Chapter Summaries

Mycroft told John that an older, wounded version of John Wick had appeared, saved his parents, and vanished, leaving John unsettled about his counterpart's identity and the circumstances of his arrival. John later experimented with recreating the Bifrost, accidentally teleported to the Arctic, and finally returned to Silver Hand Manor, where Harry had arrived.

• Mycroft told John that a bearded version of him had escaped a secret base after killing fifty soldiers and had helped save John's parents.
• John put the bloodstained pencil left by the older John Wick with his own pencils and wondered whether the man was his future self or another version of him.
• Odin arrived in New York without his memories or divine power and moved into Greenwood Nursing Center while the Ancient One watched.
• John used the Space Stone and magic to experiment with summoning the Bifrost, accidentally blasted through his garden, and teleported to the Arctic.
• John froze the shattered Arctic ice with the Casket of Ancient Winters, then adjusted his magic and returned to Silver Hand Manor, where Harry arrived.

Harry told John about a woman immune to magic who had come through the Conjunction of the Spheres and was hunting someone named Yardani. John realized Yardani was his own name, while Frey joined Blade in London as they searched for witchers.

• Harry visited Silver Hand Manor and told John that a woman from another world was immune to magic and might be behind the slaughter of vampires.
• Harry said the woman was looking for someone named Yardani, and John recognized it as the name given to him by his maternal grandfather.
• Harry left as the Vampire Council approached the Ministry of Magic over the mass deaths of vampires.
• Blade treated his wound and learned that the woman's name was Frey; he told her he knew where to find witchers.
• Frey went to wash, became confused by the bathroom tap, and marveled when Blade turned on the water.

John searched the Mind Palace for two people but learned that they could not be seen, while Ariana and his parents were concealed by a mysterious force. He investigated the London massacre linked to vampires, found evidence of a magic-suppressing blood and a half-vampire, and left to discover who was hunting Yardani.

• John asked the Mind Palace voice to find a woman and someone who looked like him, but it could not see them and said a force was hiding his family.
• After John left, a white-robed man called Critic emerged in the Mind Palace and examined roots connecting worlds, including a hidden root linking Hell to Sokovia.
• John returned to work, repaired the Manor's ceiling, and Apparated to the London crime scene where more than thirty people, including vampires and their human servants, had been killed.
• John used golden powder to trace the victims' footprints and saw that an unseen attacker had killed them; he also found a burly armed man had entered the Cold Storage.
• In the Cold Storage, John collected vampire fangs and discovered blood that powerfully suppressed magic, along with blood bearing both human and vampire traits.
• John left the scene with the samples, intending to identify the woman who was searching for Yardani.

Steve Rogers joined Natasha on a S.H.I.E.L.D. mission to rescue hostages from pirates, then challenged Fury over Project Insight’s plan to eliminate threats before they acted. Fury discovered that his own authorization had been rejected and that the project files were sealed, while a vengeful man arrived at the Continental Hotel asking for guns.

• Steve Rogers met Sam Wilson during a morning run, and Sam recognized Steve’s difficulty adjusting to life after the war.
• Steve and Natasha joined a mission to rescue hostages aboard a ship seized by pirates, but Natasha also backed up the ship’s data while Steve fought the Pirate Leader.
• Steve confronted Fury about Natasha’s conflicting assignment, and Fury showed him Project Insight’s three Helicarriers and their ability to target people worldwide.
• Steve objected to eliminating threats before they acted and asked Fury whether Project Insight would target wizards or John.
• Fury tried to access the satellite launch records but found his authorization rejected and the files sealed under Nicholas J. Fury’s name.
• A vengeance-filled man arrived at the Continental Hotel, placed a bloodstained gold coin on the counter, and asked for guns.

John discovered that one vampire’s blood could seal magic and learned the Half-Vampire was with its owner, forcing him to seek a technological way to find them. In Washington, Fury asked Alexander Pierce to delay Project Insight, while Fury’s growing doubts left him stopped beside suspicious police officers.

• John found that the magic-sealing blood could resist all forms of magic, including tracking spells.
• John’s attempt to track the Half-Vampire showed that the Half-Vampire was with the woman whose blood sealed magic, so John turned to the London police.
• Fury asked Alexander Pierce to call a vote delaying Project Insight, and Alexander agreed while demanding that Iron Man attend his niece’s birthday party.
• Fury ordered Hill to reach Washington within three hours as he reconsidered Project Insight’s risks.
• Fury stopped at a red light and noticed two white police officers scrutinizing him from a nearby police car.

Nick Fury survived an ambush that left him presumed dead, while John heard reports of Fury’s death and Captain America’s defection. John then spotted a starving newly turned vampire, Martha, venturing into daylight in search of blood.

• Police cars rammed and surrounded Fury’s car, then opened fire and attacked it with a pneumatic hammer.
• Fury used the car’s counterattack system to escape the police, but a masked assassin with a metal arm blew up his vehicle.
• Fury dug a tunnel beneath the wreck and escaped, leaving the assassin to find an empty car.
• Mycroft told John that Fury was likely alive and mentioned Captain America’s defection from S.H.I.E.L.D.
• John considered the conflict between the vampire factions and went to a rooftop to look for vampires outside during the day.
• Martha, newly turned and starving, covered herself in sunscreen and went out to find blood.

Martha, newly turned into a vampire, tried to lure John home and drug him for his blood, but he exposed her and subdued her with sunlight. John spared Martha, learned that Hume had turned her, and gave her a crystal pendant that suppressed her bloodlust.

• Martha fought her hunger but brought John home, where she secretly crushed sleeping pills into his water.
• John revealed he knew Martha was a vampire, opened the curtains to expose her to sunlight, then closed them and demanded to talk.
• Martha begged for mercy and explained that Hume had bitten her at a party, turning her into a vampire.
• John told Martha he could see she was kind and asked where Hume was, learning that Hume was popular at her school.
• John put a blood-filled crystal pendant around Martha's neck, easing her hunger and bloodlust.

John healed Martha and used her to help track Hume, while the Vampire Council debated the threat posed by the Daywalker and other vampire killers. John went to Hume’s party himself, where Hume mistook him for a potential lover.

• John healed Martha’s burned hands and gave her Vampire-Blocking Blood to curb her thirst.
• The Vampire Council discussed the destruction of a Young Faction territory, the Daywalker, and the Ministry of Magic, then let Cauper pursue the killer.
• John and Martha drove to Hume’s party, where Martha was meant to lure Hume out but felt guilty about their lack of a real connection.
• John left Martha in the car and approached Hume, who dismissed the crowd and tried to seduce him.

John captured Hume and used Legilimency to learn that Cauper was planning revenge against Daywalker and the Vampire Council. After discovering the vampires were gathering in the Subway Tunnel, John left to intervene and had Hume crucified at a church to await sunrise.

• John abducted Hume and took him with Martha to her house, where Martha discovered that her vampire hunger still made ordinary food unbearable.
• John revived Hume, restrained him with magic, and extracted his memories while Martha watched.
• John learned that Hume served Cauper, a powerful vampire lord who planned to ambush Daywalker in the Subway Tunnel and attack the Vampire Council.
• John decided to head for the Subway Tunnel, then arranged for Hume to be nailed to a church cross to die in the sunlight.

Blade and Frey fought off Cauper's vampire raiders in the Subway Tunnel, while John arrived afterward and collected blood from the battle site. Meanwhile, Steve Rogers and Natasha uncovered Hydra's presence within S.H.I.E.L.D. and encountered Arnim Zola in a hidden computer room.

• Blade cut the power and fought the vampires who had invaded his stronghold, but Cauper's forces cornered him and Frey.
• John and Martha reached the stronghold after the battle, and John asked Martha to collect blood that might help her become human again.
• After Nick Fury's death, Steve and Natasha decrypted the stolen data and traced its origins to New Jersey.
• Steve and Natasha entered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s original headquarters and used the data drive to activate an old computer.
• The computer revealed Arnim Zola, and Steve realized Hydra had survived.

In London, John used MOSS to search for his missing target, but an unknown force blocked the tracking. Meanwhile, Zola revealed Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. before a missile struck Steve and Natasha’s location, warning that John Wick faced a deadly enemy.

• John failed to find his target through magical tracking, so he left London with Martha and decided to search using the internet.
• John ordered MOSS to scan London’s cameras for a vampire hunter, a woman, and gunfire, and MOSS found three possible locations before an unknown force blocked its tracking.
• Zola told Steve and Natasha that Hydra had survived by infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D. through Operation Paperclip and had spent decades preparing Project Insight.
• Zola revealed that Hydra had arranged the deaths of Howard Stark and Nick Fury and had gained enough control to launch a missile at Steve and Natasha.
• Natasha warned Zola that Hydra had failed against Watson Wick, and Zola said John Wick was near death before the missile struck.

Steve and Natasha returned to Washington and began planning to expose Hydra with Sam’s help, while Natasha worried about Zola’s warning that John and the Wick family were targets. At the Manor, John tested magic-sealing blood on Martha and discovered that her vampire curse was intertwined with a virus.

• Steve and Natasha returned to Washington, questioned why Zola had named John, and identified Alexander Pierce and Jasper Sitwell as targets in their investigation.
• Sam offered his help as an ace pilot, and Steve agreed to let him join the fight against Hydra.
• John brought Martha to the Manor and led her to the garden laboratory, where she encountered its enchanted vines and the remaining Dementors.
• John injected Martha with magic-sealing blood, triggering a severe reaction as he restrained her and examined her blood.
• John found that a virus and Martha’s vampire curse were maintaining a delicate balance.

John used Vampire-Blocking Blood to suppress Martha's vampire curse, leaving her asleep and apparently free of it. Meanwhile, Steve, Natasha, and Sam captured Sitwell, who revealed that Zola's Algorithm chose targets for Project Insight based on who might threaten Hydra, even in the future.

• John gave Martha his gold-tinged blood and green potion, suppressing her vampire curse by dawn.
• Steve, Sam, and Natasha stole Falcon equipment, then used it to seize Sitwell and question him about Project Insight.
• Natasha kicked Sitwell off a rooftop, and Falcon caught him before he hit the ground.
• Sitwell revealed that Zola's Algorithm selected Project Insight targets, including people who could threaten Hydra now or in the future.
• Steve demanded to know how the algorithm could predict the future.

Sitwell revealed that Hydra planned to use Project Insight to kill millions and that Zola had known the Wizard, before the Winter Soldier attacked Steve, Natasha, and Sam. The Strike Team captured the three Avengers after Steve recognized the Winter Soldier as his childhood friend Bucky.

• Sitwell revealed that Hydra’s Project Insight would eliminate millions and that Zola had contacted the Wizard before he was human.
• Steve, Natasha, and Sam set out to use Sitwell to board a Helicarrier, but the Winter Soldier attacked their car and killed Sitwell.
• The Winter Soldier and armed combatants fought Steve, Natasha, and Sam on the highway, and Natasha was shot in the shoulder.
• Steve knocked off the Winter Soldier’s mask and recognized him as Bucky, but Bucky denied knowing that name and retreated when Sam and Natasha joined the fight.
• S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Strike Team captured Steve, Natasha, and Sam, while Steve wondered whether Zola’s experiments had helped Bucky survive his fall from the train.

After Fury learned that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., Steve led the team to destroy both organizations, while Fury traveled through the Floo network to New York to investigate Snake Lady and the wizards connected to Hydra. Fury and Darcy arrived at Plymouth Settlement, where Fury got his first glimpse of the bustling Wizarding World.

• Agent Hill rescued Steve, Natasha, and Sam from Rumlow's transport, and the three reached Fury's secret stronghold.
• Fury revealed that he had faked his death with tetrodotoxin B and planned to stop Hydra's helicarrier plot, but Steve argued that S.H.I.E.L.D. had to be destroyed along with Hydra.
• Steve, Natasha, Sam, and Hill left to attack the heavily secured building, while Fury decided to seek answers about the Zola Algorithm, wizards, and Snake Lady.
• Darcy used Floo Powder and a Magic Crystal to take Fury from the base to Plymouth Settlement in New York.
• Fury stepped out into a crowded wizarding tavern and watched wizards, werewolves, and vampires go about their lives before Darcy welcomed him to the Wizarding World.

Nick Fury entered the Wizarding World and followed Darcy’s directions to find Snake Lady, unaware that the Golden Elevator was actually a Dueling Elevator. The elevator delivered him to a gym full of intimidating musclebound wizards, where one challenged him to fight.

• Darcy warned Fury to hide that he was a Muggle and sent him alone toward Snake Lady at the top of Silver Hand Johnny.
• Fury avoided a Niffler and entered the vast magical department store, where an attendant led him to the Golden Elevator.
• Fury rode the transparent elevator past the store’s magical displays and stepped out near a gym.
• A muscular wizard finished lifting weights and told Fury that anyone arriving in the Dueling Elevator was ready for a fight.
• Fury realized Darcy had sent him into a fight and cursed him under his breath.

After John’s parents were impersonated by shapeshifting aliens in a suicide bombing, he discovered their communicators had sent a signal to Washington. Martha, newly able to endure sunlight, was left behind as John prepared to confront whoever had targeted his family.

• Darcy answered Fury’s call from a tavern bathroom, told him to reach Snake Lady through Johnson, and returned to the drinking contest.
• Martha woke able to withstand sunlight, ran to share her happiness with John, and found two corpses beside him.
• John revealed that the corpses were shapeshifting aliens impersonating his parents and explained that he had stopped their explosive attack.
• John showed Martha the crater left by a third intruder, then dismissed her and returned to the Manor.
• MOSS traced the aliens’ communicators to Washington and confirmed that no high-energy threats remained near John’s family.
• John studied the coordinates and decided that someone had started a dangerous game with the Wizard King.

Fury sought Nagini at Silver Hand Johnny to ask about John Wick, but Credence attacked him for speaking the Wizard King’s name. As Project Insight launched and Hydra seized control of S.H.I.E.L.D., John arrived at headquarters and ordered MOSS to seal the exits.

• Fury endured Johnson’s beating and reached Nagini’s office, where he asked her who John Wick was.
• Credence disarmed Fury and attacked him after Nagini reacted to the name; he demanded to know who had permitted Fury to speak the Wizard King’s name.
• Alexander Pierce welcomed the World Security Council as preparations for Project Insight continued.
• Steve broadcast that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and named Pierce as its leader, prompting Hydra operatives to seize the launch facilities and take the council hostage.
• Two shape-shifting aliens opened S.H.I.E.L.D.’s armory, while three Sky Aircraft Carriers took off.
• John arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, told MOSS to hack the systems, and ordered every exit sealed.

John discovered Skrulls stealing weapons from S.H.I.E.L.D. and uncovered evidence that a powerful Wizard was protecting their secrets. Meanwhile, Fury helped expose S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra, but Alexander revealed that Hydra had been founded by a Wizard.

• John caught two Skrulls looting the weapons warehouse, and one Skrull crumbled to dust after John turned him to stone.
• John used Legilimency on the surviving Skrull and learned that alien refugees had grown comfortable on Earth and that a Wizard had bound the Skrull's secrets with an Unbreakable Vow.
• The Skrull's head exploded when John probed too deeply, and John crushed the stolen weapons-filled Quinjet into a sphere.
• Fury met Alexander at the World Security Council and authorized the release of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secrets, helping Natasha's plan to expose S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra.
• Alexander warned that the Wizard King was a threat and told Fury that Hydra had been founded by a Wizard, not Red Skull.

Steve and Sam fought to stop Hydra’s Helicarrier attack while Steve battled Bucky and Sam faced Rumlow. A mass of dark matter engulfed the carriers and S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, while Alexander’s plan unraveled after MOSS disabled the deadly Badges.

• Sam replaced the Targeting Modules on two Helicarriers as Steve worked on the third, but the Winter Soldier ambushed them, defeated Sam, and fought Steve.
• Steve subdued Bucky long enough to retrieve the Targeting Module, while Rumlow took an orange-red capsule and gained enough power to drive Sam into retreat.
• The Winter Soldier shot Steve as he climbed to install the module, but a Metal Droplet punched through all three Helicarriers and black matter spread over them, cutting off communications and causing rapid decay.
• The damaged carrier pinned Bucky, and Steve jumped down to rescue him as the darkness continued spreading around S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
• Alexander revealed that the Badges he had given the World Security Council could kill their wearers, then ordered Natasha to take him away while explaining Hydra’s alliance with wizards.
• MOSS disabled Natasha’s Badge and spoke through Alexander’s phone, and Fury shot Alexander as the building shook.