Chapter Summaries

Hawk spared Dr. Merrick so he could clone a body for Hawk’s sister, but his Sixth Sense warned him that something was wrong with the man. Natasha agreed to investigate and test Merrick while Hawk planned to travel with Gwen to Waterfall Town for Christmas.

• Hawk told Dr. Merrick he would spare him if Merrick cloned a body for Hawk’s sister, then left Merrick in Natasha’s custody.
• Hawk’s Sixth Sense warned him that something was wrong with Dr. Merrick, though Hawk confirmed Merrick was not one of the soulless clones.
• Hawk told Natasha to investigate Merrick thoroughly and test him by having him clone something; Natasha suspected Hydra had deliberately let S.H.I.E.L.D. capture a fake Merrick.
• Natasha agreed to arrange a scientific examination and tell Hawk the results after he returned from Waterfall Town, where he planned to spend Christmas with Gwen.
• Hawk vanished, then immediately reappeared and began asking Natasha for something.

Hawk and Gwen drove to Waterfall Town while discussing its vampire legends and the supernatural clans recorded by S.H.I.E.L.D. As they neared town, Hawk spotted vampires in the forest and told Gwen she would likely get a chance to see one.

• Gwen excitedly told Hawk about Waterfall Town's attractions and claimed the town had once been home to vampires and vampire hunters.
• Hawk explained that supernatural creatures were no match for him, and he compared witches' strength with that of vampire progenitors.
• Hawk handed Gwen Natasha's email, and Gwen read S.H.I.E.L.D.'s information about the Dracula, Cain, Blood God, and Mikaelson vampire lineages.
• Near the bridge into Waterfall Town, Hawk spotted vampires in the forest and identified them as belonging to the Mikaelson lineage.
• Gwen admitted she wanted to see a vampire, and Hawk said she would likely get the chance.

Gwen and Hawk visited Fox Manor, where Gwen reunited with her cousin Caroline. The chapter ended as Caroline noticed the purple diamond ring on Gwen’s finger.

• Hawk and Gwen arrived at Fox Manor and met Gwen’s grandfather, William Fox.
• Gwen asked about Aunt Liz and Caroline, then later toured the manor with Hawk and looked through old family photographs.
• Gwen explained Waterfall Town’s frequent parties to Hawk as they prepared to go into town.
• Hawk sensed a vampire-like scent just before Caroline returned to the manor and reunited with Gwen.
• Caroline noticed the six-carat purple diamond ring on Gwen’s finger.

Gwen introduced her cousin Caroline to her fiancé, Hawk Phoenix, while Caroline noticed that her new vampire senses could not perceive him. Hawk confronted Damon Salvatore in the woods but let him escape, then learned from Natasha that Merrick’s examination results confirmed he was the real Merrick.

• Gwen showed Caroline her engagement ring and introduced Hawk Phoenix as her fiancé.
• Caroline shook Hawk’s hand and noticed her vampire senses could not detect him once he left.
• Hawk found Damon Salvatore in the woods, overpowered him, and let him flee after realizing Damon had followed Caroline.
• Gwen found Hawk by the car and told him Natasha had called with news about Merrick.
• Natasha told Hawk that Merrick’s examination results matched his old records and confirmed he was the real Merrick.

Hawk suspected that the Dr. Merrick held by S.H.I.E.L.D. was a clone with a mysterious soul, and traced the soul’s familiar scent to Caroline and Damon. When Elena learned Damon had been badly injured by someone at Fox Manor, she and Caroline began to suspect Hawk.

• Natasha told Hawk that Merrick’s scars matched the files, and Hawk urged S.H.I.E.L.D. to run telomere and bone age tests because he believed Merrick was a clone.
• Hawk recognized that Caroline and Damon carried traces of the same unusual scent as Merrick’s soul, and suspected they had encountered someone connected to it.
• Liz Fox and Elena arrived at the manor, where Gwen introduced Hawk to Liz as her fiancé.
• Elena told Caroline that Damon had returned badly injured and said his attacker had come from Fox Manor.
• Caroline realized Hawk was the only unfamiliar person at the manor and asked Elena if he had injured Damon.

Stefan, Elena, and Caroline speculated that Hawk was a being beyond the supernatural and might have attacked Damon because he mistook Elena for Katherine. Inside Fox Manor, Hawk charmed William and was invited to see the family vault, while Liz warned Gwen to keep Hawk's racist views from being voiced in New York.

• Stefan told Elena and Caroline that he could not sense Hawk because Hawk's level of life surpassed supernatural beings, and he said Damon had nearly been killed by him.
• Elena wondered whether Hawk had attacked Damon because he mistook her for Katherine, and the three concluded that Caroline should probe Hawk's motives and identity.
• Hawk laughed at their speculation inside the manor, then explained that Gwen had tried to scare him by talking about vampires in town.
• Caroline returned and questioned Gwen about her visit, while William arrived and asked Hawk what he thought of the Fox family photos.
• William invited Hawk alone to see the manor's treasure vault, and Liz quietly told Gwen to remind him not to voice his racist views in New York.

Hawk discovered an Angel Skeleton in the Fox Family vault and recognized a familiar scent on it, then told Gwen that her cousin Caroline was a vampire. He left Gwen with the revelation and went out to investigate, while still seeking evidence about the scent’s true owner.

• William Fox showed Hawk the chained Angel Skeleton in the manor vault and explained that the Fox Family had unearthed it when building their house.
• Hawk sensed the same familiar scent on the Angel Skeleton that he had noticed on Dr. Merrick’s soul and several others, and suspected it had a single source.
• Hawk reflected that William Fox wanted him to inherit Fox Manor because William was ill and might have less than a year to live.
• Gwen asked Hawk about the vault, and he refused to reveal what it contained before announcing he planned to go out.
• Hawk told Gwen that Caroline was a vampire who used an enchanted Witch Ring to walk in sunlight, and Gwen asked whether Caroline had become one willingly.

Hawk discussed Caroline’s vampirism with Gwen before seeking out Katherine Pierce, whom he freed from her magical tomb. Meanwhile, Caroline argued that Hawk was only visiting for the holidays, but Bonnie sensed an immense cosmic force breaking Katherine’s seal.

• Gwen asked Hawk whether Caroline could become human again, and Hawk doubted she would want to surrender her vampiric power.
• Hawk sensed Katherine Pierce inside the sealed tomb near the waterfall and opened the cave entrance.
• Hawk greeted Katherine, who corrected him and insisted he call her Katherine.
• Caroline told Damon, Stefan, Elena, and Bonnie that Hawk was her cousin’s fiancé and likely only visiting for the holidays.
• Damon argued that Hawk was an enemy, while Bonnie cast a headache spell on him and Stefan tried to calm the group.
• Bonnie sensed an incomparable, cosmic force break through Katherine’s seal and reacted with fear and confusion.

Hawk examined Katherine Pierce’s soul and discovered the Heaven Dimension had used its Soul Duality to infiltrate Earth through her and Elena. He confronted Mephisto, who denied conspiring with Hydra, explained the angels’ scheme, and abruptly departed after realizing Heaven had returned.

• Hawk offered to free Katherine in exchange for examining her soul, and she agreed after he promised not to harm her or demand that she follow him.
• Hawk entered Katherine’s soul and found it radiant, then connected it to Elena’s identical soul and the soul-bearing Dr. Merrick clone.
• Hawk confronted Mephisto at the Hell Dimension gateway, suspecting that Mephisto and Hydra had joined forces against him.
• Mephisto denied working with Hydra and explained that angelic Soul Duality let the Heaven Dimension create duplicate souls to infiltrate other lords’ territories.
• Mephisto realized Heaven had secretly returned, told Hawk to stop coming to his door, and vanished.

Hawk freed Katherine from the sealed grounds, gave her a temporary Sunlight Ring, and stopped Damon and Stefan from pursuing her. He brought Caroline back to Gwen, who pressed her cousin to explain how she became a vampire and asked about Katherine and the vampires in town.

• Hawk released Katherine from the seal and gave her a Sunlight Ring that would last seventy-two hours.
• Damon and Stefan arrived with Caroline, and Hawk knocked both men unconscious when they tried to stop Katherine from leaving.
• Katherine escaped, while Caroline spoke with Gwen by phone and learned that Gwen knew she was a vampire.
• Hawk teleported Caroline back to the manor, where Gwen demanded that she explain how she became a vampire and tell her about Katherine and the vampires in town.
• Caroline began her account by saying the story had started a few months earlier.

Hawk traveled to Hell to hear Mephisto’s warning that the Heaven Dimension had planted a Death Angel seed on Earth and to discuss an alliance. Mephisto offered the Heaven Dimension as a possible real-world coordinate for Hawk’s universe, leaving Hawk intrigued by the mysterious depths of Heaven’s souls.

• Hawk accepted Mephisto’s invitation to Hell, put on his Black Phoenix Underworld Armor, and told Gwen he would return soon.
• While Hawk was away, Caroline continued telling Gwen how she had become a vampire, and Gwen warned her to be honest.
• Mephisto explained that Heaven secretly infiltrated life planets and created Death Angels, then revealed that the Death Angel seed had already been planted on Earth.
• Mephisto proposed an alliance against Heaven and offered the Heaven Dimension as a coordinate for Hawk’s Cosmo, but would not explain how the dimension had come to be.
• Hawk returned and learned that Katherine Pierce had deliberately turned Caroline into a vampire, then told Gwen about Katherine’s abusive past.
• Gwen teased Hawk about possibly having been Katherine’s former lover, and Hawk remarked that he would have torn apart a vampire who had treated his little sister as Caroline had been treated.

Gwen learned that Damon had hypnotized and violated her cousin Caroline, and she ordered him to burn to death in the sunrise. Hawk supported Gwen as she took Caroline into the manor, leaving Damon restrained outside with Stefan and Elena.

• Hawk revealed that Damon Salvatore had hypnotized Caroline and brought the restrained vampire to Gwen.
• Gwen confronted Caroline about hiding the assault and learned that Stefan knew while Elena did not.
• Gwen ordered Hawk to expose Damon to the sunrise, and he removed Damon's Sunlight Ring and gave it to her.
• Stefan pleaded for Damon, but Gwen rebuked him before allowing him to say goodbye.
• Gwen took Caroline into the manor with Hawk, while Damon remained restrained outside.

Hawk and Gwen watched Damon die in the sunlight after his attempt to hypnotize Caroline, while Caroline chose to remain a vampire and received the Sunlight Ring. With Damon gone, Elena and Stefan worried about facing Progenitor Klaus, and Hawk speculated that the Heaven Dimension had involved him in its plans.

• Stefan refused to save Damon, and Elena and Bonnie showed no interest in defending him after he had hypnotized Caroline.
• Caroline insisted that she wanted to remain a vampire, and Hawk explained that her transformation was irreversible because she had died before becoming one.
• Natasha told Hawk that Dr. Merrick’s DNA and bones indicated he was a clone, and Hawk connected the matter to the Dimension War and the Heaven Dimension.
• Damon died in the rising sunlight, and Gwen gave Caroline his Sunlight Ring so she could safely remain a vampire.
• Bonnie, Elena, and Stefan apologized to Caroline, while Stefan and Elena worried that Damon’s death left them without their strongest fighter against Progenitor Klaus.
• Hawk told Gwen he suspected Dr. Merrick had either helped the Heaven Dimension send souls to Earth or tried to copy Hawk’s power, and he welcomed the prospect of a greater conflict.

Hawk explained to Gwen, Caroline, Elena, and Bonnie that the Moonstone was a decoy and revealed what Klaus needed to break his wolf-blood seal. He agreed to help negotiate for Elena to give blood in batches, then went to the manor gate to meet Katherine Pierce.

• Hawk chose to work with Mephisto against the Heaven Dimension while wondering what answer lay deep within his soul.
• Gwen joined Caroline, Elena, and Bonnie downstairs, and Caroline explained Elena’s agreement with Elijah to find the Moonstone in exchange for Klaus’s mercy.
• Hawk revealed that the Moonstone only sealed and tortured Klaus, while a Doppelganger’s blood, werewolf blood, and a witch’s help on a full moon could break his seal.
• Hawk explained that Klaus’s death would kill his vampire descendants, including Caroline and Stefan, because their bloodlines traced back to Klaus.
• Hawk told Gwen he could kill Klaus if she asked, then left to greet Katherine Pierce at the manor gate and invited her inside.

Hawk discovered a Celestial deep within Katherine Pierce’s soul and learned that Celestials stood behind the Heaven Dimension. He returned to Mephisto to discuss cooperation, but demanded that souls Hawk killed belong to his Underworld, leaving Mephisto to respond with a claim about the Heaven Dimension and Jehovah.

• Hawk looked into Katherine Pierce’s soul and saw a Celestial, then offered to ask Klaus to stop hunting her as a reward for her help.
• Hawk told Gwen that his questions had only grown, then left to speak with Mephisto about the Celestials and the Heaven Dimension.
• Hawk confronted Mephisto with his theory that the Celestials used the Heaven Dimension to incubate new Celestials, and revealed that he had seen Tiamut sleeping inside Earth.
• Hawk rejected Mephisto’s argument that the Heaven Dimension was reason enough to cooperate, explaining that he did not need its reality anchor and that its destruction would not concern him.
• Hawk demanded that any souls he killed in the future belong to his Underworld, and Mephisto denied responsibility for Earth’s condition before blaming the Heaven Dimension and Jehovah.

Hawk and Mephisto negotiated an alliance against the Heaven Dimension, with Mephisto swearing in Death’s name to honor their soul agreement. Hawk returned to Gwen at Fox Manor and promised to resolve the remaining matter with Klaus and Caroline before their vacation continued.

• Mephisto explained to Hawk how Jehovah had used Africa as a pasture to keep Earth’s life below the threshold for new Celestials, while Mephisto had controlled life to secure souls.
• Hawk demanded that Mephisto swear in Death’s name that the souls of anyone Hawk killed during the war against Heaven would belong to the Underworld, and Mephisto agreed.
• Mephisto revealed that the Death Angel had already been born and that the Heaven Dimension was invading; he and Hawk agreed to search for their enemies, with roughly one or two years before the Death Angel grew too powerful.
• Hawk returned to Fox Manor, told Gwen that Mephisto was desperate for an alliance, and said they could enjoy their vacation while the search continued.
• Gwen reminded Hawk that Caroline had come looking for him about Klaus; Hawk said he would make Klaus agree and explained that Caroline could join his sister in the Pure Land of the Underworld if she died.

Hawk prepared to leave Waterfall Town with Gwen, but met Klaus at the bar and persuaded him to stop hunting Katherine Pierce. Klaus revealed that his werewolf bloodline had been unsealed on Molokai Island, where he had seen a different version of Hawk.

• Caroline worried that Klaus would attack Elena after Hawk and Gwen left, so Gwen suggested Elena and Stefan could come to New York City.
• Hawk and Gwen took Christmas photos at Fox Manor, and Gwen secretly shipped three greenhouse flowers to New York.
• Elena and Stefan decided to travel to New York City after learning Katherine had gone there, but Hawk sensed Klaus in town and went to meet him.
• Hawk used Face Fruit to persuade Klaus to stop hunting Katherine, and Klaus agreed to keep his vampires from pursuing her.
• Hawk asked when Klaus's werewolf bloodline had been unsealed, and Klaus said it happened three days earlier on Molokai Island, where he had seen a different Hawk.

After Klaus revealed that Hydra had mass-produced Hawk clones on Molokai Island, Hawk left to find Dr. Merrick while S.H.I.E.L.D. arranged protection for Gwen. Hawk reached the island, destroyed a pit of his corpses, and located Hydra’s base beneath a cliff.

• Klaus told Hawk that a pit of Hawk Doppelgangers on Molokai Island had supplied the blood used to unseal Klaus’s Wolf Blood, and agreed to pardon Katherine Pierce and Elena.
• Hawk returned to Fox Manor, told Elena and Stefan that Klaus no longer threatened them, and learned from Gwen that she understood he planned to pursue Merrick.
• Hawk told Gwen he was going to Molokai Island, then flew there while Gwen informed Sharon of his destination.
• Sharon told Victoria Hand that Hawk was headed to Molokai Island, and Hand ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. not to deploy agents there while they protected Gwen.
• Hawk found numerous pits filled with his dead clones in Waialo Canyon and vaporized the corpses in one pit with his Phoenix Ray.
• Hawk followed tracks to a cliff above a black-sand beach and used his Sixth Sense to locate Hydra’s base beneath him.

Hawk discovered the Garden of Eden Base’s vast cloning operation and began destroying it while Dr. Merrick tried to stop him with a powerful clone called Hydra Captain. After Hawk effortlessly defeated the clone, he advanced through the base toward Merrick and the fleeing Hydra Agents.

• Hawk blasted into the cloning incubation area, where the researchers triggered the pods’ self-destruct sequence, and he burned through the memory implantation area after finding fabricated versions of his memories.
• Hawk found thousands of dormant clones and destroyed them as Dr. Merrick claimed that God had guided his cloning work and that Hydra had God’s approval.
• Dr. Merrick activated Hydra Captain, a Hawk clone wearing a replicated Iron Suit, but Hawk immobilized and vaporized him with his powers.
• Hawk told Dr. Merrick to pray for rescue, then vanished and began destroying the base’s remaining areas as he moved toward the command center.
• A Hydra Agent secretly slipped out of the command center, and the other agents rushed for the door when they realized Hawk was closing in.

Hawk pursued Dr. Merrick after destroying Hydra’s base and discovered that Merrick’s red apple contained countless blank souls, which Hawk claimed as spoils. He left Merrick struggling in the sea with five minutes to pray for God or an angel to save him.

• Hawk vaporized the Hydra Agents at the command-center entrance while Dr. Merrick escaped through a secret elevator with Eli.
• Dr. Merrick shot Eli, fled the island by speedboat, and detonated explosives that destroyed the mountain base.
• Hawk followed Merrick invisibly and learned that Hydra’s failed clone experiments had led Merrick to create the Hydra Captain using a Super Soldier Serum and a replica Iron Suit.
• Merrick retrieved a half-eaten red apple from his backpack, and Hawk recognized its divine power and discovered that it contained countless pure, blank souls.
• Hawk took the apple into his Underworld, released Merrick, and knocked him into the sea when he lunged for it.
• Hawk gave Merrick five minutes to pray for God or an angel to appear before Hawk would seek answers in Heaven himself.