Chapter Summaries

Jack Wilson, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and minor Hydra leader, received a system that rewarded evil deeds and decided to exploit it to grow stronger. When Marian told him Colonel Ross planned to capture Doctor Banner in Manhattan, Jack saw a chance to earn evil points by letting Hulk cause destruction.

• Jack inspected his new system, which gave him five hundred thousand evil points and four skills, including One-Ton Arm Strength.
• Jack resolved to gather evil points and kill Thanos before he obtained the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Marian told Jack that Colonel Ross was preparing to capture Doctor Banner near Central Park, and Jack decided to interfere so Hulk might demolish buildings.
• Jack tore his bespoke suit with his newly acquired strength, then joined Marian in the elevator with Rumlow and a Hydra strike team.
• Rumlow welcomed Jack and suggested he return to fieldwork, while Marian reacted with displeasure.

Jack Wilson confronted General Ross at the Central Park operation and refused to take off his sunglasses, earning the admiration of his S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Ross left when his subordinates reported that Doctor Banner was moving, and Jack’s defiant line became S.H.I.E.L.D.’s new catchphrase.

• Jack arrived at the rendezvous point in sunglasses, and General Ross judged him to be a dangerous covert agent.
• Ross demanded that Jack remove his sunglasses, but Jack taunted him by pretending to fix his hair instead.
• Ross called Fury to complain about Jack, but his subordinates reported that Doctor Banner was leaving Central Park.
• Ross put away his phone and hurried to the command vehicle, ending the confrontation.
• Marian asked Jack how he had driven Ross off, and Jack declared, “S.H.I.E.L.D. agents never take off their sunglasses!”
• The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents embraced Jack’s words as their new legendary catchphrase.

Jack and Ross argued over control of the operation to capture Doctor Banner, and Jack withdrew S.H.I.E.L.D. from the mission. Banner escaped while Ross focused on the dispute, and Jack discovered his Evil Points had fallen to negative one hundred thousand.

• Ross insulted Jack and S.H.I.E.L.D., provoking Jack and the agents into a confrontation with the military.
• Jack cited S.H.I.E.L.D. regulations and withdrew his team from the capture operation.
• The team reported that Doctor Banner had escaped, and Ross realized the capture team’s messages had gone unanswered while he argued with Jack.
• Jack saw that his Evil Points had dropped to negative one hundred thousand because Banner’s escape had caused no damage in Manhattan.
• Jack blamed Ross for failing to capture Banner, then accused him of staring at Jack despite Jack wearing sunglasses.

Jack slapped Colonel Ross, ending his cooperation with S.H.I.E.L.D., and Fury punished Jack by demoting him and assigning him to an Antarctica trip. Jack realized Fury had sent him to help uncover Captain America, but the agency’s renewed unity cost him another hundred thousand Evil Points.

• Jack slapped Colonel Ross, earning fifty thousand Evil Points by turning Ross openly hostile toward S.H.I.E.L.D. and ending their gamma research cooperation.
• Fury had Coulson escort Ross out, then demoted Jack from Level Six to provisional Level Two and assigned him to assist Coulson in Antarctica.
• Marian and a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents welcomed Jack, celebrating his defiance of Ross as a source of agency pride.
• Jack realized Fury had sent him to Antarctica because S.H.I.E.L.D. was about to uncover Captain America, and he looked forward to the coming Avengers era.
• Jack saw a system notice that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s strengthened team cohesion had reduced his Evil Points by one hundred thousand.

While searching Antarctica for Captain America, Jack uncovered a hammer that he could lift but Coulson could not, and its immense power made Coulson suspect a connection to Thor. Fury and Pierce both decided Jack was a promising talent, leaving Jack stunned when the system rewarded their renewed friendship by deducting 10,000 Evil Points.

• Jack joined the excavation team after days of drilling through Antarctic ice without finding Captain America.
• Jack pulled a hammer from the ice with ease, surprising himself and confusing Coulson.
• Coulson nearly crushed his fingers when he tried to take the hammer, and Jack caught it before it could injure him.
• Jack tapped the hammer against the ground and blasted a deep fissure through the ice, then pretended to be shocked by its power.
• Coulson ordered Jack to protect the hammer while he reported the discovery to Fury, and Hydra also sent word to Pierce.
• Fury and Pierce independently praised Jack as a promising talent, then met and felt their friendship deepen, costing Jack 10,000 Evil Points.

Jack reacted to being called “Agent Hammer” by scaring Grant Ward and warning him not to joke about his hammer again. After Jack rallied the agents to resume excavating Captain America, Coulson considered whether Fury might view him as a future director candidate.

• Jack left the lounge after hearing that agents had found a Nazi plane and called him Agent Hammer, then jokingly threatened the group with his hammer.
• Grant Ward introduced himself to Jack, and Jack recognized him as a future Hydra agent.
• Jack pinned Ward to the ground with his hammer, warned him in private, and saw Ward’s fear turn into reverence.
• Jack put on sunglasses, ordered the agents back to work, and urged them to find Captain America so they could leave Antarctica.
• Coulson watched Jack control the crowd and wondered whether Fury would add him to the director candidates list.

Jack and S.H.I.E.L.D. discovered Captain America alive inside the frozen plane and brought him and the Tesseract back to New York. Back at headquarters, Jack interrupted Marian kissing another woman, and Marian insisted they needed to talk.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. used laser cutters to open the plane, and Jack complained they had wasted two weeks drilling through the ice.
• Jack and the agents found Captain America's shield and frozen body inside the aircraft, and Coulson discovered that Captain America was still alive.
• Fury ordered Captain America and the Tesseract flown to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s New York headquarters while Jack returned to his office.
• Jack found Marian making out with another woman and teased her, and Marian challenged him about entering her office.
• Marian told Jack that they needed to talk.

Jack was summoned to a senior S.H.I.E.L.D. meeting and Fury promoted him to deputy branch director of the New York Branch, worsening Fury’s relationship with Pierce. Garrett then confronted Jack after discovering that his adopted son Ward had put up Jack’s photo, and Garrett threatened to kill him.

• Coulson warned Jack not to agree to anything Pierce proposed before escorting him into a high-level S.H.I.E.L.D. meeting.
• Fury announced that Jack would become deputy branch director of the New York Branch and oversee S.H.I.E.L.D. affairs in New York City.
• Jack gained 400,000 evil points as Fury and Pierce’s relationship deteriorated, accelerating Pierce’s Insight Plan.
• Garrett lured Jack into a room and attacked him with a chair, then revealed that Ward had hung Jack’s photo in his bedroom.
• Jack mocked Garrett for snooping in Ward’s room, and Garrett angrily threatened to kill him.

Jack and Garrett fought after Garrett objected to Ward admiring Jack, until Fury and Pierce intervened and disciplined them. The chapter ended with Garrett suspecting Sitwell had backed Jack’s attempt to poach Ward.

• Jack accused Garrett of attacking him over Ward replacing Captain America’s portrait with Jack’s photograph.
• Hawkeye stopped Garrett from attacking Jack again, while Garrett refused to explain his anger in front of the agents.
• Fury gave Jack and Garrett each a demerit and warned that they could be sent to Africa or the Spear Bureau’s Beijing office.
• Jack and Garrett promised to avoid another fight, but their hostile glares continued.
• Garrett glared at Sitwell, who feared Garrett believed he had helped Jack recruit Ward.

Jack celebrated his promotion before Marian confronted him about the disturbing change in his eyes. He then warned Sitwell that Garrett was gathering power and urged him to consider what would happen if Garrett took over.

• Jack celebrated his promotion with his subordinates at a bar, where Marian pulled him aside and worried about his increasingly unsettling gaze.
• Jack joked that his eyes did not reflect his feelings and claimed he had been practicing a menacing look.
• Sitwell summoned Jack to an alley and demanded to know whether he was recruiting Garrett's people.
• Jack redirected the conversation to Pierce's failing health and warned that Garrett's rise could weaken their side.
• Jack joked about belonging to Hydra's Fundamentalist Faction, then told Sitwell to consider whether Garrett would spare Pierce's loyal subordinates.

Jack learned that the Avengers were approaching and resolved to gain Evil Points before the next settlement. After becoming deputy director of the New York City branch, he planned to crack down on Hell’s Kitchen in a way that would provoke a violent response, hoping Kingpin would escalate the conflict.

• Jack watched a report about Tony Stark being attacked in Monaco and realized the Avengers would soon assemble.
• Jack decided to spend the next fifteen days accumulating Evil Points and imagined confronting Thanos over the Infinity Stones.
• On May 16, Jack went to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, where his growing fame drew attention from his colleagues.
• Jack reasoned that provoking Hell’s Kitchen’s gangs could earn him Evil Points through the resulting violence.
• Jack called Marian to his office and announced his plan to make his first major move as deputy director a crackdown on Hell’s Kitchen.

Jack led a brutal S.H.I.E.L.D. and DEA raid on Hell's Kitchen, hoping to provoke Kingpin into retaliating, but his actions inspired the agents to form an anti-crime squad and cost him a huge number of Evil Points. He decided to work alone and pursue a secret alliance with Kingpin and The Hand, only to find the raid team had already covered a wall with insults that made cooperation unlikely.

• Jack led S.H.I.E.L.D. and DEA agents in raids that crippled a quarter of Hell's Kitchen, seized billions in illegal goods, and left many agents dead or wounded.
• Jack saw that his Evil Points had fallen by one million and ordered the agents to paint insults mocking Kingpin to provoke him.
• The agents praised Jack's anti-crime leadership, and the system announced that their shared sense of justice had created the prototype of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Anti-Crime Squad, costing him another five hundred thousand Evil Points.
• Jack shouted that he would never coexist with evil, inspiring the agents to echo him and causing the system to deduct another hundred thousand Evil Points.
• Jack resolved to work alone and secretly approach Kingpin and The Hand, but he saw that the agents had already painted insults on the wall that would ruin any chance of a dark alliance.

After Jack reported his costly Hell’s Kitchen operation, Hill ordered him to train under Black Widow, but his sharp observations quickly convinced her he needed little instruction. Jack then weighed how to earn the remaining Evil Points without harming people and decided to meet Kingpin.

• Jack reported the Hell’s Kitchen operation to Hill, who criticized its heavy casualties and ordered him to study intelligence gathering under Natasha for a week.
• Jack instinctively obeyed Hill’s dismissal and returned to his office, where he found Black Widow waiting to test him.
• Jack deduced from Natasha’s appearance and perfume that she was preparing to infiltrate Tony Stark’s circle.
• Natasha told Jack that Fury had high hopes for him and left him to consider whether he would be molded for an important role or washed out.
• While finishing his report, Jack decided to target major powers for Evil Points and planned to meet Kingpin that night, ready to escape with Flash if necessary.

After Jack's crackdown in Hell's Kitchen, Kingpin alerted Pierce, who summoned Jack to his estate and tried to arrange a match between him and his daughter, Jenny. Jack reluctantly considered playing along, hoping the situation might earn him Evil Points.

• Kingpin refused to meet Jack and contacted Pierce about Jack's request.
• Pierce summoned Jack to his estate near Newark after deciding to rein in his operations in New York.
• Jack arrived and met Pierce and his daughter, Jenny, at breakfast.
• Pierce hinted that Jack should date Jenny, leaving Jack shocked and uncomfortable.
• Jack began considering whether courting Jenny could earn him Evil Points.

After spending five days with Jenny Pierce, Jack returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. and deliberately leaked their relationship to stir up trouble. Garrett interpreted the affair as a bid for power and prepared to show Jack how much influence he held in Hydra.

• Jack left Jenny asleep at home and returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. after five days away.
• Jack teased Marian about his lover, then revealed that he had been sleeping with Jenny Pierce.
• Marian blurted out the news in the hallway, and Jack stopped her from classifying it as confidential so the rumor could spread.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents circulated the news through internal chats until agents in the field had heard it.
• Garrett raged that Jack was trying to seize his position in Hydra, while Ward tried to calm him.
• Garrett decided to use his influence in Hydra to oppose Jack.

Jack responded to Garrett’s retaliation by staging a public confrontation and falsely accusing him of targeting Jack over Jenny Pierce. Garrett, furious at the accusations, demanded that Jenny be brought in to settle the dispute and threatened Jack if his claims proved false.

• Garrett used his influence to disrupt Jack’s work, and Jack welcomed the resulting Evil Points.
• Jack pretended to rage about being targeted, then stormed into Garrett’s office and tore out part of his hair.
• Jack accused Garrett of sabotaging him because of a rivalry over Jenny Pierce, drawing the agents into the fabricated gossip.
• Garrett insulted Jenny as an unmarried old woman, and Jack accused Garrett of preying on her when she was a teenager.
• Garrett slammed his pistol onto the desk, demanded that Jenny be brought in, and threatened to kill Jack if his accusations were false.

Deputy Director Hill broke up Jack and Garrett’s public confrontation and dragged Jack away. In the elevator, Jack claimed Garrett had collected information on female S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, but Hill saw through his attempt to provoke an investigation and decided Jack belonged back in the field.

• Hill cleared the onlookers and reprimanded Jack and Garrett for fighting at work.
• Garrett realized Jack had deliberately targeted him and resolved to retaliate.
• Hill took Jack to the elevator, where he claimed Garrett had secretly collected information on female S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Jack admitted he deserved punishment but urged Hill not to investigate Garrett, warning of serious consequences.
• Hill suspected Jack was baiting her and decided to find an excuse to transfer him back to the field teams.

Jack was temporarily demoted to a clerk overseeing S.H.I.E.L.D. affairs in Hell’s Kitchen, while Garrett was made liaison between the field agents and Strike Team, worsening tensions between the factions. Jack gained a large haul of Evil Points from the internal turmoil and headed to Hell’s Kitchen, where gang warfare continued as he raced to end the chaos before the month ended.

• Hill demoted Jack to a clerk assigned to Hell’s Kitchen and temporarily demoted Garrett to a coordinating role between the field agents and Strike Team.
• Rumlow asserted dominance over Garrett, while Ward nearly fought Rumlow over the treatment of Garrett.
• Jack received 500,000 net Evil Points as S.H.I.E.L.D.’s factional conflict worsened, despite losing points over Jenny Pierce and gaining them when Fury rejected Coulson’s proposal to add him to the director candidate list.
• Jack arrived in Hell’s Kitchen, where gangs were battling over territory after his earlier crackdown had disrupted the neighborhood’s balance.
• Jack realized he had eight days to end the gang conflict before the month ended and his four skills disappeared.

Jack went to the Hell's Kitchen Precinct on S.H.I.E.L.D. business, where he discovered Daredevil and confronted the corrupt precinct chief, Stanis House. The chapter ended with Jack ordering House to sit beside him as House angrily refused.

• Jack intimidated the officers at the Hell's Kitchen Precinct with his Evil Gaze and noticed Matt Murdock, whom he recognized as Daredevil.
• Jack punched through a wooden desk and went upstairs to meet the precinct chief.
• Jack kicked open Stanis House's office door and presented his S.H.I.E.L.D. identification while House hurriedly got dressed.
• Jack mocked House for resuming his affair with his secretary and told him to sit beside him.
• House slammed his hand on the desk and angrily challenged Jack's order.

Jack obtained Hell’s Kitchen Precinct’s report for S.H.I.E.L.D. and told Chief House to pass his card to Kingpin. After learning that Daredevil was waiting for a casualty report, Jack deliberately delayed it until next year to earn Evil Points, leaving Daredevil furious.

• Jack forced Chief House to provide S.H.I.E.L.D. with a report on the anti-gang operation and gave him a business card to pass to Kingpin.
• Jack learned that Daredevil was a blind lawyer waiting for a casualty report that the precinct said would take at least another month to compile.
• Jack suggested scheduling Daredevil’s appointment three months later, provoking his anger.
• The system awarded Jack 5,000 Evil Points for upsetting Daredevil, so Jack returned to the desk and ordered the precinct to withhold the report until next year.