Chapter Summaries

Murphy absorbed Neo after the Matrix used Neo to locate him and overload him with energy. He followed the connection back to the Matrix’s mainframe, where he attacked the Matrix and began trying to absorb it.

• Neo returned to the virtual world and challenged Murphy, who easily defeated him while Morpheus and Trinity watched.
• Morpheus’s ship crashed on its mission to reach the Matrix’s mainframe, and Neo offered himself as a way to help the Matrix find Murphy.
• Murphy absorbed Neo and discovered that Neo had evolved in reality, gaining data that could help Murphy understand how to enter a cloned body.
• The Matrix sent a surge of energy through Neo to overload Murphy, but Murphy absorbed the electricity and used their connection to reach the Matrix’s mainframe.
• Murphy confronted the Matrix, revealed that he had used Neo to find it, and lunged to absorb it.

Murphy returned from the Matrix with its technologies and planned to use them to advance his cloning and business projects. He designed a kitten-shaped intelligent system, but it could not remain stable without a mainframe, leaving him to consider building a villa to house one.

• Murphy examined the Matrix's history and technology, then returned to the Marvel Universe through the underwater cable.
• Murphy decided to pursue his cloning plan and considered investing in China after learning what technology he needed.
• Murphy told Jack to move remaining funds into Ghost Investment and begin planning an automobile factory in New York.
• Murphy tasked Jack with arranging a supercomputer and considered building a villa to house it.
• Murphy designed a kitten-shaped logical thinking program that stayed stable only while he held it, then began weighing whether to build a villa first.

Jason Bourne and Marie Kreutz settled into their new lives at Murphy Biotechnology Company while Richard Parker received cloning technology from Murphy and was told to adapt it for treating infertility. Murphy also decided to build a villa on the Malibu coast and invited S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate it, confident they would find nothing.

• Jason Bourne and Marie Kreutz discussed whether they would remain at the company and agreed they were content with their new home and jobs.
• Jason Bourne described the company’s security arrangements and suspected some employees were S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Murphy gave Richard Parker a complete set of cloning technology and instructed him to test it on animals, establish a process, and make improvements.
• Richard Parker asked what Murphy planned to do with the technology, and Murphy said he intended to treat infertility.
• Murphy chose a Malibu coastal site for his villa, and he assured Jack that S.H.I.E.L.D. could investigate without discovering anything about him.

Jack bought a California estate for Murphy, leading S.H.I.E.L.D. to suspect Ghost might appear there. Murphy planned a high-tech villa with a sealed underground workshop, while secretly scanning Tony Stark’s New Element design for possible use in his own technology.

• Jack bought a large estate on a cliff near Tony Stark’s mansion and arranged for its buildings to be demolished.
• Maria Hill and Nick Fury suspected the estate was intended for Ghost and continued monitoring Jack and the property.
• Murphy visited Tony Stark’s mansion, met Pepper Potts, and discussed Jarvis’s development with him.
• Murphy asked Jarvis to help design a high-tech villa with a vast underground workshop behind a sealed metal door.
• Murphy secretly scanned Tony Stark’s New Element model and considered using Transformers technology to reproduce its reactor.

Murphy completed plans for his Malibu villa while expanding his companies through stock trading and a new embryo-incubation business. After S.H.I.E.L.D. ordered 200 Quinjets from Ghost Industries, the company drew greater interest from the military, and its New York automobile factory was completed.

• Murphy and Jarvis finalized the villa's exterior and security systems, while Murphy kept its interior design secret.
• Murphy used Wall Street intelligence to grow Ghost Investment and Murphy Biotechnology, where Richard Parker completed an embryo-incubation technology that Murphy prepared to patent and sell.
• In July 1998, Nick Fury approved S.H.I.E.L.D.'s purchase of Ghost Industries' Quinjet prototype and production run, totaling 200 aircraft over five years.
• Justin Hammer remained frustrated after his attempt to acquire Ghost Industries failed, as military leaders considered supporting Ghost Industries instead of Hammer Industries.
• Murphy completed Ghost Motors' designs and production line at Ghost Industries' new automobile factory in New York.

Murphy’s biotechnology company began offering its guaranteed fertility service, attracting wealthy clients while drawing scrutiny from S.H.I.E.L.D. The chapter ended with Murphy noticing a young couple who disagreed about whether they were ready to have a child.

• Jack approved Murphy’s car designs, and Roy remained away from company management to focus on his family.
• Murphy Biotechnology launched its fertility service and prepared to sell Nutrient Solution, and wealthy customers began arriving.
• Richard Parker explained the cultivation process to a wealthy couple, who began creating an embryo in Cultivation Tank No. 1.
• Nick Fury questioned Phil Coulson about Ghost’s villa and its sealed underground metal gate, but S.H.I.E.L.D. still could not discover how Ghost entered.
• Paul urged a young couple to discuss whether they were ready for a child, and Murphy noticed them as he visited the company.

Murphy sought Bruce Banner’s blood for Richard Parker’s genetic research while watching John and Jane Smith, hoping to recruit the married assassins. After the rival companies assigned them to kill the same target, the Smiths’ dangerous conflict was about to begin, and Murphy waited for a chance to intervene.

• Murphy asked Jason Bourne to find Bruce Banner and obtain a blood sample for Richard Parker’s research.
• Murphy recognized John and Jane Smith as skilled assassins and followed them after they left his company.
• John and Jane traveled to New York, agreed to see a psychologist, and returned home under strained silence while Murphy monitored them.
• Murphy planned a transforming mechanical gate to guard the underground workshop at his villa and coordinated production with Jarvis.
• After their psychologist appointment, John and Jane each received an assignment, unaware that both were ordered to kill the same target.
• Murphy chose not to intervene yet, waiting until the Smiths were desperate enough for his help to matter.

John Smith and Jenny Smith discovered that their rival companies had set them up to kill each other, and Murphy offered to protect them if they left their companies and worked for him. They agreed to trust Murphy, shared their secrets over dinner, then armed their home and waited together for dawn.

• John Smith and Jenny Smith returned to New York and realized they had both been assigned to assassinate each other.
• John Smith arrived home, avoided the poisoned dinner, and answered Murphy's call while he and Jenny Smith faced off suspiciously.
• Murphy told John Smith and Jenny Smith that their companies had discovered their marriage and planned for them to kill each other.
• John Smith agreed to Murphy's offer, and Jenny Smith joined him after they confirmed their identities and discussed their options.
• John Smith and Jenny Smith gave Murphy information linked to their companies' IP addresses, then shared dinner and learned more about each other's pasts.
• John Smith and Jenny Smith took weapons from their secret armories, secured their home, and waited together for dawn.

Murphy secured John Smith and his wife by stealing the assassin companies’ files, then used Tony Stark’s absence to secretly build the Guardian gate in Tony’s workshop. He named the cat Laura and installed her inside Guardian, leaving her there until he could obtain a mainframe for her.

• Murphy told John Smith that the assassin companies had backed off after he downloaded their files and threatened to expose them.
• Murphy arranged for John Smith and his wife to go to Murphy Biotechnology Company and work under security chief Jason Bourne.
• Murphy learned from Jarvis that Tony Stark had gone to New York and arranged to have materials delivered to Tony’s mansion.
• Murphy told Jack to finish the villa within a week and discussed the large automobile production base and its future uses.
• Murphy put Jarvis into sleep mode and used Tony’s workshop equipment to assemble Guardian over several days.
• Murphy named the cat Laura and placed her inside Guardian until he could get her a mainframe.

Murphy sent Jason Bourne, Jenny Smith, and John Smith to obtain Bruce Banner’s blood without provoking him. They used a staged blood drive at his university to collect samples from Bruce and Betty Ross, then withdrew.

• Murphy assigned Jason Bourne and the Smiths to quietly obtain Bruce Banner’s blood sample.
• Jason Bourne prepared a fake blood drive at the university and used Betty Ross’s kindness to draw Bruce Banner in.
• John Smith persuaded Bruce to donate by pointing out that Betty had agreed to give blood.
• Jason Bourne collected blood from Betty and Bruce, offered them breakfast, and then the team left.

Jason Bourne and the Smiths finished their blood-donation operation and cleared away its traces, while Murphy oversaw construction of Ghost Motors’ vast automotive industrial zone. He told Jack to investigate a Chinese partner for a new car company, leaving Jack concerned about the scope of their plans.

• Jason Bourne made the Smiths wait before leaving Bruce Banner’s campus and reminded them to follow mission orders rather than act impatiently.
• Jason Bourne and the Smiths removed traces of their operation before returning to California.
• Murphy inspected the industrial-zone construction and explained its automated, tree-shaped production layout to Jack and Old John.
• Ford and Chevrolet watched Ghost Industries’ expansion and planned to wait for the project to fail before trying to acquire it.
• Murphy ordered Jack to form a team and travel to China to find a partner, assuring him that affordable cars could succeed there.

Murphy pursued a Chinese joint venture for Ghost Motors while preparing to capture Ulysses Klaue and obtain his Vibranium. The chapter left Jack inspecting potential partners in China as Jason Bourne began planning an operation to lure Klaue out.

• Murphy set conditions for a Chinese joint venture and sent Jack to assemble a team to negotiate with potential partners.
• Murphy investigated Ulysses Klaue, hoping to seize his Vibranium and use him to gain access to Wakanda.
• Jack arrived in China with more than twenty staff members, and government departments connected Ghost Motors with interested automotive groups.
• Jack sent teams to inspect potential partners while Murphy rejected arrangements that would give others control over management or component production.
• Murphy assigned Jason Bourne and the Smiths to lure out and capture Klaue, but Jason warned that the three of them might not be enough.

Murphy arranged for Jason Bourne to draw Ulysses Klaue into a weapons deal using Ghost Industries’ armored vehicles and Quinjets as bait. After Klaue chose a meeting place at Salma Docks, Murphy prepared to use Department of Defense satellite surveillance and nearby U.S. military missiles to protect Jason.

• Murphy told Jason Bourne to pose as a Ghost Industries representative and offer Klaue data on its armored vehicles and Quinjets.
• Jason used his arms-dealer contacts to reach Ulysses Klaue and offered to sell him Ghost Industries weapons.
• Klaue agreed to meet Jason at Salma Docks on the African coast and ended the call.
• Jason asked Murphy for support, and Murphy promised to monitor the area through Department of Defense satellites and use missiles if Klaue attacked.
• Murphy told Jason to leave the next day and get cash from Paul, then went to Tony Stark’s mansion and asked Jarvis for a Department of Defense email address.

Murphy infiltrated the Pentagon’s satellite systems and used them to search for Ulysses Klaue’s hideout near Salma Docks. He found a likely arms depot and recorded its coordinates while continuing to monitor the area in case Klaue did not meet Jason Bourne there.

• Murphy slipped through the Pentagon’s layered firewalls by transforming his body into data and entered its mainframe.
• Murphy took control of American military satellites and searched the abandoned ships near Salma Docks for Ulysses Klaue’s lair.
• Jason Bourne flew to New York and transferred to a flight bound for Africa after receiving the meeting details.
• Murphy spotted people moving around on an abandoned ship and identified the location as one of Ulysses Klaue’s arms depots.
• Murphy recorded the depot’s coordinates as leverage and began searching for the nearest American military base.

Jason Bourne met Ulysses Klaue at Salma Docks to negotiate sales of advanced armored vehicles and fighter jets, using the threat to Klaue’s weapons depot to keep him cautious. Klaue agreed to contact buyers and request samples, while privately weighing the risks of dealing with Ghost Industries.

• Jason Bourne followed Ulysses Klaue’s directions through Salma Docks and was searched before entering an old building.
• Jason Bourne showed Ulysses Klaue specifications for an armored vehicle and a fighter jet, then admitted he had once been a CIA assassin.
• Ulysses Klaue’s guards aimed their weapons at Jason Bourne, but he showed coordinates for Klaue’s abandoned-ship weapons depot and warned that it could be destroyed.
• Jason Bourne quoted prices of $1.2 million per armored vehicle and $150 million per fighter jet, and Ulysses Klaue agreed to contact buyers and arrange samples.
• After Jason Bourne left, Ulysses Klaue worried that Ghost Industries had found his most important stronghold, which contained Vibranium.
• Maria Hill noticed that a more advanced armored vehicle and a Quinjet were being built, though she could not access their specifications or combat capabilities.

Jack oversaw the modified armored vehicle and Quinjet as Murphy used military transport routes to send them and the Smiths to Africa. The equipment reached Jason Bourne, while S.H.I.E.L.D. and the military struggled to discover who had arranged the shipment.

• Maria Hill questioned Jack about the unusual production order, and Jack said he would carry it out and ask headquarters about it.
• Maria Hill reported the order to Nick Fury, who told her not to stop it and assigned Phil Coulson to watch the Smiths.
• Murphy remotely operated the autopilot-equipped armored vehicle and Quinjet and arranged their secret transport from a California military base to Africa.
• Phil Coulson and Melinda May followed the Smiths to the military base but could not enter, so Phil reported back to Nick Fury.
• The Smiths parachuted into Africa with the equipment, and Jenny Smith joined Jason Bourne aboard the Quinjet.
• Nick Fury protested to military officials, but the military found that Murphy had erased the shipment records and surveillance footage.

Jason Bourne and the Smiths met Ulysses Klaue in the wilderness to demonstrate advanced weapons, while Murphy secretly controlled the armored vehicle and aircraft. Klaue began inspecting the vehicles, unaware that the deal was a trap.

• John Smith and Jason Bourne traveled to the rendezvous point while Jenny Smith stayed aboard the remotely controlled aircraft.
• Ulysses Klaue arrived with more than thirty armed pickups and positioned them around the meeting site.
• Jason Bourne met Klaue, and the aircraft landed beside the armored vehicle with John Smith and Jenny Smith stepping out.
• Klaue sent a man to check that the vehicles were empty, then brought several men to inspect the armored vehicle.
• Jason Bourne explained the vehicle’s ammunition capacity and other available models as Klaue examined it.

Murphy’s team attacked Ulysses Klaue’s convoy, captured him, and seized his abandoned ship armory. They questioned Klaue about the Vibranium he stole from Wakanda, but he was still demanding to know who their boss was.

• The Smiths ambushed Klaue’s guards as the fighter launched rockets and its weapons devastated the convoy.
• Jason Bourne tied up Klaue, and he and the Smiths armed themselves before heading for the abandoned ship armory.
• The three found only a few guards and freed the unarmed laborers held there.
• John Smith struck Klaue, and Jason Bourne threatened him with a pistol until Klaue panicked at their knowledge of the stolen Wakandan metal.

Jason Bourne and the Smiths recovered Ulysses Klaue’s Vibranium for Ghost Industries and transported it to the company’s underground warehouse in America. Murphy returned to Africa, while he considered seeking technology from another world to build himself a body.

• Ulysses Klaue led John Smith and the others to the hidden Vibranium, and they loaded every container onto the Quinjet.
• Jason Bourne and the Smiths tied Ulysses Klaue to the armored vehicle and left with the shipment, while Murphy monitored him.
• Murphy flew the Quinjet to America, where Old John transferred the Vibranium to the underground warehouse beneath the Ghost Motors Industrial Zone.
• Murphy weighed using Transformers technology to create himself a body against traveling to another world for better technology.
• Old John sealed the warehouse without drawing the workers’ attention, and Murphy returned to Africa to rejoin the group guarding Ulysses Klaue.

Jason Bourne and his companions brought Ulysses Klaue to Wakanda as a gesture of goodwill and asked to trade for Vibranium. After hearing Murphy’s explanation, T’Chaka agreed to meet the visitors and invite them into Wakanda.

• Jason Bourne and the Smiths delivered Ulysses Klaue to W'Kabi and offered him in exchange for Wakandan friendship and permission to trade for Vibranium.
• Murphy called W'Kabi and explained that he wanted Vibranium, not conflict with Wakanda.
• W'Kabi returned to the royal palace and told T'Chaka and the tribal leaders about the visitors’ offer.
• W'Kabi asked T'Chaka to accept the terms so he could take custody of Ulysses Klaue.
• T'Chaka decided to invite the visitors into Wakanda and meet them himself.