Recaps

After returning to Los Angeles, Henry resisted being forced into a political battle and found protection and work through the Continental Hotel. He established a street clinic as Tinkerer, earned money by treating patients and selling information, and ended up helping Muni Fisher deal with a stranded tiger cub.

• Henry returned to Los Angeles, learned from Gary that the riots had left the city dangerous, and began planning a household robot and a possible shortcut to medical knowledge.
• FBI agents took Henry to Senator Mike Riddle Houghton, who tried to force him into service, but Henry survived being shot and refused to help Houghton escape.
• Russian Mob gunmen brought Henry to the Continental Hotel, where he saved several wounded men and operated on an old man with a bullet wound and lung cancer.
• Henry negotiated with Muni Fisher to become a Continental Hotel service provider, with John Wick as his sponsor, and chose to run a clinic outside the hotel under the name Tinkerer.
• Henry treated Derek’s wounded companion at the Black Clinic, then disarmed Derek when he tried to rob him and called an ambulance after shooting him.
• Henry treated a boy named William for polio, gathered information from patients, and sold it to the Continental Hotel to buy medicine and clinic supplies.
• After teasing Henry about his surgical methods, Muni Fisher stopped him with news that the hotel had a tiger cub nobody would take responsibility for.
• Muni Fisher found the cub caged in the lobby and learned that Walter, an out-of-town poacher, had taken the reward money and disappeared.

Henry closed the Black Clinic temporarily, set up a remote laboratory, and experienced an uncanny episode in the wilderness before returning to work. As the FBI’s efforts to catch the Tinkerer failed, the two Nick Furys discussed the Infinity Formula, and Henry accepted a Gold Coin job to operate on Thomas Boning.

• Henry took Kitty home, secured permission from old Gary to keep him, and registered him as a limited-access user of BB.
• Henry was summoned from the Black Clinic by Andrew Saxon’s men and agreed to operate on the gang leader for a million dollars.
• Tinkerer completed Andrew Saxon’s surgery, alerted the police, escaped the warehouse during the raid, and left Saxon’s men and medical staff behind.
• Henry closed the Black Clinic for two months, arranged protection through Big O, and moved his work to a remote laboratory in Sheephole Valley.
• While feeding Kitty in the wilderness, Henry entered an unfamiliar state, began flying, and was enclosed in the Mirror Dimension.
• The FBI raided the Black Clinic but found children instead of Tinkerer, while White Nick Fury told Black Nick Fury about the Infinity Formula’s scarce Kree-blood supply and urged him to build a private team.
• Muni Fisher offered Henry a Gold Coin commission to operate on Thomas Boning, and Henry accepted after learning the boy was allergic to anesthetics.
• Tinkerer performed Thomas’s appendectomy after knocking him unconscious with a baseball bat, and the physicians confirmed the operation had succeeded.

Henry escaped Agent James’s attempted robbery, then navigated Barbara Morse’s S.H.I.E.L.D. mission and Tony Stark’s offer to lead Stark Studios. He declined Tony’s proposal and later met the aspiring actress Charlize Theron, whom he encouraged to keep making her own choices.

• Agent James and two former soldiers abducted Tinkerer to steal six hundred thousand Dao, but Tinkerer killed them by carrying their car beyond the atmosphere and throwing it toward the Sun.
• Henry showed Barbara Morse around Hollywood, and after she kissed him, she abandoned her S.H.I.E.L.D. mission when she saw Kitty attacking BB in Henry’s apartment.
• Henry attended Katharine Hepburn’s banquet, where Lauren Bacall recognized his translation and Tony Stark offered him the CEO position at Stark Studios.
• Tony asked Henry to help investigate his parents’ suspicious car crash, but Henry refused the job and questioned whether Tony was being used as a pawn.
• Henry kept a low profile in Los Angeles, limiting his clinic work and projects while spending time photographing and sketching the city.
• Henry invited a hungry young woman to lunch in exchange for posing, sketched her, and learned her name was Charlize Theron.
• Charlize recognized Henry’s connection to Audrey Hepburn and his translated book, and Henry advised her to return home or keep pursuing acting while accepting help and protecting herself.

Henry helped Charlize escape John Crosby’s coercive contract and offered to guide her acting career, while their relationship grew closer. He also began planning an undersea server and learned how Gold Coin offerings worked at the Continental Hotel.

• Henry met Charlize Theron, heard about her life in South Africa and her ambitions, and helped her review John Crosby’s agency contract before she signed it.
• Henry treated wounded gang members at the Black Clinic, then introduced Charlize and Fabio Romano to Old Gary and helped Charlize find an apartment.
• Henry took Kitty camping with Barbara Morse, exposed Barbara as a recruiter for Nick Fury’s organization, and refused to join it.
• Henry planned an undersea server system to support his future online projects and began building an experimental server in a dockside warehouse.
• Henry rescued Charlize from a photo shoot where John Crosby was pressuring her to undress, then secured a signed termination of her contract.
• Henry brought Charlize home, and they began a relationship as he offered to teach her acting and serve as her temporary agent.
• Henry helped Charlize register with the Screen Actors Guild, arranged audition photographs, and learned from Charlie Fisher how Gold Coin offerings bought protection at the Continental Hotel.