Chapter Summaries

Hawk killed Namor and took his soul as Poseidon’s projection arrived to reclaim a Law Fragment and explain Namor’s connection to it. Poseidon left with a warning that Jehovah had recently met Zeus, while Hawk turned his attention to the Mind Stone and growing stronger.

• Hawk crushed Namor’s head, and his Underworld Gate took Namor’s soul into the Nether Prison.
• Poseidon thanked Hawk, reclaimed the Law Fragment from Namor’s body, and explained that Namor had killed his old avatar and taken the fragment.
• Poseidon revealed that he had left an avatar and the Nemo Trident to protect Atlantis, and Hawk claimed the Trident as his Phoenix Trident.
• Hawk offered Namor’s soul to Poseidon, who refused it, then Poseidon warned that Jehovah had recently met Zeus before his projection departed.
• Hawk returned his attention to the Mind Stone and vanished toward New York City to continue raising his strength.

Hawk meditated for nearly half a month while trying to awaken the Seventh Sense, the final step toward becoming a Gold Saint. He discovered that time was essential to understanding it and emerged from seclusion, telling Gwen he still needed time.

• Gwen and Sharon discussed Hawk's long meditation and reviewed the files for Wanda Maximoff's family, including the blank surnames of Jean, Billy, and Tommy.
• Gwen insisted that Hawk's children would take the Phoenix surname and decided to wait until Hawk woke before meeting Jean.
• Hawk used the Mind Stone to calm his thoughts as he tried to break through the gateway to the Seventh Sense.
• Hawk recalled the Western philosophical idea that the Seventh Sense involved perceiving time and concluded that the mind alone could not unlock it.
• Hawk opened his eyes with a golden glow, stepped through the glass door, and told Gwen that he still needed time.

Hawk visited Kamar-Taj with Gwen and asked the Ancient One to borrow the Eye of Agamotto. As Wong led him toward the library’s secret chamber, the Ancient One warned him that time had to close the loop before it could take effect.

• Hawk noticed Kaecilius was gone and recognized Stephen Strange among the apprentices, while Gwen identified him as the injured doctor from New Amsterdam Hospital.
• Mordo explained that Stephen had come to Kamar-Taj three months earlier seeking a cure for his injured hands.
• The Ancient One served Hawk and Gwen tea, then told Hawk he had arrived just in time to borrow the Eye of Agamotto before she took a vacation to the Phoenix Galaxy.
• Hawk asked to borrow the Eye of Agamotto, and Wong came to escort him to the library’s secret chamber while Gwen stayed with the Ancient One.
• The Ancient One called after Hawk and told him that time had to close the loop before it could take effect.

Gwen asked The Ancient One about her future with Hawk and learned they would have ten children. The Ancient One also explained why Jean inherited Hawk’s abilities while Billy and Tommy did not, leaving Gwen to reflect on Hawk’s proposal and the Divine Oracle it created.

• After Hawk left, Gwen asked The Ancient One to explain how seeing the future affected the River of Time and why the past could not be changed.
• Gwen asked whether she and Hawk would have children, and The Ancient One told her they would have five sons and five daughters.
• Gwen asked why Jean inherited Hawk’s abilities while Billy and Tommy did not, and The Ancient One said Hawk’s proposal had made a Divine Oracle limiting his inheritance to children born to Gwen.
• Gwen realized Billy and Tommy could have inherited Hawk’s power but were excluded by the Divine Oracle, then smiled as she remembered Hawk’s proposal.

Hawk used the Time Stone and Mind Stone to enter his River of Time and begin comprehending Time Sense by witnessing his past. He saw his birth with Anya and discovered that George Stacy had been present when the police came to his biological mother’s door.

• Hawk examined his River of Time and reasoned that most of his possible futures ended because he would eventually leave the Marvel Universe.
• Hawk used the Mind Stone and Time Stone to enter his River of Time and travel to the beginning of his existence.
• Hawk witnessed his birth alongside Anya and saw their biological parents in their impoverished home.
• Hawk watched his mother leave the infants at a church on Christmas Eve in 1995, then returned to the house and sensed her grief.
• Hawk reversed time and saw two police officers arrive at the house, including George Stacy, his future father-in-law.

Hawk revisited his origins and witnessed Jean’s birth, then saw her Phoenix Force erupt when Hydra agents tried to separate her from Wanda. The chapter ended with the Fire Phoenix carrying Jean back to her mother as Sutrick and the other agents watched in shock.

• Hawk watched his birth mother leave him and his sister at St. Paul's Church, then traveled to Hydra’s castle in Sokovia.
• Wanda gave birth to Jean, named her, and insisted to Pietro that Jean was her daughter despite the circumstances of her birth.
• Hawk visited Jean each month and, on his first visit, greeted her and tapped her nose, awakening a Phoenix presence in her eyes.
• Anna arrived to take Jean away, and a Hydra agent activated nanobots that hurt Wanda as Anna took the baby.
• Jean’s Phoenix Force killed five Hydra agents and blasted Anna into a near-death state, while Hawk intervened to keep Anna from dying.
• A Fire Phoenix formed around Jean and lowered her into Wanda’s arms as Sutrick and the agents watched.

Hawk continued compressing his timeline while secretly visiting Jean and witnessing Wanda give birth to Billy and Tommy. Wanda finally revealed that she had been able to see Hawk for a month, leaving them face to face as he questioned how she perceived him.

• Hawk visited Jean in the Hydra base and read her a story while explaining that Phoenix would bring her to him someday.
• Wanda and Pietro discussed Sutrick's plans and their suspicions that Jean's father was searching for them, while Hawk listened unseen.
• Over the following months, Hawk accompanied Jean and witnessed Wanda give birth to Billy and Tommy.
• Hawk visited the twins' crib, but Wanda saw him through her Scarlet Chaos Magic and told him he should name his children.
• Wanda revealed that she had first seen Hawk a month earlier while he soothed Jean during her contractions, and Hawk realized she had perceived him at the undersea base as well.

Hawk met Wanda in the past, named Billy and Tommy, and prepared to leave as he closed his timeline into a loop. After reassuring Jean and Wanda that he loved the twins despite their not inheriting his power, he vanished back into the river of time.

• Hawk told Wanda he came from the future and said he would not kill her or Billy and Tommy; Wanda said she did not regret having them.
• Wanda asked Hawk to name the twins, and he called them Billy and Tommy before vanishing from her timeline.
• Hawk studied time within his Cosmo, while Sutrick left Wanda's house after learning Billy and Tommy had not inherited Hawk's power.
• Hawk reassured Jean that he loved Billy and Tommy, then told Jean a story and said goodbye to Wanda after she asked whether he truly liked the twins.
• Hawk vanished into time to close his timeline into a loop and reopened his eyes on the riverbed of the river of time.

Hawk completed the Time Loop, repaired most of the flaws in his timeline, and underwent a transformation as his Cosmo expanded. He then entered the final flaw, relived his family’s past, and followed Andrew toward the alley where Andrew had died.

• Hawk contracted his timeline and used the Phoenix Force to repair its temporal loopholes.
• Hawk ignored a tempting vision of the future and chose to shape it himself.
• Gwen saw a golden Fire Phoenix above Kamar-Taj, and The Ancient One confirmed that Hawk had more or less succeeded.
• Hawk returned to his childhood home and witnessed Amy Chloe and Andrew Crowie preparing for their children’s birth.
• Hawk followed Andrew after work as he bought supplies, then watched him approach the alley where his time would end.

Hawk discovered that an angel had altered the past to make Andrew’s death drive Amy to leave Hawk and Anya at a church, potentially creating a time loop. After capturing the angel, Hawk tore off his wings and realized the creature’s face might reveal what he would look like when he grew old.

• Andrew parked near a convenience store and walked through an alley, where two gunmen shot him dead as Hawk watched.
• Hawk noticed that a hostile aura had kept Andrew from dodging and confronted a six-winged angel on a nearby rooftop.
• Hawk recognized the angel as an agent of Jehovah and reasoned that killing Andrew could force Amy to leave Hawk and Anya at St. Paul’s Church, shaping Hawk’s faith.
• Hawk interrogated the angel, tearing off his wings until its golden blood turned crimson and it appeared mortal.
• Hawk examined the angel’s face, wondering if it resembled what he would look like when he grew old.

Hawk completed the time loop caused by Jehovah, repaired the flaw in his timeline, and broke through to become a Gold Saint. After leaving Kamar-Taj, he thanked The Ancient One, reflected on his past, and departed with Gwen.

• Hawk recognized the winged birdman as Father John, tore off his wings, and left him in a dumpster, completing the closed loop in which John had later tested Hawk’s faith at St. Paul’s Church.
• The final flaw in time sealed, and Hawk’s Seventh Sense gate collapsed as he emerged from his seclusion with control over his timeline and the power of a Gold Saint.
• Hawk reunited with Gwen and told The Ancient One he understood that Jehovah had invaded his timeline about a month earlier, while Andrew’s death remained a temporal anchor.
• Hawk said he was glad his sister Anya would learn they had not been deliberately abandoned, and he chose to face the future without looking ahead.
• The Ancient One recalled that she and Odin had both looked into their futures, while Hawk hugged Gwen and prepared to leave with her.

After emerging from seclusion with newly awakened Gold Cosmo, Hawk showed Anna the universe and reaffirmed her freedom to pardon the dead. He left Sutrick to suffer in the Underworld forever, then sensed a priest praying in a New York church.

• Gwen welcomed Hawk back, and he explained that he could now ignite his Cosmo instantly with the power of the Seventh Sense.
• Hawk took Anna beyond the Underworld to see his universe and told her she could pardon Alexander Pierce, but Anna chose to wait.
• Hawk and Anna watched Sutrick and the others endure repeated deaths in Grindstone Hell Prison, and Hawk decided not to meet Sutrick or offer him hope.
• Hawk told Anna that he had shielded her from some of Jean's Phoenix Fire, causing her two-year unconsciousness, and blessed her hopes of becoming a mother someday.
• Hawk left the Underworld and used his Seventh Sense to perceive a white-haired priest praying in a New York church.

Hawk met Father John at St. Paul’s Church and learned why John had spared him and how Samael’s power sustained him. John left to manage Hell, while Hawk received a call from Sharon saying they had a lead on Amy Chloe.

• Hawk waited until the churchgoers had left, then sat with Father John and asked why he had not killed him when he was young.
• Father John explained that he realized Hawk’s fate had not changed when Hawk prayed to many gods for Anya’s recovery on their twelfth birthday.
• Father John revealed that fear and his growing humanity had kept him from killing Hawk, and that Samael had lent him power to survive.
• Father John said Samael had asked him to manage Hell and that he would leave once Hawk came to see him.
• Hawk chose not to kill Father John, who departed in black flames after thanking him.
• Sharon called Hawk and told him they had a lead on Amy Chloe.

Hawk found Amy Chloe in a rundown Queens apartment and rescued her after she collapsed during a confrontation with her landlord’s gang. S.H.I.E.L.D. identified the infant in an old family photograph as a four-year-old boy from a choir photo, leaving Amy’s connection to the child newly confirmed.

• Sharon Carter told Hawk that Amy Chloe was bankrupt and that her last registered address was an apartment in Opes Community, Queens.
• Hawk entered Amy’s apartment and found old family photographs, a crib, and numerous medications before Amy returned home and collapsed.
• Vane’s boss and two accomplices came to Amy’s door; Hawk vaporized the boss and the other men, then asked S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to settle Amy’s rent and secure the apartment.
• Hawk carried the unconscious Amy away, while a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and Sharon noticed an infant in a family photograph.
• Friday matched the infant in Amy’s photograph to a four-year-old boy in a church choir photo with a reported match rate of one hundred percent.

Hawk learned why his mother, Amy Chloe, had left him and Anya at a church, then used a Fire Phoenix to treat Amy in the hospital. The chapter ended with Gwen clarifying that the property Hawk asked Sharon to buy in Westview Town was for Amy, not for Hawk and Gwen.

• Vane told Hawk and Gwen what he knew about Amy Chloe, and Hawk let him go while arranging for Gell to help him acquire property.
• Hawk explained that Amy had surrendered him and Anya because she could not afford their care and Anya’s heart treatment, and he recalled seeing Amy secretly watch them when they were five.
• Hawk told Gwen that a foster family had nearly adopted him and Anya but sent them back after taking in two orphaned relatives.
• Hawk sent a Fire Phoenix into Amy’s body to heal her while she lay in a VIP ward at New Amsterdam Hospital.
• Sharon told Gwen the Buffalo Gang was gone and asked her to persuade Hawk to give S.H.I.E.L.D. time to review Amy’s life.
• Sharon revealed that Hawk had asked her to buy a property in Westview Town, and Gwen explained that it was for Amy.

Westview Town filled with new residents, shops, and services as Wanda realized the newcomers were connected to her family and were likely there to protect them. Hawk visited Wanda and explained who had arranged the neighbors, then revealed that the mysterious woman moved into the house across the street was his mother.

• Westview Town's longtime residents noticed the town's rapid revival and realized Jordan and Michael had moved away, leaving no Black residents in sight.
• Pietro returned home with candy, and Wanda pointed out that the town's shops, playground, and unusually good deals were connected to Jean, Billy, and Tommy.
• Wanda recognized the aura of the blond woman being wheeled into the house across the street, while Pietro wondered who she was.
• Hawk appeared in Wanda's backyard and explained that powerful officials had arranged for the families nearby to protect them.
• Hawk told Wanda that the mysterious new neighbor across the street was his mother.

Amy Chloe woke in a restored version of her old home, healthy again, and discovered that Wanda’s children were her grandchildren. Hawk arranged for Amy to live in Jersey City with Wanda and the children, while deciding not to meet her himself.

• Amy woke healthy in a home furnished to resemble the one she had shared with Andrew and found a deed listing them both as owners.
• Amy went outside and recognized Billy and Tommy as her grandsons, while Wanda introduced Jean as her granddaughter.
• Gwen received the children’s Federation IDs, which listed Jean, Billy, and Tommy with the surname Chloe.
• Hawk explained that he had chosen Chloe as the children’s surname and declined to meet Amy, saying Phoenix and Chloe belonged separately.

Hawk told Gwen that Anya wanted to meet Amy, and he discussed plans to resurrect his sister through S.H.I.E.L.D.'s cloning experiment. He then revealed that Andrew's soul was trapped in a silver cross necklace and that the two gunmen who killed him had been fallen angels; Hawk planned to seek clues from the patrol officer who handled the case.

• Hawk told Gwen that Anya had cried after learning she and Hawk had been given up out of desperation, and Anya now wanted to leave the Underworld and meet Amy.
• Hawk said S.H.I.E.L.D.'s cloning experiment should be ready in three months, after which he could use Anya's DNA to cultivate her clone.
• Gwen reminded Hawk that Andrew should be part of the family reunion, but Hawk explained that Andrew's soul was not in Hell or Heaven and remained with his killer.
• Hawk revisited the moment Andrew was shot in 1995 and saw his soul enter a silver cross necklace worn by one of the gunmen.
• Hawk identified the two gunmen as angels whose wings had been cut off and told Gwen there had been three angels involved that day.
• Hawk said he would seek clues from the patrol officer who handled Andrew's case.

Hawk and Gwen visited George Stacy to investigate the two gunmen who killed Hawk’s biological father, Andrew Chloe. George revealed that Amy Chloe had accused a detective and a patrol officer of threatening her, then showed Hawk a photograph of Bruce, whom he had seen alive at a vampire bar.

• Hawk explained that the gunmen who killed Andrew Chloe had been angels who removed their wings, so he decided to investigate through George Stacy.
• Hawk and Gwen reviewed Andrew Chloe’s case file and learned that George had reopened the unsolved investigation a month earlier.
• George recalled that Amy Chloe had rejected detectives Gioruno and Bruce’s gang-vendetta conclusion and said a patrol officer had chased the gunmen.
• George told Hawk and Gwen that Amy had later claimed Bruce and the patrol officer threatened her, prompting her to move away and send her child to a church.
• George said he had seen Bruce at a vampire bar a month earlier and handed Hawk a photograph of him.

George showed Hawk and Gwen evidence that Bruce and Andor had become vampires, while Gioruno might be a blood servant. Hawk learned that the mark pointed to the Corvinus Family and left to confront them about an incident from twenty years earlier.

• George showed Hawk and Gwen photos identifying Bruce as a vampire and Andor as another vampire, while Hail's photograph suggested Gioruno bore a blood-servant mark.
• George explained that Ben Urich had tipped him off about the reopened vampire bar and that only a few people knew he was investigating the old case.
• Hawk connected the vampire clues to a larger scheme involving the Blood God, then asked George about the symbol marked on the blood servant evidence.
• Hawk called Klaus, who identified the mark as belonging to the Corvinus Family and said they were based at Corvinus Manor near Paris.
• Hawk vanished from George's office to confront the Corvinus Family, and Gwen told her father that Hawk did not need a plan.