Recaps

Titanic premiered to enormous box-office success and swept the 1998 Academy Awards, while Henry watched from Australia to avoid the press. After Charlize Theron regretted missing a chance to act in Titanic, Henry explained the risks its stars faced and encouraged her to focus on The Matrix.

• Titanic premiered in Tokyo, London, and Hollywood before earning $1.8 billion worldwide and winning eleven Academy Awards.
• Henry avoided reporters by visiting The Matrix set in Australia, where Charlize Theron was filming.
• Henry watched James Cameron accept his Oscar from the hotel while Charlize and the cast worked on set.
• Charlize complained that she had not pursued a role in Titanic, and Henry explained how its success could complicate its actors' careers.
• Charlize accepted Henry's advice to focus on The Matrix and teased him about what he needed to do next.

Henry left Sydney for Los Angeles after Jack Reacher requested a meeting about his covert investigation, but an alarm alerted Henry to someone in danger before his flight had gone far. Henry remotely dispatched the Duck Panther Armor prototype, with Kitty inside, to respond.

• Henry learned that Gilgamesh and Thena had left their secluded homes and prepared to return to Los Angeles to meet Jack Reacher.
• Henry recalled that Jack had requested funds for a covert investigation into Tony Stark’s family tragedy and had only now asked to meet.
• An alarm from Henry’s device sounded while he was aboard the flight, warning him that someone needed immediate help.
• Henry used his rings to remotely activate Little Duck at Sheep Cave Valley Laboratory and called Kitty to suit up.
• Kitty donned the panther armor, and Little Duck attached itself to it as the Duck Panther Armor prototype.

Henry sent Kitty, wearing the Duck Leopard armor, to answer a distress signal in Los Angeles using his Hyper-Acceleration Ejection System. Kitty arrived above the scene, where Captain Jack Reacher was being attacked by Vampires.

• Henry projected the route instructions onto Tiger’s eyes and told her to go wild.
• Henry prepared the Hyper-Acceleration Ejection System, using a satellite to check that Kitty’s destination was clear.
• After the devices warmed up, Kitty was ejected from Sheep Cave Valley to Los Angeles in less than a blink.
• Kitty arrived above South District, where Captain Jack Reacher was under attack from a group of Vampires.

Henry remotely controlled the Duck Leopard armor as Kitty arrived to save Jack Reacher from Vampires. The armor launched an Ultraviolet Grenade at the Vampires, and the chapter ended as it exploded.

• Kitty dropped onto a Vampire that was about to attack Jack Reacher, crushing it beneath the Duck Leopard armor.
• Henry used Little Duck's infrared display to identify the attackers as Vampires and marked them as dangerous targets for Kitty.
• Henry activated the armor's weapon system while Kitty waited for the Vampires to attack first.
• Little Duck warned everyone to shield their eyes from a flash grenade, and Jack Reacher followed the warning while the Vampires hesitated.
• Henry launched an Ultraviolet Grenade from the armor, and it exploded less than a second later.

Henry and Kitty rescued Jack Reacher from the Vampires hunting him, then gave him Vampire Serum to save the woman he had tried to protect. With police arriving and Jack needing somewhere to hide his belongings, Henry offered him a ride on Kitty.

• Henry used Ultraviolet Grenades and Kitty’s silvered, ultraviolet-equipped armor to kill the attacking Vampires, while Henry shot the fleeing survivor from his plane.
• Jack Reacher asked Henry about the rescue delay and learned that the Vampires had been hunting him; he explained that he had intervened after seeing them attack a woman.
• Henry provided Vampire Serum, and Jack injected the bitten woman to prevent her from turning.
• As police sirens approached, Jack asked Henry for a safehouse because he could not take his backpack’s contents to the police station.
• Henry transformed Kitty’s back plating into a riding seat and told Jack to climb on and hold tight.

Henry brought Jack Reacher to his secret base aboard Kitty in the Duck Leopard armor, and Jack endured the exhausting high-speed ride. After arriving, Jack drank water, watched Kitty return to her Tiger form, and was invited inside the base to rest.

• Kitty carried Jack Reacher through the air at high speed, and he struggled to stay on the Duck Leopard armor's back.
• After landing, Jack Reacher complained about the flight and asked where they were, while Henry warned him not to investigate the secret base.
• Little Duck offered Jack Reacher water, and he carefully checked the bottle before drinking it.
• Jack Reacher watched Kitty emerge from the armor as a Tiger and settle down to sleep.
• Little Duck opened the shipping container's door and invited Jack Reacher inside to rest.

Jack Reacher rested at Henry's concealed wilderness base after escaping the Vampires, where he discovered its hidden section and met the robot that cooked for him. He agreed to keep the base secret, while Henry recognized that his rescue plan had exposed a flaw in its disguise.

• Jack Reacher entered Henry's container house and realized it had a hidden section stocked with supplies.
• Henry offered Jack Reacher food, and BB-2 cooked him a steak and brought him coffee.
• Jack Reacher asked whether Henry was human or an artificial intelligence, and Henry explained he remotely controlled the Support Mech from a flight to Los Angeles.
• Jack Reacher pointed out that Henry's armored tiger could reveal his identity, and Henry admitted his rushed rescue plan had flaws.
• Jack Reacher promised not to reveal the base, reasoning that doing so would only risk more casualties.

Henry spoke with Jack Reacher through Little Duck after Reacher discovered that Henry was behind the rescue, and assured him their communication line was secure. After reflecting on how his pride had led him to reveal too much, Henry reconnected and found Reacher tending to his wounds.

• Henry asked Jack Reacher to eat before explaining why he had wanted to meet, and Reacher asked whether their communication line was secure.
• Henry explained that his quantum-encrypted system would be extremely difficult for anyone on Earth to intercept or crack, then told Reacher to be careful with sensitive information.
• Jack Reacher ate the robot-prepared steak while Henry disconnected and reflected on the rescue and his accidental disclosures.
• Henry called for an alcoholic drink, waited, and reconnected with Little Duck at Sheep Cave Valley Laboratory.
• Henry saw Jack Reacher asking for a first-aid kit and cleaning his wounds.

Jack Reacher told Henry that his investigation had identified a murderer but hit a bottleneck because sensitive records could alert people and put him at risk. He produced a videotape of the car accident, and explained how a corrupt road-system upgrade had left the footage hidden from official records.

• Jack Reacher reported that the supposed accident had been a deliberate crime, though he did not know whether the target was a person or an object.
• Jack Reacher said he knew who the murderer was but lacked the authority to investigate sensitive records, and feared that doing so could trigger a cleanup.
• Jack Reacher explained that he had stayed hidden while investigating and had mistaken the Vampires’ attack for an attempt to find him.
• Jack Reacher took a videotape from his backpack and told Henry it showed footage from the time of the car accident.
• Jack Reacher said a company had bribed inspectors during a road-surveillance upgrade, leaving the old recording system running long enough to preserve the footage.

Henry confirmed Jack Reacher had obtained authentic footage related to the investigation and arranged for him to notify the person most invested in it. After Jack Reacher noticed possible sparks in the air and asked about Vampires, Henry briefed him on the creatures and their distribution.

• Henry and Jack Reacher discussed the videotape, its likely authenticity, and the possibility that an intelligence agency had concealed the crash footage.
• Henry used Little Duck to call the young master and reported that the year-old investigation had produced results, then hung up after the man began swearing.
• Jack Reacher said he had seen sparks appear briefly near Henry, but Little Duck found no trace of anything unusual.
• Jack Reacher asked Henry to tell him about Vampires because he wanted to understand them and had a score to settle with them.
• Henry used BB-2 and Little Duck to show Jack Reacher a presentation about Vampire habits, weaknesses, and distribution, including what Henry knew about Europe.

Jack Reacher traveled to the city with weapons for hunting Vampires while Henry returned by plane to Stark Studios, where Tony Stark was already waiting. Tony questioned Henry about artificial intelligence and Skynet as they prepared to discuss the matter that had brought them together.

• Henry arranged for Jack Reacher to drive an old pickup truck into the city instead of traveling through daylight in Kitty's Duck Leopard armor.
• Henry gave Jack Reacher a Beretta M9 with Silver Nitrate Bullets, UV Bullets, and ordinary bullets, and Jack Reacher chose to carry the UV Bullets.
• Jack Reacher and Henry reached Stark Studios at roughly the same time after Henry flew back from Sydney.
• Tony Stark confronted Henry with questions about his proposed artificial intelligence and fears about Skynet.
• Henry asked Julianne to bring coffee and keep interruptions away while he and Tony discussed their business.

Henry and Tony Stark watched surveillance footage of Tony’s father being attacked and identified the killer as James Buchanan Barnes, a long-presumed-dead World War II soldier. Jack Reacher explained that Barnes may have been turned into a cryogenically stored, mind-controlled assassin under the Winter Soldier Program.

• Henry showed Tony Stark footage of a motorcyclist attacking the driver of a crashed Chrysler and shooting the surveillance camera.
• Tony Stark recognized the old man in the footage and asked Henry to identify the killer.
• Jack Reacher identified the motorcyclist as U.S. Army Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes, also known as Bucky Barnes, a friend of Captain America who had been declared dead in 1945.
• Tony Stark questioned how Barnes could still be alive, and Jack Reacher said he would have been eighty-one.
• Jack Reacher described the Winter Soldier Program as a project to enhance and control soldiers, then explained that an overlooked document suggested the program had been carried out.

Jack Reacher showed Tony Stark evidence that Howard and Maria Stark were killed while transporting stolen Super-Soldier Serum, not because they were the intended targets. The serum's fate remained unknown, and Reacher suspected it was connected to Sentry.

• Jack Reacher explained why he believed Bucky Barnes had been brainwashed and used to kill Howard and Maria Stark.
• Jack Reacher presented evidence that Howard Stark had been transporting five doses of recreated Super-Soldier Serum when the cargo was intercepted.
• Tony Stark concluded that the Starks had been collateral damage and suspected someone had concealed the serum's loss by calling their deaths an accident.
• Tony Stark decided he needed more intelligence before investigating the organizations that might have covered up the theft.
• Jack Reacher suggested one dose of the missing serum might be connected to Sentry, whom Tony Stark and Henry saw on television at the Watchtower Tower opening.

Tony Stark learned that the Sentry, secretly Robert Reynolds, had appeared after a Sentry Serum project was robbed, and suspected the serum’s development might be connected to Howard Stark’s stolen Super-Soldier Serum. Jack Reacher handed over his investigation and withdrew, leaving Tony to pursue the trail through General Phillips.

• Tony Stark and Henry discussed the Sentry’s rise, including his defeat of Gozilla and the worldwide disaster-monitoring system he established.
• Jack Reacher explained that Department K and Operation: Rebirth had developed the Sentry Serum and that a laboratory robbery preceded Robert Reynolds’s appearance as the Sentry.
• Jack Reacher said the serum’s possible connection to Howard Stark’s stolen Super-Soldier Serum was only a suspicion, though he considered the timing suspicious.
• Tony Stark took over the investigation, deciding that Jack Reacher could not safely dig further and considering a visit to General Phillips.
• Jack Reacher declined a reward but accepted Tony Stark’s phone number, memorizing it before returning to the files.

Henry dropped Jack Reacher at a bus station after discussing his armor and Sentry, then received an emergency alert from Blade and Whistler’s hideout. He realized the Vampire hunters’ base had likely been overrun and went to deal with the aftermath.

• Henry drove Jack Reacher toward a bus station and explained that he had built the Duck Leopard armor to protect himself in a dangerous world.
• Jack Reacher criticized the armor as a potential battlefield hazard, and Henry said he did not trust Sentry to keep him safe.
• Henry’s watch alarm sounded, but Jack Reacher refused another ride, kept the tracker watch, and left for his bus.
• Henry learned that the alert came from Blade and Abraham Whistler’s abandoned steel mill hideout and concluded that their base had probably fallen to Vampires and their human allies.
• Henry considered how the Vampires’ young radical faction might have attacked during daylight, with Blade lured away and Whistler unable to escape.

Black Super arrived at the abandoned steel mill and treated Abraham Whistler after Vampires tortured and bit him. With Whistler stabilized but still needing plasma and an artificial joint, Blade prepared to rescue Dr. Karen Jensen from Deacon Frost's trap.

• Black Super found Blade and a gravely wounded Abraham Whistler at the steel mill, where Vampires had left corpses and a message tape.
• Whistler asked Black Super to kill him, but Black Super offered to save him and Whistler chose to live and walk in sunlight.
• Blade explained that Deacon Frost planned an ancient ritual to become something beyond a Vampire and needed Blade for it.
• Black Super treated Whistler's wounds while Blade revealed that Dr. Karen Jensen had also been taken and that he intended to rescue her.
• Black Super finished treating Whistler and told Blade that he still needed plasma and medical materials to restore Whistler's blood and leg.

Black Super treated Abraham Whistler, gave Blade prototype ultraviolet grenades, and warned him that Deacon Frost’s ritual might make the Vampires immune to sunlight. Blade prepared to pursue Frost while Black Super planned to move Whistler somewhere safe.

• Black Super stopped Blade from cleaning Whistler with a dirty rag, returned with medical supplies, and prepared artificial plasma and serum for him.
• Black Super anesthetized Whistler and injected him with First Embrace Serum, while Blade questioned the instant-acting anesthetic.
• Blade identified the videotape as a likely lead to Deacon Frost and accepted three prototype ultraviolet grenades from Black Super.
• Black Super reasoned that Frost’s ritual might require Blade’s Daywalker trait and warned that the Vampires could gain sunlight resistance before the ritual ended.
• Blade agreed to contact Black Super after hunting the Vampires, while Black Super planned to move Whistler to safety.

Black Super treated Abraham Whistler in his underground laboratory and learned that Blade had gone alone to face the Vampires’ trap. After weighing the danger of Deacon Frost becoming the Blood God, Black Super agreed to go help Blade and prepared his Duck Leopard armor.

• Abraham Whistler woke restrained in Black Super’s medical tank and learned that his surgery had succeeded.
• Whistler asked Black Super to watch over Blade, who had gone to confront the Vampires despite knowing they had set a trap for him.
• Black Super considered the threat Deacon Frost would pose if he became the Blood God and decided he could not stay out of the fight.
• Black Super sedated Whistler, then went to change out of his Kevlar suit because Vampires could identify him by his blood’s scent.
• Black Super put on the green Duck Leopard armor, Duck Type, and prepared to leave.

Henry suited up in the Green Arrow Duck armor and traced Blade’s recorded message to Ejiwota, a Vampire-owned building in downtown Los Angeles. He found Vampires inside but no sign of Blade, leaving Blade’s whereabouts uncertain.

• Henry chose the airtight Duck Type armor, loaded specialized Vampire ammunition and ordinary bullets, and prepared its weapons.
• Henry flew to Blade and Abraham Whistler's secret base and converted Blade’s partially played videotape into digital footage.
• Henry identified Ejiwota as the destination and learned that it was a building in downtown Los Angeles owned by Vampires.
• Henry reached the building’s rooftop without drawing attention and searched inside with his enhanced vision.
• Henry found many Vampires but no trace of Blade or the temple-like location from the movie, so he considered entering to investigate further.

Green Arrow Duck infiltrated the Vampires’ facility to find out where Deacon Frost had gone, but a low-ranking guard knew nothing. After avoiding the cameras, he advanced toward a higher-ranking target as armed reinforcements blocked the corridor ahead.

• Green Arrow Duck captured a guard and questioned him about Deacon Frost and the other Vampires.
• The guard said he was only building security and did not know where the Vampires had gone, so Green Arrow Duck shocked him unconscious.
• Green Arrow Duck identified a more promising target using the abilities of the person inside the armor and planned the shortest route toward them.
• Green Arrow Duck destroyed surveillance cameras as he advanced, but the control room inferred his direction from the cameras going offline.
• More than a dozen armed reinforcements crowded a narrow corridor and aimed their handguns at the corner Green Arrow Duck was approaching.

Green Arrow Duck stormed a Vampire hideout, driving off human guards with a heavy machine gun and killing several Vampire enforcers with silver nitrate rounds. He left one Vampire alive so he could question them and continue searching for the person he had come to save.

• Green Arrow Duck ambushed the human guards with his heavy machine gun, killing or injuring many and sending the survivors fleeing down the stairs.
• The surviving guards counted their group and decided against returning upstairs after a veteran warned them about facing a heavy machine gun in the narrow passage.
• Green Arrow Duck passed the wounded guards without finishing them and continued toward his target.
• Vampire enforcers confronted Green Arrow Duck, taunting him as they approached with knives or empty hands.
• Green Arrow Duck retracted his machine gun and killed five Vampires with silver nitrate warheads fired from his left arm.
• Green Arrow Duck spared the sole surviving Vampire because he needed someone to question.

Green Arrow Duck reached Evernight Temple during Deacon Frost’s Blood God ritual and found Blade near death after being drained for the ceremony. As the ritual’s blood began to converge, Blade escaped and set out to confront Deacon Frost, while dark clouds gathered over the temple.

• Green Arrow Duck located the underground Evernight Temple, where Deacon Frost, Quinn, and Raquel prepared to become Blood Gods using Blade’s blood.
• A Black woman freed Blade from his stone coffin, and Blade drank from her to recover after severe blood loss.
• Quinn learned that a Donald Duck dressed as Robin Hood had attacked Ejiwota, but Deacon Frost dismissed the report.
• Blade fought his Vampire mother, killed her, and left to confront Deacon Frost.
• Blood flowed through the twelve openings in the temple’s dome as Green Arrow Duck sensed dark clouds gathering outside.

Green Arrow Duck accidentally intercepted the lightning meant to power the Blood God Ritual, causing his ammunition to explode and the ritual to lose its main energy source. The ritual was completed with the rescued Blade missing and the underground temple plunged into darkness, leaving the human servants exposed to the Vampires.

• Green Arrow Duck watched the Blood God Ritual from above Evernight Temple and remembered that it required lightning to complete the transformation.
• The lightning struck Green Arrow Duck because his metal antenna and machine gun made him a target, and the current detonated the ammunition belts on his armor.
• Green Arrow Duck regained control of his damaged armor after the Blood God Ritual had already been completed.
• The ritual drew power from Evernight Temple’s generators and the city grid, but the cable melted and its breaker tripped before enough energy could be supplied.
• The rescued Blade was absent from the sacrifice, and the power failure plunged Evernight Temple into darkness as the Vampires began to sense the human servants around them.

Green Arrow Duck rescued Dr. Karen Jensen from the chaos inside Evernight Temple while Blade went underground to confront Deacon Frost. When Raquel and other Vampires found them, Green Arrow Duck used tracking missiles to attack the group.

• Vampires and humans erupted into a massacre inside Evernight Temple, while Blade headed underground to face Deacon Frost.
• Green Arrow Duck spotted Dr. Karen Jensen hiding beside a stone pillar and went to rescue her.
• Green Arrow Duck identified himself as reinforcements sent by Abraham Whistler, and Karen Jensen accepted his help after questioning him.
• Raquel and other Vampires followed the sound of their conversation and confronted Green Arrow Duck and Karen Jensen.
• Green Arrow Duck launched twenty tracking missiles loaded with silver nitrate warheads and Ultraviolet Rounds, striking the approaching Vampires.

Green Arrow Duck rescued Dr. Karen Jensen from the Evernight Temple, gave her serum to prevent her transformation, and returned underground to finish clearing out the Vampires. He found Blade fighting Deacon Frost as the Blood God, whose strength and healing were overwhelming Blade.

• Green Arrow Duck carried Karen Jensen out of the Evernight Temple and gave her First Embrace Serum to stop her from becoming a Vampire.
• Green Arrow Duck told Karen to hide, then returned underground to join Blade and finish off the remaining Vampires.
• Green Arrow Duck continued attacking Vampires and armed humans while following Blade's trail through the temple.
• Green Arrow Duck reached the altar and saw Blade fighting Deacon Frost, who had become the Blood God and appeared poised to win.