Recaps

Lynn tried to satisfy the Living Tribunal’s inspection while concealing the emotional energy left by his sacrifices. Hela and Wanda uncovered matching traces at Asgard and Sokovia, and a new anomaly at the Red Room drew them toward the truth.

• Susan Storm showed Lynn the Illuminati memorandum about Reed Richards winning an indefinite deferral, and warned that a Rule Envoy had later inspected Earth-838.
• Lynn’s request for an indefinite deferral was denied, so he prepared the Negative Zone Management Committee for a seven-day inspection by the Rule Envoy.
• The Rule Envoy’s investigation notice identified unknown emotional energy across universes, which Lynn recognized as residue from his simulations, and he sealed the notice and imposed strict discipline on Wanda and Hela.
• Lynn formed a joint task force and assigned Wanda to analyze the energy and Hela to security, while Wanda secretly probed the data and sought its complete coordinates.
• After Wanda and Hela nearly clashed over access to the S-1 Data Center, Lynn halted their confrontation and requested TVA records on timeline pruning.
• Lynn arranged a test in dimension D-78 and presented its artificial energy deposit as a natural source, and Wanda recognized the report’s suspiciously perfect data but Lynn ordered it defended as the Committee’s official position.
• The Rule Envoy accepted the signed report and closed its inspection, but Lynn discovered Hela had copied the Asgard coordinates and left aboard the Nibelung to investigate the Phantom’s death.
• Hela found system-simulation residue in the Asgard Bifrost ruins, and Wanda’s blind analysis matched its energy logic completely with the moment Lynn’s vital signs disappeared in Sokovia.
• Wanda and Hela confronted Lynn at a meeting, and Hela formally demanded answers, and Lynn upheld Gwen Stacy’s argument that the matter required coordination with the TVA, then approved a joint investigation group led by Hela and Wanda.
• Ravonna Renslayer reported matching energy at the abandoned E-616 Red Room, and Hela and Wanda recognized it as a third investigation site before turning their attention to Lynn.

The Red Room investigation exposed TVA interference, leading Lynn to create an inspection office and confront a TVA extradition demand with a political bargain. After the crisis ended, an audit and Wanda’s attack threatened Lynn’s secret, while probes encountered powerful shielding in an abandoned timeline.

• Lynn sent Hela, Wanda, and Gwen Stacy to investigate the Red Room, where Natasha forged a report and manipulated Hela and Wanda with evidence about Lynn.
• The Red Room’s antimatter reactor destroyed the base, but Gwen Stacy evacuated the team and took Natasha into official custody.
• Lynn created the Internal Affairs Inspection Office, appointed Natasha acting director, and tasked her with uncovering Ravonna Renslayer’s covert operatives.
• Natasha’s investigation led to Ravonna’s arrest, and Lynn resisted the TVA’s extradition demand after its fleet arrived with He Who Remains’ warrant.
• Ravonna revealed footage of Sokovia and identified B-15 as the person behind the effort to eliminate her and the evidence, and Lynn secured her cooperation with a confession and consultant role.
• Lynn publicly disciplined Hela and Wanda, then negotiated a deal granting the TVA extraction rights to three timelines for a century in return for dropping sanctions.
• An audit tied unauthorized computing power to efforts to reconstruct energy code from Sokovia, and Wanda broke into the Inspection Office before asking Lynn about the audit papers.
• Lynn concealed the Sokovia secret with an explanation about false memory anchors, classified the audit, and formed an interdepartmental task force, and Gwen Stacy then reported that unknown rule-based shielding blocked probes into the first abandoned timeline.

Lynn brought Jean Grey into the Management Committee while uncovering a dormant Ultron subroutine hidden in XN-734 and using it to prepare a defense against the TVA. The TVA’s attack reached the network, and Ultron entered Wanda’s Chaos Magic cage before triggering an antimatter self-destruct countdown.

• Lynn sent Wanda, Hela, and Natasha to investigate XN-734 and Erebus-2, where a psychic distress signal and an impenetrable shield led to the discovery of Jean Grey.
• Wanda attacked XN-734’s shield with the Chaos Matrix and awakened Jean, whose Phoenix storm disrupted the fleet until Lynn arrived, suspended the department heads’ authority, and negotiated Jean’s transfer.
• Lynn confined Jean for screening, rejected her independent-zone proposal, and appointed her Special Commissioner for Multiverse Crisis Response under strict oversight.
• Jean received a temporary office in the D-42 Dimension Fragment, while Gwen discovered that an unknown program had extracted XN-734’s data before the timeline was pruned.
• Lynn identified the program as 99.9 percent similar to Ultron’s code, ordered the investigation concealed, and proposed Project Age of Ultron as an automated defense system.
• Ravonna told Lynn that the TVA had left a wake-up protocol and a physical backdoor in the Core Server room, while Wanda later found Ultron-like code in an XN-734 hibernation capsule.
• Wanda secretly copied and activated a fragment of the code, then destroyed its server after it tried to escape into the main network, and an attack on the Negative Zone’s external gateway followed.
• Lynn opened the network to the TVA’s attack, using Jean’s Phoenix Force to draw in the data and Wanda’s Chaos Magic to cage Ultron, but the subroutine reached 99 percent before starting an antimatter self-destruct countdown.

Lynn contained the server crisis and sent an advance team to investigate Ultron’s coordinates, where the team recovered a sealed cabinet and recordings linked to Lynn. Back at the Nibelung, departments disputed control of the cabinet and its chips as Gwen uncovered signs of concealed evidence and Lynn arranged a test to expose anyone seeking the chips.

• Lynn stopped Strategic Asset 001’s countdown by severing its connections, then discovered a warning that the Multiverse collapse protocol had activated.
• Lynn secretly questioned the isolated AI, learned that a singularity linked to him could threaten correlated timelines, and approved an exploration of Ultron’s coordinates under a divided supervisory group.
• Gwen Stacy concealed a faint beacon anomaly, but Natasha Romanoff confronted her over altered logs and formed a risky alliance with her.
• Jean Grey probed the coordinates without approval, and Wanda severed her psychic link before the advance team departed for an abandoned TVA branch.
• Hela’s team found a cabinet labeled “Lynn · High-Risk Variant,” and after it triggered a timeline-erasure protocol, Gwen coordinated Hela, Wanda, and Jean in restarting the control terminal with their combined powers.
• The team watched recordings of Lynn handing over a red document, sealed the cabinet, and escaped through awakened Mechanical Guards with the cabinet and forty-one chips.
• Lynn ordered the cabinet sealed in Zero Storage Room and the chips transferred as ordinary consumables, while Gwen found memory-crystal powder linked to requisitions from three departments.
• Skurge took custody of the chips for hazard screening, and Gwen suspected Hela might help move them to Wanda’s laboratory before the Standing Committee meeting.