Chapter Summaries

After Luther’s tracking signal vanished, Moira sent Pharaoh's Eagle to his last known location to support or retrieve him. Luther had survived the explosion and defeated Luke Cage, leaving him down on the ground.

• Moira detected that Luther’s signal had disappeared and assumed he was dead, ordering Pharaoh's Eagle to find him and prepare a retrieval.
• Pharaoh's Eagle accelerated toward Luther’s last known location, drawing little notice from New York residents.
• Luther emerged from the explosion covered in soot but otherwise unharmed, while Luke Cage recovered and attacked him.
• Luke Cage tried to counter Luther’s powerful mechanical arm by fighting at close range, but Luther used dirty tactics to gain the advantage.
• Luther trapped Luke Cage’s arm, struck it with his mechanical gauntlet, then knocked him down with a heavy punch to the head.

Luther fought Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, but Farrell arrived in her Black Badge Division armor and ordered Jessica to surrender. The explosion left Luther alive but completely naked as Farrell turned away in embarrassment.

• Luther knocked Luke Cage unconscious and prepared to finish him off.
• Jessica Jones hit Luther with a motorcycle, and its fuel ignited, engulfing him in flames.
• Jessica tried to escape with Luke Cage, but Luther emerged from the fire and blocked their way.
• Farrell arrived in flying armor and fired a missile that blasted Jessica and staggered Luther.
• Farrell ordered Jessica to surrender, then saw that the blast had burned away Luther's remaining clothes.

Luther survived a bar explosion caused by Kilgrave, but was left naked and mistakenly presumed dead by Moira, who arrived with a coffin to recover his body. Jessica explained that Luther was collateral damage in Kilgrave’s attempt to kill Luke Cage and punish her, leaving Moira to wonder how many Black Badge Division members Kilgrave had offended.

• After the explosions destroyed his clothes, Luther covered himself and left to find spare clothes in his car, telling Farrell to watch Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.
• Moira arrived with McNair and Soldier 76 carrying a coffin, expecting to recover Luther’s body, but Luther returned alive and confronted them.
• Moira asked what had happened, and Luther accused Jessica and Luke of plotting to kill him after his surveillance signal disappeared in the explosion.
• Jessica explained that Kilgrave had controlled Luke to cause the explosion because he was jealous of her and wanted revenge, while Luther had been caught up as collateral damage.
• Moira wondered which Black Badge Division members Kilgrave had not offended, aside from the absent Agent 47.

Jessica and Luke Cage used a day of public romance to lure Kilgrave into a trap, where the Black Badge Division confronted him in an abandoned church. The operation began with Kilgrave trapped inside, but he had not yet been subdued.

• The Black Badge Division's core members prepared to hunt Kilgrave after he provoked them, and Jessica proposed luring him out by flaunting her relationship with Luke Cage.
• Jessica and Luke spent the day acting like a devoted couple while Moira monitored them and the team kept watch for Kilgrave.
• Farrell spotted Kilgrave following Jessica and Luke, and Moira ordered the team to assemble at a deserted church.
• Kilgrave entered the church and tried to summon Jessica to his side, only to find Jessica, Moira, and other Black Badge members waiting for him.
• Kilgrave ordered McNair to kill herself, but she fired at his feet instead, made him dance in panic, and announced, “Release 76!”

Moira led an escalating live-combat experiment to test Soldier 76’s resistance to mind control, restraint, and controlled violence, using Kilgrave as the test subject. After Soldier 76 demonstrated his capabilities, Moira prepared to test whether he could interrogate a dying target without letting him die first.

• Moira began the experiment, and Soldier 76 proved immune to Kilgrave’s sound-triggered mind control while Jessica and Luke Cage blocked Kilgrave’s commands with headphones.
• Kilgrave tried summoning his bodyguards and threatening that controlled hostages would die, but Soldier 76 revealed he had already incapacitated the guards, and Moira dismissed the threat because Kilgrave’s control had limited range.
• Soldier 76 restrained Kilgrave without hurting him, then escalated to pain, dislocations, fractures, and severe injuries as Moira recorded each stage of the test.
• Moira declared the offensive tests complete and explained that Soldier 76 would now be tested on extracting intelligence from a near-dead terrorist without allowing him to die.

Moira, Soldier 76, and Luther ended their operation against Kilgrave, but Soldier 76 killed him before Jessica Jones could decide whether to take revenge herself. Moira recruited Jessica as a Black Badge Division informant, while Evenson was summoned to investigate an exploded toilet at the company.

• Moira ordered Luther to take Kilgrave back to her laboratory, but Jessica questioned whether she should kill him or spare him.
• Jessica hesitated over Kilgrave as Luke Cage protected her and McNair warned them to back away.
• Soldier 76 shot Kilgrave dead, then accepted Moira’s order to clean up the church.
• Moira recruited Jessica Jones as a Black Badge Division informant and declared the operation over.
• The Eredar Twins called Evenson about an exploded company toilet, and he teleported there to find it really had exploded.

Evenson investigated a deadly teleportation incident at the Eredar Twins' company and learned that a group resembling Kamar-Taj sorcerers had breached the building. The Twins revealed that most of the intruders had teleported into a spatial maze filled with wraiths, leaving their fate uncertain.

• The Eredar Twins teased Evenson for misreading their urgent message before explaining that a man had died in the company's restroom.
• Aurelles showed Evenson a photo of the victim, whose body had been crushed inside a reinforced drainage pipe, and Saloras suggested a teleportation accident.
• Evenson and Saloras reasoned that the victim had likely teleported into the restroom's unusually vulnerable spatial-defense point.
• Evenson watched security footage of a braided man and at least thirty people in martial arts uniforms tumbling out of the restroom and fleeing.
• Aurelles and Saloras revealed that more than twenty other intruders had likely entered a spatial maze containing over a hundred Flame Wraiths and over a hundred Shadow Wraiths.

Evenson and the Eredar Twins traced a deadly teleportation accident to their ley-line magic system overlapping with the New York Sanctum, while Evenson considered the consequences for Kamar-Taj. Moira reported that Kilgrave had been killed and Soldier 76 had passed his ability tests, then a huge explosion near Hell's Kitchen prompted Evenson to call Agent 47.

• Evenson and the Eredar Twins explained that their magic array had diverted New York's ley lines and caused Kamar-Taj mages to teleport into their building, where more than twenty died.
• Aurelles said the mages had repeatedly tried to force their way through the building's defenses, while Evenson wondered why they had not received a warning about the changed ley lines.
• Moira reported that Kilgrave had been killed and that Jessica Jones and Luke Cage had become Umbrella Corporation informants.
• Moira described Soldier 76's psychological test results and advised against placing him in the Black Badge Division, but Evenson chose him as the division's public face.
• A distant explosion shook Evenson's office and lit the sky red near Hell's Kitchen, so Evenson told Moira to contact Agent 47 for details.

Evenson learned that Fisk, Madam Gao, and the Russian gang were linked to the Hell's Kitchen bombing, then ordered 47 to let the vigilante remain at large while preparing to eliminate him if S.H.I.E.L.D. became involved. As Evenson prepared to leave for home, a mage arrived through a portal and told him that Klayya had been seriously injured in an attack on the Sanctum Library.

• 47 reported that Madam Gao's human bomb had detonated a Russian gang warehouse packed with weapons, after Fisk had maneuvered the gang into gathering there for revenge.
• Evenson realized the bombing connected back to the company's money laundering for Fisk and ordered 47 to avoid interfering with the vigilante unless police or S.H.I.E.L.D. caught him.
• Evenson told 47 to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D. but find a way to silence the vigilante before the agency could uncover the company's ties to Fisk.
• Saloras and Aurelles noticed Ancient One's Mirror Dimension outside, and Aurelles opened a portal when a mage tried to contact them.
• A bloodied female mage told Evenson that traitors had attacked the Sanctum Library and seriously injured Klayya, so Evenson agreed to go with her.

Kaecilius turned against Kamar-Taj after discovering the Ancient One used power from the Dark Dimension, and he came to believe that Dormammu could save the world from time. While trying to steal the Book of Cagliostro, he and his followers arrived in the library, where Klayya was hiding as they attacked Stiller.

• Kaecilius blamed the Ancient One for concealing her use of Dark Dimension power and for refusing to save his wife and child, then left Kamar-Taj with followers.
• Kaecilius decided time was the world's greatest enemy and planned to summon Dormammu using the Book of Cagliostro.
• Kaecilius and his followers struggled to breach the New York Sanctum's defenses, emerged through a portal into a toilet, and lost more than twenty people in the confusion.
• Kaecilius opened another portal directly into the library, where Klayya had just returned a book and was hiding among the shelves.
• Kaecilius's followers bound Stiller with magic chains, beheaded him onto a bronze platter, and their leader noticed Klayya hiding nearby.

Klayya fought Kaecilius’s group after they killed Stiller, defeating several mages with her Viper Hundred Arts before Chen stabbed her with twin daggers. As Klayya collapsed, her eyes turned blue and she killed Chen with a strange power, leaving her own fate uncertain.

• Klayya tried to disguise herself as Ancient One to frighten Kaecilius’s group, but Kaecilius saw through the illusion and exposed her.
• Klayya defeated a female mage wielding an Invisible Blade by trapping the weapon and striking her down.
• Klayya took down two male mages with her Viper Hundred Arts, and Kaecilius recognized the style and tried to recruit her.
• Klayya confirmed she knew Ancient One withheld true magic for the students’ protection, then refused Kaecilius’s offer.
• Chen gave Klayya a sheathed short sword, then stabbed her abdomen with twin daggers when she tried to draw it.
• Klayya’s eyes turned deep blue, and she killed Chen with a mysterious power before collapsing herself.

Kaecilius fled when the real Ancient One appeared, and she stabilized the gravely wounded Klayya before pursuing the attackers. At the New York Sanctum, Evenson tried to use stolen life force to save Kreia, but Kreia suddenly healed on her own and murmured about the secret of the abyss.

• Kaecilius recognized Ancient One and fled with his surviving followers after she appeared at the scene.
• Ancient One removed the daggers from Klayya, stopped her bleeding, and opened a portal to chase the attackers.
• Evenson found Kreia barely alive at the New York Sanctum, where Olivann said her heart and lungs were badly damaged.
• Evenson demanded that the unconscious attacker be brought to him and absorbed the man's life force to heal Kreia.
• Kreia abruptly woke and recovered before Evenson could breathe the life force into her, then murmured, "The secret of the abyss... let it remain in the abyss forever..."

Evenson and Ancient One cornered Kaecilius in the Mirror Dimension, but Kaecilius escaped with five followers after Evenson arrived. Afterward, Evenson confronted Ancient One about the dangerous force inside Klayya and learned she had been reading the Book of the Vishanti.

• Ancient One trapped Kaecilius and his followers in the Mirror Dimension and drove most of them away from Kaecilius.
• Evenson arrived and attacked the remaining Sorcerers with his scythe, whose demon arms drained several of them to ash.
• Kaecilius escaped through a portal with five subordinates, and Evenson accused Ancient One of deliberately letting them go so they could train her new disciple.
• Evenson revealed his plan to seal Kaecilius and his followers inside the Eternal Realm of Suffering and said he would not forgive them for hurting Klayya.
• Evenson asked Ancient One about the dangerous force he sensed in Klayya, and she told him Klayya had been reading the Book of the Vishanti.

Ancient One explained that Klayya sought dangerous power because she wanted to be needed by Evenson, not merely cherished as a sheltered canary. When Evenson suspected Ancient One had fallen under Cthulhu’s influence, she revealed she had gone to R’lyeh herself, leaving him alarmed and wary.

• Evenson questioned how Klayya could have encountered the power of the void, and Ancient One asked him to consider how Klayya viewed their relationship.
• Ancient One told Evenson that Klayya felt like a canary admired and protected in a cage, and that she wanted to contribute more to his life.
• Evenson realized Klayya had sought power to become stronger and help him, then worried that Ancient One had exposed her to Cthulhu’s corrupting influence.
• Evenson suspected Ancient One had become a servant of Cthulhu, but she denied it and said she knew a great deal about him.
• Ancient One revealed that she had gone to R’lyeh, prompting Evenson to leap away from her in alarm.

Evenson confronted Ancient One over her use of dark power and suspected she had allied with Cthulhu, but she explained that Cthulhu had only sent a tiny part of himself to Earth before his teleportation failed. Ancient One revealed that a friend who called himself the Dimension Walker had taught her to control the void's power.

• Evenson accused Ancient One of serving Cthulhu because her power came from R'lyeh, while she explained that she had visited the city to inspect it during an approaching celestial alignment.
• Ancient One told Evenson that Cthulhu had never fully arrived on Earth because his teleportation coincided with a star alignment that concealed his intended destination.
• Ancient One explained that only a tiny piece of Cthulhu had reached Earth and that, according to her information, he had since found another world to feed on.
• Evenson asked how Ancient One knew so much about Cthulhu, and she said a friend who had guided her in controlling dark power was almost her mentor.
• Ancient One identified her mentor as the Dimension Walker.

Evenson learned that Ancient One’s mentor, the Dimension Walker, was a Voidling who had taught her to control the Void’s dark power. Ancient One planned to have him teach Klayya, and Evenson headed to the New York Sanctum after realizing she had maneuvered him into agreeing.

• Evenson asked Ancient One about the Dimension Walker and pretended his organization might have recorded the figure under a different name.
• Ancient One described a humanoid made of pure energy, wrapped in bandages and dressed in a purple robe and strange hat, and confirmed that he was a Voidling.
• Ancient One said she intended to ask the Dimension Walker to teach Klayya after The stars are aligning ended.
• Evenson worried about handing Klayya over to an unknown mentor and asked whether the bandaged Dimension Walker was male or female.
• Ancient One removed the Mirror Dimension, and Evenson parted from her before realizing she had maneuvered him; he then headed to the New York Sanctum.

Klayya suffered through Olivann’s mistaken, overheated recovery treatment until Evenson arrived and discovered the old text described postpartum care. After Olivann and Ancient One left, Evenson continued the overprotective lecture before warning Klayya that her new powers were extremely dangerous.

• Olivann kept Klayya bundled in quilts in a heated room and insisted she drink hot nourishing soup while she recovered.
• Ancient One and Evenson entered, and Evenson recognized that Olivann had mistaken postpartum confinement instructions for general recovery advice.
• Olivann realized his error, blushed with embarrassment, and left the room; Ancient One followed after Evenson asked to speak with Klayya alone.
• Klayya begged Evenson to cool the room, but he nailed the quilts to the bed, added another quilt, and scolded her for acting recklessly.
• Evenson told Klayya that her newly acquired powers were extremely dangerous and made him deeply uneasy.

Evenson warned Klayya that the power she had gained was dangerously tied to the abyss and that confidence in her preparations could itself be arrogance. He explained the rules and risks of becoming a warlock, then cautioned her that her inexperience could make her vulnerable to someone else’s trap.

• Evenson told Klayya that her newly mastered power deeply worried him, while Olivann had already scolded and restrained her.
• Klayya challenged Evenson’s warning, and he revealed that he had been a warlock for only four years after spending years learning the profession’s rules and preparing himself.
• Evenson explained that warlocks who disregard those rules and greedily pursue power risk losing their souls, and he said the Eredar Twins were demons by race and warlocks by profession.
• Evenson warned Klayya that believing she was completely prepared to face the power was the first step toward arrogance, because the abyss could overcome her defenses.
• Evenson cautioned Klayya that she was still inexperienced and might fall into someone else’s trap.

Evenson realized Ancient One planned to pass her true legacy and vast magical power to Klayya, while Dr. Stephen Strange would inherit the public role of Sorcerer Supreme. Klayya embraced the idea of serving as a secret guardian, leaving Evenson convinced Ancient One had carefully accounted for her personality.

• Evenson connected Ancient One’s decision to teach Klayya the void’s dark power with her earlier plans to choose Dr. Stephen Strange as her successor.
• Evenson concluded that Strange would inherit the public title, while Klayya would receive Ancient One’s true legacy: her immense magical power and the method for obtaining it.
• Evenson warned Klayya that she might work behind the scenes without recognition while Strange received the credit.
• Klayya grew excited about becoming a hidden protector and dubbed herself the Shadow Sorcerer Supreme.
• Evenson watched Klayya revel in her fantasy and suspected Ancient One had taken her chuunibyou personality into account.

Evenson brought Klayya to Gospel Company to introduce her to his real business, where she discovered he had spent sixty billion dollars on the Eredar Twins. He asked the Twins about Voidlings, and their alarm at the news that a Dimension Walker was on Earth left the danger unresolved.

• Ancient One planned to divide her duties between Stephen Strange as Kamar-Taj’s public face and Klayya as its hidden cleaner.
• Evenson apologized to Klayya for overlooking her feelings and took her to Gospel Company so she could help with his work.
• At the company, Saloras and Aurelles taunted Klayya, who demanded that Evenson explain the sixty billion dollars he had spent on them.
• Evenson asked the Eredar Twins what they knew about Voidlings and told them the Sorcerer Supreme had revealed that a Voidling called the Dimension Walker was on Earth.
• Saloras and Aurelles stood up in alarm when they heard that a Dimension Walker was on Earth.