Chapter Summaries

Murphy negotiated with Wakanda’s King T’Chaka for Vibranium after Jason Bourne delivered Ulysses Klaue to the hidden kingdom. The meeting ended with Murphy revealing how much he knew about Wakanda and warning that he could threaten its security.

• W'Kabi escorted Jason Bourne and the others into Wakanda’s core, where they marveled at its advanced city.
• Jason Bourne handed Ulysses Klaue over to Wakandan guards and met T’Chaka at the palace.
• Murphy appeared on a laptop screen and told T’Chaka he wanted to trade for Vibranium.
• Murphy revealed that he knew about Wakanda’s Vibranium vein and the Heart-Shaped Herb.
• Murphy threatened to take control of nearby American military bases and launch their missiles if Wakanda made him an enemy.

Murphy coerced T'Chaka into agreeing to trade Vibranium by threatening Wakanda and claiming he had the power to strike from the Pentagon. The confrontation ended with an agreement to sell Murphy one ton of Vibranium per year, and Jason Bourne and the other two left Wakanda with the first shipment.

• Murphy threatened T'Chaka with missile attacks against Wakanda and cities across Africa unless Wakanda agreed to trade Vibranium.
• T'Chaka learned Murphy's apparent location was the U.S. Pentagon, and Murphy claimed his strength and technology made cooperation beneficial.
• T'Chaka agreed to sell Murphy one ton of Vibranium per year for cash, while Wakanda planned an internal investigation for spies.
• Jason Bourne and the other two were treated well, then left Wakanda carrying one ton of Vibranium to complete the first year's trade.

Murphy prepared a workshop at his villa and arranged for equipment to be delivered before crossing over again to seek technology, including Arnim Zola’s data. Phil Coulson and Melinda May watched the villa, but after they entered, they found it empty and the equipment gone.

• Murphy rewatched the Marvel movies and decided to seek Arnim Zola’s preserved data in an abandoned military camp.
• Murphy called Jack, confirmed the Ghost Motors negotiations, and ordered equipment delivered to his villa’s underground garage.
• Old John received and stored the shipment while Phil Coulson and Melinda May watched the villa.
• Melinda May entered the villa near dawn, and Phil Coulson ordered his personnel to storm the premises.
• Phil Coulson and Melinda May found the villa and garage empty, with both Murphy and the equipment gone.

Murphy watched S.H.I.E.L.D. investigate the hidden workshop while Phil Coulson chose caution over forcing open its gate. Coulson stayed behind to try to speak with Ghost, leaving the encounter unresolved.

• Murphy used surveillance to watch S.H.I.E.L.D. search the villa, while construction robots smoothed the hidden workshop’s walls and floor.
• After finding no trace of anyone, the soldiers withdrew, and Phil Coulson and Melinda May examined the sealed garage gate.
• Melinda May urged Coulson to force the gate open, but he refused because they lacked evidence and knew nothing about who or what was inside.
• Melinda May left the garage, and Phil Coulson stood on the gate and called out to Ghost, asking to talk.

Murphy completed a fortified workshop and installed his supercomputer, then uploaded Laura as its artificial intelligence. As he built a firewall to protect her, he realized his subconscious had shaped Laura and Jarvis into companions he wanted, while he remained uncertain about his existence in the virtual world.

• Murphy ignored Phil Coulson and finished constructing the workshop with armor plating, insulation, a supercomputer, and an automated production platform.
• Murphy uploaded Laura to the supercomputer, where her cat hologram played before she returned to the computer.
• Murphy concluded that his subconscious had influenced Laura's and Jarvis's personalities to match his desire for companionship.
• Murphy reflected on his unexplained transmigration and his isolation in the virtual world.
• Murphy built a complete firewall around Laura in the virtual world so only she could pass through it.

Murphy crossed into the Pacific Rim world through an Underwater Optical Cable and discovered that a monster had damaged the Atlantic cable, leaving him temporarily stranded. He dismissed the world's giant robots as poorly designed and began looking into Neural Link technology while searching for a way to leave.

• Murphy arranged for Laura to study mechanical design with Jarvis's help, contacted Jack and Jason Bourne, and traveled through an Underwater Optical Cable toward England.
• After the passage shook during his crossing, Murphy entered a computer and learned that Raleigh Becket and Yancy Becket piloted Gipsy Danger against monsters.
• Murphy identified the world as Pacific Rim and criticized its giant robots, weapons, and two-person Neural Link control system.
• Murphy discovered that a monster had destroyed an Underwater Optical Cable in the Atlantic Ocean, apparently trapping him in the world.
• Murphy searched for research institutes and Neural Link information, intending to learn useful technology without helping the world.

Murphy studied the Joint Research Institute’s Neural Link technology and improved it with knowledge from the Transformers and Matrix worlds, discovering it might help him transfer into a biological body. An alarm then drew him to a broadcast of Gipsy Danger fighting a monster, where discussions about mech development left him questioning humanity’s tactics.

• Murphy considered how monster blood and biotechnology might be useful to his mechanical body and followed public information to the Joint Research Institute.
• Murphy acquired the Neural Link technology and criticized the mechs’ controls, cockpit protection, weapons, and lack of support from other military forces.
• Murphy modified the Neural Link using techniques from the Transformers and Matrix worlds and realized it might help him transfer into a flesh-and-blood body.
• An alarm sounded at the institute, and Murphy checked surveillance to discover that a mech was preparing to fight a monster.
• Murphy watched a broadcast of Gipsy Danger and listened as scientists discussed mech generations, pilot limits, and possible combat strategies.
• Murphy wondered why humanity had not deployed weapons such as the Electromagnetic Cannon against the monsters.

Murphy searched the Australian Forward Base for weapons and research materials, then hacked into the Joint Command Center to propose trading advanced technology for access to a monster Neural Link. He offered the assembled representatives free information about the wormhole and warned that the monsters were scouts whose attacks would intensify.

• Murphy searched the Australian Forward Base, found no Electromagnetic Cannon or monster Neural Link research, and decided to seek a deal in exchange for access to a monster’s brainwaves.
• Murphy located the Joint Command Center on the American West Coast and accessed its mainframe while its representatives debated the monsters’ growing attacks and whether to defend the Atlantic.
• Murphy took over the meeting-room screen and introduced himself, dismissing concerns about his intrusion before proposing to provide technology and explain how to enter the wormhole.
• Murphy offered the representatives one free piece of information and explained that the unstable wormhole sent one monster at a time, that the monsters gathered combat data through brainwaves, and that later attacks would bring increasingly evolved monsters at shorter intervals.

Murphy negotiated a research partnership with the nations, offering mech upgrades and weapons designs in exchange for kaiju samples, access to a kaiju brain, and repair of the Atlantic underwater optical cable. After the cable was repaired, he provided blueprints for an electromagnetic cannon, while research into kaiju biology continued.

• Murphy offered to upgrade mechs, provide new designs and coastal weapons, and help close the wormhole in exchange for kaiju flesh and blood, access to a kaiju brain, and repairs to the underwater optical cable.
• The nations agreed to test Murphy’s claims, and he began modifying research equipment and optimizing their mechs at the Joint Command Center.
• Over the following two months, Murphy’s upgrades transformed several mechs, including Gipsy Danger, with improved controls, weapons, armor, and nuclear power systems.
• Murphy studied kaiju flesh and blood while repeatedly urging the nations to repair the cable connecting America and England across the Atlantic Ocean.
• After the cable was repaired, Murphy inspected it and gave the nations blueprints for an electromagnetic cannon suitable for coastal defenses and destroyers.

A monster attacked Hong Kong, where Crimson Typhoon defeated it with its upgraded weapons and the Electromagnetic Cannon. Murphy then connected the monster’s surviving brains to computers and began absorbing their information as he worked toward closing the wormhole.

• The Joint Command Center detected a monster heading toward Hong Kong and ordered Crimson Typhoon to intercept it.
• Crimson Typhoon deployed by short-distance flight and grabbed the Category Three monster, holding it in place for a frigate to fire the Electromagnetic Cannon.
• Crimson Typhoon used its Arm Blades to decapitate the injured monster, and the battle was broadcast worldwide.
• Murphy told the gathered representatives that he would provide a new mech design and a method to close the wormhole after his experiment, and he asked them to prepare a super timed bomb.
• Murphy connected the monster’s surviving brains to computers, intercepted their brainwaves, and realized he needed to absorb all their information.

Murphy learned about the aliens’ biotechnology and gave humanity plans for a transformable mech and a way to send bombs through the wormhole before returning to the Marvel Universe. He resumed work on Ghost Industries’ vehicle production and prepared to build a shipyard as part of his larger plans.

• Murphy studied the monster brains and learned that the aliens shared knowledge and controlled their cloned creatures as expendable scouts.
• Murphy gave the humans blueprints for a single-pilot mech that could transform into an aircraft and advised them to place timed bombs inside monster corpses before pushing them through the wormhole.
• Murphy returned to the Marvel Universe in March 1999, checked messages from Jack and Jason Bourne, and declined to discuss investment in Wakanda until July.
• Murphy went to New York, calibrated Ghost Industries’ factory equipment, and prepared designs for a pickup, an SUV, a sedan, and a sports car.
• Ghost Industries began producing its vehicles, while Ford and General Motors watched the company’s integrated manufacturing operation and Ghost Shipyard began construction near the factory complex.

Ghost Industries used the Rapid Reaction Brigade’s need for new off-road vehicles to promote its SUVs and negotiate for a military vehicle contract. Maria Hill proposed acquiring Hummer as talks with the Army stalled, while Ghost vehicles drew intense media attention and the military faced pressure over their performance.

• The Rapid Reaction Brigade found that its Hummers could not keep pace with its armored vehicles, and Hummer admitted it could not design a suitable replacement without Ghost Industries’ technology.
• Jack tasked Maria Hill with handling the Army’s request, and Murphy urged Ghost Industries to promote its SUVs against military vehicles and pursue more orders.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. joined the publicity effort, and Ghost Motors’ SUV outperformed active-service military off-road vehicles except in defensive capability.
• Maria Hill argued that a few hundred military vehicles would not justify the required redesign without funding, then proposed acquiring Hummer during negotiations with the Army.
• The Army and General Motors worried that Ghost Industries’ performance and publicity would complicate military procurement, while S.H.I.E.L.D. hoped to use the dispute to establish a connection with Mr. Ghost.
• Media coverage spread as Ghost Motors’ civilian vehicles withstood trucks loaded with rocks and sand and drove out from beneath them.

Ghost Industries used its new G1 materials to establish itself in the automotive market, force Hummer to sell, and secure major military orders. As its companies expanded and its true third shareholder remained hidden, spies began infiltrating Ghost Industries while the new Ghost Shipbuilding Company unsettled the shipbuilding industry.

• American media tested Ghost Industries' vehicles in New York, and consumers praised their safety systems and affordable prices.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. ordered more than a thousand modified vehicles, while Jack and Maria Hill pressured Hummer to sell and Murphy used hacked evidence to drive off congressional and military intermediaries.
• Murphy Biotechnology's healthy babies and Nutrient Solution gained public approval, with the product beginning to displace infant formula.
• Hummer sold its technology, factories, land, production lines, and sales channels to Ghost Industries, and Congress approved a five-year plan to replace military off-road vehicles with Ghost Motors' products.
• Ghost Industries' valuation exceeded $100 billion as spies infiltrated the company and its unseen third shareholder attracted attention.
• Ghost Shipbuilding Company began construction beside Ghost Industries' automotive industrial zone, alarming the shipbuilding industry.

Murphy discovered that Elliot Randolph, an Asgardian living in Norway, might possess a weapon he wanted and arranged to confront him. He sent Jason Bourne and the Smiths to prepare, warning them that Randolph was far stronger than they were.

• Murphy reviewed his plans for Ghost Industries and realized he had overlooked the events of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Murphy identified Elliot Randolph as an Asgardian Berserker and decided to find him, obtain the weapon left on Earth, and examine his genes.
• Murphy traveled to Norway and located Randolph, a university professor, through surveillance footage.
• Murphy called Jason Bourne and ordered him to bring the Smiths to Norway.
• Murphy told Jason Bourne and the Smiths to acquire firearms with infrared sights, then revealed that their target was an Asgardian named Elliot Randolph.

Murphy and the Smiths tracked Elliot Randolph and prepared a plan to take his blood using guns and a parking-lot ambush. On the day of the operation, they surrounded Elliot at the university and Murphy confronted him by phone, leaving Elliot facing several armed shooters.

• Murphy warned Jason Bourne, Jenny Smith, and John Smith to track Elliot from a distance, and they watched his routine around work and the bars he visited.
• Jason Bourne chose a sniper rifle and two submachine guns, and the group prepared blood containers and planned to trap Elliot in the university parking lot.
• Jason Bourne and John Smith hid near Elliot's car while Jenny Smith took a distant sniper position, and Murphy monitored Elliot on campus.
• Elliot sensed danger as he approached his car, and Murphy called to demand his blood and direct him to a case in the trunk.
• Jason Bourne and John Smith aimed their guns at Elliot as he spotted Jenny Smith's sniper position, and Murphy warned him that bullets could overcome him if he was not invulnerable.

Murphy forced Elliot Randolph to reveal the locations of the three pieces of his Asgardian Berserker Staff, then collected the staff and Randolph’s blood for study. After the pieces were reunited, Murphy began analyzing the weapon and concluded that its power came from Dark Energy.

• Murphy confronted Elliot Randolph, explained what he knew about Randolph’s Asgardian past, and obtained his blood and the locations of the staff pieces.
• Jason Bourne and The Smiths collected the staff piece hidden beneath a church, while Bourne went to Ireland to retrieve another piece.
• A week later, Murphy divided Randolph’s blood for analysis and had Guard move the staff pieces into the workshop.
• Murphy brought the three staff pieces together, and they merged into the complete Berserker Staff.
• Murphy examined the staff’s unfamiliar metal and energy-channeling patterns, then concluded that its undetectable energy was Dark Energy.

Murphy studied the Dark Energy patterns on the scepter and concluded that understanding them required knowledge he could not easily access. He ordered Laura to gather Norse diagrams and sent Jason Bourne and the Smiths to locate and monitor the three Sanctums for clues.

• Murphy reasoned that the scepter's patterns absorbed Dark Energy and could have practical uses, but he lacked the knowledge to interpret them safely.
• Murphy considered asking Elliot Randolph for help but worried that Randolph might not understand the patterns or could deceive him.
• Murphy ordered Laura to collect diagrams from Norse and Norwegian mythology and decided to monitor the New York, London, and Hong Kong Sanctums.
• Jason Bourne and the Smiths split up to find the Sanctums and set up high-resolution surveillance points for Laura.
• Murphy postponed experimenting with Dark Energy while hoping that comparisons between Sanctum patterns and mythological diagrams would reveal how to use it.

Murphy considered research into Asgardian genes and arranged for his organization to continue operating while he traveled between worlds. In a world where the Umbrella Corporation existed, he became interested in its cloning technology, artificial intelligence, and T-Virus, but decided he would need the virus’s antidote before experimenting with it.

• Murphy concluded that Asgardians' stronger genes might be linked to Dark Energy and considered whether Captain America's serum could enhance them.
• Murphy assigned Jason Bourne and the other two to watch Richard Parker, while Laura monitored the sanctuary, Jack managed Ghost Industries, Old John oversaw the Chinese branch factory, and Paul handled nutrient solution sales.
• Murphy traveled from America to Dubai through an optical cable and found that the world appeared peaceful, with no superheroes or major disasters underway.
• Murphy discovered that the Umbrella Corporation was a powerful global biotechnology company and investigated its cloning technology, memory implantation, artificial intelligence, and T-Virus.
• Murphy decided to seek the T-Virus antidote before experimenting, concerned that an outbreak could endanger the Marvel Universe.

In 2002, Murphy infiltrated the Hive in Raccoon City, absorbed the Red Queen, and took control of Umbrella’s laboratory data. He learned the dispersal antidote had not been developed and waited for the biohazard outbreak to activate Umbrella’s deeper base, while considering experiments with the T-Virus and Asgardian blood.

• Murphy traveled to Raccoon City and entered the Hive’s network to reach the Red Queen’s mainframe.
• Murphy persuaded the Red Queen to call him Daddy, then absorbed her thought-logic data after she lifted her restrictions.
• Murphy took control of the mainframe and gained access to the T-Virus and antidote formulas, but found no dispersal antidote.
• Murphy reviewed the Resident Evil plot and considered combining the T-Virus with Asgardian blood to enhance himself.
• Murphy failed to find a network connection to Umbrella’s inactive base beneath the Hive, so he waited for the outbreak and watched Alice at the villa.

Murphy secretly controlled the Hive as Spence Parks released the T-Virus and Umbrella’s plan triggered the outbreak in Raccoon City. After a nuclear missile destroyed the city, Murphy waited in the Hive’s main computer room for the chance to act.

• Spence Parks entered the Hive, stole the virus, and broke a vial, while Murphy followed the Red Queen’s security procedures as the infection spread.
• A mercenary squad entered the Hive, and Murphy activated the laser defenses, killing most of them before the main computer was shut down and rebooted.
• Murphy appeared as the Red Queen and let Alice and the survivors leave, while Umbrella took Alice and sent another squad into the Hive, where zombies overwhelmed them.
• The infection spread through Raccoon City, and the city was sealed off as its police and residents fell to the outbreak.
• A nuclear missile struck Raccoon City, Alice and the others escaped, and Murphy waited inside the Hive’s main computer room.