Recaps

Vers and Vi chased a Skrull across Los Angeles to the Santa Monica Sunshine Home, where Vers identified the disguised alien among the elderly residents. The chapter ended with Vers charging an attack at the apparent old woman as Vi panicked over the potential Vought public-relations disaster.

• Nina Williams offered Vers Vought's help, and Vi provoked Vers until an energy blast struck the video store.
• Vers recognized the attacker as a Skrull and pursued him while Vi followed under Nina's orders to observe and avoid intervening.
• The Skrull fled into the Santa Monica Sunshine Home, where Vers tracked him to an elderly woman knitting in the lobby.
• Vers explained that the woman's knitting habits exposed a flaw in her disguise and gathered photon energy to attack her.
• Vi feared that Vers would strike an apparently helpless old woman in front of witnesses and trigger a major Vought scandal.

Vers and Vi fought a Skrull that had infiltrated a nursing home, but its disguise as Yon-Rogg briefly left Vers vulnerable. Vi finally ignored her concerns about public image and attacked, leaving the Skrull unable to fight back as Vers watched in astonishment.

• The Skrull revealed itself after Vers guessed that the frail old woman was an impostor, then attacked her in the nursing home lobby.
• Vi protected the elderly residents and followed Vers and the Skrull into the courtyard, where the Skrull used them to limit Vers's attacks.
• The Skrull transformed into Yon-Rogg and used his face and voice to make Vers hesitate before firing an energy weapon at her.
• Vi blocked the attack with her Hextech gauntlets, then charged the Skrull and battered it into the nursing home wall.
• Vers watched Vi defeat the Skrull with brute force and wondered if that was how Earthlings fought.

Nina Williams exposed and killed a Skrull disguised as her driver, then survived the resulting car crash. Nick Fury arrived to claim the scene for S.H.I.E.L.D., but Nina insisted Vought would handle it, leaving the agencies in conflict over the suspected alien threat.

• Nina watched footage of Vi attacking a Skrull in a nursing home and questioned her driver about why the Skrulls had come to Earth.
• Nina recognized the driver as a Skrull and killed him with a chokehold after he lost control of the vehicle.
• The SUV crashed and overturned, but Nina climbed out unharmed and called Vought to clean up the scene.
• Nina checked her location on a device and waited near the crash while smoking a cigarette.
• Nick Fury and another S.H.I.E.L.D. agent arrived and demanded control of the scene, but Nina claimed the driver was an ordinary man and said Vought would handle the investigation.

After defeating the Skrull, Vi defied Vought’s rules and took the confused Vers on a road trip to find Pancho’s Bar. Along the way, she dressed Vers in Earth clothes and introduced her to rock music, and Vers began to relax around her.

• Vi reported the fight’s end, then received Hans Landa’s message that the damage to the retirement home would be deducted from her bonus.
• Vought cleaners arrived to erase the incident and take away the Skrull, while Vers watched in confusion.
• Vi asked Vers what she would do next, and Vers recalled the name Pancho’s Bar but could not remember where to go.
• Vi took a Vought SUV without authorization and drove Vers toward Pancho’s Bar.
• Vi bought Vers a biker jacket, ripped jeans, and a Nine Inch Nails T-shirt, then introduced her to rock music during the drive.
• Vers found Vi’s unruly energy unlike anything she had known in the Kree Empire, and her wariness began to fade.

Vers and Vi traveled to Pancho’s Bar, where a photograph revealed Vers’s past as an Earth pilot alongside Maria. In New York, Lynn connected Vers to Project Pegasus and ordered an investigation into its records and the late doctor Wendy Lawson.

• Vi drove Vers through the California desert, introduced her to rock music and a cheeseburger, and encouraged her to embrace freedom.
• At Pancho’s Bar, Vers recognized herself in an old photograph of Air Force pilots and whispered Maria’s name.
• Lynn reviewed reports and surveillance footage linking Vers, a shapeshifting Skrull, and traces of high-dimensional spatial energy to Project Pegasus.
• Lynn told Tifa to declassify Project Pegasus files, especially the final test-flight accident report.
• Lynn asked Tifa to have Ada Wong investigate Wendy Lawson’s background and connections.

Tifa reported that Project Pegasus had studied the Tesseract and that Carol Danvers had been abducted and turned into a Kree weapon. As Vought prepared to investigate the project, Nick Fury realized S.H.I.E.L.D. had little chance of challenging the company’s influence.

• Tifa delivered Lynn’s orders to Ada Wong, who assigned Nina Williams to investigate the old Project Pegasus site.
• Tifa told Lynn that Howard Stark’s Project Pegasus had studied the Tesseract and that Wendy Lawson had led its later work on a light-speed engine.
• Lynn learned that the missing test pilot was Carol Danvers, whose supposed death had concealed her abduction by the Kree.
• Tifa identified the other pilot in the photograph as Maria Rambeau, Carol’s close friend, who lived in New Orleans with her daughter.
• Nick Fury told Phil Coulson that Vought could manipulate witnesses and evidence, leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. badly outmatched by the company’s influence.

Fury investigated the disappearance of evidence about the Santa Monica Nursing Home battle while Professor Pyg devised ways to weaponize Skrulls for Vought. Lynn let Vi and Vers go off-route and began steering S.H.I.E.L.D. toward a Skrull-related Project Pegasus lead.

• Fury learned that Vought had erased online evidence of the battle and studied the scattered incident sites, while Coulson raised concerns about the blonde woman working with Vi.
• Professor Pyg received images and data about a Skrull, then sent Vought a report proposing Skrulls for infiltration, subversion, and replacement operations.
• Tifa told Lynn that Vi had taken Vers in a commandeered SUV and left the mission route, and Lynn decided to let them continue.
• Lynn ordered Amanda Waller to draft a plan for a low-intensity interstellar conflict and directed Cheetah to appear to discover a link between Project Pegasus and the Skrulls in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s archives.

Maria Rambeau reunited with Carol Danvers, who believed she was the Kree warrior Vers and could not remember her past. Photographs and dog tags showed Carol that the Kree had deceived her, though her memories remained jumbled.

• Maria told Monica that Carol had gone on a distant mission, then recognized Carol when she arrived with Vi.
• Vi asked whether Maria knew Vers, while Vers felt familiar memories stirring at the sight of Maria.
• Maria insisted that Vers was Carol Danvers, her former United States Air Force flight partner, but Carol said she remembered only training, fighting, and Yon-Rogg.
• Maria brought Carol inside and showed her photographs of their time flying together and a dog tag engraved with Carol Danvers's name and rank.
• Carol realized the Kree had deceived her, stolen her memories, and turned her into a weapon.

Carol recovered memories that revealed she was an Earth pilot named Carol Danvers, not a Kree warrior, and agreed to help Vi and Maria retrieve the flight recorder from a guarded Project Pegasus base. Meanwhile, Lynn read Professor Pyg’s proposal to exploit Skrulls and contacted Peggy.

• Carol recognized her dog tags and began remembering her life as an Air Force captain, while Maria confirmed that Carol had vanished six years earlier during a test flight with Dr. Wendy Lawson.
• Monica’s recognition and Maria’s account helped Carol accept her connection to Earth, but Vi warned that the Kree and Skrulls could endanger Maria and Monica.
• Maria said the experimental plane’s black box could reveal the truth and was stored at the old Project Pegasus base.
• Vi volunteered to help Carol and Maria break into the guarded facility to recover the black box.
• Lynn read Lazlo Valentin’s report proposing experiments to turn Skrulls into controllable infiltrators and decided they had to be eradicated from Earth.
• Lynn closed the report and called Peggy on a private line.

Lynn set a trap to make S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra fight over a supposed Skrull corpse, while Barbara Minerva’s discovery of Project Pegasus sent Nick Fury to investigate its old base. In New Orleans, Maria planned an infiltration as Carol struggled to control her powers.

• Lynn told Peggy Carter he would send S.H.I.E.L.D. an alien corpse and urged her to keep Alexander Pierce out of it.
• Lynn instructed Professor Pyg to leak information about Skrulls to Hydra, intending for the corpse to be destroyed and both sides to suspect the other had taken it.
• Barbara Minerva showed Pierce a memo linking Howard Stark’s Project Pegasus to a symbol associated with mythological powers, prompting Pierce to send Nick Fury to the old base.
• Maria drew a layout of the Project Pegasus base and identified a poorly guarded ventilation shaft as an infiltration route, while Vi offered to break through it.
• Carol tried to control her photon energy, but an uncontrolled beam scorched the roof of a distant barn.

Vi, Maria, and Carol prepared to raid the Project Pegasus base, with Carol reclaiming her identity through a new red, blue, and gold suit. Vi punched through the base’s perimeter wall, prompting Nick Fury and Phil Coulson to respond as they realized the intruders were heading toward the old Project Pegasus archives.

• Vi convinced Carol that her powers belonged to her, and Carol transformed her Kree uniform into a red, blue, and gold suit.
• Maria assigned Vi to break through defenses, Carol to handle emergencies, and herself to navigation and electronic locks; the three women set out for the base.
• Maria noticed the base’s security was not reacting, but the SUV soon encountered black-uniformed agents surrounding the entrance.
• Vi charged ahead and punched a hole through the concrete perimeter wall with her Hextech Gauntlets, setting off the alarm.
• Nick Fury and Phil Coulson learned that Zone C’s wall had been breached and identified the old Project Pegasus archives as the intruders’ likely destination.
• Fury ordered Coulson to seal the perimeter exits and drove deeper into the base to meet the intruders.

Vi, Maria, and Carol broke into the archive and found the black box, but Fury and Talos arrived with their own forces, turning the room into a three-way fight. Talos’s words about Mar-Vell and the Kree left Carol shaken, and she unleashed her photon power.

• Vi tore open the maintenance passage and the secure cabinet while Maria located the black box in the archive.
• Fury arrived with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, then Talos and the Skrulls entered through a ventilation duct and demanded the black box.
• Talos rushed for the box as Fury ordered the agents to open fire, while Vi fought a Skrull warrior.
• Talos told Carol in Kree that Mar-Vell’s legacy was a hope for peace, and he disarmed Fury during their fight.
• Carol watched the fighting and struggled with the revelation that the Kree had lied to her before unleashing a blast of golden photon energy.

Vi, Carol, Maria, Fury, and Talos formed a temporary alliance and recovered the black box, whose recording revealed that Yon-Rogg had killed Mar-Vell and that Carol was an Earth pilot whose powers came from the light-speed engine. The Starforce then broke into their plane, and Yon-Rogg ordered Carol to come home.

• Carol’s blast devastated the archive, and Vi retrieved the black box while Talos tried to explain that it could lead to Mar-Vell’s engine.
• Fury proposed using a safe location to uncover the truth, and the group formed a temporary alliance and escaped aboard a transport plane.
• Maria connected the black box and played a recording of Carol and Mar-Vell’s final flight, including Yon-Rogg’s pursuit and Mar-Vell’s warning to destroy the engine.
• The recording revealed that Carol had been Vers, an Earth pilot whose powers came from the engine’s explosion, and that the Kree had lied about her past.
• The Starforce tore open the plane’s roof, and Yon-Rogg confronted Carol and told her to come home.

Lynn arranged for Gin to deliver the Skrull corpse to Dum Dum Dugan, while Hydra secretly activated an asset to seize it. The Winter Soldier ambushed Dugan’s convoy and escaped with the container as Gin watched from afar and pressed a remote control.

• Lynn ordered Gin to deliver the Skrull corpse to Dugan, with instructions to ensure the gift did not reach its destination intact.
• Hydra’s senior members learned that Vought planned to hand the corpse to S.H.I.E.L.D. and activated an asset to take it.
• Gin handed the cryogenic container to Dugan at an abandoned freight dock, and Dugan’s convoy set off with it.
• The Winter Soldier attacked the convoy, defeated Dugan’s agents, and escaped with the container.
• Dugan reported the mission’s failure to Peggy, while Gin watched through binoculars and pressed a red button on a remote control.

Alexander Pierce learned that Hydra’s Winter Soldier operation had failed to seize the shapeshifting corpse, and he confronted the Hydra Supreme Council over the reckless mission. Professor Pyg suggested Peggy Carter had set a trap, and Pierce decided to question her about what she was hiding.

• Alexander Pierce received a surveillance photo of the Winter Soldier’s metal arm and angrily demanded to know who had authorized the operation.
• Professor Pyg told the Hydra Supreme Council that the Winter Soldier had delivered an empty box instead of the corpse.
• Professor Pyg concluded that S.H.I.E.L.D. had switched the box before transport, and the council blamed Peggy Carter.
• Alexander Pierce confronted Daniel Whitehall over deploying the Winter Soldier on a New York highway, while Whitehall defended the attempt to obtain the shapeshifting alien.
• Professor Pyg proposed that Peggy had deliberately baited Hydra, and Pierce resolved to sound her out about her secrets.

Peggy Carter learned that Hydra had attacked a S.H.I.E.L.D. convoy to seize alien technology, while Lynn Morris prepared to exploit the attack and stop the Kree and Skrulls aboard Vi’s Quinjet. Lynn ended by deploying his fighters to Vi’s location under the codename Fence.

• Dum Dum Dugan told Peggy Carter that a metal-armed, nearly unstoppable attacker had assaulted the convoy and taken the case.
• At Vought’s laboratory, Lynn Morris ordered Dr. Phineas Horton and D.A. Sinclair to develop a way to identify Skrulls with complete accuracy.
• Lynn instructed Hans Landa to publicize the highway attack, the ghost assassin, and Dum Dum Dugan’s survival to draw S.H.I.E.L.D. into public scrutiny.
• Tifa informed Lynn that Vi had recovered the black box and was aboard a Quinjet with Carol Danvers, Maria Rambeau, Nick Fury, and Skrull refugees.
• Lynn ordered Soldier Boy, Human Torch, and Yasuo to intercept the Quinjet and prevent any Kree or Skrull combatants from leaving Earth.
• Soldier Boy emerged from Vought’s South Pacific base, took his shield, and headed to join the fight.

Carol rejected Yon-Rogg’s control and fought the Kree as the battle sent the Quinjet crashing into the desert. After the survivors faced off again, Soldier Boy and two other newcomers arrived, and Soldier Boy prepared to confront Yon-Rogg’s forces.

• Carol declared her name to Yon-Rogg, while Vi attacked Minn-Erva and triggered a firefight between the Kree and the others.
• Carol broke free of Yon-Rogg’s gravity field by unleashing her photon energy.
• The damaged Quinjet crashed in the desert, and Vi, Fury, Maria, Talos, the Skrulls, Yon-Rogg, and surviving Kree escaped the wreckage.
• Vi charged the Kree again, then stopped when three figures dropped from a passing fighter.
• Nick Fury recognized Soldier Boy among the newcomers, and Soldier Boy challenged Yon-Rogg and the remaining Starforce.

Soldier Boy, the Human Torch, Vi, and Yasuo defeated Yon-Rogg’s Kree squad, and Vought forces moved to capture the survivors and Carol’s group. VNN then exposed the New York highway firefight and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s involvement to the world, while Alexander Pierce watched the broadcast.

• Soldier Boy, the Human Torch, and Yasuo quickly incapacitated Bron-Char, Att-Lass, and Minerva, and Vi joined the fight.
• Yasuo cut through Yon-Rogg’s metal barrage and armor, leaving him defeated as Soldier Boy held him at shield-point.
• Nina Williams led Vought’s tactical squad in restraining the Kree, while Soldier Boy ordered Carol, Talos, and the others to come with them and Nick Fury objected.
• VNN interrupted landmark screens worldwide with footage of the New York highway firefight, identifying Dum Dum Dugan and raising questions about the secret agency he served.
• Alexander Pierce watched the report in his S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters office.

Nina Williams invoked Vought’s Mandatory Superhuman Regulation Act to take control of the alien incident, while Carol Danvers objected to the plan. Vi calmed Carol with a casual invitation to Iceland, leaving Carol reconsidering whether she should get involved.

• Nina Williams cited the Mandatory Superhuman Regulation Act and ordered the detention of everyone involved for Vought investigation.
• Carol Danvers challenged Nina, while Talos pleaded that the Skrulls were refugees and Yon-Rogg accused them of being dangerous infiltrators.
• Nina dismissed the aliens’ accusations and urged Carol to put Earth’s interests first.
• Soldier Boy watched the standoff and criticized the new heroes’ uncertain loyalties.
• Vi put an arm around Carol and invited her to a Vought hot spring resort in Iceland instead of getting involved.
• Carol felt Vi’s casual presence calm her and began to consider that Vi might have a point.

After Vought defeated the aliens, Carol and Maria reunited with Monica while Nick Fury struggled to report what happened. Vought then released a manipulated video framing the battle as an alien invasion and its heroes as Earth's saviors, leaving the public focused on Vought and the truth buried.

• Vi led Carol and Maria onto a Vought jet as Soldier Boy and Vought personnel took the alien prisoners, while Nick Fury watched them leave.
• In New Orleans, Monica embraced Maria and Carol, and Vi invited the family on a trip to swim beneath colorful skies.
• Nick Fury returned to a S.H.I.E.L.D. safe house and struggled to write a report explaining the alien battle and Vought's takeover of the situation.
• Hans Landa ordered Vought's media team to distribute an edited video portraying the aliens as invaders and Soldier Boy, Human Torch, and Yasuo as defenders of Earth.
• The video triggered worldwide panic and praise for Vought, while public attention turned away from S.H.I.E.L.D. and the aliens' real story.

At Vought International’s Icelandic hot spring resort, Vi explained how the company turned victories into comfort and profit, prompting Carol to compare Vought’s support with the Kree Empire’s betrayal. Carol ended the chapter drinking vodka and wondering what she should do next.

• Carol soaked in the hot spring while Maria played with Monica nearby.
• Vi offered Carol Absolut Vodka and dismissed her worries about alien threats, saying Vought’s people and technology would handle them.
• Vi told Carol that her role at Vought was to win and enjoy what victory brought.
• Carol recalled Dr. Lawson’s sacrifice and considered how little the Kree Empire’s promises had given her.
• Carol drained her glass of vodka as the peaceful scene with Vi, Maria, and Monica continued.

Soldier Boy appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy and presented himself as a dependable World War II hero who had secretly fought alien enemies for years. His remarks about masculinity won over conservative viewers, and Vought’s campaign rapidly turned him into a popular symbol of traditional American values.

• Jimmy welcomed Soldier Boy to the show, where Soldier Boy asked to be called Benjamin and joked about being presumed dead.
• Soldier Boy claimed he had fought hidden enemies alongside Human Torch with Vought’s support, then fumbled with a new phone for laughs.
• Jimmy introduced edited footage of the desert battle, and Soldier Boy warned that aliens could take human form while reassuring viewers that heroes were protecting them.
• Soldier Boy called the new generation of heroes too soft and urged them to show more masculinity, prompting enthusiastic audience and viewer reactions.
• Hans Landa watched Soldier Boy’s search popularity and trending hashtags surge as Vought’s campaign shaped him into a guardian of traditional American values.

Hans Landa launched a series of lavish short films portraying Yasuo as a silent, elegant swordsman, and the videos made Yasuo a worldwide cultural sensation. Luxury brands and a major game company sought deals with him, while Chanel called Hans about a new fragrance.

• Miranda Priestly reported that Soldier Boy's appearance on The Tonight Show had broken a decade-old viewership record and increased support among white men over forty.
• Hans Landa planned the Rurouni Kenshin short-film series to market Yasuo's mystique and Eastern-inspired aesthetics to young audiences.
• Vought News Network uploaded the first Rurouni Kenshin video, and viewers worldwide celebrated Yasuo after he split a waterfall with a leaf.
• The next two videos spread Yasuo's fame, inspiring the #YasuoHaiku trend and turning him into a cultural symbol.
• Miranda told Hans that Cartier, Nintendo, Gucci, Armani, and Patek Philippe wanted deals with Yasuo, and Chanel called about its new men's fragrance.

Amin Arnold offered Talos a new home for the Skrulls on Kepler-186f in exchange for cooperating with Vought’s research into their abilities. Talos realized Vought intended to copy and replace his people, and Amin left him facing a choice between captivity and the survival of his species in another form.

• Talos remained confined in a comfortable Vought facility and asked Amin Arnold when he could leave.
• Amin showed Talos Kepler-186f and offered Vought’s help in establishing it as an exclusive Skrull colony.
• Amin revealed that Vought wanted Talos to submit to research into Skrull mimicry, memory reading, and thought imitation.
• Talos understood that Vought planned to reproduce Skrull abilities and could eventually erase the original Skrulls.
• Amin told Talos he could refuse and live in comfort as a captive or cooperate to give his species a chance to continue in another form.

Victoria Hand led a Strategic Operations Department meeting over afternoon tea, approving plans to kill two targets and turn an unstable Vought hero’s death into a profitable public spectacle. The chapter ended with Victoria arranging more lemon tarts for Dr. Lecter’s return.

• Victoria Hand approved a plan to kill Joseph Kalombe with a drug-induced heart attack during a public speech.
• Victoria Hand ordered the French branch to exploit chef Julien’s brother’s debts so Julien would poison Ivan Petrov’s pufferfish.
• Victoria Hand approved Contingency Plan 7-B to stage Quake Fist’s heroic death in a disaster and capitalize on his posthumous fame.
• Victoria Hand adjourned the meeting and asked her assistant to order more lemon tarts for Dr. Lecter’s return.