Recaps

Richard reunited with Ancient One, who warned him that his efforts to protect Earth were making him resemble Nick Fury and urged him to trust his allies and focus on growing stronger. After hearing her vision of a future filled with flames and a torn universe, Richard agreed to travel between parallel worlds, but insisted Earth still needed a powerful guardian.

• Ancient One appeared and shared tea with Richard, who complained that finding a successor was difficult and rejected Smith Strange as unsuitable.
• Ancient One compared Richard to Nick Fury, prompting Richard to recall his schemes against Tiamut, the Skrulls, Asgard, and Odin and realize he might be acting like a villain.
• Ancient One recalled how distrust had once nearly fractured Kamar-Taj and advised Richard to trust his subordinates and strengthen himself for the dangers ahead.
• Ancient One described a vision of endless flames, an Earth reduced to ash, and a torn universe, and said Richard might be able to save the Multiverse.
• Richard agreed to leave Earth's affairs to Kamar-Taj and the Red Order while traveling between parallel worlds to grow stronger, but argued that Earth still needed a guardian, leaving Ancient One stunned.

Richard returned to the Resident Evil world after leaving Kamar-Taj and preparing his sky fortress, while Jill and Ada Wong discussed their regrets as they defended Raccoon City from the zombie hordes. The chapter ended with the two women returning from the city wall together, still facing the siege and short on combat manpower.

• Stephen Strange thanked Mordo for helping him and looked forward to returning to New York once his hands healed.
• The Sorcerer Ancient One met Odin in his consciousness and told him Richard had ended her retirement; Odin laughed and said she owed him one.
• Richard called White Queen, learned she did not want to return to the Resident Evil world, and promised to bring her sister back if he could.
• White Queen gave Richard a new comm watch clone to assist him, and Richard left his physical magic clone in charge of the sky fortress.
• Richard opened a portal to the Resident Evil world and arrived in Raccoon City, where Jill and Ada Wong stood on the city wall watching the zombie hordes.
• Jill and Ada discussed whether Richard might return, then went back together as they prepared to defend the city from the siege.

Raccoon City’s defenders prepared for a zombie siege, but a newly discovered army of enormous, seemingly artificial zombies overwhelmed their defenses. The chapter left the battle escalating as Winged Fiends struck the helicopters sent to delay the giants.

• Alicia assigned Leon, Jill, Ada Wong, and Alice to defend the city walls and tasked the Red Queen with aerial surveillance.
• The defenders spotted a super giant zombie over fifty meters tall, and Alicia learned that its chest bore human heads and that it was likely artificially manufactured.
• The Red Queen detected more than a thousand of the new monsters approaching Raccoon City.
• As zombies attacked the walls, Alicia ordered airstrikes against the advancing giants despite the warning that the Winged Fiends had not appeared.
• The super giant zombies survived missile strikes, then Winged Fiends attacked and destroyed over a dozen armed helicopters.

Raccoon City faced a massive zombie assault, and Alicia prepared to launch a nuclear bomb after winged fiends approached. The defenders rallied to keep fighting, while Richard appeared in the Arklay Mountains beneath the incoming swarm.

• Super giant zombies hurled butchers, tyrants, and other zombies over Raccoon City’s walls, overwhelming the defenders’ defenses.
• Alicia ordered the Alice legion to intercept the monsters and told the Red Queen to retreat to an underground base and wait for Richard.
• After satellite footage revealed a huge swarm of winged fiends approaching, Alicia ordered the nuclear bomb prepared and sent the commanders her message, “The light of humanity endures forever.”
• Jill, Ada Wong, Alice, and Leon rallied the demoralized soldiers, who resumed firing and echoed Alicia’s call.
• Several members of the reserve force quietly approached the strategic command post as Richard appeared in the Arklay Mountains and saw the winged fiends overhead.

Richard destroyed the attacking Winged Fiends with heavenly lightning while Raccoon City’s defenses struggled against a growing zombie horde. Alicia survived a betrayal inside the command center, but the traitors turned into talking zombies as the battle for the city continued.

• Richard summoned a storm and killed the Winged Fiends with a barrage of lightning.
• As zombies gathered in Raccoon City, Alicia ordered the Red Queen to send Unmanned Bombers to clear them, but Edward, David, and Seven stormed the command center and revealed they had been paid to kill her.
• Alicia deflected the traitors’ bullets and ordered RX-01 and RX-02 to shoot them, then left the command room.
• Edward, David, and Seven rose as talking zombies and attacked Alicia, who stomped Edward’s head, ordered the armor robots to stop them, and fled.
• The Reserve Force fought Butchers and Tyrants in the streets while Alice Clones fired RPGs into the zombie horde.

Richard returned to Raccoon City, reunited with Jill, and destroyed the zombie horde threatening the city with a vast web of crimson lightning. The survivors celebrated their victory as Richard faced Jill’s teasing over his other admirers.

• Alice Clone snipers blinded the tyrants, and the Reserve Force retreated while explosives collapsed buildings onto the attackers.
• Alicia watched drone footage of Richard’s Ten Thousand Thunderbolts and ordered the Red Queen to analyze it.
• Richard searched the devastated world for Jill, found no living people beyond Raccoon City, and flew to the Giant Wall to reunite with her.
• Richard and Jill kissed until a zombie thrown by a super giant zombie landed nearby, prompting Richard to attack the horde.
• Richard unleashed Ten Thousand Calamities Thunder Prison across the Arklay Mountains and incinerated the zombie horde as the soldiers celebrated.
• Richard returned to Jill, who pinched his waist and teased him for being a heartbreaker.

After the survivors celebrated their victory, Richard woke surrounded by Alicia, Ada Wong, and Jill, with Alice joining them. He later offered to take Raccoon City’s remaining survivors to another world, and Alicia vowed to drive out anyone who refused.

• Alicia and the logistics team organized a feast, and Jill and Ada Wong got drunk while taking turns getting Richard to drink.
• Richard carried Jill and Ada Wong away, while Alice urged Alicia to pursue her own happiness and dragged her after them.
• The next morning, Richard woke with Ada Wong, Jill, and Alicia beside him, and Alice came in to wake them and kiss him.
• At lunch, Red Queen reported that the horde had killed 1,323 people and left 34,670 survivors in Raccoon City.
• Richard offered to take the survivors with him to another world, and Alicia said anyone who refused could leave the city.

Richard moved the Resident Evil survivors to Earth, sent Jill, Ada Wong, Alicia, Alice, and the Alice Legion to become Crimson Battle Sisters, then crossed into a parallel Hong Kong and reunited with Lin. Lin’s son Cui Zhihong had just gone upstairs when Richard told her he was back.

• Alicia gathered the survivors, and Richard carried them out of the Resident Evil world in a mirror dimension before leaving them with High Priestess Strucker on Earth.
• Richard sent Jill, Ada Wong, Alicia, Alice, and the Alice Legion to the Crimson Dimension, where they became Crimson Battle Sisters and were assigned training in Tara Territory.
• Christine and the other women met the newcomers, while Alice explained the history of the Alice Legion and gained their acceptance.
• White Queen took Red Queen into an online game, where a sniper shot knocked down the black-haired twin-tailed loli accompanying them.
• Richard sensed a familiar soul in a parallel Hong Kong and teleported to Lin’s villa, where Lin reminded Cui Zhihong to use his Chinese name at home and at school.
• After Cui Zhihong went upstairs, Richard told Lin he was back, and she dropped her spatula and began to cry.

Richard returned to Lin for three days, then left her behind and opened a Cross-Dimensional Portal to another world. In Paris, Richard Reynolds secretly followed Kim and Amanda, learning that Kim preferred muscular men just as a handsome blonde man approached them.

• Richard reunited with Lin, and they spent the night together before he asked her to return with him; Lin chose to stay in her world and wait for his return.
• Richard took Lin to famous sights around the world during his three-day visit.
• Richard ate Lin’s breakfast, said goodbye to her, and left through the Cross-Dimensional Portal as Lin cried.
• Richard Reynolds arrived in Paris on the same plane as Kim and Amanda and overheard them discussing his past rejection and Kim’s preferences.
• Richard Reynolds hurried after Kim and Amanda through the airport, while a handsome blonde man approached them and learned they were visiting Paris on vacation.

Richard took Richard Reynolds to a deserted island and helped him complete an evolution while Reynolds worried about Kim. After Richard revealed Kim and Amanda had been sold to the Albanian Gang, Reynolds panicked, and Kim called her father for help.

• Amanda accepted David as a tour guide despite Kim's warnings, and the two women left with him.
• Richard approached Reynolds at the airport, revealed he was Reynolds's parallel-world alter ego, and took him to a deserted island.
• Reynolds ate Richard's roasted fish after Richard said his body had finished evolving.
• Reynolds learned David had sold Kim and Amanda to the Albanian Gang, a syndicate that used injectable drugs to force women into prostitution.
• Kim called Old Bryan and pleaded, "Daddy, help me!"

Old Bryan heard that Kim and Amanda had been abducted from a Paris hotel and tried to guide Kim while recording details about the kidnappers. After Kim was captured, he warned the abductors that he would find and kill them if they harmed her, but they dismissed his threat.

• Old Bryan told Kim to hide when she reported that intruders had broken into the Saint Mafei Hotel and taken Amanda.
• Old Bryan connected recording equipment to the phone and questioned Kim about David and how she and Amanda had reached the hotel.
• Kim hid under a bed and described one kidnapper as bearded, six feet tall, and tattooed with a moon and stars on his right hand before she was captured.
• Old Bryan offered to pay a ransom and threatened to hunt down the kidnappers if they harmed Kim.
• A kidnapper mocked Old Bryan's warning and hung up.

Old Bryan raced to Paris after learning that Kim had been kidnapped, while Reynolds used Richard’s advice to contact him and investigate the kidnappers. The chapter ended with Old Bryan receiving intelligence linking the kidnappers to a human-trafficking gang from Tropoja.

• Old Bryan sent his recording to Sam and drove to Newark Airport after confirming that Kim had been kidnapped.
• Richard told Reynolds that rescuing Kim could help him win over Old Bryan, so Reynolds contacted Kim’s father and admitted he was following her to Paris.
• Reynolds sent Old Bryan a photo that he enhanced to reveal David, and Old Bryan boarded a flight to Paris while asking Sam to investigate Reynolds.
• Richard directed Reynolds to search Paris police records for the kidnappers’ moon-and-star tattoos, and Reynolds identified them as an Albanian gang from Tropoja.
• Sam emailed Old Bryan intelligence linking the gang to human trafficking and the exploitation of young girls.

Bryan Mills tracked David to Saint Mafei Hotel after learning he had tricked another girl, while Stephen Strange tried to investigate Kamar-Taj’s changed faith and its locked books. David fled into the hotel and armed himself, but Old Bryan did not enter.

• Daniel picked up Bryan Mills at Charles de Gaulle Airport and drove him toward Saint Mafei Hotel after Reynolds warned that David had taken a girl there.
• Wong stopped Stephen Strange from reaching for a locked magic book and warned him that his portal was outdated and needed the Lord of Crimson’s recognition.
• Bryan waited across from Saint Mafei Hotel and confronted David when he arrived with a girl, causing David to flee inside.
• David called for Bourne, then took a pistol from a hotel employee and aimed it at the entrance, but Bryan never appeared.

Old Bryan tortured David and the big man for information about Kim, then raced toward Bourne’s hideout at the Azor Construction Site. Meanwhile, Reynolds searched an Albanian trafficking operation and heard a familiar scream from its third floor.

• Old Bryan incapacitated the big man, shot David, and learned that Bourne took the girls and that his hideout was at the Azor Construction Site in District Four.
• Old Bryan killed David and the big man, then ordered Daniel to drive him to the construction site at top speed.
• Daniel transformed the Peugeot taxi for high-speed travel and sped toward District Four with Old Bryan aboard.
• Reynolds used a drone and mechanical spider to search a red building on Heaven Street, where Albanian traffickers discussed abducted girls and injections.
• Reynolds searched the second floor for Kim but did not find her, then heard a familiar scream coming from the third floor.

Reynolds rescued Amanda from a violent attacker, while Old Bryan searched the Azode construction site for Kim and found an unconscious girl instead. Old Bryan fought off the site’s thugs and escaped with the girl as more men closed in.

• Reynolds sent the Mechanical Spider into Amanda’s room, where it killed the man assaulting her, and Amanda fainted in terror.
• Reynolds crossed to the apartment building, freed Amanda, wrapped her in a bedsheet, and carried her away after his grappling hook rope snapped.
• Old Bryan entered the Azode construction site and searched the curtained rooms for Kim, finding an unconscious girl wearing an embroidered denim jacket.
• Old Bryan killed the client attacking the girl, covered her with the jacket, and tried to carry her out as the thugs confronted him.
• Old Bryan kicked down one thug and shattered a stool against another thug’s knee while holding the unconscious girl.

Old Bryan escaped the Albanian Gang’s stronghold with the girl while Daniel drove them to Mike Donald’s villa to obtain access to a private auction where Kim might be sold. Old Bryan forced his way inside after Mike’s wife answered the door.

• Old Bryan fought through the Albanian Gang’s gunmen and escaped with the girl in Daniel’s White Taxi.
• Reynolds told Old Bryan he had rescued Amanda but had not found Kim, and reported a private auction for young girls that night.
• Reynolds said Deputy Chief Mike Donald could help them get an invitation to the auction, while Daniel revealed that Mike had ties to Paris’s underworld.
• Old Bryan had Daniel drive him to Mike Donald’s villa and asked him to watch the girl.
• When Mike’s wife opened the door, Old Bryan covered her mouth, restrained her, and dragged her inside.

Old Bryan forced McDonald to reveal details about Flack Remington’s private auction and hand over an employee badge, then left with Daniel to find medical care for an unconscious girl. Meanwhile, Reynolds faced Amanda as she threw herself at him.

• Old Bryan threatened Jenny with a meat grinder until McDonald agreed to disclose what he knew about the private auction.
• McDonald identified Flack Remington as the auction’s organizer and described its powerful guests and security arrangements.
• Old Bryan pressured McDonald into giving him an employee badge that could get him past the outer security and patrols.
• Old Bryan returned to Daniel’s taxi, and they decided to take the unconscious girl to a safe hotel for medical attention.
• Reynolds complained that Old Bryan had ended the call, then Amanda threw off the bedsheet and pounced on him.

Reynolds rejected Amanda’s advances and contacted the United States Embassy in Paris, while Richard urged him to help Kim. At the Azode construction site, a Black man attacked the Albanian Gang and demanded to know where a girl in his photograph was.

• Amanda tried to seduce Reynolds, but he pulled away and told her he only liked Kim.
• Reynolds left Amanda in the car and ran to a park, where he anonymously called the United States Embassy in Paris to arrange her pickup.
• Richard appeared beside Reynolds, explained that he had been watching over him, and told him to go help Kim and her outnumbered father.
• At the Azode construction site, a middle-aged Black man attacked the Albanian Gang, killed its thugs, and shot the gang boss’s limbs as he tried to escape.
• The Black man showed the boss a girl’s photograph and demanded to know where she was.

McCall killed the gang leader, recovered surveillance footage of Old Bryan, and asked Susan to identify him and locate an Albanian Gang stronghold. Old Bryan learned the rescued girl had been moved through Heaven Street and set out for the Red-Door House as McCall headed to the same address.

• McCall found the gang leader’s surveillance disks, killed him, and sent Susan a photo of Old Bryan for identification.
• The rescued girl told Old Bryan she had met his daughter at a Red-Door House and had seen a Heaven Street sign during their transfer.
• Old Bryan comforted the girl, then asked Daniel to drive him to Heaven Street.
• McCall left the construction site and took a taxi to Heaven Street, Eiffel Family Apartment.

Bryan Mills entered the Albanian Gang’s outpost, killed Bourne and the lackeys in the manager’s office, and confronted the gang over the consulting fee. As other gang members approached, rapid gunfire erupted in the corridor, leaving Bryan braced at the doorway.

• Bourne sent Qazim upstairs to check on Nasser, but Qazim ran into Bryan and warned the office that a cop had broken in.
• Bryan identified himself as the newly appointed deputy chief of the Paris Police Department, collected the consulting fee, and confronted Bourne with a slip of paper that revealed his identity as the man Bryan had vowed to kill.
• Bourne reached for his gun, but Bryan seized him by the neck and snapped it.
• When Bourne’s lackeys opened fire, Bryan flipped the card table and used a Joker card to cut their throats, then threw it into Qazim’s throat.
• As more Albanian Gang members rushed toward the office, gunfire broke out in the corridor, and Bryan took cover and aimed at the doorway.

Old Bryan and McCall joined forces to clear the Albanian Gang from the apartment and reunite McCall with Teri. Meanwhile, Reynolds mapped the private auction club and refused to abandon his plan to rescue Kim, leaving Old Bryan to prepare for the complicated operation ahead.

• Old Bryan accepted McCall's offer to work together, and the two men killed the Albanian Gang members rushing down the apartment stairs.
• Old Bryan contacted Daniel to arrange help for the drugged girls, then Daniel drove him and McCall back to the hotel.
• Reynolds used a scout drone to map the private auction club and sent Old Bryan its three-dimensional layout.
• Old Bryan warned Reynolds to leave the area, but Reynolds refused until he saw Kim rescued.
• McCall reunited with Teri, who fell asleep, and offered to help Old Bryan with his plans.

Old Bryan infiltrated the private club and forced the A10 VIP guest to bid for Kim, but security discovered him and Kim was taken away. Old Bryan escaped through a window while the Mechanical Spider pursued the car carrying Kim toward a port.

• Old Bryan knocked out a waiter, stole his magnetic card and uniform, and entered the club before the auction began.
• When Kim appeared as auction lot No. 25, Old Bryan entered the A10 private room and forced its VIP guest to bid for her.
• Old Bryan made the A10 VIP guest bid fifty thousand euros for Kim, declaring that she was priceless.
• Security spotted Old Bryan in the private room and surrounded it, so he smashed the window and escaped down the outer wall.
• The Mechanical Spider told Old Bryan that Kim had been taken away, then transformed into a reconnaissance aircraft and followed an Aston Martin Lagonda Taraf toward a port.
• The A10 VIP guest blamed the security guards and demanded that Flack Remington explain what had happened.

Old Bryan pursued Kim to a luxury yacht after Reynolds used a drone to carry him across the Seine, but he was overwhelmed while searching the vessel. The chapter left Kim’s whereabouts unknown and Old Bryan unconscious aboard the yacht.

• Old Bryan stole an orange Ferrari and learned from Reynolds that Kim had been taken to Orsay Pier by a Middle Easterner in a white yukata.
• Reynolds used a drone and cable to lift Old Bryan onto the departing yacht carrying Kim.
• Old Bryan knocked out two bodyguards after they tried to restrain him, then took a gun and entered the yacht’s cabin.
• Old Bryan shot two bodyguards and fought through others while calling for Kim.
• An attacker rushed Old Bryan from a room, struck him in the chest, and knocked him unconscious.

Old Bryan bargained with Ali for Kim Mills’s freedom, and the Mechanical Spider killed Marco and the other bodyguards in the holding room. Ali agreed to let Old Bryan take Kim, and they headed toward her bedroom as the remaining guards discovered the bodies.

• Old Bryan told Ali that Kim Mills was his daughter and offered to repay the 250,000 euros Ali had spent to acquire her.
• Old Bryan offered Ali his security services, then warned that Marco’s yacht security had a flaw.
• The Mechanical Spider dropped from the ceiling, killed Marco, and killed the other bodyguards in the room except Ali.
• Old Bryan made a deal with Ali to take Kim and introduce him to a better security team.
• The Mechanical Spider told Old Bryan where Kim was, and Ali led him toward her bedroom.
• The guards at the holding room found the bodies, and news of Marco’s death spread through the yacht’s security team.

Reynolds warned Kim and Old Bryan about armed intruders, and Kim kissed him before Old Bryan returned and led them off the ship. Meanwhile, Richard observed Lucy waking in captivity, and Asgard’s Destroyer arrived in New Mexico with Thor’s group likely in its sights.

• Two armed bodyguards approached Kim and Old Bryan’s bedroom, and Reynolds warned them instead of following White Queen’s instruction to wait for an ambush.
• Old Bryan left to confront the intruders while Reynolds comforted Kim, who thanked him and kissed his cheek.
• Old Bryan returned after gunshots and told Kim and Reynolds that the cruise ship was docking; Reynolds took Kim’s hand as they followed him.
• In Hong Kong, Richard discussed Reynolds and Kim with White Queen, then observed Lucy chained inside a warehouse as she suddenly woke in fear.
• Asgard’s Destroyer appeared in the New Mexico desert, and Phil Coulson alerted headquarters and requested reinforcements.