Chapter Summaries

Henry targeted a Hydra-linked employee who drank and drove, manipulating the man’s car and provoking a fatal crash that was ruled an accident. He returned to Los Angeles after retrieving his surveillance devices, with twenty-two names still on his list.

• Henry bought surveillance devices, modified them, and planted them near the private haunts of his targets while avoiding their offices and the Oscorp employee.
• Henry identified a man who drank and drove regularly and set a liquor bottle beneath the car’s brake pedal.
• Henry waited on the man’s usual speeding route and stepped out at a blind curve, prompting the drunk driver to accelerate into a rock face with the brakes jammed.
• Henry watched the trapped driver die in the burning car, then retrieved his surveillance equipment and flew away.
• Henry returned to Los Angeles as Canadian authorities ruled the crash an accident, leaving twenty-two names on his list.

John Garrett learned that the Red Guardian had appeared in Eastern Europe and worried about the threat he posed. Kaminsky also reported that twelve Russians assigned to Cyber Technology's Death Soldier Project had died in bizarre accidents, leaving Garrett suspicious despite the investigations finding no foul play.

• John Garrett reviewed a report that the Red Guardian had appeared in his territory and asked what he was seeking.
• Kaminsky said the Red Guardian was searching for something but had kept his objective secret.
• John Garrett warned Kaminsky that the Red Guardian was a dangerous super-soldier and said they had no direct conflict with him.
• Kaminsky reported that twelve of the twenty-three Russians transferred into the Death Soldier Project had died in seemingly accidental incidents.
• John Garrett asked whether the deaths were murders, and Kaminsky said the investigations found no evidence of outside involvement.

John Garrett investigated the deaths of the Russians and ordered a return to the United States, while Henry continued planning how to target the remaining men without harming their families. Phil Coulson warned Henry that S.H.I.E.L.D. had noticed the pattern of accidents, but Henry saw the warning as a challenge and intended to continue.

• John Garrett asked Kaminsky to investigate Henry Brown's whereabouts and bring him reports on the Russians who died in accidents.
• Henry reviewed the eleven remaining Russians under Snake Shield's protection and considered how to target them without endangering their families.
• Phil Coulson visited Henry at Stark Studios and warned him that too many coincidences could attract scrutiny from people higher up.
• Henry denied involvement in the Toronto incidents, while Coulson considered how the agency might use the warning to test or control him.
• Henry recognized that the agency was pushing him to expose a flaw and decided to accept the challenge.

After more than half of the Russian group died, the survivors panicked and scattered, frustrating John Garrett’s plans. Henry tracked one family aboard a train and entered its smoking area to approach his last remaining target.

• The Russians fled separately after the deaths overwhelmed their fear and John Garrett’s reassurances failed.
• Henry withdrew most of his surveillance equipment but kept watching the entrances and tracking the Russians’ vehicles.
• Henry secretly followed a family traveling by train because its tracker was his only remaining lead.
• Henry rejected causing a train derailment and instead spotted an opportunity in the train’s smoking area.
• Henry disguised himself against the cold, approached his target, and pretended he had lost his lighter.

Henry killed a wary passenger on a train by stopping his heart and concealed the death while chatting with the other smokers. He returned to his Los Angeles apartment, where he relaxed with Kitty and ordered BB to handle his needs.

• Henry borrowed a lighter from a Russian-speaking passenger and used his Molecular-Penetrating Hand Blade to stop the man's heart, disguising the death as a myocardial infarction.
• Henry kept the smoking-area passengers distracted with conversation until he left, and the man was discovered only after several groups had passed through.
• Henry passed through the train door and flew back to his Los Angeles apartment.
• Henry petted Kitty, who stopped resisting when she saw the ominous red glow in his eyes.
• Henry sprawled in his recliner and ordered BB to play music, order pizza, and project a tracking map.

Henry tracked the remaining people from Snake Shield, avoided a heavily guarded trap in Detroit, and followed another target to Munich Airport. He killed the target with a rifle before leaving for home, with ten items still on his to-do list.

• Henry discovered that three targets had joined OCP in Detroit and found their families staying in a motel surrounded by surveillance and guards, so he left rather than walk into a trap.
• Henry learned that another target had flown from Toronto to Cairo with a long layover at Munich Airport, and decided to intercept them there.
• Henry traveled to Germany with an untraceable AK-47 and located the target's family inside the airport terminal.
• Henry fired from a concealed position, killing the target in front of their family and other passengers, then returned home before police could find him.

Tony Stark confronted Henry over the covert actions that had driven people to flee North America and warned that they could damage Henry and Stark Industries. Henry offered to resign, explained that his main task was complete, and left Tony troubled by gaps in his memories and the logic behind their past.

• Henry reviewed the locations of the remaining people who had fled across North America before Tony Stark rushed into his office.
• Tony accused Henry of betraying his trust and risking Stark Industries, but Henry said he would resign under their contract.
• Henry argued that leaving would keep his friends out of trouble and that he had already secured the most important information about Tony’s father’s murder.
• Tony struggled to remember why Henry had stayed at Stark Studios, and Henry reminded him that finding Bucky Barnes was necessary to learn more about the mastermind.
• Henry prepared to leave with his snacks and drink as Tony asked whether he had gone so far because the people involved had abused him.

Henry resigned from Stark Studios after confronting Tony Stark about being manipulated, then revealed that Julianne Williams was a Wakandan spy. He left the company while Tony remained behind to untangle the forces behind the situation.

• Henry told Tony Stark that he would not forgive his enemies just because someone demanded it, and asked what the man who snapped his fingers had wished for.
• Henry asked Tony Stark whether he believed in magic, then explained that Tony had once posted the same question on a message board.
• Henry instructed Julianne Williams to process his resignation and deactivate his company access, and he told her to donate his salary to UNICEF rather than Wakanda.
• Henry greeted Julianne with a Wakandan gesture, making her panic and flee through the stairwell, while Tony Stark let Henry leave.
• Henry recalled how he and Tony Stark had traced an outside hacker's access to Wakanda and discovered Fang Metal writing tattooed inside Julianne's lower lip.

Henry uncovered Julianne Williams's role as a Wakandan War Dog embedded in Stark Studios and left the problem for Tony Stark after severing ties with the studio. He then tracked down the family fleeing toward Yukon and killed someone on their bus journey, leaving the shooting to be investigated as a hunting accident.

• Henry reasoned that Wakanda's technological advances depended on War Dogs stealing foreign technology and identified Julianne Williams's mission at Stark Studios.
• Henry returned the favor by accessing Wakandan servers and taking information on Vibranium processing, then left Tony Stark to deal with the War Dog.
• After returning home, Henry set out to pursue the family fleeing toward Yukon.
• Henry shot a member of the family during their long-distance bus trip with a Coachmate Lever .45-70.
• Canadian police investigated nearby hunters, but the inquiry led nowhere because Henry had already returned to Los Angeles.

After resigning from Stark Studios, Henry changed how he concealed his movements while remotely controlling Kitty from public places. He sent her to Chicago to snipe one of his pending targets, leaving eight matters unresolved.

• Henry resigned from Stark Studios after Tony Stark confronted him about the deaths connected to his actions.
• Henry began spending hours in cafes, restaurants, libraries, and movie theaters while remotely directing Kitty through high-frequency audio commands.
• Kitty donned the Duck Leopard armor—Leopard Type, equipped with a belt-fed Barrett M82 sniper rifle.
• Henry guided Kitty toward a target in downtown Chicago and ordered her to fire from a distant rooftop before leaving.
• Henry planned to reward Kitty with Indian food, and eight pending matters remained.

Detroit police pursued a runaway car carrying women and children, but the Russian-accented driver warned them that a bomb was beneath his seat. When officers dragged him out, the bomb exploded and fatally injured him and their squad leader.

• A runaway car sped through Detroit, injuring people and damaging property as police cruisers pursued it.
• Police used the PIT Technique to force the car into a fire hydrant, then ordered everyone inside to surrender.
• The women and children escaped from the back seat, while the trapped driver warned police that a bomb would detonate if he moved.
• Police officers dismissed the driver's warning and tried to drag him from the seat, triggering the bomb beneath him.
• The explosion injured the driver and the squad leader; both later died in the hospital from multiple organ failure.

Henry denied responsibility for a Detroit bombing while Phil Coulson suspected him of targeting former Soviet researchers. Nick Fury warned Coulson to follow evidence, then revealed that the CIA had recovered an unusual corpse marked with an “S.”

• Henry studied Kingo’s Vedas and compared them with library copies and translations.
• Phil Coulson confronted Henry about a Detroit car bombing that killed a driver and a police officer, but Henry denied involvement and left the café.
• Nick Fury told Coulson that a second former Soviet target had been killed in Chicago while Henry was under surveillance.
• Fury warned Coulson not to treat Henry as a comic-book character and said the CIA had recovered an unusually durable corpse bearing an “S” symbol.
• Coulson suggested creating crises to test Henry, but Fury rebuked him and reminded him that Henry Brown was not Clark Kent.

Henry investigated the disappearance of his hidden signals and found that a fatal car accident had destroyed several of them. While maintaining his public routine, he was confronted by John Garrett, who revealed Kryptonite and tried to capture him for study.

• Henry searched surveillance footage near the silent signals and saw a car crash and fire destroy the vehicles involved.
• Henry continued his routine of attending movies and watched Gone with the Wind at a nearly empty theater.
• John Garrett entered with armed men, confronted Henry, and demanded compensation after abandoning the Alien Research Institute members.
• John Garrett revealed several pieces of Kryptonite and threatened to study Henry and mass-produce Kryptonian soldiers.

Henry Brown escaped John Garrett’s attempt to exploit him by exposing Garrett and his men to dangerously radioactive green stones. Henry was then arrested by the LAPD after officers found a realistic toy Uzi in the cinema.

• John Garrett showed Henry Brown green stones he believed could weaken him, and Henry offered access to Stark Studios’ Hollywood Kid supercomputer and other information to bargain for his life.
• Henry explained that the glowing stones were emitting dangerous radiation, and Garrett and his men began bleeding after handling them.
• Garrett ordered his men to attack Henry, but they fled when Henry produced an Uzi and opened fire.
• Henry put the stones back in their lead box and tried to watch Gone with the Wind, but the LAPD arrived and arrested him.
• The LAPD found a realistic toy Uzi in the cinema, and Henry claimed it was a movie prop when they questioned him from the police car.

Henry Brown’s arrest over a realistic prop gun turned into a radioactive contamination emergency when a rookie opened the lead box holding a Uranium Stone. Henry surrendered the stone and stayed at the scene while police awaited a military response team.

• The sergeant warned Henry Brown about using a realistic prop gun in public, issued him a ticket, and removed his handcuffs.
• A rookie opened Henry’s lead box and discovered a glowing Uranium Stone, which Henry identified as a suspected radioactive source that had contaminated the theater.
• The officers backed away, the rookie shut the box, and Henry gave the sergeant Phil Coulson’s business card as a possible contact linked to the group that left the stone.
• Henry explained why he had to turn over the Uranium Stone and retrieved his prop gun after the officers refused to keep holding it.
• The sergeant told Henry he had to remain at the scene until a military response team assessed the radiation hazard, and Henry agreed.

After radiation exposure cost John Garrett his left hand, Kaminsky reported that his cancer treatment had become easier and the recovered uranium was being returned to its original department. Garrett learned that four targets in Russia had been assassinated and planned to work with Norman Osborn to trap the alien, while also ordering Cyber Technology to build him a prosthetic hand.

• Kaminsky told John Garrett that radiation had eased the rejection of his implants by promoting cancer growth, and that the enriched uranium had been recovered after Henry Brown's prop gun was mistaken for a real weapon.
• John Garrett cursed his injury and learned that four targets in Russia had been assassinated, leaving Nikolai Semyonov at Oscorp as the only survivor.
• Kaminsky described the Russian deaths and suggested the Mechanic might have carried out some of the killings, while John Garrett explained that the name referred to assassins who staged deaths as accidents.
• John Garrett concluded that the Continental Hotel could have leaked the information and ordered Kaminsky to arrange a meeting with Norman Osborn to set a trap for the alien.
• John Garrett ordered Cyber Technology to make him a mechanical prosthetic hand, and Kaminsky warned that its staff resented his demands.

Norman Osborn and John Garrett waited for Henry Brown to spring their trap, hoping to capture him and obtain alien biological samples for Oscorp’s Super-Soldier Serum research. They learned Henry had left Los Angeles for Alaska to attend the funeral of the old bartender who had taken him in, leaving Garrett under Osborn’s displeased gaze.

• Norman Osborn and John Garrett secretly prepared surveillance and experimental weapons around Nikolai Semyonov’s home and Oscorp to trap Henry Brown.
• Norman Osborn explained his interest in Henry and in obtaining fresh alien samples to advance Oscorp’s Super-Soldier Serum project.
• After several days of waiting, John Garrett grew anxious while Norman Osborn’s patience wore thin.
• Kaminsky reported that Henry Brown had left Los Angeles and gone to Alaska.
• Kaminsky said Henry had gone to attend the funeral of the old bartender who had taken him in, and John Garrett felt Norman Osborn’s anger behind him.

Nine years after leaving Alaska, Henry returned to bury Old John and seek calm amid his growing fear of losing control. He arrived in the port town with Kitty and Old Tom, bringing supplies and whiskey before preparing to travel to Old John’s town.

• Henry learned from Old Tom that Old John had died peacefully in his sleep and arranged a charter flight back to Alaska with Kitty.
• Henry traveled from Los Angeles to Fairbanks, then by small plane to the port town, where Old Tom met him beside the runway.
• Old Tom recoiled when Kitty got off the plane, and Henry introduced the tiger as his pet before loading her into the pickup truck bed.
• Henry gave Old Tom boxes of supplies and whiskey for Old John’s funeral, while Old Tom secretly pocketed a bottle.
• Henry gave the pilot a bottle of whiskey in exchange for prioritizing his return flight, and warned him not to drink while flying.

Henry returned to Alaska and caught up with Old Tom on the drive to town, where Old John’s neighbors had gathered to mourn him at his bar. Henry joined their cheerful daytime send-off with a case of whiskey, while Kitty’s roar startled the old men.

• Henry paid the airport fee, left with Old Tom, and discussed his Hollywood success and the news from Alaska.
• Old Tom told Henry that George Jefferson III had retired from captaining Annie 21 and that Old John had died quietly after the sheriff found him.
• Henry and Old Tom drove through the snowy landscape as Kitty watched the unfamiliar scenery from the truck bed.
• Henry arrived at Old John's crowded bar and brought whiskey for the gathered townspeople, who welcomed him and joked about Old John’s daytime drinking ban.
• Kitty roared from the truck bed, and the old men asked Henry whether the big cat was real.

Henry attended Old John’s funeral, where the sheriff read John Brown’s irreverent will and left his remaining money to the church after expenses. Henry told the sheriff he had quit his film-company job and planned to travel, while the sheriff warned him to keep Kitty under control.

• Henry helped carry Old John’s coffin to the grave, and the townspeople attended the burial.
• At the bar, the sheriff read John Brown’s will, which offered the bar to anyone willing to run it and directed the remaining money to the church.
• The sheriff sat with Henry and said Old John had expected him to return.
• Henry told the sheriff he had quit his job and planned to travel, possibly to the Arctic Circle to see the aurora.
• The sheriff warned Henry to control Kitty, and Henry agreed while joking about the danger of trying to hit a tiger.