Recaps

Henry found the injured Alexei being hunted and rescued him, then learned that two people Alexei had promised to extract were still in danger. As Alexei followed Bonnie’s escape route, Black Super searched for the pair and spotted a strange gray-skinned monster with both Vampire and Werewolf traits.

• Henry discovered that the Support Mechs and Sparrow Drones had self-destructed, then flew out to search for Alexei.
• Black Super found Alexei injured and alone, rescued him from his pursuers, and treated his leg wound.
• Alexei explained that the Vampire Cleanup Squad had scattered his group and asked Black Super to find a Vampire woman and a man who could transform into a monster.
• Black Super gave Alexei an earpiece and sent him toward the extraction ship, while Bonnie guided him along a route with few enemies.
• Black Super searched for the missing pair and noticed a gray-skinned, sharp-toothed monster whose features resembled both a Vampire and a Werewolf.

Black Super rescued Michael Corvin and located Selene while Alexei prepared an evacuation boat. Selene confirmed Michael had been taken aboard and had to decide whether to trust Black Super and leave with him.

• Black Super subdued Michael Corvin and carried him back to Alexei’s boat after Michael demanded proof that Alexei had sent him.
• Alexei asked whether Black Super had found Selene, and Black Super left to search for her.
• Black Super found Selene and offered her an earpiece so she could speak with Alexei.
• Selene asked about Michael, and Black Super told her he had knocked him out and taken him to the boat.
• Black Super urged Selene to come with him before her pursuers caught up, offering to knock her out and carry her if necessary.

Black Super led Selene through the city to a riverbank, where Alexei and Michael Corvin waited on a boat. As pursuers opened fire, Black Super shielded the group and prepared to sail them directly back to the United States.

• Selene followed Black Super, who guided her along routes that avoided the military police hunting Vampires.
• Black Super and Selene reached the riverbank and reunited with Alexei and Michael Corvin aboard a battered boat.
• When the military police fired, Selene rushed aboard while Alexei and Black Super returned fire and covered the escape.
• Black Super activated the Dragon's Isu Technology Shield, started the boat, and pulled it free from the riverbank.
• Black Super told Alexei, Selene, and Michael Corvin that there was no extraction team and that they were sailing back to the United States, while Michael questioned the plan.

Black Super and the others escaped the Hungarian forces aboard Dragon after the Bullhead Mecha destroyed the building where Werewolves were firing on them. Dragon submerged and sped away, while Selene’s pregnancy led Black Super to keep the boat from reaching its full speed.

• Alexei and Selene restrained Michael Corvin and fastened his seat belt as the group prepared to flee.
• Hungarian military police and coast guard pursued Dragon while Werewolves fired machine guns and prepared rocket launchers from a riverside building.
• The Bullhead Mecha fired missiles that wrecked the building, and Black Super confirmed that many of its occupants showed signs of being Werewolves.
• Alexei and Black Super suspected that the Werewolves might be connected to the Hungarian military police operation.
• Alexei insulted the military police as Dragon submerged and escaped the patrol boats.
• Black Super piloted Dragon underwater at high speed but held back because Selene was pregnant.

Henry returned to Manhattan after leaving Alexei and the others ashore, then received a call from Professor Ross, who invited him to meet for coffee. They arranged to meet at a Manhattan café, leaving Henry wondering what Betty Ross wanted to discuss.

• Black Super dropped Alexei and the other two off on the New York coast before returning to the yacht marina.
• Henry went back to his yacht and wondered whether the people aboard the luxury yacht he had slashed had been rescued.
• Professor Ross called Henry and apologized for the trouble caused by General Ross's soldiers after Henry had helped her before.
• Betty Ross told Henry she had resigned from her position at the University of California after Bruce Banner's research was interrupted.
• Henry and Betty agreed to meet at a Manhattan coffee shop, and Henry wondered about her reasons for reaching out.

Henry met Betty Ross for afternoon tea, where she explained that Bruce Banner had disappeared after a confrontation with his father and that she had resigned from her research post. She was deciding whether to return to Culver University in Virginia or move to New York.

• Henry fled his home after his grandmother teased him about meeting Professor Ross and arrived early at the café.
• Betty Ross told Henry that she and Gwen had been taken to the police station after a frightening incident, where a strange Donald Duck-costumed hero had rescued them.
• Betty said Bruce Banner and David Banner had disappeared after a battle at a military base, and the military had seized the research project’s materials.
• Betty explained that she had left the project rather than work for the military and was weighing a job offer from Culver University against moving to New York.

Henry and Betty Ross hid with the café customers when Vampires attacked the street. When one Vampire entered and threatened them, Henry used makeup remover to strip away its sunscreen and shoved it into the sunlight, leaving the other people still in danger.

• Henry spotted armed Vampires approaching the café as gunfire and panic spread outside.
• Henry told Betty Ross and the café customers to hide behind the bar, then stopped an employee from going to lock the door.
• A Vampire entered, taunted the people hiding, and fired at the glass display case.
• Henry took makeup remover from Betty Ross's bag, attacked the Vampire, and pushed it into the sunlight.
• The Vampire's sunscreen failed, and the sunlight burned it to ash.

Henry guarded the café during a vampire attack while Spider-Man and three Spider-Women fought in the streets. After helping them defeat a vampire, Henry explained that makeup remover stripped away the vampires’ sunscreen, and Spider-Man suggested the street’s abundant solvent might work just as well.

• Henry warned the people hiding in the café to stay inside while Spider-Man and three Spider-Women fought vampires outside.
• Marty Franklin, Julia Carpenter, and Anya Corazon collided while swinging past Henry and crashed in front of him.
• Spider-Man and the three girls argued with Henry about their costumes until a vampire fired bullets at them.
• Henry blocked the bullets, and Anya Corazon and Julia Carpenter pulled the vampire toward him with spider-silk.
• Henry wiped the vampire’s sunscreen away with makeup remover, exposing him to sunlight and killing him.
• Spider-Man examined the makeup remover and suggested using a plentiful solvent from the street to strip vampires’ sunscreen.

Spider-Man decided to destroy the Vampires he had restrained after realizing they would escape and harm more people, while the three Spider girls gathered gasoline to help. Henry spoke with Cathy Weber and Betty Ross as the police sirens approached, and Betty considered returning to Virginia.

• Spider-Man resolved to deal with the Vampires himself because his webbing could not hold them and they had caused many casualties.
• Anya, Julia, and Marty went to collect gasoline so they could burn the Vampires, while Henry stayed behind.
• Cathy Weber appeared to Henry and explained that she had allowed the girls to gain battlefield experience because he was there to watch over them.
• Betty Ross came out of the coffee shop, and Henry explained that the Vampires’ sunscreen had made them resistant to sunlight.
• Betty said she might return to Virginia to teach, and Henry agreed that leaving New York was wise.

Henry Brown and Betty Ross were questioned after Spider-Man and others stopped a Vampire attack, while S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrived disguised as FBI. Henry refused to cooperate with Phil Coulson and left with Betty, claiming cosmetics had helped him defeat Vampires.

• Police officers recognized Henry Brown and asked him to describe the attack before Phil Coulson and disguised S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrived.
• Henry identified Betty Ross as General Thaddeus Ross's daughter, causing Agent Anderson to back off and Coulson to take charge.
• Coulson asked whether Henry had decided to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D., but Henry claimed he had only used makeup remover to expose Vampires to the Sun.
• Henry declined further questioning and left with Betty, who had already missed lunch and afternoon tea.

Henry left with Betty Ross after evading S.H.I.E.L.D. and redirected his Sparrow Drones to track Phil Coulson. As he drove Betty toward a place to eat, he explained his grudge against S.H.I.E.L.D. and she tried to process the supernatural dangers she had encountered.

• Henry took Betty Ross away from Phil Coulson, then ordered the Sparrow Drones to track Coulson instead of their previous target.
• Henry drove Betty Ross in his Cadillac and suggested she leave chaotic New York for somewhere safer.
• Betty Ross guessed Henry had a personal grudge against the agents, and Henry told her they belonged to S.H.I.E.L.D. rather than the FBI.
• Betty Ross chose to get pizza or a cheeseburger and a drink, and Henry drove her to a restaurant he knew.
• Betty Ross worried they might encounter more monsters, and Henry joked that Godzilla had once landed in New York.

Henry investigated the connection between New York’s Vampire and Werewolf attacks while monitoring Phil Coulson. He discovered a suspicious information blind spot in a Brooklyn industrial district, and Coulson learned that Red Guardian had returned to New York.

• Henry returned to the secret base, where Alexei Shostakov was recovering from his injuries after bringing Selene and Corvin to the United States.
• Henry warned Alexei that attacks by Vampires and Werewolves were increasing and said he was organizing a response against them.
• Henry explained that Selene could remain in New York if she found a substitute for drinking human blood, but she would be at risk if she attacked people.
• Henry and Alexei noticed that an abandoned factory and warehouse area in Brooklyn had no reports or information about it, suggesting someone had deliberately concealed activity there.
• Henry listened to a Sparrow Spy Drone recording in which an informant told Phil Coulson that Red Guardian had returned to New York, and Coulson worried he might cause trouble.

Henry and Alexei learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. planned to send Black Widow to contact Red Guardian, prompting Alexei to worry about Natasha’s safety. Henry agreed to investigate the Brooklyn black-hole area with him and gave Alexei an enhanced suit to test before they left.

• Henry and Alexei listened to Phil Coulson discuss S.H.I.E.L.D.’s plan to send Black Widow to contact Red Guardian again.
• Alexei worried that Natasha might be in danger at the Brooklyn location where she had contacted him before.
• Henry agreed to go with Alexei to investigate the black-hole area and told him they could explain any encounter with Natasha as a coincidence.
• Henry gave Alexei an enhanced suit made with Isu Technology and asked him to test it beneath his Red Guardian combat suit.
• Alexei prepared to leave for Brooklyn’s abandoned factory district, and Henry confirmed he would accompany him.

Two patrol officers entered Brooklyn’s abandoned factory district and were attacked by a Werewolf and lurking Vampires. An elderly couple and their monster team intervened, leaving the fight underway as the surviving creatures charged.

• Two patrol officers investigated a reported cry for help in the deserted factory district and feared Vampires were luring them into a trap.
• A Werewolf attacked the officers, whose ordinary bullets failed to pierce its hide.
• An elderly woman and an elderly man shot the Werewolf with Silver Nitrate Bullets and then fired at the other hidden creatures.
• The elderly couple reloaded as surviving Vampires and Werewolves charged, and Man-Thing, Werewolf by Night, Vampire by Night, and the Living Mummy rushed in to fight them.

The elderly Captain America and Captain Carter joined the Howling Commandos against vampires and werewolves, with Red Guardian and two Chicago Mutual Aid Society snipers strengthening the defense. The battle remained underway as Black Super struggled to understand how both captains existed in the same world.

• Two young cops recognized the elderly shield-bearing soldiers as Captain Carter and Captain America while the couple fought beside the Howling Commandos.
• Vampires and werewolves overwhelmed the defenders with their numbers, and the elderly couple began to tire as they fought under the full moon.
• Red Guardian, Alexei Shostakov, arrived and joined Captain America against the attacking monsters.
• Cross and Fox of the Chicago Mutual Aid Society supported the fighters with ultraviolet sniper fire from above.
• Black Super coordinated the defense and wondered how Captain America and Captain Carter could both exist in the same Marvel Universe.

The Assassin Order joined the battle and helped the human forces defeat the vampires and werewolves. William Miles introduced himself to the Red Guardian, who questioned whether the newcomers were truly Cassandra’s people.

• The NYPD officers, Howling Commandos, Red Guardian, and Chicago Mutual Aid Society fought the vampires and werewolves, while Cross and Fox provided sniper support.
• The super soldiers used their silver-plated shields to cut down the creatures as Man-Thing battered them across the battlefield.
• Black Super noticed the vampires and werewolves gathering for a coordinated counterattack and spotted another group arriving.
• More than a dozen assassins leaped from the rooftops and killed the charging creatures with Hidden Blades, guns, crossbows, and throwing knives.
• William Miles joined the Howling Commandos, noticed the three super soldiers had mixed up their shields, and identified his group as assassins when Alexei asked who they were.
• Alexei recognized William knew his identity, then asked whether the assassins were really Cassandra’s people because they lacked compass-and-hook symbols.

William Miles and Cross restrained tensions between the Assassin Brotherhood and the Mutual Aid Society while Alexei led the gathered teams toward a vampire hideout. They arrived at an enormous blast door, where a masked man was working on its electronic lock.

• Alexei questioned William Miles and met Cross and Fox, whose tense exchange nearly sparked a clash between their groups.
• William Miles and Cross explained their groups’ history and kept their people from fighting.
• Alexei considered Captain America’s disappearance and Captain Carter’s wartime and intelligence service.
• Alexei led the Howling Commandos, the Mutual Aid Society assassins, and some Brotherhood members toward the vampires’ hiding place, while William sent others to search elsewhere.
• The teams reached a huge blast door and found a black-clad, masked man fiddling with its electronic lock.

Black Super and the others opened the vampires’ hidden facility and discovered a vast Blood Ranch where brain-dead humans were kept alive to supply blood. They left the patrol officers to report the discovery while Black Super remained anonymous.

• Black Super finished cracking the electronic lock while he and Alexei waited for the others to gather.
• Black Super led the group through the blast doors and down into a huge underground facility filled with humans connected to life-support and blood-draining machines.
• The elderly man carrying the Star-Spangled Shield identified the facility as a vampires’ Blood Ranch and warned that such ranches would spread across the world in the future he knew.
• A young assassin learned that the people inside were brain-dead from drugs, and the group reacted with anger.
• Black Super urged the patrol officers to call for backup and told them to report that an anonymous hero had helped them discover the facility.

Black Super uncovered Umbrella’s role in the Blood Ranch while the old captain revealed that he came from a future where Vampires ruled the world. He asked the group to rescue Selene and Michael Corvin, but Red Guardian told him they were already in New York.

• Black Super searched the Blood Ranch computer and found that Umbrella had designed its operating system, though it held no other research data.
• The old captain told the group he had come from a dark future in which Vampires ruled humanity and explained the Antigen Organization’s plan to capture Selene, Michael Corvin, and their child.
• The old captain asked the group to help rescue Selene and Michael from the Antigen Organization in Europe and change the future.
• Red Guardian told the old captain that Selene and Michael were probably already in New York.

The old captain and Red Guardian agreed that Red Guardian would protect Selene and Michael Corvin, while Black Super rejected the old captain’s appeal to kindness and left the Blood Ranch. The old captain departed with the Howling Commandos, and Red Guardian followed Black Super’s instructions to a nearby battlefield where Continental Hotel assassins were recovering.

• The old captain argued that his group could not safely protect Selene and Michael Corvin, and the old woman accepted Red Guardian as their protector.
• The old captain warned Black Super that he was a variable between worlds and urged him to make good choices, but Black Super said he followed rules and left.
• Red Guardian reassured the old captain that Selene and Michael Corvin were safe, then refused to confirm whether Black Super had stopped S.H.I.E.L.D. during the Artificial Sun incident.
• The old captain reflected that he had arrived in a different universe and left the Blood Ranch with the Howling Commandos to avoid meeting the authorities.
• Red Guardian went to an abandoned factory district, where Black Super was treating severely wounded Continental Hotel assassins after a fight with Vampires and Werewolves.

Red Guardian found Natasha Romanoff injured after the battle at a Vampire blood farm, but she reacted to his rescue by attacking him and Black Super. After learning what happened, Natasha argued with Alexei while John Wick and Black Super waited outside.

• Black Super brought Red Guardian to John Wick, who explained that Natasha was badly injured and unconscious.
• Alexei rushed to Natasha, but she struck him, then attacked Black Super with throwing knives and an electric dart; Black Super deflected them and left without answering her questions.
• Natasha accused Alexei of ruining her attempt to infiltrate the Vampires, and he warned her about her bite wounds and the risk of becoming a Vampire.
• Alexei told Natasha that the Vampires had kept hundreds of people in a blood farm and that the police were on their way, but she accused him of making up an outrageous story.
• John Wick asked Black Super whether he would stop the argument inside, then decided not to intervene after hearing that Natasha had attacked him.

After attacks by Werewolves and Vampires and the exposure of a New York Blood Ranch, public fury forced U.S. leaders to abandon efforts to protect Vampires. The FBI announced Blood Ranch discoveries across the country, and Congress prepared legislation targeting Vampires and Werewolves as the national war machine approached mobilization.

• Oscorp responded to Harry Osborn’s injuries by moving to mass-produce specialized bullets and applying for emergency authorization to manufacture virus treatments.
• News channels broadcast footage of a Vampire Blood Ranch, revealing more than five hundred victims and provoking widespread fear and anger.
• The Blood Ranch revelations erased public support for Vampires and pressured U.S. politicians to act against them.
• S.H.I.E.L.D., disguised as the FBI, found Blood Ranches in major cities across the United States and let the FBI take public credit.
• Congress drafted legislation targeting Vampires and Werewolves according to European Union standards.

After President Bush announced a campaign against vampires and werewolves, Abraham Whistler explained how the government had recruited veteran hunters and appointed them as advisers. Black Super questioned whether the military’s domestic deployment meant the campaign was being treated as a civil war.

• President Bush addressed the nation, calling for action against vampires and werewolves and reassuring the public that screening would protect humans from false accusations.
• Black Super, Abraham Whistler, Cross, and Fox watched the address at the secret Harlem base, and Black Super remarked that it resembled George H. W. Bush’s 1991 speech.
• Whistler explained that Henry Sturgis, a vampire and veteran hunter, had represented the president and earned government supervision after registering.
• Whistler revealed that veteran hunters had received temporary Civil War-era ranks and assignments as military or National Guard advisers.
• Black Super asked whether the government’s plan to deploy troops domestically meant it considered the campaign a civil war.

Black Super persuaded Abraham Whistler to cooperate with the NYPD against New York’s vampires while keeping Cross and Fox’s work covert. He also asked Whistler to investigate government rules for registered vampires, including whether Blade should be supervised.

• Black Super argued that the military was better suited to protecting small towns but proposed that Whistler work with the NYPD to hunt the vampires known to be hiding in New York.
• Black Super offered to connect Whistler with Police Commissioner George Stacy and suggested using the Vampire Map to help police identify and verify targets.
• Whistler agreed to cooperate with the NYPD, while Cross and Fox objected that their identities made open police work dangerous.
• Black Super proposed that Cross and Fox remain Whistler’s covert backup, and the three hunters accepted the plan.
• Black Super asked Whistler to learn the rules governing registered vampires and said he wanted to know whether Blade should register; Fox recalled Selene and Michael Corvin, whom Red Guardian and Black Super had brought back from Europe.

Black Super weighed whether Selene and Michael Corvin deserved protection and planned to ask the government how it would treat registered vampires. He also judged that Reed Richards’s Moon-Phase Instrument was probably real, leaving him concerned that Richards might eventually find a way to reproduce the sunlight that weakened him.

• Black Super told Abraham Whistler he would seek the government’s policy on Selene and Michael Corvin, and would hide or kill them if they proved dangerous.
• Abraham Whistler agreed to ask the police commissioner about the government’s position when he began working with the NYPD.
• Fox asked whether the Moon-Phase Instrument, designed to force werewolves to transform, was genuine.
• Black Super said Reed Richards’s invention should work and suggested testing a real device once one became available.
• Black Super privately worried that Richards might reproduce differently colored sunlight and resolved to prepare radiation-protective armor.