Recaps

Evenson and the Eredar Twins recruited new talent and prepared for the Naaru’s possible return, while Mephisto revealed the danger posed by Lucifer and sought permission to stay on Earth. Evenson reconciled with Klayya, spent the night with Melinda, and brought Mephisto to meet Nick Fury at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.

• Evenson agreed to the Eredar Twins’ challenge to make them fall for him, then approved their recruitment of Adrian Toomes and watched them bring him into Umbrella Corporation.
• Agent 47 captured Benjamin Pollock and Clairevis, and Nick Fury wrongly concluded that the US military had taken them after the Eredar Twins arranged to leave no alien weapon behind.
• The Eredar Twins revealed that General Ross’s renewed popularity had helped secure their meeting with the President, while Evenson told them the Naaru had left Earth and warned them to advance their plans.
• Mephisto told Evenson that Lucifer was devouring souls in his territory, and Evenson explained that starving Lucifer could turn him into an Entropy Demon.
• Mephisto arranged with Hell’s other monarchs to keep Lucifer fed but never full, then explained that overcrowding had driven him to seek a stay in the human world.
• Evenson asked the Eredar Twins to recruit Nadia and Danny and proposed company benefits for employees’ families, while revealing that his larger plan could reach a result within three months.
• Evenson admitted to Klayya that he had initially been drawn to her because of the emptiness in his soul, then reassured her that his love had become genuine and spent the night with Melinda.
• The team returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, where Melinda revealed she had broken Evenson’s anti-scrying Magic, and Evenson introduced Mephisto to Nick Fury as a visitor seeking tourism and diplomatic ties.

Mephisto secured permanent residency on Earth and repaired Coulson’s soul, while Nick Fury sent Evenson to meet Gideon Malick. Evenson exposed Umbrella Corporation’s history and used the Black Stone to reach a ruined world, which he gave to the Eredar Twins.

• Mephisto negotiated permanent residency with Nick Fury, offering S.H.I.E.L.D. construction work for its dead agents in Hell, and agreed to repair Coulson’s soul while refusing to reveal the dead agents’ secrets.
• Mephisto repaired Coulson’s soul, and Coulson briefly thanked him with a golden-eyed glance before going limp.
• Nick Fury sent Evenson to meet Gideon Malick, whose invitation was meant to recruit Evenson as a check on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s power.
• Evenson visited Malik Manor, impressed Stephanie with stories and Magic, and identified the black stone as his own.
• Evenson revealed The Hive’s history and Hydra’s connection to it, then told Malik that Umbrella Corporation had rebuilt itself after the Nazi Party’s defeat.
• Evenson claimed he owned half of Umbrella Corporation and activated the Black Stone, which carried him to a lifeless world devastated by The Hive.
• The Eredar Twins followed Evenson through the mark on his arm, and Evenson gave them the ruined planet to use for its land, resources, and lingering soul fragments.

Evenson and Malik negotiated Umbrella Corporation’s role in Hydra’s plans, including a contract for Demon Heart Warriors and support for the Human Completion Plan. After Malik signed a Devil Contract, the Eredar Twins visited Klayya, and the women agreed to become allies despite their doubts about Evenson.

• Evenson and the Eredar Twins prepared to move Fel Scar Rift to a lifeless planet, where Aurelles exposed The Hive’s spying and Evenson discovered the planet’s geothermal power.
• Evenson returned from the portal with astronaut Will Smith, whom Malik and Stephanie recognized as a survivor of Hydra’s Project Starseeker mission.
• Evenson told Malik that Umbrella Corporation sought to improve humanity through genetic engineering, and Malik proposed integrating races through education while preserving their cultures.
• Evenson confirmed Umbrella’s Human Completion Plan and explained that Peggy Carter was a weapon rather than a repeatable technology, prompting Malik to order Demon Heart Warriors.
• Malik ordered a hundred warriors and agreed to introduce Umbrella Corporation to influential financial and political figures in exchange for the company waiving the $20 billion charge.
• Malik signed Evenson’s Devil Contract, binding the deal and keeping their identities and agreement confidential.
• The Eredar Twins visited Klayya’s shop, challenged her over their respective appeal to Evenson, and ultimately agreed to become allies despite distrusting him.

Evenson became entangled in Captain America and Peggy Carter’s reconciliation, then dealt with the fallout from Tyler’s attack on the Scorpion Gang and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s response. After his raise fell through, he set out to settle a delayed matter and teleported into Milhark Berikoff’s refrigerator.

• Evenson helped Captain America and Peggy Carter work through their jealousy and past, and Sharon Carter eventually accepted their relationship after revealing that she had tested Steve’s loyalty.
• Dottie and Sharon uncovered evidence that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Sweden Division had fabricated its achievements around Alexander Zakharchenko, while Evenson returned home to find Klayya studying the damaged teleportation array.
• The Eredar Twins empowered Luther after the Jamaican Voodoo Gang attacked their nightclub, then approved Gernos’s prototype armor and named it the Iron Blood Warrior.
• Evenson confronted Tyler over his massacre of the Scorpion Gang, but Tyler produced a recording showing Evenson had given him permission during a conversation he had forgotten.
• Evenson persuaded Peggy Carter to take responsibility for Tyler’s actions, then blamed her to Nick Fury, who ordered a crackdown on New York’s gangs and investigations into S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Swedish branch.
• Melinda told Evenson that his raise had been shelved, and Klayya took control of his salary card before Evenson decided to settle a long-delayed matter involving Milhark Berikoff.
• Milhark warned his daughter that the Black Scythe Lord’s curse was killing him, then Evenson appeared from the family’s refrigerator after a teleportation error.