2018

This is a page documenting everything that happened in the year 2018.

* **Attack on Reid Pearson**

20th

* Danny Rand and Ward Meachum follow their current lead on Orson Randall, the sender of the Hancock 0212 shipment, to Kuala Lumpur, having previously been to Hong Kong in their pursuit.

### February

26th

* Nicholas Terwilliger celebrates his 9th birthday. This will be his last birthday before The Snap.
* Justin Terwilliger uploads the video *"Guess That Star Wars Character Challenge (ft. TNT Reacts and Nicky)"*, while at the dentist. This will be the last video he uploads before The Snap.

### March

4th

* Danny Rand and Ward Meachum follow their current lead on Orson Randall, the sender of the Hancock 0212 shipment, to Jakarta, having previously been to Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur in their pursuit. They cause a mess as they steal a shipment from Randall's warehouse, containing Randall's chi-infused pistols.

### April

6th

* Eric Terwilliger celebrates his 40th birthday with his friends and family after walking into a surprise birthday party. This will be his last birthday before The Snap.

10th

* **Rescue of Cassie Yasdan**

13th

* **Skirmish at Andrew Brandt's Apartment**
* **Ambush at Alias Investigations Office**

14th

* Months after Danny Rand left New York City, Colleen Wing a group of robbers trying to flee a bank. She prepares her katana and lights up her white Iron Fist, the chi flowing through into her blade.

15th

* In a bar in Hokkaido, Japan, at 4AM local time Ward Meachum asks a man about his employer selling on the black market. The man denies this, but Meachum continues to inquire, asking about Hancock Transport and the body inside, saying he wants to talk to the man who sent it, Orson Randall, whom he knows is the man's boss. The man denies knowledge of Randall, but Meachum says they have had a rough time tracking him through Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and a mess in Jakarta, which causes the man to realize Meachum was involved in the stealing of their missing shipment from Jakarta. As a thug working for the man stands to threaten Meachum, Meachum turns to Danny Rand, sitting nearby. The man tells Rand that Randall wants his property back, and Rand reveals he has it: two special pistols at his side. The man shoots at Rand, but Rand lights up both his fists, his chi restored and now in both hands, and the energy channeled through both weapons, and fires two chi-charged bullets, converging on the man's bullet and knocking it out of the air. He facetiously remarks that the man should not try that again.

19th

* **Attack on Andrew Brandt**
* **Massacre in Chicago**

20th

* *Extreme Measures 2*is released in the United States of America.
* **Rescue of Erik Gelden**
* Shooter Jennings performs in Lola's Roadhouse, and Frank Castle watches, buying a beer from bartender Beth Quinn. A girl comes and orders a drink, with owner Ringo judging her as acceptable to serve despite looking potentially underage. Castle surveys her, and she is defensive, telling him to look away and calling him "Rough Road". When he asks if she is okay, she unconvincingly claims she is before walking away.
* A man named Johnny starts harassing Quinn behind the bar, and when she refuses his advances, he grabs her arm. Castle tells him to let her go, and when he insults her, Castle chides his behavior. Johnny tries to pick a fight, but Castle breaks his finger. Ringo tries to have them both kicked out, but Quinn sticks up for Castle. He introduces himself to her as "Pete".
* **Assassination of Sergei Konchevsky****:**
	+ The girl in Lola's Roadhouse, Amy Bendix, calls Sergei Konchevsky from a payphone. Konchevsky is being held captive by John Pilgrim, and is forced to take the call but not give his situation away. Bendix explains she is someone who worked for Fiona, and the reason they did not deliver him the photographs he was expecting the day before was because the whole crew except her, pointing out someone must know about them. Konchevsky, pressured by Pilgrim, asks for her to still deliver the pictures, but she asks him to meet her the next day at Lola's Roadhouse, unknowingly giving her location to Pilgrim.
	+ After hanging up, Konchevsky expects Pilgrim to let him go. However, Pilgrim explains he only promised he would give Konchevsky peace, and kills the man.

21st

* Castle and Quinn talk as the roadhouse closes. He goes to leave, but she offers that he come along with her for another drink.
* Quinn has Castle jump into her car. Meanwhile, Bendix sneaks past to the Good Rest Motel, where Castle has been staying, and picks the lock on an empty room, breaking in to sleep.
* Back at Beth Quinn's home, Beth tells Castle about her life, including an 8-year-old son named Rex. They admit that they do not usually head home with someone after one night, but each feel a connection to each other, and end up sleeping together.
* After she notices his scars, Castle tells Quinn he was in the marines. He also explains his wedding ring hung around his neck, about having had a wife and children, who were all taken from him. He admits life can get lonely, but quotes Karen Page's comment to him about how life is about trying not to be lonely, and they tell each other neither are feeling lonely currently.
* After a while, Castle admits to Quinn that this real name is Frank, and explains that the government have given him a new identity, due to things he was involved with that have to remain secret. She says she trusts him, and comments that they have to take the good when it comes, which reminds him of his family's times with Billy Russo, and Russo's subsequent utter betrayal.
* In the morning, Castle gets up to leave. He comes across Rex Quinn, who has been dropped off by Beth's mother, who had been looking after him. Beth gets up, and Castle stops himself from leaving. He endears himself to Rex, and offers to drive the trio to get pancakes for breakfast.
* At the diner, Beth Quinn tells Frank Castle about her job, and how she teaches musical instruments on weekdays. Rex surprises the adults when he guesses that they had sex, and Beth quickly changes the subject.
* Amy Bendix remains asleep in the Good Rest Motel room.
* Meanwhile, outside, Beth Quinn drops Frank Castle off back at his motel room. She invites him to return to Lola's Roadhouse that evening, and they bid each other farewell. He goes to unlock his door.
* A few doors down, Amy Bendix is woken when a worker at the motel rattles the door, trying to get in. She pushes past her, ignoring the woman's protests for her to stop and explain herself, and bumps into Castle about to enter his room. He is concerned about her, but she rushes away.
* Shooter Jennings performs again at Lola's Roadhouse. Bendix turns up and waits for her arranged meeting.
* Frank Castle is driving out of town when he changes his mind about leaving. He decides to turn his van around and drive back to the roadhouse and see Quinn again.
* Castle gets to the roadhouse and goes to speak to Quinn again, relaxed and ready to enjoy his evening.
* **Chase of Amy Bendix****:**
	+ As the band continue playing, Castle notices a suspicious group of people arriving at the roadhouse and looking around for someone. He keeps an eye on them. Amy Bendix, meanwhile, sees them and becomes scared, rushing to the bathroom to escape. The group spot her and follow, and Castle follows them, concerned about what might be happening.
	+ Bendix tries to climb through the bathroom window, but gets stuck. One of the group after Bendix grabs her by the legs and drags her back into the bathroom, starting to punch her.
	+ A man from the group after Bendix stands guard at the bathroom door, stopping others from entering. Castle approaches him, pretending to be a normal patron, but he refuses to let him pass.
	+ Bendix pulls a knife on the women in the bathroom, but they grab her arm and twist it. Hearing her shouting in pain from outside, Castle headbutts the guarding man and breaks in. He wraps his belt around his forearm then engages the attackers in a fight, violently smashing them against walls, toilets, and sinks to incapacitate them.
	+ Bendix gets out of the room to safety as some of the attackers get back up to continue fighting. Castle stabs one woman in the shoulder with her own knife, and when the other comes running at him with a blade, Bendix knocks her out from behind with a broken piece of sink.
	+ Castle asks Bendix what the attackers want, and she tries to lie and pass it off as a normal meaningless fight, but Castle does not believe her. Scared, Bendix eventually admits she would like his protection
	+ Castle escorts Bendix through the roadhouse, hoping to get her out safely. One man goes to attack her, but Castle grabs him first and a fight breaks out between them. Another man goes to attack Castle, but Ringo intercepts him. Another man jumps castle as Ringo's opponent tries to fight back.
	+ Castle smashes a bottle on his second attacker's head. However, one of the women from the bathroom starts stabbing Ringo, and while Castle defeats his first attacker, another man grabs hold of Bendix.
	+ Bendix and Ringo fight back against their attackers, while Castle manages to stab his. He engages Bendix's attacker, as Beth Quinn loads a gun. One attacker tries to shoot Castle, but instead hits another man. Ringo breaks one attacker's neck and Castle throws one attacker's head onto a knife, but one of the women from the bathroom manages to riddle Ringo with bullets and shoot Quinn in the arm before she can get a shot off herself.
	+ Castle throws Bendix behind the bar for cover as the attackers start firing. He is shot, but manages to beat another attacker to death, leaving only one - Marlena Olin - managing to escape.
	+ Castle rushes to help Quinn, trying to help staunch her bleeding. He gets her to his van, with Bendix getting in as well.
	+ Castle drives, but they are stopped in the road by a car. More of Olin's crew jump out and tell them to get out of the car, but he opens the window and guns them down, before jumping out of the vehicle and finishing them off.

22nd

* Bendix tries to get away, but he bundles her back in the van and has her find the nearest hospital on her phone so he can drive Beth Quinn to get help.
* They arrive at Ecorse Hope Hospital and Beth Quinn is taken into the building, asking that Castle make sure Rex is okay.
* John Pilgrim arrives at Lola's Roadhouse. He finds the bodies from the fight and Frank Castle's ring, with an inscription including his forename. He tells the local, corrupt police lieutenant, Lt. Ferrara, to find the girl they are after and whoever she is with, and keep his police away. Marlena Olin shows Pilgrim that they have found the girl's bag, with her laptop inside.
* Pilgrim and Olin survey the security footage of Castle's fight. Pilgrim says it will not be hard to find him.
* Dinah Madani stands over the hospital bed of Billy Russo, who is asleep with a decorated mask over his face. She drinks and insults him, before leaving. After she exits, Russo wakes.
* Castle continues to drive Bendix away. Bendix asks if there will be more people coming, and he says that he hopes so.
* Tired and bleeding, Frank Castle struggles somewhat with driving. Amy Bendix suggests taking over driving or stopping somewhere, but he refuses. However, he eventually decides to turn off to Larkville, Ohio.
* Arriving at the Tides Motel in Larkville as the sun comes up, Castle reluctantly gives Bendix money to rent them a room.
* Bendix approaches the worker at the desk, Debbie, who forces her to pay for the morning as well as the upcoming evening, to her annoyance.
* Castle and Bendix go to their room, and Castle tells her to call him "Pete", with her telling him she is "Rachel". He takes her to the bathroom and tries to tweeze out the bullet in his side, but cannot, asking her to do it for him. Once she has, he then has her stitch the wound. She insists again that she does not know why she is being hunted.
* Bendix tries to escape the room, but Castle catches her, then uses cable ties to tie her to her bed so as to ensure she cannot run. She starts complaining, so he puts tape over her mouth, telling her to sleep.
* Billy Russo is tormented by nightmares. When he wakes, Dinah Madani is standing over his bed again. He claims not to know her. Russo's doctor, Krista Dumont, enters, and Madani says that she is certain Russo is faking his situation, but Dumont explains that he cannot be. She tells Madani about working with Russo, with Russo mentioning the metaphorical "jigsaw" of his memories they are putting together. Madani leaves, saying she will return that night, and Russo tells Dumont that he is aware he must have done something to her, but becomes angry and frustrated when he cannot remember what. Dumont goes to get him headache relief medicine, but when Russo first asks what he did to Madani, she truthfully tells him he shot her in the head.
* John Pilgrim visits Beth Quinn in her hospital ward. He notices several cards from people who care about her, and threatens them if she does not tell him the name of the man seen at Lola's Roadhouse. She claims not to know, but eventually pretends to give him up, saying he simply told her he was called "Pete". Pilgrim pushes for more, aware she is covering for him, so she reluctantly gives his surname "Castiglione", and Pilgrim leaves, with her managing to have withheld the name "Frank".
* Frank Castle cuts Bendix free from the bed and asks her again to tell him the truth about why people are after her. When she refuses, he grabs a container from her pocket, finding undeveloped photos. She criticizes his approach of killing all their attackers and says that he is too constantly angry, and says it seems to her that he seemed happy for the excuse to kill again. He ties her to the bed again before stepping outside.
* Dr. Krista Dumont meets with Billy Russo again. He tells her once again about a nightmare of a skull on a black background, and blood and breaking glass. He complains about having to tell her the same thing over and over, but she points out that one day, his responses will be different. He says that, despite being told his face should not be hurting, it does. Dumont asks what the last thing he remembers is, and he states that it is spending time with Frank Castle in the barracks, a man he thinks of as his brother.
* John Pilgrim investigates the Good Rest Motel, and his assistant says that DMV has let him know Pete Castiglione has no record of criminal activity or service. Pilgrim says that there is definitely something more to Castiglione, however, and objects to his assistant's love of technology and casual use of profanity.
* Frank Castle rents the room next to his and Bendix's from Debbie.
* Castle returns to the room and cuts Bendix free from the bed again. He starts hammering a hole in one of the walls, to her confusion.
* Rafael Hernandez has Dinah Madani meet him to talk over dinner. Hernandez tells her that he is receiving complaints about her visiting Billy Russo so often, and tells her that she needs to remember she cannot change the fact that he fooled her. Madani continues to insist that Russo is lying about his memory-loss. Hernandez says he wishes Castle had killed Russo, but Madani says she is glad Russo did not die thinking he had killed her, and leaves the restaurant.
* **Ambush on Gregory Sallinger**
* **Kidnapping of Erik Gelden**
* **Ambush at the Tides Motel****:**
	+ Frank Castle hands Amy Bendix a gun to protect herself, seeing a vehicle outside that he knows will be people come to kill her.
	+ Marlena Olin sits with more of her crew in the SUV outside the Tides Motel. She tells them that they will not contact Pilgrim until they have delivered on the job, not wanting his interference.
	+ Bendix wants to leave the motel and holds her gun to Castle, threatening him if he does not let her. He recognizes, however, that she does not have it in her, and she gives up.
	+ Olin and her crew see silhouettes moving and head into the room, but find no one visible there. They start shooting potential hiding places, but Castle suddenly ambushes them by coming through the hole he has knocked into the room next door. A firefight begins.
	+ Bendix sits, scared in the next room. When the shooting stops, she cautiously gets up, but Olin arrives at the door, holding a gun to her. Castle arrives, however, and knocks her out, then picks up Olin's unconscious boy and takes Bendix outside with him to leave.
	+ Castle puts Olin in the back of his van, but she wakes as he does so and attacks them again. Castle manages to shoot her in the leg and holds a gun to her. Bendix, however, sees an opportunity to get away. She jumps in the van and starts driving as Castle tells Olin to talk, before realizing what Bendix has done. However, Bendix is stopped by the arrival of the police, who take all three to the local station.

* At the Larkville County Sheriff Station, Marlena Olin has her wound tended to, but refuses to tell the police what happened.
* Amy Bendix plays up being a victim to the police sheriff, and claims to only be 16.
* Castle refuses to be taken for hospital treatment, and also decides not to tell the police what has happened.
* Castle, Bendix, and Olin have DNA, fingerprints, and mugshots taken.
* At the Good Rest Motel, John Pilgrim's assistant finds out about the police putting the fingerprints of Olin and "Castiglione" into the system in Ohio, and lets Pilgrim know.
* Dinah Madani is having a nightmare about Russo when she is woken by a call from Castle. He explains that she is his one call from the station and needs her help getting out, but she refuses, saying him being let off was a one-time thing, and that he is no longer part of her life.
* The sheriff tells Castle that he is looking at four counts of murder, which carries the death penalty locally. Castle warns that they need to let them go, because people will be coming to the station to attack, but the sheriff refuses.
* As the station nurse leaves the building and drives away, John Pilgrim sits outside in his own car, having driven to Larkville.

23rd

* Marlena Olin threatens Frank Castle in their neighboring cells.
* Amy Bendix tries to get Ken Ogden to buy her a Coke, and he eventually gives her the money to stop her from annoying him. Sheriff Roy Hardin interrupts and says that he has found out about her numerous aliases, knowing that she must be lying to him. She admits "Castiglione" helped her, but says that both him and Olin are crazy, and she is just caught in the middle.
* The sheriff tells Olin that he has identified her through her prints, and that she was the type of person they expect, but then turns to Castle and says that he is surprised he has nothing significant on record, saying he seems like someone who served as a marine. Olin threatens Hardin, who ignores the statement, but Castle tries to warn him that trouble is coming. Hardin brushes this off.
* **Escape from Sacred Saints Hospital****:**
	+ Krista Dumont tells Billy Russo that she thinks the reason he is sleeping so little is that he is choosing to, and that they need to gently help him recall his nightmares in his journal so he can gain mastery over them. Russo becomes angry, wanting different kings of help, and police guards enter in case they are needed. Russo, however, turns and attacks them, beating them both down.
	+ Russo walks through the building, holding onto Dumont to make sure she does not get help. Once outside, he asks why she did not scream, and she explains she feels he is not beyond help. Russo rejects this and runs away.

* John Pilgrim takes Lieutenant Ferrara to Larkville County Sheriff Station and requests to take the prisoners off their hands, but Sheriff Hardin refuses, saying they have to wait until the prisoners have been arraigned on Thursday. Ferrara asks to at least see them, but Hardin turns him away. Pilgrim calmly threatens that people will get hurt if they do not hand over the prisoners, and sees Bendix inside, but when Hardin still does not turn them over, he steps outside to initiate an attack.
* Pilgrim gives the signal for his people to set off an electromagnetic pulse, knocking out all electricity in the area.
* The police find that they cannot use their phones, and Castle and Olin realize the attackers have now arrived. Bendix asks again to be released.
* Dinah Madani arrives at Sacred Saints Hospital and sits to speak with Krista Dumont. She says that she thinks Russo has been planning this, but Dumont insists it was just a primal reaction from fear. Madani asks if he gave any indication of where he might go, but Brett Mahoney enters and says he banned her from the hospital, since her visits could impact the case and that Russo is NYPD territory. She angrily leaves, reminding him not to think of Russo as some lost soul.
* Once outside the room, Madani makes a call to Larkville.
* Sheriff Hardin takes "Castiglione" from his cell to be questioned.
* Bendix steals a Coca-Cola from the station vending machine. Sheriff Roy Hardin questions Frank Castle, who explains about the attack on Lola's Roadhouse and being chased by the attackers. Ken Ogden volunteers to drive to get help, and, despite Castle's protests, is handed the keys.
* As Ogden tries to drive away, John Pilgrim shoots him. He climbs out of the car and Hardin escorts him back to safety. He and the other officers see Pilgrim standing in the woods, and he orders them to go inside as Pilgrim walks up to talk with Hardin. Pilgrim says Ogden only has 2-3 hours to get to a hospital, so can only be saved if they hand over the people they came for.
* Amy Bendix helps some of the officers tend to Ogden, while the rest start barricading the station, and consider handing over their prisoners. Bendix steals the car keys and shows Castle, but he refuses to just escape, and requests that the sheriff let him loose to help take out their attackers.

* **Attack on Larkville County Sheriff Station****:**
	+ Marlena Olin tells another prisoner, Ken Ogden's brother Bruce, who has been locked up by Ken simply for being drunk in public, that an attack is coming. She sees one of her allies outside the window, and indicates that she needs freeing.
	+ Pilgrim's people begin firing into the station from the woods. The officers fire back, but Castle warns that it will be a diversion, and they need to cover the back. When they ignore him, soldiers break in through the back as Castle expected. One goes to free Olin, as the rest begin shooting in the station offices.
	+ The officers are struggling until Castle manages to get loose from his cuffs. He grabs hold of a gun and starts taking out the attackers one by one.
	+ Olin is freed and starts firing at Castle, but misses. Castle leads Hardin in forcing Olin out of the building, then they take cover until the firing stops. Hardin tells Castle he cannot let him run, but Castle points out his gun is empty. He stays nonetheless, leading Hardin to trust him, and releases Bruce Ogden.
	+ The officers discuss whether to turn over the prisoners, but Ken Ogden refuses to let them die just to get him to a hospital.

* Olin requests to Pilgrim that he let her be the one to kill "Castiglione", but Pilgrim kills her.
* Castle tells Ken Ogden he has been brave, but asks that he rest. He asks that Hardin let him go and take out the soldiers.

24th

* Two of Pilgrim's men go to throw Molotov cocktails into the station, but Castle shoots the bottles first, causing the men to catch fire themselves instead. Castle then charges into the woods, quietly getting behind the soldiers as they shoot into the station and eliminating them.
* Pilgrim starts running as Castle makes his way through the woods, killing each soldier.
* The officers inside the station are stunned by Castle's expertise, but relieved.
* Pilgrim puts down one of his injured men and keeps running as Castle makes his way around looking for any remaining soldiers. Pilgrim finds Castle and nearly gets a shot on him, but is suddenly dazzled by a bright light from a helicopter above, missing his shot. Dinah Madani's voice calls down from the vehicle, saying Homeland Security have arrived and to stay where they are, but Pilgrim gets away.
* Madani lands and informs Castle that Russo has escaped from hospital.
* Ken Ogden is given medical attention. Bendix thanks him for his bravery and returns him his money as he is taken away.
* Madani tells Sheriff Hardin that "Castiglione" is part of a sensitive investigation, and should be officially considered to have never been there. Hardin thanks Castle for saving their lives and says that he will do what Madani has asked.
* Castle and Bendix prepare to board Madani's helicopter, with Castle insisting that she has to come. Hardin returns Castle his bag, and Castle and Bendix say they want to go to New York.
* A rude man called Rick boards a bus and comes across Billy Russo, mocking him for his scars. Russo follows Rick off the bus and into an alley. When Rick threatens him with a knife, Russo attacks him.
* Russo walks out of the alley now wearing Rick's clothes, having beaten and stripped his attacker.
* Frank Castle looks out of a window in Dinah Madani's apartment, where Madani has taken he and Amy Bendix. Madani takes pills and leaves to meet Rafael Hernandez, saying they will discuss Russo when she returns.
* Dinah Madani tells Hernandez about dealing with Castle in Ohio. She lies and says she dropped him off outside the city and did not tell him about Russo. Hernandez tells Madani she needs to get more help and talk to someone about her problem with Russo.
* Bendix asks Castle, whose real name she has now heard, who he really is to have contacts at Homeland Security, but he avoids her question. She goes to the bedroom she is taking. Castle puts on the TV, and sees the news report of Russo's escape from hospital.
* Bendix washes and changes into clean clothes, while Castle watches a hockey game. Bendix lays down on her new room's bed, but finds herself unable to rest. She climbs down and crawls under the bed, where she starts crying, which Castle overhears.
* Russo sits in a bar and cuts his medical bracelet from his arm with Rick's knife. As he is served, the news comes on and once again reports on the hunt for him. He thinks back on one of his meetings with Krista Dumont. Madani returns to her apartment and tells Castle that, despite what doctors kept predicting, Russo has recovered remarkably well. She shows him that she has Russo's journal, and that he keeps drawing the skull of the Punisher vest, clearly thinking about Castle constantly. She reveals that she has the vest in her closet, and says that Russo has not got closure. Castle says that she should have shot him at the carousel, but she says that he, too, had the chance, and thinks he just found it too hard. Madani asks Castle for any details he might have to help find Russo.
* The sun sets over New York City.

* Castle knocks on Bendix's door, but she is asleep. Wanting to head out, but ensure that she is safe, he takes the key from her door so she cannot leave. Bendix has a nightmare of finding her dead friends after the massacre in Chicago.

* Frank Castle visits his friend Curtis Hoyle. Hoyle says that he visited Russo, and that he is definitely suffering memory-loss, not being an act like Madani thinks. Hoyle says Castle should have put Russo down for good. He says that he is seeing a woman now, but does not want her anywhere near being involved with the situation. Castle asks where he thinks Russo might have gone, and Hoyle points out that Russo would likely go to settle scores.

* Billy Russo sits where he once watched a little league game of baseball with Frank Castle. He starts to drift off, then is snapped awake by nightmares of the skull once again.

25th

* Amy Bendix wakes and finds her room locked. She panics and Frank Castle lets her out. Still undergoing a panic attack, she shouts that he should never lock her in again.

* Arthur Walsh goes to his kitchen, only to find Billy Russo. He thinks he is a robber, but Russo reminds him of who he is, and that he attended the Ray of Hope home.

* Bendix tells Castle about how she is struggling with flashbacks to the massacre she encountered, and he attempts to help calm her down. She starts explaining what happened, and tells Castle about Fiona and being part of her crew. Bendix says that she had to hide under the bed among the bodies of her friends in Chicago as a man in a vest came back in, and tells him that the job they had been given was taking photographs at a wedding and delivering them. Bendix recommends getting out of the city with the help of a girl she knows called Shantel, but Castle says that this would just get Shantel killed by the man coming after them. He recommends that they take the fight to their attackers instead.

* Walsh pours Russo a drink, and Russo says that he saw the home had been demolished, then come to Walsh since there was nobody else to go to. Walsh asks what happened to his face, showing no remorse for his behavior in the 1990s as he says it is a shame, since Russo had been a pretty child.

* Dinah Madani comes home and Castle tells her about Walsh, and that he thinks Russo might have gone after him. They are interrupted by a knock at the door. Castle and Bendix hide as Madani answers the door and finds Brett Mahoney, who says they know Russo's journal has gone missing, and he suspects her of taking it. He tells a story of how he had once become obsessive over an ex-girlfriend, explaining that she needs to stop involving herself with Russo so obsessively. He notices the two breakfast bowls on her table, but assumes she just has a man around, and she turns him away without him finding out about Castle's presence.
* Arthur Walsh insists to Billy Russo that he was good to the children at Ray of Hope, and it was unfair that he was imprisoned. He says that he loved the children, and becomes angry at Russo for not loving him back, saying that he wonders if Russo has come back to him purely because he does not feel loved anymore with his scarred face.
* **Assassination of Arthur Walsh****:**
	+ Furious, Russo kills Walsh with a chair leg.

* Amy Bendix uses a computer in a shop under the premise of trialing it, and uses it to look up Castle. She finds pictures and videos of his activities since 2015, and a worker in the store recognizes the pictures as the "Punisher", a name she had not heard before. He tells her about how he killed criminals and escaped prison.
* Dinah Madani goes to Arthur Walsh's home in case Russo is there, but arrives only to find Walsh's dead body, with a chair leg lodged in his chest. She hears someone and immediately turns and shoots, assuming it is Russo, only to find it is Brett Mahoney, hitting him only in his bulletproof vest. He asks what she is doing at the location, but she refuses to explain before leaving the murder case to him.
* Bendix returns to Dinah Madani's apartment and tells Castle that she has found out about his family and him killing the people behind their deaths. She asks if it made him feel better, and he says that it only does sometimes. Bendix admits she is not called Rachel, but Amy, and promises not to keep trying to run away anymore.

* Krista Dumont has a knock on her apartment door, and finds that it is Billy Russo, saying that he has nowhere else to go and covered in Arthur Walsh's blood. She lets him in, and he admits he found her apartment by following her home. He begs for her help, and she takes him to her bathroom, then picks up her phone to call the police.

* Russo steps out of the bathroom and sees Dumont about to make the call. He tells her he would not blame her if she did, but asks her if she thinks it might be possible to look in the mirror and see the best version of himself again, rather than the face that represents everything he ever did wrong. She locks her phone, deciding not to call.

* Amy Bendix plays one-eyed jacks with Frank Castle and explains that everyone knows it is a scam that people always lose, but they keep trying nonetheless because they are stubborn and overconfident. She says that the only win is to not play, likening it to their current situation, but Castle disagrees, saying they just have to make sure they are in the dealer position.

* Turk Barrett goes to his car, only to find Frank Castle waiting in the back seat. Castle asks if he knows a "Konchevsky" from his time selling guns, and he reluctantly tells Castle that Konchevsky's people operate out of Kazan's Gym. He tells Barrett to let Konchevsky know that someone wants to meet with the "photos and the girl" from Chicago, claiming to offer him 25% of whatever they pay. He gives Barrett a number to call once he has arranged it.

* **Infiltration into Wappingers Falls Police Station**

26th

* The reopening Fear Dimension starts manifesting fears again, this time the astronaut from Maveth that Hive took over.
* Leo Fitz is busy working, desperate to find a way to compress gravitonium so as to close the Fear Dimension for good. He and Jemma Simmons discuss what their wishes would be if the dimension were for wishes instead, and Simmons mentions potentially having a honeymoon. The astronaut manifestation suddenly attacks and kills an agent helping them, before Simmons shoots it and it reduces to wisps of smoke.
* Yo-Yo Rodriguez tests the new robotic arms that Alphonso Mackenzie and Leo Fitz have worked on for her. She is desperate to get fighting again, but Mackenzie tells her that it will take time, but in the meantime, the team will protect her.
* Fitz tries to ask Deke Shaw about gravitonium but he is distant, thinking about Fitz and Simmons being his grandparents. When they get his attention, he explains that he does not now much about the material. Fitz and Simmons leave to look for Franklin Hall's notes for further insight, and Daisy Johnson gets a location on General Hale's phone, believing her to have slipped up.
* **Capture of Hale****:** Hale is driving when suddenly her car hits an invisible ramp. The car drives unwittingly into a cloaked Zephyr One, and the agents throw a gas canister into the vehicle to render her unconscious. Phil Coulson thanks Piper for her help in giving them Hale's phone number, saying it can be the first step for her redemption.
* Deke Shaw finds Fitz and tries to help him, but is suddenly knocked out by the man, who is not Fitz as they know him, but the Doctor from the Framework.
* Coulson interrogates Hale, and she says that she is trying to prevent human extinction.
* Fitz returns to the control room having not found any physical notes from Dr. Hall. He asks Johnson if she found any digital copies, but she has not, and he becomes anxious, frustrated, and stressed. The monitor then shows two cameras suddenly go out downstairs and Johnson leaves to check the floor herself.
* Fitz desperately tries to work out what to do, but is interrupted by the Doctor. Fitz is terrified to see him, believing him to be a manifestation from the Fear Dimension.
* Yo-Yo Rodriguez tells Alphonso Mackenzie that she wants to help, but Mackenzie insists on just moving her hospital bed to a safer floor. Before they can act, what appears to be one of Hale's Sleeper Mechs enters with a gun.
* Fitz struggles as the Doctor taunts him, saying that he is here to do what Fitz is not willing to and that plans are already in motion. Fitz hears a gunshot and Simmons calling him and leaves to check on her.
* Hale tells Coulson that she is willing to make the tough decisions to save the world, and invites him to come with her to see what they are up against, but he refuses. Hale reveals that she let them track her and is in control of her situation.
* Piper tells Melinda May that they cannot move the Sleeper Mech that was serving as Hale's driver, as it is too heavy, almost like a statue. May goes to the car, realizing who it is, and calls the driver out as Carl Creel, asking him to get out. Creel reveals that he has bombs strapped to him, and they need to listen to Hale or else he will detonate.
* A jet sent by Hale docks on Zephyr One, and Piper apologizes to May and Coulson for leading them into another trap, but Coulson says it is his fault this time. The jet opens and Coulson is surprised when he is met by Anton Ivanov.
* Fitz arrives downstairs and asks Simmons, Mackenzie, and Rodriguez about the Sleeper Mech who attacked. The trio explain that when they took it down it did not disappear, not being a manifestation but in fact a real reactivated android. Fitz panics, saying that the Doctor must have sent it.
* Ivanov tells Coulson that in his new android body, he has strength he never had before. He explains that if Creel detonates the bombs, he and Ivanov will survive, but the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents will all be killed.
* Fitz, Simmons, Mackenzie, and Rodriguez realize that since the Doctor was in charge of Inhuman experimentation in the Framework, he will be after Daisy Johnson. Fitz leaves to find her.
* Johnson takes a look at the cameras but finds nothing wrong. While distracted, she is attacked by one of the Doctor's Sleeper Mechs and knocked out.
* Phil Coulson and Melinda May are taken before Hale, Creel, and Ivanov. They explain that Ivanov was behind Glenn Talbot being shot, not Daisy Johnson, but Hale says that they have proof Ivanov was programmed by S.H.I.E.L.D. originally. She says Coulson has to come with her to prevent harm to the agents. Coulson agrees, to May's dismay, and she tries to convince him not to go. Coulson insists nonetheless.
* Daisy Johnson wakes and finds herself pinned down to an operating table. The Doctor greets her and tells her to get comfortable as he begins a surgery to remove her inhibitor, explaining that he wants to restore her powers.
* Coulson gets into Hale's jet and she launches it. He mocks Ivanov, telling him he knows that Ivanov is now a subordinate of Hale and not the powerful leader he likes to think he is.
* Johnson pleads with the Doctor not to operate, desperate not to regain her powers in case it causes the destruction of the Earth. Leo Fitz interrupts, telling the Doctor to stop.
* Alphonso Mackenzie stands guard for Yo-Yo Rodriguez. She tells him not to worry since she is safe, because they know she lives past 2018 from having spoken to her 2091 self. Mackenzie points out that they are trying to prevent that future and hoping it is not cemented, so she might still die, but Rodriguez comments that if she does, then at least that would mean they have broken the time loop. Jemma Simmons gets back to them, but is concerned when she finds that Fitz and Johnson have returned. She leaves to find them.
* The Doctor tells Fitz he is removing Johnson's inhibitor, and Fitz is horrified. The two Fitzes argue, and Daisy Johnson becomes confused. Simmons enters and suddenly Fitz stops seeing the Doctor, and does not understand, but Simmons explains to him what she has worked out: the Doctor was never there. He was not an anomaly from the Fear Dimension, but a result of a psychic split Fitz is experiencing following his time in the Framework, with the Doctor personality taking control over the day and having got Fitz to separate Johnson from the others.
* Upset, Fitz begins to slip back into his dangerous Doctor mindset, and says that this personality simply has the will to do what Fitz does not: to risk Johnson's paralysis and the destruction of the Earth in order to restore Johnson's powers so she can compress the gravitonium and they can close the rift that endangers the planet. He refuses to deactivate the Sleeper Mechs that arrive and hold Simmons, as well as the now-arriving Deke Shaw, at bay, and removes the inhibitor. Johnson mutters that she will never forgive him.
* Fitz gives instructions to Daisy Johnson, having her use her powers to compress the gravitonium into the device he has made, then dropping it into the rift and closing it for good.
* As soon as the rift is closed, the Sleeper Mechs power down and Fitz surrenders himself.
* Jemma Simmons visits Leo Fitz outside his cell in the Lighthouse and tries to reassure him that it was not him, but Fitz is not convinced, explaining that while he feels bad about it, even in his right mind he does not regret what he did, believing it to have been the best option. Simmons is saddened by his words, and the couple admit that they do not know what comes next for their relationship.
* Deke Shaw goes to see Simmons and comforts her. As they talk, he reveals to her that he knows about their relationship and that it persists, because it is the relationship his mother would tell him about when she discussed her parents - because Fitz and Simmons are his grandparents. Overwhelmed by the revelations and emotions of the day, Simmons vomits.
* General Hale uses the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device to visit Qovas. She tells him that her plan to get him gravitonium is nearly complete. Qovas is skeptical and gives her a vial of odium, saying that if she fails, she should die in a blaze of vicious glory, but she promises to succeed. the meeting concludes with Qovas telling her, "Hail HYDRA".
* Coulson is taken to a room in the HYDRA Preparatory Academy. Hale admits that she is a HYDRA leader, and tells him that he will soon realize it is time for S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA to unite.

* Billy Russo has nightmares once again.

* Dinah Madani also has a nightmare, in which she finds Russo has broken into her apartment. She wakes from it and tries to return to sleep.

* Krista Dumont wakes Russo in her apartment. He is frantic and angry, but she helps him calm down. She explains that she let him in because she wanted to help him, then goes to get him a glass of water, rolling up her sleeves and exposing her self-harm scars as she turns on the tap.

* Madani returns to her apartment and is greeted by Castle and Bendix. She explains that Russo killed Walsh and is likely exactly as broken and crazy as he had seemed all along. Bendix asks if Madani might be able to deport the Russians they are dealing with, which only makes Madani realize that the pair have brought their trouble to her doorstep. She gives them 24 hours to get out of town. Bendix is not fussed, and happy she has stolen Madani's credit card.

* Back home, John Pilgrim whips himself on the back. His son, Lemuel, tells him Anderson Schultz has arrived.

* Eliza Schultz talks to Rebecca Pilgrim, who is growing increasingly sick, trying to reassure her.

* Anderson Schultz tells John Pilgrim that the man and girl still have to be dealt with, and that they are in New York now. He says that he believes Pilgrim will be strong enough to cope with returning there after his previous experiences.
* In Madani's apartment, Bendix tries Madani's makeup and clothes, while Castle stakes out Kazan's Gym. Bendix has fun pretending to be Madani, while Castle watches men arriving at the gym. Bendix orders several things with Madani's card, including pizza, clothes, and a computer.
* Castle watches from outside as Turk Barrett enters the gym. He approaches Mr. Kazan and asks to see Sergei Konchevsky about Chicago, but the men in the gym put him in a choke hold as Kazan explains that someone killed Konchevsky in Chicago.
* Billy Russo tells Krista Dumont he refuses to go back to the hospital. She says he is not the only one who feels scared and helpless, and he acknowledges that she, too, must have issues in her life, but that at least she remembers hers.
* Castle returns to Madani's apartment and reprimands Bendix for spending Madani's money. He gets a call from Barrett, who, held captive by the Russians, is forced to say that everything is fine and arrange a "meeting" for Castle to attend. Once he has hung up, Castle explains to Bendix that he knows Barrett is lying. Bendix says that, with the people coming after them not being Russian, she thinks Konchevsky might be dead, and Castle agrees.
* John Pilgrim tells Rebecca that he is leaving again. She tells John that she wants the last thing she sees before she soon dies.
* Billy Russo overhears one of Krista Dumont's patients, a veteran named Jake Nelson, in a meeting with her. He talks about his struggles, but assures her he is going to a veteran support meeting after.
* Dinah Madani visits Curtis Hoyle for help with Frank Castle, but they both lie to each other and say that neither have seen Castle recently. Hoyle's veterans, including Nelson, arrive and Hoyle says that she will have to wait until after the meeting to talk, inviting her to join them.
* The meeting begins and attendee Jimbo talks about his dishonorable discharge. Hoyle advises him to appeal his case. Nelson asks why Madani is present, assuming she has not gone through their struggles, but she explains about everything she has been through, finding herself talking openly about her problems.
* After the meeting, Madani and Hoyle talk. Hoyle explains that Russo was twisted by greed, not his experiences with war. He promises to tell her if he comes across Russo, and asks her intentions with him. She says she wants him locked up, but Hoyle admits he thought she would say killed, and that that is how he feels.
* Castle takes the cast off his arm, which is still injured, and heads out to face the Russians.
* Castle watches the Russians leave Kazan's Gym for the agreed "meeting" place at Turk Barrett's shop.
* Russo sits in a bar, and Jake Nelson comes and sits next to him. They get talking about their respective military experience.
* The Russians prepare themselves in Barrett's shop for Castle to arrive, so they can ambush him.
* **Attack on Kazan's Gym****:**
	+ Meanwhile, Castle walks into the gym, less protected due to the men at Barrett's. Kazan recognizes him as the Punisher and asks if he killed Konchevsky, which Castle denies. Castle says it is time they start talking, but Kazan has his thugs attack. Despite their size, Castle manages to use the gym equipment to his advantage and brutally beat each of them until only one is left.
	+ The large thug gets the upper hand on Castle until Castle manages to grab a weight from a stand and use it to bash the thug's face in.
	+ Castle then threatens Kazan, asking who paid for the photographs, and Kazan fearfully tells him that it was a man named Nikolai Poloznev. Castle tells Barrett that he is not angry with him, since he did exactly what he needed to, but they agree they never want to see each other again.
* Russo and Nelson keep drinking and taking. The flashing camera of other patrons momentarily triggers Russo to have a flashback to the mirrors of the carousel. Nelson offers him drugs, but he refuses. The two start to talk about how they are treated like a problem after returning from war, but that they should turn the tables on the world. Nelson reveals that he knows who Russo is, which puts Russo on edge, but Nelson explains that he feels it is an honor to meet him.
* Krista Dumont tries to face up to her terrible vertigo, opening her window and stepping closer to it. She starts to become dizzy and panicked.
* Castle returns to Madani's apartment and tells Bendix about Poloznev. She looks him up and finds out he is a billionaire and friend of the Russian president, living in New York.
* Respecting Madani's wishes and leaving her apartment, though not town, Castle and Bendix head to a place Hoyle has arranged for them to stay.
* Madani gets home to find her apartment tidy and vacated, and her credit card and new bills on her counter.
* John Pilgrim shoots the rest of the Russians at Kazan's Gym.
* **Skirmish at the GT Agrochemical Office**
* **Assassination of Dorothy Walker**
* **Attack on Gregory Salinger**

27th

* Coulson wakes in the academy and, as with Glenn Talbot 6 months prior, finds cereal and is approached by Ruby Hale, only for her to ignore him. Unlike Talbot, however, he is unfazed.
* General Hale approaches Coulson in his room and tells him that Ruby is her daughter.
* Just like with Talbot, Hale takes Coulson to see the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device. She sets the longitude, latitude, and altitude destination and forces him to touch it as they are teleported to see Qovas.
* Coulson meets Qovas, and the alien explains to him that he is helping humanity survive an oncoming alien threat, for a small price.
* Hale and Coulson return to the academy and she explains that Qovas' deal is in return for gravitonium and Inhumans, and that this is why she needs his help. Hale says, however, that she wished to change the deal with the Confederacy.
* As they walk through the academy, General Hale reveals to Phil Coulson that they are working on a project initiated by Daniel Whitehall, and Coulson reveals that he was the one to kill him. Hale explains that the project is intended to create not just a super soldier like Captain America, but someone of immense power, and that Ruby was created to be the subject of the project. However, she says that Ruby is too emotionally volatile, and that she believes Daisy Johnson is a better fit. Hale tells him that the project is called "Project Destroyer of Worlds", and suddenly Coulson panics, realizing this is the origin of Johnson's nickname in the future, and thus the beginning of the events leading to the destruction of the planet.
* Desperate to do anything he can to stop Hale's plans, Coulson confesses the truth of where he and his team were for the 7 months in which they were missing, telling her about going to the future and what he saw. Hale believes his story to be ludicrous and locks him back up in his room.
* Ruby Hale visits Coulson in his room and asks how, if the "Destroyer of Worlds" caused the planet to fall apart, she fails in the future. Coulson explains to her that she, in fact, was not the Destroyer of Worlds, and Hale surmises that it is in fact Daisy Johnson. She asks where Johnson is, wanting to take her out, but Coulson says he will not talk. Hale shows him what happened to the last person who said that - bringing out Glenn Talbot, who is haggard and exhausted, broken by Hale's six months of torture.
* At the end of the day, after school ends, Cassie Lang is dropped off at her father, Scott's, house for the weekend by her parents Maggie and Jim.
* **Destruction of Clive's Photo Studio****:** Frank Castle and Amy Bendix visit a man, Clive, whom they have found out helps people take fetishistic photographs of children. They get inside and Castle beats him down as Bendix goes to use his photo-developing kit. Once she is done, Bendix convinces Castle to let Clive live as they leave. Nonetheless, they decide to burn the place down, with Clive getting out just in time.

* Curtis Hoyle wakes with his girlfriend in their hotel room.
* Hoyle helps serve food to the homeless. Jimbo, from his veteran support group, turns up, and Hoyle shows him that he has got him a pair of glasses, and he is immensely grateful. Hoyle says he wants to help him move out of living in his car soon.
* Billy Russo passes Krista Dumont's room as she is dressing. He notices a scar on her back and becomes fixated on her, but she closes the door when she notices, uncomfortable.
* Amy Bendix confirms from a phone call that Nikolai Poloznev eats breakfast at the same time, in the same place, every day.
* Bendix and Castle watch Poloznev arrive for breakfast, as expected.
* Bendix and Castle sit outside Poloznev's daughter's private school, and start talking about Castle's daughter, Lisa. Bendix tries to comfort him, but Castle is saddened.
* Krista Dumont tells Billy Russo to stop acting so self-destructively, since she wants to help save him. She asks where he was the night before, and he explains about drinking with Nelson. Dumont tells him not to go out again - and that if he does, he must not get caught.

28th

* Daisy Johnson and Melinda May realize through General Hale's connections that she works for HYDRA. May realizes that with Leo Fitz still struggling with his HYDRA persona, they can ask him how Hale might think.
* May visits Fitz and asks for his help, explaining that she wants him to embrace the HYDRA side.
* Alphonso Mackenzie and Jemma Simmons operate on Yo-Yo Rodriguez to affix her new robotic arms. He tries to comfort Simmons, saying that he knows through having been changed by the Framework himself that at Fitz's heart is his good self. The arms begin to work, and Mackenzie informs Simmons of Rodriguez's assertion that she cannot be killed, which interests Simmons.
* Fitz tells May that he believes Hale is building a weapon, but that to work out why she needs Coulson, he will need resources and access outside of his cell. Johnson bursts in and says that this is not an option as he cannot be trusted. May tells Johnson to remember that he is on their side, but Johnson says not to defend him. Fitz states that he cannot apologize because in doing what he did, he saved the lives of the town of River's End, as well as potentially many more if the rift had continued to grow. She says that they do not turn on each other, but Fitz points out that she has done it herself. Johnson storms out, saying that they will find another way.
* Johnson tells May that she is flying to take Robin Hinton out of hiding so she can ask the girl what she knows.
* Jemma Simmons enters Leo Fitz's cell and hands him his multipurpose tool, as well as an almost identical, but older-looking one. She explains that the older one is from Deke Shaw, who got it from his grandfather: Fitz. Fitz is not pleased to find out that Shaw, whom he finds irritating, is his grandson, but Simmons reminds him that this means they have to live into the future, and are thus invincible.
* Staying in a trailer park, Amy Bendix asks for Frank Castle to teach her how to use a gun. He chooses first to teach her self-defense and how to disarm someone with a gun, and tells her that she needs to shoot whoever she ends up stealing a gun from to protect herself.
* **Infiltration into NYPD Crime Laboratory**
* **Ambush on Carl Nussbaumer**

29th

* Phil Coulson sits in isolation without food or a bed to sleep in. Hale hopes it will make him more ready to give them information.
* Having obtained gravitonium, Hale offers Carl Creel the chance to experience the new material. Ruby Hale suggests that they offer Coulson something in exchange for help learning about how gravitonium works, but her mother says that they tried already and now they just need to torture him.
* Creel touches the gravitonium, but is suddenly yanked in by it and thrust into the air. He tells Hale that he believes the material is in some way alive.
* Alphonso Mackenzie visits Yo-Yo Rodriguez, who is testing out her new robotic arms on a punching bag. He advises that she take care with the new arms and in general, considering her gung-ho attitude.
* Leo Fitz takes another look at Deke Shaw now that he knows he is his grandson, and is vocal in how he is disappointed that of all the people in 2091, Shaw had to be his descendant. Shaw admits that Fitz's actions with closing the rift made him respect him more, as it reminded him of the tough decisions he and others had to make in 2091 to survive.
* Jemma Simmons asks Shaw how much he knows about her and Fitz's lives, and he tells her that he knows they survive to live in the Lighthouse. Now knowing that, like Rodriguez, she and Fitz cannot be killed, she asks him to not say any more about her future.
* Simmons tries to convince Daisy Johnson to let Fitz help because his aid can be much more clear and immediate, but she refuses. She says that Zephyr One is leaving to pick up Robin Hinton and that Mackenzie is under orders to keep Fitz locked up. Simmons leaves and Johnson tells Melinda May that once they find Phil Coulson, she will relinquish her new leadership position.
* Simmons questions Yo-Yo Rodriguez about her feeling that she cannot die. Rodriguez worries Simmons is doubting her but Simmons explains that she agrees with her and informs her about Shaw being her and Fitz's grandson and thus the proof that they also survive. With Johnson not listening, she decides that they must get Fitz out themselves to start acting, saying that while Alphonso Mackenzie is the only person with control over Fitz's cell door, she knows how to get around him.
* General Hale visits Carl Creel in his room. Creel explains that since touching the gravitonium, he has felt that he is going mad with voices in his head. She says that they will be conducting another test soon, and it is his decision whether he continues with their plan or not.
* Zephyr One lands at the Retreat, where the Hintons have been staying, and Polly and Robin are brought aboard. Polly explains that Robin has not been doing well for a couple of weeks.
* Ruby Hale visits Werner von Strucker and pressures him for results, wanting to make sure she enters the Particle Infusion Chamber before Daisy Johnson can. He tells her he is close.
* Daisy Johnson tries to talk to Robin Hinton and reassures her about how sometimes it takes time to get used to powers, but that she will eventually. Hinton, however, is unresponsive.
* Yo-Yo Rodriguez asks Alphonso Mackenzie to release Fitz, but he refuses, saying to ask Coulson when he gets back, but Rodriguez says this is too late. When she continues to suggest that she is happy to act recklessly, Mackenzie becomes frustrated with her, and asks if she has perhaps considered that the only reason she survives is because he is advising caution right now.
* Carl Creel hears the voices in his head talking about Coulson, and decides to leave to find him.
* Creel attacks Coulson, saying that the voices in his head want him dead, but Coulson informs him of what Hale has done to Glenn Talbot. Creel is not sure who to believe, but when Coulson's Sleeper Mech guard returns, he is forced to make a decision, and snaps its head off, telling Coulson that he will trust him for now, but kill him if he is lying.
* Polly Hinton gives Daisy Johnson Robin's last drawing - one of her own death - and wonders what it could mean. Johnson lies and says she is not sure. Robin, meanwhile, gets up and walks over to Melinda May, calling her "mom". She hugs her and proudly says that she told her Flint would get her back home. Polly is left hurt by her daughter ignoring her.
* Creel and Coulson find Glenn Talbot, who is still muttering to himself and slightly mad. They convince him to come with them, and Coulson asks him to quieten down.
* **Liberation of Leo Fitz****:**
	+ Jemma Simmons tells him that of the four beakers, three contain water while one contains a phosphoric acid compound, and that she will drink a random three to prove her invincibility, as despite the odds, all three will be water because she cannot be killed. Simmons drinks the first and second beakers, both water. Mackenzie threatens to shoot Simmons non-fatally to stop her from drinking more, but Simmons calls his bluff and drinks a third beaker. However, when she does, she collapses and starts writhing on the floor.
	+ Desperate to save his wife, Fitz begs to be released so he can help, and Mackenzie relents. However, as soon as Fitz is out, Rodriguez uses her super speed to push Mackenzie into the cell and lock it, and Simmons reveals that she was faking, having drank water again. Fitz is relieved, having not been warned about the stunt, but Simmons reveals that she was not entirely lying, having genuinely filled one beaker with acid.
	+ Rodriguez apologizes to Mackenzie and turns to pick up his gun. However, not in full control of her new arms, she accidentally pulls the trigger and fires a bullet. The group realize none of them have been hit and, believing that the hypothesis that they cannot be killed has been proved between the beaker test and the luck with the bullet, the trio prepare to set off.

* May talks to Robin Hinton and asks if the reason she stopped drawing was because of the sad things she was seeing. Hinton shrugs, but resumes drawing. She mentions that Coulson "can all put the pieces together", as she did in 2091, but that he will die, which May is sad to hear. She notices, however, that Hinton has drawn Coulson and Talbot standing together in front of a mountain range.
* Deke Shaw rambles to Daisy Johnson about ow hard it has been for him adjusting to living in a different time period, but she ignores him. May hands her the drawing and they scan it, cross-referencing the scan with a terrain map and finding a match to the shape of the drawn mountains.
* As Coulson, Creel, and Talbot make their way to escape, Creel begins to go mad with the incessant voices he hears. Talbot's struggle to stay quiet leads to a Sleeper Mech hearing them.
* An alarm is set off in the HYDRA Preparatory Academy alerting General Hale to the trio's escape. She finds Ruby and sends her after them, saying they need Creel alive.
* Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and Yo-Yo Rodriguez board a Quinjet and head for the closest of three locations given to Hale by General Fischer where they believe she could be hiding a weapon.
* As the alarm sounds throughout the academy, Coulson, Creel, and Talbot are attacked by Sleeper Mechs. When Coulson is punched in the chest, his weakened heart stops. Creel touches one of the deactivated Sleeper Mechs, turning himself to metal and conducting its electricity to jumpstart Coulson's heart, reviving him.
* Ruby Hale arrives with more Sleeper Mechs and they pursue the trio as they run to make an escape.
* Melinda May and Polly Hinton talk about Robin. Polly admits that she has noticed she is not in Robin's drawings of the future, so knows she will likely die soon, but May assures her that will not happen. Robin spots calls to her mother to come and sit with her, and Polly is pleased that her daughter still wants to call her "mommy" despite ignoring her earlier.

* **Escape from the HYDRA Preparatory Academy****:**
	+ Coulson, Talbot, and Creel believe they are trapped, but Coulson has an idea. He takes Talbot with him as Creel stays behind to fight and buy them time.
	+ Phil Coulson shows Glenn Talbot the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device, and sets a random location on Earth. They teleport away to safety.
	+ Creel is met by Ruby Hale and fights her. She throws a ring blade at him and he uses the stick he is carrying to turn his chest to wood, allowing it to lodge in the material rather than kill him. Her mother enters and sends Ruby after Coulson and Talbot.

* Coulson and Talbot arrive at the random location: a snowy environment in the South Jasper Ranges - the same mountains Robin Hinton drew for Melinda May.
* Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and Yo-Yo Rodriguez arrive in Herefordshire, England - the first of three potential locations for Hale's weapon, and the most likely according to Fitz due to hints from Gideon Malick. The trio skydive to the ground, leaving the autopilot to park the Quinjet nearby and cloak it.
* Glenn Talbot tells Phil Coulson that he feels like he let people down, as they walk through the snow to find somewhere warm.
* Ruby Hale finds the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device and activates it, teleporting herself to the two men's location. She starts to follow their footprints left in the snow.
* The team on Zephyr One, led by Daisy Johnson, decide to land near the location of Robin Hinton's drawing so they can search for Coulson.
* Ruby Hale catches up with the men and throws a ring blade, missing, but having it return to her immediately. Before she can attack further, Agent Johnson arrives and quakes Hale aside. Coulson is concerned about her having her powers back, but relieved for the rescue, and Melinda May helps him and Talbot back to the plane.
* Ruby Hale expresses her excitement to be meeting Quake, but says that while she has a fascination with Johnson, she does not want to be her, she wants to beat her. They engage in a fight and Deke Shaw, despite being told to leave, lingers in case Johnson needs help. Ruby manages to cut Johnson, but she quakes the young girl away again. However, General Hale arrives on the scene and opens fire, and Shaw is shot.
* Johnson gets Shaw back to the plane and they take off. Coulson helps her administer emergency first aid to Shaw to keep him alive until they can get him proper medical help back at the Lighthouse.
* Piper goes to deliver Leo Fitz a meal in his cell, only to find Alphonso Mackenzie. He gives her the code to let him out and tells her what happened.
* Fitz, Simmons, and Rodriguez approach the compound in Herefordshire. Rodriguez worries about potential radiation, but Fitz confirms there is no radiation danger, and they advance.
* Johnson scolds Shaw for being reckless, but he starts coughing blood and the team rush to get him help as they land back at the Lighthouse.
* The team wheel Shaw to be operated, and Piper agrees to use her medical training to help, with Mackenzie offering to operate by her instructions due to his stead hand.
* Back at the HYDRA Preparatory Academy, General Hale reprimands Ruby for disobeying her orders in nearly killing Carl Creel as well as for failing in her mission. She locks her in her room, considering her a liability.
* The trio in England move in on the base. Fitz reads an encrypted radio signal and realizes there are vehicles incoming. They hide as trucks arrive with Sleeper Mechs, and notice that they are led by Anton Ivanov.
* Piper and Mackenzie work to save Shaw. Coulson and Talbot watch on, and Coulson tells him what his team encountered in the future, as well as the fact that he will die soon. Talbot is disappointed that Coulson does not have good news, so Coulson reassures him that they are trying their best to cause a better future.
* Melinda May takes Phil Coulson aside and angrily asks why he handed himself over so readily, saying that he is giving up too easily. Coulson objects, but May says that he is not the only person affected by his death, as the people who love him also should be involved in his decision-making. She admits that she is one of them - that she loves him, which leaves him speechless, then leaves.
* Werner von Strucker finds Ruby Hale's room and remembers seeing someone unlock it before, replicating the code to get in. He tells her he has finally worked out his father's work on the Particle Infusion Chamber and that they should escape so as to use it.

* **Infiltration into the HYDRA Herefordshire Facility****:** The England trio enter the compound and follow the signals of the Sleeper Mechs. They overhear Ivanov, down the corridor, calling General Hale to say that the chamber is ready. Leo Fitz detonates remote explosions nearby to lure Ivanov and the androids away, and the trio enter the corridor Ivanov was guarding, finding a secret entrance to a laboratory. Inside, Fitz finds the Particle Infusion Chamber.
* Candice Lee asks Hale if Ivanov can be trusted. She says that their interests align, since Ivanov wants to enter the chamber and she wants to know what it will do to him.
* Hale notices Ruby's unlocked room and enters, surprised to find her daughter still inside. Ruby starts to cry, telling her mother that she has tried to do everything she ever asked of her but feels it is impossible. General Hale hugs her, upset by her words, and Ruby says that she is her one weakness. However, she then adds that she knows she is also her mother's weakness, revealing that she has tricked her. She flips her mother over and knocks her down, locking the door behind her as she escapes.
* Strucker shoots two of Hale's men, then tells the others to prepare the gravitonium for transport. Ruby Hale catches up with him and tells him they are free and clear.
* Daisy Johnson visits Glenn Talbot, who is momentarily alarmed, remembering how he was shot by someone who looked like her. He comes to his senses, recalling that it was not actually her, and she asks him if he wants anything. Talbot says he wants to contact his wife and son, but Johnson believes this too risky. He becomes upset and frustrated, saying that he abandoned his family and is desperate to talk to them, and Johnson says that she might be able to find a secure channel. She asks him to tell her everything he remembers about Hale.
* Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons look at the technology in the laboratory. Yo-Yo Rodriguez reveals what she learned from her 2091 self: that trying to save Coulson is what leads to the end of the world, and they need to let him die. Before they can discuss it further, the door begins to rattle as the Sleeper Mechs return. They make a plan to open the door momentarily as Rodriguez uses her super speed to take the androids out, but when they try, Rodriguez finds herself incapable of action and screams in pain.
* Piper discuss Alphonso Mackenzie's concerns about Rodriguez with him as they operate on Deke Shaw. Shaw suddenly starts bleeding from an artery, but the two together manage to staunch the bleeding, before sewing it up.
* Yo-Yo Rodriguez explains that when she ran, her arms malfunctioned and felt like they were being ripped off, and Fitz tells her they are not calibrated for such speed, with Simmons realizing the electrical signals are overloading her nervous system. The group prepare cover for the Sleeper Mechs' inevitable break-in and say they will draw the soldiers away from the exits as Rodriguez makes her way to the Quinjet to call for backup. The androids break in and start shooting, and Rodriguez snakes around them while they are occupied, escaping. Simmons tells Fitz that she is happy that their honeymoon involves protecting England rather than just a holiday, and they leave their cover to fire back, but Simmons' gun jams and they find themselves running low on ammunition.
* As Rodriguez tries to leave, she comes across Anton Ivanov.
* Simmons asks Fitz for a reminder that time cannot be changed so she can feel safe as they are being fired at. However, when he starts to recount the theory, she realizes that it is in fact not helping.
* Ivanov attacks Rodriguez and insists that he no longer feels pain. However, Rodriguez manages to push him through a window, killing him.
* Simultaneously, inside the building, the Sleeper Mechs deactivate.
* Rodriguez realizes that Ivanov was controlling all the androids, so in killing him, she took them all out.
* Deke Shaw wakes, delirious from painkillers. With no self-control, he blabs about how he fancies Daisy Johnson and wants to kiss her. Mackenzie puts him back to sleep just as Johnson enters and lets them know that they have found a signal from Hale's androids.
* Leo Fitz concludes that they are safe, since whatever caused the mechs to fail, they are now deactivated. However, Ruby Hale and Werner von Strucker then enter, threatening them with a gun. Von Strucker realizes that they have destroyed a component for the chamber and need it repaired, so Hale threatens to slice Jemma Simmons' throat with her ring blade unless they fix it. Fitz reluctantly agrees.
* Daisy Johnson informs Talbot that she has found a way to get him a line to talk to his family very briefly. He calls and his wife, Carla, picks up. However, unbeknownst to him, Candice Lee has found her and forces her to read the set of conditioning words from a card to her husband. Due to Hale having conditioned him during the 6 months she had him in prison, the words trigger him to comply to HYDRA's will.
* With his HYDRA conditioning activated, Glenn Talbot mutters to himself confusedly that he has to complete his programmed mission.
* Talbot goes to disable security feeds, thus allowing him to roam the Lighthouse without hindrance. Alphonso Mackenzie catches him and questions what he is doing, but Talbot explains that he is simply confused from his 6 months imprisoned by Hale, and Mackenzie shows him sympathy, letting him go.
* Ruby Hale continues to threaten Jemma Simmons' life to motivate Leo Fitz, having spent several hours working on fixing the Particle Infusion Chamber, but not yet sorted the problem. Fitz is stressed, worried for Simmons and yet wanting to stall the chamber's completion. He requests that Hale let Simmons go, stating that he needs her help. Releasing Simmons, Hale admires their relationship, and Fitz responds to remind her that everyone she loves will die if they go ahead with making her the Destroyer of Worlds. Hale shows little care for this, remarking that there are not many people left who she cares about. Werner von Strucker returns to the room, having found Anton Ivanov's dead body, which gives Fitz and Simmons some hope that Yo-Yo Rodriguez escaped. They tell Hale that the remainder of the process will take some time, but Hale simply threatens that if they do not hurry, she will begin to dismember them, like she did to Rodriguez.
* Billy Russo works out. He goes looking in Dumont's drawers and finds a note she has written comparing him to someone called "KM", and saying that his state breaks her heart.
* Scott Lang plays a game with his daughter Cassie, using cardboard boxes to pretend they are crawling through tunnels on a heist. They reach the "treasure", which Cassie had chosen to be a trophy she bought Scott for his birthday, and says she wants to take it into school for show and tell. At the same time, Luis, who is visiting, talks to Scott about a pitch X-Con Security Consultants are preparing for providing security to a company called Karapetyan. Scott and Cassie complete the course, sliding out of the house as their "escape", but when they reach the bottom, Scott's leg goes the fence and his house arrest ankle bracelet sets off an alarm.
* The FBI, led by Scott Lang's parole officer Jimmy Woo (a former ally of Melinda May's), arrive at the house. When Cassie asks why they have to visit, Woo explains to her how Scott broke the Sokovia Accords in Germany and had to make a plea deal to return to the United States of America that required him to spent 2 years under house arrest, showing little understanding of how to talk to children. Cassie's mother, Maggie, then arrives with her boyfriend Jim Paxton to pick her up.
* Cassie Lang tells Scott she had a good weekend, and he tells her to look forward to next weekend, by which time he will be free, having just 3 days remaining of his sentence.
* Lang reenters the house, telling himself that managing 3 final days should be easy.
* Lang has fun playing electric drums.
* Lang tries plastic indoor ten-pin bowling, but completely misses all the pins.

30th

* Having stumbled through the night in agony from her uncalibrated prosthetic arms, Rodriguez finally reaches the Quinjet as morning arrives in Herefordshire. She stumbles on-board for protection from the Sleeper Mechs hunting her.
* Phil Coulson tries to talk to Melinda May about her confession of love for him the day before, but she rejects the conversation, walking away.
* Daisy Johnson tells the agents the plan to fly to General Hale's base in the Appalachian Mountains. Coulson praises her leadership in his absence.
* Candice Lee informs General Hale that Ivanov is dead. When Hale asks if Carl Creel's state has improved, Lee informs her that in actuality, Creel has worsened significantly.
* With morning arriving at the Appalachian Mountain base, Hale goes to see Creel and finds him losing control, unable to deal with the arguing of Franklin Hall and Ian Quinn's consciousnesses within the gravitonium he absorbed. Creel goes so far as to use his abilities to turn his skin into cement then proceed to bang his head against the wall, hoping to rid himself of the voices.
* Coulson and Mackenzie talk with Deke Shaw. Mackenzie mentions that Shaw admitted his feelings for Johnson the night before when on painkillers. When Shaw denies these feelings, Coulson adds that Shaw has made it all-too-obvious, and they are all aware. Shaw asks for advice in showing his feelings, but both agents point out their current relationship issues. He then decides his best option is "lemons", confusing the agents. Seeing this, he explains how, in the future, people would leave lemons on the bed of the person they fancy to express their feelings. Asking if this is something people also did in 2018, the other two lie, saying it is, looking forward to seeing his actions.
* Talbot enters Robin Hinton's empty room, looking to examine her drawings for HYDRA while under conditioning. He finds the drawings and begins to look through.
* **Attack on the HYDRA Preparatory Academy****:**
	+ Johnson and May enter a Containment Module as the Zephyr One passes over the Appalachian Mountains. They have Agent Thomas fire a missile down to the HYDRA Preparatory Academy as their Containment Module is jettisoned. Moments after the missile blows a hole in the base's ceiling, the Module lowers through the hole and into the building.
	+ As May and Johnson go to accost General Hale, they are surprised when Hale hands herself over. At first, they do not trust Hale's willingness, but Hale explains that she wants to go with them to save Ruby, scared that her daughter will make a reckless decision.

* Meanwhile, in England, Ruby Hale and Werner von Strucker continue to threaten Fitz and Simmons to hurry with fixing the Particle Infusion Chamber.
* A Sleeper Mech finds Yo-Yo Rodriguez in the Quinjet. She shoots the android and continues to wait for her pain to subside.
* Robin and Polly Hinton return to their room in the Lighthouse, and find Glenn Talbot looking through Robin's drawings.
* Daisy Johnson and Melinda May report back to Phil Coulson. They inform him of what has happened to Carl Creel, and their discovery that gravitonium not only absorbs physical bodies, but also people's consciousnesses.
* Realizing he has to stop Polly Hinton from reporting his intrusion, Talbot panics and attacks her. He chokes Polly until she passes out, and tells Robin to come with him. Robin replies that she already saw this was going to happen.
* Johnson, May, and General Hale land in Herefordshire, England, to apprehend Ruby Hale and Werner von Strucker. General Hale asks Johnson to refrain from attacking her daughter if at all possible, and Johnson agrees. Despite this, Johnson takes the opportunity to criticize Hale's parenting, blaming her for the way Ruby turned out.
* Von Strucker tells Ruby Hale that a S.H.I.E.L.D. plane has just landed nearby. Hale goes to start dismembering Fitz and Simmons to hurry their final modifications, but Fitz quickly tells her that they have finished the machine, and she need not attack them. While they claim they have no way of transferring the gravitonium into the machine, von Strucker uses a tube and tap to move it over into the chamber.
* Deke Shaw goes to talk to Alphonso Mackenzie and Phil Coulson as they monitor the security feeds. As he arrives, they notice the security feed of the Hintons' room has been paused. Reactivating it, they see that the Hintons' door has been left open.
* Arriving at the Hintons' room, they find Polly Hinton on the floor. Coulson goes over to her and checks her breathing, finding that she is only unconscious. Mackenzie recalls his encounter with Glenn Talbot at the security feeds several hours prior, and realizes that Talbot must have paused the feed to allow him to go after Robin. Coulson also comes to the realization that this makes sense, with General Hale having had plenty of time during her 6 months with Talbot in her custody to have conditioned him.
* With S.H.I.E.L.D. moments away from stopping her, Ruby Hale hurries to enter the Particle Infusion Chamber and become the Destroyer of Worlds. She kisses von Strucker, the chamber closes, and the gravitonium-infusion begins. While happy at first, as the process continues, she begins to scream.
* S.H.I.E.L.D. and General Hale, now inside the HYDRA Herefordshire Facility, hear Ruby's screams, and Hale runs to get to her daughter before it is too late. She orders Leo Fitz to shut down the machine, and von Strucker lowers his gun, allowing Fitz to do so. The process is stopped at only 8% infusion, and the chamber opens. Ruby leaves the machine floating from the gravitonium in her body.
* Ruby Hale struggles to deal with the voices in her head from the gravitonium. Werner von Strucker crouches to comfort her, but without control over her powers, Hale accidentally uses the gravitonium to crush his skull, killing him. On seeing what she has done, she begins to further lose control.
* Coulson and Mackenzie find Talbot at the Lighthouse's hangar door, with Robin Hinton by his side. They confront him, and Talbot becomes confused, trying to distinguish between his actual thoughts and conditioning. Deciding he is unsafe, he holds his gun to his head, considering killing himself and ending the threat he poses.
* Ruby Hale continues to struggle with the voices, but Daisy Johnson begins to talk to her. She is kind and encouraging, trying to tell Hale that it is alright to not be comfortable with her powers yet.
* Melinda May arrives at the building as Yo-Yo Rodriguez also returns from the Quinjet. When Rodriguez sees May and hears the screams, she asks what is happening, but May simply replies that Johnson is handling the situation.
* Talbot tells Mackenzie and Coulson that he cannot trust his thoughts. While he holds the gun to his head, Mackenzie ushers Robin Hinton away from Talbot and to safety. Coulson resorts to using Talbot's trigger words to attempt to control him. Talbot manages to resist, so Coulson changes the orders to be more in line with HYDRA's motivations; he asks Talbot to turn the gun on him. As he does so, Mackenzie returns with an I.C.E.R. to quickly incapacitate Talbot, ending the risk.
* Ruby Hale begins to user her powers to crush Daisy Johnson. As she struggles to breathe, General Hale gets involved. Ruby tells her mother that she has always felt inadequate, and that she made her feel like she was a disappointment. General Hale is saddened to hear this, telling her daughter that all she ever wanted was for Ruby to meet her full potential.
* Just as Ruby Hale is beginning to calm down, Elena Rodriguez enters the room. She exclaims as she recognizes Hale as the person who sliced off her arms, and hearing this, Hale slips back into a distressed, frenzied, and dangerous state.
* Seeing the potential outcome of Ruby Hale losing control and becoming the Destroyer of Worlds, Rodriguez makes a quick decision. Using her super-speed, she runs and steals Ruby's Ring Blades, using them to then slice the teenager's throat and kill her. Returning to her position, everyone is left in shock as Ruby suddenly falls, her neck bleeding as she dies quickly.
* Ruby Hale's dead body begins to rise into the air as the gravitonium inside tries to escape its host. The substance is then expelled from her in a burst of energy that knocks everyone in the vicinity to the ground.
* Simmons, Fitz, and May arrive as Johnson and Rodriguez get back up. They find that in the aftermath of the blast, General Hale managed to escape. When Simmons asks what happened to Ruby, Johnson angrily says that she had the situation under control before Rodriguez killed her, but Rodriguez claims her actions have just saved the world.
* Billy Russo ambushes Curtis Hoyle on his way to his car, holding a gun to him and makes sure Hoyle ejects his magazine and round from the gun he carries. He says that he has been informed he shot Hoyle and is sorry, but feels he has already paid for it with his scars and broken memory. He asks Hoyle how that happened to him, who did it, but Hoyle claims he cannot say.

* Scott Lang watches a magic tutorial video on his laptop.
* Lang uses a karaoke machine to entertain himself.
* Lang reads *The Fault in Our Stars* by John Green and starts to cry at the sadness of the story.
* Lang tries origami.
* Lang bounces a ball inside into a basketball net.
* Lang looks over the plans for the apartments Karapetyan want security provided for.
* Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne power up their Quantum Tunnel for the first time. The doorway to the Quantum Realm is opened momentarily, before it overloads and shuts down.
* After 2 days trying to keep himself busy, Scott Lang falls asleep in the bathtub and has a vivid memory-like dream where he sees a young Hope van Dyne from the perspective of her mother Janet.
* Intrigued by his vision and thinking it could be important, Lang takes a secret burner phone from its hiding place and calls Hope van Dyne and Hank Pym about the vision. They do not pick up, but he leaves a voicemail. Realizing that he probably sounds stupid as he speaks, he decides to hang up and break the phone.
* Considering Lang called them 5 minutes after they activated the tunnel, Pym and van Dyne consider that the timing is not coincidence and the opening of the Quantum Realm might have activated a message in Lang's head.
* Hope van Dyne breaks into Scott Lang's house, shrunken down. Flying up to Lang in the Wasp suit, she tranquilizes him and puts his ankle bracelet on a human-sized ant, who is instructed through Hank Pym's electromagnetic wave control system to repeat Lang's daily routine, so the FBI's suspicions are not aroused when tracking him.

### May

1st

* John Pilgrim looks over a Bible given to him by his wife, Rebecca, as well as photos of his family. He prepares his things and heads out of his hotel room.
* John Pilgrim sits in a cafe in New York City.
* Dinah Madani takes her pills, then goes to leave her apartment. There is a knock on her door, and she finds out it is Brett Mahoney. She opens the door and he comes in, saying he has worked out that there must have been a third person at the carousel, and suspected it to be Frank Castle before confirming with the two young people Russo kidnapped before the fight. He says he is disappointed that she cannot be honest, before leaving.
* **Kidnapping of Nikolai Poloznev****:**
	+ Castle pretends to be a homeless man so as to sneak up on Nikolai Poloznev's driver, then knocks him out.
	+ Amy Bendix poses as a waiter and shows Poloznev at breakfast that she has one of his photographs. He gets up and sends men after her, but she slips into the crowd of schoolgirls passing by. Poloznev gets into his car only to find Castle waiting in the driver seat.

* Dinah Madani visits a cafe, and John Pilgrim, who had been waiting for her, gets up from his seat to follow her.
* Madani notices Pilgrim following her and holds a gun to him. He says that he is there regarding Frank Castle and wants to know where he and the girl are. She refuses and takes a photograph of him, and he walks away, telling her she is easy to find.
* Madani rushes back to the cafe and tells them not to clean anything so she can take fingerprints.
* Castle drives Poloznev to the waterfront and walks him into a building. Poloznev says that he assumes Castle killed Kazan, but Castle explains that he did not, which makes Poloznev realize that they have mutual enemies. He tells Castle that the people after them are Anderson and Eliza Schultz, powerful people who have raised their senator son David Schultz to one day become president, but that he is homosexual, and his orientation, due to homophobia, and the cover-up, due to the lying, could sink his political career, so the photographs of him kissing another man are dangerous. Poloznev explains that the reason he wanted them was to be able to blackmail and control the Schultzes. Castle has him kneel and prepares to shoot him, but reconsiders when he thinks of Poloznev's innocent daughter. He tells Poloznev to leave the country with his family and walks away.
* Billy Russo joins Jake Nelson, Jimbo, and some other veterans at a bar.
* Madani instructs a forensics worker, Wendy, to assess the items from the cafe. The woman is excited.

* **Chase of Jimbo's Car****:**
	+ Jimbo lets the other veterans know that his car is being towed, and that he relies on the car to live in. Russo decides to lead the group in chasing down the tow driver. They stop him in the street and Russo angrily starts beating the driver until Nelson stops him.
	+ The group get the car back for Jimbo, and Russo tells him to drive to Texas and change his license plates. The others talk about how good it felt to do something like that, and one man suggests that they rob a bank together, saying he knows somewhere they can hit.

* Bendix expresses her frustration to Castle about her friends dying over what she sees as a small matter, but Castle tells her the group were wrong to get involved in a blackmail scheme, and comments on her being silly to want to play with guns. She says she just wanted to be useful and feels like he sees her as useless, so he expresses some regret and asks her to sit back down. Bendix tells him she just hates their situation.
* Curtis Hoyle goes to meet Jimbo at a police station, where he has been taken in, caught after the tow driver incident. Jimbo explains what happened, and that the man leading the group was called Billy, and Hoyle realizes what is happening. He asks that Jimbo not tell the police anything.

* **Assassination of Nikolai Poloznev****:** John Pilgrim finds Nikolai Poloznev and kills his men and him in an elevator.
* Brett Mahoney comes to Krista Dumont's apartment and subpoenas her for Billy Russo's files. She tells him she is hopeful about saving Russo. When Mahoney leaves, Russo steps out and admits that if she had told Mahoney about him, he would probably have killed him. He starts to comment on the fact that she seems lonely and in a poor emotional state. She tries to deflect talking about it, but he then confronts her about "KM", asking if he is some other "pet project" of hers and he is just some victim of a pattern she goes through. He grabs her and Dumont takes a letter-opener, stabbing him in the hand in self defense. The two stop, then Russo suddenly decides to kiss her.
* Both Madani and Castle get to Hoyle's meeting room, where Hoyle is waiting. Madani angrily tells Castle that his problems are now affecting her, showing him the picture she took of the mysterious man earlier. Hoyle tells them to both sit and explains what has been happening with Russo, that he came after him the day before and is crazy, and cannot just be taken in by a couple of policemen. Castle says he will deal with the man who came after Madani, but Hoyle says they have to focus on Russo first. Castle accepts this and says that he will have to end the Russo situation his way.
* Madani tells Castle that she thinks he finds it easy killing people, a notion he rejects. He says that she must have wanted Russo dead, but she claims not to. Hoyle admits he sees no end other than Russo's death and that he knows someone who will know Russo's location.
* Scott Lang wakes in van Dyne's car, which he comes to realize has been shrunken down to drive without being noticed. Van Dyne explains about the ant replicating his routine, and Lang attempts to apologize for his actions in Germany making them fugitives. Van Dyne dismisses this, saying they just want to bring him in because of what he has said was in his head.
* Hope van Dyne takes Lang to the research laboratory where she and Hank Pym have been developing a tunnel for the Quantum Realm in the hopes of bringing Janet back. After Lang describes his dream in full detail, Hope and Pym deduce that he and Janet have a quantum entanglement because of the time he spent in the Quantum Realm.
* The trio leave the laboratory, and Pym shrinks the building down to a suitcase size to bring it along in their van. They drive to the restaurant Oui, where Hope van Dyne has arranged a meeting with gangster Sonny Burch to pick up a necessary component for the tunnel.
* **Battle at the Oui****:**
	+ Van Dyne meets with Burch, under the pseudonym of "Susan". However, Burch reveals that he knows who she really is and has arranged a potential purchase of Pym's laboratory for $1,000,000,000. Van Dyne turns down his offer, but Burch then refuses to give over the component.
	+ Van Dyne pretends to leave, before donning the Wasp suit and returning to attack. Due to being a tiny target, they are unable to hit her when they start shooting.
	+ Wasp follows Burch's men into the restaurant kitchen and swipes a salt shaker at, Uzman, the man carrying the component, enlarging it in front of him to knock him out.
	+ Burch's remaining men struggle with Van Dyne's repeated change of size, and she takes them all down, before picking up the component.
	+ Van Dyne heads out of the restaurant, but before she can leave, she is attacked by a mysterious figure in a white suit. The figure phases in and out of tangibility, causing Wasp trouble as she tries to fight back. The figure, known as Ghost, manages to take the component for herself.
	+ Hank Pym gives Scott Lang and updated Ant-Man suit, allowing him to join Wasp and help her.
	+ Ant-Man enters the restaurant and aids Wasp in fighting Ghost, but Ghost escapes and makes her way to Pym's van. She pushes her fist through his neck, threatening to make it tangible and kill him if he does not give her the lab, and he reluctantly does so.

* Lang brings Pym and van Dyne to hide at the X-Con Security Consultants office. There, they develop a plan to get the laboratory back, and Pym realizes that they need a quantum spectrometer to track its radiation. He reluctantly informs them that they will have to get one from his estranged ex-work partner, Bill Foster.
* Ghost returns to her hideout and gets herself into a Quantum Energy Chamber so as to stabilize her molecular disequilibrium.
* Scott Lang, Hank Pym, and Hope van Dyne go to meet Professor Bill Foster at Berkeley University, finding him giving a lecture.
* The trio sit down with Foster, who discusses how he used to work with Pym on Project G.O.L.I.A.T.H., where he grew up to 21 feet tall - a precursor to Lang's ability now to grow as tall as 65 feet. Their meeting is interrupted when Lang realizes Jimmy Woo and the FBI are outside. They make their way to leave, but not before Foster tells them that they can locate the lab by modifying a defractor from one of the suit's regulators.
* The FBI question Foster, but he lies to cover the trio.
* Pym explains to Lang and van Dyne that he removed the defractor from the new suits, but Lang ashamedly admits that he mailed himself his Ant-Man suit before turning himself in, rather than destroying it, angering Pym due to his actions putting it at risk of being stolen.
* Scott Lang calls Luis, saying he needs Cassie's trophy, as that is where he has hidden the suit. Luis tells him, however, that it is not there, and Scott realizes Cassie has taken it into school for show and tell.
* Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne go to Cassie's school, Brookemont Elementary, to retrieve the suit. During the infiltration, Scott discovers that his new suit, a work-in-progress, is experiencing problems with the regulator. It enlarges him within a closet, but when van Dyne takes a look at it, it then shrinks him to the size of a small child.
* Lang dons a child's hoodie from the lost and found, which can fit on his shrunken body, and sneaks through the school until he finds Cassie's classroom. The duo retrieve the suit and get away.

* General Hale uses the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device to visit Qovas. She tells him that S.H.I.E.L.D. still have the gravitonium he wants, but that she can tell him where they are hiding. He asks if she wants them to be killed, and, mourning for Ruby, she says that she now has no reason to stop him.

* **Ambush at Ghost's Hideout****:**
	+ Modifying the defractor, the trio are able to locate the lab to a hideout. They break in to steal back the lab and find Ghost, unmasked, inside her Quantum Energy Chamber. When they turn their backs on her, however, she phases out of the chamber and knocks them out, then going outside and knocking out Hank Pym. She ties the trio to chairs.
	+ When Ghost wakes the trio, she reveals she is working with Bill Foster, who enters to talk to them with her. She reveals she is Ava Starr, daughter of deceased scientist Elihas Starr, whom Pym had fired and discredited when they had a disagreement during their work together at S.H.I.E.L.D.. She explains that Elihas attempted to continue his work on his own in Argentina, but that because he no longer had his required help, his Quantum Tunnel had collapsed, killing him and causing Ava's molecular disequilibrium. Ava goes on to tell them about how S.H.I.E.L.D. took her in and weaponized her, using her for stealth missions, and Foster states that when S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed, he took her in. However, they are interrupted when Lang's phone buzzes with an alert.
	+ Cassie Lang video calls Scott, saying she left her soccer shoes at his house, but he manages to get her to hang up, claiming he is ill and cannot get up to look. Foster and Starr explain that they hope to extract quantum energy from Janet van Dyne to help repair Starr's molecular structure, despite the risk that it could kill van Dyne.
	+ Pym fakes a heart problem, and Hope van Dyne tells Foster that he needs his pills from his Altoids tin. They trick Foster into opening the tin, releasing and enlarging ants, one of which frees them while the others cause commotion. The trio steal back the lab and run away.

2nd

* After regrowing the lab in the forest, in the early hours of the day, Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne talk. Scott assures Hope that when they find Janet, she will not have forgotten about her, explaining that when he was in prison, Cassie was all he thought about. Luis calls him, saying that they made a mistake on the security plans for Karapetyan and need his help before the pitch in the morning, but Lang explains his situation, and why he cannot leave to visit him Luis person. He reluctantly gives Luis their location in the woods so he can come to them.
* Luis heads out to to visit Scott Lang, when Sonny Burch breaks into the X-Con Security Consultants office with his men, told by an inside agent in the FBI that he is a known associate of Lang, and asking Luis to tell him where Lang is. Burch says that he will administer a serum to make Luis more susceptible to slipping up and giving honest information, but when the X-Con trio say that this sounds like truth serum, Uzman, the man with the serum, becomes defensive and insists that it is not.
* Bill Foster sadly informs Ava Starr that she has only roughly 2 weeks to live. Starr suggests that they use Cassie Lang to bait Scott and get back the lab, but Foster refuses to get the innocent girl involved. Starr reluctantly decides to accept to use a different option.
* Burch injects Luis with Uzman's serum, and Luis begins to speak honestly. When Burch interrogates him on where Lang is, Luis tells a fast story about how Lang came to be where he is currently at from an emotional standpoint. Frustrated, Burch specifies that he needs to know where Lang is literally, and Luis gives the location in the woods. Ghost, who had been phasing herself invisible, reveals herself and gets him to give the specifics of the location, then leaves, slashing Burch's tire to slow him down.
* Burch calls his FBI agent, Stoltz, to let him know Pym and van Dyne's location and that Scott Lang is with them. He passes on the lead to Jimmy Woo.
* As dawn arrives, Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne activate the finally completed Quantum Tunnel, but it only works briefly before shutting down. However, with the brief exposure to the Quantum Realm, Janet van Dyne gets a better connection with Scott Lang and takes control of him for a few minutes. She proves it is her to Hope and Pym as she uses the time to help stabilize the tunnel and enter the coordinates to locate her, but she warns them that they only have 2 hours to get her before the Quantum Realm becomes so unstable they will not be able to reach her for another century.
* Luis calls Lang to warn him about Ghost, Burch, and the FBI knowing Pym and van Dyne's location and hearing that he has left house arrest. Lang passes on the information to Pym and van Dyne to warn them, apologizing for jeopardizing their rescue. He tells them that the FBI will be checking in on his house arrest and that he needs to rush back home, and he leaves to get back in time.
* Jim Paxton and Maggie and Cassie Lang come to Scott's house to pick up Cassie's soccer shoes. Cassie finds the giant ant in Scott's bath. Jimmy Woo then leads the FBI as they break into the house and demand to see Scott, but Cassie tries to cover for her father, claiming he has been vomiting and they cannot go near him. Woo eventually insists and pushes past her, only to find Scott, who got back just in time and slipped in through the window, shrunken in the Ant-Man suit.
* **Arrest of Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne****:** Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne hurriedly leave the lab and shrink it down, only to find that the FBI have already surrounded them. Stoltz tells them they are under arrest.
* While at Lang's house, Jimmy Woo is informed of Pym and van Dyne's arrest. He is pleased and leaves the house, telling Lang he will be back later for the official end of his house arrest sentence.
* Stoltz grabs Pym's lab but is killed by Ghost, who then takes the lab for herself.
* Cassie Lang sits down with her father, and he thanks her for covering for him. He says that he messes up trying to help people every time, and she suggests that he might need a partner. Scott assumes she is talking about Hope van Dyne, but Cassie explains that she means herself. He assures her that she would be great, but explains that he cannot put her in danger. She tells him that she is sure he can do whatever it is he needs to.
* Hope van Dyne slips a hairpin she had hidden in her mouth out into her hand and picks the lock on her and Hank Pym's handcuffs. They start to plan a risky escape, but Scott Lang arrives and, controlling trained ants, breaks Pym and van Dyne from FBI custody.
* Uzman witnesses the escape and reports back to Sonny Burch that Pym and van Dyne.
* Jimmy Woo rushes to find the missing father and daughter.
* Pym explains that he put a tracker on the lab after Ghost stole it, and the trio use the controlled ants to guide the way to find it.
* Meanwhile, Ghost and Bill Foster prepare to enter the Quantum Realm. Foster advises caution, but Starr explains that she is desperate and cannot wait, having only days left to live.
* With time running out to save Janet van Dyne, Pym says that he will enter the lab and dive into the Quantum Realm, asking that Hope and Lang protect the lab while he does so. Luis arrives, having been asked by Lang to follow in case they need his help.
* Scott Lang stands ready to help Pym get to the Quantum Tunnel. Luis talks to Hope van Dyne as they wait, but she takes little interest.
* Ghost and Foster get the Quantum Tunnel started, but it then fails. They realize that there are ants in the lab pulling wires out from sockets to break it, and, knowing that this means Hank Pym must be nearby, Ghost leaves to find and stop him. She follows a trail of ants leaving the building.
* With Ghost led away, Hank Pym enters the lab and confronts Bill Foster. He controls giant ants to corner Foster and force him to back away. Pym retrieves a specialized Quantum Realm suit. Foster apologizes for causing problems, explaining he simply wanted to help Starr, but Pym promises he will help find a cure once he has rescued his wife. Foster wishes him luck.
* Ghost finds Lang at the end of the ant trail and attacks him. He attempts to shrink, but is unable to due to the faulty regulator.
* Hank Pym prepares to enter the Quantum Tunnel.
* Lang calls for help, struggling to get away from Ghost.
* Pym fires up his ship to enter the Quantum Realm.
* Ghost continues to pursue Lang.
* Hank Pym tells Hope van Dyne he loves her, in case he does not return from the Quantum Realm.
* Ghost catches Lang and kicks him to the ground.
* Pym uses the ship to enter the Quantum Realm through the tunnel he and van Dyne built.
* As soon as Pym has gone, van Dyne has Lang control an ant to remotely shrink the lab. Lang explains to Ghost that they intentionally led her away from the building and shrinks to escape as she angrily watches van Dyne leave with the building.
* Lang mounts a flying ant to meet van Dyne and Luis, but as van Dyne begins to drive, she is stopped by Sonny Burch and his men in a convoy of cars. She maneuvers the van to slip past them and begins to drive away as fast as she can, with Burch's convoy in chase. When the first car tries to crash into Luis and van Dyne, van Dyne shrinks the van so the car swerves off the road.
* When one of Burch's cars catches them, Hope van Dyne shrinks the van again so it can drive under the chasing car. Van Dyne then grows the van again from underneath the vehicle, pushing it up and flipping it to the side.
* Van Dyne keeps driving, luring the cars to Lombard Street, and uses its winding design to cause a chasing car to crash as they are unable to turn fast enough when she shrinks the van. The car behind then crashes into it and flips over onto the street, sending bricks flying, which cause Luis to panic as, while shrunken, they seem huge.
* Hank Pym loses signal due to the chaos of the lab's movements. He gets stuck in a tardigrade field and as his ship re calibrates, he observes the beauty of the Quantum Realm. However, the tardigrades, relatively giant to the size of the ship, begin to close in. The ship restarts just before they can cause problems, and he continues traveling through the realm.
* **Chase for the Mobile Laboratory****:**
	+ Scott Lang catches up with Hope van Dyne and Luis. Van Dyne asks him to take the van's steering wheel as she climbs to the back of the van to deal with Burch's men.
	+ Wasp fires a shrinking disk at the motorbike of a motorcyclist working for Burch, shrinking it under him and causing him to fall. She shoots another at another motorcyclist but misses, instead accidentally shrinking a car belonging to the Watcher Informant.
	+ Ghost catches up with the ongoing chase and steals a motorbike from one of Burch's men.
	+ Wasp picks up Luis' *Hello Kitty* PEZ dispenser and throws it at more of Burch's motorcyclist men. She fires a growing disk at it to enlarge it, and the giant dispenser takes out two men.
	+ Ghost phases into the trio's van and kicks Wasp out of the back door, onto the road. She then steals the lab. She then escapes and breaks into a nearby truck, smashing the window to take the lab in with her and causing the driver to leap from his vehicle in fear.
	+ Wasp finds Ghost's truck and shrinks to get through the broken window, then tries to steal the lab back. Ant-Man leaves the van and gets to Ghost's truck, but ends up on the windscreen as Ghost turns on the wipers. The fight continues between Wasp and Ghost, but Ant-Man manages to grow himself to giant size, punching Ghost through the windscreen. Wasp takes the opportunity to steal back the lab.
	+ Ghost phases to get to the back of the van and apprehend Wasp. However, Sonny Burch catches up with them and rams the truck, causing Wasp to fall and drop the lab, and Burch reaches out of his window to catch it. He drives away, as Ant-Man returns to normal size, unable to control his faulty regulator.
	+ Ant-Man grows giant again and gets control of the van, putting his foot on the back of the vehicle and beginning to skate it in the direction he wants.

* Hank Pym reaches the quantum void and engages thrusters to reach Janet van Dyne's coordinates. He breaks through into a colorful section of the Quantum Realm and lands on a surface he finds.
* Luis realizes he has the remote to grow the lab and that he needs to get it to Ant-Man and Wasp so Hank Pym can safely return. He lets them know, and they tell him that since the van is ruined, he needs to open the *Hot Wheels* case to grow one of the cars and drive the remote to them.
* Luis gets away in the car, and Sonny Burch realizes he has the remote, chasing him. When they start to chase him, Luis shrinks the car to avoid the bullets, before regrowing. He asks for help and Wasp goes to take out the men after him as Ant-Man goes to retrieve the lab.
* Wasp breaks into a car chasing Luis and repeatedly shrinks and regrows to cause the men inside's punches to miss her and hit each other. The driver loses control and veers off the road, and Wasp flies out, joining Luis in his car.
* Ant-Man, still giant, catches up with Sonny Burch and kicks his van off-road. Burch gets out, carrying the lab, and hurries into an alley, where Ant-Man is unable to follow him as he cannot fit and finds himself unable to shrink due to the faulty regulator.
* Ant-Man runs around the buildings to find Burch and discovers that he has boarded a ferry, still carrying the lab. He eventually manages to shrink back to ant size and summons nearby flying ants, but they are repeatedly eaten by seagulls who swoop in. He eventually boards one, whom he names Ant-tonio Banderas, and flies out over the harbor, but Ant-tonio is eaten by another gull and he falls into the water.
* Growing back to giant size, Ant-Man swims the remaining distance to the ferry and then stands up on the seafloor beside the ferry. He reaches out and plucks the lab from Burch's fingers.

* **Rescue of Janet van Dyne****:**
	+ Hank Pym walks through the Quantum Realm to find Janet van Dyne. The timer he is using to keep track of the time until van Dyne is no longer able to be found runs out, and Pym begins to succumb to the effects of the Quantum Realm, hearing increasingly loud voices and feeling like he is losing his mind.
	+ Falling unconscious, Pym begins to have a vision, in which Hope van Dyne, Scott Lang, and Bill Foster ask him why he has failed. A hooded figure with a blade behind their shoulder starts to walk towards him and puts its fingers to his temples, and he is jolted back to consciousness.
	+ Pym finds himself back in the Quantum Realm and the figure in front of him takes off their helmet - a Wasp helmet - revealing herself to be Janet van Dyne. The couple are reunited after 31 years and emotionally embrace.
	+ The couple return to the ship and Pym asks van Dyne how she managed to clear his mind by touching his head. Van Dyne explains that since 1987, her exposure to the Quantum Realm has led to a mix of adaptation and evolution. The ship is unable to find the lab's coordinates and warns Pym not to ascend yet, and Pym tells his wife what is happening in San Francisco.

* Ant-Man, giant-sized and dubbed "Giant-Man" by the news, wades back to the harbor pier with the lab, but becomes fatigued by the time spent enlarged.
* Jimmy Woo sees Giant-Man on the news and, believing Scott Lang must have left house arrest, leaves to apprehend him.
* Jim Paxton and Maggie and Cassie Lang watch the news, and Cassie smiles at her father's success.
* Kurt and Dave see the news and rush out to the harbor to help.
* Giant-Man puts the lab back on land but, just as Hope van Dyne and Luis arrive at the harbor, he falls asleep in the water and sinks to the seabed. Van Dyne sends Luis to pick up the lab as she dives into the water to save Lang.
* Luis runs to the lab, remote in-hand, but Ghost arrives and kicks him out of the way. She takes the remote and grows the lab on the harbor.
* Notified that the lab has been regrown and thinking it is safe to return, Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne launch the ship and begin their ascent out of the Quantum Realm.
* Hope van Dyne is unable to wake Scott Lang, so amends his regulator, allowing him to shrink to ant size. She picks him up in her hand and swims him to the surface.
* Van Dyne drops Lang off on the pier and he wakes. She kisses him.
* Sonny Burch's men catch Luis and prepare to shoot him. However, before they can, Kurt and Dave electrocute them with tasers.
* Bill Foster catches up with the lab and enters to try to dissuade Ava Starr from going after van Dyne. He tells her what Pym told him: that van Dyne will be able to help cure her, but Starr refuses to take the risk, desperate to rid herself of her pain. She enters a Quantum Energy Chamber and, using the coordinates locked onto van Dyne, begins to siphon quantum energy from her.
* Ant-Man and Wasp enter the lab and start pulling the plugs on Starr's chamber. Starr goes to fight back, but the duo together manage to keep her occupied. Wasp falls onto the Quantum Tunnel ramp just as Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne return, and Ant-Man turns giant to scoop Wasp to safety.
* Janet van Dyne exits the ship and Hope is overjoyed. The mother and daughter have a tearful reunion. Hope then embraces her father as Janet talks to Scott Lang, joking about how, in a sense, they have already met.
* Janet van Dyne turns to Ava Starr and places her hands on the side of Starr's head. Saying she thinks she can help, her hands glow as she transfers quantum healing particles to Starr. Starr's molecular disequilibrium settles, as her phasing becomes more controlled and her pain is relieved.
* Luis runs into the building and warns the group that the police are coming.
* Kurt and Dave explain to police that they have apprehended Sonny Burch, Uzman, and another of Burch's men for them. The three criminals readily confess to their crimes, injected by Kurt and Dave with Uzman's truth serum.
* Scott Lang tells the group at the lab that he has an idea for how to avoid the police.
* Jimmy Woo catches what he believes to be Giant-Man. However, Lang has set up the enlarged, empty Ant-Man suit. It shrinks down and Woo turns to see the lab shrinking in the distance, realizing he has made a mistake and fallen for a distraction. Lang controls an ant to pick up the suit and makes his way to reunite with the group.
* Luis, Kurt, and Dave pick up Pym and the van Dyne's, carrying the lab in the X-Con Security Consultants van.
* Bill Foster offers to go with Ava Starr as she runs from the police, but she says she does not want him join her as a fugitive. He refuses to leave her on her own, and she hugs him to thank him for taking care of her.
* Woo and his FBI agents rush back to Scott Lang's house to catch him out for having left the house. However, when they get there, they find him simply playing the electric drums, claiming to have been in the house the whole time.
* Still suspicious, Woo nonetheless proceeds with the official end of Lang's house arrest sentence, removing his ankle monitor.
* Groot is now approaching the maturity and attitude of a human teenager, as he continues to grow up.
* Quill enters Groot's room in the *Benatar* and complains that he needs to tidy up after himself and stop wasting his time playing video games. Groot rudely tells him to go away, and Quill takes a moment to feel sorry for Yondu Udonta, who died almost 4 years earlier, realizing what Yondu had to put up with when raising him.
* **Massacre of the Xandarians****:** Beginning his acquisition of the Infinity Stones, Thanos and his forces attack the planet of Xandar, where the Nova Corps are guarding the Orb, containing the Power Stone. He has half of its population slaughtered in accordance with his plans for the universe and retrieves the Power Stone, placing it into the Infinity Gauntlet.
* **Attack on Jace Montero**
* Madani wakes and goes to shower, and has disturbing recollections of her time with Russo and being shot.
* Billy Russo and Krista Dumont have sex again. Dumont tells him that her back scars came from a bad fall at age 9.
* Dumont looks at herself in the mirror and smiles.
* Russo tells Dumont that he wants to go out, having regained some confidence because of her and his crew. He explains that he knows he had built his life up before his injury, and wants to reclaim some of it. Dumont tells him he cannot just walk out on her and goes to grab her gun from a hiding place, but he reveals he has already taken it. She begs him not to go, but he walks out nonetheless. Dumont goes to her window and watches him leave, then starts experiencing vertigo again.
* Madani checks in with Wendy at forensics, who explains she has tried everything but cannot identify the man who came after her. She compliments Madani on her work, and Madani finds her odd.

3rd

* Kurt and Dave receive calls at X-Con Security Consultants as they are reported on the news for their help in apprehending Sonny Burch and his men. Kurt arranges a meeting for Monday. Luis picks up a call coming into the X-Con office and finds that it is Karapetyan, their most desired customers, asking to meet them next Thursday morning. The X-Con group celebrate.

* Frank Castle and Curtis Hoyle break into Jake Nelson's apartment in the hope of finding Billy Russo. Hoyle finds Nelson's drugs.
* Russo's crew practice for their planned robbery. Bobby comes to them and confirms that their schedule is unchanged.
* The group practice with the addition of Bobby, preparing for what could happen if someone tries to stop them in the bank.
* Russo goes over the plan one last time, then tells the crew to get some sleep. Nelson wants to go back home, where it is warmer, but Russo refuses to let him, saying they need to stay overnight for operation security.
* Castle and Hoyle sit together in a car outside Nelson's apartment. Hoyle encourages Castle to settle down, and Castle tells him he nearly did after meeting Beth Quinn, but how it all went wrong. Hoyle says that he thinks he has an idea of where Nelson is getting his drugs.

4th

* Craving drugs, Jake Nelson sneaks out of the building.
* Marion James meets with Dinah Madani. James says that she understands Madani's frustration regarding Russo's escape. Madani explains about Castle returning, and James recommends letting Castle kill Russo, but Madani says that she feels like that is still taking action, just letting someone else pull the trigger. James advises that sometimes, taking no action is the least worst option.
* **Kidnapping of Jake Nelson****:**
	+ Curtis Hoyle stops Nelson on his way to get drugs, and Frank Castle knocks him out.
	+ Nelson wakes, tied by Castle to a chair in his apartment. Castle starts questioning him about Billy Russo, but Nelson is resistant and refuses to give him up. Dinah Madani, also present with Hoyle, tells him that if Russo commits any more crimes he will legally become an accessory. Nelson tries to act tough, so Castle sets him loose to prove himself, only to beat Nelson and stab him in the hand. He questions him again, hurting him increasingly in the need for information, but Madani eventually tells him to stop and to come outside to talk. Hoyle tells Nelson that they just need to know where Russo is.
	+ Castle tells Madani he is happy for her to turn a blind eye, but she says that she feels they are going to end up acting no better than Russo and William Rawlins.
	+ Hoyle takes the knife out of Nelson's hand and explains what Russo did to Castle and his family, trying to convince Nelson to give Russo up before Castle can brutalize him further.
	+ Castle reenters, threatening to stab Nelson further, but Nelson gives in and tells them the group will be hitting ReadyQuick Check Cashing, and the location of the warehouse where they have been staying.

* Castle and Hoyle go to drive to the bank, but Madani says she cannot participate any longer and feels she must let Brett Mahoney know so he can deal with Russo. Castle tells her to simply do what she feels she needs to.
* Russo's crew sit around, waiting for Nelson. Meanwhile, Castle and Hoyle pull up near the warehouse, hoping to catch the crew before they leave. Russo tells his crew to give up on Nelson. Outside, Castle cocks his gun, preparing for an encounter. Russo reshuffles the team's positions. Castle and Hoyle close in on the warehouse. The crew get into their cars and start driving out, just as Castle and Hoyle arrive on the scene, moments too late. They rush back to the car to get to the bank.

* **Robbery of the ReadyQuick Check Cashing****:**
	+ ReadyQuick Check Cashing receives its weekly Friday money drop. Moments later, Russo's crew pull up and enter the bank, holding the workers at gunpoint.
	+ Russo addresses the manager, Lillian, telling her to open the safe and hand over the money. She bravely stands up to him, refusing to hand over the money as the bank was a family business that her father worked very hard to build, regardless of the fact that the money is insured.
	+ Russo pulls out a grenade and threatens to throw it at the workers behind the desk. Lillian points out that it will not fit through the hatch, so Russo turns his gun on her. She still refuses to give over the money, but another worker, Anton Reed, rushes and lets Russo's crew in, seemingly in fear for their lives.
	+ Russo's crew raid the bank and tie the workers' hands. He tells Reed to come with him.

* **Chase of Jigsaw's Crew****:**
	+ Castle and Hoyle pull up near the bank. Castle tells Hoyle to stay put so he does not end up hurt because of being unable to run due to his bad leg. He then gets out to deal with Russo.
	+ Russo's crew leave the bank and see a man wearing Nelson's mask arriving. They believe it to be Nelson, but once he is closer, Castle pulls off the mask and reveals himself to Russo, unbuttoning his jacket to show the Punisher vest. Russo is left shocked as a firefight begins around him, stunned that the man he thought was his close friend is the one who ruined his life and wants him dead.
	+ Castle ducks and dodges fire from Russo's crew. One of the crew gets Russo into a car to drive away, and Castle takes one of their cars for himself. Hoyle, nearby, notices the shooting as Castle drives after Russo.
	+ Billy Russo continues to be tormented by remembering that Frank Castle was the one who ruined his life.
	+ Castle is shot at as he continues to drive after Russo.
	+ Russo shouts for his men to stop the car as he prepares a gun.
	+ As a sniper continues to aim at Castle, Curtis Hoyle knocks him out from behind, then takes the gun and rushes to help.
	+ Russo gets out of his car and shoots at Castle as he drives at him. He asks if Castle was the one to ruin his face and memory, and Castle, getting out of the car, shouts that he did. Russo opens fire again in Castle's direction.
	+ Hoyle prepares a shot on Russo from a roof nearby, but the police, let by Brett Mahoney, arrive on the scene and Russo moves to fire on them, losing Hoyle his opportunity. He leaves the roof.
	+ A shootout begins between the police and Russo. Russo continues to shoot after Castle, but Castle runs away from the scene, leaving Russo with the police.
	+ Russo shoots at the police, until his crew get him into a car and drive away.
	+ Castle sprints down the street.
	+ Castle pushes people out of the way as he runs, with Mahoney chasing him. Mahoney corners him in an alley and forces him to give himself up. However, Curtis Hoyle gets into the alley and holds a gun to Mahoney, telling him he has to give up Castle. Castle tells Mahoney he is coming after the wrong man and punches him to daze him as he escapes.

* Russo's crew get back to their warehouse, where Bobby frees Anton Reed, who had been their man on the inside for the job. Reed says he deserves more than an even share. Bobby angrily tells Russo he nearly ruined the job, but Russo shoots him and Reed through the head.

* Curtis Hoyle tells Castle he is worried about having held a gun to a police officer. Castle reminds him he told him to stay in the car, but Hoyle says that he cares about him, and felt the need to take out the sniper. Castle tells Hoyle that Russo was shocked when Castle drew on him, genuinely not remembering what he did, and that for a moment it had made him hesitate as he remembered what Russo used to be like.

* Krista Dumont has another knock on her door, and finds Billy Russo, once again pleading to come in. He says he has nowhere else, but she closes the door on him. However, after a moment's consideration, she decides to open it and let him in again. Russo, distraught, tells her that the man in his nightmares was Frank Castle all along, and that he does not know why Castle, his best friend, would have done what he did. He tells Dumont she is the only one who can help him.

* Amy Bendix practices loading a shotgun and keeps herself occupied in her and Castle's trailer.

* Curtis Hoyle receives texts from his girlfriend, Delia, angry with him as she has worked out he has been lying about what he has been doing.

* Castle hides and listens as Mahoney and the police investigate Russo's warehouse. Mahoney checks the bodies of Reed, whom he still believes was a hostage, and Bobby.

* Castle returns to Hoyle and tells him about Russo killing the apparent hostage. Hoyle is frustrated that he missed his chance to shoot Russo, and more people have died because of it, as well as his problem with Delia. He angrily says that they served their time and should have been able to put this life behind them.

* Castle and Hoyle return to the trailer park, and Bendix decides she wants to practice the disarming move Castle taught her. She attempts it on him as he enters, but he becomes furious, already on-edge because of Russo, and shouting that he could have accidentally killed her. Hoyle tries to calm him down, but Castle says that they need to remember they are not playing games. He leaves the trailer again, wanting to hunt Russo down, and Hoyle follows him. Bendix slumps on the trailer floor, upset by her mistake.

* Mahoney visits Dinah Madani in her apartment and explains that they have discovered the apparent hostage might have been an inside man. He asks why she tipped him off about the robbery, and if she knew about Castle, and she explains that Castle told her about it, and she told him not to go, unsuccessfully. Mahoney comments that Castle could have killed him, but Madani explains that Castle would not shoot an officer, which Mahoney does not believe. He says that she needs to give up Castle, since she seems to be able to contact him, or else he will arrest her, and leaves.

* Krista Dumont tells Billy Russo that what has been done to him was awful, and Frank Castle must have wanted him to suffer for the rest of his life. She assures him that learning the truth behind what happened will help him will help, as he can now confront his pain. He asks why she let him in, and she says that likes that together, they look forwards in life.

* Castle beats Jake Nelson for more information on where Russo might be, but Hoyle pulls him off Nelson, saying he is acting like Russo.

* Castle goes walking through New York City as a thunderstorm erupts, needing to let off some of his anger.

* Russo wakes Dumont and angrily accuses her of having known about Castle and not told him. He furiously starts wrecking her house and scares her. He grabs her and holds her up to her window, telling her he wants to make her feel the way he has been made to feel. She, however, that she has love for him, thinking he can change, and would never lie to him or betray him. He lets her down and she asserts that this version of him is in fact better than before, as he is still standing after losing so much. Russo starts crying and lets her embrace him.

* Bendix is cooking in the trailer when she hears someone coming. She prepares the shotgun, thinking it might be an attacker since if it were Castle he would have announced himself. The shot misses the visitor, Curtis Hoyle, who calls out that it is him, and is bemused to find out Castle instructed her to shoot anyone who arrived without announcement. She lets him in and offers food.

* Russo meets with his crew and gives them their share of the money, but says that they are capable of much more. He suggests that they form a brotherhood to pull off many more attacks and take full control of their lives.

* Hoyle assures Bendix that, while Castle can be horrible, he was only angry because he cared about her. He talks about how he met Castle, and when Bendix asks if Russo was one of the people behind Castle's family's deaths, Hoyle confirms it, explaining how Russo had been like family to them and so had utterly betrayed Castle. There is a knock at the door, which worries the pair, but it is Dinah Madani. She tells Bendix that she met the mysterious man after her, but could not charge him with anything to arrest him. Hoyle asks how she found them, and she explains she tracked his phone, so Bendix melts his SIM card as Madani tells Hoyle that Mahoney wants to find the man who held a gun to him, whom she worked out was Hoyle, and that they need to get Russo for Mahoney and hand over Castle, then Hoyle might be cleared. Hoyle says he does not know where Castle is.

* Castle walks through the cemetery where his family were buried. Meanwhile, in the trailer, Bendix complains about Castle's actions. In the cemetery, Castle visits his family's joint grave. In the trailer, Bendix tells Hoyle and Madani she just wants her old life back. Castle mourns his family, while in the trailer, Madani and Hoyle drink to him. Castle reflects, and Hoyle meanwhile asks Madani if she will give Castle up. She is unsure.

* Castle kneels at the grave, before sitting, mellowed and somber.

* Scott Lang runs to Maggie's house and embraces Maggie, Cassie, and Jim Paxton, glad to now be free as he picks up Cassie for the weekend.
* Hank Pym takes Janet van Dyne to a beach. He reveals to her that he shrunk their house down and has taken it with them, regrowing it on the sand for a relaxing and comfortable time together.
* Scott Lang spends his first weekend free with his daughter, Cassie. Hope van Dyne joins them and the trio get into one of Hank Pym's shrinking cars, shrinking it so they can use a laptop as if, relative to them, it were the size of a cinema screen. They watch *Them!*, and Cassie tells van Dyne she wants to be her father's partner, but explains that he wanted to work with her instead, which makes van Dyne smile. A moth flies onto the laptop screen and Scott turns on the car headlights to scare it away, but instead accidentally attracts it to the vehicle, causing the moth to bother them as they laugh together.
* **Chase of Gregory Sallinger**
* **Capture of Trish Walker**

5th

* Frank Castle returns to the trailer park and sees Dinah Madani inside, asleep. When he enters, Amy Bendix warns him about Madani wanting to sell him out, but he says not to worry. He explains that the visited his wife's grave, and that he has come to realize that his family's deaths did not change him - he has always been like this, and Maria knew but loved him anyway. He says that the people coming for them have no regard for the law, but asks that Madani, Bendix, and Curtis Hoyle let him be what he is meant to be to stop them.
* Billy Russo and Krista Dumont continue a masochistic sexual relationship.
* Dumont, lying in bed with Russo, says that their relationship cannot last forever, but that they should nonetheless make plans, to give the money he is raiding purpose. He agrees, but says she needs to let him deal with Castle first. She tells him not to let Castle define him, but he insists he has to know why Castle wants him dead.
* **Raid of the Lower East Side Housing Project****:** Billy Russo's crew raid a Lower East Side housing project, killing four people and wounding a further three, then stealing around $500,000 in cash, drugs and weapons - their third attack in 24 hours.
* The crew return to their hideout, named Valhalla, and drop off their haul.
* In the night, Russo's crew party at Valhalla, with women present. One man, Moke, makes unwanted sexual advances on a woman named Lanie. When she turns him down, he becomes forceful, but Russo notices and shouts at him to stop.

6th

* John Pilgrim meets with Anderson Schultz, who is practicing golf. Explaining that he is worried about Castle being taken in by police, he tells Pilgrim to visit his old contacts in the city and put a bounty on Castle's head. Pilgrim says he would rather deal with Castle himself, but Schultz states that they cannot take the risk, and claims to want the job dealt with fast so Pilgrim can return to his wife and children.
* Amy Bendix and Curtis Hoyle listen in on Russo's crew's radio communications and mark their movements on a map. They call Castle to let him know the latest location.
* Castle arrives at the given location and finds three of Russo's crew, including Moke. When they attack, he kills them all. He then takes Moke's smartphone and uses Moke's thumb to unlock it, finding a picture of Lanie in her Tipsy Tilly's Bar top.
* Anderson Schultz, and his son, David, meet. Anderson expresses his opinion that David's homosexuality equates to blasphemy, and that it would sink his career. David suggests that people have changed, but Anderson asserts that they have not enough. David is angry that his father only cares about campaigns rather than his son's well-being, but Anderson says that that is unimportant, since they have an opportunity to improve the country for the better. He asks David to come home for a couple of weeks to sort some things, but David does not understand what is so important.
* Pilgrim visits Danny, a young member of the Aryan Brotherhood, asking him to put out a call for Castle and the mysterious girl to be taken to him alive. Once Pilgrim has left, Danny calls Kusack, having recognized Pilgrim from years prior, to tell him about the visit.
* Amy Bendix and Curtis Hoyle talk in the trailer. Bendix tells him she always wanted to get into marine salvage, though that she cannot swim and has never seen the ocean. Hoyle is frustrated that Castle has not even called them, and decides that he cannot let down his veteran support group and has to leave her to see them. Bendix is annoyed, wanting to leave herself, but he instructs her to stay put.
* As soon as Hoyle is gone, Bendix decides to leave and meet with her contact Shantel to get out of New York City.
* Billy Russo breaks into Dinah Madani's apartment and looks around, finding his journal in her drawers.
* Castle visits Tipsy Tilly's Bar, where he finds Lanie, recognizing her from Moke's photograph. He questions her about the hideout, and she explains that a colleague, Tony, knew some of the crew, so she went along thinking it might be fun, but that it was horrible, and the men are off the rails. Lanie tells him it is a place called Valhalla in Queens, then giving him a rough location.
* **Attack on Frank Castle****:** As Castle leaves the bar, he is followed by six men into an alley. Castle dodges them, then confronts them himself, wearing the Punisher vest. The leader of the men says they are after $5,000,000, explaining about the bounty on his and the girl's heads. The leader draws his gun, but Castle pulls his fast and shoots all six. He approaches the wounded leader, threatening him by shooting him again in the leg and standing on his chest, and tells him to talk.
* Dinah Madani returns to her apartment and starts pouring herself a drink. Russo suddenly reveals his presence. Seeing him unmasked, she comments on her disappointment that they fixed his face well. He says that he has read in his file that she arrested him, he shot her, and that they were "together" before, not remembering the events. Russo asks why she hates him so much, saying he has come for answers. Madani goes to retrieve her backup gun, but Russo reveals he has already found and taken it. He demands to know why Castle ruined his life, and Madani tells him that he sold out everyone and everything and had Castle's family killed. She tells him to shoot himself, but Russo taunts her about clearly being unable to get over how badly he upset her. he leaves, telling her not to follow or else he will have her killed.
* Amy Bendix meets with Shantel. She tells her about Fiona's crew being killed and pays to get her in contact with someone who can help her disappear.
* Curtis Hoyle's veteran group visit him, with him having summoned them. They express their distaste at his treatment of Jake Nelson, but Hoyle explains that Nelson was working with Billy Russo, and he wants their help finding Russo's crew. The group agree.
* Frank Castle gets back to the trailer and finds it empty. He calls Hoyle, who explains he has gone to get help finding Russo, but Castle tells him he has already found out their location. Castle asks if Bendix is with him, but Hoyle says she is not, and Castle becomes worried, telling him about the contract on their heads.
* After ignoring his calls several times, Amy Bendix eventually picks up a call from Frank Castle. He warns her about the contract and begs her to come back to the trailer for safety, advising her not to trust her friend.
* Back at Krista Dumont's apartment, Russo tells Dumont what he has learned about what happened with Castle, admitting that he went to see Madani. He says that Castle should have had the dignity to finish him off, and that he wants to make Castle suffer the way he made him suffer.
* John Pilgrim gets a call from Danny, saying he has got in contact with someone who knows where Castle and the girl are, and to come to his restaurant for the information.
* One of Hoyle's veteran friends pretends to be a drunk, homeless man, so as not to arouse suspicion, as he walks up to Valhalla to spy for Hoyle.
* Madani receives a call from Dumont.
* Bendix becomes worried and texts Castle her current location. Castle receives and reads the message.
* **Rescue of Amy Bendix****:**
	+ Bounty hunters arrive at Shantel's block, and Shantel takes them to get Bendix, but they find Bendix gone.
	+ Bendix, meanwhile, runs through the block, trying to find an unlocked door to hide behind.
	+ The crew disperse to find Bendix, who continues to run elsewhere in the block to find somewhere to hide. However, Castle arrives, in the Punisher vest once more, and starts eliminating the men as he makes his way up the stairs.
	+ One of the bounty hunters finds Bendix hiding in a closet and makes her come out. Castle shoots the men on the stairs as he ascends to get to her. He calls up to her, and her captor responds, threatening to kill her if Castle comes near. In his distraction, however, Bendix uses the technique Castle taught her to disarm him and shoot him. Castle arrives and she is distressed at having fatally wounded him, but Castle kills him to help lessen her feeling of responsibility and assures her that the man does not deserve her tears.
	+ Castle and Bendix return to Shantel's apartment. Bendix retrieves her bag and kicks Shantel in her crotch in retaliation for what she did, before leaving.

* Madani visits Krista Dumont in her apartment, on Dumont's request. Dumont claims to be worried Russo will come after her for answers. Madani says not to worry, since Russo has come after her and got her answers, regarding Castle. Madani offers to open a bottle of wine, and Madani agrees.
* Pilgrim turns up to Danny's restaurant, who reveals that he has in fact had him come to meet with the Aryan Brotherhood, Kusack, who wants answers as to why "Robbie", as Pilgrim had been known before changing his identity, lost them a million dollars 12 years prior - having disappeared during his mission. Pilgrim explains about having been arrested and then met by a man sent by God who showed him a new path. Kusack rolls up his sleeves and, as members of the brotherhood enter, says that it is time for him to pay the price of betrayal.
* Returning to the trailer park together, Bendix talks to Castle about her struggle with having shot her captor, but he reminds her that it was necessary to stay alive. He promises to deal with the Schultzes as soon as he has killed Russo. She asks what might happen if Russo kills him, but he assures her that will not happen. She calls the whole messy situation a "flustercluck", which makes Castle laugh.
* Krista Dumont pours Dinah Madani a drink, and Madani starts to tell her about her feeling of ineffectiveness. Dumont encourages her to talk more about it, and Madani mentions that she wishes her or Castle, whom she admits was there at the carousel, had killed Billy Russo. Madani starts to explain that Castle and Russo are strongly linked.

* **Attack on John Pilgrim****:**
	+ Kusack's men attack John Pilgrim. He fights back, headbutting one in the mouth, lodging two of his teeth in his head. He is sliced across his torso, but manages to slice one attacker's throat then stab another. He is punched in the jaw, dislocating it, and the attacker continues to pummel him, but Pilgrim managed to slam his neck on a table, steal his knuckledusters, and kick his head repeatedly.
	+ His men all down, Kusack returns to kill Pilgrim himself. Pilgrim, however, overpowers him. He throws him to the ground and beats his face, using the stolen knuckledusters, until he is dead. Danny tries to run, but Pilgrim shoots him down. He reclaims his hat and takes a drink, then cocaine from one of the men's pockets.

* Madani says it is not logical to think Russo can still be helped, but Dumont says humans work on emotion, not logic. She starts to say that Castle and Russo are not so different, both killing mercilessly, but Madani insists Castle has a code, only killing guilty people. Dumont objects to the idea of objective innocence and guilt.
* Dumont tells Madani that she believes, with enough care, no one is a lost cause, including Russo. Madani, however, insists that Russo is not worth saving. She says that if she were to bring Russo in for legal trial, she would want to see in his eyes that he knows she won, and Dumont asks if that would be enough for her. Madani admits she wants Russo dead.
* Dumont tells Madani that it is not in human nature to be truly happy, as humans all dwell on shortcomings and trick themselves into believing things they cannot achieve.
* Madani leaves Dumont's apartment. Once she is gone, Billy Russo steps out, having been hiding from Madani. Dumont tells her that, through Madani, she has worked out how to break Castle, by taking away the one thing he has left: his belief that he is good.

* **Arrest of Gregory Sallinger**

7th

* Pilgrim, bloodied, sits in his hotel room and drinks, then takes cocaine. He removes the teeth embedded in his scalp, rips his shirt to use as a bandage, and replaces his dislocated jaw.
* Frank Castle scouts out Valhalla and spots a secret tunnel entrance.
* John Pilgrim ignores a call coming to his room. He is angered by partying noise in a nearby room, and gets up and goes down the hall, knocking on the door. A man, Bob Wick, answers, spending time taking drugs with prostitutes. Pilgrim raises a gun to his head and enters.
* Curtis Hoyle calls into work claiming to be sick as he and Frank Castle set up on a roof near Valhalla. Hoyle tells Castle about the Hashashin and how they gave their members what they wanted, making themselves the only ones offering it to induce loyalty. He compares it to what Russo is doing, saying they will not be happy when he attacks, but Castle says that in the end, Russo will be alone as always.
* After killing Wick, Pilgrim has one of the prostitutes perform oral sex on him, breaking his devout orthodox religious beliefs, as he hysterically rambles about breaking from a brotherhood and finding his own nature, as well as his feeling of shame. The phone continues to ring in his room as he thinks of Rebecca and how unfaithful he is being, deciding to kick out the prostitute.
* Frank Castle and Curtis Hoyle stand on the roof near Valhalla in the rain. Hoyle spies on the hideout through the sights of a sniper rifle. Unknown to them, Billy Russo is watching them from a nearby roof.
* Castle tells Hoyle that he never wanted him involved in everything, but he is highly grateful for everything he has done. He talks about how he misses the brotherhood of the army, and starts to say that he should have spotted what Russo was like. Hoyle tells him that he would not have been able to stop him, so he should not beat himself up. Castle, however, wonders if he is just like Russo, praising Hoyle for being a healer rather than a killer. Hoyle assures him, however, that they are nothing alike, since Castle actually cares about people. Castle admits that he thinks a lot about the people he killed.
* As they continue to spy, the pair see cars arrive with women for a Valhalla party. Meanwhile, Russo continues to watch them. Castle gears up in the Punisher vest. He instructs Hoyle to get in position and let him know as soon as the women have left, then heads down to prepare.
* John Pilgrim sits on his bed and thinks about the time he told his wife his real name and previous violent nature, saying he had felt lost, but has now been found. The phone continues to ring, but he still does not pick it up.
* **Assassination of Gregory Sallinger**

8th

* Russo drives up to Valhalla. Castle hides under a truck nearby, waiting for his moment to attack, as Russo enters the building. Hoyle calls him to let him know about Russo having just joined the party.
* Russo addresses his men, telling them about Castle, saying that Castle thinks he is better than them and was the one behind his scars, as Castle continues to wait outside. Russo says Castle is waiting outside and has no loyalty or cause, and the men agree to back him against his enemy.
* As a guard patrols the trucks, Castle advances slowly from vehicle to vehicle when the man's back is turned, then attacks and knocks him out, tying his hands.
* Russo has the women taken home from Valhalla. As the cars leave, Curtis Hoyle watches from on high.
* Russo's men grab their masks.
* Castle gets to the tunnel entrance to Valhalla and enters. Russo, meanwhile, waits for him, with a gun in hand. Castle advances through the tunnel.
* Curtis Hoyle detonates explosives by the hideout, as planned with Frank Castle to draw out Russo's men as a distraction. Castle, meanwhile, hears the explosion from inside the tunnel. As Hoyle is shot at, he shoots back, and the men hide.
* **Ambush at the Valhalla****:**
	+ Castle finds himself in a dark room. The lights are suddenly shut off, before being turned on for brief moments at a a time by Russo to dazzle him. Russo and his men start shooting at Castle.
	+ Castle is surrounded by the masked men.
	+ Castle is beaten, and continually dazzled as the lights turn on and off.
	+ The men slice Castle's arm and leg.
	+ Russo taunts Castle from the corner as his men beat Castle to the ground. They start kicking him and he is left bloodied on the floor, as Russo steps out to look at him. He presses his knee on Castle's chest, then tells the men to "break him and then finish him" as he walks away.

* Meanwhile, Hoyle continues to shoot down at the men, but they make their way to the stairs up to his rooftop.
* As a man stabs him, Castle kicks out one of the other men's feet and bites his attacker, then pulling out the knife and using it to fight back, getting up slicing one's neck. He uses another as a human shield as he's shot at, then slices another's chest. Slicing and stabbing another two, he retrieves a gun, then uses it and the knife to finish off the rest, before stumbling away after Russo.
* Hoyle is shot at on the rooftop and asks the men to leave, not wanting to kill anyone. They keep shooting, so he fires warning shots, getting one in the leg. The other two leave and Hoyle kicks the shot one's gun away, then going to give him medical help. However, he realizes he has caused severe bleeding and urgently starts wrapping his leg, hoping to save him.
* Castle gets into the main hall of Valhalla and starts shooting. Russo's remaining men begin firing on him, but he kills all but one. As Russo and his last man run up the stairs to get away, Castle fires into the upstairs room to get them. However, when he follows upstairs, he is horrified to discover the bullet-riddled dead bodies of three women on the ground.
* Believing himself to have recklessly accidentally killed three innocent people in his crusade, Castle despairs.
* Hoyle does his best to help the injured man, Phillip, but cannot. Phillip dies, upsetting Hoyle.
* Castle breaks down, desperately upset and in disbelief. Police arrive on the scene and he does not react to their arrest, utterly in shock.
* Frank Castle is driven to hospital, barely conscious, having lost a lot of blood through his multiple lacerations and internal injuries. He is traumatized by having seemingly killed the innocent women. Brett Mahoney sits beside him in the ambulance, stating to the paramedic that Castle has killed a bunch of people, as that is simply what "he does".
* Castle is delivered to hospital, where nurses begin to work on saving him.
* First thing in the morning, the three women's bodies are taken to the morgue at Sacred Saints Hospital.
* Curtis Hoyle returns to the trailer and reunites with Amy Bendix. She asks what happened to Castle, and he explains about him being taken by the police in an ambulance. Hoyle is distressed, telling her how difficult he is finding having killed someone for the first time. Bendix turns on the radio and hears a story about Castle's arrest earlier in the day, saying he is at Sacred Saints Hospital. Bendix wants to help him with the bounty still on his head and him vulnerable at the hospital, but Hoyle refuses, saying helping Castle got them into this situation and that there is nothing they can do. He goes to shower.
* John Pilgrim wakes, hung over. He phones home, having missed all the previous calls, and Eliza Schultz picks up. She claims Rebecca is just resting, and John says he wants to hear her voice, stating he will wait. Schultz hangs up, actually at that moment looking out of the window as Rebecca's body is taken away, John's wife having just died.
* Karen Page arrives at Sacred Saints Hospital and tells the guard, Officer Smith, she is with Nelson and Murdock, who represent Castle as his defendant lawyers. He lets her through and she finds Castle, severely cut and bruised and asleep, and sits by his bedside.
* Hoyle returns from his shower only to find Bendix gone.
* Castle wakes and Page starts to talk to him. She wants to give him legal help like before, but he refuses, saying that she should go, and that he is guilty and nothing can fix what he has done. Page insists whatever it is does not change how she feels about him and stays.
* Dinah Madani arrives at Valhalla, where Mahoney shows her the evidence left from the night. He points out that they found rubber bullets, meaning Russo did not want Castle killed. Mahoney tells Madani about the three dead women, accusing Castle of having not cared for their lives and shot through them to get to Russo, but Madani insists that is not like him. She requests to speak to Castle in hospital in the hope that he can give them information on Russo.
* Castle dreams of his family, but is suddenly awoken by gunshots in the dream. He tells Karen Page about how he always has the same dream of his family at Central Park, and that he had just told them he was done with the military and moving on before they were killed. Castle tells Page about how his children did not die suddenly, but had to endure the pain and anguish in front of him, and it makes him wonder what his apparent three innocent victims went through. He tells her he thinks he deserves to die.
* Meanwhile, at the hospital, Amy Bendix steals a nurse's uniform to get access to Castle's ward. She takes out a hairpin to unlock Castle's cuffs, but Castle says it is not safe for her and she needs to leave. At that moment, Madani also enters. As the group argue, Madani gets a call from Billy Russo. He uses the opportunity to taunt Castle on speakerphone, asking how he feels now being his own devil, no better than him, and declaring that he has won.
* After hanging up, Russo, staying in Krista Dumont's apartment, tells Dumont that getting his revenge has only left him feeling hollow. He discusses with her the severity of what they did in concocting the plan together to kill the three women and make Castle think he was to blame. Russo says he is worried that one day Dumont will blame him for her decision, but she explains she is comfortable knowing she did it to make him happy, as they both deserve that chance, so long as they now leave the country together and start a new life. Russo checks that she genuinely wants this, as it involves leaving everything she has built behind, but she says that with him she no longer feels alone.
* Amy Bendix leaves Frank Castle's ward.
* Dinah Madani tells Karen Page that things at the Valhalla crime scene do not seem to add up, and with Russo's call, she is starting to have some doubts, but cannot check the bodies herself as it is Brett Mahoney's case. Page says she believes she could get Madani into the morgue.
* Eliza Schultz arrives at John Pilgrim's door and informs him that Rebecca passed away peacefully in the night. Pilgrim is distraught, feeling guilty that she died while he was being unfaithful.
* Page takes Madani to see morgue worker Ed Zatner, a man she is friendly with. She asks to get the chance to see the bodies from the night before, which Zatner agrees to, on the proviso that she does him a specific favor he has been hoping for.
* Zatner gets one of the bodies out and explains that she, and all three, have evidence of being shot at close range and horizontally. Madani works out, and explains to Page, that they were executed, not in fact shot from downstairs by Castle. Before they leave, Page reluctantly gives over her high heels, the favor he had wanted.
* Billy Russo asks Krista Dumont to properly explain her back scar, and who "KM" is, the man she mentioned on his file. Dumont explains that "KM" was her father, who struggled to manage after two tours of Vietnam and became increasingly angry and distressed. She recounts that one night, when her mother wanted a divorce, he had grabbed Krista and said if he could not have Krista, then neither could his wife, before jumping out of the window with her, killing himself and almost killing her.
* John Pilgrim sadly tells Eliza Schultz that he feels he should have been there for Rebecca when she died. Schultz tries to spin it to blame Castle for him not being with Rebecca, but John says Castle never did anything to him, and that his sons need him. Schultz intensely persists, claiming John's work must be finished for their way of life, calling it a test from God, and that God will reward him as with Abraham with a prosperous family after.
* Once Schultz has left, Pilgrim, enraged, smashes his room.
	+ Officer O'Rourke of the New York City Police Department, a former Kitchen Irish member whose cousin Castle murdered, arrives at Sacred Saints Hospital to take over guard duty of Frank Castle. He then enters the room alone, prepared to kill Castle and take the bounty for himself. Castle does not resist, but Amy Bendix, having noticed the suspicious behavior, enters to stop O'Rourke. O'Rourke begins throttling Bendix, but Madani enters and knocks him out.
	+ Madani and Page enter and inform Castle he did not kill the women. Bendix is still worried, knowing O'Rourke will be the first of many, but Castle asks her and Madani to step out so he can speak to Page in private. He asks Page if Matt Murdock knows she is here. Page does not see the relevance, but he says that Murdock is a good man, and an example of the kind of thing she should not be throwing away on his behalf. She unlocks his bed cuffs and he continues to argue she should walk away from him, saying there is no happiness ever coming in her life. Page insists that if he tried, and allowed her to help, he could find some, but he admits he does not want that. Castle gets to his feet and tells her that she simply has to leave without him now. Bendix reenters and says it is time to make their escape.
* **Rescue of Frank Castle****:**
	+ Page walks up to a fire alarm trigger. Meanwhile, John Pilgrim arrives at the hospital to make his way to Castle. Page starts smashing fire alarms to start an evacuation, including Castle's ward. Brett Mahoney, elsewhere in the hospital, is concerned. Pilgrim continues to make his way to find Castle as Bendix ushers Castle's bed through the building, with O'Rourke put in the bed in his place. Mahoney asks an officer on radio to follow Castle's bed.
	+ With Castle changed into O'Rourke's uniform as a disguise, Dinah Madani helps him down the stairs of the building, still injured.
	+ Pilgrim arrives in Castle's ward and finds it empty.
	+ The officer gets to Mahoney with Castle's bed, and they are confused when they realize it is not Castle in the bed. Bendix, changed back into her clothes, slips past them.
	+ Mahoney uses the radio to put out a broadcast warning Castle has escaped, and no one must be allowed to leave the building. They pass Ed Zatner, now wearing Page's high heels.
	+ Mahoney, meanwhile, passes Page. He questions why she is barefoot, but she simply says she gave them away for a worthy cause. Once he has gone, she mutters under her breath, "Good luck, Frank."
	+ Just as Madani and Castle get outside, Mahoney apprehends them. At gunpoint, he has Castle cuffed and put into the ambulance for arrest, telling Madani he is going to take her down for her unlawful behavior. She worries for Castle as he sits, dejected in the back of the vehicle.
* **Chase of Frank Castle****:**
	+ Brett Mahoney drives Frank Castle. Dinah Madani calls, begging him to listen, but he refuses, saying he will arrest her too later.
	+ John Pilgrim drives up beside them in a stolen police car and starts shooting into the ambulance. Castle asks for a key to his cuffs so he can help, but Mahoney refuses. Pilgrim continues to attack, and pushes the ambulance off a bridge, with both men still inside, crashing to the ground below.
	+ Madani arrives on the scene and rams Pilgrim, but as she then searches for him on the bridge, he steals her car and gets away.

* Getting himself up in the damaged vehicle, Castle manages to find the key to free himself. He goes to leave the trapped, injured Mahoney behind, knowing help will be coming. Putting his dislocated shoulder back into place, he then realizes a fire has started and the vehicle could go up in flames. Castle rushes back inside to help free Mahoney, cutting him out of his seat belt. Carrying the detective out, he gets him safely away in time before the ambulance erupts in flames.
* Castle leaves Mahoney nearby, but Mahoney says he still cannot let him leave. He threatens to shoot him if he goes, but Castle keeps walking, knowing he will not.
* Pilgrim dresses his stab wounds again. Three young men come by, and he pulls out his gun to scare them away. He then checks the frequent addresses on Madani's car satnav, finding her address.
* WJBP-TV report on the attack on the ambulance and Castle's escape. Krista Dumont watches the news, and Billy Russo enters, asking why she did not tell him. She says she wanted just a moment where Russo did not have to worry about Castle. Russo decides to go and get their new paperwork as planned, promising to stick with the state of mind of having left Castle behind. He leaves, and Dumont watches him go from the window, struggling again with vertigo.
* Madani catches up with Mahoney, who explains what happened, and she once again asserts that Castle is not a criminal, albeit also not a hero. She gets a call from Dumont, who is asking where Castle might be and if they have any leads on Russo. Madani becomes suspicious at her inquiries and language, simply telling her she will keep her posted.
* Castle, using Officer O'Rourke's name, manages to get David Schultz's address.

* **Kidnapping of David Schultz****:** Castle visits David Schultz's apartment and as soon as Schultz opens the door, he barges in and attacks the man. Schultz is confused about what he wants, but Castle believes him to be lying and pretending not to know why he is there. He confronts him about the massacre in Chicago and the attack on Larkville County Sheriff Station, accusing him of being behind John Pilgrim and saying Schultz must now help him find him.
* **Ambush on Amy Bendix****:**
	+ Pilgrim arrives at the trailer park and breaks into Castle's trailer, finding Curtis Hoyle inside. He forces Hoyle to sit, his gun still trained on him, and warns him not to reach for his shotgun. Pilgrim interrogates him about Madani, Castle, and "the girl", but Hoyle plays ignorant. Pilgrim does not believe him, however, pointing out that this is clearly a hiding trailer. Amy Bendix comes running in, giving Hoyle away, but the distraction affords Hoyle the chance to reach for the shotgun. He drops it to Bendix as he disarms Pilgrim. Bendix shoots at Pilgrim, catching him in the leg.
	+ Pilgrim launches at Bendix, but Hoyle grabs and restrains him, allowing Bendix to leave the trailer to get away. Hoyle and Pilgrim fight inside the trailer, with Pilgrim eventually using knuckledusters and the shotgun barrel to knock Hoyle out. He leaves after Bendix.

* Billy Russo meets with the remainder of his crew. José wants them to hunt Castle down in revenge for the friends of theirs he killed, but Russo says that will not bring them back, suggesting instead that they start new lives, as he hands them all new passports with fake identities. They ask where he is going, but he says the important thing is who he is going with, leaving them for the last time.
* Frank Castle gets back to the trailer and wakes Curtis Hoyle, who explains that the man after them came and Amy Bendix managed to run. Castle tries calling her, but finds she dropped her phone by the trailer.
* Castle takes David Schultz out of the car and questions him in the trailer about the man. Schultz again says he does not know. Castle shows Schultz the photos Bendix and her friends had been charged to deliver, explaining this is all about him, and that if something happens to Bendix, he will kill him.
* John Pilgrim parks his car and takes an elevator. Once he is inside, Amy Bendix, who had hidden in his car boot, climbs out to follow him.
* Schultz whimpers that he genuinely does not know what this situation is about and that he is scared. Castle points out that whoever is behind it has power and control and a reason to want the photos kept hidden, and Schultz sadly realizes it was his parents. Castle comes to believe he was not involved, but says it is time to call his parents.
* Pilgrim sits in his room and painfully pulls shotgun pellets out of his leg. Bendix walks down the corridor outside and listens, working out which room he is in.
* Dinah Madani knocks on Krista Dumont's door, saying she thought Dumont sounded strange on the phone and that she wanted to check on her. Dumont lets her in, saying she was just worried by the news, and sets a teapot to boil. Madani, however, points out that she noticed Russo using the same quote as Dumont about being your own devil, which Dumont passes off as Russo having picked up from her.
* On the way back to Krista Dumont's apartment, Russo decides to buy blue iris flowers for Dumont. He smiles at being in such a relationship.
* Madani brings up her conversation with Dumont from the other night about helping broken people, and says that she knows Dumont found herself unable to save her father, revealing she did a background check. Dumont is unsettled, as well as suspecting Madani is onto her, and excuses herself to the bathroom.
* **Attack on Dinah Madani****:**
	+ As Dumont tries to regain control of herself in the bathroom, Madani looks around and finds Russo's journal, confirming her suspicions about Dumont. She pulls her gun and waits for Dumont's return, finding further evidence of Russo's presence in a hole he punched in the wall. She walks to confront Dumont, but finds the bathroom empty, and Dumont ambushes her from the side with scissors.
	+ Dumont stabs Madani's arm, but Madani disarms her. They end up fighting on the floor and Madani loses her gun. Dumont starts punching her, but Madani punches her back in the face. As Dumont attempts to drag her leg, Madani kicks back and they end up standing again. Madani pins Dumont, but she pushes her back and they fight in the kitchen. Dumont pushes Madani's head towards the fire boiling the kettle, but Madani uses a chopping board to knock her aside. As Dumont comes at her with a knife, Madani manages to hold her back enough to deflect the movement, only cutting her face, before Madani punches her again.
	+ Madani grabs hold of Dumont and pushes her towards her window. Dumont is overcome by vertigo, allowing Madani to shove her, and she falls through the glass. It shatters and she falls, like as a child, to the pavement below.
	+ Madani turns off the boiling kettle and contemplates what has happened.
	+ Dumont lies, still conscious, on the pavement below, and remembers her first experience in such a situation at age 9. Passers-by crowd around and Russo arrives at the scene with his flowers. He is horrified to watch as she coughs and nearly dies, and looks up at her window, seeing Madani and realizing she is behind it.
	+ Knowing Russo is coming up, Madani grabs her gun and prepares herself. He breaks through the door and starts firing. Madani ducks behind cover then manages to shoot Russo twice in the stomach.
	+ Russo furiously pins Madani to the floor, but she gets another shot through his upper body. Russo tries to strangle her and she passes out, but he collapses from blood loss before he can kill her.

* Lemuel and Michael Pilgrim are fitted for suits for their mother's funeral. Anderson and Eliza Schultz decide to use the boys for their future endeavors, and Eliza suggests they let John Pilgrim die.
* Anderson Schultz gets a video call seemingly from his son, but finds Frank Castle on the other end, who shows Anderson he has David. Anderson threatens Castle, but Eliza takes the phone and instead offers to barter for David. Castle demands Bendix back, unharmed.
* John Pilgrim hears a noise in his hall and approaches the door with his gun, but finds nobody there. Amy Bendix, who had made the noise, meanwhile hides around the corner.
* John Pilgrim gets a call from Lemuel, and John tells him to look after his brother. Eliza Schultz takes the phone and tells him Castle has taken David due to him apparently having "the girl". Pilgrim lies and says he does indeed have her, and Eliza instructs him to contact Castle to get David back.
* Dinah Madani wakes as forensics check the scene, and Brett Mahoney talks to her. He explains that Krista Dumont is alive, and when Madani explains what happened with Russo, Mahoney tells her that there is a trail of blood out of the apartment, so she has likely left him with a fatal injury. Mahoney tries to return her badge and gun, but she says she thinks she is done as a homeland agent.

* **Attack on Demetri Patseras**
* **Ambush at Jeri Hogarth's Apartment**

9th

* Maryann Terwilliger celebrates her birthday.
* In the early hours, Curtis Hoyle and Frank Castle get a call from Amy Bendix.
* **Ambush on John Pilgrim****:**
	+ Castle joins Bendix at Pilgrim's hotel. She tells him which room she believes Pilgrim is in, and Castle heads over. He breaks into the room, but finds no one there, with Pilgrim actually next door. Pilgrim hears, however, and starts firing through the wall. Castle ducks, then fires back.
	+ Other occupants in the hall evacuate, and Bendix listens to what is happening.
	+ Castle runs out of the hotel room and breaks into another, still finding it to be the wrong one. The fire fight continues through the wall between the two.
	+ Bendix continues to listen from around the corner as Pilgrim unloads through his wall.
	+ As Pilgrim reloads, Castle takes advantage of the broken wall and barges through into Pilgrim's room.
	+ Bendix decides to cautiously approach the fight, still holding her shotgun. Meanwhile, the shootout continues between the two men.
	+ Pilgrim leaves his room and stumbles upon Bendix, taking her captive. He holds her at gunpoint as he walks out, forcing Castle not to shoot at him. Pilgrim says to bring David Schultz to him if he wants Bendix to live, and Castle reluctantly watches them leave in an elevator.
	+ Another elevator arrives on the floor with police ready to tackle the situation. Castle is forced to fight the three cops, managing to maneuver and tackle the trio and throw one out at the next elevator stop.
	+ Pilgrim's elevator arrives and he marches Bendix out.
	+ Castle continues to beat the other two men, using their truncheons against them to beat them unconscious. His elevator stops and he goes to find Bendix and Pilgrim.
	+ Castle spots Pilgrim driving away with Bendix and leaps onto the car, but Pilgrim manages to swerve and throw him off, before driving away.

* Russo has found a surgeon to operate on his bullet wounds, threatening to shoot him if he does not. He refuses to go under anesthesia despite the surgeon's advice, and the surgeon reluctantly begins, pulling one bullet out. As he extracts the second, Russo passes out in pain. With Russo unconscious, the surgeon eyes his bag of money.
* David Schultz talks to Curtis Hoyle about his disbelief over what has happened around him. He discusses his hurt that his parents had so many people murdered simply because they were ashamed of his sexuality. The two admit that they both just want to go home soon.
* Russo wakes and finds he has been left in a dumpster to die. He manages nonetheless to crawl out and hobble on.
* Castle returns to the trailer and finds Hoyle and Schultz gone. He gets a call from Pilgrim, asking how they will trade their hostages, and Castle lies, saying Schultz is still at the trailer, so Pilgrim will have to come to him.
* Bendix tells Pilgrim that he is being used by the Schultzes. She says it is not too late to let her go and walk away, but Pilgrim just says that he wishes he could.
* Brett Mahoney goes to an empty football stadium, called by Curtis Hoyle to meet. Hoyle says things need to end and brings out David Schultz. Schultz explains that Hoyle has been helpful, and Mahoney decides to forgive Hoyle having held a gun to him before, as he takes Schultz away safely.
* John Pilgrim arrives at the trailer park with Amy Bendix, and is met by Frank Castle, who claims David Schultz is in the trailer with C4 strapped to him, and that he is holding the detonator. Castle asks if Pilgrim really thinks he can trust the Schultzes, given he will be a loose end to them, but Pilgrim explains they have his sons. He finally tells Castle his first name, and Castle begs him by name to let Bendix go. Pilgrim hands her over, and Castle has her drive off to safety.
* Once Bendix is gone, Castle admits he does not have David Schultz, and does not know where he is. He tackles Pilgrim to the floor and starts beating him, but Pilgrim knocks him aside with a weight he finds. Pilgrim then picks up a spade and slams it in Castle's face, punching him and kicking him into glass and throwing him to the floor. He wraps a chain around Castle's neck as he asks where Schultz is, but Castle gets him off of him and takes off the chain.
* The two men, both brutally injured, get up to continue fighting. Tired, Castle nonetheless picks up a bar and attacks Pilgrim again, before they fall to the floor once more. Castle uses a fire extinguisher he finds to hit Pilgrim and then beat him in the head, winning the fight. Before Castle can hit him again, Pilgrim begs that Castle make sure his sons do not get hurt when he goes after the Schultzes, and Castle reconsiders.
* Curtis Hoyle gets to bed, but receives a phone call from Billy Russo. Russo tells him he is in Hoyle's meeting basement, bleeding heavily and dying. Russo asks Hoyle to come, and Hoyle does not respond, though promises on Russo's behest that he will at least not call the police. He begs that, despite all the things he has done, Hoyle accompany him as he dies so he does not have to die alone.
* Dinah Madani visits Krista Dumont in hospital. Madani says she is sorry Russo dragged her into everything, but Dumont insists she genuinely loves him. As Dumont starts talking about what a caring person Russo is, Madani spitefully tells her about having shot Russo three times, and that he is likely out there, dying. Dumont, however, insists he will survive and find her, but Madani ignores her.

* **Assassination of Billy Russo****:** Russo hears the door open in Hoyle's meeting basement and believes it to be Hoyle, but instead finds Frank Castle, who Hoyle had called. Russo tries to apologize, but Castle is not interested in hearing it from the man who had his family brutally murdered. Not allowing Russo the catharsis, he finishes Russo off with two more shots and walks away without looking back.
* Brett Mahoney joins Hoyle and Madani in the basement at the site of Russo's death, called by Hoyle. Mahoney works out that someone else likely put the final two bullets in him, and Madani has Mahoney consider just letting her claim she put five bullets in him, not three, so the case can finally be closed and clean, and Castle forgotten. Mahoney reluctantly agrees.
* **Attack on the Statesman****:**
	+ Thanos, who is travelling on the *Sanctuary II*, tracks down the ship Thor and the Asgardians are using to travel to Earth.
	+ As they travel with the remainder of the Asgardians in the *Statesman*, Loki tells Thor that he cannot help but wonder how he might be received when they return to Earth, considering the intentions of his visit in 2012. Thor, however, assures him everything is going to be fine. Unbeknownst to them, a much larger ship has been following them: the *Sanctuary II*. The ship suddenly appears before the Asgardians', blocking its path.
	+ The Asgardians send a distress call as Thanos and the Black Order board the *Statesman*, breaking it apart with the help of the Power Stone. They go about slaughtering half of its passengers, allowing the other half to escape, in accordance with Thanos' ethos. Thor and Heimdall are defeated and left helpless on the ground.
	+ Thanos walks to Thor and picks him up by the head. He threatens Loki, telling him that if he does not hand over the Tesseract, containing the Space Stone, then he will use the Power Stone to brutally murder Thor. While Thor insists that the Tesseract was destroyed along with Asgard, Loki reveals the truth: that he stole it before awakening Surtur. As he breaks the illusion he is conjuring to hide it, he distracts Thanos for long enough that the Hulk can attack him.
	+ At first taken by surprise, Thanos nonetheless gathers himself in the duel and begins to overpower the Hulk with targeted and skillful attacks. He beats Hulk down until he is unable to fight. Seeing that Banner is about to be killed, Heimdall uses the last of his strength to summon dark magic and channel the Bifrost to transport Hulk back to Earth. Noticing Heimdall because of this action, and feeling owed a life, Thanos impales Thor's best friend, killing him.
	+ Ebony Maw gives Thanos the Tesseract. The Titan takes the cube and breaks it in his hand, revealing the Infinity Stone it encased, then places the Stone into the Infinity Gauntlet. Loki steps out again, pretending to offer his services to Thanos in order to get close to him, then swiftly moves with a knife to attack the Titan. Thanos, however, uses the newly acquired powers of the Space Stone to immobilize Loki's arm, and proceeds to grab Loki by the neck. As the life is choked out of him, Loki spitefully tells Thanos that he will never be a god, but the strangling eventually kills Loki, and Thanos throws his body aside. He uses the Power Stone to set off a chain of explosions on the ship, then he and the Black Order use the Space Stone to teleport away. Thor is left cradling his dead brother's body as the ship collapses around him.

* The Bifrost continues to transport Hulk to Earth, heading specifically to New York City in the United States of America.
* Just as Doctor Strange and Wong are about to leave the New York Sanctum, Bruce Banner crashes through the ceiling. Worried that they might be under attack, Strange and Wong run to where Banner has landed, only to find him shocked and in fear. Banner simply warns them, "Thanos is coming."
* Pepper Potts and Tony Stark are out running in New York City and discuss their upcoming wedding. Stark tells Potts that he had a dream in which they had a child called Morgan, and wondered if it might be a sign that she is pregnant, but she denies this. They are suddenly interrupted when Doctor Strange opens a portal next to them and steps out to tell Stark that they need his help, and the universe is at stake. Stark is not sure whether to trust Strange until Bruce Banner steps out from behind the sorcerer, reuniting with his friend after 3 years in space. Stark is stunned, but agrees to go through the portal with them to the Sanctum.
* Stark is brought up-to-date as Wong, Strange, and Banner explain about the Infinity Stones and Thanos. The group realize they need to contact Vision, who has the Mind Stone embedded in his head, but Stark explains that he has been off-the-radar for a fortnight, and that the only way to find him might well be calling Steve Rogers. When Banner is confused by why this might be a problem, Stark explains what happened in 2016, when the Avengers were broken by the conflict between him and Rogers. However, Banner still insists that Stark should put the grudge aside considering the stakes at play, and Stark reluctantly gets out the burner flip-phone Rogers had left him.
* **Attack on Greenwich Village****:**
	+ At that moment, winds become stronger in the area and a commotion is heard from outside. The group leave the Sanctum and find that a strange "Q"-shaped spaceship has arrived over Greenwich Village and people are running in fear.
	+ On the way to the Museum of Modern Art on a field trip, Peter Parker looks out of the window of the Midtown School of Science and Technology bus and spots the Q-Ship. Realizing he has to get involved in helping citizens as Spider-Man, Parker asks Ned Leeds to create a distraction so people don't notice him leaving the vehicle. When he sees the ship, Leeds is shocked and exclaims to the rest of the bus, naturally creating a distraction anyway, and Parker jumps out of the window, donning the Spider-Man suit.
	+ Black Order members Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian are beamed down from the Q-Ship outside the Sanctum Santorum and demand the Time Stone from Doctor Strange. Strange refuses to give in and prepares to defend the stone with his life if necessary. Stark encourages Banner to transform into the Hulk and help in a fight against Cull Obsidian, but when he tries, he is surprised to find himself incapable of the transformation. Stark activates his nanotech Mark L armor and Strange and Wong engage two mandala shields, and a battle ensues.
	+ Iron Man and Cull Obsidian fight, but Iron Man begins to lose due to the alien's immense strength. As Cull Obsidian swings at Stark, however, Spider-Man arrives and stops his fist.
	+ Meanwhile, Ebony Maw engages the sorcerers in battle as he attempts to steal the Time Stone, meeting their magical attacks with his own. He binds Strange to the wall but is unable to touch the Eye of Agamotto without being burned, since Strange has cast a spell preventing anyone else from taking it so long as he survives. The Cloak of Levitation allows him to escape from the bindings, but Maw gives chase.
	+ Spider-Man goes after Ebony Maw to stop him from getting to Strange again. However, the Q-Ship's beam activates and catches Strange, lifting him up to the ship. Parker worries as he finds himself inescapably also caught in the beam.
	+ Wong helps Iron Man fight Cull Obsidian and conjures a portal to drop Cull Obsidian through, closing it off as the alien reaches back through, thus severing his arm and leaving him stranded in a snowy environment.
	+ As Ebony Maw brings an immobilized Strange into the Q-Ship, Spider-Man clings onto the side of the ship, desperately trying not to fall from such a great height. He communicates with Iron Man to tell him he is running out of breath in the thinner, high-altitude air, and Stark has F.R.I.D.A.Y. send the Iron Spider armor from the New Avengers Facility up to Parker. It wraps itself around him and gives him breathing capability just in time to stop him falling to his death. However, as Stark arrives at the ship, he engages a parachute in Spider-Man's suit to safely take him back to Earth, not wanting to endanger the teenager further.
	+ As Stark cuts a hole in the ship to get inside, Pepper Potts calls him, worried he is on-board the ship. He reluctantly confirms her fears, just as the ship reaches too high an altitude and his signal is lost, as well as his connection to F.R.I.D.A.Y.. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to him, Parker has managed to grab hold of the Q-Ship and stow away inside.
	+ On the ground, Wong tells Banner that he has to return to the Sanctum in Strange's absence, so as to protect it from any potential threats. Banner finds Stark's flip-phone and calls Steve Rogers to warn him about Vision.

* Aboard the *Benatar*, the Guardians of the Galaxy travel across space to answer the distress call sent by the Asgardian ship. However, on arrival, they are shocked to find the *Statesman* in ruins and debris floating in all directions. As they look at the wreckage, an unconscious Thor floats in front of them and hits their windscreen.
* After bringing him inside, Mantis uses her powers to wake Thor so the Guardians can question him. Thor jolts awake and is surprised by his surroundings, but proceeds to explain what has transpired, telling them of the attack on Xandar, the destruction of his ship, the deaths of his best friend, his brother, and half his people, and Thanos' acquisition of two Infinity Stones. He tells the Guardians that he needs to leave and travel to Nidavellir in an escape pod, hoping to forge a new weapon capable of killing Thanos, and warns them that they should check the Reality Stone is still safely in the possession of the Collector on Knowhere. Interested in the weaponry, Rocket Raccoon decides to go with Thor to the Dwarven forge, and brings Groot along.
* In the Lighthouse, Glenn Talbot is trying to sleep. However, he finds his rest disturbed by a set of coordinates repeating in his head that he does not understand.
* After several days spent apart, with Deke letting his arm heal, Fitz, Mackenzie, and Simmons working on giving the Quinjet space capabilities with gravitonium, May and Johnson working on saving Coulson, and Johnson and Coulson preparing to deal with the remaining gravitonium, Coulson's team finally come together for the first time since Yo-Yo Rodriguez killed Ruby Hale. They convene to discuss the finalized plan to slingshot the remaining gravitonium into the Sun, but when General Hale is mentioned, Mackenzie asks for someone to explain how they lost her in Herefordshire. This sparks an argument about the morality of Rodriguez's decision, with her standing by her decision to kill Ruby Hale as necessary for saving the world and Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons backing her up, but the others believing it was not justified. Coulson dismisses them to pursue their own individual tasks, thus breaking up the argument.
* Knowing that Coulson would object to their actions, May takes Daisy Johnson aside to talk in secret about their pursuit of a cure for his affliction. She tells Johnson that Tony Caine says he has found something to help, and that when she delivers Polly and Robin Hinton to him, she should ask him for what he has found.
* Deke Shaw talks to his future grandparents, Fitz and Simmons, about the possibility that if they change the future, he will stop existing. Shaw, however, suggests once again that the multiverse theory may be true, and he is from an alternate universe - that this would make him safe if, indeed, the future of this universe is different.
* Glenn Talbot continues to mutter coordinates, but comes to a realization of what they mean. He calls for Phil Coulson.
* Coulson visits Talbot, and Talbot tells him about the coordinates. He says that he has realized why his HYDRA programming had led him to the hangar - he was broadcasting the location of the Lighthouse to Hale. Coulson is shocked as he realizes this means they could be under attack by Qovas and the Remorath.
* Sure enough, Qovas' ship materializes over the Lighthouse in New York, preparing to attack.
* Coulson's team realize that the Remorath above have cut off all their communication signals to the outside world. In reaction to the threat, the Lighthouse programming automatically triggers "Project: Reclamation" - the project for which it was built, giving options for extra protection against a threat or catastrophic event. Another video of Rick Stoner begins, walking them through the options for defense. As Stoner lists the options, Coulson decides that the one most befitting their situation is "nuclear attack", prematurely selecting it before Stoner then states that there was, in fact, another option specifically for alien invasion. The nuclear attack selection locks the building down, with Stoner informing them that they are locked in for 15 years. Coulson tries to stay calm despite his mistake. He takes the tannoy to hesitantly inform the other agents of the situation they are in, adding that all being well, there should be a way out of their predicament.
* Qovas contacts Coulson with a live feed from his ship. Coulson tries to stay defiant and despite Qovas' threats, he insists that him and his agents are safe, and that as soon as the government find out about the ship, they are likely to shoot it down.
* Talking properly for the first time in days, Yo-Yo Rodriguez tries to explain her actions to Alphonso Mackenzie, knowing that he is angry at what she did. He tells her that he, too, has had violent urges, but that as part of S.H.I.E.L.D., they should know better than to lose control and act on them.
* Rodriguez comes across Melinda May, who guesses what Mackenzie told her. Understanding Rodriguez's position after having had to kill Katya Belyakov 10 years prior, she says that it will change people's perception of her, but that all she can do is to learn to live with her actions.
* The two agents get back to the control room, and Phil Coulson says he is worried as to why Daisy Johnson has not yet returned. May confesses the truth to him, that she had ordered Johnson to go dark while she performed their secret side-mission that might help save him. On hearing this, Rodriguez begins to panic, saying that she thinks she killed Ruby Hale for nothing.
* As the sun sets, Qovas' Ship looms over the Lighthouse. His Remorath marauders gather inside, and he nods to send them on their way.
* Rodriguez tells Coulson about what her future self said in 2091, warning that they need to let him die. May argues that since Robin Hinton said Coulson will "put the pieces back together", they need to save him. However, the argument is interrupted when Coulson realizes that through the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device, the alien attackers are able to go wherever they want, and could arrive any moment.
* The Remorath marauders use the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device to teleport into the building.
* The marauders materialize in the Lighthouse and the lights in the corridors go out. They begin to stab agents they find, and Deke Shaw dives into a ventilation shaft to hide.
* Energy fluctuations occur throughout the Lighthouse as a result of the Remorath's presence. Shaw gets back to the control room through the ventilation shafts.
* Shaw explains that he knows the Remorath from 2091, warning the agents about their tendency to successfully hunt down everyone they target. Phil Coulson sends Yo-Yo Rodriguez to get Glenn Talbot to safety, and via video call, Leo Fitz lets the agents know that there is an analogue override in the building that will be able to get to get them out of the Project Reclamation lock-down. Shaw asks why Daisy Johnson cannot help them, then realizes that she never returned. When he asks why, Coulson bitterly tells him to ask May.
* Johnson talks to Tony Caine after he has finished getting the Hintons settled in safely. He mentions that Robin drew him a picture of a blue alien lady, and remarks how strange it is dealing with aliens, asking her if she has seen the weird alien events happening in New York, to which she replies that she is unable to watch the news these days as it bothers her. He moves on to telling her what he has found for Coulson, explaining that his research took him back to John Garrett's work, and that he has found what kept Garrett alive during the Deathlok program: Centipede Serum, which he has the last remaining unit of. He hands her the unit but explains that the serum is missing a healing component designed and developed by the Nazis, and that the only clue he has to its source, a name, could not be found on any map. When Johnson looks at the name, however, she sees that it is "Jiaying", and realizes that HYDRA used her mother's healing ability to complete the serum.
* **Siege of the Lighthouse****:**
	+ Rodriguez gets to Talbot's cell and asks him to put on handcuffs. He is reluctant to, claiming that he can be trusted to cooperate and wants to make up for his actions, but she tells him that while she trusts him, they cannot know for sure that he is not still under HYDRA conditioning. She asks that he follow her lead.
	+ Fitz makes his way to Floor 17, where the analogue override is held, accompanied by another agent. The lights begin to flicker and Fitz's walkie-talkie stops working, making them realize that Remorath marauders must be nearby. Fitz's fellow agent then walks ahead but is ambushed by a marauder, killed on the spot. Fitz runs and comes across Deke Shaw, who had gone to find him as he was afraid that if Fitz died, he would never exist. Shaw uses a fire extinguisher to ward off the marauder and the two of them run to the override room. However, when they get there, Fitz is horrified to find that the override has been ripped apart, meaning they no longer have any way out.
	+ Qovas sends sends more marauders from his ship to the Lighthouse.
	+ Coulson explains to May and Mackenzie about the override being destroyed. Agent Kim offers to go to the armory for them and Coulson decides that they have to take a stand and defend the control room. He instructs Yo-Yo Rodriguez to pick up any weaponry she can and take Talbot to them. Deke Shaw works on fixing an elevator to allow Simmons, Piper, and Davis to transport the gravitonium to the control room. Fitz warns them that the aliens have technology like EMPs that affects technology, and informs Coulson that they need to find combustible items to use as sources of light if they are going to be able to see the attackers.
	+ Rodriguez and Glenn Talbot encounter two Remorath marauders and hide, waiting for an opportunity to get past.
	+ Shaw and Fitz get into the fixed elevator. Shaw begins to panic, not wanting to die without having seen the wider world.
	+ Piper, Davis, and Simmons barricade themselves in the lab and prepare to fight. The door begins to rattle and they raise their guns, but it is only Rodriguez and Talbot. They enter and inform Simmons that their route to the control room has been cut off, and Simmons tells Fitz on the walkie-talkie that she will have to make her stand where she is, in the lab. Rodriguez heads out with Davis and Piper to hunt their attackers, leaving Simmons and Talbot as the last line of defense.
	+ Alphonso Mackenzie joins Leo Fitz and Deke Shaw at the elevator exit as they get out. A marauder arrives in their corridor and Mackenzie shoots him, but he is unfazed. He is joined by two further marauders, who chase the agents as they run for safety.
	+ Rodriguez, Piper, and Davis struggle with the darkness in the building as they cannot see if there are marauders nearby. They shoot down the corridor in case but find nothing. However, Rodriguez uses her super-speed to scout ahead and reports back that there are several that they are about to encounter. She insists on leading the way, telling the two agents that she cannot be killed.
	+ Coulson uses the walkie-talkies to let Simmons know that he and the others are surrounded in the control room, and so she and Rodriguez should not try to get to them. Simmons is unable to warn Rodriguez, however, as she has left and Simmons is unable to exit the lab without being swarmed by attackers. Talbot picks up an I.C.E.R. to prepare to help her if any Remorath get in, but then finds the Particle Infusion Chamber chamber in the lab. Believing he can help if he is infused with the gravitonium, but knowing Simmons will not let him, he I.C.E.-es her and enters the machine.
	+ Fitz gets back to the control room with a combustible cocktail he has made. He and May light fires and the team prepares for the Remorath's attack. The doors begin to shake as they try to get in, but they suddenly go quiet. The team become suspicious, then realize the Remorath are heading upwards as noises resume from above. The marauders enter from an upper floor door and the team being to shoot at their attackers.
	+ Yo-Yo Rodriguez, Piper, and Davis meanwhile shoot at the marauders attacking the lab, but realize they are swarmed from all sides. Rodriguez attempts to contact Simmons but gets no response from the walkie-talkie and becomes concerned. Piper begins reminding Rodriguez that she need not be worried because the technology around them is just not working, when suddenly the lab doors are blown open. They watch as a marauder who has been knocked to the ground by the blast is dragged out of view, followed by their blood splattering across the hall. Glenn Talbot emerges, empowered by the gravitonium infused in his body.
	+ In the control room, the team run out of ammunition, with no success in having taken down the seemingly bulletproof Remorath. They begin to fight hand-to-hand, but Coulson finds himself quickly knocked to the ground. Dazed, he notices the control room door opening despite the lock-down, and is surprised to see Glenn Talbot enter. Talbot uses his newly acquired ability of manipulating the effects of gravity on people and objects to lift the marauders into the air and then crush them as they float, crumpling their bodies inwards on themselves and killing them all swiftly.
	+ Rodriguez runs into the lab and helps Jemma Simmons off the floor. They find the Particle Infusion Chamber with the reading marking it "100%", and realize, to their dismay, what Talbot has done.
	+ Talbot proudly proclaims to the agents in the control room that he has fixed things as he promised. He then uses his powers to break the ceiling of the Lighthouse and detach the portion of the floor Coulson is lying on, standing on it with him as he lifts the piece of floor up into the air and through the ceiling. The remaining agents are astonished, but the electricity comes back online and the breaking of the lock-down and lack of contamination in the scans of the atmosphere trigger a new Rick Stoner recording informing them that Project: Reclamation is over.

* **Assassination of Anderson and Eliza Schultz**
	+ Anderson and Eliza Schultz sit at a dinner table and discuss having to kill off John Pilgrim. Suddenly, Amy Bendix walks in with a gun, angrily confronting them about having had all her friends killed. When Eliza goes for a knife, Frank Castle shoots her through the head from outside the room. Anderson panics and Castle enters, showing him that he recorded their video call conversation, acting as proof of the Schultzes' actions. He offers Anderson the chance to either give his son a chance and live with the truth as his actions are exposed to the *New York Bulletin*, or to kill himself with a gun he leaves him.
	+ As the pair leave the mansion, they hear the gunshot sound as Anderson kills himself. John Pilgrim, waiting outside for them, gets his sons safely into a car, ready to start afresh with the chance Castle has given them.

* Knowing she needs her mother's DNA to acquire the necessary healing component of the Centipede Serum, Daisy Johnson visits Jiaying's grave and begins to dig up the body.
* Glenn Talbot continues to lift Phil Coulson up higher and higher into the sky, taking him to Qovas' ship in order to end the alien situation.
* Arriving at Qovas' docking station, Talbot and Coulson are met by Remorath who declare them prisoners. Coulson asks Talbot what his plan is, and he says that they are going to show the aliens his position of authority over them to force them to leave, again saying he will "fix" things, which concerns Coulson.
* The team at the Lighthouse discuss their concern about Talbot. Simmons informs them that Talbot took in all of the gravitonium, and mentions the fact that it has catastrophic consequences, having driven Ruby Hale insane with just 8%, highlighting that with Talbot's brain injury this could cause him a major psychotic break. Melinda May declares that they need to find him and Coulson, but Leo Fitz points out that the building has only just come back online and it could be hours before the systems are fully functional. Rodriguez asks where Alphonso Mackenzie is, and Piper explains he has gone to check for any remaining Remorath.
* Mackenzie scouts the hallways and finds one remaining marauder. The alien ingests the same odium liquid the team encountered in 2091, giving him a burst of adrenaline and making rabid and super resilient. Mackenzie shoots at him, but the bullets are once again ineffective, and he has to engage the alien hand-to-hand. He manages to outsmart the alien and beat him down with his Shotgun-Axe, but before he can kill him, May arrives and tells him to stop, as they need the marauder alive to attempt to acquire any information they can about what Coulson and Talbot are facing. Mackenzie knocks him out instead.
* Talbot and Coulson are taken before Qovas, and Talbot claims the ship for himself. Qovas dismisses his claim, but Talbot uses his new powers to crush one of the Remorath the same way he had in the Lighthouse. Realizing that Talbot has the power to end their lives in an instant, Qovas and his marauders reluctantly kneel before him as he demands.
* Yo-Yo Rodriguez finds Mackenzie and asks if he is okay. However, when she tries to further the conversation to talk again about forgiving her, he explains that May and Simmons are waiting for him and walks away.
* May, Mackenzie, and Simmons interrogate the marauder they found, keeping him chained to the floor and ceiling. He rants about the liquid he consumed, telling them it is called the odium, and exclaiming that it gives them the powers of the gods. He grows increasingly rabid, shaking and straining in his chains until one chain breaks, but as he does so, the odium finishes taking effect and his heart stops, dying with odium dripping out of his mouth. Simmons explains that to understand the odium better, she would have to dissect him, and the other two encourage her to do so.
* Glenn Talbot expresses his pride in his work, but Phil Coulson warns him that they need to plan more thoroughly and not make rash decisions. Talbot says he is saving the world, but Qovas calmly tells him that he is being ignorant, as the Confederacy will not stand for his actions, noting that HYDRA were never so foolish. This prompts Coulson to realize that Hale must be how Qovas found out their location, and requests to be taken to see her.
* Coulson visits Hale, and finds her repentant, having spent time alone wallowing in her grief. She explains that she has always been too angry, and never stopped to consider her love for Ruby until it was too late - that she blindly carried out HYDRA's agenda to the point where it got her daughter killed, and that makes it her fault. Coulson expresses his condolences, but asks for her help, telling her of Talbot undergoing Project Destroyer of Worlds.
* Coulson takes Hale back to Talbot and Qovas, and she tells them what she knows of the Confederacy. He is reluctant to trust his captor, but she apologizes for her treatment of him, and Coulson tells him they need her knowledge. Hale tells Talbot that now he is laced with the gravitonium, he is the only one who can save them all, and he decides to listen. She reveals that HYDRA's deal with the Confederacy was for them to protect the Earth from attack in return for Inhumans and gravitonium, the latter of which Qovas adds is a very valuable substance due to its exceptional powers that can be used to bend space and build and destroy empires. The humans decide they have to meet with the Confederacy to make a new arrangement, which Qovas argues is against Confederacy protocol, noting they would also have nothing to bargain with. Coulson, however, argues that Talbot himself is their bargaining chip due to the gravitonium in his body.
* In the Lighthouse, Leo Fitz worries that it could take hours to get the power working again, but it suddenly switches back on, as Deke Shaw steps out from behind the monitors and explains that he fixed it, as it was what he was good at in the future. The team receive a transmission from Daisy Johnson, who explains that she has been trying to contact for 30 minutes to let them know she is arriving. Shaw tells her why they were unable to pick up, explaining about the attack they underwent.
* Yo-Yo Rodriguez goes to meet Johnson when she arrives, wanting to confront her for keeping her mission secret and, in her opinion, abandoning them.
* Johnson enters and Rodriguez demands to know what is in the bag she is carrying. When Johnson refuses, she uses her super-speed to grab the bag for herself and finds the skeleton within. She asks Johnson what is wrong with her, and Johnson hits her, starting a fight. Rodriguez uses her super-speed to repeatedly punch Johnson, but Johnson takes advantage of the moment in which Rodriguez returns to her starting point, hitting her with a quake before she can run again. Melinda May arrives and breaks up the fight, informing them that they have picked up a signal of a spaceship outside of the atmosphere, believing it to be Qovas' ship, and that once the artificial gravity is installed on Zephyr One, they will be flying up to board it. She tells Rodriguez that they will continue working to help Coulson, and she can either help or leave.
* Glenn Talbot, having trimmed his shaggy hair and beard, dons robes to prepare for the visit to the Confederacy. Coulson reminds him to be careful, but he insists he knows what he is doing. Qovas takes him to the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device, and they teleport to the Confederacy meeting.
* The Confederacy are surprised by Talbot's presence, and Qovas explains that he is there to renegotiate the terms of Earth's protection. The aliens are reluctant to listen, but Talbot confidently claims he is much more than the amateurs they have dealt with in the past, calling himself "Earth's mightiest hero".
* Deke Shaw goes to see Daisy Johnson. She comments on the lemons she found in her bed, believing it to be a prank, and Shaw, embarrassed that his attempt at showing affection went wrong, deflects it by saying it was probably Fitz. He says he has been meaning to tell her something since they became closer, and she tells him not to get close to her, as people close to her die, mentioning her mother and Lincoln Campbell. Shaw asks who Campbell is, and she explains his sacrifice and how much she loved him, saying she sometimes wonders if she still does. She asks what he was going to say, and he tells her of their discovery: that Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons are his grandparents.
* Talbot asks to be added to the Confederacy, but is told that there can never be more than six members. He uses his powers to engulf Confederacy member Crixon with the gravitonium from his body, proving his might, and arrogantly proclaims that he has just freed a space for himself in the group.
* Alphonso Mackenzie works on Zephyr One, and Leo Fitz arrives to insert the gravitonium into the ship's system to use for artificial gravity once they head to space. Fitz tries to apologize to Mackenzie for complying with locking him up before, but Mackenzie refuses to accept his support of Yo-Yo Rodriguez killing Ruby Hale, telling him that the things he was saying about the predetermined future led Rodriguez down the wrong path. Fitz stands up for himself, saying that sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice a life for the sake of many, and that Hale was just too dangerous, but Mackenzie tells him he needs to take a look at his actions and think about what kind of person he wants to be, because lately he has been morally questionable.
* Wanda Maximoff and Vision are staying in a bedroom in Edinburgh together, with Vision having mastered his phasing abilities to make himself appear human. Vision feels a pain from the Mind Stone in his forehead. He has Maximoff use her powers, which stem from the stone, to connect with the stone and see if she can feel anything, but she tells him that all she feels is him. They share a kiss.
* Jemma Simmons is dissecting the Remorath marauder's heart when Daisy Johnson enters, showing her the Centipede Serum she has acquired and delivering the bag with Jiaying's skeleton. Simmons is reluctant to help, saying that the morality of what they are doing needs to be considered, but Johnson tells her that if she wants Phil Coulson to survive, which she affirms that she obviously does, this has to be her top priority.
* Melinda May and Davis sit in the cockpit and launch Zephyr One for its flight into space.
* Three Confederacy members leave via the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device, so that Qovas, Glenn Talbot, and the Kree representative, who announces himself to be Taryan of the house Kasius - the father of the Kree noblemen the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had to face in 2091. He reveals that the Confederacy never intended to honor their agreement of protection, nor did they have the ability to, as is being exemplified as they speak; Taryan explains that an alien far beyond the Confederacy's might, known as Thanos, is currently leading his forces in an assault on the planet. Talbot insists that he must face Thanos, but Taryan says he is nowhere near capable enough, but that there might be a way to strengthen him so he can face the Titan.
* **Attack on Vision****:**
	+ Maximoff and Vision go for a walk through the Edinburgh streets, and Vision suggests that this time, after 2 years of only meeting for a couple of weeks at a time, they stay together for longer and start to settle. However, before they can make a decision, Maximoff notices a television in a shop behind Vision broadcasting the news of the attack on Greenwich village and the disappearance of Tony Stark. Turning to look, Vision recognizes that the aliens who attacked New York are the threat that the Mind Stone is warning him of. He tells her will have to leave, but is suddenly ambushed as Corvus Glaive, another of Thanos' Black Order, steps out from a street corner and stabs him through the chest with a glaive.
	+ The injury stops Vision's ability to phase and he reverts to his android form. The Black Order's Proxima Midnight arrives and hits Maximoff with a blast from her spear to get her out of the way, as Glaive begins trying to prise the gem from Vision's head. Maximoff gets back up and uses her powers to throw balls of energy at the aliens and knock them aside, then telekinetically pull Vision away from them and fly to a nearby square.
	+ Maximoff starts to use her abilities to help heal Vision's wound, but the Black Order catch up with them and manage to separate the couple, with Corvus Glaive fighting Vision and Proxima Midnight fighting Maximoff. Vision begins to shoot a beam from the Mind Stone, but Corvus Glaive uses his glaive's abilities to fire at back at him. He again tries to prise the stone from Vision's head, but Maximoff overpowers Proxima Midnight and flies to his aid, blasting him aside with another ball of energy.
	+ Maximoff begins to fly herself and Vision away, but Proxima Midnight fires a blast from her spear that knocks them out of the sky, tumbling into Edinburgh Waverley railway station. Vision lies helpless on the floor as the aliens return, and Maximoff prepares to defend him, outnumbered. However, when a train passes by, Maximoff is relieved when from behind it appears Steve Rogers, who has arrived with Sam Wilson and Natasha Romanoff on Bruce Banner's warning to help defend the couple.
	+ Proxima Midnight throws her spear at Rogers, but his fast reflexes allow him to simply catch it. Wilson then takes advantage of the alien's surprise and ambushes her, kicking her through a shop window then firing small missiles at Corvus Glaive, occupying him as he tries to deflect them, and allowing Romanoff a window to attack him. Rogers throws the spear to her and she catches it, then thrusts it into Corvus Glaive's side, knocking him down and kicking the glaive from his hand. Proxima Midnight summons the spear back to her hand to attack Romanoff, but Rogers rolls in front of her, picking up the glaive and parrying. He works with Rogers to overpower Proxima Midnight, and Wilson returns to kick her down again. She scuttles to Corvus Glaive's side, and Romanoff threatens to kill them, but before they can act, a transportation beam from a Q-Ship overhead lifts the aliens away to safety.

* Wanda Maximoff and Sam Wilson help Vision to his feet and carry him to Rogers' Quinjet.
* General Hale and Phil Coulson look out at space from Qovas' ship, when Talbot and Qovas return through the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device. Talbot passes on Taryan's news of "Thanos" and says that the only option they have left is for him to make himself "invincible", which he will do by tapping into an untapped deposit of gravitonium under the Earth's surface. Coulson tries to talk him down, warning of how dangerous the gravitonium is and that it could cause him to lose control, but Talbot accuses him of always doubting him and says he trusts the Confederacy member who told him about the deposit, revealing him to have been called "Kasius". Coulson pleads with Talbot to stop, explaining that the Kree ruling the remnants of humanity in the future was a Kasius, and that Talbot is being played, but Talbot tells him he is in charge now and is Earth's last hope, forcing Coulson to kneel before him under threat of crushing him just like the Remorath he killed.
* Zephyr One reaches the outer atmosphere and engages its newly installed artificial gravity, then twisting to fly vertically, using thrusters to escape the atmosphere and reach outer space. Piper and Alphonso Mackenzie help them through communication devices from the control room of the Lighthouse, and the agents get through to space, turning on cloaking as they turn in the direction of Qovas' ship.
* Sam Wilson pilots the Quinjet as the group take off from Edinburgh with Maximoff and Vision in tow. Romanoff scolds the couple for taking the risk of dropping out of contact just to appreciate more alone time, and Maximoff apologizes. When Wilson asks Rogers where they should fly to, Rogers replies, "Home," the New Avengers Facility in New York.
* Jemma Simmons congratulates Leo Fitz on the success of his work on Zephyr One allowing the team to reach space, but he shows no happiness, still bothered by Mackenzie's words. He addresses the Centipede Serum with her, asking if she really thinks it could work as he is concerned. She simply replies that the less they think about it the better.
* **Infiltration into Qovas' Ship****:**
	+ May gets up to prepare with Johnson to infiltrate Qovas' ship, and Davis pilots them onto the spaceship's hull, docking so the agents can board.
	+ Glenn Talbot reports that he can hear Ian Quinn's consciousness in the gravitonium, and that Quinn is saying his team originally found gravitonium at the bottom of a mine. A Remorath then reports that an unseen object has breached their hull, and Talbot realizes it is S.H.I.E.L.D., using cloaking. He turns on Coulson, accusing him of contacting the team behind his back. When he asks General Hale if she had a part in it, Hale claims to have known that Coulson was making contact, and that she attempted to dissuade him. Coulson again states that this is a lie, but Talbot refuses to believe him, feeling he has been betrayed.
	+ Daisy Johnson and Melinda May make their way through Qovas' ship. When they encounter Remorath guards, Johnson quakes them out of the way.
	+ Johnson and May get to the control room, and Talbot uses his powers to lift Coulson into the air, threatening to kill him if she attacks. May exclaims that they are here to save him, not attack, and Johnson tries to calm him down, but Talbot refuses to trust them. Hale speaks up for Johnson, however, saying that after the way she treated Ruby, she trusts her.
	+ Hale attempts to activate Talbot's HYDRA conditioning to stop him. He lowers Coulson back to the floor, seemingly under her control, but then reveals himself to be free of the conditioning's effects and turns on her. He says that she is traitor and uses his powers to crush her, just like the Remorath he killed.
	+ Horrified, Johnson starts to quake Talbot to take him down, but is surprised when it has little effect on him as he uses his abilities to keep himself grounded. He then uses his powers to throw her quickly into the ceiling, knocking her out. May and Coulson are forced to surrender, and Talbot calls them prisoners of war, requesting that Qovas treat them accordingly. He tells Coulson that he has finally realized S.H.I.E.L.D. were always the enemy.

* **Skirmish at SAC Imports Airport**
* Taryan has Agent Johnson delivered to him, remarking that he looks forward to taking her back home with him.
* Johnson wakes in a dark unfamiliar room, and meets Taryan. He introduces himself, mentioning that he is master of the House Kasius, worrying her. Taryan explains that he believes Inhumans deserve "something better" than the way humans treat them, but Johnson suspects she knows his true motives, having seen Kasius' Inhuman trade in 2091. She asks where her friends are, but he says not to worry, as they are her past, and he is now her "future".
* Qovas tells Coulson and May they will be kept as prisoners, but they insist that they will be taking him down soon enough. He considers their threat meaningless given their imprisonment, but warns them nonetheless that if they try anything, he will release ionizer missiles on the Lighthouse. He leaves and reunites with Glenn Talbot, who says that he knows someone who may be able to help them acquire gravitonium.
* Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons review the Centipede Serum and its potential to save Coulson. Fitz suggests that the 2091 Rodriguez's comment about the Earth's destruction came about from trying to save Coulson could be re-framed with the assertion that if they do not just "try", but actually succeed, then perhaps that breaks the chain of events. Simmons is glad to hear this optimistic view, pointing out that Fitz has always believed time cannot be changed, but Fitz suggests it is time to take bold risks.
* Deke Shaw and Agents Davis and Kim talk as they run maintenance on Zephyr One, with Shaw being amazed as Davis tells him how he survived Aida's attack. Glenn Talbot then suddenly enters through the floor, boarding the plane, and on seeing Kim, he uses his powers to kill him without a second thought. Shaw and Davis hide for safety as Talbot, along with two Remorath marauders, heads for the Quinjet.
* Alphonso Mackenzie watches WHiH World News in the Lighthouse as it reports on the attack on Greenwich Village. Shaw calls him and lets him know of Kim's death, and of Talbot's state of mind.
* Talbot gets to the Quinjet, using his powers to fly it himself instead of using the jet's power. He detaches it from Zephyr One and heads back to Earth.
* Mackenzie wonders why the Quinjet's tracker is not showing up, but Yo-Yo Rodriguez realizes that if Talbot is not using the jet's power, then the tracker would not be activated. Mackenzie decides to try and force the tracker to work by remote.
* Phil Coulson and Melinda May discuss Talbot in their cell. Coulson says he feels responsible, with Talbot having entered the machine for their sake. May points out the absurdity that they have now come to care for Talbot, having detested him when they first met 4 years prior, but Coulson states that this is an example of how people do change, and that they still need to try to help. He begins to scan their cell wall with his prosthetic hand.
* Having returned to Earth, Talbot visits his old bodyguard Carl Creel in hospital. He tells Creel that he has come into contact with gravitonium and has learned how to silence the voices it inflicts, saying he can silence them for him as well.
* Daisy Johnson talks with Taryan in the dark room. He says he sympathizes with the fact that "lesser" humans hunted her, but she tells him that despite having experienced some discrimination, humans should not be generalized by this. When he replies that she will come with him willingly or not, she tries to attack him but is surprised to find herself incapable of using her powers. Taryan reveals that she is not in fact conscious, and is currently being taken by Remorath to be delivered to him, with a device planted on her forehead to allow her unconscious self to converse with him ahead of them meeting physically.
* Alphonso Mackenzie goes to Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, and they tell him that they might have found a way to revive Coulson's necrotic tissue. He is pleased, but informs them that Glenn Talbot is killing people, asking if they can find a way to reverse the process he underwent.
* Coulson continues to scan the wall and begins to construct a plan for an attempted escape. However, before he can take any action, the door opens and he and May find Deke Shaw at the entrance, knocking out the guard and letting them out. The agents are grateful, but tell him that they need to find Johnson next.
* Talbot offers to help Creel, extending his hand and asking for Creel to "join" him. Creel is cautious, but eventually does so, and the gravitonium in Talbot extends from his fingers to envelop him. Creel happily says that he has found peace, but Talbot then proceeds to use the gravitonium to absorb him entirely, effectively killing his old bodyguard.

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* Soon after midnight, Alphonso Mackenzie and Yo-Yo Rodriguez review the security footage from the hospital of Talbot killing Creel. He tells her that while Creel had killed his friend, Isabelle Hartley, once he had understood that Creel was not in his right mind and got to know the man, he had forgiven him and found him to be a good person. Mackenzie finds new determination to take down Talbot, and Rodriguez suggests that it might unfortunately be necessary to kill him. He replies that if that is the case, he will be the one to do it.
* On their way to Knowhere, Gamora looks at her switchblade and reminisces sadly on the day her mother died, when Thanos massacred her people and abducted her. When Peter Quill returns to the cockpit, she tells him she needs to ask a favor. She states that she knows they will soon encounter Thanos whatever happens, and that if he gets a hold of her, she needs him to kill her. Quill is confused, but she says that she knows something vital that Thanos cannot find out about, and that if he gets hold of her alive he will almost certainly manage to force it out of her. She makes him swear, on his mother, that he will kill her if the time comes, and Quill reluctantly, solemnly, eventually agrees. She kisses him, but they are interrupted by the sound of a crunch beside them. They turn and find Drax, who informs them he has been standing there for an hour, claiming that he has mastered the ability of moving so slowly that he is invisible to the eye. Quill and Gamora exchange quizzical looks, telling him that they can see him perfectly well, but he insists his movement is imperceptible - until Mantis enters and greets him, disappointing him bitterly.
* Taryan tells Johnson that the device on her forehead, the Astralscope, is projecting her consciousness. She insists that she will get out of the situation, but Taryan mocks her, saying she has already lost track of how long she has been there and that without water, food, and sleep, she will be physically too weak to put up a fight. However, Johnson retorts by telling him that she knows his sons will die as cowards, and proceeds to use her force of will to wake herself up. The Astralscope on her head is broken and she returns to consciousness, kicking the two Remorath marauders carrying her to the ground and turning and tackling a third, then quaking them.
* Fitz and Simmons talk as they finish the Centipede Serum modifications to save Coulson. They consider how to stop Glenn Talbot, and Simmons suggests that drinking the odium might stop him, but that it would be too difficult to make him drink and even then it might not be strong enough. She posits that the Centipede Serum could perhaps be used to deliver the odium straight into his cells instead.
* The Guardians of the Galaxy arrive at Knowhere. They detect movement in the planet's third quadrant and go to land nearby.
* **Ambush in Knowhere****:**
	+ The team hear Thanos' voice in the Collector's Museum and approach quietly. They watch in silence as Thanos threatens the Collector, questioning the whereabouts of the Reality Stone, saying he will kill him.
	+ Drax is overcome with his desire for revenge and moves to attack Thanos. Quill tries to stop him, but when he insists, Mantis rushes over and puts him to sleep. Her action, however, causes Drax to keel over and cause a loud thud as he hits the floor, alerting Thanos to their presence.
	+ Ignoring Quill's attempts to construct a plan, Gamora rushes to make her attack. She manages to surprise Thanos and stab him both with Godslayer and her switchblade. Thanos falls to the ground and dies, and Gamora cries, feeling a swell of mixed emotion at killing the man who was so cruel to her and yet treated her with care nonetheless.
	+ Gamora is shocked to suddenly hear Thanos' voice coming from behind her, despite his dead body at her feet. The reality around them begins to crumble into red dust, revealing the fiery ruins of the Collector's Museum as Thanos removes the effects of the Reality Stone on the area, which he has already acquired and has been using to alter the apparent reality around the Guardians to lure them in, including the rake version of himself that Gamora killed.
	+ Drax and Mantis move to attack Thanos, but the Titan simply uses the Reality Stone to temporarily turn Drax to stone blocks and Mantis into ribbon-like pieces. He grabs hold of Gamora, and Quill rushes to her defense, holding his Quad Blaster to Thanos and demanding he let her go.
	+ Gamora reminds Quill that he has no hope of harming Thanos, but that he promised he would kill her if Thanos got hold of her. Quill is distraught and Thanos taunts him, urging him to try and believing he is incapable. Holding to his solemn promise, Quill eventually summons the courage to painfully pull the trigger and end his girlfriend's life, only for Thanos to use the Reality Stone to turn the blast into bubbles, rendering the shot useless. He smiles as he opens a portal with the Space Stone and takes Gamora away with him.
	+ Drax and Mantis reform following Thanos' departure, and the team are left shell-shocked in the ruins of the museum.

* Deke Shaw, Phil Coulson, and Melinda May wander the corridors of Qovas' ship, not knowing where to go. The agents ask Shaw to translate the Kree language, but he reveals that he does not know it, only being able to count from 0 to 5. He decides on a direction to take them, but they stumble upon two Remorath. May prepares to fight, but Daisy Johnson arrives in time to help, quaking the aliens. Shaw wants to now leave the ship, but Coulson warns that they have to deal with Qovas first, otherwise the ionizer missiles could destroy River's End.

* Yo-Yo Rodriguez and Alphonso Mackenzie discuss Talbot and consider where he might have headed. Rodriguez tells him that before going into the machine, Talbot had kept repeating that he wanted to "fix" things. She speculates that he could be trying to prove that he is still a good man, and Mackenzie realizes that there is a high chance he specifically wants to prove he is a good father, and could have returned home.
* Frank Castle sits with Amy Bendix at a bus depot, and they admit to each other that they have grown to care for one another. Castle requests that Bendix start a new life, moving on from cons and blackmail, and gives her money to help, as well as a contact of his and Curtis Hoyle's in Florida who will help her and teach her to dive, as she had admitted to Hoyle was her dream. As Bendix's bus arrives, Castle, who struggles with opening up, starts to admit she has changed his life, and she understands, pulling him into a tight hug, which he embraces.
* Bendix goes to get on her bus, and looks back and sadly finds Castle has already left.

* Soon after dawn, Steve Rogers' Quinjet lands at the New Avengers Facility.

* Inside the facility, James Rhodes is on a holographic conference call with Thaddeus Ross when the five heroes enter, with Maximoff and Wilson helping the injured Vision. Ross tells Rhodes to arrest the fugitives, but he ends the call to greet his old friends. Rhodes shows no hostility to the group, many of whom he had fought with, happily reuniting with them. He pokes fun at their tattered clothes, but Bruce Banner emerges from a nearby room, telling them he thinks they look great and awkwardly revealing that he has returned after his 3-year disappearance. Romanoff gives a wry smile back and greets him.

* The heroes discuss what to do about the Mind Stone in Vision's forehead. While Vision insists that the stone should be destroyed, Wanda Maximoff, the only one with the power to do it, refuses since it would kill her lover. Rogers agrees, saying they do not trade lives when making decisions, and Banner notes that the stone might be removable, but that it will not be easy given its complex connections within the android's neural network. He says he cannot do it alone with just the facility's resources, but Rogers suggests that if anywhere can help, it would be Wakanda.

* Carla and George Talbot are watching the WHiH World News coverage of the attack on Greenwich Village when the phone rings. Carla goes to take the call and when there is a knock at the door, George is left to answer. When he opens it, he is surprised to find his father.

* Glenn Talbot enters his home and Carla is cautious, concerned by his attire and attitude. Glenn demonstrates his powers to George, exciting him as he uses them to levitate his LEGO. Carla encourages George to leave the room so she can talk to him, and explains to Glenn that S.H.I.E.L.D. told her about his transformation. He becomes angry with her trust of the organization over him, and uses his powers to throw her against the wall.

* Qovas finds out about the agents' escapes and orders for Quake to be taken alive, but the others to be killed, using their own human weapons to dishonor them.

* Melinda May suggests that Phil Coulson and Daisy Johnson return home on Zephyr One while she and Deke Shaw deal with the missiles. Coulson refuses but May is insistent, when suddenly they are attacked by a Remorath marauder shooting at them. Coulson activates his energy shield to protect them and in the heat of the moment, decides to pull May into a kiss, after years of tension between them. Johnson is taken aback to see them kissing, but quakes the attacking alien away. Coulson heads off with her as May asked, while May leaves with Shaw, smirking to herself.

* **Attack on Glenn Talbot****:**
	+ George Talbot pleads with his father to let his mother go, but Glenn insists that Carla cannot be trusted. He suddenly hears cars outside and lets Carla drop to the floor as he heads out to confront the arriving agents.
	+ Alphonso Mackenzie and Yo-Yo Rodriguez step out with two other agents and hold guns to Talbot, insisting they do not want to hurt him, only to talk. Talbot, however, insists that S.H.I.E.L.D. declared "war" on him when they tried to stop him, and uses his powers to lift the S.H.I.E.L.D. SUVs into the air, before crashing them down.
	+ The two agents accompanying Mackenzie and Rodriguez begin firing at Talbot, but he uses his abilities to control the bullets, stopping them mid-air before hurling them back at the agents. They dive for cover, but one of the accompanying agents is caught by one of the bullets.

* Two Remorath marauders move to activate the ionizer missiles, but Deke Shaw steps out to talk to them, luring them away from the control panel and around a corner, where Melinda May is waiting. She and Shaw together manage to defeat the aliens, strangling them until they pass out. May steals their weapons and instructs Shaw to find the target coordinates of the Lighthouse so they can transfer them to the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device as their teleport destination. Shaw also finds the launch codes and asks May if he should deactivate the missiles, but she says instead to give them a new target.
* George Talbot steps out from the house, telling his father that he is no hero and is causing hurt. Rodriguez attempts to use her super-speed to get George to safety, but finds that the gravity field Glenn is generating is too strong, repelling her. Glenn assures his son that he will prove himself a hero once he gets more resources, and tells him to keep watching the news as he starts to levitate, then flies away.
* Coulson and Johnson board Zephyr One, but notice the flickering of the lights indicating Remorath marauders in the proximity. They contact Agent Davis, but he reports back that he is under attack, and they rush to his aid. Together, Johnson and Coulson take out the aliens on-board, with Coulson shoving one through a window, and reunite with Davis. Johnson points out that the broken glass has caused Coulson to bleed. He dismisses it and instructs Davis to start flying, explaining how May and Shaw will be getting back.
* Deke Shaw relays the coordinate symbols to Melinda May to program into the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device. As she prepares to put in the final symbols, Qovas arrives and tells her he will kill her before she ever leaves the ship. Using the stolen Remorath weapons, she engages Qovas in a fight. Shaw runs between the control panel and device to finish inputting the symbols while she fights.
* Johnson helps bandage Coulson's bleeding hand and teases him about kissing May, as Davis starts the plane's engine.
* May keeps Qovas occupied as Shaw finishes inputting the symbols. Qovas gets free of her and taunts her as he presses the button to fire the ionizer missiles to destroy River's End, but May and Shaw make it to the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device and smile as they explain that they changed the target, before teleporting away to safety. Qovas realizes his mistake as the missiles turn back towards him, and his ship is exploded with him on-board.
* Coulson and Johnson watch from Zephyr One as Qovas' ship is destroyed, desperately hoping May and Shaw made it to safety. Jemma Simmons video calls them and May and Shaw run to the camera, showing themselves to be alive and well. Simmons tells them that Mackenzie and Rodriguez have just returned as well, informing them about Talbot killing Carl Creel. She hangs up, and Coulson begins to say that he feels they need to stop being careful with how they treat Talbot, when Johnson notices his hand has started bleeding profusely. He looks at it and is confused, then suddenly begins to go feint. Coulson collapses, and Johnson desperately tries to help him, telling Davis to contact for a medical team to meet them when they get back.
* The dawn comes to an end over the Lighthouse, as the agents inside prepare to receive Phil Coulson.
* Having been contacted by Steve Rogers to warn them of the threat to the world, T'Challa checks with Okoye that Wakandan forces have been alerted that a fight is coming, having permitted the Avengers to come to them for help. She informs him that the King's Guard, Dora Milaje, and remaining Border Tribe have been notified, and he asks her to send word to the Jabari Tribe as well. They walk to Bucky Barnes as he farms in the fields, delivering him a new vibranium metal arm to replace the one destroyed by Tony Stark and allow him to fight, letting him know that a fight is on its way.
* With Coulson safely delivered to the medical bay, Melinda May goes to visit him, finding him under general anesthesia.
* The team of agents gather to talk. Jemma Simmons informs them that Coulson will not die yet, but that his condition is worsening faster and faster. Leo Fitz updates them on dealing with Talbot, explaining that he and Simmons have worked out that if they use the odium to inject him with Centipede Serum, they can kill him - a necessary action at this point. However, Daisy Johnson interjects, explaining worriedly that the Centipede Serum they have is the last remaining sample in the world. The team come to the horrible realization of their situation: either they save Coulson but risk the world, or they save the world and condemn Coulson to death.
* Glenn Talbot readies the Quinjet. He has kidnapped Polly and Robin Hinton, and demands that Robin tell him where the gravitonium reserve that she has seen him tapping into in her visions is located.
* Agent Davis covers Coulson in a blanket.
* Deke Shaw stands outside as the team debate what to do. Piper arrives and lets him know that there has been no improvement with Coulson.
* Yo-Yo Rodriguez reminds the team that this is the exact circumstance her 2091 self warned her about, and that as much as it pains her, letting Coulson die is necessary and the right thing to do especially considering he does not want saving. Fitz agrees, but Johnson says that since they cannot get close to Talbot, there is no way they can get the serum into his body anyway. Fitz mentions that it would work if Talbot absorbed one of them, and Rodriguez says she would be willing to if necessary. May asks about what would happen if it did not work, pointing out that Coulson would have died for nothing, and Johnson brings up Robin's mention of how Coulson will "bring all the pieces together", but Rodriguez argues that Robin's comments are disjointed and that this is not proof of anything. Johnson says that he would be able to talk Talbot down if he was revived, and decides to make the call herself. She reaches for the serum, but Rodriguez uses her super-speed to retrieve it. She clutches it and says that they are being clouded by their emotions, putting it simply that he is just one man against billions, and the risk is far too great. She cries that she is being made the bad guy, and that despite seeing the dystopian future, none of them are willing to listen to her. Alphonso Mackenzie intervenes and says that they need to vote, but at that moment, May smashes the odium on the ground, making it impossible to use the serum on Talbot. Rodriguez falls to her knees, desperately sad, feeling that they just doomed the world. Fitz reluctantly says he and Simmons will prepare the remedy, remarking that the others should prepare for the end of the world.
* The broken pieces of Qovas' ship hurtle through space after the ship's destruction.
* Talbot again asks Robin Hinton where the gravitonium well is. She refuses, so Talbot has Polly taken away by the Remorath, saying Robin will not see her again until he gets what he wants. He holds up a globe and asks her again to mark the location.
* **Rescue of Doctor Strange****:**
	+ Ebony Maw suspends Doctor Strange in the air, telling him that he needs to take the Time Stone before the planned rendezvous on Titan. He telekinetically presses magic needle-like shards into Strange's face to torture him.
	+ After hours aboard the Q-Ship, Iron Man finds Strange and Maw. He overlooks them secretly from above, trying to plan, but is startled when he is tapped on the shoulder. He turns around, only to find the Cloak of Levitation. However, at that moment, Spider-Man descends from the ceiling behind him, revealing himself to have stayed on the ship. Stark is angry, having wanted him to stay away for his own safety, but Parker insists he thought it through, feeling it was useless being Spider-Man if there was no New York left to protect. Stark calms down somewhat and accepts their situation, then asking Parker if he has any ideas for how to rescue Strange. Parker asks if Stark has seen *Aliens*, getting an idea inspired by the movie.
	+ Maw continues to torture Strange, but senses someone else's presence. He turns to find Iron Man behind him, and begins to threaten to use his powers. However, Stark fires a missile into the ship wall, with the vacuum immediately sucking Maw out into space. Strange is sucked to the hole as well, but the Cloak of Levitation catches him. He slips and continues to fall, but Spider-Man shoots a web to catch him. He himself is sucked by the vacuum, but when he reaches the hole, the Iron Spider Armor activates four back legs to stop them from slipping out into space. The legs thrust the duo back inside momentarily, and Stark administers synthetic material to safely close the hole.
	+ Ebony Maw dies from exposure to the vacuum of space.
	+ Stark and Strange argue as Stark tells him he should have listened to his advice back during the attack on Greenwich Village, but Strange says he does not work for him. He asks who Parker is, and Parker introduces himself to the sorcerer. Strange turns back to Stark to ask if they can turn the ship around to head back to Earth, but Stark tells him that it might be best to let the ship continue on to Titan. Strange feels Stark does not understand the seriousness of the situation, but Stark says that he is the one who does not understand, since the force behind Loki and the Chitauri's attack on New York in 2012 has worried him for 6 years and while he does not know what to do about him, Thanos, now he has arrived, he feels that at least in going to Titan they can gain the advantage of catching him by surprise. Strange agrees, but warns Stark that if he has to let him or Parker die to protect the Time Stone, he will. Stark respects Strange's moral steadfastness, and tells Parker he is now an Avenger, jokingly making a knighting motion and causing Parker to swell with pride.

* Yo-Yo Rodriguez dejectedly tells Alphonso Mackenzie that he is going to die due to their inability to make the tough choice and let Coulson die. Mackenzie speaks of his faith, saying simply that he will answer for his choices in life in heaven and receive the deserving judgment, but Rodriguez says it is not God she fears.

* Having been reluctantly informed by Robin Hinton that the gravitonium well was in Chicago, Talbot descends on the city in a piece of Qovas' ship, recklessly crashing into buildings.

* Yo-Yo Rodriguez visits Phil Coulson and tells him that she wants him to know she never was arguing for him to die, but simply for the saving of the world. He is understanding, telling her he would have taken her side as well.

* Daisy Johnson comes across Deke Shaw and thanks him for helping out. He reveals that he will be heading off to travel soon, hoping to see some of the world before it cracks or he blinks out of existence, and tells Johnson that he has never seen so much love, care, and loyalty among a group as he has with the agents. Piper then arrives and informs Johnson that they have found out Talbot is in Chicago.

* The team take off in Zephyr One for Chicago.

* Phil Coulson reminds Jemma Simmons of his carving into walls after resurrection and John Garrett's insanity after taking the Centipede Serum, saying that they should have learned to let nature take its course. May enters and tries to convince him to take the serum, leaving it next to him to self-administer before leaving.

* Talbot uses his powers to float down into the streets of Chicago. He then controls a column of rock, lifting it out of the ground to retrieve a small piece of gravitonium from deep underground, then lets the rock fall back down, scaring onlookers.

* Phil Coulson resolves not to take the Centipede Serum, slipping the serum instead into the Quake Gauntlets without her knowing, hoping to force Johnson to let him die and instead use it against Talbot. Unknown to him, in doing this he fulfills Robin Hinton's prophecy that he can "put the pieces back together", through his self-sacrifice causing a subtle divergence in the timeline.
* Daisy Johnson admits to the team that she let her emotions get the better of her, and feels she cannot lead the team. Instead, she suggests that Alphonso Mackenzie take charge due to his big heart and cool head, and everyone else agrees. Coulson then enters, seemingly revitalized by the serum, expressing his approval. He hands Johnson her suit and asks Mackenzie what they will be doing next, to which he replies, "We save lives."
* On-board the *Sanctuary II*, Thanos hands Gamora food, but she throws it aside. She says she hated his chair, the room, the ship - her entire life with him. Thanos says he knows, having been constantly reminded for the almost 20 years she spent with him. He claims that he saved her, and that Zen-Whoberi was on the brink of collapse until he saved the Zehoberei people, with the murder of half the population having simply been necessary to bring about a peace and prosperity he claims they now live in, calling it "salvation". Thanos explains that he believes he is the only being with the will strong enough to act on the fact that life needs culling and correcting, since otherwise finite resources will run dry and cause everyone's extinction. He says that she, too, shared that will for a time, and that this was why he entrusted her with finding the Soul Stone. Gamora pretends to be apologetic, saying she is sorry she did not find it, but Thanos says that he knows she did, and is disappointed that she lied.
* Thanos takes Gamora to see Nebula, whom he has imprisoned, suspended mid-air with her cybernetic parts separated. He explains that she sneaked on-board to try to kill him recently, but that he had caught her and cycled through her memory files, finding one particular memory of importance. Playing it to her, Gamora sees that Thanos found a discussion between the sisters in which Gamora had told Nebula she secretly had found a map to the Soul Stone and burned it. Thanos demands that Gamora tell him where the stone is, and uses the Infinity Stones he has acquired to control Nebula's parts, forcing them to separate further and further and causing her agony until Gamora eventually gives in, unable to stand it any longer. She reluctantly informs him that it is on the planet Vormir.
* The Chicago Police Department tell Glenn Talbot to stand down, but worry that there is not much they are able to do. However, at that moment the citizens' phones ring with an announcement from S.H.I.E.L.D., read by Alphonso Mackenzie. He tells them they have an aircraft for civilian evacuation, that they will clear buildings in danger of collapse, and not to engage Talbot as they will handle it.
* Zephyr One lands in Chicago and Yo-Yo Rodriguez, Jemma Simmons, and Piper help people board the plane to get to safety.
* Alphonso Mackenzie, Leo Fitz, and Melinda May run up a damaged building's staircase to find any survivors and get them to safety.
* Davis flies Johnson and Coulson to engage Talbot.
* Mackenzie, Fitz, and May are helping people at the top of the building, where Talbot's ship crashed, and find Robin Hinton, crying. She tells them about her mother being taken, and Mackenzie goes to find her.
* Mackenzie climbs up into Talbot's ship to search for Polly Hinton.
* Quake and Phil Coulson land, and Johnson tells Coulson to come with her so he can talk Talbot down. However, Coulson reveals that he is unable to, as he can barely stand, having in fact not taken the Centipede Serum. He tells her that she needs to be confident in her own abilities, having been trained by him, and says she needs to talk to Talbot herself - and if it is ineffective, to take him down. She leaves the Quinjet and angrily shouts at him to return to Zephyr One and take the serum, exclaiming that the agents fought to give him it, and he cannot just refuse.[31] An onlooker films her leaving the jet and shouting.
* Mackenzie walks through the ship tunnels and hears Hinton stuck behind a heavy door. He uses the Shotgun-Axe to begin to prise the door open.
* Fitz reenters the room, having taken a civilian to safety, and May explains where Mackenzie has gone. Fitz becomes worried, reminding her that Polly Hinton and Mackenzie have both been said not to make it into the future.
* Mackenzie gets Hinton free, but before they can leave they are confronted in the corridor by two Remorath marauders.
* **Battle of Chicago****:**
	+ Quake runs at Talbot and thrusts herself at him with her powers, tackling him to the ground. She tells him that whether he realizes or not, he is himself becoming the "enemy" he is so bent on taking down.
	+ Mackenzie and Hinton find themselves cornered by the Remorath, but Melinda Mayand Leo Fitz arrive, hoping to prevent the prophesied deaths. They ambush the aliens from behind and kill them, saving their friends.
	+ Agent Davis docks the Quinjet back on Zephyr One. He realizes Coulson has collapsed again in the back and rushes to help him.
	+ Quake tells Glenn Talbot that he is already the hero he wants to be, as anyone who signs up to help protect the world despite the potential great loss it can entail already is one. Talbot rejects this, however, saying that this is also what General Hale and Phil Coulson said to him. He grabs hold of her and begins to fly into the air.
	+ May, Mackenzie, and Fitz emerge from Talbot's ship with Polly Hinton, stepping back into the building. Robin is delighted to see her mother safe and runs to hug her.
	+ Davis rushes Coulson to Jemma Simmons and Yo-Yo Rodriguez, explaining that Coulson did not take the serum and has stopped breathing.
	+ After flying high into the air, Talbot then descends fast towards the ground with Quake in his arms, building momentum and crashing her into the ground.
	+ The impact of Talbot and Quake's crash causes the nearby area to shake. In the building where the agents are with the Hintons, rocks fall from the ceiling onto Leo Fitz, burying him.
	+ Zephyr One is shaken by the impact. Rodriguez begins to desperately administer chest compression's on Coulson to try to revive him.
	+ In the crater in the ground formed by their impact, Talbot grabs hold of the winded Quake again and begins to use his powers to attempt to absorb her, saying that it will be easier to get through to the gravitonium in the ground once he can use her absorbed powers to quake the ground apart.
	+ Simmons runs to find the Centipede Serum to administer it to Coulson and save his life, but finds the container it was held in empty.
	+ As Robin and Polly Hinton descend the stairs to safety, Robin stops in her tracks and tells her mother that she can sense something being different in the timeline.
	+ Quake tries to escape Talbot's hold, but is incapable. However, at that moment she spots the Centipede Serum syringe slotted into her Quake Gauntlets - the difference in the timeline that Hinton had sensed.
	+ Jemma Simmons runs back to help try to resuscitate Coulson, while Yo-Yo Rodriguez starts to use super-speed for her chest compression's.
	+ Alphonso Mackenzie and Melinda May desperately remove some of rocks that have buried Leo Fitz.
	+ Johnson takes a moment to consider what to do, knowing that if she uses the serum on herself, she can stop Talbot from absorbing her and cracking the world apart, but that this would mean it cannot be used to save Coulson. In the urgency of the situation, she comes to realize that the world has to be considered more important, and that Coulson has forced her hand since the serum will likely go to waste anyway, absorbed by Talbot if she does not use it. She steels herself and slips it from her gauntlet, injecting it into her neck.
	+ Rodriguez continues to administer chest compression's.
	+ With the additional power from the Centipede Serum, Quake breaks free of Glenn Talbot. When he runs back at her to attack again, she slides onto her back, and the moment he is directly over her, she fires a quake boosted massively by the serum directly upwards. Talbot is sent flying by the massive blast, faster than the speed of sound up into the sky and through the atmosphere.
	+ Phil Coulson is finally resuscitated from Rodriguez's efforts, to her and Simmons' great relief.
	+ May pulls another rock from the pile over Fitz and they are relieved to find him alive under the rubble. They continue to move the rocks to get him out.
	+ Johnson lies in the crater in the ground, physically and emotionally exhausted, having saved the world but at the cost of killing Talbot and taking Coulson's last shot at survival. Talbot, meanwhile, floats into space, dying from exposure to the vacuum.

* May and Mackenzie lift the last of the rock off Leo Fitz, but see that his side has been punctured by a sheet of metal and he is rapidly losing blood. Fitz explains that he cannot feel his legs anymore, leading them to realize his spinal cord has been damaged. He starts to become delirious from the blood loss, shaking and not fully aware of his situation. Mackenzie crouches by his side and tries to talk to him to keep him conscious, scared that Fitz is dying. Fitz starts to repeat himself, losing all awareness as he succumbs to the blood loss. Mackenzie holds his hand as Fitz passes away on the floor, devastating him and May.
* Thor surprises Rocket Raccoon when he understands Groot's language, having learned it on Asgard. He sits down and Rocket realizes he is mourning his brother, walking to the back of their ship to speak to him. He tries to reassure Thor, but Thor ends up lamenting his numerous recent losses: Loki, Hela, Odin, Frigga, and Heimdall. He tries to steel himself and turn his mourning into motivation for the task at hand, killing Thanos, and insists he is capable, but when Rocket asks what would happen if Thor is wrong, he momentarily chokes on his words, overcome with grief as he asks what more he could possibly lose, before getting up to prepare for their arrival in Nidavellir. Rocket hands Thor a cybernetic eye he stole from a man on Contraxia, wanting to help him for the coming challenges by giving him his full vision back. Thor places it in his empty eye socket and regains full vision as they arrive at Nidavellir. However, Thor is concerned to see that Nidavellir is not lifeless and colorful, but dark and seemingly empty.
* Thor, Rocket, and Groot land on Nidavellir and look around the apparently abandoned forges. They come across a mold for the Infinity Gauntlet and become concerned, but before they can do anything they are ambushed by Eitri, the king of the dwarves. When he sees it is Thor who has come, he exclaims that Asgard was supposed to protect Nidavellir, but never came. Thor explains that Asgard is gone, and Eitri sadly tells Thor that Thanos came to Nidavellir and threatened the lives of all 300 dwarves if they did not forge him the Infinity Gauntlet to harness the power of the Infinity Stones, yet when they did, he still slaughtered all the other dwarves except him, melting metal around his hands so he can never forge something for anyone else. Thor tries to encourage him, saying there are still ways he can help and asking to work with them so he can kill Thanos.
* Jemma Simmons is tending to Phil Coulson when Alphonso Mackenzie returns to Zephyr One and comes to the medical ward to deliver the tragic news of Fitz's death. She smiles at seeing her friend alive, but her face falls as she comes to realize what he has come to say.
* A Chitauri guard pieces Nebula back together following her torture at Thanos' hands. However, she intentionally pops a piece of her head out to lure him in front of her. The moment he does, she grabs him and snaps his neck. She limps to a transmitter and send a message to Mantis on the *Benatar*, saying to get the Guardians of the Galaxy to come and meet her on Titan.
* A remembrance plaque is carved on Zephyr One.
* With the agents having returned to the Lighthouse briefly, Jemma Simmons packs her things from her and Fitz's bedroom.
* Yo-Yo Rodriguez and Alphonso Mackenzie hug following the emotionally draining day.
* Simmons takes Fitz's multipurpose tool, which she had used to show Fitz that Deke Shaw was their grandson as he had the same tool, from his old cell in the Lighthouse.
* Daisy Johnson burns Robin Hinton's drawings now that the timeline is resolved.
* Melinda May hammers the White Monolith apart in the Lighthouse control room to prevent it from ever being used again.
* The Q-Ship arrives at Titan, and Iron Man, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man realize they have to park it on the planet. Stark and Parker each place their arms in the controls of the ship, individually meant for either of Thanos' arms, and work together to attempt to direct the ship to a safe landing. Strange conjures a magical shield to protect them, and while the ship breaks, they land safely.
* Once they have landed, Spider-Man tries to tell the others that something is coming, entering the ship. He is too late, however, as a grenade goes off by their feet and they are ambushed by Star-Lord, Drax the Destroyer, and Mantis, who believe them to be working for Thanos. Drax throws knives at Strange, who blocks them with a conjured shield and has the Cloak of Levitation wrap itself around Drax. Star-Lord and Iron Man shoot at each other, both missing, and Star-Lord activates a Gravity Mine, pinning Iron Man to the ship's frame. Spider-Man webs Mantis' arms to her side but is kicked away by Star-Lord, who then wraps him in a bola. He holds his Quad Blaster to Spider-Man's head as Iron Man frees himself form the Gravity Mine and stand on Drax, threatening him with his repulsor.
* Quill demands to know where Gamora is, but Stark explains that he has no idea who that is. However, when Quill elaborates and says he is after Thanos, both sides realize there has been a misunderstanding, as they assumed each other were working for the Titan. Parker explains that they are the Avengers, which the Guardians of the Galaxy recognize as the team Thor told them about. Stark and Strange are surprised to find out they know Thor, and Strange asks were he is now.
* Eitri shows Thor and Rocket Raccoon the the mold for a "king's weapon", the greatest in Asgard, that could even potentially summon the Bifrost Bridge - "Stormbreaker". He explains that they will have to restart the forge to make it.
* Peter Quill explains that Titan is 8 degrees off its axis and its gravitational pull is massively variable, wondering what happened. The two teams discuss plans, with Tony Stark saying that they need to use their advantage of Thanos coming to them, hoping to lure him in and take the Infinity Gauntlet. Drax does not pay attention, Quill explains that their team is used to just acting spontaneously, and when Mantis incorrectly says that they "kick names, take ass", Stark becomes exasperated. He tells them they need to coalesce, but Quill interrupts again, with the Guardians of the Galaxy getting sidetracked talking about the dance-off with Ronan the Accuser, and Quill insisting on making the plans himself. Mantis stops them to let them know that Doctor Strange is doing something odd, and they rush to help him as he levitates, using the Time Stone with his face flitting around uncontrollably. He breaks out of it and tells them he had been using the stone to view 14,000,605 potential futures, yet had only seen one in which they won.
* Agent Davis puts up the finished remembrance plaque in Zephyr One.
* After making preparations, Thanos uses the Space Stone to teleport him and Gamora to Vormir. They traverse the planet's surface to get to the mountain where the Soul Stone is kept.
* **Sacrifice of Gamora****:**
	+ Gamora and Thanos reach the top of the mountain, where a cloaked wraith-like figure greets them. He warns that the stone extracts a "terrible price". Thanos states that he is prepared, but the figures claims that everyone says that but goes on to find they are wrong, lowering himself to the ground and stepping into the light, revealing his face to them - Red Skull, Captain America's former enemy who, when he took hold of the Tesseract in 1945, was sent by it to Vormir to stand guard of the Soul Stone.
	+ Red Skull takes them to a precipice while explaining his predicament and how, from this, he knows the lore of the Soul Stone. He informs them that the stone holds a special place among the Infinity Stones, possessing a kind of wisdom and requiring a sacrifice to ensure the seeker understands its power before taking it: a "soul for a Soul", the loss of that which the seeker loves.
	+ Gamora begins to mock Thanos, believing he has finally failed, ultimately due to his lack of benevolence, as he loves no one. Thanos turns to her and begins to shed tears, which she believes to be because of his failure, but Red Skull informs her that he is not crying for himself. She comes to the horrified realization that Thanos might in fact genuinely care for her, and tries to tell him that surely his treatment of her could never have come from a place of love. He ignores her, knowing that his adoptive daughter truly is the one person in his life he had grown to love, and states that he has to persist nonetheless. She grabs her switchblade and tries to kill herself first, but he uses the Reality Stone to turn it merely to bubbles, rendering it useless.
	+ After a simple but heartfelt apology, Thanos grabs hold of Gamora and cries as he drags her to the edge of the precipice. Unable to break free, she is thrown by him from the cliff and falls to her death.
	+ Thanos wakes, transported to a pool on Vormir, with the Soul Stone in his hand - gifted it in return for his sacrifice.

* Sam Wilson pilots the Quinjet, following Steve Rogers' instructions, to take the team of heroes into Wakanda, flying through the specified entry point in the Wakandan dome.

* Okoye and King T'Challa greet Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Sam Wilson, Bruce Banner, James Rhodes. Vision, and Wanda Maximoff when they land the Quinjet in Wakanda. Bucky Barnes joins them, embracing Rogers as they reunite after 2 years.
* Shuri takes a look at Vision to see what she can do, and says she can reprogram his synapses to work collectively to safely remove the Mind Stone from the android's forehead, but that she will need as much time as they can buy her.
* Okoye's Kimoyo Beads alert her that something has entered the atmosphere. Above Wakanda, a Q-Ship begins to release Outrider Dropships onto the country. They begin to fall to the ground, but the one that hits the dome are broken on impact with the protective shield. However, the others crash down outside the dome, and Vision insists that it is too late, and they need to destroy the stone now, despite the fact that it will kill him. The others tell him to return to the operating table and T'Challa states that they will hold off the attackers, ordering to evacuate the city, engage all defenses, and get Rogers a shield.
* Thor attaches a rope to Rocket Raccoon's escape pod and has him fire the engines. He then digs his feet into one of the rings of Nidavellir and has Rocket drive the ship while he holds onto the rope, thus forcing the ring to start to rotate. This movement breaks the ice freezing the center of the rings, and they collectively start to spin again, restarting the heart of the planet's dying star. However, the mechanism at the center of the rings which focuses the heat to use for forging breaks, forcing the iris of the forge to close. Knowing that if they do not get the axe then he will most likely die anyway, Thor risks diving to the center of the rings to attempt to hold the iris open for the necessary few minutes.
* The Wakandan army travels to the edge of the dome to prepare for the attackers. Bruce Banner wears the Hulkbuster 2.0 armor to allow him to fight, since the Hulk persona is refusing to come out.
* T'Challa thanks M'Baku for coming to their aid, then he, Rogers, and Romanoff walk to the very edge to talk with Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian, who have come forwards to threaten them. They claim that Corvus Glaive died from his injuries in Edinburgh and say that the heroes will pay for his death with their own lives as they make their assault for the Mind Stone. Proxima Midnight then orders the opening of the dropships, and an army of rabid Outriders is unleashed.
* T'Challa leads a chant as the Wakandan forces prepare for the fight. Outriders hurl themselves at the dome, many of them dying as they attempt to push through the energy barrier, and Okoye is shocked to see their total lack of fear of death in their drive to serve. Some begin to make it through, and the heroes begin to fire - Barnes shooting, Banner firing repulsors, and Falcon shooting and firing missiles, and War Machine dropping grenades. Nonetheless, the forces persist.
* A number of Outriders begin to run around the outskirts of the dome to get to the back of the city. Banner reminds the heroes that if they get through the dome at the back of the city, they will have direct access to Vision, so T'Challa makes the reluctant decision to open a sliver of the barrier so that the aliens will take the easy route in and not go around the back. He shouts "Wakanda forever" to rally his forces and begins a charge, leading with Rogers as they take on the aliens. Battle breaks out, and T'Challa uses Kimoyo Beads to check in with Shuri. She explains that she has barely begun her work, and he urges her to work quicker.
* Despite Eitri's warnings, Thor proceeds to attempt to hold the forge iris open for the necessary amount of time. He manages to open it for long enough to melt the Uru metal so that Eitri can forge Stormbreaker, but passes out from the physical exertion and immense heat. He falls and tumbles to the forge floor, and Rocket Raccoon worries that he is dying. Eitri states that Thor needs the axe to revive him, but cannot find a handle, so Groot, who has paid little attention until then, finally steps up to help. He grows his arm to bring the metal pieces together, then severs it, leaving the wood as a handle. Thor's hand twitches as, barely conscious, he attempts to summon the newly-forged weapon.
* **Battle of Wakanda****:**
	+ The battle continues in Wakanda, with the heroes continuing to battle the Outrider forces. Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight enter the fray, and Obsidian throws his axe at War Machine, knocking him out of the sky. Black Panther and Steve Rogers start to become overrun by the aliens, and several attack the Hulkbuster armor at once, knocking Banner to the ground as they claw at it.
	+ At that moment, a Bifrost Bridge beam opens onto the Wakandan fields, and an axe crackling with lightning flies out of it, wiping out the Outriders overpowering the heroes. The axe, Stormbreaker, returns to its new owner, Thor, as he, Rocket, and Groot are revealed to the combatants when the Bifrost beam disappears, standing ready to battle having just come from Nidavellir. Thor calls out to Thanos' forces, demanding that they bring him the Titan, and leaps into the air before crashing down and striking the ground with Stormbreaker, causing a burst of lightning that strikes all the Outriders in his vicinity.

* **Battle of Titan****:**
	+ Thanos gets to Titan and is greeted by Doctor Strange. The rest of the heroes hide, waiting to ambush. Thanos laments Ebony Maw's death, but says that he did his job in getting the Time Stone to him. He explains that they are on the wreckage of his home planet, and uses the Reality Stone to show what it looked like before its ruin, showing its beauty. Thanos recounts, however, that like most planets it became unsustainable as there were too many people and not enough resources. He tells Strange how he offered the solution of random, dispassionate genocide of a portion of the population, but that they had called him mad, and then as he had predicted, the population all died out as a result. Thanos states that once he has all six Infinity Stones and snaps his fingers, he will make the hardest choice that others do not have the will to make and be mercifully saving the populations of planets across the universe by killing a random half. Strange then stands and conjures a shield, preparing to fight, and stating that Thanos will find their will just as strong as his.
	+ Thanos realizes that others are present, but before he can react, Iron Man flies a column of rock from above down onto the Titan to crush him. Thanos uses the Power Stone to break free of the rock, then uses the Reality Stone to turn the rock fragments into bat-like winged creatures, which attack Stark. Spider-Man webs his eyes to blind him and Drax the Destroyer slides at him to swipe with his knife sat Thanos' legs. Strange opens a portal to attack Thanos from the other side, using a magic eldritch sword to assault him and forcing him to try to ward off enemies on both sides. He knocks Drax aside and pulls the webbing from his eyes, but Strange conjures magic platforms to allow Star-Lord to step up to Thanos' shoulder, placing a Gravity Mine on his back and then escaping through a portal Strange conjures. The mine detonates and Thanos is pulled to the ground, and Strange sends the Cloak of Levitation to wrap around Thanos' Infinity Gauntlet hand so he cannot close his fist - necessary to activate the Infinity Stones.
	+ Strange conjures a series of portals so Spider-Man can attack Thanos from one side and exit through the other, before appearing on another side and exiting again, but on his fourth attack, Thanos catches him by the neck, slamming him to the ground. He then throws the teenager at Strange, bowling him over.
	+ Thanos tears the Cloak of Levitation from his hand, but is hit by explosions from Iron Man, returning after losing the bat-like creatures. However, he uses the Infinity Gauntlet to absorb the explosions and fire them back in a beam of fire at Stark. Spider-Man returns and webs the gauntlet to stop him, though Thanos punches him away.
	+ Before he can reactivate the gauntlet, Thanos is suddenly crashed into by an escape ship - a Chitauri one stolen by Nebula, who leaps from it and starts to attack him with her sword. She asks where Gamora is, but he bats her away.
	+ Doctor Strange conjures a crimson binding spell, wrapping it around Thanos' gauntlet arm to keep his palm open again, and Drax returns, kicking his leg out from under him. Quill flies back to attack again and activates another Gravity Mine, pulling Thanos' other arm to the floor, Spider-Man comes back to wrap webs around the Titan and tie him down, and Iron Man heads for the gauntlet, pulling at it to try to get it off. Finally, Strange opens a portal over Thanos' head allowing Mantis to drop onto him and attempt to put him to sleep. She is not able to, but manages, with great effort, to keep him docile.
	+ With the combined efforts of the group, they keep Thanos restrained and Spider-Man moves to help Iron Man pull at the gauntlet, knowing Mantis will not be able to hold him for long. Peter Quill arrives and asks Thanos where Gamora is, but he does not reply. However, Mantis tells him that Thanos is grieving, and Nebula realizes what has happened. She mournfully tells him that he left for Vormir with Gamora and has returned without. Seeing Quill losing control, Tony Stark begs him to try to keep calm so they can finish removing the gauntlet, but Quill angrily asks the Titan if it is true. Thanos admits it and Quill is enraged. Unable to control himself, he starts to hit him with his Quad Blaster. Stark tries to restrain him, but Mantis is incapable of holding Thanos' head against the hits and her effect is lost on him. He returns to full vitality just as Spider-Man is about to pull the gauntlet off, yanking it from Parker's grasp and hurling him from his back. Spider-Man catches her and uses the Iron Spider Armorto cushion their fall. Thanos kicks Drax off, knocking him into Quill and Nebula, then tugs on the eldritch binding whip to pull Strange off the ground and throw him, freed of the heroes' restraint.
	+ Iron Man shoots at Thanos but he swipes him away, and when Drax, Nebula, and Quill get up to attack again, he hits them with a burst from the Power Stone. Iron Man attacks once again but Thanos headbutts him then engages the Power Stone to control one of Titan's moons. The stone's power allows Thanos to cracks the whole moon into pieces, then pulling those pieces down from the sky, plummeting towards the heroes to kill them.

* Shuri continues to operate on Vision, as Scarlet Witch stands by to guard him.
* The battle continues in Wakanda. Cull Obsidian uses his weaponry to attack Wakandan soldiers, but Black Panther unleashes a build-up of kinetic energy in a burst to knock him down. Rocket Raccoon shoots at Outriders, and Bucky Barnes picks him up so they can fire in opposite directions, spinning to wipe out the aliens getting close to them. Once the imminent threat is dealt with, Barnes puts him back down, and Rocket asks how much it would cost him to buy Barnes' gun. Barnes says it is not for sale, so Rocket asks how much his bionic arm is. Barnes ignores him but Rocket, with his love of cybernetic parts, mischievously mutters to himself that he will get it at some point.
* As they fight, Steve Rogers comments on Thor's new haircut, and Thor responds that Rogers has copied him in growing a beard. He introduces Rogers to Groot, who, as ever, says, "I am Groot." Believing him to be introducing himself, Rogers replies in turn, "I am Steve Rogers."
* Scarlet Witch watches the battlefield and notices a disturbance in the ground at the border. Outrider Threshers - bladed, wheeled vehicles that can tunnel through ground, dig under the Wakandan dome and come up on the other side, crashing through the field and killing Wakandan soldiers. Seeing that she is needed on the field, Scarlet Witch reluctantly leaves Vision and joins the fray, using her powers to telekinetically lift the Threshers into the air and drop them on a horde of Outriders.
* Having successfully lured Maximoff out onto the field, Proxima Midnight contacts Corvus Glaive, who in fact survived the fight in Edinburgh, and tells him it is safe for him to attack Vision. He kills a guard and Ayo attacks him to defend Shuri. However, he overpowers her, and Shuri is forced to close her unfinished work on Vision abruptly. She fires at Corvus Glaive with Vibranium Gauntlets but he defeats her. Vision takes advantage of the moment to hide, then ambushes Corvus Glaive, falling with him out of a window.
* Scarlet Witch attempts to return to Vision, but is knocked into a ditch by Proxima Midnight. Before she can kill Maximoff, however, Black Widow and Okoye arrive and engage her in a fight.
* Vision struggles against Corvus Glaive, and Cull Obsidian arrives to help take him down. However, Bruce Banner gets to them in the Hulkbuster 2.0. Cull Obsidian activates Banner's repulsors to fly them away, so as to allow Corvus Glaive to still attack Vision.
* Banner contacts the others to ask for them to help Vision and is attacked by Cull Obsidian. He begs Hulk to come out and help, but the Hulk persona still refuses. He is forced to fight the giant alien himself. Cull Obsidian cuts off one of the Hulkbuster 2.0's forearms, but Banner manages to attach it to his hand, then firing the hand upward, taking Cull Obsidian to the ceiling of the dome. Dragging along the dome ceiling, the energy in its resistance heats the armor gauntlet until it explodes, killing the alien.
* The fight in the ditch continues, but when a Thresher rolls over and Black Widow is forced to duck, Proxima Midnight takes advantage of her compromised position and kicks her down. She then grabs Okoye and tosses her aside.
* Corvus Glaive stabs Vision, but Steve Rogers arrives and tackles him out of the way. He shouts at the android to leave.
* Proxima Midnight moves to kill Black Widow, but Scarlet Witch gets back up and uses her powers to telekinetically lift the alien up and into the path of a Thresher, killing her.
* Rogers duels with Corvus Glaive, knocking his glaive out of his hands, but the alien manages to pin him to the ground, starting to strangle him. However, Vision, having in fact not left, picks up the dropped glaive and thrusts it through Corvus Glaive's back, killing the last of the Black Order.
* With Titan's variable gravity and the impact of the pieces of moon, the gravity fluctuates and the Guardians of the Galaxy are sent flying. Spider-Man manages to catch the trio with webbing.
* Doctor Strange floats down to confront Thanos. He conjures fiery tendrils to attack the Titan, but Thanos dodges them and fires back with a blast from the Power Stone. Strange protects himself by trying to force Thanos into the Mirror Dimension, but he uses the gauntlet to shatter the dimensional wall, engaging the Space Stone to turn it into a black hole-like void, which he hurtles back at the sorcerer. Strange manages to turn the void into harmless butterflies. The sorcerer casts a duplication spell, conjuring multiple forms of himself to surround Thanos, and casting Eldritch whips from all of them to bind him, but Thanos uses the gauntlet to dismiss the copies, force Strange's astral form back into his body, and pull him into his grasp. Suspicious that Strange never invoked the Time Stone, he takes the sorcerer's necklace and crushes the eye in his hand, proving it to be a fake. He ends the duel, throwing him to the floor and moving to kill, but Iron Man returns and attaches part of an Iron Man gauntlet to Thanos' palm, again attempting to prevent him from closing his fist.
* Iron Man lands and confronts the Titan, who reveals that he already knows who Stark is. Stark fires missiles at Thanos, who absorbs the explosions, but not before Stark can attack him with the butt of the thrusters on his feet. He then hits Thanos with battering ram-like weapons formed by the nanotech in his arms, knocking him back momentarily, but Thanos retaliates by ripping off his helmet. Stark's suit reforms a new helmet but Thanos then punches him back before firing a Power Stone beam. Stark forms a nanotech shield, just about protecting himself, and slips around the side of the beam, kicking Thanos' arm to the ground and growing nanotech roots to pin his hand down. He wallops Thanos with another generated heavy arm weapon and manages to draw blood from his enemy.
* Thanos looks at the blood on his hand. He mocks Stark for going to all that effort for merely a drop of blood and retaliates, lifting his hand from under Stark's foot and tossing him. He then pins Stark to the ground and starts to pummel him with punches, breaking his helmet. He then picks Stark up only to blasts him with the Power Stone. Stark gets up and fires repulsor beams back at Thanos as his nanotech reassembles the damaged parts of the suit, but Thanos deflects the blast with the gauntlet. He walks up to Stark and bashes the armor off his helmet, and Stark makes a desperate grab for Thanos' arm to stop a second hit. He manages to hold him off for a second as he manifests a nanotech blade, then swings to stab the Titan, only for Thanos to evade the strike. He snaps the blade off and turns it on Stark, thrusting and impaling him his own weapon.
* Melinda May pours drinks for a farewell gathering for Phil Coulson. Knowing he does not have long to live, the team meet to say a formal goodbye and leave him to retire in peace for his final days. Coulson asks that the team cheer up a little, saying that the event is a celebration and not a funeral.
* Tony Stark struggles as Thanos pushes him by the hilt of the blade, slumping to the ground. The Titan tells him he has earned his respect, and prepares to kill Stark when Doctor Strange shouts for him to stop. Thanos turns to him, curious.
* Jemma Simmons descends Zephyr One's ladder to join the team for Coulson's farewell, sad about Leo Fitz's death, but composed, reassured in the knowledge that a slightly younger Fitz is still out there, frozen with Enoch out in space. The team talk about how homely the plane has been for them, joking that they nonetheless miss the Bus, and Simmons comments how they have come a long way since they used that plane. Coulson's voice cracks with emotion, but he manages to begin a speech, telling the others that while he has lived a life surrounded by heroes, none have been more heroic than his team, due to their courage in signing up to protect people despite the losses they know they will encounter. He says never to lose sight of their heroism, and Daisy Johnson adds that they should never forget those they have lost.
* Strange tells Thanos that if he spares Stark's life, he will give him the Time Stone. Thanos suspects a trick, but Strange assures him otherwise. Stark calls out to Strange to tell him not to trade the stone for his life - as Strange had previously told him he would not do - knowing that it is paramount that they keep the stone safe, but Strange proceeds nonetheless. He summons the stone from its magical hiding place among the stars and floats it over to the Titan, who outstretches his hand and receives it.
* Alphonso Mackenzie agrees with Johnson, stating that remembrance is their reason for putting up the plaque in the Zephyr One cockpit, to commemorate their leader. Coulson says it is okay to remember, but that they have to move on, but Simmons interjects, telling him he is wrong - that they have to hold those they have lost in their hearts, even once they have said goodbye.
* Thanos places the Time Stone into the Infinity Gauntlet, and happily comments that he has "one to go". Star-Lord recovers and opens fire on Thanos, flying towards him as he shoots, but Thanos opens a portal with the Space Stone and escapes. Quill crashes to the ground and desperately asks where he has gone. Tony Stark covers his wound with synthetic to staunch the bleeding, and Quill desperately asks the others if they just lost. Stark asks Strange why he would give the stone away, but Strange simply replies, "We're in the endgame now."
* M'Baku chants as he continues to fight Outriders in Wakanda, and Thor uses Stormbreaker to fly through an Outrider Dropship, destroying it. Wanda Maximoff rushes to Vision to check he is okay, when he suddenly feels a searing pain from the Mind Stone. Knowing what this means, he warns her, "He's here." Wind starts to blow through the trees from the slow forming of a portal, and Steve Rogers alerts the team, telling them to regather and that they have incoming.
* Phil Coulson tells Jemma Simmons that he is sad he did not get the chance to say goodbye to Leo Fitz, but asks that they tell him when they find and unfreeze him. Simmons says he will be sad he missed the memorial, but Coulson jokes that he is not dead yet, and asks that they drink.
* Agent Davis wipes Coulson's remembrance plaque.
* Thanos' portal into Wakanda opens and he steps out, observing the heroes awaiting him. The group stand ready in defiance, and Bruce Banner confirms for Rogers that this is Thanos himself. Rogers is the first to act, leading them as they begin an assault.
* Thanos begins to walk forwards, and Banner in the Hulkbuster 2.0 is the first to attack. He leaps at the Titan, but Thanos uses the gauntlet to make him intangible, causing him to tumble through him and into the rocks behind, where Thanos then makes him tangible again, trapping him. Steve Rogers runs at him, but Thanos uses the gauntlet to repel him. Black Panther jumps to attack, but Thanos catches him by the neck and punches him into the ground. Falcon flies in and fires at Thanos, but Thanos blasts his wings and he tumbles to the ground.
* Simmons hands Coulson Fitz's postcard of the Lighthouse to remind him of the team's success in working through problems despite the odds, and Coulson notes that Fitz, in his frozen status, will have no idea that he has already solved the problem of saving the world by the time he wakes. Simmons says he will be delighted to find out that time is in fact fluid, and Coulson assures them he has every confidence that Fitz will be found. Simmons affirms that they are all confident, and she hugs him.
* Vision tells Wanda Maximoff that they are out of time, and she must destroy the stone, despite the fact that it will kill him. Distraught, she tells him she cannot, but he reminds her that half the universe is at stake, reassuring her that she can never hurt him. Her lip trembles with emotion as she reluctantly starts to use her powers and, with deep anguish, she connects with the Mind Stone to begin its destruction.
* Coulson raises a toast to the team of agents and they drink together. Yo-Yo Rodriguez is next to walk over and hug him goodbye.
* Coulson walks over to Alphonso Mackenzie, officially appointed by him as the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Mackenzie tells him he will call him for advice, but Coulson says he will not need it, and that regardless, he is throwing his phone away. They embrace.
* Thanos blocks an attack from War Machine and uses the gauntlet to crush him in his suit, then tossing him aside. Bucky Barnes charges at Thanos, but Thanos repels him with a burst from the Reality Stone. Okoye hurls her spear, but he stops it mid-flight and repels her as well, then uses the gauntlet to manipulate the earth around Natasha Romanoff as she runs at him, pinning her to the forest floor. Groot extends his roots to entrap Thanos, but he simply breaks free.
* Wanda Maximoff reluctantly activates her other hand's powers as well, connecting it to the Mind Stone to accelerate its destruction.
* Steve Rogers, having recovered, slides to get in front of Thanos and attack again.
* Maximoff cries as she continues to kill her lover.
* Steve hits Thanos' leg with his shield and stands up to face the Titan, punching him with an uppercut.
* Vision closes his eyes to accept his death.
* Rogers summons all his strength and grabs the hand on which Thanos is wearing the Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos is surprised by the man's strength and pushes harder, but Rogers yells as he persists. The Titan overcomes his moment of bewilderment and punches Rogers to the ground with his other hand.
* Phil Coulson approaches Daisy Johnson last. She asks how long Simmons predicted he had left, and he informs her that he has days, perhaps weeks if he is lucky. Coulson tells her that he has left her a letter on her bunk to tell her how proud she is of him - saying that he is incredibly proud of what she has grown to be. She hugs him tightly and cries, telling the man who had come to be like a father to her that she loves him, and Coulson tells her, the daughter he never had, that he loves her too. Johnson eventually lets go and jokingly thanks him for, in giving her Zephyr One, gifting her a spaceship.
* Thanos advances to Maximoff. She disconnects one hand from Vision to fire backwards at him and slow him while continuing to destroy the Mind Stone. Thanos pushes against the beam and Vision assures that it is alright. He tells her he loves her as the stone begins to crack. Vision starts to fracture and the stone shatters in his forehead.
* Coulson picks up his bag. He opens the Zephyr One ramp and dons his shades, walking down it and stepping out onto a sandy beach.
* The shatter of the Mind Stone causes a blast that knocks Wanda Maximoff back and hits Thanos. Once it has subsided, Thanos catches his breath and walks over to Maximoff, sympathizing with her and saying he understands loss. She angrily says that he could never, but he tells her that today he has experienced incredible loss. However, the Titan tells her that now is not the time to mourn, and engages the Time Stone to bring back Vision.
* Thanos begins to turn the vicinity back in its existence and Vision is reformed, the Mind Stone returned to being intact. Maximoff realizes what is happening and screams "no!", rushing to stop it, but Thanos swipes her away. He grabs Vision by the neck and chokes him, then begins to press on Vision's forehead to pluck the stone out. He succeeds, pulling it from the android's head.
* Vision goes limp and dies, losing his color and turning grey. Thanos discards his body and moves the final Infinity Stone to the gauntlet. The Mind Stone embeds into the Infinity Gauntlet.
* With Phil Coulson having departed Zephyr One, Daisy Johnson places Coulson's Tahiti doll on the dashboard. The remaining team, minus Melinda May, gathers in the cockpit and Agent Davis starts the engine, lifting off.
* On a rooftop in San Francisco, Hank Pym bemoans his fall from respected science to working out the back of Scott Lang's van. Janet van Dyne jokes that their new Quantum Tunnel in the back of the van has flair. Scott Lang presses a button in the van to get the controls online, and Pym fiddles with settings.
* Coulson looks out on the beach in Tahiti, where the agents have dropped him off for his retirement due to its personal value to him. Melinda May, who has opted to stay with him until his passing and make the most of their new relationship, steps up to stand beside him. They joke about what they want to do with their time and take each other's hands.
* Thanos enjoys the feeling of the power of the six stones coursing through his veins. However, as he prepares to act, he is caught off-guard by a lightning blast. Thor flies at Thanos, Stormbreaker in hand, ready to kill his enemy. The Titan gets back up and fires back at Thor with a blast from the gauntlet, but Thor throws the axe at the beam and it overpowers Thanos' hurried shot. The Uru weapon lodges itself in Thanos' chest, as Thor had aimed, and the Asgardian lands, walking to him and grabbing him by the head. Thor revels in getting his revenge for Heimdall, reminding Thanos that he had told him he would die for his murder, and pushes the axe in further, causing Thanos to scream. Thanos then, however, begins to mutter. Knowing that Thor has made a mistake in aiming for his chest to enjoy the moment of revenge, Thanos mocks him, telling him that he should in fact have gone for the head as he is still capable of moving his hand.
* Daisy Johnson accepts moving on from Coulson and addresses their new director, Alphonso Mackenzie. She asks him where they will go next, and the team look ahead to their future
* Hope van Dyne tells Lang how to use the collection unit they have prepared to pick up healing particles from the Quantum Realm so they can help Ghost. Janet warns him to avoid tardigrades in the Quantum Realm, and to make sure not to get sucked into a time vortex, as they will not be able to save him.
* Melinda May rests her head on Phil Coulson's shoulder, and they watch Zephyr One fly away to face its next adventure.
* Scott Lang prepares to enter the Quantum Realm. Hope van Dyne counts down and pulls the lever to suck Lang into the Quantum Tunnel.
* **Snap****:**
	+ To Thor's dismay, Thanos lifts his hand, wearing the completed Infinity Gauntlet, and snaps his fingers.
	+ Time stops for Thanos and he finds himself in the Soul world. He finds a manifestation of Gamora in the orange environment, looking as she did the day he took her. She asks, "Did you do it?", and he replies that he did. When she then asks, "What did it cost?", Thanos sadly replies, "Everything". His consciousness returns to the physical world.
	+ Lang shrinks through the Quantum Tunnel. Hank Pym checks in with him by walkie-talkie, and Lang delays responding just to prank them, before letting them know he is fine.
	+ Thor looks in horror at Thanos and asks him what he has just done. Thanos, however, simply uses the Space Stone to open a portal away and falls back into it to escape, Stormbreaker dropping out of his chest as he goes. Steve Rogers catches up with Thor and asks where Thanos has gone. Thor simply stands silently, stunned. Rogers suddenly hears the voice of Bucky Barnes, calling out his name.
	+ In the Quantum Realm, Scott Lang decouples the container as Hope van Dyne had instructed. The container sucks in healing particles to take back to Ghost.
	+ Meanwhile on Titan, Peter Parker helps Tony Stark up off the floor. Mantis suddenly tells them that she senses that something is happening.
	+ Nick Fury and Maria Hill drive through Atlanta, and Hill informs Fury that they have still not heard from Tony Stark. She gets a signal from a satellite telling her that there are multiple bogies over Wakanda, and Fury begins to instruct her to contact Cameron Klein when, all of a sudden, a car in front of them swerves out of control.
	+ Mantis abruptly turns to dust where she stands, blowing away on the wind. Stark and the others are stunned at her sudden death, and fear that they know what has caused it.
	+ Rogers turns to see Barnes, and as he watches, his best friend dissolves to dust - first his arm, but ultimately his entire body, dying on the spot. Rogers approaches where Barnes was standing and touches the dust remains on the ground, bewildered by and terrified of what just happened - the halving of the universe's population from Thanos' snap taking effect.
	+ On Titan, Drax the Destroyer is also turned to dust from the effects of Thanos' snap as he calls out for Quill.
	+ Hope van Dyne prepares to bring Scott Lang back out of the Quantum Realm, and begins to count down. However, the countdown is suddenly cut off and Lang hears static. He initially believes that the trio are teasing him in response to his prank, but as the static continues, he comes to realize that something terrible has happened. On the rooftop in San Francisco, Hank Pym, Janet van Dyne, and Hope van Dyne's dust remains fall slowly to the ground, all three killed in the effect of Thanos' snap. Lang panics, trapped in the Quantum Realm. He would spend only five hours in the Realm from his perspective, but would remain stuck for 5 years before release, causing the world to believe him to be a victim of Thanos' snap.
	+ Tony Stark realizes Peter Quill is struggling and tries to give him encouragement, asking him to remain "steady". Quill, however, sadly realizes the full impact of his mistake as he himself turns to dust.
	+ Half of the Wakandan soldiers are turned to dust, scattered to the wind, as M'Baku looks around in horror and confusion.
	+ Doctor Strange calls out to Stark, who turns to him. Strange tells him that "there was no other way", and he crumbles to dust as well. Stark then hears a voice by his side calling feebly, "Mr. Stark..."
	+ Fury and Hill leave their car and check the one that swerved, and Hill is bewildered to find that there appears to be no one inside. Fury looks to a nearby building and sees a helicopter lose control and crash into it, and, uneasy, declares the situation to be a "code red". When he turns back to Hill, however, he finds her crumbling to dust. Hill dies and Fury rushes back to the car as another passer-by turns to dust beside him. He reaches into his bag and finds the Transmitter Pager left for him 23 years prior, deciding he is desperate enough that it is time to call in the friend he said he would only contact in emergencies. He activates it, but finds himself to be turning to dust as well, to his dismay. Fury dies and the pager falls to the ground, but begins its call to his powerful friend: Carol Danvers.
	+ On his homestead, Clint Barton, still on house arrest, has a picnic with his family and gives archery lessons to his daughter Lila. When Lila goes to retrieve an arrow, Clint turns his back on her momentarily, but when he turns back around, she, Laura, Cooper, and Nathaniel have all vanished.
	+ At the Midtown School of Science and Technology, the school band was playing music in the gymnasium when suddenly many of the members turn to dust, including people sitting on the benches. The surviving witnesses of the catastrophe are alarmed, while the scene is recorded by someone with a cell phone. Also at Midtown High, students Ned Leeds, Michelle Jones, Betty Brant, Flash Thompson, Jason Ionello and Sue Lorman all turn to dust, along with some other classmates and teachers.
	+ At North Coleman Elementary School, Nicholas Terwilliger becomes a victim of Thanos, along with other classmates and teachers.
	+ In an unknown location, Sharon Carter also falls victim to Thanos.
	+ T'Challa rushes to help Okoye up from the ground and grabs her hand, only for his hand to disappear in her grasp as the king crumbles to dust. Okoye is left aghast and distressed.
	+ In Garden City, Thomas and Florence Hassis turn to dust, leaving their pet dog, Lily to be alone for the next few days.
	+ At her house, Joy Sparano turns to dust as well.
	+ Tony turns around and his heart sinks, devastated as his worst fear comes true. Peter Parker, who was the one who called, stumbles towards him and mutters, "I don't feel so good..." Stark falls into denial and tells him that he is alright, but Parker confusedly says he does not understand what is happening. The teenager falls into Stark's arms and grabs hold of him, falling to the ground in weakness as he repeatedly states that he does not want to go, not ready to die. Parker apologizes to Stark, feeling he let him down, as he turns to dust in Stark's arms. Stark stares at the dust scattering before his eyes in disbelief.
	+ Groot cries out to Rocket Raccoon. Rocket is upset to watch as his best friend turns to dust before him.
	+ Wanda Maximoff kneels over Vision's dead body, mourning his loss. When she starts turning to dust, she embraces the end to her pain as she crumbles and dies.
	+ Sam Wilson turns to dust on the forest floor. As Okoye walks around, stunned, James Rhodes is left calling out for Wilson, receiving no response.
	+ On Titan, Nebula stands and comments incredulously, "He did it." Tony Stark leans his head into his hands in utter defeat, unable to bear the realization of what has happened or the guilt that despite all his efforts over the years, he was unable to stop the ultimate threat and his worst nightmares have come true.
	+ Steve Rogers finds Vision's body. The remaining heroes gather around, and Rhodes asks what is happening. Rogers slumps as he starts to comprehend the weight of what has occurred, and he mutters, "Oh God..."
	+ Thanos arrives from Wakanda on a planet with a large and peaceful farm, and sits down on the porch of his new farmhouse. Despite his loss of Gamora, Thanos also reflects on the fact that he has achieved everything he set out to do, and as he watches the sunrise, he smiles.
	+ In Scott Lang's house, the television airs an Emergency Alert System broadcast following the sudden inexplicable deaths of half of the planet's population. The enlarged ant instructed to follow Scott Lang's house arrest routine, meanwhile, continues to play the electric drums, blissfully oblivious of the predicament of the universe.

11th

* Stark and Nebula fix the damage to the *Benatar* to ensure the ship can leave Titan.

12th

* On the way back to their headquarters, the Avengers pass by Atlanta to check on Fury and retrieve his dropped pager.

31st

* On his farm, Thanos decides to use the power of the Gauntlet to destroy the Stones, which also causes intense damage to himself.
* In the New Avengers Facility, Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff watch the global missing numbers increase, confirming their fears that Thanos achieved exactly what he intended. James Rhodes lets them know that Fury's pager has stopped beeping. Rogers and Romanoff say to reboot it, trusting that Fury knew what he was doing, but when Romanoff turns around she finds that its recipient, Carol Danvers, has already arrived and is standing behind them. She asks where Fury is.

### June

1st

* **Rescue of Tony Stark****:** After 22 days of travel, during which Stark and Nebula bonded, the fuel of the *Benatar* ends and the oxygen tanks reach critical levels. Thinking he will die stranded in deep space, Stark uses a wrecked helmet to record a farewell message to Pepper Potts, and retreats to the co-pilot chair to get some sleep. He is awakened by the arrival of Carol Danvers outside the ship, sent by Rocket Raccoon and the Avengers to save anyone left stranded on the *Benatar*. She brings it back to Earth, where Stark is brought into medical care.

2nd

* Using Nebula's information on her adoptive father and readouts of an energy wave similar to the moment Thanos snapped his fingers, the Avengers discover where Thanos is hidden.
* **Ambush on Thanos****:** The Avengers fly the *Benatar* to Titan II. Danvers, Banner, and Rhodes beat Thanos in his hut and Thor slices the arm donning the Gauntlet, revealing the Stones are no longer there. Captain America and Black Widow enter the hut, inquiring about their location, and Thanos reveals the Stones were destroyed, ensuring that he could not be tempted to use them again and that the Snap could not be undone. The Avengers initially believed Thanos to be lying, but Nebula knew that her adoptive father was not a liar. Thanos thanked her and finally admitted that perhaps he had treated her too harshly. Before he could say anymore, an enraged Thor decapitated Thanos with Stormbreaker, killing the Mad Titan and avenging all of his victims.

6th

* After weeks spent with Melinda May in Tahiti, a little longer than he had been predicted to have left, Phil Coulson passes away.

### August

10th

* Frank Castle massacres a group of gangsters.