Chapter Summaries

Jack discovered that frightening Daredevil with hints that he knew his secret identity earned far more Evil Points than ordinary torment. Daredevil fled, and Jack began looking for other masked heroes whose identities he could exploit.

• Jack snapped Daredevil's reinforced cane and earned 30,000 Evil Points by provoking him.
• Daredevil suspected Jack was an assassin and tried to leave the precinct.
• Jack described the red-suited vigilante whose eyes were covered and suggested he knew Daredevil was blind.
• Daredevil panicked and ran, earning Jack 800,000 Evil Points.
• Jack considered which superheroes might fear having their identities exposed, but found most had no secret identities or were too young to target.

Jack met Kingpin to propose that he retaliate against S.H.I.E.L.D. and the DEA, then asked to join Hell's Kitchen's business. Kingpin accepted, while both men privately planned to use the other for their own ends.

• Jack met Kingpin in a limousine, where they drank whiskey and Kingpin waited for Jack to speak first.
• Jack admitted he had organized the previous operation by S.H.I.E.L.D. and the DEA, then urged Kingpin to create chaos by attacking them.
• Jack told Kingpin that he was dating Jenny Pierce and argued that he could protect Kingpin from S.H.I.E.L.D. in the future.
• Kingpin punched Jack to test him, and Jack caught the blow despite needing all his strength.
• Jack apologized and asked to participate in Hell's Kitchen's business, and Kingpin agreed to let him join.
• Jack and Kingpin shook hands while each privately viewed the other as someone to exploit.

After earning a huge Evil Points reward for joining Kingpin's gang business, Jack looked forward to Captain America awakening and becoming a Regional Villain. Daredevil visited to conceal his identity, but Jack teased him until Daredevil realized Jack already knew who he was.

• Jack woke up to a reward of two million Evil Points for participating in Kingpin's business as both a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and a Hydra member.
• Marian told Jack that Captain America's thawing was complete and that he was being kept in a safe house.
• Jack planned to hold onto his Evil Points until calculation day, then rise to Regional Villain and take out Kingpin.
• Daredevil visited Jack and complained about the reishi mushroom powder he mistook for coffee while trying to explain his vigilante work.
• Jack steered Daredevil into admitting he had met him at the Hell's Kitchen Precinct, then let him believe the encounter had been innocuous.
• Daredevil followed Stick's advice, realized Jack had known his identity all along, and understood that Jack had been deliberately messing with him.

Jack easily subdued Daredevil, but his overwhelming strength shattered Daredevil’s confidence and led him to conclude that the authorities tolerated Hell’s Kitchen’s criminal system. Jack comforted Daredevil with drinks and reflected on how deeply entrenched Marvel’s corruption was.

• Jack defeated Daredevil with little effort, leaving him handcuffed and questioning how a S.H.I.E.L.D. Level Six Agent could be so strong.
• Jack saw that Daredevil was despondent and received 3,000,000 Evil Points for shattering his confidence.
• Jack removed Daredevil’s handcuffs, poured them both whiskey, and told him he had never meant to hurt him.
• Daredevil said he felt his efforts were meaningless and accused S.H.I.E.L.D., the NYPD, the DEA, and New York City’s government of allowing Hell’s Kitchen to persist.
• Daredevil smashed his glass and collapsed onto the sofa as Jack listened and considered the scale of corruption behind Kingpin and Hell’s Kitchen.

Jack failed to persuade Daredevil to recover his will to fight, then went to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, where Jenny Pierce and her father confronted him about his affair with Jenny. When Pierce demanded that Jack marry her, Jack refused and declared he would rather jump, so Pierce told him to do it.

• Jack watched Daredevil leave for home, then drove to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
• Jack found Marian and a female agent in his office and learned that Jenny Pierce was waiting with her father.
• Jack entered Marian's office and blurted out that he and Jenny had only been having fun, then tried to claim they were in love when he saw Pierce.
• Pierce scolded Jack, demanded that he marry Jenny, and threatened to send him to an office in the African desert if he refused.
• Jack declared that he would rather jump than marry Jenny, and Pierce pointed to the window and told him to jump.

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.