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"World governments are in pieces. The parts that are still working are trying to take a census, and it looks like he did... He did exactly what he said he was gonna do. Thanos wiped out fifty percent of all living creatures."
Barnes realizes he is freed from Hydra's brainwashing
Bucky Barnes and Ayo sit near a fire in Wakanda, preparing to test whether Barnes has been fully cured of his brainwashing. Barnes is nervous, although Ayo assures him that she will not allow him to hurt anyone. Ayo says Barnes' trigger words, forcing Barnes to reflect on his past as the Winter Soldier. However, Barnes does not turn into the Winter Soldier, causing him to get emotional. Ayo happily tells Barnes that he is free from his programming.[3][4]
Kate Bishop is presented with the JOAD Olympian Award at the Silver level.[5][6]
1st-9th[]
Dark Dimension[]
Molly Hernandez confronts her parents about the sacrifices. They tell her that they are honored and proud to work for Jonah. All of the teenagers in the room die from poisoned punch, and Gene and Alice menacingly offer her the punch. She runs out of the church and looks back in through the glass, finding the room now empty.[7][8][9]
Tina Minoru tries to resurrect Amy, but cannot remember the spell. She hands Nico the Staff of One, but Nico uses it to stab the Amy illusion, causing her to disappear. She convinces Tina that they are not in the real world, and Tina resolves to leave with Nico. They try to find the "Amy" Nico arrived with, but "she" has disappeared.[7][8][9]
The Minorus go to the garage to get a car.[7][8][9]
2nd[]
Kate Bishop, now a black belt in karate, prepares to fight another black belt. She punches her opponent, knocking them down.[10][11]
After doing extensive research, Malcolm Ducasse visits a mugger who is suing Trish Walker. Having learned that the mugger is not the father of the child he raised, Ducasse demands a lower settlement in the lawsuit under threat of telling the child. The mugger assumes that Ducasse is bluffing, so Ducasse calls the child's cell phone and asks if his father ever taught him what a "bastard" was. The mugger pleads with Ducasse, so Ducasse stops and enters negotiations.[13][14]
Trish Walker resumes her physical training at her apartment with her trainer, Adrian. After besting him in a fight, she and Adrian proceed to have sex.[13][14]
15th[]
Trish Walker wakes up the following morning to discover that Adrian is still there, watching a news report of a woman, Madeline Brandt, who had been viciously attacked in her home by several thugs, who also stole a valuable sculpture from her. Madeline's half-brother, Andrew Brandt, has been arrested in connection to the crime. Adrian explained that it is people like Andrew who are the reason he fights.[13][14]
Ducasse explains the blackmailing he had to do
Malcolm Ducasse arrives at Walker's apartment to get a check from her to pay off the cellphone thief. When Walker realizes the settlement is much lower than expected, Ducasse tells her what he did to get the man to back down. Ducasse says that he would have told the child everything if the mugger had not agreed to his demands, horrifying Walker. She gives him the check, but before leaving, he advises her to get her life together because people will eventually begin asking questions and looking into her.[13][14]
This concludes information from media marked as Dubious Canon.
13th[]
Rex Quinn and his friend Paulie spend time together. Paulie's brother shows them pornographic material, and Quinn learns about sex from watching it. Finding the sex gross, Quinn goes outside to play hockey.[17][18]
March[]
1st-4th[]
Dark Dimension[]
Gert Yorkes wakes up while her mother is experimenting. Gert notices the serum vial on the table and realizes that Stacey used the serum on her in the real world when she was 13, and that this was the cause of her anxiety disorder. Stacey tries to defend her actions.[7][8][9]
Destiny Gonzalez explains to Dean that she is their sacrifice, and that what is coming for her is "the darkness." The monster, who looks like Nico Minoru and is chained to the Magistrate's corpse, attacks the camp.[7][8][9]
4th[]
Danny Rand and Ward Meachum follow their current lead on Orson Randall, the sender of the Hancock 0212 shipment, to Jakarta, having previously been to Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur in their pursuit. They cause a mess as they steal a shipment from Randall's warehouse, containing Randall's chi-infused pistols.[15]
4th-10th[]
Dark Dimension[]
The monster tries to kiss Dean, but she refuses. Dean tricks the monster into her into untying her. Shen then gets a crowbar and breaks the chain, untethering the monster from the corpse. Dean flees, and starts hearing the real Minoru's voice. She finds herself suddenly in a town square, where she reunites with Tina and Nico. As Dean and Minoru embrace, Dean thinks about the version of Minoru she just encountered.[7][8][9]
Stacey Yorkes asks Gert to prove she can look after herself by feeding the prototype dinosaur. Gert enters the cage with a raw chicken.[7][8][9]
10th-13th[]
Dark Dimension[]
Gert Yorkes successfully feeds the dinosaur, but gets attacked. Stacey shoots the dinosaur with a tranquilizer and Gert escapes. They are met by Chase and Victor Stein, arriving in the basement.[7][8][9]
Wilson eventually meets with Happy Hogan at the Avengers Compound in hopes of becoming an Avenger. Wilson expresses joy to be there and says that he would be helpful to the Avengers. He explains that he wants to matter and asks if Tony Stark will be appearing, but Hogan says that he is the one who will be interviewing Wilson.[19]
Wilson talks about his experience leading a team in the past, but admits that they all died. Wilson admits that he needs to join the team in order to show Vanessa Carlysle that he matters. Hogan tells Wilson that needing to join is not a good reason to join the team. Hogan advises Wilson to aim lower and find his place, so Wilson, saddened, returns to his universe.[19]
Having taken Malcolm Ducasse's advice, Trish Walker works on a show called Style by Trish. She recommends a cardigan with her colleague, Grace Bennett, for the unusually cold spring weather, and gives life advice for a caller to start afresh for the spring season.[13][14]
After finishing, Trish Walker continues her investigation into Andrew Brandt, who has walked free after the sculpture he seemingly gave hired thugs to beat up his half-sister was not found. Dorothy then approaches to remind Trish to focus on her show. Dorothy asks if Trish is happy doing the show, and Trish responds saying that people needs to see what she is up to.[13][14]
April[]
8th[]
Trish Walker continues her investigation into Andrew Brandt at home. She then starts typing an email, which she intends to send to Jessica Jones, starting apologetic and with a softer tone. However, she then deletes her progress, instead proceeding to write a significantly harsher message.[13][14]
8th-9th[]
Dark Dimension[]
The Steins and Yorkeses drive, and notice dead bodies hanging off a highway.[7][8][9]
Enoch watches Leo Fitz as he lies, frozen in his cryogenic chamber. The ship gets attacked by an alien warship, as Enoch apologizes to the unconscious Fitz, having planned to protect him for 73 years and 261 days more. Enoch calculates Fitz's best chances go survival, just as their attackers cut their ship in half.[20][21]
Enoch and Fitz barely escape death as Enoch takes the frozen Fitz to safety in an ejection pod.[20][22]
10th[]
After their crash, Fitz and Enoch end up on Saldon.[20][23]
Enoch finds one half of the ship, with the frozen Fitz in tow.[20][23]
13th[]
Restless by Ryan Innes is released on an album.[1][24]
14th[]
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This concludes information from media marked as Dubious Canon.
Months after Danny Rand left New York City, Colleen Wing catches a group of robbers trying to flee a bank. She prepares her katana and lights up her white Iron Fist, the chi flowing through into her blade.[27][28]
Search for Orson Randall: In a bar in Hokkaido, Japan, at 4AM local time Ward Meachum asks a man about his employer selling on the black market. The man denies this, but Meachum continues to inquire, asking about Hancock Transport and the body inside, saying he wants to talk to the man who sent it, Orson Randall, whom he knows is the man's boss. The man denies knowledge of Randall, but Meachum says they have had a rough time tracking him through Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and a mess in Jakarta, which causes the man to realize Meachum was involved in the stealing of their missing shipment from Jakarta. As a thug working for the man stands to threaten Meachum, Meachum turns to Danny Rand, sitting nearby. The man tells Rand that Randall wants his property back, and Rand reveals he has it: two special pistols at his side. The man shoots at Rand, but Rand lights up both his fists, his chi restored and now in both hands, and the energy channeled through both weapons, and fires two chi-charged bullets, converging on the man's bullet and knocking it out of the air. He facetiously remarks that the man should not try that again.[27][28]
Anderson Schultz approaches John Pilgrim after church and tells him that their doctor is optimistic about the new treatment being used on Rebecca working. He tells John that he has become aware of a situation threatening everything they hold dear, and he will need to perform a task for them. John agrees, and Eliza assures him is sons will be looked after while he is gone.[32][33]
John Pilgrim assures Rebecca that he will only be gone for a couple of days, as he prepares to leave. He changes out of his shirt, under which he has faded white supremacist tattoos.[32][33]
Bendix returns from buying tacos and finds her friends all shot dead in their motel room.[32][34]
Fiona's crew's killer, John Pilgrim, returns to the room, and Bendix hides under a bed, surrounded by the bullet-riddled dead bodies of her friends.[32][34]
Once Pilgrim is gone, Bendix runs for her life. She gets away, still with the photos.[32][34]
26th[]
Rescue of Cassie Yasdan: In response to an Amber Alert, Jessica Jones tracks down the missing Cassie Yasdan to Mexico, who had been taken illegally by her father, Mitch, after he lost custody of her to Cassie's mother. Jones intends to return Cassie home, and when Mitch threatens to get physical, she tosses him several feet in the air. The incident, unbeknownst to Jones, is captured on camera and uploaded to the Internet.[35][36]
Trish Walker begins stalking Andrew Brandt. She starts by breaking into his apartment while he is gone, disabling the alarm and looking through his place for the missing sculpture. She finds a locked safe, which she is certain the sculpture is being kept in. While she cannot get to the sculpture for the time being, she notices the hotel across the road from his apartment building, where she can stay in order to watch him.[13][14]
Walker moves into the Nouvet Hotel. From her room, she had the perfect view of Brandt's home.[13][14]
Jessica Jones returns to New York City with Cassie Yasdan and delivers her to her mother, despite Cassie's complaints. Mrs. Yasdan tells Jones that she plans on restricting her x-husband's limitation rights and punishing him. Jones advises her to back off for Cassie's sake, prompting anger from Mrs. Yasdan, until she becomes scared of Jones and runs inside.[35][36]
Jones returns to the Alias Investigations Office to learn from Vido Arocho that her altercation with Mitch Yasdan had since gone viral. She enters her apartment, where she and Gillian, her assistant, discuss furniture arrangements and clients.[35][36]
At night, Jones leaves for the bar. In the hallway, she runs into Malcolm Ducasse, who has upgraded apartments and moved into Mrs. Chin's old apartment after quitting his job at Alias Investigations a year prior. After introducing Jones to Zaya Okonjo, his new girlfriend, the two part ways again.[35][36]
Walker waits for Brandt to return home, ignoring several of her mother's calls and messages while doing so, as she misses filming for an episode of her show. When Brandt arrives at his apartment, she watches from her room, though eventually falls asleep.[13][14]
While at the bar, Jones is approached by Eddy Costa, who congratulates her on bringing Cassie Yasdan home, having been the one who mentioned the case to Jones. He suggests that Jones should end her private investigator endeavors and leave it to the professionals, but adds that his reason for being there is simply to remind Jones of their agreement, that he would throw her the occasional case and she would not break the law.[35][36]
Shooter Jennings performs in Lola's Roadhouse, and Frank Castle watches, buying a beer from bartender Beth Quinn. A girl comes and orders a drink, with owner Ringo judging her as acceptable to serve despite looking potentially underage. Castle surveys her, and she is defensive, telling him to look away and calling him "Rough Road". When he asks if she is okay, she unconvincingly claims she is before walking away.[38][17]
A man named Johnny starts harassing Quinn behind the bar, and when she refuses his advances, he grabs her arm. Castle tells him to let her go, and when he insults her, Castle chides his behavior. Johnny tries to pick a fight, but Castle breaks his finger. Ringo tries to have them both kicked out, but Quinn sticks up for Castle. He introduces himself to her as "Pete".[38][17]
The girl in Lola's Roadhouse, Amy Bendix, calls Sergei Konchevsky from a payphone. Konchevsky is being held captive by John Pilgrim, and is forced to take the call but not give his situation away. Bendix explains she is someone who worked for Fiona, and the reason they did not deliver him the photographs he was expecting the day before was because the whole crew except her, pointing out someone must know about them. Konchevsky, pressured by Pilgrim, asks for her to still deliver the pictures, but she asks him to meet her the next day at Lola's Roadhouse, unknowingly giving her location to Pilgrim.[38][17]
After hanging up, Konchevsky expects Pilgrim to let him go. However, Pilgrim explains he only promised he would give Konchevsky peace, and kills the man.[38][17]
28th[]
Castle and Quinn talk as the roadhouse closes. He goes to leave, but she offers that he come along with her for another drink.[38][17]
Beth Quinn takes "Pete Castiglione" out for a drink
Quinn has Castle jump into her car. Meanwhile, Bendix sneaks past to the Good Rest Motel, where Castle has been staying, and picks the lock on an empty room, breaking in to sleep.[38][17]
Back at Beth Quinn's home, Beth tells Castle about her life, including an 8-year-old son named Rex. They admit that they do not usually head home with someone after one night, but each feel a connection to each other, and end up sleeping together.[38][17]
After she notices his scars, Castle tells Quinn he was in the marines. He also explains his wedding ring hung around his neck, about having had a wife and children, who were all taken from him. He admits life can get lonely, but quotes Karen Page's comment to him about how life is about trying not to be lonely, and they tell each other neither are feeling lonely currently.[38][17]
After a while, Castle admits to Quinn that this real name is Frank, and explains that the government have given him a new identity, due to things he was involved with that have to remain secret. She says she trusts him, and comments that they have to take the good when it comes, which reminds him of his family's times with Billy Russo, and Russo's subsequent utter betrayal.[38][17]
In the morning, Castle gets up to leave. He comes across Rex Quinn, who has been dropped off by Beth's mother, who had been looking after him. Beth gets up, and Castle stops himself from leaving. He endears himself to Rex, and offers to drive the trio to get pancakes for breakfast.[38][17]
Castle has breakfast with the Quinns
At the diner, Beth Quinn tells Frank Castle about her job, and how she teaches musical instruments on weekdays. Rex surprises the adults when he guesses that they had sex, and Beth quickly changes the subject.[38][17]
Jeri Hogarth wakes up and falls onto the floor as she attempts to get up out of the bed, her ALS worsening. She sits on the ground in pain, contemplating whether to call 911. Hogarth ultimately chooses not to, instead retrieving illegally obtained pills from her nightstand. She contemplates using them, but instead merely looks at them.[35][36]
Meanwhile, outside, Beth Quinn drops Frank Castle off back at his motel room. She invites him to return to Lola's Roadhouse that evening, and they bid each other farewell. He goes to unlock his door.[38][17]
A few doors down, Amy Bendix is woken when a worker at the motel rattles the door, trying to get in. She pushes past her, ignoring the woman's protests for her to stop and explain herself, and bumps into Castle about to enter his room. He is concerned about her, but she rushes away.[38][17]
Trish Walker wakes up as Andrew Brandt is preparing to leave his home. Brandt opens his safe and pulls out a gun, along with what Walker believes to be the stolen sculpture, so she follows him. However, as she watches, Walker discovers that Brandt had not retrieved the sculpture from the safe, but a bag filled with money.[13][14]
Dorothy Walker meets with Jones to tell her Trish is missing
Jessica Jones wakes up as she hears Dorothy Walker banging on her door. Jones shuts the door in her face twice before even hearing out what she has to say. Dorothy reveals that Trish is missing, and that she wants to hire Jones to find her. She offers to pay Jones for her services, but Jones is too far removed from caring about Trish, so she kicks Dorothy out. Jones then gets a call from Hogarth, who is in need of her assistance.[35][36]
Scott Lang, currently on house arrest, spends the weekend with his daughter Cassie.[39]
At Hogarth's apartment, Hogarth shares with Jones her plan for the future. In her hand, she holds the pill bottle from her nightstand. She tells Jones that she contemplates taking the pills to end her own life every day, but today was the first time she was going to, when she felt the first significant symptoms of the ALS, though the symptoms did pass. However, it made her realize that when the day came for her to finally take them, she would not have it in her to do it herself. Hogarth states she is going to need someone to slip her the pills without her knowing, and that she wanted that to be Jones. However, Jones is reluctant.[35][36]
Malcolm Ducasse arrives at the scene of a car crash, where Cody Willamet jumped a curve and hit another driver, who suspects that Willamet was masturbating while driving. The injured driver wants to sue him but Ducasse recommends against it. Ducasse approaches Willamet with a transfer of title document and tells him to sign it. He returns to the injured driver with the transfer and tells him that the car is now his, so long as he agrees to keep the accident to himself.[35][36]
Walker, meanwhile, misses a second consecutive episode of her show.[13][14]
Jones has a change of heart and decides to look into Trish Walker's disappearance. She calls Dorothy to ask for Trish's credit card numbers, bills, the last person she saw, and the names and contacts of her co-workers. When she asks about Trish's security door, Dorothy reveals that Trish has moved, having apparently sold her condo and everything else she owned. They agree to meet at Walker's apartment in the morning.[35][36]
Shooter Jennings performs again at Lola's Roadhouse. Bendix turns up and waits for her arranged meeting.[38][17]
Frank Castle is driving out of town when he changes his mind about leaving. He decides to turn his van around and drive back to the roadhouse and see Quinn again.[38][17]
Castle gets to the roadhouse and goes to speak to Quinn again, relaxed and ready to enjoy his evening.[38][17]
As the band continue playing, Castle notices a suspicious group of people arriving at the roadhouse and looking around for someone. He keeps an eye on them. Amy Bendix, meanwhile, sees them and becomes scared, rushing to the bathroom to escape. The group spot her and follow, and Castle follows them, concerned about what might be happening.[38][17]
Bendix tries to climb through the bathroom window, but gets stuck. One of the group after Bendix grabs her by the legs and drags her back into the bathroom, starting to punch her.[38][17]
A man from the group after Bendix stands guard at the bathroom door, stopping others from entering. Castle approaches him, pretending to be a normal patron, but he refuses to let him pass.[38][17]
Bendix pulls a knife on the women in the bathroom, but they grab her arm and twist it. Hearing her shouting in pain from outside, Castle headbutts the guarding man and breaks in. He wraps his belt around his forearm then engages the attackers in a fight, violently smashing them against walls, toilets, and sinks to incapacitate them.[38][17]
Bendix gets out of the room to safety as some of the attackers get back up to continue fighting. Castle stabs one woman in the shoulder with her own knife, and when the other comes running at him with a blade, Bendix knocks her out from behind with a broken piece of sink.[38][17]
Castle asks Bendix what the attackers want, and she tries to lie and pass it off as a normal meaningless fight, but Castle does not believe her. Scared, Bendix eventually admits she would like his protection.[38][17]
Castle escorts Bendix through the roadhouse, hoping to get her out safely. One man goes to attack her, but Castle grabs him first and a fight breaks out between them. Another man goes to attack Castle, but Ringo intercepts him. Another man jumps castle as Ringo's opponent tries to fight back.[38][17]
Castle smashes a bottle on his second attacker's head. However, one of the women from the bathroom starts stabbing Ringo, and while Castle defeats his first attacker, another man grabs hold of Bendix.[38][17]
Bendix and Ringo fight back against their attackers, while Castle manages to stab his. He engages Bendix's attacker, as Beth Quinn loads a gun. One attacker tries to shoot Castle, but instead hits another man. Ringo breaks one attacker's neck and Castle throws one attacker's head onto a knife, but one of the women from the bathroom manages to riddle Ringo with bullets and shoot Quinn in the arm before she can get a shot off herself.[38][17]
Castle throws Bendix behind the bar for cover as the attackers start firing. He is shot, but manages to beat another attacker to death, leaving only one - Marlena Olin - managing to escape.[38][17]
Castle rushes to help Quinn, trying to help staunch her bleeding. He gets her to his van, with Bendix getting in as well.[38][17]
Castle drives, but they are stopped in the road by a car. More of Olin's crew jump out and tell them to get out of the car, but he opens the window and guns them down, before jumping out of the vehicle and finishing them off.[38][17]
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Bendix tries to get away, but he bundles her back in the van and has her find the nearest hospital on her phone so he can drive Beth Quinn to get help.[38][17]
They arrive at Ecorse Hope Hospital and Beth Quinn is taken into the building, asking that Castle make sure Rex is okay.[38][17]
John Pilgrim arrives at Lola's Roadhouse. He finds the bodies from the fight and Frank Castle's ring, with an inscription including his forename. He tells the local, corrupt police lieutenant, Lt. Ferrara, to find the girl they are after and whoever she is with, and keep his police away. Marlena Olin shows Pilgrim that they have found the girl's bag, with her laptop inside.[38][17]
Pilgrim and Olin survey the security footage of Castle's fight. Pilgrim says it will not be hard to find him.[38][17]
Dinah Madani stands over the hospital bed of Billy Russo, who is asleep with a decorated mask over his face. She drinks and insults him, before leaving. After she exits, Russo wakes.[38][17]
Castle continues to drive Bendix away. Bendix asks if there will be more people coming, and he says that he hopes so.[38][17]
Tired and bleeding, Frank Castle struggles somewhat with driving. Amy Bendix suggests taking over driving or stopping somewhere, but he refuses. However, he eventually decides to turn off to Larkville, Ohio.[38][24]
Arriving at the Tides Motel in Larkville as the sun comes up, Castle reluctantly gives Bendix money to rent them a room.[38][24]
Bendix approaches the worker at the desk, Debbie, who forces her to pay for the morning as well as the upcoming evening, to her annoyance.[38][24]
Castle and Bendix go to their room, and Castle tells her to call him "Pete", with her telling him she is "Rachel". He takes her to the bathroom and tries to tweeze out the bullet in his side, but cannot, asking her to do it for him. Once she has, he then has her stitch the wound. She insists again that she does not know why she is being hunted.[38][24]
Bendix tries to escape the room, but Castle catches her, then uses cable ties to tie her to her bed so as to ensure she cannot run. She starts complaining, so he puts tape over her mouth, telling her to sleep.[38][24]
Billy Russo is tormented by nightmares. When he wakes, Dinah Madani is standing over his bed again. He claims not to know her. Russo's doctor, Krista Dumont, enters, and Madani says that she is certain Russo is faking his situation, but Dumont explains that he cannot be. She tells Madani about working with Russo, with Russo mentioning the metaphorical "jigsaw" of his memories they are putting together. Madani leaves, saying she will return that night, and Russo tells Dumont that he is aware he must have done something to her, but becomes angry and frustrated when he cannot remember what. Dumont goes to get him headache relief medicine, but when Russo first asks what he did to Madani, she truthfully tells him he shot her in the head.[38][24]
As planned, Jessica Jones and Dorothy Walker arrive at Trish's new apartment. Jones begins looking through Trish's work and discovers that she has been educating herself on various topics. She realizes that it is being used as more of a hideout than apartment. She accuses Trish's laptop to see what she could find. Dorothy admits that she used to be jealous of Jones' relationship with Trish, commenting that Jones was her protector and Trish was Jones' conscious. Dorothy suggests that Jones must miss Trish, leading to Jones kicking her out.[35][36]
Jones proceeds to search Trish's laptop. She starts by looking through Walker's ride history with LYFT, taking note of each address Walker was either taken to or picked up from. Also in Walker's inbox, Jones discovers email drafts, one for Jones herself, one for Dorothy, and one for Grace Bennett. Jones clicks on the draft addressed to her. She reads the message, in which Walker explains why she feels that she had to kill Jones' mother. This angers Jones, who knocks the laptop to the ground in a fit of rage.[35][36]
John Pilgrim visits Beth Quinn in her hospital ward. He notices several cards from people who care about her, and threatens them if she does not tell him the name of the man seen at Lola's Roadhouse. She claims not to know, but eventually pretends to give him up, saying he simply told her he was called "Pete". Pilgrim pushes for more, aware she is covering for him, so she reluctantly gives his surname "Castiglione", and Pilgrim leaves, with her managing to have withheld the name "Frank".[38][24]
Scott Lang plays a game with his daughter Cassie, using cardboard boxes to pretend they are crawling through tunnels on a heist. They reach the "treasure", which Cassie had chosen to be a trophy she bought Scott for his birthday, and says she wants to take it into school for show and tell. At the same time, Luis, who is visiting, talks to Scott about a pitch X-Con Security Consultants are preparing for providing security to a company called Karapetyan. Scott and Cassie complete the course, sliding out of the house as their "escape", but when they reach the bottom, Scott's leg goes through the fence and his house arrest ankle bracelet sets off an alarm.[39][40]
The FBI, led by Scott Lang's parole officer Jimmy Woo (a former ally of Melinda May's[41]), arrive at the house. When Cassie asks why they have to visit, Woo explains to her how Scott broke the Sokovia Accords in Germany and had to make a plea deal to return to the United States of America that required him to spend 2 years under house arrest, showing little understanding of how to talk to children. Cassie's mother, Maggie, then arrives with her boyfriend Jim Paxton to pick her up.[39][40]
Cassie Lang tells Scott she had a good weekend, and he tells her to look forward to next weekend, by which time he will be free, having just 3 days remaining of his sentence.[39][40]
Lang reenters the house, telling himself that managing 3 final days should be easy.[39][40]
Frank Castle cuts Bendix free from the bed and asks her again to tell him the truth about why people are after her. When she refuses, he grabs a container from her pocket, finding undeveloped photos. She criticizes his approach of killing all their attackers and says that he is too constantly angry, and says it seems to her that he seemed happy for the excuse to kill again. He ties her to the bed again before stepping outside.[24][38]
Jones follows Walker's ride history to a hotel. She enters, and after roughing up the clerk, learns that Walker has been staying there. Jones enters Walker's room and goes through her bags, discovering that Walker was stalking out the apartment building next door.[36][35]
Dr. Krista Dumont meets with Billy Russo again. He tells her once again about a nightmare of a skull on a black background, and blood and breaking glass. He complains about having to tell her the same thing over and over, but she points out that one day, his responses will be different. He says that, despite being told his face should not be hurting, it does. Dumont asks what the last thing he remembers is, and he states that it is spending time with Frank Castle in the barracks, a man he thinks of as his brother.[24][38]
John Pilgrim investigates the Good Rest Motel, and his assistant says that DMV has let him know Pete Castiglione has no record of criminal activity or service. Pilgrim says that there is definitely something more to Castiglione, however, and objects to his assistant's love of technology and casual use of profanity.[24][38]
Sal Blaskowski watches as Erik Gelden nearly drowns in her swimming pool, asking Dwayne Blaskowski for a hot dog. Sal throws the hot dog at Gelden and yells at him for not paying her back on time. She gives him exactly 1 week to pay his debt, and Gelden promised to return it on time. Sal watches with pride as her grandson imitates her torturing of Gelden with a doll.[42][35]
Castle returns to the room and cuts Bendix free from the bed again. He starts hammering a hole in one of the walls, to her confusion.[24][38]
Malcolm Ducasse meets with Jeri Hogarth to give her the nondisclosure agreement from Cody Willamet, though Ducasse is uncomfortable with his role in allowing Willamet, an entitled drunk, back on the road. Ducasse reminds Hogarth that he is an investigator, not a fixer, though Hogarth says that she required both. She reminds Ducasse that he will be able to launch his own PI firm after working with her. Once Ducasse is gone, Hogarth continues to read a Zoey Lyonne Arts Scholarship Benefit Concert email she had received. She instructs Char to make a platinum-level donation and put the address in her calendar.[36][35]
Lang plays indoor bowling
Scott Lang tries plastic indoor ten-pin bowling, but completely misses all the pins.[39][38]
Rafael Hernandez has Dinah Madani meet him to talk over dinner. Hernandez tells her that he is receiving complaints about her visiting Billy Russo so often, and tells her that she needs to remember she cannot change the fact that he fooled her. Madani continues to insist that Russo is lying about his memory-loss. Hernandez says he wishes Castle had killed Russo, but Madani says she is glad Russo did not die thinking he had killed her, and leaves the restaurant.[24][38]
Gelden sends anonymous notes to Todd White, Reyna Pincer, and Gregory Sallinger, demanding money in exchange for his secrecy about what they did, having detected with his abilities that they are bad people, not actually knowing what they have done.[42][35]
Jones remains in Walker's hotel room into the night. She uses the binoculars she found in Walker's bag to scope the neighboring apartment building, to see who Walker was stalking. Jones spots Walker on the street and watches from the hotel room as she follows the man into his home.[36] Walker, meanwhile, tucks her hair in and pulls a mask over her face.[14][35]
Walker sets off Brandt's alarm, and Brandt goes to confront her.[14][35]
Jones witnesses Walker break into the man's apartment and begin to attack him. Just as he gains the upper hand and goes for a gun, Jones goes to save her, crashing through the man's window as he pulls out a gun and begins firing.[14] Jones disarms the man, Andrew Brandt, and retreats into the bedroom with Walker, who exhibits impressive reflexes and agility to get free of Jones before returning to the main room, only to discover that the man, and the sculpture that she was after, is gone.[36][35]
Walker jumps out of the window, landing safely, to Jones' surprise. She returns to her hotel room, with Jones not far behind.[36][35]
Jones confronts Walker, referring to her as a cat burglar, but Walker says that she is simply trying to get justice. Jones realizes that Walker's new abilities mean that Karl Malus' procedure worked. Walker explains Brandt's past and why she is pursuing him. Walker claims she is trying to be the hero she always wanted to be, and Jones mocks her for it. Walker, however, says that she has freed Jones from her responsibilities of helping people, because she could do that now. Before leaving, Jones tells Walker that her mother was looking for her.[36][14][35]
Malcolm Ducasse watches from his car as Cody Willamet exits a restaurant, drunk. Willamet's girlfriend says that he is too drunk to drive, though Willamet is far too belligerent to adhere to her warnings. Willamet then drives off in his car, but Ducasse tails him.[36][35]
Willamet pulls up to a stop sign, not only drunk, but also texting while driving. As he drives forward, he is hit from the side by Ducasse, who exits his car and leaves the scene.[36][35]
Jones gets a drink at the bar, where Walker's talk show, Style by Trish, is on, but Jones requests it be turned off. A man, Erik Gelden, sits down beside her.[36][35]
Jeri Hogarth attends the Zoey Lyonne Arts Scholarship Benefit Concert in order to see her ex-girlfriend, Kith Lyonne, who thanks all the supporters for attending.[36][35]
After the concert, Hogarth and Kith Lyonne discuss their past. Hogarth points out the fact that she donated to the benefit concert every year. Kith introduces her husband, Peter, to Hogarth. He says that he has been following Hogarth's defense of super powered vigilantes, as he was a lawyer, though is now a professor of criminal law. Before leaving, Hogarth gives Kith her card as they arrange a meeting to catch up.[36][35]
At the bar, Erik Gelden introduces himself to Jones with a bet, which she loses. Gelden shares his view of the world with Jones: how everything is terrible and optimism is a lie. Jones then receives a burger she ordered, but Gelden will not allow her to eat it, claiming it is a bad burger. He offers to make her a burger of his own, that he bets $50 she would enjoy. Jones decides to take him up on the offer.[36][35]
The pair return to Jones' apartment, where Gelden introduces himself properly and they start to kiss. They are interrupted by a knock at the door. Jones suspects it is Vido Arocho, but as she opens the door, she is stabbed by someone wearing a black ski mask.[36][35]
The attacker, Gregory Sallinger, realizes that he has not stabbed Gelden, his actual target. He starts to run.[43][35]
Jones, bleeding and wounded, shoves her assailant down the hall. She falls to the ground, and her attacker escapes. Ducasse comes out of his apartment and tends to Jones as he calls the police.[36][35]
Ducasse takes the knife before the police arrive, so that he can ask his friend to run it for fingerprints.[43][35]
Frank Castle hands Amy Bendix a gun to protect herself, seeing a vehicle outside that he knows will be people come to kill her.[24][38]
Marlena Olin sits with more of her crew in the SUV outside the Tides Motel. She tells them that they will not contact Pilgrim until they have delivered on the job, not wanting his interference.[24][38]
Bendix wants to leave the motel and holds her gun to Castle, threatening him if he does not let her. He recognizes, however, that she does not have it in her, and she gives up.[24][38]
Olin and her crew see silhouettes moving and head into the room, but find no one visible there. They start shooting potential hiding places, but Castle suddenly ambushes them by coming through the hole he has knocked into the room next door. A firefight begins.[24][38]
Bendix sits, scared in the next room. When the shooting stops, she cautiously gets up, but Olin arrives at the door, holding a gun to her. Castle arrives, however, and knocks her out, then picks up Olin's unconscious body and takes Bendix outside with him to leave.[24][38]
Castle puts Olin in the back of his van, but she wakes as he does so and attacks them again. Castle manages to shoot her in the leg and holds a gun to her. Bendix, however, sees an opportunity to get away. She jumps in the van and starts driving as Castle tells Olin to talk, before realizing what Bendix has done. However, Bendix is stopped by the arrival of the police, who take all three to the local station.[24][38]
Amy Bendix plays up being a victim to the police sheriff, and claims to only be 16.[24][38]
Castle refuses to be taken for hospital treatment, and also decides not to tell the police what has happened.[24][38]
Castle, Bendix, and Olin have DNA, fingerprints, and mugshots taken.[24][38]
At the Good Rest Motel, John Pilgrim's assistant finds out about the police putting the fingerprints of Olin and "Castiglione" into the system in Ohio, and lets Pilgrim know.[24][38]
Dinah Madani is having a nightmare about Russo when she is woken by a call from Castle. He explains that she is his one call from the station and needs her help getting out, but she refuses, saying him being let off was a one-time thing, and that he is no longer part of her life.[24][38]
The sheriff tells Castle that he is looking at four counts of murder, which carries the death penalty locally. Castle warns that they need to let them go, because people will be coming to the station to attack, but the sheriff refuses.[24][38]
As the station nurse leaves the building and drives away, John Pilgrim sits outside in his own car, having driven to Larkville.[24][33][38]
30th[]
In the early hours, Trish Walker is scolded by her mother for having missed two shows in a row. While Dorothy is able to keep the network from cancelling the show, she says Trish is out of second chances. Dorothy wonders what it was that caused Trish to disappear, though Trish will not reveal the truth. She allows her mother to believe that it was man trouble, simply stating that she is all alone. Trish then gets a call from Malcolm Ducasse, who informs her that Jones is in the hospital after being stabbed by a masked assailant.[14][35]
Jones demands to know her "attacker"'s name
Jessica Jones lays in a hospital bed, pale and weak. Trish Walker watches over her and when she wakes, asks how she is feeling. Despite having just gotten out of surgery, Jones wants the name of the man Walker was after, suspecting that her attack was directly connected to him. Walker realizes that Jones had only called her down to get the name of her attacker, so she gives it, but then leaves.[14][35]
Jones notices a bracelet she is wearing, which says that she does not have a spleen. She notices an incision where her spleen was removed during surgery.[43][35]
Trish Walker leaves the hospital and throws away the gifts she was going to give to Jones.[43][35]
Jones is given a lecture about health from Doctor Purks, who tells her that she needs to be careful without a spleen. She makes a comment about her drinking habits, but Purks says that she has to stay in hospital to recover. Jones demands to be discharged and attempts to leave, but gets dizzy when she stands up, so Purks helps her sit back down.[43][35]
Malcolm Ducasse uses the bathroom, noticing blood in his urine from his attack on Cody Willamet the previous night. Zaya Okonjo flirts with him, but notices the blood, concerned. Ducasse lies to Okonjo, saying a cab driver was driving recklessly, and Okonjo plans on suing, but Ducasse calms her down and tells her to go to work. He says he plans on working from home, prompting further concern from Okonjo, who realizes that he does not like working with Jeri Hogarth. Ducasse assures Okonjo that he will leaves once he has enough money and clout to be a private investigator, and the couple have sex.[43][35]
Jones is visited by Detective Eddy Costa, and woken from flashback dreams about her stabbing. Thinking he is an attacker, Jones kicks him, but then realizes who he is. Costa tells Jones that he is working her case and asks for a list of clients she might have angered. Costa refers to Jones as a victim, which annoys her. He leaves, advising Jones not to make herself a target.[43][35]
Amy Bendix tries to get Ken Ogden to buy her a Coke, and he eventually gives her the money to stop her from annoying him. Sheriff Roy Hardin interrupts and says that he has found out about her numerous aliases, knowing that she must be lying to him. She admits "Castiglione" helped her, but says that both him and Olin are crazy, and she is just caught in the middle.[33][38]
Jeri Hogarth and Kith Lyonne have lunch together. Lyonne requests wine from the waiter and asks Hogarth about her relationship with Wendy Ross-Hogarth. Hogarth admits that she cheated on her, and tells her that she died in an accident. They talk about Lyonne's relationship with her husband, as well as her daughter, and music. Hogarth tells Lyonne that she still has a tape of a piece Lyonne composed for her while they were dating, causing Lyonne to become uncomfortable and leave, saying that she already ate lunch.[43][35]
The sheriff tells Olin that he has identified her through her prints, and that she was the type of person they expect, but then turns to Castle and says that he is surprised he has nothing significant on record, saying he seems like someone who served as a marine. Olin threatens Hardin, who ignores the statement, but Castle tries to warn him that trouble is coming. Hardin brushes this off.[33][38]
Jones signs a paper to be discharged against medical advice, and gets up to leave. She laments in her head about how heroes must be invulnerable.[43][35]
Limping her way back to her apartment, Jones finds that Gillian has followed Costa's advice to heighten security. Jones asks Gillian to do research on Andrew Brandt, but Gillian is leaving the office since her shift is finished and shows the "new spleen" crafted by Vido Arocho to show his support of Jones' recovery. Gillian gives Jones multiple medicine pills prescribed by the hospital and sets a reminder on her phone to take them. When Jones begins to take them, she drinks alcohol to water it down against Gillian's advice. Gillian leaves, and Jones notices that one of her pills is supposed to be taken with food, so she goes to her kitchen where she sees a burger left for her in the fridge by Erik Gelden. Jones takes a bite out of the burger and finds her enjoying it.[43][35]
Krista Dumont tells Billy Russo that she thinks the reason he is sleeping so little is that he is choosing to, and that they need to gently help him recall his nightmares in his journal so he can gain mastery over them. Russo becomes angry, wanting different kinds of help, and police guards enter in case they are needed. Russo, however, turns and attacks them, beating them both down.[33][38]
Russo walks through the building, holding onto Dumont to make sure she does not get help. Once outside, he asks why she did not scream, and she explains she feels he is not beyond help. Russo rejects this and runs away.[33][38]
Scott Lang uses a karaoke machine to entertain himself.[39][40]
Jones keeps eating Gelden's burger while investigating Brandt and taking her pills. Meanwhile, Walker investigates Brandt and the stolen statue, which she sees is going on display at a building. The adoptive sisters both become tired.[43][35]
Jones considers locking her door and going to bed, but refusing to think of herself as weak and vulnerable, she instead takes the "I have no spleen" bracelet off of her wrist and resumes her investigation.[43][35]
John Pilgrim insists that there will be consequences
John Pilgrim takes Lieutenant Ferrara to Larkville County Sheriff Station and requests to take the prisoners off their hands, but Sheriff Hardin refuses, saying they have to wait until the prisoners have been arraigned on Thursday. Ferrara asks to at least see them, but Hardin turns him away. Pilgrim calmly threatens that people will get hurt if they do not hand over the prisoners, and sees Bendix inside, but when Hardin still does not turn them over, he steps outside to initiate an attack.[33][38]
Pilgrim gives the signal for his people to set off an electromagnetic pulse, knocking out all electricity in the area.[33][38]
The police find that they cannot use their phones, and Castle and Olin realize the attackers have now arrived. Bendix asks again to be released.[33][38]
Jones dreams about getting stabbed again after falling asleep. She is woken up, however, by knocking on her door coming from Malcolm Ducasse, who notes on her weariness. He gives her the knife she was stabbed with, having retrieved it, and tells her that there are no fingerprints and the brand is too common to trace. Ducasse asks what she will do once she finds her attempted killer, but Jones ignores this by stating that she does not need favors, so Ducasse gives her a bill for his work. Ducasse leaves, and when Jones inspects the knife, she remembers the stabbing she received from it, which causes her to lock the door.[43][35]
Brett Mahoney confronts Dinah Madani to tell her to stay away from Russo
Dinah Madani arrives at Sacred Saints Hospital and sits to speak with Krista Dumont. She says that she thinks Russo has been planning this, but Dumont insists it was just a primal reaction from fear. Madani asks if he gave any indication of where he might go, but Brett Mahoney enters and says he banned her from the hospital, since her visits could impact the case and that Russo is NYPD territory. She angrily leaves, reminding him not to think of Russo as some lost soul.[33][38]
Lang bounces a ball inside into a basketball net.[39][40]
Sheriff Hardin takes "Castiglione" from his cell to be questioned.[33][38]
Bendix steals a Coca-Cola from the station vending machine. Sheriff Roy Hardin questions Frank Castle, who explains about the attack on Lola's Roadhouse and being chased by the attackers. Ken Ogden volunteers to drive to get help, and, despite Castle's protests, is handed the keys.[33][38]
As Ogden tries to drive away, John Pilgrim shoots him. He climbs out of the car and Hardin escorts him back to safety. He and the other officers see Pilgrim standing in the woods, and he orders them to go inside as Pilgrim walks up to talk with Hardin. Pilgrim says Ogden only has 2-3 hours to get to a hospital, so can only be saved if they hand over the people they came for.[33][38]
Amy Bendix helps some of the officers tend to Ogden, while the rest start barricading the station, and consider handing over their prisoners. Bendix steals the car keys and shows Castle, but he refuses to just escape, and requests that the sheriff let him loose to help take out their attackers.[33][38]
Lang looks over the plans for the apartments Karapetyan want security provided for.[39][40]
Marlena Olin tells another prisoner, Ken Ogden's brother Bruce, who has been locked up by Ken simply for being drunk in public, that an attack is coming. She sees one of her allies outside the window, and indicates that she needs freeing.[33][38]
Pilgrim's people begin firing into the station from the woods. The officers fire back, but Castle warns that it will be a diversion, and they need to cover the back. When they ignore him, soldiers break in through the back as Castle expected. One goes to free Olin, as the rest begin shooting in the station offices.[33][38]
The officers are struggling until Castle manages to get loose from his cuffs. He grabs hold of a gun and starts taking out the attackers one by one.[33][38]
Olin is freed and starts firing at Castle, but misses. Castle leads Hardin in forcing Olin out of the building, then they take cover until the firing stops. Hardin tells Castle he cannot let him run, but Castle points out his gun is empty. He stays nonetheless, leading Hardin to trust him, and releases Bruce Ogden.[33][38]
The officers discuss whether to turn over the prisoners, but Ken Ogden refuses to let them die just to get him to a hospital.[33][38]
After 2 days trying to keep himself busy, Scott Lang falls asleep in the bathtub and has a vivid memory-like dream where he sees a young Hope van Dyne from the perspective of her mother Janet.[39][40]
After explaining the plan to their second siege on the Larkville County Sheriff Station, Olin requests to Pilgrim that he let her be the one to kill "Castiglione", but when Pilgrim ask her to repeat the plan to her, he kills Olin.[33][38]
Intrigued by his vision and thinking it could be important, Lang takes a secret burner phone from its hiding place and calls Hope van Dyne and Hank Pym about the vision. They do not pick up, but he leaves a voicemail. Realizing that he probably sounds stupid as he speaks, he decides to hang up and break the phone.[39][40]
With Lang having called them 5 minutes after they activated the tunnel, Pym and van Dyne consider that the timing is not coincidence and the opening of the Quantum Realm might have activated a message in Lang's head.[39][40]
Castle tells Ken Ogden he has been brave, but asks that he rest. He asks that Hardin let him go and take out the soldiers.[33][38]
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Two of Pilgrim's men go to throw Molotov cocktails into the station, but Castle shoots the bottles first, causing the men to catch fire themselves instead. Castle then charges into the woods, quietly getting behind the soldiers as they shoot into the station and eliminating them.[33][38]
Pilgrim starts running as Castle makes his way through the woods, killing each soldier.[33][38]
The officers inside the station are stunned by Castle's expertise, but relieved.[33][38]
Pilgrim puts down one of his injured men and keeps running as Castle makes his way around looking for any remaining soldiers. Pilgrim finds Castle and nearly gets a shot on him, but is suddenly dazzled by a bright light from a helicopter above, missing his shot. Dinah Madani's voice calls down from the vehicle, saying Homeland Security have arrived and to stay where they are, but Pilgrim gets away.[33][38]
Madani lands and informs Castle that Russo has escaped from hospital.[33][38]
Ken Ogden is given medical attention. Bendix thanks him for his bravery and returns him his money as he is taken away.[33][38]
Madani tells Sheriff Hardin that "Castiglione" is part of a sensitive investigation, and should be officially considered to have never been there. Hardin thanks Castle for saving their lives and says that he will do what Madani has asked.[33][38]
Castle and Bendix prepare to board Madani's helicopter, with Castle insisting that she has to come. Hardin returns Castle his bag, and Castle and Bendix say they want to go to New York.[33][38]
Hope van Dyne breaks into Scott Lang's house, shrunken down. Flying up to Lang in the Wasp suit, she tranquilizes him and puts his ankle bracelet on a human-sized ant, who is instructed through Hank Pym's electromagnetic wave control system to repeat Lang's daily routine, so the FBI's suspicions are not aroused when tracking him.[39][40]
Jessica Jones arrives at Brandt's apartment to investigate. While searching through Brandt’s stuff, she steals a soft drink from the fridge and notices a jammed printer. She fixes the jam and finds the next document being printed: a list of lots, prices, and how they are being sold. Walker reveals herself to Jones and compliments her detective skills before saying that she should be the one to find Brandt, but Jones disagrees and dismisses Walker's new life as a vigilante. Walker notices Jones’ pain from her stab injury before arguing that Brandt might not be the attacker Jones is looking for and worries about her plans for Brandt. Walker tells Jones she is not a hero, causing Jones to grow tired of the conversation and leaves.[43][35]
A rude man called Rick boards a bus and comes across Billy Russo, mocking him for his scars. Russo follows Rick off the bus and into an alley. When Rick threatens him with a knife, Russo attacks him.[34][38]
Russo walks out of the alley now wearing Rick's clothes, having beaten and stripped his attacker.[34][38]
Scott Lang wakes in van Dyne's car, which he comes to realize has been shrunken down to drive without being noticed. Van Dyne explains about the ant replicating his routine, and Lang attempts to apologize for his actions in Germany making them fugitives. Van Dyne dismisses this, saying they just want to bring him in because of what he has said was in his head.[39][40]
Hope van Dyne takes Lang to the research laboratory where she and Hank Pym have been developing a tunnel for the Quantum Realm in the hopes of bringing Janet back. After Lang describes his dream in full detail, Hope and Pym deduce that he and Janet have a quantum entanglement because of the time he spent in the Quantum Realm.[39][40]
The trio leave the laboratory, and Pym shrinks the building down to a suitcase size to bring it along in their van. They drive to the restaurant Oui, where Hope van Dyne has arranged a meeting with gangster Sonny Burch to pick up a necessary component for the tunnel.[39][40]
Jeri Hogarth expresses approval of Zaya Okonjo's work on a case. Malcolm Ducasse enters Hogarth's office as Okonjo leaves, and Hogarth says that she has no issue with Okonjo and Ducasse dating as long as they sign a consent form and Ducasse remains confidential with her. She assigns Ducass to find information on Peter Lyonne without giving the reason as to why.[43][35]
Dinah Madani tells Hernandez about dealing with Castle in Ohio. She lies and says she dropped him off outside the city and did not tell him about Russo. Hernandez tells Madani she needs to get more help and talk to someone about her problem with Russo.[34][38]
Bendix asks Castle, whose real name she has now heard, who he really is to have contacts at Homeland Security, but he avoids her question. She goes to the bedroom she is taking. Castle puts on the TV, and sees the news report of Russo's escape from hospital.[34][38]
Bendix washes and changes into clean clothes, while Castle watches a hockey game. Bendix lays down on her new room's bed, but finds herself unable to rest. She climbs down and crawls under the bed, where she starts crying, which Castle overhears.[34][38]
Van Dyne meets with Burch, under the pseudonym of "Susan". However, Burch reveals that he knows who she really is and has arranged a potential purchase of Pym's laboratory for $1,000,000,000. Van Dyne turns down his offer, but Burch then refuses to give over the component.[39][40]
Van Dyne pretends to leave, before donning the Wasp suit and returning to attack. Due to being a tiny target, they are unable to hit her when they start shooting.[39][40]
Wasp follows Burch's men into the restaurant kitchen and swipes a salt shaker at Uzman, the man carrying the component, enlarging it in front of him to knock him out.[39][40]
Burch's remaining men struggle with Van Dyne's repeated change of size, and she takes them all down, before picking up the component.[39][40]
Van Dyne heads out of the restaurant, but before she can leave, she is attacked by a mysterious figure in a white suit. The figure phases in and out of tangibility, causing Wasp trouble as she tries to fight back. The figure, known as Ghost, manages to take the component for herself.[39][40]
Ant-Man enters the restaurant and aids Wasp in fighting Ghost, but Ghost escapes and makes her way to Pym's van. She pushes her fist through his neck, threatening to make it tangible and kill him if he does not give her the lab, and he reluctantly does so.[39][40]
Lang brings Pym and van Dyne to hide at the X-Con Security Consultants office. There, they develop a plan to get the laboratory back, and Pym realizes that they need a quantum spectrometer to track its radiation. He reluctantly informs them that they will have to get one from his estranged ex-work partner, Bill Foster.[39][40]
Jones anonymously calls an art museum about Brandt's stolen statue, and discovers that the artist does not sell work on the legitimate market. Another phone call yields the same result, and yet another call turns her away because Jones lies about being a secretary of Jeri Hogarth's, and they do not talk to intermediaries.[43][35]
Russo sits in a bar and cuts his medical bracelet from his arm with Rick's knife. As he is served, the news comes on and once again reports on the hunt for him. He thinks back on one of his meetings with Krista Dumont.[34][38]
The trio sit down with Foster, who discusses how he used to work with Pym on Project G.O.L.I.A.T.H., where he grew up to 21 feet tall - a precursor to Lang's ability now to grow as tall as 65 feet. Their meeting is interrupted when Lang realizes Jimmy Woo and the FBI are outside. They make their way to leave, but not before Foster tells them that they can locate the lab by modifying a defractor from one of the suit's regulators.[39][40]
The FBI question Foster, but he lies to cover the trio.[39][40]
Ducasse disguises himself as a student at Bronwyn University and finds Peter Lyonne’s office with Lyonne himself inside. Once Lyonne leaves, Ducasse enters the office and sets up a program on Lyonne's computer which will allow him to monitor Lyonne's actions. As he leaves, Lyonne catches him, believing him to be a student so he invites Ducasse into his office, where Ducasse pretends to want to join his class. Ducasse claims he wants to explore morality in law and how righteousness is not absolute. Despite being entertained by his enthusiasm, Lyonne tells Ducasse that there is not any room in the class, so Ducasse leaves.[43][35]
Pym explains to Lang and van Dyne that he removed the defractor from the new suits, but Lang ashamedly admits that he mailed himself his Ant-Man suit before turning himself in, rather than destroying it, angering Pym due to his actions putting it at risk of being stolen.[39][40]
Scott Lang calls Luis, saying he needs Cassie's trophy, as that is where he has hidden the suit. Luis tells him, however, that it is not there, and Scott realizes Cassie has taken it into school for show and tell.[39][40]
Madani returns to her apartment and tells Castle that, despite what doctors kept predicting, Russo has recovered remarkably well. She shows him that she has Russo's journal, and that he keeps drawing the skull of the Punisher vest, clearly thinking about Castle constantly. She reveals that she has the vest in her closet, and says that Russo has not got closure. Castle says that she should have shot him at the carousel, but she says that he, too, had the chance, and thinks he just found it too hard. Madani asks Castle for any details he might have to help find Russo.[34][38]
Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne go to Cassie's school, Brookemont Elementary, to retrieve the suit. During the infiltration, Scott discovers that his new suit, a work-in-progress, is experiencing problems with the regulator. It enlarges him within a closet, but when van Dyne takes a look at it, it then shrinks him to the size of a small child.[39][40]
Lang dons a child's hoodie from the lost and found, which can fit on his shrunken body, and sneaks through the school until he finds Cassie's classroom. The duo retrieve the suit and get away.[39][40]
Peter Lyonne meets with a student with whom he has sex.[43][35]
Jones receives a text from an anonymous number asking if she is okay. After getting a text about the burger, she realizes the number is from Erik Gelden, who reveals to be standing outside her door. Jones opens it and Gelden expresses his condolences for Jones losing her sleep after their hookup. They converse about Jones’ investigation and the burger Gelden made for her, to which Jones tries to lie about throwing it out, and Gelden gathers that she does not want to be with him currently, so he leaves.[43][35]
Castle knocks on Bendix's door, but she is asleep. Wanting to head out, but ensure that she is safe, he takes the key from her door so she cannot leave. Bendix has a nightmare of finding her dead friends after the massacre in Chicago.[34][38]
Frank Castle visits his friend Curtis Hoyle. Hoyle says that he visited Russo, and that he is definitely suffering memory-loss, not being an act like Madani thinks. Hoyle says Castle should have put Russo down for good. He says that he is seeing a woman now, but does not want her anywhere near being involved with the situation. Castle asks where he thinks Russo might have gone, and Hoyle points out that Russo would likely go to settle scores.[34][38]
Billy Russo sits where he once watched a little league game of baseball with Frank Castle. He starts to drift off, then is snapped awake by nightmares of the skull once again.[34][38]
Modifying the defractor, the trio are able to locate the lab to a hideout. They break in to steal back the lab and find Ghost, unmasked, inside her Quantum Energy Chamber. When they turn their backs on her, however, she phases out of the chamber and knocks them out, then going outside and knocking out Hank Pym. She ties the trio to chairs.[39][40]
When Ghost wakes the trio, she reveals she is working with Bill Foster, who enters to talk to them with her. She reveals she is Ava Starr, daughter of deceased scientist Elihas Starr, whom Pym had fired and discredited when they had a disagreement during their work together at S.H.I.E.L.D.. She explains that Elihas attempted to continue his work on his own in Argentina, but that because he no longer had his required help, his Quantum Tunnel had collapsed, killing him and causing Ava's molecular disequilibrium. Ava goes on to tell them about how S.H.I.E.L.D. took her in and weaponized her, using her for stealth missions, and Foster states that when S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed, he took her in. However, they are interrupted when Lang's phone buzzes with an alert.[39][40]
Cassie Lang video calls Scott, saying she left her soccer shoes at his house, but he manages to get her to hang up, claiming he is ill and cannot get up to look. Foster and Starr explain that they hope to extract quantum energy from Janet van Dyne to help repair Starr's molecular structure, despite the risk that it could kill van Dyne.[39][40]
Pym fakes a heart problem, and Hope van Dyne tells Foster that he needs his pills from his Altoids tin. They trick Foster into opening the tin, releasing and enlarging ants, one of which frees them while the others cause commotion. The trio steal back the lab and run away.[39][40]
After regrowing the lab in the forest, in the early hours of the day, Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne talk. Scott assures Hope that when they find Janet, she will not have forgotten about her, explaining that when he was in prison, Cassie was all he thought about. Luis calls him, saying that they made a mistake on the security plans for Karapetyan and need his help before the pitch in the morning, but Lang explains his situation, and why he cannot leave to visit him Luis person. He reluctantly gives Luis their location in the woods so he can come to them.[39][40]
Amy Bendix wakes and finds her room locked. She panics and Frank Castle lets her out. Still undergoing a panic attack, she shouts that he should never lock her in again.[34][38]
Luis heads out to visit Scott Lang, when Sonny Burch breaks into the X-Con Security Consultants office with his men, told by an inside agent in the FBI that he is a known associate of Lang, and asking Luis to tell him where Lang is. Burch says that he will administer a serum to make Luis more susceptible to slipping up and giving honest information, but when the X-Con trio say that this sounds like truth serum, Uzman, the man with the serum, becomes defensive and insists that it is not.[39][40]
Arthur Walsh goes to his kitchen, only to find Billy Russo. He thinks he is a robber, but Russo reminds him of who he is, and that he attended the Ray of Hope home.[34][38]
Amy Bendix is told to fight her oppressors
Bendix tells Castle about how she is struggling with flashbacks to the massacre she encountered, and he attempts to help calm her down. She starts explaining what happened, and tells Castle about Fiona and being part of her crew. Bendix says that she had to hide under the bed among the bodies of her friends in Chicago as a man in a vest came back in, and tells him that the job they had been given was taking photographs at a wedding and delivering them. Bendix recommends getting out of the city with the help of a girl she knows called Shantel, but Castle says that this would just get Shantel killed by the man coming after them. He recommends that they take the fight to their attackers instead.[34][38]
Walsh pours Russo a drink, and Russo says that he saw the home had been demolished, then come to Walsh since there was nobody else to go to. Walsh asks what happened to his face, showing no remorse for his behavior in the 1990s as he says it is a shame, since Russo had been a pretty child.[34][38]
Dinah Madani comes home and Castle tells her about Walsh, and that he thinks Russo might have gone after him. They are interrupted by a knock at the door. Castle and Bendix hide as Madani answers the door and finds Brett Mahoney, who says they know Russo's journal has gone missing, and he suspects her of taking it. He tells a story of how he had once become obsessive over an ex-girlfriend, explaining that she needs to stop involving herself with Russo so obsessively. He notices the two breakfast bowls on her table, but assumes she just has a man around, and she turns him away without him finding out about Castle's presence.[34][38]
Bill Foster sadly informs Ava Starr that she has only roughly 2 weeks to live. Starr suggests that they use Cassie Lang to bait Scott and get back the lab, but Foster refuses to get the innocent girl involved. Starr reluctantly decides to accept to use a different option.[39][40]
Arthur Walsh insists to Billy Russo that he was good to the children at Ray of Hope, and it was unfair that he was imprisoned. He says that he loved the children, and becomes angry at Russo for not loving him back, saying that he wonders if Russo has come back to him purely because he does not feel loved anymore with his scarred face.[34][38]
Burch injects Luis with Uzman's serum, and Luis begins to speak honestly. When Burch interrogates him on where Lang is, Luis tells a fast story about how Lang came to be where he is currently at from an emotional standpoint. Frustrated, Burch specifies that he needs to know where Lang is literally, and Luis gives the location in the woods. Ghost, who had been phasing herself invisible, reveals herself and gets him to give the specifics of the location, then leaves, slashing Burch's tire to slow him down.[39][40]
Burch calls his FBI agent, Stoltz, to let him know Pym and van Dyne's location and that Scott Lang is with them. He passes on the lead to Jimmy Woo.[39][40]
Amy Bendix uses a computer in a shop under the premise of trialing it, and uses it to look up Castle. She finds pictures and videos of his activities since 2015, and a worker in the store recognizes the pictures as the "Punisher", a name she had not heard before. He tells her about how he killed criminals and escaped prison.[34][38]
As dawn arrives in San Francisco, Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne activate the finally completed Quantum Tunnel, but it only works briefly before shutting down. However, with the brief exposure to the Quantum Realm, Janet van Dyne gets a better connection with Scott Lang and takes control of him for a few minutes. She proves it is her to Hope and Pym as she uses the time to help stabilize the tunnel and enter the coordinates to locate her, but she warns them that they only have 2 hours to get her before the Quantum Realm becomes so unstable they will not be able to reach her for another century. Janet gives Hope and Pym a temporary goodbye before leaving Lang's body, awkwardly noticing his new positioning.[39][40]
Lang telling Pym and Van Dyne he has to return home
Luis calls Lang to warn him about Ghost, Burch, and the FBI knowing Pym and van Dyne's location and hearing that he has left house arrest. Lang passes on the information to Pym and van Dyne to warn them, apologizing for jeopardizing their rescue. He tells them that the FBI will be checking in on his house arrest and that he needs to rush back home, and he leaves to get back in time.[39][40]
Jim Paxton and Maggie and Cassie Lang come to Scott's house to pick up Cassie's soccer shoes. Cassie finds the giant ant in Scott's bath. Jimmy Woo then leads the FBI as they break into the house and demand to see Scott, but Cassie tries to cover for her father, claiming he has been vomiting and they cannot go near him. Woo eventually insists and pushes past her, only to find Scott, who got back just in time and slipped in through the window, shrunken in the Ant-Man suit.[39][40]
Arrest of Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne: Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne hurriedly leave the lab and shrink it down, only to find that the FBI have already surrounded them. Stoltz tells them they are under arrest.[39][40]
While at Lang's house, Jimmy Woo is informed of Pym and van Dyne's arrest. He is pleased and leaves the house, telling Lang he will be back later for the official end of his house arrest sentence.[39][40]
Stoltz grabs Pym's lab but is knocked out by Ghost, who then takes the lab for herself.[39][40]
Dinah Madani goes to Arthur Walsh's home in case Russo is there, but arrives only to find Walsh's dead body, with a chair leg lodged in his chest. She hears someone and immediately turns and shoots, assuming it is Russo, only to find it is Brett Mahoney, hitting him only in his bulletproof vest. He asks what she is doing at the location, but she refuses to explain before leaving the murder case to him.[34][38]
Cassie Lang sits down with her father, and he thanks her for covering for him. He says that he messes up trying to help people every time, and she suggests that he might need a partner. Scott assumes she is talking about Hope van Dyne, but Cassie explains that she means herself. He assures her that she would be great, but explains that he cannot put her in danger. She tells him that she is sure he can do whatever it is he needs to.[39][40]
Hope van Dyne slips a hairpin she had hidden in her mouth out into her hand and picks the lock on her and Hank Pym's handcuffs. They start to plan a risky escape, but Scott Lang arrives and, controlling trained ants, breaks Pym and van Dyne from FBI custody.[39][40]
Meanwhile, Ghost and Bill Foster prepare to enter the Quantum Realm. Foster advises caution, but Starr explains that she is desperate and cannot wait, having only days left to live.[39][40]
With time running out to save Janet van Dyne, Pym says that he will enter the lab and dive into the Quantum Realm, asking that Hope and Lang protect the lab while he does so. Luis arrives, having been asked by Lang to follow in case they need his help.[39][40]
Scott Lang stands ready to help Pym get to the Quantum Tunnel. Luis talks to Hope van Dyne as they wait, but she takes little interest.[39][40]
Ghost and Foster see the problem
Ghost and Foster get the Quantum Tunnel started, but it then fails. They realize that there are ants in the lab pulling wires out from sockets to break it, and, knowing that this means Hank Pym must be nearby, Ghost leaves to find and stop him. She follows a trail of ants leaving the building.[39][40]
With Ghost led away, Hank Pym enters the lab and confronts Bill Foster. He controls giant ants to corner Foster and force him to back away. Pym retrieves a specialized Quantum Realm suit. Foster apologizes for causing problems, explaining he simply wanted to help Starr, but Pym promises he will help find a cure once he has rescued his wife. Foster wishes him luck.[39][40]
As soon as Pym has gone, van Dyne has Lang control an ant to remotely shrink the lab. Lang explains to Ghost that they intentionally led her away from the building and shrinks to escape as she angrily watches van Dyne leave with the building.[39][40]
Lang mounts a flying ant to meet van Dyne and Luis, but as van Dyne begins to drive, she is stopped by Sonny Burch and his men in a convoy of cars. She maneuvers the van to slip past them and begins to drive away as fast as she can, with Burch's convoy in chase. When the first car tries to crash into Luis and van Dyne, van Dyne shrinks the van so the car swerves off the road.[39][40]
When one of Burch's cars catches them, Hope van Dyne shrinks the van again so it can drive under the chasing car. Van Dyne then grows the van again from underneath the vehicle, pushing it up and flipping it to the side.[39][40]
Van Dyne keeps driving, luring the cars to Lombard Street, and uses its winding design to cause a chasing car to crash as they are unable to turn fast enough when she shrinks the van. The car behind then crashes into it and flips over onto the street, sending bricks flying, which causes Luis to panic as, while shrunken, they seem huge.[39][40]
Hank Pym loses signal due to the chaos of the lab's movements. He gets stuck in a tardigrade field and as his ship recalibrates, he observes the beauty of the Quantum Realm. However, the tardigrades, relatively giant to the size of the ship, begin to close in. The ship restarts just before they can cause problems, and he continues traveling through the realm.[39][40]
Scott Lang catches up with Hope van Dyne and Luis. Van Dyne asks him to take the van's steering wheel as she climbs to the back of the van to deal with Burch's men.[39][40]
Wasp fires a shrinking disk at the motorbike of a motorcyclist working for Burch, shrinking it under him and causing him to fall. She shoots another at another motorcyclist but misses, instead accidentally shrinking a car belonging to the Watcher Informant.[39][40]
Ghost catches up with the ongoing chase and steals a motorbike from one of Burch's men.[39][40]
Wasp picks up Luis' Hello KittyPEZ dispenser and throws it at more of Burch's motorcyclist men. She fires a growing disk at it to enlarge it, and the giant dispenser takes out two men.[39][40]
Ghost phases into the trio's van and kicks Wasp out of the back door, onto the road. She then steals the lab. She then escapes and breaks into a nearby truck, smashing the window to take the lab in with her and causing the driver to leap from his vehicle in fear.[39][40]
Wasp finds Ghost's truck and shrinks to get through the broken window, then tries to steal the lab back. Ant-Man leaves the van and gets to Ghost's truck, but ends up on the windscreen as Ghost turns on the wipers. The fight continues between Wasp and Ghost, but Ant-Man manages to grow himself to giant size, punching Ghost through the windscreen. Wasp takes the opportunity to steal back the lab.[39][40]
Ghost phases to get to the back of the van and apprehend Wasp. However, Sonny Burch catches up with them and rams the truck, causing Wasp to fall and drop the lab, and Burch reaches out of his window to catch it. He drives away, as Ant-Man returns to normal size, unable to control his faulty regulator.[39][40]
Ant-Man returns to the chase
Ant-Man grows giant again and gets control of the van, putting his foot on the back of the vehicle and beginning to skate it in the direction he wants.[39][40]
Hank Pym reaches the quantum void and engages thrusters to reach Janet van Dyne's coordinates. He breaks through into a colorful section of the Quantum Realm and lands on a surface he finds.[39][40]
Luis realizes he has the remote to grow the lab and that he needs to get it to Ant-Man and Wasp so Hank Pym can safely return. He lets them know, and they tell him that since the van is ruined, he needs to open the Hot Wheels case to grow one of the cars and drive the remote to them.[39][40]
Luis gets away in the car, and Sonny Burch realizes he has the remote, chasing him. When they start to chase him, Luis shrinks the car to avoid the bullets, before regrowing. He asks for help and Wasp goes to take out the men after him as Ant-Man goes to retrieve the lab.[39][40]
Wasp breaks into a car chasing Luis and repeatedly shrinks and regrows to cause the men inside's punches to miss her and hit each other. The driver loses control and veers off the road, and Wasp flies out, joining Luis in his car.[39][40]
Ant-Man, still giant, catches up with Sonny Burch and kicks his van off-road. Burch gets out, carrying the lab, and hurries into an alley, where Ant-Man is unable to follow him as he cannot fit and finds himself unable to shrink due to the faulty regulator.[39][40]
Ant-Man runs around the buildings to find Burch and discovers that he has boarded a ferry, still carrying the lab. He eventually manages to shrink back to ant size and summons nearby flying ants, but they are repeatedly eaten by seagulls who swoop in. He eventually boards one, whom he names Ant-tonio Banderas, and flies out over the harbor, but Ant-tonio is eaten by another gull and he falls into the water.[39][40]
Growing back to giant size, Ant-Man swims the remaining distance to the ferry and then stands up on the seafloor beside the ferry. He reaches out and plucks the lab from Burch's fingers.[39][40]
Hank Pym walks through the Quantum Realm to find Janet van Dyne. The timer he is using to keep track of the time until van Dyne is no longer able to be found runs out, and Pym begins to succumb to the effects of the Quantum Realm, hearing increasingly loud voices and feeling like he is losing his mind.[39][40]
Falling unconscious, Pym begins to have a vision, in which Hope van Dyne, Scott Lang, and Bill Foster ask him why he has failed. A hooded figure with a blade behind their shoulder starts to walk towards him and puts its fingers to his temples, and he is jolted back to consciousness.[39][40]
Pym finds himself back in the Quantum Realm and the figure in front of him takes off their helmet - a Wasp helmet - revealing herself to be Janet van Dyne. The couple are reunited after 31 years and emotionally embrace.[39][40]
The couple return to the ship and Pym asks van Dyne how she managed to clear his mind by touching his head. Van Dyne explains that since 1987, her exposure to the Quantum Realm has led to a mix of adaptation and evolution. The ship is unable to find the lab's coordinates and warns Pym not to ascend yet, and Pym tells his wife what is happening in San Francisco.[39][40]
Ant-Man, giant-sized and dubbed "Giant-Man" by the news, wades back to the harbor pier with the lab, but becomes fatigued by the time spent enlarged.[39][40]
Giant-Man puts the lab back on land but, just as Hope van Dyne and Luis arrive at the harbor, he falls asleep in the water and sinks to the seabed. Van Dyne sends Luis to pick up the lab as she dives into the water to save Lang.[39][40]
Luis runs to the lab, remote in-hand, but Ghost arrives and kicks him out of the way. She takes the remote and grows the lab on the harbor.[39][40]
Van Dyne and Pym prepare to ascend
Notified that the lab has been regrown and thinking it is safe to return, Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne launch the ship and begin their ascent out of the Quantum Realm.[39][40]
Hope van Dyne is unable to wake Scott Lang, so amends his regulator, allowing him to shrink to ant size. She picks him up in her hand and swims him to the surface.[39][40]
Van Dyne drops Lang off on the pier and he wakes. She kisses him.[39][40]
Sonny Burch's men catch Luis and prepare to shoot him. However, before they can, Kurt and Dave electrocute them with tasers.[39][40]
Bill Foster catches up with the lab and enters to try to dissuade Ava Starr from going after van Dyne. He tells her what Pym told him: that van Dyne will be able to help cure her, but Starr refuses to take the risk, desperate to rid herself of her pain. She enters a Quantum Energy Chamber and, using the coordinates locked onto van Dyne, begins to siphon quantum energy from her.[39][40]
Ant-Man and Wasp enter the lab and start pulling the plugs on Starr's chamber. Starr goes to fight back, but the duo together manage to keep her occupied. Wasp falls onto the Quantum Tunnel ramp just as Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne return, and Ant-Man turns giant to scoop Wasp to safety.[39][40]
Janet van Dyne exits the ship and Hope is overjoyed. The mother and daughter have a tearful reunion. Hope then embraces her father as Janet talks to Scott Lang, joking about how, in a sense, they have already met.[39][40]
Janet van Dyne turns to Ava Starr and places her hands on the side of Starr's head. Saying she thinks she can help, her hands glow as she transfers quantum healing particles to Starr. Starr's molecular disequilibrium settles, as her phasing becomes more controlled and her pain is relieved.[39][40]
Luis runs into the building and warns the group that the police are coming.[39][40]
Jimmy Woo catches what he believes to be Giant-Man. However, Lang has set up the enlarged, empty Ant-Man suit. It shrinks down and Woo turns to see the lab shrinking in the distance, realizing he has made a mistake and fallen for a distraction. Lang controls an ant to pick up the suit and makes his way to reunite with the group.[39][40]
Bill Foster offers to go with Ava Starr as she runs from the police, but she says she does not want him join her as a fugitive. He refuses to leave her on her own, and she hugs him to thank him for taking care of her.[39][40]
Woo and his FBI agents rush back to Scott Lang's house to catch him out for having left the house. However, when they get there, they find him simply playing the electric drums, claiming to have been in the house the whole time.[39][40]
Still suspicious, Woo nonetheless proceeds with the official end of Lang's house arrest sentence, removing his ankle monitor.[39][40]
Krista Dumont has a knock on her apartment door, and finds that it is Billy Russo, saying that he has nowhere else to go and covered in Arthur Walsh's blood. She lets him in, and he admits he found her apartment by following her home. He begs for her help, and she takes him to her bathroom, then picks up her phone to call the police.[34][38]
Russo steps out of the bathroom and sees Dumont about to make the call. He tells her he would not blame her if she did, but asks her if she thinks it might be possible to look in the mirror and see the best version of himself again, rather than the face that represents everything he ever did wrong. She locks her phone, deciding not to call.[34][38]
Trish Walker appears on her talk show and sells cardigans. Grace Bennett interrupts Walker's speech to announce that they had sold 140,000 cardigans, setting a new record for the network. Grace tells her she was born for this, which does not have the intended effect as Walker feels.[43][35]
Amy Bendix plays one-eyed jacks with Frank Castle and explains that everyone knows it is a scam that people always lose, but they keep trying nonetheless because they are stubborn and overconfident. She says that the only win is to not play, likening it to their current situation, but Castle disagrees, saying they just have to make sure they are in the dealer position.[47][38]
Jimmy Woo gives a report to the FBI regarding the recent events with Ant-Man. He concludes that Scott Lang was not involved, but has his suspicions.[44]
Turk Barrett goes to his car, only to find Frank Castle waiting in the back seat. Castle asks if he knows a "Konchevsky" from his time selling guns, and he reluctantly tells Castle that Konchevsky's people operate out of Kazan's Gym. He tells Barrett to let Konchevsky know that someone wants to meet with the "photos and the girl" from Chicago, claiming to offer him 25% of whatever they pay. He gives Barrett a number to call once he has arranged it.[47][38]
Dinah Madani also has a nightmare, in which she finds Russo has broken into her apartment. She wakes from it and tries to return to sleep.[47][38]
Krista Dumont wakes Russo in her apartment. He is frantic and angry, but she helps him calm down. She explains that she let him in because she wanted to help him, then goes to get him a glass of water, rolling up her sleeves and exposing her self-harm scars as she turns on the tap.[47][38]
Madani returns to her apartment and is greeted by Castle and Bendix. She explains that Russo killed Walsh and is likely exactly as broken and crazy as he had seemed all along. Bendix asks if Madani might be able to deport the Russians they are dealing with, which only makes Madani realize that the pair have brought their trouble to her doorstep. She gives them 24 hours to get out of town. Bendix is not fussed, and happy she has stolen Madani's credit card.[47][38]
Anderson Schultz ordering John Pilgrim to go to New York
Anderson Schultz tells John Pilgrim that the man and girl still have to be dealt with, and that they are in New York now. He says that he believes Pilgrim will be strong enough to cope with returning there after his previous experiences.[47][38]
In Madani's apartment, Bendix tries Madani's makeup and clothes, while Castle stakes out Kazan's Gym. Bendix has fun pretending to be Madani, while Castle watches men arriving at the gym. Bendix orders several things with Madani's card, including pizza, clothes, and a computer.[47][38]
Castle watches from outside as Turk Barrett enters the gym. He approaches Mr. Kazan and asks to see Sergei Konchevsky about Chicago, but the men in the gym put him in a choke hold as Kazan explains that someone killed Konchevsky in Chicago.[47][38]
Billy Russo tells Krista Dumont he refuses to go back to the hospital. She says he is not the only one who feels scared and helpless, and he acknowledges that she, too, must have issues in her life, but that at least she remembers hers.[47][38]
After being held hostage, Barrett is forced to betray the Punisher
Castle returns to Madani's apartment and reprimands Bendix for spending Madani's money. He gets a call from Barrett, who, held captive by the Russians, is forced to say that everything is fine and arrange a "meeting" for Castle to attend. Once he has hung up, Castle explains to Bendix that he knows Barrett is lying. Bendix says that, with the people coming after them not being Russian, she thinks Konchevsky might be dead, and Castle agrees.[47][38]
John Pilgrim tells Rebecca that he is leaving again. She tells John that she wants the last thing she sees before she soon dies.[47][38]
Billy Russo overhears one of Krista Dumont's patients, a veteran named Jake Nelson, in a meeting with her. He talks about his struggles, but assures her he is going to a veteran support meeting after.[47][38]
Dinah Madani visits Curtis Hoyle for help with Frank Castle, but they both lie to each other and say that neither have seen Castle recently. Hoyle's veterans, including Nelson, arrive and Hoyle says that she will have to wait until after the meeting to talk, inviting her to join them.[47][38]
The meeting begins and attendee Jimbo talks about his dishonorable discharge. Hoyle advises him to appeal his case. Nelson asks why Madani is present, assuming she has not gone through their struggles, but she explains about everything she has been through, finding herself talking openly about her problems.[47][38]
After the meeting, Madani and Hoyle talk. Hoyle explains that Russo was twisted by greed, not his experiences with war. He promises to tell her if he comes across Russo, and asks her intentions with him. She says she wants him locked up, but Hoyle admits he thought she would say killed, and that that is how he feels.[47][38]
Castle takes the cast off his arm, which is still injured, and heads out to face the Russians.[47][38]
Meanwhile, Castle walks into the gym, less protected due to the men at Barrett's. Kazan recognizes him as the Punisher and asks if he killed Konchevsky, which Castle denies. Castle says it is time they start talking, but Kazan has his thugs attack. Despite their size, Castle manages to use the gym equipment to his advantage and brutally beat each of them until only one is left.[47][38]
The large thug gets the upper hand on Castle until Castle manages to grab a weight from a stand and use it to bash the thug's face in.[47][38]
Castle then threatens Kazan, asking who paid for the photographs, and Kazan fearfully tells him that it was a man named Nikolai Poloznev. Castle tells Barrett that he is not angry with him, since he did exactly what he needed to, but they agree they never want to see each other again.[47][38]
Jake Nelson and Billy Russo continue drinking
Russo and Nelson keep drinking and taking. The flashing camera of other patrons momentarily triggers Russo to have a flashback to the mirrors of the carousel. Nelson offers him drugs, but he refuses. The two start to talk about how they are treated like a problem after returning from war, but that they should turn the tables on the world. Nelson reveals that he knows who Russo is, which puts Russo on edge, but Nelson explains that he feels it is an honor to meet him.[47][38]
Krista Dumont tries to face up to her terrible vertigo, opening her window and stepping closer to it. She starts to become dizzy and panicked.[47][38]
Castle returns to Madani's apartment and tells Bendix about Poloznev. She looks him up and finds out he is a billionaire and friend of the Russian president, living in New York.[47][38]
Respecting Madani's wishes and leaving her apartment, though not town, Castle and Bendix head to a place Hoyle has arranged for them to stay.[47][38]
Madani gets home to find her apartment tidy and vacated, and her credit card and new bills on her counter.[47][38]
Dean and the Minorus find a shaken up Molly Hernandez sitting on a bench outside the Church of Gibborim. Dean asks what's wrong, and Hernandez explains that she encountered her parents and they were evil.[7][8][9]
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Destruction of Clive's Photo Studio: Frank Castle and Amy Bendix visit a man, Clive, whom they have found out helps people take fetishistic photographs of children. They get inside and Castle beats him down as Bendix goes to use his photo-developing kit. Once she is done, Bendix convinces Castle to let Clive live as they leave. Nonetheless, they decide to burn the place down, with Clive getting out just in time.[48][38]
Hoyle helps serve food to the homeless. Jimbo, from his veteran support group, turns up, and Hoyle shows him that he has got him a pair of glasses, and he is immensely grateful. Hoyle says he wants to help him move out of living in his car soon.[48][38]
Russo peaks at Krista Dumont as she is getting dressed
Billy Russo passes Krista Dumont's room as she is dressing. He notices a scar on her back and becomes fixated on her, but she closes the door when she notices, uncomfortable.[48][38]
Amy Bendix confirms from a phone call that Nikolai Poloznev eats breakfast at the same time, in the same place, every day.[48][38]
Bendix and Castle watch Poloznev arrive for breakfast, as expected.[48][38]
Bendix and Castle sit outside Poloznev's daughter's private school, and start talking about Castle's daughter, Lisa. Bendix tries to comfort him, but Castle is saddened.[48][38]
Krista Dumont tells Billy Russo to stop acting so self-destructively, since she wants to help save him. She asks where he was the night before, and he explains about drinking with Nelson. Dumont tells him not to go out again - and that if he does, he must not get caught.[48][38]
Jessica Jones lays in bed, when Gillian tells her about a client waiting for her and offers to dismiss them, but Jones refuses. Gillian leaves for lunch, and Jones meets with the client, Jeri Hogarth, who is annoyed that Jones claimed to be working for her while searching for a sculpture stolen by Andrew Brandt. Jones insults Hogarth’s claims of concern for her, but apologies soon after. Hogarth notes that the medication Jones is taking is similar to hers, and despite the feeling of weakness, Hogarth still gets up to work, however Jones refuses to accept Hogarth's pep talk. Jones mentions a program studying ALS, and Hogarth agrees to have her assistant send Jones potential locations to find the statue. Jones receives the list and leaves to find the locations.[43][35]
While walking, Jones' medicine alarm goes off, and she takes her requisite pills. She buys a hot dog, and notices Trish Walker stalking her, and immediately throws it away. She gives her napkin to a pedestrian, which Walker steals, only to realize the only thing on it is a mustard stain.[43][35]
Jones continues walking until she suddenly passes out. Walker calls 911 before noticing a piece of paper in Jones' pocket and leaves with it when other people start to comfort Jones.[43][35]
Kith Lyonne goes to Jeri Hogarth's apartment in order to call Hogarth's bluff on still having the tape she recorded for her when they were together. Hogarth proves that she does and reminisces about when they recorded it. She tries to play it, but the cassette tape breaks, so Lyonne plays it on her cello. Hogarth begins to caress and kiss Lyonne while she plays, and Lyonne eventually stops playing, engaging Hogarth in a passionate kiss.[43][35]
Malcolm Ducasse watches footage of Peter Lyonne meeting and having sex with a student. Zaya Okonjo asks if he wants to eat, and unplugs his headphones, where she hears moaning and believes Ducasse is watching porn, with Ducasse unable to tell her the truth so as to maintain confidentiality. However, Okonjo is not angry, and the two kiss.[43][35]
Jones wakes up in the hospital, where Doctor Purks tells her that she needs to be more careful. Jones demands her phone and receives a text from Hogarth, telling her about an art auction the next day.[43][35]
Hogarth feels she has successfully drawn Kith Lyonne away from her husband, but Kith tells her that she and Peter have an open marriage, to Hogarth's disappointment.[43][35]
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Dark Dimension[]
As the Steins and Yorkeses arrive, Dean tries to tell Hernandez that the versions of her parents she encountered were not real, but Hernandez says there was truth to it and that her parents were a part of PRIDE and just as bad as the rest of their parents.[7][8][9]
Staying in a trailer park, Amy Bendix asks for Frank Castle to teach her how to use a gun. He chooses first to teach her self-defense and how to disarm someone with a gun, and tells her that she needs to shoot whoever she ends up stealing a gun from to protect herself.[48][38]
Kurt Goreshter and Dave receive calls at X-Con Security Consultants as they are reported on the news for their help in apprehending Sonny Burch and his men. Kurt arranges a meeting for Monday. Luis picks up a call coming into the X-Con office and finds that it is Karapetyan, their most desired customers, asking to meet them next Thursday morning. The X-Con group celebrate.[39][49]
Walker uses a computer in the gallery to find a list of art sellers, including Andrew Brandt. She takes a picture of the list and returns to her seat as the tour guide returns with champagne. Jones leaves with the sculpture.[43][35]
Walker leaves the gallery, and Jones stops her, revealing that she has the sculpture. The two argue about who should go after Brandt, and Jones pushes her down and steals the contact information. She calls Brandt and learns his location.[43][35]
Attack on Andrew Brandt: Jones goes to Brandt's garage and wakes him up, scaring him. Jones asks about being stabbed, but Brandt denies this, revealing he misguidedly believed all powered people have impenetrable skin. Jones hogties Brandt and calls Walker, telling her that he is not the reason she was stabbed. She leaves, telling Walker where he is so she can deal with him.[43][35]
Eddy Costa tells Jones about Brandt's arrest, and how Brandt mentioned the two powered women, asking who the other woman is. Jones refuses to tell him, and Costa leaves. Jones calls Erik Gelden and invites him to drink with her.[43][35]
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Dark Dimension[]
The Yorkes reunite with Hernandez. Stacey asks Hernandez if she is okay, but Hernandez begins to forget who Stacey is.[7][8][9]
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Gelden arrives at Jones' apartment, and Jones has another flashback, realizing that her attacker had tried to push past to Gelden the other night, so Gelden must have actually been the target of the attack. She asks him why he was targeted.[43][35]
Gelden tells Jones about the debt he owes to Sal Blaskowski, and his ability to sense darkness in people, which allowed him to blackmail them. Jones and Gelden plan to visit the people he blackmailed, when Trish Walker arrives to tell Jones that Brandt is in jail. Jones refuses to allow Walker to help find her attacker, while Gelden leaves, on the phone with some one from the Blaskowski family.[42][35]
While leaving the apartment building, Walker overhears Gelden mention Blaskowski's name on the phone. She goes to her car and writes the name down.[42][35]
Search for Erik Gelden's Blackmail Targets: Jones goes into an alley and picks up money left for Gelden by Todd White. They go to White's house, and he does not recognize them, so Jones sees that he is not the attacker. Wanting to know why White is a bad person, she searches his home and finds a studio set for young girls, as well as pornographic images of them. Jones locks him in a closet, and White calls for help. She calls 911 and tells them she can hear screaming about being trapped in a closet, then leaves so that the police can find the studio and the pictures.[42][35]
Gelden counts the money he collected from White and Jones comments on her heroic action. Jones asks whether Gelden would have turned White in to the police, and reminds him that she doesn't rely on anybody. Walker calls Jones, but she ignores it.[42][35]
Walker calls Jones again and tells her about Blaskowski's past as a criminal who was charged with assault but had the charges dropped. Jones tells Walker that she does not care about Blaskowski, but Walker continues to do research anyway.[42][35]
A woman helps Hogarth install a piece that will make her toilet better suited to her medical condition. She tells Hogarth about future installments she will need, as well as recommending a style change to her apartment. Frustrated, Hogarth returns the installment and forces her out.[42][35]
Malcolm Ducasse finds out that Hogarth and Kith Lyonne dated in college, and Zaya Okonjo comes into his room. They discuss his lead and his inability to tell her what he is doing due to confidentiality. They kiss, but Okonjo then returns to work. Ducasse steps outside, and Trish Walker sneaks into his office to steal data about Blaskowski.[42][35]
Search for Erik Gelden's Blackmail Targets: Jones and Gelden, having received the next blackmail money from Reyna Pincer, go to her company building to find out whether she was Jones' attacker. They walk into her office and determine that she is not the attacker, and Jones demands to know what she did. Pincer confesses to having taken money from the company's petty cash to pay for her mother's surgery. Sensing that it was worse than that, Jones pushes her against the wall and forces her to confess to embezzling millions of dollars from her employees' pensions. She and Gelden leave the office, and Jones tells her employees about her actions.[42][35]
Ducasse returns to his office, only to find a file on Blaskowski opened on his computer. He sees Walker, who reminds him that he is not on the side of right. Ducasse tells Walker to leave, threatening to call security, and she does so.[42][35]
Billy Russo works out. He goes looking in Dumont's drawers and finds a note she has written comparing him to someone called "KM", and saying that his state breaks her heart.[48][38]
Search for Erik Gelden's Blackmail Targets: Gelden and Jones visit a park, where Gelden notices that the last person he blackmailed did not pay. Jones says they should investigate, but Gelden refuses, saying that he needs to pay Blaskowski. Gelden tries to defend himself for not using his powers for good, but Jones refuses to listen.[42][35]
Malcolm Ducasse confronts Jeri Hogarth about her motivations for sending him after Peter Lyonne, and leverages the information he has about Lyonne in order to get a raise. Hogarth hesitantly agrees, and Ducasse tells her that Lyonne is stealing from his deceased daughter's scholarship fund to buy gifts for his girlfriends. He tells Hogarth that the information could be anonymously spread. Hogarth refuses to distribute the information yet.[42][35]
Erik Gelden drives to the Blaskowski residence and runs into the house with the money he owes.[42][35]
Hogarth and Kith Lyonne attend a performance of La Mer, where Hogarth introduces Lyonne to Mathias Cole, intending to establish a connection so that Lyonne can play with the New York Philharmonic. Hogarth tells Lyonne this, though Lyonne claims to be content with teaching. They discuss Lyonne's marriage, and Hogarth says that she is not going to try to break them up.[42][35]
Rescue of Erik Gelden: Gelden gets thrown into the Blaskowski pool. Trish Walker shows up and starts fighting the family. She and Gelden defeat them, and Gelden leaves. Sal Blaskowski attempts to attack Walker, who pushes her out of the way, and Blaskowski falls on her own crowbar, impaling herself and nearly killing her.[42][35]
Hogarth and Lyonne continue to watch the opera, and Hogarth watches Lyonne's hand studies the music. Lyonne starts performing manual sex on Hogarth, reminding her how to cede control. As they leave the opera, they kiss, but Lyonne's husband calls and asks to watch television with her, so Lyonne leaves.[42][35]
Jones breaks into the apartment of Gregory Sallinger, Gelden's final blackmail victim, and investigates. She notices that Sallinger is missing a knife from a set of knives similar to the one she was stabbed with. Sallinger returns home, and Jones starts recording their conversation to attempt to get a confession. He pretends to be hurt when Jones confronts him, saying that it is for proof of her assault recorded on hidden cameras. They try to play mind games with each other, and Sallinger returns his missing knife to his collection, having broken into Jones' apartment to retrieve it. He calls 911, saying that Jones broke into his apartment and tried to hurt him, forcing Jones to leave.[42][35]
Following orders texted to him by Hogarth, Ducasse releases the information about Peter Lyonne stealing from his scholarship fund.[42][35]
Walker calls the hospital about Blaskowski, where she is relieved to find out that she is stable.[42][35]
Jones returns to her apartment, where she finds Gelden sleeping. She wakes him up and enters to see what Sallinger has left her in the apartment. Jones discovers a threat delivered by him, with messages saying she is not a hero, but a fraud. Jones says Sallinger thinks they have proof he is a killer. Gelden leaves to lay low, while Jones resolves to take Sallinger down.[42][35]
Walker hosts Style by Trish, and Jones calls, cryptically communicating to her sister on live TV that she would like her help. Walker agrees.[42][35]
Sallinger slices and eats an apple as he stands beside the corpse of his latest murder victim.[42][35]
6th-7th[]
Dark Dimension[]
The group realizes that the longer they stay in the Dark Dimension, the more they forget about the real lives, just as Quinton the Great had said. Victor states that they must leave now, but Dean says that they cannot leave Alex Wilder behind. Nico forgets who Wilder is, and Tina says that they will all forget if they don't leave now. Chase says they will go back for Wilder later.[7][8][9]
7th[]
Jessica Jones tells Trish Walker what she knows about Gregory Sallinger. Jones plans a stakeout and Walker suggests a more direct approach, which Jones realizes would not work with a man with a law degree, as Sallinger has. Jones acknowledges Walker as their advantage, since he does not know her.[50][35]
Sallinger develops photographs he took of the man he killed the previous night. He cleans up the dark room he set up and texts his workplace, saying that he will be out of town. Sallinger places the pictures in an envelope, packages up the evidence, compliments himself for his work, and disposes of it.[50][35]
Jones and Walker stake out Sallinger's apartment. Walker feels as though Jones is talking down to her, leading to another small argument between them. Jones leaves to watch the back entrance while Walker sets up to watch the front.[50][35]
Kith Lyonne talks to Jeri Hogarth about her husband, Peter's theft from their daughter's scholarship fund. Hogarth promises to help make her husband pay. Peter knocks on the door, and Kith thinks it is her son, so Hogarth opens the door while Kith puts herself together. Peter runs in and shouts that he has realized Hogarth is responsible for the information being exposed. Kith yells at Peter and leaves him. Hogarth tells him to get a good lawyer, and the two both say that the other cannot be in a relationship with Kith.[50][35]
Billy Russo ambushes Curtis Hoyle on his way to his car, holding a gun to him and makes sure Hoyle ejects his magazine and round from the gun he carries. He says that he has been informed he shot Hoyle and is sorry, but feels he has already paid for it with his scars and broken memory. He asks Hoyle how that happened to him, who did it, but Hoyle claims he cannot say.[48][38]
Walker sees Sallinger put a photo in a hidden album and tells Jones. Jones plans on breaking in herself, but Walker hangs up and joins her on the street. Sallinger leaves his apartment and Walker goes to the photo apartment alone. Jones considers following Sallinger, but instead goes after Walker. However, when she gets inside, she finds that Walker has cut the power. Jones instead resumes following Sallinger, watching him buy a newspaper.[50][35]
Walker breaks in and finds Sallinger's photo album, discovering that it contains pictures of Sallinger's victims. She takes pictures of some of the pages.[50][35]
Malcolm Ducasse receives a phone call from Hogarth, worried that Peter Lyonne might visit him to ask about her actions. Ducasse agrees to take vacation time and disconnects the live feed he set up in Lyonne's office.[50][35]
Walker returns Sallinger's album to its hiding spot and takes pictures of his apartment.[50][35]
Jones continues to follow Sallinger, who sits on a bench across the street from a prostitute named "Berry" and her friends. Jones and Sallinger individually watch as she pays Gor, her pimp, who notices that she kept some money for herself, and makes her give him the rest. As Gor leaves, Erik Gelden appears and talks to Sallinger, who threatens Berry. Erik pays Gor and takes Berry, whom Jones does not know is in fact his sister, into a nearby hotel where he is staying. Jones follows them instead of Sallinger.[50][35]
Berry and Erik Gelden argue about Berry's career as a prostitute and Jones walks in. She confronts Erik about associating with Sallinger, but he explains that Sallinger wanted to know how Erik found him and threatened Berry. Jones agrees that Berry needs to be taken somewhere safe.[50][35]
Ducasse talks on the phone with Zaya Okonjo, who wants to make sure that he is okay. Okonjo tells Ducasse that she has to stay at work all night, and they hang up.[50][35]
Jones returns to her apartment, where Gillian and Walker are looking up information on Sallinger.[50][35]
Jones visits Ducasse's apartment, where she asks him to take care of Berry Gelden. Although hesitant, Ducasse agrees after using his PI skills to figure out Berry and Erik's relationship. Erik tells Jones that he senses a little darkness in Ducasse, but Jones decides to trust him anyway.[50][35]
Walker and Gillian tell Jones and Erik Gelden that four of Sallinger's victims were labeled missing by the police, causing them to realize he is a serial killer. Walker wants to attack Sallinger, but Jones says it is not a smart move, and Walker agrees angrily. Gillian advises them to work out their argument and leaves.[50][35]
Okonjo shows Hogarth a video confession posted by Peter Lyonne, in which he explains his actions and Hogarth's immoral and illegal actions toward him. He accuses her of having powered individuals at her beck and call, getting them out of assault and murder. He shows that he had killed himself and was bleeding out. He urges the public for pushback against Hogarth, and apologizes to his family. Okonjo tells her that the police want to talk to her, and Hogarth tries to call Kith Lyonne, who sends her too voicemail.[50][35]
Walker and Jones argue about Walker's vigilante actions and the murder of Jones' mother. Walker leaves. Erik Gelden returns from the shower, and he and Jones start to kiss, before going to have sex.[50][35]
Hogarth returns to her apartment and calls Kith Lyonne, but Lyonne tells her to stay away from her.[50][35]
7th-8th[]
Dark Dimension[]
The group returns to the Dark Dimension Hostel, which is empty. They go back to Quinton's room and try to look for him.[7][8][9]
8th[]
John Pilgrim looks over a Bible given to him by his wife, Rebecca, as well as photos of his family. He prepares his things and heads out of his hotel room.[48][38]
Dinah Madani takes her pills, then goes to leave her apartment. There is a knock on her door, and she finds out it is Brett Mahoney. She opens the door and he comes in, saying he has worked out that there must have been a third person at the carousel, and suspected it to be Frank Castle before confirming with the two young people Russo kidnapped before the fight. He says he is disappointed that she cannot be honest, before leaving.[48][38]
Castle pretends to be a homeless man so as to sneak up on Nikolai Poloznev's driver, then knocks him out.[48][38]
Amy Bendix poses as a waiter and shows Poloznev at breakfast that she has one of his photographs. He gets up and sends men after her, but she slips into the crowd of schoolgirls passing by. Poloznev gets into his car only to find Castle waiting in the driver seat.[48][38]
Dinah Madani visits a cafe, and John Pilgrim, who had been waiting for her, gets up from his seat to follow her.[48][38]
Madani notices Pilgrim following her and holds a gun to him. He says that he is there regarding Frank Castle and wants to know where he and the girl are. She refuses and takes a photograph of him, and he walks away, telling her she is easy to find.[48][38]
Madani rushes back to the cafe and tells them not to clean anything so she can take fingerprints.[48][38]
Castle drives Poloznev to the waterfront and walks him into a building. Poloznev says that he assumes Castle killed Kazan, but Castle explains that he did not, which makes Poloznev realize that they have mutual enemies. He tells Castle that the people after them are Anderson and Eliza Schultz, powerful people who have raised their senator son David Schultz to one day become president, but that he is homosexual, and his orientation, due to homophobia, and the cover-up, due to the lying, could sink his political career, so the photographs of him kissing another man are dangerous. Poloznev explains that the reason he wanted them was to be able to blackmail and control the Schultzes. Castle has him kneel and prepares to shoot him, but reconsiders when he thinks of Poloznev's innocent daughter. He tells Poloznev to leave the country with his family and walks away.[48][38]
Erik Gelden and Jessica Jones wake up, and Jones realizes that a missing handsaw returned to Gregory Sallinger's apartment between her visit and Trish Walker's. Gelden asks Jones why she feels obligated to stop Sallinger and asks to help, but Jones refuses. She leaves and asks him to make a burger before he leaves.[50][35]
Jones shows Walker the missing handsaw and Walker explains that he likely has bags to seal the body parts. Jones asks for Walker's help visiting Maury Tuttlebaum at the morgue in Riverbank Medical Center.[50][35]
Malcolm Ducasse talks about Peter Lyonne's suicide on the phone with Zaya Okonjo, who notices that Ducasse believes the death might be partly his fault. She tries to comfort him, but gets called to continue working, so she hangs up. Ducasse helps Berry Gelden find her missing earring and tells her to take her medicine, but Gelden packs, saying that she is leaving. Gor knocks on the door, planning to take her. Ducasse tries to stop Gelden from leaving, but Gor incapacitates him and they leave together.[50][35]
Jimbo lets the other veterans know that his car is being towed, and that he relies on the car to live in. Russo decides to lead the group in chasing down the tow driver. They stop him in the street and Russo angrily starts beating the driver until Nelson stops him.[48][38]
The group get the car back for Jimbo, and Russo tells him to drive to Texas and change his license plates. The others talk about how good it felt to do something like that, and one man suggests that they rob a bank together, saying he knows somewhere they can hit.[48][38]
Bendix expresses her frustration to Castle about her friends dying over what she sees as a small matter, but Castle tells her the group were wrong to get involved in a blackmail scheme, and comments on her being silly to want to play with guns. She says she just wanted to be useful and feels like he sees her as useless, so he expresses some regret and asks her to sit back down. Bendix tells him she just hates their situation.[48][38]
Curtis Hoyle goes to meet Jimbo at a police station, where he has been taken in, caught after the tow driver incident. Jimbo explains what happened, and that the man leading the group was called Billy, and Hoyle realizes what is happening. He asks that Jimbo not tell the police anything.[48][38]
Brett Mahoney comes to Krista Dumont's apartment and subpoenas her for Billy Russo's files. She tells him she is hopeful about saving Russo. When Mahoney leaves, Russo steps out and admits that if she had told Mahoney about him, he would probably have killed him. He starts to comment on the fact that she seems lonely and in a poor emotional state. She tries to deflect talking about it, but he then confronts her about "KM", asking if he is some other "pet project" of hers and he is just some victim of a pattern she goes through. He grabs her and Dumont takes a letter-opener, stabbing him in the hand in self defense. The two stop, then Russo suddenly decides to kiss her.[48][38]
Both Madani and Castle get to Hoyle's meeting room, where Hoyle is waiting. Madani angrily tells Castle that his problems are now affecting her, showing him the picture she took of the mysterious man earlier. Hoyle tells them to both sit and explains what has been happening with Russo, that he came after him the day before and is crazy, and cannot just be taken in by a couple of policemen. Castle says he will deal with the man who came after Madani, but Hoyle says they have to focus on Russo first. Castle accepts this and says that he will have to end the Russo situation his way.[48][38]
Madani tells Castle that she thinks he finds it easy killing people, a notion he rejects. He says that she must have wanted Russo dead, but she claims not to. Hoyle admits he sees no end other than Russo's death and that he knows someone who will know Russo's location.[53][38]
Sallinger sits in his apartment, when Jones throws a vacuum-sealed dismembered hand, borrowed from Tuttlebaum, into his apartment through the window. Sallinger closes his window and wonders whether the hand belonged to one of his victims. He looks out his window and sees Jones, so he calls the police, who approach her about a loitering complaint they received.[50][35]
Walker watches Sallinger leave his apartment with the hand in his backpack and texts Jones to tell her that he is leaving. Meanwhile, Jones receives the text as the police ask her if she has been drinking. She says no and that she is going to go home.[50][35]
Jones joins Walker at a train yard, where they watch Sallinger dispose of the hand. Jones checks the tank for the bodies while Walker follows Sallinger. Jones walks into the tank and finds the body parts of his victims, but triggers a tripwire which seals the hatch and dumps chemicals into the water to dispose of the body parts, which give off toxic fumes Jones begins to struggle with.[50][35]
Walker hears the hatch close, but continues following Sallinger while Jones tries to escape. Jones starts hitting the wall, trying to break it open, which Walker also hears. Walker attacks Sallinger, but he tells her that Jones will die in 30 seconds. Walker chooses to save Jones instead of pursue Sallinger, and gets her out safely.[50][35]
Jones thanks Walker for saving her life. Walker says that she wishes she had not killed Jones' mother, and Jones replies that she wishes Alisa had not been a mass murderer. The police arrive, so Walker leaves in order to remain anonymous.[50][35]
Jessica Jones watches as the police examine the train yard filled with the body parts of Gregory Sallinger's body parts. Eddy Costa approaches her and asks for evidence and information. Jones gives Costa Sallinger's address and tells him where his secret photo album is. She leaves and tells Costa to call her when he needs her official statement.[35][51]
Jones goes to Walker's car, and Walker wants to go to Sallinger's apartment, but Jones says that she wants to let the police handle it. Walker convinces Jones otherwise, but gets a text from her mother, asking her to go to a production meeting for her television program. Jones advises her to go.[35][51]
Madani wakes and goes to shower, and has disturbing recollections of her time with Russo and being shot.[38][53]
Erik Gelden wakes up in the kitchen of an old restaurant and sees Sallinger with a camera setup. Sallinger describes the situation as a photo shoot. He explains that Jones does not deserve her powers, which he describes as unfair, and asks how Gelden found out about his crimes.[35][51]
Billy Russo and Krista Dumont have sex again. Dumont tells him that her back scars came from a bad fall at age 9.[38][53]
Ducasse returns to his apartment and searches for Berry Gelden online. He receives a call from Zaya Okonjo, but dismisses her mention of an all-hands-on-deck meeting called by Jeri Hogarth, in favor of looking for Gelden.[35][51]
Hogarth hosts a meeting about Peter Lyonne's suicide and how it will end up impacting her employees. She gives her team a pep talk, then asks Okonjo about whether Rand Enterprises will keep Hogarth as their attorney. Okonjo says that she plans on fighting for them, and Hogarth encourage her to keep going.[35][51]
Dumont looks at herself in the mirror and smiles.[38][53]
Jones bumps into Ducasse, who tells her about Gor attacking him, and they discuss his progress finding Berry Gelden and Jones' progress with Sallinger. Jones tells Ducasse where she knows Gelden works.[35][51]
Jones returns to her apartment and calls Erik Gelden, but receives a phone call from Sallinger on Gelden's phone. He threatens to kill Gelden if Jones does not find them and explain how she found him. Sallinger starts taking pictures of Gelden, who tries to use a nut in his chair to break the duct tape binding his hands.[35][51]
Russo tells Dumont that he wants to go out, having regained some confidence because of her and his crew. He explains that he knows he had built his life up before his injury, and wants to reclaim some of it. Dumont tells him he cannot just walk out on her and goes to grab her gun from a hiding place, but he reveals he has already taken it. She begs him not to go, but he walks out nonetheless. Dumont goes to her window and watches him leave, then starts experiencing vertigo again.[38][53]
Jones tries to break into Sallinger's apartment, but Costa finds her and tells her not to pursue. They argue about Jones' involvement, and Costa tells her that Sallinger's photo album only contained landscapes. Jones says that there used to be pictures of Sallinger's eight victims in it, but Costa says that there were only seven victims in the train yard. The press arrive and Costa has to leave, but he intentionally drops Jones the list of the seven victims they found. Trish Walker arrives and promises Jones to help find Gelden.[35][51]
Ducasse receives a text from Jones about Gelden being kidnapped, just as he finds Gor. He beats Gor in anger and Berry Gelden agrees to go with him. Ducasse tells Gelden that her brother was kidnapped and tells her to return to his apartment.[35][51]
Hogarth tries to attend Peter Lyonne's funeral, but is recognized by Laurent Lyonne, who tells her to leave. She tries to defend herself, but Laurent accidentally knocks her down, hurting her wrist. Hogarth gets herself up and asks Laurent to tell his mother that she visited.[35][51]
Returning to Jones' apartment, Jones shows Trish Walker the picture of the man who was not on the list of victims found by the police. They are stopped by Dorothy, who demands to know where Trish has been. Jones invites Dorothy in and tells her that Trish is powered, demonstrating by pushing Trish out of the window, with Trish landing safely on her feet. Jones leaves to talk to Ducasse.[35][51]
Jones asks Ducasse to run a facial recognition program looking for the eighth victim.[35][51]
Trish Walker returns to Jones' apartment and talks to Dorothy, who asks why Trish did not tell her. Dorothy tries to talk Trish out of being a superhero since it is dangerous, but Trish snaps at her for her parenting techniques. Dorothy leaves, despite Trish begging her not to.[35][51]
Jones and Ducasse find a match with Caspar Marx, who is still alive. Berry Gelden arrives and reminds Jones that bad people make her brother sick, asking them to hurry in finding him.[35][51]
Erik Gelden tells Sallinger that he regrets taking advantage of people, but Sallinger does not believe him. Sallinger talks about his brother and his past, comparing Gelden to his brother. Sallinger realizes that being near Gelden gives Gelden a headache, and that he has powers.[35][51]
Jessica Jones talks to Trish Walker, defending her choice to tell Dorothy about her powers. They arrive at Marx's restaurant and Jones enters. Marx confesses that he thought that Sallinger was kidnapping him for kink purposes and kissed Sallinger, who had fled. He tells Jones that this happened at his former location, and Jones realizes that that is where Sallinger is keeping Gelden.[35][51]
Sallinger asks Gelden about how his power works, with Gelden telling him that he senses the darkness in people. Sallinger defends himself, saying that he is simply trying to assert fairness in an unfair world. Gelden breaks the duct tape holding him and punches Sallinger in the face. Sallinger holds a knife to Gelden's neck, but the power goes out as Jones and Walker arrive. They knock Sallinger unconscious and Gelden helps them recover the missing pictures.[35][51]
Jones brings Sallinger to the police, but Eddy Costa tells her that the bodies from the train yard had no evidence, meaning they couldn't hold him accountable. Costa explains that Jones' testimony as a witness is insufficient evidence, but that a second witness could help.[35][51]
Madani checks in with Wendy at forensics, who explains she has tried everything but cannot identify the man who came after her. She compliments Madani on her work, and Madani finds her odd.[38][53]
Erik Gelden wakes up in Jones' apartment, where Trish Walker tells him that Sallinger is in jail. Erik recognizes Walker's voice and promises not to tell anybody that she is a vigilante. Berry rushes into the apartment and talks to Erik.[35][51]
Hogarth looks at a picture of her and Kith Lyonne from college. Jessica Jones barges into her office despite Char's protests and asks if Erik Gelden could get immunity for testifying against Sallinger. Jones tells Hogarth that she was the one who found the bodies in the train yard, and Hogarth says that the best a good lawyer could do is get Gelden a year in prison. Char apologizes for Jones entering the office, and Hogarth has her look into the bodies.[35][51]
Berry Gelden walks in on Malcolm Ducasse lifting weights, and they talk about Ducasse's frustration with not knowing what is wrong with him. Gelden starts to initiate oral sex, and Ducasse gives in. Okonjo calls Ducasse, but he ignores it.[35][51]
Jones returns to her apartment and tells Erik Gelden and Walker that unless Gelden testifies, Sallinger will walk free. Gelden refuses, since his powers would mean prison would hurt him too much. Jones allows him to make the choice, despite Walker's insistence. Walker leaves, and Jones and Gelden talk about Jones' heroism. They lay in bed together and Gelden tells her about Sallinger wanting to bring "pain to power".[35][51]
9th-10th[]
Dark Dimension[]
As Gert cracks that they cannot be mad at Nico as they will all just forget anyway, "Amy" appears back in the Hostel and reunites with the group.[7][8][9]
Jessica Jones and Trish Walker watch as Gregory Sallinger is released from prison, and are angered to see he is being defended by Jeri Hogarth. They watch Hogarth defend Sallinger to the press, and Sallinger accuses Jones of assaulting and framing him, mentioning a second vigilante. Sallinger directs the press' attention to Jones, who walks away.[35][54]
Hogarth asks Sallinger why he did not tell her about the second vigilante. Sallinger defends his actions, but Hogarth scolds him.[35][54]
Hogarth returns to her office and asks Char whether Kith Lyonne had called. Char tells her that Jones is present. Jones expresses her anger at Hogarth taking on Sallinger as a client. Hogarth tries to defend herself, but Jones leaves, infuriated.[35][54]
Frank Castle and Curtis Hoyle break into Jake Nelson's apartment in the hope of finding Billy Russo. Hoyle finds Nelson's drugs.[38][53]
While Gillian takes endless calls, Walker shows Jones the popularity of Sallinger's press conference. Jones studies her Sallinger case and decides to go to Sallinger's home town, Wappinger Falls. She asks Gillian to call the police department and request the report on the death of his brother, Donny Sallinger. The department refuses to email or fax files, so Jones and Walker drive to Wappinger Falls.[35][54]
Okonjo approaches Hogarth about Reid Pearson, whom they had defended after he was charged with rape, having claimed a masked vigilante had beaten and framed him. Hogarth tells Okonjo to interview Pearson. Okonjo shows Hogarth that Hogarth sent her a text intended for Kith Lyonne.[35][54]
Jones and Walker arrive at Wappinger Falls, and Jones enters the town hall while Walker waits in the car. She asks Chief Ronnie Velasco for the file, and Velasco confirms that Donny Sallinger was crushed by his father's tractor. Velasco refuses to give Jones the file, revealing that she knows who Jones is. Jones asks to use the restroom, where she texts Walker, asking her to distract the police.[35][54]
Walker sets off her car alarm and feigns frustration, causing Velasco to rush outside to help her. Jones steals the file on Sallinger's death while Velasco helps Walker.[35][54]
Malcolm Ducasse arrives at Hogarth's office and asks for Okonjo, but is told she is in a meeting for a new client, Gregory Sallinger. Ducasse spies on the meeting as Hogarth tells Sallinger that Jones will not be pursuing her and that Pearson can confirm the second vigilante's existence. Ducasse barges into the meeting and introduces himself to Sallinger, and Hogarth shows Sallinger out. Ducasse urges Okonjo not to take the case, but Okonjo demands to know why he has been acting strange. Ducasse decides to start looking into Sallinger's past.[35][54]
Jigsaw's Crew rehearse for the bank heist
Russo's crew practice for their planned robbery. Bobby comes to them and confirms that their schedule is unchanged.[38][53]
The group practice with the addition of Bobby, preparing for what could happen if someone tries to stop them in the bank.[38][53]
Russo goes over the plan one last time, then tells the crew to get some sleep. Nelson wants to go back home, where it is warmer, but Russo refuses to let him, saying they need to stay overnight for operation security.[38][53]
Jones and Walker look at the stolen files together in a motel. Walker laments and talks back about the time she revealed to the public that she was a drug addict, remembering how good it felt to finally catch some air and be herself despite everyone looking at her differently since then. Her and Jones resume looking through the files for anything on Sallinger.[35][54]
Castle and Hoyle sit together in a car outside Nelson's apartment. Hoyle encourages Castle to settle down, and Castle tells him he nearly did after meeting Beth Quinn, but how it all went wrong. Hoyle says that he thinks he has an idea of where Nelson is getting his drugs.[38][53]
10th-11th[]
Dark Dimension[]
The group is shocked to see "Amy," and Tina goes to hug "her," but begins to doubt if it is really her daughter.[7][8][9]
Working late, Zaya Okonjo finds Jeri Hogarth alone in her office and tells her that three out of the five people imprisoned by Walker are current or former clients of Hogarth & Associates, causing them to realize that there is a mole in the company. Okonjo suggests having Malcolm Ducasse investigate further, but Hogarth declines, ordering Okonjo to find the mole herself. When Okonjo leaves, Hogarth suffers another symptom of her ALS.[35][54]
Marion James meets with Dinah Madani. James says that she understands Madani's frustration regarding Russo's escape. Madani explains about Castle returning, and James recommends letting Castle kill Russo, but Madani says that she feels like that is still taking action, just letting someone else pull the trigger. James advises that sometimes, taking no action is the least worst option.[38][53]
Nelson wakes, tied by Castle to a chair in his apartment. Castle starts questioning him about Billy Russo, but Nelson is resistant and refuses to give him up. Dinah Madani, also present with Hoyle, tells him that if Russo commits any more crimes he will legally become an accessory. Nelson tries to act tough, so Castle sets him loose to prove himself, only to beat Nelson and stab him in the hand. He questions him again, hurting him increasingly in the need for information, but Madani eventually tells him to stop and to come outside to talk. Hoyle tells Nelson that they just need to know where Russo is.[38][53]
Castle tells Madani he is happy for her to turn a blind eye, but she says that she feels they are going to end up acting no better than Russo and William Rawlins.[38][53]
Hoyle treats Nelson's hand
Hoyle takes the knife out of Nelson's hand and explains what Russo did to Castle and his family, trying to convince Nelson to give Russo up before Castle can brutalize him further.[38][53]
Castle reenters, threatening to stab Nelson further, but Nelson gives in and tells them the group will be hitting ReadyQuick Check Cashing, and the location of the warehouse where they have been staying.[38][53]
Castle and Hoyle go to drive to the bank, but Madani says she cannot participate any longer and feels she must let Brett Mahoney know so he can deal with Russo. Castle tells her to simply do what she feels she needs to.[38][53]
Malcolm Ducasse asks Gillian for all of Jones' information on Sallinger. He tries to take pictures of the files, but Gillian refuses to allow him to.[35][54]
Jones and Walker arrive at the Silva Residence, and Jones goes to talk to Silva's parents. Ducasse calls Jones using Gillian's phone, and Walker answers. He asks for access to Jones' information, and Walker agrees so long as he checks in every hour.[35][54]
Jones talks to Manuel and Ana Silva about their son. While Manuel is willing to give information to Jones, Ana tries to push the interview along. Jones finds a picture of Nathan taken in the backyard, where a gazebo has since been built, by Sallinger and his friends. Ana calls the police.[35][54]
Walker receives a text from her mother, asking what dress she would be wearing for her show that night. Walker ignores her, then notices the police pulling up to the Silva Residence.[35][54]
Jones asks about Sallinger's involvement in the construction of the gazebo, and Manuel Silva says that he was an enthusiastic participant. Ronnie Velasco arrives and asks Jones to leave. Instead, she goes to the backyard and flips the gazebo over. Despite Velasco asking her to stop, Jones punches the ground to dig until she finds a wrestling bag with Nathan's dead body.[35][54]
Russo's crew sit around, waiting for Nelson. Meanwhile, Castle and Hoyle pull up near the warehouse, hoping to catch the crew before they leave. Russo tells his crew to give up on Nelson. Outside, Castle cocks his gun, preparing for an encounter. Russo reshuffles the team's positions. Castle and Hoyle close in on the warehouse. The crew get into their cars and start driving out, just as Castle and Hoyle arrive on the scene, moments too late. They rush back to the car to get to the bank.[38][53]
ReadyQuick Check Cashing receives its weekly Friday money drop. Moments later, Russo's crew pull up and enter the bank, holding the workers at gunpoint.[38][53]
Russo addresses the manager, Lillian, telling her to open the safe and hand over the money. She bravely stands up to him, refusing to hand over the money as the bank was a family business that her father worked very hard to build, regardless of the fact that the money is insured.[38][53]
Russo pulls out a grenade and threatens to throw it at the workers behind the desk. Lillian points out that it will not fit through the hatch, so Russo turns his gun on her. She still refuses to give over the money, but another worker, Anton Reed, rushes and lets Russo's crew in, seemingly in fear for their lives.[38][53]
Russo's crew raid the bank and tie the workers' hands. He tells Reed to come with him.[38][53]
Castle and Hoyle pull up near the bank. Castle tells Hoyle to stay put so he does not end up hurt because of being unable to run due to his bad leg. He then gets out to deal with Russo.[38][53]
Russo's crew leave the bank and see a man wearing Nelson's mask arriving. They believe it to be Nelson, but once he is closer, Castle pulls off the mask and reveals himself to Russo, unbuttoning his jacket to show the Punisher vest. Russo is left shocked as a firefight begins around him, stunned that the man he thought was his close friend is the one who ruined his life and wants him dead.[38][53]
Castle ducks and dodges fire from Russo's crew. One of the crew gets Russo into a car to drive away, and Castle takes one of their cars for himself. Hoyle, nearby, notices the shooting as Castle drives after Russo.[38][53]
Russo gets out of his car and shoots at Castle as he drives at him. He asks if Castle was the one to ruin his face and memory, and Castle, getting out of the car, shouts that he did. Russo opens fire again in Castle's direction.[38][55]
Hoyle prepares a shot on Russo from a roof nearby, but the police, let by Brett Mahoney, arrive on the scene and Russo moves to fire on them, losing Hoyle his opportunity. He leaves the roof.[38][55]
A shootout begins between the police and Russo. Russo continues to shoot after Castle, but Castle runs away from the scene, leaving Russo with the police.[38][55]
Russo shoots at the police, until his crew get him into a car and drive away.[38][55]
Castle pushes people out of the way as he runs, with Mahoney chasing him. Mahoney corners him in an alley and forces him to give himself up. However, Curtis Hoyle gets into the alley and holds a gun to Mahoney, telling him he has to give up Castle. Castle tells Mahoney he is coming after the wrong man and punches him to daze him as he escapes.[38][55]
Russo's crew get back to their warehouse, where Bobby frees Anton Reed, who had been their man on the inside for the job. Reed says he deserves more than an even share. Bobby angrily tells Russo he nearly ruined the job, but Russo shoots him and Reed through the head.[38][55]
Curtis Hoyle tells Castle he is worried about having held a gun to a police officer. Castle reminds him he told him to stay in the car, but Hoyle says that he cares about him, and felt the need to take out the sniper. Castle tells Hoyle that Russo was shocked when Castle drew on him, genuinely not remembering what he did, and that for a moment it had made him hesitate as he remembered what Russo used to be like.[38][55]
Krista Dumont has another knock on her door, and finds Billy Russo, once again pleading to come in. He says he has nowhere else, but she closes the door on him. However, after a moment's consideration, she decides to open it and let him in again. Russo, distraught, tells her that the man in his nightmares was Frank Castle all along, and that he does not know why Castle, his best friend, would have done what he did. He tells Dumont she is the only one who can help him.[38][55]
Amy Bendix practices loading a shotgun and keeps herself occupied in her and Castle's trailer.[38][55]
Curtis Hoyle receives texts from his girlfriend, Delia, angry with him as she has worked out he has been lying about what he has been doing.[38][55]
Castle hides and listens as Mahoney and the police investigate Russo's warehouse. Mahoney checks the bodies of Reed, whom he still believes was a hostage, and Bobby.[38][55]
Castle returns to Hoyle and tells him about Russo killing the apparent hostage. Hoyle is frustrated that he missed his chance to shoot Russo, and more people have died because of it, as well as his problem with Delia. He angrily says that they served their time and should have been able to put this life behind them.[38][55]
Castle and Hoyle return to the trailer park, and Bendix decides she wants to practice the disarming move Castle taught her. She attempts it on him as he enters, but he becomes furious, already on-edge because of Russo, and shouting that he could have accidentally killed her. Hoyle tries to calm him down, but Castle says that they need to remember they are not playing games. He leaves the trailer again, wanting to hunt Russo down, and Hoyle follows him. Bendix slumps on the trailer floor, upset by her mistake.[38][55]
Mahoney visits Dinah Madani in her apartment and explains that they have discovered the apparent hostage might have been an inside man. He asks why she tipped him off about the robbery, and if she knew about Castle, and she explains that Castle told her about it, and she told him not to go, unsuccessfully. Mahoney comments that Castle could have killed him, but Madani explains that Castle would not shoot an officer, which Mahoney does not believe. He says that she needs to give up Castle, since she seems to be able to contact him, or else he will arrest her, and leaves.[38][55]
While recounting his life with Frank Castle to Krista Dumont, Billy Russo is left wondering why Castle would hurt him and why he would hurt him. Dumont tells Russo that what has been done to him was awful, and Castle must have wanted him to suffer for the rest of his life. She assures him that learning the truth behind what happened will help him will help, as he can now confront his pain. He asks why she let him in, and she says that likes that together, they look forwards in life.[38][55]
Castle beats Jake Nelson for more information on where Russo might be, but Hoyle pulls him off Nelson, saying he is acting like Russo.[38][55]
Castle goes walking through New York City as a thunderstorm erupts, needing to let off some of his anger.[38][55]
Russo wakes Dumont and angrily accuses her of having known about Castle and not told him. He furiously starts wrecking her house and scares her. He grabs her and holds her up to her window, telling her he wants to make her feel the way he has been made to feel. She, however, that she has love for him, thinking he can change, and would never lie to him or betray him. He lets her down and she asserts that this version of him is in fact better than before, as he is still standing after losing so much. Russo starts crying and lets her embrace him.[38][55]
While studying security footage, Zaya Okonjo watches her visit to Malcolm Ducasse in his office and their kiss. She then sees the masked vigilante, Trish Walker, steal information on Sal Blaskowski, and sees Ducasse fight her, only to then talk to her, before she then leaves.[35][54]
Ducasse follows Sallinger into the Willie Dance Community Center.[35][54]
Ducasse watches Sallinger coach a wrestling team. Jessica Jones joins him, but Sallinger notices her and invites her inside. Ducasse hides while Sallinger challenges Jones to a wrestling match in front of his pupils, wanting to get her angry in front of everyone. She boldly accepts.[35][54]
When the reporter arrives, Walker poses as the masked vigilante for the camera and then runs away.[35][54]
Sallinger explains the wrestling match to Jones and the kids, but when Jones decides not to move, he begins the fight and pins Jones. While pinned, Jones reveals that she knows that he killed Nathan Silva, causing Sallinger to hesitate. She flips him over and starts easily winning the match, humiliating him, then pinning him down. Jones leaves to a cheering group of kids.[35][54]
Bendix is cooking in the trailer when she hears someone coming. She prepares the shotgun, thinking it might be an attacker since if it were Castle he would have announced himself. The shot misses the visitor, Curtis Hoyle, who calls out that it is him, and is bemused to find out Castle instructed her to shoot anyone who arrived without announcement. She lets him in and offers food.[38][55]
Russo meets with his crew and gives them their share of the money, but says that they are capable of much more. He suggests that they form a brotherhood to pull off many more attacks and take full control of their lives.[38][55]
Hoyle assures Bendix that, while Castle can be horrible, he was only angry because he cared about her. He talks about how he met Castle, and when Bendix asks if Russo was one of the people behind Castle's family's deaths, Hoyle confirms it, explaining how Russo had been like family to them and so had utterly betrayed Castle. There is a knock at the door, which worries the pair, but it is Dinah Madani. She tells Bendix that she met the mysterious man after her, but could not charge him with anything to arrest him. Hoyle asks how she found them, and she explains she tracked his phone, so Bendix melts his SIM card as Madani tells Hoyle that Mahoney wants to find the man who held a gun to him, whom she worked out was Hoyle, and that they need to get Russo for Mahoney and hand over Castle, then Hoyle might be cleared. Hoyle says he does not know where Castle is.[38][55]
Castle walks through the cemetery where his family were buried. Meanwhile, in the trailer, Bendix complains about Castle's actions. In the cemetery, Castle visits his family's joint grave. In the trailer, Bendix tells Hoyle and Madani she just wants her old life back. Castle mourns his family, while in the trailer, Madani and Hoyle drink to him. Castle reflects, and Hoyle meanwhile asks Madani if she will give Castle up. She is unsure.[38][55]
Castle kneels at the grave, before sitting, mellowed and somber.[38][55]
11th-12th[]
Dark Dimension[]
"Amy Minoru" tells the group that "she" is an emissary of Morgan le Fay, and Tina says that she should have known.[7][8][9]
12th[]
Frank Castle returns to the trailer park and sees Dinah Madani inside, asleep. When he enters, Amy Bendix warns him about Madani wanting to sell him out, but he says not to worry. He explains that the visited his wife's grave, and that he has come to realize that his family's deaths did not change him - he has always been like this, and Maria knew but loved him anyway. He says that the people coming for them have no regard for the law, but asks that Madani, Bendix, and Curtis Hoyle let him be what he is meant to be to stop them.[38][56]
Gregory Sallinger prepares a video to send Jessica Jones in a restaurant, where he films a woman and two men leaving, threatening to kill someone by 7PM.[35][57]
Eddy Costa tries to call Jessica Jones, who is asleep. Gillian transfers the call to Jones' cell phone and wakes her up. Costa tells Jones that progress is being slowed with Nathan Silva's body because the masked vigilante appeared in the New York Bulletin, causing the police to look for her. Costa explains that his association with Jones his costing him clout, an issue that could be solved if the vigilante turned herself in to the police. Jones calls Dorothy Walker, who says that Trish cannot talk as she is in the middle of filming, then hangs up.[35][57]
Dumont, lying in bed with Russo, says that their relationship cannot last forever, but that they should nonetheless make plans, to give the money he is raiding purpose. He agrees, but says she needs to let him deal with Castle first. She tells him not to let Castle define him, but he insists he has to know why Castle wants him dead.[38][56]
While Trish Walker and Grace Bennett film, Jones arrives on set and shows Dorothy the article Trish appears in. Sallinger sends Jones a video on InstaYap, an app which only allows a video to be viewed twice, threatening to kill someone by 7PM and saying that her hero "charade" will "end where it began".[35][57]
Trish Walker tricks her mother into hosting the show in her stead, and leaves with Jones.[35][57]
Eddy and Russell Costa video chat with their soon-to-be adopted daughter from Burundi. Jones texts Eddy about Sallinger's threat, and he reads the message, against Russell's wishes. Eddy calls Jones, who demands that he accompany her to Sallinger's apartment.[35][57]
Malcolm Ducasse watches as Zaya Okonjo shows Jeri Hogarth footage of the masked vigilante stealing information about Sal Blaskowski, relieved when he finds it doctored to make him appear innocent to his boss. Hogarth orders Ducasse to unmask the vigilante, and refuses to allow Ducasse to defend her.[35][57]
Walker visits the restaurant where Sallinger's video was filmed and asks the waiter for information, but the waiter believes he is being tricked and gives her nothing.[35][57]
Jones receives a text from Walker about her progress, and Eddy Costa tries to stop Jones from visiting Sallinger's apartment. Despite Costa's protests, Jones knocks on Sallinger's door, only to find Joby, a man who was hired to pretend to be Sallinger. She tells Costa to leave as she prepares to send a video to Sallinger.[35][57]
Sallinger walks down the street and receives an InstaYap video from Jones, in which she destroys one of his diplomas and his trophy case, infuriating him.[35][57]
Ducasse talks to Okonjo about her doctoring the footage to protect him. He tries to defend himself, and they argue about his involvement with the vigilante. Okonjo asks him to consider whether the vigilante's work is more important than their relationship, before leaving.[35][57]
Jones asks Gillian to pull up a satellite view of the restaurant and receives another InstaYap video from Sallinger, as she had hoped. She records the video before it deletes, and realizes that the woman from the earlier video is present again, so must be the target. Jones concludes that the only way to warn the woman is with Dorothy Walker's help.[35][57]
Dorothy Walker tries to put makeup on Jones, who refuses. Trish tells Jones she has been unable to find where Sallinger and the woman are, and Jones leaves to do the interview, accepting last minute advice about being friendly on camera.[35][57]
Jones asks for bourbon for her interview, but Dorothy Walker confiscates it. Thembi Wallace begins the interview, but infuriates Jones. Jones starts exclaiming about Sallinger's murderous actions and the woman who is in danger, until Walker cuts the interview off.[35][57]
Dorothy Walker says the interview will have got attention. She offers to monetize Trish's hero career, but Jones leaves and Trish follows.[35][57]
Eddy Costa calls Jones, telling her that women are flooding into the police station, which caused the captain to end the lookout for Sallinger. He gives them a tip on Sallinger's last sighting.[35][57]
The crew return to their hideout, named Valhalla, and drop off their haul.[38][56]
Jones and Walker walk around New York City asking if anybody has seen Sallinger or his victim. They get nothing, but come across the GT Agrochemical Office, which Jones recognizes as the company whose truck her family crashed into, and they realize must be what Sallinger meant by where her hero charade "began".[35][57]
Sallinger returns to his apartment building with a cup of coffee and threatens to publicly call them out for police harassment unless they leave him alone. He returns to his apartment and observes the damage left by Jones, before moving his worm farm and playing with the dirt inside.[35][57]
Costa arrives at the GT Agrochemical Office and tells Jones that Sallinger was never there. He asks Jones if she has anything in her life other than her PI work, recommending that she find something.[35][57]
Walker watches as Jones leaves the office and becomes surrounded by paparazzi. As Jones becomes overwhelmed, Walker, covering her face, jumps into the middle of the press, and Jones escapes with her when she notices the police start to approach, Walker's identity in danger.[35][57]
Jeri Hogarth watches Jones and the vigilante's flee online, and Zaya Okonjo tells her that they cannot reach Sallinger. Char informs Hogarth that Sid Franken called asking for a comment from Sallinger, but Hogarth accepts the call and instead tells Franken that Jones is associating with the masked vigilante, nobody should be above the law, and Hogarth & Associates will be fighting Jones and the vigilante. She refuses to comment on Peter Lyonne's suicide and declares war on superheroes.[35][57]
Walker drives Jones to her apartment, and Jones pauses before leaving, realizing that all of Sallinger's actions have a purpose, and warning Walker to be careful.[35][57]
In the night, Russo's crew party at Valhalla, with women present. One man, Moke, makes unwanted sexual advances on a woman named Lanie. When she turns him down, he becomes forceful, but Russo notices and shouts at him to stop.[38][56]
Jones studies the video of Mona Lee and is visited by Ducasse, who tells her that Hogarth wants him to unmask Walker. Jones then realizes that if Sallinger wants to target her family, Dorothy Walker could have been his target.[35][57]
Trish Walker returns to her mother's apartment, where she finds her dead. Jones calls while Walker struggles to undo the duct tape holding her mother in place. When she realizes it is Jones calling, Walker answers the phone to tell Jones what has happened. Walker says that Sallinger has to pay, and Jones has Ducasse call the police.[57] Walker kisses her mother's forehead, then goes to get revenge.[35][58]
Walker puts on her vigilante outfit and goes to Sallinger's house, beating the police guarding him so she can get through.[35][58]
Sallinger's face is clawed by Walker
Sallinger puts up a fight and demands to know where Jones is, and Walker responds by taking off her mask to reveal who his attacker is. They continue to fight, and Walker prepares to kill Sallinger, clawing his face.[35][58]
Jones rushes to find Walker at Sallinger's apartment, and find the cops who were guarding him being helped up after someone broke in. She rushes into the apartment and finds Walker about to kill Sallinger in anger. Jones stops her and knocks him unconscious[57][58], and tries to convince Walker to leave. Walker still wants to kill him since he saw her face, but Jones knocks her out and escapes with her before the police arrive.[35][59]
12th-13th[]
Dark Dimension[]
"Amy" says that "she" was tasked with returning Nico to Morgan, but has decided against doing so after learning about the group and being reminded of "her" past life.[7][8][9]
13th[]
Jessica Jones cleans the blood off of Trish Walker's face, who is still shaken after her mother's murder and having nearly killed Gregory Sallinger. Walker begins to accept her mother is really dead and breaks down, and Jones supports her.[35][59][58]
Schultz encourages John Pilgrim to reach out to this former contacts
John Pilgrim meets with Anderson Schultz, who is practicing golf. Explaining that he is worried about Castle being taken in by police, he tells Pilgrim to visit his old contacts in the city and put a bounty on Castle's head. Pilgrim says he would rather deal with Castle himself, but Schultz states that they cannot take the risk, and claims to want the job dealt with fast so Pilgrim can return to his wife and children.[38][56]
Detective Eddy Costa calls Jones, but she ignores it. She tells Walker to leave the city, but Walker refuses, wanting to stop Sallinger. Costa calls again and Jones picks up. He tells Jones that Walker needs to be kept safe after the attack on her mother. Jones offers to bring the second vigilante in to the police in exchange for their immunity, but Costa says it is not likely, having Jones look at the news, where she finds Jeri Hogarth offering a reward for the identification of the vigilante. Jones receives a text from an unknown number with a picture of Walker nearly killing Sallinger, so she leaves to see if Sallinger has identified her.[35][59][58]
Amy Bendix and Curtis Hoyle tracking Russo's communications
Amy Bendix and Curtis Hoyle listen in on Russo's crew's radio communications and mark their movements on a map. They call Castle to let him know the latest location.[38][56]
Castle arrives at the given location and finds three of Russo's crew, including Moke. When they attack, he kills them all. He then takes Moke's smartphone and uses Moke's thumb to unlock it, finding a picture of Lanie in her Tipsy Tilly's Bar top.[38][56]
Anderson Schultz, and his son, David, meet. Anderson expresses his opinion that David's homosexuality equates to blasphemy, and that it would sink his career. David suggests that people have changed, but Anderson asserts that they have not enough. David is angry that his father only cares about campaigns rather than his son's well-being, but Anderson says that that is unimportant, since they have an opportunity to improve the country for the better. He asks David to come home for a couple of weeks to sort some things, but David does not understand what is so important.[38][56]
Malcolm Ducasse asks Hogarth to stop the hunt for the vigilante, but she refuses. Jones calls him and asks him to bring Walker clothes and her passport.[35][59]
Pilgrim visits Danny, a young member of the Aryan Brotherhood, asking him to put out a call for Castle and the mysterious girl to be taken to him alive. Once Pilgrim has left, Danny calls Kusack, having recognized Pilgrim from years prior, to tell him about the visit.[38][56]
Amy Bendix and Curtis Hoyle talk in the trailer. Bendix tells him she always wanted to get into marine salvage, though that she cannot swim and has never seen the ocean. Hoyle is frustrated that Castle has not even called them, and decides that he cannot let down his veteran support group and has to leave her to see them. Bendix is annoyed, wanting to leave herself, but he instructs her to stay put.[38][56]
As soon as Hoyle is gone, Bendix decides to leave and meet with her contact Shantel to get out of New York City.[38][56]
Jones visits the hospital and finds Sallinger. Sallinger threatens to expose Walker if he gets arrested for the murder of Nathan Silva, knowing she will be arrested on the Raft. Jones leaves, angry.[35][59]
Castle visits Tipsy Tilly's Bar, where he finds Lanie, recognizing her from Moke's photograph. He questions her about the hideout, and she explains that a colleague, Tony, knew some of the crew, so she went along thinking it might be fun, but that it was horrible, and the men are off the rails. Lanie tells him it is a place called Valhalla in Queens, then giving him a rough location.[38][56]
Attack on Frank Castle: As Castle leaves the bar, he is followed by six men into an alley. Castle dodges them, then confronts them himself, wearing the Punisher vest. The leader of the men says they are after $5,000,000, explaining about the bounty on his and the girl's heads. The leader draws his gun, but Castle pulls his fast and shoots all six. He approaches the wounded leader, threatening him by shooting him again in the leg and standing on his chest, and tells him to talk.[38][56]
Infiltration into Dinah Madani's Apartment: Dinah Madani returns to her apartment and starts pouring herself a drink. Russo suddenly reveals his presence. Seeing him unmasked, she comments on her disappointment that they fixed his face well. He says that he has read in his file that she arrested him, he shot her, and that they were "together" before, not remembering the events. Russo asks why she hates him so much, saying he has come for answers. Madani goes to retrieve her backup gun, but Russo reveals he has already found and taken it. He demands to know why Castle ruined his life, and Madani tells him that he sold out everyone and everything and had Castle's family killed. She tells him to shoot himself, but Russo taunts her about clearly being unable to get over how badly he upset her. He leaves, telling her not to follow or else he will have her killed.[38][56]
Amy Bendix meets with Shantel. She tells her about Fiona's crew being killed and pays to get her in contact with someone who can help her disappear.[38][56]
Curtis Hoyle's veteran group visit him, with him having summoned them. They express their distaste at his treatment of Jake Nelson, but Hoyle explains that Nelson was working with Billy Russo, and he wants their help finding Russo's crew. The group agree.[38][56]
Hoyle gets a phone call from Frank Castle
Frank Castle gets back to the trailer and finds it empty. He calls Hoyle, who explains he has gone to get help finding Russo, but Castle tells him he has already found out their location. Castle asks if Bendix is with him, but Hoyle says she is not, and Castle becomes worried, telling him about the contract on their heads.[38][56]
Jones returns to the Alias Investigations Office and asks Gillian for information about where Silva's body is being kept. She notices Gillian packing her things, quitting, but convinces her to stay. Erik Gelden knocks on the door and offers to help, and Jones tells him about her reluctant plan to steal the Silva evidence.[35][59]
After ignoring his calls several times, Amy Bendix eventually picks up a call from Frank Castle. He warns her about the contract and begs her to come back to the trailer for safety, advising her not to trust her friend.[38][56]
Back at Krista Dumont's apartment, Russo tells Dumont what he has learned about what happened with Castle, admitting that he went to see Madani. He says that Castle should have had the dignity to finish him off, and that he wants to make Castle suffer the way he made him suffer.[38][56]
Hank Pym takes Janet van Dyne to a beach. He reveals to her that he shrunk their house down and has taken it with them, regrowing it on the sand for a relaxing and comfortable time together.[49][39]
John Pilgrim gets a call from Danny, saying he has got in contact with someone who knows where Castle and the girl are, and to come to his restaurant for the information.[38][56]
One of Hoyle's veteran friends pretends to be a drunk, homeless man, so as not to arouse suspicion, as he walks up to Valhalla to spy for Hoyle.[38][56]
Bendix becomes worried and texts Castle her current location. Castle receives and reads the message.[38][56]
Laurent Lyonne visits Hogarth and asks if she is good at her job. He explains that the Zoey Lyonne foundation is angry about his father's embezzlement and is suing Kith, with Demetri Patseras refusing to settle, and asks for help.[35][59]
Martin arrives to Shantel's apartment to find Bendix
Bounty hunters arrive at Shantel's block, and Shantel takes them to get Bendix, but they find Bendix gone.[38][56]
Bendix, meanwhile, runs through the block, trying to find an unlocked door to hide behind.[38][56]
The crew disperse to find Bendix, who continues to run elsewhere in the block to find somewhere to hide. However, Castle arrives, in the Punisher vest once more, and starts eliminating the men as he makes his way up the stairs.[38][56]
One of the bounty hunters finds Bendix hiding in a closet and makes her come out. Castle shoots the men on the stairs as he ascends to get to her. He calls up to her, and her captor responds, threatening to kill her if Castle comes near. In his distraction, however, Bendix uses the technique Castle taught her to disarm him and shoot him. Castle arrives and she is distressed at having fatally wounded him, but Castle kills him to help lessen her feeling of responsibility and assures her that the man does not deserve her tears.[38][56]
Castle and Bendix return to Shantel's apartment. Bendix retrieves her bag and kicks Shantel in her crotch in retaliation for what she did, before leaving.[38][56]
Jones and Gelden watch Officer Carl Nussbaumer, who Gelden explains has a murderous past. Jones approaches Nussbaumer and makes clear what she knows, so he turns off his body camera. She asks for access to the crime lab, but he refuses and threatens her in return. Gelden steps out and attempts to beat Nussbaumer, but Jones stops him, instead threatening to ensure Nussbaumer's arrest. Nussbaumer reluctantly agrees.[35][59]
Walker hears a couple argue and get violent about the woman's alleged cheating.[58] Ducasse visits and delivers her clothes. He offers to talk to the couple for her, but she refuses, and they talk about Walker's frustration with trying to be a hero.[35][59]
Once Ducasse leave, Walker hits the wall to the shouting neighbors, and the man next door enters her room. Walker confronts him about beating his girlfriend, and beats him, before locking him out.[35][58]
Madani visits Krista Dumont in her apartment, on Dumont's request. Dumont claims to be worried Russo will come after her for answers. Madani says not to worry, since Russo has come after her and got her answers, regarding Castle. Dumont offers to open a bottle of wine, and Madani agrees.[38][56][60]
Pilgrim turns up to Danny's restaurant, who reveals that he has in fact had him come to meet with the Aryan Brotherhood, Kusack, who wants answers as to why "Robbie", as Pilgrim had been known before changing his identity, lost them a million dollars 12 years prior - having disappeared during his mission. Pilgrim explains about having been arrested and then met by a man sent by God who showed him a new path. Kusack rolls up his sleeves and, as members of the brotherhood enter, says that it is time for him to pay the price of betrayal.[38][56]
Returning to the trailer park together, Bendix talks to Castle about her struggle with having shot her captor, but he reminds her that it was necessary to stay alive. He promises to deal with the Schultzes as soon as he has killed Russo. She asks what might happen if Russo kills him, but he assures her that will not happen. She calls the whole messy situation a "flustercluck", which makes Castle laugh.[38][56]
Krista Dumont pours Dinah Madani a drink, and Madani starts to tell her about her feeling of ineffectiveness. Dumont encourages her to talk more about it, and Madani mentions that she wishes her or Castle, whom she admits was there at the carousel, had killed Billy Russo. Madani starts to explain that Castle and Russo are strongly linked.[38][60]
Kusack's men attack John Pilgrim. He fights back, headbutting one in the mouth, lodging two of his teeth in his head. He is sliced across his torso, but manages to slice one attacker's throat then stab another. He is punched in the jaw, dislocating it, and the attacker continues to pummel him, but Pilgrim managed to slam his neck on a table, steal his knuckledusters, and kick his head repeatedly.[38][60]
His men all down, Kusack returns to kill Pilgrim himself. Pilgrim, however, overpowers him. He throws him to the ground and beats his face, using the stolen knuckledusters, until he is dead. Danny tries to run, but Pilgrim shoots him down. He reclaims his hat and takes a drink, then cocaine from one of the men's pockets.[38][60]
Madani says it is not logical to think Russo can still be helped, but Dumont says humans work on emotion, not logic. She starts to say that Castle and Russo are not so different, both killing mercilessly, but Madani insists Castle has a code, only killing guilty people. Dumont objects to the idea of objective innocence and guilt.[38][60]
Madani and Krista Dumont have wine together and talk
Dumont tells Madani that she believes, with enough care, no one is a lost cause, including Russo. Madani, however, insists that Russo is not worth saving. She says that if she were to bring Russo in for legal trial, she would want to see in his eyes that he knows she won, and Dumont asks if that would be enough for her. Madani admits she wants Russo dead.[38][60]
Dumont tells Madani that it is not in human nature to be truly happy, as humans all dwell on shortcomings and trick themselves into believing things they cannot achieve.[38][60]
Madani leaves Dumont's apartment. Once she is gone, Billy Russo steps out, having been hiding from Madani. Dumont tells her that, through Madani, she has worked out how to break Castle, by taking away the one thing he has left: his belief that he is good.[38][60]
Kith Lyonne is finishing a rehearsal when Hogarth walks in, offering to be her lawyer against Patseras. Lyonne goes to leave, but Hogarth says "I love you," giving her pause. Hogarth attempts to justify her actions but Lyonne refuses to listen. She refuses Hogarth's offer and leaves angrily.[35][59]
13th-14th[]
Dark Dimension[]
Stacey asks "Amy" if "she" can take them back home, but "she" says that no one has the spell to do so. Tina says that this is not entirely true, and asks Nico for help.[7][8][9]
Nussbaumer arrives and gives Jones an ID card to enter the crime lab. Jones enters the lab, and notices Eddy Costa asking Doctor Irene Bickell to run the evidence to arrest Gregory Sallinger quickly. Following Gelden's instructions over the phone, Jones breaks a sewer pipe and causes it to flood, forcing Bickell and Costa to have to leave. Jones then enters and taints the evidence, making it appear to have been the result of a poorly directed fan.[35][59]
Jones returns to her car and asks Gelden if she gives him a headache, which he says she doesn't. She calls Sallinger to tell him the evidence was destroyed, and he hangs up as a doctor starts to treat his wounds.[35][59]
Pilgrim tending to his wounds
Pilgrim, bloodied, sits in his hotel room and drinks, then takes cocaine. He removes the teeth embedded in his scalp, rips his shirt to use as a bandage, and replaces his dislocated jaw.[38][60]
Jones and Gelden visit Trish Walker, who says that Gelden does not deserve forgiveness for not agreeing to take jail time. Jones tells Walker what she has done, and Walker gets upset, kicking Gelden out.[59] Gelden makes a call outside, looking for a place to gamble.[35][58]
Walker accepts Jones' choice, and Jones tells her to go about her normal life, making funeral arrangements so she does not appear suspicious. Jones offers to identify her mother, but Walker says that she wants to and leaves.[35][59]
Walker goes to the hospital and visits Sallinger, threatening to kill him. Sallinger taunts Walker with the prospect of jail and tells her that he left something in her mother's apartment.[35][58]
Jones cleans the hotel room and returns to her apartment. Meanwhile, Walker visits her mother's apartment and looks through her photo albums.[59] She finds a picture of her mother mirroring those of the rest of Sallinger's victims.[35][58]
Walker leaves the apartment building, and the concierge Omar offers his condolences, saying that evil wins when good does nothing.[35][58]
John Pilgrim ignores a call coming to his room. He is angered by partying noise in a nearby room, and gets up and goes down the hall, knocking on the door. A man, Bob Wick, answers, spending time taking drugs with prostitutes. Pilgrim raises a gun to his head and enters.[38][60]
Curtis Hoyle calls into work claiming to be sick as he and Frank Castle set up on a roof near Valhalla. Hoyle tells Castle about the Hashashin and how they gave their members what they wanted, making themselves the only ones offering it to induce loyalty. He compares it to what Russo is doing, saying they will not be happy when he attacks, but Castle says that in the end, Russo will be alone as always.[38][60]
Malcolm Ducasse tells Jeri Hogarth that he doctored the security footage and gives her the actual footage. He quits, and explains that Zaya Okonjo was not involved. Ducasse scolds Hogarth for defending Sallinger, and says that he cannot be involved with somebody who wants that.[35][59]
Walker goes to Gelden's apartment and asks for help catching people who he previously blackmailed. Gelden tells her about Nussbaumer, and Walker makes a plan to video his confession and trigger an investigation into him. Gelden plans to go with her, and Walker has him arrange a meeting.[35][58]
After killing Wick, Pilgrim has one of the prostitutes perform oral sex on him, breaking his devout orthodox religious beliefs, as he hysterically rambles about breaking from a brotherhood and finding his own nature, as well as his feeling of shame. The phone continues to ring in his room as he thinks of Rebecca and how unfaithful he is being, deciding to kick out the prostitute.[38][60]
Jones is looking up information for a funeral home when Costa arrives and tells her that the hair they found on Nathan Silva's body disappeared. He explains that there was nothing to be done and that he will be placed on leave as the department's fall guy. Costa asks Jones not to take the fall for him and leaves.[35][59]
Hogarth is watching the video of Ducasse helping the vigilante when Kith Lyonne arrives and says that she has agreed to let Hogarth be her lawyer, without anything further to be discussed. Lyonne leaves, and Hogarth notices a reflection in a computer in the security system, revealing the vigilante to be Trish Walker.[35][59]
Frank Castle and Curtis Hoyle stand on the roof near Valhalla in the rain. Hoyle spies on the hideout through the sights of a sniper rifle. Unknown to them, Billy Russo is watching them from a nearby roof.[38][60]
Castle tells Hoyle that he never wanted him involved in everything, but he is highly grateful for everything he has done. He talks about how he misses the brotherhood of the army, and starts to say that he should have spotted what Russo was like. Hoyle tells him that he would not have been able to stop him, so he should not beat himself up. Castle, however, wonders if he is just like Russo, praising Hoyle for being a healer rather than a killer. Hoyle assures him, however, that they are nothing alike, since Castle actually cares about people. Castle admits that he thinks a lot about the people he killed.[38][60]
As they continue to spy, the pair see cars arrive with women for a Valhalla party. Meanwhile, Russo continues to watch them. Castle gears up in the Punisher vest. He instructs Hoyle to get in position and let him know as soon as the women have left, then heads down to prepare.[38][60]
John Pilgrim sits on his bed and thinks about the time he told his wife his real name and previous violent nature, saying he had felt lost, but has now been found. The phone continues to ring, but he still does not pick it up.[38][60]
Meanwhile, Rebecca Pilgrim passes away peacefully back at the Pilgrims' home, without John there for her the way she had wished.[38][61]
Ambush on Carl Nussbaumer: Walker and Gelden hide while Nussbaumer arrives in an empty warehouse. Walker lists the names of Nussbaumer's victims to him. He denies having killed the kids, and Walker confronts him, leading to a fight. Walker continues listing names, and Nussbaumer eventually confesses on camera. Gelden tells Walker it is over, and Nussbaumer goes to attack Gelden, but Walker stops him. However, in her attack, she accidentally kills Nussbaumer. As Walker panics, Gelden starts to laugh at the relief as his headache stops.[35][58]
14th-15th[]
Dark Dimension[]
Tina says she will need Nico to trust her and cuts her own hand with a blade. Tina asks for Nico's hand and cuts it as well.[7][8][9]
15th[]
Russo drives up to Valhalla. Castle hides under a truck nearby, waiting for his moment to attack, as Russo enters the building. Hoyle calls him to let him know about Russo having just joined the party.[38][60]
Russo addresses his men, telling them about Castle, saying that Castle thinks he is better than them and was the one behind his scars, as Castle continues to wait outside. Russo says Castle is waiting outside and has no loyalty or cause, and the men agree to back him against his enemy.[38][60]
As a guard patrols the trucks, Castle advances slowly from vehicle to vehicle when the man's back is turned, then attacks and knocks him out, tying his hands.[38][60]
Russo has most of the women taken home from Valhalla. As the cars leave, Curtis Hoyle watches from on high.[38][60]
Billy Russo shoots three remaining women up close in the upstairs area of Valhalla, planning, from Krista Dumont's advice, to lead Castle to shoot into the room and have him believe he is responsible, so as to break his spirit.[38][61]
Castle gets to the tunnel entrance to Valhalla and enters. Russo, meanwhile, waits for him, with a gun in hand. Castle advances through the tunnel.[38][60]
Curtis Hoyle detonates explosives by the hideout, as planned with Frank Castle to draw out Russo's men as a distraction. Castle, meanwhile, hears the explosion from inside the tunnel. As Hoyle is shot at, he shoots back, and the men hide.[38][60]
Castle finds himself in a dark room. The lights are suddenly shut off, before being turned on for brief moments at a time by Russo to dazzle him. Russo and his men start shooting at Castle.[38][60]
Russo taunts Castle from the corner as his men beat Castle to the ground. They start kicking him and he is left bloodied on the floor, as Russo steps out to look at him. He presses his knee on Castle's chest, then tells the men to "break him and then finish him" as he walks away.[38][60]
Meanwhile, Hoyle continues to shoot down at the men, but they make their way to the stairs up to his rooftop.[38][60]
The Punisher fights back
As a man stabs him, Castle kicks out one of the other men's feet and bites his attacker, then pulling out the knife and using it to fight back, getting up slicing one's neck. He uses another as a human shield as he's shot at, then slices another's chest. Slicing and stabbing another two, he retrieves a gun, then uses it and the knife to finish off the rest, before stumbling away after Russo.[38][60]
Hoyle is shot at on the rooftop and asks the men to leave, not wanting to kill anyone. They keep shooting, so he fires warning shots, getting one in the leg. The other two leave and Hoyle kicks the shot one's gun away, then going to give him medical help. However, he realizes he has caused severe bleeding and urgently starts wrapping his leg, hoping to save him.[38][60]
Castle gets into the main hall of Valhalla and starts shooting. Russo's remaining men begin firing on him, but he kills all but one. As Russo and his last man run up the stairs to get away, Castle fires into the upstairs room to get them. However, when he follows upstairs, he is horrified to discover the bullet-riddled dead bodies of three women on the ground.[38][60]
Castle, believing he murdered the three women, surrenders to the NYPD
Believing himself to have recklessly accidentally killed three innocent people in his crusade, Castle despairs.[38][60]
Hoyle does his best to help the injured man, Philip, but cannot. Phillip dies, upsetting Hoyle.[38][60]
Castle breaks down, desperately upset and in disbelief. Police arrive on the scene and he does not react to their arrest, utterly in shock.[38][60]
Frank Castle is driven to hospital, barely conscious, having lost a lot of blood through his multiple lacerations and internal injuries. He is traumatized by having seemingly killed the innocent women. Brett Mahoney sits beside him in the ambulance, stating to the paramedic that Castle has killed a bunch of people, as that is simply what "he does".[38][61]
Castle is delivered to hospital, where nurses begin to work on saving him.[38][61]
Curtis Hoyle returns to the trailer and reunites with Amy Bendix. She asks what happened to Castle, and he explains about him being taken by the police in an ambulance. Hoyle is distressed, telling her how difficult he is finding having killed someone for the first time. Bendix turns on the radio and hears a story about Castle's arrest earlier in the day, saying he is at Sacred Saints Hospital. Bendix wants to help him with the bounty still on his head and him vulnerable at the hospital, but Hoyle refuses, saying helping Castle got them into this situation and that there is nothing they can do. He goes to shower.[38][61]
John Pilgrim wakes, hung over. He phones home, having missed all the previous calls, and Eliza Schultz picks up. She claims Rebecca is just resting, and John says he wants to hear her voice, stating he will wait. Schultz hangs up, actually at that moment looking out of the window as Rebecca's body is taken away, John's wife having just died.[38][61]
Karen Page reunites with Frank Castle after 17 months later
Karen Page arrives at Sacred Saints Hospital and tells the guard, Officer Smith, she is with Nelson and Murdock, who represent Castle as his defendant lawyers. He lets her through and she finds Castle, severely cut and bruised and asleep, and sits by his bedside.[38][61]
Hoyle returns from his shower only to find Bendix gone.[38][61]
Castle wakes and Page starts to talk to him. She wants to give him legal help like before, but he refuses, saying that she should go, and that he is guilty and nothing can fix what he has done. Page insists whatever it is does not change how she feels about him and stays.[38][61]
Dinah Madani arrives at Valhalla, where Mahoney shows her the evidence left from the night. He points out that they found rubber bullets, meaning Russo did not want Castle killed. Mahoney tells Madani about the three dead women, accusing Castle of having not cared for their lives and shot through them to get to Russo, but Madani insists that is not like him. She requests to speak to Castle in hospital in the hope that he can give them information on Russo.[38][61]
Imada questions Jones while various officers search the apartment. Jones refuses to answer questions. Detective Defford finds Jones' file on Nussbaumer, and Jones tries to convince the police she is innocent. They leave and Jones goes to join Trish Walker at the funeral home.[35][63]
Walker goes to the funeral home and stalls the meeting so that Jones can be there, forcing Gene Burchell to reschedule his next appointment. She sees an article about Carl Nussbaumer's murder and that they have a person of interest, worrying her.[35][58]
Jones arrives at the funeral home, joining Walker, and meets Burchell. Walker refuses to allow Jeri Hogarth to involved in any way, but then realizes that Hogarth has her mother's will. Jones says that she will deal with Hogarth, and Burchell explains that her mother also wanted a specific soundtrack at the funeral, a memory board, and a eulogy from her daughter.[35][63]
While Jones deals with Burchell, Imada and Defford approach Walker about Jones, causing her to realize that she is their person of interest. Walker defends her sister[58], and Jones finds her. She demands that they stop following Walker and leaves, telling Walker that he thinks Erik Gelden was responsible for Nussbaumer.[35][63]
Castle dreams of his family, but is suddenly awoken by gunshots in the dream. He tells Karen Page about how he always has the same dream of his family at Central Park, and that he had just told them he was done with the military and moving on before they were killed. Castle tells Page about how his children did not die suddenly, but had to endure the pain and anguish in front of him, and it makes him wonder what his apparent three innocent victims went through. He tells her he thinks he deserves to die.[38][61]
Meanwhile, at the hospital, Amy Bendix steals a nurse's uniform to get access to Castle's ward. She takes out a hairpin to unlock Castle's cuffs, but Castle says it is not safe for her and she needs to leave. At that moment, Madani also enters. As the group argue, Madani gets a call from Billy Russo. He uses the opportunity to taunt Castle on speakerphone, asking how he feels now being his own devil, no better than him, and declaring that he has won.[38][61]
After hanging up, Russo, staying in Krista Dumont's apartment, tells Dumont that getting his revenge has only left him feeling hollow. He discusses with her the severity of what they did in concocting the plan together to kill the three women and make Castle think he was to blame. Russo says he is worried that one day Dumont will blame him for her decision, but she explains she is comfortable knowing she did it to make him happy, as they both deserve that chance, so long as they now leave the country together and start a new life. Russo checks that she genuinely wants this, as it involves leaving everything she has built behind, but she says that with him she no longer feels alone.[38][61]
Dinah Madani tells Karen Page that things at the Valhalla crime scene do not seem to add up, and with Russo's call, she is starting to have some doubts, but cannot check the bodies herself as it is Brett Mahoney's case. Page says she believes she could get Madani into the morgue.[38][61]
Eliza Schultz arrives at John Pilgrim's door and informs him that Rebecca passed away peacefully in the night. Pilgrim is distraught, feeling guilty that she died while he was being unfaithful.[38][61]
Page takes Madani to see morgue worker Ed Zatner, a man she is friendly with. She asks to get the chance to see the bodies from the night before, which Zatner agrees to, on the proviso that she does him a specific favor he has been hoping for.[38][61]
Zatner gets one of the bodies out and explains that she, and all three, have evidence of being shot at close range and horizontally. Madani works out, and explains to Page, that they were executed, not in fact shot from downstairs by Castle. Before they leave, Page reluctantly gives over her high heels, the favor he had wanted.[38][61]
Billy Russo asks Krista Dumont to properly explain her back scar, and who "KM" is, the man she mentioned on his file. Dumont explains that "KM" was her father, who struggled to manage after two tours of Vietnam and became increasingly angry and distressed. She recounts that one night, when her mother wanted a divorce, he had grabbed Krista and said if he could not have Krista, then neither could his wife, before jumping out of the window with her, killing himself and almost killing her.[38][61]
Jeri Hogarth meets with Kith Lyonne about Demetri Patseras. Hogarth tells Lyonne that, aside from Patseras, the rest of the organization agreed to a reduced fine and minor settlement, and offers Lyonne a loan in order to pay it. Lyonne tells Hogarth that Patseras and his wife, Fiona, were close friends with her and Peter until she discovered that Demetri regularly beat Fiona. Hogarth then has Char set up a meeting with Trish Walker.[35][63]
Eliza Schultz orders Pilgrim to complete his mission
John Pilgrim sadly tells Eliza Schultz that he feels he should have been there for Rebecca when she died. Schultz tries to spin it to blame Castle for him not being with Rebecca, but John says Castle never did anything to him, and that his sons need him. Schultz intensely persists, claiming John's work must be finished for their way of life, calling it a test from God, and that God will reward him as with Abraham with a prosperous family after.[38][61]
Once Schultz has left, Pilgrim, enraged, smashes his room.[38][61]
Walker arrives at Gelden's apartment and tells him that the police suspect Jones of killing Nussbaumer, dreading for not giving Jones a proper alibi to be exonerated. Gelden comes up with a plan to have Walker attack somebody else as the masked vigilante, letting them live, but while Jones is in public, to exonerate Jones.[35][58]
Officer O'Rourke of the New York City Police Department, a former Kitchen Irish member whose cousin Castle murdered, arrives at Sacred Saints Hospital to take over guard duty of Frank Castle. He then enters the room alone, prepared to kill Castle and take the bounty for himself. Castle does not resist, but Amy Bendix, having noticed the suspicious behavior, enters to stop O'Rourke. O'Rourke begins throttling Bendix, but Madani enters and knocks him out.[38][61]
Madani and Page enter and inform Castle he did not kill the women. Bendix is still worried, knowing O'Rourke will be the first of many, but Castle asks her and Madani to step out so he can speak to Page in private. He asks Page if Matt Murdock knows she is here. Page does not see the relevance, but he says that Murdock is a good man, and an example of the kind of thing she should not be throwing away on his behalf. She unlocks his bed cuffs and he continues to argue she should walk away from him, saying there is no happiness ever coming in her life. Page insists that if he tried, and allowed her to help, he could find some, but he admits he does not want that. Castle gets to his feet and tells her that she simply has to leave without him now. Bendix reenters and says it is time to make their escape.[38][61]
Mahoney hears the fire alarm in the hospital
Page walks up to a fire alarm trigger. Meanwhile, John Pilgrim arrives at the hospital to make his way to Castle. Page starts smashing fire alarms to start an evacuation, including Castle's ward. Brett Mahoney, elsewhere in the hospital, is concerned. Pilgrim continues to make his way to find Castle as Bendix ushers Castle's bed through the building, with O'Rourke put in the bed in his place. Mahoney asks an officer on radio to follow Castle's bed.[38][61]
With Castle changed into O'Rourke's uniform as a disguise, Dinah Madani helps him down the stairs of the building, still injured.[38][61]
Pilgrim arrives in Castle's ward and finds it empty.[38][61]
The officer gets to Mahoney with Castle's bed, and they are confused when they realize it is not Castle in the bed. Bendix, changed back into her clothes, slips past them.[38][61]
Mahoney briefly encounters Karen Page
Mahoney uses the radio to put out a broadcast warning Castle has escaped, and no one must be allowed to leave the building. They pass Ed Zatner, now wearing Page's high heels.[38][61]
Mahoney, meanwhile, passes Page. He questions why she is barefoot, but she simply says she gave them away for a worthy cause. Once he has gone, she mutters under her breath, "Good luck, Frank."[38][61]
Just as Madani and Castle get outside, Mahoney apprehends them. At gunpoint, he has Castle cuffed and put into the ambulance for arrest, telling Madani he is going to take her down for her unlawful behavior. She worries for Castle as he sits, dejected in the back of the vehicle.[38][61]
John Pilgrim drives up beside them in a stolen police car and starts shooting into the ambulance. Castle asks for a key to his cuffs so he can help, but Mahoney refuses. Pilgrim continues to attack, and pushes the ambulance off a bridge, with both men still inside, crashing to the ground below.[38][64]
Madani arrives on the scene and rams Pilgrim, but as she then searches for him on the bridge, he steals her car and gets away.[38][64]
Getting himself up in the damaged vehicle, Castle manages to find the key to free himself. He goes to leave the trapped, injured Mahoney behind, knowing help will be coming. Putting his dislocated shoulder back into place, he then realizes a fire has started and the vehicle could go up in flames. Castle rushes back inside to help free Mahoney, cutting him out of his seat belt. Carrying the detective out, he gets him safely away in time before the ambulance erupts in flames.[38][64]
Frank Castle prepares to leave Mahoney after saving him
Castle leaves Mahoney nearby, but Mahoney says he still cannot let him leave. He threatens to shoot him if he goes, but Castle keeps walking, knowing he will not.[38][64]
Pilgrim dresses his stab wounds again. Three young men come by, and he pulls out his gun to scare them away. He then checks the frequent addresses on Madani's car satnav, finding her address.[38][64]
WJBP-TV report on the attack on the ambulance and Castle's escape. Krista Dumont watches the news, and Billy Russo enters, asking why she did not tell him. She says she wanted just a moment where Russo did not have to worry about Castle. Russo decides to go and get their new paperwork as planned, promising to stick with the state of mind of having left Castle behind. He leaves, and Dumont watches him go from the window, struggling again with vertigo.[38][64]
Mahoney considers Castle his savior
Madani catches up with Mahoney, who explains what happened, and she once again asserts that Castle is not a criminal, albeit also not a hero. She gets a call from Dumont, who is asking where Castle might be and if they have any leads on Russo. Madani becomes suspicious at her inquiries and language, simply telling her she will keep her posted.[38][64]
Pilgrim arrives at the trailer park and breaks into Castle's trailer, finding Curtis Hoyle inside. He forces Hoyle to sit, his gun still trained on him, and warns him not to reach for his shotgun. Pilgrim interrogates him about Madani, Castle, and "the girl", but Hoyle plays ignorant. Pilgrim does not believe him, however, pointing out that this is clearly a hiding trailer. Amy Bendix comes running in, giving Hoyle away, but the distraction affords Hoyle the chance to reach for the shotgun. He drops it to Bendix as he disarms Pilgrim. Bendix shoots at Pilgrim, catching him in the leg.[38][64]
Pilgrim launches at Bendix, but Hoyle grabs and restrains him, allowing Bendix to leave the trailer to get away. Hoyle and Pilgrim fight inside the trailer, with Pilgrim eventually using knuckledusters and the shotgun barrel to knock Hoyle out. He leaves after Bendix.[38][64]
Billy Russo meets with the remainder of his crew. José wants them to hunt Castle down in revenge for the friends of theirs he killed, but Russo says that will not bring them back, suggesting instead that they start new lives, as he hands them all new passports with fake identities. They ask where he is going, but he says the important thing is who he is going with, leaving them for the last time.[38][64]
Frank Castle gets back to the trailer and wakes Curtis Hoyle, who explains that the man after them came and Amy Bendix managed to run. Castle tries calling her, but finds she dropped her phone by the trailer.[38][64]
Castle takes David Schultz out of the car and questions him in the trailer about the man. Schultz again says he does not know. Castle shows Schultz the photos Bendix and her friends had been charged to deliver, explaining this is all about him, and that if something happens to Bendix, he will kill him.[38][64]
Amy Bendix prepares to follow Pilgrim
John Pilgrim parks his car and takes an elevator. Once he is inside, Amy Bendix, who had hidden in his car boot, climbs out to follow him.[38][64]
Schultz whimpers that he genuinely does not know what this situation is about and that he is scared. Castle points out that whoever is behind it has power and control and a reason to want the photos kept hidden, and Schultz sadly realizes it was his parents. Castle comes to believe he was not involved, but says it is time to call his parents.[38][64]
Pilgrim sits in his room and painfully pulls shotgun pellets out of his leg. Bendix walks down the corridor outside and listens, working out which room he is in.[38][64]
While Imada and Defford stake out Jones' apartment, Jones looks through her mementos of Dorothy Walker for something to place on her memory board. She finds a birthday gift Walker gave her on her 16th birthday, as well as a camera with undeveloped film. Erik Gelden arrives and she questions him about Nussbaumer's death, offering protection if he was the killer. Gelden says that he is happy about Nussbaumer's death, but promises that he is not the killer.[35][63]
Madani visits Krista Dumont's apartment to confront her
Dinah Madani knocks on Krista Dumont's door, saying she thought Dumont sounded strange on the phone and that she wanted to check on her. Dumont lets her in, saying she was just worried by the news, and sets a teapot to boil. Madani, however, points out that she noticed Russo using the same quote as Dumont about being your own devil, which Dumont passes off as Russo having picked up from her.[38][64]
On the way back to Krista Dumont's apartment, Russo decides to buy blue iris flowers for Dumont. He smiles at being in such a relationship.[38][64]
Madani brings up her conversation with Dumont from the other night about helping broken people, and says that she knows Dumont found herself unable to save her father, revealing she did a background check. Dumont is unsettled, as well as suspecting Madani is onto her, and excuses herself to the bathroom.[38][64]
As Dumont tries to regain control of herself in the bathroom, Madani looks around and finds Russo's journal, confirming her suspicions about Dumont. She pulls her gun and waits for Dumont's return, finding further evidence of Russo's presence in a hole he punched in the wall. She walks to confront Dumont, but finds the bathroom empty, and Dumont ambushes her from the side with scissors.[38][64]
Dumont stabs Madani's arm, but Madani disarms her. They end up fighting on the floor and Madani loses her gun. Dumont starts punching her, but Madani punches her back in the face. As Dumont attempts to drag her leg, Madani kicks back and they end up standing again. Madani pins Dumont, but she pushes her back and they fight in the kitchen.[38][64]
Dumont pushes Madani's head towards the fire boiling the kettle, but Madani uses a chopping board to knock her aside. As Dumont comes at her with a knife, Madani manages to hold her back enough to deflect the movement, only cutting her face, before Madani punches her again.[38][64]
Madani grabs hold of Dumont and pushes her towards her window. Dumont is overcome by vertigo, allowing Madani to shove her, and she falls through the glass. It shatters and she falls, like as a child, to the pavement below.[38][64]
Madani turns off the boiling kettle and contemplates what has happened.[38][64]
Dumont lies, still conscious, on the pavement below, and remembers her first experience in such a situation at age 9. Passers-by crowd around and Russo arrives at the scene with his flowers. He is horrified to watch as she coughs and nearly dies, and looks up at her window, seeing Madani and realizing she is behind it.[38][64]
Knowing Russo is coming up, Madani grabs her gun and prepares herself. He breaks through the door and starts firing. Madani ducks behind cover then manages to shoot Russo twice in the stomach.[38][65]
Russo furiously pins Madani to the floor, but she gets another shot through his upper body. Russo tries to strangle her and she passes out, but he collapses from blood loss before he can kill her.[38][65]
Anderson Schultz gets a video call seemingly from his son, but finds Frank Castle on the other end, who shows Anderson he has David. Anderson threatens Castle, but Eliza takes the phone and instead offers to barter for David. Castle demands Bendix back, unharmed.[38][65]
John Pilgrim hears a noise in his hall and approaches the door with his gun, but finds nobody there. Amy Bendix, who had made the noise, meanwhile hides around the corner.[38][65]
John Pilgrim gets a call from Lemuel, and John tells him to look after his brother. Eliza Schultz takes the phone and tells him Castle has taken David due to him apparently having "the girl". Pilgrim lies and says he does indeed have her, and Eliza instructs him to contact Castle to get David back.[38][65]
Dinah Madani wakes as forensics check the scene, and Brett Mahoney talks to her. He explains that Krista Dumont is alive, and when Madani explains what happened with Russo, Mahoney tells her that there is a trail of blood out of the apartment, so she has likely left him with a fatal injury. Mahoney tries to return her badge and gun, but she says she thinks she is done as a homeland agent.[38][65]
15th-16th[]
Dark Dimension[]
Nico screams as the Staff of One suddenly emerges from her chest. Tina says she will begin chanting.[7][8][9]
Castle joins Bendix at Pilgrim's hotel. She tells him which room she believes Pilgrim is in, and Castle heads over. He breaks into the room, but finds no one there, with Pilgrim actually next door. Pilgrim hears, however, and starts firing through the wall. Castle ducks, then fires back.[38][65]
Other occupants in the hall evacuate, and Bendix listens to what is happening.[38][65]
Castle runs out of the hotel room and breaks into another, still finding it to be the wrong one. The fire fight continues through the wall between the two.[38][65]
Bendix continues to listen from around the corner as Pilgrim unloads through his wall.[38][65]
As Pilgrim reloads, Castle takes advantage of the broken wall and barges through into Pilgrim's room.[38][65]
Bendix decides to cautiously approach the fight, still holding her shotgun. Meanwhile, the shootout continues between the two men.[38][65]
Castle watches as Pilgrim uses Amy Bendix to temporarily get away
Pilgrim leaves his room and stumbles upon Bendix, taking her captive. He holds her at gunpoint as he walks out, forcing Castle not to shoot at him. Pilgrim says to bring David Schultz to him if he wants Bendix to live, and Castle reluctantly watches them leave in an elevator.[38][65]
Another elevator arrives on the floor with police ready to tackle the situation. Castle is forced to fight the three cops, managing to maneuver and tackle the trio and throw one out at the next elevator stop.[38][65]
Pilgrim's elevator arrives and he marches Bendix out.[38][65]
Castle continues to beat the other two men, using their truncheons against them to beat them unconscious. His elevator stops and he goes to find Bendix and Pilgrim.[38][65]
Castle spots Pilgrim driving away with Bendix and leaps onto the car, but Pilgrim manages to swerve and throw him off, before driving away.[38][65]
Russo has found a surgeon to operate on his bullet wounds, threatening to shoot him if he does not. He refuses to go under anesthesia despite the surgeon's advice, and the surgeon reluctantly begins, pulling one bullet out. As he extracts the second, Russo passes out in pain. With Russo unconscious, the surgeon eyes his bag of money.[38][65]
David Schultz talks to Curtis Hoyle about his disbelief over what has happened around him. He discusses his hurt that his parents had so many people murdered simply because they were ashamed of his sexuality. The two admit that they both just want to go home soon.[38][65]
Russo wakes and finds he has been left in a dumpster to die. He manages nonetheless to crawl out and hobble on.[38][65]
Castle returns to the trailer and finds Hoyle and Schultz gone. He gets a call from Pilgrim, asking how they will trade their hostages, and Castle lies, saying Schultz is still at the trailer, so Pilgrim will have to come to him.[38][65]
Bendix tells Pilgrim that he is being used by the Schultzes. She says it is not too late to let her go and walk away, but Pilgrim just says that he wishes he could.[38][65]
Brett Mahoney goes to an empty football stadium, called by Curtis Hoyle to meet. Hoyle says things need to end and brings out David Schultz. Schultz explains that Hoyle has been helpful, and Mahoney decides to forgive Hoyle having held a gun to him before, as he takes Schultz away safely.[38][65]
John Pilgrim arrives at the trailer park with Amy Bendix, and is met by Frank Castle, who claims David Schultz is in the trailer with C4 strapped to him, and that he is holding the detonator. Castle asks if Pilgrim really thinks he can trust the Schultzes, given he will be a loose end to them, but Pilgrim explains they have his sons. He finally tells Castle his first name, and Castle begs him by name to let Bendix go. Pilgrim hands her over, and Castle has her drive off to safety.[38][65]
Once Bendix is gone, Castle admits he does not have David Schultz, and does not know where he is. He tackles Pilgrim to the floor and starts beating him, but Pilgrim knocks him aside with a weight he finds. Pilgrim then picks up a spade and slams it in Castle's face, punching him and kicking him into glass and throwing him to the floor. He wraps a chain around Castle's neck as he asks where Schultz is, but Castle gets him off of him and takes off the chain.[38][65]
The two men, both brutally injured, get up to continue fighting. Tired, Castle nonetheless picks up a bar and attacks Pilgrim again, before they fall to the floor once more. Castle uses a fire extinguisher he finds to hit Pilgrim and then beat him in the head, winning the fight. Before Castle can hit him again, Pilgrim begs that Castle make sure his sons do not get hurt when he goes after the Schultzes, and Castle reconsiders.[38][65]
Curtis Hoyle gets to bed, but receives a phone call from Billy Russo. Russo tells him he is in Hoyle's meeting basement, bleeding heavily and dying. Russo asks Hoyle to come, and Hoyle does not respond, though promises on Russo's behest that he will at least not call the police. He begs that, despite all the things he has done, Hoyle accompany him as he dies so he does not have to die alone.[38][65]
Dinah Madani visits Krista Dumont in hospital. Madani says she is sorry Russo dragged her into everything, but Dumont insists she genuinely loves him. As Dumont starts talking about what a caring person Russo is, Madani spitefully tells her about having shot Russo three times, and that he is likely out there, dying. Dumont, however, insists he will survive and find her, but Madani ignores her.[38][65]
Execution of Billy Russo: Russo hears the door open in Hoyle's meeting basement and believes it to be Hoyle, but instead finds Frank Castle, who Hoyle had called. Russo tries to apologize, but Castle is not interested in hearing it from the man who had his family brutally murdered. Not allowing Russo the catharsis, he finishes Russo off with two more shots and walks away without looking back.[38][65]
Brett Mahoney joins Hoyle and Madani in the basement at the site of Russo's death, called by Hoyle. Mahoney works out that someone else likely put the final two bullets in him, and Madani has Mahoney consider just letting her claim she put five bullets in him, not three, so the case can finally be closed and clean, and Castle forgotten. Mahoney reluctantly agrees.[38][65]
Jessica Jones sees Malcolm Ducasse in the hall, who asks about the two detectives who have questioned him, Imada and Defford. Jones tells Ducasse that she suspects Erik Gelden of having killed Carl Nussbaumer, and Ducasse offers to help look for leads. Jones declines his offer and calls Ducasse an asshole before leaving.[35][63]
Jones goes to Hogarth & Associates Law Office in order to meet with a lawyer about Dorothy Walker's will, and finds Jeri Hogarth has replaced the normal lawyer. Hogarth tells Jones that she will be ending her professional relationship with Gregory Sallinger and reads the will, which states that Trish will get half of her estate, while the other half will go to the "Dorothy Walker Fund for Women in the Arts", which Dorothy claimed was due to her never having forgotten what it was like to have nothing, but was also a tax shelter. Hogarth tells Jones that she was left the remains of Dorothy's liquor cabinet and Jones' favorite armchair from when she grew up with the Walkers. Jones takes the will and Walker's personal items and fires Hogarth as Trish's lawyer.[35][63]
Jones returns to the Alias Investigations Office, where Gillian tells her about the police having visited to question her. Jones asks Gillian to develop film containing photos of her and the Walkers. Ducasse visits and shows Jones the photos he has retrieved of Nussbaumer's crime scene, where Nussbaumer is missing his police badge. Dorothy Walker's phone receives a call from one of the girls she represents, which Jones answers, informing the girl of Walker's death.[35][63]
Ducasse leaves Jones' apartment and finds Zaya Okonjo struggling to get into their apartment, which Ducasse helps with. Okonjo scolds Ducasse for working with Jones and the masked vigilante, and he ends up insulting her job. Ducasse explains that he has done bad things, and that he needs some time to define himself since he feels that Okonjo is making him into something he is not. Okonjo describes Ducasse as cruel.[35][63]
Anderson and Eliza Schultz sit at a dinner table and discuss having to kill off John Pilgrim. Suddenly, Amy Bendix walks in with a gun, angrily confronting them about having had all her friends killed. When Eliza goes for a knife, Frank Castle shoots her through the head from outside the room. Anderson panics and Castle enters, showing him that he recorded their video call conversation, acting as proof of the Schultzes' actions. He offers Anderson the chance to either give his son a chance and live with the truth as his actions are exposed to the New York Bulletin, or to kill himself with a gun he leaves him.[38][65]
As the pair leave the mansion, they hear the gunshot sound as Anderson kills himself. John Pilgrim, waiting outside for them, gets his sons safely into a car, ready to start afresh with the chance Castle has given them.[38][65]
Jones arrives at Erik Gelden's apartment and drinks with him, opening up about Walker's abusive history with her daughter to him. They kiss and sleep together.[35][63]
Jeri Hogarth is visited by Kith Lyonne about private business. Hogarth explains having talked to Demetri Patseras about their pending lawsuit, which Lyonne does not want to go through, since the fight would be long. Hogarth asks Lyonne's permission to use Patseras' taxes to blackmail him. Since this is what Hogarth did to Lyonne's husband, Lyonne refuses to allow this and goes to leave. Hogarth tries to chase after her, but momentarily collapses due to her worsening ALS. As she recovers, Lyonne leaves.[35][63]
With Gelden asleep, Jones searches his apartment, finding several files with names on them. She looks through a folder pertaining to Jace Montero, and leaves the apartment with pictures of its contents.[35][63]
Trish Walker and Erik Gelden watch a construction site owned by Jace Montero, an arsonist and killer. Walker tells Gelden that he has the ability to change the world, but Gelden does not express interest. Montero arrives at work, and Gelden plans to continue with simply getting an alibi for Jones.[35][58]
Jessica Jones arrives at the Alias Investigations Office, where Malcolm Ducasse and Gillian are waiting for her. She asks Ducasse to look for proof that Jace Montero is alive, which Ducasse agrees to. Jones looks through the developed photographs of herself and the Walker family, then prepares for Dorothy Walker's funeral. She gets dressed and looks at herself in the mirror, struggling to maintain composure.[35][63]
Jeri Hogarth takes her medicine and receives a phone call from Kith Lyonne, telling her that Demetri Patseras threatened to imprison her. She tells Hogarth to use her blackmail information, then hangs up. Hogarth looks again at the photo she has exposing Walker as the masked vigilante.[35][63]
After trying to call Walker multiple times, Hogarth shows up at her apartment and reveals that she knows about Walker's vigilantism. Hogarth offers to destroy the footage in exchange for the theft of Patseras' tax files. Walker agrees, but threatens Hogarth.[35][58]
Frank Castle sits with Amy Bendix at a bus depot, and they admit to each other that they have grown to care for one another. Castle requests that Bendix start a new life, moving on from cons and blackmail, and gives her money to help, as well as a contact of his and Curtis Hoyle's in Florida who will help her and teach her to dive, as she had admitted to Hoyle was her dream. As Bendix's bus arrives, Castle, who struggles with opening up, starts to admit she has changed his life, and she understands, pulling him into a tight hug, which he embraces.[38][65]
Bendix goes to get on her bus, and looks back and sadly finds Castle has already left.[38][65]
Ducasse tells Jones that Montero is still alive, but has potentially killed people. Jones meets with Walker, and the two agreeing that neither of them is ready to attend the funeral, but leave nonetheless.[35][63]
Ducasse is dressing for the funeral when he is approached by Brianna Gelden, asking for a place to stay. He agrees and invites her inside.[35][63]
Jones and Walker arrive at the funeral home, and Walker stresses over her eulogy. They enter the building.[35][63]
Ducasse helps Gelden unpack. He is about to leave for the funeral when Gelden thanks him for letting her stay, and the two end up kissing.[35][63]
Trish Walker is told by attendees about all of the people her mother helped. Jones pins a picture from a time she, Trish, and Dorothy Walker spent Thanksgiving Day Parade together on the memory board. Gillian suddenly calls Jones to warn her that the police have a warrant to arrest her and are on their way to the funeral home. While Trish delivers her eulogy, Gelden joins Jones for the service. Jones notices bruises on Trish's wrist, causing her to realize that Trish killed Carl Nussbaumer, not Gelden, and she leaves.[35][63]
Walker rushes out of the funeral home, finding it surrounded by police cars. Detective Defford approaches and asks where Jones is.[35][58]
The reopening Monolith rift starts manifesting fears again, this time the astronaut from Maveth that Hive took over.[40][66]
Leo Fitz is busy working, desperate to find a way to compress gravitonium so as to close the "Fear Dimension" for good. He and Jemma Simmons discuss what their wishes would be if the apparent dimension were for wishes instead, and Simmons mentions potentially having a honeymoon. The astronaut manifestation suddenly attacks and kills an agent helping them, before Simmons shoots it and it reduces to wisps of smoke.[40][66]
Walker talks with Gelden on the phone about the urgency of clearing Jones' name. Gelden and Walker plan on meeting the next day, as Walker decides to leave Carl Nussbaumer's police badge with Jace Montero, hoping it will be enough to clear Jones' name.[35][58]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez tests the new robotic arms that Alphonso Mackenzie and Leo Fitz have worked on for her. She is desperate to get fighting again, but Mackenzie tells her that it will take time, but in the meantime, the team will protect her.[40][66]
Fitz tries to ask Deke Shaw about gravitonium but he is distant, thinking about Fitz and Simmons being his grandparents. When they get his attention, he explains that he does not now much about the material. Fitz and Simmons leave to look for Franklin Hall's notes for further insight, and Daisy Johnson gets a location on General Hale's phone, believing her to have slipped up.[40][66]
Capture of Hale: Hale is driving when suddenly her car hits an invisible ramp. The car drives unwittingly into a cloaked Zephyr One, and the agents throw a gas canister into the vehicle to render her unconscious. Phil Coulson thanks Piper for her help in giving them Hale's phone number, saying it can be the first step for her redemption.[40][66]
Deke Shaw finds Fitz and tries to help him, but is suddenly knocked out by the man, who is not Fitz as they know him, but the Doctor from the Framework.[40][66]
Coulson interrogates Hale, and she says that she is trying to prevent human extinction.[40][66]
Fitz returns to the control room having not found any physical notes from Dr. Hall. He asks Johnson if she found any digital copies, but she has not, and he becomes anxious, frustrated, and stressed. The monitor then shows two cameras suddenly go out downstairs and Johnson leaves to check the floor herself.[40][66]
Fitz desperately tries to work out what to do, but is interrupted by the Doctor. Fitz is terrified to see him, believing him to be a manifestation from the "Fear Dimension"[66] - in fact not a dimension, but the Monoliths' combined energy.[40][67]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez tells Alphonso Mackenzie that she wants to help, but Mackenzie insists on just moving her hospital bed to a safer floor. Before they can act, what appears to be one of Hale's Sleeper Mechs enters with a gun.[40][66]
Fitz struggles as the Doctor taunts him, saying that he is here to do what Fitz is not willing to and that plans are already in motion. Fitz hears a gunshot and Simmons calling him and leaves to check on her.[40][66]
Hale tells Coulson that she is willing to make the tough decisions to save the world, and invites him to come with her to see what they are up against, but he refuses. Hale reveals that she let them track her and is in control of her situation.[40][66]
Piper tells Melinda May that they cannot move the Sleeper Mech that was serving as Hale's driver, as it is too heavy, almost like a statue. May goes to the car, realizing who it is, and calls the driver out as Carl Creel, asking him to get out. Creel reveals that he has bombs strapped to him, and they need to listen to Hale or else he will detonate.[40][66]
A jet sent by Hale docks on Zephyr One, and Piper apologizes to May and Coulson for leading them into another trap, but Coulson says it is his fault this time. The jet opens and Coulson is surprised when he is met by Anton Ivanov.[40][66]
Fitz arrives downstairs and asks Simmons, Mackenzie, and Rodriguez about the Sleeper Mech who attacked. The trio explain that when they took it down it did not disappear, not being a manifestation but in fact a real reactivated android. Fitz panics, saying that the Doctor must have sent it.[40][66]
Ivanov tells Coulson that in his new android body, he has strength he never had before. He explains that if Creel detonates the bombs, he and Ivanov will survive, but the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents will all be killed.[40][66]
Fitz, Simmons, Mackenzie, and Rodriguez realize that since the Doctor was in charge of Inhuman experimentation in the Framework, he will be after Daisy Johnson. Fitz leaves to find her.[40][66]
Phil Coulson and Melinda May are taken before Hale, Creel, and Ivanov. They explain that Ivanov was behind Glenn Talbot being shot, not Daisy Johnson, but Hale says that they have proof Ivanov was programmed by S.H.I.E.L.D. originally. She says Coulson has to come with her to prevent harm to the agents. Coulson agrees, to May's dismay, and she tries to convince him not to go. Coulson insists nonetheless.[40][66]
Johnson takes a look at the cameras but finds nothing wrong. While distracted, she is attacked by one of the Doctor's Sleeper Mechs and knocked out.[40][66]
Daisy Johnson wakes and finds herself pinned down to an operating table. The Doctor greets her and tells her to get comfortable as he begins a surgery to remove her inhibitor, explaining that he wants to restore her powers.[40][66]
Johnson pleads with the Doctor not to operate, desperate not to regain her powers in case it causes the destruction of the Earth. Leo Fitz interrupts, telling the Doctor to stop.[40][66]
Alphonso Mackenzie stands guard for Yo-Yo Rodriguez. She tells him not to worry since she is safe, because they know she lives past 2018 from having spoken to her 2091 self. Mackenzie points out that they are trying to prevent that future and hoping it is not cemented, so she might still die, but Rodriguez comments that if she does, then at least that would mean they have broken the time loop. Jemma Simmons gets back to them, but is concerned when she finds that Fitz and Johnson have returned. She leaves to find them.[40][66]
Simmons confronts Fitz
The Doctor tells Fitz he is removing Johnson's inhibitor, and Fitz is horrified. The two Fitzes argue, and Daisy Johnson becomes confused. Simmons enters and suddenly Fitz stops seeing the Doctor, and does not understand, but Simmons explains to him what she has worked out: the Doctor was never there. He was not an anomaly from the Monoliths, but a result of a psychic split Fitz is experiencing following his time in the Framework, with the Doctor personality taking control over the day and having got Fitz to separate Johnson from the others.[40][66]
Upset, Fitz begins to slip back into his dangerous Doctor mindset, and says that this personality simply has the will to do what Fitz does not: to risk Johnson's paralysis and the destruction of the Earth in order to restore Johnson's powers so she can compress the Gravitonium and they can close the rift that endangers the planet. He refuses to deactivate the Sleeper Mechs that arrive and hold Simmons, as well as the now-arriving Deke Shaw, at bay, and removes the inhibitor. Johnson mutters that she will never forgive him.[40][66]
Fitz gives instructions to Daisy Johnson, having her use her powers to compress the gravitonium into the device he has made, then dropping it into the rift and closing it for good.[40][66]
As soon as the rift is closed, the Sleeper Mechs power down and Fitz surrenders himself.[40][66]
Coulson gets into Hale's jet and she launches it. He mocks Ivanov, telling him he knows that Ivanov is now a subordinate of Hale and not the powerful leader he likes to think he is.[40][66]
Jemma Simmons visits Leo Fitz outside his cell in the Lighthouse and tries to reassure him that it was not him, but Fitz is not convinced, explaining that while he feels bad about it, even in his right mind he does not regret what he did, believing it to have been the best option. Simmons is saddened by his words, and the couple admit that they do not know what comes next for their relationship.[40][66]
Deke Shaw goes to see Simmons and comforts her. As they talk, he reveals to her that he knows about their relationship and that it persists, because it is the relationship his mother would tell him about when she discussed her parents - because Fitz and Simmons are his grandparents. Overwhelmed by the revelations and emotions of the day, Simmons vomits.[40][66]
General Hale uses the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device to visit Qovas. She tells him that her plan to get him gravitonium is nearly complete. Qovas is skeptical and gives her a vial of odium, saying that if she fails, she should die in a blaze of vicious glory, but she promises to succeed. the meeting concludes with Qovas telling her, "Hail Hydra".[40][66]
Jones stakes out Walker's house all night.[35][63]
17th-18th[]
Dark Dimension[]
Escape from the Dark Dimension: As Tina progresses in the spell, Nico realizes that she's allowed to say more than one word when casting. Tina jokes that all witches were novices once.[7][8][9]
Coulson wakes in the academy and, as with Glenn Talbot 6 months prior, finds cereal and is approached by Ruby Hale, only for her to ignore him. Unlike Talbot, however, he is unfazed.[40][68]
Jones follows Walker into the street[63], but Gelden notices her. He calls Walker to warn her to keep walking, then reluctantly calls the police on Jones.[35][58]
As Jones walks, she is surrounded by officers and arrested on the murder of Carl Nussbaumer.[35][63][58]
General Hale approaches Coulson in his room and tells him that Ruby is her daughter.[40][68]
Just like with Talbot, Hale takes Coulson to see the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device. She sets the longitude, latitude, and altitude destination and forces him to touch it as they are teleported to see Qovas.[40][68]
Coulson meets Qovas, and the alien explains to him that he is helping humanity survive an oncoming alien threat, for a small price.[40][68]
Hale and Coulson return to the academy and she explains that Qovas' deal is in return for gravitonium and Inhumans, and that this is why she needs his help. Hale says, however, that she wished to change the deal with the Confederacy.[40][68]
As they walk through the academy, General Hale reveals to Phil Coulson that they are working on a project initiated by Daniel Whitehall, and Coulson reveals that he was the one to kill him. Hale explains that the project is intended to create not just a super soldier like Captain America, but someone of immense power, and that Ruby was created to be the subject of the project. However, she says that Ruby is too emotionally volatile, and that she believes Daisy Johnson is a better fit. Hale tells him that the project is called "Project Destroyer of Worlds", and suddenly Coulson panics, realizing this is the origin of Johnson's nickname in the future, and thus the beginning of the events leading to the destruction of the planet.[40][68]
Desperate to do anything he can to stop Hale's plans, Coulson confesses the truth of where he and his team were for the 7 months in which they were missing, telling her about going to the future and what he saw. Hale believes his story to be ludicrous and locks him back up in his room.[40][68]
Ruby Hale visits Coulson in his room and asks how, if the "Destroyer of Worlds" caused the planet to fall apart, she fails in the future. Coulson explains to her that she, in fact, was not the Destroyer of Worlds, and Hale surmises that it is in fact Daisy Johnson. She asks where Johnson is, wanting to take her out, but Coulson says he will not talk. Hale shows him what happened to the last person who said that - bringing out Glenn Talbot, who is haggard and exhausted, broken by Hale's six months of torture.[40][68]
Erik Gelden waits outside[63], as Montero tries to defend himself, but Walker overpowers him.[35][58]
Worried, Gelden walks in and finds Walker brutally beating him.[35][63][58]
Imagining Montero as Gregory Sallinger, Walker kills Montero, causing Gelden's headache to go away once again. Gelden reminds Walker that he needed to be alive to testify, so Walker leave Nussbaumer's police badge.[35][63][58]
Gelden and Walker argue about the moral implications of Montero's death, and Gelden refuses to participate any longer. Walker begins to give Gelden a headache herself, as she walks away, planning her next target.[35][63][58]
Jessica Jones sits in an interrogation room at the 15th Precinct Police Station, looking at her reflection in the one-way mirror while dreading what Trish Walker will plan to do. Jones grows tired of waiting and breaks out of handcuffs to escape, but Detective Imada arrives and tells her that she is no longer a suspect in the murder of Carl Nussbaumer after the killer struck again, and is permitted to leave. Imada asks Jones for help arresting the killer, but Jones refuses.[35][71]
Jones returns to the Alias Investigations Office and asks Gillian to call Trish Walker every 5 minutes and search for her on social media, then Jones realizes that Erik Gelden is in her apartment. Gelden tells Jones that Walker has crossed a line, and Jones scolds him. Jones plans to stop Walker from killing Gregory Sallinger, and asks for Gelden's help.[35][71]
Daisy Johnson and Melinda May realize through General Hale's connections that she works for Hydra. May realizes that with Leo Fitz still struggling with his Hydra persona, they can ask him how Hale might think.[40][68]
May visits Fitz and asks for his help, explaining that she wants him to embrace the Hydra side.[40][68]
Mackenzie and Simmons affix Rodriguez's new robotic arms
Alphonso Mackenzie and Jemma Simmons operate on Yo-Yo Rodriguez to affix her new robotic arms. He tries to comfort Simmons, saying that he knows through having been changed by the Framework himself that at Fitz's heart is his good self. The arms begin to work, and Mackenzie informs Simmons of Rodriguez's assertion that she cannot be killed, which interests Simmons.[40][68]
Fitz tells May that he believes Hale is building a weapon, but that to work out why she needs Coulson, he will need resources and access outside of his cell. Johnson bursts in and says that this is not an option as he cannot be trusted. May tells Johnson to remember that he is on their side, but Johnson says not to defend him. Fitz states that he cannot apologize because in doing what he did, he saved the lives of the town of River's End, as well as potentially many more if the rift had continued to grow. She says that they do not turn on each other, but Fitz points out that she has done it herself. Johnson storms out, saying that they will find another way.[40][68]
Johnson tells May that she is flying to take Robin Hinton out of hiding so she can ask the girl what she knows.[40][68]
Jemma Simmons enters Leo Fitz's cell and hands him his multipurpose tool, as well as an almost identical, but older-looking one. She explains that the older one is from Deke Shaw, who got it from his grandfather: Fitz. Fitz is not pleased to find out that Shaw, whom he finds irritating, is his grandson, but Simmons reminds him that this means they have to live into the future, and are thus invincible.[40][68]
19th-20th[]
Dark Dimension[]
Escape from the Dark Dimension: As the rest begin to enter the portal, Tina asks "Amy" if she will be joining them. "Amy" says that she is safer staying behind as Morgan may sense her departure from the Dark Dimension.[7][8][9]
20th[]
Chase of Gregory Sallinger: Gregory Sallinger, whose police protection have left, tries to go home from hospital without clearance. Jessica Jones arrives to protect him, knowing Walker will come, and Walker arrives to try to kill him. Jones pushes Walker down, and runs into the elevator with Sallinger, who taunts her. Walker breaks into the elevator, so Jones and Sallinger take the stairs up to the roof, where Walker arrives and continues to chase Jones and Sallinger. Jones throws Walker across the street onto a different roof. The two stare each other down, before Jones takes Sallinger to Hogarth & Associates.[35][71]
Jeri Hogarth arrives in her office, where she finds Jones and Sallinger, waiting. Jones demands protection for Sallinger, which Hogarth refuses. Sallinger leaves, telling Jones he plans to wait for Walker and fight her to the death. Hogarth confesses to Jones that she knows Walker is the masked vigilante and asks if she is in danger. Jones assures Hogarth that she will handle it.[35][71]
Phil Coulson sits in isolation without food or a bed to sleep in. Hale hopes it will make him more ready to give them information.[40][72]
Having obtained gravitonium, Hale offers Carl Creel the chance to experience the new material. Ruby Hale suggests that they offer Coulson something in exchange for help learning about how gravitonium works, but her mother says that they tried already and now they just need to torture him.[40][72]
Creel touches the gravitonium, but is suddenly yanked in by it and thrust into the air. He tells Hale that he believes the material is in some way alive.[40][72]
Leo Fitz takes another look at Deke Shaw now that he knows he is his grandson, and is vocal in how he is disappointed that of all the people in 2091, Shaw had to be his descendant. Shaw admits that Fitz's actions with closing the rift made him respect him more, as it reminded him of the tough decisions he and others had to make in 2091 to survive.[40][72]
Jemma Simmons asks Shaw how much he knows about her and Fitz's lives, and he tells her that he knows they survive to live in the Lighthouse. Now knowing that, like Rodriguez, she and Fitz cannot be killed, she asks him to not say any more about her future.[40][72]
Simmons talks to Johnson and May
Simmons tries to convince Daisy Johnson to let Fitz help because his aid can be much more clear and immediate, but she refuses. She says that Zephyr One is leaving to pick up Robin Hinton and that Mackenzie is under orders to keep Fitz locked up. Simmons leaves and Johnson tells Melinda May that once they find Phil Coulson, she will relinquish her new leadership position.[40][72]
Simmons questions Yo-Yo Rodriguez about her feeling that she cannot die. Rodriguez worries Simmons is doubting her but Simmons explains that she agrees with her and informs her about Shaw being her and Fitz's grandson and thus the proof that they also survive. With Johnson not listening, she decides that they must get Fitz out themselves to start acting, saying that while Alphonso Mackenzie is the only person with control over Fitz's cell door, she knows how to get around him.[40][72]
Hale visits Creel
General Hale visits Carl Creel in his room. Creel explains that since touching the gravitonium, he has felt that he is going mad with voices in his head. She says that they will be conducting another test soon, and it is his decision whether he continues with their plan or not.[40][72]
Zephyr One lands at the Retreat, where the Hintons have been staying, and Polly and Robin are brought aboard. Polly explains that Robin has not been doing well for a couple of weeks.[40][72]
Daisy Johnson tries to talk to Robin Hinton and reassures her about how sometimes it takes time to get used to powers, but that she will eventually. Hinton, however, is unresponsive.[40][72]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez talks to Mackenzie
Yo-Yo Rodriguez asks Alphonso Mackenzie to release Fitz, but he refuses, saying to ask Coulson when he gets back, but Rodriguez says this is too late. When she continues to suggest that she is happy to act recklessly, Mackenzie becomes frustrated with her, and asks if she has perhaps considered that the only reason she survives is because he is advising caution right now.[40][72]
Carl Creel hears the voices in his head talking about Coulson, and decides to leave to find him.[40][72]
Creel attacks Coulson, saying that the voices in his head want him dead, but Coulson informs him of what Hale has done to Glenn Talbot. Creel is not sure who to believe, but when Coulson's Sleeper Mech guard returns, he is forced to make a decision, and snaps its head off, telling Coulson that he will trust him for now, but kill him if he is lying.[40][72]
Polly Hinton gives Daisy Johnson Robin's last drawing - one of her own death - and wonders what it could mean. Johnson lies and says she is not sure. Robin, meanwhile, gets up and walks over to Melinda May, calling her "mom". She hugs her and proudly says that she told her Flint would get her back home. Polly is left hurt by her daughter ignoring her.[40][72]
Creel and Coulson find Glenn Talbot, who is still muttering to himself and slightly mad. They convince him to come with them, and Coulson asks him to quieten down.[40][72]
Jemma Simmons tells him that of the four beakers, three contain water while one contains a phosphoric acid compound, and that she will drink a random three to prove her invincibility, as despite the odds, all three will be water because she cannot be killed. Simmons drinks the first and second beakers, both water. Mackenzie threatens to shoot Simmons non-fatally to stop her from drinking more, but Simmons calls his bluff and drinks a third beaker. However, when she does, she collapses and starts writhing on the floor.[40][72]
Fitz rushes to Simmons
Desperate to save his wife, Fitz begs to be released so he can help, and Mackenzie relents. However, as soon as Fitz is out, Rodriguez uses her super speed to push Mackenzie into the cell and lock it, and Simmons reveals that she was faking, having drank water again. Fitz is relieved, having not been warned about the stunt, but Simmons reveals that she was not entirely lying, having genuinely filled one beaker with acid.[40][72]
Rodriguez apologizes to Mackenzie and turns to pick up his gun. However, not in full control of her new arms, she accidentally pulls the trigger and fires a bullet. The group realize none of them have been hit and, believing that the hypothesis that they cannot be killed has been proved between the beaker test and the luck with the bullet, the trio prepare to set off.[40][72]
May talks to Robin Hinton and asks if the reason she stopped drawing was because of the sad things she was seeing. Hinton shrugs, but resumes drawing. She mentions that Coulson "can all put the pieces together", as she did in 2091, but that he will die, which May is sad to hear. She notices, however, that Hinton has drawn Coulson and Talbot standing together in front of a mountain range.[40][72]
Deke Shaw rambles to Daisy Johnson about how hard it has been for him adjusting to living in a different time period, but she ignores him. May hands her the drawing and they scan it, cross-referencing the scan with a terrain map and finding a match to the shape of the drawn mountains.[40][72]
As Coulson, Creel, and Talbot make their way to escape, Creel begins to go mad with the incessant voices he hears. Talbot's struggle to stay quiet leads to a Sleeper Mech hearing them.[40][72]
An alarm is set off in the HYDRA Preparatory Academy alerting General Hale to the trio's escape. She finds Ruby and sends her after them, saying they need Creel alive.[40][72]
As the alarm sounds throughout the academy, Coulson, Creel, and Talbot are attacked by Sleeper Mechs. When Coulson is punched in the chest, his weakened heart stops. Creel touches one of the deactivated Sleeper Mechs, turning himself to metal and conducting its electricity to jumpstart Coulson's heart, reviving him.[40][72]
Melinda May and Polly Hinton talk about Robin. Polly admits that she has noticed she is not in Robin's drawings of the future, so knows she will likely die soon, but May assures her that will not happen. Robin spots calls to her mother to come and sit with her, and Polly is pleased that her daughter still wants to call her "mommy" despite ignoring her earlier.[40][72]
Coulson, Talbot, and Creel believe they are trapped, but Coulson has an idea. He takes Talbot with him as Creel stays behind to fight and buy them time.[40][72]
Creel is met by Ruby Hale and fights her. She throws a Chakram at him and he uses the stick he is carrying to turn his chest to wood, allowing it to lodge in the material rather than kill him. Her mother enters and sends Ruby after Coulson and Talbot.[40][72]
Ruby Hale finds the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device and activates it, teleporting herself to the two men's location. She starts to follow their footprints left in the snow.[40][73]
Ruby Hale catches up with the men and throws a Chakram, missing, but having it return to her immediately. Before she can attack further, Agent Johnson arrives and quakes Hale aside. Coulson is concerned about her having her powers back, but relieved for the rescue, and Melinda May helps him and Talbot back to the plane.[40][73]
Ruby Hale expresses her excitement to be meeting Quake, but says that while she has a fascination with Johnson, she does not want to be her, she wants to beat her. They engage in a fight and Deke Shaw, despite being told to leave, lingers in case Johnson needs help. Ruby manages to cut Johnson, but she quakes the young girl away again. However, General Hale arrives on the scene and opens fire, and Shaw is shot.[40][73]
Johnson gets Shaw back to the plane and they take off. Coulson helps her administer emergency first aid to Shaw to keep him alive until they can get him proper medical help back at the Lighthouse.[40][73]
Piper goes to deliver Leo Fitz a meal in his cell, only to find Alphonso Mackenzie. He gives her the code to let him out and tells her what happened.[40][73]
Fitz, Simmons, and Rodriguez approach the compound in Herefordshire. Rodriguez worries about potential radiation, but Fitz confirms there is no radiation danger, and they advance.[40][73]
Johnson scolds Shaw for being reckless, but he starts coughing blood and the team rush to get him help as they land back at the Lighthouse.[40][73]
The team wheel Shaw to be operated, and Piper agrees to use her medical training to help, with Mackenzie offering to operate by her instructions due to his steady hand.[40][73]
Back at the HYDRA Preparatory Academy, General Hale reprimands Ruby for disobeying her orders in nearly killing Carl Creel as well as for failing in her mission. She locks her in her room, considering her a liability.[40][73]
The trio of agents in England
The trio in England move in on the base. Fitz reads an encrypted radio signal and realizes there are vehicles incoming. They hide as trucks arrive with Sleeper Mechs, and notice that they are led by Anton Ivanov.[40][73]
Piper and Mackenzie work to save Shaw. Coulson and Talbot watch on, and Coulson tells him what his team encountered in the future, as well as the fact that he will die soon. Talbot is disappointed that Coulson does not have good news, so Coulson reassures him that they are trying their best to cause a better future.[40][73]
Melinda May takes Phil Coulson aside and angrily asks why he handed himself over so readily, saying that he is giving up too easily. Coulson objects, but May says that he is not the only person affected by his death, as the people who love him also should be involved in his decision-making. She admits that she is one of them - that she loves him, which leaves him speechless, then leaves.[40][73]
Werner von Strucker finds Ruby Hale's room and remembers seeing someone unlock it before, replicating the code to get in. He tells her he has finally worked out his father's work on the Particle Infusion Chamber and that they should escape so as to use it.[40][73]
Infiltration into the Hydra Herefordshire Facility: The England trio enter the compound and follow the signals of the Sleeper Mechs. They overhear Ivanov, down the corridor, calling General Hale to say that the chamber is ready. Leo Fitz detonates remote explosions nearby to lure Ivanov and the androids away, and the trio enter the corridor Ivanov was guarding, finding a secret entrance to a laboratory. Inside, Fitz finds the Particle Infusion Chamber.[40][73]
Candice Lee asks Hale if Ivanov can be trusted. She says that their interests align, since Ivanov wants to enter the chamber and she wants to know what it will do to him.[40][73]
Hale notices Ruby's unlocked room and enters, surprised to find her daughter still inside. Ruby starts to cry, telling her mother that she has tried to do everything she ever asked of her but feels it is impossible. General Hale hugs her, upset by her words, and Ruby says that she is her one weakness. However, she then adds that she knows she is also her mother's weakness, revealing that she has tricked her. She flips her mother over and knocks her down, locking the door behind her as she escapes.[40][73]
Strucker shoots two of Hale's men, then tells the others to prepare the gravitonium for transport. Ruby Hale catches up with him and tells him they are free and clear.[40][73]
Daisy Johnson visits Glenn Talbot, who is momentarily alarmed, remembering how he was shot by someone who looked like her. He comes to his senses, recalling that it was not actually her, and she asks him if he wants anything. Talbot says he wants to contact his wife and son, but Johnson believes this too risky. He becomes upset and frustrated, saying that he abandoned his family and is desperate to talk to them, and Johnson says that she might be able to find a secure channel. She asks him to tell her everything he remembers about Hale.[40][73]
Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons look at the technology in the laboratory. Yo-Yo Rodriguez reveals what she learned from her 2091 self: that trying to save Coulson is what leads to the end of the world, and they need to let him die. Before they can discuss it further, the door begins to rattle as the Sleeper Mechs return. They make a plan to open the door momentarily as Rodriguez uses her super speed to take the androids out, but when they try, Rodriguez finds herself incapable of action and screams in pain.[40][73]
Piper discusses Alphonso Mackenzie's concerns about Rodriguez with him as they operate on Deke Shaw. Shaw suddenly starts bleeding from an artery, but the two together manage to staunch the bleeding, before sewing it up.[40][73]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez explains that when she ran, her arms malfunctioned and felt like they were being ripped off, and Fitz tells her they are not calibrated for such speed, with Simmons realizing the electrical signals are overloading her nervous system. The group prepare cover for the Sleeper Mechs' inevitable break-in and say they will draw the soldiers away from the exits as Rodriguez makes her way to the Quinjet to call for backup. The androids break in and start shooting, and Rodriguez snakes around them while they are occupied, escaping. Simmons tells Fitz that she is happy that their honeymoon involves protecting England rather than just a holiday, and they leave their cover to fire back, but Simmons' gun jams and they find themselves running low on ammunition.[40][73]
Simmons asks Fitz for a reminder that time cannot be changed so she can feel safe as they are being fired at. However, when he starts to recount the theory, she realizes that it is in fact not helping.[40][73]
Rodriguez realizes that Ivanov was controlling all the androids, so in killing him, she took them all out.[40][73]
Deke Shaw wakes, delirious from painkillers. With no self-control, he blabs about how he fancies Daisy Johnson and wants to kiss her. Mackenzie puts him back to sleep just as Johnson enters and lets them know that they have found a signal from Hale's androids.[40][73]
Leo Fitz concludes that they are safe, since whatever caused the mechs to fail, they are now deactivated. However, Ruby Hale and Werner von Strucker then enter, threatening them with a gun. Von Strucker realizes that they have destroyed a component for the chamber and need it repaired, so Hale threatens to slice Jemma Simmons' throat with her Chakram unless they fix it. Fitz reluctantly agrees.[40][73]
Erik Gelden goes to Malcolm Ducasse's apartment about Jones' plan to stop Walker, but Ducasse initially thinks he is talking about Brianna, who returns to the apartment, frustrating Erik. Erik and Brianna settle their argument, and Erik tells Ducasse that Walker needs their help.[35][71]
Daisy Johnson informs Talbot that she has found a way to get him a line to talk to his family very briefly. He calls and his wife, Carla, picks up. However, unbeknown to him, Candice Lee has found her and forces her to read the set of conditioning words from a card to her husband. Due to Hale having conditioned him during the 6 months she had him in prison, the words trigger him to comply to Hydra's will.[40][73]
With his Hydra conditioning activated, Glenn Talbot mutters to himself confusedly that he has to complete his programmed mission.[40][74]
Talbot goes to disable security feeds, thus allowing him to roam the Lighthouse without hindrance. Alphonso Mackenzie catches him and questions what he is doing, but Talbot explains that he is simply confused from his 6 months imprisoned by Hale, and Mackenzie shows him sympathy, letting him go.[40][74]
Capture of Trish Walker: Jones waits in Sallinger's apartment for Walker to arrive, while Sallinger continues to taunt her by threatening to reveal Walker's identity to the world as the masked vigilante. Jones looks at the photo Sallinger sent her previously of Walker's attack and works out where his camera must be hidden in the apartment. Walker begins to stake out the Sallinger apartment, and watches as Jones throws Sallinger against a wall and break his worm farm, intended to look like an attack on Sallinger to keep Walker at bay. Meanwhile, Jones finds the security camera in the dirt and breaks it. Ducasse and Gelden stun Walker with a Taser, then going to take her back to her apartment. Ducasse texts Jones that it is done, and she leaves Sallinger to join them.[35][71]
Scott Lang spends another weekend with his daughter, Cassie. Hope van Dyne joins them and the trio get into one of Hank Pym's shrinking cars, shrinking it so they can use a laptop as if, relative to them, it were the size of a cinema screen. They watch Them!, and Cassie tells van Dyne she wants to be her father's partner, but explains that he wanted to work with her instead, which makes van Dyne smile. A moth flies onto the laptop screen and Scott turns on the car headlights to scare it away, but instead accidentally attracts it to the vehicle, causing the moth to bother them as they laugh together.[49][39]
Ruby Hale continues to threaten Jemma Simmons' life to motivate Leo Fitz, having spent several hours working on fixing the Particle Infusion Chamber, but not yet sorted the problem. Fitz is stressed, worried for Simmons and yet wanting to stall the chamber's completion. He requests that Hale let Simmons go, stating that he needs her help. Releasing Simmons, Hale admires their relationship, and Fitz responds to remind her that everyone she loves will die if they go ahead with making her the Destroyer of Worlds. Hale shows little care for this, remarking that there are not many people left who she cares about. Werner von Strucker returns to the room, having found Anton Ivanov's dead body, which gives Fitz and Simmons some hope that Yo-Yo Rodriguez escaped. They tell Hale that the remainder of the process will take some time, but Hale simply threatens that if they do not hurry, she will begin to dismember them, like she did to Rodriguez.[40][74]
Having stumbled through the night in agony from her uncalibrated prosthetic arms, Rodriguez finally reaches the Quinjet as morning arrives in Herefordshire. She stumbles on board for protection from the Sleeper Mechs hunting her.[40][74]
Phil Coulson tries to talk to Melinda May about her confession of love for him the day before, but she rejects the conversation, walking away.[40][74]
Daisy Johnson tells the agents the plan to fly to General Hale's base in the Appalachian Mountains. Coulson praises her leadership in his absence.[40][74]
Candice Lee informs General Hale that Ivanov is dead. When Hale asks if Carl Creel's state has improved, Lee informs her that in actuality, Creel has worsened significantly.[40][74]
With morning arriving at the Appalachian Mountain base, Hale goes to see Creel and finds him losing control, unable to deal with the arguing of Franklin Hall and Ian Quinn's consciousnesses within the gravitonium he absorbed. Creel goes so far as to use his abilities to turn his skin into cement then proceed to bang his head against the wall, hoping to rid himself of the voices.[40][74]
Coulson and Mackenzie talk with Deke Shaw. Mackenzie mentions that Shaw admitted his feelings for Johnson the night before when on painkillers. When Shaw denies these feelings, Coulson adds that Shaw has made it all-too-obvious, and they are all aware. Shaw asks for advice in showing his feelings, but both agents point out their current relationship issues. He then decides his best option is "lemons", confusing the agents. Seeing this, he explains how, in the future, people would leave lemons on the bed of the person they fancy to express their feelings. Asking if this is something people also did in 2018, the other two lie, saying it is, looking forward to seeing his actions.[40][74]
Talbot enters Robin Hinton's empty room, looking to examine her drawings for Hydra while under conditioning. He finds the drawings and begins to look through.[40][74]
Johnson and May enter a Containment Module as the Zephyr One passes over the Appalachian Mountains. They have Agent Thomas fire a missile down to the HYDRA Preparatory Academy as their Containment Module is jettisoned. Moments after the missile blows a hole in the base's ceiling, the Module lowers through the hole and into the building.[40][74]
As May and Johnson go to accost General Hale, they are surprised when Hale hands herself over. At first, they do not trust Hale's willingness, but Hale explains that she wants to go with them to save Ruby, scared that her daughter will make a reckless decision.[40][74]
Realizing he has to stop Polly Hinton from reporting his intrusion, Talbot panics and attacks her. He chokes Polly until she passes out, and tells Robin to come with him. Robin replies that she already saw this was going to happen.[40][74]
Trish Walker wakes up in her apartment chained to a support beam. Malcolm Ducasse tells her that they have ensured she cannot reach anything. Walker tries to defend her recent murderous actions, but Ducasse asks if she misses the person she used to be.[35][71]
Johnson, May, and General Hale land in Herefordshire, England, to apprehend Ruby Hale and Werner von Strucker. General Hale asks Johnson to refrain from attacking her daughter if at all possible, and Johnson agrees. Despite this, Johnson takes the opportunity to criticize Hale's parenting, blaming her for the way Ruby turned out.[40][74]
Von Strucker tells Ruby Hale that a S.H.I.E.L.D. plane has just landed nearby. Hale goes to start dismembering Fitz and Simmons to hurry their final modifications, but Fitz quickly tells her that they have finished the machine, and she need not attack them. While they claim they have no way of transferring the gravitonium into the machine, von Strucker uses a tube and tap to move it over into the chamber.[40][74]
Deke Shaw goes to talk to Alphonso Mackenzie and Phil Coulson as they monitor the security feeds. As he arrives, they notice the security feed of the Hintons' room has been paused. Reactivating it, they see that the Hintons' door has been left open.[40][74]
Arriving at the Hintons' room, they find Polly Hinton on the floor. Coulson goes over to her and checks her breathing, finding that she is only unconscious. Mackenzie recalls his encounter with Glenn Talbot at the security feeds several hours prior, and realizes that Talbot must have paused the feed to allow him to go after Robin. Coulson also comes to the realization that this makes sense, with General Hale having had plenty of time during her 6 months with Talbot in her custody to have conditioned him.[40][74]
With S.H.I.E.L.D. moments away from stopping her, Ruby Hale hurries to enter the Particle Infusion Chamber and become the Destroyer of Worlds. She kisses von Strucker, the chamber closes, and the gravitonium-infusion begins. While happy at first, as the process continues, she begins to scream.[40][74]
S.H.I.E.L.D. and General Hale, now inside the Hydra Herefordshire Facility, hear Ruby's screams, and Hale runs to get to her daughter before it is too late. She orders Leo Fitz to shut down the machine, and von Strucker lowers his gun, allowing Fitz to do so. The process is stopped at only 8% infusion, and the chamber opens. Ruby leaves the machine floating from the gravitonium in her body.[40][74]
Ruby Hale struggles to deal with the voices in her head from the gravitonium. Werner von Strucker crouches to comfort her, but without control over her powers, Hale accidentally uses the gravitonium to crush his skull, killing him. On seeing what she has done, she begins to further lose control.[40][74]
Coulson and Mackenzie find Talbot at the Lighthouse's hangar door, with Robin Hinton by his side. They confront him, and Talbot becomes confused, trying to distinguish between his actual thoughts and conditioning. Deciding he is unsafe, he holds his gun to his head, considering killing himself and ending the threat he poses.[40][74]
Ruby Hale continues to struggle with the voices, but Daisy Johnson begins to talk to her. She is kind and encouraging, trying to tell Hale that it is alright to not be comfortable with her powers yet.[40][74]
Melinda May arrives at the building as Yo-Yo Rodriguez also returns from the Quinjet. When Rodriguez sees May and hears the screams, she asks what is happening, but May simply replies that Johnson is handling the situation.[40][74]
Talbot tells Mackenzie and Coulson that he cannot trust his thoughts. While he holds the gun to his head, Mackenzie ushers Robin Hinton away from Talbot and to safety. Coulson resorts to using Talbot's trigger words to attempt to control him. Talbot manages to resist, so Coulson changes the orders to be more in line with Hydra's motivations; he asks Talbot to turn the gun on him. As he does so, Mackenzie returns with an I.C.E.R. to quickly incapacitate Talbot, ending the risk.[40][74]
Ruby Hale begins to user her powers to crush Daisy Johnson. As she struggles to breathe, General Hale gets involved. Ruby tells her mother that she has always felt inadequate, and that she made her feel like she was a disappointment. General Hale is saddened to hear this, telling her daughter that all she ever wanted was for Ruby to meet her full potential.[40][74]
Just as Ruby Hale is beginning to calm down, Elena Rodriguez enters the room. She exclaims as she recognizes Hale as the person who sliced off her arms, and hearing this, Hale slips back into a distressed, frenzied, and dangerous state.[40][74]
Seeing the potential outcome of Ruby Hale losing control and becoming the Destroyer of Worlds, Rodriguez makes a quick decision. Using her super-speed, she runs and steals Ruby's Chakram, using them to then slice the teenager's throat and kill her. Returning to her position, everyone is left in shock as Ruby suddenly falls, her neck bleeding as she dies quickly.[40][74]
Ruby Hale's dead body begins to rise into the air as the gravitonium inside tries to escape its host. The substance is then expelled from her in a burst of energy that knocks everyone in the vicinity to the ground.[40][74]
Simmons, Fitz, and May arrive as Johnson and Rodriguez get back up. They find that in the aftermath of the blast, General Hale managed to escape. When Simmons asks what happened to Ruby, Johnson angrily says that she had the situation under control before Rodriguez killed her, but Rodriguez claims her actions have just saved the world.[40][74]
Erik Gelden meets Jessica Jones in the bar where they met. They reflect on their first meeting, and Gelden tries to assure Jones that Walker will become a good person again in the future.[35][71]
Jones returns to the Alias Investigations Office and gets a drink, then begins working. She realizes that her bourbon was drugged, and passes out as Gregory Sallinger enters her office.[35][71]
Jones wakes up duct taped to a chair, partially paralyzed, and with Sallinger having set up his camera. He starts taking pictures of Jones and tells her that he suspects she secretly wants to be a hero. He taunts her about the death of her family, and says that she will never be a hero.[35][71]
Trish Walker exercises as Malcolm Ducasse watches. He gives her a bottle of water, and Walker asks him to let her go, but he refuses. Ducasse talks about having cheated on Zaya Okonjo and lying to her about it, asking Walker whether he would deserve to die for it. Walker says he does not, and Ducasse points out that others might disagree, and how subjective that decision is. She opens up about having lied about being abused once so that her father would get arrested and stop abusing her mother, explaining that the ends justify the means.[35][71]
Sallinger prints out a picture of Jones, and Jones talks about Dorothy Walker having been a truthful person. She accuses Sallinger of being a fraud himself, causing him to yell about why he killed Walker. Jones smiles and reveals that she and Gelden have videotaped this confession. She then breaks free and knocks Sallinger to the ground, holding him down while Gelden enters and confirms that everything was recorded.[35][71]
With the group gone, the "Amy Minoru" disguise is let go, as Quinton the Great, the person who had accompanied them all along, returns to his normal form.[7][8][9]
22nd[]
General Hale uses the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device to visit Qovas. She tells him that S.H.I.E.L.D. still have the gravitonium he wants, but that she can tell him where they are hiding. He asks if she wants them to be killed, and, mourning for Ruby, she says that she now has no reason to stop him.[40][74]
Eddy Costa plays with his daughter and receives a phone call from Jessica Jones, telling him that she has a recorded confession from Gregory Sallinger to the murder of Dorothy Walker, along with evidence of the attack on herself. Jones and Erik Gelden steal a knife and server from Sallinger's apartment and bring it to Walker's apartment to plant further evidence.[35][71]
Costa leads a team of officers into Jones' apartment, where Sallinger wakes up as he is arrested. Costa reminds the officers to read Sallinger his rights.[35][71]
Trish Walker, still tied to a support beam in her apartment, is woken by a car horn. Malcolm Ducasse asks if she has been able to sleep peacefully despite her crimes, and she says that she sleeps, yet sees her victims. She explains that her killings were things she feels she had to do. Jones arrives and tells Walker and Ducasse that Sallinger got arrested. She breaks Walker's chain, and Walker hugs her.[35][71]
Walker returns to work on her TV show, where Grace Bennett comments on her emotional strength. She comments about her frustration with Sallinger only being arrested, muttering that he will probably use the system to his advantage.[35][71]
23rd[]
Jessica Jones tells Erik Gelden that she is leaving to witness Gregory Sallinger being taken to jail, and Gelden congratulates Jones for successfully defeating him. Jones receives a phone call from Sallinger, taunting her and asking whether she will be willing to sacrifice Trish Walker once she kills again, which he believes is a certainty.[35][71]
As the police officers lead Gregory Sallinger to an elevator to take him from the New York State Supreme Court Building, Sallinger hears loud thudding in the pipes resembling human steps. As they arrive at the elevator, they hear another loud thud from the elevator shaft. Sallinger is scared and once the doors open, Trish Walker emerges and incapacitates the police officers. Sallinger grabs one of the guns from the officers and attempts to shoot at Walker, but Walker knocks him down and breaks the gun. Walker goes to drag Sallinger back to the elevator, being rough with him.[35][71]
Meanwhile, an officer briefs Jeri Hogarth about not being allowed to make physical contact with Sallinger when he steps out.[35][71]
Sallinger taunts Walker for not being a hero, and one of the officers' feet is caught in the elevator, preventing the doors from closing. Sallinger temporarily holds Walker down with a choke lock, but Walker uses her parkour to get out and incapacitates Sallinger, restarting the elevator again.[35][71]
Hogarth continues to wait impatiently, so the officer tells her about the history of the courthouse, making her more impatient.[35][71]
Walker stops the elevator halfway up and punches Sallinger for each time he stabbed her mother. She questions Sallinger, asking what he needed to see in her mother's torture pictures. Sallinger responds with wanting to see her truth, and that he has seen Trish's true self, he states that Jessica Jones will see as well. Enraged, Walker furiously stomps on Sallinger's face, killing him.[35][71]
Jones arrives at the courthouse and sees Eddy Costa. The elevator opens and reveals Sallinger's corpse to Hogarth, causing her to scream. Jones and Costa rush over to the source of the noise and find Sallinger dead. Jones looks at the scene in misery as she immediately knows who could have done this.[35][71]
Groot is now approaching the maturity and attitude of a human teenager, as he continues to grow up.[77][40][78]
Quill enters Groot's room in the Benatar and complains that he needs to tidy up after himself and stop wasting his time playing video games. Groot rudely tells him to go away, and Quill takes a moment to feel sorry for Yondu Udonta, who diedalmost 4 years earlier, realizing what Yondu had to put up with when raising him.[40][77][78]
Jessica Jones leaves the courthouse, tired and disoriented, and laments to herself about how she is supposed to fix everything and just wants the conflict to be over. Jeri Hogarth approaches Jones and asks her to tell Trish Walker she will not reveal Walker's identity, and that she is not like Gregory Sallinger. Eddy Costa sends Hogarth to take a statement and tells Jones to do something about the killer.[35][37]
Jones arrives at her apartment and is pleasantly surprised to find Luke Cage standing outside her office. He comments about Jones' recent appearances in the news, as well as Trish Walker. Jones invites him inside and says that by doing the right thing, she would be hurting someone she cares about. Cage talks about the time he had to fight his brother, Willis Stryker and his arrest and ultimate sentencing to the Raft, which Cage says was the right choice to do, but a choice that will stay and follow him. He talks about people thinking he might go too far in his career as a crime boss, and that he trusts Jones to make the right decision to stop him if need be, so he also trusts her regarding Walker. Cage leaves and Jones starts to track Walker's phone, finding her to be at her apartment.[35][37]
The Runaways plan to get breakfast at a restaurant, and Minoru plans to stay behind. Hernandez announces her intention to help find Leslie Dean to keep her promise to Xavin that she would protect her.[7][79]
Hernandez, Stein, Karolina Dean, and Gert Yorkes wait in line to buy breakfast at Fred 62. They are approached by Max, who connects with Yorkes and offers them a free Corvus phone. He explains Wizard Computers's goal to give disadvantaged people power via the Corvus phones, by handing out phones to everybody.[7][79]
After they eat breakfast, the Runaways consider what to do in the future, with not all of them wanting to continue living in the Hostel. Yorkes plans on starting a new life. Outside, Max accidentally breaks Gil's phone, leading to a confrontation between the two. Gil pushes Max against a telephone pole, and he apologizes. Gil threatens Max with a corkscrew, but Hernandez stops him, prompting him to run off. Yorkes asks if Max is okay, and Stein wonders about Gil's overreaction.[7][79]
Dale Yorkes reports to a recorder on his 189th day of living off the grid, talking about having been forced to leave the Yorkes Cabin, developing a rash after eating what he thought were mushrooms, and his experience with raccoons. He insists he is proving himself self-sufficient in his tent at the Church of Gibborim center.[7][79]
Karolina Dean and Hernandez arrive at the Church of Gibborim, and discuss the church's apparent recent increase in power. Vaughn Kaye tells them about the progress the church has made. They reunite with Leslie, and she confirms that her daughter made it to Xarta. Leslie tries to convince Karolina that the church is doing good.[7][79]
Yorkes and Max talk about the medical treatment he has received from the ambulance, and the events in which Hernandez saved her. The two briefly flirt, and Max encourages her to follow her own goals.[7][79]
Nico and Tina Minoru discuss Robert Minoru's disappearance since they returned to Earth. Nico tries to convince Tina to try to explain to Robert why she was gone, but she does not think it possible. Tina wants to go to work, but Nico asks for help saving Alex Wilder. Tina refuses, so Nico threatens to ask Morgan le Fay for help. Nico receives a text from an unknown number, sent by Robert, which says: "Nico, It's Dad. I'm staying at the Essex Tower Hotel. Please come meet me. We have a lot to talk about."[7][79]
Kaye gives Hernandez a tour of the new Church of Gibborim site, including the youth group, which bans cell phones. Hernandez gives Kaye her Corvus phone so that she can talk to a youth group member named Bodhi.[7][79]
Nico Minoru arrives at the hotel and notices Robert's surprising full recovery. Le Fay freezes everybody around her and Nico and makes them disappear, approaching Nico. She threatens Wilder, and talks about her new relationship with Robert, alluding to the damage Nico caused to him during the fight months earlier. Le Fay threatens Tina as well, before undoing the spell, returning the world to normal, with Robert then introducing le Fay to Nico. They sit down to eat, and Robert explains that le Fay is now in charge of Wizard Computers, having saved it from financial ruin after the Marine Vivarium Desalination Plant was destroyed and Tina was blamed.[7][79]
Yorkes and Stein walk through town, and Stein talks to Yorkes, who cannot hear him because she is too distracted by her phone. Stein believes that the phones are evil, which Yorkes texts to Max, with the two believing Stein is crazy. Stein stops Yorkes from getting run over by a car, causing Yorkes to drop and crack her phone. The crack causes Yorkes to get angry with Stein, who says he can fix it.[7][79]
Victor Stein and Stacey Yorkes attend a therapy group for people who claim to have been abducted by aliens. Although Stein initially did not want to go, Yorkes continues to convince him that it is okay to be there. They find, however, that all of the stories being told involve anal probing. Stein tells his story about the Magistrate and how it felt to be controlled by the Gibborim. However, nobody takes him seriously, and he gets scolded because it is assumed that Stein is mocking the group.[7][79]
After the meeting, Stein invites Yorkes to consult on a project he is working on.[7][79]
Hernandez continues to spend time with Bodhi, and they start to dance. Kaye approaches the area and attempts to use Generation Z terms to seem cool, but fails. A young member of the church talks about "Dale the Fail" making brie, asking Kaye to get rid of him, and Hernandez realizes that she is talking about Dale Yorkes.[7][79]
Hernandez goes into Yorkes' tent, and they reunite and talk about his progress. Yorkes promises to stay out of Hernandez's way. They talk about Hernandez's parents, and Yorkes offers her a hug. He accidentally reveals that Leslie Dean did something to her parents.[7][79]
Jones goes to Trish Walker's apartment and asks her how she feels. Walker tells her that Gregory Sallinger's death was necessary, to Jones’ defiance and argues that he was about to be locked up in jail for life. Walker ignores this and prepares to go to work, but Jones continues the argument and asks Walker to turn herself in, fearing who else Walker might kill if she remains free. Jones and Walker argue until Erik Gelden enters and shows Walker that she gives him severe headaches, but Walker tries to defend herself. Walker leaves, claiming to want to clean herself up, and Gelden leaves to deal with his headache. However, Walker flees, and Jones finds her gone.[35][37]
Walker attempts to compose an email to Jones, wanting to prove to her that her murderous actions are right, but gives up. She looks through her emails and finds the address given to her by Jeri Hogarth for Demetri Patseras.[35][37]
Kith Lyonne visits Hogarth, wanting to check in after seeing her on the news. Lyonne confuses Hogarth's shaking for fear, so Hogarth tells her the truth about her ALS. Lyonne offers to help, but Hogarth suddenly receives a phone call from Walker, asking if Patseras is a bad person worth her time. Hogarth describes him as a monster.[35][37]
Chase Stein tries to fix Gert Yorkes' phone, and finds a crow feather inside. He takes the feather out, and this causes the phone to disintegrate. Yorkes gets angry about it, and the argument is interrupted by Nico Minoru, who realizes that le Fay is connected to the Corvus phones. Dean tries to convince Minoru not to ask le Fay for help saving Wilder.[7][79]
Minoru uses the feather to case a spell and see Wilder in the Dark Dimension, and he calls out to her for help. Dean notices Minoru starting to be consumed by darkness, so she knocks over the feather, causing them to lose the connection.[7][79]
Morgan le Fay visits Tamar, who is with Geoffrey Wilder and Xerxes Davis. Le Fay expresses pleasure that Wilder is happy living with Nana B and Tamar. She tells Wilder and Tamar that Corvus' base of operations will be opening in Compton.[7][79]
Stein approaches Yorkes about destroying her new phone, causing Yorkes to threaten to have Old Lace kill him. This makes her to realize something is wrong, so she turns off the phone. The group plans to go to the Wizard Computers party that night and leave the phones in the Hostel.[7][79]
At the Essex Tower Hotel on the night of the 23rd local time, Morgan le Fay and Robert Minoru hold a party announcing a new deal with Wizard. Yorkes and Stein go to talk to Max, while Nico Minoru tries to find le Fay, leaving Dean alone.[7][79]
Max offers Stein and Yorkes a veggie taco, but both turn them down. Stein asks about the purpose of the party, which Max is not sure about. However, he says he does know that the Corvus phones will be going worldwide any day now.[7][79]
Robert Minoru and le Fay talk about the Corvus phones. Minoru names le Fay the new CEO of Wizard. Meanwhile, Hernandez returns to the Hostel, sadly realizing that the rest of the Runaways went out without her. Yorkes' Corvus phone starts calling to her. She picks up the phone and becomes enchanted by it.[7][79]
Tina Minoru confronts Robert and le Fay, threatening le Fay. Nico encourages Tina to stop, but Tina ignores her. Le Fay reveals that her Coven is protecting her from Tina's magic, so Tina slaps her in the face, which causes security to take her away. While getting dragged away, Tina tells Nico not to let le Fay get the Staff of One.[7][79]
Yorkes asks Stein to take a break from being romantically involved, and Stein reluctantly agrees. Max returns with veggie tacos, and Yorkes leads him away.[7][79]
Nico Minoru finds Geoffrey Wilder and Tamar, and Tamar leaves to get champagne for herself and Geoffrey. Geoffrey talks to Minoru about his new project with Wizard and Alex's absence at Catherine's funeral. Geoffrey asks about his son, and Minoru tells him that Alex left the Runaways, promising to get him back.[7][79]
Dean discovers le Fay's Coven dancing in a room separate from the party. Le Fay catches her, and refers to Nico Minoru as belonging to her now.[7][79]
Max and Yorkes talk about Yorkes' relationship with Stein. Yorkes asks Max about the phone making people violent and the feather they found, but Max does not know anything. Yorkes leaves to find her friends.[7][79]
Max is approached by a member of le Fay's Coven, Bronwyn, who tells him their employees are protected from the phones by magic, then erases his memory.[7][79]
Dean tries to warn Minoru about the Coven, but she does not believe her. Minoru storms off to join le Fay.[7][79]
Minoru joins the Coven, undergoing a ceremony that involves le Fay reading from the Darkhold.[7][79]
Dean, Yorkes, and Stein return to the Hostel, and hear the Corvus phone playing. They find Hernandez, who is standing with the phone floating several feet away from her, being brainwashed.[7][79]
They try to take the phone, but Hernandez threatens them. Stein reaches towards the phone, and Hernandez throws him out of the room. Dean tries to knock the phone out of her hand using her powers, but Hernandez dodges the blast and uses a bed to blockade the door. Dean manages to break the phone and Hernandez is freed from the spell, without memory of what happened.[7][80]
In the morning, Nico Minoru wakes up among Morgan le Fay's Coven without memory of the previous night. Robert arrives and brings her to le Fay, who is waiting for her. Robert reveals that Tina has been committed to a psych ward, prompting anger from Nico.[7][80]
Nico Minoru and le Fay talk about Minoru's potential and the changing world. Minoru insists upon rescuing Alex Wilder from the Dark Dimension, and le Fay says she will help in return for the Staff of One.[7][80]
The Runaways look at the destroyed Corvus phone and plan to use the phone system to get the message out about the phones' dangers. Nico Minoru returns home, leading to an argument between her and Dean about Minoru's plan to work with le Fay.[7][80]
Yorkes tries to get into Wilder's computer, but accidentally deletes all of the computer's files. Dean enters and offers the Church of Gibborim Executive Office as a place to film.[7][80]
Malcolm Ducasse barges into Jones' apartment, saying that Walker has to be stopped. Jones says that she needs to work on it without the police so that Walker is not driven out of town. Ducasse asks why Walker has not already left town, and Jones tells him that Walker still needs to try and prove her wrong.[35][37]
Attack on Demetri Patseras: Walker attacks Patseras, and forces him to admit to beating his wife. Nora Patseras runs out, revealing that she had called 911. Demetri begs Walker not to hurt Nora, and Walker leaves, stunned, saying that she would not.[35][37]
Nico Minoru tries to visit her mother at the Veritas Gardens Psychiatric Hospital, but Nicole turns her away. However, Nico notices Nicole's Coven tattoo, and tells her that le Fay would be disappointed if Nico could not see her mother, so Nicole takes her to Tina.[7][80]
Nico asks for a minute alone and locks the door behind Nicole. Tina wakes up and Nico helps break her out.[7][80]
The Runaways ask Leslie Dean to use the computer in the Church of Gibborim Executive Office in order to make their broadcast. Janet Stein records the broadcast and archives it as they stream it.[7][80]
Le Fay watches as the Runaways perform a live broadcast about the Corvus phones and the problems they are causing, warning people not to use them. She uses magic to delete the broadcast off of the entire Internet and tells Bronwyn and Cassandra to deal with the Runaways.[7][80]
Geoffrey Wilder arrives and talks to le Fay about his son being missing. She offers to bring him back if Wilder wears a necklace she gives him.[7][80]
Karolina Dean thanks her mother for letting them use her office, and Stein notices that le Fay deleted the broadcast. They try to live stream again, but find the camera now magically cannot see them.[7][80]
Robert Minoru catches Tina, who breaks the necklace that was enchanting him. He realizes what has happened to him, and the two kiss.[7][80]
Hernandez leaves the church building angrily and confronts Leslie Dean about the fact that she killed her parents, which she has surmised. Dean confesses and Hernandez threatens her, but Dean manages to convince her not to hurt her.[7][80]
Janet Stein plays the Runaways' broadcast for Stacey Yorkes and Victor and tells them that it no longer has a digital footprint. She tells them that violent crime has increased in the areas where the phones were distributed. Victor plans to give a virus to the Corvus phones to stop them from controlling people.[7][80]
Vaughn Kaye talks to Bodhi, who asks about Molly Hernandez's whereabouts. When he finds her, Bodhi offers to take Hernandez somewhere they can talk.[7][80]
Nico Minoru continues to keep watch, and notices le Fay heading towards her parents, so she texts Tina, who warns Robert. Robert has Tina leave, saying he will pretend to still be enchanted in order to get the Darkhold.[7][80]
Tina Minoru tells Nico that Robert needs more time, so Nico runs to le Fay and demands to be shown Alex Wilder is safe in return for bringing her the Staff of One.[7][80]
Geoffrey Wilder encounters Victor Stein and Stacey Yorkes, who ask him for help with unmonitored access to Corvus' mainframe for 10 minutes. However, Wilder leads them to an empty room and locks them in.[7][80]
Bodhi and Hernandez go to tent in the Church of Gibborim. Hernandez confides in him about when she almost hurt the Runaways and her attempt to kill Leslie Dean. She reveals her strength to him, and he reacts positively.[7][80]
Le Fay shows Nico Minoru an image of Alex Wilder being tortured in the Dark Dimension, which causes Nico to agree to bring the Staff of One. Robert overhears as he hides.[7][80]
Robert Minoru continues to search for the Darkhold, and finds a secret room. He finds the book, but le Fay senses it. She leaves Nico to go to Robert and realizes that the enchantment was broken. She removes the enchantment on him that had healed him and leaves him to die.[7][80]
Bodhi promises to keep Hernandez's super strength a secret, and flirts with her. He tells her about a surprise he has planned, and Cassandra and Bronwyn approach him. He tells them that Hernandez is inside, then Dean, Stein, and the Yorkeses arrive. Dean recognizes Cassandra and Bronwyn, who use magic to knock out all four of them with Bodhi's help.[7][80]
Nico and Tina Minoru find Robert, who gives Nico his glasses, and then dies.[7][80]
Nico returns to the Hostel, which is empty. She performs a Wiccan funeral for her father, and picks up his glasses, then places them back down, revealing a video taken by her father of a page from the Darkhold using a camera in the glasses.[7][80]
Gert, Dale, and Stacey Yorkes, Victor and Chase Stein, and Karolina Dean are tied to chairs by Cassandra and Bronwyn. Stacey tells Dale that she is no longer possessed, and confesses that the Magistrate and his wife slept together while possessing her and Victor's bodies. Dean tries to use her powers to escape, but cannot.[7][80]
Nico Minoru wanders through the Hostel and tries to cast a spell to go to the Dark Dimension. A cloud of darkness suddenly appears behind her and Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson step through, having teleported. The couple ask who she is and what she has done, since Johnson sensed Minoru trying to cast the spell.[7][80]
Minoru assumes they work for le Fay and demands they leave. Bowen and Minoru argue, and Johnson explains that he felt a disturbance caused by Minoru. She describes the Dark Dimension, and Johnson recognizes it as being the home of the Loa he and Bowen visited before, so Minoru asks how to get there.[7][83]
The Yorkeses, the Steins, and Dean try to form a plan to escape. Stein tips his chair over to move over to Gert and unties her ropes. They are stopped by Geoffrey Wilder, Cassandra, Bronwyn, and two other security guards.[7][83]
Minoru tells Bowen and Johnson about her attempt to get to the Dark Dimension, prompting initial ridicule from them. However, Johnson convinces Bowen that they should help. Janet Stein appears on Alex Wilder's computer and warns Minoru about the kidnapping of her friends.[7][83]
Geoffrey Wilder demands that Gert Yorkes sit back down. Dale and Stacey try to reason with him, but Wilder threatens them. Minoru, Johnson, and Bowen suddenly appear in the room, having used Johnson's teleportation powers. Minoru undoes the spell blocking Dean's powers, leading to a fight. Johnson teleports Victor Stein and Dale and Stacey Yorkes to safety at the Hollywood sign. Dale asks to be untied, but Johnson teleports away to return to the fight.[7][83]
The group starts looking for Quinton the Great, but find his stage in ruins, and a sword box covered in blood, but Quinton is not inside of it.[7][83]
The group leave the Hostel together, this time without being separated. They see Los Angeles on fire and find the prison Wilder is in, from a distance, resolving to retrieve him.[7][83]
25th[]
Dark Dimension[]
Alex Wilder talks to an illusion of Catherine, who encourages him not to kill anyone, despite the fact that the Darius Davis illusion keeps telling him to.[7][83]
Alex Wilder gets thrown back into his jail cell, having refused to kill the person Davis wanted him to. He talks more to Catherine, and Davis mentions the Runaways' arrival, threatening them.[7][83]
Quinton the Great saves the group from AWOL's men, and tells them that le Fay is pulling at the fabric between worlds, and that if she gets the Staff of One, the Dark Dimension will consume Earth, with everybody not on board with the plan being tortured in prison. Quinton is hesitant to help, but eventually agrees to take them to the prison. They travel by shadow to get there.[7][83]
With Quinton's help, the Runaways, Bowen, and Johnson run into the prison. Once they are in, Quinton is killed for helping them.[7][83]
The group walk and talk. Yorkes hears Molly Hernandez call for help and follows the voice. She is attacked by an illusion of a young Hernandez, but Tyrone Johnson saves her and Stein by teleporting them to the top floor of the prison's Tower B.[7][83]
The trio start walking towards Alex Wilder's location, in Tower A.[7][83]
Minoru argues with Bowen about whether to look for Johnson, Stein, and Yorkes. Minoru tries to keep walking, but Bowen uses her powers to see Minoru's hopes, watching her get married to Dean. This prompts anger from Minoru.[7][83]
Yorkes and Stein talk about Yorkes' intentions about going to college. Johnson notices AWOL putting out a search for the Runaways. This prompts a panic attack from Yorkes, during which she touches Johnson's arm, causing them both to see her fear, which is Stein, Hernandez, and Old Lace getting killed by Morgan le Fay while Yorkes begs to take their place. Yorkes lets go of Johnson and they hear AWOL coming. He chases them into a room which full of his men, and Johnson gets grabbed, teleporting away.[7][83]
Through a window from the other tower, Minoru notices Yorkes and Stein surrounded, so she helps Dean and Bowen run across a bridge she conjures. A reanimated Quinton the Great walks into the room and rips a street sign out of his chest, then threatens the Runaways. Bowen tries to use her light daggers, but they do not work. Johnson returns, and Quinton suddenly disappears.[7][83]
The Darius Davis illusion makes Alex Wilder watch his friends fight the teleporting Quinton on security cameras.[7][83]
As they fight, Stein and Johnson start losing their memories to the Dark Dimension.[7][83]
Wilder threatens "Davis", who continues encouraging him to kill. Wilder continues to refuse, but is told it will save his friends, as Quinton meanwhile grabs Dean. "Davis" gives Wilder a knife, and he returns to his jail cell and reluctantly kills the illusion of his mother.[7][83]
In their fight with Quinton, Minoru asks Bowen for a light dagger. She grabs it and turns into a darkness dagger, using it to kill Quinton.[7][83]
"Davis" congratulates Wilder on his choice, and Wilder gets set free. The illusions of AWOL's men fighting the group dissipate and the door unlocks to let them back out, as a reward for Wilder's decision.[7][83]
Wilder reunites with the rest of the group, and Johnson teleports them out of the Dark Dimension. When Bowen holds Wilder's hand in order to all escape together, she see his apparent hopes: Wilder has access to all of the other Runaways' abilities, using the Staff of One, Fistigons, Old Lace, super strength, X-Ray Specs, and Gibborim powers all at once.[7][83]
Real World[]
Tandy Bowen tries to convince the Runaways of what she saw in Alex Wilder's hopes, but the rest of the group defends Wilder, who says that she probably saw a different Dark Dimension version of his hopes. Yorkes finds out they were only gone for 8 hours this time.[7][83]
Bowen and Tyrone Johnson bid farewell, and leave to make sure Morgan le Fay's Dark Dimension magic has not escaped to places other than Los Angeles, expressing their hope that the Runaways will come and help them in return one day.[7][83]
Gert Yorkes looks for Hernandez after hearing a creaking sound from the window. Instead, she finds Old Lace and asks her where Hernandez is.[7][84]
The rest of the Runaways continue to look, and Yorkes tells them that Hernandez does not appear to have been there. They ask Wilder for help, but are sympathetic toward him and offer him a break. Hernandez calls the Runaways via video chat. She tells them she got away, but that she will come back during daylight.[7][84]
Hernandez hangs up, and her face returns to blankness as Cassandra and Bronwyn express their approval of her acting under their spell. Morgan le Fay walks in and prepares to sacrifice Hernandez later.[7][84]
Malcolm Ducasse shows Jones a report about Trish Walker's attack on Demetri Patseras. Ducasse tells Jones that Hogarth knows Patseras.[35][37]
Jones barges into Hogarth's office, with bodyguards paid by Hogarth to protect her from Walker. Jones scolds Hogarth for sending Walker after Patseras, but Hogarth defends herself for sending Walker to go after Patseras rather than her. Jones tells Hogarth that she will be forced to keep sending her criminal clients to Walker if she continues doing so. Jones, however, convinces Hogarth to serve as bait for a trap she is setting for Walker.[35][37]
Ducasse returns to his apartment, where Brianna Gelden tells him that she has ordered Thai food and goes to the bathroom, giving him money to pay for it. Zaya Okonjo visits to pick up the rest of her belongings, and Ducasse admits to her that he has to figure things out. However, Gelden returns and Okonjo sees her, upset by Ducasse's actions.[35][37]
Walker buys pizza and sees a news report, in which Hogarth announces that she knows the identity of the masked vigilante and will be revealing it. Walker storms out of the pizzeria, angry.[35][37]
Ambush at Jeri Hogarth's Apartment: Hogarth anxiously waits in her apartment. Kith Lyonne arrives to ask Hogarth if she sent Walker after Demetri Patseras, who is dropping the lawsuit against her. Hogarth struggles to explain, but to her surprise, Lyonne is not mad, and instead grateful that the case against her is over. They kiss, but Walker arrives and tries to attack Hogarth, but Jones arrives and pins her down. Jones tells Hogarth to call the police, but Walker rushes over to her and takes Lyonne hostage, to everyone's shock. Hogarth pulls a gun out and aims it at both Jones and Walker. Hogarth offers Walker a safe passage out of New York City in exchange for Lyonne's life. Walker agrees and while Jones tries to stop her, Hogarth shoots Jones in leg to stop her from catching them, leaving with Walker.[35][37]
Ducasse records a video of Jones, saying that the masked vigilante is a murderer who needs to be stopped, and reluctantly revealing Walker's identity to the world, in the hope she will be brought in.[35][37]
Hogarth makes arrangements for Walker to flee to Canada within 24 hours. Hogarth tries to convince her not to kill and return to her sister, but Walker says that Jones is unable to sacrifice everything, the way she is. Walker then gets notified about Jones' video posted on the New York Bulletin website.[35][37]
Ducasse and Jones monitor police scans and the Internet, looking for Walker. Erik Gelden arrives and offers Jones alcohol, which she refuses. He starts helping them.[35][37]
Geoffrey Wilder wakes up after being knocked out by Tandy Bowen. He walks out of his room, but hides when he notices the Coven with Hernandez, and overhears le Fay talk about preparations for the sacrifice. He takes off his pendant and leaves, asking Tamar to pick him up.[7][84]
During the night of the 25th local time, Alex Wilder looks at an obituary for his mother and examines the knife he killed her illusion with in the Dark Dimension.[7][84]
Karolina Dean and Nico Minoru talk about the dagger made from Bowen and Minoru's combined powers. Wilder suggests taking the offensive in the fight against le Fay. Minoru apologizes for initially leaving him behind.[7][84]
Yorkes talks to Chase Stein about her feelings for him, but Stein is distracted researching the college she wants to go to. Yorkes assumes he is watching porn, but Stein shows her and she kisses him.[7][84]
Geoffrey Wilder talks to Tamar about his actions since becoming enchanted by le Fay, and how he wants to help fight her. He meets with Leslie Dean, Tina Minoru, Victor Stein, Dale Yorkes, and Stacey Yorkes about stopping le Fay. They plan to do a good thing for the first time together, using Minoru's knowledge of magic and their newfound goodness to make a plan.[7][84]
The PRIDE members put the Center for Disease Control logo on a Church of Gibborim truck, and all of them except Dean leave disguised as members. They put the building where the sacrifice is planned to take place on lockdown, lying about an outbreak in the building. While the Yorkeses distract security, Stein, Minoru, and Wilder begin looking for Hernandez.[7][84]
Le Fay and her Coven start a spell at midnight local time, offering Hernandez as a sacrifice.[84][7]
Stein finds Hernandez's location, and Minoru encourages Wilder to wait until the incantation starts before rescue. Hernandez gets hit by magical lightning so Wilder rushes and gets her, while le Fay watches, unable to break her incantation. Minoru recognizes the spell the Coven is chanting, and she breaks Hernandez's daze.[84][7]
Le Fay tells her Coven that the spell was successful and that they will soon be able to conquer Earth. A portal starts to open in the sky, causing a storm.[84][7]
Hernandez returns to the Hostel with PRIDE, much to the Runaways' surprise. Hernandez explains that she was enchanted to lie while on video chat. Tina Minoru reveals that le Fay is planning on bringing the Dark Dimension to Earth.[84][7]
The two groups meet and make a plan to defeat le Fay. Alex Wilder and the Steins plan to work to hack local cell towers and shut down the Corvus phones, Nico Minoru plans on using her dagger to kill le Fay, and Tina Minoru plans on creating a special salt that can limit le Fay's powers.[84][7]
Stacey Yorkes helps Geoffrey Wilder, who had been bleeding profusely since PRIDE rescued Hernandez and Hernandez, under enchantment, had injured him. Alex enters and talks to Geoffrey, denying his father's help.[84][7]
Gert Yorkes and Hernandez talk about their new lives and Yorkes' plans to go to college, as well as the responsibility that comes with superpowers.[84][7]
Leslie and Karolina Dean talk about Nico Minoru's magic and the worry it causes Karolina. Dale Yorkes interrupts and asks about the Corvus phones' powers, and Karolina tells him that she could not hear the phones. Dale plans to use her genetics to create a serum that could make people immune to the Corvus phones.[84][7]
Tina Minoru prepares the enchanted salt, causing her to lose several years of her life in sacrifice. She and Nico plan on using Robert's video of the Darkhold pages in order to send Morgan le Fay back to the Dark Dimension.[84][7]
Morgan le Fay looks out at Los Angeles as a new shipment of Corvus phones gets delivered and handed out.[84][7]
The 2021 versions of Karolina Dean, Nico Minoru, and Molly Hernandez, along with the 2028 versions of Alex Wilder and Chase Stein, arrive in the Hostel from 2017.[7][85]
Le Fay's Coven performs a spell as she watches more and more people use the phones.[84][7][86]
The time-traveled Runaways overhear Dale and Stacey Yorkes talking about Dale trying to make a centrifuge out of Stein's protein shake blender to complete a device and inoculate everyone. The group argue about who is most likely to survive closing the salt circle in Yorkes' place. Wilder escapes from the group.[85][7]
Tina Minoru confesses to Nico that le Fay used to be her friend, and that she stole the Staff of One for herself once le Fay asked her to steal it.[84][7][86]
The 2028 Alex Wilder is spotted by Dale and Stacey Yorkes, who, assuming he is the Alex they know, offer to take him to see Geoffrey, but he refuses. 2028 Stein explains to the others that bringing Wilder was his only option, not having enough jumps stored to return him first. He sends Minoru and Dean upstairs, and instructs Hernandez to come with him.[85][7]
Tina Minoru prepares a spell to hold off the army, and 2018 Nico goes to warn the others.[84][7]
Geoffrey Wilder screams in pain, and Stacey Yorkes continues to treat him. Leslie Dean delivers a medical kit.[84][7][86]
While trying to find a good hiding place where they will be able to see Morgan le Fay's final position, 2021 Minoru and Dean overhear their younger selves as 2018 Nico Minoru stops 2018 Karolina Dean and talks to her about the disagreements they have been having. 2018 Karolina promises she will never give up on her, and they kiss. Leslie calls, asking for help treating Geoffrey Wilder, so she goes. 2021 Minoru leaves 2021 Dean.[85][7]
Gert Yorkes and 2018 Molly Hernandez watch Dale create the serum. He gives it to Hernandez, but Gert realizes that it could weaken her connection to Old Lace. She reluctantly locks up Old Lace for safety, and then takes the serum.[84][7][86]
On his way, 2018 Stein finds a box and opens it, only to find a Corvus phone inside and become accidentally enchanted by it.[84][7]
2021 Minoru talks to her 2018 self, who believes her to be a hallucination caused by le Fay. 2021 Minoru explains it is time travel, and tells her younger self that she does not have to leave after this, and that she should let Dean lead her to a better life. 2021 Minoru removes 2018 Minoru's memory of the conversation, but not the advice.[85][7]
The enchanted 2018 Stein walks down the stairs of the Hostel, and attacks Gert Yorkes, but 2018 Hernandez stops him and they inject him with the serum, breaking the spell.[84][7][86]
Morgan le Fay arrives at the Hostel through a portal and approaches the Runaways. 2018 Chase Stein and Karolina Dean try to attack her, but she blocks and demands to know where Nico Minoru is.[84][7][86]
2018 Minoru overhears le Fay's arrival and uses a transportation spell to get to her quickly.[85][7]
2018 Minoru appears and throws her dagger at le Fay, but it does not kill her, instead only giving her strength due to not being in the Dark Dimension.[85][7]
Le Fay tells the 2018 Runaways that she is too strong to kill, even using the Staff of One. She offers to spare the Runaways' lives in exchange for submission, but Minoru refuses. Le Fay tries to convince them that she can change the world for the better, and Wilder kneels, accepting defeat. All of the other Runaways kneel as Minoru watches.[84][7][86]
Dale Yorkes watches and tells Stacey, Geoffrey Wilder, and Leslie Dean that le Fay has won.[84][7]
Le Fay threatens 2018 Minoru, but Janet Stein finishes disrupting the phones. This weakens le Fay, and the Runaways stand up, telling her that their submission was merely an act. She attacks the Runaways, but Minoru magically protects them from le Fay's attack as they run for cover.[84][7][86]
2018 Minoru starts to become overwhelmed by le Fay's power, but 2018 Karolina Dean protects her using her powers to form a shield around her.[84] Meanwhile, the 2021 Hernandez and Dean want to intervene, but the 2028 Stein assures them they need to wait.[85][7][86]
Cassandra and Bronwyn arrive at the Hostel, and 2018 Stein incapacitates Cassandra with the Fistigons, but Bronwyn then magically incapacitates him,[84] as 2028 Stein watches. 2028 Stein goes to get the Fistigons from his younger self.[85][7][86]
Bronwyn walks into the room where Stacey and Dale Yorkes, Geoffrey Wilder, and Leslie Dean are, but 2018 Alex Wilder stabs her from behind with his knife, killing her.[84][7][86]
As 2018 Stein attempts to get up from the attack, 2028 Stein knocks him out and steals the Fistigons.[85][7]
2018 Nico Minoru continues to hold off le Fay with Dean's help.[84] Meanwhile, the 2021 Hernandez and Minoru notice 2028 Wilder approaching the fight, and Hernandez leaves to deal with him.[85][7][86]
2018 Hernandez exclaims to Gert Yorkes that they need to something. Yorkes asks Tina Minoru, who is continuing to hold back le Fay's army, for the salt. She is about to take it when 2028 Stein interrupts her. Yorkes recognizes his appearance as the same as in 2017. Stein tells her about the future that would occur if she takes the salt, taking it himself instead and asking her to stay behind.[85][7]
Le Fay overwhelms 2018 Karolina Dean and starts to torture her. 2018 Hernandez approaches her from behind, but she throws her out of the way.[85][7]
Le Fay refers to the Runaways as "pathetic children", prompting a speech from 2028 Stein as he enters the room, about how teenagers rebel when adults keep secrets and lie. He walks in a circle around le Fay, dropping the salt out of a canister mechanism attached to his shoes as he goes. Le Fay attacks 2028 Stein, but he is being shielded by a spell from 2021 Minoru upstairs, who 2028 Wilder points out in order to get them killed, causing 2021 Hernandez to knock him unconscious from behind.[85][7]
Le Fay attacks 2021 Minoru and Dean, incapacitating them. Gert Yorkes appears, declaring herself as Stein's partner, but le Fay throws her against a column. Distressed, Old Lace bangs at the locked door of the room she is being held in.[85][7]
Le Fay attacks Stein
Le Fay magically throws nearby shards of glass through the 2028 Stein, causing him to bleed all over and collapse. However, he closes the circle, trapping le Fay, and Tina Minoru arrives and banishes le Fay back to the Dark Dimension for good, causing the storm outside to end.[85][7]
Old Lace breaks out of her room and rouses Yorkes. 2028 Chase Stein collapses as he bleeds out. Yorkes rushes to hold him, and he gladly realizes he succeeded, but dies in her arms.[85][7]
Yorkes weeps, and the Runaways and PRIDE gather around Stein to mourn him. However, 2018 Stein excitedly joins the group, asking if they won. He notices the other version of himself, explaining he got knocked out by that version. 2021 Minoru, Dean, and Hernandez watch as 2028 Stein and Wilder suddenly disappear, and 2018 Minoru realizes that time travel would explain the two Wilders and Steins. 2021 Hernandez expresses her glee at saving Yorkes, and Dean and Minoru agree to find each other, wherever they end up. 2021 Minoru, Dean, and Hernandez disappear themselves.[85][7]
Karolina Dean is late to meeting the Runaways for breakfast, and Chase Stein makes fun of her for taking so long with her makeup routine. Dean says that she was merely being grateful, and they leave for breakfast. Wilder runs back to get his wallet, and finds a note which, unknown to him, was left behind by his 2028 self, saying to "Infiltrate Wilder Innovators", "hide Mancha", then "kill Nico". Wilder dismisses the note, and the Runaways leave the Hostel together, happy and safe together as a group.[85][7]
Jeri Hogarth takes Trish Walker to Alex Sokolov, who plans on taking Walker out of the country to Thailand. Sokolov shows Walker the coffin he wants to ship her in, and despite Hogarth's disgust, Walker agrees.[35][37]
Erik Gelden, Malcolm Ducasse, and Jessica Jones continue to search social media, but mostly find jokes and other useless comments. However, Ducasse finds a lead, and figures out that Walker and Hogarth are at an abandoned airport in Farmingdale. Jones leaves, refusing to allow Gelden to go since she wants to be alone with Walker.[35][37]
Trish Walker gets into the coffin, then Hogarth runs and calls Jones, who arrives at the airport. Hogarth tells her where Walker is, with Jones telling Hogarth to leave. Jones then interrogates Sokolov and throws him aside before searching for Walker. Walker, who hears Jones searching the other coffins outside, leaves her coffin and attempts to escape.[35][37]
Walker is cornered by Jones until she turns off the lights, using her heightened senses to gain an advantage against her adoptive sister in the dark. Jones confronts Walker about her actions, telling her to prove her right about how she will be next in Walker's list of victims. Jones throws her back into the open warehouse and tells Walker that she has become like her mother, forcing Walker to pull a knife on her. She loses control and goes to stab her, but Jones blocks it with her hand. The two former sisters look at each other sadly before Jones slams Walker down, knocking her unconscious.[35][37]
27th[]
Eddy Costa tells Trish Walker that she will not be getting due process, instead being sent to the Raft. He reads the charges filed against her, which causes Walker to realize that she has become a villain.[35][37]
Kith Lyonne goes to Jeri Hogarth's apartment and thanks Hogarth for saving her, and the two share a brief kiss. However, Lyonne pushes her away and says that her near murder experience showed her who Hogarth really is. She announces that she is leaving Hogarth behind, but Hogarth tries to convince her to stay, claiming that she needs her. Lyonne says she knows that she does not want to die alone, but will die alone regardless, and leaves Hogarth's apartment.[35][37]
Erik Gelden arrives at Jessica Jones' apartment, having brought chicken, first aid supplies, and a newspaper from the New York Bulletin with the front-page article titled “BONA FIDE HERO”, with Jones’ picture on the cover. Gelden offers to help and work with Jones, but Jones says she appreciates it, but feels she cannot trust him. Gelden says he plans to do something about that and leaves, and Jones gives him a smile as he goes.[35][37]
Jessica Jones packs her bags, planning to move away. She gives the keys to her apartment to Malcolm Ducasse, telling him not to screw up his new job.[35][37]
At the bar where he met Jones, Erik Gelden receives a free drink from Sharon because he looks miserable. Eddy Costa visits him and tells him that Jones said they could help each other. Gelden directs Costa to a bad person in the bar.[35][37]
Jones watches as Trish Walker is taken to a helicopter to be flown to the Raft. Walker gives her a sad look before being taken away.[35][37]
Jones goes to the train station and buys a ticket to El Paso, Texas so she can get to Mexico, but the purple ticket reminds her of Kilgrave. She hears his voice in her head again, congratulating her for giving up. In defiance of this, Jones turns around and genuinely smiles to herself at the acceptance of being a hero before finally deciding to stay in New York City and embrace her role.[35][37]
30th[]
Nakia discovers that she is pregnant with T'Challa's son. The two have a conversation and conclude that it is best if their son were raised away from Wakanda.[89][90]
As they travel with the remainder of the Asgardians in the Statesman, Loki tells Thor that he cannot help but wonder how he might be received when they return to Earth, considering the intentions of his visit in 2012. Thor, however, assures him everything is going to be fine. Unbeknown to them, a much larger ship has been following them: the Sanctuary II. The ship suddenly appears before the Asgardians', blocking its path.[40][91]
The Asgardians send a distress call as Thanos and the Black Order board the Statesman, breaking it apart with the help of the Power Stone. They go about slaughtering half of its passengers, allowing the other half to escape, in accordance with Thanos' ethos. Thor and Heimdall are defeated and left helpless on the ground.[40][76]
Thanos walks to Thor and picks him up by the head. He threatens Loki, telling him that if he does not hand over the Tesseract, containing the Space Stone, then he will use the Power Stone to brutally murder Thor. While Thor insists that the Tesseract was destroyed along with Asgard, Loki reveals the truth: that he stole it before awakening Surtur. As he breaks the illusion he is conjuring to hide it, he distracts Thanos for long enough that Hulk can attack him.[40][76]
At first taken by surprise, Thanos nonetheless gathers himself in the duel and begins to overpower the Hulk with targeted and skilful attacks. He beats Hulk down until he is unable to fight. Seeing that Banner is about to be killed, Heimdall uses the last of his strength to summon dark magic and channel the Bifrost to transport Hulk back to Earth. Noticing Heimdall because of this action, and feeling owed a life, Thanos impales Thor's best friend, killing him.[40][76]
Ebony Maw gives Thanos the Tesseract. The Titan takes the cube and breaks it in his hand, revealing the Infinity Stone it encased, then places the Stone into the Infinity Gauntlet. Loki steps out again, pretending to offer his services to Thanos in order to get close to him, then swiftly moves with a knife to attack the Titan. Thanos, however, uses the newly acquired powers of the Space Stone to immobilize Loki's arm, and proceeds to grab Loki by the neck. As the life is choked out of him, Loki spitefully tells Thanos that he will never be a god, but the strangling eventually kills Loki, and Thanos throws his body aside. He uses the Power Stone to set off a chain of explosions on the ship, then he and the Black Order use the Space Stone to teleport away. Thor is left cradling his dead brother's body as the ship collapses around him.[40][76]
Just as Doctor Strange and Wong are about to leave the New York Sanctum, Bruce Banner crashes through the ceiling. Worried that they might be under attack, Strange and Wong run to where Banner has landed, only to find him shocked and in fear. Banner simply warns them, "Thanos is coming."[40][76]
Pepper Potts and Tony Stark are out running in New York City and discuss their upcoming wedding. Stark tells Potts that he had a dream in which they had a child called Morgan, and wondered if it might be a sign that she is pregnant, but she denies this. They are suddenly interrupted when Doctor Strange opens a portal next to them and steps out to tell Stark that they need his help, and the universe is at stake. Stark is not sure whether to trust Strange until Bruce Banner steps out from behind the sorcerer, reuniting with his friend after 3 years in space. Stark is stunned, but agrees to go through the portal with them to the Sanctum.[40][76]
Stark is brought up-to-date as Wong, Strange, and Banner explain about the Infinity Stones and Thanos. The group realize they need to contact Vision, who has the Mind Stone embedded in his head, but Stark explains that he has been off-the-radar for a fortnight, and that the only way to find him might well be calling Steve Rogers. When Banner is confused by why this might be a problem, Stark explains what happened in 2016, when the Avengers were broken by the conflict between him and Rogers. However, Banner still insists that Stark should put the grudge aside considering the stakes at play, and Stark reluctantly gets out the burner flip-phone Rogers had left him.[40][76]
Wong, Strange, Banner, and Stark hear commotion the Black Order's arrival
At that moment, winds become stronger in the area and a commotion is heard from outside. The group leave the Sanctum and find that a strange "Q"-shaped spaceship has arrived over Greenwich Village and people are running in fear.[40][76]
On the way to the Museum of Modern Art on a field trip, Peter Parker looks out of the window of the Midtown School of Science and Technology bus and spots the Q-Ship. Realizing he has to get involved in helping citizens as Spider-Man, Parker asks Ned Leeds to create a distraction so people don't notice him leaving the vehicle. When he sees the ship, Leeds is shocked and exclaims to the rest of the bus, naturally creating a distraction anyway, and Parker jumps out of the window, donning the Spider-Man suit.[40][76]
Black Order members Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian are beamed down from the Q-Ship outside the Sanctum Sanctorum and demand the Time Stone from Doctor Strange. Strange refuses to give in and prepares to defend the stone with his life if necessary. Stark encourages Banner to transform into the Hulk and help in a fight against Cull Obsidian, but when he tries, he is surprised to find himself incapable of the transformation. Stark activates his nanotech Mark L armor and Strange and Wong engage two mandala shields, and a battle ensues.[40][76]
Iron Man and Cull Obsidian fight, but Iron Man begins to lose due to the alien's immense strength. As Cull Obsidian swings at Stark, however, Spider-Man arrives and stops his fist.[40][76]
Meanwhile, Ebony Maw engages the sorcerers in battle as he attempts to steal the Time Stone, meeting their magical attacks with his own. He binds Strange to the wall but is unable to touch the Eye of Agamotto without being burned, since Strange has cast a spell preventing anyone else from taking it so long as he survives. The Cloak of Levitation allows him to escape from the bindings, but Maw gives chase.[40][76]
Spider-Man goes after Ebony Maw to stop him from getting to Strange again. However, the Q-Ship's beam activates and catches Strange, lifting him up to the ship. Parker worries as he finds himself inescapably also caught in the beam.[40][76]
Wong slices Cull Obsidian's hand off and leaves him in a snowy tundra
Wong helps Iron Man fight Cull Obsidian and conjures a portal to drop Cull Obsidian through, closing it off as the alien reaches back through, thus severing his arm and leaving him stranded in a snowy environment.[40][76]
As Ebony Maw brings an immobilized Strange into the Q-Ship, Spider-Man clings onto the side of the ship, desperately trying not to fall from such a great height. He communicates with Iron Man to tell him he is running out of breath in the thinner, high-altitude air, and Stark has F.R.I.D.A.Y. send the Iron Spider armor from the Avengers Compound up to Parker. It wraps itself around him and gives him breathing capability just in time to stop him falling to his death. However, as Stark arrives at the ship, he engages a parachute in Spider-Man's suit to safely take him back to Earth, not wanting to endanger the teenager further.[40][76]
As Stark cuts a hole in the ship to get inside, Pepper Potts calls him, worried he is on board the ship. He reluctantly confirms her fears, just as the ship reaches too high an altitude and his signal is lost, as well as his connection to F.R.I.D.A.Y.. Meanwhile, unbeknown to him, Parker has managed to grab hold of the Q-Ship and stow away inside.[40][76]
On the ground, Wong tells Banner that he has to return to the Sanctum in Strange's absence, so as to protect it from any potential threats. Banner finds Stark's flip-phone and calls Steve Rogers to warn him about Vision.[40][76]
Aboard the Benatar, the Guardians of the Galaxy travel across space to answer the distress call sent by the Asgardian ship. However, on arrival, they are shocked to find the Statesman in ruins and debris floating in all directions. As they look at the wreckage, an unconscious Thor floats in front of them and hits their windscreen.[40][76]
After bringing him inside, Mantis uses her powers to wake Thor so the Guardians can question him. Thor jolts awake and is surprised by his surroundings, but proceeds to explain what has transpired, telling them of the attack on Xandar, the destruction of his ship, the deaths of his best friend, his brother, and half his people, and Thanos' acquisition of two Infinity Stones. He tells the Guardians that he needs to leave and travel to Nidavellir in an escape pod, hoping to forge a new Uru weapon capable of killing Thanos, and warns them that they should check the Reality Stone is still safely in the possession of the Collector on Knowhere. Interested in the weaponry, Rocket decides to go with Thor to the Dwarven forge, and brings Groot along.[40][76]
In the Lighthouse, Glenn Talbot is trying to sleep. However, he finds his rest disturbed by a set of coordinates repeating in his head that he does not understand.[40][92]
After several days spent apart, with Deke letting his arm heal, Fitz, Mackenzie, and Simmons working on giving the Quinjet space capabilities with gravitonium, May and Johnson working on saving Coulson, and Johnson and Coulson preparing to deal with the remaining gravitonium, Coulson's team finally come together for the first time since Yo-Yo Rodriguez killed Ruby Hale. They convene to discuss the finalized plan to slingshot the remaining gravitonium into the Sun, but when General Hale is mentioned, Mackenzie asks for someone to explain how they lost her in Herefordshire. This sparks an argument about the morality of Rodriguez's decision, with her standing by her decision to kill Ruby Hale as necessary for saving the world and Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons backing her up, but the others believing it was not justified. Coulson dismisses them to pursue their own individual tasks, thus breaking up the argument.[40][92][93]
May sends Daisy Johnson out of the Lighthouse on a private mission
Knowing that Coulson would object to their actions, May takes Daisy Johnson aside to talk in secret about their pursuit of a cure for his affliction. She tells Johnson that Tony Caine says he has found something to help, and that when she delivers Polly and Robin Hinton to him, she should ask him for what he has found.[40][92]
Deke Shaw talks to his future grandparents, Fitz and Simmons, about the possibility that if they change the future, he will stop existing. Shaw, however, suggests once again that the Multiverse theory may be true, and he is from an alternate universe - that this would make him safe if, indeed, the future of this universe is different.[40][92]
Coulson visits Talbot, and Talbot tells him about the coordinates. He says that he has realized why his Hydra programming had led him to the hangar - he was broadcasting the location of the Lighthouse to Hale. Coulson is shocked as he realizes this means they could be under attack by Qovas and the Remorath.[40][92]
Coulson's team realize that the Remorath above have cut off all their communication signals to the outside world. In reaction to the threat, the Lighthouse programming automatically triggers "Project: Reclamation" - the project for which it was built, giving options for extra protection against a threat or catastrophic event. Another video of Rick Stoner begins, walking them through the options for defense. As Stoner lists the options, Coulson decides that the one most befitting their situation is "nuclear attack", prematurely selecting it before Stoner then states that there was, in fact, another option specifically for alien invasion. The nuclear attack selection locks the building down, with Stoner informing them that they are locked in for 15 years. Coulson tries to stay calm despite his mistake. He takes the tannoy to hesitantly inform the other agents of the situation they are in, adding that all being well, there should be a way out of their predicament.[40][92]
Qovas contacts Coulson with a live feed from his ship. Coulson tries to stay defiant and despite Qovas' threats, he insists that him and his agents are safe, and that as soon as the government find out about the ship, they are likely to shoot it down.[40][92]
Talking properly for the first time in days, Yo-Yo Rodriguez tries to explain her actions to Alphonso Mackenzie, knowing that he is angry at what she did. He tells her that he, too, has had violent urges, but that as part of S.H.I.E.L.D., they should know better than to lose control and act on them.[40][92]
Rodriguez comes across Melinda May, who guesses what Mackenzie told her. Understanding Rodriguez's position after having had to kill Katya Belyakov 10 years prior, she says that it will change people's perception of her, but that all she can do is to learn to live with her actions.[40][92]
The two agents get back to the control room, and Phil Coulson says he is worried as to why Daisy Johnson has not yet returned. May confesses the truth to him, that she had ordered Johnson to go dark while she performed their secret side-mission that might help save him. On hearing this, Rodriguez begins to panic, saying that she thinks she killed Ruby Hale for nothing.[40][92]
Rodriguez tells Coulson about what her future self said in 2091, warning that they need to let him die. May argues that since Robin Hinton said Coulson will "put the pieces back together", they need to save him. However, the argument is interrupted when Coulson realizes that through the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device, the alien attackers are able to go wherever they want, and could arrive any moment.[40][92]
The Remorath marauders use the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device to teleport into the building.[40][92]
The marauders materialize in the Lighthouse and the lights in the corridors go out. They begin to stab agents they find, and Deke Shaw dives into a ventilation shaft to hide.[40][92]
Energy fluctuations occur throughout the Lighthouse as a result of the Remorath's presence. Shaw gets back to the control room through the ventilation shafts.[40][92]
Shaw explains that he knows the Remorath from 2091, warning the agents about their tendency to successfully hunt down everyone they target. Phil Coulson sends Yo-Yo Rodriguez to get Glenn Talbot to safety, and via video call, Leo Fitz lets the agents know that there is an analogue override in the building that will be able to get them out of the Project Reclamation lock-down. Shaw asks why Daisy Johnson cannot help them, then realizes that she never returned. When he asks why, Coulson bitterly tells him to ask May.[40][92]
Johnson talks to Tony Caine after he has finished getting the Hintons settled in safely. He mentions that Robin drew him a picture of a blue alien lady, and remarks how strange it is dealing with aliens, asking her if she has seen the weird alien events happening in New York, to which she replies that she is unable to watch the news these days as it bothers her. He moves on to telling her what he has found for Coulson, explaining that his research took him back to John Garrett's work, and that he has found what kept Garrett alive during the Deathlok programme: Centipede Serum, which he has the last remaining unit of. He hands her the unit but explains that the serum is missing a healing component designed and developed by the Nazis, and that the only clue he has to its source, a name, could not be found on any map. When Johnson looks at the name, however, she sees that it is "Jiaying", and realizes that Hydra used her mother's healing ability to complete the serum.[40][92]
Rodriguez gets to Talbot's cell and asks him to put on handcuffs. He is reluctant to, claiming that he can be trusted to cooperate and wants to make up for his actions, but she tells him that while she trusts him, they cannot know for sure that he is not still under Hydra conditioning. She asks that he follow her lead.[40][92]
Fitz makes his way to Floor 17, where the analogue override is held, accompanied by another agent. The lights begin to flicker and Fitz's walkie-talkie stops working, making them realize that Remorath marauders must be nearby. Fitz's fellow agent then walks ahead but is ambushed by a marauder, killed on the spot. Fitz runs and comes across Deke Shaw, who had gone to find him as he was afraid that if Fitz died, he would never exist. Shaw uses a fire extinguisher to ward off the marauder and the two of them run to the override room. However, when they get there, Fitz is horrified to find that the override has been ripped apart, meaning they no longer have any way out.[40][92]
Coulson explains to May and Mackenzie about the override being destroyed. Agent Kim offers to go to the armory for them and Coulson decides that they have to take a stand and defend the control room. He instructs Yo-Yo Rodriguez to pick up any weaponry she can and take Talbot to them. Deke Shaw works on fixing an elevator to allow Simmons, Piper, and James Davis to transport the gravitonium to the control room. Fitz warns them that the aliens have technology like EMPs that affects technology, and informs Coulson that they need to find combustible items to use as sources of light if they are going to be able to see the attackers.[40][92]
Rodriguez and Glenn Talbot encounter two Remorath marauders and hide, waiting for an opportunity to get past.[40][92]
Shaw and Fitz get into the fixed elevator. Shaw begins to panic, not wanting to die without having seen the wider world.[40][92]
Simmons, Davis, and Piper prepare for the Remorath's arrival
Piper, Davis, and Simmons barricade themselves in the lab and prepare to fight. The door begins to rattle and they raise their guns, but it is only Rodriguez and Talbot. They enter and inform Simmons that their route to the control room has been cut off, and Simmons tells Fitz on the walkie-talkie that she will have to make her stand where she is, in the lab. Rodriguez heads out with Davis and Piper to hunt their attackers, leaving Simmons and Talbot as the last line of defense.[40][92]
Alphonso Mackenzie joins Leo Fitz and Deke Shaw at the elevator exit as they get out. A marauder arrives in their corridor and Mackenzie shoots him, but he is unfazed. He is joined by two further marauders, who chase the agents as they run for safety.[40][92]
Rodriguez, Piper, and Davis struggle with the darkness in the building as they cannot see if there are marauders nearby. They shoot down the corridor in case but find nothing. However, Rodriguez uses her super-speed to scout ahead and reports back that there are several that they are about to encounter. She insists on leading the way, telling the two agents that she cannot be killed.[40][92]
Coulson uses the walkie-talkies to let Simmons know that he and the others are surrounded in the control room, and so she and Rodriguez should not try to get to them. Simmons is unable to warn Rodriguez, however, as she has left and Simmons is unable to exit the lab without being swarmed by attackers. Talbot picks up an I.C.E.R. to prepare to help her if any Remorath get in, but then finds the Particle Infusion Chamber in the lab. Believing he can help if he is infused with the gravitonium, but knowing Simmons will not let him, he I.C.E.-es her and enters the machine.[40][92]
Fitz gets back to the control room with a combustible cocktail he has made. He and May light fires and the team prepares for the Remorath's attack. The doors begin to shake as they try to get in, but they suddenly go quiet. The team become suspicious, then realize the Remorath are heading upwards as noises resume from above. The marauders enter from an upper floor door and the team being to shoot at their attackers.[40][92]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez, Piper, and James Davis meanwhile shoot at the marauders attacking the lab, but realize they are swarmed from all sides. Rodriguez attempts to contact Simmons but gets no response from the walkie-talkie and becomes concerned. Piper begins reminding Rodriguez that she need not be worried because the technology around them is just not working, when suddenly the lab doors are blown open. They watch as a marauder who has been knocked to the ground by the blast is dragged out of view, followed by their blood splattering across the hall. Glenn Talbot emerges, empowered by the gravitonium infused in his body.[40][92]
In the control room, the team run out of ammunition, with no success in having taken down the seemingly bulletproof Remorath. They begin to fight hand-to-hand, but Coulson finds himself quickly knocked to the ground. Dazed, he notices the control room door opening despite the lock-down, and is surprised to see Glenn Talbot enter. Talbot uses his newly acquired ability of manipulating the effects of gravity on people and objects to lift the marauders into the air and then crush them as they float, crumpling their bodies inwards on themselves and killing them all swiftly.[40][92]
The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents discover Talbot's actions
Rodriguez runs into the lab and helps Jemma Simmons off the floor. They find the Particle Infusion Chamber with the reading marking it "100%", and realize, to their dismay, what Talbot has done.[40][92]
Talbot proudly proclaims to the agents in the control room that he has fixed things as he promised. He then uses his powers to break the ceiling of the Lighthouse and detach the portion of the floor Coulson is lying on, standing on it with him as he lifts the piece of floor up into the air and through the ceiling. The remaining agents are astonished, but the electricity comes back online and the breaking of the lock-down and lack of contamination in the scans of the atmosphere trigger a new Rick Stoner recording informing them that Project: Reclamation is over.[40][92]
Knowing she needs her mother's DNA to acquire the necessary healing component of the Centipede Serum, Daisy Johnson visits Jiaying's grave and begins to dig up the body.[40][92]
Arriving at Qovas' docking station, Talbot and Coulson are met by Remorath who declare them prisoners. Coulson asks Talbot what his plan is, and he says that they are going to show the aliens his position of authority over them to force them to leave, again saying he will "fix" things, which concerns Coulson.[40][94]
The team at the Lighthouse discuss their concern about Talbot. Simmons informs them that Talbot took in all of the gravitonium, and mentions the fact that it has catastrophic consequences, having driven Ruby Hale insane with just 8%, highlighting that with Talbot's brain injury this could cause him a major psychotic break. Melinda May declares that they need to find him and Coulson, but Leo Fitz points out that the building has only just come back online and it could be hours before the systems are fully functional. Rodriguez asks where Alphonso Mackenzie is, and Piper explains he has gone to check for any remaining Remorath.[40][94]
Mackenzie scouts the hallways and finds one remaining marauder. The alien ingests the same odium liquid the team encountered in 2091, giving him a burst of adrenaline and making him rabid and super resilient. Mackenzie shoots at him, but the bullets are once again ineffective, and he has to engage the alien hand-to-hand. He manages to outsmart the alien and beat him down with his Shotgun-Axe, but before he can kill him, May arrives and tells him to stop, as they need the marauder alive to attempt to acquire any information they can about what Coulson and Talbot are facing. Mackenzie knocks him out instead.[40][94]
Talbot and Coulson are taken before Qovas, and Talbot claims the ship for himself. Qovas dismisses his claim, but Talbot uses his new powers to crush one of the Remorath the same way he had in the Lighthouse. Realizing that Talbot has the power to end their lives in an instant, Qovas and his marauders reluctantly kneel before him as he demands.[40][94]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez finds Mackenzie and asks if he is okay. However, when she tries to further the conversation to talk again about forgiving her, he explains that May and Simmons are waiting for him and walks away.[40][94]
May, Mackenzie, and Simmons interrogate the marauder they found, keeping him chained to the floor and ceiling. He rants about the liquid he consumed, telling them it is called the odium, and exclaiming that it gives them the powers of the gods. He grows increasingly rabid, shaking and straining in his chains until one chain breaks, but as he does so, the odium finishes taking effect and his heart stops, dying with odium dripping out of his mouth. Simmons explains that to understand the odium better, she would have to dissect him, and the other two encourage her to do so.[40][94]
Glenn Talbot expresses his pride in his work, but Phil Coulson warns him that they need to plan more thoroughly and not make rash decisions. Talbot says he is saving the world, but Qovas calmly tells him that he is being ignorant, as the Confederacy will not stand for his actions, noting that Hydra were never so foolish. This prompts Coulson to realize that Hale must be how Qovas found out their location, and requests to be taken to see her.[40][94]
Coulson visits Hale, and finds her repentant, having spent time alone wallowing in her grief. She explains that she has always been too angry, and never stopped to consider her love for Ruby until it was too late - that she blindly carried out Hydra's agenda to the point where it got her daughter killed, and that makes it her fault. Coulson expresses his condolences, but asks for her help, telling her of Talbot undergoing Project Destroyer of Worlds.[40][94]
Coulson, Hale, and Talbot discuss a plan to how to confront the impending alien threat
Coulson takes Hale back to Talbot and Qovas, and she tells them what she knows of the Confederacy. He is reluctant to trust his captor, but she apologizes for her treatment of him, and Coulson tells him they need her knowledge. Hale tells Talbot that now he is laced with the gravitonium, he is the only one who can save them all, and he decides to listen. She reveals that Hydra's deal with the Confederacy was for them to protect the Earth from attack in return for Inhumans and gravitonium, the latter of which Qovas adds is a very valuable substance due to its exceptional powers that can be used to bend space and build and destroy empires. The humans decide they have to meet with the Confederacy to make a new arrangement, which Qovas argues is against Confederacy protocol, noting they would also have nothing to bargain with. Coulson, however, argues that Talbot himself is their bargaining chip due to the gravitonium in his body.[40][94]
In the Lighthouse, Leo Fitz worries that it could take hours to get the power working again, but it suddenly switches back on, as Deke Shaw steps out from behind the monitors and explains that he fixed it, as it was what he was good at in the future. The team receive a transmission from Daisy Johnson, who explains that she has been trying to contact for 30 minutes to let them know she is arriving. Shaw tells her why they were unable to pick up, explaining about the attack they underwent.[40][94]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez goes to meet Johnson when she arrives, wanting to confront her for keeping her mission secret and, in her opinion, abandoning them.[40][94]
Daisy Johnson returns to the Lighthouse only to be confronted by Rodriguez
Johnson enters and Rodriguez demands to know what is in the bag she is carrying. When Johnson refuses, she uses her super-speed to grab the bag for herself and finds the skeleton within. She asks Johnson what is wrong with her, and Johnson hits her, starting a fight. Rodriguez uses her super-speed to repeatedly punch Johnson, but Johnson takes advantage of the moment in which Rodriguez returns to her starting point, hitting her with a quake before she can run again. Melinda May arrives and breaks up the fight, informing them that they have picked up a signal of a spaceship outside of the atmosphere, believing it to be Qovas' ship, and that once the artificial gravity is installed on Zephyr One, they will be flying up to board it. She tells Rodriguez that they will continue working to help Coulson, and she can either help or leave.[40][94]
Glenn Talbot, having trimmed his shaggy hair and beard, dons robes to prepare for the visit to the Confederacy. Coulson reminds him to be careful, but he insists he knows what he is doing. Qovas takes him to the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device, and they teleport to the Confederacy meeting.[40][94]
The Confederacy are surprised by Talbot's presence, and Qovas explains that he is there to renegotiate the terms of Earth's protection. The aliens are reluctant to listen, but Talbot confidently claims he is much more than the amateurs they have dealt with in the past, calling himself "Earth's mightiest hero".[40][94]
Deke Shaw goes to see Daisy Johnson. She comments on the lemons she found in her bed, believing it to be a prank, and Shaw, embarrassed that his attempt at showing affection went wrong, deflects it by saying it was probably Fitz. He says he has been meaning to tell her something since they became closer, and she tells him not to get close to her, as people close to her die, mentioning her mother and Lincoln Campbell. Shaw asks who Campbell is, and she explains his sacrifice and how much she loved him, saying she sometimes wonders if she still does. She asks what he was going to say, and he tells her of their discovery: that Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons are his grandparents.[40][94]
Talbot absorbs Crixon to display his power
Talbot asks to be added to the Confederacy, but is told that there can never be more than six members. He uses his powers to engulf Confederacy member Crixon with the gravitonium from his body, proving his might, and arrogantly proclaims that he has just freed a space for himself in the group.[40][94]
Alphonso Mackenzie works on Zephyr One, and Leo Fitz arrives to insert the gravitonium into the ship's system to use for artificial gravity once they head to space. Fitz tries to apologize to Mackenzie for complying with locking him up before, but Mackenzie refuses to accept his support of Yo-Yo Rodriguez killing Ruby Hale, telling him that the things he was saying about the predetermined future led Rodriguez down the wrong path. Fitz stands up for himself, saying that sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice a life for the sake of many, and that Hale was just too dangerous, but Mackenzie tells him he needs to take a look at his actions and think about what kind of person he wants to be, because lately he has been morally questionable.[40][94]
Wanda Maximoff and Vision are staying in a bedroom in Edinburgh together, with Vision having mastered his phasing abilities to make himself appear human. Vision feels a pain from the Mind Stone in his forehead. He has Maximoff use her powers, which stem from the stone, to connect with the stone and see if she can feel anything, but she tells him that all she feels is him. They share a kiss.[40][76]
Jemma Simmons is dissecting the Remorath marauder's heart when Daisy Johnson enters, showing her the Centipede Serum she has acquired and delivering the bag with Jiaying's skeleton. Simmons is reluctant to help, saying that the morality of what they are doing needs to be considered, but Johnson tells her that if she wants Phil Coulson to survive, which she affirms that she obviously does, this has to be her top priority.[40][94]
Three Confederacy members leave via the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device, so that Qovas, Glenn Talbot, and the Kree representative, who announces himself to be Taryan Kasius of the house Kasius - the father of the Kree noblemen the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had to face in 2091. He reveals that the Confederacy never intended to honor their agreement of protection, nor did they have the ability to, as is being exemplified as they speak; Taryan explains that an alien far beyond the Confederacy's might, known as Thanos, is currently leading his forces in an assault on the planet. Talbot insists that he and the Avengers must face Thanos, but Taryan says he is nowhere near capable enough, but that there might be a way to strengthen him so he can face the Titan.[40][94]
Maximoff and Vision go for a walk through the Edinburgh streets, and Vision suggests that this time, after 2 years of only meeting for a couple of weeks at a time, they stay together for longer and start to settle. However, before they can make a decision, Maximoff notices a television in a shop behind Vision broadcasting the news of the attack on Greenwich village and the disappearance of Tony Stark. Turning to look, Vision recognizes that the aliens who attacked New York are the threat that the Mind Stone is warning him of. He tells her will have to leave, but is suddenly ambushed as Corvus Glaive, another of Thanos' Black Order, steps out from a street corner and stabs him through the chest with a glaive.[40][76]
Corvus Glaive tries to remove the Mind Stone from Vision
The injury stops Vision's ability to phase and he reverts to his android form. The Black Order's Proxima Midnight arrives and hits Maximoff with a blast from her spear to get her out of the way, as Glaive begins trying to prise the gem from Vision's head. Maximoff gets back up and uses her powers to throw balls of energy at the aliens and knock them aside, then telekinetically pull Vision away from them and fly to a nearby square.[40][76]
Maximoff starts to use her abilities to help heal Vision's wound, but the Black Order catch up with them and manage to separate the couple, with Corvus Glaive fighting Vision and Proxima Midnight fighting Maximoff. Vision begins to shoot a beam from the Mind Stone, but Corvus Glaive uses his glaive's abilities to fire at back at him. He again tries to prise the stone from Vision's head, but Maximoff overpowers Proxima Midnight and flies to his aid, blasting him aside with another ball of energy.[40][76]
Maximoff begins to fly herself and Vision away, but Proxima Midnight fires a blast from her spear that knocks them out of the sky, tumbling into Edinburgh Waverley railway station. Vision lies helpless on the floor as the aliens return, and Maximoff prepares to defend him, outnumbered. However, when a train passes by, Maximoff is relieved when from behind it appears Steve Rogers, who has arrived with Sam Wilson and Natasha Romanoff on Bruce Banner's warning to help defend the couple.[40][76]
Proxima Midnight throws her spear at Rogers, but his fast reflexes allow him to simply catch it. Wilson then takes advantage of the alien's surprise and ambushes her, kicking her through a shop window then firing small missiles at Corvus Glaive, occupying him as he tries to deflect them, and allowing Romanoff a window to attack him. Rogers throws the spear to her and she catches it, then thrusts it into Corvus Glaive's side, knocking him down and kicking the glaive from his hand. Proxima Midnight summons the spear back to her hand to attack Romanoff, but Rogers rolls in front of her, picking up the glaive and parrying. He works with Rogers to overpower Proxima Midnight, and Wilson returns to kick her down again. She scuttles to Corvus Glaive's side, and Romanoff threatens to kill them, but before they can act, a transportation beam from a Q-Ship overhead lifts the aliens away to safety.[40][76]
General Hale and Phil Coulson look out at space from Qovas' ship, when Talbot and Qovas return through the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device. Talbot passes on Taryan's news of "Thanos" and says that the only option they have left is for him to make himself "invincible", which he will do by tapping into an untapped deposit of gravitonium under the Earth's surface. Coulson tries to talk him down, warning of how dangerous the gravitonium is and that it could cause him to lose control, but Talbot accuses him of always doubting him and says he trusts the Confederacy member who told him about the deposit, revealing him to have been called "Kasius". Coulson pleads with Talbot to stop, explaining that the Kree ruling the remnants of humanity in the future was a Kasius, and that Talbot is being played, but Talbot tells him he is in charge now and is Earth's last hope, forcing Coulson to kneel before him under threat of crushing him just like the Remorath he killed.[40][94]
Zephyr One reaches the outer atmosphere and engages its newly installed artificial gravity, then twisting to fly vertically, using thrusters to escape the atmosphere and reach outer space. Piper and Alphonso Mackenzie help them through communication devices from the control room of the Lighthouse, and the agents get through to space, turning on cloaking as they turn in the direction of Qovas' ship.[40][94]
Sam Wilson pilots the Quinjet as the group take off from Edinburgh with Maximoff and Vision in tow. Romanoff scolds the couple for taking the risk of dropping out of contact just to appreciate more alone time, and Maximoff apologizes. When Wilson asks Rogers where they should fly to, Rogers replies, "Home," the Avengers Compound in New York.[40][76]
Jemma Simmons congratulates Leo Fitz on the success of his work on Zephyr One allowing the team to reach space, but he shows no happiness, still bothered by Mackenzie's words. He addresses the Centipede Serum with her, asking if she really thinks it could work as he is concerned. She simply replies that the less they think about it the better.[40][94]
Melinda May and Quake prepare to infiltrate Qovas' Ship
May gets up to prepare with Johnson to infiltrate Qovas' ship, and James Davis pilots them onto the spaceship's hull, docking so the agents can board.[40][94]
Glenn Talbot reports that he can hear Ian Quinn's consciousness in the gravitonium, and that Quinn is saying his team originally found gravitonium at the bottom of a mine. A Remorath then reports that an unseen object has breached their hull, and Talbot realizes it is S.H.I.E.L.D., using cloaking. He turns on Coulson, accusing him of contacting the team behind his back. When he asks General Hale if she had a part in it, Hale claims to have known that Coulson was making contact, and that she attempted to dissuade him. Coulson again states that this is a lie, but Talbot refuses to believe him, feeling he has been betrayed.[40][94]
Quake and May navigate through the ship to Coulson and Talbot
Johnson and May get to the control room, and Talbot uses his powers to lift Coulson into the air, threatening to kill him if she attacks. May exclaims that they are here to save him, not attack, and Johnson tries to calm him down, but Talbot refuses to trust them. Hale speaks up for Johnson, however, saying that after the way she treated Ruby, she trusts her.[40][94]
Hale attempts to activate Talbot's Hydra conditioning to stop him. He lowers Coulson back to the floor, seemingly under her control, but then reveals himself to be free of the conditioning's effects and turns on her. He says that she is a traitor and uses his powers to crush her, just like the Remorath he killed.[40][94]
Horrified, Johnson starts to quake Talbot to take him down, but is surprised when it has little effect on him as he uses his abilities to keep himself grounded. He then uses his powers to throw her quickly into the ceiling, knocking her out. May and Coulson are forced to surrender, and Talbot calls them prisoners of war, requesting that Qovas treat them accordingly. He tells Coulson that he has finally realized S.H.I.E.L.D. were always the enemy.[40][94]
Taryan Kasius has Agent Johnson delivered to him, remarking that he looks forward to taking her back home with him.[40][94]
Johnson wakes in a dark, unfamiliar room and meets Taryan. He introduces himself, mentioning that he is master of the House Kasius, worrying her. Taryan explains that he believes Inhumans deserve "something better" than the way humans treat them, but Johnson suspects she knows his true motives, having seen Kasius' Inhuman trade in 2091. She asks where her friends are, but he says not to worry, as they are her past, and he is now her "future".[40][95]
Qovas tells Coulson and May they will be kept as prisoners, but they insist that they will be taking him down soon enough. He considers their threat meaningless given their imprisonment, but warns them nonetheless that if they try anything, he will release ionizer missiles on the Lighthouse. He leaves and reunites with Glenn Talbot, who says that he knows someone who may be able to help them acquire gravitonium.[40][95]
FitzSimmons discuss the outcome of the future
Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons review the Centipede Serum and its potential to save Coulson. Fitz suggests that the 2091 Rodriguez's comment about the Earth's destruction came about from trying to save Coulson could be reframed with the assertion that if they do not just "try", but actually succeed, then perhaps that breaks the chain of events. Simmons is glad to hear this optimistic view, pointing out that Fitz has always believed time cannot be changed, but Fitz suggests it is time to take bold risks.[40][95]
Deke Shaw and Agents James Davis and Kim talk as they run maintenance on Zephyr One, with Shaw being amazed as Davis tells him how he survived Aida's attack. Glenn Talbot then suddenly enters through the floor, boarding the plane, and on seeing Kim, he uses his powers to kill him without a second thought. Shaw and Davis hide for safety as Talbot, along with two Remorath marauders, heads for the Quinjet.[40][95]
Mackenzie sees news of the Black Order's attack on New York
Talbot gets to the Quinjet, using his powers to fly it himself instead of using the jet's power. He detaches it from Zephyr One and heads back to Earth.[40][95]
Mackenzie wonders why the Quinjet's tracker is not showing up, but Yo-Yo Rodriguez realizes that if Talbot is not using the jet's power, then the tracker would not be activated. Mackenzie decides to try and force the tracker to work by remote.[40][95]
Phil Coulson and Melinda May discuss Talbot in their cell. Coulson says he feels responsible, with Talbot having entered the machine for their sake. May points out the absurdity that they have now come to care for Talbot, having detested him when they first met 4 years prior, but Coulson states that this is an example of how people do change, and that they still need to try to help. He begins to scan their cell wall with his prosthetic hand.[40][95]
Having returned to Earth, Talbot visits his old bodyguard Carl Creel in hospital. He tells Creel that he has come into contact with gravitonium and has learned how to silence the voices it inflicts, saying he can silence them for him as well.[40][95]
Daisy Johnson talks with Taryan Kasius in the dark room. He says he sympathizes with the fact that "lesser" humans hunted her, but she tells him that despite having experienced some discrimination, humans should not be generalized by this. When he replies that she will come with him willingly or not, she tries to attack him but is surprised to find herself incapable of using her powers. Taryan reveals that she is not in fact conscious, and is currently being taken by Remorath to be delivered to him, with a device planted on her forehead to allow her unconscious self to converse with him ahead of them meeting physically.[40][95]
Alphonso Mackenzie goes to Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, and they tell him that they might have found a way to revive Coulson's necrotic tissue. He is pleased, but informs them that Glenn Talbot is killing people, asking if they can find a way to reverse the process he underwent.[40][95]
Coulson continues to scan the wall and begins to construct a plan for an attempted escape. However, before he can take any action, the door opens and he and May find Deke Shaw at the entrance, knocking out the guard and letting them out. The agents are grateful, but tell him that they need to find Johnson next.[40][95]
Talbot offers to help Creel, extending his hand and asking for Creel to "join" him. Creel is cautious, but eventually does so, and the gravitonium in Talbot extends from his fingers to envelop him. Creel happily says that he has found peace, but Talbot then proceeds to use the gravitonium to absorb him entirely, effectively killing his old bodyguard.[40][95]
Following the Attack on the Statesman, Thanos arrives at the Collector's Museum in Knowhere, and forces him into handing him the Reality Stone. Thanos destroys the Asgardian container to extract the stone, which is currently in the state of the liquified Aether, which was used by the Dark Elves as a weapon in their attempt to transform the universe into utter darkness in 2013. After successfully solidifying the Aether back into the Reality Stone, Thanos uses it to conjure an illusion of him interrogating the Collector to lure the Guardians of the Galaxy.[40][76]
Mackenzie and Rodriguez watch the footage of Carl Creel's death
Soon after midnight, Alphonso Mackenzie and Yo-Yo Rodriguez review the security footage from the hospital of Talbot killing Creel. He tells her that while Creel had killed his friend, Isabelle Hartley, once he had understood that Creel was not in his right mind and got to know the man, he had forgiven him and found him to be a good person. Mackenzie finds new determination to take down Talbot, and Rodriguez suggests that it might unfortunately be necessary to kill him. He replies that if that is the case, he will be the one to do it.[40][95]
On their way to Knowhere, Gamora looks at her switchblade and reminisces sadly on the day her mother died, when Thanosmassacred her people and abducted her. When Peter Quill returns to the cockpit, she tells him she needs to ask a favor. She states that she knows they will soon encounter Thanos whatever happens, and that if he gets a hold of her, she needs him to kill her.[40][76]
Quill is confused, but she says that she knows something vital that Thanos cannot find out about, and that if he gets hold of her alive he will almost certainly manage to force it out of her. She makes him swear, on his mother, that he will kill her if the time comes, and Quill reluctantly, solemnly, eventually agrees. She kisses him, but they are interrupted by the sound of a crunch beside them. They turn and find Drax, who informs them he has been standing there for an hour, claiming that he has mastered the ability of moving so slowly that he is invisible to the eye. Quill and Gamora exchange quizzical looks, telling him that they can see him perfectly well, but he insists his movement is imperceptible - until Mantis enters and greets him, disappointing him bitterly.[40][76]
Taryan tells Johnson that the device on her forehead, the Astralscope, is projecting her consciousness. She insists that she will get out of the situation, but Taryan mocks her, saying she has already lost track of how long she has been there and that without water, food, and sleep, she will be physically too weak to put up a fight. However, Johnson retorts by telling him that she knows his sons will die as cowards, and proceeds to use her force of will to wake herself up. The Astralscope on her head is broken and she returns to consciousness, kicking the two Remorath marauders carrying her to the ground and turning and tackling a third, then quaking them.[40][95]
Fitz and Simmons talk as they finish the Centipede Serum modifications to save Coulson. They consider how to stop Glenn Talbot, and Simmons suggests that drinking the odium might stop him, but that it would be too difficult to make him drink and even then it might not be strong enough. She posits that the Centipede Serum could perhaps be used to deliver the odium straight into his cells instead.[40][95]
Drax is overcome with his desire for revenge and moves to attack Thanos. Quill tries to stop him, but when he insists, Mantis rushes over and puts him to sleep. Her action, however, causes Drax to keel over and cause a loud thud as he hits the floor, alerting Thanos to their presence.[40][76]
Ignoring Quill's attempts to construct a plan, Gamora rushes to make her attack. She manages to surprise Thanos and stab him both with Godslayer and her switchblade. Thanos falls to the ground and dies, and Gamora cries, feeling a swell of mixed emotion at killing the man who was so cruel to her and yet treated her with care nonetheless.[40][76]
Gamora is shocked to suddenly hear Thanos' voice coming from behind her, despite his dead body at her feet. The reality around them begins to crumble into red dust, revealing the fiery ruins of the Collector's Museum as Thanos removes the effects of the Reality Stone on the area, which he has already acquired and has been using to alter the apparent reality around the Guardians to lure them in, including the fake version of himself that Gamora killed.[40][76]
Drax and Mantis move to attack Thanos, but the Titan simply uses the Reality Stone to temporarily turn Drax to stone blocks and Mantis into ribbon-like pieces. He grabs hold of Gamora, and Quill rushes to her defence, holding his Quad Blaster to Thanos and demanding he let her go.[40][76]
Gamora reminds Quill that he has no hope of harming Thanos, but that he promised he would kill her if Thanos got hold of her. Quill is distraught and Thanos taunts him, urging him to try and believing he is incapable. Holding to his solemn promise, Quill eventually summons the courage to painfully pull the trigger and end his girlfriend's life, only for Thanos to use the Reality Stone to turn the blast into bubbles, rendering the shot useless. He smiles as he opens a portal with the Space Stone and takes Gamora away with him.[40][76]
Drax and Mantis reform following Thanos' departure, and the team are left shell-shocked in the ruins of the museum.[40][76]
Deke Shaw, Phil Coulson, and Melinda May wander the corridors of Qovas' ship, not knowing where to go. The agents ask Shaw to translate the Kree language, but he reveals that he does not know it, only being able to count from 0 to 5. He decides on a direction to take them, but they stumble upon two Remorath. May prepares to fight, but Daisy Johnson arrives in time to help, quaking the aliens. Shaw wants to now leave the ship, but Coulson warns that they have to deal with Qovas first, otherwise the ionizer missiles could destroy River's End.[40][95]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez and Alphonso Mackenzie discuss Talbot and consider where he might have headed. Rodriguez tells him that before going into the machine, Talbot had kept repeating that he wanted to "fix" things. She speculates that he could be trying to prove that he is still a good man, and Mackenzie realizes that there is a high chance he specifically wants to prove he is a good father, and could have returned home.[40][95]
Inside the Avengers Compound, James Rhodes is on a holographic conference call with Thaddeus Ross when the five heroes enter, with Maximoff and Wilson helping the injured Vision. Ross tells Rhodes to arrest the fugitives, but he ends the call to greet his old friends. Rhodes shows no hostility to the group, many of whom he had fought with, happily reuniting with them. He pokes fun at their tattered clothes, but Bruce Banner emerges from a nearby room, telling them he thinks they look great and awkwardly revealing that he has returned after his 3-year disappearance. Romanoff gives a wry smile back and greets him.[40][76]
The heroes discuss what to do about the Mind Stone in Vision's forehead. While Vision insists that the stone should be destroyed, Wanda Maximoff, the only one with the power to do it, refuses since it would kill her lover. Rogers agrees, saying they do not trade lives when making decisions, and Banner notes that the stone might be removable, but that it will not be easy given its complex connections within the android's neural network. He says he cannot do it alone with just the facility's resources, but Rogers suggests that if anywhere can help, it would be Wakanda.[40][76]
Carla and George Talbot are watching the WHiH World News coverage of the attack on Greenwich Village when the phone rings. Carla goes to take the call and when there is a knock at the door, George is left to answer. When he opens it, he is surprised to find his father. Glenn Talbot enters his home and Carla is cautious, concerned by his attire and attitude. Glenn demonstrates his powers to George, exciting him as he uses them to levitate his LEGO. Carla encourages George to leave the room so she can talk to him, and explains to Glenn that S.H.I.E.L.D. told her about his transformation. He becomes angry with her trust of the organization over him, and uses his powers to throw her against the wall.[40][95]
Qovas finds out about the agents' escapes and orders for Quake to be taken alive, but the others to be killed, using their own human weapons to dishonor them.[40][95]
Melinda May suggests that Phil Coulson and Daisy Johnson return home on Zephyr One while she and Deke Shaw deal with the missiles. Coulson refuses but May is insistent, when suddenly they are attacked by a Remorath marauder shooting at them. Coulson activates his energy shield to protect them and in the heat of the moment, decides to pull May into a kiss, after years of tension between them. Johnson is taken aback to see them kissing, but quakes the attacking alien away. Coulson heads off with her as May asked, while May leaves with Shaw, smirking to herself.[40][95]
George Talbot pleads with his father to let his mother go, but Glenn insists that Carla cannot be trusted. He suddenly hears cars outside and lets Carla drop to the floor as he heads out to confront the arriving agents. Alphonso Mackenzie and Yo-Yo Rodriguez step out with two other agents and hold guns to Talbot, insisting they do not want to hurt him, only to talk. Talbot, however, insists that S.H.I.E.L.D. declared "war" on him when they tried to stop him, and uses his powers to lift the S.H.I.E.L.D. SUVs into the air, before crashing them down.[40][95]
The two agents accompanying Mackenzie and Rodriguez begin firing at Talbot, but he uses his abilities to control the bullets, stopping them mid-air before hurling them back at the agents. They dive for cover, but one of the accompanying agents is caught by one of the bullets.[40][95]
Shaw and May fight the Remorath
Two Remorath marauders move to activate the ionizer missiles, but Deke Shaw steps out to talk to them, luring them away from the control panel and around a corner, where Melinda May is waiting. She and Shaw together manage to defeat the aliens, strangling them until they pass out. May steals their weapons and instructs Shaw to find the target coordinates of the Lighthouse so they can transfer them to the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device as their teleport destination. Shaw also finds the launch codes and asks May if he should deactivate the missiles, but she says instead to give them a new target.[40][95]
George Talbot steps out from the house, telling his father that he is no hero and is causing hurt. Rodriguez attempts to use her super-speed to get George to safety, but finds that the gravity field Glenn is generating is too strong, repelling her. Glenn assures his son that he will prove himself a hero once he gets more resources, and tells him to keep watching the news as he starts to levitate, then flies away.[40][95]
Coulson and Johnson board Zephyr One, but notice the flickering of the lights indicating Remorath marauders in the proximity. They contact Agent James Davis, but he reports back that he is under attack, and they rush to his aid. Together, Johnson and Coulson take out the aliens on board, with Coulson shoving one through a window, and reunite with Davis. Johnson points out that the broken glass has caused Coulson to bleed. He dismisses it and instructs Davis to start flying, explaining how May and Shaw will be getting back.[40][95]
Deke Shaw relays the coordinate symbols to Melinda May to programme into the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device. As she prepares to put in the final symbols, Qovas arrives and tells her he will kill her before she ever leaves the ship. Using the stolen Remorath weapons, she engages Qovas in a fight. Shaw runs between the control panel and device to finish inputting the symbols while she fights.[40][95]
Johnson helps bandage Coulson's bleeding hand and teases him about kissing May, as Davis starts the plane's engine.[40][95]
May keeps Qovas occupied as Shaw finishes inputting the symbols. Qovas gets free of her and taunts her as he presses the button to fire the ionizer missiles to destroy River's End, but May and Shaw make it to the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device and smile as they explain that they changed the target, before teleporting away to safety. Qovas realizes his mistake as the missiles turn back towards him, and his ship is exploded with him on board.[40][95]
Coulson and Johnson watch from Zephyr One as Qovas' ship is destroyed, desperately hoping May and Shaw made it to safety. Jemma Simmons video calls them and May and Shaw run to the camera, showing themselves to be alive and well. Simmons tells them that Mackenzie and Rodriguez have just returned as well, informing them about Talbot killing Carl Creel. She hangs up, and Coulson begins to say that he feels they need to stop being careful with how they treat Talbot, when Johnson notices his hand has started bleeding profusely. He looks at it and is confused, then suddenly begins to go feint. Coulson collapses, and Johnson desperately tries to help him, telling Davis to contact for a medical team to meet them when they get back.[40][95]
Having been contacted by Steve Rogers to warn them of the threat to the world, T'Challa checks with Okoye that Wakandan forces have been alerted that a fight is coming, having permitted the Avengers to come to them for help. She informs him that the King's Guard, Dora Milaje, and remaining Border Tribe have been notified, and he asks her to send word to the Jabari Tribe as well. They walk to Bucky Barnes as he farms in the fields, delivering him a new vibraniummetal arm to replace the one destroyed by Tony Stark and allow him to fight, letting him know that a fight is on its way.[40][76]
With Coulson safely delivered to the medical bay, Melinda May goes to visit him, finding him under general anesthesia.[40][95]
The team of agents gather to talk. Jemma Simmons informs them that Coulson will not die yet, but that his condition is worsening faster and faster. Leo Fitz updates them on dealing with Talbot, explaining that he and Simmons have worked out that if they use the odium to inject him with Centipede Serum, they can kill him - a necessary action at this point. However, Daisy Johnson interjects, explaining worriedly that the Centipede Serum they have is the last remaining sample in the world. The team come to the horrible realization of their situation: either they save Coulson but risk the world, or they save the world and condemn Coulson to death.[40][95]
Deke Shaw stands outside as the team debate what to do. Piper arrives and lets him know that there has been no improvement with Coulson.[40][96]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez reminds the team that this is the exact circumstance her 2091 self warned her about, and that as much as it pains her, letting Coulson die is necessary and the right thing to do especially considering he does not want saving. Fitz agrees, but Johnson says that since they cannot get close to Talbot, there is no way they can get the serum into his body anyway. Fitz mentions that it would work if Talbot absorbed one of them, and Rodriguez says she would be willing to if necessary. May asks about what would happen if it did not work, pointing out that Coulson would have died for nothing, and Johnson brings up Robin's mention of how Coulson will "bring all the pieces together", but Rodriguez argues that Robin's comments are disjointed and that this is not proof of anything. Johnson says that he would be able to talk Talbot down if he was revived, and decides to make the call herself.[40][96]
Quake reaches for the serum, but Rodriguez uses her super-speed to retrieve it. She clutches it and says that they are being clouded by their emotions, putting it simply that he is just one man against billions, and the risk is far too great. She cries that she is being made the bad guy, and that despite seeing the dystopian future, none of them are willing to listen to her. Alphonso Mackenzie intervenes and says that they need to vote, but at that moment, May smashes the odium on the ground, making it impossible to use the serum on Talbot. Rodriguez falls to her knees, desperately sad, feeling that they just doomed the world. Fitz reluctantly says he and Simmons will prepare the remedy, remarking that the others should prepare for the end of the world.[40][96]
The broken pieces of Qovas' ship hurtle through space after the ship's destruction.[40][96]
Talbot again asks Robin Hinton where the gravitonium well is. She refuses, so Talbot has Polly taken away by the Remorath, saying Robin will not see her again until he gets what he wants. He holds up a globe and asks her again to mark the location.[40][96]
Ebony Maw suspends Doctor Strange in the air, telling him that he needs to take the Time Stone before the planned rendezvous on Titan. He telekinetically presses magic needle-like shards into Strange's face to torture him.[40][76]
After hours aboard the Q-Ship, Iron Man finds Strange and Maw. He overlooks them secretly from above, trying to plan, but is startled when he is tapped on the shoulder. He turns around, only to find the Cloak of Levitation. However, at that moment, Spider-Man descends from the ceiling behind him, revealing himself to have stayed on the ship. Stark is angry, having wanted him to stay away for his own safety, but Parker insists he thought it through, feeling it was useless being Spider-Man if there was no New York left to protect. Stark calms down somewhat and accepts their situation, then asking Parker if he has any ideas for how to rescue Strange. Parker asks if Stark has seen Aliens, getting an idea inspired by the movie.[40][76]
Maw continues to torture Strange, but senses someone else's presence. He turns to find Iron Man behind him, and begins to threaten to use his powers. However, Stark fires a missile into the ship wall, with the vacuum immediately sucking Maw out into space. Strange is sucked to the hole as well, but the Cloak of Levitation catches him. He slips and continues to fall, but Spider-Man shoots a web to catch him. He himself is sucked by the vacuum, but when he reaches the hole, the Iron Spider Armor activates four back legs to stop them from slipping out into space. The legs thrust the duo back inside momentarily, and Stark administers synthetic material to safely close the hole.[40][76]
Ebony Maw dies from exposure to the vacuum of space.[40][76]
Stark and Strange argue as Stark tells him he should have listened to his advice back during the attack on Greenwich Village, but Strange says he does not work for him. He asks who Parker is, and Parker introduces himself to the sorcerer.[40][76]
Strange turns back to Stark to ask if they can turn the ship around to head back to Earth, but Stark tells him that it might be best to let the ship continue on to Titan. Strange feels Stark does not understand the seriousness of the situation, but Stark says that he is the one who does not understand, since the force behind Loki and the Chitauri's attack on New York in 2012 has worried him for 6 years and while he does not know what to do about him, Thanos, now he has arrived, he feels that at least in going to Titan they can gain the advantage of catching him by surprise. Strange agrees, but warns Stark that if he has to let him or Parker die to protect the Time Stone, he will. Stark respects Strange's moral steadfastness, and tells Parker he is now an Avenger, jokingly making a knighting motion and causing Parker to swell with pride.[40][76]
Mackenzie approaches Rodriguez
Yo-Yo Rodriguez dejectedly tells Alphonso Mackenzie that he is going to die due to their inability to make the tough choice and let Coulson die. Mackenzie speaks of his faith, saying simply that he will answer for his choices in life in heaven and receive the deserving judgment, but Rodriguez says it is not God she fears.[40][96]
Having been reluctantly informed by Robin Hinton that the gravitonium well was in Chicago, Talbot descends on the city in a piece of Qovas' ship, recklessly crashing into buildings.[40][96]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez visits Phil Coulson and tells him that she wants him to know she never was arguing for him to die, but simply for the saving of the world. He is understanding, telling her he would have taken her side as well.[40][96]
Daisy Johnson comes across Deke Shaw and thanks him for helping out. He reveals that he will be heading off to travel soon, hoping to see some of the world before it cracks or he blinks out of existence, and tells Johnson that he has never seen so much love, care, and loyalty among a group as he has with the agents. Piper then arrives and informs Johnson that they have found out Talbot is in Chicago.[40][96]
Phil Coulson reminds Jemma Simmons of his carving into walls after resurrection and John Garrett's insanity after taking the Centipede Serum, saying that they should have learned to let nature take its course. May enters and tries to convince him to take the serum, leaving it next to him to self-administer before leaving.[40][96]
Talbot uses his powers to float down into the streets of Chicago. He then controls a column of rock, lifting it out of the ground to retrieve a small piece of gravitonium from deep underground, then lets the rock fall back down, scaring onlookers.[40][96]
Phil Coulson resolves not to take the Centipede Serum, slipping the serum instead into the Quake Gauntlets without her knowing, hoping to force Johnson to let him die and instead use it against Talbot. Unknown to him, in doing this he fulfils Robin Hinton's prophecy that he can "put the pieces back together", through his self-sacrifice causing a subtle divergence in the timeline.[40][96]
Daisy Johnson admits to the team that she let her emotions get the better of her, and feels she cannot lead the team. Instead, she suggests that Alphonso Mackenzie take charge due to his big heart and cool head, and everyone else agrees. Coulson then enters, seemingly revitalized by the serum, expressing his approval. He hands Johnson her suit and asks Mackenzie what they will be doing next, to which he replies, "We save lives."[40][96]
On board the Sanctuary II, Thanos hands Gamora food, but she throws it aside. She says she hated his chair, the room, the ship - her entire life with him. Thanos says he knows, having been constantly reminded for the almost 20 years she spent with him. He claims that he saved her, and that Zen-Whoberi was on the brink of collapse until he saved the Zehoberei people, with the murder of half the population having simply been necessary to bring about a peace and prosperity he claims they now live in, calling it "salvation".[40][76]
Thanos explains that he believes he is the only being with the will strong enough to act on the fact that life needs culling and correcting, since otherwise finite resources will run dry and cause everyone's extinction. He says that she, too, shared that will for a time, and that this was why he entrusted her with finding the Soul Stone. Gamora pretends to be apologetic, saying she is sorry she did not find it, but Thanos says that he knows she did, and is disappointed that she lied.[40][76]
Thanos takes Gamora to see Nebula, whom he has imprisoned, suspended mid-air with her cybernetic parts separated. He explains that she sneaked on board to try to kill him recently, but that he had caught her and cycled through her memory files, finding one particular memory of importance. Playing it to her, Gamora sees that Thanos found a discussion between the sisters in which Gamora had told Nebula she secretly had found a map to the Soul Stone and burned it. Thanos demands that Gamora tell him where the stone is, and uses the Infinity Stones he has acquired to control Nebula's parts, forcing them to separate further and further and causing her agony until Gamora eventually gives in, unable to stand it any longer. She reluctantly informs him that it is on the planet Vormir.[40][76]
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s arrival
The Chicago Police Department tell Glenn Talbot to stand down, but worry that there is not much they are able to do. However, at that moment the citizens' phones ring with an announcement from S.H.I.E.L.D., read by Alphonso Mackenzie. He tells them they have an aircraft for civilian evacuation, that they will clear buildings in danger of collapse, and not to engage Talbot as they will handle it. Zephyr One lands in Chicago and Yo-Yo Rodriguez, Jemma Simmons, and Piper help people board the plane to get to safety.[40][96]
Alphonso Mackenzie, Leo Fitz, and Melinda May run up a damaged building's staircase to find any survivors and get them to safety.[40][96]
Davis flies Johnson and Coulson to engage Talbot.[40][96]
Mackenzie, Fitz, and May are helping people at the top of the building, where Talbot's ship crashed, and find Robin Hinton, crying. She tells them about her mother being taken, and Mackenzie goes to find her.[40][96]
Mackenzie climbs up into Talbot's ship to search for Polly Hinton.[40][96]
Quake and Phil Coulson land, and Johnson tells Coulson to come with her so he can talk Talbot down. However, Coulson reveals that he is unable to, as he can barely stand, having in fact not taken the Centipede Serum. He tells her that she needs to be confident in her own abilities, having been trained by him, and says she needs to talk to Talbot herself - and if it is ineffective, to take him down. She leaves the Quinjet and angrily shouts at him to return to Zephyr One and take the serum, exclaiming that the agents fought to give him it, and he cannot just refuse.[96] An onlooker films her leaving the jet and shouting.[40]
Mackenzie walks through the ship tunnels and hears Hinton stuck behind a heavy door. He uses the Shotgun-Axe to begin to prise the door open. Fitz reenters the room, having taken a civilian to safety, and May explains where Mackenzie has gone. Fitz becomes worried, reminding her that Polly Hinton and Mackenzie have both been said not to make it into the future.[40][96]
Mackenzie gets Hinton free, but before they can leave they are confronted in the corridor by two Remorath marauders.[40][96]
Quake runs at Talbot and thrusts herself at him with her powers, tackling him to the ground. She tells him that whether he realizes or not, he is himself becoming the "enemy" he is so bent on taking down.[40][96]
Mackenzie and Hinton find themselves cornered by the Remorath, but Melinda May and Leo Fitz arrive, hoping to prevent the prophesied deaths. They ambush the aliens from behind and kill them, saving their friends.[40][96]
Quake tells Glenn Talbot that he is already the hero he wants to be, as anyone who signs up to help protect the world despite the potential great loss it can entail already is one. Talbot rejects this, however, saying that this is also what General Hale and Phil Coulson said to him. He grabs hold of her and begins to fly into the air.[40][96]
The Hintons reunite, but are told by May to leave the building
May, Mackenzie, and Fitz emerge from Talbot's ship with Polly Hinton, stepping back into the building. Robin is delighted to see her mother safe and runs to hug her.[40][96]
After flying high into the air, Talbot then descends fast towards the ground with Quake in his arms, building momentum and crashing her into the ground.[40][96]
The impact of Talbot and Quake's crash causes the nearby area to shake. In the building where the agents are with the Hintons, rocks fall from the ceiling onto Leo Fitz, burying him.[40][96]
Zephyr One is shaken by the impact. Rodriguez begins to desperately administer chest compressions on Coulson to try to revive him.[40][96]
In the crater in the ground formed by their impact, Talbot grabs hold of the winded Quake again and begins to use his powers to attempt to absorb her, saying that it will be easier to get through to the gravitonium in the ground once he can use her absorbed powers to quake the ground apart.[40][96]
Simmons runs to find the Centipede Serum to administer it to Coulson and save his life, but finds the container it was held in empty.[40][96]
As Robin and Polly Hinton descend the stairs to safety, Robin stops in her tracks and tells her mother that she can sense something being different in the timeline.[40][96]
Quake tries to escape Talbot's hold, but is incapable. However, at that moment she spots the Centipede Serum syringe slotted into her Quake Gauntlets - the difference in the timeline that Hinton had sensed.[40][96]
Jemma Simmons runs back to help try to resuscitate Coulson, while Yo-Yo Rodriguez starts to use super-speed for her chest compressions.[40][96]
Johnson takes a moment to consider what to do, knowing that if she uses the serum on herself, she can stop Talbot from absorbing her and cracking the world apart, but that this would mean it cannot be used to save Coulson. In the urgency of the situation, she comes to realize that the world has to be considered more important, and that Coulson has forced her hand since the serum will likely go to waste anyway, absorbed by Talbot if she does not use it. She steels herself and slips it from her gauntlet, injecting it into her neck.[40][96]
Rodriguez continues to administer chest compressions.[40][96]
With the additional power from the Centipede Serum, Quake breaks free of Glenn Talbot. When he runs back at her to attack again, she slides onto her back, and the moment he is directly over her, she fires a quake boosted massively by the serum directly upwards. Talbot is sent flying by the massive blast, faster than the speed of sound up into the sky and through the atmosphere.[40][96]
Phil Coulson is finally resuscitated from Rodriguez's efforts, to her and Simmons' great relief.[40][96]
May pulls another rock from the pile over Fitz and they are relieved to find him alive under the rubble. They continue to move the rocks to get him out.[40][96]
Johnson lies in the crater in the ground, physically and emotionally exhausted, having saved the world but at the cost of killing Talbot and taking Coulson's last shot at survival. Talbot, meanwhile, floats into space, dying from exposure to the vacuum.[40][96]
May and Mackenzie lift the last of the rock off Leo Fitz, but see that his side has been punctured by a sheet of metal and he is rapidly losing blood. Fitz explains that he cannot feel his legs anymore, leading them to realize his spinal cord has been damaged. He starts to become delirious from the blood loss, shaking and not fully aware of his situation. Mackenzie crouches by his side and tries to talk to him to keep him conscious, scared that Fitz is dying. Fitz starts to repeat himself, losing all awareness as he succumbs to the blood loss. Mackenzie holds his hand as Fitz passes away on the floor, devastating him and May.[40][96]
Thor surprises Rocket when he understands Groot's language, having learned it on Asgard. He sits down and Rocket realizes he is mourning his brother, walking to the back of their ship to speak to him. He tries to reassure Thor, but Thor ends up lamenting his numerous recent losses: Loki, Hela, Odin, Frigga, and Heimdall. He tries to steel himself and turn his mourning into motivation for the task at hand, killing Thanos, and insists he is capable, but when Rocket asks what would happen if Thor is wrong, he momentarily chokes on his words, overcome with grief as he asks what more he could possibly lose, before getting up to prepare for their arrival in Nidavellir. Rocket hands Thor a cybernetic eye he stole from a man on Contraxia, wanting to help him for the coming challenges by giving him his full vision back. Thor places it in his empty eye socket and regains full vision as they arrive at Nidavellir.[40][76]
Thor is concerned to see that Nidavellir is not lifeless and colorful, but dark and seemingly empty. Thor, Rocket, and Groot land on Nidavellir and look around the apparently abandoned forges. They come across a mold for the Infinity Gauntlet and become concerned, but before they can do anything they are ambushed by Eitri, the king of the dwarves. When he sees it is Thor who has come, he exclaims that Asgard was supposed to protect Nidavellir, but never came. Thor explains that Asgard is gone, and Eitri sadly tells Thor that Thanos came to Nidavellir and threatened the lives of all 300 dwarves if they did not forge him the Infinity Gauntlet to harness the power of the Infinity Stones, yet when they did, he still slaughtered all the other dwarves except him, melting metal around his hands so he can never forge something for anyone else. Thor tries to encourage him, saying there are still ways he can help and asking to work with them so he can kill Thanos.[40][76]
Jemma Simmons is tending to Phil Coulson when Alphonso Mackenzie returns to Zephyr One and comes to the medical ward to deliver the tragic news of Fitz's death. She smiles at seeing her friend alive, but her face falls as she comes to realize what he has come to say.[40][96]
A Chitauri guard pieces Nebula back together following her torture at Thanos' hands. However, she intentionally pops a piece of her head out to lure him in front of her. The moment he does, she grabs him and snaps his neck. She limps to a transmitter and send a message to Mantis on the Benatar, saying to get the Guardians of the Galaxy to come and meet her on Titan.[40][76]
Simmons takes Fitz's multipurpose tool, which she had used to show Fitz that Deke Shaw was their grandson as he had the same tool, from his old cell in the Lighthouse.[40][96]
The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents gather in the Lighthouse to mourn Fitz's death. May tells Johnson that they will be leaving soon. Simmons enters and the room grows quiet as nobody knows what to say to her. She sits down as Johnson comforts her, while Mackenzie says that they need a memorial service. Mackenzie is hesitant to allow Simmons, Johnson, and other agents to search for the other Fitz. Johnson, meanwhile, returns Fitz's wedding ring to Simmons.[40][23]
Coulson enters the room, and Johnson asks why he is out of bed. Coulson says that he needs to see Fitz, and May allows him to do so. He stands over Fitz's corpse and tells Simmons to find the other Fitz in space.[40][23]
Simmons leaves the room and sees Johnson asking Rodriguez to join the team to look for Fitz, but Rodriguez refuses, saying she wants to keep Mackenzie company.[40][23]
The Q-Ship arrives at Titan, and Iron Man, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man realize they have to park it on the planet. Stark and Parker each place their arms in the controls of the ship, individually meant for either of Thanos' arms, and work together to attempt to direct the ship to a safe landing. Strange conjures a magical shield to protect them, and while the ship breaks, they land safely.[40][76]
Once they have landed, Spider-Man tries to tell the others that something is coming, entering the ship. He is too late, however, as a grenade goes off by their feet and they are ambushed by Star-Lord, Drax the Destroyer, and Mantis, who believe them to be working for Thanos. Drax throws knives at Strange, who blocks them with a conjured shield and has the Cloak of Levitation wrap itself around Drax. Star-Lord and Iron Man shoot at each other, both missing, and Star-Lord activates a Gravity Mine, pinning Iron Man to the ship's frame. Spider-Man webs Mantis' arms to her side but is kicked away by Star-Lord, who then wraps him in a bola. He holds his Quad Blaster to Spider-Man's head as Iron Man frees himself from the Gravity Mine and stands on Drax, threatening him with his repulsor.[40][76]
Quill demands to know where Gamora is, but Stark explains that he has no idea who that is. However, when Quill elaborates and says he is after Thanos, both sides realize there has been a misunderstanding, as they assumed each other were working for the Titan. Parker explains that they are the Avengers, which the Guardians of the Galaxy recognize as the team Thor told them about. Stark and Strange are surprised to find out they know Thor, and Strange asks were he is now.[40][76]
Eitri shows Thor and Rocket the mold for a "king's weapon", the greatest in Asgard, that could even potentially summon the Bifrost Bridge - "Stormbreaker". He explains that they will have to restart the forge to make it.[40][76]
Peter Quill explains that Titan is 8 degrees off its axis and its gravitational pull is massively variable, wondering what happened. The two teams discuss plans, with Tony Stark saying that they need to use their advantage of Thanos coming to them, hoping to lure him in and take the Infinity Gauntlet. Drax does not pay attention, Quill explains that their team is used to just acting spontaneously, and when Mantis incorrectly says that they "kick names, take ass", Stark becomes exasperated.[40][76]
The Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy witness Doctor Strange's actions
Stark tells them they need to coalesce, but Quill interrupts again, with the Guardians of the Galaxy getting sidetracked talking about the dance-off with Ronan the Accuser, and Quill insisting on making the plans himself. Mantis stops them to let them know that Doctor Strange is doing something odd, and they rush to help him as he levitates, using the Time Stone with his face flitting around uncontrollably. He breaks out of it and tells them he had been using the stone to view 14,000,605 potential futures, yet had only seen one in which they won.[40][76]
After making preparations, Thanos uses the Space Stone to teleport him and Gamora to Vormir. They traverse the planet's surface to get to the mountain where the Soul Stone is kept.[40][76]
Gamora and Thanos reach the top of the mountain, where a cloaked wraith-like figure greets them. He warns that the stone extracts a "terrible price". Thanos states that he is prepared, but the figures claims that everyone says that but goes on to find they are wrong, lowering himself to the ground and stepping into the light, revealing his face to them - Red Skull, Captain America's former enemy who, when he took hold of the Tesseract in 1945, was sent by it to Vormir to stand guard of the Soul Stone.[40][76]
Red Skull takes them to a precipice while explaining his predicament and how, from this, he knows the lore of the Soul Stone. He informs them that the stone holds a special place among the Infinity Stones, possessing a kind of wisdom and requiring a sacrifice to ensure the seeker understands its power before taking it: a "soul for a Soul", the loss of that which the seeker loves.[40][76]
Gamora begins to mock Thanos, believing he has finally failed, ultimately due to his lack of benevolence, as he loves no one. Thanos turns to her and begins to shed tears, which she believes to be because of his failure, but Red Skull informs her that he is not crying for himself. She comes to the horrified realization that Thanos might in fact genuinely care for her, and tries to tell him that surely his treatment of her could never have come from a place of love. He ignores her, knowing that his adoptive daughter truly is the one person in his life he had grown to love, and states that he has to persist nonetheless. She grabs her switchblade and tries to kill herself first, but he uses the Reality Stone to turn it merely to bubbles, rendering it useless.[40][76]
After a simple but heartfelt apology, Thanos grabs hold of Gamora and cries as he drags her to the edge of the precipice. Unable to break free, she is thrown by him from the cliff and falls to her death.[40][76]
Thanos wakes, transported to a pool on Vormir, with the Soul Stone in his hand - gifted it in return for his sacrifice.[40][76]
Sam Wilson pilots the Quinjet, following Steve Rogers' instructions, to take the team of heroes into Wakanda, flying through the specified entry point in the Wakandan dome.[40][76]
Shuri takes a look at Vision to see what she can do, and says she can reprogram his synapses to work collectively to safely remove the Mind Stone from the android's forehead, but that she will need as much time as they can buy her.[40][76]
Okoye's Kimoyo Beads alert her that something has entered the atmosphere. Above Wakanda, a Q-Ship begins to release Outrider Dropships onto the country. They begin to fall to the ground, but the one that hits the dome are broken on impact with the protective shield. However, the others crash down outside the dome, and Vision insists that it is too late, and they need to destroy the stone now, despite the fact that it will kill him. The others tell him to return to the operating table and T'Challa states that they will hold off the attackers, ordering to evacuate the city, engage all defences, and get Rogers a shield.[40][76]
Thor attaches a rope to Rocket's escape pod and has him fire the engines. He then digs his feet into one of the rings of Nidavellir and has Rocket drive the ship while he holds onto the rope, thus forcing the ring to start to rotate. This movement breaks the ice freezing the center of the rings, and they collectively start to spin again, restarting the heart of the planet's dying star. However, the mechanism at the center of the rings which focuses the heat to use for forging breaks, forcing the iris of the forge to close. Knowing that if they do not get the axe then he will most likely die anyway, Thor risks diving to the center of the rings to attempt to hold the iris open for the necessary few minutes.[40][76]
The Wakandan army travels to the edge of the dome to prepare for the attackers. Bruce Banner wears the Hulkbuster 2.0 armor to allow him to fight, since the Hulk persona is refusing to come out.[40][76]
T'Challa thanks M'Baku for coming to their aid, then he, Rogers, and Romanoff walk to the very edge to talk with Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian, who have come forwards to threaten them. They claim that Corvus Glaive died from his injuries in Edinburgh and say that the heroes will pay for his death with their own lives as they make their assault for the Mind Stone. Proxima Midnight then orders the opening of the dropships, and an army of rabid Outriders is unleashed.[40][76]
T'Challa leads a chant as the Wakandan forces prepare for the fight. Outriders hurl themselves at the dome, many of them dying as they attempt to push through the energy barrier, and Okoye is shocked to see their total lack of fear of death in their drive to serve. Some begin to make it through, and the heroes begin to fire - Barnes shooting, Banner firing repulsors, and Falcon shooting and firing missiles, and War Machine dropping grenades. Nonetheless, the forces persist.[40][76]
A number of Outriders begin to run around the outskirts of the dome to get to the back of the city. Banner reminds the heroes that if they get through the dome at the back of the city, they will have direct access to Vision, so T'Challa makes the reluctant decision to open a sliver of the barrier so that the aliens will take the easy route in and not go around the back. He shouts "Wakanda forever" to rally his forces and begins a charge, leading with Rogers as they take on the aliens. Battle breaks out, and T'Challa uses Kimoyo Beads to check in with Shuri. She explains that she has barely begun her work, and he urges her to work quicker.[40][76]
Despite Eitri's warnings, Thor proceeds to attempt to hold the forge iris open for the necessary amount of time. He manages to open it for long enough to melt the Uru metal so that Eitri can forge Stormbreaker, but passes out from the physical exertion and immense heat. He falls and tumbles to the forge floor, and Rocket worries that he is dying. Eitri states that Thor needs the axe to revive him, but cannot find a handle, so Groot, who has paid little attention until then, finally steps up to help. He grows his arm to bring the metal pieces together, then severs it, leaving the wood as a handle. Thor's hand twitches as, barely conscious, he attempts to summon the newly forged weapon.[40][76]
The battle continues in Wakanda, with the heroes continuing to battle the Outrider forces. Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight enter the fray, and Obsidian throws his axe at War Machine, knocking him out of the sky. Black Panther and Steve Rogers start to become overrun by the aliens, and several attack the Hulkbuster armor at once, knocking Banner to the ground as they claw at it.[40][76]
At that moment, a Bifrost Bridge beam opens onto the Wakandan fields, and an axe crackling with lightning flies out of it, wiping out the Outriders overpowering the heroes. The axe, Stormbreaker, returns to its new owner, Thor, as he, Rocket, and Groot are revealed to the combatants when the Bifrost beam disappears, standing ready to battle having just come from Nidavellir. Thor calls out to Thanos' forces, demanding that they bring him the Titan, and leaps into the air before crashing down and striking the ground with Stormbreaker, causing a burst of lightning that strikes all the Outriders in his vicinity.[40][76]
Thanos gets to Titan and is greeted by Doctor Strange. The rest of the heroes hide, waiting to ambush. Thanos laments Ebony Maw's death, but says that he did his job in getting the Time Stone to him. He explains that they are on the wreckage of his home planet, and uses the Reality Stone to show what it looked like before its ruin, showing its beauty. Thanos recounts, however, that like most planets it became unsustainable as there were too many people and not enough resources. He tells Strange how he offered the solution of random, dispassionate genocide of a portion of the population, but that they had called him mad, and then as he had predicted, the population all died out as a result. Thanos states that once he has all six Infinity Stones and snaps his fingers, he will make the hardest choice that others do not have the will to make and be mercifully saving the populations of planets across the universe by killing a random half. Strange then stands and conjures a shield, preparing to fight, and stating that Thanos will find their will just as strong as his.[40][76]
Thanos angrily fights back against the united heroes
Thanos realizes that others are present, but before he can react, Iron Man flies a column of rock from above down onto the Titan to crush him. Thanos uses the Power Stone to break free of the rock, then uses the Reality Stone to turn the rock fragments into bat-like winged creatures, which attack Stark. Spider-Man webs his eyes to blind him and Drax the Destroyer slides at him to swipe with his knives at Thanos' legs. Strange opens a portal to attack Thanos from the other side, using a magic eldritch sword to assault him and forcing him to try to ward off enemies on both sides. He knocks Drax aside and pulls the webbing from his eyes, but Strange conjures magic platforms to allow Star-Lord to step up to Thanos' shoulder, placing a Gravity Mine on his back and then escaping through a portal Strange conjures. The mine detonates and Thanos is pulled to the ground, and Strange sends the Cloak of Levitation to wrap around Thanos' Infinity Gauntlet hand so he cannot close his fist - necessary to activate the Infinity Stones.[40][76]
Strange conjures a series of portals so Spider-Man can attack Thanos from one side and exit through the other, before appearing on another side and exiting again, but on his fourth attack, Thanos catches him by the neck, slamming him to the ground. He then throws the teenager at Strange, bowling him over.[40][76]
Thanos tears the Cloak of Levitation from his hand, but is hit by explosions from Iron Man, returning after losing the bat-like creatures. However, he uses the Infinity Gauntlet to absorb the explosions and fire them back in a beam of fire at Stark. Spider-Man returns and webs the gauntlet to stop him, though Thanos punches him away.[40][76]
Before he can reactivate the gauntlet, Thanos is suddenly crashed into by an escape ship - a Chitauri one stolen by Nebula, who leaps from it and starts to attack him with her sword. She asks where Gamora is, but he bats her away.[40][76]
Doctor Strange conjures a crimson binding spell, wrapping it around Thanos' gauntlet arm to keep his palm open again, and Drax returns, kicking his leg out from under him. Quill flies back to attack again and activates another Gravity Mine, pulling Thanos' other arm to the floor, Spider-Man comes back to wrap webs around the Titan and tie him down, and Iron Man heads for the gauntlet, pulling at it to try to get it off. Finally, Strange opens a portal over Thanos' head allowing Mantis to drop onto him and attempt to put him to sleep. She is not able to, but manages, with great effort, to keep him docile.[40][76]
With the combined efforts of the group, they keep Thanos restrained and Spider-Man moves to help Iron Man pull at the gauntlet, knowing Mantis will not be able to hold him for long. Peter Quill arrives and asks Thanos where Gamora is, but he does not reply. However, Mantis tells him that Thanos is grieving, and Nebula realizes what has happened. She mournfully tells him that he left for Vormir with Gamora and has returned without.[40][76]
Seeing Quill losing control, Tony Stark begs him to try to keep calm so they can finish removing the gauntlet, but Quill angrily asks the Titan if it is true. Thanos admits it and Quill is enraged. Unable to control himself, he starts to hit him with his Quad Blaster. Stark tries to restrain him, but Mantis is incapable of holding Thanos' head against the hits and her effect is lost on him. He returns to full vitality just as Spider-Man is about to pull the gauntlet off, yanking it from Parker's grasp and hurling him from his back. Spider-Man catches her and uses the Iron Spider Armor to cushion their fall. Thanos kicks Drax off, knocking him into Quill and Nebula, then tugs on the eldritch binding whip to pull Strange off the ground and throw him, freed of the heroes' restraint.[40][76]
Iron Man shoots at Thanos but he swipes him away, and when Drax, Nebula, and Quill get up to attack again, he hits them with a burst from the Power Stone. Iron Man attacks once again but Thanos headbutts him then engages the Power Stone to control one of Titan's moons. The stone's power allows Thanos to cracks the whole moon into pieces, then pulling those pieces down from the sky, plummeting towards the heroes to kill them.[40][76]
The battle continues in Wakanda. Cull Obsidian uses his weaponry to attack Wakandan soldiers, but Black Panther unleashes a build-up of kinetic energy in a burst to knock him down. Rocket shoots at Outriders, and Bucky Barnes picks him up so they can fire in opposite directions, spinning to wipe out the aliens getting close to them. Once the imminent threat is dealt with, Barnes puts him back down, and Rocket asks how much it would cost him to buy Barnes' gun. Barnes says it is not for sale, so Rocket asks how much his bionic arm is. Barnes ignores him but Rocket, with his love of cybernetic parts, mischievously mutters to himself that he will get it at some point.[40][76]
As they fight, Steve Rogers comments on Thor's new haircut, and Thor responds that Rogers has copied him in growing a beard. He introduces Rogers to Groot, who, as ever, says, "I am Groot." Believing him to be introducing himself, Rogers replies in turn, "I am Steve Rogers."[40][76]
Maximoff watches the battlefield and notices a disturbance in the ground at the border. Outrider Threshers - bladed, wheeled vehicles that can tunnel through ground, dig under the Wakandan dome and come up on the other side, crashing through the field and killing Wakandan soldiers. Seeing that she is needed on the field, Maximoff reluctantly leaves Vision and joins the fray, using her powers to telekinetically lift the Threshers into the air and drop them on a horde of Outriders.[40][76]
Having successfully lured Maximoff out onto the field, Proxima Midnight contacts Corvus Glaive, who in fact survived the fight in Edinburgh, and tells him it is safe for him to attack Vision. He kills a guard and Ayo attacks him to defend Shuri. However, he overpowers her, and Shuri is forced to close her unfinished work on Vision abruptly. She fires at Corvus Glaive with Vibranium Gauntlets but he defeats her. Vision takes advantage of the moment to hide, then ambushes Corvus Glaive, falling with him out of a window.[40][76]
Maximoff attempts to return to Vision, but is knocked into a ditch by Proxima Midnight. Before she can kill Maximoff, however, Black Widow and Okoye arrive and engage her in a fight.[40][76]
Vision struggles against Corvus Glaive, and Cull Obsidian arrives to help take him down. However, Bruce Banner gets to them in the Hulkbuster 2.0. Cull Obsidian activates Banner's repulsors to fly them away, so as to allow Corvus Glaive to still attack Vision.[40][76]
Banner contacts the others to ask for them to help Vision and is attacked by Cull Obsidian. He begs Hulk to come out and help, but the Hulk persona still refuses. He is forced to fight the giant alien himself. Cull Obsidian cuts off one of the Hulkbuster 2.0's forearms, but Banner manages to attach it to his hand, then firing the hand upward, taking Cull Obsidian to the ceiling of the dome. Dragging along the dome ceiling, the energy in its resistance heats the armor gauntlet until it explodes, killing the alien.[40][76]
The fight in the ditch continues, but when a Thresher rolls over and Black Widow is forced to duck, Proxima Midnight takes advantage of her compromised position and kicks her down. She then grabs Okoye and tosses her aside.[40][76]
Corvus Glaive stabs Vision, but Steve Rogers arrives and tackles him out of the way. He shouts at the android to leave.[40][76]
Proxima Midnight moves to kill Black Widow, but Maximoff gets back up and uses her powers to telekinetically lift the alien up and into the path of a Thresher, killing her.[40][76]
The duel in the Wakandan forest
Rogers duels with Corvus Glaive, knocking his glaive out of his hands, but the alien manages to pin him to the ground, starting to strangle him. However, Vision, having in fact not left, picks up the dropped glaive and thrusts it through Corvus Glaive's back, killing the last of the Black Order.[40][76]
With Titan's variable gravity and the impact of the pieces of moon, the gravity fluctuates and the Guardians of the Galaxy are sent flying. Spider-Man manages to catch the trio with webbing.[40][76]
Doctor Strange floats down to confront Thanos. He conjures fiery tendrils to attack the Titan, but Thanos dodges them and fires back with a blast from the Power Stone. Strange protects himself by trying to force Thanos into the Mirror Dimension, but he uses the gauntlet to shatter the dimensional wall, engaging the Space Stone to turn it into a black hole-like void, which he hurtles back at the sorcerer. Strange manages to turn the void into harmless butterflies.[40][76]
The sorcerer casts a duplication spell, conjuring multiple forms of himself to surround Thanos, and casting Eldritch whips from all of them to bind him, but Thanos uses the gauntlet to dismiss the copies, force Strange's astral form back into his body, and pull him into his grasp. Suspicious that Strange never invoked the Time Stone, he takes the sorcerer's necklace and crushes the eye in his hand, proving it to be a fake. He ends the duel, throwing him to the floor and moving to kill, but Iron Man returns and attaches part of an Iron Man gauntlet to Thanos' palm, again attempting to prevent him from closing his fist.[40][76]
Iron Man lands and confronts the Titan, who reveals that he already knows who Stark is. Stark fires missiles at Thanos, who absorbs the explosions, but not before Stark can attack him with the butt of the thrusters on his feet. He then hits Thanos with battering ram-like weapons formed by the nanotech in his arms, knocking him back momentarily, but Thanos retaliates by ripping off his helmet. Stark's suit reforms a new helmet but Thanos then punches him back before firing a Power Stone beam. Stark forms a nanotech shield, just about protecting himself, and slips around the side of the beam, kicking Thanos' arm to the ground and growing nanotech roots to pin his hand down. He wallops Thanos with another generated heavy arm weapon and manages to draw blood from his enemy.[40][76]
Thanos looks at the blood on his hand. He mocks Stark for going to all that effort for merely a drop of blood and retaliates, lifting his hand from under Stark's foot and tossing him. He then pins Stark to the ground and starts to pummel him with punches, breaking his helmet. He then picks Stark up only to blast him with the Power Stone. Stark gets up and fires repulsor beams back at Thanos as his nanotech reassembles the damaged parts of the suit, but Thanos deflects the blast with the gauntlet. He walks up to Stark and bashes the armor off his helmet, and Stark makes a desperate grab for Thanos' arm to stop a second hit. He manages to hold him off for a second as he manifests a nanotech blade, then swings to stab the Titan, only for Thanos to evade the strike. He snaps the blade off and turns it on Stark, thrusting and impaling him his own weapon.[40][76]
Tony Stark struggles as Thanos pushes him by the hilt of the blade, slumping to the ground. The Titan tells him he has earned his respect, and prepares to kill Stark when Doctor Strange shouts for him to stop. Thanos turns to him, curious.[40][76]
Melinda May pours drinks for a farewell gathering for Phil Coulson. Knowing he does not have long to live, the team meet to say a formal goodbye and leave him to retire in peace for his final days. Coulson asks that the team cheer up a little, saying that the event is a celebration and not a funeral.[40][96]
Jemma Simmons descends Zephyr One's ladder to join the team for Coulson's farewell, sad about Leo Fitz's death, but composed, reassured in the knowledge that a slightly younger Fitz is still out there, frozen with Enoch out in space. The team talk about how homely the plane has been for them, joking that they nonetheless miss the Bus, and Simmons comments how they have come a long way since they used that plane. Coulson's voice cracks with emotion, but he manages to begin a speech, telling the others that while he has lived a life surrounded by heroes, none have been more heroic than his team, due to their courage in signing up to protect people despite the losses they know they will encounter. He says never to lose sight of their heroism, and Daisy Johnson adds that they should never forget those they have lost.[40][96]
Strange tells Thanos that if he spares Stark's life, he will give him the Time Stone. Thanos suspects a trick, but Strange assures him otherwise. Stark calls out to Strange to tell him not to trade the stone for his life - as Strange had previously told him he would not do - knowing that it is paramount that they keep the stone safe, but Strange proceeds nonetheless. He summons the stone from its magical hiding place among the stars and floats it over to the Titan, who outstretches his hand and receives it.[40][76]
Alphonso Mackenzie agrees with Johnson, stating that remembrance is their reason for putting up the plaque in the Zephyr One cockpit, to commemorate their leader. Coulson says it is okay to remember, but that they have to move on, but Simmons interjects, telling him he is wrong - that they have to hold those they have lost in their hearts, even once they have said goodbye.[40][96]
Thanos places the Time Stone into the Infinity Gauntlet, and happily comments that he has "one to go". Star-Lord recovers and opens fire on Thanos, flying towards him as he shoots, but Thanos opens a portal with the Space Stone and escapes. Quill crashes to the ground and desperately asks where he has gone. Tony Stark covers his wound with synthetic to staunch the bleeding, and Quill desperately asks the others if they just lost. Stark asks Strange why he would give the stone away, but Strange simply replies, "We're in the endgame now."[40][76]
M'Baku chants as he continues to fight Outriders in Wakanda, and Thor uses Stormbreaker to fly through an Outrider Dropship, destroying it. Wanda Maximoff rushes to Vision to check he is okay, when he suddenly feels a searing pain from the Mind Stone. Knowing what this means, he warns her, "He's here." Wind starts to blow through the trees from the slow forming of a portal, and Steve Rogers alerts the team, telling them to regather and that they have incoming.[40][76]
Phil Coulson tells Jemma Simmons that he is sad he did not get the chance to say goodbye to Leo Fitz, but asks that they tell him when they find and unfreeze him. Simmons says he will be sad he missed the memorial, but Coulson jokes that he is not dead yet, and asks that they drink.[40][96]
Yelena Belova and Sonya enter Ana's house through the window and find Ana drinking tea. Belova greets Ana, who turns to find Sonya pointing a gun at her. Ana attacks them and holds Sonya, but Belova points her gun at her.[40][5]
Thanos' portal into Wakanda opens and he steps out, observing the heroes awaiting him. The group stand ready in defiance, and Bruce Banner confirms for Rogers that this is Thanos himself. Rogers is the first to act, leading them as they begin an assault.[40][76]
Ana tells Belova to pull the trigger, but takes Belova's refusal as a chance to attack Belova. The three fight, and Belova manages to hold her down, saying that she is trying to help Ana. Ana asks why they broke into her house, confusing Sonya. Belova tells Sonya to hold Ana's hands down as Belova poors the Red Dust on her, staining Ana's carpet. She rights herself and scolds them for the stain. Sonya realizes that she was not brainwashed. Sonya asks how Ana could afford her house, and Ana responds that she killed for money.[40][5]
Thanos begins to walk forwards, and Banner in the Hulkbuster 2.0 is the first to attack. He leaps at the Titan, but Thanos uses the gauntlet to make him intangible, causing him to tumble through him and into the rocks behind, where Thanos then makes him tangible again, trapping him. Steve Rogers runs at him, but Thanos uses the gauntlet to repel him. Black Panther jumps to attack, but Thanos catches him by the neck and punches him into the ground. Falcon flies in and fires at Thanos, but Thanos blasts his wings and he tumbles to the ground.[40][76]
Simmons hugs Coulson
Simmons hands Coulson Fitz's postcard of the Lighthouse to remind him of the team's success in working through problems despite the odds, and Coulson notes that Fitz, in his frozen status, will have no idea that he has already solved the problem of saving the world by the time he wakes. Simmons says he will be delighted to find out that time is in fact fluid, and Coulson assures them he has every confidence that Fitz will be found. Simmons affirms that they are all confident, and she hugs him.[40][96]
Vision tells Wanda Maximoff that they are out of time, and she must destroy the stone, despite the fact that it will kill him. Distraught, she tells him she cannot, but he reminds her that half the universe is at stake, reassuring her that she can never hurt him. Her lip trembles with emotion as she reluctantly starts to use her powers and, with deep anguish, she connects with the Mind Stone to begin its destruction.[40][76]
Coulson raises a toast to the team of agents and they drink together. Yo-Yo Rodriguez is next to walk over and hug him goodbye.[40][96]
Coulson approves Mackenzie's appointment as the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Coulson walks over to Alphonso Mackenzie, officially appointed by him as the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Mackenzie tells him he will call him for advice, but Coulson says he will not need it, and that regardless, he is throwing his phone away. They embrace.[40][96]
Thanos blocks an attack from War Machine and uses the gauntlet to crush him in his suit, then tossing him aside. Bucky Barnes charges at Thanos, but Thanos repels him with a burst from the Reality Stone. Okoye hurls her spear, but he stops it mid-flight and repels her as well, then uses the gauntlet to manipulate the earth around Natasha Romanoff as she runs at him, pinning her to the forest floor. Groot extends his roots to entrap Thanos, but he simply breaks free.[40][76]
Wanda Maximoff reluctantly activates her other hand's powers as well, connecting it to the Mind Stone to accelerate its destruction.[40][76]
Steve Rogers, having recovered, slides to get in front of Thanos and attack again.[40][76]
Maximoff cries as she continues to kill her lover.[40][76]
Steve hits Thanos' leg with his shield and stands up to face the Titan, punching him with an uppercut.[40][76]
Rogers summons all his strength and grabs the hand on which Thanos is wearing the Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos is surprised by the man's strength and pushes harder, but Rogers yells as he persists. The Titan overcomes his moment of bewilderment and punches Rogers to the ground with his other hand.[40][76]
Phil Coulson approaches Daisy Johnson last. She asks how long Simmons predicted he had left, and he informs her that he has days, perhaps weeks if he is lucky. Coulson tells her that he has left her a letter on her bunk to tell her how proud he is of her - saying that he is incredibly proud of what she has grown to be. She hugs him tightly and cries, telling the man who had come to be like a father to her that she loves him, and Coulson tells her, the daughter he never had, that he loves her too. Johnson eventually lets go and jokingly thanks him for, in giving her Zephyr One, gifting her a spaceship.[40][96]
Thanos advances to Maximoff. She disconnects one hand from Vision to fire backwards at him and slow him while continuing to destroy the Mind Stone. Thanos pushes against the beam and Vision assures that it is alright. He tells her he loves her as the stone begins to crack. Vision starts to fracture and the stone shatters in his forehead.[40][76]
The shatter of the Mind Stone causes a blast that knocks Wanda Maximoff back and hits Thanos. Once it has subsided, Thanos catches his breath and walks over to Maximoff, sympathizing with her and saying he understands loss. She angrily says that he could never, but he tells her that today he has experienced incredible loss. However, the Titan tells her that now is not the time to mourn, and engages the Time Stone to bring back Vision.[40][76]
Thanos begins to turn the vicinity back in its existence and Vision is reformed, the Mind Stone returned to being intact. Maximoff realizes what is happening and screams "no!", rushing to stop it, but Thanos swipes her away. He grabs Vision by the neck and chokes him, then begins to press on Vision's forehead to pluck the stone out. He succeeds, pulling it from the android's head.[40][76]
Vision goes limp and dies, losing his color and turning grey. Thanos discards his body and moves the final Infinity Stone to the gauntlet. The Mind Stone embeds into the Infinity Gauntlet.[40][76]
On a rooftop in San Francisco, Hank Pym bemoans his fall from respected science to working out the back of Scott Lang's van. Janet van Dyne jokes that their new Quantum Tunnel in the back of the van has flair. Scott Lang presses a button in the van to get the controls online, and Pym fiddles with settings.[40][39]
Coulson looks out on the beach in Tahiti, where the agents have dropped him off for his retirement due to its personal value to him. Melinda May, who has opted to stay with him until his passing and make the most of their new relationship, steps up to stand beside him. They joke about what they want to do with their time and take each other's hands.[40][96]
Thanos enjoys the feeling of the power of the six stones coursing through his veins. However, as he prepares to act, he is caught off-guard by a lightning blast. Thor flies at Thanos, Stormbreaker in hand, ready to kill his enemy. The Titan gets back up and fires back at Thor with a blast from the gauntlet, but Thor throws the axe at the beam and it overpowers Thanos' hurried shot.[40][76]
The Uru weapon lodges itself in Thanos' chest, as Thor had aimed, and the Asgardian lands, walking to him and grabbing him by the head. Thor revels in getting his revenge for Heimdall, reminding Thanos that he had told him he would die for his murder, and pushes the axe in further, causing Thanos to scream. Thanos then, however, begins to mutter. Knowing that Thor has made a mistake in aiming for his chest to enjoy the moment of revenge, Thanos mocks him, telling him that he should in fact have gone for the head as he is still capable of moving his hand.[40][76]
Daisy Johnson accepts moving on from Coulson and addresses their new director, Alphonso Mackenzie. She asks him where they will go next, and the team look ahead to their future.[40][96]
Hope van Dyne tells Lang how to use the collection unit they have prepared to pick up healing particles from the Quantum Realm so they can help Ghost. Janet warns him to avoid tardigrades in the Quantum Realm, and to make sure not to get sucked into a time vortex, as they will not be able to save him.[40][39]
Thanos finds a manifestation of Gamora in the orange environment, looking as she did the day he took her. She asks, "Did you do it?", and he replies that he did. When she then asks, "What did it cost?", Thanos sadly replies, "Everything". His consciousness returns to the physical world.[40][76]
Lang shrinks through the Quantum Tunnel. Hank Pym checks in with him by walkie-talkie, and Lang delays responding just to prank them, before letting them know he is fine.[40][39]
Thor looks in horror at Thanos and asks him what he has just done. Thanos, however, simply uses the Space Stone to open a portal away and falls back into it to escape, Stormbreaker dropping out of his chest as he goes. Steve Rogers catches up with Thor and asks where Thanos has gone. Thor simply stands silently, stunned. Rogers suddenly hears the voice of Bucky Barnes, calling out his name.[40][76]
Lang in the Quantum Realm, unaware of what has happened across the universe
In the Quantum Realm, Scott Lang decouples the container as Hope van Dyne had instructed. The container sucks in healing particles to take back to Ghost.[40][39]
Nick Fury and Maria Hill drive through Atlanta, and Hill informs Fury that they have still not heard from Tony Stark. She gets a signal from a satellite telling her that there are multiple bogies over Wakanda, and Fury begins to instruct her to contact Cameron Klein when, all of a sudden, a car in front of them swerves out of control.[40][76]
When Lila Barton goes to retrieve an arrow, Clint turns his back on her momentarily. When he turns back around, she has vanished.[40][81]
Mantis abruptly turns to dust where she stands, blowing away on the wind. Stark and the others are stunned at her sudden death, and fear that they know what has caused it.[40][76]
Rogers turns to see Barnes, and as he watches, his best friend dissolves to dust - first his arm, but ultimately his entire body, dying on the spot. Rogers approaches where Barnes was standing and touches the dust remains on the ground, bewildered by and terrified of what just happened - the halving of the universe's population from Thanos' snap taking effect.[40][76]
Hope van Dyne prepares to bring Scott Lang back out of the Quantum Realm, and begins to count down. However, the countdown is suddenly cut off and Lang hears static. He initially believes that the trio are teasing him in response to his prank, but as the static continues, he comes to realize that something terrible has happened. On the rooftop in San Francisco, Hank Pym, Janet van Dyne, and Hope van Dyne's dust remains fall slowly to the ground, all three killed in the effect of Thanos' snap. Lang panics, trapped in the Quantum Realm.[39] The world would come to believe him to be a victim of Thanos' Snap.[40][81]
Billy Peskers, wanting to enjoy alone time in his apartment, undresses and walks around his apartment naked. He disappears as a result of Thanos' Snap.[69][40]
Tony Stark realizes Peter Quill is struggling and tries to give him encouragement, asking him to remain "steady". Quill, however, sadly realizes the full impact of his mistake as he himself turns to dust.[40][76]
Looking back to Laura, Cooper, and Nathaniel Barton, Clint finds them disappeared as well, as the dust from their disintegration at the hands of the Snap flies in the wind.[40][81]
Half of the Wakandan soldiers are turned to dust, scattered to the wind, as M'Baku looks around in horror and confusion.[40][76]
Doctor Strange calls out to Stark, who turns to him. Strange tells him that "there was no other way", and he crumbles to dust as well. Stark then hears a voice by his side calling feebly, "Mr. Stark..."[40][76]
Fury and Hill leave their car and check the one that swerved, and Hill is bewildered to find that there appears to be no one inside. Fury looks to a nearby building and sees a helicopter lose control and crash into it, and, uneasy, declares the situation to be a "code red". When he turns back to Hill, however, he finds her crumbling to dust.[40][76]
Clint Barton runs around his yard, concerned and calling his family's names, not knowing what has happened.[40][81]
Hill dies and Fury rushes back to the car as another passer-by turns to dust beside him. He reaches into his bag and finds the Transmitter Pager left for him 23 years prior, deciding he is desperate enough that it is time to call in the friend he said he would only contact in emergencies. He activates it, but finds himself to be turning to dust as well, to his dismay. Fury dies and the pager falls to the ground, but begins its call to his powerful friend: Carol Danvers.[40][76][102]
T'Challa rushes to help Okoye up from the ground and grabs her hand, only for his hand to disappear in her grasp as the king crumbles to dust. Okoye is left aghast and distressed.[40][76]
Parker starts to fade into dust
Stark turns around and his heart sinks, devastated as his worst fear comes true. Peter Parker, who was the one who called, stumbles towards him and mutters, "I don't feel so good..." Stark falls into denial and tells him that he is alright, but Parker confusedly says he does not understand what is happening. The teenager falls into Stark's arms and grabs hold of him, falling to the ground in weakness as he repeatedly states that he does not want to go, not ready to die. Parker apologizes to Stark, feeling he let him down, as he turns to dust in Stark's arms. Stark stares at the dust scattering before his eyes in disbelief.[40][76]
Groot cries out to Rocket. Rocket is upset to watch as his best friend turns to dust before him.[40][76]
Wanda Maximoff kneels over Vision's dead body, mourning his loss. When she starts turning to dust, she embraces the end to her pain as she crumbles and dies.[40][76]
Sam Wilson turns to dust on the forest floor. As Okoye walks around, stunned, James Rhodes is left calling out for Wilson, receiving no response.[40][76]
On Titan, Nebula stands and comments incredulously, "He did it." Tony Stark leans his head into his hands in utter defeat, unable to bear the realization of what has happened or the guilt that despite all his efforts over the years, he was unable to stop the ultimate threat and his worst nightmares have come true.[40][76]
In Mexico, a local bartender's family disappears as a result of Thanos' snap.[40][30]
Steve Rogers finds Vision's body. The remaining heroes gather around, and Rhodes asks what is happening. Rogers slumps as he starts to comprehend the weight of what has occurred, and he mutters, "Oh God..."[40][76]
Thanos arrives from Wakanda on a planet with a large and peaceful farm, and sits down on the porch of his new farmhouse. Despite his loss of Gamora, Thanos also reflects on the fact that he has achieved everything he set out to do, and as he watches the sunrise, he smiles.[40][76]
In Scott Lang's house, the television airs an Emergency Alert System broadcast following the sudden inexplicable deaths of half of the planet's population. The enlarged ant instructed to follow Scott Lang's house arrest routine, meanwhile, continues to play the electric drums, blissfully oblivious of the predicament of the universe.[40][39]
As Yelena Belova and Sonya explain that they are freeing former Black Widows from their brainwashing, Ana asks how many they helped. Belova says that they helped many, and that it is hard work. She says that she intends to make a good life for herself, and Ana asks how Romanoff is. Belova says that Romanoff is okay, and Sonya makes fun of her wanting to live in the United States of America with Romanoff. Belova excuses herself to the bathroom.[40][5]
Belova enters the bathroom and looks in the mirror, reflecting. Belova turns on the sink and puts her hands under the running water, but suddenly turns into dust.[40][5]
Sonya and Ana continue talking, and Ana convinces Sonya that being a contract killer is a good direction to take her life. She leaves Ana's house, deciding to work for Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.[40][5]
Roger Harrington's wife, having heard about the sudden disappearances, leaves Harrington suddenly to be with a member of her hiking group. When Harrington finds out, he assumes his wife had been another of Thanos' victims.[69][100][40]
Theo Boskowtiz's father leaves to go grocery shopping down the street, and disappears as a result of Thanos' snap. Boskowitz and his mother are upset as they come to believe that he had left them.[69][40]
Karen Oggerton performs open-heart surgery on a patient. Both Oggerton and her patient disappear.[69][40]
David Jerome and Big Harv move illegal products for a friend, when the two become surrounded by police officers. Unsure of how to escape, the two disappear.[69][40]
Cammie Conroy watches Extreme Measures 2 in a movie theatre. She starts to become interested in the movie, but then disappears before the movie ends.[69][40]
"Magic" Monte Montoya performs a magic show, preparing to disappear as his final act. However, half of the audiences disappears.[69][40]
In the bottom of the ninth inning at a baseball game, Hiro Kajimoto steps up to home plate with the bases loaded. The pitcher from the other team throws the ball, and Kajimoto swings his bat, only to disappear along with half of his team.[69][40]
Angry about the death of his family, Clint Barton dons a new suit and starts killing criminals he believes should have been killed instead of those who did not deserve it.[81][105]
1st[]
The remaining half of Enoch's ship loses cabin pressure, and Leo Fitz's chamber is broken, with him waking 73 years early. They abandon the ship, which goes on to be sold to Trok.[20][21]
Word spreads about people disappearing at "Magic" Monte Montoya's stage performance. Montoya gets blamed, since he is known for disappearance acts. People begin to resent Montoya, who is prevented from performing magic.[69][106]
Chad Carroway learns that he has inherited his parents' wealth, since both had died as a result of Thanos' Snap. He begins investing in vaporizer technology.[69][106]
Phil Coulson watches Melinda May sleep. May wakes up and smiles, commenting on the peace of the island, before nodding back off to sleep.[111][22]
Roger Harrington has a funeral for his wife, who he believes to have disappeared in the Snap, despite having run away. Harrington, distraught, cries.[69][112]
Phil Coulson tells Melinda May about how he once planned to ask her out, and May laughs at him. She asks for a drink, and Coulson stands up to get it, but sits down again due to pain from his returning injury.[111][22]
Stark and Nebula work on the fuel cells on the Benatar, cracked during the Battle of Titan. They manage to reverse the ion charge and buy themselves about 48 hours of flight time.[81]
In the Avengers Compound, Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff watch the global missing numbers increase, confirming their fears that Thanos achieved exactly what he intended. James Rhodes lets them know that Fury's pager has stopped beeping. Rogers and Romanoff say to reboot it, trusting that Fury knew what he was doing, but when Romanoff turns around she finds that its recipient, Carol Danvers, has already arrived and is standing behind them. She asks where Fury is.[109][102]
On his farm, Thanos, seeing the only remaining purpose of the Infinity Stones' existence is the allure of their power, decides to use the power of the Infinity Gauntlet to destroy the Stones, causing intense damage to his body.[109][81]
22nd[]
On Day 22 of travelling together, Tony Stark and Nebula continue to bond in their bleak situation, playing paper football.[109][81]
Nebula continues to help Stark recover from his stab wound, using Benatar technology to seal it as the infection finishes running its course.[109][81]
Nebula and Stark work on the ship together.[109][81]
Stark offers Nebula some of the last food supplies on the Benatar, but she indicates for him to have them.[109][81]
Stark looks out of the ship, now dead and floating stationary in space.[109][81]
With the oxygen tanks on the ship nearly depleted, and thinking he will die stranded in deep space, Stark uses his wrecked Iron Man helmet to record a farewell message to Pepper Potts, in the hope that she will one day receive it. He then falls asleep on the floor, but Nebula carefully lifts him into the co-pilot chair.[109][81]
Rescue of Tony Stark: Stark is awoken by a blinding light outside the ship. He opens his eyes and finds a woman he does not know, Carol Danvers, floating outside, sent by Rocket and the Avengers to save anyone left stranded on the Benatar.[109][81]
23rd[]
Danvers brings the Benatar back to Earth. She delivers him to the Avengers Compound, where Steve Rogers rushes to help him. They discuss their respective failures, and Stark is relieved to then be met by Potts, confirming she survived the Snap. He is brought into medical care.[109][81]
The Avengers tell Stark that they have no lead on Thanos, despite 3 weeks of trying. Stark angrily tells Rogers that he saw this coming years back, and that for all of Rogers' comments about doing everything as a team, he failed to do so in the end due to his actions breaking up the Avengers. He angrily tells Rogers that he has no trust for him anymore, calling him a liar, before collapsing, weak.[109][81]
After Bruce Banner has sedated Stark and he is safely sleeping, Carol Danvers insists that she is off to kill Thanos, taking the others by surprise. She says she knows people who might know where he is, but Nebula interjects, saying she knows where he will be.[109][81]
With the group regathered, Nebula tells the others that her adoptive father always had plan to go to "the Garden" once he had snapped his fingers.[109][81]
Rocket Raccoon reveals they have found readouts of an energy wave similar to the moment Thanos snapped his fingers on a specific planet, which Nebula confirms is the one. The group want to go after him, but some are cautious. Danvers insists, however, that she will be a big help, now that she is with them after years of helping other planets. Thor gets up and summons Stormbreaker over her shoulder, but she does not flinch, causing him to declare that he likes her. The team agree to go and get Thanos immediately.[109][81]
The Avengers fly the Benatar through the Universal Neural Teleportation Network to the Garden, and Danvers flies out to perform recon. Natasha Romanoff assures Steve Rogers, as he checks his compass carrying Peggy Carter's face for solace, that their plan will work, and he admits that he does not know what he will do if it does not. Danvers returns and informs them that there are no armies or defenses of any kind; Thanos is alone.[109][81]
Thanos peacefully farms and begins to cook, the Infinity Gauntlet melted into his wizened arm and scarred down his left side from his two usages of the Infinity Stones.[109][81]
Danvers bursts in and attacks, starting to restrain Thanos, as Banner, wearing the Hulkbuster 2.0, and War Machine arrive and help pin him down. Thor slices his gauntlet arm, but as Rogers and Romanoff enter, Rocket Raccoon realizes the stones are no longer there. Rogers inquires about their location, and Thanos reveals that his usage of the Stones 2 days prior was to reduce them to atoms, ensuring that he could not be tempted to use them again and that the Snap could not be undone. The Avengers initially believe Thanos to be lying, but Nebula states that her adoptive father was not a liar. Thanos thanks her, admitting that perhaps he treated her too harshly. Before he can say any more, however, an enraged Thor decapitates him with Stormbreaker, completing the task he wished he had managed 3 weeks earlier.[109][81]
Rocket Raccoon asks Thor what he has just done, and Thor simply, solemnly states that this time, he "went for the head". The realization sinks in among the Avengers that their apparent last chance at bringing back those they lost has just gone, and they must now face the reality of the Snap being permanent. Nebula closes her dead adoptive father's eyes and Thor steps outside, forlorn, heartbroken, and depressed.[109][81]
Having failed to act upon hearing of worlds mysteriously destroyed and finding distortions in space releasing a kind of plague, the Chronicoms of Chronyca-2 find their planet overrun when Izel arrives.[116][22]
Having pursued Izel but failed, Sarge's Squad admit defeat, moving on to the next planet. Footage of this is recorded to Tinker's biological hard drive.[116][117]
29th[]
The Confederacy arrives on Chronyca-2, planning to pick through its remains, but the Chronicoms defeat the Confederacy and seize their ships. They begin a hunt for S.H.I.E.L.D. to guide them on how to time travel, so that they might go back and save their planet.[116][22]
30th[]
Bruce Banner decides to stop treating the Hulk like a disease to get rid of, but instead as a potential cure and something to be embraced.[81] He enlists the help of Tony Stark, and the pair work together, building a gamma lab on a private island in Mexico. Banner uses the lab to start working at finding a balance between his two personas. Stark jokes that the lab is on loan and he will one day take it back.[118][119]
Banner and Stark work together and build a bar, while Stark complains about Steve Rogers. Stark and Banner drink together and try to make the best out of the bad situation they were in.[118][119]
July[]
Overwhelmed with guilt about his failed attempt to stop Thanos, Thor goes to New Asgard and secludes himself in the kingdom. He falls into a depressive slump and starts eating a lot more, causing him to gain weight.[81][105]
A judge in the circuit court in Cincinnati decides to sell the Caire Estate. Pamphlets are made regarding this decision, one of which would be obtained by Bob's Market.[117]
The Caire Estate is sold at auction to the highest bidder.[117]
17th[]
Frank Castle sits in a car, watching as a group of men arrive at a warehouse meeting point. He gets a call from Dinah Madani, who has found his phone number now that she works with the CIA. She explains her new line of work and that there is someone they need him to kill for the CIA, offering him a job with them, but he turns it down, saying he already has one.[128][65]
Ambush on the Gang Leaders: The men Castle had been watching, two sets of gang members, meet inside the building. They are both confused when they each insist they were not the ones to arrange the meeting, and pull guns on each other, as one asks, "You wanna dance?". However, at that moment, Castle enters in his Punisher vest. He announces, "I'll dance with you," before pulling two AR-15 guns from under his jacket and firing on the groups.[128][65]
Saddened by T'Challa's death and wanting her son to be raised in secret, Nakia leaves Wakanda and starts living in Haiti, where she works as a school teacher using Wakandan ideas and Haitian resources. Okoye and Ramonda are hurt by Nakia leaving.[89][90]
Enoch and Leo Fitz are involved in an incident with the MazTats, which Enoch finds to be an exception in an otherwise stimulating and informative journey.[132][133]
B-15 rushes into the vice principal's office and is cornered by D-90. D-90 threatens to arrest B-15, but they are interupted when Vice Principal Rebecca Tourminet walks out of her office and asks what is happening. Although D-90 confuses Tourminet for Ravonna Renslayer, B-15 explains that she is not Renslayer that the two have a lot to discuss.[134][135]
The Zephyr One team visit Saldon on a lead in their search for Leo Fitz. The indigenous population attacks, and Daisy Johnson uses her powers to respond with a massive counterattack.[141][23]
The Zephyr One team continue to visit the leads from the manifest of Enoch's broken ship, ending up on Trinawa, where they see the planet's O₂ oceans.[129][21]
↑In The Whole World Is Watching, a flashback is shown to "SIX YEARS AGO" of Bucky Barnes and Ayo testing to see whether Barnes is cured of his brainwashing. The main events of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier are set in early 2024, so "SIX YEARS AGO" should be referring to early 2018, and at the very least before Barnes appears in Avengers: Infinity War on May 31, 2018 (see other references). However, in Black Panther, it is implied that in the post-credits scene, Barnes is fully cured of his brainwashing, even though that scene is dated to December 26, 2016 (see 2016 references). Therefore, the place of the flashback in The Whole World Is Watching must be as early as possible, and it must be taken that Shuri's healing process for Barnes took longer than implied by Black Panther. To keep it as early as possible but still "SIX YEARS AGO," this scene can be placed on January 1, 2018.
↑Ronin shows that Kate Bishop was presented with the JOAD Olympian Award at the Silver level on "January 1" of whatever year it happened in. She earned the previous award in 2016, so she could have been presented with this award between then and her high school graduation in June 2020. The year can therefore be approximated to the midpoint of this time, 2018.
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In Enter The Dreamland and Merry Meet Again, upon the group's return to the real world, it is said that they were in the Dark Dimension for "six months," making this now May 2018. In Merry Meet Again, Dale Yorkes says that it is now "Day 189 of living off the grid," making it either 188 or 189 days since the end of Season 2 (depending on whether or not Dale is counting inclusively), so either May 22, 2018 or May 23, 2018. As he says this, a calendar can be seen in the background, and, although the days of the week do not match May 2018, it can be seen that Yorkes has crossed off 22 days, making this the 23rd of the month, fitting perfectly with May 23, 2018. From here, the present day events continue until May 26, 2018.
In Merry Meet Again, Karolina Dean states, "We did miss a lot the last six months. Graduation, prom, summer jobs, making any plans for the future." Although this works nicely with them having missed prom and graduation, both of which would have happened in or around May, the mention of them missing "summer jobs" implies this is at the very end of the summer, so around August, rather than earlier. However, in The Broken Circle, Chase Stein tells Gert Yorkes that she hasn't missed the "late registration deadline" for entering into Smith College, presumably for the fall semester. The late registration deadline for most colleges is generally around late August, which, if this scene were to occur at the very end of summer, would only be days away. Yorkes expresses earlier in Merry Meet Again that she seeks to get a part-time job and a GED before entering college, which she would have significantly more time to accomplish if this were the beginning of summer rather than the end. In Cheat The Gallows, on what is stated to be the three-year anniversary of Gert Yorkes' death, Molly Hernandez is shown to be in her senior year during school time and is implied to be graduating soon, with one of her classmates telling her, "We're really gonna miss you when you graduate, Molly." This implies that this is around May 2021, with her senior graduation just around the corner, thus making Gert Yorkes' death May 2018, with graduation having just happened. Additionally, Dean has a schedule up for her "Summer 2022" semester of college. Although the year is incorrect, this reiterates that this is during the summer semester, which would have started in May, as opposed to the start of the fall semester, which would have started in August. Later, Julie implies that Dean's birthday in "February" was not that long ago, which fits better with May as opposed to August. Finally, and most importantly, the present day events of the season ending in May 2018 places the show just barely before Avengers: Infinity War, which would not only be very problematic for the setting of the season if it were to partially occur after the Snap, with the event never being addressed by any of the characters, but Jeph Loeb confirmed that the seasons released in the wake of Infinity War would mostly occur before the Snap (1, 2), which would almost certainly apply to this season. Thus, it can be assumed that Dean is referring to the Runaways having the missed the opportunity to apply for and get summer jobs, which occurs during the spring for most high schoolers.
In Devil's Torture Chamber, a letter is momentarily shown with a "July 25, 2019" date. Similar to Karolina Dean's "Summer 2022" timetable, which also operates off of the belief that the latter half of the season takes place in mid-2019, this may easily be discarded as an error, as this places the events of the entire show after the Snap, which is highly unlikely.
↑The opening credits of Never Meet Your Heroes shows a montage of events in Kate Bishop's life. These events are:
Eleanor Bishop giving Kate a bow and arrow
Eleanor watching as Kate fires and hits a target twice
Kate placing a picture of her and Derek on a shelf
Kate placing a trophy on a shelf
Kate firing three arrows at two targets
Kate eating dinner with Eleanor at a young age
Kate eating dinner with Eleanor while older
Kate firing an arrow
Kate achieving third place in a fencing tournament
Seventeen ribbons and trophies sitting on Kate's shelf
Eleanor placing her hand on Kate's shoulder as Kate fires an arrow
Kate achieving second place in a fencing tournament
Kate as a yellow belt fighting a black belt in karate
Kate losing a fencing match
Kate touching her opponent in a fencing tournament
Kate as a black belt
Kate doing a flip on a bar
Kate firing three arrows at three different targets
Kate making first place in a fencing tournament
Kate standing on a balance beam on one foot
Kate standing on the roof of a building on one foot and jumping onto another building
Kate is shown asking Eleanor for a bow and arrow is dated to May 9, 2012 (see other references), so her receiving the bow, which is shown to be soon after, can be taken to be the next day. Since the montage details Kate's training, it can also be understood that the first scene of Kate firing her bow and arrow is meant to be the first time she used it, placing that scene on May 10, 2012 as well. In Never Meet Your Heroes, Eleanor says to Kate, "I still remember when you got your black belt at 15." This event is dated to December 15, 2017 (see 2017 references). It takes approximately 54 months to earn a black belt. However, in Hide and Seek, Kate says, "I, uh, started martial arts training when I was five." It must therefore be taken that she started at five, but did not take it seriously until after she decided she would protect her family in 2012. Using 54 months prior to when she earned her black belt, June 2013, as a starting point, Kate would have earned her yellow belt at the 3 month mark, in September 2013. She would have earned her orange belt, therefore ending her time as a yellow belt, that December. This fight can therefore be approximated to the midpoint of these dates, October 15, 2013. The scenes preceding this scene can therefore be evenly distributed between May 10, 2012 and October 15, 2013. Similarly, the scenes that follow this scene can be evenly distributed between October 15, 2013, and the start of the present day events, December 19, 2024 (see 2024 references), while keeping events clear of events given more specific dates.
↑ 13.0013.0113.0213.0313.0413.0513.0613.0713.0813.0913.1013.11In AKA You're Welcome, flashbacks are shown of Trish Walker's life in the time since Jessica Jones: Season 2. These pick up on the final day of AKA Playland, so June 7, 2017 (see 2017 references), and cover the year through to April 30, 2018 (see other references). By the time Walker is looking up heroic deeds in New York, there are three new articles referring to it being summer, and that Alisa Jones' death is still recent news. Allowing some time for Walker's training (though not too long given she is shown to improve fast), ensuring it is summer, but while keeping Alisa Jones' death recent, her searching can be approximated to June 27, 2017, with the scenes up to that point distributed between June 7th and June 27th. When Walker visits a costume store, the store has Halloween-based decoration. It is unclear whether the store is simply advertising that one of its usages is for Halloween costumes, or is decorated for Halloween. Given that the scene could feasibly be set around Halloween anyway, it may be taken to be Halloween season to comfortably fit in case the store is indeed dressed for that time. It could comfortably fit anywhere in the week preceding Halloween, so a rough estimate can be taken as October 28, 2017. The preceding scenes, with Walker's mother and the phone theft, therefore, are between June 27, 2017 and October 28, 2017. It is implied that it is still not too long after Alisa Jones' death, but is more importantly what inspires Walker to get a costume, so should be closer to October 28th. It may be approximated to October 17, 2017. When Walker wakes after spending the night with Adrian, the weather is said to be "below freezing" for the week and "21°" (Fahrenheit) at "9:24AM", which would suggest it is around January 15, 2018, with her sleeping with him on January 14th. This is where the news reports on Brandt being let go, so fits with Costa saying in AKA I Have No Spleen, in May 2018 (see other references), that they have been "trying to pin down [Brandt] for months", referring either to this January 2018 event or some time before. Distributing the previous three sets of events between October 28, 2017 and January 14, 2018, Walker being served and visiting Hogarth would be around November 16-17, 2017 (assuming consecutive days), her mother visiting around December 7, 2017, and Reid Pearson around December 26, 2017 (shifting to December 27, 2017 to avoid the main Christmas period). Finally, there are two scenes before January 15, 2018 and April 27, 2018 (see other references). If you were to distribute these, the first scene, of Walker and Grace, would be in February 2018. However, it is stated to be "spring". While some consider March 1st the start of spring, the first official day of spring in 2018 was March 20th, so this should ideally be no earlier than March 20, 2018. To be as close as possible to evenly spacing the two scenes (and fitting with the fact that Walker gives advice for starting afresh with spring, as if it were the start of spring), March 20, 2018 may be taken. This matches Walker saying in AKA The Perfect Burger, on April 29, 2018, that she has been tracking Brandt "for weeks", referring to around this time. Approximating her email draft as halfway between March 20, 2018 and April 27, 2018, that scene may be dated to April 8, 2018. By April 27, 2018, the episode catches up with the events of AKA The Perfect Burger, so events do not need special dating.
↑ 15.015.1In A Duel of Iron, on April 15, 2018 (see other references) at 15:00 Eastern U.S. time (April 16, 2018 04:00 Hokkaido Japan), Ward Meachum refers to following the lead on Orson Randall "from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur", then "Jakarta". These events are therefore between the evening of October 27, 2017 (see other references) and April 15, 2018 15:00. Approximating by equally distributing them at ¼, ½, and ¾ through that period, Hong Kong can be estimated to December 9, 2017, Kuala Lumpur to January 20, 2018, and Jakarta to March 4, 2018.
↑In Roadhouse Blues, Rex justifies his knowledge about sex by saying "Mom, I'm nearly nine. We know about this stuff." The implication of the line "We know about this stuff" is that Rex believes that the common time to learn about sex is when a person is nearly nine, which could describe any time between their half-birthday and their ninth birthday. Rex was born in approximately June 2009 (see 2000s references), so his half birthday before turning nine would be December 2017. Using this as a minimum and the day before the line was said, April 27, 2018 (see other references) as a maximum and taking the middle date, this would have happened on approximately February 13, 2018.
↑ 20.020.120.220.320.4In Missing Pieces, Enoch and Fitz are shown being attacked by an alien warship. The implication is that it is after the time loop is broken in The End, since it is not only shown in the episode after The End, and is a significant event which would seemingly be a deviation from what is implied in Rewind to have been a smooth 74 years. In Missing Pieces, "one year later" is shown to be June 25, 2019 (see 2019 references), and in Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson, it is said on June 26, 2019 (see 2019 references) that Enoch and Fitz have traveled for "this past year", both also suggesting it is mid-2018, so more likely after the May 31, 2018 (see other references) time loop break than before. Given the events in the future in Season 5 are 2091, the latest that Enoch waking Fitz could possibly be is December 27, 2091 (see 2091 references), meaning the latest that this scene can be, "73 years, 261 days" earlier is April 9, 2018. This is, in fact, before the time loop is broken on May 31, 2018, so the scene must actually be a flashback to before The End. It must therefore be assumed that the attack happened before the split, then not much happened for the next several weeks. Then, shortly following the split, in the Lighthouse universe Enoch manages to keep Fitz frozen, but in the universe of the events of Season 6, things are further disrupted by the events referenced during the season, and Fitz is unfrozen. Ideally, the time between the attack and the time loop being broken should be minimal, as well as the attack ideally being as close to mid-2019 as possible. So, it can be taken that the attack is indeed April 9, 2018, with Enoch waking Fitz on December 27, 2091. Following this, it is stated in Inescapable that they ended up on Saldon, which can be dated to April 10, 2018, so still before the timeline splits. It is implied in Missing Pieces that the loss of cabin pressure specifically occurred after the timeline split, when Simmons says, "Complete loss of cabin pressure. It's times like this I wish we didn't change the timeline." While the idea is seemingly simply that this was part of the attack and it all happened after the timeline split, this has been established as impossible, so it can be taken that the complete loss of cabin pressure was a later event, only occurring in this timeline, in that half of the ship. This matches with the implication in Rewind that Fitz's 74-year sleep was uninterrupted in the Destroyed Earth timeline. However, it seems at odds with Enoch's line in The Other Thing, "We barely escaped in the ejection pod," implying that they abandoned both halves of the ship in the attack, and with Fitz's cryo-chamber shown to be aboard one half of the ship, then Fitz would have had to have been thawed during the attack. To avoid other assumptions (Fitz actually having been thawed and refrozen in both timelines, Simmons being wrong) and maintain the attack still being the cause of the difference in events (albeit with a lagged effect), it can be taken that Enoch got Fitz and the ejection pod back to one half of the ship, until failing to fix the cabin pressure. This effectively drags the impact of the crash out to after the timeline split, allowing everything else to be as intended. Assuming it was as short as possible after the attack and crash, it should be shortly after the May 31, 2018 timeline split. It can be taken to be June 1, 2018.
↑In Mother's Little Helpers, Louise Hastings notes that Jane has been in Saint Teresa Center for Mental Health for "2 yrs" in a document she is writing on October 13, 2020 (see 2020 references). This is a number that would change on the exact date, meaning it is before the three-year mark. Therefore, it can be taken that Jane went to Saint Teresa's between October 14, 2017 and October 13, 2018. The midpoint of these dates, April 14, 2018, can be used as an approximation for when Jane was admitted.
↑ 27.027.1In A Duel of Iron, the epilogue scene of Colleen Wing stopping robbers is shown to be "months later" after October 27, 2017 (see 2017 references), which can be calculated to approximately April 14, 2018. The following scene, of Rand and Meachum, can be assumed to be shortly following this. It is said to be 4AM in Hokkaido, Japan, making it 3PM New York time, so it would have to be the day after the Colleen Wing nighttime scene.
↑In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange reveals on November 12, 2024 (see 2024 references) that he used the Runes of Kof-Kol to make people forget a full moon party. This could have happened between the end of Doctor Strange in January 2017 (see 2017 references) and the date this line is said, excluding the time Strange was dead due to Thanos' Snap. This would place the party in April 2018, which saw a full moon on April 16, 2018.
↑ 32.032.132.232.332.432.532.632.732.8In Roadhouse Blues, Sergei Konchevsky says, on April 27, 2018 (see other references), that he "expected [Fiona] yesterday". He was therefore expecting them on April 26, 2018, so the most likely date for John Pilgrim killing Fiona's crew is the night of April 25, 2018. In Trouble the Water, it is shown that John Pilgrim was recruited for the mission to kill Fiona's crew shortly prior, seemingly on a Sunday, after church. So, it can be taken to be Sunday, April 22, 2018. This fits fairly well with Pilgrim's line, "I'll only be gone a couple of days." He is implied to be downplaying how long he will be gone to his wife, but presumably not too much, so it being 3 days before what he thought would be the end of his mission fits.
In AKA I Have No Spleen, Trish Walker says, "How many times have you trained in the past year? Or ever? [...] I've spent the past year honing my skills, evolving into the best version of myself." This places events a year after June 2017 (see 2017 references), when she got her abilities.
In AKA Customer Service is Standing By, Jones refers to her latest small action as "the most heroic thing I've done all year". This suggests this is not the same year as the events of Season 2, which was 2017 (see 2017 references).
In AKA Camera Friendly, it is said that Alisa Jones' kills, firmly in May 2017 (see 2017 references), were "last year".
However, there are three options for when in 2018: January-February 2018, April-May 2018, or November-December 2018. The evidence is:
In AKA Camera Friendly, in a live broadcast, Trish Walker says, "Now, I have a surprise for you today. A very special guest host in honor of Mother's Day." Grace says, "Mother's Day is 6 months away." Walker replies, "Giving us plenty of time to shop for that perfect Mother's Day gift, Grace." With Mother's Day being May 13, 2018 (shown in One Bad Day to be the same in the MCU as the real world), this would make the season November.
In AKA The Double Half-Wappinger, it is shown that Donny Sallinger's death was reported on "April 7, 2001". Later, it is said that this was "18 years ago", which would otherwise suggest it is 2019. Given it is 2018, this suggests it should be late 2018.
All twelve previous Marvel Netflix seasons have followed chronological order in their releases, meaning this is almost certainly still the case for the thirteenth and final season. This would place the middle of the season later than the middle of The Punisher: Season 2, firmly May 10, 2018 (see other references).
In AKA The Perfect Burger, a recent email says, "It's spring! Make your bedroom feel like a botanical garden."
In AKA You're Welcome, in a flashback to not long before the season's events, Trish Walker and Grace state that it is currently spring. This would suggest the season's main events are spring/summer.
In AKA Everything, Trish Walker says, "We're debuting our spring-summer collection." This would generally be around January.
In AKA Camera Friendly, it is shown to be dark in New York in a scene set at least 30 minutes before "7PM". This would suggest it is between October and March.
In AKA The Perfect Burger, Trish Walker is selling an "easy breezy summer tank" top on TV, suggesting it is around spring/summer.
In AKA The Perfect Burger, a small pumpkin sticker is shown in a bar. In AKA A Lotta Worms, small pumpkin and skeleton decorations are present in the bar. This would suggest it is around Halloween.
In AKA The Perfect Burger, it is shown to be 18°F at 8:46PM, suggesting it is around January.
In AKA You're Welcome, in a flashback to not long before the season's events, it is said to be below freezing this week and shown to be 21°F at 9:24AM, suggesting it is January, so the season not long after January.
In AKA I Did Something Today, the week ahead's weather is shown to average 45.7°F low, 59°F high, suggesting around April or October.
In AKA Everything, it is shown to be 37°F at 4:23PM, suggesting it is around January.
In AKA I Have No Spleen, Trish Walker says, "How many times have you trained in the past year? Or ever? [...] I've spent the past year honing my skills, evolving into the best version of myself." This places the events a year after June 2017 (see 2017 references), suggesting around mid-2018.
In AKA Customer Service is Standing By, Erik Gelden talks to Jessica Jones in the morning, during daylight hours. He has 12 hours to deliver his debt, and delivers it 3 hours late, meaning there were over 15 hours of daylight. This would suggest the events are between May and August.
In AKA Everything, Jones' iCloud calendar says "Wednesday 5", suggesting September 2018 or December 2018.
In AKA The Perfect Burger, Boogeyman by Dead Posey plays in the bar. This was released in August 2018, suggesting the events are set after then.
In AKA You're Welcome, in a flashback to the day the season's events begin, People magazine's January 22, 2018 issue (with an advert for The Alienist, which began on January 21, 2018, shown on the back) is shown. This suggests the season's events are after late January.
From this, there appears to be three possible options for the season, which spans 31 days: January-February 2018, April-May 2018, or November-December 2018. The January-February 2018 placement:
Fits with being pre-Snap, the spring-summer clothes launch, the football games shown, it being dark by 18:30, and most of the weather recordings shown.
Passably satisfies being "6 months" until Mother's Day (if rounding is involved from 4 months), being a year since June 2017, and one of the weather recordings shown.
Goes against April 2001 being "18 years ago", Netflix chronological order, the "It's spring!" email, the recent flashback being said to be spring, the "easy breezy summer tank" top, the pumpkin and skeleton decorations, the "Wednesday 5" iCloud calendar date, the 15 hours of daylight, the January 22, 2018 magazine, and Boogeyman by Dead Posey.
The April-May 2018 placement:
Fits with being pre-Snap, Netflix chronological order, the "It's spring!" email, the recent flashback being said to be spring, the "easy breezy summer tank" top, the 15 hours of daylight, being a year since June 2017, and the January 22, 2018 magazine.
Passably satisfies April 2001 being "18 years ago" (17 years, but at least it is slightly over 17.0 years) and the spring-summer clothes launch.
Goes against being "6 months" until Mother's Day, the football games shown, the pumpkin and skeleton decorations, it being dark by 18:30, the "Wednesday 5" iCloud calendar date, the weather recordings shown, and Boogeyman by Dead Posey.
The November-December 2018 placement:
Fits with being "6 months" until Mother's Day, April 2001 being "18 years ago" (as close as possible), Netflix chronological order, the football games shown, the pumpkin and skeleton decorations, it being dark by 18:30, the "Wednesday 5" iCloud calendar date, Boogeyman by Dead Posey, the January 22, 2018 magazine, and one of the weather recordings shown.
Passably satisfies the recent flashback being said to be spring (if you assume Walker only started tracking Brandt months after he was set free), being a year since June 2017, and the spring-summer clothes launch.
Goes against being pre-Snap, the "It's spring!" email, the "easy breezy summer tank" top, the 15 hours of daylight, and most of the weather recordings shown.
The evidence the season itself contains would place the season in November-December 2018. However, incorporating the Snap, the late 2018 placement becomes highly problematic, and the evidence sets very comparable. Ultimately, given there is in fact some evidence for Spring 2018 (slightly more than early 2018) rather than late 2018, and the near impossibility for the season to be 6 months post-Snap without a single recognition of the event, Spring 2018 is taken as the strongest placement within the context of the MCU. The season should be chronologically set after The Punisher: Season 2. Therefore, the middle of the season (the middle of AKA The Double Half-Wappinger) should be set after the middle of The Punisher: Season 2 (the middle of One Bad Day), Thursday, May 10, 2018. The middle of AKA The Double Half-Wappinger is set on a Thursday, meaning at the earliest, it is later in the same day as the middle of One Bad Day. The season spans 18 days after the middle of AKA The Double Half-Wappinger, meaning the earliest it can finish is May 28, 2018. With the Snap set after the season, and meant to be set as early as possible in May 2018 (see other references), this earliest possible Spring 2018 placement for Jessica Jones: Season 3 should be taken. With the middle of AKA The Double Half-Wappinger set on May 10, 2018, the season overall spans April 26-May 28, 2018.
Saturday Week 1 - End of Episode 15 - Rise and Shine events.
Sunday Week 1 - Episode 16 - Inside Voices events, Episode 17 - The Honeymoon events, beginning of Episode 18 - All Roads Lead... events.
Monday Week 2 - End of Episode 18 - All Roads Lead... events.
Wednesday Week 3 - Beginning of Avengers: Infinity War events/Episode 19 - Option Two events, Episode 20 - The One Who Will Save Us All events, beginning of Episode 21 - The Force of Gravity events.
Thursday Week 3 - End of Episode 21 - The Force of Gravity events, Episode 22 - The End events/End of Avengers: Infinity War events/Ant-Man and the Wasp credits scenes.
Now it needs to be established which weeks in the timeline this applies to. First, there is a latest possible date for the events of Avengers: Infinity War. The Wednesday of Avengers: Infinity War is still during school time, as Peter Parker is on a school field trip. Spider-Man: Far From Home establishes that Parker restarted junior year after returning in the Blip, making him a junior at the time of the Snap. With Parker beginning sophomore year in Spider-Man: Homecoming in September 2016, he would finish junior year in June 2018. This means that the Wednesday of Avengers: Infinity War should be before Tuesday, June 26, 2018, when New York high schools finished for summer (1, 2, 3). If necessary, it can be assumed that either Parker's school finished 1 day later than most, or the New York high schools in the MCU finished 1 day later than those in the real world, making Wednesday, June 27, 2018 the absolute latest that Avengers: Infinity War could begin. The earliest possible date is January 2018, as all these events must take place in 2018. This is evidenced by many things:
Avengers: Infinity War takes place 2 years after the main events of Captain America: Civil War, which are firmly placed in June 2016 (see 2016 references).
In Avengers: Infinity War, Vision says, "Wanda, for 2 years, we've stolen these moments, trying to see if this could work."
Later, Rhodes says to Rogers, Romanoff, and Wilson, "You guys really look like crap. Must've been a rough couple years."
Avengers: Infinity War takes place 4 years after the main events of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which are placed in October 2014 (see 2014 references).
Avengers: Infinity War takes place 6 years after the events of The Avengers, which are firmly placed in May 2012 (see 2012 references).
In Avengers: Infinity War, Tony says to Doctor Strange, "It's you who doesn't understand that Thanos has been inside my head for 6 years, since he sent an army to New York - and now he's back!"
Ant-Man and the Wasp takes place 2 years after the main events of Captain America: Civil War, which are firmly placed in June 2016.
In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Lang is finishing a house arrest sentence. Jimmy Woo says, "As a part of his joint plea deal with Homeland Security and the German government, he was allowed to return to the U.S., provided he served 2 years under house arrest."
Later, Lang says to van Dyne, "Give me a break, I haven't driven in 2 years."
At the end of his sentence, Scott asks Woo, "Are my 2 years up already?"
The Captain Marvel mid-credits scene, 3 weeks after Avengers: Infinity War, is 23 years after the main events of the film, which are firmly placed in June 1995.
Avengers: Infinity War takes place 5 years before Avengers: Endgame, which takes place 9 years after 2014 (so 2023).
In Avengers: Endgame, it is shown that the events are "five years later" after 3 weeks after Avengers: Infinity War. It is further confirmed that Guardians of the Galaxy takes place in "2014" on-screen. In these scenes, Ebony Maw says Nebula is from "9 years" in the future, making it 2023.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 5, Episodes 14-22 take place in 2018.
In Episode 8 - The Last Day, a flashforward is shown with events that, as shown in Episode 22 - The End, would take place on the Thursday of Avengers: Infinity War, and the on-screen text specifically says "2018".
The agents return to the present day in Episode 11 - All the Comforts of Home. Later that day, Yo-Yo Rodriguez has her arms sliced off. The agents perform surgery on her amputated arms, and she begins to heal. 2 days later, in Episode 12 - The Real Deal, the monitor by her bed shows "12-06-2017", making it December 6, 2017 (see 2017 references for reasons this is a firm placement). By Episode 14 - The Devil Complex, the skin on Rodriguez's arm stumps has healed over, which takes 4 weeks to 2 months (1, 2). With Rodriguez having lost her arms and had surgery performed on them on December 4, 2017, earliest that The Devil Complex can take place is January 2018, thus meaning that from Episode 14 onward, it is 2018.
In Episode 15 - Rise and Shine, events set at the time of Season 3, Episode 17 - The Team and Episode 18 - The Singularity in April 2016 are shown on-screen to have been "2 years ago".
In Episode 16 - Inside Voices, events set immediately after Season 1, Episode 22 - Beginning of the End in March 2014 are shown on-screen to have been "four years ago".
So, all of these events take place in the first half of 2018. However, there is contradictory evidence for when exactly in the first 6 months of the year. Avengers: Infinity War, Ant-Man and the Wasp, The Punisher, and Jessica Jones would suggest closer to June 2018, while Thor: Ragnarok, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Spider-Man: Far From Home would suggest closer to January 2018. Scott Lang's 2-year house arrest coming to an end would imply that it has been 24 months since the end of the main events of Captain America: Civil War. In that film, Lang is arrested on June 24, 2016 (a firmly established date - see 2016 references). Steve Rogers breaks him out of the Raft 2 days later, on June 26, 2016, and very soon after (as shown in Avengers: Infinity War Prelude), Lang returns home after making his deal. The exact date that the sentence would end depends on a few factors, such as when the sentence counts as beginning from, if it counts from his initial imprisonment then whether each day spent in prison counts as double towards his sentence, and if time could be/was removed. At the earliest, the house arrest would finish on June 20, 2018. At the latest, June 27, 2018. The arrest finishes on a Wednesday, and at the very shortest, the events of Avengers: Infinity War start 1 week later (as at least one more weekend is shown to occur before the end of the film) on the following Wednesday. The very last day that the events of Avengers: Infinity War can possibly begin is Wednesday, June 27, 2018, so the latest Lang's house arrest could end would also be the earliest: Wednesday, June 20, 2018. This would also line up well with the references to the time between previous films and Avengers: Infinity War, with them placing it ideally closer to mid-2018 than early. However, there are several things in Thor: Ragnarok, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Spider-Man: Far From Home suggesting it is much earlier in the year.
Firstly, Thor: Ragnarok is firmly set in 2017 (see 2017 references). At the very latest, it takes place in November-December 2017, before All the Comforts of Home on December 4, 2017, which features a reference to the events of the film. There is a jump in time between the end of the main events of the film and the film's mid-credits scene, which is set mere minutes before the opening of Avengers: Infinity War. However, the gap should be minimal, for several reasons:
The film finishes with Thor deciding to head back to Earth. Only in the mid-credits scene do he and Loki seem to actually begin discussing the problems with bringing Loki back to the planet. This would imply that it is very soon after the decision was made.
Thor's hair is exactly the same in Avengers: Infinity War as it is in Thor: Ragnarok, including the streak on the side from the Watcher Informant's poor cutting. While it's possible that Asgardian hair grows slower than humans', it nonetheless implies very little time has passed.
The Statesman has a few hundred Asgardians on board that need food and water and other general living standards, and the ship itself is highly unlikely to have enough on board to sustain a few hundred people for very long. It is possible that they could have gone a little longer if one assumes they stopped at other places for resources on the way and/or that Asgardians need less sustenance than humans, but nonetheless, the longer the gap, the more and more assumptions have to be made.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Episode 12 - The Real Deal is firmly set on December 6, 2017, as given by the "12-06-2017" date on Rodriguez's monitor, and which lines up with all the other evidence as mentioned above. Episode 13 - Principia takes place shortly after and, as is evidenced by the "12-17-2017" date and Coulson's mention of "tidings of comfort of joy", it is Christmas. When Episode 14 - The Devil Complex begins, it is heavily implied to be merely another several days later:
In Episode 12 - The Real Deal, the team discover that Coulson is dying. For them, it has been only a few days since Coulson made the deal with Ghost Rider, yet it has become quite bad. They do not know when he will die, but considering it took just a few days to get this bad, it would be strange for it to take several further months to kill him. This is somewhat mitigated by Simmons saying in Inescapable that Coulson was in fact "sick for a long time".
In Episode 13 - Principia, Fitz says in December 2017, "The, uh, the gravitonium device that we used to seal the rift is barely strong enough. It's duct tape on the Hoover Dam. It's not gonna hold." Coulson asks, "How much time before the dam starts leaking?", and he says, "Well, uh, it's hard to calculate that precisely, but, based on the increased frequency of transit, electromagnetic waves, I'd say that our days were numbered." While he clearly does not know exactly how long they have, the implication is absolutely no more than a couple of weeks.
In Episode 14 - The Devil Complex, Simmons says she would like to have a honeymoon with Fitz, implying they recently married. In Episode 17 - The Honeymoon, Simmons jokes about this being their honeymoon, implying they recently got married.
In Episode 14 - The Devil Complex, Mackenzie is testing Rodriguez's newly made robotic arms. They got the arms from Hale's mechs in Principia. Considering how fast they usually work, it really should not take them very long to make the arms.
In Episode 14 - The Devil Complex, Mackenzie says to Rodriguez, "Your arms aren't fully healed yet. What you need is time." Rodriguez replies, "My arms may not work, but my eyes do. At least let me sit in Control, keep an eye out for anomalies." Mackenzie says, "Maybe, but you have to allow yourself to heal. We'll handle the fighting for now." As well as this, Rodriguez is still in her hospital-esque bed for a lot of the episode. This implies that she is still healing and still needs to be taken care of, which should not be for more than a couple of months absolute maximum.
In Episode 14 - The Devil Complex, Deke Shaw is still a bit dazed about having worked out that Fitz and Simmons are his grandparents.
In Episode 14 - The Devil Complex, Fitz says, "Well, I've temporarily plugged the dam, but it could burst at any minute, releasing more of these anomalies into the base." The phrasing implies the temporary plugging was recent.
In Episode 14 - The Devil Complex, snow is shown on the ground, suggesting it is still winter.
In Episode 15 - Rise and Shine, Coulson says to Hale, "Listen, my team wasn't hiding all these months. We traveled to the future." From this, it can be taken that it has only been "months" since May 12, 2017, when the agents were sent to the future. While it has to now be 2018, it should not be later than early 2018. As well as this, this piece of dialogue suggests that the amount of time that his team have been back in the present is negligible, because he is generalizing the whole time since May 12, 2017 as the time that they were not around, but in the future.
In Missing Pieces, Enoch says he was going to protect Fitz for the next "73 years, 261 days". The team are in 2091, so if they left the future as early as possible, December 31, 2091, then since Fitz wakes 4 days prior, the latest he can possibly have woken is December 27, 2091. Even if Fitz were to wake as late as possible, the latest this scene could be is then April 9, 2018. Except the scene is implied to be after The End, since it should be after the split in the timeline (seemingly not possible to have happened in the original timeline), suggesting The End should be no later than April 9, 2018.
In Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson, Enoch says he is planning to orbit Jupiter with Fitz for the next "72 years, 312 days", which should end before he takes Fitz to the Lighthouse. Fitz wakes no later than December 27, 2091, so the latest Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson could possibly be is February 18, 2019. However, it is 13 months on from The End (Coulson and May "got more [time] than [they] thought [they] would", so Coulson lived roughly the "weeks" Simmons mentions he might have if he is lucky in The End, and Missing Pieces ends on the 1-year anniversary of Coulson's death, the same day Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson is set - plus it is mentioned that Fitz died "over a year ago"), so The End would have to finish in January 2018.
In Spider-Man: Far From Home, Betty Brant says, "Even though we had blipped away halfway through the school year and had already taken midterms." This would make it approximately January/February. There is wiggle room for it to loosely mean "halfway", just "in the bulk of", "not at the beginning or end of", but it should still be no later than May 2018, so it is not in the final several weeks of term. This essentially confirms that Lang did not serve a full 24 months, as Avengers: Infinity War cannot be as late as June 2018 following this comment.
Furthermore, The Punisher: Season 2 firmly places itself in April-May 2018 (see other references). Jeph Loeb stated in July 2018, "The short answer is that the stories that you're seeing, unless otherwise noted, all happen before [...] what is affectionately referred to as "The Thanos Snap". And we'll continue to be in that place until we find out what happens in Avengers 4," referring to all Marvel Cinematic Universe television released before April 26, 2019. This would place The Punisher: Season 2 (released in January 2019) before Avengers: Infinity War (save for the "three months later" epilogue of The Whirlwind, which is August 2018, so has to be after Avengers: Infinity War no matter what), thereby making Avengers: Infinity War set in at least May 2018. However, this is also the only answer Loeb could feasibly give, and he does not explicitly cover every single season, nor specifically The Punisher: Season 2 (saying only that the shows will be set before "for the most part" on a prior occasion), so it is possible that the one season being set after Avengers: Infinity War is not a hard contradiction to Loeb's comments, but April 2018 would be no more than 3 months maximum after Thanos snaps his fingers, and to see no acknowledgement of this in the world so shortly after is highly unlikely. Placing the Snap in May 2018, all pushing and pulling factors considered, makes sense as a compromise anyway, so the Snap should indeed be placed after the main events of The Punisher: Season 2. Thursday, May 17, 2018 would make the most sense (mere hours after the end of the main events), as it is as early as possible, to be as far away as possible from the end of school term in conjunction with the "halfway" Spider-Man: Far From Home line. A final complication comes from Jessica Jones: Season 3. Most evidence would place it in November-December 2018, but this would be just about 6 months post-Snap, with zero acknowledgement of such a monumental, worldwide long-lasting trauma effect. Ultimately, the best-fitting placement is April-May 2018 instead (see other references), allowing it to be pre-Snap. However, in that case, the season ends on May 28, 2018, making the earliest the Snap can be Thursday, May 31, 2018. So, using this earliest possible placement (as any later would contradict Spider-Man: Far From Home, and late May is already much closer to the later evidence than the earlier), Avengers: Infinity War and its related events can be placed on May 30-31, 2018, with the main events of The Devil Complex to All Roads Lead... therefore being May 17-21, 2018. A laptop early in Ant-Man and the Wasp has the date "4/30/2018". With the idea of Lang's house arrest being 24 months thrown out, so Ant-Man and the Wasp's placement flexible - and the events of Avengers: Infinity War being mid-to-late May 2018, late April-early May 2018 for the main events of Ant-Man and the Wasp would make sense. The main events of Ant-Man and the Wasp begin on a Sunday, with Cassie saying, "I had a fun weekend." Scott has 3 days remaining of his house arrest sentence, and the sentence finishes right after the climax, making that Wednesday. Working back, Scott's dream in the bath is Monday night, meaning the house arrest montage spans Sunday and Monday. April 30, 2018 is a Monday, so this aligns for the main events to be Sunday, April 29, 2018 to Wednesday, May 2, 2018.
↑In So This Is Christmas?, Jack Duquesne says to Armand Duquesne VII, "Do you remember when you peed your pants in the Hamptons? I do. Everybody does." Jonathan Bergman, who plays Armand, was approximately eleven years old during filming of HawkeyeSeason 1, suggesting that Armand himself was born in approximately July 2011. Jack brings up the memory as though it were an embarrassing moment for Armand, so it should occur later in his life. Without information available about whether Armand survived Thanos' Snap, the evidence is best satisfied by placing the incident in May 2018, early in the month to keep Armand as young as possible for the incident to be appropriate.
↑ 49.049.149.249.3In Ant-Man and the Wasp, a montage after Scott Lang is released from house arrest on May 2, 2018 (see other references) includes four scenes before the mid-credits scene set on May 31, 2018 (see other references). Firstly, Scott goes to Maggie Lang's house and hugs Cassie. While this can be interpreted as the first thing he does after release, he has changed clothes and asks Cassie "You ready?", implying he is picking her up. On Sunday, April 29, 2018, when Cassie says, "I had a fun weekend, Daddy," Scott replies, "Me too, Peanut. Just wait till next weekend." So, this should not be until the weekend after Scott's release, making it Saturday, May 5, 2018. Following this is Luis securing the Karapetyan deal. With news from the San Francisco chase playing and the group being busy receiving calls, it appears to be shortly after May 2, 2018. While the trio missed their Karapetyan meeting on May 2nd, Karapetyan would presumably not wait too long to get in contact. Since Kurt is arranging a meeting for "Monday", this would suggest it is not currently Sunday or Monday. Tuesday, May 8, 2018 is too far from the main events of the film, so the other option, to be taken, is Saturday, May 5, 2018, hours after Scott picks up Cassie. He is in the same clothes. Presumably she is just not with him at that moment. Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne then go to
the beach, then Hope van Dyne sits with Scott and Cassie in a car to watch Them!. These can be distributed between May 5th and May 31st, making the Them! scene approximately May 22nd. However, this is not a weekend, and Scott seems to only have Cassie on weekends. The closest weekend day is May 20th. Then, placing the beach scene halfway between May 5th daytime and May 20th evening would put it around the morning of May 13th.
↑In AKA Sorry Face, it is said on May 9, 2018 (see other references) that the Rand Enterprises "board made the decision yesterday", making it May 8, 2018.
↑In AKA I Did Something Today, Eddy Costa says on May 14, 2018 (see other references), "I've been placed on leave, effective tomorrow," making the beginning of the leave May 15, 2018.
↑In The Daily Bugle, Cammie Conroy mentions having been watching Extreme Measures 2 when she disappeared in the Snap, dated to May 31, 2018 (see other references). Movies are in theaters for a few weeks, but rarely more than a month, so the movie was released between 2-4 weeks before the Snap. Since most movies are released on a Friday, this can be approximated to the closest Friday to the midpoint, May 18, 2018.
↑In Avengers: Infinity War, Thor says on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 that Xandar was attacked "last week". The middle of the previous week would be Wednesday, May 23, 2018.
↑In Avengers: Endgame, Clint Barton is shown travelling back to a point in time not long before the Snap. Given that Lila Barton looks like she does on May 31, 2018 (see other references), it can be approximated to around a week prior, May 24, 2018. And with the 2023 Clint making no impacts of significance until just before he leaves, the 2018 events up to that point can be taken to play out identically in both universes.
↑ 86.0086.0186.0286.0386.0486.0586.0686.0786.0886.0986.1086.1186.1286.1386.14In Cheat The Gallows, 2018 events are shown simultaneous to the events of The Broken Circle. With the time-traveled Runaways making no impacts of significance in many parts of the Hostel until 2028 Stein stops 2018 Yorkes from taking the salt, most of the events of The Broken Circle up to that point can be taken to play out essentially identically in the main reality. Similarly, events such as the Yorkes parents talking about the blender and Karolina Dean and Nico Minoru talking, shown only in Cheat The Gallows, are unaffected by the time-traveled Runaways' actions, so can be taken to have also happened in the The Broken Circle reality.
↑In New World Order, Sam Wilson says that he and Sarah Wilson had planned to discuss selling their parents' boat at a later time. Sarah then says "then you were off fighting Doctor Space Cape or whatever for five years," referring to Sam having been a victim of the Snap on May 31, 2018 (see other references). This conversation likely would have happened within the week leading up to the Snap, since it seemed to be relatively fresh in Sam's mind and based on Sarah's wording, so would have been between May 24-31, 2018. The conversation can be approximated to the middle of these dates, May 27, 2018.
↑ 90.090.1In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Nakia is revealed to have been pregnant with T'Challa's son when T'Challa died in the Snap on the reasoned date May 31, 2018 (see other references), which was kept secret from Wakanda. The movie is set in May 2025 (see 2025 references), although T'Challa II is listed in the script for the movie as being "7" years old. It therefore best for T'Challa II to be as close to seven years old as possible, while still being six years old. Nakia says that she and T'Challa talked about raising their son in secret, so the latest Nakia can discover she is pregnant is May 30, 2018. The earliest one can discover they are pregnant is ten days, so it can be taken that T'Challa was born nine months after May, approximately February 2019. For Nakia's pregnancy to be kept secret, she would not be able to have left more than three months into her pregnancy. To allow her to leave as late as possible to best satisfy Ramonda's claim that it has been "six years" since she left, it can be taken that she left three months later, September 2018. This allows her to have left six years prior to May 2025.
↑Deke Shaw is shot in the arm in The Honeymoon, the day before the end of All Roads Lead.... Following this, he wears a sling until the beginning of The Force of Gravity. This should mean that several weeks pass between him being shot and having the sling taken off. However, the only possible gap in time is between All Roads Lead... and Option Two, and the show treats it very much like it has been merely hours when Option Two begins. This would in total mean that Deke had the sling for barely over 1 day, which is impossible. Stretching the gap between All Roads Lead... and Option Two, it really can be no more than about 5 days, considering the agents' actions, discussions, and behavior. However, even if we consider that the surgery on Shaw was very successful and he healed very fast and took off the sling very prematurely - as soon as he could, to help him be more able in the times of crisis that were occurring, it really cannot be shorter than about 2 weeks of recovery time, which would involve a 13-day gap between All Roads Lead... and Option Two. Overall, a 9-day jump is necessary, giving 10 days of recovery time before taking off the sling. It absolutely cannot be any longer, yet it absolutely cannot be shorter. So, with Option Two being the Wednesday of Avengers: Infinity War, the main events of All Roads Lead... end on the previous week's Monday. Working backwards, All Roads Lead... begins the day before (Sunday), and Inside Voices and 17 - The Honeymoon are earlier that Sunday. In Inside Voices, Ruby Hale says, "Why not talk to Coulson [...] I think after 2 days in isolation," which places the "24 hours ago" portion of Rise and Shine as being 2 days prior, Friday, thus meaning that Rise and Shine spans the Thursday-Saturday almost 2 weeks before Avengers: Infinity War. The exact dates assigned to these days are May 17-21, 2018 (see other references).
↑In Power Broker, Sharon Carter states that "at some point," she decided to start selling art. Given the amount of wealth she has acquired by 2024, this likely happened as early as possible. Marvel Studios' The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline places it after the Snap on May 31, 2018 (see other references) as a floating box dated "Spring 2018-Fall 2023." To allow for enough time as possible for Carter to acquire her wealth, it can be taken that Carter started her business in June 2018.
↑ 106.0106.1The Blip Blog articles regarding Monte Montoya and Phillip Carroway discuss reactions to the Snap occurring. Both of these reactions are implied to have happened soon after, and therefore can be approximated to taking place the next day.
↑In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Stephen Strange says that Wong became Sorcerer Supreme "because I blipped for five years." By the time of the Snap, the Masters of the Mystic Arts will have been without a Sorcerer Supreme for one year, since the Ancient One died on January 19, 2017 (see 2017 references). It can therefore be taken that Wong became Sorcerer Supreme the day after Snap, June 1, 2018.
↑ 109.00109.01109.02109.03109.04109.05109.06109.07109.08109.09109.10109.11109.12109.13109.14109.15109.16109.17109.18109.19In Avengers: Endgame, after the opening scene set simultaneously to the Snap, Tony Stark states it is "Day [...] 22" of flight. Assuming Day 1 to be the day following the Battle of Titan on May 31, 2018 (see other references), June 1, 2018, this makes it currently June 22, 2018. When Carol Danvers then finds the Benatar, they have mere hours of oxygen remaining. She flies them back to Earth in time to save them, meaning it is less than 24 hours later, and shortly after this it is said to be "23 days since Thanos came to Earth". With Thanos' arrival in Wakanda and the Snap dated to May 31, 2018 (see other references), this makes it now June 23, 2018, fitting with Stark's line being June 22, 2018. It can also therefore be taken that, given Danvers' trip back seems to take approximately a little less than a day, she left to find them the day before she finds them, around June 21, 2018. This would therefore make the mid-credits scene of Captain Marvel most likely set on June 21, 2018. On June 23, 2018, shortly after it is mentioned to be 23 days since Thanos came to Earth, it is said that "2 days ago", Thanos used the Infinity Stones again, meaning he used them on June 21, 2018. The Avengers then fly to the Garden to face him, and Bruce Banner states during their ambush, "You used them 2 days ago," meaning it is still June 23, 2018 up until the five-year jump the film takes.
↑ 110.0110.1In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Nicodemus West says that both of his cats died while he was gone after Thanos snapped his fingers on May 31, 2018 (see other references). Cats can survive in general for up to two weeks without food and water, so it can be taken that West's cats died within fourteen days of the Snap, on June 5 and June 10, 2018.
↑ 111.0111.1111.2111.3In The Other Thing, four flashbacks are shown of Coulson and May in Tahiti. These are set between their arrival on May 31, 2018 (see other references) and Coulson's death on June 27, 2018 (see other references), so can be evenly distributed to June 5th, June 10th, June 16th, and June 21st.
↑On average, funerals in the United States are held five days after death. With Roger Harrington's wife running away on May 31, 2018, the funeral can be approximated to June 5, 2018.
↑In Toldja, Daisy Johnson discusses how Mackenzie and Rodriguez broke up before she left for space. With them still together on May 31, 2018 (see other references), and their departure for space dated to July 2, 2018 (see other references), their breakup can be approximated to June 16, 2018. In Missing Pieces, it is said on June 25, 2019 (see 2019 references) that "it's been a year" since Mackenzie and Rodriguez broke up, which aligns with June 16, 2018.
↑ 115.0115.1In The End, Daisy Johnson asks Coulson on May 31, 2018 (see other references), "How long did Simmons say you have?" Coulson replies, "Days. Weeks, if I'm lucky." Melinda May says in Missing Pieces, "We got more [time] than we thought we would," Coulson likely got "weeks", the "lucky" period of time, before he died. Coulson therefore died around June 26, 2018. Based on the average time between death and funeral in the U.S. of 5 days, Coulson's funeral was likely therefore around July 1, 2018.
↑ 116.0116.1116.2In The Other Thing, the destruction of Chronyca-2 is said to have been shortly followed by the Chronicoms taking the Confederate ships. While it is possible that the Confederacy still had other ships, ideally, the Confederate ship attacking Enoch and Fitz on April 9, 2018 (see other references) should still be before this, so the taking the ships would be April 9, 2018 or later. Assuming the Chronicoms taking the ships was approximately the day after the destruction of Chronyca-2, the destruction of Chronyca-2 would therefore be April 8, 2018 or later. In Inescapable, it is said on June 28, 2019 (see 2019 references) that Atarah has been hunting the Zephyr One team for the "past year". If the destruction of Chronyca-2 was before the May 31, 2018 (see other references) timeline split, then the Chronicom hunt would have begun only as of the timeline split, with them monitoring the disruption and finding that the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents have a way in which they might "change" time to save their already-destroyed Chronyca-2. So, the "past year" would refer to the time since May 31, 2018. If the destruction was after the May 31, 2018 split, however, then the Chronicoms would only start hunting the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents for help with time travel as of the destruction of Chronyca-2 and stealing the ships. So, the "past year" would refer to the time since the destruction of Chronyca-2 and stealing the ships, making that around June 2018. The intent behind the attack on Enoch and Fitz's ship seems to be that it was meant to be after the timeline split. Though this is impossible, with it occurring on April 9, 2018 (see other references), this would nonetheless imply that the intent was for the chronology to be timeline split, then Confederacy attack on Fitz and Enoch, then the Chronicoms take the Confederate ships (just after the destruction of Chronyca-2). So, it makes more sense to take the destruction of Chronyca-2 and stealing the ships to still be after the timeline split rather than before - the June 2018 case. 1 year before June 28, 2019 can be taken to be a near exact year, roughly June 28, 2018, or more generally "2019 - 2018 = 1", so just 2018 in general (approximating with mid-2018). A weighted calculation would suggest the stealing of the ships was therefore around June 29, 2018, and the destruction of Chronyca-2 therefore around June 28, 2018.
↑ 119.0119.1In Avengers: Endgame, Hulk refers to the "18 months" he spent in a gamma lab working on merging his personas. It can be assumed that he did not get immediately to work after their failure to undo Thanos' work in June 2018 (see other references), but nonetheless got to the work soon after. With the end of Hulk's work approximated to December 2019 (see 2019 references), Banner therefore should be taken to have started in June 2018, so to maximize a bit of time after the Thanos failure, it can be taken to be June 30, 2018.
↑In Missing Pieces, The Other Thing, Toldja, and Collision Course Part Two, it is stated on June 26-July 2, 2019 (see 2019 references) that it has been a "year" since the search for Fitz began, suggesting it began around mid-2018. The team likely wanted to leave as soon as possible, but Daisy Johnson mentions in Collision Course Part One that the team stayed for Coulson's funeral. So, their departure may be approximated to the day after the funeral, which is dated to July 1, 2018 (see other references), so July 2, 2018.
↑Max Ventura's file in Captain America: Brave New World says that Ventura led a Presidential event "in 2018." The midpoint, July 2, can be approximated for this event.
↑In Code Yellow, Deke Shaw refers to attending a Phish concert in the period between his departure from S.H.I.E.L.D. on May 31, 2018 (see other references) and Sarge's arrival at his company on June 27, 2019 (see 2019 references). The closest real Phish concerts to where Shaw lives, Silicon Valley, during that period were on July 24 and 25, 2018, so the July 25, 2018 concert (closer to the midpoint of the range in which the concert must have occurred) may be used as an approximation. While the Snap may have affected the concert plans in the MCU, the July 25, 2018 nonetheless serves as a reasonable approximation.
↑ 128.0128.1In The Whirlwind, it is shown that the ambush on gang leaders is "three months later" after Castle and Bendix part ways. With that scene dated to May 17, 2018 (see other references), the ambush can be approximated to August 17, 2018.
↑ 129.0129.1In Missing Pieces, it is said that the Zephyr One team found half of the ship, then traveled to locations including Trinawa and the moons of Pyree, seemingly in that order. These three events would have occurred after their departure from Earth on July 2, 2018 (see other references) and before this is said on June 25, 2019 (see 2019 references). Distributing the events evenly, finding the ship would be around September 30, 2018, Trinawa December 29, 2018, and the moons of Pyree around March 29, 2019.
↑In Generation Why and No Normal, Coles Academic High School is shown to have won several volleyball championships in various years. Volleyball championships in New Jersey tend to happen in October, so they can be approximated to October of each year.
↑In Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson, it is said that Enoch and Fitz encountered "the MazTats", and in Window of Opportunity, it is mentioned that they were found on Sivos. The MazTats incident must come first, with the Sivos incident leading to them being on the Lazy Comet. These two events would have occurred after their cabin pressure failure on June 1, 2018 (see other references) and when Fitz is shown on the Lazy Comet by June 26, 2019 (see 2019 references). Distributing the events evenly, the MazTats would be around October 9, 2018 and Sivos around February 15, 2019.
↑ 135.0135.1In For All Time. Always., Hunter B-15 is shown revealing the truth about the Time Variance Authority to Hunter D-90 in "2018" at a high school. Several posters in the hallway are advertising a homecoming dance, as well as at pep rally, the sign for which says "FRI @ 3:00." As B-15 runs into Rebecca Tourminet's office, three calendars are shown, one for October, one for November, and one for December. With October being the earliest, it can be taken that Tourminet has calendars out for the current month and the two following months. Two Fridays are highlighted on the calendar as special events, and although the dates do not match up with 2018 in the real world, it can be taken that the pep rally is on the third Friday of the month, since that Friday has a full week also highlight, which can be understood to be pep week at the high school. The third Friday of October 2018 is October 19, 2018, which means this likely happened within the week leading up to the pep rally. The sign would therefore have been put up the Friday before the pep rally, on October 12, and this event could be between then and the day of the pep rally, October 19, since a clock in Tourminet's office shows the time to be 6:22 and it is daylight, meaning this scene happens in the early morning and still before the poster would be taken after the pep rally. The scene can therefore be approximated to the middle of October 12-19, so approximately October 15, 2018. This lines up with being on a Monday so that Tourminet is in school for work.
↑In Power Broker, Wilfred Nagel says that the CIA had abandoned his program after he disappeared. This likely happened within the first year after he was gone, considering he was essential to the program. With the Snap dated to May 31, 2018 (see other references), this decision therefore happened between May 31, 2018 and May 31, 2019. The abandonment of the project can therefore be dated to the middle of these two dates, November 29, 2018.
↑In Missing Pieces, on June 25, 2019 (see 2019 references), Mackenzie says S.H.I.E.L.D. have not heard from the Zephyr One team "in months". This would most likely refer to some point between August 2018 and April 2019. A calculation would suggest approximately December 12, 2019 as the last time they contacted.
↑In Missing Pieces, is it revealed that Trok bought the half of Enoch's ship with the broken cryo-chamber. This would have occurred between the abandonment on June 1, 2018 (see other references) and the scene with Trok on June 25, 2019 (see 2019 references), so can be approximated to December 13, 2019.
↑ 141.0141.1In Inescapable, a Zephyr One team incident on Saldon is referenced. In Collision Course Part Two, an incident with an ocean of lava is referenced. In Leap, an incident on Krylor is referenced. In The Sign, incidents on a smelly planet and on a shiny planet are referenced. All of these occurred during Zephyr One's time hunting for Fitz, before the interrogation of Trok, so between July 2, 2018 (see other references) and June 25, 2019 (see 2019 references). They would all, therefore, be approximated to around December 29, 2018. Pushing the events apart, separating them by a week and using the order of mention as a guess, we would have Saldon around December 15, 2018, lava around December 22, 2018, Krylor around December 29, 2018, the smelly planet around January 5, 2019, and the shiny planet around January 12, 2019. However, their incident on Trinawa is dated to December 29, 2018, so Krylor, the smelly planet, and the shiny planet may be pushed a further week, with January 5, 2019 for Krylor, January 12, 2019 for the smelly planet, and January 19, 2019 for the shiny planet.
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