Chapter Summaries

Henry watched Mark’s parents address his prejudice against Skye, and the children apologized to each other. Mark’s father, firefighter Jonathan Smith, thanked Henry for helping save people during the Twin Towers disaster, while Henry kept the details private.

• Mark’s father asked why Mark blamed Skye, and Mark admitted she had never done anything harmful or illegal.
• Mark apologized to Skye, and Skye accepted while apologizing for hitting him; Henry also made her retract a racist remark.
• Jonathan Smith introduced himself as a fire station captain and thanked Henry for helping save firefighters during the Twin Towers disaster.
• Henry credited Police Commissioner George Stacy and asked Jonathan not to reveal his role, explaining that he wanted to avoid criticism for those he could not save.
• Jonathan dismissed paying for Mark’s minor injuries and teased him for losing to a girl, making Henry and the other adults laugh.

On the drive home, Skye thanked Henry for defending her at school, but he explained that he had acted out of self-interest rather than unconditional loyalty. After dropping her off with dinner, Henry headed out to meet Gilgamesh and Thena, who had arrived in New York.

• Skye asked Henry what had happened at the World Trade Center Twin Towers, but he refused to tell her.
• Skye quietly thanked Henry for standing up for her at school, and Henry said he had chosen the option that caused the least trouble for himself.
• Henry told Skye he had taken her in partly to ease his guilt over her friend's death, and Skye angrily accused him of caring only about himself.
• Henry dropped Skye off at home with dinner in the oven and said he was going to meet old friends at a restaurant.
• Henry drove to meet Gilgamesh and Thena, who had recently begun traveling the world with Kingo's financial support.

Henry went to Grand Central Terminal to pick up Gilgamesh and Thena, two Eternals traveling without a car, before taking them to a Russian restaurant. The three reunited amid curious stares, and Gilgamesh greeted Henry with a rough slap and teasing remarks.

• Henry arranged a meal at a Russian restaurant after learning about its dishes and securing a reservation through John Wick's connection to the Tarasov Mob.
• Henry drove to Grand Central Terminal to meet Gilgamesh and Thena, who traveled by public transportation as they explored modern life.
• Gilgamesh and Thena attracted attention at the station with their distinctive appearances, and Henry greeted the nearby police before approaching them.
• Gilgamesh and Thena initially failed to recognize Henry beneath his long hair and beard, but Gilgamesh identified him after remembering their phone call.
• Henry explained that an eye injury kept him from shaving, and Gilgamesh slapped his shoulder and mussed his hair while joking with him.

Henry took Thena and Gilgamesh to dinner in New York, explaining the city’s post-9/11 climate and helping them settle in. At the restaurant, John Wick joined them after discovering Henry had reserved under his name.

• Henry told Thena her Vibranium jewelry had prevented further episodes and explained to Gilgamesh why New Yorkers were wary of people with Middle Eastern features after the September 11 attacks.
• Henry reassured Thena and Gilgamesh that the restaurant would treat them fairly, then took them to a Russian restaurant and handed the car to a valet.
• Henry brought Thena and Gilgamesh to a VIP private room, where they began their drinks before dinner.
• John Wick arrived after learning someone had reserved under his name, and Henry introduced him to Thena and Gilgamesh.

Henry considered the Tarasov Mob’s power and decided to avoid getting involved with gangs, while John Wick invited him to the hotel to discuss recent events. Henry then dined with Thena and Gilgamesh, sharing a bottle of rare Russian red wine and hearing their impressions of the changing world.

• John Wick quietly told Henry to visit the hotel because recent events required his attention, then left with Viggo.
• Henry reflected on the Tarasov Mob’s small membership, influence, and ability to mobilize armed enforcers, and resolved to avoid gang affairs.
• Henry kept John Wick’s warning from Thena and Gilgamesh and continued dinner with them.
• A sommelier served a bottle of rare Russian red wine that John Wick had given Henry.
• Thena, Gilgamesh, and Henry ate and drank while discussing the changes they had seen in human society.

After dinner, Henry helped Thena and Gilgamesh plan their stay in New York, where they intended to settle for several years. He offered to arrange a hotel and help them find housing, while considering buying property in Tribeca himself.

• Henry arranged for Thena and Gilgamesh to stay in separate hotel rooms after Thena complained about Gilgamesh's snoring.
• Gilgamesh told Henry that he and Thena had spent nearly five years traveling, visiting Kingo, Sersi, and Ajak, and wanted advice on living in modern society.
• Henry suggested they stay at a hotel for two weeks while looking for a home, and offered to help them buy or rent property.
• Henry considered purchasing property in Tribeca while prices were depressed after the terrorist attack and damage near the World Trade Center.
• Thena and Gilgamesh agreed to follow Henry's suggestion, though they would need to discuss their funds with Kingo.

Henry bought an entire New York building by negotiating separately with its owners, then arranged it for his own use and future rentals. He attended a rooftop housewarming party for Thena and Gilgamesh, where Ajak arrived unexpectedly.

• Henry bought two floors at low prices, then separately negotiated with the other owners and acquired the entire building in less than two weeks.
• Kingo contributed money toward homes for Thena and Gilgamesh and helped them settle into New York.
• Henry planned a secret base and his own living space, prepared several furnished units for rent, and upgraded the building's facilities.
• Thena and Gilgamesh held a rooftop barbecue to celebrate moving in, and Henry attended with Katharine Hepburn, Skye, and Kitty the tiger.
• Gwen joined Skye at the party, while George Stacy sent his daughter in his place.
• Ajak traveled from her secluded home in South Dakota to visit New York and surprised Henry at the party.

Henry met Ajak and joined the Eternals’ rooftop barbecue, where Thena and Gilgamesh unveiled their unusual signature roasts. The gathering ended with Henry volunteering to taste Thena’s roasted lion after Kitty eagerly accepted a piece.

• Henry greeted Ajak, who thanked him for helping Thena, and he declined to treat the help as a favor he was owed.
• Kingo invited Henry and Ajak to join the rooftop barbecue, where Gilgamesh presented roasted camel and Thena presented a whole roasted lion.
• Henry questioned whether carnivore meat would taste good, and Thena explained that she had prepared the dish as a special feast.
• Gilgamesh claimed the roasted beast was the Heraclean Bull of Argolis, while Henry insisted that Kitty was a tabby and asked her to meow.
• Kitty roared, and Thena tossed her a piece of the roast, which Kitty caught and ate eagerly.
• Thena asked who wanted to taste the roast, and Henry stepped forward with a plate, offering to judge whether it was cooked.

Henry hosted a rooftop barbecue for the Eternals, Katharine Hepburn, Skye, and Gwen, while the girls explored the building. Skye asked to move in alone, but Henry challenged her to pay rent and Katharine opposed letting a thirteen-year-old live by herself.

• Henry and Karen Patel served a large barbecue spread and cold drinks, while Katharine Hepburn kept Skye and Gwen from sneaking beer.
• Once they had eaten, Skye and Gwen explored the empty apartments and admired the fitness equipment in Thena's home and the artwork in Gilgamesh's.
• Skye noticed several furnished apartments were ready to live in and decided she wanted to move into the building.
• Skye asked Henry if she could live there alone, and he said she would have to afford the rent.
• Skye appealed to Katharine Hepburn, who said she did not approve of a thirteen-year-old living alone and joked about punishing Henry if he had mistreated her.

Henry agreed to let Skye and Gwen visit Thena as long as she would not cover for them, while continuing to enforce his responsibilities as Skye’s legal guardian. After the housewarming guests departed, Henry considered how to manage his New York building and prepared to visit the Continental Hotel about John Wick’s month-old warning.

• Thena invited Skye to visit, and Henry agreed on the condition that she would not lie for Skye or conceal her actions.
• Henry reminded Skye that he shared responsibility for her mistakes as her legal guardian, prompting her to sulk.
• Thena invited Gwen to visit as well, and Gwen asked her for advice about fitness and using her exercise equipment.
• The housewarming party ended, Ajak stayed with her friends, Kingo returned to his film work, and Thena and Gilgamesh moved into their homes.
• Henry finished cleaning the rooftop and weighed whether to manage his New York building himself or hire a real estate agency.
• Henry decided to visit the New York Continental Hotel about John Wick’s warning, hoping the matter had already been resolved.

Henry visited the New York Continental Hotel and learned that contract personnel and residents of the Sewer World had vanished amid rumors of nearly invulnerable Man-Eating Monsters. Suspecting the outbreak might be connected to the Marvel Zombies Universe, he entered the hotel restaurant to hear more about the crisis.

• Henry recalled his earlier visits to the Continental Hotel as Charon explained that contract personnel had disappeared and rumors blamed Man-Eating Monsters.
• Charon told Henry that several large Sewer World settlements had emptied without leaving bodies, making Henry suspect an intelligent zombie outbreak.
• John Wick arrived with a grim group, and Henry asked Charon to let him listen to their discussion.
• Charon said the New York government knew about the disappearances but that Mayor Michael Bloomberg had chosen to conceal them.
• Henry entered the restaurant to learn more and potentially help the Continental Hotel.

Henry learned that people were disappearing across North America and that the Vampires were also being targeted. He called Whistler to confirm the threat and discovered that a new breed of Vampire could transform both humans and old Vampires.

• John Wick told Henry that he and the others had found nothing in the sewers, though he had sensed someone watching him.
• Winston Scott told Henry that disappearances had begun in Los Angeles earlier than in New York, and that the Vampires had sought protection too.
• Winston Scott explained that the High Table had found the problem was limited to North America, but had not yet sent definite reinforcements.
• Henry used an anti-eavesdropping device and a special communications line to call Whistler.
• Whistler told Henry that a new breed of Vampire could turn humans and old Vampires into Vampires.

Henry learned from Whistler that the new enemies were powerful, virus-spreading Vampires with few weaknesses, then shared the intelligence with the Continental Hotel’s gathered assassins. A woman claiming to be an Elder of the High Table arrived with a mutilated Reaper and asked Henry to identify it.

• Whistler told Henry that New Breed Vampires infected humans and Vampires, resisted garlic and silver, and could be killed by sunlight or ultraviolet light.
• Henry returned to John Wick, Winston Scott, and the assembled guests and explained what he knew about the Reapers.
• Winston Scott asked Henry for evidence or a source the group could verify, and Henry hesitated to reveal Whistler’s identity.
• A group led by Charon brought in a mutilated Reaper, followed by a woman and hooded High Table forces.
• Charon introduced the woman as an Elder of the High Table, and she asked whether the creature was the New Breed Vampire Henry had described.

Henry examined a captured Reaper at the New York Continental Hotel to learn what it ate and how anti-Vampire weapons affected it. After garlic essence failed to stop the creature, John Wick took the pistol to test the Silver Nitrate Bullets.

• Henry dissected the Reaper and found human organs, including half a heart, among its stomach contents.
• The female Elder confirmed the creature was a man-eating monster, and her group supplied its severed limbs.
• Henry asked Winston Scott for anti-Vampire weapons, and the hotel brought him a pistol, Silver Nitrate Bullets, UV Bullets, garlic essence, and a silver dagger.
• Henry injected garlic essence into the Reaper, but it soon began wriggling again.
• Henry tried to fire the pistol with Silver Nitrate Bullets, and John Wick pointed out that the safety was on and offered to use it.

Henry Brown and John Wick tested silver and UV ammunition on a Reaper, confirming that silver could not kill New Breed Vampires but UV bullets could. Cassandra Eagle-Bearer asked Henry to examine an infected young man while she and the others planned how to eliminate the monsters.

• John Wick shot the Reaper with Silver Nitrate Bullets, and Henry stabbed it with a silver dagger, but neither harmed it.
• John Wick fired a UV Bullet, which turned the Reaper and its severed limbs to ash.
• Cassandra Eagle-Bearer introduced herself to Henry and asked whether he could treat someone bitten by a New Breed Vampire.
• A young man revealed that he had been bitten, and Cassandra asked Henry to examine him while she stayed to discuss wiping out the monsters.
• Henry followed Charon to the medical room with the infected young man and one of his companions.

Henry examined a young assassin bitten by a Reaper and developed a serum that stopped the infection, though it caused severe side effects and could not be mass-produced. He left his research notes with the Continental Hotel as they prepared to counterattack the Reapers.

• Henry restrained the bitten assassin, inspected the wound, and drew a blood sample after removing his Hidden Blade.
• Henry studied the mutating Reaper Virus and feared it might eventually spread beyond humans and Vampires.
• Henry used the assassin’s blood, antibodies, garlic extract, silver nitrate, and ultraviolet radiation solution to create Reaper Serum and inject him.
• The serum stopped the wound’s strange discharge, but the young assassin suffered severe vomiting, diarrhea, and weakness.
• Cassandra praised Henry, and he gave her his research notes before leaving the hotel with a serum that could not yet be mass-produced.

Henry secretly prepared to help eliminate the Reapers in New York while the Continental Hotel and city authorities organized their response. He sent drones to map the Sewer World and began preparing UV ammunition as the threat beneath the city grew clearer.

• The Continental Hotel delayed its invasion while its members scouted the Sewer World and stockpiled scarce UV ammunition, as New York police reinforced sewer entrances.
• Henry received a Gold Coin for providing Reaper Virus information and a treatment serum, then warned Whistler about a possible Vampire plot through his Black Super identity.
• Henry concluded that thousands of Reapers might be hidden beneath New York and decided to help address the threat rather than risk losing his property and safety.
• Henry recovered three Sparrow Drones whose data had mapped much of the Sewer World, then sent them back to locate Reaper lairs and estimate their numbers.
• Henry set out to mass-produce UV Radiant Fluid for ammunition, but UV supplies and raw materials had become scarce and expensive.

Henry prepared to counter the Reapers while secretly sourcing materials and building weapons in his new building. He informed Thena and Gilgamesh about the danger and showed them his growing collection of animal-shaped armor.

• Henry asked Alexei Shostakov to procure materials from Europe and waited for a reply.
• Henry installed automatic reloading equipment and a UV Bullet production line in the building’s secret command center.
• Thena and Gilgamesh came downstairs after hearing the noise, and Henry explained the Vampires, the Reapers, and his sewer reconnaissance.
• Henry said he planned to reduce the Reapers’ numbers discreetly, while Gilgamesh questioned how he intended to fight them.
• Henry showed Thena and Gilgamesh the animal-shaped armor he was preparing, including the Duck, Leopard, and bear suits.

Henry showed Gilgamesh and Thena his unfinished Mechas, and the two Eternals offered to help fight the Reapers in customized suits. He agreed to design their armors while arranging the rest of his preparations for the sewer battle.

• Henry explained the Duck Leopard armors’ weapons and said he planned to finish a Bear Armor for Alexei, the soldier who owed him a favor.
• Gilgamesh asked to use the Bullhead armor and offered to help in the sewers, arguing that the Eternals could fight through the Mechas without directly intervening.
• Thena requested a Rabbit Armor, and Henry realized both Eternals wanted specialized suits for close combat.
• Henry said he had time to complete the armors while the Continental Hotel stockpiled ammunition and he waited for materials from Europe.
• Gilgamesh and Thena suggested features for their Mechas, and Henry recorded their ideas and sketched designs.

Henry received Alexei’s distress signal and learned that supernatural pursuers were hunting him in Europe. He launched with Gilgamesh and Thena in their newly built Mechas, heading to rescue Alexei and test the machines in combat.

• Henry continued refining the Bullhead and Bonnie Mechas for Gilgamesh and Thena.
• Alexei’s distress alarm sounded, and footage showed Werewolves and Vampires pursuing him while he cursed over the communication channel.
• Henry decided to rescue Alexei because he needed the supplies Alexei had obtained, then prepared the Duck Type and Bear Armor.
• Gilgamesh and Thena suited up in Bullhead and Bonnie, eager to test the Mechas in combat.
• Henry, Gilgamesh, and Thena launched through the secret base’s electromagnetic channel and gathered in the stratosphere on course for Europe.