Recaps

Eddie Brock, Anne Weying, Venom, and Spider-Man reunited after Venom rescued Anne, then learned Riot planned to bring millions of Symbiotes to Earth. Venom and Eddie left to stop Riot, while Spider-Man urged Anne to get somewhere safe.

• Venom transferred from Anne Weying to Eddie Brock during their kiss, and Anne recoiled at the memory of biting off someone's head.
• Eddie Brock, Anne Weying, and Spider-Man confronted Venom about eating people, and Venom agreed to stop after Eddie insisted it was wrong.
• Venom explained that Riot planned to use the Life Foundation's second space vessel to bring millions of Symbiotes to Earth.
• Venom told Eddie Brock and Spider-Man that it had once bonded with Spider-Man and had come to like Earth.
• Anne Weying demanded to join the fight, but Venom enveloped Eddie Brock and ran off, while Spider-Man advised Anne to stay safe.

Spider-Man, Eddie Brock, and Venom tried to work out how to stop Riot from taking the Life Foundation’s symbiotes to Florida, but they lacked money, transport, and reliable information. They decided to intercept Riot at an airport, though they ended without knowing which airport to search.

• Venom explained that Riot was likely heading to the Life Foundation’s spaceship, and Eddie Brock and Spider-Man reasoned that the launch was at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• Eddie and Spider-Man rejected Venom’s idea of traveling by road and considered flying, but Eddie had no money for a ticket and Spider-Man refused to reveal his face.
• Eddie proposed intercepting Riot at an airport and using its security personnel as backup, while Spider-Man worried that Riot might have around ten symbiotes and that an airport would endanger civilians.
• Spider-Man considered asking Green Goblin II or the three Spider-Women for help but realized he had no way to contact them.
• Spider-Man asked which airport Riot was using, but neither Eddie nor Venom knew, leaving Eddie to consider traveling to Kennedy Space Center instead.

Spider-Man and Eddie Brock tracked Carlton Drake and the other Symbiotes to Newark Liberty International Airport with help from Madame Web. They found Drake near the United Airlines counter, where he and Eddie exchanged taunts as the confrontation began.

• Spider-Man and Eddie Brock found a pay phone, and Venom smashed it to get coins for their call to Madame Web.
• Madame Web directed Spider-Man to Newark Liberty International Airport, where her girls would also look for the group.
• Venom rushed off in the wrong direction, and Spider-Man made another brief call before following him to the airport.
• Spider-Man and Eddie checked the flight information and concluded that Riot and the others had not yet passed through security.
• Carlton Drake spotted Eddie near the United Airlines counter, and the two traded insults.

Spider-Man and Venom fought Riot and the other Symbiotes at Newark Liberty International Airport as the battle endangered civilians and wrecked the terminal. Spider-Man focused on rescuing people while Venom faced Riot, leaving their alliance at a disadvantage against the surrounding Symbiotes.

• Spider-Man hesitated over fighting the Symbiotes in a crowded airport, but Eddie Brock and Carlton Drake transformed into Venom and Riot and started the battle.
• Venom used aerial fighting techniques learned from Spider-Man to attack Riot, while other Symbiotes joined the fight and threatened the airport police.
• Spider-Man pulled officers and civilians away from the Symbiotes and urged the police to evacuate people and call for backup.
• Spider-Man defended people from a green Symbiote and a red Symbiote while the police began evacuating the remaining civilians.
• Riot formed hardened weapons and, together with the other Symbiotes, surrounded Venom as their brawl destroyed airport fixtures and left Spider-Man and Venom at a disadvantage.

Spider-Man and Venom struggled against Riot and the other Symbiotes until Spider Blue and Spider Black arrived and used the airport broadcast system to unleash a painful high-frequency sound. The sound separated Venom from Eddie Brock, leaving Spider-Man to face the urgent task of saving Eddie, whose heart had been pierced.

• Riot and the other Symbiotes overwhelmed Venom while Spider-Man was kept busy protecting bystanders and could not reach him.
• Riot pinned Venom, revealed Carlton Drake, mocked Eddie Brock, pierced Venom's chest, and began devouring the Symbiote.
• Spider Blue and Spider Black arrived at the airport and played a high-frequency sound through its broadcast system.
• The sound made the Symbiotes writhe and forced Venom to separate from Eddie, while Spider-Man went to check on the gravely wounded Eddie.

Spider-Man and the Spider-Women stopped the airport broadcast, allowing Venom to save Eddie Brock and rejoin the fight. As the battle resumed, Carlton Drake and Riot planned an escape to Florida, but Eddie Brock noticed their focus on the surveillance cameras and escape routes.

• Spider-Man asked Spider Blue to have the airport speakers shut off, and Venom reunited with Eddie Brock and healed his heart.
• Riot struck Venom and forced him back into the fight, while the recovered Symbiotes resumed battling Spider-Man and the three Spider-Women.
• Spider Silva said the Spider-Women could only fight head-on without using the sound to incapacitate the Symbiotes.
• Riot threatened the Symbiotes who considered fleeing and ordered them to fight.
• Carlton Drake told Riot they would need to destroy the surveillance cameras and drive to Florida to reach the spaceship.
• Eddie Brock noticed Riot and Carlton Drake studying the cameras and escape routes while Venom fought alongside Spider-Man and the Spider-Women.

S.H.I.E.L.D. captured most of the Symbiotes at Newark Liberty International Airport, but Agent Sitwell tried to arrest the Spider heroes as well. A smoke-grenade escape let several prisoners and the Spider-Women get away, and Red Super warned them to be wary of people in authority before vanishing.

• Riot’s Symbiotes broke and fled as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents used high-frequency sound to incapacitate and contain them.
• Phil Coulson protected Venom and invited Spider-Man, Eddie Brock, and the Spider-Women to give statements, but Agent Gaspard Sitwell ordered their arrest.
• Smoke grenades went off, allowing the Spider-Women and several Symbiotes to escape, while Riot/Carlton Drake, Curt Connors, and Flint Marko remained in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
• Spider-Man grabbed Eddie Brock and escaped through a skylight as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents fired and Phil Coulson protested.
• On the airport roof, Red Super warned the Spider-Women that some people in authority could not be trusted, then vanished.

Eddie Brock returned to the Daily Bugle and told J. Jonah Jameson about the Life Foundation, the Symbiotes, and the secretive forces involved in the airport incident. Venom confirmed that John Jameson might still be alive, and Jameson gave Eddie a desk and vowed to use the newspaper to expose the Life Foundation and pressure the hidden organization.

• Eddie Brock visited J. Jonah Jameson and said John Jameson was probably alive and the Life Foundation's CEO had been arrested.
• Eddie told Jameson about the Symbiotes and the unknown official forces at Newark Liberty International Airport, and warned he would take the story to other outlets if the Daily Bugle refused.
• Venom emerged from Eddie to serve as proof of the Symbiotes, and he and Eddie confirmed that John could still be alive if they found where he had been taken.
• J. Jonah Jameson gave Eddie a desk and ordered him to write an article exposing the Life Foundation and challenging the secretive official organization.
• Jameson said he would not sacrifice either the effort to save John or the newspaper's investigation, as long as Eddie could stand firm.

Skye had her casts removed after her fractures healed, and Henry immediately reminded her to return to school for her final exams. Natalie Rushman finished her temporary caregiving job and left, while Natasha Romanoff prepared to report to Nick Fury and end her mission.

• Skye celebrated having her casts removed, but Henry told her she needed to return to school and take her final exams.
• Skye teased Henry by smearing his face with her unwashed hands, and Katharine Hepburn scolded them both.
• Natalie Rushman said goodbye to Katharine Hepburn, Skye, and Henry, then left after completing her caregiving work.
• Katharine Hepburn suggested Natalie liked Henry, but Henry dismissed the idea as a misunderstanding.
• Natasha Romanoff listened to their conversation through a bug, discarded her earpiece, and left to report to Nick Fury.

Henry and Katharine Hepburn discussed the Life Foundation scandal and suspected that others were shifting blame while S.H.I.E.L.D. suppressed news about the Symbiotes. The chapter ended with Henry declining an anonymous Mellon family invitation to a private ball.

• Henry told Katharine Hepburn that the Life Foundation’s exposure might be part of a cover-up by other companies that had worked with Vampires.
• Henry suspected S.H.I.E.L.D. was suppressing discussion of the Symbiotes and planned to study the purple Symbiote he had captured.
• A butler delivered Henry an invitation to a private ball on behalf of the Mellon family, without naming the host.
• Henry wrote a polite refusal and sent the butler away.
• Katharine Hepburn explained that the vague invitation suggested Henry’s attendance did not matter to the host.

At Peace Clinic, Michael Corvin and Selene dealt with a violent neighbor before Ada Wong arrived with an offer from Umbrella Corporation. The couple rejected her pitch, and Michael warned that Umbrella did not understand the danger or who was holding them in Hell's Kitchen.

• Selene broke several of Old Black's bones after he groped her, and Michael Corvin treated him, took his money, and threw him out of the clinic.
• Ada Wong arrived at the clinic and asked Michael Corvin and Selene to hear her proposal.
• Ada Wong introduced herself as an Umbrella Corporation representative and offered the couple a better life and greater freedom.
• Michael Corvin rejected Ada Wong's offer, saying they could distinguish researchers from test subjects.
• Ada Wong warned that others might act less politely and claimed Umbrella could handle Red Guardian, Alexei Shostakov.
• Michael Corvin told Ada Wong she did not understand who she was dealing with, leaving her offer rejected.

Ada Wong reported that Michael Corvin and Selene trusted the powerful person protecting them and refused Umbrella’s recruitment, while keeping his identity secret. Director Carter then tasked Ada with investigating Umbrella’s possible involvement in the Blood Ranch and any viruses it might have retained.

• Michael Corvin warned Ada Wong that he and Selene would resist capture and refused to reveal who was protecting them.
• Ada left Peace Clinic and told Director Carter that the couple knew people higher in the chain were involved and deeply trusted their protector.
• Ada said the couple distrusted Umbrella’s recruitment offer and asked how long she would have to stay undercover there.
• Director Carter told Ada she might one day inherit her shield, but said she was not yet ready to bear its responsibility.
• Director Carter asked Ada to investigate Umbrella’s role in New York’s Blood Ranch and whether it had kept viruses that could enable Vampires or Werewolves to return.

Henry erased Curt Connors’s research data and returned to his usual routine, while Skye and Lorna secretly trained and hid their report cards from Catherine Hepburn. Catherine began suspecting the girls were concealing their grades, but her grandniece Aether arrived before she could confront them.

• Henry erased the data from Curt Connors’s computer and lowered his monitoring of Peace Clinic.
• Henry noticed Skye and Lorna going into their room together, and Catherine Hepburn wondered what they were hiding.
• Henry secretly gave Skye a shock-absorbing armguard after noticing that her training had left small cracks in her hand bones.
• Henry led Catherine to suspect that Skye and Lorna were hiding their report cards, and Catherine began to grow angry.
• Aether Hepburn arrived to visit Catherine, interrupting her thoughts about confronting the girls.

Aether Hepburn visited Henry, Katharine, Skye, and Lorna, shared dinner with them, and discussed college plans with the younger girls. Aether encouraged Lorna to aim for top physics programs, while Skye revealed her interest in computer science and doubted her chances of getting into university.

• Henry welcomed Aether to the house, and she greeted Katharine before asking Henry to make apple pie for dinner.
• Skye and Lorna joined Aether for dinner, where the family talked about college applications.
• Lorna said she wanted to study physics and had considered Berkeley, then asked Aether for recommendations on science and engineering schools.
• Aether outlined leading physics programs and urged Lorna not to lower her ambitions despite her weak ninth-grade grades.
• Skye said she was interested in computer science and information technology but doubted she could get into university.

Aether Hepburn asked Henry to accompany her to a private dance hosted by Christine Mellon, offering him another invitation from the Mellon family. Concerned that the invitation concealed danger, Henry agreed to go as Aether’s protector, while Aether remained excited about the chance to enter elite social circles.

• Aether Hepburn advised Skye to consider how college choices and connections could shape her future, then Catherine Hepburn asked the girls about their grades.
• Aether Hepburn asked Henry to accompany her to a private college dance as her male companion.
• Aether revealed that Christine Mellon of the Mellon family had invited her, giving her a chance to attend a dance at a private estate.
• Catherine Hepburn and Henry recognized the invitation as potentially dangerous, but worried that refusing could prompt the Mellon family to make another move.
• Catherine Hepburn appointed Henry as Aether’s protector, and he agreed to bring her safely to the dance.

Henry took Aether Hepburn to a Mellon family banquet outside Boston, where he promised to stay beside her and protect her. He warned her that elite gatherings could threaten her freedom, dignity, and safety, leaving her to face the event with his cautions in mind.

• Henry flew to Boston, rented a Mercedes-AM Series convertible, and drove to Aether Hepburn’s dormitory to collect her.
• Aether arrived dressed for the banquet, and she and Henry exchanged remarks about her outfit and his tailored suit.
• Aether asked Henry to call her by her first name, and he drove her toward the estate while reassuring her about meeting unfamiliar guests.
• Henry told Aether he would remain at her side because Kate had asked him to bring her home safely.
• Henry warned Aether that high-end banquets could expose guests to exploitation and urged her to stay alert and protect herself.

At the Mellon family's ball, Henry Brown and Aether Hepburn faced snobbery before meeting Victor von Doom, who revealed that the event was arranged to find Christine Mellon a husband. The revelation left Henry realizing that Aether had brought him to a matchmaking ball without knowing its purpose.

• Aether Hepburn introduced Henry Brown to a friend and Martin Wickson, who looked down on Henry after learning he was a personal assistant.
• Henry reassured Aether after she complained that the guests were snobs.
• Victor von Doom approached Henry, and they exchanged greetings while discussing Doom Enterprises and its space station.
• Henry stopped before handing Aether champagne to ask if she was twenty-one, but she snatched the glass and drank it.
• Victor von Doom told Henry that the Mellon family's ball was intended to find Christine Mellon a husband and that the female students were there as a backdrop.

At a Mellon family banquet, Victor von Doom offered Henry Brown a highly paid position developing a supercomputer, praising his hidden achievements. Christine Mellon arrived and challenged Henry’s worth, leaving him to face the heiress’s sharp scrutiny.

• Henry learned from Victor von Doom that the Mellon family sometimes let its young women choose husbands outside their usual circles.
• Victor von Doom explained that he had come to the banquet because he could not risk offending the Mellon family, then offered Henry a five-million-dollar annual salary and an unlimited research budget to build a supercomputer.
• Victor von Doom praised Henry’s contributions to Hollywood Kid, Stark’s technology, and Oscorp’s dementia medicine, arguing that Henry’s accomplishments made him worth hiring.
• Christine Mellon arrived with her entourage and accused Victor von Doom of trying to poach Henry, while he replied that he was only offering him a job.
• Christine Mellon told Henry that her grandmother considered him valuable, but she could only see his talent for flattering old people.

Henry Brown attended Christine Mellon’s ball, where he avoided drawing attention and observed the class distinctions shaping the gathering. After Paris Hilton arrived with several famous musicians, Henry stayed with Aether Hepburn, danced with her, and listened to Coldplay perform.

• Henry Brown modestly deflected Christine Mellon’s attention, easing the hostility of the young men around them.
• Paris Hilton arrived with Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Evanescence, and Coldplay, and Christine greeted her despite her private irritation.
• Henry Brown and Victor von Doom exchanged a relieved toast after Christine left them.
• Henry Brown continued accompanying Aether Hepburn around the ball because he wanted to look after her and had overheard troubling things.
• Coldplay performed songs from “A Rush of Blood to the Head” as Henry Brown and Aether Hepburn danced while most guests talked in small groups.

Aether Hepburn struggled to fit in at the high-society banquet, while Henry Brown stayed alert to the schemes around them. After a stranger invited Henry to meet his master, Henry declined and took Aether to hear Britney Spears perform.

• Aether Hepburn rested with Henry after finding that guests treated her as an outsider because of her family name and social standing.
• A woman in a black dress flirted with Henry and slipped him a note, which he destroyed without reading to avoid leaving Aether alone.
• Henry escorted Aether to the restroom and waited for her in a surveillance-covered corridor, where he used his X-Ray Vision to see illicit activity in the mansion but chose not to interfere.
• After Aether returned, a polite stranger addressed Henry as Mr. Brown and invited him to meet his master about an urgent matter.
• Henry refused the invitation and led Aether away to listen to Britney Spears perform.

Henry persuaded Aether Hepburn to ignore an unexplained summons and enjoy Britney Spears’s performance, but three men sent by the Mellon family confronted him at the party. Henry incapacitated two and forced the third to his knees before Christine Mellon arrived with her bodyguards.

• Henry told Aether Hepburn that an unexplained summons did not deserve an automatic response, and she returned to the rock section to hear Britney Spears perform.
• Three suited men approached Henry and said their boss wanted to see him.
• When the men tried to take Henry and Aether Hepburn by force, Henry struck two of them unconscious and made the third kneel in pain.
• Christine Mellon arrived with bodyguards, and Henry realized her group was separate from the men who had confronted him.

Henry suspected that the men sent to fetch him were setting him up and challenged Christine Mellon to investigate with him. Christine led a crowd of guests after Henry and the captive man, while her guards kept Henry away from her.

• Henry held one of the men by the ear and explained to Christine Mellon several possible schemes behind the summons.
• Christine dismissed the idea that anyone would plot against Henry in her home, while Paris Hilton urged everyone to go see what was happening.
• Henry agreed to accept Christine's chosen punishment if he was wrong, then forced the man to lead them to his destination.
• Christine walked with Henry, and most of the guests followed after Paris encouraged them to watch.
• Henry called to Aether to stay close, while Christine's guards moved between him and the heiress.

Henry Brown and Christine Mellon discovered a woman murdered in a guest room, where intruders had photographed Christine and fled. Jared Arden and Andrew Margeson appeared to frame Henry, and Jared took Christine hostage at gunpoint.

• Henry Brown and the Mellon family’s security team reached a guest room, where a woman lay dead in a pool of blood and two photographers fled outside the window.
• Christine Mellon ordered her head bodyguard to pursue the photographers and recover their cameras after they captured her face.
• Andrew Margeson and Jared Arden burst in and accused Henry Brown of killing someone, revealing the plot Henry had overheard.
• Henry recognized Jared Arden’s grudge as a consequence of Henry’s role in the Arden Family’s downfall.
• Christine confronted Andrew and Jared, and Jared grabbed her and pressed a gun to her temple.

Jared Arden confronted Henry Brown at gunpoint over his grandparents’ deaths, but his shot ricocheted off Henry’s steel body and killed him. Victor von Doom explained the ricochet as an accident, leaving Christine Mellon and the witnesses to consider his account.

• Jared Arden used Christine Mellon as a shield and demanded that Henry Brown come forward.
• Henry denied killing James and Lilith Arden, while Jared accused him of destroying the Arden family.
• Jared fired at Henry, but the bullet ricocheted off his forehead and struck Jared in the temple, killing him.
• Henry sat up unharmed, and Christine asked who had shot Jared.
• Victor von Doom claimed Jared had been killed by his own ricocheting bullet and explained how it had bounced off Henry and returned to hit him.

After Jared Arden died at the Mellon mansion, Henry Brown asked for the police to be called and Christine Mellon agreed to let them investigate. As Henry waited with Aether Hepburn and Andrew Margeson, he learned that Margeson had brought reporters onto the grounds and saw him grow increasingly anxious.

• Henry Brown asked Aether Hepburn to call the police, and Christine Mellon ordered her security team to notify them and secure the scene.
• Christine Mellon's head of security ordered two Salem News reporters who had entered the grounds with Andrew Margeson to be taken to the basement and their camera film destroyed.
• Henry Brown left the room with Aether Hepburn and waited with her and Andrew Margeson in a room provided by the Mellon family.
• Aether Hepburn asked Henry Brown whether his bulletproof body hurt and whether they would be safe; Henry reassured her and offered to call a lawyer.
• Andrew Margeson sweated as Henry Brown spoke about unpredictable events, fearing the consequences of his failed plot to frame Henry and Aether Hepburn.