Chapter Summaries

Lake realized Alexander Pierce had set up Daniel Whitehall as a scapegoat, then joined Olivia in investigating a fragment of Will Wick’s brain. When Lake learned Wick’s cloned wife and daughter were in danger in Mining Town, he rushed there with troops as the sheriff’s officers faced clone killers.

• Lake concluded that Alexander Pierce had abandoned Daniel Whitehall and planned to use Dr. Zola’s testimony to shield Hydra and himself.
• John Wick was brought to the base alive after surviving an explosion at the quarry, and Lake showed Olivia a brain fragment confirmed to belong to Will Wick.
• The military intelligence center located Wick Will’s cloned wife and daughter in Mining Town, and Lake led troops toward the town.
• Clone killers attacked Mining Town, forcing the sheriff and his officers to defend the house where Wick Will’s family was hiding.
• A clone killer fired a rocket launcher at the house, but a silver beam burst from the fireplace and expanded through the doorway.

Hermione Granger arrived to stop the resurrected dead from becoming Parasitic Demons and confronted Lake, her former lover. After their reunion turned tense and Hermione trapped him, Lake ordered the soldiers out and was left alone with her.

• Hermione Granger used a Patronus to stop a rocket, then stunned the witnesses and clone killers at Will Wick's house.
• Dr. Merrick activated the clone killers' self-destruct program, while Lake ordered his soldiers to halt their attack after seeing Hermione's Patronus.
• Hermione explained that the cloned mother and daughter were Parasitic Demons, then reminded Lake that they had broken up after she believed he had cheated on her.
• Lake tried to leave, but Hermione sealed the door and pinned him against it before casting a Disillusionment Charm.
• The sergeant major entered, and Lake ordered him and his team back outside.

Lake left Hermione without explaining his powers and returned to the base, where he used her tip to locate a suspicious underground research facility near Bay Area National Park. He identified the Radnor Biological Experiment Base as the likely target, despite its ties to a state senator.

• Hermione questioned Lake about his dark power and his connections to Emilia and the Immortal Royal Family, but Lake left without answering.
• Lake returned to base by helicopter and told Olivia he had an informant; Olivia angrily threatened to bite him after he hung up.
• Lake ordered the satellite team to scan Bay Area National Park, citing an informant's warning about the area.
• Thermal imaging detected five heat signatures descending underground near Del Carmen before they disappeared from view.
• Tiffany identified a nearby underground facility as the Radnor Biological Experiment Base, which was funded in part by State Senator Kayat.
• Lake declared that the base was their target and said he would not be deterred by the senator's involvement.

The military and Department of Homeland Security launched a coordinated assault on the suspected Clone Base after its ties to Hydra were confirmed. A Hellfire Missile devastated the base, and Lake joined the forces as they eliminated survivors, leaving the battle underway.

• Lake followed the military and Homeland Security forces toward the Clone Base while Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, and Alexander Pierce arrived at the military base to observe.
• Alexander Pierce warned Nick Fury not to interfere with the operation, and Nick Fury admitted that S.H.I.E.L.D. needed something inside the base.
• Dr. Merrick ordered the destruction of the base's records and clone facilities as six Bucky Barneses prepared to escort him out.
• After the evidence was confirmed, General Moses ordered a Hellfire Missile strike that hit the Clone Base as Lake's helicopter approached.
• Lake landed amid the burning wreckage while soldiers and Homeland Security agents shot the surviving base personnel who rushed toward them.

Lake led a military assault on Hydra’s underground base after the storm and discovered entrance helped expose it. His troops pushed through the defenses, and he ordered them to cease fire when someone emerged from a side passage.

• Dr. Merrick shut down the base system and took a Bucky Barnes clone toward a hidden escape route, while ordering clone soldiers to delay the attackers.
• Lake used Jarvis to scan the base, found another entrance, and led soldiers to blast open a concealed passage through the mountainside.
• Hydra soldiers fired up the passage, but Lake’s troops advanced with grenades and shields, then breached a heavy vault door with explosives.
• Five armored Bucky Barnes clones blocked the advance until Lake shot them with explosive rounds, clearing the way for the troops.
• The soldiers broke through the final defenses, and fleeing Hydra personnel exploded before them; when a door opened to the right, Lake ordered his troops to cease fire.

Lake's raid on Clone Base turned into a standoff when captured S.H.I.E.L.D. agents emerged and faced their apparent doubles. With no way to tell who was real, Lake began testing the group while the base's forces surrounded them.

• The captured Alexander Pierce, Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, Maria Hill, and Natasha Romanov emerged and claimed they had been imprisoned for years, while their apparent doubles were already at Clone Base.
• General Moses and General Ross questioned the competing claims, but both Pierces displayed identical scars and the agents offered conflicting accounts of their memories.
• Lake asked the base for guidance and proposed killing the group, while the captured Nick Fury and Pierce argued that their doubles could not have memories from the years they had been imprisoned.
• Teams reported the underground base was secure and found destroyed clones, including the bodies of other Nick Furys and Alexander Pierces.
• Ross stopped Lake from killing the surrounded S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, so Lake aimed his Glock first at Alexander Pierce and then Nick Fury, using the Force to seek the fear of the hidden impostor.

Lake exposed Daniel Whitehall’s hidden clone operation at the underground base and learned that Whitehall had also mass-produced Bucky Barnes clones. After the survivors and evidence were brought to the military base, Lake warned Whitehall that he would be next.

• Lake identified Dr. Merrick as a clone by questioning his story and sensing his fear, then shot him and several other suspected impostors.
• Lake read Merrick’s memories and learned that Daniel Whitehall had ordered the S.H.I.E.L.D. clones created as a hidden reserve to help transform Hydra into an empire.
• Lake found a flash drive, cash, and a satellite phone in Merrick’s office, called Daniel Whitehall, and threatened him before Whitehall hung up.
• Lake returned to the military base, where the S.H.I.E.L.D. clones were brought face-to-face with Nick Fury and Alexander Pierce and Dr. Tempri Braina was on her way to examine the remains.
• Tony Stark asked Lake about the operation, and Lake told him he had killed five Bucky Barnes clones, revealing that Whitehall had turned Bucky into a mass-produced weapon.

Lake warned Tony that cloning resurrection would bring more suffering and suspected Tony had Dr. Zola’s electronic data, then joined the investigation into the clones. The authorities discovered that prominent people had been replaced and moved to contain the crisis while preparing to test the suspected clones.

• Lake warned Tony that cloning resurrection would not bring peace and said he suspected Dr. Zola had survived as an electronic life-form.
• Lake and Tony returned to the classified warehouse, where Tempri Braina said she could identify the clones if she had equipment from her laboratory.
• Lake gave a technical soldier Dr. Merrick’s USB drive, and the document inside revealed people who had been cloned or replaced.
• General Moses, General Ross, the President, Secretary Kelly, and the Pentagon general reviewed the list and discussed detaining those named.
• The President ordered the operation kept secret and said everyone involved had to sign confidentiality agreements.

Lake returned to Quantico and Karen confronted him about the secrets he had kept from her. He revealed that he had a fourteen-year-old daughter, Katherine, with Emilia, and Karen learned that Emilia was still in Budapest while Katherine lived in Washington State.

• Lake flew back to Quantico with General Ross, who warned him that Karen knew about Rachel and was upset.
• Rachel greeted Lake at the base, and Karen took him aside for a serious conversation.
• Karen asked Lake why he had hidden Rachel's pregnancy from her, and he explained that he had planned to tell her at Christmas.
• When Karen pressed him about other secrets, Lake revealed that Katherine was his daughter and that he had met Emilia in Budapest.
• Lake admitted he had visited Emilia each March and kept Katherine's existence from Karen for years.
• Karen asked where Emilia and Katherine were, and Lake said Emilia was in Budapest while Katherine attended school in Forks Town, Washington State.

Lake returned from Texas as Hydra turned against Daniel Whitehall, while he set terms for any mediation: Whitehall and Arnim Zola had to die. He also discussed telling Katherine about his family situation and prepared to pursue Whitehall himself.

• Karen let Lake leave and decided to give him the comfort of home without pressing him about his private affairs.
• Alexander Pierce exposed Daniel Whitehall's Clone Base scheme to Hydra's leaders and ordered Hydra agents to kill him, while Hydra sacrificed Whitehall to protect itself.
• Lake told Emilia that Hydra had to kill Daniel Whitehall and Arnim Zola, warning that Hydra would be destroyed if it sheltered Whitehall, even as a clone.
• Lake asked Emilia to tell Katherine about his conversation with Karen, but Emilia warned that Katherine might react badly; Lake decided he would tell her himself when she returned to Fox.
• Lake said that everyone he had marked for death had died, while Alexander Pierce returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. to search for its mole before the examinations of possible clones were complete.

Lake returned to New York after the Clone Base was destroyed and prepared to track down Daniel Whitehall, whose many clones had evaded Hydra. He visited the recovering John Wick, explained the operation and his family’s fate, and left to pursue Whitehall.

• Alexander Pierce ordered Hydra to stop independent operations and required all S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to undergo bone-age testing after Daniel Whitehall’s clones sparked fears that members of the organization had been replaced.
• Lake returned to New York with Skye and told her he would leave on a business trip the next day to deal with Daniel Whitehall.
• Lake visited John Wick in the hospital, recounted how the Clone Base had been found and destroyed, and told him that his cloned niece and mother had been poisoned.
• Lake explained that John had survived the explosion because a boulder had shielded him in a puddle, then left the hospital to pursue Daniel Whitehall.

Lake used the Tracking Card to find Daniel Whitehall’s real body in San Lorenzo and suspected he had taken the identity of its president, Ribera. He gave John Wick a tracking device and set out with him to hunt Whitehall, while Skye continued searching for her origins.

• Lake used the Tracking Card and discovered Daniel Whitehall’s true location was San Lorenzo, despite numerous decoys across Europe.
• Lake gave John Wick a device showing Whitehall’s many locations and asked him to help kill Whitehall.
• Lake learned that San Lorenzo’s president, Ribera, controlled the island and that strict border measures had recently been imposed; he concluded Ribera was likely Whitehall’s true identity.
• Skye told Lake she had no genuine birth records and wanted to learn who her parents were and why they had left her.
• Lake suggested Skye search Korean records because she had Korean ancestry.
• John Wick agreed to hunt Whitehall with Lake, who chose Belgium as their starting point while Wick arranged transportation to Bulgaria.

Lake and John Wick continued hunting Daniel Whitehall’s clones across Europe while Hydra and the authorities struggled to understand the killings. As Interpol began closing in, Lake left Belgium for San Lorenzo under the identity Charles Francis Xavier.

• Lake killed another group of Daniel Whitehall’s men, called John Wick, and learned they were tied in their killing contest.
• Lake and John Wick had eliminated twenty Daniel Whitehall copies, while Hydra had located five more across Europe.
• Alexander Pierce ordered Hydra’s agents to stand down and leave one Daniel Whitehall alive to help cover up the operation.
• Alexander secretly coordinated with Dr. Zola, who remained imprisoned while equipment for cloning and reviving people was installed.
• Emilia warned Lake that Interpol and Belgian authorities were tightening their search, but Lake said the warm-up was over and departed for San Lorenzo.
• Lake entered San Lorenzo using the identity Charles Francis Xavier and claimed he was an Oxford University psychology professor visiting for tourism.

Lake entered San Lorenzo under a forged identity and launched an assault on Daniel Whitehall, who ordered his mass-produced Winter Soldier guards and army to stop him. Lake destroyed the attackers and tanks with his clones and Railgun, then turned his sights on Whitehall.

• Lake used forged documents to enter San Lorenzo and learned from a taxi driver that masked special guards terrorized the locals.
• Lake checked into the Presidential Hotel, summoned eleven clones, and watched the Presidential Palace from his suite.
• Daniel Whitehall learned that Lake's identity was false and ordered a Winter Soldier to kill him.
• Lake and his Eleven Clones ambushed the special guards, killing them and exposing one guard's metal arm.
• Daniel Whitehall sent soldiers and tanks to attack the hotel, but Lake and his clones escaped to the roof, where Lake destroyed the tanks with his Railgun and shot down a drone.
• Daniel Whitehall ordered his forces to kill Lake and his clones at any cost.

Lake and his Eleven Clones devastated the forces defending the Presidential Palace in San Lorenzo, while S.H.I.E.L.D. struggled to monitor and conceal the attack. As Daniel Whitehall sent another wave of clones and mass-produced Winter Soldiers against him, Lake met their charge with blades.

• Lake and his Eleven Clones destroyed incoming shells, suicide bombers, tanks, helicopters, and soldiers with Super-Electromagnetic Railguns, carving a vast ravine through San Lorenzo.
• Lake recovered his strength by absorbing the fear around him, then advanced toward the Presidential Palace while his clones shot at residents attempting to snipe them.
• Alexander Pierce and Nick Fury identified San Lorenzo in satellite footage, and Nick ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to block the keyword and bring in a lip-reading expert.
• Daniel Whitehall refused to surrender and sent nameless clones against Lake, who intercepted a missile and flattened the nearby military camp with another Super-Electromagnetic Railgun.
• Lake exhausted his Force and drew an infinite-version Glock 17, then activated his adrenaline, summoned two steel blades, and charged the mass-produced Winter Soldiers.

Lake attacked Daniel Whitehall’s palace, defeated its Winter Soldiers, and uncovered a vast cloning facility before pursuing Whitehall through an escape tunnel as the palace exploded. He caught up with Whitehall aboard a fleeing cruise ship and confronted him on deck.

• Lake and his eleven clones fought through the Winter Soldiers and automated defenses at Whitehall’s palace, while Lake collected its cash and gold.
• Lake found a sealed cloning base filled with dead embryos and clones, then followed Whitehall’s tracker into a tunnel.
• Whitehall detonated explosives beneath the palace, and S.H.I.E.L.D. identified him from footage of the blast.
• Lake broke through the tunnel and leapt onto Whitehall’s departing cruise ship as his clones exchanged fire with its defenders.
• Lake landed on the cruise ship, knocked a Winter Soldier into the water, and confronted Daniel Whitehall.

Lake captured Daniel Whitehall after attacking him aboard a cruise ship, while S.H.I.E.L.D. found only Bucky Barnes’s corpses and destroyed the vessel. As international forces investigated San Lorenzo’s motionless residents and a valley full of bodies, Lake began operating on Daniel Whitehall beneath the valley.

• Lake seized Daniel Whitehall, escaped to shore with him, and left Bucky Barnes to disappear beneath the sea.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents found Bucky Barnes’s corpses on the cruise ship, then planted an explosive that sank the vessel and knocked the real Bucky unconscious.
• British forces entering San Lorenzo found its residents frozen and unresponsive, while the Security Council ordered the tourists contained and examined.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft discovered thousands of bodies in a forest valley, and the Security Council moved to control the evidence and contain the crisis.
• Lake brought Daniel Whitehall to the valley, restrained him with clones, and cut open his abdomen to remove the organs that had kept him alive.

Lake killed Daniel Whitehall and escaped the collapsing cave, only to discover that people across San Lorenzo had begun attacking others in a zombie-like frenzy. As S.H.I.E.L.D. and G.I. Joe struggled to understand the outbreak, Lake returned to the capital and investigated whether Whitehall had caused it.

• Lake removed and crushed Jiaying’s transplanted organs, while Daniel Whitehall used his final ability before dying and the organs turned to sand.
• Lake’s Sixth Sense warned him of danger, so he unleashed the dark Force; after the warning stopped, he escaped as the cave collapsed and spilled out countless human bones.
• Lake saw locals attacking tourists near the mountain, while frenzied residents swarmed G.I. Joe soldiers in San Lorenzo’s capital.
• Maria Hill identified that the attackers were not conventional zombies because a bitten corpse had not transformed, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. team continued monitoring the outbreak.
• Lake returned to the Presidential Hotel, shot an attacking cleaner, and examined the body as he considered whether Whitehall had triggered the chaos.

Lake escaped the chaos after killing Daniel Whitehall and returned to Immortal Castle, while similar outbreaks spread across Europe and left S.H.I.E.L.D. scrambling. He reunited with Emilia and promised to stay for half a month, ending the chapter in bed with her.

• Lake discovered that Daniel Whitehall’s victims had mercury in their brains, escaped through a wall, and left as armed forces attacked the frenzied locals at the beach.
• Jiaying and Gordon found the cave where her stolen organs had been, but the life force had deteriorated and they left as fighter jets arrived.
• European S.H.I.E.L.D. received reports of outbreaks across Europe involving dozens of Daniel Whitehalls and Bucky Barneses, prompting Nick Fury and Alexander Pierce to seek a response.
• Lake told John Wick that their revenge was over and that he could return home to his wife.
• Lake arrived at Immortal Castle, reunited with Emilia, and agreed to stay with her for half a month.

After the European scandals and clone crisis subsided, Lake returned to New York and discussed the dangers of his work with Skye. He then began spending his 1,447 lottery draws as the system prepared to upgrade.

• Lake and Emilia discussed Immortal City and whether the Immortal Bloodline’s settlement would amount to founding a country, with Emilia calling herself the Immortal Queen.
• Lake returned to Starlight Tower on December 1 and explained to Skye why he had enrolled her in combat and shooting classes.
• Skye remembered Lake’s bullet curving and promised to prove it, while Lake denied it and went to his study.
• Lake found that his lottery system had reached its draw limit and was entering an upgrade that would remove low-value items and raise the minimum reward rank.
• Lake began his 1,447 lottery draws and received items including a Random Perspective Mirror, electromagnetic grenades, and Holy Water grenades.