Recaps

Jack exploited S.H.I.E.L.D.’s internal conflicts and Hell’s Kitchen’s gang war to earn Evil Points, while provoking Daredevil and striking a deal with Kingpin. The arc left Jack facing Pierce’s demand that he marry Jenny, with Pierce challenging him to jump rather than refuse.

• Jack provoked General Ross into open hostility, earning Evil Points before Fury demoted him and sent him to Antarctica.
• Jack found Captain America and the Tesseract in the ice, then became deputy branch director of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s New York Branch.
• Jack led a costly crackdown in Hell’s Kitchen, but the agents’ admiration for him cost him Evil Points and disrupted his plans to provoke Kingpin.
• Jack’s fabricated feud with Garrett deepened S.H.I.E.L.D.’s factional conflict, and Hill reassigned Jack to Hell’s Kitchen as a clerk.
• Jack provoked Daredevil at the precinct, exposed that he knew the vigilante’s identity, and later defeated him, earning millions of Evil Points by shattering his confidence.
• Jack met Kingpin and joined his business while claiming he could protect him from S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Pierce demanded that Jack marry Jenny, and Jack refused, prompting Pierce to point to the window and tell him to jump.

Jack tried to gain power and influence by working both sides of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra while searching for the truth about Captain America. After Thanos’s curse made Jack impossible to kill, he learned Hela had stolen the Tesseract and resolved to pursue it himself.

• Jack suspected Captain America had an evil presence, accepted Jenny Pierce’s marriage proposal, and turned to Daredevil for help investigating Rogers.
• Jack discovered his skills were sealed and his actions were being misinterpreted, then arranged with Marian and Bullseye to stage an attack that would strengthen his standing in Hydra.
• Jack helped Black Widow raid Hammer Industries, captured Sasha Hammer, and learned of the Brotherhood of the Shield’s connection to S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra.
• Jack sold classified intelligence to the Hunter, arranged for Hawkeye to arrest him, and then killed Director House with Bullseye and Typhoid Mary.
• Jack revealed Hydra’s plans to Marian, but she refused to join him in playing both sides, while he demonstrated that he could lift the hammer for S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Jack learned Daredevil had been shot after overhearing a plot during Captain America’s trip to Washington, and he suspected the Tesseract had altered Rogers.
• Jack’s declaration of love to Death brought him Thanos’s Undying curse and sixty million Evil Points, leading him to conclude that the Tesseract could restore Captain America.
• Jack told Fury that Rogers had become Hydra’s captain, but learned Hela had stolen the Tesseract and decided to pursue it on his own.