Recaps

Henry Brown adopted a hungry tiger cub from the Continental Hotel after a bystander was bitten, and named the cub Kitty. He discovered that Kitty was male but kept the name, leaving the cub in Henry’s care.

• Henry offered to take the cub, and Muni Fisher questioned whether he could handle keeping a tiger.
• The cub bit an onlooker, and Henry pried her jaws open so the injured man could free his hand.
• Henry opened the cage, picked up the hungry cub, and asked Muni for permission to keep her.
• Muni let Henry take the cub but warned him not to bring her back if he changed his mind.
• Henry named the cub Kitty and discovered that she was male.

Henry brought the rescued tiger cub Kitty home and introduced him to his rental’s security robot, BB. He registered Kitty as a secondary user and began caring for him, leaving himself responsible for feeding the hungry, dehydrated cub.

• Henry drove home with Kitty after leaving the oversized cage behind and secured permission from old Gary to keep the cub.
• BB identified Kitty as an intruder, and Henry registered him as a secondary user with limited access to the robot’s functions.
• Henry gave Kitty a large bowl of water and cooked steaks for him, deciding he needed to earn enough to support the tiger.

Henry began researching brainwaves to find a way to understand Kitty, while upgrading computer storage to handle the data his project would require. Kitty learned to use a designated spot, but her energy and rough play kept creating new problems for Henry; meanwhile, another customer arrived at the Black Clinic.

• Henry considered studying brainwaves to communicate with Kitty and started planning a device to collect and analyze brainwave and scent data.
• Kitty kept chasing and chewing BB, damaging its casing and draining its battery, while Henry repeatedly repaired the robot.
• Henry turned to hard drives and data storage, dismantling a drive as he considered building solid-state drives for his research.
• Kitty learned to relieve herself in a designated spot, and Henry considered building her a cat tree to give her more room to play.
• A bell rang at the Black Clinic, and Henry changed into his Tinkerer outfit and set off to meet another customer.

Tinkerer was summoned from his clinic by a thug and taken to an abandoned factory, where he met a powerful older man. He admitted his identity and asked what the man wanted with him.

• A thug confronted Tinkerer at the Black Clinic and ordered him to come with him, threatening him when he hesitated.
• Tinkerer packed his medical supplies, left a note at the clinic, and rode with the thug in a Rolls-Royce to an abandoned factory.
• Tinkerer found a lavish lounge inside the filthy factory, where an older, obese white man waited with two women and a pianist.
• The older man asked whether Tinkerer was the clinic doctor, and Tinkerer admitted he was before asking what he wanted.

Tinkerer agreed to operate on a wealthy, reckless man with advanced bile duct cancer after demanding one million for the price of his life. Threatened at gunpoint, he headed to the portable operating room and asked whether the surgical instruments were ready.

• A fat old white man asked Tinkerer to treat his hilar cholangiocarcinoma, but Tinkerer initially refused because of the man’s unhealthy lifestyle and suspected infectious disease.
• After the man revealed a portable sterile operating room and medical staff, Tinkerer demanded one million for the operation.
• Tinkerer explained that he charged according to how much a patient valued life, while the fat old white man’s subordinate was worth only twenty-three seventy-five.
• The fat old white man had a gun pressed to Tinkerer’s head and ordered him to operate, promising the price he had demanded if he saved him.
• Tinkerer walked toward the operating room without his bag and asked whether the staff had all the surgical instruments.

Tinkerer began operating on the fat Old Bai after the gang leader decided to trust him, despite having barely examined the case. He used spinal anesthesia and gold acupuncture needles to keep Old Bai conscious but unable to feel anything below his neck as the surgery began.

• Tinkerer dismissed Old Bai’s hesitation and offered to operate that day or after a ten-year wait.
• Old Bai weighed the risks of trusting Tinkerer against finding another surgeon, then agreed to surgery that day.
• Tinkerer and Old Bai entered the inflatable operating room, where Tinkerer ordered regional anesthesia instead of general anesthesia.
• When the anesthetist struggled to find the injection site, Tinkerer took over and administered the spinal anesthesia.
• Tinkerer inserted gold acupuncture needles, leaving Old Bai conscious but unable to feel anything below his neck, which made him panic.

Tinkerer began Old Bai’s operation, exposing his liver and gallbladder before abruptly leaving the operating room to demand the agreed million-dollar payment. When Old Bai’s armed subordinates threatened to shoot him, Tinkerer warned that they would be left with an open abdomen and no surgeon to finish the operation.

• Tinkerer used acupuncture and an injection of anesthetic to keep Old Bai conscious but unable to move during surgery.
• Tinkerer opened Old Bai’s abdomen, extracted the fat temporarily, and exposed the liver and gallbladder.
• Tinkerer clamped blood vessels and left surgical instruments inside Old Bai before walking out of the operating room.
• Tinkerer returned with a cigar and demanded the million dollars he and Old Bai had agreed on.
• Old Bai ordered his subordinates to kill Tinkerer, but Tinkerer warned them that Old Bai would die without him or another surgeon to complete the operation.

The Tinkerer forced Fat Old Bai to pay a million before continuing the difficult bile duct operation, while Old Bai's subordinates and the medical staff feared what would happen afterward. After removing the cancerous tissue, the Tinkerer paused before finishing the surgery to make an important phone call.

• The Tinkerer demanded a million from Fat Old Bai, and Old Bai agreed after the Tinkerer burned him with his cigar.
• Old Bai's subordinates brought two suitcases holding a million in small bills, which the Tinkerer ordered them to place beside his bag.
• The Tinkerer resumed the operation, removing the cancerous bile duct and affected liver tissue while warning Old Bai to stay calm.
• Before suturing the wound, the Tinkerer asked Old Bai's lackeys for a phone so he could make an important call, and Old Bai ordered them to get one.

Tinkerer tested whether Andrew Saxon’s name would draw the authorities by calling 911 while treating him, and the call prompted a police response that included the FBI. As Andrew Saxon’s men prepared to flee and a gunman watched Tinkerer, officers began sealing off the routes from the warehouse district.

• Tinkerer asked Old Bai his name, and Old Bai identified himself as Andrew Saxon and bragged about his reputation in Los Angeles.
• Tinkerer used a Siemens portable phone to call 911 and gave the operator the warehouse’s location, prompting Andrew Saxon’s men to realize he had alerted the authorities.
• Tinkerer handed the still-connected phone to the gunman and taunted him, then returned to the operation and explained that he had wanted to test whether the police recognized Andrew Saxon’s name.
• Andrew Saxon ordered his men to prepare to move their base and told the gunman to kill Tinkerer if he stopped operating.
• Emergency center staff escalated the report to the FBI, and police dispatchers sent nearby officers to seal the main routes out of the warehouse district.

Tinkerer finished Andrew Saxon’s surgery as police closed in, then disabled the gunman threatening him and escaped the warehouse after Saxon’s men fled. He left with his cash and medical tools, followed by the other medical staff.

• Tinkerer carefully completed the surgery while the armed men and medical staff waited for the police to arrive.
• After Tinkerer finished suturing Andrew Saxon, the young gunman threatened to shoot him, but Tinkerer stabbed the man’s wrist and left his gun hand limp.
• As police stormed the warehouse and a gunfight erupted, Andrew Saxon ordered his men to abandon Tinkerer and the medical staff and carry him to the waiting Rolls-Royce.
• Andrew Saxon’s men fled in the Rolls-Royce, leaving the medical staff behind at the warehouse.
• Tinkerer removed his surgical gown, collected his bags of cash and medical tools, and headed outside with the other staff following him.

Tinkerer gave a bag of cash to the people who had helped with the surgery, then used their greed to escape while LAPD arrested them. He slipped through the police cordon and disappeared.

• A middle-aged Black man stopped Tinkerer and demanded payment for helping with the surgery.
• Tinkerer tossed the group a bag of cash and told them to split it and deny seeing him.
• LAPD officers surrounded the group as they divided the money and arrested them.
• The arrested men shouted about Fixman, but the officers kept them in custody while other police pursued the fugitive.
• Tinkerer used his super speed to flee through a gap in the cordon.

FBI agents investigated the arrests of Andrew Saxon’s gang and questioned witnesses about the elusive Tinkerer, who had operated on Saxon. Agent James explained why the Bureau avoided pursuing the Tinkerer because of his connection to the Continental Hotel, but a seized duffel bag might offer a lead.

• FBI agents prepared charges against Andrew Saxon’s gang and the illegal medical workers, using the seized illicit funds as leverage.
• Agent James learned that the Tinkerer had not been caught and that witnesses described him as a scarred white man dressed like a nineteenth-century Frenchman.
• A rookie agent asked why the FBI did not arrest the Tinkerer, and James explained the Bureau’s policy toward Continental Hotel service providers.
• James told the rookie that the IRS needed evidence to prosecute the Tinkerer, but a raid that uncovered illicit funds could create an opening.
• The rookie pointed out that witnesses said the seized duffel bag had belonged to the Tinkerer, and James considered whether its evidence might be useful.

Henry counted the money from his outing, arranged for Big O to keep the Black Clinic closed and frustrate any police visitors, and prepared to spend the next two months organizing his medical knowledge. He then took Kitty to his Sheep Cave Valley Laboratory.

• Henry counted his earnings and found the total was six hundred eighteen thousand, six hundred forty-six dollars.
• Henry called Big O, asked him to arrange a harmless welcome for anyone investigating the Black Clinic, and agreed to pay two months' rent.
• Henry left the rent money at the clinic and removed its summoning bell and instruction notes before closing it for two months.
• Henry decided to use the closure to organize his medical experience and insights.
• Henry picked up Kitty and took her to the Sheep Cave Valley Laboratory for exercise.

Henry established a concealed laboratory in Sheephole Valley Wilderness to manufacture and stockpile medicines for the Black Clinic. He focused on proven chemical formulas and left traditional Chinese medicine behind because he could not obtain reliable ingredients.

• Henry chose the granite caves of Sheephole Valley Wilderness for his container-home laboratory and equipped it with water, electricity, and backup power.
• Henry moved drug production and equipment-making from his rental home to the remote laboratory.
• Henry decided to synthesize only established medicines and avoid developing drugs, running human trials, or making addictive painkillers.
• Henry used his two-month clinic closure to produce routine medicines and build up supplies for the Black Clinic.
• Henry gave up researching traditional Chinese medicine in North America because the available medicinal ingredients were inadequate.

Henry fed Kitty raw prey in the wilderness and reflected on how to keep her instincts under control. As he experienced a mysterious state of insight beneath the stars, he began levitating before someone sealed him inside the Mirror Dimension.

• Henry caught a desert rabbit and gave it whole to Kitty, who ate the meat and some of its organs.
• When Kitty still seemed hungry, Henry caught a fox and fed it to her, taking away her food whenever she started playing with it.
• While Kitty gnawed on the fox, Henry looked at the stars and let his mind rest as he listened to the wilderness.
• Henry entered an unfamiliar state in which his Super Brain seemed to reach toward understanding the world, and he followed his intuition.
• Henry unconsciously began flying, sat cross-legged in the air as colored lights appeared across his body, and was enclosed in the Mirror Dimension by someone.

Henry returned to his hidden desert laboratory with Kitty, made a late-night meal, and inventoried supplies for synthesizing medicine. He planned to use dirty money to buy ingredients through underground channels and hid the remaining cash in a cave safe.

• Henry woke in the desert, carried Kitty to his shipping-container laboratory, and switched on the lights.
• Henry heated canned food while stopping Kitty from jumping onto the table, then pinned her down so he could eat.
• Henry checked his medicine-making supplies and planned which ingredients to replenish, including controlled materials he would need to obtain through connections.
• Henry decided to use dirty money for underground purchases to avoid public records that might attract CIA attention.
• Henry placed the remaining money in a safe inside a hidden cave.

Agent James and two LAPD detectives confirmed that Tinkerer’s clinic was occupied and prepared to arrest him, motivated partly by the missing cash from a seized million Dao. The detectives continued watching the alley as the operation began to take shape.

• Agent James questioned the detectives about their daylong stakeout, and they reported deliveries, an injured visitor, and no confirmed sighting of the target.
• The younger detective checked the alley and confirmed that Tinkerer’s clinic still had its shutter half down and voices inside.
• Agent James explained that the illegal funds would be split between the FBI and LAPD and said he would contact the others to prepare an arrest.
• The older detective told the younger detective that officers would seal off the block while they kept watch on the alley.
• The detectives discussed the reasons for arresting Tinkerer, and the older detective reflected on the sword-and-shield graffiti and their narrow chance to act.

An LAPD and FBI raid on the clinic marked “Fixman” found only a group of children using it as a gaming hideout, not the suspected doctor or illegal money. The officers questioned the children and were still trying to make sense of the situation when the field commander requested an update.

• The assault team entered the clinic and found children sleeping and playing Super Mario World instead of a suspect.
• A Black officer recognized his son Tucker, who explained that the children had been staying at Leif’s secret base.
• The squad leader questioned the children, who said classmates had visited and identified the place as a house belonging to one of Leif’s uncles.
• The children explained that their families had provided the television and game console and that they had pooled allowance money for food.
• The field commander radioed the team to ask whether they had caught the suspect.

After James’s FBI team failed to arrest the Tinkerer, Director Owen sent James to pursue leads at the Continental Hotel and assigned two other agents to the Zodiac Killer case. Once they left, Owen spoke with Black Nick Fury, who declined to reveal what he knew about the Tinkerer.

• Director Owen berated James and his team for failing to confirm the Tinkerer's location before arresting children of influential people.
• James proposed questioning the Continental Hotel, and Owen approved the plan but ordered James to go himself.
• Owen gave two agents the Zodiac Killer case file, and they left after he dismissed their objections.
• Owen sent James out as well, then relaxed once the agents were gone.
• Black Nick Fury emerged from the meeting room and joked with Owen while drinking his whiskey.
• Owen asked Fury about the Tinkerer, and Fury said he knew no more than Owen while implying he could not share everything.

Black Fury questioned White Fury about River Phoenix’s death and the pursuit of Joker, then learned that the Infinity Formula’s raw materials were running out. White Fury revealed that those in power intended to distribute the formula until the materials were exhausted, leaving Black Fury to realize the plan could kill many people at once.

• Black Fury was surprised to find White Fury waiting in his apartment and guessed that White Fury had come to the West Coast because of Joker.
• Black Fury said River Phoenix’s death could have resulted from the pressure of repeated interrogations by many organizations, making everyone involved responsible.
• White Fury said Joker could not be countered because they knew too little about him, and Black Fury mocked him for being afraid.
• White Fury admitted he was dying, and Black Fury asked whether the Infinity Formula was failing.
• White Fury explained that powerful people wanted the Infinity Formula and that its raw materials were scarce.
• Black Fury realized that those in power planned to let everyone use the formula until the raw materials ran out, potentially killing a whole group of people.

White Nick Fury told Black Fury about the alien blood behind the Infinity Formula and prepared him for his eventual death by leaving instructions, an authorization eye, and a file of potential recruits. White Nick Fury left to investigate River Phoenix's death, while Black Fury stayed behind considering the team-building task and the future of S.H.I.E.L.D.

• White Nick Fury explained that the Infinity Formula depended on Kree blood taken from a captured alien pilot, and that Old Money might seek more once its supply ran out.
• White Nick Fury told Black Fury to retrieve his authorized eyeball after his death and urged him to build a private team using the candidates in the file.
• Black Fury examined Henry Brown's profile and discussed his unusual skills, work history, and resistance to threats and inducements with White Nick Fury.
• White Nick Fury said he would investigate River Phoenix's death and explained that Ms. Carter planned to merge and restructure the two S.H.I.E.L.D. sides with Director Alexander Pierce.
• White Nick Fury left, and Black Fury remained in his apartment staring at the file.

Henry was summoned by Muni Fisher and given a Gold Coin commission to treat a child with severe appendicitis and an anesthetic allergy. He accepted the job and learned that the surgery would take place at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as soon as he arrived.

• Henry brought Kitty back to his rented house and drove to the Los Angeles Continental Hotel after receiving its message.
• The skull-faced receptionist led Henry to Manager Fisher's office.
• Muni Fisher offered Henry a Gold Coin job that he could not refuse.
• Henry learned that the patient was a child known to a High Table family who needed surgery but had an anesthetic allergy.
• Muni Fisher told Henry to go to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as soon as possible, and he accepted the commission.

The Tinkerer arrived at Cedars-Sinai to treat Thomas Boning, the son of influential Los Angeles political leader Susie Ambo Boning. He confirmed Thomas had worsening appendicitis and asked permission to use his unconventional methods, while Thomas continued threatening him.

• The Tinkerer entered Cedars-Sinai’s exclusive wing using an invitation from the Continental Hotel.
• Susie Ambo Boning pleaded with the Tinkerer to save her son, Thomas Boning, whose family was a powerful Los Angeles political dynasty.
• The Tinkerer reviewed Thomas’s records and concluded that his appendicitis was worsening toward peritonitis despite antibiotic treatment.
• The Tinkerer asked whether an operating room was available, and the attending physician said it was ready.
• The Tinkerer warned Susie that his surgical methods violated conventional medical ethics, and she agreed to let him operate.
• Thomas threatened the Tinkerer, demanding that the surgery cause him no pain.

Tinkerer agreed to perform an appendectomy on Thomas Boning despite the threats and the lack of anesthetic options. He left Thomas unconscious after striking him with a baseball bat, then ordered the staff to restrain him and prepare for surgery.

• Susie Boning promised not to hold Tinkerer responsible, and Tinkerer ordered the staff to take Thomas Boning to the operating room for an appendectomy.
• Female nurses wheeled Thomas to the operating room while he groped them and made lewd remarks.
• Thomas threatened Tinkerer, who knocked him unconscious with an aluminum baseball bat.
• Tinkerer ordered the staff to carry Thomas onto the operating table and strap him down tightly.
• When doctors questioned his method, Tinkerer dismissed their concerns, and they declined to take over the surgery.

Tinkerer successfully performed Thomas Boning’s appendectomy and left before Thomas woke. The doctors credited Tinkerer with the operation while trying to distance themselves from his questionable anesthesia, and Thomas began to suspect he had been knocked out with a baseball bat.

• Tinkerer completed Thomas Boning’s appendectomy, cleaning the ruptured appendix and closing the incision before Thomas woke.
• Two nurses returned Thomas to his hospital room, where he woke and asked what had happened.
• Susie Boning asked where Tinkerer was and whether the operation had succeeded; the physicians confirmed the surgery was successful and praised his skill.
• Thomas complained of pain and asked the physicians to use Tinkerer’s special anesthetic again, but a young physician’s baseball-bat joke alarmed the others.
• Thomas remembered the possibility that Tinkerer had hit him with a baseball bat, and the senior doctor tried to convince him he might have remembered incorrectly.