Recaps

After waking in severe pain at the hospital, Curt Connors went to Oscorp and injected himself with the Regeneration Gene Serum. It healed his injuries and restored his arm, but a second transformation began as gamma radiation overwhelmed his body and mind.

• Curt Connors woke in the hospital, remembered the Regeneration Gene Serum, and decided to use it on himself.
• Curt Connors tore off his monitoring wires and made his way to Oscorp's research center.
• Curt Connors prepared a dose of serum in his laboratory and injected it into his body.
• Curt Connors collapsed as his heart thumped violently, then woke to find his arm regrown and his other injuries healed.
• Curt Connors began changing further as his body grew, his skin hardened, and a savage rage overtook his reason.

The Lizard fled Oscorp and hunted animals to replenish the energy his transformed body had consumed. When he ate a Symbiote-possessed kitten, the Symbiote escaped and sought another host.

• The Lizard escaped from Oscorp's research center and descended the building before heading into the city.
• Driven by hunger, the Lizard hunted cats, dogs, and rats while avoiding humans.
• A Symbiote possessing a kitten watched the Lizard eat a rat, and the Lizard sensed its unusual scent.
• The Lizard lunged for the kitten, but the kitten's claws and teeth could not hurt him.
• The Lizard killed and ate the kitten, and the Symbiote detached to find another host.

Henry bought a new Chrysler Pacifica to make trips with his growing group of companions and enormous cat Kitty more comfortable. Skye and Lorna eagerly explored the vehicle, but Henry refused to let the unlicensed Skye drive it.

• Henry chose a new Chrysler Pacifica because his old Cadillac could not comfortably carry his companions and Kitty.
• Henry ordered the car at a Chrysler dealership and drove it home that day.
• Skye and Lorna admired the new car and tried out its folding rear seats.
• Skye asked Henry for the keys to test-drive the car, but he refused because she had no license.
• Katharine Hepburn praised the car's size, then teased Henry about his romantic habits, and he denied her accusation.

Gwen told the Hepburn household about Spider-Man and a sand-shaped monster disrupting her subway ride, then shared her concern that Professor Connors had vanished from the hospital and returned to Oscorp. Henry learned that Connors’s serum had passed an initial animal test, and the chapter left him startled by the discovery that C-Sis had provided the algorithm behind the breakthrough.

• Gwen described a black-clad figure fighting a sand-shaped monster on the subway and explained how the chaos had left her dirty and battered.
• Gwen told Katharine Hepburn, Skye, and Lorna that Professor Connors had disappeared from the hospital and turned up at Oscorp, where his laboratory was under repair.
• Lorna recalled that Henry had treated Connors for severe injuries after a car accident the previous day and said Henry had protected her when their car was crushed.
• Gwen suspected Connors might have injected himself with the Regenerative Gene Transplant Serum, and Henry asked her to explain the professor’s condition.
• Gwen told Henry that the serum had worked on lab mice after Skye’s online friend C-Sis supplied a Decay Rate Algorithm, leaving Henry dumbfounded.

Henry reassured Gwen that she was not responsible for Curt Connors’s actions, then considered the growing threats in New York and how to learn more about them. He left still uncertain about the clues and weighing whether to involve Norman Osborn or Doctor Otto Octavius.

• Henry explained to Gwen that Connors might have used another experimental drug and that she should focus on her studies unless Connors asked for help.
• Skye asked Henry whether Black Spider-Man was the same person as the red-and-blue Spider-Man, and Henry pretended he knew nothing and suggested asking Wanda for a tarot reading.
• Henry privately worried that a Symbiote might have bonded with Spider-Man and considered the dangers posed by Sandman and the still-unaccounted-for Lizard transformation.
• Henry considered asking Norman Osborn or Doctor Otto Octavius for information but could not tell which clues would apply to this world’s events.
• Gwen asked Henry what was troubling him, and he said New York still did not seem safe after the Vampire and Werewolf threats had passed.
• Katharine Hepburn told Henry that he would have to get used to trouble because this was New York.

Henry sought Tony Stark’s help arranging a prison visit with Doctor Otto Octavius so he could ask about Octavius’s disappearance during the second Artificial Sun experiment. Virginia Potts agreed to arrange it, while Tony returned to planning his Malibu villa and pool.

• Henry decided to request a visit with Doctor Otto Octavius through Tony Stark, despite the risks of revealing his connection to Octavius.
• Henry called Virginia Potts and asked her to arrange a prison meeting, claiming he did not know where Octavius was being held.
• Virginia asked Tony whether she should arrange the meeting, and Tony told her to do so.
• Tony and Virginia discussed whether his Malibu villa needed a swimming pool, and Tony added one to his plans.
• Virginia pointed out Tony’s neglected improvement requests, and Tony told her to remind him tomorrow.

Henry visited Doctor Otto Octavius in Rikers Island Prison to learn about his unexplained disappearance during an experiment. Otto recounted meeting three Spider-Men in another world, then asked about Rose and resolved to wait until she was ready to see him.

• Henry passed the prison’s inspections and met Doctor Otto Octavius in the visiting room.
• Henry asked Otto about the time he disappeared during an experiment, and Otto suspected Norman Osborn had played a greater role in his failure than he had realized.
• Otto described being pulled into another world with three Spider-Men, several villains, and a sorcerer, while cautioning that the experience might not involve the same people as in their world.
• Henry told Otto that Rose had left the hospital and was receiving reconstructive surgery funded by Stark Industries, but did not wish to meet anyone yet.
• Otto said Rose was the person he loved most and that he would wait until she felt ready to see him, then thanked Henry for protecting her.

Henry investigated Professor Curt Connors’s disappearance and worried that the Lizard might threaten New York, then got caught in the destruction caused by Spider-Man and Sandman’s fight. After the combatants separated, rescuers searched his wrecked car for him.

• Henry decided not to warn Norman Osborn and called Gwen Stacy to ask whether she had seen Professor Connors, learning that Connors had taken leave and his lab had closed.
• Henry drove home while considering whether to help Connors, but a car hurled during Spider-Man and Sandman’s battle landed on his SUV and trapped him.
• Henry saw that Spider-Man wore a black suit and fought recklessly against a gigantic Sandman, while their battle damaged vehicles and nearby businesses.
• Spider-Man used water from broken fire hydrants to drive Sandman away, and both fighters disappeared from the scene.
• Rescuers began searching damaged cars, and Henry called out from inside his crushed SUV for help.

After Spider-Man and Sandman wrecked Henry’s new car, Henry learned that his insurance was unlikely to cover superhero-related damage. He joked about making Spider-Man pay for the repairs, while Skye tried to claim the damaged car and Katharine Hepburn kept Henry’s plans in check.

• Henry showed Katharine Hepburn, Skye, and Lorna photos of his wrecked Chrysler Pacifica and explained that his insurer might refuse to cover damage caused by superheroes.
• Henry blamed Spider-Man and Sandman for the accident and concluded that suing the insurance company was unlikely to work.
• Henry suggested moving to Connecticut, but Katharine refused to leave New York, and he agreed to stay.
• Skye asked Henry to repair the Chrysler and give it to her, but he refused because she was underage and had no driver’s license.
• Henry joked about selling one of Spider-Man’s kidneys to pay for the car, and Katharine smacked him on the head.

Henry reviewed surveillance footage and found Lizard Men, Sandman, and Symbiotes causing trouble around New York City. He decided to watch Curt Connors and approach him as Black Super if he transformed, while preparing his damaged car for the city’s growing dangers.

• Henry used the Looking-Glass System to review footage of Lizard Men, Sandman, and Symbiotes appearing around New York City.
• Henry considered how to reach Curt Connors and decided to approach him as Black Super when he appeared as a Lizard Man.
• Henry told C-Sis to monitor Connors, whose recent work was focused on his home and Oscorp’s laboratory.
• Henry concluded that Norman Osborn might be scheming and avoided confronting Connors at Oscorp.
• Henry began repairing his damaged car and planned to install inconspicuous protective technology.

Black Super tracked Curt Connors’s Lizard through a Brooklyn alley and intervened when a Symbiote-infested kitten attacked him. After using sonic attacks to drive off the Symbiote, Black Super found himself fighting the enraged Lizard.

• Black Super followed the Lizard through Brooklyn and approached after it cornered a small animal.
• The cornered kitten revealed a Symbiote, which attacked the Lizard as Black Super rushed to help.
• The Lizard knocked Black Super into a pile of garbage, then the Symbiote detached from the kitten and tried to parasitize the Lizard.
• Black Super used a sonic attack that forced the Symbiote to flee, but it also enraged the Lizard.
• The Lizard attacked Black Super, who held back and pretended to struggle while trying not to hurt him.

Black Super fought Curt Connors as the Lizard, but the gamma-mutated cells in Connors's body triggered a more powerful transformation. Black Super blasted Connors with a nuclear-fusion round, leaving his fate and next form uncertain.

• Black Super seized the Lizard's fist and landed three punches, triggering gamma-mutated cells in Curt Connors's body.
• Curt Connors grew larger and greener, lost his ability to communicate rationally, and attacked Black Super with renewed strength.
• Black Super deflected the Lizard's punch, threw him down, and swung him by the tail until Connors shed it and crashed beside a dumpster.
• Black Super noticed Connors shrinking as his tail regenerated and reasoned that the Lizard's healing could consume his energy.
• Black Super fired a nuclear-fusion round from an Adamantium revolver, blowing away more than half of Curt Connors's body.

Curt Connors awoke at Peace Clinic in Hell’s Kitchen after Black Super brought him there, and Michael Corvin explained that he had been found unconscious in Brooklyn. After Black Super examined his blood, he returned to Connors’s bedside and apologized for their previous conflict, leaving Connors to notice that more of his arm had been amputated.

• Curt Connors woke at Peace Clinic and met its doctor, Michael Corvin, and Michael’s pregnant wife, Selene.
• Michael told Connors that Black Super had brought him to the clinic and taken a tube of his blood for testing.
• Michael left to answer the door when young men arrived seeking help for their injured friend, Jerry.
• Selene tried to speak with Connors, but she did not understand his English, so he asked her to call the man in the next room.
• Black Super came out, spoke to Selene in Hungarian, and then sat beside Connors to apologize for their earlier conflict.
• Black Super identified Connors as an Oscorp researcher and professor, and Connors noticed that more of his arm had been amputated.

Black Super offered Curt Connors help refining his regenerative-gene drug while explaining the clinic and laboratory run by Michael Corvin and Selene in Hell’s Kitchen. Connors learned that the clinic was also a protected base, where Red Guardian’s deterrence helped keep the pair safe from groups seeking their immortality.

• Connors woke in the hospital and asked Black Super why he had helped him, while Black Super explained that he had taken a blood sample to study Connors’s transformation and recovery.
• Black Super offered to help Connors develop a safer drug that could restore lost limbs without turning him into a Lizard.
• Black Super revealed that Michael Corvin and Selene were a Vampire and a Vampire-Werewolf hybrid working to overcome their need for human blood.
• Connors questioned how Michael could run a clinic without a United States medical license, and Black Super explained that the clinic relied on its patients’ physical strength for protection.
• Black Super told Connors that the laboratory was beside defensive equipment and that the clinic also served as Red Guardian’s base, deterring organizations seeking Michael and Selene’s immortality.

Black Super showed Curt Connors his research on Vampire and Werewolf Viruses and explained why Connors’s Lizard Serum had transformed him. They discussed a safer way to refine the serum, leaving its broad-spectrum regeneration problem unresolved.

• Black Super led Curt Connors into a secure laboratory and explained that Vampire and Werewolf Viruses altered host DNA while remaining unchanged over time.
• Black Super showed Connors evidence that an artificially altered Vampire Virus could evolve but turned its hosts into mindless monsters, and they discussed whether the virus’s genetic lock protected infected brains.
• Black Super explained that Connors’s Lizard Serum had restored his arm but later reactivated Lizard genes, causing his transformation before the serum was metabolized.
• Black Super proposed replacing broad-spectrum regeneration with targeted treatments, while noting that a general-purpose serum would require removing the Lizard DNA from the formula.

Black Super negotiated a research partnership with Curt Connors, who agreed to cooperate if he could study information about the Vampire and Werewolf Viruses. After Michael Corvin and Selene also approved, Black Super proposed an online forum for exchanging research while avoiding attention.

• Curt Connors warned that his Oscorp commitments and specialized equipment made private cooperation risky, but said he would consider it if he could study the Vampire Virus and Werewolf Virus research.
• Black Super agreed in principle to share the research after consulting Michael Corvin and Selene, whom he introduced to Connors.
• Black Super explained Connors's proposal to Corvin and Selene, and they all agreed to cooperate.
• Connors asked whether he should visit regularly, and Black Super proposed a private online message board for sharing information and experimental data.
• Black Super warned that Corvin and Selene were being watched and that frequent visits could attract trouble, and Connors agreed.

Black Super, Curt Connors, and Michael Corvin shared research on a secure message board while each pursued separate interests. After Henry noticed strange incidents in New York, Anya Corazon discovered a headless woman in a Brooklyn alley, alerted the police, and reported in to her team.

• Black Super set up a secure, backed-up message board where he, Curt Connors, and Michael Corvin shared research on the Vampire Virus, Werewolf Virus, and Lizard Regeneration Gene Serum.
• Black Super realized that Curt Connors was pursuing his own research into Vampires and Werewolves, while he himself privately sought ways to reverse the effects of the viruses and serum.
• Henry continued juggling his work, farm responsibilities, and care for Katharine Hepburn as strange incidents in New York drew his attention.
• Two police officers investigated a headless woman's body in a Brooklyn alley and left to report the crime.
• Anya Corazon, who had found the body and called the police, collected her gadgets, swung away, and reported to Watchtower that the officers had taken over.

Skye, Anya Corazon, Mattie Franklin, Julia Carpenter, Cassie Webb, and Lorna Dane patrolled New York while arguing over their code names. When Lorna encountered a symbiote attacking someone in Harlem, Julia rushed to help, but the group lacked information about the threat.

• Skye reported that she and the others had found no crimes or hidden creatures during patrol.
• Mattie, Julia, Anya, and Cassie argued over the Spider-Women's color-based code names and suggested alternatives.
• Lorna asked for backup in Harlem, and Skye dispatched Julia to her location using the map in Julia's eyepiece.
• Lorna fought a symbiote with her Silver Thorn Bracelets, but the weapons proved poorly suited to the creature.
• Julia asked Skye and Lorna for information about the enemies and witnesses as she hurried to the fight.

Lorna Dane fought a Symbiote using her magnetic abilities and learned that her attacks could weaken it. After a second Symbiote ambushed her, she accidentally killed the human host and was left in shock despite Julia Carpenter’s attempt to comfort her.

• Lorna used spinning iron fragments to cut apart the brown Symbiote, weakening it as it tried to recover its scattered pieces.
• A dog-type Symbiote ambushed Lorna from behind, but Julia Carpenter caught it in a Psychic Spider-Silk Net before it could attack.
• Julia warned Lorna to watch the brown Symbiote, which lunged at her while she retreated and fired silver thorns.
• The brown Symbiote withdrew from its human host, leaving the man impaled and dead as it and the dog-type Symbiote escaped.
• Lorna realized she had killed the host, and Julia embraced her and said the man had been beyond saving.

Henry let Lorna and Julia face the consequences of their superhero actions after a man died, while Cassie Webb questioned his approach. He concealed evidence linking Polaris to the killing and left before the police arrived.

• Cassie Webb asked Henry why he did not comfort the girls, and he said they had to bear the consequences of choosing to become superheroes.
• Cassie Webb reflected on how she might guide Anya, Marty, and Julia through a similar loss, while Henry said he would not attack aliens or criminals without cause.
• Cassie Webb transformed her tactical wheelchair into a white horse and flew back toward her base.
• Henry examined the dead man and determined that organ failure, the fall, and Polaris's silver spikes had all contributed to his death.
• Henry fired bullets along the spike wounds to conceal evidence that Polaris had killed the man, then closed the man's eyes and left before the NYPD arrived.

Henry reassured Katharine Hepburn about Skye and Lorna’s distress while continuing regular maintenance on Cathy Webb’s mech. As Cathy asked him about the alien organisms, Henry explained his theories about how they affected their hosts.

• Katharine Hepburn asked Henry why Skye and Lorna seemed so upset, and he promised to watch over them without revealing what had happened to Lorna.
• Henry continued making maintenance visits to Cathy Webb’s apartment to inspect Storm Rises Again, whose complex transformation mechanism required frequent upkeep.
• Henry noticed Anya Corazon and the other Spider-Women were withdrawn after what had happened a few days earlier.
• Cathy Webb asked Henry what he knew about the alien organisms, and he said they might survive by absorbing nutrients and could decide whether to spare or strengthen their hosts.
• Henry held back from acting against the organisms because his knowledge came from movies and might not match the events unfolding in his world.

Henry guided Anya Corazon to think through ways to drive Symbiotes from their hosts and showed her footage suggesting church bells caused one to flee. He left Anya investigating the sound while deciding he would not risk intervening in Spider-Man Peter Parker’s black-suited transformation without a safe opportunity.

• Henry asked Anya Corazon to reason out possible Symbiote weaknesses, and she suggested heat, fire, acid, predator scents, and unusual noise.
• Henry showed Anya surveillance footage of a parasitized man convulsing before a creature escaped into a sewer, and Anya linked the timestamp to church bells.
• Anya wondered which quality of the bells affected the creature and returned to her room to investigate possible sound tests.
• Cathy Weber asked Henry about Peter Parker’s black-suited form, and Henry said he would only help if he could do so without endangering himself or others.

Henry balanced his many responsibilities while using driving lessons to help the troubled Lorna, until Marty and Franklin arrived with news that Skye was in trouble. The group pulled over so they could respond, leaving Skye’s situation unresolved.

• Henry gave Lorna driving lessons and encouraged her to use her magnetic-field sense to judge distances.
• Henry checked updates on the Vampire Map, its ongoing hunt for supernatural creatures, and hackers trying to uncover its data and creator.
• Henry detected Marty and Franklin approaching, and Marty landed on the Chrysler Pacifica’s hood, startling Lorna and nearly causing a collision.
• Marty told Henry that Skye was in trouble, and Henry asked Lorna to pull over while Marty climbed into the back seat.

Marty Franklin told Henry and Lorna that Skye had been taken over by a purple Symbiote after testing Anya’s ultrasonic device. Henry took Lorna home and set out to find Quicksilver, while Lorna prepared to leave despite his instructions to stay put.

• Marty Franklin explained that Anya’s ultrasonic device could force Symbiotes out of their hosts, but the creature Skye encountered burrowed into her and vanished with her.
• Lorna blamed herself for Skye’s disappearance, and Henry calmed her before offering to find Quicksilver and ask him to help.
• Henry asked Marty Franklin, whom he called Spider Blue, to search outside for any trace of Skye.
• Henry drove Lorna back to their Tribeca apartment and told her to stay home in case Skye returned.
• After Henry left to find Quicksilver, Lorna rushed to her room to change and go out.

Henry prepared to find Skye, who might have been infected by a Symbiote, and recruited Quicksilver to help. They left the Eternals at the base to coordinate an ambush in case the creature had super speed.

• Quicksilver left the X-Men because he disliked being sent on missions across North America.
• Henry found Quicksilver at the secret base and told him that Skye had disappeared after a purple creature was seen parasitizing her.
• Henry warned that the creature might have given Skye unusual abilities, possibly including super speed.
• Henry gave Quicksilver active sonar spheres equipped with Isu Shields to use against the creatures.
• Gilgamesh and Thena offered help, but Henry asked them to stay behind because their armor was too slow.
• Henry instructed Gilgamesh to monitor the command console and plan an ambush once Henry or Quicksilver located the target.