Recaps

Zhao Fan rose from an impoverished cleanup worker to a powered relic hunter, building a crew with Old Dog and Benjamin while drawing the attention of Shadow and Dr. Evelyn Reed. After joining the Special Cleanup Unit, he entered a former Hydra laboratory and discovered a tunnel crowded with dangerous heat signatures.

• Zhao Fan discovered that contact with a Chitauri armor fragment granted him Basic Precision Throwing, then recruited Old Dog and Benjamin into a salvage crew.
• Zhao Fan and Old Dog stole a Chitauri energy rifle core from the First National Bank vault and sold it to Shadow, earning Zhao Fan ten thousand dollars and access to the Relic Compendium.
• Zhao Fan recovered a damaged Chitauri Biomechanical Arm core, then accepted Shadow’s job to retrieve a Leviathan biological armor sample in Queens.
• Zhao Fan reached the Leviathan sample amid a battle between Kestrel, Rick’s men, and D.O.D.C. forces, acquired Kinetic Repulsion, and escaped with Old Dog and the core.
• Zhao Fan sold Shadow the Leviathan sample for a hundred thousand dollars and asked her to obtain enhanced equipment, drugs, and information about superpowers.
• Dr. Evelyn Reed traced evidence from the underground battle to Zhao Fan, then forced him and Old Dog to accept Special Cleanup Unit contracts and fitted them with monitoring wristbands.
• Dr. Evelyn injected Zhao Fan with a modified Extremis-derived reagent, granting him Basic Self-Healing, and Zhao Fan brought Benjamin onto the S.C.U. team.
• Zhao Fan and Old Dog entered a former Hydra laboratory through a gas-filled manhole, where Zhao Fan killed a three-headed Hydra Parasitic Guard and acquired a Hard Carapace ability fragment as Benjamin detected more heat signatures in the tunnel walls.

Zhao Fan dismantled Hydra’s New York operations, helped stop Project Insight, and built D.O.D.C. into an independent force. After recruiting Yelena Belova, he raided Ulysses Klaue’s shipyard and escaped with Vibranium and Klaue as a captive.

• Zhao Fan absorbed Hydra solution, accepted Shadow’s offer, then modified her device into a lure that drew creatures to a D.O.D.C. transport and let him absorb the Heart of Leviathan.
• Zhao Fan confronted Shadow, gave S.C.U. intelligence on Hydra, and accepted Nick Fury’s deal to intercept Klaue’s Vibranium shipment.
• Zhao Fan and his team raided Hydra safe houses, recovered weapons, money, intelligence, and a Cosmic Cube fragment, then supplied Evelyn Reed with information that helped purge Hydra outposts.
• After Nick Fury was assassinated and Hydra took control of S.H.I.E.L.D., Zhao Fan rescued Evelyn and helped sabotage Project Insight by changing Helicarrier Alpha’s friend-or-foe codes and stealing its repulsion engine core.
• Zhao Fan and Evelyn escaped to New York, where they agreed to make S.C.U. D.O.D.C.’s independent armed and intelligence unit, while Zhao Fan developed plans for armor powered by the salvaged core.
• Zhao Fan resisted Brock Rumlow’s attempt to seize Hydra salvage, secretly tracked him, and later recruited Yelena Belova to join S.C.U.’s special operations team.
• Zhao Fan, Yelena, Old Dog, and Benjamin raided Klaue’s African shipyard, defeated his sonic defenses, captured Klaue, and found raw Vibranium and a Sonic Solidification Generator blueprint.
• Zhao Fan’s team escaped with the Vibranium and research materials, and Zhao Fan examined the Vibranium alongside the Repulsor Engine Core in System Space.