Recaps

Jack joined the crowd that greeted Captain America, while Coulson secretly returned from his New Mexico mission to see his idol. After Captain America left Times Square, Jack saw an inexplicable evil gaze in his eyes and was left shaken.

• Jack rode to Times Square with Coulson and warned him that sneaking away from his mission could get him in trouble.
• Coulson admitted he only wanted to see Captain America, and Jack teased him about his devotion.
• Fury apologized to Captain America for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s botched attempt to help him adjust, and Captain America said he had a date.
• Jack reunited with Rumlow, who praised Captain America's strength and wished he could use the Super-Soldier Serum.
• Captain America left Times Square in Fury's car, and Jack saw evil in his gaze, which terrified him.

Jack agreed to marry Jenny Pierce next month to gain access to higher-level secrets, while Marian concealed her disappointment at being asked to serve as his bridesmaid. The chapter ended with Jack reflecting on the six years he and Marian had shared.

• Jack suspected Captain America might be Hydra after detecting an evil look, but Rumlow told him that Rogers was the enemy.
• Jack decided that marrying Jenny Pierce would help him uncover secrets, then accepted her proposal and called Pierce his father-in-law.
• Pierce set the wedding for next month and refused Jack's request for a promotion, telling him to focus on preparing for the ceremony.
• Jack told Marian he was marrying Jenny and asked her to be a bridesmaid; Marian agreed despite her visible sadness.
• Marian angrily confronted Jack for leaving when she told him to get out, and Jack teased her before she ran to the restroom.
• Jack gathered the scattered files and remembered how he had met Marian six years earlier and how they had supported each other through hardship.

After Marian attempted suicide and drove Jack away, he coped by beating up Hell's Kitchen gangsters while brooding over his feelings and his approaching wedding to Jenny. He found Matt drunk and despairing in an alley, forced him into a bath, and urged him to clean up so they could talk.

• Jack recalled finding Marian after she had slit her wrists, taking her to the hospital, and being driven away when she recovered.
• Jack spent six days assaulting Hell's Kitchen gangsters and destroying criminal businesses, earning more than twenty thousand Evil Points.
• Jack grew angry about having to choose a wedding dress with Jenny and briefly considered giving up on his situation with Rogers.
• Jack found Daredevil, whose real name was Matt, drunk in an alley and complaining that S.H.I.E.L.D. treated vigilantes like disposable chess pieces.
• Jack took Matt to a hotel, put him in a bathtub, and told him to wash up if he still had hope for the future.

Jack helped Daredevil regain his resolve and recruited him to investigate Captain America, while revealing Hydra’s survival and influence within S.H.I.E.L.D. The chapter ended with Daredevil preparing to approach Captain America as his lawyer to claim the money owed to him.

• Jack told Daredevil that Hydra had survived, infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and the United States, and was nearing its day of reckoning.
• Jack urged Daredevil to keep fighting evil by inspiring ordinary people to stand against injustice, and Daredevil thanked him and said he understood.
• Jack explained that his concern about an Evil Gaze had prompted him to encourage Daredevil, who agreed to investigate despite not sensing anything himself.
• Jack offered Daredevil a chance to get close to Captain America, who was free to move around New York and was not under S.H.I.E.L.D.’s jurisdiction.
• Jack suggested Daredevil act as Captain America’s lawyer and help him claim decades of unpaid military pay and pension.

Jack met Captain America and persuaded him to seek the pension and back pay owed for his decades under the ice. They went to Daredevil’s law office, where Captain America questioned whether the blind lawyer was reliable.

• Jack visited Hill’s office, secured permission to meet Captain America, and received an assignment to transport the Antarctic hammer to a new laboratory.
• Jack found Captain America in Brooklyn and invited him to eat at a Chinese restaurant, where he argued with the waiter over a past overcharge.
• Jack asked Captain America whether he had collected his pension and convinced him to claim his pension and seventy years of back pay so he could visit Agent Carter.
• Jack and Captain America arrived at Daredevil’s office, where Captain America doubted Matt’s ability until Jack showed him Matt’s lawyer award.

Jack learned that Jenny Pierce was being watched and might be connected to the Super-Soldier Program, while suspecting Pierce wanted his descendants. After losing millions of Evil Points, Jack rushed toward Hell’s Kitchen to earn more, but Colonel Ross stopped him to thank him for the slap that had supposedly changed his outlook.

• Jack saw Jenny in her wedding dress, then learned during their private conversation that she had always been watched because of her abnormal condition and Super-Soldier lineage.
• Jack suspected Jenny might not be Pierce’s biological daughter and concluded Pierce wanted Jack’s descendants, perhaps because Jack could wield the hammer.
• Jack lost ten million Evil Points when Captain America inspired Daredevil, leaving him with negative 5.6 million and less than thirty-six hours to recover.
• Jack rushed out, deciding that Hell’s Kitchen was his only chance to earn enough Evil Points.
• Colonel Ross followed Jack in a Humvee and thanked him for slapping him, while Jack insisted he had slapped Ross simply because he deserved it.

After his interference erased Abomination and Red Hulk, Jack despaired over losing thirty million Evil Points, but Marian helped revive his resolve. He began planning to undermine Hydra and asked Marian to help him stage a Red Wedding.

• Colonel Ross disbanded the Super-Soldier Program and promised to protect Banner's marriage, costing Jack thirty million Evil Points.
• Jack considered earning Evil Points by assassinating the President or killing Captain America before Jenny found him and took him home.
• Jack visited Marian at the S.H.I.E.L.D. hospital and offered to make her the beneficiary of his insurance policies, but she called out his lie.
• Jack resolved to sabotage the Insight Plan and manipulate Hydra to preserve S.H.I.E.L.D. and secure his future.
• Marian agreed to organize the bachelorette party, and Jack asked if she wanted to help pull off a Red Wedding.

Jack received a month-long DEBUFF that made everyone interpret his actions benevolently, threatening his ability to earn Evil Points. He went to a cafe near S.H.I.E.L.D. to think through his options, unaware that Deputy Director Hill had spotted him.

• Jack opened the system and discovered that his skills were sealed and the Benevolent Overinterpretation DEBUFF had begun.
• Jack tested the effect on Jenny, who went from anger to enjoying his painful spanking.
• Jack worried that going to S.H.I.E.L.D., transferring back to field work, or staying home would all be overinterpreted, so he left to clear his head.
• Jack visited the Sexy Beauty Cafe, joked with the owner about his supposed Arctic survey, and considered robbing a bank to regain Evil Points.
• Hill entered the cafe, saw Jack sitting in the corner, and froze.

Jack returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters to collect a file while trying to avoid getting involved with anyone, but Garrett's unexpectedly softened attitude and Marian's interruption complicated his escape. The chapter ended with Marian realizing Jack had asked her to find Bullseye, though she did not know where to look.

• Hill admired Jack's painting in a café, while the proprietress decided to raise prices for customers from the office building.
• Jack went to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters to collect a file, where he encountered Garrett, who reflected on his own youth and reconsidered his view of ambitious young agents.
• Jack hurried into his office, ignored Marian, and tried to leave, but Marian stopped him by throwing scissors into the doorframe.
• Jack kissed Marian on the forehead, told her he loved her, and said they would be together after everything was over.
• Marian's colleague teased her about preparing contingencies, and Marian asked where she could find Bullseye, whom Jack wanted her to locate.

Jack visited Daredevil and learned that Captain America had helped Matt regain his confidence, but Jack became suspicious of how quickly Rogers had mastered persuasive speech. The chapter ended with Jack concluding that something was seriously wrong with Captain America's sudden eloquence.

• Jack went to Daredevil's law office and realized Matt could not make a secure call using the landline as a blind man.
• Jack and Daredevil joked about asking Tony Stark to develop phones before discussing Captain America's recent visit.
• Daredevil explained that Captain America planned to travel to Washington with a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to verify his identity and receive his back pay and pension.
• Daredevil said Captain America had used psychological encouragement to strengthen his resolve after Jack had left.
• Jack questioned how Rogers had become so eloquent so soon after being thawed out, then grew grave about what that might mean.

Jack transported milk powder for Kingpin to a hotel near the weapons exhibition while arranging for Bullseye to fake an assassination attempt on his wedding day. After the delivery, someone recorded Jack unloading the goods and planned to use the footage as leverage.

• Jack accepted a milk powder delivery job for Kingpin, earning money and Evil Points as he drove toward the weapons exhibition.
• Marian told Jack she had found Bullseye, who agreed to consider a fake assassination involving S.H.I.E.L.D. after hearing the proposal.
• Jack planned to have Bullseye seriously injure him on his wedding day so Garrett would be blamed and Jack could strengthen his position within Hydra.
• Jack drove to the Trump Hotel and used his S.H.I.E.L.D. credentials to send away NYPD officers who approached the delivery.
• Hotel staff unloaded the milk powder, while an unseen observer recorded the delivery and announced they had leverage over Jack.

Jack delivered powdered milk to a hotel until Black Widow recruited him to help deal with Hammer Industries’ rogue robot soldiers. While Black Widow went to stop Colonel Rhodes’s armor, Jack searched the production facility for valuables and found a little girl on the second floor.

• Jack loaded another batch of powdered milk and heard that Hammer Industries’ robot soldiers had attacked Iron Man at the weapons expo.
• Black Widow summoned Jack for vehicle support, changed clothes in his SUV, and warned him to be careful about infiltrating Kingpin’s organization.
• Black Widow pulled Jack into Hammer Industries’ production facility, where they fought the security guards.
• Black Widow headed for the control room to stop Colonel Rhodes’s armor while Jack searched the facility for valuables and Evil Points.
• Jack went upstairs, opened a room, and found a little girl holding a soda.

Jack discovered that the Brotherhood of the Shield had existed and realized Garrett had been one of its members before it split. At Hammer Industries, he arrested Sasha Hammer after suspecting she was the Mandarin’s daughter, and Black Widow approved taking her to S.H.I.E.L.D.

• A girl at Hammer Industries recognized the Brotherhood of the Shield, and Jack was shocked to learn it had existed before splitting into S.H.I.E.L.D., the Spear Bureau, and Hydra.
• Jack inferred that Garrett had been a Zodiac member for decades and reconsidered his history with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Jack questioned Sasha Hammer about her father, identified her as the Mandarin’s biological daughter, and handcuffed her.
• Jack brought Sasha downstairs, where Black Widow had just freed Colonel Rhodes’s armor from external control.
• Jack told Black Widow that Sasha could lead S.H.I.E.L.D. to the Mandarin, and Black Widow approved the arrest before they returned separately.

After explaining how he uncovered Sasha Hammer’s identity, Jack considered the tangled conspiracies around S.H.I.E.L.D. and went to meet Kingpin’s enforcers in Hell’s Kitchen. He assessed Owl, Carl Burbank, and Typhoid Mary as dangerous opponents, especially Mary, whose telepathy made Jack wary.

• Fury questioned Jack about Sasha Hammer and the clues that led him to her, but Jack refused to explain why he could lift the hammer.
• Fury sent Jack away and worried over Tony Stark, the hammer in New Mexico, the Insight Plan, Trident Headquarters, and Sasha Hammer.
• Jack calculated that capturing Sasha had earned him 300,000 Evil Points while his other actions had cost 10,000, leaving him 290,000 ahead.
• Jack reflected on Garrett’s and Pierce’s complicated double-agent connections and decided to seek more Evil Points from Kingpin.
• Jack arrived at Kingpin’s office in Hell’s Kitchen and recognized Owl, Carl Burbank, and Typhoid Mary as formidable enforcers.
• Jack assessed the three enforcers’ abilities and grew wary when Typhoid Mary winked at him, recalling her powerful telepathy.

Jack asked Kingpin for more work and earned 500,000 Evil Points when Kingpin regarded him as a motivated young man. After learning that his new job might involve Sergei Kravinoff, the Hunter, Jack went to Hell’s Kitchen Precinct and confronted Chief House.

• Jack asked Kingpin for bigger jobs, and Kingpin gave him a middleman’s contact information.
• Jack received 500,000 Evil Points after Kingpin’s favorability toward him increased, and Typhoid Mary slipped him a note inviting him to contact her.
• Jack called Sergei Kravinoff, arranged to meet him, and searched S.H.I.E.L.D.’s database for information about the Hunter.
• Jack suspected the job involved the Hunter targeting gifted people, then drove to Hell’s Kitchen Precinct before their planned meeting.
• Jack found Chief House with another person, kicked open the door, and moved toward House after he spoke impatiently.

Jack spent the day exploiting Director House, selling S.H.I.E.L.D. intelligence to the Hunter, and arranging the Hunter’s arrest before meeting Typhoid Mary at a hotel. He found Mary amid a massacre and came face-to-face with Bullseye, whom he claimed to have hired.

• Jack drank Director House’s coffee for hours, promised to return every morning, and House considered hiring an assassin to kill him.
• Jack met the Hunter, sold him classified S.H.I.E.L.D. intelligence, accepted one million dollars, and arranged for Hawkeye to lead an arrest operation against him.
• Jack called Typhoid Mary and went to the Duran Hotel, where he found her standing among five dead men.
• Mary complained that Jack had spoiled her attempt to seduce him, and Jack told her to leave the bloody scene.
• Bullseye appeared behind Jack with a dagger, and Jack claimed he was the employer for Bullseye’s unfinished job.

Jack, Mary, and Bullseye tried to resolve the conflicting assassination contracts when Hawkeye warned that the Hunter had escaped and was tracking Jack. Jack destroyed his S.H.I.E.L.D. badge, used Bullseye to pose as a hostage, and headed for the Hell's Kitchen Precinct to kill Director House.

• Jack learned that Bullseye's contracts to attack Jack and kill him conflicted, and the three decided to kill Director House instead.
• Hawkeye called to warn Jack that the Hunter had escaped and was coming for him using the tracker in Jack's S.H.I.E.L.D. badge.
• Jack crushed the badge, then told Bullseye to take him hostage so they could leave without drawing suspicion.
• Bullseye drove Jack and Mary to Hell's Kitchen while Mary flirted with men along the roadside.
• Jack cut himself free and led Mary and Bullseye toward the Hell's Kitchen Precinct to kill Director House.

After killing House and an innocent woman, Jack told Marian that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. Marian then faced a choice about whether to follow Jack or stand against evil, while Jack struggled to answer her.

• Jack shot and killed House and an innocent woman, earning 200,000 Evil Points, then left Hell's Kitchen with Bullseye.
• Jack visited Marian at the New York precinct and told her about House's attempt to kill him and the events of the night.
• Jack revealed to Marian that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and explained its plans and members.
• Marian said she had decided not to stand on the side of evil and asked Jack what he would choose.
• Jack found himself unable to give Marian a simple answer because he wanted to keep both her and his options.

Jack and Marian parted ways after he learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. knew he was a Hydra agent, while Marian secretly urged him to defect. The next day, Jack lifted the hammer with ease, and S.H.I.E.L.D. took him and the hammer aboard a Quinjet for relocation.

• Jack left Marian after she rejected his plan to play both sides, and Marian reported to Fury that Jack's allegiance was wavering.
• Marian found Jack's listening device and quietly urged him to defect from Hydra, while Jack listened from his car.
• Black Widow told Jack that S.H.I.E.L.D. was moving the hammer and brought him to the secret base where it was stored.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists fitted instruments on Jack, but he lifted the hammer effortlessly, prompting Black Widow to reconsider the information about the hammer and a god.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. removed the instruments and boarded Jack and the hammer onto a waiting Quinjet.

Jack delivered the hammer to the Dark Energy Research Facility, then spotted Hela in Las Vegas and fled back to New York. He visited Kingpin in Hell’s Kitchen and reflected on the everyday work behind S.H.I.E.L.D., criminal gangs, and superheroes.

• Jack delivered the hammer to the Dark Energy Research Facility and was sent to Las Vegas because the Quinjet had other assignments.
• Jack entered a casino, left after noticing its strong security, and then spotted Hela near the Tropicana Hotel.
• Jack fled to McCarran International Airport and caught the earliest flight back to New York, suspecting Hela had come for the hammer or the Tesseract.
• Jack returned to New York, hailed a car to Kingpin Tower, and went to see Kingpin.
• Jack watched Kingpin handle gang business and considered how much routine work occupied S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, gangs, and superheroes.

Jack took a violent debt-collection job for Kingpin, but Luke Cage stopped him from roughing up a debtor and agreed to take him to Hell’s Kitchen. When Daredevil called to say he was being hunted, Jack redirected Cage to Matt Murdock’s law office, eager for a chance to face a serious threat.

• Kingpin sent Jack to Carl, who assigned him five debt collections totaling one million dollars and ordered him not to kill anyone.
• Jack went to Harlem to collect Old Harry’s debt, but Luke Cage subdued him and offered to pay the debt himself.
• Cage took Jack toward Hell’s Kitchen, while Jack reflected on how oppressive and boring his recent life had become.
• Daredevil called Jack and said he was being hunted, asking him to wait at Matt Murdock’s law office.
• Jack persuaded Cage to change course for Matt’s law office and revealed that he had let Cage capture him because he was bored.

Jack met Luke Cage and Daredevil outside Matt's law office, where Matt explained that he had overheard a suspicious conversation while in Washington with Captain America and was wounded after being discovered. Jack connected the mystery of Hydra's past actions to the Tesseract and wondered whether it had created a new space, leaving him looking to the sky for a way to test whether their world was real.

• Jack found Sitwell and a group of agents outside Matt's law office, argued about being excluded from their mission, and left after Matt waved him over.
• Jack met Daredevil and Luke Cage in an alley and vouched for Cage, allowing Matt to sit down and explain what had happened.
• Matt recounted accompanying Captain America to Washington, where officials held gatherings to celebrate his return.
• Matt said he overheard people discussing major moves after Captain America's return, was discovered while eavesdropping, and was hunted down and shot.
• Jack suspected Captain America had joined Hydra, then reasoned that the Tesseract could explain Hydra's actions by creating a new space.
• Jack looked at the sky and considered that testing whether the world was real was the only way to confirm his theory.

Jack’s repeated declarations of love to Death earned her favor and triggered Thanos’s curse, making him effectively impossible to kill. After testing his new condition, Jack concluded the Tesseract had not altered the world and decided to bring Captain America back so the Avengers could form.

• Jack professed his love to Death outside the underground clinic while Claire Temple treated Daredevil, and Luke Cage explained that Jack was trying to confirm something.
• Death heard Jack and favored him, while Thanos cursed him with an Undying ability that kept fatal dangers away; Jack gained 60,000,000 Evil Points and learned Thanos would arrive on Earth sooner.
• Jack tested his new condition by trying to cut his throat, swallow emergency medicine, and inject adrenaline, but each item turned to ash before harming him.
• Claire angrily sent Jack out of the clinic, where Cage carried him away from the railway tracks before a train could reach him.
• Jack reasoned that Thanos’s curse proved the Tesseract had not altered the world and resolved to use the Tesseract to restore Captain America and help bring the Avengers into existence.

Jack went to S.H.I.E.L.D. seeking permission to touch the Tesseract, but Hill refused and tried to stop him by force. He revealed to Fury that Captain America Steve Rogers had become Hydra's captain, and Fury invited him to meet in person.

• Jack learned that Hill, Romanoff, Hawkeye, and Coulson were absent, then called Hill and received a decoy address in Yonkers.
• Jack met Hill on a hill surrounded by snipers and demanded access to the Tesseract, but she refused.
• Jack walked toward Hill as the snipers and Hill fired; the bullets turned to ash, and he caught Hill when she tried to flee.
• Hill told the agents to cease fire and gave Jack a private earpiece so he could speak with Fury.
• Jack told Fury that Steve Rogers had been altered by the Tesseract and had become Hydra's captain.
• Fury asked Jack to come meet him with Hill, and Jack wondered whether Fury was taking an enormous risk.

Jack learned that Hela had stolen the Tesseract from the Dark Energy Research Facility, throwing the timeline he knew into chaos. After joining S.H.I.E.L.D.'s airborne response, he decided to seize the Tesseract for himself while other forces fought over it.

• Jack told Fury he wanted the Avengers Initiative to succeed and asked to examine the Tesseract.
• Fury learned Hela had broken into the Dark Energy Research Facility and stolen the Tesseract, then left to assemble the Avengers.
• Hill ordered Jack to provide support, and he boarded a S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft with her.
• After a day and night aboard the aircraft, Jack reflected on his recent caution and worried that he had grown too timid.
• Jack resolved to pursue the Tesseract independently so he could use its power to travel wherever he wanted.