Recaps

Yasuo and Hector fought their way through Count Nefaria’s security team and learned that the Count would attend a Blood Feast aboard a cruise ship off Santa Monica that night. After Nefaria killed his own manager with a poisonous explosive, Yasuo and Hector prepared to flee the building as a countdown began beneath them.

• Yasuo blocked the security team’s gunfire with a Wind Wall, then Hector transformed and tore through the guards.
• Yasuo cornered the manager, who revealed that Count Nefaria would appear at the Blood Feast on a cruise ship off Santa Monica that night.
• Count Nefaria appeared on a screen and triggered a poison-filled explosion that killed the manager.
• Yasuo and Hector decided to head to the beach, but Yasuo heard a countdown and warned Hector that the building was about to explode.

Yasuo and Hector escaped Eden’s explosion and headed to the Black Pearl, where Count Nefaria revealed an army of mutated monsters. The monsters charged, leaving Yasuo and Hector on the verge of battle.

• Yasuo grabbed Hector and leapt through a window just before Eden exploded, then they escaped in a Ferrari.
• Yasuo drove Hector to Santa Monica Pier, where they found the Black Pearl waiting in darkness and smelled fresh blood.
• Two mutated guards ambushed Yasuo and Hector, who defeated them and continued aboard the ship.
• Count Nefaria welcomed Yasuo and Hector as the feast’s main course and unleashed dozens of failed experiments.
• The monsters charged as Yasuo drew his sword slightly and prepared to fight.

Yasuo and Hector fought Count Nefaria’s monsters aboard the ship until Nefaria released red smoke that revived and strengthened them. Yasuo destroyed the headless giant and challenged Nefaria, who rose in his bio-armor to fight.

• Yasuo charged into the monsters and cut them down with his sword while Hector smashed through them with his strength.
• Count Nefaria watched the fight and ordered the ship to release red smoke across the deck.
• The smoke burned Hector’s lungs and caused dead monsters to regenerate into tougher, more violent forms.
• Yasuo used a Wind Wall and Last Breath to slice the headless giant into pieces, then taunted Count Nefaria.
• Count Nefaria smashed his glass, removed his cloak to reveal black bio-armor, and prepared to fight Yasuo and Hector.

Yasuo defeated the Earl’s armored body, only to discover that a demon named Avarish had been controlling it from within. Avarish absorbed the nearby monsters’ remains and grew larger as the cruise ship lurched from a crash below.

• The Earl attacked Yasuo with his biological armor and mechanical laser arms, but Yasuo dodged and cut through the armor.
• The Earl unleashed a purple energy blast, but Yasuo blocked it with Wind Wall and pinned him to the mast with his sword.
• Yasuo noticed the Earl’s black, cold blood, and the Earl convulsed before his chest burst open to reveal Avarish.
• Avarish identified himself as the King of Greed, pulled Yasuo’s sword from his chest, and took flight.
• Avarish absorbed red vapor from the fallen monsters and swelled in size as the cruise ship shook and listed to starboard.

Yasuo defeated Avarish and left him for Hector, but Hector was revealed to be possessed by Fahima, the demon who had manipulated Yasuo into clearing her rival’s territory. Wounded and facing Fahima aboard a sinking ship, Yasuo vanished into the wind and launched a sword strike.

• Yasuo sliced apart Avarish’s swollen body, reducing the demon to a badly wounded creature on the deck.
• Yasuo called Hector out of the shadows and left Avarish to him, but Avarish recognized the presence inside Hector as another demon.
• Hector stabbed Yasuo with a claw of green energy, and Avarish identified the attacker as Fahima.
• Fahima revealed that she had devoured Hector’s sister’s soul, awakened inside his body, and used Yasuo to defeat Avarish so she could claim his authority over greed.
• Fahima stomped on Avarish and threatened Yasuo, who declared that he hated being used as a weapon.
• As the ship began to sink, Yasuo disappeared into the wind and unleashed Gale Last Breath above Fahima.

Yasuo learned that Fahima had manipulated him into killing her enemies, then destroyed Fahima and Avarish and recovered the White Tiger Amulet. He asked Tali Zola to find Hector Ayala’s surviving family, and learned that Angela del Toro had recently claimed the Ayala family properties and was investigating their destruction.

• Fahima admitted she had exploited Yasuo’s softhearted nature to make him kill the people she wanted dead.
• Yasuo killed Fahima and Avarish, destroyed their escaping demonic souls, and recovered the White Tiger Amulet from Hector’s remains.
• Yasuo escaped the capsizing ship and called Tali Zola to ask whether Hector Ayala had any surviving relatives.
• Tali told Yasuo that Angela del Toro had claimed the Ayala family properties three days earlier and was investigating the family’s destruction.

At Vought Future Academy’s secret underground laboratory, Adrien forced Dr. Erik Selvig and the staff to begin an experiment that channeled the Tesseract’s energy into a genetically engineered test subject. The experiment caused a catastrophic surge, and the subject emerged enveloped in golden energy as a battle suit began to form.

• Adrien visited the Pandora laboratory, where Dr. Erik Selvig warned that the Tesseract resisted extraction and the energy converter was dangerously unstable.
• Adrien dismissed Selvig’s concerns and activated the machine, sending energy from the Tesseract through the Kree converter and into the test subject.
• The test subject’s body repeatedly broke down and regenerated as the energy overwhelmed the laboratory and alarms warned of imminent failure.
• Adrien ordered the staff to hold the experiment for ten more seconds, and a violent shock wave shattered equipment and hurled Selvig and the assistants across the laboratory.
• After the blast, the test subject was gone from the nutrient fluid, and a golden energy layer surrounded her as a battle suit began to form.

Adrien and Selvig witnessed the successful creation of a powerful being from the Kree engine, the space cube’s energy, and Skrull genes. Lynn named her Kara Zor-El, or Supergirl, and ordered her trained as a weapon to keep Homelander in check.

• Selvig emerged from the rubble and found that the laboratory’s energy readings had dropped to zero as the woman absorbed the blast.
• Adrien tested the woman’s power, and she cut through a three-meter lead blast wall with Heat Vision.
• Adrien told Lynn that the experiment had succeeded, and Lynn named the new being Kara Zor-El, codename Supergirl.
• Lynn ordered Adrien to fabricate a tragic origin story, reinforce Kara’s mental controls, and begin combat training at the Deep Well.
• Adrien took Kara away and threatened Selvig into destroying the experiment’s data.
• Lynn ended the call and looked over New York from Vought Tower while holding Goose.

Lynn sent Tifa Lockhart to become Kara Zor-El’s anchor, while Adrien Veidt showcased Kara’s devastating power and strict programming. Tifa reached Kara through warmth and trust, and Kara ended the chapter sharing cocoa with her as her new big sister.

• Lynn told Tifa to bond with Kara and shape her loyalty to Vought, making Tifa her anchor.
• Adrien showed Tifa how Kara destroyed three combat mechs with overwhelming strength and precision.
• Tifa entered the training ground despite Adrien’s warning and confronted Kara, who threatened to eliminate her under her logic lock.
• Tifa calmed Kara through gentle contact, challenged her rigid programming, and taught her to call Tifa “big sister.”
• Adrien and Dr. Selvig watched Kara’s mental readings stabilize as Tifa gave her a sense of belonging.
• Kara sat with Tifa, drank hot cocoa, and began learning that trust and comfort could matter beyond logic.

Tifa took Kara Zor-El shopping to teach her how to handle ordinary clothes and everyday social encounters without relying on force. They saw a Vought International advertisement for Homelander, and Tifa told Kara that the BOSS wanted to meet her that night.

• Tifa led Kara Zor-El through Manhattan and taught her to control her strength and blend into society.
• Kara tore a dress while trying it on, then carefully put on a light blue dress with Tifa's guidance.
• When a man in a leather jacket bumped into her, Kara prepared to retaliate, but Tifa told her to ignore him.
• At Times Square, Kara watched a Vought International advertisement for Homelander and called him fake.
• Tifa told Kara that Homelander was her colleague and that the BOSS wanted to see her that night.

Hannibal Lecter counseled Shocker and offered him a path into Vought before Senator Stern stormed in demanding compensation. After Stern threatened Vought and grabbed at him, Hannibal killed him and prepared a meal from the senator’s body.

• Hannibal told Herman Schultz that Vought could offer him guidance and gave him a recommendation for its off-the-books program.
• Senator Stern confronted Hannibal, demanded a check, and threatened to block Vought’s bill and bring in the FBI and IRS.
• Hannibal killed Stern with a letter opener after the senator reached for his collar.
• Hannibal processed Stern’s body in a hidden kitchen and cooked the senator’s tenderloin with butter, sage, and Madeira.
• Hannibal returned to his desk and ate the meal, satisfied that Stern’s presence had been removed.

Hannibal cleaned up after killing Senator Stern, disposing of the body and erasing traces while impersonating Stern in a message. Selene Kyle offered cleaners and warned him to keep S.H.I.E.L.D. from discovering what happened.

• Hannibal used Senator Stern’s severed thumb to unlock his phone and sent a crude message pretending Stern had gone to meet an old flame.
• Hannibal dismembered Stern, discarded the fat and bones, and carefully sanitized his workroom.
• Selene Kyle called Hannibal after her surveillance team noticed Stern had disappeared from his office.
• Hannibal claimed Stern had left by the private elevator and refused Selene’s offer to send cleaners.
• Selene warned Hannibal not to let S.H.I.E.L.D. catch the scent.

Hannibal Lecter hosted Officer Misty Knight for a meal made from Senator Stern while she investigated Stern’s disappearance. Misty left suspicious of Hannibal but without proof, and Hannibal watched her drive away after she had eaten the evidence.

• Hannibal savored a steak made from Senator Stern when Misty Knight arrived to investigate Stern’s disappearance and his missing driver.
• Hannibal claimed Stern had left through a private passage after a counseling session and invited Misty inside to eat.
• Misty tasted the steak, enjoyed it, and gradually relaxed as Hannibal described it as a rare kind of “long pig.”
• Misty questioned Hannibal about Stern, then requested surveillance footage and access to the passage despite his mention of an unmonitored maintenance shaft.
• Misty noted that the house smelled of cleaning products that could cover blood, but Hannibal blamed the smell on Stern’s cologne.
• Misty left to continue investigating, and Hannibal watched her drive away after she had finished the meal.

Hannibal Lecter fed Misty Knight a stew while arguing that the law and justice could justify turning dangerous people into something useful. Misty left still suspicious of him, while Hannibal revealed Senator Stern’s head and planned to serve his brain the next day.

• Misty arrived at Hannibal’s home soaked from the rain and insisted that Stern’s death had ended there.
• Hannibal served Misty red-wine stew and challenged her belief that Stern’s right to live mattered regardless of his character.
• Hannibal compared the meat’s transformation into sustenance to removing harmful people and bringing superhumans under Vought International’s control.
• Misty ate the stew, warned Hannibal she would watch him, and rushed out into the rain after he threatened that disappearance could be mercy.
• Hannibal watched Misty leave and revealed Stern’s head on a tray as he prepared for his next meal.

After the justice system freed Rattlesnake, Misty Knight visited Hannibal Lecter and ate calf's brain while wrestling with his ideas about punishment. Hannibal gave her illegal evidence against Rattlesnake, and Misty left with the choice of acting outside the law.

• Misty Knight watched Rattlesnake walk free because of missing evidence and due-process rules, despite his suspected murder of her informant and the informant's daughter.
• Misty went to Hannibal Lecter's home while investigating Senator Stern's disappearance, and Hannibal served her fried calf's brain.
• Hannibal challenged Misty to consider whether she wanted to punish people the legal system protected, and she ate the dish.
• Misty said that if Stern had become the meal, he had finally done something useful, and Hannibal gave her an envelope of illegal evidence about Rattlesnake.
• Misty took the envelope and left without asking Hannibal about Stern, while Hannibal returned to his freezer and contemplated cooking a heart.

After being rescued from Shocker’s facility, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers were brought to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, where they argued over Bucky Barnes and the mysterious Kamen Rider. Nick Fury ordered Steve to find the Rider and assess whether he could be an ally, leaving Steve facing the question of whether he could fight Bucky.

• Tony and Steve waited in an industrial wasteland until a S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft arrived and brought them to the Triskelion.
• Tony and Steve told Nick Fury about Bucky and the black-clad Kamen Rider, whom Steve described as a former Shocker experiment.
• Tony called Bucky a killing machine and demanded that he and the Rider be treated as threats, while Steve insisted Bucky could still be saved.
• Fury ordered Steve to find the Kamen Rider, learn about him, and assess whether he could work with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• After Tony left, Fury asked Steve whether he could bring himself to fight his old comrade.

After losing to Bucky, Tony Stark redesigned his armor around speed and agility and began planning a suitcase-transforming suit. At the Smithsonian, Peggy Carter urged Steve Rogers to stop letting guilt and anger keep him from acting, leaving him with guidance on how to handle Tony and his responsibilities.

• Tony Stark reviewed footage of his defeat in Jacksonville and decided the Mark 3 was too bulky and slow.
• Tony discarded the Mark IV hydraulic-drive design and began creating a slimmer, faster armor that would respond like an extension of his body.
• Tony conceived Project Mark V, a suit of armor that could transform from a suitcase and cover him without robotic dressing arms.
• Steve Rogers visited the Smithsonian display honoring Bucky and lamented that he could not save him or reconcile with Tony.
• Peggy Carter found Steve and told him to incapacitate a mindless soldier first, then guide Tony's anger instead of being consumed by it.

Steve Rogers reunited with Dum Dum Dugan and decided to rebuild the Howling Commandos to rescue Bucky and fight threats like Shocker. Dugan brought a list of potential recruits, and Steve set out to recruit them immediately.

• Steve criticized a recruit's flashy Krav Maga moves and encountered Nick Fury, who directed him to a visitor in Area B3.
• Steve found Dum Dum Dugan waiting with a Thompson submachine gun, and the two old comrades embraced and shared drinks.
• Steve told Dugan that Bucky was alive, and Dugan urged him to bring Bucky back and take on Hydra or Shocker.
• Steve proposed rebuilding the Howling Commandos independently of S.H.I.E.L.D. to fight for Bucky.
• Dugan showed Steve a list of prospective recruits, and Steve agreed to begin recruiting them at once.

Joker ambushed Madame Gao and the Hand at a Fisk Construction site, using traps and chemical weapons to disrupt their takeover. Madame Gao ordered a retreat, but Joker’s clown-masked allies closed in as Daredevil watched from nearby.

• Madame Gao led the Hand into Fisk Construction’s No. 4 site and ordered them to claim it for the Hand.
• Joker revealed himself on the tower crane and taunted Madame Gao over the loudspeaker.
• Joker trapped three ninjas beneath a falling bucket of cement, then used acid-filled balloons against the Hand’s attackers.
• Madame Gao ordered the Hand to retreat after realizing Joker was a dangerous and unpredictable opponent.
• Joker fired a flare as clown-masked thugs surrounded the site, while Daredevil watched from a nearby rooftop.

Daredevil fought the Joker Gang and The Hand ninjas at Joker’s construction site, but Madame Gao ordered the ninjas to retreat before their strength was exposed. After they vanished into smoke and dust, Daredevil confronted Joker about the chaos, and Joker hinted that Daredevil had seemed in better spirits lately.

• Joker’s thugs and The Hand ninjas clashed at the construction site while Joker narrated the fight from a crane.
• Daredevil joined the battle and noticed the ninjas’ unusually slow heartbeats.
• Madame Gao canceled the mission when police sirens approached and the risk of attracting a powerful hero increased.
• The ninjas used smoke bombs to escape, leaving behind empty uniforms that dissolved into dust.
• Daredevil demanded answers from Joker, who denied stirring up trouble and asked whether Daredevil had found a new way to let off steam.

Daredevil confronted Joker at the construction site, where Joker admitted he had fabricated a treasure rumor to lure Kingpin and used an electric shock device against him. Daredevil knocked Joker unconscious and left him for the police, but Joker was still secretly laughing as they carried him away.

• Joker explained that he had posted a false rumor about an eternal-life treasure to lure Kingpin, and Daredevil angrily challenged him over the deaths and injuries.
• Joker shocked Daredevil with an electric device and taunted him by comparing him unfavorably to a richer hero with better equipment.
• Daredevil struck Joker's leg with his billy club, but Joker's attempt to trigger another trap failed when his remote malfunctioned.
• Daredevil knocked Joker unconscious with a blow to the back of his neck as police arrived and surrounded the construction site.
• Daredevil left Joker to the officers, who loaded him into a prison van without noticing that his mouth twitched as if he were laughing.

Joker revealed that he had let Daredevil capture him so he could be brought into the police station, where his gang broke out and unleashed a riot. As Joker armed himself to attack Sergeant Brett, chaos engulfed the station.

• Joker taunted a young detective during interrogation, then told Sergeant Brett that he had allowed Daredevil to catch him so he could enter the station.
• A Joker Gang member killed the young detective with a pen and attacked Brett with a stolen shotgun; Brett shot him, but the blast knocked Brett down.
• The Joker Gang escaped after Brett discovered that the inmates had swallowed and later retrieved the cell keys.
• Joker’s men freed him from the iron chair and rushed out to attack the station staff.
• Joker disarmed Brett, lit a cigarette, and picked up the shotgun, saying he would paint the walls red.

After settling in for the night, Matthew Murdock heard a massacre unfolding at the 15th Precinct and rushed there as Daredevil. He found the station destroyed by Joker’s laughing toxin and watched Sergeant Brett die, leaving him surrounded by the consequences of Joker’s latest attack.

• Matthew finished stitching his wounds and tried to sleep after Joker had been captured and the strange ninja organization had retreated.
• Matthew heard manic laughter and gunfire coming from the 15th Precinct, put on his mask, and rushed there.
• Daredevil found the police station filled with laughing victims and corpses, including officers, arrested rioters, and civilians.
• Daredevil heard Sergeant Brett’s failing heartbeat and found him beside a young trainee detective pinned to a wall.
• Brett conveyed that Joker’s men had released green gas and that hidden capsules had turned the precinct into a gas chamber.
• Daredevil tried to comfort Brett, but Brett died laughing as the remaining survivors gasped among the bodies.

After Sergeant Brett’s death, Daredevil pursued Joker with brutal resolve, tracking him from Turk Barrett’s gun shop to the Old Clinton Hotel. Joker’s recording revealed a factory producing canned happiness and threatened Luke Cage, leading Daredevil toward an abandoned chemical plant as a smiley-face firework lit the sky and laughter filled the night.

• Daredevil attacked Turk Barrett’s gun shop and forced Turk to reveal that Joker planned to broadcast from the Old Clinton Hotel’s tower.
• Daredevil found Joker’s prerecorded message at the tower, where Joker showed an assembly line producing cans of green liquid and named Luke Cage as a potential spokesperson.
• Daredevil identified the factory as an abandoned chemical plant once owned by Kingpin and heard laughter coming from its direction.
• A smiley-face firework rose above the chemical plant as Daredevil stood in the rain, listening to crowds laugh uncontrollably.

Joker attacked Luke Cage at his Harlem bar, but conventional weapons could not harm him. Joker poisoned Luke with neurotoxin and had him locked inside a chemical-waste truck, then headed for the Happy Factory.

• Luke Cage defended his bar from Joker Gang members and shrugged off a Minigun and their attacks.
• Joker confronted Luke, shot him at point-blank range, and watched the bullet shatter harmlessly.
• Luke broke Joker's arm, but Joker sprayed concentrated green neurotoxin into Luke's nose and mouth.
• The poison left Luke convulsing and laughing uncontrollably as Joker's men chained him up.
• Joker had Luke dragged into a garbage truck filled with chemical waste and ordered its lid welded shut.
• Joker set off for the Happy Factory and taunted Little Red Riding Hood about Luke being pickled.