103][113]
Returning to Mother's Touch, Tilda Johnson finds Sheldon. He shows her McIver in the corner of the shop, nearly dead from the explosion. Sheldon tells her he needs Nightshade and her help, threatening that if he dies, she will be killed. gets back to Mother's Touch and finds Sheldon, forcing her to help John. She says they will need somewhere quiet.[103][113]
As Dillard walks through the night, Shades finds her. She says she is done denying her true nature and wants what is hers. Shades kisses her, then shows her that he has kidnapped Anansi, keeping him in the car boot.[103][113]
September
3rd
Luke Cage is walking along when he is confronted by several people on the street, asking what he is going to do about Bushmaster. One young man, Torre, says he should act like Daenerys in the recent season of Game of Thrones, but Cage is left bemused.[103][83]
In Pop's Barber Shop, the news reports on Bushmaster's escape 3 days prior. D.W. Griffith shows Cage the new merchandise he has made. Danny Rand arrives and introduces himself to Griffith, who is taken by the idea of a "Power Man and Iron Fist" team-up. Rand agrees to help Cage.[103][83]
Misty Knight checks Nandi Tyler's social media for clues as to her whereabouts, with Tyler having been missing for the last few days.[103][83]
Mariah Dillard returns to Harlem's Paradise following Bushmaster's disappearance. She is annoyed with Ben Donovan for switching sides, but he shows her that he has managed to restore her money through a legal loophole. She makes it clear to him that he is not forgiven and she is in control.[103][83]
Rand tries to get Cage to meditate, but Cage is impatient. Rand then has him talk through his most recent fight with Bushmaster, He lights up the Iron Fist, impressing Griffith, and helps Cage realize that Bushmaster would need medical help somewhere off the books. Cage realizes he is likely at Mother's Touch.[103][83]
As they walk, Rand tells Cage he is more settled now and has found a stillness within.[103][83]
In the precinct, Misty Knight and Priscilla Ridley ask Mark Bailey if he knows anything about Tyler's whereabouts. They reveal that a system was installed recently for recording uses of a key card to get to interrogation rooms, and Tyler used hers at the time Knight told Ridley Mariah Dillard's location. Bailey wants to give Tyler the benefit of the doubt, but reluctantly agrees to help find her as Knight points out she could have a direct link to Bushmaster.[103][83]
In Mother's Touch, Cage finds a shredded piece of clothing Bushmaster was wearing when he fought him, proof that he did come to the shop after. He tells Rand about Nightshade, and Rand wonders whether Bushmaster might have found a way to replicate it. They decide they need to find Tilda Johnson, and to do so, will have to visit her mother.[103][83]
Shades hands Mariah Dillard the Stokes' Revolver, saying he had been holding onto it until he knew he could trust her with it. Anansi is brought before her.[103][83]
Bailey watches security footage and finds Nandi Tyler leaving Harlem's Paradise the night of Bushmaster's attack on the Rand Enterprises research facility. He runs her credit card details and finds an Uber journey.[103][83]
Anansi tells Dillard he can see that she lives in fear, regardless of what she says. Cage and Rand arrive and Dillard has to go downstairs to greet them, so as to prevent them from finding out about her prisoner. Cage tells Rand that it is unlikely that there will be a fight, since the locals will not want to touch someone as rich as him, as money is seen as power in the neighborhood. Cage asks where Johnson is and Dillard says she does not know, then telling Cage to find Bushmaster before she gets to him. The duo decide to leave, and Rand tells Cage he has an idea.[103][83]
Dillard returns to Anansi and admits she is surprised he did not call out. He says their fates are sealed, and nothing they do will get him to give up McIver.[103][83]
Luke Cage and Danny Rand look out over Harlem. Rand then surprises Cage by hitting him, then saying he is impressed that he managed to stand his ground. He then continues to hit Cage, despite Cage's protests, and Cage eventually falls to the ground. Rand tells him he is off balance because he is allowing himself to get angry, and advises him to calm his mind so he can focus. Rand says he has taken Cage to a high point because Mariah Dillard uses Harlem's Paradise's "perch" as a position of power overlooking everything else, but Cage replies that they need to speak to a "rat" if they are to find Bushmaster, since he is laying low.[103][83]
In interrogation, Misty Knight tells Tyler that when they were in school together, she had found out about Tyler setting up a top fellow basketball player called Tasha Bowles to get her kicked off the team so she could be spotted by scouts alone, accusing her of only being out for herself. Tyler says that Dillard deserves to be taken down and there is nothing wrong with taking some leftover money because of it, but Knight angrily says that she still will never acknowledge her selfishness, and walks out.[103][83]
Mariah Dillard admits to Anansi that she knows about her family's history with the McIvers, and says that Buggy Stokes should have finished them all off. Anansi says he has been foolish in feeling sympathetic for Dillard during John McIver's campaign, seeing now why he wants her gone. She asks where he is, but he states that he does not know.[103][83]
Cage and Rand go to Turk Barrett's shop, with Barrett being the biggest "rat" Cage knows. He smashes a bong, threatening to keep going until Barrett gives him the information he needs, and Barrett gives in, telling Cage that the Jamaicans have taken over a grow house near Rucker Park.[103][83]
Luke Cage and Iron Fist team up and break into the Stylers' grow house. With their different skills, they fight through several workers. The duo eventually find themselves surrounded nonetheless, but Cage has Rand punch his powered fist into his resistant hand, now prepared to take the hit unlike when they first met, and the shock wave bowls over all the Stylers around them. Two more men arrive and Cage throws Rand at them, who takes them out with ease.[103][83]
Talking to a worker in the grow house, the duo find out that the Nightshade plant withers without Jamaican soil or sun.[103][83]
Rand and Cage leave the building to burn down, making sure Bushmaster never gets to use the Nightshade grown inside, with Rand saying he has got Rand Enterprises to purchase the building so there is no trouble.[103][83]
Nandi Tyler is taken away to prison. Priscilla Ridley takes Misty Knight aside and tells her that she has read what happened at Midland Circle and respects her sacrifice, as well as being impressed by her handling of Tyler. She says that since her placement is only temporary, she wants to offer Knight the position of captain.[103][83]
Mariah Dillard and Shades walk Anansi down the street to Gwen's. Sugar, being part of the group, feels that what they are doing is too wrong and decides to leave Dillard's service.[103][83]
Dillard enters Gwen's and finds Stephanie Miller inside. Realizing she was an insider for Bushmaster, she has her shot through the head, declaring herself Mariah "Stokes" as she embraces her family's repertoire. As other Jamaicans start to run, Shades and the rest of her men shoot each and every one.[103][83]
Anansi listens in anguish before being unmasked. Shades shares concerns with Dillard that this was not what they planned, but she says they are simply sending a message to Bushmaster as agreed. She has her men pour flammable Bushmaster rum over Anansi and set it alight, burning him alive. After a few moments of him screaming, she shoots him to finish him off. Shades is concerned by her behavior.[103][83]
Luke Cage and Danny Rand get food together at Connie Lin's new restaurant, Genghis Connie's Too. Rand says he was impressed by Cage's focus earlier, and says that he does not have to carry his burden alone, as Rand is also defending the same island and city. Rand admits that Claire Temple asked him to check on Cage, concerned about him, and says to remember that he, Misty Knight, Jessica Jones, and Temple have his back. He advises Cage not to be stubborn, having been stubborn himself in the past and seen what problems it creates. The conversation settles and Cage tries to get Rand to admit Shou-Lao is not real, irritating Rand, who cannot believe that Cage can accept all the other weird things in their lives, but not a dragon.[103][83]
Luke Cage looks at the dead bodies in Gwen's, having been called by Misty Knight. He tells her she was right, that he should have let her burn, but she reassures him that he could not have foreseen this. Knight takes a look at the bullet casings and works out that they could be from a revolver. Meanwhile, Cage spots a blood trail from a survivor who escaped, and they realize they need to find them before Dillard's people find and kill them.[103][114]
Alex Wesley shows Mariah Dillard a safe panic room underground with a biometric scanner, so they can be protected when Bushmaster inevitable attacks.[103][114]
Cage questions Italian mobsters in Queens to check that they were not involved, and they confirm it. He lets Knight know, and she has him check his texts, to which she has sent a security video of Ingrid Mackintosh that they pulled, leaving Gwen's alive. He goes to find her.[103][114]
Priscilla Ridley tells Knight that they have press asking numerous questions, having already heard about the massacre and with Karen Page requesting a quote. With the commissioner having asked specifically for Knight, Ridley instructs her to field the press questions herself, hoping it will also be a step forward in her career.[103][114]
As Knight answers questions, dodging the query of whether there is a survivor, Cage checks the hospital and is advised to check a neighborhood infirmary.[103][114]
Seeing Knight's avoidance of the question about a survivor, Mariah Dillard realizes there must be one. Shades enters and they work out that it must be Ingrid Mackintosh. He asks why she did what she did, but Dillard simply replies that Bushmaster came at her; she did not start the fight between them. She instructs him to focus on his gangster side and find and kill Mackintosh for her.[103][114]
Misty Knight asks Mark Bailey if any .38 guns were found with Anansi's body, explaining that the revolver shot was an anomaly among the other shots, and that Candace Miller was killed with a .38.[103][114]
John McIver's body struggles to survive, but Sheldon tells Tilda Johnson to keep going, as McIver can take it. He tells her of how McIver was the only one to survive a vaccine given to Jamaican children when they were young, as well as informing Johnson of what her great grandmother, Mama Mabel, did to McIver's family in the 1980s, burning John's house down and killing his mother, trapped inside.[103][114]
Bailey reports back to Knight that the revolver has been found to indeed be the same .38 used to kill Miller. Reading the report, Knight works out that it is an old model likely kept as a trophy piece, and that it could help them take down Dillard.[103][114]
In Harlem's Paradise, Dillard meets with Hai-Qing Yang about getting into the heroin business, leaving behind her previous assertion to not deal in drug trade.[103][114]
Luke Cage finds Ingrid Mackintosh in one of the infirmaries and prepares to help her.[103][114]
Attack on Ingrid Mackintosh: Cage steps outside to check on the West Indian Day Parade and see if he can slip Mackintosh into the crowd. As she is left momentarily unattended, Shades arrives, finding her himself. He holds a gun to her and prepares to shoot, but cannot bring himself to, eventually leaving. Cage returns and Mackintosh says she wants to see her husband's body and asks him to kill Dillard, but he asks that she help him take her down the right way, coming in to the precinct to testify. Mackintosh does not want to relive the suffering, agreeing only to go to her friend's restaurant for now.[103][114]
Cage and Mackintosh slip into the crowd.[103][114]
Tilda Johnson reminds Sheldon that it is a risk to administer any more Nightshade to John McIver, but he insists that she take that risk. McIver writhes in pain, but makes it through, and the substance saves his life.[103][114]
Ingrid Mackintosh tells Cage about McIver's past. She says again that she just wants to see Anansi's body. Cage texts Knight to let her know he has Mackintosh.[103][114]
Meanwhile, Knight checks archived records for the same type of revolver. She finds that the same gun was previously used to kill Peter Stokes, now having proof that it belongs to the Stokeses.[103][114]
In Harlem's Paradise, Mariah Dillard hallucinates Mama Mabel and Pistol Pete, haunted by their impact on her.[103][114]
Sheldon is contacted, finding out about Anansi's death, and cries as he tries to pass on the news to McIver.[103][114]
Priscilla Ridley tells Knight that they need the actual gun or Ingrid Mackintosh's testimony to take down Dillard.[103][114]
Cage calls Knight to let her know that Mackintosh is not able to testify and wants to go back to Jamaica with Anansi's body. He tells her he has accepted that they need to find another way to take down Dillard, as it should not be at the cost of Mackintosh's sanity.[103][114]
Sheldon and Bushmaster visit Gwen's, with Johnson in tow. Bushmaster decides to let Johnson go, and thanks her for her help.[103][114]
Dillard starts flirting with Alex Wesley, and Shades walks in, unimpressed by her behavior. He forces Wesley to leave, saying she has broken the rules of the streets by killing innocent people. She works out that he did not kill Ingrid Mackintosh, reminding him that if she testifies and takes her down, she will take him down as well. However, Shades says he is done, telling Dillard she lost her heart. She tries to seduce him back into working with her, saying how he made her feel when he helped her after killing Cottonmouth, but he does not fall for it. As he walks away, she brings up his brief homosexual relationship with Comanche that she has surmised happened in the past, mocking him and saying she wished she had killed Comanche herself. He retaliates, angrily throttling her before stopping and walking away, saying she is not worth the effort. After he has left, Tilda Johnson enters and asks if she was behind the restaurant killing. Dillard readily confirms it, and Johnson says she is done with her, leaving.[103][114]
Shades approaches Misty Knight. He says Mariah Dillard has gone too far this time and that he is willing to help her take Dillard down, willingly allowing himself to be cuffed.[103][114]
Luke Cage takes Ingrid Mackintosh to Anansi's body, where they find John McIver looking at the body himself. The men leave Mackintosh to grieve and talk outside. McIver thanks him for helping her, but Cage simply tells him to walk away. He refuses, saying he does not look forward to having to kill Cage.[103][114]
As Cage walks, he notices Sugar tailing him. He turns, suspicious, but Sugar explains that he has good intentions and wants to discuss what to do about the chaos on the streets of Harlem, since the neighborhood still needs a leader.[103][114]
D. W. Griffith dances with his girlfriend, Aisha Axton, at a party. Some partygoers take a drug for a high, but instead become aggressive and violent, attacking others at the party. People restrain them, and the drug packet falls to the floor, labelled "Bushmaster".[103][115]
5th
At Pop's Barber Shop, Axton and Griffith tell Luke Cage about the Bushmaster drug. Griffith assumes Bushmaster is behind it, but Cage is not so sure. Sugar enters and tells Cage about Mariah Dillard meeting with Hai-Qing Yang and getting into the drug business.[103][115]
Shades sleeps in the precinct. Priscilla Ridley and Misty Knight discuss whether they should work with him, with Ridley suspicious that he wants to clear Dillard from the scene to take over himself, but Knight wanting simply to make sure they take down Dillard and get closure on Candace Miller's death, as well as catching Ridenhour's killer.[103][115]
Battle at Yangsi Gonshi Warehouse: At the Yangsi Gonshi warehouse, Bushmaster goes to attack Hai-Qing Yang for spreading the "Bushmaster" drug. Yang reveals, however, that he has lured him into a trap, as Yangsi Gonshi men pull guns and start firing. Luke Cage arrives, jumping in to protect Bushmaster from being killed, using his bulletproof body as a shield. He then prepares to fight the hatchet-wielding men, but tells McIver that if he kills anyone, he is on his own. The Jamaican reluctantly agrees and the enemies fight back-to-back, taking out all the attackers. When they are finished, however, Bushmaster insists again that anyone who gets in his way against Dillard will die. He threatens to explode the place with another Hammer Industries explosive charge, and Cage is forced to take it into his hands and contain the explosion. Bushmaster slips away as he is knocked backwards by the force.[103][115]
Tilda Johnson visits Cornell Stokes' grave and thanks him for introducing her to music, as well as, despite her being a reminder of the incest in the family, accepting her nonetheless.[103][115]
Luke Cage visits Mariah Dillard at Harlem's Paradise. He says her nickname, "Black Mariah", is starting to ring true, and that he will not save her a third time. She says they have a relationship, which he refutes, insisting he hates her. Dillard responds that she has always been able to count on him, more than anyone else, but Cage tells her he is going to leave her and Bushmaster to deal with each other at this point. Dillard makes a call to arrange a party at Harlem's Paradise for the night, hoping to fill it with people to provide a human shield.[103][115]
In the precinct, Patricia Wilson serves as Shades' attorney in a recorded testimony. He testifies that he and Comanche were hired by Albert Rackham at Seagate Penitentiary to beat "Carl Lucas", later known as Luke Cage, saying that this will relate to Dillard once he gets to tell the full story.[103][115]
Luke Cage walks along the street in Harlem, and the radio reports on the party happening at Harlem's Paradise that night.[103][115]
Tilda Johnson visits Sheldon and Bushmaster, passing on that her mother was indeed behind the massacre at Gwen's. She explains that there are secret tunnels under the club from Prohibition that she knows about, so she can sneak him in, then offers him a super-shot of Nightshade that could double his strength, but should not be taken at once as it could destroy his body and mind. He insists the cost and risk are worth it for everyone he will be avenging.[103][115]
Shades' testimony continues, as he talks about the attack on Pop's Barber Shop and Tone accidentally killing Pop, as well as Cage defending a child, who Patricia Wilson realizes was Lonnie, her son. He tells of Cottonmouth throwing Tone from the roof, and Patricia Wilson recuses herself from the case, finding him indefensible.[103][115]
Getting back to the barber shop, Cage talks to D. W. Griffith and Sugar about the party being thrown. Cage explains that Dillard is arranging a crowd so that he will be motivated to come and help if Bushmaster attacks, to help the innocent people. He says that living constantly on edge like he does is damaging, and the problem that if he saves Mariah Dillard, she will just ruin someone else's life.[103][115]
Cage walks to the high point over Harlem that Danny Rand had taken him to, mulling over what to do that evening.[103][115]
As the interrogation takes a break, Misty Knight steps outside and is overcome with emotion, having finally got justice for Candace Miller, but also confirmation that her mistake, dropping her phone, was what allowed Shades to trick the young woman, as well as having to relive the tragedy. She takes a breath, composes herself, and heads back in to ask about Tom Ridenhour.[103][115]
When Knight asks, Shades is forthcoming, explaining about finding Comanche to be the snitch, and his decision to shoot both Ridenhour and his friend. Unbeknown to him, Priscilla Ridley has invited Comanche's mother, Janis Jones, to listen in and hear the truth. Knight tells Shades they need the .38 gun, which he had not been aware was used to kill Peter Stokes, but he says they should get a warrant and retrieve it themselves. Ridley brings Jones in, and Shades is stunned, realizing what he has just confessed before her. She spits in his face before allowing herself to be escorted out, and Knight sits Shades back down, telling him he needs to give them the revolver's location.[103][115]
Bushmaster prepares for his attack. Sheldon says he cannot lose him, his last remaining family, but Bushmaster insists he cannot lose, and will get justice tonight.[103][115]
Cage dresses and heads to the party to help.[103][115]
Shades is taken to Harlem's Paradise under the guise of going alone, in fact carrying a hidden microphone and accompanied by Misty Knight, hidden downstairs. He goes upstairs to talk to Dillard, with Knight listening in.[103][115]
Meanwhile, Cage arrives at the club. KRS-One performs and Cage walks through the crowd. He and Dillard spot each other, with her mouthing "I told you so", mocking him for coming to save her after she predicted as such.[103][115]
Shades starts questioning Dillard about her work with the Yangsi Gonshi to extract a confession, but she says she does not know how she feels about him yet.[103][115]
Cage talks to Knight, finding out her plan, but says he is not sure it will work, adding that he is working on a plan of his own.[103][115]
Bushmaster meets with Tilda Johnson, who is prepared to take him to the secret entrance on the proviso he does not kill anyone other than her mother.[103][115]
Listening in on the conversation, Knight hears as Dillard tells Shades she is taking him to the "lair". Knight is concerned, not knowing where that is.[103][115]
Dillard takes Shades to the safe room. When he says that he hopes they can make things how they were, she says they cannot as she suddenly pulls the Stokes' revolver on him.[103][115]
Bushmaster walks the secret tunnels under the club. He takes the super-shot of Nighthsade and breaks into the main hall. Partygoers evacuate as gunshots go off.[103][115]
Dillard opens Shades' shirt and her suspicions are confirmed as she sees his wired mic. She calls him a snitch, but is distracted when Shades notices the security footage showing Bushmaster's arrival.[103][115]
Bushmaster fights his way up the stairs and Luke Cage follows him, engaging him in another duel as he tries to stop the Jamaican. Cage is surprised, however, by his improved strength, and Bushmaster manages to kick him through the same window Dillard once pushed Cottonmouth through.[103][115]
Bushmaster then makes his way to the safe room, pummelling the reinforced door and creating dents in the metal. Shades has Dillard give him the revolver, acting like he is simply asking as a survival technique, being the better shot, for their mutual benefit, but also wanting to acquire the revolver for Knight.[103][115]
Knight rouses Cage and they rush to the safe room. Bushmaster breaks in and Shades shoots at him, but he dodges the bullet with enhanced reflexes. Before he can get to Dillard, Cage and Knight engage him, but he easily takes Knight down before then throwing Cage into the wall. He advances on Dillard again, only to be caught by Cage, who has got back up. Shades shoots at him again, but the bullets bounce off Cage, who is standing in the way as he fights him. Bushmaster manages to get to Dillard and begins to squeeze on her head, but Knight distracts him and Cage assaults him again, this time hitting him with an uppercut, before putting him in a headlock. Dillard encourages him to kill the Jamaican, who wrestles to break free, and Cage considers it, but Knight convinces him not to.[103][115]
Relinquishing his grip momentarily, Bushmaster elbows Cage in the face and slips out, jumping through the window to escape. The police arrive, led by Priscilla Ridley, but they inform the others that McIver has gotten away.[103][115]
Shades then hands Misty Knight the Stokes' revolver, to her delight. She immediately takes the opportunity to turn on Mariah Dillard and cuff her. Dillard insists that the public will be on her side, but the others are uninterested and the police escort her away. Knight tells Cage she is glad for a win, but he states that it is not over yet.[103][115]
6th
Following Mariah Dillard's arrest, the streets lose their normal rules, without the hierachy to keep them in place. Cuchifritos, a Puerto Rican shop run for a very long time by a man called Hector and always left out of the crime in Harlem, is robbed by three men, who hit Hector across the head.[103][116]
8th
Hector, the injured manager of Cuchifritos, dies of an aneurysm.[103][116]
DA Blake Tower represents the prosecution against Mariah Dillard in court, as Benjamin Donovan defends her. Misty Knight happily tells Luke Cage that it would seem Dillard is finished, while Rosalie Carbone arrives to attend. There is an outburst in the court from the parents of some of Dillard's victims, who are escorted out. Judge Amanda Garmon decides to remand her to Ryker's Island until trial, but Dillard stands to speak. She says that Harlem cannot survive without the figurative wall the Stokes family have built around the neighborhood, that without her, Harlem is in serious trouble.[103][116]
The police and Luke Cage find increased crime and killings across Harlem, aligning with Dillard's comments.[103][116]
Misty Knight gets in a fight on the streets, stopping a criminal.[103][116]
Thembi Wallace reports on the increased crime in Harlem. D. W. Griffith and Cage watch the report in Pop's Barber Shop, and Cage laments that things seem to be worsening with Dillard off the streets.[103][116]
Misty Knight visits Tilda Johnson at Mother's Touch and accuses her of helping Bushmaster. She denies this, but tells Knight to stop looking around without a warrant. Knight highlights how she is starting to sound like her mother, but leaves. Once she is gone, Sheldon and Ingrid Mackintosh bring Bushmaster out from the back room, where Johnson has been keeping him as he struggles, following his use of the Nightshade super-shot. Johnson tells Mackintosh he needs to be taken to Jamaica for the proper healing herbs. McIver tells Johnson that Dillard must burn.[103][116]
As Sugar, Griffith, and Cage try to work out who is behind the current chaos on the streets, ruling out the Koreans and Dominicans, Shades enters through the back of the barber shop, telling him he does not know anything and that it is clearly the Italians. Cage is reluctant to trust him, but he says he would have no motive, being publicly known as a snitch. He says that street rules are being broken without a ruler of the system, including innocent people's deaths, and that Rosalie Carbone is moving in to take over Harlem. Shades recommends that someone else, who loves Harlem and would overturn the system, take over, pushing Cage to be the one, and Cage exchanges a look with Sugar, having previously discussed similar matters.[103][116]
Attack on Mariah Dillard: As Mariah Dillard is walked through Ryker's Island, two inmates ambush her guard and use shivs to stab her. They corner Dillard and pour kerosene over her, declaring that they work for Rosalie Carbone as one strikes a match. However, they then have their throats slit by two other inmates, whose leader, Kalinda Potter, walks in, reminding Dillard of who she is - one of Mama Mabel's prostitute employees, previously nicknamed "Sunflower". Potter says she will protect Dillard if she pays her, and Dillard pretends to agree. She then asks for a knife to carve up her attacker, but when she is handed one, she slices Potter's throat, then telling the inmates she is in charge, and will pay them for help. Dillard calls Benjamin Donovan to bring money.[103][116]
Raid of Rosalie Carbone's Office: Luke Cage breaks into Rosalie Carbone's office, knocking her men aside as he makes his way through the building. He gets to Carbone, but is attacked from behind by a man pulling a bag over his head, hoping to suffocate him. Cage nonetheless wrestles free and tells Carbone to leave Harlem. She refuses, saying it is her home, and that he cannot kill her, as it would cause vengeful attacks in the neighborhood. Cage responds that he could nonetheless make her life hell if he wants, disrupting all of her business, but offers her terms, saying he will stay away so long as she keeps away from certain areas. She asks how much he would accept for her to hire him, but he insists he cannot be bought.[103][116]
Tilda Johnson sees Bushmaster off as Sheldon and Ingrid Mackintosh get him into a car, starting their journey back to Jamaica with Anansi's body. Sheldon says she is a good woman, and Johnson says that she hopes she gave Bushmaster even a little peace, glad she at least is no longer paying for her mother's sins.[103][116]
Meeting with Dillard in prison, Donovan tells her that the money will be sorted and untraceable. She asks what they might do about Shades, and Donovan says he is untouchable after going on record. However, Dillard suggests that they play the angle to the court that she was a vulnerable widow preyed on and manipulated by a younger man, and Donovan likes it, pointing out that they can take advantage of certain confessions to create reasonable doubt on her case. She then states that everyone involved with her work needs to be killed to prevent any potential testimonies, apart from him, family members, and Sugar, who was kind to her.[103][116]
Alex Wesley turns up at Mother's Touch, asking Tilda Johnson for shelter as he is scared he will be killed soon, but knows Dillard would not go after someone protected by her daughter. Johnson, however, says she cannot help him and, despite his pleas, has him leave.[103][116]
Sugar approaches Luke Cage as he looks out over Harlem. He talks about how he came to know Dillard in the first place. Cage says he wants to do his best to broker a peace for Harlem.[103][116]
Shades is attacked in the street by a shooter hired by Dillard and Donovan. He reacts fast, stopping the man and killing him instead, taking his phone to call and arrange a meeting with Dillard.[103][116]
Mark Bailey and Misty Knight turn up at the scene of another killing: Alex Wesley, with his mother crying over the body. Tilda Johnson watches on and makes a phone call.[103][116]
Shades meets with Mariah Dillard in prison. He says that he honestly loved her and still does, but that they could have been out in Harlem at the top of the game if she had just listened to him and given him the club or sold the Basquiat painting. Before he leaves, he advises her to trust nobody in prison, spitefully saying that she is a natural at being out only for herself. Benjamin Donovan enters and informs Dillard that Johnson has just called, ready to see her.[103][116]
Alex Wesley's body is taken away, and Luke Cage expresses to Misty Knight his surprise that she would even have him killed. He says he needs to see Dillard for closure, but Knight refuses. Walking away, Cage then calls Foggy Nelson to get Benjamin Donovan's number.[103][116]
Johnson visits her mother in Ryker's Island. Dillard apologizes for being horrible last time they spoke, saying that being raped left her unable to feel love for her daughter. She insists again that she is necessary for Harlem, so will end up free at trial, and says that they can start again when she gets out. Johnson is dismayed and says that her mother has pushed everyone who ever cared about her away. Dillard insists that her pushing away Johnson has left her better off, saying her daughter can never be hurt by people, prepared for rejection in life by her early heartbreak, but Johnson cannot believe she sees this as a positive. Dillard asks her to look in on Harlem's Paradise, calling it home. Johnson stands up and approaches her mother, saying, "I love you, mother," and kissing her quickly on the lips. When she leaves, Donovan returns, saying a surprising person has called. Dillard points out that Johnson called her "mother", not "mommy", realizing she did not mean anything she said. She says she needs to do something official with him, before asking who it was who called.[103][116]
Dillard changes her will with Donovan, deciding to give Harlem's Paradise to Luke Cage rather than Johnson, believing it should go to someone who also loves Harlem, and convinced the power it comes with will corrupt him[103][116]
Returning to Harlem's Paradise, Johnson finds Cornell Stokes' keyboard and sits to start playing. As she plays the tune she demonstrated to her mother before, she sings to herself about her mother's sins and damage, and leaving them behind, even if that comes at a cost. Meanwhile, in different locations, Cage continues to walk, Misty Knight trains, and Shades sits and looks at an old photo of the Rivals.[103][116]
Cage arrives at Ryker's Island, being the one who called Donovan. He says he has repaired her figurative "wall" around Harlem and brokered peace, telling her not to kill anyone else and jeopardize that. She calls Cage the catalyst for finding who she really is, which he scoffs at. Nonetheless, she says Harlem will need a king, and that she is glad it is him. He replies that she will never get out of here and that he will be the last person to walk away from her life, but before she can retort, she suddenly coughs up blood, and realizes that Johnson has poisoned her.[103][116]
In Harlem's Paradise, knowing the beso de la araña will be taking effect, Johnson considers her actions, while wiping it off of her own lips.[103][116]
Dillard collapses, and Cage tells her that there is no saving her this time, but that he will keep her company. She tells him the poison burns, which he says is good, feeling she deserves it. She tells him that they are not done yet, but dies in his arms, killed by her daughter.[103][116]
Misty Knight and Mark Bailey find Shades, telling him he is under arrest, since his deal was reliant on Dillard's successful conviction, void now that she is dead. She also says that they have found evidence connecting him to the Atreus Plastics dealings and gun sales, and Shades is reluctantly impressed by Dillard managing to plant things to take him down. He is taken away in cuffs.[103][116]
Tilda Johnson visits Joel Spurlock to discuss her mother's body. He asks if she wants a decorative coffin, but Johnson says to simply cremate her, and that she does not care about her ashes. When Spurlock calls her Ms. Stokes, Johnson corrects him, stating that the last Stokes just died; she is Tilda Johnson.[103][116]
Back at Pop's Barber Shop, Cage talks to D. W. Griffith and Sugar about Dillard's death. Cage says he does not know how to feel about her thanking him before she died, and Griffith admits he has not felt so weird since the election on November 9th. Sheldon enters and tells them not to worry, simply stating that he has heard the news and that Harlem is in the right hands now. Cage admits to Griffith that he has been getting involved to sort things between the different gangs, and Griffith is unimpressed, saying he has become a crime boss. Cage explains that he is the only person in a position to take over who cannot be corrupted, saying he can "make Harlem great again", which Griffith points out sounds too much like Donald Trump. He says that if Cage is going to enter this business, he can no longer live at the barber shop, as it is the vital neutral place, "Switzerland", in the neighborhood. Cage accepts this as fair. When Benjamin Donovan asks to speak, Cage respects Griffith's assertion, taking it outside.[103][116]
Cage and Johnson are taken to Harlem's Paradise to hear Donovan read Dillard's will. In it, she has given Johnson Cornell Stokes' keyboard, but, to both's surprise, gifted the club to Cage. Johnson is angry, walking out. Cage, meanwhile is stunned. When Donovan asks if he wants it, he says that no, he does not want it, and ideally it should be burned to the ground.[103][116]
17th
Fitz studies the work on his walls from the last 4 months.[101][81]
Performers play in Harlem's Paradise again. Meanwhile, at Pop's Barber Shop, D. W. Griffith puts up a sign asking for new employees, having given all his merchandise money to keep the barber shop going.[103][116]
Cage stands in the roost of Harlem's Paradise, having taken it on despite his reluctance, knowing it is necessary. Misty Knight visits him concerned about his behavior. He says that this is the only way, with her enforcing the written rules and him enforcing the unwritten ones, but Knight is troubled by him seemingly no longer caring about the law. She tells him that if he starts losing himself and becoming a fool, she will not hesitate to take him down. Sugar enters and tells him Rosalie Carbone and Anibal Izqueda have arrived to talk. Knight leaves, giving one last worried look into the room as Cage speaks in secret with Sugar.[103][116]
A song is performed in the club chronicling Cage's deeds over recent years. Meanwhile, Tilda Johnson enters the club, and Misty Knight and Priscilla Ridley watch on in the crowd, as Carbone and Izqueda wait for Cage. Sugar informs him that Claire Temple has arrived, but he asks Sugar to tell her to go home, not able to get her involved in what he is now doing, nor hear her reprimands.[103][116]
James Lucas' words about what defines a hero resound in Cage's head as he sits down in what used to be Dillard's chair, uncertain of whether he will manage to maintain his moral center.[103][116]
22nd
Ballblaster Hooligan's October 2017 issue is delivered to Leo Fitz, including, for the fourth time in a row, another letter he sent to the editor.[98][81]
24th
Paul Lantom and Maggie Grace take Matt Murdock to the laundry room under the chapel, away from the Saint Agnes Orphanage children, where he can stay. Grace talks to Murdock about his assertion that he has no friends, and he says that he has paid a price for letting people in, and will not make that mistake again. Murdock explains that he put himself through so much in the belief that he might be a soldier for God, but has suffered too much, and is sick of trying to live a life abiding by God's will. Grace hands him her crucifix, but he tosses it aside, and says that he now knows he would rather die as the Devil of Hell's Kitchen than keep living the life of Matt Murdock.[56][57]
Wilson Fisk makes an omelette in prison. Benjamin Donovan arrives and reports that there have been some setbacks with Vanessa Marianna's return, as the federal government have decided to charge her as an accessory. He asks them to leave.[56][57]
Murdock gets his bearings in the church basement, trying to use clicks to locate things like he did when his senses were sharper. Sister Grace visits him with a hot toddy, and berates him for his self-pity. She says she saw his father fight several times, and that he went down often, but never stayed down.[56][57]
Murdock lies in bed, but struggles to sleep.[56][57]
25th
When Murdock wakes, he finds a nasal kettle. He pours water through his nose and ends up washing out blood clogging up his nose and throat. Once he has, he touches his mirror, and starts to feel vibrations. Touching his glass and then the floor, he feels the same vibrations, and starts to become hopeful that he might not have lost everything.[56][57]
Murdock takes off his socks and starts slowly running around the basement, finding that in feeling the vibrations of the ground and his surroundings, he can sense where things are better.[56][57]
Strapping his shoes on, Murdock starts exercising through push-ups, pull-ups, and handstand push-ups.[56][57]
Murdock stuffs a bag with linen to serve as a punching bag, and starts training with it, though hurts his back when he tries to kick it.[56][57]
Grace returns with food, finding him punching the bag. He tells her he can feel the subway trains passing below them, and that he can smell that she specifically bought beef ravioli. She notices his senses' improvement.[56][57]
The Tigers take the van and begin to drive, when they are ambushed by Iron Fist. He punches the truck's front from the side, rendering it immovable, then attacks the drivers.[117][118]
The remaining Golden Tigers open fire on Iron Fist, but he shields himself with the van's doors, before leaping out and kicking their guns away. As they move in with knives, he engages them in combat, besting his opponents. However, when he finds himself surrounded, he punches the ground, sending a shockwave to knock all his assailants down. He checks they are Golden Tigers before leaving as sirens approach.[117][118]
Rand returns to Chikara Dojo and delivers Colleen Wing food, as she is still working in the early hours. Wing sees the news about his latest fight, and he tells her he was just trying to keep the peace. They retire to bed together.[117][118]
Davos visits Hai-Qing Yang, feeling he has reneged on a promise in demanding more money for a shipment he ordered. When hatchet-carrying Yangsi Gonshi surround Davos, he decides to leave to discuss terms with his "partner". As he walks out, however, Yang tells a story to caution him not to think too highly of himself, but Davos retorts by attacking the two men at the door, stealing their hatchets and killing them both as a warning, saying not to raise the price again.[117][118]
Danny Rand banters with his colleague, Albert, at his new job at Royal Al Moving. Albert notices the closed street from the attack in the night and explains that he nearly joined the Yangsi Gonshi at age 12, and his friend did, soon ending up dead.[117][118]
Rand finds Albert talking to a woman on the street. He approaches her himself and asks about her camera, and she explains that she takes photographs to narrow her field of vision, later going on to draw what she sees. She introduces herself as "Mary" and leaves.[117][118]
Having tracked the box to a man named Frank Choi, Wing goes to visit his furniture store, but finds it closed. She is informed that he has a cousin, Henry Yip, who runs a restaurant nearby called the Silver Lotus.[117][118]
Wing finds Yip being threatened by a trio of young men on the street. She chases them off, and Yip explains they wanted protection money. When she asks about his cousin, Choi, he claims to not have a cousin by that name and enters his restaurant, leaving her outside.[117][118]
Danny Rand meets with Ward Meachum in an elevator. Meachum teases him for getting a manual job, but Rand says that he wants to prove himself and not just live off privilege. They both realize that they thought the other had called this meeting, but neither did, wondering who must have arranged it. Joy Meachum opens the door, revealing herself to be the organizer. She says she is divesting from Rand Enterprises, which Ward takes badly. He says he thought their arguing was behind them, but Joy says that she cannot just easily forgive all the years he lied about their father. Rand steps in and says that they should let Joy leave if she wants, being able to decide that himself since he owns the majority of the company. Ward storms out, calling it a mistake. Joy then escorts Rand to the door, and he wishes her well with her endeavors.[117][118]
Mary gets home and finds a note she left for herself on the wall, telling her not to leave the house. She calmly takes it and folds it so it cannot be read anymore, before noticing another note, "Stop moving things around." Beginning to panic about her dissociative identities, she puts on running water - a trigger to keep her pleasant personality stable.[117][118]
Rand gets back home to Chikara Dojo, and Colleen Wing shows him the crest on the box from the center, matching her katana's family crest. She wonders if it is a family heirloom, showing Rand the comb inside and explaining that it reminded her of her mother combing her hair, saying that her mother was the only one in her family who did not push her away. When she tells him about Henry Yip and his restaurant, Rand suggests they go there for dinner in the hope of an opportunity to speak to him.[117][118]
Ward Meachum becomes impatient at a narcotics anonymous meeting. He walks out, and his sponsor, Bethany, follows. Meachum tells her the meetings do not help, as he wants to change things he cannot, and walks to a nearby closet. She follows again, joining him in the closet, where the pair have sex - a common occurrence between them.[117][118]
Davos returns to Joy Meachum's apartment, with her being the partner he mentioned to Hai-Qing Yang, as the two have been working together in secret to take down Danny Rand. Davos tells Meachum about Yang raising the price, and she tells him about her meeting with Ward and Rand, having struggled to look them in the eye and keep what they are planning a secret, especially when Rand was kind to her. Davos asks if she is wavering, but she insists she is not.[117][118]
Danny Rand and Colleen Wing eat at the Silver Lotus. Rand tells Wing that the Hand have left a power vacuum, and that has led to a Triad war brewing in Chinatown. As they sit, the group of young men Wing stopped earlier walk in, heading into the kitchens and threatening the workers for money.[117][118]
Wing goes in after them, and they are frustrated to see her again. She warns that they are in over their heads. She kicks one guy into the kitchen equipment and tells them to walk away, just as Rand notices Golden Tigers arriving at the restaurant.[117][118]
When the young men refuse to leave, Rand heads out to slow down the Tigers, leaving wing to deal with them. He lies, saying Yip is outside and that his girlfriend has gone into the kitchens to complain, meanwhile Wing fights the young men, using kitchen utensils at her disposal to knock them down. She is eventually confronted by one swinging a chain.[117][118]
The group of Tigers' leader pulls a knife on Rand, and he quickly disarms him, punching him in the face before he can attack. The other Tigers pull knives themselves to retaliate.[117][118]
Wing manages to catch the young man's chain, pulling it around him then beating him down as she continues to fight the group.[117][118]
Rand engages the two other Golden Tigers in a fight himself.[117][118]
Wing beats the young men to the ground, instructing them again to go.[117][118]
Rand prepares to use the Iron Fist on the Tigers, Wing catches him, telling him to stop. Henry Yip steps out and insists there is no problem, and the trio of Tigers leave. Wing asks him again about Frank Choi, and Yip replies that his cousin is hiding from the Golden Tigers, owing them money.[117][118]
As the couple walk home, they are stopped on the street by Davos, who says that if Rand had come home to K'un-Lun, maybe they would have stopped it from falling, also chastising him for allying with someone from the Hand. He takes Rand with him, saying he has matters to discuss.[117][118]
Davos talks to Rand by the river, asserting that he has forgotten his responsibilities and what Master Shifu taught them, testing him with martial arts moves they used to learn and saying he would not have won their duel without Lei Kung's help. He grabbing his old friend by the throat and accusing him of cowardice, while insulting and belittling Colleen Wing. They end up fighting, and Rand knocks Davos to the floor, before ending the fight and letting him up, warning him to never speak that way about his girlfriend again. Davos asks if Rand would transfer him the Iron Fist if there were a way, but Rand refuses, saying it is his duty to carry it.[117][118]
Davos returns to see Joy Meachum and tells her about the encounter. He says that Rand refused to give back what he is owed, and that hearing Rand's pompous tone one more time has only emboldened him in his intentions. Meachum agrees, saying that Rand returning upended everything and ruined her life, and that he deserves to feel that way himself.[117][118]
Rand returns home, but then changes his mind about going to bed. He heads out to an underground tunnel nearby where he keeps a metal door, on which he takes out his anger with the Iron Fist. He lights up his fist and pummels it, finding it cathartic.[117][118]
4th
A member of the Golden Tigers picks up a bag to transport money. However, as he prepares to leave, he is ambushed by Yangsi Gonshi, attacking him with hatchets and throwing him out on the street. Danny Rand, walking past, runs over and tries to help, but the man dies.[117][119]
Rand is walking down the street when he notices Mary inside a Coffee A Go-Go cafe. He enters and sits to talk to her again, and she shows him some of her drawings, which he is impressed by. Rand then offers to take her to a flower market near his home so she can draw the plants.[117][119]
Rand walks Mary a short distance before preparing to leave her. She suddenly becomes dazed and touches his chest, and Rand tells her that he wants to make sure he has not given the wrong impression that he is romantically interested, since he has a girlfriend. She apologizes and starts to lose her footing, explaining she is sometimes overwhelmed, so Rand decides to take her back to Chikara Dojo.[117][119]
Back at the dojo, Mary gives Colleen Wing one of her drawings to thank her and Rand for their help. She asks to go to their bathroom. While she is gone, Rand tells Wing about the Yangsi Gonshi killing a Golden Tiger in broad daylight.[117][119]
Mary uses the bathroom tap to try to calm her DID, but finds herself switching into another identity nonetheless. She steps out of the room and abruptly picks up her things and leaves the dojo. Wing tells Rand she has a meeting at Bayard Community Center and recommends that he visit Hai-Qing Yang to see what he can do toward brokering peace in Chinatown. She asks what Davos had wanted, and he explains about his old friend wanting an apology. Wing assures him that Davos is being unfair.[117][119]
Rand reminisces on his fight with Davos for the right to face Shou-Lao.[117][119]
Colleen Wing goes to Bayard and meets with Sam Chung, helping arrange the center for an event in the evening. Chung explains that it is for Sherry Yang, Hai-Qing's wife, and that they know she does dodgy dealings, but they have to turn a blind eye due to the good she does for the community.[117][119]
Wing is walking when she hears a mugging in an alley. However, when she goes to intervene, the supposed victim pulls a gun on her, revealing himself as one of the gang who attacked Henry Yip, with the group luring her into a trap. She manages to disarm him and they run, but Wing follows them.[117][119]
Wing finds the group's hideout and enters, properly meeting the group's leader, Ryhno. She tells them she just wants to help, inviting them to visit Bayard, but they refuse. Before leaving, however, she ensures that they will not be coming after her any longer.[117][119]
As Wing walks out, the young man who pulled the gun on her catches up and apologizes for what he did. He tells her that they are squatting in Golden Tiger territory because they have heard the Yangsi Gonshi are going to take them out soon. She gives him her name, and he introduces himself as "BB".[117][119]
Danny Rand meets with Hai-Qing Yang to discuss options for peace with the Golden Tigers, but Yang refuses, angry that the Golden Tigers killed his nephew in the truck ambush, and confirming that the kill that morning was in revenge. Rand says that if Yang will not put the war to rest, he will have to find a way himself.[117][119]
Ward Meachum talks to his assistant, Katie. She says she has contacted acquisitions, who have done Joy's taxes for 7 years, and found that they do not understand Joy's decision or motive. She informs him, however, that she has found out from Joy's assistant that she is attending an event at Bailey's Auction House.[117][119]
At the auction, Joy Meachum spends time with old acquaintance Mika Prada, who expresses interest in Davos, finding him attractive. Ward arrives and finds his sister, surprised that she is spending time with Prada, whom she had hated in college. He offers to help her with whatever she endeavors to do, but she refuses. Joy reveals that she knows he is attending NA meetings, accusing him of keeping another secret from her, but Ward insists he would have told her soon. Davos then comes over, taking Joy away as he says that Prada is ready to show them their item.[117][119]
Prada shows the duo an antique bowl, as they had requested, but tells them that it is not up for auction for another 3 months. Davos insists he needs it now, but Prada says this simply is not possible. When he considers killing her for it, Meachum stops him, saying she has the situation handled.[117][119]
Colleen Wing gets back to Chikara Dojo, and Danny Rand tells her about his failed meeting with Hai-Qing Yang. She informs him of what Ryhno's gang told her, that the Yangsi Gonshi "Hatchets" are preparing to wipe the Golden Tigers out. Wing suggests that, since they cannot get through to Hai-Qing, they should try his wife, Sherry Yang.[117][119]
The couple go to Bayard Community Center, where Wing knows Yang is holding her gambling event she helped set up for earlier. They manage to get to talk to her alone, and try to get her to arrange a parley. Yang reveals that there is a planned attack tonight on the Golden Tigers' memorial service for their member killed that morning, and Wing convinces her to phone her husband to call it off.[117][119]
Joy Meachum manages to stay with Mika Prada until she is drunk, then tells Davos that Prada is married to a congressman, and that if he has sex with her, they can secretly film it and use it as blackmail, since she will be desperate to avoid a scandal. Davos finds the idea distasteful, but Meachum convinces him, reminding him that his purpose should be more important than his code of honor. She walks away, knowing Prada will then make a move on him. While he initially rejects her advances aggressively, she takes it as a masochistic preference, and eventually he reluctantly accepts what he has to do and lets her seduce him. A hidden tablet records the encounter.[117][119]
Wing and Rand return to the dojo, and Rand states that, for now, preventing the night's slaughter will do. He puts on a record and falls asleep in his chair.[117][119]
Assassination of Hai-Qing Yang: Hai-Qing Yang brings Davos to a meeting, where he tells him that he can no longer guarantee delivery of Davos' package, as he is renegotiating his port to avoid an open war with his rivals. Davos approaches him under the guise of wishing him well, but performs a technique of a series of taps on Yang's neck. As he leaves, Yang falls to his chair, experiencing a stroke that Davos knows will kill him.[117][119]
6th
Colleen Wing gets a call at the dojo from Mary, who asks whether Rand is there. When Wing says he is out, she states that she should not have called and hangs up. Mary looks at her photo book, containing several pictures of Rand, and finds a note to herself saying to "stay away from Danny Rand". Transitioning into her Walker personality, she folds up the note, ignoring it.[117][119]
7th
At 6:45AM, Danny Rand gets home from helping a Hatchet soldier, shot by a Golden Tiger, get to hospital. Colleen Wing wakes as he washes his hands, and he tells her about what happened, still hoping for a parley to be arranged. Wing worries that he has been too obsessed with keeping Matt Murdock's torch burning since his apparent death, going out and fighting so much as the Iron Fist so much due to feeling purposeless without K'un-Lun. He assures her that he just wants to do the right thing and is okay. Wing informs him of Mary's call the day before, but that she hung up, which Rand brushes away as a little strange.[117][120]
Fitz bangs his head on his wall, frustrated and feeling hopeless.[101][81]
At an NA meeting, Ward Meachum asks which of the attendees was the one to tell Joy that he comes to meetings. He refuses to let the meeting continue until he has an answer, but when he gets nothing, he insults them and walks out, calling Rand to meet.[117][120]
Ward Meachum goes to Chikara Dojo, where he tells Rand about Joy finding out about his NA attendance. He mentions meeting Joy's new partner, misremembering his name as "Dayvos", but Rand realizes he is talking about Davos, concerned about what he might be working with Joy on. He says he wishes the four of them could just talk, and Ward suggests they organize dinner for that night, hoping that he might talk to Joy about Harold, having not spoken to her about it since everything that happened with him. He further suggests that they make his attendance appear like an accident. Rand is reluctant to do so, but Ward points out that Joy will not come otherwise, and he agrees.[117][120]
Rand calls Wing to let her know, as she checks Frank Choi's restaurant again, finding it still closed. She goes around the back and tells Rand she agrees that dinner could be a good thing. After the call ends, she breaks into the shop through a back door she has found.[117][120]
As Wing looks around, BB reveals his presence, explaining that he followed her out of interest over what she was doing. Wing finds a book with a list written in Chinese characters.[117][120]
Joy Meachum meets with Sofia Rios to request the chance to produce her photovoltaic solar cell patent, saying she has a factory in New Jersey ready to manufacture. After she leaves, Davos arrives. He compliments her on her unwavering business negotiations. She tells him about Rand calling to arrange dinner, saying they have to go so as to convince them they are still friends and assuage their suspicions.[117][120]
Having left the shop with the book, Wing tells BB that she cannot read the book. She says that Henry Yip told her Choi owed the Golden Tigers, but BB says that he and "Squad" know he always paid up, so he is likely in police custody, which will get him killed for snitching.[117][120]
Danny Rand gets home and goes to his computer, when a package is slid under his door. He goes back out to see who delivered it and sees Mary leaving the building, chasing her onto the street and catching up with her. She is nervous, saying she had hoped he would be out. She whispers in his ear that someone called "Walker" is watching him and tells him to open the package. Inside Rand finds several pictures of himself, but when he looks back up, Mary has gone.[117][120]
Back at the dojo, Rand shows Wing the photographs, and they wonder whether Mary was telling the truth or if she took them herself, as some sort of private investigator. Wing considers calling of the dinner, but Rand says her words from the morning have stuck with him, and he could do with a night off the streets.[117][120]
Rand and Wing lay the table for dinner. Rand lets Wing know that Joy Meachum cannot know Ward is coming, and she starts to protest, but at that moment, there is a knock at the door. They open it to find Meachum and Davos, and awkwardly let them in, with tension between either party. Rand and Wing ask them how they met, and the partners state that they encountered each other in Paris, when Davos was on the way back from Tibet and heard a maître d' calling out to a "Madame Meachum". Rand invites Davos to come outside to the grill with him to talk.[117][120]
Rand apologizes for the other night, and Davos admits he can have a temper. They discuss the hardships they shared before in K'un-Lun, and how they are the only two who can understand each other now.[117][120]
Inside, Joy Meachum asks Colleen Wing why Danny Rand invited them over, and Wing replies that they simply wanted to catch up with both of them. Rand enters with the meatballs he has prepared, and says that Ward Meachum is not returning his calls.[117][120]
Ward Meachum, meanwhile, is struggling with stress, anxiety, and anger. He asks his driver to take him to his NA meetings' location.[117][120]
Over dinner, Wing and Rand ask Davos what he is doing these days, but he is cryptic in his response. They then ask Joy Meachum what she is planning with her divestment money, but she jokes about not being able to tell the competition of Rand Enterprises, using that as an excuse to not talk. Davos is menacing towards Wing, showing himself to still be angry at her Hand allegiance, and Wing tries to break the tension, saying they should all admit they are hiding their true intentions, and they need to get everything off their collective chests, asking them to air their grievances, since both people matter greatly to Rand. Davos refuses and walks off to the bathroom, leaving Joy Meachum to talk. She explains that she does not have a problem with Rand himself, just everything that has happened since he returned, including him and Ward lying to her about her father. Rand says they did so to protect her, but Joy states that she could have protected herself, and she deserved the truth. As Davos steps out of the bathroom, he finds the photographs from Mary, then tells Joy they need to leave. As Joy goes to leave, Rand reveals that Ward is coming, to figure things out.[117][120]
Ward Meachum finds Bethany packing up from the meeting and apologizes for his outburst, asking Bethany if she was the one to tell Joy. She refuses to answer, and tells him to sort things out with Joy to help him move forward with the rest of his human relationships.[117][120]
Joy is angry with Rand for arranging Ward's attendance behind her back, and calls this something that seems to come naturally to him and her brother. She and Davos leave, and Rand is disappointed.[117][120]
Davos tells Meachum about finding the photos, recognizing them as the ones she had paid for. He says to call Walker, the investigator they had hired, to say that they are coming now.[117][120]
Rand tells Wing that he is not annoyed at her for calling out the tension in the room, as at least they all know where each other stand now. Sherry Yang calls, asking to meet with them.[117][120]
The couple meet with Mrs. Yang, who tells them that she will be taking her husband's place at the parley, claiming he has gone back to Hong Kong for a family emergency. She asks Rand to accompany her as a show of strength, knowing his abilities and believing the Golden Tigers to be aware as well.[117][120]
The group arrive at the parley location and are met by Chen Wu of the Golden Tigers. Yang sits to talk with the Tigers' leader, Ho, and negotiations begin.[117][120]
As they talk, Rand looks out of the window, and sees several men entering the Golden Tigers' hideout downstairs. He warns Yang that this seems to be a trap and escorts her out, but the Golden Tigers are angered by the backing out.[117][120]
The Golden Tigers pull knives, and Rand is forced to engage them in combat as Wing helps Yang escape. When Ho orders his men to end Rand, he lights up the Iron Fist and punches the table, causing an impact that knocks the men back.[117][120]
Wing tells Yang to keep moving as Chen Wu catches up with her and she is forced to fight him. Wu trips Wing onto the ground, but before he can attack further, Yang returns and stabs him in the eye.[117][120]
Rand interrogates one of the Tigers about who is outside, but learns nothing. When he hears police sirens approaching, he is forced to run.[117][120]
Joy Meachum and Davos visit Walker to ask how Rand has the photos. Walker, being the same person as Mary but a different, aggressive dissociative personality, says that there was an unfortunate incident but things can be salvaged. When they threaten her, she pulls a knife on Davos and says she does not like being threatened. He asks simply to know how Rand acquired the photos, which she agrees to explain.[117][120]
8th
Danny Rand explains to Colleen Wing about having seen people arriving at the parley the night before. They discuss how it would not make sense for it to be either side, and Rand worries he has blown their chance for peace, but Wing insists they should keep trying.[117][121]
Joy Meachum and Davos struggle while questioning Walker, who is saying that she did not give Rand the photos but also that they need not worry about it. Walker asks that they take her on faith, having tracked Rand for 60 days and knowing everything about him, including how he fights. Davos leaves, telling Meachum he needs to prepare the bowl, and Meachum says that she believes they can trust that Walker will deliver for them.[117][121]
Ward Meachum and Bethany talk after sleeping together. Bethany says she understands why he bailed on the dinner the night before, but wants him to channel his best self to help him manage next time. Bethany says she will call Carlos to see if he can take over as Meachum's sponsor, since it is wrong of her to be sleeping with her sponsee.[117][121]
Rand and Wing visit the Yangs' home, and hear a hospital bed monitor beeping from inside one of the rooms. Before they can check it, they are confronted by a small group of Yangsi Gonshi, led by a man called Liu, who threatens them and tells them to leave. Sherry Yang arrives and dismisses Liu, saying they are here on her invite.[117][121]
Sherry Yang tells the couple that after the debacle the night before, the Triad War will only intensify. Rand and Wing state that they hope there is a way to restart negotiation. Sherry says the Golden Tigers have seized the docks, and they could only concede them in an exchange, but cannot allow them to take control. She says there is no other option, and Wing asks if this is coming from her husband, Hai-Qing Yang. Sherry insists that she speaks for him in his absence, and looks uncomfortable, causing Wing to realize that him being in Hong Kong was a lie. Yang admits this, saying he has suffered a stroke and that prognosis is negative. Rand is suspicious of the stroke's timing, and Wing asks him to step out briefly, feeling he is being too headstrong.[117][121]
Wing talks to Sherry Yang about the fact that if they do not stop the Triad War, there will be many Yangsi Gonshi deaths. Meanwhile, Rand investigates the room from which they heard the beeping, where he finds Hai-Qing. Checking his shoulder, he recognizes the Devil's Claw attack. Hai-Qing awakens and Rand asks him if a man called Davos did this to him. Hai-Qing manages to mutter "Hancock 2-1-2", before his heartbeat becomes erratic. A nurse reenters the room with Sherry and Wing, and Sherry asks them to leave. He tries to ask her what Hai-Qing's words mean, but Liu comes into the room and forces them out.[117][121]
As they leave, Rand tells Wing about recognizing the Devil's Claw move. They wonder if Davos was leading the attack on the parley the night before, when they are interrupted by someone getting out of their car. Turning around, they find it to be Misty Knight, who has come to them to talk.[117][121]
Back at Chikara Dojo, Knight explains that her friend, Donnie Chang, was part of a squad aimed at take down the Triads and had got himself on the inside, with the Golden Tigers, working his way up undercover to Ho's right hand. She states that Chang is now in hospital with broken bones, attacked by "some guy with a glowing fist". Knight tells Rand that the faction arriving at the parley were cops, likely a follow team trying to get evidence to take down each Triad's leadership, and the couple messed it up. She asks them to take a step back, but Rand says that something bigger is at play with Davos, with Wing explaining about the induced stroke. Asking Knight what she might know about "Hancock 2-1-2", she replies that Hancock Transport is a big maritime shipping company, and they realize that Yang likely cancelled a deal with Davos over a shipment to the docks because of the parley. Rand wants to go to the docks, but Knight insists that he leave it to the police, and Wing agrees. Stating that he will let it go, he steps outside.[117][121]
Joy Meachum finds Mary's drawings in Walker's apartment, with Walker insisting that she did not do them, since it was her other dissociative identity. As Meachum rifles through Walker's things, she finds a medical letter about her DID. Walker firmly tells her to stop touching her belongings.[117][121]
Misty Knight notices that Colleen Wing has hung up her katana, and Wing explains that after the fight at Midland Circle, she has to make sure not to carry it, because if she does she is scared she will use it again. However, she admits she could not let everything in the neighborhood slide, so has been trying to help people where she can. She goes to check on Rand, and finds him gone.[117][121]
Meachum tells Walker that she should have been honest about her DID, and Walker becomes angry, pulling Meachum into a headlock and shouting that she does not understand the struggle she goes through every day. Meachum apologizes, and realizes what Walker has been meaning when they questioned her. She did not give the photos to Rand, but Mary did. Walker says that she believes she can manage her condition for the day and deliver what Meachum needs, and Meachum decides to trust her to do it, leaving her apartment.[117][121]
Attack on the Red Hook Pier: Davos arrives at the docks and kills a worker to get past him and reach Hancock Transport Crate 0212. A trio of Golden Tigers try to stop him, but he uses two knives to quickly dispatch of all three and opens the shipment. Going inside, he finds his delivery: the decomposed body of an old Iron Fist. He uses his knife to cut the dragon tattoo from its body, as well as taking its mask.[117][121]
Danny Rand arrives at the docks in hopes of stopping Davos, but finds the Golden Tiger bodies and the corpse, missing its chest skin and mask.[117][121]
Knight and Wing get to the scene soon after. Knight is frustrated at him for staying involved despite her advice, but Rand explains what Davos has done and says he has to track him down, but Knight insists he step down. When Rand becomes angry, Wing tries to calm him, but also says that he has a point, as he might have stopped Davos if he got to the scene earlier. Knight goes to check the corpse, and Wing tells Rand she does not understand why he keeps running in headfirst without stopping to think, pointing out he put a police officer in the hospital the night before because of it. Rand says he thought, because of what she went through with Bakuto, that she would understand how difficult it can be finding out someone you have known for most of your life is capable of such horrible things, and she reluctantly tells him he should go.[117][121]
Davos has three women known as the Crane Sisters prepare a drink for him in the bowl he procured, as part of a ritual. He drinks from it and then lays down on his front.[117][121]
Joy Meachum returns home to find Ward waiting for her outside her apartment. She reluctantly lets him come inside, and he tells her that he knows about her business with Sofia Rios and has bought the company in New Jersey for manufacturing the photovoltaics to save her from falling into debt as she starts her business. Joy, however, is angry, not wanting him involved with her, and he is disappointed that his olive branch has failed. She insists she is never coming back to the company or him, kicking him out. Once he is gone, Joy receives a call from Danny Rand, but rejects it.[117][121]
Rand leaves a message, telling Meachum to get as far away from Davos as she can, as he arrives at the subway station. However, as he is walking, he is ambushed by Walker, who manages to use her knowledge of his fighting style to block him and inject him with a sedative. Rand is confused about why she would attack, thinking her to be Mary, and struggles against her attacks. He lights up the Iron Fist and punches the ground to cause a shock wave, but she jumps behind a pillar to avoid it. Rand gets a call from Wing and starts telling her that "It's Mary -" before he is cut off by her hitting it out of his hand.[117][121]
As he lights the Iron Fist again, Walker wraps a wire around his wrist to stop him, then flips him over, before kicking him in the face.[117][121]
Danny Rand reaches for his cell phone as Colleen Wing tries to ask if he is okay from the other end, but Walker stamps on the device, crushing it. She drags his unconscious body away.[117][121]
When Rand wakes, he is tied to a pillar and watches as the Crane Sisters burn the severed, tattooed skin of the Iron Fist corpse. One of the Sisters, Avalon, then carefully slices his abdomen to draw blood.[117][121]
Walker hides in the building, keeping track of what is happening.[117][121]
Using the mix of Rand's blood and the burned Iron Fist skin in the antique bowl, the Crane Sisters tattoo the symbol of a serpent onto Davos' back. Once it is finished, he stands and tells Rand that now, he will give him what has always been his.[117][121]
Imbued with the power of the Iron Fist, Davos punches through a wall, wearing the Iron Fist mask and his hand glowing red.[117][122]
Davos recalls his mother's teachings when he was younger, and wishes she were alive to see what he had accomplished. He hears a chase nearby, as three men go to assault another. Davos attacks the men first and kills them, and the near-victim informs him they are Golden Tigers. Davos asks where he might find more, and the man tells him of their nightclub. When he asks Davos who he is, he proclaims himself to be "the immortal Iron Fist".[117][122]
9th
Colleen Wing cannot get through to Danny Rand after just hearing him mention "Mary", and Misty Knight tries to reassure her that whatever happened, Rand probably beat whoever attacked him. Telling Knight that Mary called 3 nights ago, she asks if they might be able to trace the call, but Knight says to first check for prints on the photos she gave them. Wing is worried she is keeping Knight from her job, but Knight assures her she has taken some days off to consider her recent offer for a promotion to police captain. When she says, though, that it could take 24 hours to process the prints, Wing says she knows someone who might get it done faster.[117][122]
Walker delivers Danny Rand to a bench by the river. She films him as proof for Joy Meachum, as she injects him with adrenaline to wake him, then walks away before he can regain alertness.[117][122]
Walker goes to Meachum to show her the video. Meachum watches it and is appreciative of Walker for keeping her word, though slightly uncomfortable at seeing what happened to her old friend. Walker advises Meachum to watch her back around Davos, calling him dangerous, but Meachum says their partnership is effectively over anyway.[117][122]
Wing takes Knight to meet with Ward Meachum, who recognizes her as the owner of the Rand Enterprisesarm that was manufactured recently, which impresses him. Wing tells Meachum about Rand potentially being kidnapped and asks him to check the prints, telling him about "Mary", and that it might be an alias. He leaves, and Knight observes that Wing does not particularly like him. She states that while they are waiting for him, they should check with someone else who might have a lead.[117][122]
Sister Maggie Grace takes Father Paul Lantom to see Matt Murdock training himself in boxing. She asks him to find Murdock an opponent, saying that this training is the only thing that has got Murdock out of bed after all this time.[56][57]
Rand stumbles through the city and comes across Ryhno's Gang. Ryhno recognizes him from the Silver Lotus and they decide to offer him up to the Golden Tigers for money. Rand tries to fight, but in his weakened state, is easily beaten.[117][122]
Attack on Golden Tigers: Davos attacks the Golden Tigers' nightclub. He makes his way over to Ho, and tells him that the Triad War is over - that he will end it. Ho instructs two of his men to attack, but Davos easily uses their knives to kill them both. Ho stands and goes for his knife, but Davos uses the Iron Fist to punch him into a wall, killing him. As Davos turns to attack the half-blinded Chen Wu, Wu says he can help him by telling him where all the Triads and criminal gangs in the city are. Davos lets him go on the condition that he meets him in 2 hours with a list, as he gets a text from Joy Meachum to meet.[117][122]
Danny Rand wakes in Ryhno's hideout. He tells them that if they are after money, he can get them some, but they do not believe him, considering his job at Royal Al Moving. He tries to punch his chain with the Iron Fist, but instead ends up hurting himself, dismayed to find his power gone.[117][122]
After visiting Coffee A Go-Go, knowing Rand bumped into Mary there, Colleen Wing returns disappointed, having found nothing. She admits to Misty Knight that she feels guilty for telling him to head after Davos, and Knight reminds her that Rand is an adult, it is his mistake. Knight receives a radio transmission from the New York City Police Department declaring the address of a "6-1-6" - a possible suspect with abilities, and they start Knight's car to drive to the location.[117][122]
BB helps Danny Rand drink. He recognizes him from the restaurant and knows he knows Wing, and asks that BB find her and tell her he is here, promising that he can help him in return. BB refuses, but Rand starts coughing up blood and reminds him that if he dies here, BB will have to live with the fact that he did not help.[117][122]
Joy Meachum returns home to find Davos waiting for her, and says that they now just need to work together on covering their tracks and never being seen together. Davos says, however, that while they have achieved what they discussed in Paris, he has only just begun -that while they have made Rand feel loss, now he can begin doing what Rand could not. He says she cannot just pretend none of this happened, and that she could be a part of his role as the Iron Fist, calling it a sacred duty. Once he has left, she makes a call.[117][122]
Davos heads out and reaches the elevator, remembering saying goodbye to his mother as he left K'un-Lun to find Rand. He enters the elevator.[117][122]
Rescue of Danny Rand: Crank tells Ryhno that the Golden Tigers are not going to make a deal, with Ho having just been killed by "a dude with a glowing fist". Rand overhears and tries to ask them about it, but they refuse to talk to him. Ryhno decides to instead ask Rand for $500 to be released, but when Rand says he does not have money on him, Ryhno threatens to cut off his finger. Knight and Wing arrive and Knight holds a gun to them, ordering them to let him go.[117][122]
Stumbling out, Rand tells them about Mary kidnapping him, Davos' ritual, and that his Iron Fist is gone. He refuses to go to a hospital, so Wing asks Knight if Claire Temple might be available, but she says she is not. Rand suggests they go to Ward Meachum for a standby Rand Enterprises doctor.[117][122]
Back at Chikara Dojo, Meachum arrives with Bethany, who cleans the gash in his abdomen and staples his flesh. He stabilizes and Bethany gives them advice for how to help him from here on, but asks that Meachum does not call her next time they need medical help. Before leaving, she says that she is at least glad to find out he is capable of caring for people.[117][122]
Ward Meachum tells Knight and Wing that Mary's fingerprints are in a military database, part of Special Ops but redacted, and that she was medically discharged. They tell him that Davos did this to Rand, to Ward's dismay, and he worries about Joy, deciding he has to tell her what Davos is capable of. Knowing she will not be responsive to Ward, Knight and Wing volunteer to go to Joy and warn her in his stead.[117][122]
Joy Meachum pays Walker, and tells her that she was right - Davos is dangerous, and she feels she needs to do something about it. Saying she needs protection, but Walker responds that while she can take money for protection, that is only temporary, as if she does not want to run, she needs to have him killed, offering to do the job if she pays her.[117][122]
Ward Meachum talks to Danny Rand at the dojo. Rand explains that he lost because Davos surprised him, being calculated and strategic. He tells Meachum that he can feel the lost connection to his chi, and has lost his sense of self without the Iron Fist. Meachum says he relates to that struggle, going through a comparable lack of self as well.[117][122]
Joy Meachum talks to Walker about the possibility that there might be another way, but Walker says to let her know if she needs her soon, as she will be leaving the city otherwise. Misty Knight and Colleen Wing turn up at the door and warn that she might be in danger. Noticing that Meachum keeps looking back into her apartment, Knight realizes she is not alone and walks in, gun at the ready.[117][122]
Walker ambushes Knight, and Wing goes to fight her herself, but struggles. Walker pulls a blade from her bag, but Knight gets back up and holds a gun to her. She makes Walker drop the weapon and bag, and cuffs her.[117][122]
Ward Meachum talks to Rand about his meetings. Rand says that the last thing his mother said to him was that she loved him, and he worried earlier, thinking he might die without telling people that he loved them. He advises that Meachum does the same.[117][122]
Knight and Wing return to the dojo with Joy Meachum and the cuffed Walker. Meachum admits to Rand that she helped Davos, knowing exactly what he would do to Rand, because she wanted him to suffer. She informs them, however, that Davos is not finished.[117][122]
Knight tells the others that she cannot arrest Walker and Joy Meachum, as it will start a media circus around them. Danny Rand decides he has to find Davos himself, pointing out that if Davos wanted him dead, he would be dead. However, Colleen Wing suggests that instead, they get the power out of Davos, and that first they would need to track down the Crane Sisters. Wing and Knight head out, and leave Ward to talk to Joy.[117][123]
Walker slips out of her handcuffs and tells Joy Meachum that she is going to get away, advising her to do the same. Meachum, however, brings up the idea Walker had for eliminating Davos, saying that with him now killing people, she has reconsidered.[117][123]
Davos finishes killing a group of criminals, while Chen Wu waits outside. Davos comes out of the building and Wu assumes they can take a break, but Davos is eager to go to the next criminals on the list.[117][123]
Ward Meachum talks to Rand about how frustrated he is that after beating himself up over messing up with Joy for so long, she was lying and conspiring all along. Walker enters the room and tells Rand that she can take him to Davos, if he pays her enough that she can get away after. Ward is not sure he should trust her, but Rand believes that this will be the safest way to sort things, and agrees.[117][123]
Ward Meachum asks Walker if she is the reason Joy knew he was at NA meetings, and she reveals that she has been keeping a dossier on him and knows his schedule.[117][123]
Colleen Wing and Misty Knight drive together, and Knight asks her about what she wants to be doing with her life after all of this, suggesting she join the police. Wing says that she completely misjudged Bakuto, so would not be a good fit, but Knight says that people change, so she was not necessarily wrong, plus that she would prefer someone who questions their decisions rather than one who acts in a foolhardy manner.[117][123]
Chen Wu drives Davos to a Hatchet-affiliated chop shop that runs OxyContin opioids. BB, meanwhile, pulls up on his bike nearby to keep an eye on what is happening. Davos kills the Yangsi Gonshi inside and returns to the car. As Wu drives off, BB follows.[117][123]
Joy and Ward Meachum start to talk at Chikara Dojo, with Ward asking why she would take things out on Rand, and she explains her perspective that Rand ruined her life after returning but came out of it thinking he was a hero. He tells her that keeping Harold away genuinely protected her, with Harold physically assaulting him for years, and that he repeatedly considered telling her and preparing to run, but Joy highlights that he never followed through with it, and that that has led them here.[117][123]
Walker explains to Rand about her DID, and how the reason that he met Mary but have been that she hit a trigger, such as running water, strobe lights, or cold that brought "Mary" to the fore when she was tracking him. Walker tells him she plans to move to a house in Arizona to spend the rest of her days in peace.[117][123]
Knight and Wing arrive at the Crane Sisters' shop. They lie, claiming they want work done, but the trio refuse them. Knight reveals she works for the New York City Police Department and questions them about their work on Davos the night before. She says they do not want to book them, but need to know exactly what they did, but D.K. and Aiko start a fight, with Avalon running off with the needles.[117][123]
As Avalon attempts to drive off on her motorcycle, Knight knocks her off the vehicle.[117][123]
Wing defeats D.K. and Aiko, and Knight brings Avalon back inside, asking for them to now talk.[117][123]
Walker takes Danny Rand to the site of the ritual, and asks her to give him her syringe of sedative, saying that he does not trust her and thinks that her telling him about her DID was likely tactical to trick him into feeling at ease.[117][123]
Sherry Yang finds the dead bodies of the Hatchet-affiliated men Davos has killed. She says they must find the culprit and get revenge, "blood for blood".[117][123]
Joy Meachum explains to Ward that she anted to start her own independent life before she returned to him to see if they might mend things, but is sick of him talking about what he wants for them, feeling he has always put his wants first before considering her. She walks off and tells him she is saying goodbye for good.[117][123]
The Crane Sisters tell Knight and Wing about Davos' ritual, including the burning of the marked skin. The duo ask if they might be able to help reverse it, and, on threat of arrest otherwise, they agree that they could.[117][123]
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Chen Wu delivers Davos to a warehouse, where he wants to live. Davos asks Wu if he noticed the young people following them earlier, and Wu tells him where he knows they squat, and asks tentatively if Davos wants them on his list, but Davos says not to.[117][123]
Rand reminds Walker to stick to the plan, and Davos walks in. Rand approaches him as Walker hides. Rand insists that Davos is spitting in the face of their tradition, but Davos says that Rand's privilege simply means he cannot respect a culture the way he can. Rand tells him to stop trying to validate his actions and asks him to turn himself in, but Davos argues he has ended the Triad War in a single day. Rand says he has simply become another faction and that he understands he is angry, but Davos says he is no longer angry and asks Rand to join him.[117][123]
Rand is in disbelief at the way Davos seems to consider himself virtuous, and Walker sneaks up behind him, as was the plan. As Walker restrains his Iron Fist, she injects him with the sedative, but Davos surprises them when he reveals he can channel power in his other fist as well. He fights back and punches Walker down, before throwing Rand onto the ground.[117][123]
Davos uses the Iron Fist to punch Rand in the leg, breaking it, before keeling over and succumbing to the sedative's effects. Walker helps him up and uses her belt to bind his leg, then calls for an ambulance.[117][123]
Rand asks Walker to get Davos while he is incapacitated, but it starts to rain. The sound of the water triggers the Mary identity to come to the fore, rendering her unable to help, not knowing what is happening. Rand begs her to call Wing and says that Walker needs to finish her job if she wants her cabin in the woods, but Mary does not want Walker to run away and leaves, as Rand is taken in an ambulance, losing his chance to stop Davos.[117][123]
Ambush on Ryhno's Gang: Ryhno's gang return to their hideout and find Chen Wu and Davos waiting for them. They pull a gun on Wu, but Davos uses the Iron Fist to punch through the wall and the gang back off. Davos says he wishes to free them, giving them the opportunity to become more than just scavengers, training them at Eden Towers to work for him.[117][124]
20th
Misty Knight meets with William Pike. Pike says that while she has to deal with Luke Cage, he has a problem with the Iron Fist, who busted their plan to take down Sherry Yang and Ho a few weeks ago, but Knight explains that the current killer is a different man, a psychopath with a red fist. He refuses to talk much about the problem, and Knight realizes he is stalling, not having a problem with Triad members being killed. He tells her to leave and take the captain job if she wants to confront him again.[117][124]
Knight informs Colleen Wing about Pike not being of help, back at Chikara Dojo. Wing says she has been trying to keep Rand's spirits up at physical therapy, and reveals that she has been working on Frank Choi's ledger and believes someone might have traded the box, a family heirloom of hers, for passage into the United States of America, but is not sure who.[117][124]
Danny Rand returns from hospital, using a Rand Enterprises compression brace to speed up his leg's recovery. They discuss the plan to get the Crane Sisters to help, and the bowl that Davos specifically needed, and Rand tells them that Ward Meachum mentioned seeing Joy and Davos at an auction, which Knight decides to follow up on, leaving the dojo.[117][124]
Rand tells Wing that he is feeling like he cannot be of any help, but she tells him to come to Bayard Community Center, where he can help spread the word about Davos.[117][124]
Joy Meachum gets off a call to Sofia Rios when Misty Knight turns up at her door, saying she wants to know about Davos' ceremonial bowl. Meachum is unhelpful, but Knight reminds her of the threat Davos could pose to her, and Meachum reluctantly tells Knight to visit Mika Prada, admitting that she has done something that angered Prada.[117][124]
At Bayard Community Center, Rand tells Wing that he feels responsible for Davos, and admits that even after everything he has done, he still wants to safely stop him before the police end up killing his old friend, and believes that there is still some good in him.[117][124]
Drunk at a sports bar, Ward Meachum gets a call from Katie about him neglecting his duties at Rand Enterprises, but he refuses to come in. Bethany arrives, worried about him after hearing from Katie and trying to help, but he turns her away, talking about how hard his last week has been since Joy abandoned him and Rand was injured. When the bartender tries to calm him down, Meachum starts shoving him and throwing punches, but misses in his drunken state, and the bartender knocks him down.[117][124]
Davos finishes killing further criminals, then tells Chen Wu that they need to prepare for his students to arrive - Ryhno's gang. He says he needs help burning out the cancer in the city, and to stop Danny Rand when he inevitably comes for him again.[117][124]
As the two are walking, Davos spots an attempted car theft. He mercilessly kills the criminals, to Chen Wu's dismay, not even being Triad members.[117][124]
Knight meets with Mika Prada, who tells her the bowl is unique and from an ancient Himalayan city.[117][124]
Joy Meachum goes to see Walker to ask what happened to their plan, but instead finds Mary, not remembering any of their working together. She explains about Walker wanting to get away and not let the Mary personality come to the fore. Meachum tells Mary she likes one of her drawings, and when she looks at it, Mary has flashes of memory to what it depicts: her, trapped in a prison. She decides to pour her medicine down the drain and turns off the running water that keeps her settled.[117][124]
Misty Knight visits Chikara Dojo and tells Danny Rand and Colleen Wing what she has learned about the bowl. Rand takes a look at the photos Prada provided from the bowl's original location and translates the inscriptions shown, describing how the ritual works, but warning how dangerous it is.[117][124]
When Knight leaves, Rand tells Wing that he needs to be ready to face Davos again, and asks her to train him, but she says she cannot just walk back her decision to stop teaching. When Rand starts reorganizing the dojo so he can at least train himself, she says he is not respecting the fact that the dojo belongs to both of them, not just him.[117][124]
In an NA meeting, Bethany says that after almost 7 years sober, today she felt the urge to use drugs again after seeing the man she has been sleeping with, not revealing who that is. She talks about visiting him in a bar earlier, as Ward Meachum walks through the building on his way to the meeting late. Before he can enter, he overhears as Bethany reveals to the group that the biggest problem she has is that she is pregnant with his child. Meachum turns away from the meeting, stunned.[117][124]
Mary films a message for Walker, saying that Joy Meachum's visit reminded her that Walker has saved people, including, she believes, them, when they were imprisoned in Sokovia. She says that she is giving herself over, and that if she wakes in Arizona she will understand, but hopes Walker will choose something else.[117][124]
Joy Meachum visits Davos and admits that she was afraid of him, but also of letting go. She claims that now she realizes fate brought them together and that she needs to become better, saying she thinks she can by returning to working with him, which pleases Davos. Meachum then enquires about the antique bowl, claiming she just wants to give it back to fix things with Mika Prada, but he says they have to keep it close.[117][124]
Ryhno's gang, including BB, arrive to begin their training. Davos tells them to call him "shifu".[117][124]
Danny Rand trains himself at Chikara Dojo, punching a cushioned post until his fist bleeds. He tries kicking the post with his injured leg, but falls to the ground. Colleen Wing enters and says that she has considered it, and she can train him, but it requires her to emotionally separate herself from him, as when a sensei teaches a student, they are responsible for them. Rand reluctantly agrees, stating they have no choice, and they begin training together.[117][124]
Father Paul Lantom brings an opponent for Matt Murdock to box in the basement of Clinton Church, on the condition that he tell no one. Murdock refuses a head guard, needing full access to his senses. The fight begins, and once Murdock gets his bearings he starts hitting hard. However, in the second round, Murdock is boxed in the ear and loses his sharpened senses, with the opponent then knocking him down with ease.[117][57]
Grace visits Murdock and tells him he was impressive in the fight. He thanks her for her kindness over his time with her. She invites him to come to mass with her, but he turns it down.[117][57]
Putting together strips of linen from the laundry, Murdock puts together an outfit very similar to the black one he had started out fighting in, and heads out to a rooftop to survey the city.[117][57]
Murdock fights criminals attempting to kidnap a man named Rostam Kazemi. Due to Murdock's intervention, Rostam's daughter, Neda, manages to get him away to hospital.[117][57]
Murdock, however, is still not at his full ability. When the two kidnappers attack him at the same time and he starts losing his senses again, he is beaten to the ground. He hears as the two men consider whether they should kill him, and, feeling suicidally depressed at his helplessness, he throws them a metal bar to kill him with. Before they can, the kidnappers hear sirens coming and leave. Not wanting to be taken in by police, Murdock escapes the scene.[117][57]
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Ray Nadeem celebrates his son, Sami's birthday. His wife, Seema, informs him that they have hit another struggle with money, with their cards being rejected.[117][57]
Ray Nadeem holds a toast to his sister-in-law, Saanvi, for now being cancer-free, despite all the obstacles including being denied insurance.[117][57]
Heading outside, Ray Nadeem finds Sami, sad that he did not get to go to his friend's house, bowling in his basement. Ray promises that this summer they will get a garden pool. Seema is disappointed in him for promising something that at the moment looks very unlikely, but he promises he will fix their financial situation.[117][57]
23rd
Ray Nadeem gets his gun from a lockbox in his room and heads into work at the FBI.[117][57]
Nadeem goes to see his boss, Tammy Hattley, and says that he wants his performance review, due for the end of the month, moved up, with it already having been delayed. Hattley admits that she has been delaying his review, saying it is to protect him, as someone in his vulnerable financial state will be a recruitment target, but adds that it is Bureau policy to not promote someone in his financial state. She then tells him that it is his turn to do the FBI's monthly visit to Wilson Fisk to ask for information, even though he will undoubtedly give them nothing as usual.[117][57]
Reluctantly sitting with Fisk, Nadeem says that they should just cut to the point where he refuses to give them anything, but Fisk surprises him by saying that, since he wants to ensure Vanessa Marianna is safe, he is willing to make a deal.[117][57]
Nadeem returns to the office delighted with their success, and stating that Fisk will be the gift that keeps on giving.[117][126]
Attack on Wilson Fisk: Wilson Fisk starts weightlifting in the prison gym, when another inmate spotting for him, Jasper Evans, declares him a snitch and stabs him in the side. Fisk angrily attacks him back, and, to the other inmates present, seemingly considers killing Evans, but lets him live.[117][126]
Maggie Grace finds Murdock asleep on the floor and asks where he went the night before. She reprimands him for picking another fight right after losing one, and advises him to allow himself more time to heal. She realizes he has little desire to live, and he asks her how she would feel if she had her calling, being a nun, taken from her, the way he has. She explains that she once lost her way, unsure if she should become a nun, but had to work out what God wanted for her, but Murdock says he no longer cares what God wants.[117][126]
Ray Nadeem goes to Tammy Hattley to ask to take detail on Wilson Fisk, but she says he cannot, since if he takes the role, his file wile be read by higher-ups, stating that she has "a boss" too, who exploits financially vulnerable agents. She reluctantly agrees, but says Fisk better keep giving them info for a long time.[117][126]
Mitchell Ellison tells Karen Page about the attempted kidnapping of Rostam Kazemi the night before, asking her to write the article for the New York Bulletin, but she says she is busy investigating respiratory illnesses having gone up 45% since last year near Midland Circle, still wanting some answers about the building. He recognizes that she might be able to empathize with Neda Kazemi, and tells her to write the Kazemi article by the next day.[117][126]
Ray Nadeem visits Wilson Fisk in prison, having heard about the attack on him. Fisk says that he has become a target in the prison, so if they are going to keep getting info, he needs to be taken away.[117][126]
Matt Murdock comes upstairs to Clinton Church and says to Paul Lantom that feels like he was delusional in believing God had anything to do with him being Daredevil - it is who he is, and not even God can stop that now.[117][126]
Leaving the church, Murdock comes across a laundry van. He asks the worker if he knows of a herbal-smelling launderette, having smelt the van during the attempted kidnapping of Kazemi the night before, and the man says he can give him directions.[117][126]
Karen Page visits the Kazemis in hospital. Neda tries to send Page away, but Page explains that she needs to talk to her because the news will report on the event whatever happens, so if she does not tell the true story, stories will likely get made up by other papers. She explains that she knows what Neda is going through, having been thought by locals in her home town to have killed her brother, Kevin. Neda is convinced and starts telling Page what happened, mentioning the man who saved them, who wore a black mask. Page wonders if it is too hopeful that this might be Murdock.[117][126]
Tammy Hattley and Ray Nadeem meet with Blake Tower and Commissioner Chris DiMolina about moving Fisk to house incarceration. Tower and DiMolina are reluctant, considering him not worthy of protection, but Nadeem makes the case that while they do not like it, the city is already safer because of his info, and they need to keep him talking to save lives. Tower reconsiders.[117][126]
Foggy Nelson visits his family at Nelson's Meats. His mother, Anna, tells him that his father, Edward's arthritis is sadly worsening. She asks that he come home to work with them, and he promises he will at least think about it, before going to talk to his father.[117][126]
Nadeem takes Fisk from his cell with a team of FBI agents, ready for his transfer.[117][126]
Matt Murdock finds the launderette, Chris French Cleaners, and talks to its shopkeeper. He asks for a flyer as an excuse to clasp the man's hand, and feels that he is missing a finger, confirming for him that he is one of the men he fought.[117][126]
Donning the black outfit and mask again, Murdock heads to the launderette's basement and cuts off the lights to lure the workers in. When they arrive, he ambushes them, tasering the first. He fights the next worker and defeats him, but takes a hit that shakes his senses again.[117][126]
Murdock is attacked by more workers, but manages to knock them out in the fight. Taking a cable tie, he cuffs them to a fence in the basement. He then phones the police to report anonymously report an assault.[117][126]
Foggy Nelson talks to his friend, Theo, and says he is struggling with helping people without Matt Murdock. They drink to his memory. Karen Page suddenly enters and whispers to him that she thinks Murdock might be alive.[117][126]
Page takes Nelson aside to talk, but Nelson says that the likelihood is that the man in black is not Murdock, since if Murdock were alive, he would have reached out. Page walks out, frustrated that he is not willing to at least check.[117][126]
Murdock visits Neda Kazemi in Rostam's hospital ward to tell her he caught the attempted kidnappers. She thanks God for his help, but Murdock says that God was not involved in helping.[117][126]
Ray Nadeem tells Wilson Fisk about the strict control the FBI will be having over his life. Fisk tells Nadeem about what happened when he discovered love through Vanessa Marianna, but how love also serves as an inescapable prison, so he feels imprisoned at all times anyway, and he will willingly do whatever he must to help her.[117][126]
The car in front of the convoy suddenly explodes, and Nadeem and Fisk's car crashes.[117][126]
Fisk comes to, still cuffed to the upturned vehicle, and hearing a firefight outside. He manages to pull his cuffs' chain from the vehicle and looks through the windows to see the shootout, between the FBI and another party.[117][126]
The other party kill several FBI agents, and Fisk hears them speaking Albanian as they approach the vehicle and start shooting at the window. When that fails, one man begins using a circular saw to get in, when suddenly the Albanians outside begin dropping dead as shots come from nearby.[117][126]
Fisk watches as one agent, Benjamin Poindexter, fires accurate shots into each Albanian's head. Two Albanians surrender, but Poindexter shoots them as well anyway. With them all dead, Fisk steps out of the vehicle, and Poindexter tells him not to move.[117][126]
Matt Murdock leaves the hospital, back in civilian clothing, and begins to notice that his hearing is returning in his left ear. A moment later, however, he hears the nurses discussing the ambush on the FBI convoy and, to his dismay, the fact that Fisk has been let out of prison.[117][126]
Wing tells Rand that she is impressed his strength and agility are almost back to normal, having learned to compensate and adjust. She points out, however, that they still need Misty Knight to get the police involved so they can get the bowl and Davos. She tells him about how her grandfather taught her Bushido after her mother died, then saying Rand is physically prepared, but needs to be emotionally prepared before he faces his old friend.[117][127]
The duo get a call on their tip line of someone spotting Chen Wu's car, and head out, with Wing saying this can be emotional training over facing Davos.[117][127]
Rand and Wing get to Yang first and warn her, leading her out of the building as Davos arrives. Rand sees Davos, but Wing helps him to stay measured and keep going with Yang, not running to face him.[117][127]
Wu spots the group leaving the building and steps out. Wing tells the others to get away as she faces Wu, engaging him in a fight and managing to floor him. Rand drives past and has her jump into the car, and they get away as Davos watches, unable to catch them.[117][127]
Davos asks if Wu betrayed him, but Wu spots the tip line poster up asking people to phone if they see his car, leading them to realize how the group knew to escape.[117][127]
25th
Walker wakes and finds the video Mary has left for her, including thanking her for helping them escape in Sokovia. Walker is confused, having only come back to the fore after their escape.[117][127]
When BB walks out, holding the tip line poster, Joy Meachum follows him out. She tells him that Davos will kill him if he finds him carrying that poster, and says to get back inside if he wants to live.[117][127]
Colleen Wing and Danny Rand find Sherry Yang at Bayard Community Center, sitting with Golden Tigers. Yang explains that peace has been brokered, but that it is because both Triads have a common enemy, and want to work together to kill Davos. The duo warn them against going after him until they have executed their plan, but Yang says she has learned from her mistakes, and needs him gone.[117][127]
Joy Meachum searches Eden Towers for the antique bowl, and Davos approaches her, asking why she has come back to him if she was afraid of him before, and she claims it is because he needs her as much as she needs him.[117][127]
Meachum walks with Davos and says that she now accepts his methods because she understands he is a good man at his core. Davos is frustrated that the city sees him just as a killer, rather than understanding the necessity of his actions, so Meachum recommends that he show the people of the city the man he wants them to see. He apologizes for doubting her.[117][127]
Walker visits Dr. Paul Edmonds, telling him about the fact that neither she nor Mary remembers escaping captivity in Sokovia. She says that no one from her team helped her get out, as they were all killed, and Edmonds wonders if there might be another alter, since Mary would not be capable of the violence she apparently committed. Walker explains she always assumed someone helped her escape and killed the people present, and that it is troubling her now because she finally has a place she can go for some semblance of a normal life. When Edmonds recommends treatment that could take months, Walker refuses to stay any longer and tells him to forget she was there.[117][127]
Ward Meachum is shopping for flowers to apologize to Bethany when he gets a call from Joy. She says that she needs to talk to him now since she needs something, asking that he take control of the factory he bought in New Jersey for her. He says he does not understand her back and forth over wanting and not wanting to speak with him and why he needs her help, but agrees to do it. He buys the flowers, but ends up leaving them behind.[117][127]
At Chikara Dojo, Colleen Wing and Danny Rand discuss their frustration with Yang for wanting to take down Davos immediately. She decides they have to just stick to their plan and praises Rand for doing well the night before when he managed to stay calm in Davos' presence. Rand expresses his concern that they seem to be having to make a decision between stopping Davos and continuing their relationship and she admits that she is not sure. She congratulates him for almost completing his training, and says that the last thing is that she needs to see him use his skills in action, suggesting they visit the venue of her old cage fights.[117][127]
Ward Meachum gets back to Joy's apartment, to find Walker waiting inside for her. Walker says that she was going to ask Joy a question, but she can ask him instead, saying she needs him to pay someone to get her a non-redacted DOJ file. Ward finds a photo of his and Joy's mother in Joy's desk and realizes Joy is working to continue their mother's work in renewable energy, and that she is likely giving him the work for fear she will die, wanting him to continue it. He agrees to get Walker her file in return for her helping kill Davos.[117][127]
Davos tells his students that he is taking them with him for something. BB claims to have a stomach ache, stating that he cannot go, but Ryhno, scared to also end up on Davos' bad side if he is shown to sympathize, punches BB in the stomach and has two of his gang take him to a locked dark room.[117][127]
After Ryhno's gang have gone with Davos and Chen Wu, Joy Meachum visits BB and lets him out on the condition that he help her find the bowl she is looking for before Davos returns.[117][127]
Davos takes Ryhno's gang to see Henry Yip, having Ryhno apologize for their behavior. Davos then tells Yip that he will be providing free protection for him from now on, asking for him to simply be a good man in return. Yip is reluctant to accept, explaining that he does not want to take sides and be part of the Triad War, and Davos immediately leaps to the assertion that Yip must still be in league with the Golden Tigers. Yip explains that he is not and that he never was, but Davos states that Yip is clearly rejecting him to cling to his old ways of supporting criminals, and uses the Iron Fist to punch Yip through the gut, killing him.[117][127]
Ryhno expresses his disdain to Davos, telling him that Yip was honest and id not deserve to die. He says that his group are done with Davos, but Crank, desperate to not cross Davos and prove himself, slits Ryhno's throat. Davos makes the rest of the gang affirm that they will stand by his crusade.[117][127]
Wing takes Rand to the cage where she used to fight and tells him to engage her in a kumite fight, and that if he wins, she will know he is ready.[117][127]
Joy Meachum and BB find loose bricks in a wall at Eden Towers. They hear Davos returning and Meachum says that she will hold him off as long as possible so that BB can pull the bricks out and check for the bowl - and that if it is there, to take it to Chikara Dojo.[117][127]
Davos is angry with Meachum, but she keeps him talking to buy BB time. BB, meanwhile, finds the bowl in the wall. Davos tells Meachum that she was wrong to advise him to make people hear his message, as the city refuse to listen, and he has to bring them to heel. He walks away, and Chen Wu arrives, telling Meachum that he is suspicious of her and will make sure she does not muscle him out.[117][127]
Wing and Rand begin their fight, first to three points, and Wing quickly earns two points. She starts taunting him to test his ability to control his emotions. Rand earns a point himself, and she says to ensure he separates himself from his love for her, as he will have to with Davos. Rand earns a second point, and Wing tells him of how she used to be clouded by anger as well, until she remembered what she was fighting for, asking him to remember what he is fighting for. Rand wins the fight, but has a sudden moment of dread and walks away.[117][127]
Wing goes over to him and Rand explains that he had a moment of realization: that the truth is that he has not been fighting for Matt Murdock, the neighborhood, Davos, or even her, but all he has fought for was the Iron Fist, and that his obsession with it endangers the people he cares about. He states that he believes physically they are able to stop Davos, but that he cannot take the power back after they have taken the power from him. Wing points out that the power needs to go to someone, and he explains that he thinks it should be her.[117][127]
A worker delivers Fitz the latest, November 2017 issue of Ballblaster Hooligan - the fifth consecutive edition in which he has a letter published in the inside cover. He checks the letter, then tosses it aside, hoping that Lance Hunter will eventually come to his aid.[101][98][132][81]
On a rainy day, during his meeting with Werner von Strucker, therapist Dr. Levi Van Kempen receives a call from his wife informing him that his daughter, April, has caught a fever of 103.2°F. Von Strucker pays close attention, carefully picking up on the information.[139][140]
Piper is told by General Hale that if she helps bring in her missing friends, Phil Coulson's team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, they can be kept safe. Piper falls for her trick and helps to lure them in, activating the Kree Orb beacon from the Battle of Union City to attract their attention. This beam of light in the sky becomes rumored to be caused by aliens, and eventually renowned as the start of a chain of events leading to an attack on Chicago.[149][150]
Thor has allowed himself to be captured by Surtur in order to obtain more information about the Infinity Stones, after not finding anything in the last 2 years. He tells the story of his current predicament to a skeleton who sits with him in his cell.[151][152]
Surtur lowers Thor from his cage to hang from chains in front of him. However, Thor only laughs at Surtur, claiming that Odin defeated him thousands of years ago. Surtur tells Thor that Ragnarök has been set in motion, and nothing is going to prevent it now that Odin has been absent from Asgard, to Thor's surprise and confusion.[151][152]
The ruler of Muspelheim claims that he is going to bring the apocalypse to Asgard once he merges with the Eternal Flame, but he comments that without his crown, he will not be able to do it.[151][152]
Thor uses Mjølnir to free himself and battle Surtur and his Fire Demons. He manages to knock his crown off, so he can never merge with the Eternal Flame. Thor believes he has thus prevented Ragnarök.[151][152]
Meanwhile, Skurge tries to impress two ladies at the Bifrost Bridge, but one of the ladies notice Thor's call and alerts Skurge, who brings Thor back. The fire dragon follows, but is decapitated as the Bifrost shuts off.[151][152]
Thor arrives at the Asgardian Palace just in time to watch a play "retelling" Loki's supposed sacrifice, with Loki, still disguised as Odin, watching and enjoying it.[151][152]
Thor orders one of the Einherjar to take Surtur's crown to Odin's Vault. He then confronts "Odin", having deduced it to be his brother, and forces him to reveal himself to the people of Asgard as Loki. Loki tells Thor he took Odin away and that, he left them on Earth.[151][152]
In New York, Thor and Loki realize that the care home where Odin was supposed to be has been demolished. As they talk, two women approach Thor and ask him to take a selfie with them, to which Thor agrees. In response to one of the girls' comments about Jane Foster, Thor explains to Loki that their relationship ended a while ago.[151][152]
At that moment, Loki is suddenly snatched away through a magical portal in the ground, with an address card left behind, which points Thor towards Bleecker Street.[151][152]
Thor visits the address, finding Doctor Strange at the New York Sanctum. Strange insists on knowing why the brothers are in New York, and whether or not they will leave when they are done, having taken Loki due to the potential danger he causes. Thor tells him that they are there to find Odin, and will leave immediately when they have.[151][7][152]
Strange, in turn, reveals that he knows where Odin is. He returns Loki from the location where he had left him falling for half an hour, then opens a portal for the brothers to Norway, where Odin is residing. Loki moves to attack Strange, but Strange simply moves the portal to send the brothers on their way, closing it behind them.[151][152]
Thor and Loki find Odin, who is nearing the end of his long life. He stands on the edge of the cliff, commenting that Norway is beautiful, and reveals that it took him a while to break Loki's spell over him. He tells them that Frigga was calling out to him.[151][152]
Thor and Loki in Norway, immediately after their father's death
Odin then laments that Ragnarök is coming, and reveals the existence of Hela, his oldest child and only daughter - his sons' older sister, whom they did not know about. Odin warns them that Hela will be released from the prison he has held her in once he dies. Telling them that he considers them both to be his sons, and that he loves them, he finally passes away as his spirit ascends to Valhalla.[151][152]
Upon his death, Hela is finally freed from her prison in Hel, where she has resided for over 2500 years. Hela emerges in Norway, and mentions being sad to have missed her father's death.[151][152]
Hela catches Thor's hammer
Thor reveals that he is Odin's son, but Hela simply replies that he does not look like him, though Loki does sound like him. She demands that they kneel before her, their new "queen". Warned of the danger she poses, Thor tries to stop his sister by throwing Mjølnir; however, to his horror, she catches the magic hammer and shatters it in her hand.[151][152]
As Hela prepares to attack her brothers, Loki panics and calls for the Bifrost, which is under the surveillance of Volstagg and Fandral.[151][152]
They are taken to Asgard, however, Hela follows them into the Einstein-Rosen bridge. Scuffling with Loki, she manages to push him out of the Bifrost.[151][152]
Sakaar - Day 1
After being thrown out of the Bifrost, Loki is spat out from a wormhole onto the junk planet of Sakaar, where many stray wormholes open. On Sakaar, time runs differently, with no direct correlation to elsewhere - sometimes the same, sometimes faster, sometimes slower. While less than a minute passes outside of Sakaar, Loki lives for a few weeks on the planet, becoming friends with the leader of the local Contest of Champions, the Grandmaster.[151][152]
Still in the Bifrost, Hela engages Thor in a duel. He escapes her grip, but he, too, is thrown out of the bridge.[151][152]
Volstagg and Fandral stand at the Bifrost entrance awaiting their friend, but are surprised when it is not Thor who steps through, but Hela. She swiftly dispatches both warriors, and Skurge, also present, surrenders to her.[151][152]
Sakaar - Day 25
Thor falls through another wormhole onto the surface of Sakaar. He is approached by locals Sakaarans, who ask him if he is food. They attempt to capture him, when a woman arrives in a ship to stop them.[151][152]
Valkyrie captures Thor
She lowers her ramp, and swaggers down it while drinking, but falls off the ramp from her drunkenness. As the Sakaarans continue to attempt to take Thor, the woman, Scrapper 142, gets back up and engages blasters on her ship, controlled by gauntlets she wears. She takes out the Sakaarans, before capturing Thor for herself.[151][152]
Scrapper 142 flies Thor to the Grand Arena to deliver to the Grandmaster.[151][152]
Hela advances on the Asgardian Palace, and is confronted by Hogun, the last of the Warriors Three, and the Einherjar. She declares her lineage and demands their loyalty, but when they refuse, she extends her Necroswords and prepares to battle.[151][152]
Hela enters into a fight with the knights, and despite their numbers, she is able to fight back with ease. Hela eventually slaughters the entire Einherjar army, before noticing Hogun, still alive. She takes pleasure from murdering him, beginning her conquest of Asgard.[151][152]
Heimdall scales the side of the rocks below the Bifrost to steal Hofund, the Bifrost sword, for the Asgardian resistance.[151][152]
Sakaar - Day 25
Strapped to a chair, Thor is taken through a tunnel introducing the Grandmaster. He begins to panic when the tunnel ends and he is jolted into a meeting with the Elder himself - an eccentric man in colorful clothing, with an assistant beside him.[151][152]
The Grandmaster enjoys teasing his cousin, Carlo, who he has strapped to another chair. Momentarily making him think he will set him free, the Grandmaster then gleefully uses his Melt Stick to kill him.[151][152]
Thor reunites with Loki, who reveals that he has been on Sakaar for weeks. He distances himself from Thor so as to maintain favor with the Grandmaster.[151][152]
Korg welcomes Thor
Thor is thrown into the slave quarters, where he meets two of the slave gladiators - Korg, a Kronan, and Miek, an insect alien with knives for hands. Korg introduces himself, and talks to him about the revolution he tried to start, and the Grandmaster's champion.[151][152]
Outside of Sakaar
Hela enters the Asgardian Palace with Skurge, and throws her Necroswords into the ceiling of the main hall to bring the murals crashing down. As these fall, older murals are revealed underneath, revealing the true history of Asgard, of her and Odin's conquest of the Nine Realms - the history Odin had tried to bury.[151][152]
Hela breaks into Odin's Vault, declaring the Infinity Gauntlet and other relics in the vault to be fake, the Casket of Ancient Winters as a useless object, and Surtur's crown smaller than she expected. She becomes interested in the Tesseract, but declares the Eternal Flame as the greatest of all. She gathers a handful of the fire, and cracks the floor, descending into the secret cavern beneath.[151][152]
In the cavern beneath the vault, Hela observes the decomposed bodies of her old Berserker army and pet wolfFenris. She hurls the handful of the Eternal Flame into the ground to use its power to resurrect the Berserker army and restore Fenris to full life.[151][152]
Loki sends a conjured image of himself to see Thor, who was mourning his father. Loki attempts to convince Thor to abandon Asgard as Hela is stronger than both of them, and instead join him by the Grandmaster's side, so eventually they can betray him and become the rulers of Sakaar. Thor refuses and tells his brother to go away. As his projection disappears, Korg attacks what he believed to be a ghost, realizing very late that he is gone.[151][152]
19th
Sakaar - Day 26
Korg talks to Thor
Korg takes Thor to choose his weapons. They discuss Mjølnir and then Scrapper 142, who Korg points out is Asgardian. Buying alcohol near the gladiator's quarters, she is approached by Thor, who tells her of the Siege of Asgard and Hela's return. Thor notices a tattoo on her wrist that reveals her as a Valkyrie, exciting him. However, the Valkyrie ignores Thor and leaves to watch the fight in the arena.[151][152]
Thor enters the arena, putting on his helmet and picking up his weapons as he prepares to engage his contender. The Valkyrie watches the arena from her ship above.[151][152]
The Grandmaster introduces Thor, and the audience begins to call out for their favorite combatant, the champion. As the Grandmaster turns to introducing his champion, his call is cut short as the combatant breaks into the arena, revealing himself to be the Hulk, alive after his disappearance 2 years prior, but angered, crazed, and ready to battle. Thor, overjoyed at seeing his former teammate, attempts to talk and negotiate with him, but makes the mistake of calling him "Banner".[151][152]
Thor prepares to fight Hulk
As he watches, Loki becomes nervous and uncomfortable after seeing the Hulk, following their last encounter after the Battle of New York.[151][152]
Refusing to acknowledge Thor, despite his pleas and attempts to make him calm down, Hulk fights against his former ally. A gruelling duel takes place as both combatants smash and ruin parts of the arena from the force of their attacks.[151][152]
Thor tries Black Widow's calming technique on the Hulk, but it fails to work. Eventually, Hulk overpowers him during the battle, when Thor suddenly has a vision of his father, causing his lightning powers to surge.[151][152]
Thor and Hulk duel
As the fight continues, Thor manages to gain the upper hand. However, unwilling to see Hulk lose, since he is a fan favorite, the Grandmaster cheats and fixes the fight by activating the Obedience Disk on Thor's neck, incapacitating him. Hulk attacks Thor and leaves him unconscious.[151][152]
Hela takes Skurge and her Berserker army to the Bifrost to conquer the other realms, but on arrival, discovers that the Bifrost sword is gone. unable to begin her conquest without it, Hela sends her new soldiers to hunt down the resistance and retrieve the sword.[151][152]
The previous guardian of the Bifrost takes the Asgardians to the refuge, an old secret hall in a cliff-face, built by their ancestors.[151][152]
Sakaar - Day 27
After their fight, Thor wakes up in Hulk's chamber. The two former allies have a conversation, and Thor keeps pleading for Hulk's assistance, but Hulk refuses to acknowledge their friendship, grumpily stating that Thor likes Banner better. He does, however, reveal the location of the Avengers' Quinjet, nearby on Sakaar.[151][152]
Heimdall hears Thor's call, and uses his powers to allow Thor to see what is happening in his home. After they talk, Thor tells Heimdall that he is not sure where he is or how to get back. Heimdall uses his vision to inform Thor that he is on a world surrounded by gateways, and he has to take the largest one to return to Asgard.[151][152]
Sakaar - Day 27
In the evening, Hulk refuses to return to Earth, believing that everyone hated him there. He and Thor argue again, but manage to reach an agreement as Thor convinces Hulk to help get his sparring partner, Valkyrie, to join them.[151][152]
21st
Sakaar - Day 28
Hulk calls Valkyrie into his quarters, where Thor then starts a conversation with her. The two Asgardians talk, and Thor manages to steal the remote for his Obedience disk from her, taking the implant off, and then making his escape toward the Quinjet.[151][152]
Hulk immediately follows Thor, not wanting his friend to leave the planet. He catches up to Thor at the jet, and accidentally destroys parts of it. In the accident, Thor turns on Natasha Romanoff's recording left for Banner from the Battle of Sokovia.[151][152]
Hulk transforms back into Bruce Banner
Seeing her, Hulk is subdued and Banner is awoken, and despite Hulk's attempts to resist, he transforms back into his human, Bruce Banner self after 2 years.[151][152]
Banner asks Thor what happened with Ultron and Sokovia, being the last thing he remembers. Thor dismisses this, explaining that they won the fight, but it was 2 years ago. Soon, they hear an announcement from the Grandmaster that they are hunting Thor, due to believing that Thor has captured Hulk. The two former Avengers escape from the Quinjet and start making their way through the city.[151][152]
Thor and Banner walk through Sakaar
As they hide, Banner voices his fear that after 2 years spent inside the Hulk, the monster might be taking over, and that if he ever transform back to Hulk again he might not be able to come back.[151][152]
After finding out she was one of the Valkyries, Loki makes Valkyrie recall her fight with Hela. She retaliates, fighting and subsequently knocking out the God of Mischief.[151][152]
Thor asks Banner to help him fight his sister, Hela, but he refuses, scared of being taken over by the Hulk completely.[151][152]
Valkyrie finds them and agrees to help, to get revenge on Hela, and Thor names the team "the Revengers". As they prepare, Thor finds her Dragonfang, and warns them not to trust Loki, telling a story of how Loki once turned into snakes to play a trick on him. Loki, not wanting to remain stuck on Sakaar, tells Thor he has the Grandmaster's security codes which will give him control over his systems.[151][152]
Thor sends Valkyrie to deactivate the Obedience Disks so the slaves can help steal the Grandmaster's ship. Around the gladiator quarters, the disks fall off, to Korg's delight. Being provided with a firearm by Valkyrie, he leads a slave revolution.[151][152]
Thor subtly places an Obedience Disk on Loki, without him realizing. The brothers enter the hangar and manage to defeat the soldiers by using "Get Help", a technique the brothers have used before, where Loki pretends to be hurt to distract the enemies and bring them closer as Thor then throws his brother at them.[151][152]
Loki then attempts to betray Thor, but Thor incapacitates him with the Obedience disk, having anticipated trickery from his brother, leaving him being shocked on the floor. Thor tells Loki that he knows he will always be the God of Mischief, but had hoped that he would have shown some capacity for growth.[151][152]
The Revengers use the Commodore to head to the Devil's Anus. Topaz, the Grandmaster's bodyguard, chases Bruce Banner, but is killed when Banner accidentally sets off fireworks on the vehicle, blinding her and thus causing her to crash. The Revengers manage to avoid the Grandmaster's guards and get to the wormhole, escaping from Sakaar.[151][152]
Meanwhile, Korg and his companions break into the hangar bay to escape the planet. Korg finds an Obedience disk remote, which he switches off, releasing Loki, and they offer him a way off the planet with them.[151][152]
Outside of Sakaar
Hela, the ruler of Asgard
Under the orders of Hela, Skurge has civilians rounded up to demand the location of the Bifrost sword. When nobody decides to speak, Hela tells him to execute a randomly chosen woman, and Skurge obliges, despite feeling uncomfortable with it. Just before he can do so, a civilian agrees to tell Hela where the sword is.[151][152]
Hela realises that Thor is in the throne room, and leaves the refuge to go to confront him.[151][152]
Hela arrives at the palace to confront her brother. Thor uses his father's spear, Gungnir, to engage her in a battle, but Hela overpowers him.[151][152]
The Asgardians, led by Heimdall, find themselves trapped on the Bifrost with Fenris on one side and Skurge and Hela's forces on the other. Skurge tells Heimdall to surrender as Fenris approaches them.[151][152]
Meanwhile, in the Asgardian Palace, Hela tells Thor he is worth nothing, knocking him down. She strikes him across the face with a blade, slicing his eye out.[151][152]
Fenris charges towards the Asgardians
Despite knowing he may never be able to turn back again, Banner decides to transform to take out Fenris. He jumps from the Commodore to become the Hulk, but when he falls, he simply hits the bridge still in human form. As Fenris lunges towards the Asgardians, Banner belatedly transforms into the Hulk, grabbing the wolf from behind to fight him.[151][152]
As Valkyrie, Heimdall, and the Asgardians fight for their lives, Loki arrives with Korg and his Sakaaran allies, enjoying the moment as he proclaims himself to be Asgard's savior.[151][152]
Hela teases Thor about her victory and his lack of power without the hammer, asking, "What were you the god of, again?" At that moment, Thor sees Odin in his mind, contacting him from Valhalla. Odin tells Thor that Asgard is, in fact, not a place, but a people, and that the spirit of Asgard will live on even if the location does not. He reminds Thor that he is the god of thunder, revealing that Mjølnir was only a tool to channel his power, but that he still has true power within him. He leaves the vision, reminding his son that he is even stronger than him.[151][152]
Thor's true powers
Thor comes out of the vision and accesses his true strength to strike Hela with lightning. He leaps at the Rainbow Bridge, attacking her forces with giant bolts of electricity, using the strongest powers he has ever channelled.[151][152]
Thor and Valkyrie fight the Berserkers as Hulk wrestles with Fenris, eventually hurling him off of Asgard to fall into outer space.[151][152]
Hela arrives at the Rainbow Bridge, and the Revengers assemble to fight her. With his powers in full force, Thor manages to resist Hela and carves through her army, but he realizes she is still too much for him.[151][152]
He and Loki realize that as long as Asgard exists, she will grow more powerful. With the Ragnarök prophecy saying that Asgard must fall, Thor realizes that they have to ensure it, not stop it, so as to save the Asgardians and take down Hela. Thor orders Loki to go to their father's vault and use the Eternal Flame to resurrect the fire demon Surtur, as it is said that event is destined to take place when he, empowered by the flame, unleashes his rage upon the Asgard and consumes it in fire.[151][152]
Some of Hela's Berserker soldiers climb on board the Asgardian ship as it tries to leave. Skurge reveals himself, using his guns "Des" and "Troy" to take them down.[151][152]
Skurge then proceeds to confront Hela on the Rainbow Bridge. He redeems himself in sacrifice as Hela kills him, but the ship makes it to safety because of his heroic actions.[151][152]
As Thor fights Hela, she says that he will not defeat her, to which he replies that while he cannot, Surtur can. As Loki escapes, Surtur erupts from Asgard and begins laying waste to the helpless city before him.[151][152]
Hulk leaps at Surtur to attack him, but is knocked back to the bridge. Thor and Valkyrie convince Hulk to abandon the monster he so desperately wants to fight and help them jump onto the Asgardians' ship instead.[151][152]
Hela attempts to continue to fight as Surtur, as foretold in the prophecy, thrusts his blade straight through Asgard. Hela is presumed dead under the impact and the structures of Asgard come crashing down in fire.[151][152]
Surtur destroys Asgard
The Revengers and Asgardian survivors watch on from the ship as Asgard is utterly destroyed. The realm is obliterated in an explosion, reduced to rocks and ashes before their eyes.[151][152]
Sakaar - Day 28
The Grandmaster emerges from a hiding spot and addresses the Sakaarans about their revolution. He desperately uses one last remaining trick, attempting to seem clever, and to convince the rebels that they have benefited each other - that they could not have had their rebellion if not for him. The Grandmaster then suggests that perhaps they "call it a tie".[151][152]
Outside of Sakaar
Thor wears a new eye-patch to cover his missing right eye. Loki visits him, surprising Thor when he reveals that he has actually come in person, rather than as a conjured image. The two brothers share a moment, acknowledging the maturity and begrudging respect they have reached in their relationship.[151][152]
Thor walks among the people he has saved, who make way for him to walk through to the seat at the forefront of the ship. He reaches the chair, serving as the new throne, and finally assumes his mantle as the new king of Asgard.[151][152]
The group wonder where the Asgardian people should travel to to rebuild Asgard. Thor makes the decision, and the ship sets off for their destination: Earth.[151][152]
24th
Fitz receives the December 2017 edition of Ballblaster Hooligan, publishing another of his letters for the sixth consecutive time.[98][81]
25th
On his 197th morning in prison, Fitz is taken for another session of questioning.[154][81]
In the interrogation room, Leo Fitz is confronted by Lieutenants Evans and Lucas, who remind him that in the last 6 months, he has not brought them a single plausible theory. Fitz posits in sincerity that his friends may, in fact, have been abducted by aliens. Tired of his failures and finding this theory ridiculous, the lieutenants' superior, General Hale, enters and angrily threatens to have him locked up for good. However, at that moment, she receives a call informing her that Fitz's "attorney" has arrived and is demanding to see his client.[154][81]
Fitz's supposed attorney enters the room, and Fitz is relieved to see that it is in fact Lance Hunter, who picked up on the messages he left him in Ballblaster Hooligan. Once they are left alone, they talk briefly and begin to argue, with Fitz saying Hunter took too long, but in the end Fitz hugs him, happy to see him after over a year-and-a-half of Hunter being unable to contact them.[154][81]
Hunter reveals to Fitz that the place they are in is a military compound, and informs him that he plans to break him out. Fitz begins to tell him a plan he came up with for escape, but Hunter simply detonates one of the walls, allowing them to leave the room, having already put a plan in place.[154][81]
Hunter's associate, Rusty Peltzer, attempts to distract the military by flying a helicopter overhead. However, Peltzer clumsily loses control of the vehicle and crashes to the ground, dying in an explosion.[154][81]
The crash nonetheless causes a distraction, and the duo take the opportunity to get away, escaping in an RV that Peltzer had given to Hunter.[154][81]
Lieutenants Lucas and Evans inform their boss, General Hale, that there was nothing suspicious in Fitz's letters and that they therefore do not know how he managed to make contact with someone on the outside. They then show Hale that they have found footage of the van the duo escaped in, and Hale orders them to track the pair, but not to engage them.[154][81]
Hunter gives Fitz back his cell phone, and he scrolls through articles, finding that the news is still reporting S.H.I.E.L.D. as a hostile organization following the attack on the international inquiry by a Daisy Johnson LMD. He asks Hunter about Bobbi Morse, and Hunter reveals that they are still a couple, but are taking some time apart to operate individually. Fitz then mentions that the only lead they have on the agents' abduction is a beer van outside Rae's Restaurant from that night, and Hunter tells him that Rusty Peltzer kept equipment for tapping into security footage in the back of the RV.[154][81]
Fitz rushes to look at Peltzer's tech, but when he does, he discovers that the security footage blacked out during his friends' abduction. He realizes, however, that several similar vans appearing in security footage before and after the abduction may in fact be the one same van, somehow changing its appearance, and confirms this using a structural analysis that proves they are identical. Following the van's route using the security footage, they track the person responsible back to his home.[154][81]
Hunter and Fitz drive to the abductor's house and raid the home, finding a man inside and holding him at gunpoint. He calmly introduces himself as Enoch, an alien Chronicom, and explains that the group are in the year 2091, saying that a "seer" told him about needing to send the agents to the future, as well as that Fitz needed to stay behind. Fitz becomes aggressive, pressuring Enoch to reveal who and where the seer is, and the alien tells them he will take them to see her.[154][81]
Fitz and Hunter are taken to meet the seer in a park, finding that she is Robin Hinton, Charles Hinton's daughter, who has undergone Terrigenesis at a young age and acquired abilities to see past, present, and future, similar to her father's foresight. She is sitting with her mother, Polly, who Fitz remembers from the incident last year. He introduces himself to the two of them.[154][81]
Meanwhile, Evans and Lucas track Fitz and Hunter to Enoch's house and break in to investigate. They find no one present, but discover a child's drawings in the kitchen, depicting the two of them in the kitchen in the exact same scenario they are currently in. Evans realizes that their suspicions that S.H.I.E.L.D. had some sort of foreseeing technology were incorrect, as in fact, the seer is a child.[154][81]
The two lieutenants manage to track down Fitz, Hunter, Enoch, and the Hintons and arrive at the park. However, using the same Chronicom technology he used to capture the S.H.I.E.L.D. team 6 months prior, Enoch immobilizes them where they stand for half an hour, so as to allow them to escape. When lieutenants return to consciousness and mobility, it is as if no time has passed and the group vanished, but Lucas realizes what happened to them after checking his watch.[154][81]
In the early morning, Fitz, Hunter, Enoch, and the Hintons arrive at the Lighthouse.[154][81]
General Hale is delivered Hinton's drawings. She tells Lieutenants Evans and Lucas to make finding the seer a priority.[154][81]
Enoch informs Fitz and Hunter that sending the agents to the future was part of a plan to stop some sort of extinction-level event, but that the details of this event are unknown.[154][81]
Fitz and Hunter discuss Fitz's relationship with Jemma Simmons, and Fitz comments that he fears the universe wants to keep him and Simmons apart. Hunter says this is nonsense, but Fitz claims that it might even be best for everyone, as he is struggling with the part of himself which still feels like the Framework version of himself - having caused him to become aggressive towards Enoch.[154][81]
Deciding to try again to find out why he was left behind, Fitz goes to speak to Robin Hinton and Polly, who explains to Fitz that Robin can only communicate her seeings through drawings, as when her powers are in use, she can become scatterbrained. Robin hands Fitz a new drawing, explaining that his purpose is to save his fellow agents after they are done helping in 2091, and bring them back to present day.[154][81]
Fitz discusses with Enoch how he could get to 2091, and Enoch reveals that he used a capsule thousands of years ago to get to Earth, and that if Fitz can find this, it might be able to help him. He says, however, that it is being housed in a compound called Blue Raven Ridge, which Hunter explains to Fitz is the exact compound they just escaped from. Fitz reluctantly decides that they will simply have to break back in.[154][81]
Leo Fitz and Lance Hunter pose as repairmen to drive into Blue Raven Ridge. They then release ferrets to set off the perimeter alarms, causing the guards to go to protect the border, looking for anyone trying to escape, thus leaving the duo free to break into a warehouse in the compound.[154][81]
In the warehouse, the two find the capsule stored away. They then realize that the warehouse is also housing not only S.H.I.E.L.D. weaponry, but Zephyr One itself, which will help their escape.[154][81]
Hunter and Fitz load the capsule onto Zephyr One, but as soon as they have, soldiers arrive in the warehouse to stop them. Fitz uses an I.C.E.R. found in the warehouse to start firing at them, while Hunter launches the plane. Fitz then jumps on-board as the plane takes off, and the two manage to escape through the open roof, flying away.[154][81]
General Hale meets with Lieutenants Evans and Lucas and berates them for repeatedly failing her. They believe they are being demoted, but Hale instead simply shoots them both through the head.[154][81]
Knowing that the Lighthouse will eventually become the base populated by the Kree and the final remnants of humanity, where his friends are fighting in the future, Fitz stores the S.H.I.E.L.D. weaponry inside a wall, to retrieve in 2091. He then reveals to Hunter what the plan is: the capsule is a cryogenic chamber, and he will sleep in freeze for 74 years, to wake up biologically still young in 2091. He writes a note on the back of a Lake Ontario postcard saying, "Working on it - Fitz", which he leaves with Robin Hinton, hoping his friends will get his message.[154][81]
When Lance Hunter expresses his worry that the capsule cannot be kept safe for 74 years, Enoch clarifies that he will take Fitz in the capsule with him in a ship, and will orbit a planet a safe distance from Earth for 74 years, trying not to be discovered. Hunter offers to help Polly and Robin Hinton for the foreseeable future in his stead, with the help of Bobbi Morse, which Enoch is grateful for. Hunter wishes Fitz well, telling him what he always told Morse: "Don't die out there." Fitz then enters the chamber, and as it begins to freeze, Hunter jokingly quotes Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, saying, "I love you," and Fitz responds in kind with a joking, "I know". Leo Fitz is frozen, beginning 74 years of cryostasis.[154][81]
In the morning, General Hale visits her daughter, Ruby, in her bedroom. She confronts her about having skipped class yesterday and Ruby says that she simply does not care about her classes, but when Hale threatens to take her cell phone if she does not go, Ruby reluctantly agrees. Before her mother leaves, Ruby suddenly asks her if she is a "good guy". Hale asks her why she is questioning this, and Ruby explains that she understands her mother is going after S.H.I.E.L.D., but that since S.H.I.E.L.D. were always considered good until recently, she is questioning her mother's behavior. Hale realizes that Ruby is asking because of her obsession with the hero "Quake", who worked for S.H.I.E.L.D., and explains that she simply has to try to capture her since it is her assignment from her superiors, and that her motive is always to help build a better world for everyone, but most importantly Ruby. She promises that when the agents resurface, she will find them and put an end to all the problems they cause.[157][156]
Just after 7AM local time, Phil Coulson's agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. materialize from being transported through time by the White Monolith that engulfed them in 2091. They are initially confused by the fact that they are still in the Lighthouse, but Leo Fitz realizes that while they have not moved in space, they have indeed been sent back in time, recognizing the 2017 layout of the base from his time with Enoch.[157][156]
Fitz activates the electricity, which triggers a projected video of 1970s S.H.I.E.L.D. agent General Rick Stoner, in which Stoner explains that the Lighthouse is the world's last bastion designed for the initiation of the Project Reclamation protocol at the time of a world-ending event. Jemma Simmons and Yo-Yo Rodriguez go to tend to Alphonso Mackenzie's injuries, while Leo Fitz and Melinda May head to the basement to find a storage facility that Stoner's video describes as housing S.H.I.E.L.D. technology. Coulson stays to be there when Daisy Johnson wakes.[157][156]
Johnson comes to and expresses her annoyance at Coulson for having I.C.E.-d her, saying that he should not have taken her considering the severe risk, but he tells her he does not care, because he simply needed her to be with them.[157][156]
Arriving at the basement storage facility, May and Fitz are puzzled when they find three new, different Monoliths. May asks where they might be from, and the agents are startled when a response comes from across the room, saying, "Unknown." The speaker reveals himself to be another Chronicom named Noah, and he explains that the Monoliths are housed in the Lighthouse to both protect them and to protect others from them.[157][156]
Noah takes the duo to his control room, from which he monitors potential threats to the planet, noting a well-known politician attempting to delete his FBI files and the recent appearance of an Asgardian in New York City, having followed the news surrounding Thor's brief visit. May spots a live feed from St. Louis, Missouri, where, in the pre-dawn darkness, some sort of beam can be seen coming down from the sky to an aerospace facility, and worries that it could be a harbinger of the events leading to the destruction of Earth.[157][156]
Having been called in by May, the rest of the team arrive in the control room, and Coulson expresses the same concerns: that this beam could be the "light from the sky" that Samuel Voss warned them about that leads to the end of the world. Noah informs them that the wavelength of the beam is unusual, so it could very well be alien, and the team decide to travel to St. Louis to investigate, with Fitz informing them that he and Hunter left Zephyr One cloaked nearby and he can take them to it. Johnson elects to stay behind, worried that she is a liability if she leaves the Lighthouse. Noah shows them secret tunnels that will take the team from the Lighthouse to a nearby New York town called River's End, where they can safely leave without attracting attention.[157][156]
The team get out into the sunlight and fresh air for the first time in days, and take a moment to appreciate it. They notice a van for sale nearby and decide that they need to take it to get to Zephyr One. Mackenzie is reluctant to steal, but Coulson assures him they will return it after.[157][156]
Daisy Johnson uses one of Noah's computers to set up an alert in case any of her friends have been spotted.[157][156]
As Mackenzie drives them, the team light-heartedly discuss how things could be worse, mentioning the numerous bad things they've had to deal with over the years: being enslaved by Kasius, the Framework, Fitz and Simmons getting stuck at the bottom of the ocean, stopping Aida, fighting both of Johnson's parents, and, for May, having to loosen up and dance at the Hotel La Ona.[157][156]
Johnson's research leads her to finding that their team are not just wanted fugitives, but they are "most wanted", with police departments everywhere having their pictures.[157][156]
While driving, the team are pulled over by a police officer driving past. They become concerned as the officer mentions recognizing the van as belonging to John Nickel, afraid that he will arrest them for stealing, but he then simply asks how much they paid for it, noting that Nickel had failed to sell it for ages. The group are relieved as they drive off, grateful that they are in a quiet town.[157][156]
Just after the agents have driven away, Deke Shaw materializes in River's End, having also been sent back in time after being hit by a shard of the White Monolith in the blast in 2091 as he was helping Enoch. He is immediately awestruck by the beauty of nature in 2017, pre-destruction of Earth, and cannot help but walk to a nearby tree and hug it, wanting to learn what trees feel and smell like. A nearby woman looks at him in confusion and he tells her he has just never seen anything like it, but she believes he must be on drugs.[157][156]
Shaw sees a nearby bar and excitedly walks over and enters, wanting to see what a real bar is like. He is pleased to see that his Framework approximation was reasonably close to real life and asks the bartender for a beer, but when he tries it, he is disappointed by how it tastes after years of wondering. The bartender gives him a Zima instead, and Shaw loves it, asking for more and more and getting drunk, fascinated as he tries out arcade games and flicking through channels on the television.[157][156]
Shaw goes to leave the bar, but the bartender stops him to ask him for payment. Shaw drunkenly holds out his Metric, confusing the bartender, and the man tells him that he is happy to take either card or cash, reminding Shaw of the 2010s payment system. Realizing he could be in trouble, Shaw tries to run away, but in his inebriated state, he simply trips on a pool table, falling over and muttering that he is from the future as he passes out.[157][156]
The team arrive at Zephyr One, leaving John Nickel's van with a note for it to be returned and boarding the plane.[157][156]
On-board, Melinda May tells Phil Coulson she is feeling very glad to be back to flying in normal gravity. Coulson then doubles over in pain, but when May asks if he okay, he waves it off as just a headache. Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons then call him over, showing Coulson that the perceived direction that the beam over St. Louis was traveling in was a result of the low frame rate they were watching at, and that once the rate is increased, it can be seen that it is in fact traveling from the St. Louis Aerospace Facility upward into the sky. They then explain that from this discovery, they recognized the beam, telling Coulson that it is in fact the same beacon that Hive had used to summon the Kree.[157][156]
Alphonso Mackenzie sits with Yo-Yo Rodriguez and reassures her over her worries from meeting her future self, saying that Kasius used that version of her to manipulate them so she should not trust what she heard too strictly, and asserting that they will change the future anyway.[157][156]
Johnson gets an alert from the local police and is shocked when she finds that the arrested individual is Deke Shaw, believing him to have remained in 2091. She realizes that since they are the only people Shaw knows in 2017, he might end up spilling their secrets, and reluctantly decides to go to pick him up from the police station.[157][156]
The team arrive at St. Louis Aerospace Facility and enter with caution when Fitz finds the heat signature of a person inside. However, the group are relieved when they find that it is Agent Piper, who appears happy to see them after months of searching with no avail.[157][156]
Deke Shaw is rambling to the police officers about being from the future when Daisy Johnson arrives, claiming to be his support officer. When the officers ask her name, she goes with the first that comes to mind: her opponent from 2091, "Sinara", adding "Smith" as a surname.[157][156]
Candice Lee informs her boss, General Hale, that they have received a call about the location of Coulson's agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. She instructs Lee to reply to the informant that they need to be kept at the location.[157][156]
Piper explains to the group that she never heard what happened to them after their encounter with Aida and asks where they were hiding all this time, but Coulson says they will explain later. She tells them that she had worked out the beacon was Hive's, pointing out that she remembered it from the Battle of Union City as that mission had been her first among the higher ranks and had meant a lot to her, then she had come to the facility to warn workers and prepare for any incoming Kree. As they speak, the beacon suddenly starts up again.[157][156]
Johnson retrieves Shaw from the station, improvising the details of her fake identity as she is forced to fill out the necessary paperwork. Shaw explains what happened with the Monolith shard in 2091, and Johnson is surprised when Shaw's tone does not come across as upset or in shock. He tells her that he is excited because he had thought he was going to die, yet had not only survived but ended up in a world with outdoors and air and sunshine.[157][156]
Fitz manages to deactivate the beacon, finding that someone installed a power source by hand. Piper suddenly pulls a gun on them, revealing that it was her, as the beacon had been activated to lure them in. A group of figures looking like men in black armor arrive at the facility to take the agents, with a leader dressed in grey.[157][156]
Piper explains that she had been found by General Hale but had made a deal to set a trap the rest of the agents, under the promise that if she helped take them in then they would be guaranteed safety. However, in the next room, the leader in grey gives the order for the soldiers to kill the agents. Yo-Yo Rodriguez uses her super-speed to disarm the soldiers, so instead of shooting them, a fight breaks out between the two groups. Piper is confused as she had been told the mission was "capture, not kill".[157][156]
As the fight continues, Alphonso Mackenzie shoots one soldier in the face, and the damaged helmet reveals that underneath is not a human but an android. Piper tells Phil Coulson that she had trusted Hale as a member of the United States Armed Forces, but he says she has been deceived. Realizing her mistake, she tells the group she will cover for them as they make their escape.[157][156]
Rodriguez sees Mackenzie being beaten by an android across the room and uses her super-speed to run at him, but just as she does so, the leader in grey throws a vibraniumRing Blade at her. It is perfectly timed to catch her as she runs, and the ring slices through both of Rodriguez's arms.[157][156]
Mackenzie rushes to Rodriguez's aid as she stands in shock. He finds a blanket to wrap her in and carries her away with the rest of the group as they escape the St. Louis Aerospace Facility. She mutters that the future they visited is already coming true.[157][156]
Deke Shaw and Daisy Johnson return to the Lighthouse, and Johnson gets a call from Melinda May. She begins a light-hearted conversation, but May requests the landing coordinates urgently, causing Johnson to realize that something has gone horribly wrong.[157][156]
The agents land back at the Lighthouse at night.[157][156]
Jemma Simmons operates on Yo-Yo Rodriguez to clean her wounds, staunch the bleeding, and stitch up the stumps of her arms.[157][156]
Fitz and Noah take the Kree beacon to the basement storage facility for safekeeping.[157][156]
Johnson finds the rest of her friends and rushes to comfort Mackenzie. Piper sits in shame, considering the damage she has done.[157][156]
Ruby Hale, who had been the figure dressed in grey leading the androids, gets back to her mother, who is waiting in her bedroom. General Hale asks her what she was thinking in letting the agents go and cutting off Rodriguez's arms. Ruby explains that she had been promised a chance to deal with Daisy Johnson, and since she was not there, she had chosen instead to force them to seek medical attention, hoping it will get the group where they need them to be, as well as claiming that her attack will make Johnson more desperate to be involved in the future and join the rest of the group. Hale says she is sloppy. Ruby claims that it does not matter, because the group took the beacon, which had been set up as a trap as a back-up plan. Hale says, however, that they should not have had to resort to the beacon, calling her daughter a disappointment before leaving her room, which is in fact a part of the HYDRA Preparatory Academy.[157][156]
Daisy Johnson goes to find Leo Fitz in the basement storage facility to make certain he has checked they are not being trapped. He says he has, and that they are currently just waiting for its internal circuitry to cool down. Noah continues monitoring it and notices, however, that the circuitry is instead heating up. Realizing that it is set to explode, he instructs the agents to run. They escape just in time as the beacon detonates.[157][156]
5th
In Philadelphia, Carl Creel is out running when General Hale stops him in a car. He says he is not interesting in working for her, but she tells him she does not want to use him, but rather is "putting together a team". He reluctantly opens the car door and gets in.[157][156]
Leo Fitz sends a D.W.A.R.F. to investigate the wreckage of the basement storage facility. The drone finds a rift, created by the simultaneous destruction of the Monoliths, which blew a hole in spacetime and is causing the bleeding of another dimension into theirs. The D.W.A.R.F. is then swatted out of the air, however, by a being exactly resembling Lash.[157][158]
Fitz shows Phil Coulson and Melinda May that another of his D.W.A.R.F.s had flown down to a level 150 feet below them, and yet when the elevator doors opened, it had found a forest behind the doors. He explains the rift to another dimension that the D.W.A.R.F. in the basement found, and how that must somehow have caused the strange anomaly. The group worry that while this could mean Daisy Johnson is not behind the end of the world, that would only be because this rift could in fact already be the beginning of the end.[157][158]
Jemma Simmons tends to Yo-Yo Rodriguez as she lies in the hospital bed they have set up for her. When Alphonso Mackenzie arrives, Simmons leaves to allow them some private time together. Mackenzie promises he will do everything he can to help Rodriguez and apologizes for struggling to remain calm, as he could not bear watching her be dismembered, especially after everything they had just been through in 2091. They discuss the upcoming problems they may have to face together, as Rodriguez points out that everything her future self told her appears to be coming true.[157][158]
6th
Deke Shaw and Daisy Johnson pick up items from the supply pantry. Shaw is fascinated by orange-scented spray, mistakenly spraying it into his own mouth, exasperating Johnson. He explains to her how hard it was to acquire fruit in the future, but that his mother would find him an orange every year for his birthday. He asks Johnson about her parents, but she explains that she grew up in an orphanage, and he apologizes for asking her about a touchy subject.[157][158]
Suddenly, the pair are ambushed by what appears to be a Kree warrior, whose presence they do not understand. They fight back, but the Kree beats Shaw and moves to kill him. Before he can finish the attack, Johnson manages to shoot the warrior through the head, and it further confuses them when the warrior then dissolves into wisps of smoke.[157][158]
With the agents back together in the control room, Leo Fitz explains to them his conclusion: the dimension seeping through the rift is some sort of "Fear Dimension", which can understand their thoughts and physically manifest beings to represent their greatest fears. He shows the team that he has salvaged further footage from the basement D.W.A.R.F., and has found video of what appears to be Lash, which May affirms would indeed be her greatest fear, with Johnson explaining the Kree Warrior is hers, and Shaw saying the forest, as the overwhelming opposite of the dark, enclosed, and lifeless space he has lived his whole life, is his.[157][158]
Fitz explains that he thinks he might know how to close the rift, but that his only current idea might involve someone having to sacrifice themselves. He turns to Deke Shaw, who panics, thinking he is asking for him to be the one to die, but Fitz calmly clarifies he is simply requesting his Gravity Puck belt buckle, as he thinks he can modify it to use the gravitonium inside to force the rift to close. Phil Coulson then insists that he will be the one to take the risk of taking the device to the rift.[157][158]
The team stop Coulson as he tries to walk away, angrily telling him he cannot just make the decision for them. Daisy Johnson says she wants to go instead, since her being around is already putting everyone at risk, but Coulson insists she is needed to help lead S.H.I.E.L.D. in the future. Johnson becomes distressed, telling him there is no longer a "S.H.I.E.L.D.", just scraps of a team who are wanted criminals and barely holding together, but he stubbornly tells her that the idea that S.H.I.E.L.D. represents is vital. However, as he tries to make his point, he loses his breath and suddenly collapses, confusing the rest of the team.[157][158]
After Coulson wakes, the rest of the team wait for him in the control room to discuss Simmons' medical analysis of him. Before he goes to them, Coulson sends Deke Shaw away on a secret mission outdoors, as he is the only one of them who is not on the wanted list.[157][158]
Coulson gets back to the control room, and Jemma Simmons delivers the news of what she has found. She struggles to tell them, choking on her words as she tries not to cry, that Coulson's necrotic tissue from his death in 2012 is branching out from his lungs again, as if his resurrection is being undone. Coulson confesses that when he made the deal with Ghost Rider to take on the Spirit of Vengeance, he had known the cost: the spirit would burn through the GH.325 formula's reviving effects on his dead tissue. Simmons adds that since the tissue is already dead, there is no curing it, and Coulson is dying again.[157][158]
The team struggle to come to terms with their leader and friend's coming death, with Johnson letting out her emotions by angrily asking him why he did not tell them before. He explains that he felt their ongoing issues were more pressing, but Johnson points out that in 2091, they had an option for saving him, the way Tess had been revived. Coulson says he did not want to go through an unnatural Kree revival again, but Johnson claims he had no right to just give up, especially when he makes decisions about their lives and deaths all the time, saying they deserved to be involved in the decision-making in return, before walking off in tears. Simmons says she cannot know how long Coulson has left until she can chart the necrotic tissue's progression, but that at some point, his heart will simply stop beating.[157][158]
Coulson follows after Johnson to comfort her, as she is hurting the most of all of them. She says that she cannot take on the responsibility he is giving her. He reassures her that she has always been capable of more than she imagined, but she says that everything she has built in the past few years has been because of him and what he gave to her, so she does not feel any confidence without him. She cries, saying there is not just no S.H.I.E.L.D. without him, but there is simply nothing in their lives without him, and she desperately hugs him, weeping into his shoulder.[157][158]
At 6:43AM, Rodriguez lies in her hospital bed and is visited by what appears to be Simmons. "Simmons" begins to speak cruelly, telling Rodriguez that she is causing Alphonso Mackenzie suffering and should spare them all, shocking Rodriguez. "Simmons", who is an LMD manifested by the Fear Dimension, suddenly begins to smother her with her pillow in an attempt to kill her. Mackenzie arrives at that moment and attacks the manifestation, knocking its face off to reveal the LMD robotics underneath. The real Jemma Simmons follows him into the room, accompanied by Leo Fitz, and shoots the LMD, and it dissolves into smoke just like the Kree warrior. Fitz tells them that this means the rift is spreading even further, and they have to seal it urgently.[157][158]
General Hale sits with one of the officers who arrested Shaw 2 days prior, who tells her that his colleague believes the woman who came to pick up Shaw looked like Daisy Johnson from the wanted posters. Hale tells him she is greatly appreciative of the lead, as Johnson has not been sighted in months.[157][158]
Shaw goes to use a public phone for the first time, to make a call as Coulson instructed him to do.[157][158]
Hale asks the officer about Deke Shaw, but he tells her that he was drunk and disorderly and did not seem particularly intelligent.[157][158]
Shaw makes a call to "Fiona", but cannot get through.[157][158]
The officer tells Hale that when they looked up Shaw, they could find no history behind his name.[157][158]
Shaw leaves a pawn shop, which is also selling an Iron Man helmet toy, Thor and Hawkeye figurines, a Hulk mask, an axe, and a cello, with the items Coulson sent him to pick up. As he walks out, he accidentally bumps into one of Hale's agents, who becomes suspicious of him.[157][158]
Coulson reassures May that he is at peace with his death, but that he is not giving up otherwise and will do his absolute best to make it back out of the basement after closing the rift.[157][158]
Leo Fitz prepares Phil Coulson to head downstairs to the rift, giving him a gun to deal with any potential fear manifestations and the device he has made out of Shaw's Gravity Puck. Coulson tells him that if he does not return, Fitz needs to make sure he proceeds with the secret thing they have been planning. Fitz is dismissive, saying what they are planning is simply symbolic, but Coulson reminds him that symbols and institutions can be very important.[157][158]
Coulson takes the elevator down to the basement, but as he steps out into the corridor, the team lose visual contact with him.[157][158]
Having prepared to see manifestations of fears, Coulson is taken aback when he instead finds what appears to be Mike Peterson in the basement. "Peterson" tells Coulson that he is here to explain the truth to him of what has really been happening. "Peterson" begins to tell Coulson that his own brain is making everything up, saying that Coulson has never actually been to any of the places he thinks he has been in the last few years.[157][158]
Without visual contact, the team become anxious about Coulson. Daisy Johnson wants to go down after him, but Fitz tells her that they cannot risk losing two people. May assures them that he will make it back, and they just need to hold on.[157][158]
"Peterson" tells Coulson that the reason his mind has manifested all these supposed fantasies of years of adventures is that he is in fact still on the operating table in 2012 following Loki stabbing him through the chest, and as his brain is stimulated by electricity trying to revive him, his conscience is trying to make sense of random synapses firing off. "Peterson" claims that he is just an emergency medical technician Coulson barely registered in his near-dead state and his brain incorporated into these fantasies, and says that Coulson's experience of his head catching fire was merely the pain of the electrodes on his brain, and that his Framework life as a history teacher was just a memory of his father's profession. Coulson defies him, saying that the man is just the physical manifestation of his fear of death, but "Peterson" continues that his mind is just creating this story to satisfy him with the adventures he missed out on experiencing when his life was cut short.[157][158]
The agents in the control room scan an aircraft incoming and are worried that Hale's people have found them. However, as they check the scan, they realize it is a Quinjet, which then radios in asking permission to land. The team are confused and still cautious, going to meet the landing jet with guns at the ready, but when the door opens, they find Deke Shaw inside having gathered a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents for support, including Agent Davis, whom they had thought dead, and the real Deathlok.[157][158]
Closure of the Fear Dimension's Rift: "Peterson" attempts to convince Phil Coulson to walk into the rift, to supposedly accept the fake nature of his reality and give in to his death, but Coulson manages to remain steadfast in his belief in his life and the people around him, telling "Peterson" that he is not buying his story. The manifestation goes to grab him and force him into the rift, but at that moment, the real Peterson arrives in the basement and blasts him from the corner. The Fear Dimension begins to create various further illusions to fight back against the threat of Coulson closing the rift, manifesting forms of Lash and Vrellnexians. Coulson and Deathlok work together to shoot and dissolve each illusion, however, until Coulson manages to throw Fitz's gravitoniumdevice into the rift, beginning to close it. In one last attack, the dimension creates Hive to take down the men in retaliation, but Deathlok blasts the illusion through the head, and the rift finally closes.[157][158]
Candice Lee reports back to General Hale that they, too, have been unable to find anything from Deke Shaw's fingerprints or DNA. She also passes on that they have had further reports of Daisy Johnson being sighted, but Hale says that either Johnson will have left by now, or S.H.I.E.L.D. might be luring them into a trap, telling Lee that instead, they should pack up their investigation.[157][158]
Phil Coulson, Leo Fitz, and Deke Shaw take the elevator together. Fitz explains that the device is working, at least temporarily, keeping the rift closed, saying the anomalies are fading and no more are currently occurring. He says they have one man to thank for their success, and Shaw mistakenly believes they are talking about him, thanking them for appreciating his efforts and proudly saying how he did everything Coulson asked, circulating fake sightings of Daisy Johnson, collecting the other agents, and picking up everything from the checklist of items for the evening's plans, exaggerating the hardships he had to overcome to perform the simple tasks. Fitz explains that he thought it was obvious that he was talking about Deathlok, and asks Coulson if he will be staying around, but Coulson explains Peterson will be leaving tonight. Fitz continues to ask him about the basement, but Coulson stops him, saying he thinks he is stalling due to nerves for what they are about to do. He straightens Fitz's suit and the elevator doors open onto the illusion forest, which has not yet disappeared, where the rest of the team are waiting to hold what they have been preparing for all day: Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons' wedding.[157][158]
Fitz walks into the forest, where Alphonso Mackenzie is filming and Daisy Johnson and Melinda May are acting as bridesmaids, with Davis and Peterson also present. Simmons turns around, wearing a wedding dress found by Shaw in a second-hand shop. Coulson begins to lead the wedding. Shaw, feeling awkward, starts asking Peterson occasional questions that come to mind.[157][158]
Simmons reads her vows, professing her love for him, and saying that she cannot wait for their next adventure: building a family. Fitz then says his vows, telling her how lucky he is to have her. They exchange rings, and Peterson tells Shaw he did well in picking them up from the pawn shop. Shaw explains that he chose Simmons' ring because it reminded him of one his mother used to wear, which he thinks might have belonged to his grandmother.[157][158]
Candice Lee returns to General Hale and tells her that she ran a genetic profile to see if Shaw's DNA matched anyone. She reveals that they not only found a match, but in fact found two: his DNA matches both Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons.[157][158]
The newlywed couple kiss, and Peterson asks Shaw how he knows Fitz and Simmons, but Shaw explains that he does not know either particularly well. He does not realize that the reason the ring he bought looked like his grandmother's is because it was the very same ring, as Fitz and Simmons are in fact his grandparents and he just bought his grandmother the ring that he would then see his mother wear in the future.[157][158]
Alex Wilder plays Star Wars Battlefront while his father talks to him
Alex is approached by his dad, Geoffrey Wilder, and tells him that the reason he has not played it in 2 years is that it is the game he and his friend, Amy Minoru, had played together before she died. Geoffrey tries to comfort him, but Alex rejects the sympathy and goes to have breakfast with his mother, Catherine Wilder. They talk briefly about his attitude, and how his parents gave him space after Minoru died, but that it was time to stop being introverted. His father suggests that he meet up with his old friends, the other children of the members of PRIDE, a small organization which the Wilder parents are also a part of. He tells Alex to value the friendships he has at this age, and not let them slip away.[159][95]
Nico Minoru gets ready for school. She puts on her makeup, then she tries to put on black tights, which end up ripping. She decides to go to get a better pair from her deceased older sister's room.[159][95]
Nico and Tina Minoru in Amy's room
Tina Minoru, Amy and Nico's mother, watches her daughter entering Amy's room from cameras in the house. She goes to confront Nico, reminding her that it is forbidden for her to enter Amy's room. Nico ignores her mother and, on her way out, accidentally knocks over one of Amy's trophies, breaking it. She tries to apologize to her mother, who simply orders her to leave.[159][95]
Chase Stein does weight training in his room. He is interrupted by his mother, Janet Stein, who tells him that it is time to have breakfast. Chase asks her if his father is at the breakfast table, which she confirms.[159][95]
Alex Wilder drives off to school after breakfast. His parents talk, with his father, Geoffrey, being uncomfortable about the PRIDE meeting.[159][14]
Chase Stein is intimidated by his father
At breakfast, Chase's father, Victor Stein, reproaches him for only achieving a C in Spanish, acting cold and intimidating towards his son.[159][95]
Chase Stein prepares to leave for school. He argues with his mother about his dad, saying that Victor is rude and aggressive, and that he is getting tired of him - that he cannot wait to go to college next year and get away from him. His mother, Janet gets a call, which Chase is surprised by, unaware that Victor even let her have friends. She rejects the call, not wanting Chase to know that it was from Nico Minoru's father, her secret lover.[159][14]
Chase's father, Victor Stein, works on the Dematerialization Box, but his experimentation fails. He opens the box and is angered to find the rat he was testing with is still there. Janet, Chase's mother, tries to comfort her husband, who is suffering from headaches. She reminds him of the PRIDE meeting that evening, wondering if he could reach out for help.[159][14]
Frank Dean leaves after the Gibborim service to meet with his agent, Phil. Karolina then tries to convince her mother, Leslie, to sign a special permission slip for a field trip to San Francisco that evening, but Leslie rejects it, telling her daughter that she has a Vanity Fair shoot, and claiming that she cannot miss it, since she is the millennial face of the Church of Gibborim.[95]
Leslie Dean is approached by Aura and Frances
Karolina expresses her annoyance that her mother pays her little attention or care and leaves for school.[95] Leslie is then approached by two members of the Church of Gibborim, Aura and Frances, and informed that Destiny Gonzalez did not attend the service and is missing.[159][14]
Phil meets with Frank Dean outside the Church of Gibborim Executive Office, where he tells him that he is no longer going to work with him. After expressing his reasons - that he was too busy being the face of the Church of Gibborim to continue his burnt-out career - Phil encourages Dean to enjoy his newfound benefits inside the Church, urging him to talk with Leslie and take a more prominent role in the organization.[159][14]
The Yorkes parents take Molly Hernandez and Gert to school
Gert Yorkes and Molly Hernandez are taken to school, Atlas Academy, by Yorkes' parents, Dale and Stacey, who adopted Hernandez after her parents died in a fire 10 years ago. After an awkward conversation, Yorkes and Hernandez abandon the car quickly.[159][95]
Alex Wilder watches as all of his old friends now ignore each other before school. He calls his mother and asks her for permission to invite them to their house that night, like how they always used to. Catherine Wilder agrees, despite her husband's reservations about having the teenagers in the house while the PRIDE meeting is happening. Catherine dismisses this, saying that as teenagers, the last thing they would care about is what their parents are doing.[159][95]
Jonah is visited by Leslie Dean
Meanwhile, Leslie Dean enters a room with fingerprint security in which someone is terribly sick, covered in grey crust and in a special life-support machine.[159][95]
Meanwhile, Alex's parents prepare to set up the meeting that night.[159][95]
Nico's parents, Tina and Robert Minoru, discuss the current situation between Tina and Nico. Tina decides to seal Amy's room with the Staff of One, although Robert does not think that that is the solution since, if they continue like this, they could lose Nico due to the conflict with her mother.[159][14]
The Yorkeses' Deinonychus' tail
After dropping off the girls, Stacey Yorkes, Gert's mother, informs her husband, Dale, of the PRIDE meeting, which he had forgotten about. They express their annoyance at having to go, with Stacey also being bitter at Tina Minoru's insults of her homemade brie. Dale prefers not to go, but Stacey says that if anyone deserved a night off it is her, having taken care of their Deinonychus the night before.[159][14]
Gert Yorkes gives a feminist talk in class and proposes the creation of a group, "Undermining the Patriarchy", needing 4 members for it to be officially recognized by the school, but her classmates pay her no attention. After this, Wilder approaches Stein to invite him to his house that evening, but when Yorkes and Dean approach to ask what is happening, tension arises between the teenagers and it becomes clear that a meet-up may be impossible.[159][95]
In the construction site of a supposed school being built by PRIDE, a small group of gangsters, led by Darius Davis, arrive and threaten the workers to get them to leave, intending to use the situation to threaten Geoffrey Wilder.[159][14]
Geoffrey Wilder tells Catherine about the situation
In the secret passageway in the Wilder Mansion, Geoffrey and Catherine Wilder are preparing for the meeting when Geoffrey gets a call from Howard, the head of the construction work, informing him of the situation with Davis. Geoffrey decides with his wife that he needs to resolve the issue in order to keep the construction on its feet.[159][14]
Destiny Gonzalez is approached by Leslie Dean, who has discovered Gonzalez's plan to leave. Gonzalez thanks Dean for her help over the last 6 months, and reveals that she has a daughter who is turning 3 today, and she had promised herself that she would never miss another birthday for her. Dean, however, asks her to wait, claiming she has a surprise for her - that Gonzalez will be advancing in the Church of Gibborim to "Ultra" status.[159][14]
Destiny Gonzalez
Unfortunately, Gonzalez agrees to stay a bit longer for the ceremony.[159][14]
Geoffrey Wilder arrives at the construction site and confronts Darius Davis, threatening him by threatening his grandmother, showing him a camera that is directly recording everything about of her house implying that he could have her killed if Davis continues to mess with him. Davis agrees not to meddle with the construction of the school and returns to his car, where he discovers that his plan worked: while they talked, he managed to clone the contents of Wilder's cell phone.[159][14][40]
Molly Hernandez auditions to be part of the of the dance squad, but experiences what seems to be bad menstrual cramps, and is unable to continue the tryout. Hernandez heads to the nurse's office.[159][95]
Chase Stein asks his teacher to reconsider his grade in Spanish by allowing him to retake the midterm exam, but he refuses, telling him he simply has to work harder for next time.[159][95]
Yorkes talks to Chase Stein
Gert Yorkes, who has heard everything, approaches Stein. She offers to help him with studying Spanish, and Stein suggests that they meet at a cafe that evening. Yorkes accepts.[159][95]
Alex Wilder finally finds Nico Minoru near the trophy cases and tells her about the meet-up that night, and confesses that he misses her. She indicates to him that she has not heard him because of her earbuds, but is lying, only turning on music afterwards as she heads to the girls' bathroom to cry.[159][95]
Karolina Dean sees an edit of a photo she uploaded earlier in the day, mocking her with the word "Brainwashed" replacing "Blessed". Dean visits the girls' bathroom to cry as well.[159][95]
Minoru and Dean talk briefly
Dean hears how Minoru enters the bathroom. Both, face to face, pretend to be perfectly fine. Dean suggests her not using makeup to hide, but Minoru tells her not to hide behind a smile, because "it's still hiding".[159][95]
Molly Hernandez is given meds at the nurse's office. When the nurse steps out, her powers suddenly emerge as she uses super-strength to accidentally crush her chair. This relieves her discomfort, the repression having been the true source of her pain.[159][95]
Frank Dean asks his wife, Leslie, to allow him to move to Ultra position and become her partner in both life and the Church of Gibborim. She suspects that his meeting with Phil did not go well and led to this request. She decides to leave for the PRIDE meeting without her husband.[159][14]
Karolina Dean's interview by Vanity Fair
Karolina Dean is recorded for an interview by Vanity Fair in order to promote the Church of Gibborim, as her mother requested. She is approached by Destiny Gonzalez, who tells Karolina that she is incredibly grateful all the help her mother, Leslie, has given her.[159][95]
Back home, Molly Hernandez tries out her powers in the garage. She tries to pull a van but fails, instead going to bend a crowbar, just as the van beings to roll towards her from behind. Hernandez notices and turns. Her powers suddenly activate to stop it, and she cheers at her success, before suddenly becoming very tired and slumping against the wall.[159][95]
The PRIDE meeting begins with the Wilders, Minorus, Deans, Yorkeses, and Steins all attending. They make an awkward small talk.[159][95]
Alex Wilder gets home and walks into the meeting, where he talks briefly with his mother, telling her that none of his friends agreed to come over, before leaving the room. The parents agree that since Amy Minoru's death, their children have all been affected.[159][95]
As the sun goes down, Nico Minoru stands on the beach by a fire, preparing for an invocation seance ritual.[95] The sun sets over Los Angeles.[159][14]
Geoffrey Wilder comments on his discomfort
At the PRIDE meeting, Leslie Dean passes the file on Destiny Gonzalez, that night's sacrifice, to all the members. Geoffrey Wilder is uncomfortable with the idea, because their previous sacrifices were all 16-20, older than their children, but now their children have reached the same age as their victim - 17. Despite this, the whole group reluctantly agrees that they have to go ahead. The PRIDE members descend to the hidden passage and change into their ceremonial robes.[159][14]
Karolina Dean is driven to a party across the city, and looks out of the window.[159][95]
Stein drinks at the party, but feels guilty for skipping his meeting with Yorkes.[159][95]
Yorkes becomes nervous as Stein has still not arrived.[159][95]
Wilder paces his room, looking at his cell phone.[159][95]
Karolina Dean sees an advert for the Church of Gibborim outside her window, with her and her parents representing the church. This saddens her, thinking of how it has affected the opinion of her among her peers.[159][95]
Minoru lays down the candles around a bonfire she has started.[159][95]
The picture
Wilder finds a photo of all of him, Nico Minoru, Gert Yorkes, Chase Stein, Karolina Dean, and Molly Hernandez all together a couple of years prior. He sends the photo out to the other 5 to attempt to remind them of their good times together.[159][95]
Dean's driver drops her off and she enters the party.[159][95]
Yorkes texts her adoptive sister, Molly Hernandez, asking her to feed the pets at home, seeing as she will not be getting home soon. Hernandez's phone alert wakes her.[159][95]
Dean is handed a pill at the party. Wishing to finally break free of her mother's control, she decides to open her bracelet for the firs time. Once it is opened, Dean's arms appear to light up with bright colors.[159][95]
Karolina stares in awe, before suddenly passing out. Brandon and Lucas, Stein's friends from school, see Dean's unconscious body and carry her upstairs. Stein notices and, concerned, follows the boys.[159][95]
Molly Hernandez feeds the pets in the basement. She hears noises from the "Warning: Keep Out" room, and approaches the window. As she looks through, her adoptive parents' Deinonychus suddenly advances on the window, and Hernandez runs, terrified. She calls her sister, saying that she wants to leave the house, and Yorkes decides that she has waited long enough for Stein, leaving the cafeteria to go to pick up Hernandez.[159][95]
Chase Stein prepares to defend Dean
Arriving upstairs, Chase Stein finds Brandon and Lucas unbuckling the unconscious Karolina Dean's belt, preparing to sexually assault her. Horrified, especially when his supposed friends ask him to help, Stein apprehends them and gets in a fight. The duo give up, deciding it is not worth it, and leave. Stein puts Dean's belt back on and clicks her bracelet back into place. She wakes, and he takes Dean out of the party and to her car. She tells him about the lights, which he attributes simply to drug-taking, and she does not pursue the conversation further. Dean asks Stein to stay with her in the car, and they set off, deciding not to go to her home, but instead the Wilder Mansion. She drops the pill she was given out of her window, having not, in fact, taken any drugs.[159][95]
Nico Minoru starts to cry
On the beach, Nico Minoru's seance does not work. She starts to cry, and finally decides to also go to Wilder's home, having seen his message.[159][95]
Leslie Dean informs Destiny Gonzalez that the ceremony to go Ultra is about to begin, and takes her to the ceremony room below the Wilder Mansion.[159][14]
The group of friends ask for suggestions on what to do next. Arguing amongst themselves, and not deciding on anything, Stein decides that if they are going to address the last 2 years of separation, he at least wants alcohol, and heads off to Geoffrey Wilder's office, where he remembers liquor used to be kept.[159][95]
PRIDE's last preparations are made before the ceremony begins.[159][14]
The group discovers the passageway
The group enters Geoffrey Wilder's living room, where they notice that their parents are gone. Alex Wilder reaches for coasters, but finds them stuck together. He twists the stack, and this triggers a mechanism, opening a secret passageway in the dresser which he was not aware of.[159][95]
The group head down the passageway, wondering where it may lead to.[159][95]
Arriving at an underground hall, the group are confused as to what is happening, seeing all but Dean's parents in red robes preparing for some sort of ritual. Wilder realizes that their parents cannot hear them, as there is some sort of protective sound barrier.[159][95][14]
The groups witnesses the ritual
Stein questions what kind of charity meeting would be like this as Leslie Dean enters with a confused Destiny Gonzalez, and Karolina is shocked to find her mother involved as well. Gonzalez asks Leslie who the people she has been brought to are, not recognizing them from the Church of Gibborim, but Leslie avoids the question.[159][95][14]
Stacey Yorkes approaches Gonzalez with a cup, and asks her to drink from it, claiming that its contents will "purify" her. Gonzalez is scared, but Leslie Dean guides her to drink it, just as Karolina recognizes Gonzalez as the girl she met earlier that day. Gonzalez takes it in two hands and drinks, but then stumbles, weakened. Leslie helps her up to drink again, forcing the cup to Gonzalez's mouth as PRIDE surround her and she collapses.[159][95][14]
The ritual takes place
PRIDE then proceed to strip Destiny Gonzalez naked to prepare her for the sacrifice. Gert Yorkes notes that the ceremony has somehow managed to become even more creepy, as Victor Stein places his hand on the Dematerialization Box so as to activate it. Yorkes pushes Molly Hernandez back from their balcony, worried that her little sister will never be able to forget the horrible sight of what is going on. The box opens and a light comes out of it, as Geoffrey Wilder and Robert Minoru bend down to pick up Gonzalez. They walk her around the box and place her in, as the group of friends above shield their eyes from the blinding light coming from the box.[159][95][14]
Minoru and Yorkes are shocked by the ritual
As Gonzalez begs for PRIDE to stop their ritual, Leslie Dean attempts to continue to reassure her. She tells the group to hurry and finish the sacrifice, as Nico Minoru and Gert Yorkes look on in horror. The box closes as Dean sheds a tear for Gonzalez's loss. Above, Minoru asks her friends what could possibly have just happened, and Molly Hernandez reaches for her phone, wanting to be able to see what is going on. Before the group can stop her, she reaches out to take a photo, leaving the flash on. The group run to escape as the light catches the eyes of the PRIDE members, who look up, concerned as to what could have happened.[159][95][14]
The Wilder parents go to investigate
The Wilder parents leave to investigate immediately as the group sprint back to the entrance to the secret passageway and the other members of PRIDE posit theories as to what might have caused the flash. Geoffrey and Catherine undress as Alex and his friends reach the top of the stairs, but find the door closed. Stein suggests that he attempts to open it, but fails, just as the Wilder parents finish dressing and head up the passageway. The combined strength of the 17-year-olds still proves to be insufficient, but as Hernandez hears footsteps, she becomes afraid and her super-strength kicks in, allowing the group to escape.[159][14]
The group agrees to trust Wilder's idea
Continuing to flee, Alex Wilder tells his friends to head to the guest room while he runs elsewhere, struck by an idea. Minoru tells him that she trusts him and they go ahead. Meanwhile, Catherine and Geoffrey reach the top of the passageway. In the guest room, Karolina Dean, Chase Stein, and Gert Yorkes each discuss potential rational explanations for their parents' behavior, but find flaws in each other's theories. Minoru suggests that they need to accept that their parents are murderers, having killed Gonzalez. Meanwhile, Wilder arrives at the mansion's fuse box.[159][14]
Alex Wilder turns off the lights
Alex Wilder begins flicking the switches on the fuse box to cut the power. Minoru watches behind Dean as the power in Geoffrey Wilder's office shuts off, putting Geoffrey and Catherine, who have reached the office, into darkness. Alex then switches off the lights in the secret hall, the outside decoration lights, and finally the guest room lights, confusing his friends.[159][14]
Alex Wilder returns, and explains that he cut the lights so that their parents think there was simply a power-cut, and that that is what caused the flash of light. Wilder's parents approach the teenagers, trying to discern whether they had seen anything that they should not have, but find the group playing Twister and acting as friendly as they always used to.[159][14]
Geoffrey Wilder talks to Victor Stein about the Box
The members of PRIDE are disheartened, expressing their sadness at the uncomfortable sacrifice they had to make, with Geoffrey Wilder calling it the hardest yet. They are relieved, however, that it is the last one they will ever have to make.[159][14]
The teenagers do not know what to believe, not wanting to admit that their parents are murderers. They take a look at Molly Hernandez's picture, but find it too blurry to clear up any questions.[159][14]
Karolina's father, Frank Dean, looks at his wife's calendar at the Church of Gibborim Executive Office, trying to find anything untoward to explain her recent lack of interest in him. He looks at that day: Friday 8th, and the following days, but finds nothing suspicious.[159][14]
Victor Stein finds out that Gonzalez is still alive
Every member of the PRIDE except Victor Stein leaves the hall to reunite with their children. Stein is angry to discover, once the group have left, that Destiny Gonzalez, has not, in fact, dematerialized, and is still in the box.[159][14]
All the PRIDE families congregate upstairs, with the parents continuing the pretence that they held a charity meeting and the children maintaining that they had an innocent and friendly evening.[159][14]
As everyone start to leave the house, Alex Wilder goes to find Nico Minoru in the bathroom. Minoru confesses that she does not want to go home because of what happened with her sister, and how she always notices her being missing. Wilder promises her that she will never be alone.[159][14]
Geoffrey Wilder tells Alex that he saw sparks between him and Minoru
After the Minoru family leave, Geoffrey Wilder tells his son that he thinks he saw a possible romance between him and Nico. Reluctant to reply, Alex simply shuffles off to bed.[159][14]
Frank Dean tries to enter Leslie's private meditation room, believing that his wife might be hiding something there, but he is stopped by Leslie's assistant, Vaughn Kaye.[159][14]
Gert Yorkes sings to Molly Hernandez in bed, as they cannot sleep. Wilder sends out a text to his friends, asking to meet the next day at 10, and Minoru, Stein, and Dean all receive it. Dean texts Destiny Gonzalez to ask if she's alright, and to her surprise, someone starts to reply.[159][14]
The Yorkeses' Deinonychus walks around in her environment
Geoffrey Wilder feels bad for making another sacrifice, but is comforted by his wife, who tells him to go to bed. Before leaving, he stumbles upon Molly Hernandez's hairpin near the entrance to the passageway, leaving him suspicious that the children might indeed have found their secret.[159][14]
9th
Molly Hernandez starts looking for her hairpin, which she lost while escaping the Wilders' basement, desperate to find it because it was a gift from her mother. As she searches, she accidentally uses her powers again. Hernandez tries to tell her adoptive sister about her abilities, but before she is able to, Yorkes tells her that she thinks Hernandez is having panic attacks. Hernandez decides she will have to tell Yorkes another time.[160][159][31]
Karolina Dean tries to meditate, listening to her mother's relaxation CD. Leslie enters abruptly to talk to her, but Karolina is distracted as she sees social media messages from Chase Stein's friend, calling him a "dead man" after a feud. Dean does not realize that the feud was over Stein stopping them sexually abusing her, not remembering the events of the party the night before.[160][159][31]
The group of friends reunite at the beach, and Dean reveals to the group that she has received a message from Destiny Gonzalez. However, it was not about her being locked in the capsule, but a friendly message about being on a trip with the church in London, with a picture of her in front of Elizabeth Tower. The others are confused, sure that they had seen Gonzalez being killed by their parents. Alex Wilder proposes that they investigate and suggests Stein should try to find out more about the light box. Meanwhile, Wilder says that he will further investigate the secret room in the basement, as Nico Minoru states that she will study her mother's magical staff. Hernandez mentions that there is a "monster" in the basement that she discovered the night before, and that they should investigate it, but the others do not believe her. As they leave to investigate, Karolina Dean approaches Stein to ask about what happened at the party, but he assures her there is nothing to worry about.[160][159][31]
Victor Stein is working in his laboratory when he stats hallucinating Destiny Gonzalez, asking him to let her go. Caring about her husband's health, Janet Stein asks if she can help, but he only asks her for her to support his work.[160][159][31]
Tina and Robert Minoru surprises Stacey and Dale Yorkes with a small party in their laboratory to celebrate the fact that the Synnergy Serum has appeared on the cover of the American Journal of Experimental Medicine. Tina states that she expects pharmaceutical companies to make offers for the serum, but Dale prefers to turn it over to the United States Armed Forces for the reprogramming of terrorists.[160][159][31]
As they leave the building, the Minorus decide to have a date together later to discuss their marriage.[160][159][31]
Chase Stein and Gert Yorkes explore Victor Stein's laboratory. Yorkes discovers a pair of X-ray glasses before they stumble upon the Dematerialization Box. When they use the glasses to see inside of the box, they find it empty, so Stein suggests that they leave, having the information they need. Yorkes suggests to Stein that her parents may have taken Destiny Gonzalez to the basement that Hernandez had mentioned.[160][159][31]
Tina and Robert Minoru invite Nico to join them at the restaurant, but Nico encourages them to go without her and talk alone, to help strengthen their relationship. Nico also has an ulterior motive, however, wanting to be left alone so she can investigate her mother's staff.[160][159][31]
Catherine and Geoffrey Wilder discuss the possibility that Molly Hernandez might have seen something of their ritual the night before, and Catherine suggests using the Synnergy Serum on Hernandez as a precaution, because if she has seen something, it will make her forget. Geoffrey opposes this idea, pointing out how Frank Dean, Karolina's father, ended up confused and unintelligent after they used it on him. They conclude to talk to Hernandez first and ascertain whether she knows anything.[160][159][31]
Catherine Wilder approaches Hernandez at a cafeteria. She starts to question her and Hernandez becomes nervous, excusing herself to go to the bathroom. Her powers kick in and she breaks one of the walls to escape.[160][159][31]
Alex Wilder tries to investigate the passageway in his home while talking to his father on the phone. He manages to get it to open and asks how long it will be until his father gets home, but is surprised when Geoffrey replies that he is already in the house. Alex panics as he struggles to make the passageway close again and has to leave the study, deciding to attempt to slow his father from entering.[160][159][31]
Catherine Wilder calls Geoffrey to tell him she is sure, from Hernandez's behavior, that the teenager saw something, and that she wants to use the Synnergy Serum to erase her memory. Geoffrey reluctantly agrees that it is necessary. Catherine goes looking for Hernandez outside, but is surprised to find her easily, asleep against the cafeteria wall.[160][159][31]
Geoffrey enters his study despite Alex's attempts to slow him, but to Alex's relief, the passageway has closed again by the time he walks in.[160][159][31]
Molly Hernandez wakes in Catherine Wilder's car and Wilder questions her further. Knowing that Wilder is aware she is lying, Hernandez improvises by pretending to reveal the truth: that yes, she lied, but because the truth was that she was in the studio looking for alcohol for the others. Wilder believes her, and Hernandez begins to enquire in return about her deceased parents. Wilder promises to give her more information on them in the near future.[160][159][31]
Nico Minoru takes the opportunity to investigate her mother's magic staff, but she cannot open the showcase it is kept in. Looking through her mother's desk for a hint on how to open it, Minoru accidentally triggers the mechanism to open the case and she reaches for the staff. The staff pricks her finger and, detecting Tina Minoru's DNA, activates. Nico also finds her sister's old diary in Tina's desk and begins to read it, and as she does so, she is surprised as snow begins to fall around her inside the room.[160][159][31]
At dinner, Tina Minoru excessively tries to flirt with her husband, Robert. He does not react positively, though, feeling strange about her sudden change of attitude, after being so distant over the last 2 years. He abruptly leaves, too uncomfortable with the date.[160][159][31]
In the Church of Gibborim, Karolina Dean tries to call Destiny Gonzalez, but receives no response. Staff member Vaughn Kaye finds her and when Dean asks about Gonzalez, he tells her that he understands she has gone to London, reaffirming Gonzalez's text. Dean also tries to subtly ask whether Kaye has had anything strange happen to him after removing his bracelet, but he says he has not, making Dean wonder further about the colors she had seen. Before leaving, she notices a painting done by her grandfather, depicting a colorful woman with a resemblance to what she had seen the night before.[160][159][31]
Alex Wilder visits Nico Minoru, who called him for help with the falling snow, which will not stop. Wilder tries to examine the staff but, when it burns his hand, he drops it, finding that this ends up stopping the snow.[160][159][31]
While buying some food, the Yorkeses discuss whether they should tell their daughters about planning to move to a ranch, hoping to escape from PRIDE.[160][159][31]
Chase Stein and Gert Yorkes walk outside the Yorkes' house. They talk briefly as they try to discover what is in the basement using the X-Ray glasses.[160][159][31]
Nico Minoru and Alex Wilder frantically clean up the snow to try and finish before Tina gets home. They go to hide into Nico's room as Tina arrives, but Nico sees no way of smuggling Wilder out, so instead has him lie on a bed so she can pretend to be getting intimate with him. When Tina then enters, she scalds the two and tells Wilder to leave, which he does, and Nico accompanies him to his car. As he says goodbye, Wilder leans in and kisses Nico, taking her by surprise.[160][159][31]
Robert Minoru confesses to Janet Stein that he feels he is ready to start a new life with her, but Stein is hesitant, not wanting to negatively affect her son, Chase.[160][159][31]
Liberation of the Yorkeses' Dinosaur: Gert Yorkes takes Chase Stein to her basement and opens the door. As soon as they open it, they are shocked when a dinosaur hits them and flees. Yorkes starts talking to herself to calm down, and Stein is surprised to see that this seems to cause the dinosaur to relax too. However, it then runs again when a car noise scares it away, as the Yorkes parents have arrived.[160][159][31]
Tina Minoru calls Dean to turn on WHiH World News, and the two of them watch as the channel reports that Destiny Gonzalez's body has been found, realizing that Victor Stein killed her after the sacrifice failed. Dean's face falls as she tells Minoru sadly that they will have to make another sacrifice.[160][159][31]
Nico Minoru is continuing to look through her sister's diary when she receives a video call from her friends. They tell her about the news reporting how Destiny Gonzalez's corpse had shown up on the beach. Gert Yorkes decides not to tell them about the dinosaur. Some of the group begin to think that their parents might be murderers, while the others feel that they want to wait before judging, hoping for another explanation. Chase Stein suggests that they protect themselves, just in case, before ending the video call.[161][159][162]
Alex Wilder goes to check his father's office. He finds that the coaster mechanism to open the secret passage no longer works, so he starts to search his father's desk. Wilder discovers a drawer with a double-bottom and opens it up, finding hidden money and a gun, which he chooses to take for himself.[161][159][162]
11th
Having kidnapped a young woman to use as the new sacrifice, Victor Stein drives her to the other members of PRIDE, gagged in the back of a van.[163][159][162]
Dale and Stacey Yorkes discuss the whereabouts of the dinosaur, worried about where it could have escaped to. They tell their daughters that the animal they have lost is in fact a hedgehog, not aware that Hernandez and Gert know better, and say they will take a drone to find it. Getting to the car, Stacey suddenly receives a message from PRIDE calling for an urgent meeting, but the Yorkeses decide to ignore it and look for their Deinonychus, considering it more important.[163][159][162]
Stein arrives at the Wilder Mansion, where Geoffrey Wilder and Robert Minoru await him. When he goes to show them the kidnapped young woman for the sacrifice, he discovers that the back of his van is empty, as she has managed to escape while he drove.[163][159][162]
Nico Minoru meets with Alex Wilder before class. She tells him that she is sure that her sister, Amy, cannot have committed suicide, because her diary has shown how happy she was. Minoru proposes going to the police, but Wilder is not sure that this is the best option, at least for the moment. Without his support, Minoru decides nonetheless that she will go to the police alone.[163][159][162]
Victor Stein speaks with the other members of PRIDE. He believes that the headaches he is experiencing are side-effects of medicine for malaria, and continues to believe that he is at fault for the failure of the Dematerialization Box. Geoffrey Wilder, meanwhile, decides that his people will catch the girl, but Leslie Dean arrives and says that "he" is very sick and they need a new sacrifice urgently, even if it is a homeless person or a prostitute. Robert Minoru and Stein are chosen to find the new sacrifice. The group also point out the lack of assistance from the Yorkes parents and consider reminding them of their promise from years ago.[163][159][162]
Chase Stein tells Gert Yorkes that he does not understand her decision to hide the dinosaur, but Yorkes tells him that it is because she does not wish for her parents to get into trouble.[163][159][162]
Chase Stein's peers, whom he beat on Friday night to prevent them from sexually abusing Karolina Dean, approach him, asking for an apology for his actions at the party. He is appalled that they have not considered the severity of their actions and refuses to apologize for doing the right thing. Another fight breaks out between them until Dean arrives and a professor appears, sending them all to his office.[163][159][162]
Eiffel approaches Karolina Dean, blaming her for the fighting between the boys and shaming her for what happened to her. Dean does not remember anything from the party after passing out and starts to feel bad, doubting her self-assurance and belief that she had stayed safe at the party, worrying something unwanted had happened to her. Yorkes goes to her to comfort her.[163][159][162]
Leslie Dean visits the sick grey man. He asks her to keep her warm and she obliges, deciding to take off her clothes and lie down next to him in bed, naked. When she leaves the room a little later, she is met by her husband Frank, who asks for an explanation of where she has been for the last 3 days. She tells him to trust her and says she has been praying for him, believing he is ready to reach "Ultra" level in the Church of Gibborim.[163][159][162]
In the lacrosse bus, the coach addresses Chase Stein and the rest of the team, telling them not to throw everything away because of what happened between them.[163][159][162]
Three other students approach Yorkes, asking to join her feminism club. Karolina Dean tries to talk to Yorkes, but the new members of the group show their detest of her and she leaves. Yorkes walks off in search of Dean.[163][159][162]
Yorkes reaches Dean and they talk, with Dean expressing her thought that the PRIDE ritual might just be a higher level ceremony in the Church of Gibborim. When they come across Alex Wilder, they tell him about this theory and ask him to join them to go to Dean's house and try to gather more information. Wilder decides to find Nico Minoru instead, wanting to support her, just as Yorkes and Dean support each other.[163][159][162]
Gert Yorkes and Karolina Dean find Leslie Dean's laptop, and looking through it, they discover an encrypted folder called "Ultra". They copy the folder to a USB so Alex Wilder can attempt to crack into it at a later date. The duo are suddenly scared when the doorbell rings, worrying that Leslie has returned, but they are relieved to instead find Chase Stein. Stein asks to talk to Karolina alone, while Yorkes leaves to find Wilder, feeling dejected at being unwanted.[163][159][162]
At the police station, Alex Wilder reunites with Nico Minoru to back her as they talk to the police. Minoru is pleasantly surprised at his change of mind.[163][159][162]
Chase Stein reveals to Karolina Dean that he has left the lacrosse team, not willing to spend time with the people he previously called his friends after their actions. He also tells her what happened on Friday night at the party, but reassures her that he got there before anything had happened. She thanks him and asks to go back to his house. Arriving at the Steins' mansion, she tells him that she wants to show him something. Dean carefully removes her bracelet and lights up with color once again, this time staying conscious. Stein is shocked, but soon expresses how impressed he is and reaches out to touch her hand.[163][159][162]
While they wait to be dealt witch, Minoru notices that Victor Stein, her father, and a detective are also in the station. She takes Wilder to quickly flee the station and, once outside, she explains to him that the detective with Stein and Robert is the same one she saw come to the house when her sister had died 2 years ago. Wilder believes that their parents might also control the police, realizing that it is not safe to report anything to them. He shows Nico that he has his father's gun, and justifies it with Chase Stein's words, that they have to protect themselves.[163][159][162]
Tina Minoru talks to her bodyguard Kincaid in her office, discussing the Yorkeses. He reveals what he has found out for her: that the Yorkeses are intending to move somewhere far away. He mentions that they do not look like bad people, but Minoru dismisses this, not wanting his judgment. She pays him for his services.[163][159][162]
As the Yorkes parents cannot find their deinonychus, Stacey tries to convince Dale that they should just run away anyway, but he highlights the problems of what will happen if the deinonychus is found, what will happen if they do not get to sell the Synnergy Serum, and what will happen with the girls if they have to suddenly uproot.[163][159][162]
Meanwhile, Chase Stein leaves Karolina Dean's house. AS he goes, he assures her that she should not be scared of the colorful lights, because he thinks that she looks beautiful.[163][159][162]
Molly Hernandez is writing an email to Catherine Wilder, asking about what happened to her biological parents when, suddenly, she hears a noise. When she goes to investigate, she finds the deinonychus, and it leaps onto her. Her fear activates her powers and she kicks it away with super strength and runs, but the dinosaur chases her. Deciding she has to stand up to it and fight, she readies herself, just as Gert Yorkes comes through the door and orders the dinosaur to stop. It backs down, again responding to Yorkes in the same way it had on Saturday. She practices her connection with the dinosaur until their parents arrive home.[163][159][162]
After locking up the dinosaur, the Yorkes parents confess to the girls that they were lying before to hide the dinosaur's existence, but say that they created her to protect the two of them. Tina Minoru knocks on the door and interrupts them. Stacey and Dale reluctantly let her in, and Minoru goes to speak with them in private. She expresses her anger at them for not avoiding the PRIDE meeting earlier that day, and reveals to them that she is aware of the Hernandez Ranch they want to escape to, telling them not to go, and instead focus on their work for PRIDE.[163][159][162]
Chase Stein is working on creating his special gauntlet invention when his father, Victor, arrives. He throws Chase's invention to the ground, angering his son, but Victor is, in fact, curious. He becomes interested in the idea and offers Chase the option that they could work on it together. Happy that his father is not threatening him and that they can actually work together on something, Chase prepares to tell him all about the invention. First, Victor asks him what he intends on calling them, and Chase replies, "Fistigons".[163][159][162]
In the cafeteria, Wilder and Nico Minoru look at the files of several of the runaways, including Destiny Gonzalez, searching for a link to Amy, but find that none of the files appear to have any connection with Nico's sister. They come to realize, however, that their parents having been choosing one runaway young person every year to use for their ritual, and that the one who chooses and proposes the people is Leslie Dean, Karolina's mother. A waiter calls out to inform the customers that a car's alarm is going off outside, and Wilder recognizes the description of a silver Prius to be his. He decides to take a look at his car while Nico calls Karolina to let her know what they have discovered.[163][159][162]
Karolina Dean receives the call from Minoru as she reads the Book of Gibborim. Minoru tells her what they have found out about Leslie, and Karolina is shocked. She walks outside and watches her mother, horrified to look at her with a new understanding of her true nature.[163][159][162]
Kidnapping of Alex Wilder: Realizing Wilder has been outside for abnormally long, Minoru decides to go and check on him. However, she steps outside only just in time to see him being pulled into a car by a stranger, who kidnaps him and driving off.[163][159][162]
Alex Wilder sits uncomfortably in the back of the car as Darius Davis, his captor, drives. Davis tells Wilder that he wants to show him the kind of man his father really is.[159][40]
Nico Minoru is very nervous about Wilder's kidnapping, but Karolina Dean goes to her and tries to comfort her, while blaming her mother and church for all the bad things that have happened lately. Soon, Gert Yorkes and Molly Hernandez arrive. Not knowing where to go first, Minoru decides to try using her mother's staff to guide them. She takes it from her pocket and extends it, then asks it to locate Wilder. The staff responds by lighting the heat signature of the car that took Wilder, showing them a path. Yorkes tells them that Chase Stein is not answering her messages, so Minoru decides not to wait any longer, and that they should go to find Wilder without him.[159][40]
Chase Stein keeps working with his father on building his Fistigons. Victor apologizes to him for his aggressive behavior, and confesses that working with Chase reminds him of when he himself was young, and had more pure ideas. In addition, he reveals to his son that when he was young, he thought of an invention that he never finished perfecting, and suggests that they could return to that project and work on it together. Chase's cell phone continually rings as Yorkes tries to alert him of the situation, but he does not hear it.[159][40]
Davis wants to show Alex Wilder the territory his father, Geoffrey owns. He asks for Wilder's cell phone, and Wilder realizes that he still has his father's gun on him. Getting out of the car, he notices that they are outside Davis' grandmother's house. Davis tells Wilder how, 18 years ago, he confessed to Geoffrey's crime to clear his name, and that in return Geoffrey had promised that he and his grandmother have a settled life - but that Geoffrey had not kept his side of the bargain. Davis then makes a video call to Geoffrey Wilder and asks for $1 million in exchange for his son. He says he will wait for him in the park, and that he has one hour.[159][40]
When Catherine Wilder asks Geoffrey who was on the phone, he lies to his wife, saying that the caller was merely mistaken. As he leaves the house, he calls Flores and asks him for three men and a camouflaged car.[159][40]
Meanwhile, Karolina Dean drives the group at high speed, following the heat signature to get to Alex Wilder. Chase Stein, still at home, sees the missed calls from Yorkes and calls her back. He agrees to meet with the group and picks up his newly finished Fistigons to take with him.[159][40]
Wilder talks to one of Davis' men, Andre Compton, who is only a teenager, the same age as him and his friends. Compton reveals that they found Alex after cloning Geoffrey's cell phone. Suddenly, Geoffrey arrives on the scene and starts firing at Darius Davis' men. Compton takes aim at Geoffrey, but Alex takes out his father's gun and shoots Compton to save his father. Davis bundles Alex back into the car and drives away, but Alex's friends catch up with Davis' car and decide to follow close behind.[159][40]
When the cars have to stop at a traffic light, Minoru tries to destroy Davis' car's engine using the Staff of One, but is unsuccessful. Molly Hernandez decides to get out and uses her strength to lift Davis' car from behind and stop them from driving off. Wilder and Davis get out of the car and Karolina Dean uses her powers to momentarily blind Davis, allowing Wilder to rejoin his friends. Darius Davis aims his gun at them when Chase Stein suddenly arrives, using his Fistigons to blast Davis. As Davis prepares to retaliate, Nico Minoru uses the staff to generate a protective field around the group, and as he shoots at them, the bullets rebound off it. Realizing he cannot win, Davis reluctantly decides to escape.[159][40]
Alex Wilder reunites with his father and tells him that Darius Davis has fled. Geoffrey asks him to go home by bus and tells him that he will take the seriously injured Andre Compton to a place where he can be treated. Alex does not believe him and yells at him, reproaching his father's attitude and lies, but Geoffrey firmly orders him to leave, scaring Alex away. As Alex leaves, Geoffrey calls his wife, Catherine Wilder, and tells her to gather a PRIDE meeting for that night.[159][40]
Leslie Dean tries to comfort the sick man in the bed. She expresses her desire to help him, but is aware that she cannot and is running out of time. He responds, telling her that he loves her.[159][40]
The friends go together to a café and celebrate their success. Alex Wilder tell the others about Andre Compton, and how he feels they need to save him, as he thinks that their parents will do the same to him as they did to Destiny Gonzalez. The others are reluctant to leave and change the subject, talking about their superpowers and Yorkes' dinosaur, but Alex Wilder continues to insist on trying to help Compton.[159][40]
The group get back to Alex Wilder's home and go to the passageway entrance. Molly Hernandez uses force to open the secret door so the group can enter.[159][40]
Meanwhile, PRIDE help Andre heal so he can be more useful for the ritual, then prepare him for sacrifice.[159][40]
The group of friends get to the ritual room where they had first seen their parents performing the Rite of Blood, but to Wilder's frustration, they find that PRIDE are not there.[159][40]
Minoru tries to comfort Wilder, who blames himself for Compton being sacrificed, having severely injured him when he shot him. He and Minoru kiss, but are interrupted by Karolina Dean, who tells them that Stein has found a hidden camera in the library.[159][40]
Stein shows them the camera and wonders if there could be a good reason for their parents' behaviour. Wilder points out that since the camera is not turned on, their parents may have only used it in their rituals. Realizing that the camera would upload to a server, he plans to follow the IP and find out where the footage is stored. However, her discovers that it is impossible to hack the server, as it is part of Wizard, the company run by Nico Minoru's parents and the most resistant network on the planet. She suggests that they need to find a way to get the videos as actual evidence against their parents, but Chase Stein empathizes with his father, believing that he has changed and that there must be a good reason.[159][40]
Geoffrey Wilder arrives home, and Alex refuses to let him avoid the subject of Andre Compton, asking his father where he is. Geoffrey says not to worry, but Alex tells him that he is coming to realize he is not a good person. Geoffrey becomes angry and shouts at Alex, but he stops when he sees that he is frightening his son. Alex decides to leave nonetheless, without forgiving him. Catherine Wilder then approaches her husband and tells him that she wants him to get rid of Darius Davis, as he is a problem.[159][40]
In her bedroom, Karolina becomes angry at the lies from the Church of Gibborim that she was indoctrinated with her whole life. She throws the books aside and starts to smash framed pictures from her time growing up at the church.[159][40]
Gert Yorkes and Molly Hernandez visit their deinonychus, who remains calm in Yorkes' presence as always. The sisters discuss their parents, and Yorkes says that she believes their parents are just bad people.[159][40]
Nico Minoru tries to return the staff to where it was, but her mother catches her in the act. However, Tina does not become angry, instead telling her that they are the only ones capable of using the Staff of One and that she can learn. Nico tries to give back to her, but her mother says to keep it for a while.[159][40]
In the Stein Mansion laboratory, Victor Stein shows Chase his completed invention: A machine that bends light back on itself to receive visual messages from the future. When he asks the machine to be shown Los Angeles in the future, it does not respond, and Victor becomes angry, throwing the machine to the ground and then falling to the ground with a headache. He confesses to his son that the headache is being caused by brain cancer, and that he has not told Janet, but he tells Chase he is sure he will find a way to beat it. The father and son embrace before leaving the room, not noticing that the machine has in fact begun to work, and is showing Los Angeles crumbling in an earthquake.[159][40]
Frank Dean is informed that despite his efforts, he has failed to go "ultra".[159][40]
Leslie Dean returns to the meditation room, where the sick man, Jonah is now healed. Jonah tells her he feels fantastic, as he always does after a sacrifice. He tells her that when he was dying, his greatest fear was not, in fact, death, but rather dying without ever looking his daughter in the eyes. He asks to meet his daughter, Karolina Dean, and Leslie agrees, albeit worried about his intentions.[159][40]
15th
Leslie Dean tells Jonah she disapproves of his idea to attend the PRIDE school fundraising gala. She explains that she wants him to stay with her, alone at the Dean Mansion. However, Jonah insists on wanting to meet his daughter, and Dean reluctantly agrees, telling him that it at least has to be conducted in the right way.[159][164]
16th
Alex Wilder calls Nico Minoru to ask for help in hacking the Wizard servers during the PRIDE gala that night. Minoru says that she is not sure that is a good idea, however. She is visited by her mother, Tina, who offers to teach her how to use the staff. Tina explains that there is a connection between her nerve pathways and the staff that allows it to work, altering their surroundings. Nico points out that the staff seemed to need a sample of her blood to work, and Tina informs her that they created the staff in Wizard's laboratories with special technology, and that it was designed to only work for her DNA, which Nico has a sufficient amount of. Tina tells her that if she had wanted the staff or her sister's diary, she could have asked for them and didn't have to steal. This causes the conversation to turn to Amy, and how her diary seemed too happy for her to have ended her own life, but Tina insists that sadly, they cannot know what really goes through the mind of a loved one.[159][164]
Karolina Dean talks to Frank about her maternal grandfather and his drawings, discussing how they feature some strange creatures whose skins emit a colorful aura, and how she does not know whether to believe if the story the Church of Gibborim told her about beings of light. Karolina then asks him why he is not in PRIDE, but Frank simply says that PRIDE is just one of her mother's things.[159][164]
Victor Stein reviews the Fistigons with his son, Chase, but he decides to leave soon after, saying he has some matters to attend to. Victor then dons a helmet which allows him to listen in on his wife through her cell phone microphone. He hears her conversation with Robert Minoru, and her complaining to Minoru about how he, Victor, mistreats her, saying that she does not know how to leave him. Minoru offers Janet a gun, just in case she needs it, and Victor is horrified at what he has heard.[159][164]
The group debate on how to act next. Nico Minoru, despite having doubts and suggesting that they talk to their parents again, decides to agree to the plan and go to the gala to hack the Wizard servers with the others. The group swear to each other that they agree to releasing the video, working against their parents.[159][164]
Werner von Strucker has a therapy session with Levi Van Kempen, who wants him to show progress so he is not prescribed the powerful drug Thorazine. However, von Strucker avoids discussing his traumatic experiences, telling Van Kempen that he has been picking up on the therapist's personal information to threaten him. He attacks Van Kempen, stabbing him in the hand with a pen in the hope that the doctors, seeing his violence, will give him the Thorazine. He is restrained and taken away.[165][140]
Alex Wilder dresses for the gala but struggles with his tie. His father tries to help him, but he rejects Geoffrey's help, still angry with him.[159][164]
At the Minoru Mansion, Tina and Nico talk before the gala. Tina shows interest in the relationship between Nico and Alex Wilder, and, to Nico's surprise, approves it. Nico then leaves the house to go to Dean Mansion and see Karolina Dean, and Tina tells her husband, Robert, that she is excited to have a new start in the family. She kisses Robert but he is uncomfortable, having fallen in love with Janet Stein.[159][164]
Karolina Dean and Nico Minoru get ready for the gala. They start to talk, and Dean says that she has come to the realization that she has been lying to herself and that she now knows how she wants to be, and who she wants to be with. Minoru assumes she is just talking about abandoning the church, but Dean has also come to a realization about her sexual orientation, finding herself to be lesbian and in love with Minoru. Just as she locks eyes with Minoru, Molly Hernandez and Gert Yorkes arrive, breaking the moment. The group of friends together get into a limousine to leave for the gala, driven by a friendly elderly man.[159][164]
Arriving at the gala, Hernandez becomes worried as she realizes that if their parents are sent to prison, she will not be able to learn more about her biological parents from Catherine Wilder.[159][164]
Leslie Dean tries to comfort Frank at the gala, who is saddened for not having passed the test to go Ultra. He tells her that he will attempt to learn from his failure and focus on his true passions in life, just as Jonah appears. He introduces himself to Frank and asks if he can take his wife for a moment, since he wants to meet someone she can introduce him to. Frank is uncomfortable with Jonah and his assertive tone with Leslie, but steps back. At that moment, he has a flash of a memory, recalling vaguely having walked in on Leslie and Jonah having sex, but not understanding where this memory comes from.[159][164]
Gert Yorkes realizes that Dean is in love with Minoru and decides to ask Dean about it, telling her that she supports her. Dean, however, becomes bitter and defensive, replying by suggesting that Yorkes is only saying this in hopes that Dean being lesbian would give her an opportunity with Chase Stein. She then approaches Stein and asks him to get her a drink, to further her outward insistence that she is happy with him.[159][164]
As the others proceed with their roles on the plan, Molly Hernandez texts to Catherine Wilder looking for information from her parents as she agreed to inform her.[159][164]
In the upper floors of the Wizard building, Yorkes begins to reluctantly flirt with a security guard to distract him, talking to him about the book he is reading, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Alex Wilder and Nico Minoru use the distraction to enter the elevator without being seen.[159][164]
Meanwhile, the Yorkes parents notice Jonah's presence and become worried, believing that he is at the gala because he distrusts them.[159][164]
As Leslie Dean and Jonah look for her, Karolina steals a bottle of vodka and leaves the main gala hall. Leslie and Jonah ask Chase Stein if he knows her whereabouts and Stein says he will look for her. Unbeknownst to him, he is followed by Molly Hernandez.[159][164]
Wilder and Minoru arrive at Wizard's server room, and Wilder manages to hack the computers with his laptop. When they find the exact server needed to download the files, Wilder realizes that the ports will not allow him to connect. Minoru suggests that they try instead from her mother's office.[159][164]
Chase Stein tries to comfort Dean, but she continues to drink the vodka she took, trying to get drunk and feel less upset about her situation.[159][164]
Gert Yorkes notices a Star Wars arcade game and begins talking to the security guard about it to keep him distracted.[159][164]
Nico Minoru and Alex Wilder enter Tina Minoru's office, with Wilder guessing the password, to Nico's surprise. Getting to Tina's desk, they realize that they need a sample of Nico's blood to access the servers, as it is the only way to download the video. Nico gives it, and Wilder starts downloading the video immediately, hoping to get out as soon as possible, before Tina can return.[159][164]
Kincaid comes across Gert Yorkes and the security guard and begins to reprimand the guard on behalf of Tina Minoru, as he is not doing his duty. However, Kincaid ends up noticing the Star Wars game and becoming interested in it himself.[159][164]
On the roof of the building, while talking to Stein, Dean accidentally knocks the vodka bottle over the edge. It begins to fall and she drunkenly tries to catch it, but in the process, her inebriated state causes her to lose her balance, and she falls over the side herself. Stein is terrified and goes to catch her, but only managed to grab her bracelet and it slips off her wrist and she falls. However, the bracelet coming off allows Dean to use her powers, which activate, causing her to shine with colors again and suddenly start levitating, saving her life. She lifts herself back onto the roof, beginning to calm down after her near-death experience. As soon as she's safe, Stein suddenly kisses her, taking her by surprise. However, Dean is quietly uncertain of her feelings about the kiss. Unbeknown to them, Hernandez is watching them and has witnessed the kiss.[159][164]
Chase Stein and Karolina Dean return to the main hall, where Tina and Robert Minoru are giving a speech. Tina says she appreciates the support of her husband and Victor Stein, who at that moment feels another slight jab of pain in his head. Stein catches the microphone and erratically decides to publicly reveal his wife's affair wife with Robert Minoru and his awareness of it, then falls to the ground, collapsing due to his illness. The adults all take Stein to a private room, where Chase reveals that his father has a tumor. Both Victor and Chase have Janet leave the room, after the stress she has been causing her husband. The members of PRIDE realize that they need Jonah's help, and Leslie Dean asks Jonah for help to save Victor. He scolds her for not managing to stay on top of what is happening in the group and keep them together, but agrees to help.[159][164]
As Wilder's download nears its completion, Gert Yorkes texts to warn them that Tina Minoru is approaching her office. The teenagers hide from her, but are surprised when she returns to hear her crying - having discovered her husband's infidelity from Stein's outburst. She soon leaves without spotting Wilder or Nico.[159][164]
Jonah arrives at the private room and chooses to inject Stein with a serum based on the genetics of someone with an extraordinary immune system. Dale Yorkes subtly takes the vial Jonah used to keep it for his own purposes.[159][164]
Kincaid tries to flirt with Gert Yorkes, and Yorkes reluctantly decides she has to let him do so briefly, to keep him distracted as Alex Wilder and Nico Minoru slip out from Tina's office.[159][164]
Wilder and Minoru arrive at the main hall, and Wilder asks her if she regrets ever finding out about their parents. After seeing her mother crying and being reminded of her humanity, she is hesitant, but chooses instead to question Wilder on how he had known her mother's password. He claims he simply guessed it, but Minoru does not believe him. At that moment, Chase Stein appears and tells them about his father revealing an affair between Robert and Janet, which Nico is stunned by.[159][164]
Victor Stein returns to the gala and goes to his family, coming across to them as strangely happy, as if he does not remember what has happened or suddenly does not care. He hugs his wife and son and tells them that everything is going to be fine.[159][164]
Jonah finally meets his daughter, Karolina Dean, but they are interrupted by Frank Dean. Karolina leaves and Jonah decides to have a moment alone with Frank to speak, telling him that he has in face passed going Ultra, just without knowing it. Leslie sees them and worries about Frank's memory, but Dale Yorkes reassures her that Frank cannot remember Jonah after they used the serum on him.[159][164]
Molly Hernandez reluctantly tells her adoptive sister that she saw Chase Stein and Karolina Dean kissing, and Yorkes becomes angry and upset, leaving the gala. Hernandez then approaches Catherine Wilder to ask for information about her parents urgently. Wilder asks why Hernandez had texted her earlier saying that time was "running out" to get the information, and Hernandez replies saying Wilder should not worry, then, scared, accidentally says that she "didn't see a thing" - unintentionally giving away that she is aware Wilder is worried she saw something the night of the Rite of Blood, therefore giving away that she did in fact see something. Wilder is shocked, but Hernandez's adoptive mother, Stacey Yorkes arrives and takes her daughter away. Once they are gone, Catherine tells her husband, Geoffrey, that she thinks she made a mistake, and that Hernandez was in the basement the night of the failed sacrifice, and saw it all.[159][164]
17th
Phil Coulson visits Yo-Yo Rodriguez to let her know that as soon as they have the necessary resources, Leo Fitz is going to make her a pair of prosthetic arms. He asks that she rest in the meantime, and Alphonso Mackenzie reassures her that he will continue to love her through everything.[165][140]
Fitz approaches Coulson and says he has news. Given the festive season, Coulson asks with little hope if the news is "tidings of comfort and joy", but Fitz affirms his suspicions in informing him that it is bad news: the rift will reopen at some point soon, as the current solution is only temporary. He explains that they need to acquire more gravitonium to close it permanently.[165][140]
Daisy Johnson informs the team in the control room that she has been researching what happened to Cybertek and their gravitonium resources, and has found that every Cybertek worker has apparently died in the last 2 years, with their death certificates signed by a man named "Murray Jacobson", whom she has located. The team plan to leave in the dark that night to go after Jacobson and question him, hoping to track down Ian Quinn's lead scientist, Joseph Getty, and find out what happened to the gravitonium.[165][140]
Werner von Strucker wakes up, and is unsure of his surroundings, only aware that he is in some sort of facility. With no one around to guide him, he gets up and wanders the corridors, finding a dining room with food left out. He goes to eat and steals a knife in case he needs to threaten anyone. Ruby Hale walks in, wearing earphones, and he starts to ask her questions. However, she ignores him and walks back out.[165][140]
Coulson's team find "Murray Jacobson" and confront him. He tries to drive away, but the team trap him. He gets out of the car and threatens them with a gun, but Alphonso Mackenzie is surprised to see that Jacobson is his friend from S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, Tony Caine, known by the nickname "Candy Man". Caine lowers his gun and they happily greet each other.[165][140]
Back on Zephyr One, the team find Caine and Mackenzie's academy photos, which the team have a laugh poking fun at. They then get to the matter at hand, and while Caine initially insists he does not know who Getty is, the team explain the apocalyptic stakes of the situation and he understands how important it is that he tell them what has happened. Caine reveals that his job was like the post-World War IIOperation Paperclip, but for the Cybertek workers, allocating them to work in places their expertise can be put to good use while faking their deaths and giving them new identities. He agrees to take them to meet Getty.[165][140]
Deke Shaw bothers Leo Fitz, asking about baseball and rambling about Albert Einstein. Another anomaly flare from the rift then occurs, and Fitz uses the tannoy system to alert everyone and warn them to look out for unusual manifestations and kill them by any means necessary.[165][140]
Jemma Simmons hears commotion from Yo-Yo Rodriguez's room and rushes to check on her, finding that Rodriguez has fallen out of bed, having momentarily forgotten about her dismemberment and tried to get up. She is crying, and Simmons goes to comfort her, but Rodriguez says that everything she was told in the future is coming true and that it cannot be changed.[165][140]
Caine flies with the agents on Zephyr One. He asks Mackenzie what caused him to become more open to violence, and Mackenzie explains that he cannot let the people he loves be hurt anymore. Meanwhile, Daisy Johnson broaches the subject with Coulson of potentially using the Cybertek workers to help find a way to save him. He insists that she not, saying he refuses to end up like John Garrett, and that he does not want a second unnatural extension to his life, but Johnson and Melinda May agree that they cannot give up.[165][140]
18th
Werner von Strucker comes across Ruby Hale again, and she starts talking to him this time. He begins asking her questions, but she says he will have his questions answered when her mother wants them answered. Von Strucker asks if she still has a scar on her forehead and lifts her hair to check, confusing Hale, not understanding how he knows. He explains that he remembers her from his childhood, having played with her when their parents had meetings, and remembered her hitting her head on the kitchen counter. He then suddenly pulls the knife he took from the table on her, grabbing her and putting it to her neck to hold her hostage so he can demand to speak to her mother.[165][140]
Tony Caine takes Alphonso Mackenzie to see Joseph Getty. Caine explains that Getty is trustworthy, having only worked for HYDRA on the threat of his family's lives, and Mackenzie asks him what happened to the gravitonium in 2014. Getty informs him that they shipped it on a boat called the Principia to get it to a facility in the Pacific Ocean, but that the ship sank in a thunderstorm.[165][140]
Fitz uses bathymetric maps and sonar to search for the Principia within a 100-mile radius of the point it last made contact before it sank, but finds nothing and is unsure what else to do. Deke Shaw is fascinated by the ocean they are studying, having never experienced any bodies of water, but begins to bother Fitz, who is irritable from having been awake all night working to help the team and sends him away. Simmons reminds him to be less tough on Shaw, as he is in a completely foreign world, and says he did a good job choosing their wedding rings. They discuss how weird it is being married, and Simmons suggests that they hyphenate their surname.[165][140]
General Hale is brought before Werner von Strucker and he releases Ruby. He tells her he wants nothing to do with HYDRA, but she says what she is building is something new, beyond the HYDRA his father helped build. He continues to refuse her request for his help and says that he does not care if she even kills him, but she insists she will not, and that she will let him go tomorrow. Her Sleeper Mechs take him away, and once he is gone, Hale asks Ruby to gain von Strucker's trust and make him stay and comply.[165][140]
Deke Shaw discovers Twinkies in the pantry, and is enjoying them when he suddenly hears a voice he recognizes from across the room. He inspects the source and finds what appears to be his mother, exactly the voice he had believed it to be, but asserts that she is just an apparition. She ignores this and starts to tell him how happy she is that he has found friends, but begins to speak harshly, saying that he knows if he gets close to someone they will most likely be killed. She is then suddenly impaled with an axe by an apparent Kree Warrior, all in fact being the Fear Dimension's manifestation of Shaw's thoughts about his mother's murder. The warrior attacks him, but he manages to stab it and the manifestation dissolves into smoke. Jemma Simmons arrives and tells him to come back to control, but Shaw frustratedly says that Leo Fitz is unfairly considering him an idiot. However, mid-sentence he comes to a realization about what might have happened to the Principia, and rushes to inform Fitz.[165][140]
Shaw posits to Fitz that with the gravitonium on-board the Principia during a storm, if it got struck by lightning, the element being charged might have lifted the ship miles into the air rather than sinking it. Fitz agrees and goes to build an algorithm of how the air currents would have moved the ship over the years to estimate its location.[165][140]
Coulson, Johnson, May, Mackenzie, and Davis take Tony Caine in Zephyr One to explore Fitz's estimated location for the Principia in the air. Sure enough, they find the ship floating, to Caine's amazement.[165][140]
Werner von Strucker is woken by nightmares of his torture. Ruby Hale visits him in his room, and decides that the best strategy to use is to tell him the truth, explaining her mother's tactics of using her to manipulate him and convince him to help. She then suggests that he stay nonetheless and create new, happy memories to bury his old traumatic ones, before she leaves. Appreciating her honesty, he listens to her and considers her words.[165][140]
Davis, May, and Caine remain on Zephyr One as the others board the Principia to search for its gravitonium. Unbeknown to them, Sleeper Mechs planted by General Hale are activated by their presence.[165][140]
Alphonso Mackenzie finds a small ball of gravitonium, and Deke Shaw advises them over the radio to use a container to box it up, making sure not to touch it themselves. Mackenzie does so, and and Shaw warns them that as soon as they have enclosed it, the gravity field it is generating will begin to dissipate and they will have 90 seconds to escape before the ship falls.[165][140]
The team make their way back to Zephyr One when they are ambushed by the Sleeper Mechs. They fight back, taking down a few of the androids, and Daisy Johnson and Phil Coulson get free of the attackers. Mackenzie tells them to leave while he takes down the remaining androids, and he manages to defeat them using the Shotgun-Axe.[165][140]
Mackenzie gets back to Zephyr One just in time, with a deactivated Sleeper Mech body in tow.[165][140]
Candice Lee informs General Hale that the old Sleeper Mechs on the Principia have been activated, and Hale realizes that S.H.I.E.L.D. have taken the gravitonium.[165][140]
The group say goodbye to Tony Caine, and he promises Melinda May and Alphonso Mackenzie that he will look into the Deathlok programme for them to see if anything can help their determination to save Phil Coulson.[165][140]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez apologizes to Jemma Simmons for her pessimism the day before. Deke Shaw, meanwhile, is coming to inform them that the agents have returned when he overhears Simmons giving Rodriguez advice for her recovery, stating, "The steps you take don't need to be big, they just need to take you in the right direction." Shaw is stunned, recognizing this as an exact phrase that his mother used to use, and had always said she had acquired from her mother, and comes to the realization that this most likely means that Jemma Simmons is his maternal grandmother. In a daze, he eventually manages to communicate the message he came to deliver, and Rodriguez and Simmons go to meet their returning friends.[165][140]
Coulson hands Leo Fitz the gravitonium, and Shaw follows after him to help, muttering under his breath as he calls him "Grandpa". Mackenzie shows Rodriguez the Sleeper Mech he picked up, telling her that they can use it to build her new bionic arms.[165][140]
19th
Ruby Hale goes to check if Werner von Strucker has left, but is pleased to find that he decided to remain and work with them. She takes him to see the other person they have recruited: Carl Creel, an old experiment of von Strucker's father's, who is training. General Hale arrives and congratulates her daughter on her success, asking how she managed to get him to stay. Ruby simply says that she was just honest with him.[165][140]
21st
Victor Stein wakes up in his laboratory and realizes he can hear his son. When he looks to find his son, however, he instead finds that the audio is coming from a video on his time machine monitor, where Chase from the future is apologizing to him and asking him not to take the Fistigons.[159][166]
At the Wilders', Catherine takes the opportunity while Alex is showering to search his room for proof that he was present at the PRIDE meeting 2 weeks prior, as Geoffrey suspects that Molly Hernandez may have gotten Alex involved, feeling he has been acting differently since that night. When Alex comes out of the shower, his parents ask him about his relationship with Nico Minoru, but he evades the issue, saying they are not a couple. Catherine asks him if he has anything to tell them ahead of the school open house that evening, but he claims he does not and leaves the room, picking up his laptop as he goes so his mother cannot investigate it. Catherine requests that her husband keep an eye on Alex, and tells him that she has a plan for Molly Hernandez, but will need her adoptive parents, the Yorkeses, to cooperate.[159][166]
Chase Stein interrupts his father as he is working on formulae in his laboratory. Victor says he is thinking of firing his physicists and hiring Chase's teacher instead, and that because of this, he wants to attend the school open house, surprising Chase as his father never showed interest before. Janet interrupts them and is also surprised by Victor's desire to go to the open house. Chase continues to shun his mother for her infidelity and not helping Victor as he suffered with his brain tumor, but Janet replies that she had no idea he had cancer.[159][166]
In Minoru Mansion, Robert Minoru approaches his daughter while she is putting on makeup and tells her that he will be leaving the home later that day to move out. Nico asks him to talk to Tins and try to reconcile, but Robert says that he does not wish to fix their marriage, as he is in love with Janet Stein. Nico leaves, upset.[159][166]
At the Church of Gibborim, Leslie Dean is asked to give her blessing to an elderly man who is dying. To her surprise, Frank arrives. Asking the family and the doctor to leave, he then reaches over the man and surprises Leslie when his hands begin to shine, healing him. The family and the doctor return to the room shortly after and see that the older man has recovered. Privately, Leslie asks Frank why Jonah has given him the healing power, and he replies that it was gifted to him for another, greater function. Leslie expresses her worry that the old man's family could spread the word that he is a "magic healer", but Frank says he is counting on it.[159][166]
At school, Alex Wilder talks to Nico Minoru about the problems they have with their parents. She asks him again how he knew her mother's office password, but is interrupted when the rest of the group appear. Gert Yorkes is still annoyed by what happened at the gala between Chase Stein and Karolina Dean. Stein asks Wilder about the status of the video they retrieved, but Wilder explains that he is still unlocking it. The group's conversation leads to them realizing that they each feel that their parents might suspect something, and Molly Hernandez reluctantly confesses to having slipped up the other night. The others become angry with her and Hernandez leaves, frustrated that the group are treating her as a little girl just because she is 3 years younger than them. Dean goes to search for her.[159][166]
In their laboratory, Dale and Stacey Yorkes study their stolen sample of Jonah's serum and discover its healing properties. Dale then lets a drop fall onto his arm, which instantly passes into his bloodstream, but Dale disregards it when he sees no immediate effects.[159][166]
In her private meditation room, Leslie Dean tells Jonah she is angry at him for giving his powers to Frank. She expresses her belief that Jonah is trying to weaken her leadership within the Church of Gibborim, but he replies that it is his religion, and that what she has was granted by him in the first place. Jonah also tells her that the church is the past, and that he will not want to be part of it when it falls, saying PRIDE is the only thing that matters. Jonah then asks that she help PRIDE recover.[159][166]
Molly Hernandez approaches Eiffel and asks her for a place on the cheerleading team, but is given a menial role. Karolina Dean finds her and tries to encourage her, saying she loves her positive attitude. They bond over both having to struggle with hiding their powers.[159][166]
In the Yorkeses' laboratory, Dale Yorkes has slowly become affected by the serum, getting overexcited and a little crazed. Geoffrey and Catherine Wilder call from the front door, asking to talk about Molly Hernandez, but Stacey hangs up, asking to speak at the open house event later.[159][166]
In a storage room at the Church of Gibborim Executive Office, Frank Dean and his assistant look for historical objects from the church. They soon find Leslie's father's desk, which he wants for himself. As he rummages through the table drawers, he finds a picture of Jonah, looking just as old as he does currently, standing with a young Leslie. This triggers Frank to have another recollection of seeing Jonah and Leslie having sex.[159][166]
Atlas Academy's open house begins, and Dale Yorkes struggles to stay awake as he comes down from the high Jonah's serum gave him. Victor Stein begins asking questions, embarrassing Chase as he shows great interest in getting to know the teaching staff.[159][166]
Gert Yorkes argues with Hernandez, telling her she should respect herself more than to have let herself be used by the cheerleaders for menial tasks. Yorkes finds her "Undermining the Patriarchy" club running a stall at the open house event, telling her that they are moving on without her as she has shown no interest in helping. She then finds Karolina Dean, and the two begin to talk, with Dean being more friendly than she had been at the gala. Frank Dean then arrives, late, and greets Karolina before going to find her mother.[159][166]
Robert Minoru tries to reassure Nico, who is upset by her parents' separation. He tells her that things will feel normal soon, after he has settled with Janet Stein. Leslie Dean approaches Tina Minoru, meanwhile, and asks whether, if Robert ended his affair, she would be willing to take him back. Dean says that it would mean a lot to Jonah, and Tina reluctantly agrees, knowing that Dean needs PRIDE to stay together.[159][166]
Leslie Dean talks to Janet Stein, trying to convince her to put her affair aside as PRIDE is more important. Stein tells Dean that the affair was over anyway, and that she will be informing Robert Minoru soon.[159][166]
When Victor Stein and Robert Minoru come across each other in the same room, Stein corners him. However, he is not aggressive, but rather thanks him for taking care of Janet when he could not. He shakes his hand, but pulls Minoru in closer and begins to frighten him. However, before anything further can happen, Janet interrupts them, asking Victor to come with her to talk with Chase's physics teacher.[159][166]
The Yorkeses encounter the Wilders at the open house and ask to speak in private. Chase Stein and Karolina Dean notice the parents talking and decide they need to notify the rest of the group. Catherine and Geoffrey Wilder suggest a plan to the Yorkeses for getting Molly Hernandez to safety in secret and protect her from Tina Minoru and Jonah, saying that she has to be sent away. The Yorkeses are reluctant, but realize that it might be necessary to at least ensure their adopted daughter is alive and well.[159][166]
The group of friends meet during the open house and discuss how the Wilder and Yorkes parents must know about Molly Hernandez. They decide that they have to expose their parents as soon as the video file is done decrypting, and remind each other to stay in contact.[159][166]
Frank Dean finds Leslie and confronts her with the picture he found. He requests answers from her, wanting an explanation about Jonah's identity.[159][166]
Victor Stein finds Chase's lacrosse teacher and violently pins him against the wall. He threatens the man, telling him that he needs to publicly apologize to his son and reinstate him in the team, with the coach agrees to in fear.[159][166]
Leslie Dean confesses to Frank that she met Jonah with her father, confirming his suspicions. Frank asks if Jonah is the Church of Gibborim deity, and Leslie admits he is. He asks why she hid these secrets from him, and Leslie says that she has been feeling ashamed, explaining that she has a secret relationship with Jonah.[159][166]
Robert Minoru encounters Janet Stein in a corridor and asks about their relationship, and why she has not been returning his calls. She tells him that she is convinced Victor has changed, and that she has to take her new opportunity to keep her family together; that their affair has to end. Minoru is left alone, just as Tina arrives, hoping to speak with her husband.[159][166]
In Timely Coffee, Alex Wilder sits with Nico Minoru as the video is about to complete its decryption. Minoru confronts him about knowing Tina's password, insisting he is lying about simply guessing, and demands that Wilder tell her how he knew.[159][166]
Molly Hernandez enters her room and discovers that her adoptive parents, Dale and Stacey Yorkes, have been packing her bags. The couple tell her that since she is interested in learning more about her roots, they are moving her to stay with a second cousin she has never heard of called Graciela Aguirre. When Gert enters the room, she asks for an explanation, but Dale refuses. Gert tells him that this is the worst thing he could do to Hernandez, and Hernandez becomes upset, nearly activating her powers. Gert takes her aside to talk in private, telling her not to use control and give away her abilities but instead to follow their plan for now, hugging her and promising she will protect and look after her.[159][166]
Attack on Victor Stein: Chase Stein continues to work on his Fistigons, until his father catches him. Victor begins to behave abusively again and appropriates his son's invention. Chase becomes angry with his father, saying that every time he acts like he has changed and become better, he turns out to be just as horrible as always. Victor goes to hit him, but before he can, Chase responds by punching him. He hurriedly apologizes, but Victor retaliates by blasting him with the Fistigons. Before Victor can hurt his son again, Janet arrives and shoots her husband in the chest with the gun Robert Minoru gave her in order to stop him.[159][166]
Victor Stein struggles to breathe as Chase and Janet try to help him. Soon, Robert and Tina Minoru arrive. Chase tries to throw Robert out, but Tina reprimands him, saying the important thing right now is Victor.[159][167]
Alex Wilder agrees to tell Nico Minoru about the password, along with everything he knows about what happened to her sister, knowing he has no other option. He plays her a voicemail Amy had left him on the night of her death, asking to meet to discuss a secret they shared.[159][167]
Geoffrey and Catherine Wilder arrive at the Steins' mansion, worried about the text they have received, saying "TSUNAMI" - a code word last used 10 years ago when they found the Hernandezes dead.[159][167]
Alex Wilder explains to Nico Minoru while they were playing Star Wars Battlefront a few days before Amy's death, she had complained that her laptop was slow, so he had run a virus checker but found her computer had been hacked and was being key-logged. He tells Nico how they had realized that Amy's hacker was, in fact, Tina, and Nico assumes that Amy could not face her mother after this, but still cannot see how this led to her suicide. She angrily compares Wilder to her mother for the way they have both lied repeatedly. Wilder is apologetic, saying he should have done better but could not pass on the information as he had made a promise to Amy to keep it secret, and that whenever he had tried to reach out, she had been too reclusive. Nico finds this an insufficient excuse, and Wilder admits he was also afraid that if he told her, she would never speak to him again, saying he would do anything not to lose her as well as Amy. As they speak, Nico comes to a realization that there must be a further detail they have not worked out, as this does not explain why Tina closed the house and prevented her from calling emergency services. Wilder suggests that Amy may have wanted to run away from home, reminding Nico that her cell phone and backpack were in her room the night of her death. Nico decides she needs to search her sister's room again for further clues, refusing Wilder's help.[159][167]
Chase Stein asks why they cannot call the police, but Tina Minoru explains that the evidence would lead to Janet being arrested. He then asks the group why everyone has come, but the adults simply say that PRIDE are such close friends that they see each other like family and want to help. Janet takes her son away to tend to his cuts, while the other PRIDE members tend to Victor.[159][167]
Meanwhile, Dale and Stacey Yorkes take Molly Hernandez to Graciela Aguirre. They try to make her see the positives in her situation, but Hernandez starts to get angry again. Dale receives the "TSUNAMI" text from Janet and tells Stacey they have to leave immediately. They are forced to say goodbye to their adoptive daughter, who refuses to forgive them, and go.[159][167]
Chase Stein asks his mother what will happen if his father lives or dies. He says that he thinks that Victor's behavior was due to the brain tumor or Jonah's serum, wanting to believe that his father did not actually mean to kill him, and Janet reassures him this is hopefully the case. The Yorkeses arrive at the house and Janet goes to let them in, explaining to Chase that they are doctors.[159][167]
Dale and Stacey Yorkes insist to the rest of PRIDE that they are not properly qualified doctors, but agree to try to help Victor, and begin by sewing his artery to prevent further bleeding. They ask why Leslie Dean is not present, and the other PRIDE members explain that they did not call her as she is too close to Jonah, and Jonah cannot find out.[159][167]
Chase Stein calls Gert Yorkes, but she does not notice her phone as she is taking care of her Deinonychus. He then tries calling Karolina Dean, and when she picks up, he asks her to visit him for company, but then regrets asking her to get involved and hangs up. Karolina is visited by her mother, whom she asks about her father's strange behavior. Leslie explains that Frank has had a difficult time, before leaving the room. Karolina then leaves a message for Nico Minoru on her cell phone, saying that she is worried about Chase and that something has happened to his father. Unbeknown to her, Leslie is still outside her door and overhears the call, finding out what the other parents had not told her.[159][167]
The Yorkeses point out that Victor has lost a lot of blood and is in a coma. Leslie arrives and says she will call Frank, instead of Jonah.[159][167]
Molly Hernandez talks to Graciela Aguirre, who confesses to her that she does not trust the Yorkeses. Aguirre tells her she has an envelope from her biological parents and gives it to her. Hernandez opens it and is confused when she finds a key and a letter that asks her to search for Elian, her toy elephant - especially not understanding since she has Elian with her; he is not missing.[159][167]
Leslie Dean asks Frank not to say anything about her relationship with Jonah for the sake of their daughter.[159][167]
Karolina Dean calls Gert Yorkes, who has taken her Deinonychus to her room, and asks her to come with her to see Chase Stein. Yorkes realizes that Dean wants her to come with her because she does not want to be alone with Stein, not really reciprocating his feelings for her but in fact having feelings for Nico Minoru. After hanging up, Yorkes sees her missed call from Stein, and is pleased to see that he thought of her first.[159][167]
Frank Dean arrives at the Steins' with Leslie, and she has him uses his new healing powers in order to heal Victor Stein. The attempt is unsuccessful however, causing Stein to go into cardiac arrest, until his heart suddenly stops, and he dies on the operating table.[159][167]
Gert Yorkes and Karolina are about to arrive at Chase's house when they see Jonah arriving outside and entering.[159][167]
Jonah arrives at the Stein laboratory, revealing that he was alerted by Tina Minoru, and takes out a capsule which unfurls into a Dematerialization Box. He explains that if they want to revive Victor Stein, they will have to make a sacrifice, just as they have done for him. He suggests sacrificing the culprit behind the attack on Victor: Janet Stein.[159][167]
Molly Hernandez goes to bed and explains how Elian got lost once on a train, and she and her parents had driven to the next station and picked him up there when the train arrived. She wonders if the letter might mean to visit the station, and Graciela Aguirre says she can look tomorrow. However, as soon as Aguirre leaves, Hernandez escapes through her window and runs to find the station.[159][167]
Chase Stein tries to see his father, but Frank Dean stops him in the hallway. Karolina then arrives and tells Stein to go to his room instead, where Yorkes is waiting for him. While Chase climbs the stairs, Karolina speaks to her father and pleads with him not to join with PRIDE, trying to tell him the truth about what they do.[159][167]
Stein enters his bedroom and is scared when he finds Yorkes' Deinonychus. Yorkes hurries to calm him down, however, explaining her connection with the dinosaur to him.[159][167]
Janet Stein tries to convince the group that she should not be sacrificed. She blames them for not helping her with her husband's problem and claims that she has contributed greatly to the group over the years. Robert Minoru suggests sacrificing Frank Dean instead, which Leslie considers. Jonah clarifies that he does not care who does it, but merely that Victor Stein has to be saved as he is very important to him, and says that if they are not able to save him, he will kill them all and their children. Dale Yorkes pulls out a gun and begins to threaten the group, insisting the group let his children go safely, but Geoffrey Wilder points a gun of his own to Yorkes' head and he immediately drops the weapon in fear. Jonah gets tired and gives Janet an ultimatum: either she enters the box, or he makes Chase do it, and she accepts being the sacrifice. Robert Minoru then asks for a moment alone with Janet to say goodbye, which is granted by Jonah and the rest of PRIDE.[159][167]
Nico Minoru searches her sister's room and discovers Amy's backpack. Inside it, she finds Amy's cell phone. She hopes to find clues about her death, but the phone is out of battery, so she leaves it to charge.[159][167]
In his private moment with Janet Stein, Robert Minoru advises her to say goodbye to Chase before she is sacrificed. She goes to Jonah to ask for approval, which he refuses, but the others notice that Minoru, meanwhile, has undressed and is threatening them with the Fistigons to them to prevent them from stopping him as he gets into the capsule in lieu of Janet Stein. He says he believes that it is not fair that she has to die for an action that saved her son, and that he is more deserving when he failed to protect his daughter. However, Tina Minoru refuses to lose her husband and uses the Staff of One to destroy the second capsule.[159][167]
Alex Wilder tries to call Nico Minoru, but she does not answer. He leaves her a message saying he wants to apologize. As he speaks, the video finishes decrypting, and he finishes the message by asking that Minoru bring the others to Timely Coffee to meet him.[159][167]
Leslie Dean gets angry with Tina Minoru for having destroyed the second capsule, when the only person capable of making a new one is Victor Stein. Minoru moves to fight Dean, but Jonah stops them. Robert goes to Tina and thanks her for saving him, and Janet Stein asks what they will do now with Victor.[159][167]
Nico Minoru arrives at Timely Coffee and reunites with Alex Wilder. She tells him about finding Amy's backpack and phone, but makes it clear she is still angry with him. Wilder then explains that he has watched their parents' video, and that it is the worst thing he has ever seen. They text the other three to meet them.[159][167]
Janet Stein goes to see Chase and tells him that PRIDE is taking care of his father. Chase says that when Victor is better, he really wants to have another chance with him, which Janet says she is sure Victor would love. As soon as Janet leaves, Gert Yorkes and Karolina Dean emerge from their hiding place and tell Chase that they need to leave to meet Alex Wilder.[159][167]
Molly Hernandez gets to the station and comes across security boxes there, finding one matching the key from her parents: security box #23. She tries the key and it works, opening the locker, but she is confused when she finds a VHS tape, not knowing what it is.[159][167]
Alex Wilder tells Nico Minoru that he still does not understand their parents' ritual despite watching the video footage, because he believes from what he has seen that their parents seem begrudging and like they do not want to partake in the sacrifices. Soon, Yorkes, Dean, and Stein arrive. Wilder tells them they have the video ready to send out and get their parents arrested, but Stein surprises him by saying he no longer things they should send it, as they do not understand everything and if something happens to PRIDE, his father might die. Karolina Dean expresses her agreement with him, saying she believes that Frank might also be able to help them. Wilder still wants to use the video, so Stein tackles him, trying to snatch the computer. The friends begin to fight ad Stein knocks Wilder to the ground. He gets back up, but is distracted when he notices the dinosaur in Yorkes' car. Stein takes the opportunity to take the laptop and break it, stamping on it until it is destroyed, to Minoru, Wilder, and Yorkes' anger.[159][167]
Amy Minoru's cell phone turns back on after charging, showing the last notification she had received before her death on her lock screen: a message from an unknown number warning, "He found out. LEAVE THE HOUSE NOW!!!"[159][167]
Nico Minoru tries to recover his sister's now-charged cell phone, but her father enters the room, explaining that he has reconciled with Tina. He explains that he is staying in Amy's room, and Nico realizes she will have to get the phone later.[159][168]
At the Deans', Karolina Dean decides to trust Frank and informs him of everything she and her friends have found out about PRIDE. Frank asks her to step away from the situation, promising that he will try to take care of everything.[159][168]
As Chase Stein dresses, he watches a press conference being held by his mother from earlier that morning, in which she says that Victor Stein will be taking a break from the public eye as he deals with fighting a cancerous tumor. Janet enters Chase's room and he asks about his father and the man looking after him, Jonah. His mother asks him not to inquire about Jonah or PRIDE, since he will only put himself in danger.[159][168]
At school, Atlas Academy teachers and lacrosse teammates give their condolences to Chase Stein. Minoru, Wilder, Yorkes, and Dean watch, still unhappy with him. Stein approaches them and apologizes, but there is still tension between Wilder and Minoru, and between Wilder and Stein. Gert Yorkes steps in and tries to prevent them from breaking up again. She says that it is a shame that they have not even come up with a group nickname, so Wilder suggests the "Runaways", in honor of the children they did not save; however, the others dismiss this as too dark.[159][168]
As the group walk into a school building, Stein is called over by Eiffel, who tries to sell him some tickets for the "non-holiday-specific seasonal dance" that night. Stein rejects her, but when she is rude to Karolina Dean, Yorkes abruptly reacts by buying tickets for all five of them, stating that they will all be going together.[159][168]
Tina and Robert Minoru drive and discuss recovering their lives as soon as Jonah's drilling begins, as PRIDE's influence will be over. Tina points out, however, that the loss of Amy is permanent, and can never be fully recovered from.[159][168]
PRIDE meets with Leslie Dean and Jonah at the dig site, which is owned by Geoffrey Wilder. Jonah reveals that he has fired Wilder's men, however, to hire more dedicated workers. Tina Minoru and Dale Yorkes ask Jonah for information about the supposed source of renewable energy they are digging for, but he avoids answering. Jonah then finally turns on the drill.[159][168]
Meanwhile, Darius Davis meets with one of Wilder's workers leaving the site - a mole he is paying for information. The guard informs him that he has been fired, and Davis notices the drill starting. He expresses his intrigue in finally finding out what the dig is for.[159][168]
Molly Hernandez finds her friends at Atlas Academy and reunites with them, showing them the VHS tape she has acquired. Together, the group go to the AV club meeting room, where an old video player is housed which will allow them to view it together. The video begins and the group watch as Alice and Gene Hernandez are shown, talking to the camera. They talk about PRIDE and the drilling that is supposedly in search of a supposed renewable energy, but that they are now doubting this was the truth. They also warn that even if the drilling has good intent, there is a blind fault underground, which, if disturbed, will cause massive earthquakes and fires. In addition, they mention that they have found weird things in their rock samples, and that if Molly is watching the video, it means they have not been able to stop PRIDE's work. The video finishes, and the group discuss its content, and the implications this suggests their parents' actions will have. Alex Wilder tells them that they have to stop their parents, saying that they could use the school dance as a cover from their parents for why they are leaving their homes, as they in fact go to sabotage the machine at the dig site.[159][168]
Frank Dean meets Jonah, telling him he has important information to relay. Jonah listens attentively as Dean passes on what Karolina had told him.[159][168]
Before leaving for the school dance, Janet Stein asks Chase if he will be going with Karolina, but he tells her that he is growing to think she is interested in him. He quotes Gert Yorkes, telling his mother that taking is "heteronormative" anyway, which makes her laugh. He explains that while he often does not understand Yorkes, she does make some good points.[159][168]
Nico Minoru calls Alex Wilder and tells him to come to her house. Wilder meets with her, and she talks to him about the warning message she found on Amy's cell phone. They conclude that it definitely seems like someone killed Amy, and she did not commit suicide, realizing that it cannot have been Tina, as the message said "he", and neither Robert nor Kincaid can have sent the message as it is from an unknown number not in Amy's contacts. Robert interrupts them and asks for a photograph of the two before the dance. Wilder compliments Nico, but she says she no longer cares what he thinks.[159][168]
The Yorkeses call Graciela Aguirre to check in on Molly Hernandez, only to be informed that she has run away. Aguirre tells them that Hernandez's biological parents did not trust them as they did not leave them Molly's key, and that she does not trust them either. The Yorkes parents notice Aguirre's mention of a key and realize that Hernandez's parents must have known they could be in danger, having left Molly a key in case they failed. Before they can try to contact Molly, they receive a call from Jonah, who tells them to attend an urgent PRIDE meeting.[159][168]
Gert Yorkes drives her and Hernandez to the ball, and park near the dance hall. Hernandez notices that Yorkes has dressed up for the occasion, and teases her about fancying Chase Stein, telling her to go get him. She stays hidden in the car with Yorkes' Deinonychus, while the other friends enter the hall to attend the dance as their cover.[159][168]
Yorkes meets with Chase Stein and she tells him that she has always felt ignored, and that she never actually thought he was an idiot as she had said in the past, as it was a defense mechanism. He tells her that he is glad to have moved on from his old life, because his current friendships are more honest and real, and they decide to dance together to enjoy what might be their last night alive. They retire to a private room and become intimate, beginning to kiss and then taking off their clothes, deciding to have sex.[159][168]
Wondering where Yorkes and Stein are, Nico Minoru leaves to find them, pointedly taking Karolina Dean for company rather than Wilder to further express her annoyance with him. The pair cannot find them and decide to head back, but before they do, Dean decides to give into her feelings for Minoru and make an advance on her. She moves to kiss Minoru, and Minoru reciprocates. Yorkes and Stein then appear, still putting on their clothes, and both couples come to realize the others' feelings and newfound relationships.[159][168]
Jonah tells PRIDE how displeased he is with them all, and informs them that their children have been lying to them and conspiring against them for weeks. Leslie Dean asks him how he knows, and Jonah tells them that one of them revealed it to him. He begins to list the betrayals each parent has made against him and how they have questioned his leadership, and warns them not to continue, or that there will be dire consequences, then asks them again to check where their children are.[159][168]
The parents return to their homes and find that their children have stolen certain things: the Staff of One is missing from the Minorus' the dinosaur is missing from the Yorkeses', the Fistigons are missing from the Steins', which Janet Stein alerts Leslie Dean about, and the key card to the PRIDE Construction Site is missing from Geoffrey Wilder's office. Geoffrey informs Catherine, surmising that the group will be breaking into the dig site.[159][168]
Darius Davis meets with his pregnant wife, Tamar, and tells her about the strange things he saw when he came up against Alex Wilder and his friends. Tamar does not believe him, thinking he is back on drugs, but Davis continues, saying that he will find out what Geoffrey Wilder is involved with and then seek to take it from him.[159][168]
The group arrive at the construction site, leaving Yorkes' Deinonychus in the car. They go to enter the site but are stopped by a guard from the Church of Gibborim called Carl. Karolina Dean claims that they have permission from her father to enter, using the excuse of a school photography project. He says he wants to check with Frank, but Karolina is hopeful that Frank will let them through, as he is the one parent she believes is on their side. Frank answers the phone and tells Carl that it is fine to let them through, but does so not to help Karolina, but because Jonah, sitting quietly next to him, tells him to do so.[159][168]
Darius Davis, sitting in a car nearby the site to spy on Geoffrey Wilder, sees the group entering the restricted area. He gets out of his car to follow them.[159][168]
Upon entering, the friends are shocked by the depth of the drilled hole, but proceed with their plan to destroy the site. Chase Stein and Gert Yorkes go to take over the drill's controls, and end up discussing what happened at the dance. Yorkes is nervous and insists it must have been a one-off, which confuses Stein, not understanding her conflicting feelings on the matter. However, he insists that the matter at hand is more important, and that he needs to focus. Meanwhile, Molly Hernandez uses her super strength to push a site truck into the hole.[159][168]
Stein realizes that he can cut out the power to the drill by force and uses his Fistigons to blast them, successfully rendering the machine out of order. Hernandez successfully drops the truck into the hole, and Minoru proceeds to request that the Staff of One "fill the hole", causing dirt from nearby to fly through the air and descend into the chasm. However, their attempt to stop the drill completely is thwarted as their parents suddenly arrive, and Tina Minoru uses her control of the staff to summon it away from her daughter and into her hands.[159][168]
The teenagers ask their parents how they could have chosen to murder so many young people, and PRIDE promise that their actions were done to help their children, but the group refuse to accept this, saying they are ready to oppose PRIDE and even fight them if they have to. Karolina Dean takes off her bracelet in preparation for a potential altercation and begins to shine. Leslie is shocked and tells the other parents that she was not aware her daughter was capable of this, but had feared it might be the case.[159][168]
Yorkes' Deinonychus arrives to help the group, having sensed Yorkes' fear, but Dale Yorkes shoots her with a tranquilizer dart. Yorkes runs to help her. Chase Stein starts to fight back, firing the Fistigons at the parents, with Karolina Dean shooting rays of luminescent energy at them as well, but both attempts are stopped by Tina Minoru, using the Staff of One to protect PRIDE.[159][169]
Molly Hernandez, wanting to help, goes to lift a barrel, but she is knocked out by a luminescent beam fired by Jonah, who arrives and joins the parents, preparing to fight the teenagers himself.[159][169]
As Darius Davis watches on, Tina Minoru tries to defend the children from Jonah, but he uses a beam to blast the staff out of her hand. PRIDE desperately ask Jonah not to hurt their children with both entreaties and threats, but he blasts the children with rays nonetheless, knocking them on the ground.[159][169]
The teenagers get back up, as Yorkes meanwhile takes the tranquilizer dart out of her dinosaur and then goes to rejoin her friends. Together with the Deinonychus, all of them stand together and prepare to fight Jonah, but Karolina Dean asks the others to flee, saying she knows that Jonah is there specifically for her. The group are reluctant to leave, but she insists and they eventually follow her suggestion, getting to safety as Jonah and Dean both begin to shine with luminescent energy.[159][169]
Jonah and Dean both build energy individually and fire at each other, with the beams of their attacks meeting in between them and coalescing into a growing ball. The ball eventually explodes and causes an electromagnetic pulse, frying all electrical devices in the vicinity.[159][169]
The group realize that the car, Fistigons, and all other devices will no longer work. Nico Minoru wants to return to rescue Dean, but Wilder asks her to be intelligent because they have no way to fight. Nonetheless, she goes to look through the fence to see if she can find her, but sees that neither Jonah nor Dean are still present, but PRIDE are, and are starting to look for their children. Minoru returns to her friends and warns them about their parents searching for them, and the group run away.[159][169]
23rd
The next morning, the teenagers look for a place to go, with Yorkes' Deinonychus hidden with a blanket in a shopping cart. A police car passes and Wilder asserts that they have to get off the streets, leading them up to the woods by the Griffith Observatory.[159][169]
Reaching the woods and a clearing where they can stay, the group begin to discuss what to do next. The group consider escaping, except Nico Minoru, who wants to save Karolina Dean. She points out the sacrifice Dean made for them, and Molly Hernandez supports her, eventually convincing the group that they have to try to rescue their friend.[159][169]
The Minoru parents, Yorkes parents, Wilder parents, and Janet Stein all meet to talk, and discuss how how upset they are by the revelation of an inner circle and secrets within PRIDE. They agree that Karolina Dean must be Jonah's daughter and the Yorkeses speculate that Hernandez must have acquired her strength powers somehow from the explosion of her parents' laboratory. Geoffrey Wilder orders Tina Minoru to reveal what she knows about the explosion, having always suspected her to have been involved due to her burnt hand at the Hernandezes funeral. She confesses that she knows Leslie Dean was involved in causing the explosion, but says that she herself had done nothing, though had allowed it to happen. Everyone begins to wonder what the excavation is for, so the Yorkeses suggest going to the site to look into it further. Catherine Wilder, meanwhile, suggests asking Karolina Dean to find out what their children know.[159][169]
In the meditation room at the Church of Gibborim Executive Office, Leslie and Frank Dean discuss how they have mutually betrayed each other, while Karolina is resting, recovering in the bed. Jonah soon enters the room and requests that the two of them leave, so he can take care of his daughter.[159][169]
Nico Minoru, Chase Stein, and Molly Hernandez buy new clothes and a wig for Gert Yorkes, hoping it will help them go unnoticed. Minoru and Stein discuss discovering each other's new relationships the night before, and Stein admits that he really likes Yorkes.[159][169]
Alex Wilder meets Yorkes on the hill by Griffith Observatory after an unsuccessful visit to the city trying to find a computer he can use. He gives Yorkes a flyer about old movies showing nearby that he found. The other three return to the hill from buying food, and the group reluctantly decides that they will have to leave the Deinonychus behind. Yorkes insists that she needs to come, but the rest of the group agree that it is not safe to bring her, as it would make them easier to get caught and potentially lead to her getting caught as well.[159][169]
Yorkes has a private moment with the dinosaur to say goodbye. She talks to her about their connection, remembering the name of a film from the flyer, she says that their partnership is as if the dinosaur were the "Old Lace" to her "Arsenic" - deciding that she will name her "Old Lace".[159][169]
In a cafeteria, the group corners a young man from the Church of Gibborim, Vaughn Kaye. They ask him to help finding Karolina Dean, having assumed that she will be in the Church Executive Office. They tell him about the Church's involvement with killing one runaway every year, but he does not believe their claim and leaves.[159][169]
Jonah removes Karolina Dean's breathing mask, awakening her. She starts asking for her friends and father, but he reveals to her that while Frank raised her, he is in fact her biological father, and that he no longer feels alone. He offers to guide her and help her not feel lonely anymore either.[159][169]
Chase Stein and Molly Hernandez intentionally get themselves gathered by Aura and Frances as part of the Church of Gibborim runaways program, so as to get into the Church Executive Office.[159][169]
The Yorkeses prepare to use seismic refraction and echo-sounding at the excavation, in order to find what Jonah is really digging for. However, they are interrupted by Leslie Dean. The couple make poor excuses on the spot, but Dean tells them to be honest about what they are doing. The Yorkeses' computer then tells them that there is something alive under the excavation, confusing the couple, and Dean, hearing this, reveals that even she did not know about it.[159][169]
Kaye informs Leslie Dean of his encounter with the teenagers, and to his surprise, she tells him that he should assist them.[159][169]
Stein and Hernandez are both filling out forms to join the Gibborim runaway project when they are approached by Vaughn Kaye. He takes them to start looking for Karolina Dean, claiming to Aura and Frances that Stein and Hernandez are "special" and that Leslie will want to meet them, so as to get past the duo.[159][169]
Meanwhile, Alex Wilder decides to look for a vehicle while Gert Yorkes confesses to Nico Minoru that she is struggling with her anxiety, without her medication to help her. Yorkes talks about Stein and claims that there is no relationship between them and that it was a one-off, but Minoru helps her understand that Stein actually loves her and is interested in taking their relationship further.[159][169]
The Wilder parents approach Jonah, asking to speak with Karolina Dean. He tells them that she must recover first and that they cannot demand anything, and asks them to trust him. They reluctantly leave, claiming that they will not work for Jonah anymore and that they must find Alex before he does. Unbeknown to them, Alex is hiding behind a nearby van and hears their conversation.[159][169]
Rescue of Karolina Dean: Stein, Hernandez, and Kaye arrive at the private meditation room. Hernandez then uses her powers to smash the door, and Kaye decides to leave and not be further involved. Stein and Hernandez reunite with Dean and begin to descend the stairs to make their escape. They are stopped by Aura and Frances, and Dean claims that she is simply giving two of her friends a tour, but the Gibborim women recognize her to be lying and call security. The trio run to escape and make it outside, where they find that Alex Wilder has broken into a Gibborim van and found the keys above the mirror. They jump into the van and Wilder drives them away.[159][169]
Vaughn Kaye informs Leslie Dean that Karolina has escaped with her friends, as she had wanted. Kaye then asks Leslie if it is true that Jonah is taking charge of the church, but Leslie assures him that this is not the case.[159][169]
Meanwhile, Jonah receives a text message saying, "Mission accomplished. Let me know what's next."[159][169]
In the forest outside of Griffith Observatory, the group begin to make a bonfire. Wilder talks to Minoru about whether she ever thinks about calling her parents, but she says she would have nothing to say. She then walks away and finds Karolina Dean. They share a private moment, and Dean thanks her for having the group rescue her despite it being a risky decision. The two share a second kiss, affirming for each other that they have feelings. They then realize that Wilder has disappeared, and Minoru worries that he might be calling his parents.[159][169]
The Yorkes parents wonder how the living beings from the dig site could survive underground. Stacey Yorkes assumes that if they study Jonah's serum, they might be able to learn about how his biology works, and this leads the couple to realize than in doing so, they could potentially learn how to kill him, as well as the life at the bottom of the excavation. They are interrupted when Leslie Dean, the Minorus, and Janet Stein ring the doorbell.[159][169]
Darius Davis meets with Alex Wilder after receiving his call, and asks for him to explain everything that has happened recently. Wilder says he needs something in return, and the two agree to make an alliance as they share a common enemy in Geoffrey Wilder. Davis gives him a gun and a stack of money.[159][169]
At the Yorkes' home, Leslie Dean suggests that the group work together to kill Jonah, after he manipulated them for all over 15 years. She decides to confess to the others; however, the remaining secrets she has: that she was involved in not only the Hernandezes' deaths, but also Amy Minoru's. Dean explains how Amy had set off an alarm when she hacked Wizard, and that Jonah had been alerted and decided to deal with Amy in case she found any PRIDE secrets. She tells them how she had not believed Jonah when he said he was only going to talk to Amy and had texted the teenager to warn her, but was too late. Tina is furious at Dean for knowing the truth for 2 years and never telling them, and for having them continue to help Jonah despite him having killed her daughter. She threatens to kill Dean, but Dean reminds her that they need her alive if she is going to help them kill Jonah.[159][169]
Jonah meets with Frank Dean, assuring him that they will have a bright future working together, and that when Victor Stein recovers, they will be able to take exciting new steps in his plans. However, Jonah secretly notices that the skin on his arm is flaking again, and realizes that despite Andre Compton's sacrifice, he will soon need to take another person's life to fuel his own.[159][169]
24th
Soon after dawn, Alex Wilder returns to the group's camp, and Nico Minoru asks where he was. He assures her that he did not call his parents and shows her the money he has acquired, but decides not to reveal who he got it from. Minoru is pleased to see the money, but concerned by Wilder's secrecy.[159][169]
Geoffrey Wilder tells Catherine that he is about to make a call that will change everything. He hopes that his actions will get their son to safety, so that then they can focus on taking down Jonah.[159][169]
Geoffrey Wilder makes the call to Detective Flores, the corrupt police officer on PRIDE's payroll, telling him a plan he wants him to put into place which will make the teenagers wanted fugitives, with the intention of getting them found and brought safely back to the police station.[159][169]
The teenagers enter a bus depot, hoping to flee from Los Angeles using Wilder's newly acquired money. Gert Yorkes, meanwhile, decides to wait outside to be on lookout, but while she waits, she hears a commotion from inside a trash container. She opens the lid and is delighted to discover that Old Lace has been following them.[159][169]
Yorkes runs inside to give her friends the good news, but at that moment, it is announced on television that Molly Hernandez has been declared missing, and that Nico Minoru, Karolina Dean, Chase Stein, Gert Yorkes, and Alex Wilder are believed to have kidnapped her, as well as now being prime suspects in the death of Destiny Gonzalez, which is now believed to have been a homicide. The group are horrified at the further lies their parents have told and the framing of Gonzalez's death on them. As images of their faces are shown on the screen, a man in the depot recognizes them. The group realize they have to leave, and Old Lace runs to join them as the group, united as the Runaways, sprint to get away. As they run, they pass over a newspapers bearing the headline, "Earthquake Watch: Is L.A. Next?".[159][169]
↑ 3.03.13.23.3In Wake Up, Coulson says, "I spent six months on a plane with [Mackenzie]." It is said in Vendetta that "Coulson had just stepped down" in the scene in which we see him heading off to board the Zephyr for the beginning of the six-month span. Due to the April 17, 2017 date in Wake Up, The Ghost ideally picks up in March 2017 (see other references). Working back from this, the events of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot, and the first boarding of the Zephyr, is in September 2016. This works with Slingshot, as it picks up just before Broken Promises on April 13, 2017 (see other references), it then flashes back to the Baltimore incident, referring to it as "Several months ago". With the Baltimore event on September 30, 2016, this is 7 months prior. It is dated as late September - September 30, 2016, to allow time for Mace being selected for, and then go through Project Patriot, but still fit with Mace's statement in The Patriot, "Few months [after Vienna], Talbot came to me with an offer." This still fits, with the bombing being on June 23rd, and his selection being September 8th, 2½ months later. It is implied that Mackenzie and Coulson began testing the limits of the Zephyr, to go for weeks and weeks on a thorough hunt for Johnson, and that the director wanted to keep Coulson's Team apart after he took over, as the duo get to only see their friends every few weeks when coming back for restock. They get back after their last trip of 6 weeks (their furthest yet, impressing Fitz), and Fitz and Simmons are excited to see them, with Fitz exclaiming, "Six weeks. That's a record!" Coulson at this point has indeed spent 6 months with Mackenzie living mostly on the plane - September 30, 2016 to March 18, 2017.
↑ 9.009.019.029.039.049.059.069.079.089.099.10Sometimes the Marvel Cinematic Universe alludes to events which happened in our world, and it is assumed they happened on the same dates in the universe, for timeline purposes.
↑In AKA Three Lives and Counting, on May 27, 2017 (see other references), it is said that the "marine biologists have been in the Pacific Ocean for nearly 4 months". This would suggest approximately 3.8-3.9 months ago. Using approximately 3.85 months prior would give February 1, 2017.
In First Light, security footage of Tyrone stealing the car radio says "2007-04-18". This does not match as any February, though is closest to February 2007.
In Call/Response, a poster is up at the Wild Red Hawks for an event on "Friday, Jan. 30". January 30th was a Friday in 2015, though it could just be a much older poster left up for commemorative reasons.
The total evidence for a February 2008 accident and February 2016 present events:
In First Light, security footage of Tyrone stealing the car radio says "2007-04-18". This does not match as any February, though it would make most sense in-universe for it to be February 2008, with the camera clock set back several months by accident due to something like a reset.
In Suicide Sprints, Adina Johnson's vision shows the "missing" dates of her children as being "6/6/08". The closest February is 2008, and this would make sense, for her to still be very anxious about a second child dying 4 months later, and the 6/6/08 actually being the date of her anxiety rather than the date of Billy's death.
In Call/Response, Shadow Selves, and Rabbit Hold, it is shown in obituaries that Billy Johnson was born on "August 1, 1990" and died aged "17", with another obituary in Princeton Offense also saying he was 17. If he were born in August 1990, the February where he was 17 would have been 2008.
In Princeton Offense, Peter Scarborough's Wikipedia page says, "In 2009, after supervising the Roxxon cleanup effort in New Orleans following an oil rig explosion, Scarborough transitioned to a consulting position." This could potentially work with the accident being February 2008, with cleanup in 2008 and then Scarborough moving on in early 2009.
Jeph Loeb's statement as mentioned.
Emma Lahana says this is O'Reilly's first case in New Orleans. Nandi Tyler says in Luke Cage: Season 2, Episode 8 - If It Ain't Rough, It Ain't Right, set in August 2017, that O'Reilly has moved to New Orleans. In Ghost Stories, O'Reilly mentions events involving superheroes with her friend Misty Knight in New York, meaning it is after Luke Cage: Season 1 in December 2015. If she moved in February 2016, this fits within this range, though it is implied that O'Reilly left during Knight's time away from the force, which would not work with February 2016 since her time off begins in May 2016.
In First Light, a taxi is shown with a "11 17" registration sticker, meaning it should be between November 2015 and November 2017.
In Funhouse Mirrors, Stan Bartlett's license plate says "18". This means that if he just renewed it in the last several weeks, it could be February 2016, with an expiry date in early 2018.
The total evidence for a February 2009 accident and February 2017 present events:
In First Light, Nathan Bowen's work ID is valid from "30MAR08" to "29MAR10".
In Suicide Sprints, Adina Johnson's vision shows Tyrone's date of birth as "8/19/00", although Billy's says "02" which is definitely not his real year of birth, so it can be taken that this is not reliable either. In Call/Response, Season 1, Episode 4, Tyrone say, "My parents look at me like a liar and a thief ever since I was 8. They don't trust me. Not really. You know, ever since that night." If his birthday is indeed August 19, 2000, then the February where he was 8 would be February 2009.
Peter Scarborough's Wikipedia page, as mentioned above, supports 2009 more than it does 2008.
In Princeton Offense, the oil rig schematics are shown to have been on "9/10/2008", suggesting the accident was after September 10, 2008.
Jeph Loeb's statement as mentioned.
As mentioned, Emma Lahana says this is O'Reilly's first case in New Orleans and O'Reilly is still in New York in December 2015 but in New Orleans by August 2017. If she moved in February 2017, this is the only February that fits perfectly since it implied that O'Reilly left during Knight's time away from the force, which began in May 2016.
The "11 17" taxi registration sticker as mentioned.
As mentioned, there is an (unreliable) August 2000 date of birth given for Tyrone in Suicide Sprints. In the same episode, Tyrone mentions that he has known Father Delgado for 3 years, which would suggests he is in February of junior year, meaning he was born 16.4-17.4 years ago, so since it is an August and date of birth and currently February, he would be 16.5. 16.5 years after August 2000 gives February 2017.
In Call/Response, a magazine says, "Currently chairs a committee in 2017."
Stan Bartlett's license plate as mentioned says "18", which means it is between 2016 and 2018.
In Colony Collapse, on Mardi Gras, Scarborough references the surname Rand being a name that means you are known to be rich currently, implying Season 1, Episode 10: The Rands are referred to, suggesting Danny Rand is back in the world. Mardi Gras in 2016 was February 6th, before Danny Rand has returned, so it does not fit with 2016, but would make it February 2017 or 2018.
The basketball state finals occur days before Mardi Gras. The basketball state finals in Louisiana tend to be early March, and 2017 is the year where Mardi Gras is as close as possible to this, on February 28th.
The total evidence for a February 2010 accident and February 2018 present events:
Nathan Bowen's work ID as mentioned.
The oil rig schematic revisions as mentioned.
In First Light, Lush Life by Leo Islo plays in-universe. This song was put online on March 27, 2017, so the only possible February is 2018.
In First Light, Right Now by Vindata plays in-universe. This song was put online on February 22, 2017. This is just 12 days too late to fit with February 2017, so the only possible February is 2018.
Tyrone has a "FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 1st Saturday in May - May 6, 2017" leaflet as mentioned, which could work with 2018 if you assume he just left it up for several months after.
In Suicide Sprints, Adina Johnson has the book Grief Cottage, which was released August 2017, so the only possible February is 2018.
As mentioned, there is an (unreliable) August 2000 date of birth given for Tyrone in Suicide Sprints. In Rabbit Hold, it is shown on a poster and stated that Tyrone is "18". The October where he would be 18 would be October 2018, making Season 1 February 2018.
In Princeton Offense, O'Reilly looks at narcotics arrest files that she describes as being from "about 8 years ago", and the files on screen are from "02/18/2010", suggesting this is February 2018.
In Princeton Offense, news stories from "hours ago" are real life news stories from September 2017. This does not work for any February, though if it has to suggest one it would be February 2018, because at least those stories have happened by then.
Stan Bartlett's license plate as mentioned says "18", which works so long as the plate was registered between February and December 2016.
In Ghost Stories, Tyrone's phone says "Thursday, October 5". October 5th was a Thursday in 2017, and was the day of filming. This does not work for any February, though if it has to suggest one it would be February 2018, because it is more likely if the phone has the wrong date that it would be a past date, not a future one, if the phone was accidentally reset or something similar.
Scarborough's reference to the Rands as mentioned.
In Alignment Chart, an obituary for Kenneth Fuchs says, "Fuchs, aged 32, passed away on February 11, 2018."
Overall, when weighing up the value of each piece of evidence and the specificity and making compromises, February 2009/2017 comes out as the strongest option.
↑The Ghost Rider Found Cell Phone Footage video was released 16 days prior to The Ghost. It is not a fully in-universe video such as the WHiH Newsfront videos, released through their own channel, but is released as a promo through the Marvel channel with an out-of-universe promo ending, and thus is not released on the matching in-universe date. 16 days prior to The Ghost in the timeline is March 2, 2017.
↑ 32.0032.0132.0232.0332.0432.0532.0632.0732.0832.0932.1032.1132.1232.1332.1432.1532.1632.1732.1832.1932.2032.2132.2232.2332.2432.2532.2632.2732.2832.2932.3032.3132.3232.3332.3432.3532.3632.3732.3832.3932.4032.4132.4232.4332.4432.4532.4632.4732.4832.4932.5032.5132.5232.5332.54In The Ghost, the 2016-17 Scottish League Cup Final is shown. In real life, this final was on Sunday, November 27, 2016. However, due to the April 17, 2017 hard date from Wake Up (see other references), and this being no more than a month earlier, plus the minimum of "a few months" following the Vienna bombing in June 2016 before Mace takes over (as said in The Patriot) followed by "6 months" of Coulson and Mackenzie on the Zephyr One (Wake Up), this cannot be the same date in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It can be assumed because the teams in the final are different as well, that it did indeed occur on a different date. It would occur on a Sunday, meaning the end of Uprising would be a Thursday, with little time between Uprising and Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire, which is dated to April 3rd. This means the Thursday is the 23rd or the 30th. In real life, the 2016-17 season was the first time the Scottish League Cup Final was in November, with it always having been March previously. If, for whatever reason, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the March date continued into the 2016-17 season, the pattern of dates would put the final on Sunday, March 19, 2017 (meaning the Thursday 23rd), which aligns nicely with both the April date and the "few months" + "6 months" since June 2016.
↑ 41.041.141.241.341.441.541.641.741.8In AKA Start at the Beginning, there are 3 events (Jones and Walker meet at night, Jones meets with potential clients, Hogarth gets an award) prior to the main events of Jessica Jones: Season 2 beginning on April 28, 2017 (see other references), with each gap undefined, other than that they are shortly before the main events of the season. However, Jones is watching a film on a roof as she and Walker used to do, and Jones says that the man who projects them is "still here, first Friday every month", implying that day is the first Friday of the month, so presumably Friday, April 7, 2017. Therefore, the remaining two scenes can be approximated by evenly distributing between the 7th and the 28th - April 14th and 21st respectively.
↑ 43.043.143.243.3In AKA Freak Accident, on May 2, 2017 (see other references), it is shown that Robert Coleman commented on the Trish Talk site 21 days ago, so April 11, 2017, someone complained on the Trish Talk site about the talk of superheroes 20 days ago, so April 12, 2017, Coleman made some web searches 5 days ago, so April 27, 2017, and Coleman commented again on the Trish Talk site 3 days ago, so April 29, 2017.
↑ 56.0056.0156.0256.0356.0456.0556.0656.0756.0856.0956.10Resurrection spans 17 months, from May 9, 2016 (see 2016 references) to October 23, 2017 (see other references). With it being difficult to stretch the events of the episode over these 17 months, it would help for Murdock waking from his coma to be as late as realistically possible to minimize the stretching of the scenes after. When Murdock wakes, it is said that he was comatose for "several weeks". With him falling unconscious on May 10, 2016, realistically, the latest it should be is the end of June, with early July leaning more toward "2 months", so June 30, 2016 can be used. By the time of Benjamin Donovan visiting Wilson Fisk in prison, it is less than a month from October 23, 2017, as Fitz finds out about the troubles with Vanessa Marianna when Donovan visits and then at his next meeting with the FBI wants to make a deal because of it, and the meetings are said to be monthly. So, with it already being a big stretch to have the events span 17 months, the Donovan scene should be as early as possible to minimize the stretching for all scenes up to then, so around September 24, 2017. The scene before, of Murdock moving into the laundry room, is shown to be the same day as Fisk being visited in prison, so September 24, 2017. Therefore, the scene of the orphans visiting Murdock and Page and Nelson discussing Murdock's apartment should be distributed between June 30, 2016 and September 24, 2017, so November 27, 2016 and April 27, 2017 respectively. The scene of Grace taking Lantom to see Murdock training is therefore between September 25, 2017 evening and October 22, 2017 daytime, so around October 9, 2017.
The scene with Nichelle, a little later in the month, would work as being 3 months until Nichelle's master's in August.
It is just over 3 days since the Empire State Building was shown lit up green - the building was lit up green on the night of May 1st for mental health awareness, and this is now the night of May 4th-5th (early hours of the 5th).
It is a Thursday-Friday night, matching with it being a "school night" and the next morning being a Trish Talk day, with Trish Talk being a "weekday" show.
It works with the weather, starting colder but, by Episode 4 - AKA God Help the Hobo, becoming hot.
So, the season firmly begins in April 2017, with the majority set in May 2017, and the "5/5/2017" date matching the evidence nicely. This means that the main events of the season, from Trish Walker talking to Ian up to Alisa Jones' death, transpire from April 28, 2017 to May 30, 2017.
↑ 62.062.162.262.362.462.562.662.7In the Framework, a lot of events are confirmed to have happened similarly to the real world, but there is no date given. However, because they happened the same way in the Framework, and only certain things were changed in that virtual world, there is no reason for them to have happened at any date other than the same one as the real world timeline, and so it is assumed to be the same.
↑In All the Madame's Men, Coulson says he was approached when he "was fresh out of school." Coulson was born on July 8, 1964, and so he would have graduated from senior year in June 1982. He would have been approached in his summer holiday following graduation, around July 22, 1982.
↑ 67.067.167.267.3In the Framework, several events are changed from how they occurred in the real world. However, because they stemmed from the same point in the real world, and only certain details were changed in that virtual world, there is no reason for them to have happened at any date other than the same one as the real world timeline, and so it is assumed to be the same.
↑In Deals With Our Devils, it is shown that Hope's birthday is April 18, 2006. In Wake Up, Mack says that she died 11 years ago, aged only 4 days, and it would be her birthday tomorrow, placing that on April 17, 2017. However, in The Return, a few weeks later, Daisy Johnson says that in the Framework, Hope is 10. It would make sense if the reason Hope didn't make it in the real world is because she was born a couple of months prematurely, at around 24 weeks, but in the Framework she was born in August at full-term (40 weeks), and therefore has not yet turned 11 in the Framework in May 2017.
↑In Self Control, a "November 8" date can be seen on the Framework version of Simmons' gravestone. Based on the September 2008 date for the Cambridge Incident, the time it would take for the public to completely turn to HYDRA, and the amount of decomposition of the corpse next to Simmons in 2017, the year is 2009. This also fits better with Fitz saying Simmons is in her "mid 20s" in What If..., as Simmons would be 29 otherwise, but if her body is the biological age she was when she died, she'd be 22, albeit a bit older-looking for her age.
↑In Identity and Change, Mace says, "For about 70 years after World War II, nothing [happened at the Playground]... But then, a couple years back, a brave agent named Billy Koenig gave his life getting me the location." "A couple years back" implies about 2⅓ years back from May 2017, giving a January 2015 date. This lines up with "about 70 years" after 1945.
↑In Identity and Change, Ward says that they "liberated [the Quinjet] last year." This is said on May 1, 2017, putting the date of this around May 22, 2016.
↑In All the Madame's Men, Antoine Triplett says, on the reasoned date of May 10th (see other references), that he took the photos "about a week ago," placing that around May 3rd.
↑In All the Madame's Men, on the reasoned date of May 10th (see other references), an "in memoriam" is shown for John Garrett in the Framework. It seems that it is not breaking news, but is recent, putting his passing around 2 days prior, on the 8th.
↑ 82.082.182.282.382.482.5In Rewind, Fitz is arrested, which is dated to May 12th, and then questioned again the following day, the 13th. 5 scenes then transpire, before the 6th scene, where Fitz is shown drawing his 17th monkey on the cell wall, indicating his 17th day in the cell. This means it is May 29th. Distributing the scenes between the 13th and 29th, the 1st scene would be around the 16th. Fitz is watching a soccer game with a team in light blue and black, so it would make sense for this to be the Manchester City vs. West Bromwich Albion game on May 16, 2017. The 2nd scene, Fitz eating, by distribution would place on May 18th. The 3rd scene would be the 21st, and this is with a soccer game on in the background. This matches, as Fitz is a Manchester United fan, and they played Crystal Palace on May 21, 2017. The 4th scene, where he turns on his lamp, by distribution would place on May 24th, and the 5th, where he does crunches, then places on May 26th.
↑In AKA Pray for My Patsy, Frankie tells Jeri Hogarth on May 29, 2017 (see other references) that Shane Ryback was "in here yesterday", meaning it was May 28, 2017.
↑ 92.092.192.292.392.492.5In Rewind, Fitz draws his 17th monkey face on his 17th morning of incarceration, May 29th. 1 scene then transpires before the scene where Fitz is shown with 28th monkey on the cell wall, indicating his 28th day in the cell - although it works out as the 29th day, before he has drawn the 29th face (see other references). This means it is June 10th. Distributing the scenes between May 29th and June 10th, the scene would be around June 4th. Fitz is watching a soccer game, getting angry. No team of interest to Fitz played between May 29th and June 9th in the real world, but the Champions League final was on June 3, 2017. Whether he is simply passionate about the game, or Manchester United got to the Champions League final in the MCU, either way, June 3rd works well.
↑In AKA Shark in the Bathtub, Monster in the Bed, Oscar Arocho says on May 23, 2017 (see other references), "We have a custody hearing in 2 weeks." Exactly 2 weeks on would be Tuesday, June 6, 2017, but it could be more generally meaning "Week commencing Monday, May 22, 2017 + 2 weeks = week commencing Monday, June 5, 2017", so anywhere between Monday, June 5, 2017 and Sunday, June 11, 2017 - approximately Thursday, June 8, 2017. Putting more weight in the specific "2 weeks", it can be calculated that the hearing was approximately June 7, 2017.
↑ 94.094.1In Reunion, a prologue shows Destiny Gonzalez being taken in by the Church of Gibborim, before cutting to "six months later", when the rest of the season begins on December 8, 2017. This therefore means the prologue is approximately June 8, 2017.
↑ 96.096.196.2In Rewind, Fitz is shown to have 28 monkey faces on his wall when he listens to soccer and looks at his wall, the timings from the night of May 12th, and works on a formula (these scenes are not separate, due to the same soccer game playing out across the shots). While 28 monkey faces would suggest it is the 28th day after May 12th, June 9th, Fitz is not shown actually drawing the 28th face, so it is possible that it is the 29th day, before he has drawn the 29th face. This allows the scene to be June 10, 2017, the day of the Scotland vs. England World Cup qualifier, which he would be interested in. 1 scene then transpires, before the scene where Fitz does push-ups and is estimated to have 45 monkeys on his wall (see other references), making it June 26th. The scene in between, where he eats and looks at Simmons' file, would place halfway between June 10th and 26th, on June 18th.
↑ 98.098.198.298.398.498.5In Rewind, the first time Fitz asks for his letter to be sent is reasoned as June 3, 2017 (see other references). By the time Lance Hunter arrives on November 25, 2017 (see other references), Fitz says, "They printed my letters in the last six issues of Ballbaster Hooligan," meaning his letters were featured in the issues released in June through November inclusively. Considering the minimum total time needed for Fitz's letter to be analyzed, sent to the U.K., received, edited into the publication of that month's magazine, and then the magazine to be published, with him giving it over on June 3rd, the issue released in June cannot have been released any earlier than June 13th. Considering he has already received the issue released in November by November 25th, the earliest it could have been released to have made it to the U.S.A. by the 24th is November 21st. Considering a magazine for the following month is usually released in the final third of the month before, it can be taken that the fanzine would not have released much earlier than November 21st - perhaps November 20th, to be certain that it made it to Fitz by the 24th on government-priority shipping. This would mean that the fanzine is likely released on the penultimate Monday of each month, and Fitz receives each issue about 4 days later.
In June 2017, this was Monday 19th, so he receives it on the 23rd. In July 2017, Monday 24th, so he receives it on the 28th. In August 2017, Monday 21st, so he receives it on the 25th. In September 2017, Monday 18th, so he receives it on the 22nd. In October 2017, Monday 23rd, so he receives it on the 27th. In November 2017, Monday 20th, so he receives it on the 24th.
↑ 99.099.199.299.399.499.599.6In Rewind, after the scene where Fitz has 28 monkey faces on his wall (reasoned as June 10th), a scene transpires where Fitz eats and looks at Simmons' file. The next scene then shows him doing push-ups. This is followed by a scene where he scrunches up a piece of work, followed by another push-up scene. He then gets angry about a free kick, and then there is a final push-up scene, before the scene with his 49th monkey face, on June 30th. Last time the monkeys were shown, they were in rows of 4 (incomplete row), 7 | (line on the wall) 7, 7, 3 (incomplete row). In all 3 push-up scenes, it now appears that the 4th row above the line on the wall is 6 (incomplete row). This would suggest that it is 6, 7, 7, 7 | 7, 7, 3-7. It is unknown whether Fitz has added to that bottom row we previously saw incomplete or just left it as an incomplete row of 3. The scene after, with the 49th monkey face, shows that the bottom row has indeed been filled out, so he must have filled it at some point over this time. By distribution, we can approximate that ((1 - 0.5) ÷ 3) × 4 = roughly 1 of the missing 4 has been filled out in the 1st scene, ((2 - 0.5) ÷ 3) × 4 = 2 have been filled out in the 2nd, and ((3 - 0.5) ÷ 3) × 4 = roughly 3 in the 3rd scene. This would mean there is approximately a total of 45, 46, and 47 monkeys respectively in the 3 push-up scenes, thus making them approximately June 26th, 27th, and 28th.
There are very few soccer games on in late June, so it is hard to believe that there were games on consecutive days. Therefore, the game playing in the scene before the push-ups on the 27th and the game playing in the scene after the push-ups on the 27th has to be assumed to be the same game, with Fitz muting or turning it off in the middle for push-ups. Therefore, these scenes are either side of the push-ups on the 27th. There isn't an obvious match that it could be which he is watching, but it can be assumed that the soccer schedule between seasons in the MCU is not identical to the real world.
↑ 101.0101.1101.2101.3101.4101.5In Rewind, Fitz is shown drawing his 49th monkey face in his cell, meaning it is 49 days since he was incarcerated, making it June 30th. 5 scenes then transpire, before the 6th scene, where Fitz is shown receiving the latest issue of Ballbaster Hooligan, and then the 7th being Fitz's 197th monkey face, making it November 25th. Distributing between June 30th and November 25th would give the 6th scene as being roughly November 4th. Fitz receives Ballblaster Hooligan in October on the 27th and in November on the 24th (see other references). October 27th is the closer of the two to November 4th, so this is the date used - the fifth issue he has received, not the sixth - which matches with the fact that he appears to have approximately 4 other issues on his desk when he throws the new one.
If the other 5 scenes before were then distributed evenly between June 30th and October 27th, it would give August 9th for the 2nd scene, which includes a soccer game. The closest game which Manchester United, Fitz's team, played, was on August 8th against Real Madrid, so this date can be used.
Finally, the 1st scene is placed halfway between June 30th and August 8th, on July 20th, and the 3rd, 4th, and 5th scenes are then distributed between August 8th and October 27th, giving August 28th, September 17th, and October 7th.
↑ 105.0105.1In Soul Brother #1, on August 18, 2017 (see other references), recent New York Bulletin front pages are shown with the headlines Lordy! and Protest Turned Brofest. Lordy! is on top of the pile, so can be assumed to be that day's paper, and Protest Turned Brofest is seemingly the one underneath, so can be assumed as the paper from the day before.
↑In the Doctor Strange post-credits scene, when Mordo visits Pangborn, he says, "I've been away for many months now." Mordo left the Masters of the Mystic Arts the morning of January 19, 2017 (see other references). Therefore, it has been absolute minimum 3 months, which is earliest April 1st, minimum possible 4 months, which is earliest May 1st, and minimum realistic 5 months, which is earliest June 1st. Overall, by weighted average, the earliest it can be is May 14th. It has been maximum realistic 9 months, which is latest just under 9.5 months, November 2nd, maximum possible 10 months, which is latest just under 10.5 months, December 3rd, and absolute latest the end of the 11th month after, December 31st. Overall, by weighted average, the latest it can be is November 20th. So overall, the middle of the average earliest and average latest gives August 17, 2017, as the approximate date. For more details on the calculation, see here.
↑ last week with a busted tail light and a gram of weed.
↑In The Main Ingredient, it is said on September 3, 2017 (see other references) that the system was installed "2 weeks ago". This would suggest approximately August 20, 2017. However, it may more roughly just mean "this week is the week of September 3-9, 2017, 2 weeks ago was the week of August 20-26, 2017", so any time in that week (using midweek as an approximation). Putting more weight in the specific date than just the week, a weighted calculation gives roughly August 21, 2017 for when they installed the system.
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Iron Fist: Season 2 takes place after the events of Luke Cage: Season 2, as is evidenced by Rand being in New York City in The Main Ingredient but leaving the country after A Duel of Iron, Hai-Qing Yang appearing late in Luke Cage: Season 2 and being killed early in Iron Fist: Season 2, and Misty Knight having her bionic arm given during Luke Cage: Season 2, as well as referring to her offer of a promotion from that season. Luke Cage: Season 2 takes place firmly in August-September 2017 (see other references), making this no earlier than September 2017. In War Without End, the "spring fair" is being planned in Chinatown - the fair for Chinese New Year, thus meaning it is coming up, making it the run-up to February 16, 2018. This is supported by Colleen Wing, in The Fury of Iron Fist, offering to give Lana Tsai "kids' winter stuff", implying it is winter, as well as there being cold weather throughout the season. It is also supported by a laptop in The City's Not for Burning with a January 2018 date. The laptop also shows that it is 18:58 and dark outside, putting it roughly between October 5, 2017 and March 10, 2018 regardless of the January date. And, in Target: Iron Fist, Misty Knight says, "This is probably not next year's Christmas card," implying that Christmas has been fairly recently, if next Christmas is still being considered "next year's" (even though it would be "this year"), being in the wake of the last Christmas. The main events of Daredevil: Season 3 are said to be "months" since the events of The Defenders: Season 1, firmly in Spring 2016 (see 2016 references). The official synopsis says, "Missing for months, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) reemerges a broken man." In No Good Deed, Murdock says, "I've had a rough couple of months, Foggy. Questioning a lot of... the point of it all." This would imply merely 2 months since he woke, "weeks" after the main events of The Defenders, but this is impossible. It can either be taken that Murdock is using "couple" the informal way to mean "few", or just that only in the last couple of months of his hiding has he started questioning things, though this would not have been long after he recovered. So, either way, this still implies not long since The Defenders. Then, in The Perfect Game, Karen Page is asked, "When's the last time you heard from Matt Murdock?", and replies, "Um... months," though it can be taken that she is trying to downplay the length of time, without actually lying. It is also generally strongly implied that not much time passes following The Defenders before the main events of the season. In Reunion, it is said that Fisk was wrongly convicted "2 years" ago, and in One Last Shot it is said that Vanessa Marianna was protected for "2 years". With Fitz's arrest and Marianna going into hiding both being February 2015 (see 2015 references), this would suggest it is now early 2017. It is also clearly around winter-time, so it would seem on this evidence alone that it is early 2017, about 8 months after The Defenders: Season 1. However, these are not mutually compatible, as the main events of Iron Fist: Season 2 take place before the main events of Daredevil: Season 3, with references in This Deadly Secret and Citadel on the Edge of Vengeance to Danny Rand carrying out Matt Murdock's mission (given to him in The Defenders when Murdock thought he was going to die and wanted Rand to fight in his place), implying Murdock is still thought deceased. The official synopsis for Iron Fist: Season 2 says, "This season, Danny has promised that with Matt Murdock gone, he will step up and protect his city," confirming Murdock is still thought dead. All of Iron Fist: Season 2, except for its epilogue, should therefore take place before the reappearance of "Daredevil" during the attack on the New York Bulletin Building in The Devil You Know, followed shortly by Murdock's public reappearance. Some compromise has to be made wherein Daredevil: Season 3 is later than early 2017, and Iron Fist: Season 2 is earlier than early 2018. Iron Fist: Season 2 can be dragged earlier, but at the absolute earliest it is late 2017, with the spring fair committee taken to be planning far ahead of time - a few months. This is a stretch, but again, necessary to make it work. And there are a few things that work better with Iron Fist: Season 2 being late 2017: in The Fury of Iron Fist, Rand says he "missed the last 15 years of culture", having been missing for almost 15 years and now catching up, and while not particularly including the time since he returned, it nonetheless implies it is still close to 15 years since he went missing, and 2017 is 16 years rather than 2018 being 17; in The Fury of Iron Fist and This Deadly Secret, it is said that it is "months" since Joy and Ward Meachum last spoke, which is implied to be referring if not to Season 1 then to a time shortly after then, so the shorter the span between Season 1 and 2 the better; Misty Knight is still considering the captain offer, has taken leave to ponder it, and is implied to have not seen Luke Cage since They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.), which works much better as a month or so after the end of Luke Cage: Season 2 in September 2017 than a few months later; in Morning of the Mindstorm it is said that Rand has been "all over Chinatown for months", which is implied to be referring if not to The Defenders: Season 1 then to a time shortly after then, so the shorter the span between then and this season the better; the epilogue of A Duel of Iron "months later" fits more comfortably before Avengers: Infinity War in May 2018 if A Duel of Iron is late 2017 than early 2018, and it should be before Avengers: Infinity War (1, 2). Daredevil: Season 3 can be pushed to late 2017, at the latest. This causes problems in relation to The Defenders: Season 1, as it makes it roughly 17 months since then, when it is implied to be only a few months. It somewhat works as "months", being only over a year, not yet a year-and-a-half or 2 years, but it is a big stretch. You certainly cannot push it further, as this is the latest it can be while still being considered "2 years" since early 2015, as well as the absolute most you can stretch the gap since The Defenders: Season 1. But some evidence does in fact support late 2017: this works better with the line in The Perfect Game from Benjamin Donovan, "an early and very white Christmas"; the season has to be after Luke Cage: Season 2 (finishing September 2017) as, not only is it after Iron Fist: Season 2 which is after Luke Cage; Season 2, but Karen Page is referenced in The Creator as still working as a reporter, when she loses that job and begins working for Nelson, Murdock and Page in Daredevil: Season 3; most importantly, the DA election occurred in New York City in the real world in late 2017. With Daredevil: Season 3 pushed forward to its absolute limit and Iron Fist: Season 2 pulled back to its absolute limit, they can just about be pulled to meet at late 2017. There is some evidence for it being very late 2017: heavy snow is shown during Daredevil: Season 3, which works significantly better are November-December than October-November, and the later in 2017, the better for Iron Fist: Season 2 as it is closer to early 2018. However, the majority of the evidence, with a late 2017 placement, would point to October-November 2017: in Aftermath, is it shown to be 57°F at 18:30 in New York City, which would suggest ideally approximately late October (or mid-to-late April); Iron Fist: Season 2 is seemingly not long after Knight's job offer in Luke Cage: Season 2, with Knight still considering the captain job offer; it is slightly closer to The Defenders: Season 1 (17 months rather than 18/19 - keeping it under a year-and-a-half), so just slightly more plausible for the mentions of "months"; it is also slightly closer to Iron Fist: Season 1, again fitting slightly better with the implications of "months"; it is slightly more plausible as "2 years" since early 2015; it makes it under 16 years since Danny Rand's plane crash when he says he missed "the last 15 years of culture"; most importantly, it fits with the real New York City DA election - it would be odd to align with late 2017 but not quite line up with a big timeline indicator (especially since They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) establishes at least some election dates as the same in the MCU), and the election's inclusion can be taken as an indication that it was not meant to be right at the end of the year, despite the snow. So, the two seasons should be in the lead-up to the November 7, 2017 election, as late as possible. The final scenes of Daredevil: Season 3, still before the election, are a Friday (working forward from Poindexter saying in No Good Deed that it is Tuesday). As late as possible makes it Friday, November 3, 2017. Working back, this puts the attack on the New York Bulletin building on October 27, 2017. The seasons should overlap as much as possible, to allow Iron Fist: Season 2 to be as late (close to its ideal early 2018) as possible. So, Rand leaving in the plane should be as late as possible while still before the attack on the New York Bulletin. The day of Rand leaving is a Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, based on dialogue in the season. Taking it to be Friday (the exact same day as the attack on the New York Bulletin), however, also allows the ambush on Fisk's convoy to fall comfortably in the gap between Morning of the Mindstorm and Citadel on the Edge of Vengeance in Iron Fist: Season 2, thus meaning that this major event, worthy of citywide news, not being addressed during Iron Fist: Season 2 is not a problem. So, the end of the main events of Iron Fist: Season 2 can be taken to be Friday, October 27, 2017. Working back from there, Iron Fist: Season 2 spans 18 days at an absolute minimum, meaning the latest it can start is Monday, October 9, 2017. However, in The Fury of Iron Fist, Rand jokes that their date nights should become a regular occurrence, "every Tuesday", implying it is currently Tuesday. The latest Tuesday it can be, therefore, is Tuesday, October 3, 2017, with the season spanning 24 days (other than the epilogue). This is a more suitable length, considering the battle at Golden Tigers' Hideout is referred to in Morning of the Mindstorm as "a few weeks ago" (this pushes it to 2 weeks prior) as well as Rand's recovery from injury - said to be incredibly fast, but still spanning some time - now taking 15 days, while taking into consideration that it is not possible to stretch the season a further week, to start on September 26, 2017, since the passage of time in the season does not fit with much more than the approximate 24 days. Finally, when aligned side-by-side, this gives:
October 3-20, 2017: The Fury of Iron Fist-Morning of the Mindstorm.
October 22-23, 2017: Resurrection ending-No Good Deed opening.
October 24, 2017: Citadel on the Edge of Vengeance opening/No Good Deed.
October 25, 2017: Citadel on the Edge of Vengeance-War Without End opening/Blindsided.
October 26, 2017: War Without End-A Duel of Iron opening/The Perfect Game.
October 27, 2017: A Duel of Iron/The Devil You Know-Aftermath opening.
October 28-November 3, 2017: Aftermath-A New Napkin.
↑In Rewind, Fitz has written a letter to the editor of the fictional fanzine Ballblaster Hooligan, for Liverpool fans, in which he refers to the manager having "arrived 3 years ago". In the real world, Jürgen Klopp took over in October 2015, which would suggest that this is now 2018. However, there is a wealth of evidence placing the end of Season 4 in May 2017, and this is less than 6 months (later in the episode it is said to have been 6 months) after. The episode Rewind itself confirms that the episode is set in 2017, cutting to "2091", "74 years later". It can be assumed that either they are referring to it being the 3rd soccer season since he took over or simply that the Liverpool managers were different/at different times in the MCU.
↑ 139.0139.1In Principia, Werner von Strucker says to Dr. Levi Van Kempen on Saturday, December 16, 2017 (see other references), "April, your daughter. Just turned 3 [...] 6 weeks ago, during our Tuesday session [...] your wife called [...] April had a fever, 103.2. All those kids at the parties, a lot of germs." This would have occurred on Tuesday, October 31, 2017, and the implication is that this would be the day after April's party, making that October 30, 2017.
↑In All the Comforts of Home, it is said in the morning of December 4, 2017 (see other references) that the beam "showed up a few weeks ago". This would suggest approximately 3½ weeks, placing its initiation around the evening of November 9, 2017.
All the Comforts of Home being soon after the main events of Rewind on November 25-26, 2017, 197 days (as given by the number of monkey faces Fitz has drawn on his cell wall) after Fitz was incarcerated on May 12, 2017 and the day after.
In All the Comforts of Home, the events of Thor: Ragnarok are referenced as being recent, with Thor: Ragnarok taking place around November 2017.
In The Real Deal, Hale says, "This is the first time Ms. Johnson's been sighted in months," suggesting it is still 2017 and not yet the new year and working well as 7 months since their disappearance in May 2017.
A couple of weeks later, in Principia, Coulson jokes with Fitz asking if he comes bearing "tidings of comfort and joy", suggesting it is Christmas time.
A couple of weeks later, in Principia, a "12-17-2017" date is shown on Rodriguez's monitor.
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↑ 161.0161.1In the opening of Fifteen, the group call Nico Minoru to tell her the news about Destiny Gonzalez, and Gert Yorkes asks, "Have you been under a rock all night?" This means it is still the same day as the events of Destiny, Saturday, December 9, 2017, despite the rest of Fifteen taking place on Monday, December 11, 2017 (see other references). There is, therefore, a jump of a day-and-a-half between Alex Wilder finding his father's gun and Victor Stein driving a kidnapped girl to be the next sacrifice.
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