Recaps

Henry went to a New York Harbor container yard to stake out the exchange point connected to Skye’s attempted abduction. He watched all night, but nobody appeared.

• Gwen Stacy visited Skye and helped her with schoolwork and programming while Henry prepared to go out.
• Skye tried to come with Henry, but he refused and left after making excuses to Kate and the girls.
• Henry traveled to the container yard where the kidnappers had been instructed to bring their captive.
• Henry deployed Sparrow Spy Drones to watch the exchange point and the surrounding area while he considered who might be behind the abduction.
• Henry waited through the night, but no one came to the container yard.

Henry received a spring banquet invitation from Rachel Lambert Mellon and Hubert de Givenchy, who hoped to lift Rachel’s spirits with an art appreciation gathering at Oak Spring Farm. After hearing the details, Henry considered his past dealings with the Mellon family and weighed whether to attend.

• Henry considered investigating Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem for clues about the people trying to capture Skye.
• Henry drove Skye to school and then received a visit from the Mellon family’s butler.
• The butler delivered an invitation for an art appreciation banquet hosted by Rachel Lambert Mellon and Hubert de Givenchy.
• Henry asked about the banquet and learned guests could bring antiques or artworks to share, with companions allowed if arranged in advance.
• Henry recalled his past meetings with the Mellons and the ways Old Money families had treated him, then considered whether to accept the invitation.

Henry accepted the Mellon family's invitation to a spring banquet at Oak Spring Farm and asked Katharine Hepburn to accompany him. He sent his reply with the butler, leaving Katharine delighted about the visit.

• Henry considered his friendship with Givenchy and agreed to attend the spring banquet at Oak Spring Farm.
• Henry invited Katharine Hepburn to come with him, and she questioned whether he really meant to take her.
• The Mellon family butler said Mrs. Mellon admired Katharine's restored and colorized films, and Katharine agreed to attend with Henry.
• Henry wrote a formal acceptance and gave it to the butler to take back to the Mellon family.
• Katharine asked whether Henry would invite Gwen or Cathy, and Henry explained that an art gathering would not suit them.

Henry and Katharine Hepburn traveled to Oak Spring Farm in Virginia for a banquet hosted by the Mellon family. They arrived to find the estate still carefully tended, where Hubert de Givenchy waited to welcome them.

• Henry dressed in his handmade suit and traveled with Katharine Hepburn to the airport.
• The Mellon family arranged VIP flights and a Rolls-Royce pickup for Henry and Katharine Hepburn.
• Henry and Katharine Hepburn drove from Washington Dulles International Airport to Oak Spring Farm, and Henry remembered visiting the area ten years earlier.
• Henry and Katharine Hepburn toured Oak Spring Farm’s layered gardens and saw how Rachel Lambert had arranged its flowers and plants.
• Hubert de Givenchy welcomed Henry and Katharine Hepburn at the entrance to the estate.

Henry arrived at Rachel Lambert Mellon’s home with Katharine Hepburn and Givenchy for Rachel’s art exhibition and banquet, bringing her a gift. Rachel invited Henry and Katharine to stay for several days so she could spend more time with Katharine.

• Givenchy welcomed Katharine Hepburn and Henry, then explained that Rachel’s informal exhibition had been spread across several days to accommodate the artists.
• Henry mentioned that he had brought Rachel a gift, and Rachel joined the group and asked to see it.
• Rachel greeted Henry and invited him to call her Rachel as she eagerly asked about his gift.
• Henry explained that the gift was large and that he and Katharine had booked a hotel in Washington.
• Rachel offered Henry and Katharine guest rooms and asked them to stay for several days, and Henry accepted.

Henry presented Rachel Lambert with a crystal device that projected three-dimensional images of her and Paul Mellon at different ages, moving her to tears. The chapter ended with Katharine Hepburn teasing that she had received no gift like it, leaving Henry scrambling for a response.

• Henry revealed a cloudy, cracked crystal and explained that it needed a special base and light.
• Henry set the crystal on its rotating lamp base, causing images of Rachel Lambert and Paul Mellon to appear above it.
• Givenchy asked how Henry made the projections, but Henry said the method was a trade secret.
• Rachel Lambert cried as she watched the images, and Katharine Hepburn teased Henry about not receiving a gift like it.
• Henry looked to Givenchy for help, but Givenchy ignored him and examined a blank canvas.

After Mrs. Mellon cried over Henry’s photographs, she embraced his Murky Crystal as an artwork and installed it in her garden exhibition. As Mrs. Mellon and Katharine Hepburn shared memories of their late loves, Henry was led away to view the other exhibits and reflected on the disturbing paintings he had hidden in his Undersea Laboratory.

• Mrs. Mellon cried over Henry’s photographs, then ordered the servants to display his Murky Crystal in the garden.
• Mrs. Mellon placed the Murky Crystal at the center of the Spring Corridor and warned the servants not to disturb the cracks inside it.
• Mrs. Mellon and Katharine Hepburn shared memories of Paul Mellon and Spencer Tracy while admiring the crystal’s projection.
• Givenchy pulled Henry away from the women, and the two men discussed the garden’s carefully selected artworks.
• Henry thought about the disturbing paintings he had hidden in the Undersea Laboratory and considered rigging their destruction to his pacemaker.

Henry Brown attended the Mellon family’s garden banquet, where he observed the guests and the young artists seeking the family’s support. He met Ezekiel Sims, the CEO of a venture capital firm.

• Henry admired the garden’s nighttime lighting and saw that his crystal projection looked especially vivid after dark.
• Henry sampled the Mellon family’s food and observed how retired elders, active business leaders, and young creators interacted at the banquet.
• Henry reflected that he had made his crystal piece to please an old lady, despite other creators’ contemptuous looks and assumptions about his motives.
• Ezekiel Sims introduced himself to Henry as the CEO of Sims Future Venture Capital, and they shook hands.

Henry met Ezekiel Sims at the banquet and rejected his offers to fund his work or hire him as a special researcher for Abstergo Industries. He remained suspicious that Sims was connected to Skye’s kidnapping, though he did not confirm it before ending their conversation.

• Henry recognized Ezekiel Sims as the name Tony Stark had warned him to watch for and approached him cautiously.
• Ezekiel Sims said he had been watching Henry and offered to invest in his exhibit, but Henry insisted he did not want money.
• Ezekiel Sims offered Henry a special researcher position at Abstergo Industries, including protection and the freedom to propose research projects.
• Henry thanked Ezekiel Sims but declined the job and turned away, leaving his suspicions about Sims unresolved.

Henry avoided Ezekiel Sims’s pressure from Abstergo and joined Mrs. Mellon and Katharine Hepburn to present the Projection Crystal to the assembled Old Money. His fanciful story about how he made it entertained the guests while making clear that the crystal was a one-of-a-kind work he would not reproduce.

• Ezekiel Sims prepared to pressure Henry Brown further, but Mrs. Mellon called Henry over to show the Projection Crystal.
• Henry left Ezekiel and told the guests an absurd story about discovering the crystal’s projections during a power outage.
• Mrs. Mellon questioned a hole in Henry’s story, prompting laughter from the guests.
• Givenchy joked that people would ask Henry to make more crystals, and Henry said the work was unique and would not become a mass-produced souvenir.
• Rachel Lambert was pleased to own something unique, while Katharine Hepburn joined the Old Money in teasing Henry.

Henry spent the morning at Oak Spring Farm with Rachel Lambert, Katharine Hepburn, and Givenchy after the banquet. Rachel proposed that he marry an unmarried Mellon woman, but Henry rejected the idea, leaving her intentions uncertain.

• Givenchy jogged through the garden while Rachel Lambert and Katharine Hepburn considered where to place the Projection Crystal.
• Henry joined them after waking late, and he traded teasing remarks with Katharine Hepburn and Rachel Lambert.
• After breakfast began, Rachel asked Henry whether he would marry a daughter of the Mellon family.
• Rachel clarified that she meant an unmarried young woman and described the wealth and influence marriage could bring Henry.
• Henry declined, saying he could not care for a family and doubting that a Mellon woman would be interested in him; Rachel stopped pressing but remained faintly amused.

Ezekiel Sims met with Abstergo researcher Warren Vidic to deliver an antique painting and collect facial-recognition software that could help him investigate the Spider-Women from his death dreams. He left with the software but without government system access, determined to handle the rest himself.

• Ezekiel Sims woke from another vivid dream of his death at the hands of three Spider-Women and decided to keep avoiding Spider-Man.
• Ezekiel Sims brought an antique painting of a fortress under Mongol attack to Abstergo Entertainment and met Warren Vidic.
• Warren Vidic explained that Abstergo was researching the Assassin Order and confirmed its connection to the Continental Hotel.
• Ezekiel Sims questioned whether Abstergo could protect him from the Assassins, and Warren Vidic said their commission would not directly involve that organization.
• Warren Vidic gave Ezekiel Sims facial-recognition software but refused to provide government system access, and Ezekiel Sims declined deeper cooperation.

Ezekiel Sims told Warren Vidic that Henry Brown had impressed Mrs. Mellon with a crystal projection, prompting Vidic to suspend recruitment efforts and reassess him. Sims left with information about hacker Amalia Mameed, while Lucy Stillman came to collect a painting for genetic-memory research.

• Ezekiel Sims warned Warren Vidic that Henry Brown had ties to Mrs. Mellon and might be protected by the Mellon family.
• Sims described Henry's crystal projection of the Mellons at different ages, and Vidic ordered all action against Henry suspended in favor of observation.
• Sims dismissed rumors about Henry and asked Vidic for information on a hacker he could recruit.
• Vidic gave Sims a file on Amalia Mameed, a tracked hacker and confirmed Rising Tide member, and Sims left to handle the matter.
• Lucy Stillman arrived to retrieve a painting and check whether it could induce genetic memory.

Henry returned to his routine in New York while Thena, Gilgamesh, and Cassandra traveled to Budapest to help Alexei. He continued driving Skye home from school for her safety, but their trip stopped on a bridge after Henry spotted a car accident ahead.

• Thena, Gilgamesh, and Cassandra went to Budapest with the Ursa Major Mecha to assist Alexei against Vampires and Werewolves, and Cassandra planned to test her Isu Skyhawk Armor.
• Dog Squad Saint Bernard carried special ammunition to Europe and returned with assorted loot, while the True Adamantium Furnace remained unused in Henry's secret base.
• Kate insisted that Henry drive Skye to and from school after she had been cornered in an alley, preventing Skye from slipping away after class.
• Henry picked Skye up in his vintage Cadillac, and they joked about her commute and his spicy curry before leaving for home.
• Henry stopped the car on the bridge after seeing an apparent accident ahead, and Skye asked what had happened.

Henry and Skye were trapped in a bridge traffic jam caused by a crash, where paramedic Cathy Webb became trapped in an overturned car hanging over the river. Henry hesitated over whether to intervene as the car plunged into the water, and he learned that the rescue was going badly.

• Henry confirmed that a three-car collision had blocked the bridge, and Skye called 911 before contacting home.
• Skye recognized Cathy Webb among the paramedics who ran from the ambulance to help the crash victims.
• Henry joined bystanders in assisting the injured occupants of the two less-damaged cars while Cathy and another paramedic worked on the overturned vehicle.
• The overturned car fell into the river with Cathy Webb inside, and Henry wondered whether she would become Madame Web.
• After rescuing an injured person, Cathy's fellow paramedic jumped into the river, while Henry used Super Hearing to learn that a door jammed by water pressure was delaying the rescue.

Henry tried to save Cassie Webb after her car plunged into the river, but Spider-Man mistook him for a suicide jumper and pulled him back before accidentally dropping him into the water. Henry and another paramedic rescued Cassie and revived her on shore.

• Henry leaped from the bridge to help Cassie Webb, but Spider-Man caught him with a web and mistook him for someone trying to commit suicide.
• Henry explained that a car had fallen into the river and a paramedic was trying to rescue its passenger, so Spider-Man apologized and released him.
• Henry plunged into the river, found the other paramedic outside the sinking car, and pulled the unconscious Cassie free.
• Henry and the paramedic carried Cassie to shore and performed CPR until she coughed up water and began breathing again.
• Henry and the paramedic exchanged a fist bump and laughed with relief.

After helping rescue Cathy Webb from the river, Henry noticed her powers awaken when they shook hands, and she reacted to something she sensed in him. Henry and Skye left the bridge for home while Cathy went to seek medical care.

• Ben examined Cathy and brought her back to the ambulance, while Henry returned to his Cadillac and talked with Skye about Spider-Man.
• Cathy thanked Henry for saving her, but their handshake triggered a brief mental episode and an unusual surge in her bioelectric activity.
• Cathy asked Henry what he was, then apologized and left without meeting his eyes.
• Henry decided not to press Cathy for an explanation, and he and Skye prepared to go home after the police cleared traffic from the bridge.

Ezekiel Sims hired Amalia Mameed to use hacked government databases and public surveillance systems to find three women from sketches he had seen in his dreams. After narrowing the candidates, he asked Amalia to gather more details and recent photographs, but the limits of online privacy in 2003 made the search difficult.

• Ezekiel Sims hired Amalia Mameed to search for women matching three sketches using Department of Homeland Security software and public surveillance systems.
• Amalia reported finding nineteen candidates for the first sketch, eleven for the second, and twenty-three for the third, with no matches in criminal or intelligence databases.
• Ezekiel Sims warned Amalia not to ask how he had obtained the software and account access.
• Ezekiel Sims removed candidates who did not match his memories and asked Amalia to find detailed information, especially recent photographs, about those remaining.
• Amalia explained that surveillance footage and anonymous websites offered few useful personal photos in 2003.

Ezekiel Sims sought help to eliminate women he believed were connected to his death-predicting dreams, while Amalia Mameed grew suspicious of his intentions and quietly prepared an escape plan. He contacted Warren Vidic to request Abstergo Industries' special operations team, and Vidic promised to connect him with the operations chief.

• Ezekiel Sims considered killing the nearly ten women he had identified, but decided to have a helper begin the work while he handled the cleanup.
• Ezekiel Sims ordered Amalia Mameed to track the selected targets, and she worried that he intended to harm underage girls and began making plans to escape.
• Ezekiel Sims called Warren Vidic and asked to borrow Abstergo Industries' special operations team, including personnel skilled in cleanup.
• Warren Vidic said he would pass the request to the operations chief, who had already wanted to contact Ezekiel Sims.

Cassie Webb struggled with uncontrollable visions while trying to return to work, but an emergency call brought her to a major port warehouse fire. As she treated victims outside and foresaw O'Neill bloodied, Spider-Man arrived and plunged into the blaze to rescue people.

• Cassie Webb continued experiencing visions of near-future events, even when she changed her actions to avoid them.
• At a paramedics' BBQ, Cassie Webb revealed she was an orphan before an emergency call summoned the off-duty teams to a port warehouse fire.
• Because of her poor condition, Cassie Webb stayed outside to treat victims while other paramedics entered the fire with firefighters.
• Cassie Webb performed CPR on a man with no heartbeat or breathing as she saw a vision of O'Neill covered in blood.
• Spider-Man swung into the fire as people at the scene cheered.

Cassie Webb tried to keep O'Neill safe despite her visions, but he left to check other fire sites and was struck by a truck. Spider-Man and the paramedics freed O'Neill from the wreckage, leaving Cassie fighting to save him as Spider-Man was overwhelmed by memories of his own past failure.

• Cassie Webb's visions intensified, and she urged O'Neill to let her drive him to the other fire sites.
• O'Neill told Cassie to stay with the injured and trust their team, then drove off in an ambulance.
• A cargo truck struck the ambulance at an intersection, trapping O'Neill in the crushed driver's seat.
• Spider-Man pulled the vehicles apart and pried open the ambulance so Cassie and other paramedics could free O'Neill.
• The paramedics tried to revive O'Neill, but most stopped while Cassie continued, and Spider-Man stood silently recalling Uncle Ben's death.

Ezekiel Sims’s borrowed Alpha Squad used Amaria Mamed’s surveillance system to locate targets for a series of killings while preparing to disappear before their murders drew attention. Amaria identified their next target as sixteen-year-old Anya Corazon in Queens.

• Ezekiel Sims established a temporary operations command center in a rented New York office building to support Amaria Mamed’s network equipment.
• Head Wolf watched Amaria’s public surveillance feeds while Alpha Squad’s mercenaries drank and waited for target locations.
• Head Wolf considered the squad’s plan to kill the targets quickly and go underground to avoid police attention.
• Amaria Mamed told Head Wolf that the next target was sixteen-year-old Anya Corazon in Queens.

After O'Neill's death, Cathy Weber withdrew from life while questioning whether her visions could change the future. When a vision of a pigeon crashing through her kitchen window proved false, she realized she had saved it, but the old cat's departing meow unleashed visions of a killer attacking her apartment building, where a teenage girl always died.

• Cathy Weber ignored her partner's call about O'Neill's funeral and stayed home, grieving and depressed.
• A vision showed a pigeon crashing into Cathy's kitchen window, but when she checked, a live pigeon flew into her apartment and escaped the old cat.
• Cathy Weber cried as she realized the pigeon incident had been a vision of an event she could change, though she still regretted failing to save O'Neill.
• The old cat left after Cathy failed to respond to its meows, and its final cry triggered a flood of visions of a killer attacking the apartment building.
• Cathy Weber saw many possible patterns of death, but a South American teenage girl in the building died in every vision.

After seeing a vision of Anya Corazon in danger, Cathy Weber rushed her out of their apartment building, but Anya doubted her warning. When Abstergo’s Alpha Squad arrived and opened fire, Anya fled with Cathy as the killers pursued them.

• Cathy Weber hurried to Anya Corazon’s apartment and dragged her downstairs to protect her from a danger she could not explain.
• Anya confronted Cathy on the street, questioning why she had been taken from her home.
• Two members of Abstergo’s Alpha Squad, hired by Ezekiel Sims, arrived to kill Anya.
• The Black squad member spotted Anya and fired, missing her and hitting a parked car.
• Cathy grabbed Anya and ran, while both Alpha Squad members chased them with a gun.

Cathy Weber and Anya Corazon escaped an armed pursuer by boarding a bus, but the mercenaries tracked them and caused the bus to crash. Cathy then saw a vision of Anya being killed and returned to the bus shortly before the crash was due to happen.

• A white mercenary told Head Wolf that Mike had spotted their target, Anya Corazon, and chased her after firing a shot.
• Head Wolf ordered the men to continue the operation quietly, then learned Anya had boarded a Q32 bus and sent someone to watch it.
• Mike and the white mercenary returned to their car to pursue Anya, while Mike angrily threatened her.
• On the bus, Anya demanded answers from Cathy Weber, who said she only knew the attackers were coming.
• The bus was struck and overturned, and Cathy saw a killer shoot Anya and then aim at her.
• Cathy returned to the moving bus, where Anya was clutching her head as they approached the intersection where the crash would occur.