Recaps

Sing Sing recruited Mutants for a Chinese construction work unit while rescuing Riptide’s brother and evading Stryker’s forces. After negotiating passage on Black Shark’s freighter, he confronted the captain when he tried to take Amy and Lorna to his cabin.

• Sing Sing arranged for Mortimer to join the Tiankeng Village road project, where Mortimer rescued Lao Li from a collapsing cliff and proved his strength on the job.
• Sing Sing met Riptide, learned Stryker was holding Riptide’s brother Anton, and agreed to help rescue him in exchange for the brothers joining his work unit.
• Sing Sing and Riptide freed Anton and Lorna Dane from Stryker’s laboratory, then escaped before its self-destruct sequence destroyed it.
• Sing Sing recruited Amy, also known as Soft Serve, in Chicago, killed Number One, and removed the tracking chip from Lorna’s body.
• Sing Sing sold an armored vehicle to fund their departure, brought the group to Slug’s center, and arranged treatment and work contracts for the recruits.
• Black Shark demanded an inflated fare and threatened the group, but Sing Sing and Lorna defeated his attack and negotiated passage on his freighter.
• Sing Sing boarded the Black Shark with Lorna, Amy, Riptide, and Anton, organized their cargo-hold quarters, and stopped Black Shark from grabbing Amy’s hair.

Sing Sing brought a group of Mutants to China, arranged treatment and work for them, and helped each find a place in the 749 Bureau’s network. As the recruits settled into their roles, he returned Mortimer to Tiankeng Village and began planning a job for Wandering Girl.

• Sing Sing led Edith, Lorna, Amy, Riptide, and Anton off Black Shark’s freighter after Lorna disabled its propeller, but Edith’s drunken teleport dropped them at a drilling site in the Taklamakan Desert.
• Sing Sing and the Mutants helped clear a poisonous gas blowout, and Director Wang arranged for the military to bring them to Beijing after Sing Sing secured care and support for the group.
• Sing Sing introduced the recruits to the 749 Bureau and arranged medical treatment, housing, and work, while Da Vinci’s device helped Anton recover enough to take an archives job.
• Sing Sing and Director Wang protected Polaris’s right to choose whether to work on the Qiongzhou Strait project, and Polaris agreed to try the work under safeguards and proper pay.
• At Jiuquan Space City, Polaris fixed a rocket valve’s response delay, while Amy’s mint ice cream became popular with tired researchers and their families.
• Sing Sing brought Riptide to a fire and rescue detachment, where Riptide cleared a chemical-fire training ground in under a minute and earned a deputy captain position.
• Sing Sing took Mortimer back to Tiankeng Village, where the workers welcomed him and celebrated his return, then rated him excellent the next morning.
• Sing Sing crossed Toad off his placement list and decided to find Wandering Girl a job where she could not drink.

Sing Sing recruited Gambit and tried to bring Wolverine into the 749 Bureau while confronting Avalanche and Silver Peak’s prison operation. After rescuing the surviving captives, the group took refuge in a wine cellar, where Wolverine agreed to observe the bureau’s work and Gambit chose to stay in Las Vegas.

• Sing Sing recruited Wandering Girl to deliver a secret document to Ma Weiguo, then brought Gambit to Las Vegas and offered him a job in China’s infrastructure sector.
• When Boneforge attacked Gambit, Sing Sing killed him, escaped with Gambit, and showed him evidence of other Mutants living and working in China.
• Avalanche’s forces destroyed Wolverine’s bar and framed Sing Sing and Gambit for a hotel collapse, so the three men sought help from Sand Rat Miguel.
• Sand Rat revealed Avalanche’s underground prison, and Sing Sing, Gambit, and Wolverine entered the mine to rescue its captives and find evidence.
• The group fought through Avalanche’s facility, discovered prisoners had been burned, and killed Avalanche after breaking through his rock armor.
• Sing Sing’s group freed four captives and escaped Silver Peak’s cleanup team, while Wolverine fought the attackers and Gambit brought down a helicopter.
• At the Redstone Beach Motel wine cellar, Sing Sing organized the survivors and treated Luke Shaw, while the group discovered Sand Rat had taken an encrypted key.
• Wolverine agreed to return with Sing Sing and observe the 749 Bureau’s work, Sand Rat received a chance at a drilling job, and Gambit declined to go to China.
• Sing Sing arranged for Wandering Girl to bring food and drinks to the cellar, where she told Wolverine she had quit drinking and now drank full-sugar milk tea.

Sing Sing helped place the rescued newcomers and traveled across China to assess how the overseas recruits were adjusting to their work. After settling Wolverine on Peach Mountain, Sing Sing completed visits with the other recruits and ended his rounds at Space City with Polaris and Soft Serve.

• Sing Sing brought the rescued newcomers to headquarters, arranged their treatment and housing, and organized job assessments before Wolverine rejected assigned work and asked to live undisturbed in nature.
• Sing Sing arranged for Wolverine to hunt legally at Peach Mountain, where Wolverine learned the wildlife rules, wore an observer vest, and found satisfaction in chopping firewood rather than killing.
• Sing Sing learned that the other newcomers had been assigned to work sites across the country, then made follow-up visits that exposed questionable reimbursement records and revealed that the finance office was auditing his expenses.
• Sing Sing watched Riptide clear toxic gas at a chemical plant and sent footage of the rescue to Director Wang, while deciding to investigate a comment that placed Riptide in Queens months earlier.
• Sing Sing tested Wandering Girl’s teleportation accuracy with Da Vinci, then traveled to Zhengzhou, where Harry surveyed a subterranean river and got Sing Sing drunk enough to miss his train.
• Sing Sing visited Martha’s desert restoration project, saw her revive drought-stricken seedlings, and missed another train after drinking with the workers.
• Sing Sing met Polaris and Soft Serve in Jiuquan, stayed in their guest room, and learned that Polaris was helping repair equipment at Space City while Soft Serve’s sunscreen ice cream business was growing.
• Sing Sing helped Polaris bargain for meat, cooked Heartbroken Rice for her and Soft Serve, completed their follow-up forms, and prepared to leave for the station.