Chapter Summaries

James Gordon investigated the brutal murders of LuthorCorp and Wayne Enterprises employees and struggled to find clues before S.H.I.E.L.D. took over the case. The story left Gordon learning that another LuthorCorp shipment from Wayne Enterprises was due within an hour.

• James Gordon reviewed an autopsy report that attributed the victims' injuries to an unidentified large carnivore, while police dogs refused to follow the scent.
• Gordon suspected the murders involved more than ordinary crime, but held back his theories about Mutants or corporate rivals without evidence.
• Phil Coulson arrived and told Gordon that S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken over the case because it involved an unusual phenomenon.
• Gordon agreed to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D. and maintain public safety while Coulson withheld details under a confidentiality agreement.
• A female officer informed Gordon that another LuthorCorp shipment from Wayne Enterprises was scheduled to arrive in an hour.

Dilos posed as a S.H.I.E.L.D. consultant to oversee a genetic-material shipment in Gotham, using the delivery as bait for hostile observers. He incapacitated six of ten attackers with telepathy, but the remaining four transformed into huge snarling creatures and charged him.

• Dilos reassured Lex that he could handle the dangerous shipment meeting despite the storm and Lex’s concerns.
• Dilos disguised himself and joined the LuthorCorp workers as Wayne Enterprises employees delivered genetic material at the docks.
• After the other workers left, Dilos stayed behind and revealed that he had detected ten hostile mental signatures watching the shipment.
• Dilos struck the attackers’ mental weak points, knocking six unconscious.
• The remaining four attackers snarled and charged Dilos as he turned to face them.

Dilos defeated four werewolves with ease and discovered that one of the unconscious people nearby had a powerful psychic defense that rebounded his telepathic attack. He then spotted a distant figure in black armor and a bat-shaped helmet, leaving him shocked by the apparent arrival of Batman.

• Dilos approached four werewolves, who charged him from different directions, and knocked them all away with a single flurry of blows.
• The werewolves struggled to recover from their injuries, and Dilos observed their wounds healing rapidly before knocking them unconscious with strikes to their necks.
• Dilos used telepathy on the six unconscious people but was jolted when an unknown person's mental energy repelled his attack.
• Dilos looked toward the source of the psychic defense and recognized a distant armored figure with a bat-shaped helmet.

Dilos examined the transformed Werewolves and collected a blood sample before Batman confronted him about his work for Lex Luthor. Batman gathered his own samples and disappeared into the rain, leaving Dilos and the unconscious men behind.

• Dilos watched the four Werewolves turn into naked men and tested their vulnerability to silver.
• Dilos drew blood from one Werewolf using a specially made syringe.
• Batman approached Dilos and asked whether Lex Luthor had hired him and why he needed the Werewolves' blood.
• Dilos denied knocking out the six men and told Batman that S.H.I.E.L.D. would handle the situation.
• Batman collected fur and blood samples from the Werewolves, then left into the rain.

After the operation in Gotham, Gordon confronted Coulson over the civilian deaths while S.H.I.E.L.D. took custody of the criminals. Dilos returned to his lab to study the Werewolf’s blood and planned his next experiments, deciding to keep Masaroni in the spotlight until Jurassic Park opened.

• Gordon blamed Coulson for failing to warn them about the operation, and Coulson apologized while defending S.H.I.E.L.D.’s preparations.
• Coulson learned that one of Dilos’s men had killed four transformed criminals and suspected Nick Fury would try to recruit or monitor him.
• Dilos left Gotham before S.H.I.E.L.D. finished its handover and returned to his lab with a vial of Werewolf blood.
• Dilos analyzed the blood and concluded its unknown substances might be separated from wolf genes and fused with other genes.
• Dilos decided he needed more blood, a larger secure laboratory, and further experiments, but rejected taking Masaroni’s position before Jurassic Park opened.

Lucian and Henry Ducard argued over their failed serum experiments and the losses their alliance had suffered. Henry revealed that someone at International Genetic Technologies had supplied Lex Luthor with serum, leaving Lucian eager to pursue the suspected source.

• Henry Ducard told Lucian that their latest serum experiment had failed, and Lucian regretted not involving Curtis Connors.
• Lucian blamed Henry's men for the operation's failures, while Henry reminded him that both sides had lost valuable followers.
• Henry asked whether Lucian's four captured Werewolves would kill themselves, and Lucian said they would obey his orders.
• Henry revealed that someone at International Genetic Technologies had supplied Lex Luthor with serum and named Simon Masaroni and Adam Jones as suspects.
• Henry singled out Adam Jones as especially suspicious, and Lucian asked what Henry wanted him to do.

Jack learned that Dilos had secretly built a vast underground base beneath the center of Isla Sorna, using artificial metahumans to dig it out. Dilos planned to use the island’s remaining dinosaurs as guards, and Jack left convinced that the organization would soon become a formidable power.

• Jack questioned why Dilos had built the underground base on dangerous Isla Sorna, and Dilos showed him dinosaurs captured by the base’s cameras.
• Dilos revealed that the laboratory was a hundred meters underground at the island’s center and that its confusing tunnels would delay intruders.
• Dilos told Jack that the base covered about eight hundred thousand square meters and had been built with help from three serum-enhanced metahumans who could dig rapidly.
• Dilos explained that Lex had supplied metahuman blood samples, allowing him to create the digging serums and secretly control the base’s workers.
• Jack realized Dilos had kept dinosaur numbers high so they could guard the island, and he became convinced that Dilos’s organization would soon grow powerful.

After International Genetic Technologies was attacked and its laboratory data and staff disappeared, Dilos suspected someone was hunting for the serum’s creator and returned to impersonate Adam Jones. Nick Fury and Coulson investigated the attack, with Fury sending Coulson to question Adam Jones about what was stolen.

• Dilos moved his research operation to the underground base on Isla Sorna and enhanced Jack and the other elite combat personnel with a low-grade serum while secretly implanting suggestions in them.
• An informant told Dilos that International Genetic Technologies’ main laboratory data had been stolen, Masaroni was badly injured, and Adam Jones and the laboratory staff had vanished.
• Dilos concluded that someone had discovered the serum’s connection to Lex but did not know who made it, then returned covertly to the company disguised as the wounded Adam Jones.
• Dilos convened a board meeting and held a press conference to calm the directors and counter misleading reports.
• Nick Fury and Coulson discussed whether Lex Luthor was connected to the stolen serum and the werewolf attacks.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to question Adam Jones and find out exactly what International Genetic Technologies had lost.

Dilos, disguised as Adam Jones, resisted Coulson’s questioning and learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. had secretly hacked International Genetic Technologies. After using information from Lex to identify London as the attackers’ likely destination, Dilos considered taking full control of his company, while Nick Fury prepared to investigate the same man and meet Bruce Wayne.

• Dilos denied knowing who attacked his company and showed Coulson out of the conference room.
• Coulson told Nick Fury that Dilos seemed suspicious but had not triggered his watch’s lie detector, and Fury confirmed S.H.I.E.L.D. had downloaded the company’s files.
• Dilos overheard Coulson and Fury’s conversation, realized S.H.I.E.L.D. had hacked the company, and noted that he had already moved the important research equipment and data.
• Dilos identified the attackers as werewolves and professional assassins, then used Lex’s information and photographs to trace them to London.
• Dilos considered using the attack to take full control of International Genetic Technologies before pursuing the attackers.
• Nick Fury ordered Hill to send Coulson and three teams to London to investigate the Black man in Dilos’s photograph, then arranged to meet Bruce Wayne.

Dilos discussed the Werewolves’ abilities and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s plans with Coulson in London. Coulson introduced Sharon as Dilos’s mission assistant, leaving Dilos outraged that S.H.I.E.L.D. had assigned him the niece of one of its founding members.

• Coulson questioned Dilos about the Werewolves, and Dilos described their strength, speed, vulnerability to silver, and rapid healing.
• Coulson revealed that captured Werewolves had died by suicide in transit and that S.H.I.E.L.D. had armed its agents with silver bullets.
• Dilos explained how silver suppressed Werewolf regeneration and attributed his research to LuthorCorp.
• Coulson outlined a plan to search camera footage for the targets and said Dilos would lead a team with an assistant.
• Coulson introduced Sharon as Dilos’s assistant, and Dilos protested internally that she was a founding member’s niece.

Dilos questioned Sharon Carter about her age, then disappeared before the team could meet with him. After teasing Lex Luthor and extorting resources from him, Dilos encountered a pale man in a subway station whose scent seemed almost human.

• Dilos learned that Sharon Carter was only eighteen and asked her to gather the team to discuss his plan.
• When Dilos vanished from the hotel, Coulson called Lex Luthor, who joked that Sharon and the agents should try different ways to poach Agent Zero.
• Dilos revealed he had listened to the call through a device and threatened Lex, who eventually explained the misunderstanding to Coulson and gave Dilos resources.
• Using another identity in a subway station, Dilos studied a pale man whose scent reminded him of a human's but seemed not quite human.

Dilos discovered that the stranger he met in the subway was a Vampire connected to the world of Underworld, then set out to find a person whose blood could help him develop serums. In a London lair, Lucian forced Henry Duke to help the Werewolves capture people, and Henry agreed.

• Dilos scanned a leather-clad man in the subway, resisted his punch, and immobilized him with mental energy.
• Dilos searched the man's memories, learned he was a Vampire, and found references to Lucian, Selene, Viktor, Marcus, and Amelia.
• Dilos altered the Vampire's memories and released him, then left to search for a person whose blood could help him make better serums.
• Lucian berated his scientists for failing to make the serum and blamed Henry Duke for the failure.
• Lucian demanded that Henry help the Werewolves capture people, while threatening him with armed guards and approaching Werewolves.
• Henry Duke accepted Lucian's demand.

Dilos found Michael Corvin at St. Estevan Hospital and followed him after his shift, hoping to obtain his blood before he became a powerful vampire-Werewolf hybrid. He discovered that Selene and other vampires were already tracking Michael, and vowed to keep them from taking his blood.

• Dilos searched hospital employees’ memories and confirmed that Michael Corvin worked at St. Estevan Hospital.
• Dilos watched Michael finish his night shift and secretly followed him through the rain.
• Dilos sensed six people with unusual mental strength nearby, including three vampires following him and three men pursuing Michael.
• Dilos recognized Selene among the vampires closing in on him and startled her by turning toward her.
• Dilos left the vampires and vowed that no one would get Michael Corvin’s blood while he was around.

Selene pursued Dilos because she feared he might expose the vampires, but he vanished in the subway before she could catch him. Dilos abducted Michael Corvin and brought him beneath a bridge, where Michael discovered three armed men approaching.

• Selene considered whether the strange, powerful Dilos was a werewolf or a mutant and weighed capturing or killing him.
• Selene explained that she had tracked Dilos after one of her vampire team members was apparently attacked without noticing.
• Selene ordered her team to follow Dilos cautiously, but he disappeared around a corner in the subway station.
• Selene searched the station as four men vanished from the crowd over the next several seconds.
• Dilos took Michael Corvin beneath a bridge and said he wanted to talk and offer help.
• Michael tried to escape and saw three men approaching with pistols.

Dilos fought off three professional assassins who were equipped with Mental Control Blockers and had attacked Michael Corvin. After knocking them unconscious and destroying the blockers, he tried to search their memories, but the assassins convulsed and died as their psychic auras faded.

• Michael Corvin urged Dilos to run from the approaching assassins, but Dilos prepared to fight.
• An assassin shot Dilos in the head, but the bullet flattened against his skin without injuring him.
• The assassins attacked Dilos with katanas, but he knocked their blades away with Baji Cannon Hammer and knocked all three unconscious.
• Dilos used his Super Glasses to find and destroy the assassins' Mental Control Blockers, then began searching their minds.
• Dilos's mental power was repelled, and the three unconscious assassins began convulsing and bleeding as their psychic auras disappeared.

After three attackers died when their brains were destroyed, Dilos took Michael Corvin to a hotel and explained that the killers were after him because of his unusual blood. S.H.I.E.L.D. searched for the missing Agent Zero while Coulson considered his potential, and the chapter ended as Dilos prepared to reveal the secret of Michael's blood.

• Dilos discovered that the three attackers' brains had shattered and warned Michael Corvin that he was being targeted, so Michael agreed to accept Dilos's protection.
• Dilos said he needed to deal with the bodies to delay the attackers' search.
• At a S.H.I.E.L.D. safehouse, Coulson directed the surveillance effort and learned that Agent Zero had vanished without a trace.
• Coulson recognized Agent Zero's exceptional abilities and considered how valuable he could become to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Dilos brought Michael to another hotel, where he said Michael's blood was special and prepared to explain its connection to his family and other people's interests.

Dilos convinced Michael Corvin that vampires and werewolves were real, arranged a false identity, and smuggled him to Isla Sorna. After Lucian and Henry Duke discussed their failed search, Dilos returned to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s base disguised as Agent Zero and told Coulson he had found a clue about the Werewolves.

• Dilos explained Michael Corvin's unusual blood and offered to help him return to a normal life, though Michael would have to leave the country.
• Michael agreed, and Dilos arranged a false identity and smuggled him to the underground base on Isla Sorna before secretly returning to London.
• Lucian criticized Henry Duke for failing to find Michael, while Henry suggested a hidden force had repeatedly outplayed them.
• Lucian and Henry agreed to keep searching for Michael and discuss their next moves carefully because S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Vampires were watching the Werewolves.
• Coulson confronted Dilos, disguised as Agent Zero, for being away from the base for three days, and Dilos claimed he had found a clue about the Werewolves.

Dilos led Sharon and a team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents through London’s tunnels toward the werewolves’ hideout, distracting them from the maze-like passages with his teasing. After refreshing their scent-masking spray, the team heard the werewolves nearby and cautiously advanced.

• Dilos teased Sharon about her romantic prospects and offered to make her his assistant, while she angrily rejected his insults.
• Dilos guided the agents through confusing tunnels using his sense of smell and kept up a stream of chatter to help them stay oriented.
• Dilos detected that the werewolves’ gathering place was close, and Sharon signaled the agents to reapply their scent-masking spray.
• The agents moved into formation and advanced until they heard a growing commotion and beastly roars from nearby.

Dilos and Sharon located a large gathering of werewolves and called for more agents while Dilos prepared to scout alone. Nearby, Lucian’s experiments failed to find a suitable Corvinus descendant, and Dilos secretly watched him through a wall.

• Werewolves fought bloody matches in their underground gathering place while Dilos and Sharon’s agents moved beneath them unnoticed.
• Sharon told Dilos she had sent the coordinates to Coulson and urged him to wait for instructions before attacking.
• Dilos used his Super Glasses to spot roughly two hundred werewolves and other figures, then asked Sharon to request more agents and sought permission to scout alone.
• Lucian learned that the latest Corvinus descendants had failed the blood tests and ordered the doctor to test the remaining subjects.
• Dilos watched Lucian and the old doctor through a wall with his Super Glasses.

Dilos found Lucian in a hidden stone chamber and attacked before the Werewolf King could prepare. After knocking Lucian unconscious, Dilos immobilized the doctor and called Coulson.

• Dilos used his X-Ray Vision and enhanced hearing to locate Lucian and overhear a conversation in the stone chamber.
• Dilos told Coulson he could take down the Werewolf King in two minutes, then boosted his physical abilities with qi and rushed to the chamber.
• Lucian sensed danger and began transforming, but Dilos entered before he could finish.
• Dilos dodged Lucian’s claws, struck him twice with overwhelming force, and knocked him unconscious.
• Dilos used his mental power to immobilize the doctor and called Coulson.