Recaps

Dilos escaped Harry Falk in his Lamborghini, then used an extreme drift to crash into him and knock him unconscious. He checked Jonathan and Martha for injuries before leaving and calling Lex.

• Harry Falk chased Dilos and the two elderly people toward the Lamborghini, but Dilos got them inside and started the car just before Falk could reach them.
• Dilos fastened Jonathan and Martha's seat belts, then turned the Lamborghini around and drove toward Harry Falk despite Jonathan's protests.
• Dilos used a high-speed drift to strike Harry Falk and send him flying into a tree, leaving him badly injured and unconscious but alive.
• Dilos checked Jonathan and Martha with X-Ray Vision, advised them to get examined, and left while they called after him.
• Dilos dialed Lex's number.

Dilos told Lex that the Fountain of Youth had failed to preserve a Mutant’s youth, then left Smallville after secretly preparing Chloe to learn Clark’s secret. Chloe watched Dilos’s videos, accepted Clark’s powers, and decided to pursue him as Dilos headed to New York.

• Dilos explained that Lex’s Fountain of Youth only briefly rejuvenated a Mutant before the man rapidly aged and died.
• Lex revealed that people wanted to buy the film rights to Harry Potter, and Dilos said their interest was predictable.
• Dilos left Smallville without telling Chloe goodbye, leaving her a locked box and a video delivered by Gabe.
• Chloe watched footage of Clark displaying superhuman strength and speed, then heard Dilos explain why he had hidden Clark’s powers from her.
• Chloe decided to pursue Clark, opened the box, and found Dilos’s guide to winning him over.
• Dilos arrived in New York and guessed that Chloe had found his gifts, while the preview introduced his upcoming meeting with Peter Parker.

Dr. Connors welcomed his new interns and described his goal of using science to heal disabilities, before Dilos Sullivan proposed cross-species gene therapy. Dilos asked Dr. Connors to let him prove his biological expertise.

• Dr. Connors welcomed six interns to his laboratory and explained his ambition to heal his severed arm and eliminate illness-related suffering.
• A Chinese American intern suggested stem cells, and Dr. Connors said his own approach was bolder.
• Dilos Sullivan proposed introducing genes from other species to promote cell regeneration, using spotted gar genes as an example.
• An intern mocked the idea because patients might grow gills, but Dilos said scientists had to face such problems directly.
• Dr. Connors recognized Dilos as Lex Luthor's recommended candidate and reconsidered his assumption that the novelist lacked scientific talent.
• Dilos told Dr. Connors that biology was his strongest subject and asked for a chance to prove it.

Dr. Connors tested Dilos and the other interns with a timed laboratory task, and Dilos’s extraordinary speed and precision impressed him. As Dilos waited for the centrifuge, Dr. Connors asked what he had learned at school.

• Dr. Connors introduced the interns to his laboratory and explained that he needed a capable assistant.
• Dr. Connors assigned the interns stations and asked them to extract liquid from two flowers, mix it with powder, and separate the mixture within an hour.
• Dilos carefully washed and finely chopped both flowers at remarkable speed while the other interns were still cutting theirs.
• Dilos skillfully distilled the petals, mixed the extracted liquids with the powder, and put the mixture in the centrifuge.
• Dr. Connors watched Dilos complete the procedure without mistakes and asked him what he had learned at school.

Dilos earned Dr. Connors's senior assistant position and quickly mastered the additional research notes he received. While wondering how to learn more from Dr. Connors, he wandered into Queens and encountered Peter Parker, whom he realized was Spider-Man.

• Dilos proved his biology knowledge and practical skills, earning Dr. Connors's senior assistant position among the seven interns.
• Dr. Connors gave the interns research notes, and Dilos received a packet twice as thick as the others'.
• Dilos refused to share his extra notes and mastered all their contents in less than five days.
• After finishing his lab work, Dilos wandered into Queens while thinking about how to learn more from Dr. Connors.
• Dilos met Peter Parker, then recognized him as Spider-Man when a hostile teenager called out to him.

Dilos intervened when Flash confronted Peter over talking to Mary Jane, and quickly overpowered Flash and his two companions. He let the bullies go with a warning, leaving them shaken and fleeing.

• Flash confronted Peter and accused him of ignoring a warning to stay away from Mary Jane.
• When one of Flash's companions tried to shove Dilos, Dilos seized his arm and left him pleading in pain.
• Flash punched Dilos, but Dilos blocked the blow and knocked Flash to the ground.
• Flash's remaining follower ran away, while Dilos released the injured short guy and explained that his arm was not broken.
• Dilos warned Flash and the short guy to stop bullying people, and they fled together.

Dilos and Peter Parker bonded over Dilos’s muscles, writing, and scientific knowledge, and Peter invited him home. Dilos accepted, hoping to find a hidden backup of Richard Parker’s research.

• Peter admired Dilos’s strength and asked how he had built his muscles.
• Dilos removed his glasses, and Peter recognized him as the author Dilos Sullivan and excitedly introduced himself.
• Dilos accidentally called Peter “Spider-Man,” then covered his slip and put his glasses back on to avoid attracting fans and paparazzi.
• Dilos and Peter chatted about books, biology, and physics, and Peter invited Dilos to his home.
• Dilos accepted the invitation, hoping Richard Parker had hidden a backup of his research on cross-species genetic transplantation.

At Peter Parker’s home, Dilos enjoyed dinner with Peter and his family before remembering the notebook Richard Parker had hidden beneath the basement. After reading its contents with X-Ray Vision, Dilos recognized the correct decay-rate algorithm, then sensed someone watching him and tracked the watcher fleeing across the street.

• Aunt May and Uncle Ben welcomed Dilos warmly and urged him and Peter to eat more.
• Dilos left Peter’s home and returned to his rented room, where he resisted calling his family in Smallville.
• Dilos recalled using X-Ray Vision to read Richard Parker’s hidden notebook and recognized the symbol for the decay-rate algorithm.
• Dilos wondered how to get the remaining knowledge from Dr. Connors.
• Dilos sensed a watcher nearby, located the watcher on a rooftop across the street, and prepared to pursue them as they fled.

Dilos pursued the shadow who had been spying on him, using his psychic ability to track the man through the alleys. He caught and restrained the shadow, then demanded to know who he was and who had sent him.

• Dilos spotted the shadow fleeing down the building and leaped across the rooftops to pursue him.
• Dilos raced after the shadow and followed him through winding alleys with help from his psychic senses.
• After realizing Dilos was deliberately prolonging the chase, the shadow grew angry, and Dilos struck his knee with a thrown tactical self-defense pen.
• Dilos immobilized the fallen shadow with An Jin, slammed him against a wall, and grabbed him by the throat.
• Dilos demanded to know the shadow's identity and who had sent him to spy.

Dilos discovered that the man who tried to flee was Jay Pike, a Mafia tracker working for Kingpin, and learned Pike had been watching Dr. Connors rather than targeting him. Three days later, Kingpin confronted his men over Pike’s death and demanded they identify the masked killer, whose actions had erased surveillance footage across New York.

• Dilos stopped Jay Pike from biting down on a hidden cyanide capsule and searched his memories.
• Dilos learned that Jay Pike worked for William Fisk, also known as Kingpin, and had been tracking Dr. Connors and his interns.
• Dilos checked Jay Pike for surveillance devices, then killed him and sent Kingpin a threatening video using Pike’s phone.
• At Fisk Enterprises, Kingpin demanded to know who had killed Jay Pike and sent him the video.
• Ster and an elderly man reported that the masked killer had destroyed street cameras and police surveillance backups, leaving them unable to identify the culprit.
• Kingpin ordered his men to keep a low profile while investigating the killer and threatened anyone who harmed his people.

Dilos earned Dr. Connors’s trust and became his lab assistant and student, learning cross-species genetic technology. When Dr. Connors identified the decay rate algorithm as the key unsolved problem, Dilos already knew the answer from Richard Parker’s notebook and planned to work backward from it.

• Over three days, Dilos impressed Dr. Connors and used ideas from Richard Parker’s notebook to draw closer to him.
• Dr. Connors invited Dilos to assist with his experiments and offered him a room in the lab, which Dilos eagerly accepted.
• Dr. Connors showed Dilos the core laboratory and taught him as they worked together over the following month.
• At the Goodheart Laboratory, Dr. Connors explained that the decay rate algorithm was the major obstacle to advancing cross-species genetic implantation.
• Dilos reassured Dr. Connors while privately planning to master the algorithm using the answer he had found in Richard Parker’s notebook.

Dilos gave up on reverse-engineering Richard Parker’s decay-rate algorithm and used it to design a serum based on mutant spider genetics. After a successful simulation and further testing with his own blood, he bred experimental spiders that began changing after exposure to the serum.

• Dilos struggled for days with failed simulations while helping Dr. Connors study Richard Parker’s notes.
• Dilos secretly used the lab’s simulator to test spider gene pairings with genetic data from other species.
• The simulator found viable gene combinations, including pairings based on large felines and ants.
• Dilos analyzed his own blood and ran more simulations to create a spider serum tailored to reduce rejection in his body.
• Dilos placed more than a dozen experimental spiders in a sealed container, and they began changing after inhaling the aerosolized serum.

Dilos found a working decay-rate algorithm that let Dr. Connors successfully simulate lizard-gene limb regeneration, while keeping the source of his work secret. He began preparing the mutated spiders for breeding and planned to use their venom to gain enhanced abilities, a process he expected to take at least a month.

• Dilos entered the algorithm into the simulator, and the simulated mouse regrew its amputated limb without adverse effects.
• Dr. Connors thanked Dilos and agreed to run more implantation simulations before making the serum.
• Dilos concealed his use of Richard Parker’s notes and his illegal experiments, then gave Dr. Connors the algorithm.
• Dilos separated the modified spiders into individual containers and planned to move them into sturdier ones after the serum fused with their bodies.
• Dilos planned to breed second-generation mutant spiders and later use their venom to make a serum for himself before falling asleep.

Dilos raised a second generation of Mutant Spiders, finding them more stable and less aggressive but unusually fast-growing and physically powerful. After completing the Spider Serum, he injected it into his arm and waited for the mutation to begin.

• Dr. Connors made gene-implantation serums and began testing them on mice in alloy containers while Dilos rented a hidden house and kept studying for his exams.
• Dilos's first-generation Mutant Spiders fused with the serum, became aggressive, and bred a second generation, after which he killed the first generation.
• Dilos found that the second-generation spiders were more genetically stable, grew quickly, ate heavily, and developed tiger-like fangs and claws, along with impressive speed and jumping ability.
• Dilos collected venom from more than thirty second-generation Mutant Spiders, prepared a syringe of Spider Serum, and injected it into a vein in his arm.

After injecting the Venom serum, Dilos endured an eight-hour transformation and woke with greatly enhanced strength and an overwhelming hunger. After eating enough to restore his body, he discovered that sharp claws could extend and retract between his fingers.

• Dilos endured the heat from the Venom serum’s effects for eight hours before exhaustion forced him to sleep.
• Dilos woke hungry, cracked a tile with one step, and realized the serum had changed him despite his unchanged appearance.
• Dilos tore off his fridge door and devoured its contents, then ordered dozens of fast-food meals when he remained ravenous.
• Dilos ate the deliveries until his body regained its normal shape and his hunger subsided.
• Dilos discovered four pairs of long, pale claws between his fingers, which silently retracted as he watched.

Dilos discovered that his mutation had given him retractable tiger claws, greatly increased strength and senses, Spider-Sense, and the ability to stick to ceilings. The chapter ended when Dr. Connors called to report that someone had broken into the lab and stolen all the experimental serums.

• Dilos made four pairs of enormous, durable claws emerge from the webbing between his fingers and found that they could gouge an aluminum alloy baseball bat.
• Dilos crushed the baseball bat without trying and broke a syringe needle while attempting to take a blood sample.
• Dilos discovered his heightened senses and a threat-detecting ability he identified as Spider-Sense.
• Dilos found himself stuck to the ceiling, then fell when the suction in his feet disappeared and landed safely.
• Dilos answered his ringing phone, and Dr. Connors told him someone had broken into the lab and stolen all the experimental serums.

After thieves stole three vials of Dr. Connors's serum and wrecked his lab, Dilos discovered his telepathy had grown stronger and realized Dr. Connors was still in danger. He offered to shelter Dr. Connors and discuss the situation at his rental place.

• Dr. Connors told Dilos that the serum had been stolen but the research records were safe because he had kept them out of electronic storage.
• Dilos burned the second-generation Mutant Spiders, discovered he could easily control hundreds and crush their minds, and destroyed the remaining evidence of his serum.
• Dilos arrived at Dr. Connors's lab and found its entrance blasted open and several pieces of equipment smashed.
• Dr. Connors told Dilos that three serum vials were missing and that the thieves had struck while he was away.
• Dilos offered Dr. Connors money to rebuild the lab, then invited him to stay at his rental place because the thieves might target him next.

Dr. Connors refused both Dilos’s offer of a place to stay and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s protection, despite warnings that the people who stole his research would return. After overhearing Coulson’s private instructions with suddenly enhanced hearing, Dilos decided to go home and investigate the changes to his body.

• Dilos offered Dr. Connors a place to stay, but Connors refused because he feared putting Dilos in danger.
• Agent Phil Coulson arrived with four agents, identified S.H.I.E.L.D., and urged Dr. Connors to accept protection.
• Dr. Connors rejected Coulson’s offer, suspecting S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted his research, and Coulson left with his team.
• Dilos heard Coulson’s distant conversation about assigning Teams B and C to watch Dr. Connors, then realized his hearing had temporarily become much stronger.
• Dilos decided not to persuade Dr. Connors again and headed home to investigate his altered body and adjust his penetrating vision.

Dilos examined the mutations in his body and discovered that his nerves had developed enough to let him control the shape and movement of his claws. He tested his enhanced strength and learned he could control his electrostatic adhesion, though his heightened senses still needed practice.

• Dilos used his Super Glasses to inspect his body and found strange, muscle-like structures throughout it that helped make his skin resistant to blades and bullets.
• Dilos transformed his fingers into long claws and discovered he could reshape and move them by controlling the muscles and dense nerves beneath his skin.
• Dilos changed his claws into different forms, including curved blades, a rod, and a dagger, but found they could not detach and had a maximum length of thirty centimeters.
• Dilos tested his strength at a junkyard and estimated that he could exert around one ton of force normally and three tons in a burst.
• Dilos decided he still needed to control his enhanced hearing and smell, then demonstrated that he could easily activate his electrostatic adhesion to lift a keyboard with one finger.

Kingpin ordered Train to bring him a new subject for a job after scientists failed to reproduce Connors's serum. In Dilos, Dilos intervened when a restaurant owner racially abused an Asian girl, earning her thanks while secretly using telepathy to sway the crowd.

• Kingpin questioned the scientists' progress on the green serum, and Train reported that the men responsible for the recent trouble had become test subjects for Tyrannosaurus.
• Kingpin ordered Train to bring him a man for a job, and Train left relieved that Kingpin had spared him.
• Dilos, having gained better control of his enhanced abilities, heard a restaurant owner insult and try to eject an Asian girl who had already ordered food.
• Dilos stood up for the girl, threatened to expose the owner, and rallied the onlookers until the owner apologized and handed over her food.
• The girl thanked Dilos as he prepared to leave, while he secretly reflected that he had used telepathy to influence the crowd.

Dilos met Qin Jiayin and suspected she might be a Mutant after noticing her reaction to the word, though he chose not to question her. Back at his rental house, he disguised himself as Bruce to receive a package, then used its 3D printer to make a sinister skull mask for his plans.

• Dilos introduced himself to Qin Jiayin, spoke with her in Chinese, and exchanged contact information with her.
• Dilos recalled that Qin Jiayin's heartbeat and breathing had changed when a man nearly called her a Mutant, but decided not to ask about her abilities.
• Dilos altered his appearance and wore a black wig to receive a large package under the name Bruce.
• Dilos opened the package, set up its 3D printer, and produced a white, demonic skull mask to conceal his identity.

Dilos watched reports of Batman’s growing impact in Gotham and anticipated a major upheaval, so he hurried his preparations. Meanwhile, Kingpin angrily blamed Batman for the loss of twenty bases and ordered Train to carry out a plan in three days.

• Dilos saw news reports that Batman had helped lower Gotham City’s crime rate, while the police commissioner vowed to hunt him down.
• Dilos condemned Gotham’s corrupt law enforcement and sensed the city would soon erupt into conflict, prompting him to speed up his gadget work and future plans.
• Kingpin raged over Batman’s destruction of twenty of his bases while Train stayed silent beside him.
• Kingpin told Train he had changed his mind and ordered him to carry out their plan in three days, and Train agreed.

Dilos ran into Qin Jiayin at a mall, teased her about desserts, and amazed her with his rapid mental arithmetic before they shared an awkwardly flirtatious conversation at a coffee shop. A sudden sense of danger made Dilos tackle Qin Jiayin to the floor just before a black car smashed through the coffee shop window and crushed a server.

• Dilos found Qin Jiayin looking at desserts and teased her until she angrily walked away.
• Dilos caught up with Qin Jiayin, and she challenged him with difficult arithmetic questions that he answered correctly within seconds.
• Dilos continued teasing Qin Jiayin until she shouted at him, then tried to make peace by offering to pay for her meals.
• Dilos accidentally suggested that he spoke sweetly only to Qin Jiayin, leaving them both embarrassed.
• Dilos sensed danger and tackled Qin Jiayin to the floor as a black car burst through the coffee shop window and crushed a server.

After a catastrophic traffic shutdown and the collapse of communications across the United States, Dilos suspected Kingpin was behind the crisis. He and Qin Jiayin sheltered from a panicked crowd and discovered two enormous lizard-like monsters crushing cars in the street.

• Dilos saved Qin Jiayin from a sedan that flew through the intersection, then saw that a massive traffic collision had killed and injured people.
• Dilos learned that traffic across the United States had stopped and failed to reach Chloe, Gabe, or anyone else by phone or internet.
• Dilos considered who could have caused the crisis and identified Wilson Fisk, also known as Kingpin, as his prime suspect.
• Dilos pulled Qin Jiayin into a supermarket as hundreds of terrified people fled down the street.
• Dilos saw two five-meter-tall, half-human, half-lizard monsters crush a car beneath their feet.

Dilos and Qin Jiayin hid from two enormous Lizard Monsters, but after the monsters devoured a man and began hunting the fleeing crowd, Dilos used his ability to carry Qin Jiayin up a wall and escape.

• Dilos hid with Qin Jiayin behind cargo and watched the two Lizard Monsters approach.
• The Lizard Monsters sensed a middle-aged man beneath a truck, flipped the vehicle, and ate him.
• Dilos decided they had to leave because the monsters could detect their scent.
• People fled from their hiding places, and the Lizard Monsters chased them down and killed them.
• Dilos scooped up Qin Jiayin and climbed a wall using static electricity to escape while the monsters pursued the crowd.