Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao ignored a barrage of calls while spending the day with Sif, then learned that Fury had paid Vought to send personnel aboard the carrier. Banner had already left with Steve, so Lin Xiao hurried out to confront him.

• Lin Xiao finally checked his phone after Sif told him to deal with his calls.
• Hill told Lin Xiao that Fury had returned and paid Vought thirty million dollars to send security personnel aboard the carrier.
• Lin Xiao called Tony and ordered him to keep Banner at Vought, but Tony said Banner had already departed with Steve on a Quinjet.
• Lin Xiao swore to confront Banner and hurriedly left to board the carrier.

Loki escaped his cell and fought Steve, Coulson, and Natasha, while Hulk’s rampage crippled the Helicarrier and a researcher fled with the Tesseract. As the carrier tilted out of control, a man in a red bodysuit flew toward it over New York.

• Banner boarded the Helicarrier with Steve, while Loki sensed his arrival and escaped his damaged cell.
• Steve confronted Loki, and Coulson stunned him with a tranquilizer dart and survived an energy blast using Lin Xiao’s Magic Shield Talisman.
• Natasha ambushed Loki with the Invisibility Cloak and took his scepter, but Loki revealed that his people had provoked Hulk.
• Hulk rampaged through the control room as a bespectacled researcher escaped with the Tesseract, leaving the Helicarrier’s engines and hull out of control.
• A man in a red bodysuit flew toward the Helicarrier over New York.