Recaps

Lynn’s new equipment helped Soldier Boy and Jim Hammond attack Hydra’s Perfect Being factory, where they faced the Fenrir Giant Wolf. Soldier Boy and Jim destroyed the mech together, leaving Red Skull’s factory in ruins.

• Colonel Phillips gave Soldier Boy repulsion field grenades and told him Red Skull was using him to test the Perfect Beings; Soldier Boy took the grenades and left for the factory.
• Peggy Carter gave Jim Hammond the Sentry Armor and relayed Lynn’s instructions to purify Hydra’s factory; Jim put it on and flew toward the target.
• Soldier Boy used a repulsion field grenade to neutralize a Perfect Being’s spatial blast, then charged through the factory while Human Torch attacked from the sky.
• Red Skull ordered Hydra to activate the unstable Fenrir Giant Wolf, which rose from beneath the factory and opened fire on Human Torch.
• Soldier Boy tore open the mech’s leg armor, and Human Torch poured concentrated flames into the gap, triggering the Fenrir Giant Wolf’s core overload and destroying it.

After the Allied victory over Red Skull’s Fenrir Giant Wolf, Lynn Morris used Foresight’s wartime debts and the public’s enthusiasm to secure influence over reconstruction and launch profitable Victory Bonds. He prepared to wake Steve Rogers and turned his attention to Hydra’s last stronghold in the Alps.

• The Allied command centers celebrated as Soldier Boy and the Human Torch destroyed the Fenrir Giant Wolf, and news of their victory sparked public adoration for Lynn Morris and Foresight.
• The Pentagon received Foresight’s enormous wartime bill, and Lynn Morris proposed that the military award Foresight’s subsidiaries postwar reconstruction contracts, threatening to suspend production and the Cradle System if the military refused.
• Lynn Morris announced Victory Bonds whose returns would be tied to Foresight Holdings’ profits, prompting Americans to rush to buy them.
• Lynn Morris asked Dr. Horton about Steve Rogers’s physical data, learned the analysis was complete, and prepared for the next step in waking him.
• Lynn Morris studied the map marking Hydra’s last stronghold at Valkyrie’s Rib in the Alps and prepared his grand finale against Red Skull.

Howard Stark discovered that Lynn Morris had turned Howard’s theoretical energy-field design into a mass-produced repulsion field grenade, while Lynn used a new serum to revive and enhance Steve Rogers. Steve survived the painful transformation and returned stronger, ready to face a world that needed him.

• Howard Stark examined Lynn Morris’s repulsion field grenade and recognized his own theoretical design perfected and mass-produced in its circuitry.
• Howard berated the Secretary of Defense, insisting the grenade was a masterpiece far beyond the military’s ability to reproduce.
• Dr. Horton presented Lynn with Rebirth, a gene activator developed from Steve Rogers’s gene fragments and Hydra’s Perfect Being cells.
• Lynn injected Rebirth into Steve, whose body convulsed and screamed as the serum purged his cellular damage and rebuilt him.
• Steve emerged from the life-support pod healed and stronger, then accepted Lynn’s hand as Lynn welcomed him back.

With the Allies’ victory secured by Foresight’s weapons, officials tried to turn Steve Rogers into a symbol for their planned assault, but he chose to return to the front. Lynn supported Steve and returned his shield, then received a new Lord of War draw opportunity for Foresight’s profits.

• Soldier Boy and the Human Torch destroyed Hydra’s Fenrir Giant Wolf, while Foresight’s equipment helped the Allies rout the Perfect Beings.
• The generals ordered Steve Rogers to lead a public return ceremony and an assault on Red Skull, but Steve refused and chose to rejoin the Howling Commandos.
• Steve told Lynn Morris that he had rejected the generals’ plan and was returning to his unit.
• Lynn gave Steve his shield and encouraged him to fight alongside his brothers as himself, promising to handle the generals and media.
• After Steve left, Lynn received a Lord of War reward for providing superhuman power services and exceeding $10 million in annual profits.

Lynn drew Motoko Kusanagi and summoned her to serve as Foresight Holdings’ chief security officer and his personal secretary. After her attempt to resist his authority failed, she accepted the assignment and went to her new office.

• Lynn drew the Motoko Kusanagi character card and recognized her hacking, command, and security skills as a fit for his needs.
• Lynn summoned Motoko Kusanagi, whose abilities synchronized with him and who immediately scrutinized the electronics in his office.
• Lynn revealed that he had imposed an unbreakable authority over Motoko Kusanagi, and she abandoned her attempt to sever the link.
• Lynn ordered Motoko Kusanagi to investigate the Allies, Hydra, and Washington politicians, and to manage security and reports for Foresight Holdings.
• Motoko Kusanagi accepted the role, requested an office, and headed to the office beside Lynn’s.

Lynn used Motoko Kusanagi to purge spies and corrupt employees from his company, then renamed Foresight Holdings as Vought International. After registering Superhero Interactive Entertainment, he drew Selina Kyle (Catwoman) and considered how her skills might serve his growing empire.

• Motoko Kusanagi exposed a research executive leaking design flaws to Stane Industries and a finance employee embezzling military funds, and Lynn ordered her to handle such cases independently.
• Lynn purged spies, parasites, and incompetent staff from Foresight Holdings with Motoko Kusanagi's help.
• Lynn unveiled the name Vought International at the opening of the company's new Manhattan headquarters, with officials and Howard Stark in attendance.
• Lynn received a system achievement reward for establishing Superhero Interactive Entertainment and used it to draw Selina Kyle (Catwoman).
• Lynn questioned Catwoman's strategic value, then considered using her to steal physical intelligence and possibly keeping her as his personal secretary.

Lynn recruited Selina Kyle to steal Peggy Carter’s treasured photograph of Steve Rogers before he enlisted, and Selina accepted in exchange for choosing her own payment. Peggy discovered the photograph missing from her locket in the heavily guarded Allied headquarters and realized someone had infiltrated her quarters.

• Lynn summoned Selina Kyle and offered her the challenge of stealing a photograph from Peggy Carter without being detected.
• Selina read Peggy’s profile, accepted the assignment, and negotiated the right to choose her own payment.
• Peggy briefed the Allied generals on an offensive against Hydra, with Steve Rogers and his allies leading the assault.
• Peggy opened her locket to look at Steve’s photograph, then left it beside her pillow while she washed.
• Peggy returned to find the photograph gone, while her weapon, battle plans, and money remained untouched.

Lynn recruited Selene to infiltrate Hydra’s last stronghold and steal its plunder and Tesseract research, offering her a Silencer device to aid the mission. Selene chose Lynn as her reward for her previous job, while Lynn burned a photograph of Steve Rogers.

• Selene delivered Lynn a photograph of Steve Rogers and asked to choose her reward.
• Lynn restrained Selene and told her Hydra’s stronghold contained immense wealth and Howard Stark’s desired Tesseract research notes.
• Lynn gave Selene a Silencer device and ordered her to infiltrate Hydra’s base while his product testers drew attention elsewhere.
• Selene agreed to steal Hydra’s legacy and named Lynn as her reward for the previous job, which he accepted.
• After Selene left, Lynn burned the photograph of Steve Rogers.

Howard confronted Lynn after discovering that Steve Rogers’s physical abilities had improved by 15.3%, but Lynn persuaded him that keeping the upgraded serum secret was necessary to protect them from the government. After Howard left with a promise of sanitized research, Lynn ordered the creation of Compound V and resolved to ensure Steve died as a martyr in the coming battle.

• Howard rushed into Lynn’s office with reports showing Steve’s abilities had increased by 15.3% and accused Lynn of upgrading the serum without telling him.
• Lynn warned Howard that his loose tongue and the government’s fear of their technology would put them and their companies in danger after the war.
• Lynn told Howard that the serum technology must be sealed away once the war ended, and agreed to provide him with a sanitized theoretical report.
• After Howard left, Lynn ordered Motoko to combine Dr. Erskine’s notes with Dr. Horton’s Rebirth drug research and create a classified project file called Compound V.
• Lynn decided Steve’s death in the Alps would turn him into an enduring martyr and protect Vought’s interests.

Steve Rogers confronted Soldier Boy over civilian casualties, but Soldier Boy dismissed his morals and defeated him in a brutal fight. Steve was left battered in the command center as Soldier Boy walked away.

• Steve Rogers accused Soldier Boy of causing more than a hundred civilian deaths in the attack near Dresden.
• Soldier Boy defended his methods and mocked Steve for his morals and inexperience.
• Steve punched Soldier Boy, but the blow barely affected him.
• Soldier Boy seized Steve by the throat and threw him through the conference room wall.
• Soldier Boy stomped Steve’s Vibranium shield into the floor, taunted him, and left the battered Captain behind.

Soldier Boy, Jim Hammond, and Steve Rogers helped the Allies defeat Germany, but Steve lost Bucky Barnes during the mission to capture Arnim Zola. Lynn accepted Bucky’s death as the tragedy that would complete Captain America.

• Soldier Boy smashed into a Hydra battleship in the Denmark Strait and terrorized the German navy.
• On D-Day, Soldier Boy destroyed a German bunker, Jim Hammond burned enemy aircraft, and Steve Rogers led the Howling Commandos through the fighting.
• After Germany surrendered, Steve and the Howling Commandos set out to capture Dr. Arnim Zola, while Soldier Boy dismissed the mission.
• The Howling Commandos boarded Zola’s train, where an energy-cannon blast sent Bucky Barnes falling from the car despite Steve’s attempt to save him.
• The Howling Commandos captured Zola, and Motoko Kusanagi reported Bucky’s death to Lynn, who called it the tragedy that completed Captain America.

Soldier Boy forced Dr. Zola to reveal Hydra's last fortress in the Alps, and Lynn set a plan in motion to destroy it and secure Hydra's Tesseract research. Steve defeated Red Skull aboard the Valkyrie bomber, but, unable to change its course toward New York, he sacrificed himself by crashing it into the ice-bound sea.

• Soldier Boy broke Dr. Zola's fingers until he disclosed that Hydra's final base was in the Alps.
• Lynn ordered the assault on Eagle's Nest and instructed Catwoman to recover Hydra's Tesseract research while ensuring Steve was the only one able to pursue Red Skull.
• Soldier Boy and Human Torch attacked the base as Captain America and the Howling Commandos fought inside, while Catwoman infiltrated the vault with Professor Pyg's guidance.
• Steve caught up with Red Skull on the Valkyrie bomber and struck him down, but Red Skull used the Tesseract and vanished into an unknown part of the universe.
• Steve discovered the bomber was locked on course for New York with enough bombs to destroy Manhattan, told Peggy he might miss their dance, and crashed the plane into the ice-bound sea.

After the war, Lynn orchestrated Steve Rogers’s state funeral and declined an invitation to join the newly planned S.H.I.E.L.D., offering Vought’s support instead. He then prepared a South Pacific island as a retreat for Soldier Boy and Human Torch, anticipating that peace would not last.

• Lynn learned that Catwoman had recovered Hydra’s Tesseract research, valuables, and rare metals, while Professor Pyg had escaped to Argentina with resources for New Hydra; Soldier Boy and Human Torch were placed in isolation.
• Lynn ordered Motoko Kusanagi to report to the Department of Defense and arrange a state funeral for Steve Rogers, which Vought International agreed to fund.
• Peggy Carter delivered a eulogy at the funeral, and Howard Stark and the Howling Commandos mourned Steve Rogers as the ceremony was broadcast worldwide.
• General Chester Phillips, Howard Stark, and Peggy Carter agreed to establish S.H.I.E.L.D. and invited Lynn to join, but Lynn declined and offered Vought’s weapons, equipment, and technology for sale.
• Motoko Kusanagi told Lynn that the South Pacific island purchase was complete and renovation had begun, and Lynn ordered Soldier Boy and Human Torch sent there to rest.

Lynn built Vought’s media and consumer influence after the war, using films and celebrity endorsements to shape public memory and sell products. As S.H.I.E.L.D. formed with Hydra scientists embedded inside it, Lynn ordered surveillance of Zola and expanded Vought’s peacetime campaigns.

• Motoko Kusanagi reported that S.H.I.E.L.D. had been founded by Howard Stark, Peggy Carter, and Chester Phillips, with Arnim Zola and 112 former Hydra scientists joining through Paperclip.
• Lynn told Motoko Kusanagi to have Professor Pyg contact Zola and monitor Hydra, then ordered Vought to acquire struggling Hollywood studios and a nationwide broadcasting network.
• Motoko Kusanagi acquired three film companies and the ABC Radio and Television Network for Vought, while Lynn prepared scripts about Soldier Boy, Human Torch, and Captain America.
• A Vought executive delivered Lynn’s cigarette advertisement plan to Soldier Boy on a private island, and a Times Square billboard helped raise Marlboro sales fivefold in one month.
• Motoko Kusanagi reported that Human Torch’s V-Style clothing campaign drew overnight crowds, while Lynn used Soldier Boy and Human Torch to target different consumer groups.

After Lynn’s company secured its first major commercial deal, he used the reward draw to summon Barbara Minerva as Cheetah and subdued her when she attacked him. He sent Motoko Kusanagi to prepare Barbara for life at the company, then considered whether business and cultural milestones would earn him more draws.

• Lynn received a draw after the company completed its first commercial partnership with more than $1 million in revenue.
• Lynn drew Barbara Minerva (Cheetah) and summoned her into his office.
• Cheetah attacked Lynn, but he broke her wrist, smashed her into his desk, and forced her to submit.
• Barbara returned to human form and tried to seduce Lynn, who called in Motoko Kusanagi instead.
• Motoko took Barbara to wash and change while Lynn ordered a replacement desk.
• Lynn wondered whether using superheroes to achieve business or cultural milestones would earn him further draws.

Lynn arranged for Barbara Minerva to meet Peggy Carter, who recruited her after Barbara stopped an armed robbery at the Metropolis Museum. When the Korean War began, Lynn refused General Phillips’s order to send Soldier Boy and Human Torch overseas, and Soldier Boy confronted him over the decision.

• Lynn reviewed Motoko Kusanagi’s report on Barbara Minerva and ordered a chance encounter between her and Peggy Carter.
• Barbara met Peggy at the Metropolis Museum and identified a fake statue of Bast.
• When masked robbers attacked the museum, Barbara swiftly incapacitated them without killing anyone.
• Peggy invited Barbara to discuss her curse and a possible future with S.H.I.E.L.D., and Barbara agreed.
• After the Korean War broke out, General Chester Phillips demanded that Lynn send Soldier Boy and Human Torch to the Far East, but Lynn refused and hung up.
• A week later, Soldier Boy stormed into Lynn’s office and demanded to know why Lynn had refused to send him to war.

Lynn subdued Soldier Boy and learned that Hydra’s Winter Soldier Project had entered its combat phase. After years of work, Lynn received the perfected serum, transforming his body and pushing aging away.

• Lynn stopped Soldier Boy’s attack, beat him down, and forced him to accept that he was Lynn’s weapon.
• Motoko Kusanagi told Lynn that Professor Pyg had reported Hydra’s Winter Soldier Project had entered its combat phase.
• In 1963, Lynn learned that Anton Vanko had joined Howard Stark on the Arc Reactor project and ordered copies of Vanko’s files without interfering.
• Dr. Horton presented Lynn with the perfected serum, which eliminated genetic collapse risks and reduced cellular decay nearly to zero.
• Lynn injected himself with the serum, endured the painful reconstruction of his cells, and emerged with heightened senses, strength, and vitality.

In 1970, Lynn became godfather to Howard Stark’s newborn son, Anthony, while Vought developed five Metahumans and staged a crime so its new heroes could debut. After Starlight’s televised rescue won public acclaim, Vought formally introduced her and Guardian as protectors and idols.

• Howard Stark told Lynn that his son had been born and asked him to be the child’s godfather; Lynn accepted and visited the Stark estate a week later.
• Lynn reassured Howard that Anthony would become a good man, then warned him that eternal youth was a curse when Howard asked how Lynn had stayed young.
• Dr. Horton showed Lynn five Metahumans whose memories had been erased and whose devotion to Lynn had been implanted; Lynn named them Dark Iron, Soundwave, Bloody Mary, Guardian, and Starlight.
• Lynn ordered Motoko Kusanagi to have Dark Iron, Soundwave, and Bloody Mary create trouble while Guardian and Starlight appeared at the right moment to stop it.
• Dark Iron attacked a Manhattan bank, and Starlight staged a televised rescue that ended with the crowd cheering and Vought media broadcasting her debut.
• Vought formally introduced Starlight and Guardian at a public launch event in Vought Plaza.

Lynn reflected on three achievements and the three summoned specialists he had recruited, each assigned a role in his growing organization. When Motoko Kusanagi reported that Anton Vanko had been taken by Soviet agents after arguing with Howard Stark, Lynn ordered Ada Wong’s people to follow him.

• Lynn recalled earning the [Timeline Convergence], [Brand Endorsement], and [Center of Attention] achievements and receiving three draws.
• Lynn summoned Ada Wong, secured her loyalty, and established the Intelligence and Infiltration Department for her.
• Lynn summoned Hannibal Lecter and made him head of the Strategic Operations Department, where he would plan the downfall of their enemies.
• Lynn summoned Vi and offered her a public role as a hero under his control.
• Motoko Kusanagi told Lynn that Anton Vanko had argued with Howard Stark over the Arc Reactor project before Soviet agents secretly took Vanko away.
• Lynn ordered Ada Wong’s people to follow Anton Vanko.

An internal dossier outlined Vought International's postwar mission, leadership, covert operations, and superhero assets under Lynn Morris. It established the company's mechanisms for controlling superhumans and public opinion and warned that unauthorized disclosures would trigger the Night Mirror Protocol.

• Vought International defined its postwar mission as guiding superhuman power and securing public faith through controlled images and ideals.
• Lynn Morris held supreme command, while Motoko Kusanagi oversaw surveillance, information coordination, and the central AI system.
• Dr. Phineas Horton headed superhuman research, and Hannibal Lecter directed strategic operations and ideological reconditioning.
• Ada Wong managed intelligence and infiltration, with Barbara Minerva undercover within S.H.I.E.L.D. and Lazlo Valentin maintaining covert contact with Hydra.
• Selina Kyle oversaw leak investigations, misconduct cover-ups, and the destruction of noncompliant records through the Night Mirror Team.
• Vought International listed its hero assets and warned that unauthorized disclosure of the dossier would trigger the Night Mirror Protocol.

At Vought Plaza, Hannibal’s staged attack on Starlight and Guardian was disrupted when Vi stepped in to protect a mother and child. The heroes defeated the attackers, and a new team was introduced to the public.

• Lynn watched as Vought began a live fan event for Starlight and Guardian.
• Dark Iron, Soundwave, and Bloody Mary attacked the plaza, overwhelming the heroes and terrifying the crowd.
• Vi stopped Bloody Mary from attacking a mother and child, then beat her back with her Hextech Gauntlets.
• Vi hurled a car at Soundwave, breaking his sonic attack and giving Starlight and Guardian an opening to defeat Dark Iron.
• The crowd cheered as Vi stood alongside Starlight and Guardian, marking the birth of a new hero team.

After the live rescue made Vought’s heroes national celebrities, Lynn drew a Joker card and chose to keep it hidden while his empire expanded. Years later, he prepared to spread Compound V and staged metahuman threats across three more cities.

• Lynn received a bonus draw for the televised attack and pulled a Joker card, which he kept as a hidden trump card for the future.
• Lynn’s empire expanded for years without activating any major achievements, and Dr. Horton gave the enhanced serum to Lynn’s core assets to stop them from aging.
• By the late 1980s, Vought had turned Soldier Boy’s war image and the Justice Trio’s staged rescues into popular entertainment, while Dark Iron repeatedly broke out for planned spectacles.
• Motoko Kusanagi told Lynn that Compound V was ready for mass production and proposed creating uncontrolled metahuman communities in Washington, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
• Lynn approved the plan to spread metahumans beyond New York and make the public depend on Vought to manage them.

Lynn spread diluted Compound V through Illinois’s water supply, triggering the emergence of Metahumans, then presented Vought as the solution and proposed a national registration and management system. As Senator Robert Kelly challenged Vought’s authority, Lynn planned to use him and fabricated evidence to strengthen public support for his control.

• Lynn caused a Vought subsidiary’s chemical leak in South Chicago to release diluted Compound V into Illinois’s water supply.
• Kyle’s powers awakened after his classmates trapped and bullied him, and flames engulfed the locker room as Metahuman incidents spread across the country.
• Lynn announced that Vought would propose the Metahuman Registration and Management Act and send Starlight, Guardian, and Vi to Chicago.
• Senator Robert Kelly condemned Vought’s role and called for a congressional investigation into the crisis.
• Lynn told Hannibal that Kelly’s opposition would help persuade the public to accept Vought’s system and ordered Ada’s people to plant evidence implicating Hydra’s remaining forces.

Ada Wong supplied Michael with evidence that led Robert Kelly to blame Hydra for the S.O.M.S crisis and prepare a congressional investigation. In Chicago, Vi was thrown aside by a magnetic awakener as Starlight and Guardian fought him, while Lynn watched, knowing Vought had engineered the unfolding events.

• Ada Wong gave Michael an address and passwords to an abandoned website containing reports on Hydra's research into an Inhuman Gene Activation Serum.
• Michael and Robert Kelly opened the site, and Kelly decided to announce a special congressional investigative committee targeting Hydra.
• A magnetic awakener in Chicago repelled the National Guard and hurled Vi into a building during a livestreamed confrontation.
• Starlight hurt the boy with a beam of light, allowing Guardian to charge him and engage him in a struggle.
• Motoko Kusanagi told Lynn that Kelly's press conference would begin in ten minutes, and Lynn watched as Vought's plan continued.

Lynn manipulated S.H.I.E.L.D. and Senator Kelly’s committee into racing to a suspected Hydra outpost, where engineered test subjects turned their competing raids into chaos. The chapter left Peggy Carter’s S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and the FBI fighting amid the attack while disguised reporters recorded the scene.

• Senator Robert Kelly blamed Hydra for the crisis and announced a Congressional investigation, boosting his public support.
• Lynn told Ada Wong to have Barbara Minerva steer Peggy Carter toward a Hydra lead and intensify the rivalry with Kelly’s committee.
• Barbara presented Peggy with intelligence identifying an abandoned Illinois industrial site as Hydra’s former Cradle outpost, and Peggy sent in the Alpha Assault Team.
• Kelly’s investigator Michael revealed that the FBI was also heading to the target, and Kelly vowed to claim credit over S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Peggy’s team and the FBI arrived at the steel mill, where Hannibal’s modified test subjects burst out and triggered a chaotic firefight between the two forces.
• Disguised reporters recorded the battle from a distant hillside.