Chapter Summaries

After detecting a strange frequency in the Arctic, Daisy led a S.H.I.E.L.D. team to a Nazi aircraft trapped in an iceberg and helped rescue Captain America. Captain America remained unconscious, but Sharon estimated he would wake within six months.

• Daisy sensed something unusual near the site of Johnny's earlier fight and returned to the Arctic with Coulson, Sharon, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Daisy guided the team through a blizzard to a colossal Hydra aircraft embedded in the ice.
• Daisy organized an excavation, and Coulson discovered Captain America inside the aircraft.
• The agents dug Captain America out of the frozen plane, and Sharon said he could wake within one to six months.
• Nick Fury asked Daisy about Captain America's condition, and Daisy judged that he would recover once his brain resumed functioning.

Daisy designed an oversized Arc Reactor for Nick Fury’s proposed flying aircraft carrier and delivered her blueprints to S.H.I.E.L.D. She began building a prototype at the headquarters weapons factory with Dr. William, an engineer she recognized from Obadiah’s team.

• Nick Fury ordered Coulson, Sharon, and Daisy to keep Captain America’s recovery secret, then asked Daisy whether her Arc Reactor could power a flying aircraft carrier.
• Daisy estimated the reactor’s output and reluctantly agreed that designing a carrier modification might be possible after Fury offered her the project.
• Daisy and Danger spent three days calculating and simulating a stable oversized Arc Reactor design.
• Nick Fury solicited designs throughout S.H.I.E.L.D., but Daisy’s allies helped discourage potential competitors, leaving her proposal unchallenged.
• Daisy presented Fury with her blueprints, and he took her to the weapons modification factory to build a physical reactor prototype.
• Fury introduced Dr. William as the person in charge, and Daisy recognized him as one of Obadiah’s former subordinates.

Daisy organized S.H.I.E.L.D.'s team to build the Arc Reactor, then fell asleep from exhaustion and found herself inside a mental world linked to Dark Jean. She realized the burning house belonged to Jean while the small space around her desk was her own, and the connection remained unbroken as Dark Jean performed.

• Fury took Namor away to be imprisoned and left Daisy to build the Arc Reactor.
• Daisy led nineteen scientists, and Dr. William eagerly studied her blueprints before she assigned him and the others work.
• After three days without rest, Daisy fell asleep at her temporary office.
• Daisy awoke in a burning, ruined house and saw a red-haired Dark Jean emerge from the flames.
• Daisy recognized that she was in Jean's mental world, with her own mental space around her, and began browsing the desk projected by her mind.

Daisy unknowingly helped stabilize Jean Grey’s collapsing mental world after explaining her fraudulent procurement scheme to Dark Jean. Both Daisy and Jean woke feeling subtly changed, and Jean emerged from her room in better spirits.

• Daisy calculated how to inflate S.H.I.E.L.D.’s valve costs and reduce the number used while maintaining equipment performance.
• Dark Jean questioned Daisy about her work, and Daisy described it as plundering wealth through social restructuring.
• As Dark Jean listened, the destruction in the mental space slowed and its repairing power reached a balance.
• Daisy woke with slightly increased mental strength, dismissed the change as a result of exhaustion, and returned to supervise reactor construction.
• Jean Grey woke feeling lighter and happier, got ready, and ran into Storm after greeting several students.

Jean’s mood shifted after Daisy’s mental influence, leading her to overhaul Xavier’s School’s spending and rules. Her reforms won the staff’s approval, and she ended by selling Cyclops Scott’s motorcycles to improve the school and protect him.

• Storm noticed Jean seemed unusually cheerful and complimented her bare face, while Jean said she wanted to try a different version of herself.
• Jean reviewed the school’s expenses and drafted reforms that cut coffee, air-conditioning, sports, and class costs while changing student schedules and restrictions.
• Professor Charles, Cyclops Scott, and Storm approved Jean’s proposed reforms, and Cyclops posted the notice the students called Grey’s Order One.
• Cyclops invited Jean to ride his customized motorcycle, but Jean persuaded him to sell it and proposed buying bicycles instead.
• Jean had Cyclops’s other motorcycle removed as well, intending to use the money to improve teaching and waive fees for more poor students.

Daisy oversaw construction of a reactor while Director Pierce secretly shared the blueprints with Hydra. At a hidden Washington meeting, Senator Stern focused on obtaining Stark’s technology after seeing the plans.

• Daisy saw Coulson repairing a motorcycle he had bought for Captain America, who was expected to wake in a few months.
• Jean enforced Grey's Order Five at Xavier's School, improving its finances while students avoided her.
• Daisy discussed the reactor with Pierce and explained that two reactors and turbine engines could lift an aircraft carrier.
• Pierce brought Daisy's reactor blueprints to a secret Hydra meeting attended by Crossbones, Sitwell, and government officials.
• Senator Stern viewed the blueprints as progress toward acquiring Stark's Iron Suit technology.

Daisy completed a giant Plasma Arc Reactor for S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, earning a promotion to Level 8 Agent and leadership of the Science Department. She began adapting Wakandan turbine engines for Helicarriers while Hill left for a vacation in Chicago.

• Pierce, Stern, and Crossbones discussed obtaining Iron Suit technology, but Pierce canceled the plan to capture Stark after Crossbones spotted Black Widow with him.
• Daisy built a giant Plasma Arc Reactor, and Nick Fury connected S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters to its power supply.
• Pierce and Nick Fury praised Daisy and ordered her to build two more reactors for the Helicarriers while speeding up turbine-engine research.
• Pierce proposed promoting Daisy to Level 8 Agent, and Nick Fury approved the promotion and gave her eight hundred million for the additional reactors.
• Hill handed the Iliad refit over to Daisy, urged her to rest, and left for her home in Chicago.

Daisy sought Tony Stark’s help with an aerodynamics problem and traveled to Monaco, where she found Pepper, Happy, and Natasha. The chapter ended with Tony appearing on a television broadcast as a race car driver at the dangerous Monte Carlo Circuit.

• Daisy called Pepper to ask for Tony’s help, learned he was in Monaco, and decided to go there in person.
• Daisy returned to her villa, had Lorna do her hair and makeup, and dressed for her visit.
• Daisy teleported to Monaco and arrived at the Hotel de Paris, where she found Pepper, Happy, and Natasha.
• Natasha and the others saw Tony Stark appear on a broadcast as a driver at the Monte Carlo Circuit, leaving them alarmed.

Daisy drove Pepper and Happy to rescue Tony Stark from Ivan Vanko at the Monaco race, repeatedly ramming Vanko with Stark’s Rolls-Royce. After Vanko began to stir, Daisy and Stark distractedly discussed aerodynamics, while Daisy noticed Stark’s palladium poisoning.

• Daisy agreed to help Black Widow save Stark and took the wheel of the Rolls-Royce Phantom, speeding against the race traffic with Pepper and Happy.
• Daisy reached Stark and rammed Ivan Vanko, knocking him away from Stark and damaging the car.
• Daisy saw Vanko begin to wake, asked Happy for a gun, and rammed Vanko a second time when Happy had none.
• Stark asked Daisy why she was driving his car, and Daisy began asking him about aerodynamics while Pepper urged them to focus on Vanko.
• Daisy noticed that Stark’s palladium poisoning had darkened his face.

Daisy discussed turbine design with Stark, who helped her solve several problems with her aircraft-carrier project. After Ivan Vanko was taken to the hospital, Stark suspected Daisy had made Vanko’s reactor, but she denied it, leaving Stark puzzled as his palladium poisoning worsened.

• Daisy and Stark spent half an hour discussing turbine design while Daisy repeatedly subdued Ivan Vanko whenever he tried to attack.
• After the Monaco police arrived, Stark covered for Daisy as she removed Vanko’s reactor, and the group returned to the Hotel de Paris.
• Stark suspected the reactor was connected to S.H.I.E.L.D., so Daisy accompanied him to Monaco Central Hospital to see Vanko.
• Daisy and Stark found Vanko unconscious in intensive care and examined his reactor while discussing its design and possible uses.
• Stark remained suspicious of how Vanko had made the reactor, while his palladium poisoning symptoms worsened; Daisy returned to study the turbine engines.

Daisy arranged Ivan Vanko’s murder and worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. experts on reactor breakthroughs and the carrier retrofit. She and Hill discussed the mothership’s budget in Hill’s quarters, where their private encounter was interrupted by Sharon Carter at the door.

• Daisy ordered her maid to kill Ivan Vanko, and the maid later reported that he had been taken care of.
• Daisy returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, helped tackle the reactor’s technical challenges, and ordered two reactors built.
• Daisy called Hill back to the carrier and visited her quarters under the pretense of discussing official business.
• Hill asked Daisy how to increase revenue and crew morale, and Daisy offered ways to cut expenses while keeping the branch base’s finances controlled.
• Daisy and Hill became intimate in Hill’s quarters, but Sharon Carter knocked and called out to Hill.
• Hill and Daisy exchanged worried signals as Sharon grew suspicious outside the door.

Hill and Daisy hid their intimate encounter when Sharon arrived to discuss Daisy’s promotion and Hill’s prospects at S.H.I.E.L.D. Sharon left after urging Hill to consider an alliance with Daisy, but Nick Fury found Sharon leaving Hill’s room and misread the situation.

• Hill and Daisy hurriedly gathered their scattered clothes, and Daisy hid beneath the blanket when Sharon knocked.
• Sharon asked Hill about Daisy’s promotion to Level 8 and shared rumors that Daisy might become S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Deputy Director.
• Sharon urged Hill not to escalate her conflict with Daisy and suggested that the three women form an alliance.
• Hill reflected on how her principles and views on being an agent differed from Daisy’s.
• Sharon joked that she was unsuited to dealing with politicians, then left and ran into Nick Fury.
• Nick Fury saw Sharon leaving Hill, noticed Hill wrapped in a blanket, and assumed they were involved, leaving Sharon unable to explain.

Daisy returned to New York after Justin Hammer offered Skye Data an unusually generous cross-shareholding deal, and she agreed to meet him to learn what he wanted. At the opera house, Hammer introduced Senator Stern, revealing that the senator was the real reason behind the invitation.

• Daisy helped Hill get dressed while Nick Fury waited outside, then slipped away and later reunited with Hill in the captain's quarters.
• Hill told Daisy that Fury had asked her to stay on the Helicarrier or transfer to NASA for a joint project, which Daisy suspected involved weaponizing the Cosmic Cube.
• Fury assigned Victoria Hand to coordinate externally and Hawkeye to supervise internally as S.H.I.E.L.D. and NASA prepared a Cosmic Cube research center.
• James told Daisy that Justin Hammer had offered three percent of Hammer Industries in exchange for fifteen percent of Skye Data, and Daisy agreed to further discussions.
• Daisy met Justin Hammer at an opera house, where he introduced Senator Stern after struggling to get to the point.

Daisy toured Hammer Industries with Justin Hammer and Senator Stern, then examined the costly robot soldiers that were putting the company in trouble. She saw that she could improve them, but considered Justin's offer of 3% insufficient and wanted a bigger stake.

• Senator Stern praised Daisy and criticized generals as he and Justin Hammer tried to persuade her to help Hammer Industries.
• Justin Hammer asked Daisy to join the company, and she toured his suburban weapons factory with him and a former gang strategist.
• Daisy saw former Stark Industries employees and inspected twenty robot soldiers that Hammer said cost nearly $90 million apiece to build.
• Daisy hacked Hammer Industries' firewall and reviewed the soldiers' source code, judging that she could fix them but demanding more than Justin's 3% offer.

Daisy demanded a 15 percent stake in Hammer Industries in exchange for Skye Data shares and her help making its robot soldiers meet Department of Defense requirements. Her proposal forced Hydra’s leadership to weigh the cost of bringing her into the arms industry, while Baron Strucker suspected Viper was maneuvering behind his back.

• Daisy told Justin Hammer she would improve the robot soldiers but demanded a 15-for-15 percent share exchange instead of a 3 percent stake, then left with James Wesley before he could bargain.
• James Wesley worried that Hammer Industries’ shareholders would reject Daisy’s harsh terms, but Daisy said her rare knowledge gave her leverage and estimated a better-than-even chance of success.
• Daisy’s demand unsettled Hydra because her stake would give her significant influence in the tightly controlled arms market, and the decision was escalated to Baron Strucker at the Crown base in Kyoto.
• Baron Strucker read the report on Daisy and, seeing her close connection to Viper, wondered whether she was another Hydra agent and suspected Viper was plotting to seize S.H.I.E.L.D. before him.

Daisy negotiated a share swap that gave her major stakes in Hammer Industries and Typhon Group, while Baron Strucker mistook her resources and a sedative formula for evidence of Viper’s backing. After taking control of Hammer Industries’ next steps, Daisy questioned Justin about the military contract and the demand for Iron Suits.

• Baron Strucker ordered Hydra subordinates to satisfy Daisy’s demands and delay the military inspection of Hammer Industries’ Iron Suits.
• Daisy negotiated with Justin Hammer and Typhon Group, exchanging shares in Skye Data and three hundred million dollars for fifteen percent of Hammer Industries and three percent of Typhon Group.
• Daisy supplied Typhon Group’s negotiators with a sedative formula, and Baron Strucker interpreted its style as a sign of Viper’s support and approved the deal.
• Daisy’s holdings included 16.1 percent of Hammer Industries, three percent of Typhon Group, 2.2 percent of Stark Industries, sixty percent of Skye Data, and thirty percent of Skye Pictures.
• Daisy asked Justin to show her Hammer Industries’ military contract and argued that modifying twenty Iron Suits before the Stark Expo in fifteen days was impossible.

Daisy redesigned Justin Hammer’s machine soldiers, criticizing their size, charging system, and inefficient weapons before fitting them with a cheaper simplified reactor and directing extensive modifications. After Justin learned that the Air Force had obtained an Iron Suit from Stark’s birthday party, he invited Daisy to inspect it, and she agreed.

• Daisy told Justin that expensive piloted armor was impractical and criticized the machine soldiers’ design and power system.
• Daisy proposed a simplified reactor and began modifying the machine soldiers to improve their speed, weapons, and armor while cutting costs.
• Justin praised Daisy’s work as the machine soldiers underwent extensive changes.
• Justin told Daisy that the Air Force had obtained an Iron Suit at Stark’s birthday party and invited her to see it.
• Daisy agreed to go inspect the Iron Suit.

Daisy used her powers to frighten Justin into accepting her control over their partnership. After returning him safely to his private jet, she left him convinced that submitting to her was in his best interests.

• Daisy admired Justin's private jet and joined him for dinner after the plane took off.
• Daisy tricked Justin into turning toward the window, then dragged him outside the plane and held him high above the ground.
• Daisy threatened Justin until he frantically nodded, then sent him through a portal back to his seat on the plane.
• Daisy ate dinner while Justin recovered, then told him to focus on his work as her assistant and explained that Hammer Industries would remain his on the surface.
• Daisy threatened Justin with a floating fork and used her Psychic Ability to weaken his resistance, and Justin agreed to cooperate.

James Wesley met with his old friend Wilson Fisk in Hell's Kitchen, where Fisk asked him to return and help supply weapons. James declined to rejoin the underworld but offered to provide weapons through his new authority at Hammer Industries, leaving Bullseye surprised by his influence.

• Daisy appointed James Wesley vice president of Hammer Industries, and he spent the afternoon stabilizing the company’s operations.
• James drove alone to Hell's Kitchen and reunited warmly with Wilson Fisk in Fisk’s underground headquarters.
• Fisk introduced James to Bullseye, who threatened him with playing cards when James declined to return to Fisk’s organization.
• Fisk asked James to supply weapons, and James agreed to allocate them through his Hammer Industries authority.
• James told Bullseye that he could authorize weapons and some vehicles himself, though only major arms would require Daisy Johnson’s approval.

Daisy met Justin and Colonel Rhodey at Edwards Air Force Base to upgrade the armor that the military had named War Machine. After completing the design modifications, she left to visit Tony Stark in Malibu.

• Kingpin and James finalized a deal, while an unseen cloud of smoke slipped out of the basement.
• Daisy arrived in California with Justin and met Colonel Rhodey at Edwards Air Force Base.
• Daisy inspected Tony's armor and explained that she would upgrade its weapons systems for Hammer Industries.
• Daisy modified the armor with Sonic Cannons, miniature missiles, a locator, and a life-support system, and added a shoulder-mounted Gatling gun at Justin's suggestion.
• Daisy left Justin to handle the follow-up costs and teleported to Malibu to help Nick Fury persuade Stark.