Recaps

Lucian assembled allies to stop the Celestial threat, recruited Wanda and Pietro, and built their strength while preparing for the Eternals’ response. After helping the siblings confront their past and take revenge on Sokovia’s warlord, he seized control of the country in Vought International’s name.

• Lucian recruited Tony, the Avengers, Helen Cho, and Shuri to prepare for the coming fight, then revealed the Celestial threat and captured the hypnotized Ajak.
• Lucian recruited Wanda and Pietro, founded Vought International in Hell’s Kitchen, and used the Mind Stone Scepter to awaken and strengthen their powers.
• Lucian brought Banner and Hulk together in a mental space, where they agreed on rules for sharing control, while Lucian began training Hulk and the siblings.
• Lucian learned that Ikaris had awakened among the Eternals and was recovering from his injuries, while the others considered how to act together.
• Lucian trained Hulk and gave Wanda and Pietro serums that strengthened their bodies and Wanda’s Chaos Magic, then offered Simona a serum that granted an unknown power.
• Tony arrived with a new armor, and Wanda and Pietro attacked him over the missile that had killed their parents until Lucian explained Obadiah Stane’s role in the weapons trade.
• Lucian used the Mind Stone Scepter to identify Sokovia’s warlord, and Wanda and Pietro killed him before Lucian announced Vought International would take over Sokovia.
• Lucian gave Sokovia’s armed holdouts ten minutes to surrender, killed those who continued resisting with lightning, and declared Vought International in control.

Lucian and the Avengers fought the Eternals in South America, where they broke the Uni-Mind connection and defeated the invaders. After the wounded recovered at Vought Tower, Lucian kept the Eternals in his custody while the Avengers and Banner considered what came next.

• Lucian arrived in Sokovia, claimed it for Vought, and put Wanda and Pietro to work organizing its rebuilding alongside Simona, Tony, and Pepper.
• Lucian flew to South America to confront the Eternals, while Tony brought the Avengers after him and Wanda and Pietro joined the battle.
• Lucian struggled to hold off Uni-Mind-Ikaris as the Avengers attacked the Eternals and their energy transmission device.
• The Avengers severed the device’s connection, but the Eternals regrouped and put the Avengers on the defensive as Lucian continued fighting Ikaris.
• Lucian abandoned his fight with Ikaris to rescue the collapsing Avengers, then incapacitated the Eternals and replenished his strength by copying Gilgamesh’s Energy Armor.
• Lucian defeated Ikaris by severing his remaining energy circuits after Ikaris warned him about Arishem and the Emergence, while Hulk knocked Gilgamesh unconscious.
• Lucian brought the wounded Avengers and captured Eternals to Vought Tower, where Simona oversaw their care and the Avengers recovered.
• Tony returned to his lab to prepare for another fight, Steve and the others agreed to monitor underground energy activity, and Simona welcomed Wanda, Pietro, and Banner to stay at Vought.

Lucian learned magic at Kamar-Taj while Vought began offering Compound V to the public, drawing the attention of governments and hidden groups. After discovering Nick Fury’s Harvest Plan and the Skrulls’ infiltration, Lucian captured four Skrulls for Banner to study as Pierce took temporary control of S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Lucian copied more Eternal abilities, recruited Helen Cho to Vought, and agreed to Wakanda’s vibranium payments in exchange for Shuri’s release.
• Lucian began studying magic with the Ancient One, and she also started teaching Wanda to control her power.
• Lucian ordered Compound V trials and expanded Vought’s research, while Simona halted Pierce’s Helicarrier construction and Project Insight testing.
• Vought published the trial footage and opened monitored injections to the public, triggering a rush for tickets and demands for federal control.
• After Vought genetic biologist Rosa Dalton disappeared, Lucian suspected the Skrulls and searched the Triskelion for them.
• Lucian uncovered Fury’s Harvest Plan and its stolen superpowered samples, then revealed Fury’s memories of the plan and the Skrulls’ infiltration to S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Lucian brought four captured Skrulls to Vought, where Banner began examining them and requested a laboratory to build a preliminary data model.
• Pierce took temporary control of S.H.I.E.L.D. after Fury’s removal, and Hill realized deep wounds could expose a Skrull’s green blood.

Lucian exposed the Skrull threat, launched Compound V trials, and helped develop a detector while Coulson’s team searched for the kidnapped geneticist. Their rescue mission ended in a deadly encounter with a monster, and Lucian arrived with Wong and Wanda to confront it.

• Coulson assembled his team to investigate the escaped Skrulls and Lucian’s actions, but Skye’s hack of Vought drew Lucian through a portal onto their aircraft.
• Lucian sent Coulson’s aircraft to Vought Tower, kept Fitz and Simmons to work in his laboratory, recruited Pietro for the team, and secretly marked Ward while ordering Compound V injections to begin.
• Lucian launched the first five thousand Compound V injections and prepared suppression devices to strip the powers of recipients who committed crimes, while Steve, Natasha, Barton, and Daredevil watched the enhanced subjects.
• Maya joined Vought to develop medical applications for Extremis, and Vought agents used radioactive restraints to subdue violent enhanced people before handing them over for trial.
• Coulson’s team learned that Skrulls had stolen Hulk’s blood, Asgardian cells, and a Vought geneticist, then used Banner, Fitz, and Simmons’s detector prototypes to track them to a warehouse.
• Coulson, May, Ward, Skye, and Pietro found Rosa behind a blast door and attempted to extract her as more than seventy Skrulls silently allowed them a route out.
• An underground blast overwhelmed Skye’s senses, and a monster killed Pietro, May, and Ward before Lucian sensed Ward’s death and came through a portal with Wong and Wanda.
• Pietro rescued Coulson, Skye, and Rosa, but the monster blocked their escape as Lucian, Wong, and Wanda faced it.