2016

## Timeline

### After

2017

*"An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again. But one which crumbles from within? That's dead. Forever."*
―Helmut Zemo to Captain America[src]
This is a timeline of events that occurred in **2016**.

## 2016

* *Walima* is released.
* *Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue is published.*

### January

#### 6th

* Mike Piazza is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

#### 9th

* "Come Down" by Anderson .Paak is released.

#### 16th

* Kate Bishop is awarded with the JOAD Olympian Achievement Award at the Bronze level by USA Archery.

#### 19th

* Joy Meachum closes a deal to buy Red Hook Pier, not realizing it is for the purposes of the Hand.

#### 20th

* Joy Meachum and Ward Meachum record an interview for the New York Bulletin.
* Jennifer Walters films a video of herself dancing with her friends in law school.

#### 22nd

* The Minoru family holds a memorial service for their daughter, Amy Minoru. All of the members of PRIDE and their children attend, except for Alex Wilder, who is too upset by Amy's apparent suicide to come. Leslie Dean gives a speech at the service.
* Catherine and Geoffrey Wilder discuss leaving PRIDE, as Catherine suspects that Minoru's death was not suicide, but Geoffrey talks her out of it.
* Alex Wilder, emotionally unable to attend, stays outside. Catherine finds and consoles him.

#### 25th

* Frank Castle plays the guitar, remembering how he used to teach his daughter Lisa.

#### 29th

* **Assassination of Rosalind Price**:
	+ Under the orders of Gideon Malick, and for personal reasons, Grant Ward kills Rosalind Price by shooting at her from afar while she has dinner with Phil Coulson.
	+ Ward calls Coulson and tells him that now he knows how it feels to lose someone you care about. Ward sends a group of assassins to kill Coulson, but he manages to escape, being driven away in a S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV by Alphonso Mackenzie.
* On returning to the Playground, Coulson immediately begins to make moves with new urgency in his vendetta against Ward.
* Coulson interrogates each of the members of his original team on their personal connections with Ward, so as to learn anything he can about Ward's personality, motives, and weaknesses.
* The team, however, begin to worry that Coulson's fury and drive for vengeance is blinding him and making him reckless.
* Ward returns to the HYDRA Castle to report back to Gideon Malick about successfully killing Rosalind Price.

#### 30th

* Phil Coulson recruits Lance Hunter and Bobbi Morse to help him in his personal mission against Ward. He finishes making plans and sends Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons with Price's colleague and friend Luther Banks to the Distant Star Facility warehouse to recover more information about the portals to the distant planet.
* Coulson appoints Mackenzie as the stand-in director of S.H.I.E.L.D., knowing that the moves he is about to make are not acceptable for a director.
* **Ambush at the Distant Star Facility**: On arriving at the facility, Fitz, Simmons, and Banks are suddenly ambushed by R. Giyera and HYDRA agents. Giyera uses his metal manipulation powers to take Banks' gun and shoot him dead, along with all the other agents protecting them, and take Fitz and Simmons as hostages.
* While Phil Coulson flies with Morse and Hunter to secretly find Ward's remaining brother as a bargain chip against him, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons are flown to Gloucestershire and brought before Ward and Malick. The two of them together are resilient, but Ward, knowing them well, suggests to split them up.
* Alphonso Mackenzie lets Coulson know that Fitz and Simmons have gone missing, making him realize that it is now vital his plan to take Thomas Ward works.
* **Kidnapping of Thomas Ward**:
	+ Coulson, Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter stage a robbery together to break into the jewelry store where Thomas Ward works and kidnap him.
	+ While Ward tortures Fitz, Coulson calls him from Price's phone, only to show him that he is holding his brother hostage, before hanging up prematurely to anger Ward.
	+ Thomas explains, to the trio's surprise, that he hates his older brother and believes he is a bad man. When Grant calls back, Thomas tells him that he has tried to stay away from him all these years. As Grant is distracted by the conversation with his brother, Coulson starts to trace the call. When they track the source to the HYDRA Castle, Coulson takes back the cellphone from Thomas and tells Grant Ward that he is going to kill him. They drop Thomas back home and set off to fly to England.

#### 31st

* Melinda May and Alphonso Mackenzie decide together to help Phil Coulson take on HYDRA with the help of Daisy Johnson's team of Inhumans with Joey Gutierrez and Lincoln Campbell.
* Gideon Malick convinces Ward to lead the soldiers on the planet, as Leo Fitz agrees to help HYDRA, to prevent them from killing Jemma Simmons. Malick then uses his collected fragments of the Monolith to reopen the portal.
* Ward, Fitz, and several HYDRA agents proceed to go through.
* As Coulson flies in above, he realizes that he has run out of time, so he dives from the Quinjet into the castle, falling through the portal from above just before it closes. He crashes onto the ground of Maveth and is knocked out on impact.
* A physical rehabilitation instructor from Metro-General Hospital, who had worked with Jonathan Pangborn a couple of years prior, encounters Pangborn walking on the streets. The instructor is shocked, impressed to see him walk, due to his previous seemingly incurable paralysis.
* Leo Fitz attempts to steal Grant Ward's gun, but Ward stops him. The other HYDRA soldiers then discover a giant statue resembling the HYDRA logo.
* Lance Hunter and Bobbi Morse reunite with the Zephyr One and inform Mackenzie of Coulson's actions. Johnson discovers that HYDRA are unloading captive Inhumans at the HYDRA Castle. They split into two teams: one to save Fitz or Simmons and the other to secure the portal.
* Fitz discovers the hatch entrance to Will Daniels' hideaway, and drops down into the cavern despite Ward's protests, finding Daniels asleep there.
* Coulson wakes from a dream of Rosalind Price. He resolves to keep going and gets up to follow the HYDRA group's trail to hunt down Ward.
* Grant Ward threatens to kill Daniels, but Fitz convinces him to let him live and come with them so that he can get them to the exit point on time, due to his knowledge of Maveth.
* **Attack on the HYDRA Castle**:
	+ May, Johnson, Campbell, and Gutierrez slip into nearby drainage tunnels and approach the HYDRA Castle. Campbell takes out the lighting while the team slip inside.
	+ Meanwhile, Simmons escapes and runs around the compound. She discovers the Inhuman storage units and finds Andrew Garner's pod. He convinces her to set him free so he can help her to escape HYDRA, and transforms into Lash, saving her and escaping.
	+ In order to escape from HYDRA together, Daniels reveals to Fitz that he has led the group to the No Fly Zone, as a sandstorm brews.
	+ Morse, Mackenzie, and Hunter secure and enter the portal chamber.
	+ Elsewhere, Daisy Johnson is ambushed by R. Giyera with gunfire, but Joey Gutierrez melts the bullets, saving her. Melinda May finds Jemma Simmons in time to save her from a HYDRA soldier, and Simmons tells her of Garner's whereabouts. Once May makes sure Simmons is safe, she goes to find Garner.
	+ As Leo Fitz and Will Daniels successfully kill and escape the HYDRA Soldiers, Grant Ward is distracted and shot by the approaching Phil Coulson. At gunpoint, Coulson orders him to lead the way to Fitz and the exit point.
	+ Coulson's Team reunite and break into the portal room. May finds the bodies of HYDRA agents, as well as the captive Inhumans. She returns and informs the team of Lash's massacre, and Simmons feels guilty.
	+ Mackenzie orders the team to leave, but Johnson remains with him to help. The others prepare on Zephyr One to collect any of their team who make it out, and Mackenzie and Johnson ready themselves for the portal to open.
	+ Coulson and Ward eventually spot Daniels and Fitz and hurry to reach them in time. As they walk, Daniels tells him of an ancient civilization on Maveth. Fitz realizes that it is not Will Daniels but It, who has taken over Daniels' dead body.
	+ The Zephyr One hovers above the HYDRA castle, ready to bomb the HYDRA Castle as soon as the portal closes. Johnson collapses.
* **Battle of Maveth**:
	+ A fight ensues between Fitz and It. When Coulson notices, he shoots It to help Fitz escape, but Ward takes the opportunity to attack Coulson. Fitz shoots It repeatedly again and brings him down before he can reach the portal. Coulson manages to beat Ward down due to his bound hands. Fitz grabs a flare gun and shoots It, burning Daniels' body.
	+ Despite Fitz's advice to leave, Coulson uses his bionic hand to crush Ward's chest, killing him and finally enacting his revenge. Coulson drops the hand, leaving it behind to signify leaving his actions on the planet.
	+ Coulson and Fitz make it through the portal and onto a Containment Module with Mackenzie and Johnson, and Mackenzie orders May to bomb the castle. They fly up to the Zephyr as the castle is destroyed around them. The team is reunited and Simmons finds out that Daniels is dead.
* Driving to the airport, Gideon Malick's car is stopped in the road by the reanimated corpse of Grant Ward holding Coulson's hand. He realizes that It has returned, inhabiting Ward's body.

### February

#### 2nd

* Stephen Strange realizes that a patient has been prematurely pronounced dead, and rushes the man to an operating theatre.
* With the help of colleague Christine Palmer, and his talent for precision and focus, he extracts a bullet from the patient's head and saves their life.
* Strange invites Palmer to come with him to a talk he is giving at a dinner that evening, but she turns it down, a little annoyed by his constant work and love of fame and reputation.
* **Stephen Strange's Car Crash**: Strange drives from his apartment to attend the dinner. As he drives, his colleague Billy calls him to notify him of potential patients to operate on. When Billy mentions a young woman with an electrical implant to control schizophrenia, who has been struck by lightning, it peaks Strange's interest. He looks down at his phone to see the x-rays and loses his control of his car. It swerves and crashes, falling off the road and tumbling into the river below. He is severely injured; his hands are shattered on the dashboard glass, and he passes out.
* After a little while, the Metro-General Hospital air ambulance finds Strange in the river and rushes him to hospital for medical attention.

#### 3rd

* After eleven hours on the operating table, Stephen Strange is laid in bed, still unconscious, to rest. They have put stainless steel pins in his hands, stitches all over his body and face, and several casts; his arms held in place to heal.
* Strange finally wakes up and is greeted by Christine Palmer. He learns from Palmer that both of his hands, which were crushed by the dashboard of his car, have been subjected to severe nerve damage and rendered inoperable. He becomes upset and deeply concerned over what has happened to his hands, and the repercussions that may have on his life, career, and talent. Seeing this, Palmer reassures him that no one could have done better. He simply replies, "I could have done better."
* Palmer helps Strange shave in bed and tries to make him feel better, but her efforts are unsuccessful.

#### 7th

* Danny Rand returns to New York City. He goes to the Rand Enterprises Building that his father built with Harold Meachum, and tells the receptionist that he is Danny, but she does not believe him, because Danny Rand is thought to have been dead for nearly 15 years. The receptionist calls security, but he manages to defeat them and use the elevator to go to the floor where his father's office was.
* Rand enters the room only to discover Ward and Joy Meachum as the leaders of his father's company. He tries to convince them that he is Danny Rand but they do not believe him, claiming that Rand died. Rand asks to talk to their father, only to discover that he died over 12 years ago. Ward calls security and Danny Rand is taken from the building.
* Confused, Joy Meachum tells Ward that she thinks that the man who claims to be Danny Rand really does look like their old friend.
* Rand goes to his old house and breaks in, discovering that it is now the home of Joy Meachum.
* However, when Meachum arrives, he manages to slip out of the building unnoticed.
* Rand goes to rest under a tree. While he is listening to music, Big Al approaches him and starts a conversation. He tells Rand about the iPhone he stole a few days prior, and explains that with access to the Internet, you can find whatever you want. Rand tells him to search the name "Danny Rand", only to find out that everybody thinks he is dead. He then asks Big Al to search the name of "Harold Meachum", discovering that he died at the age of 41.

#### 8th

* Danny Rand waits outside his old home, now Joy Meachum's house, so he can talk to her when she leaves. When Meachum finds him there, she threatens him, saying that she will ensure that he is arrested. Rand tries to convince her again that he is who he says he is, but she does not believe him. She threatens Rand one more time, forcing him to leave. As he walks away, he is nearly hit by a car, but he dodges it by leaping over the oncoming vehicle, to Meachum's shock.
* Rand practices Kung-fu in the park. Colleen Wing passes by and gives him some money, believing him to be homeless. She then proceeds to staple a notice up about her self-defense class. Rand tries to give her back her money, but she lets him keep it. They begin to talk, and Rand asks for a job, but she politely refuses and leaves.
* Joy reveals to Ward Meachum that "Danny" was waiting for her outside of her house. Ward worries and asks her if she is OK following the encounter. She answers yes, but that she is a little scared, then confesses that she is starting to think that "Danny" could actually be the Danny Rand they knew. Ward insists that she is wrong and that "Danny" might even be a setup made by competition trying to take over the company just as they are about to announce expansion in China.
* As Ward Meachum prepares to drive away, Danny Rand enters his car to get his attention. While Rand drives, Meachum threatens him with a gun, but Rand disarms him. He claims that he is tired of hostility and asks Ward for answers about what happened since his family's crash. Meachum says that his assailant has nothing to prove that he is the real Danny Rand. Rand tries to prove himself, reminding Meachum of how he abused him when they were children. After Meachum calls him crazy, Rand gets angry and drives the car to the roof at high speed, telling him that this is how he had felt during the air crash. Rand stops the car at the last second before it would fall off the roof. Realizing that he lost the control of his actions, Rand apologizes and leaves.
* Ward Meachum orders Shannon and his bodyguards to find and kill the supposed Danny Rand.
* In the park, Rand meets with Big Al again, who gives him food.
* Chinese New Year 2016 is celebrated in New York City.
* Colleen Wing films a part of a video that she will use to promote her kenjutsu lessons at Chikara Dojo, inviting the viewer to learn the martial arts. She teaches a class at the dojo and films parts of it to put together the promotional video.
* Danny Rand goes to Wing's dojo as the class she is teaching finishes. He approaches her and offers to teach Kung-fu. She asks him where he trained, and he tells her that he trained in a place called "K'un-Lun". Not believing him, Wing forces Rand to leave, but not before giving him some shoes.
* **Attack on Danny Rand**: When Danny Rand leaves, he is attacked by Ward Meachum's men. He manages to escape, as Colleen Wing watches the incident, then tries to help him. Wing is surprised by Rand's genuine martial arts skills. Rand arrives at the Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown, and defeats all of the men, finding out from one that it was Ward Meachum who sent them.
* Ward Meachum is informed that his men failed.
* Big Al dies from an overdose.
* Ward is called by his father, Harold Meachum, secretly alive thanks to the Hand's resurrection ritual, who tells Ward that he wants to meet with him. Ward arrives at his father's penthouse, where Harold reveals that he knows about the "Danny Rand" situation.
* Harold and Ward agree that if "Danny" is who he says he is, it cannot be revealed to the public, and Harold tells his son that they need to investigate the young man further.
* Rand goes to the park looking for Big Al, only to discover his dead body. He says a sad farewell to the man who had been kind to him.

#### 9th

* Danny Rand enters Rand Enterprises and waits for Joy Meachum in her office. She agrees to talk with him, and gives him a cup of coffee, as Rand claims that Ward sent men to kill him last night. Joy does not believe him, but admits that she thinks he does look like Danny.
* Meachum asks Rand about what happened in the Himalayas, so as to distract him while a drug which she put in his coffee takes effect, rendering him unconscious.
* Ward and Joy Meachum send Rand to Birch Psychiatric Hospital.
* Danny Rand wakes in the hospital.

#### 10th

* Colleen Wing orders her students to try to surprise with a fake attack, so as to test their progress in training.
* Simon visits Danny Rand pretending to be a doctor. However, in a sudden impulsive move, he tries to kill Rand with a fork, only to be stopped by the workers at the hospital. One of them sedates Rand.
* At Rand Enterprises, Joy Meachum feels bad about drugging the supposed Danny Rand, and presents her concern to her older brother, Ward Meachum. Ward assures her that the man is not Danny Rand.
* Danny Rand has a conversation with Dr. Paul Edmonds, who does not believe him when he claims his identity. Edmonds suggests Rand should be "honest", and so Rand tells him about the day of the accident and what happened afterwards, trying to convince the doctor of the truth, but Edmonds still does not believe him.
* Colleen Wing's students make the attempted surprise attack on their teacher, but she defeats them. She expresses her disappointment at their attempt.
* Simon is ordered to be Danny Rand's tour guide. During the tour, Simon tells him about the hospital's purpose and its residents. Rand defends Simon when he is threatened by another patient called Dink, but the confrontation causes Rand to be taken and tied up again. However, Simon later visits and unties him.
* Rand calls Wing and asks her for help, explaining that the Meachums are the main reason for why he is at the hospital. However, as she wants to stay out of trouble, Wing refuses to help him.
* Ward Meachum visits Harold Meachum, who reveals, to Ward's surprise, that he has cameras hooked up in the mental hospital. Harold then orders him to talk to Wing and force her to corroborate Rand's alleged mental condition.

#### 11th

* *Cheap Thrills* is released.
* Danny Rand meditates in his ward at the hospital. Dr. Paul Edmonds has another talk with him, when Rand finally reveals to him that he stole a passport with the name "John Anderson" in order to return to the country, but that it is not his real name.
* Following his father's orders, Ward Meachum visits Colleen Wing and asks her to sign to say that "Rand" is threatening her. He offers a lot of money, before leaving.
* The pins are removed from Strange's hands, but he is highly disappointed to find his hand is still not working well. He snaps bitterly at the doctor.
* Edmonds meets with Rand again in his office. They talk about a 2001 commercial that the Rands and Meachums had filmed, and Rand describes the day it was filmed, and what the families had gone on to do later in the day, in a further attempt to prove he is who he says he is, explaining that they went to the circus afterwards. When Edmonds reveals that he still thinks Rand's real name is "John Anderson", Rand gets angry at the doctor, and is sedated again.
* As he watches the situation, Harold Meachum is intimidatory towards his assistant, Kyle. He informs Kyle that he is leaving tonight.
* Paul Edmonds contacts Joy Meachum, so as to check the circus story with her. Her recount matches perfectly with Rand's, causing Edmonds to reconsider the possibility that his patient is telling the truth about who he is.
* Harold Meachum visits Danny Rand in his ward as he lies in bed. Because Rand is drugged, he does not realize that Meachum is still alive, believing him to only be a hallucination. Intrigued by the things Rand tells him, Meachum leaves, assuring Rand that he will take care of his predicament and urging him to go back to sleep.

#### 12th

* "Cat Tongue" by The Flytraps is released.
* Joy Meachum, who has started to truly believe Rand is who he claims to be, sends M&M's to him at Birch Psychiatric Hospital so as to see if he remembers the time when they were kids, and he used to separate the brown M&M's from the rest, as final proof of his identity.
* Rand receives the M&M's and recognizes the significance, starting to picking out the brown ones. He is soon visited by Colleen Wing. She reveals that Ward Meachum gave her a check for $50,000 which is hers if she signs a contract claiming he was threatening her, but reassures him that she will not sign. Rand then asks her to return the M&M's to Joy Meachum.
* Joy Meachum notices the missing brown M&M's and realizes it is, undeniably, her old friend Danny Rand. As Wing discovers from her that Rand was telling the truth, she asks Joy to tell Ward that she is refusing to sign his papers.
* When Joy Meachum confirms to her brother that it is Danny Rand, Ward still refuses to accept it.
* Paul Edmonds visits Danny Rand and after he answers a few more personal questions, Edmonds finally accepts the truth, and tells him he believes him. However, he does not believe his further stories of the city of K'un-Lun. He tells Rand that the city is only an idea that his mind created so that he would not feel so lonely through the 15 years he was missing. Rand tries to convince him the he can channel the Chi in his hand and summon the power of the "Iron Fist", but he cannot do it until his system is drug-free. Edmonds diagnoses him with an anxiety disorder caused by trauma.
* Harold Meachum calls Ward during a meeting and tells him he has decided to move Rand to a safe place that night, since he believes he can be useful. Instead, Ward orders his men, posed as patients, to kill Rand.
* **Escape from Birch Psychiatric Hospital**: Danny Rand is attacked in the night, but manages to overpower them by finally summoning the "Iron Fist", which he then uses to punch through a wall and break out of the hospital.
* **Attack on the Chikara Dojo**: Ward Meachum's men break into Colleen Wing's dojo to get Danny Rand, who had entered the building to hide from them, but Wing manages to keep him hidden and lies to the men searching. However, when they have gone, she tells Rand he will have to leave in the morning.
* Harold Meachum is visited by Ward. They both talk about Rand's escape, and a deal between Rand Enterprises and Raj Patel which Joy brokered, not realizing the pier was being bought for the Hand's purposes.
* When Ward asks why his father wanted to buy it, Harold answers that it does not matter and orders him to have Joy closing the deal.

#### 13th

* The following morning, Danny Rand offers Colleen Wing to pay her the rent by Friday. She reluctantly agrees.
* Ward Meachum convinces Joy to help him in the purchase of the pier.
* Rand waits for Joy Meachum outside of her house, greeting her with flowers as a part of a buddhist tradition meant to remind her of their bond.
* They talk briefly about the death of her father, and what happened to him while he disappeared. Going inside, Meachum offers him $100,000,000 if he changes his identity and leaves New York City, claiming that she has to protect Rand Enterprises as a part of the legacy her father left behind. Rand feels betrayed, and abruptly leaves.
* Rand visits his family's graves, and realizes that someone has been taking care of the headstones. He sets out to discover who it is, and finds out that it is Jeri Hogarth.
* Rand finds Hogarth and approaches her, proving his real identity by recounting personal facts about her internship in the legal department at Rand Enterprises. Hogarth promises to help him reclaim his identity in exchange for a permanent contract between her firm and Rand Enterprises.
* Madame Gao visits Harold Meachum and makes him kneel down on shattered glass on his floor, reminding him of his loyalty and obedience to the Hand.
* Danny Rand goes to Chikara Dojo and tries to give a lesson to Colleen Wing's students demanding respect from them. However, he attacks a student he deems impolite, provoking Wing to expel Rand from the building. Rand then goes on to an apartment owned by Jeri Hogarth.
* Meanwhile, Joy Meachum successfully closes the deal with Patel by telling him that she managed to deliver comatose hospital patient Kevin Kennedy's kidney to Patel's nephew, Terrence, so he can get better. In return, Patel agrees to sell the pier.

#### 14th

* Ward Meachum reveals to Joy that he is considering leaving Rand Enterprises, but congratulates her for the results she achieved the night before.
* **Destruction of Danny Rand's Files**:
	+ Danny Rand gets new clothes from Hogarth, then goes to Metro-General Hospital so as to obtain a way to prove his identity legally, requesting an X-ray he had in July 2001 when he broke his arm skateboarding.
	+ While he is distracted, Kevin Singleton manages to attack him, then proceeds to start dousing the room with petrol. Barely keeping himself conscious, Rand summons the "Iron Fist" and fights back. The man still manages to light the room on fire, and Rand escapes, but the files are destroyed.
* Furious, Rand confronts Joy and Ward Meachum at a restaurant. He voices his disbelief at Ward for hiring the man who attacked him, and then threatens them, causing Ward to try to fight him. After a brief scuffle, Joy breaks the fight apart. Before leaving, Rand tells them that they cannot deny his birthright.
* Talking with Ward, Joy Meachum mentions that Rand had said Harold visited him while he was in the hospital, which, unbeknownst to her, concerns her brother, wondering what his father has been doing, knowing him to really be alive.
* Joy Meachum returns home and notices a bowl Rand had once made her, with his fingerprints on it. She gives it to Jeri Hogarth in secret, believing it to be the right thing to do.
* **Colleen Wing's Cage Fights**: In need of earning more money, Colleen Wing goes to an illegal fight club, where she manages to defeat two of the best fighters under the nickname the "Daughter of the Dragon". Unbeknownst to her, she is filmed during the fight, and the video is later uploaded to the Internet.

#### 15th

* Danny Rand and Jeri Hogarth meet with the Meachums and the Rand Enterprises board.
* The pair manage to prove their case by presenting the clay bowl that Rand once made, with a fingerprint on the bowl that has an exact same match. Now with undeniable proof of Rand's identity, there is nothing else to discuss. Ward Meachum then threatens to bury them with lots of demands in order to delay his activity in the business for ten years, but Hogarth simply replies that they will see the company in court if they do, and the meeting disbands.
* Curious, Danny Rand follows Ward Meachum to Harold Meachum's Penthouse, without knowing Harold is still alive and living there. Rand goes out of a window and starts climbing the wall to the next floor. As he is about to enter through another window, he is pushed out by Ward. He falls down and loses conscious when he hit his head.

#### 16th

* Danny Rand wakes up in the penthouse where Ward Meachum reveals that he was the one who pushed him off the window ledge. Before Rand can get angry, Harold Meachum walks in, revealing himself to be alive, to Rand's surprise. Harold tells Rand that his cancer was secretly cured by the Hand, who demanded his loyalty in return, and only allowed him to reveal the truth to Ward. Harold asks Rand to destroy the Hand in order to free him, which Rand accepts, as it is his main duty of being the "Iron Fist".
* Ward Meachum warns Rand to be careful - not from the Hand, but from Harold.
* Colleen Wing discovers that the video of her cage fight has gone online as her students watch it before class. She has the beginning of her class filmed for footage for her promotional video.
* Danny Rand gives a press statement along with Ward and Joy Meachum. He tells the journalists about how his journey has been long to return home to Rand Enterprises. He continues by saying that his father instilled him a love and respect for the company that has never faded, and talks about the accident that led to the death of his parents, how he was the only survivor, and was rescued and raised by monks. He ends his speech by saying that his experience has taught him the value of life and hard work, and that Rand Enterprises matters. When he starts to reveal too much, Ward is forced to take him away.
* Rand is given his father's office to work in. He talks briefly with Jeri Hogarth about his new responsibilities at Rand Enterprises, and she tells Rand he has the strongest voice in the board due to his 51% share of the company.
* Danny Rand attends a meeting about leishmaniasis, where he discovers the company is selling the medicinal drugs at a very high price. He makes sure to get the company to distribute the drug at cost to reach more people in need of it, despite the disapproval of the board, including Joy and Ward Meachum.
* Colleen Wing trains in her dojo. She films herself to use the footage for her promotional video for her classes.
* The *New York Bulletin* publishes an article on its website titled "*Danny Rand Gives a Press Conference at Rand Enterprises This Morning*".
* Harold Meachum calls Ward to congratulate him on how he handled Rand's public return.
* Ward Meachum orders Megan to contact the journalist Jennifer Many and tell her to come to see him that night because he has decided to answer any questions she wishes.
* Danny Rand and Joy Meachum have a heartfelt conversation in which Meachum reveals she gave the bowl that had proof of his identity to Hogarth because she was not proud of who she was becoming. Rand says her father would have been proud of her, and that she has nothing to regret.
* **Colleen Wing's Cage Fights**: Colleen Wing returns to the fight club and partakes in a second cage fight, this time against two opponents at the same time, which she wins again.
* **Attack on Joy Meachum**:
	+ As Rand asks Joy Meachum why the company bought Red Hook Pier, in an attempt to learn the Hand's intentions as Harold asked him to, a clan suddenly breaks into penthouse and kidnaps Joy.
	+ Rand uses his abilities to fight and defeat the clan in the hallway to the penthouse, rescuing Meachum. They both go to Chikara Dojo.
* Meanwhile, Ward Meachum talks to Jennifer Many and reveals to her how Rand forced the company to sell the medication for leishmaniasis at cost, causing major financial problems. Many thanks him for the interview and then calls Mitchell Ellison, telling him to give her the front page for the following day, rather than Karen Page.
* Danny Rand leaves Joy Meachum under the protection of Colleen Wing and goes to confront the leader of the clan, which Wing reveals to be the "Yangsi Gonshi".
* Rand confronts the leader of the Yang Clan, Hai-Qing Yang, who reveals that they hold a grudge against Joy Meachum for stealing the pier from their group. However, he changes his mind and takes Rand's side after he reveals that the Hand was behind the purchase.
* Madame Gao visits Harold Meachum and congratulates him for securing the pier for her clan. As a reward, she allows Harold to see Joy briefly, for the first time since he died, over 12 years prior. When he sees she has been wounded, Meachum asks Gao to allow him to kill the man who injured her.
* Harold Meachum and a group of Hand ninjas visit and kill the member of the Yang Clan who hit Joy.

#### 17th

* In K'un-Lun, Davos visits his mother, Priya's room. Standing outside of her door, he tells her he is leaving K'un-Lun to bring Danny Rand back. He tells her he understands why she pushed him hard in life, and that he hopes they might be able to say things to each other from their hearts, as he may never return. Priya starts to become emotional, still loving her son despite his failure, and considers responding, but Davos gives up and leaves, stating that he will make her proud, and maybe then she will talk to him.
* Jennifer Many's article is published by the *New York Bulletin*, titled "*Daniel Rand, Corporate Hero*".
* Ward Meachum reads Many's article about Rand's decision.
* Danny Rand receives a gift from Hai-Qing Yang, which also contains the Steel Serpent symbol underneath, and a note saying that it is the answer he has been looking for.
* Colleen Wing posts the promotional video for her kenjutsu lessons at Chikara Dojo with footage she has filmed over the last few days, titled "*Learn Kenjutsu - The Wing Way!*".
* The drug Steel Serpent hits the market.
* Danny Rand gives the drug Hai-Qing sent him to Rand Enterprises scientist Sandi Ann so she can investigate it. After a few tests, she confirms that the most significant thing about the drug is that it is completely legal.
* Regina Fitzgerald and her lawyer have a meeting with Joy Meachum about Staten Island cancer incidents, including her son falling ill, which have allegedly been caused by the local Rand chemical plant.
* Joy refuses to give in to her demands, and orders her to leave the building, but not without first expressing her sorrow to her.
* Danny Rand talks to Ward Meachum about Steel Serpent drugs seemingly being shipped to the newly acquired Red Hook Pier, but Meachum dismisses the situation.
* Rand gets more information from Megan about his company's activities, and decides to investigate by himself.
* Joy has a conversation with Ward where she questions if they are making the right ethical decisions.
* Regina Fitzgerald approaches Danny Rand as he leaves the building. After listening to her, Rand promises to make the Staten Island situation better, while Fitzgerald's lawyer films the conversation without Rand's knowledge.
* Colleen Wing and Claire Temple train together, but they are interrupted by Danny Rand, who wanted to talk to Wing and has brought takeout food to the dojo.
* Fitzgerald sends the video to Ward Meachum, threatening to release the video by the end of the day. Ward and Joy Meachum watch Fitzgerald's video and decide to discuss it with the board. Soon, Harold sends Ward a message telling him to do what Joy says, causing Ward to become angry, realizing his father has cameras on him.
* Rand, Wing, and Temple talk as they eat, and Temple asks about Rand's life in the monastery. Rand speaks about his friend Davos, his training, and his vows.When she asks why he waited so long to return, Rand explains he had to wait 15 years until the passage to the Earth Plane opened again.
* Temple eventually departs, leaving Rand and Wing alone. Wing asks Rand why he had come to visit, and he explains that criminals are using his company to ship drugs into the city. Rand tells her that his plan is to prove to Ward Meachum that it is genuinely happening, so that Meachum will be forced to help him shut it down, and explains that he could find evidence with the shipment coming in that night, and asking for Wing's assistance, much to her disbelief. He convinces her, however, after telling her that he bought the dojo's building so she does not have to worry about rent anymore.
* In a board meeting about the video of Rand apologizing, Ward convinces the shareholders to continue to deny the accusations about Staten Island, instead of accepting responsibility like Rand.
* Thembi Wallace reports on WJBP-TV about Danny Rand's latest activities, as Ward Meachum watches.
* **Ambush at the Red Hook Pier**: At Red Hook Pier, Rand and Wing find the containers supposedly loaded with normal supplies. Rand enters one of them, where he finds a hidden room housing Radovan Bernivig, the chemist who created the formula for the Steel Serpent drug because the Hand are forcing him by holding his daughter hostage. Rand engages and overpowers a bodyguard who stabs Radovan critically.
* Joy Meachum finds Ward in a bad state, having become anxious from constantly being watched and controlled by Harold and then tried the Steel Serpent drug that Danny Rand had left.
* Rand and Wing take Bernivig to the Chikara Dojo where Claire Temple uses a credit card to improvise a chest seal and save his life. He tells them of how the Hand has his daughter, Sabina Bernivig, and asks them to save her. Temple worries when she finds out that the Hand are still around, after they attacked her hospital and killed her friend, Louisa Delgado. Wing promises to help Rand defeat the Hand.
* Meanwhile, Madame Gao arrives at Red Hook Pier and beheads King for letting Rand escape with Bernivig.
* Regina Fitzgerald's video of Rand's apology and promise to help over the Staten Island plant situation is released online.

#### 18th

* The *New York Bulletin* publishes the article "*Rand Rises*" about Danny Rand's publicly well-received decision to distribute a leishmaniasis cure at cost.
* Madame Gao prepares to assemble the Da Jue Zhan of Danny Rand, an event hosted by the Hand, setting their best warriors against a single opponent. The Hand then allows the opponent to pose demands if they win the tournament.
* In order to please his sister, Ward Meachum throws away all of his drugs. He informs Joy that Wayne Olsen is coming for a meeting later that day.
* Ward tells Danny Rand he has to attend the meeting with Olsen. However, he tells him that he needs to check up to six warehouses in order to track down Radovan Bernivig's daughter, Sabina.
* Claire Temple continues to tend to Radovan Bernivig, who does not want to be taken to hospital.
* At the fourth warehouse, Rand finds King's severed head, realizing it is an invitation to a da jue zhan, challenging Rand to combat. He tells Ward Meachum that he cannot attend the meeting, despite his demands.
* Rand tells Temple and Wing about the challenge, and how he has practiced for this sort of thing.
* He reveals to Temple that he is the Iron Fist, but she replies asking what that means.
* The meeting with Wayne Olsen goes ahead without Rand.
* **Da Jue Zhan**:
	+ Danny Rand arrives for the challenge. Rand demands the Hand free Sabina Bernivig and leave his company if he wins, which Gao accepts in exchange for Rand leaving the Hand alone if he loses, which he accepts in return. The first round has Rand facing Andrei and Grigori Veznikov, which Rand wins.
	+ He enters the second round, having to face Bride of Nine Spiders, who attempts to seduce him, managing to inject him with Singing Spider venom. However, he manages to defeat her.
* Meanwhile, Ward Meachum shows withdrawal symptoms in the meeting with Olsen, forcing him to leave to search for more drugs.
* **Kidnapping of Radovan Bernivig**: At the same time, Radovan Bernivig's condition becomes critical, forcing Temple and Wing to take him to Metro-General Hospital, where the Hand abducts him.
* The da jue zhan continues.
* Rand faces Scythe in the third round. He wins all three rounds with the spiritual help of his mentor from K'un-Lun, Lei Kung, who then tells Rand to kill Scythe. However, when Gao threatens to kill Sabina Bernivig if Rand kills Scythe, he decides to spare him, going against Lei Kung's orders and his supposed purpose. Gao frees Sabina, revealing to Rand that she has been to K'un-Lun before, and knew his father.
* Joy Meachum stops Ward from causing trouble at an infirmary while he is trying to obtain more drugs.
* When Rand tries to fight Gao, she easily overpowers him, and he allows her and Scythe to leave. He leaves with Sabina Bernivig, having successfully rescued her.
* **Attack on Harold Meachum**:
	+ Two members of the Hand, named Alexi and Vando, arrive at Harold Meachum's penthouse to interrogate him. However, when Rand arrives, they discover his alliance with the Iron Fist, their enemy, and start a fight. Rand helps Meachum to fight back.
	+ With the men defeated, Meachum decides to kill them both. He cuts off his finger in case the Hand arrives, so as to make it seem like the men performed their orders in threatening him.
* Joy Meachum worries about Ward after his last incident. He manages to leave to see Harold, who has called him.
* Colleen Wing tends to Danny Rand's injuries. They drink together, and he tells more of his story from K'un-Lun and his duty to defeat the Hand as the Iron Fist. They end up sleeping together.
* Ward Meachum visits his father in the middle of the night as he had ordered. Harold tells Ward that he wants him to dump the men's bodies in Pellam Bay Park.

#### 19th

* Danny Rand and Colleen Wing wake after sleeping together.
* Joy Meachum gives Rand an apologetic statement to use regarding the Staten Island plant in a meeting later that day.
* Madame Gao arrives, visiting Rand, and mentions that she has met other Iron Fists.
* When she leaves, Danny Rand follows Gao in the elevator to a 13th floor of the building which he was not aware of.
* Joy Meachum apologizes to Ward for snapping at him the night before.
* Rand Enterprises employee Sophia tells Gao that the Dogs of Hell will help distribute the Steel Serpent drug, as Rand watches.
* When Gao has left, Rand interrogates Sophia, wanting her password. She refuses to give him information, scared that Gao might kill her, but Rand tells her that she can instead go on the run and never come back.
* Stephen Strange asks for an operation to potentially accelerate his recovery.
* Colleen Wing's old sensei, Bakuto, returns to Chikara Dojo to reunite with his student.
* Karen Page, having corresponded with Rand about how he plans to act over the Staten Island Rand Enterprises situation, publishes the article "*BREAKING NEWS: Rand Shutters Staten Island Plant, Keeps Workers on Payroll*" on the *New York Bulletin* website.
* Rand changes his clothes and attends the meeting intended for his apology over his reckless actions with the Staten Island plant and Regina Fitzgerald. Instead of reading his statement, he reveals that he has given information to Karen Page at the *New York Bulletin* and had her report that he is shutting down the plant while keeping the employees on the payroll, just as the board is notified of the article being posted.
* Rand then visits Harold Meachum, and they discuss the list of shipments that they have found of the Hand's distribution of Steel Serpent, done through Rand Enterprises.
* Colleen Wing says goodbye to Darryl, who is leaving her classes for a scholarship.
* When Ward Meachum attempts to make a transaction, he is informed that his card has been declined. He becomes angry, realizing Harold has taken his money from his account.
* Dinah Madani prints a map for her investigation into the Assassination of Ahmad Zubair.
* Danny Rand goes back to the Golden Sands restaurant to visit the Yangsi Gonshi and warn them of Madame Gao's plans.
* Karen Page writes a full article for the *New York Bulletin* about Danny Rand's decision with the Staten Island plant, titled "*Rand Chooses Right*".
* Elsewhere, Davos sees this article and uses it to track down his missing friend to New York.
* Lawrence Wilkins visits Joy Meachum and informs her that the board held an emergency meeting and have decided that she, her brother Ward, and her friend Danny Rand should be ousted from Rand Enterprises.
* **Attack on the Hand's Brooklyn Warehouse**:
	+ The Yangsi Gonshi help Rand attack the members of the Hand who are holding Radovan Bernivig captive. Despite being successful in the fight, their rescue attempt fails as Bernivig dies before they can free him.
	+ As he dies, he is comforted by the information that his daughter, Sabina, is safe, and he mentions Anzhou, which Rand remembers is the place in China to which his plane was flying when it crashed.
* **Assassination of Harold Meachum**:
	+ Ward Meachum confronts his father about his bank account. Harold tells him he knew about Ward making embezzlements, and continues to anger his son to the point where Ward ends up taking a knife to Harold. When Harold does not relent, Ward finally cracks under the pressures he has felt from his father and stabs him repeatedly, killing him again.
	+ Ward Meachum dumps Harold's body alongside the bodies of the Hand men in Pelham Bay Park.
* Claire Temple reads a letter, sent from Luke Cage in prison.
* Rand visits Harold Meachum's Penthouse, and finds signs left behind suggesting that he has likely been killed.
* Temple keeps reading Cage's letter, but she is interrupted by Rand who wants to warn her of the danger they are in, telling her to leave in order to keep her safe. Colleen Wing arrives and helps her get away.
* When Rand arrives, Ward Meachum pretends to only just be discovering his father's death. Meachum tells him that it is all Rand's fault for returning and ruining the Meachums' lives. Meachum then prepares cleaning products to clean up the evidence of his murder.
* Rand, Wing, and Temple reunite. Rand deduces that his father was going to Anzhou to shut down Gao's operations in 2001, but was targeted by her during the flight, causing the crash. The trio decide to go to Anzhou themselves.
* The three board a private jet and head to China.

#### 20th

* Shane Ryback begins awaiting trial in prison.
* Lawrence Wilkins meets with Joy and Ward Meachum, where he tells them officially that they are no longer part of Rand Enterprises, offering $100 million each as severance.
* During the meeting, Ward imagines he still has blood on his sleeve from the night before. After Wilkins leaves, the siblings discuss accepting the deal, and the conversation turns to reminiscing on their last summer with their father 13 years prior, spent in the Hamptons.
* During the flight to China, as they pass over a mountain range, Temple talks to Danny Rand about Colleen Wing. The trio end up arguing about whether they should kill Madame Gao. Rand has an anxiety attack from flying over mountains, which the others help him get through, and they talk about Rand's plane crash and his life in K'un-Lun.
* Arriving in China, the trio travel on to Anzhou, then make plans to infiltrate Gao's facility.
* Joy Meachum rejects the board's severance offer on behalf of both her and her brother.
* Ward Meachum visits Lawrence Wilkins, telling him he is ready to take the offer. However, to Ward's surprise, Wilkins informs him that Joy already rejected the offer less than an hour before.

#### 21st

* Colleen Wing briefly opens up to Danny Rand about her mother dying, and tells him she is glad to have met him.
* The trio then intercept a nearby beggar and question him about the nearby facility which belongs to Gao. They acquire the necessary information about the patrols that evening and prepare to infiltrate the facility later.
* Joy and Ward Meachum meet to talk by the river. Joy reveals that she has a plan to take back Rand, and that months ago she hired a private investigator to investigate members of the board and find incriminating evidence, so as to prevent them from taking over.
* **Infiltration into the Anzhou Laboratory**:
	+ Danny Rand and Colleen Wing break into the heroin lab as Gao arrives, with Claire Temple watching on.
	+ Rand engages Zhou Cheng, a drunken fighter, who is well-trained in martial arts disciplines. Iron Fist eventually overpowers him and loses control, continuing to beat Cheng until Temple and Wing arrive and stop him. Wing fights a member of the Hand, who uses a poisoned sword to cut her. However, Wing defeats her opponent, with Temple's help, unaware that she has just been poisoned.
* Meanwhile, in New York City, Ward Meachum intends to finally show Joy Meachum the truth about Harold, taking her to the Art Deco building where he was kept.
* On arrival, he hallucinates his father's blood dripping from the elevator and begins to get manic. Changing his mind, he lies to Joy again and leaves in a hurry.
* Madame Gao arrives and her men engage the trio, who manage to defeat them. After seeing the effects of their poisoned weapons, identical to the symptoms on the dead pilots from his family's journey to China 15 years ago, Rand realises that Gao must be directly responsible, having set up the poisoning. He prepares to attack Gao, but chooses to spare her life, taking her captive.
* The *New York Bulletin* publishes the article "*Star Siblings Surrender Rand*" about Joy and Ward Meachum being removed from Rand Enterprises.
* Late at night, the trio arrive back in New York City.

#### 22nd

* Harold Meachum wakes from death, realizing that the resurrection elixir from the Hand has allowed him to return to life again.
* Rand takes Gao to Chikara Dojo, where Temple suggests using truth serum to make Gao talk to them.
* As Rand goes to steal the serum from Rand Enterprises, he runs into Joy Meachum. She mentions that Ward has not been answering her calls, and tells him about the ousting from the company, to his surprise. Meachum then asks him if he knows about the Art Deco building, which he denies, but she does not believe him.
* Danny Rand then steals the truth serum to use on Gao.
* Harold Meachum proceeds to walk back to his home. He walks among children playing in water, bemusing onlookers, and goes to a hotdog stand, confusedly putting his hand into the boiling water, burning it.
* Gao tries to upset Claire Temple, attempting to affect her and get into her mind. However, she is interrupted when Colleen Wing takes over watching her. Gao in turn attempts to get to Wing, insisting she knew her grandfather. However, Wing soon falls sick from the poisoned cut she received in Anzhou.
* Harold Meachum returns to Rand, bumping into Davos on the way, who has come to New York to find Rand. Meachum enters the Rand Enterprises Building, remembering the keycode as Ward's birthday. He discovers that Ward's office is now Frank Robbins', since his children's ousting.
* Later, Meachum reunites with Kyle, who tells him that he was worried about him after his disappearance.
* Davos takes out a man in a fight, and searches his bag for evidence to find Rand. He finds a *Forbes* magazine issue about his friend, also including an article about Stark Industries.
* Ward Meachum returns and is shocked to find his father, resurrected for the second time. Harold begs his forgiveness for being a bad parent.
* Colleen Wing lies in bed as her sickness from Gao's poison increases. Claire Temple administers the truth serum, and Gao reveals she knew Heather Rand, Danny's mother, but then laughs that the serum would never have worked on her, as she is used to far worse from tortures throughout the 17th century. Wing reveals her illness from Gao's poison and asks Rand to call her sensei, Bakuto.
* Davos notices Gao's men as they head towards Chikara Dojo, discussing "Danny Rand".
* Ward Meachum tells Harold not to get Joy involved, as he does not want her to be hurt.
* **Siege of the Chikara Dojo**: Gao's men surround the dojo, so that the trio inside cannot leave to get an antidote to save Colleen Wing, and will only receive one in return for releasing Gao. Some enter the dojo, but are taken down by Temple and Rand.
* Meanwhile, Ward Meachum meets with the Yang Clan leader about how to kill Harold permanently. Ward learns from him that those revived by the Hand become more psychopathic after each revival, slowly losing their sense of self, and attack those closest to them first.
* Harold Meachum places heroin in Ward's car so as to get him arrested.
* Harold Meachum dines with Kyle, trying to be kind. However, when Kyle says he only wants something simple, in his mania from only just returning to life, Meachum loses control at his supposed ungratefulness and kills his assistant.
* Ward Meachum is stopped by police for drug possession after the heroin is found in his car.
* Meachum is taken to Birch Psychiatric Hospital, where he realizes his father has put him in a trap, as he cannot escape his predicament without being seen as crazy for insisting his father is alive.
* Joy Meachum goes to the Art Deco building to find out what is going on for herself, where Harold watches her from security footage and controls the doors to lead her to him. She enters the basement and is shocked, but delighted to discover her father, alive after so many years presumed dead.
* Bakuto arrives and takes down Gao's men to make his way into the dojo. He then enters the building and meets the Iron Fist, teaching Rand to open his powered fist and use his Chi to save Wing, burning the poison out of her system.
* Rand collapses, and Bakuto and Wing then lave take him by car to Bakuto's school to recover and learn further, leaving Claire Temple behind, and with Davos watching on, having found his friend.

#### 23rd

* Colleen Wing and Danny Rand wake at the Hand Compound. Wing prepares to give Rand a tour of the compound.
* Joy and Harold Meachum continue to talk about why he pretended to be dead for so many years, and what has been happening recently. Harold tells her everything about the Hand, what it felt like to die, and how Danny Rand discovered his secret.
* Wing gives Rand a tour of the compound. He speaks with Bakuto about his chi and being the Iron Fist. Bakuto teaches him how to recharge his Chi, and Rand asks about Gao, with Bakuto answering that she has been taken out of commission, promising that he would have her arrested by the police soon enough. They discuss Rand's actions over Rand Enterprises' drugs trade, and Bakuto shares his belief that companies like Rand's are running the world, telling him that he could turn it around.
* Bakuto shows Rand a video of a previous Iron Fist in 1948. When Rand asks why he is so interested in the Iron Fist, Bakuto replies that he had become obsessed ever since being given that film, promising to help increase Rand's own power so they could then work together to protect the world from people like Gao.
* Rand calls Joy Meachum, who passes the phone over to Harold, which surprises him, not only believing him to have been killed, but shocked that Joy is aware of the truth about her father. Rand mentions that Madame Gao has been taken care of, causing Harold to celebrate.
* Unbeknownst to him, Bakuto is informed of the call. Colleen Wing arrives, and they contemplate whether it is the right time to reveal to Danny Rand that they work for another faction of the Hand, with Bakuto deciding he is not yet ready.
* Danny Rand bumps into Darryl, who has settled in after four days at the compound. Suspicious of Gao's whereabouts, Rand questions him about the off-limits areas, and Darryl points them out.
* Rand goes to the off-limits section, where he eventually manages to find where Madame Gao is being held.
* He approaches Gao's cell, and through a video communication outside of her cell, he is able to talk with her. Rand says that he is glad that she will finally get what she deserves, but Gao mocks him and starts to make him question if she really is imprisoned or being punished as he believes.
* Gao warns Rand that the Hand are stealing his ability to trust. Before he could react, Bakuto interrupts, acknowledging that Rand has found what he was looking for. Rand claims he was only looking for some answers, but Bakuto replies that he would not find them there. He sends Rand back to the room in which he is staying, where Wing is waiting.
* Colleen Wing reveals the truth, that she belongs to Bakuto's faction of the Hand, which she has been taught to believes is much kinder, and that Gao is the leader of only one, evil faction of the Hand. He refuses her explanation, and they argue about her allegiance with Rand's enemy. She questions her feelings for him, claiming that he cannot trust her, wondering if they were all just a part of Bakuto's plans.
* Bakuto visits Harold Meachum and offers him partnership and help in returning to a public life, but Meachum turns him down. Bakuto returns to the compound.
* Rand slips into the Hand Compound surveillance room, and sees them monitoring the Chikara Dojo and Harold Meachum's Penthouse.
* Bakuto catches him and Rand engages him in a fight. Davos arrives at the compound, to Rand's surprise, and begins to help him escape.
* **Assassination of Lawrence Wilkins**: Harold Meachum blackmails Lawrence Wilkins with Joy's file of dirt on him to get back the company. He then suddenly tells Wilkins to kill himself - that his two options are either to die a "tortured hero" or die with a ruined image left behind for his children. When Wilkins refuses to kill himself, Harold shoots him in the head instead.
* **Escape from the Hand Compound**: Davos reveals that Lei Kung sent him to retrieve Rand and bring him back to K'un-Lun. The duo fight their way out of the Hand Compound, and manage to get away when Wing intervenes, opening the gate to let them out when Rand finds himself incapable of summoning the Fist.

#### 24th

* Joy Meachum manages to convince the board to reinstate her, her brother, and Rand. When she asks Harold about Wilkins' death, he denies any involvement.
* Colleen Wing walks through Chinatown looking for Rand, as Davos tells Rand they need to return to K'un-Lun. He replies that they will not return to K'un-Lun until the Hand is destroyed.
* Bakuto returns to Chikara Dojo where he confronts Colleen Wing, demanding to know where she had gone. She accuses him of attacking Danny Rand, but he insists that they had merely defended themselves, claiming that Rand's time at K'un-Lun had taught him to hate the Hand unwaveringly.
* Bakuto insists that he only wanted Rand to trust them, but Wing is unconvinced, feeling that Bakuto wanted her to lie to Rand. As she starts to confront Bakuto over his choices, he silences her, ordering her to respect her sensei. Bakuto claims that they have saved a lot of people together by bringing them into the Hand, giving some examples of people who had affected by the Battle of New York. He refuses Wing's idea to keep attempting to bring Rand to their side, and orders her to bring Rand to him when she has found him.
* Davos and Rand go to Temple's apartment, where she extracts the fragment of Bakuto's weapon from Rand's wound, stopping the bleeding, but failing to control the infection due to lack of antibiotics. Rand sends Davos away for a little while so he can tell Temple about Wing being in the Hand.
* Joy Meachum shows Harold that they have a chance to get the company back from the Hand. He tells her that they will make the Hand pay for the years together that the organization took from them; however, his attitude worries her.
* Danny Rand meditates as Claire Temple and Davos talk. Davos begins to get angry at Rand for leaving K'un-Lun, but decides to block his emotions, which Temple tells him could be an unhealthy and dangerous approach.
* Wing arrives and tries to reason with Rand. She goes to a hospital where she asks an extern, Becca Yoo, who is also another member of the Hand, for antibiotics. Meanwhile, Rand asks Temple if he can borrow her car, and drives to Harold Meachum's Penthouse.
* Rand and Davos arrive at the penthouse, where Joy Meachum has discovered that Bakuto has been transferring Rand Enterprises' money to his own accounts. Harold formulates a plan to flush out Bakuto and his operatives from the compound by having Joy freeze the accounts, and he decides to kill Bakuto, to Joy's disapproval.
* **Kidnapping of Colleen Wing**:
	+ Yoo reports Wing to Bakuto for betraying him by not saying anything about finding Rand. He sends people to kidnap Wing, which they do so successfully.
	+ Brought before her old sensei, Wing is told by Bakuto that he no longer believes in her. He explains that he wants to drain her blood for the Hand, and she is taken for the procedure.
	+ Wing headbutts one her captors, Mary, breaking her nose as she steals her knife. Wing breaks free of her restraints and fights to escape, successfully getting away.
* Davos tells Rand that he wanted to be chosen as the Iron Fist, but has tried to be gracious in Rand getting the role instead. Rand explains why he left, telling Davos of how he saw a hawk flying down the mountains and realized the path was open to leave K'un-Lun, but Davos argues that it only meant he should stay, so as to be there to protect the open path. As they talk, they witness Wing escaping. Rand runs to her, and he and Wing take a moment to reconcile in the rain. Davos looks on, concerned at Rand's willingness to forgive someone from the Hand.
* Ward Meachum wakes in Birch Psychiatric Hospital and has a hallucination of his father tormenting him. He screams his sister's name, attracting the attention of a nurse at the compound, whom he asks to let him go; she refuses.
* Not long after, Meachum is visited by Bakuto. Bakuto gives him a drug that will counter the effects of Madame Gao's drug, and confesses that he is with the Hand, but he is not related to Madame Gao's faction. He assures Meachum that he only wants to help him kill his father, permanently, but in exchange he wants a small portion of Rand Enterprises, just like Harold gave Madame Gao. Bakuto gives Meachum the cure for his withdrawal symptoms and assures him that he can sell it to help all the people who were affected. Meachum reluctantly accepts Bakuto's conditions, however, Bakuto tells him that he needs his help to capture the Iron Fist before he can help him and his sister.
* Danny Rand and Colleen Wing go to the Chikara Dojo, but are stopped by Davos, who claims that Wing cannot be trusted because she is a member of the Hand. Wing says she is not with the Hand anymore, but she will not help them to kill everyone in their compound, as she has students there who are innocent, simply not knowing any better, and the discussion ends as Wing punches Davos in the face. Rand calms them both down so they can work together.
* Very late into the night, at Harold Meachum's Penthouse, Joy and Harold Meachum analyze the Hand's file on drug transport as they proceed to close off the accounts fuelling the Hand. They talk about how Joy used to stay with him during his chemotherapy treatments, and plan to go on a trip together after everything is over. They are interrupted by Ward, who claims to want to talk with Joy alone. He tries to leave with her, but she refuses, saying that her father needs them. Ward warns Joy that since their father was resurrected, he seems like he lost part of his soul, and may even hurt her.

#### 25th

* **Ambush at Harold Meachum's Penthouse**:
	+ When Ward Meachum finally convinces Joy to talk outside, Harold stops them. He orders his men to take down Ward, but Ward manages to defend himself by taking a gun from one of them, proceeding to threaten to use the gun if Joy does not come with him.
	+ Joy accepts, worried for her father's safety.
	+ As they are about to leave the building, Bakuto and his men arrive. Ward Meachum tells them that he needs more time. When Joy asks what is happening, Harold says that Ward is working now with the Hand. Ward tries to explain himself to Joy, claiming that Harold is a monster. He tells Bakuto that he is ruining everything, but Bakuto defeats him quickly, and his members of the Hand kill Harold's bodyguards.
	+ Bakuto orders Ward Meachum to cancel the transference of his money, then reveals to Harold that Ward wants him dead.
	+ Ward cancels the transference and asks if he can leave with Joy, but Bakuto denies his request and orders him to sit alongside his family. He reveals that Harold can be killed permanently if he is beheaded, and asks Ward for his phone so he can call Danny Rand.
	+ At the Chikara Dojo, Danny Rand tends to Colleen Wing's wounds as Davos watches. Rand receives a video call from Bakuto, in which he tells Rand that he has thirty minutes to show up, or he will kill Harold Meachum. He shoots Joy as incentive to arrive fast, so as to get her aid in time to save her.
	+ Without Davos' approval, Rand leaves, arriving at the penthouse just in time to stop Bakuto from killing Harold. Rand is handcuffed by the Hand and taken away. In the elevator, Bakuto explains to Rand that he wanted the Iron Fist so he can help him to get rid of the one who wanted to ruin his plans, and tells Danny about someone who wants to collaborate with him.
* **Duel at Bethesda Terrace**:
	+ On the reception floor, Rand manages to summon the Iron Fist again, using it to get rid of his cuffs just in time for Wing and Davos to arrive and help fight Bakuto and his men. After a short skirmish, Bakuto runs away, but is chased and stopped by Colleen Wing.
	+ In Bethesda Terrace, Wing and Bakuto duel each other with their swords. After a lengthy battle, Wing manages to defeat and stab Bakuto, but when she is about to kill him, she changes her mind and decides not to. Instead, Davos does it for her, claiming that it is the duty of the Iron Fist to destroy the Hand, and if Rand will not do it, he will.
* Rand confronts Davos and tells him that killing Bakuto was the wrong thing to do, but Davos tells him that he did it himself only because Rand could not. When Davos tells him that K'un-Lun would have been better if Chodak and Tashi had never found him, Rand attacks him. A fight ensues between the old friends, ending with Rand's victory. Davos decides to return to K'un-Lun, but not without first claiming that there will be consequences to Rand's actions.
* During the argument, while they are not watching, the Hand takes away Bakuto's body for resurrection. Wing and Rand are surprised when they turn and find him gone.
* As the sun rises, Harold and Ward Meachum take Joy to Metro-General Hospital. Harold reveals to Ward that he has no intentions to share the company with Danny Rand.
* Rand calls Harold Meachum and informs him that Bakuto is dead, and Meachum thanks him and tells him to rest. He then asks Rand where he will be staying, and Rand lets him know he will be in the Chikara Dojo.
* Rand confesses to Wing that she is the one person who has made him feel part of a family again recently. They kiss and enter the dojo together.
* Harold Meachum frames Rand for the Hand's illegal activities in drug transportation, and sends the information to the DEA so they can go to arrest him, therefore removing him from the picture.
* **Chase of Danny Rand**: After a short rest, Wing wakes and trains with Rand. Ward Meachum sends Rand a message warning him of a trap set by Harold, as DEA agents enter the building to capture Rand. He and Wing fight them and escape from the dojo, running to flee from the scene.
* The *New York Bulletin* publishes a last-minute article named "*Wanted*", describing the recent reports about Rand being involved on drug's transport.
* Thembi Wallace gives a report on WJBP-TV about Danny Rand allegedly using Rand Enterprises to transport drugs around South America.
* Harold Meachum prepares to reveal himself to be alive and take control of Rand Enterprises.
* Jeri Hogarth decides to stand for Danny Rand, and prepares to build a defense. She asks Ward Meachum if he thinks that Rand is guilty, and he answers no. Before Ward can confess who set the trap for Rand, they are interrupted by Harold, to Hogarth's shock, having believed him to be dead. She claims that faking his death for all those years is fraud on the highest level, but Harold ignores her and asks her to leave so he can talk to Ward alone. Hogarth leaves, and Ward confronts Harold, reminding him that he is in Rand's debt, because he freed Harold from the Hand. Ward realizes that Harold has been using Rand ever since he returned, but Harold grins, saying he has been messing with him for far longer than that.
* Rand and Colleen Wing, who have been on the run all day, discover the reason for the DEA's chase from a *New York Bulletin* newspaper, and decide to contact Jeri Hogarth.
* Temple is contacted by Rand and Wing, and is sent to look for Hogarth. She approaches Hogarth with a $5 bill, on which "J-Money", Rand's nickname for her, has been written, so that Hogarth realizes it is Rand who is trying to contact her. This convinces her to follow Temple to where Rand and Wing are hiding.
* Hogarth tells the fugitives that she needs proof of their innocence. She shows them the files that the DEA received, and Rand realizes that they are the Hand's drug transport records, tampered by Harold Meachum. He tells Hogarth that there is a tablet with all of the Hand's data, and she says that it would serve to prove his innocence.
* Rand remembers that he gave it to Harold Meachum, so he decides to visit Madame Gao and ask her if there are any backups of the files. On arriving at the Hand Compound, they ask Gao for the files, but she confirms that the data was deleted, and there is no copy of it. Gao tells Rand that she knows his true motive for returning to New York was to avenge his parents' deaths, but he denies this. Gao then reveals that Harold Meachum was the one who caused the airplane crash so as to take control of Rand Enterprises. Rand refuses to believe her, so she tells him the story of how Meachum was diagnosed with cancer and looked for her help, and that they made a deal to bring him back from the dead once he started to transport her drug in China. However, when Wendell Rand almost discovered, Meachum was afraid of him ruining everything, so he had Gao poison the pilots of the plane while they were travelling to Anzhou to investigate. Gao tells Rand that he will gain complete control of the Iron Fist only once he kills Meachum.
* Back in the city, Rand confesses to Temple and Wing that he wants to kill Harold Meachum, but they tell him that if he crosses through that door, he may never come back. Wing worries that if he kills Meachum, his Chi may also be corrupted and he will never become the person he is meant to be, and he eventually decides not to kill him, but take him to justice.
* Ward Meachum visits Joy at the hospital and tries to convince her that Harold is not the father they used to love, and that he has done terrible things, and forced Ward to do the same. She still refuses to believe him, so he gives her the newspaper about the drug transportation allegations against Rand, before leaving the room.
* Danny Rand calls Ward Meachum and agrees to meet with him. Meachum reveals that the tablet is locked in a safe, but he does not know the combination. Rand reveals to him that Harold was the one who killed his parents, to Ward's surprise.
* Joy Meachum arrives at the Rand Enterprises Building and confronts her father about putting Rand in a trap. Harold insists that he did not show her all the drug transport data previously, but that Rand was definitely involved with the Hand. Joy does not believe him and asks for proof, and Harold lies, telling her that he does not have the data anymore because he gave it to the DEA. Not buying this, Joy becomes upset, deciding to leave the building. Ward sees her leaving the building, crying.
* **Battle at the Rand Enterprises Building**:
	+ Ward Meachum enters the building and calls Rand, Wing, and Temple to inform them that Harold has a lot of armed bodyguards at the entry and in his office, before he is knocked out from behind by his father.
	+ Worried about Ward, and with no intention to let Harold get away, Rand and Wing enter the building, as Temple starts a fire nearby as a distraction. A battle ensues as Harold's men fight Wing and Rand.
	+ When Harold Meachum attempts to kill Wing, Rand uses the Iron Fist, full of Chi, to hit the floor as hard as possible. This causes a massive shockwave that knocks out all of the men, but not Meachum himself, who makes his way to the rooftop. Rand follows him and a further battle ensues between both of them. Meachum shoots Rand in his hand, injuring him severely, believing it will prevent his Iron Fist ability. Rand keeps attacking him, but Meachum manages to knock him out momentarily.
	+ Rand then focuses his energy on one thing: to defeat Meachum. He attacks him again, causing Meachum to be impaled on a metal rod. As Harold Meachum tries to free himself from the metal rod, Rand remembers how he defeated Shou-Lao. He tells Meachum, like he once told the immortal dragon, that the battle is won. Meachum manages to free himself from the piece of metal and shoots at Rand, but Rand is alerted by Colleen Wing, who, along with Ward Meachum, has come to the rooftop to help defeat Harold. Directing his Chi into his hand, Rand uses it to heal his injury, then defend himself from Harold's final attack. Finally, Ward shoots Harold, making him fall from the rooftop to his final death.

#### 26th

* "Little Swing" by Aron Chupa feat. Little Sis Nora is released.
* *Fuller House* releases its first season.
* Ward Meachum and Danny Rand go to the morgue to see Harold's corpse be cremated, and Ward thanks Rand for being there for him. Jeri Hogarth arrives and tells them that all the charges against Rand have been withdrawn. Meachum offers Rand the option to return to Rand Enterprises and run the company with him, like their parents should have, but Rand claims that he is not a good business man.
* **Chase of the Dogs of Hell**: In rural Alabama, the Punisher chases down two members of the Dogs of Hell, forcing them off their motorcycles and then running them over.

#### 27th

* Danny Rand goes to the Chikara Dojo, where Colleen Wing and Claire Temple have resumed training. Temple leaves, giving them advice on her way out, telling them they need time to sort themselves out. Rand tells Wing that he has finally decided to return to K'un-Lun, just before the entrance closes. He says that he wants to use the Iron Fist to do some good outside of K'un-Lun, but that to achieve that, he must first finish his training. He offers for her to come with him, and Wing happily accepts.
* Davos meets with Joy Meachum, and they discuss how Danny Rand's return has only caused their lives to fall apart. Davos tells Joy that the only way to stop Rand from ruining their lives further is killing him, and that he believes he can help Meachum with that. She is curious, and tells him she is listening to whatever he is planning. As they talk, Madame Gao listens in at the table next to them.

#### 29th

* A group of Hand ninjas led by Elektra arrive at the entrance of K'un-Lun, unprotected with the Iron Fist missing. A battle ensues, ending with many of the K'un-Lun monks, as well as all of the Hand ninjas being killed. The entrance to K'un-Lun is closed prematurely to escape to safety, meaning that nobody can enter for the foreseeable future.

#### 1st

* Danny Rand and Colleen Wing arrive at K'un-Lun, only to find the dead Hand ninjas, and the entrance closed. Rand blames himself for what happened, claiming that he should have been there to help.

#### 3rd

* Stephen Strange does finger strength exercises with an expert instructor on physical rehabilitation from Metro-General Hospital. Strange gets angry at his lack of improvement. However, to his surprise, the instructor says that he knew a paraplegic man who miraculously regained the ability to walk.
* Impressed by this impossible event, Strange asks for the man's files. The instructor tells him that he will find them from the archive.

#### 15th

* A consumer credit report is made on Gregory Sallinger.
* **Attack on the National Police of Colombia Convoy**: Elena Rodriguez attacks the Colombian Police Arsenal.

#### 16th

* Phil Coulson sends a team to Bogotá to investigate the incident while he meets with President Matthew Ellis in Rosalind Price's apartment. They discuss the future of the Inhumans and although Ellis rejects the reauthorization of S.H.I.E.L.D. to the public, because of its negative image since the Battle at the Triskelion, he says that Coulson will effectively run the search for Inhumans, but the ATCU will still be the public face of the mission. He also says he will name a new head of the ATCU shortly.
* Daisy Johnson and Joey Gutierrez speak at the Colombian Police Station to gain access to the crime scene.
* Bobbi Morse, Lance Hunter, and Alphonso Mackenzie investigate the crime scene.
* Mackenzie encounters Elena Rodriguez, and notices her scuffed shoes from the raid. Believing that he is another corrupt policeman, Rodriguez steals his gun and kidnaps him using her super speed. She takes him back to her apartment with the help of her cousin Francisco.
* At the Playground, Lincoln Campbell explains to Jemma Simmons about the equilibrium of Inhuman powers. Coulson bursts in, taking Fitz aside to ask him his opinion on Campbell joining the team. Fitz also expresses worry that he did the wrong thing in destroying the body of Will Daniels to kill It. Coulson states that he needs to put Werner von Strucker in the Theta Brain-Wave Frequency Machine to find out how to get to Malick.
* Elena Rodriguez sends Francisco to get rid of the weapons from the raid by throwing them into a river.
* Gideon Malick visits It in Schoonebeek Oil Field, finding him still in a weak state.
* Elena Rodriguez tells Alphonso Mackenzie that she is not a criminal, and believes her new powers are a gift from God to do good. Mackenzie begins to explain about Terrigenesis and Inhumanity when Daisy Johnson, Bobbi Morse, Lance Hunter, and Joey Gutierrez rescue him from Rodriguez's custody and take her in a Containment Module. Morse and Hunter are sent to stop Francisco.
* Von Strucker goes into the machine. Campbell has to shock him out of a traumatic loop, and he eventually recalls aloud how he found Malick using his father's advice.
* It eats meat to gain strength. He tells a doubting R. Giyera that he will prove his legitimacy soon.
* Rodriguez explains to the group that the police are corrupt, and she was taking action to make things better. They believe her, and Johnson calls Hunter and Morse to tell them Francisco is not a criminal and to beware the police.
* Hunter and Morse confront Francisco Rodriguez, when a team of the National Police of Colombia arrive. They bring out an Inhuman called Lucio who uses paralysis powers from his eyes to capture Morse and Hunter, and they kill Rodriguez.
* When the team tell Elena about her cousin's murder, she agrees to help the team to rescue their friends and get revenge for her cousin's death.
* **Rescue in the Colombian Police Station**: Rodriguez helps the team successfully enter the Police Station and fight the corrupt Colombian police. The team defeats the police force and rescue their friends as Johnson and Gutierrez use their powers to capture Lucio. However, when they start to leave the station, a HYDRA QuadCopter arrives from overhead and uses an Extraction Claw to capture him and take him away.
* Meanwhile, Coulson uses his information from von Strucker and goes to Malick's warehouse. He uses the phone von Strucker used there to call Malick, but when he picks up, Coulson only delivers a warning to him that he is tracking all of his phones, and it will cost him millions to shut down all the offices it has tracked to.
* Stephen Strange tries to shave himself, but due to his trembling hand, he gives up trying.

#### 17th

* Phil Coulson watches the news about how Gideon Malick has shut down several offices in the night.
* The team say goodbye to Yo-Yo Rodriguez, who decides to stay in Colombia, but they give her a device to keep in contact.
* R. Giyera informs Malick that Lucio is currently being treated by the doctors.
* It decides he is ready to show R. Giyera his power, and uses his powers to infect him.

#### 18th

* Matthew Ellis calls Phil Coulson and tells him that he has made Glenn Talbot the new leader of the ATCU.
* When he finds out Talbot is the new head of the organization, Malick sends agents to kidnap his son George Talbot and put him in Suspension Gel, so as to blackmail Talbot to give Malick influence over the ATCU and betray Coulson.
* Malick makes a deal with Felix Blake, the head of the alien hate group the Watchdogs. The organization has until now been only posting hate online, but HYDRA offers them the resources to become active in attacking the Inhumans and the agencies protecting them, claiming to have common interest. The Watchdogs become more militarized and radicalized, and begin planning attacks with Malick fueling their actions.

#### 19th

* Having now recovered, Lucio is brought before It as Gideon Malick assures him he has been making moves this week to help their cause. It proceeds to infect Lucio the same way he infected Giyera.
* Coulson meets with Glenn Talbot to discuss their new working partnership. His wife Carla is disapproving after the kidnap of her son. Lincoln Campbell watches on as he continues to learn to be an agent, and he notices a sinister man trailing Talbot.
* As the man closes in, Melinda May recognizes him as Carl Creel, and she and Campbell close in to protect Talbot and Coulson.
* Just as Coulson wishes Talbot goodnight, Creel arrives and a fight ensues. Campbell and May bring him down, only to be surprised when Talbot says that Creel was not attacking, but protecting him.
* Talbot explains that they broke Creel's conditioning and have trained him to be a good and loyal bodyguard. Jemma Simmons asks Creel in his Containment Module about how he managed to survive the effects of the Diviner. They wonder whether his DNA could hold the answer to a cure for Terrigenesis.

#### 20th

* Coulson's Team, with Glenn Talbot and Carl Creel, set off in the morning to fly to Taipei, Taiwan for a symposium of various world ambassadors.
* They infiltrate the Symposium as they believe that Malick has an inside man or woman working for him at the meeting, and plan how to infiltrate the officials' rooms to find out who.
* Talbot and Coulson arrive at the symposium. They begin to talk to attendees Anton Petrov, Xiao Chen. and Ellen King in an attempt to work out who is secretly working for Malick.
* At the Playground, Daisy Johnson gives Lincoln Campbell fight training for his upcoming test. The two end up intimate, but are interrupted by Simmons, asking for Campbell's help looking at Creel's blood.
* **Infiltration into the Symposium on Alien Contagion**:
	+ Coulson, pretending to be "Dr. Sean Lundwall", teaches the officials about the Inhumans, and the attendees all debate and discuss the contagion, trying to come to an agreement on how to act, while Coulson's agents investigate their rooms.
	+ Petrov suggests a home for Inhumans in Russia.
	+ While investigating, Hunter spots Creel leaving his post and goes to stop him. He finds a truck, containing the Suspension Gel chamber of George Talbot. As he attempts to warn his team that something is wrong, Creel surprises him and knocks him out. At the symposium, Talbot suddenly, to Coulson's shock and horror, betrays him by announcing that Coulson is a traitor in their midst. Gideon Malick enters, declaring him "Phil Coulson, the head of HYDRA," and has him taken away.
* Campbell watches Simmons demonstrate that Creel's blood reverses the effects of Terrigenesis. Johnson arrives and the two end up arguing over the need for the "cure"; whether Terrigenesis is an Inhuman birth right or an earned privilege.
* Hunter wakes and distracts his assailants as Morse and May attack them from behind. The three then proceed to try to help Coulson and defeat the HYDRA agents.
* When Malick turns his back on his deal with Talbot, Phil Coulson and Glenn Talbot are lined up to be shot by HYDRA soldiers. However, before they can fire, the duo are rescued by Carl Creel. They go to reunite with May, Hunter, and Morse. Together, they defeat the HYDRA agents, but Malick gets away to drive to the airport. Coulson sends Hunter and Morse to follow him.
* Daisy Johnson visits Lincoln Campbell in his room to apologize. The two make up and sleep together for the first time.
* Hunter lets Coulson know that he and Morse are hiding in the hold of Malick's private plane, as Malick is flying with Anton Petrov to Russia. Petrov expresses his gratefulness for Malick's offer to help Russia deal with Inhumans.
* Disagreeing with the plan for an Inhuman reservation, the Russian prime minister Dimitri Olshenko sends his attaché Yuri Krupin to shut down the operation. However, Krupin is killed by an Inhuman working for Petrov, Androvich, the Minister of Defense and a former KGB assassin.

#### 21st

* Malick's plane lands in Moscow and he starts moving trucks to a Russian facility in Siberia. Morse and Hunter exit the hold and hide, watching the trucks and reporting back to Coulson's Team, flying over on the Zephyr One. They follow the trucks and soon they get to the Russian Inhuman Sanctuary.
* Hunter and Morse spy on the Russian Inhuman Sanctuary from the nearby woods. They notice a tied up Inhuman being taken into the compound. They are caught by four soldiers, who they resort to taking out in combat.
* Hunter and Morse rendezvous with the rest of the team on the Zephyr, having now landed nearby, and discuss plans to infiltrate the Russian Inhuman Sanctuary.
* Melinda May and Lance Hunter hide from a patrol as they move in on the base. They discover the dead body of Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Olshenko's attaché Yuri Krupin.
* Bobbi Morse, Daisy Johnson, and Alphonso Mackenzie break into the security room of the facility. Morse takes the clothes of the guard she knocked out to use as an undercover disguise, and leaves to find Gideon Malick and Anton Petrov.
* Morse infiltrates a meeting, while Coulson's Team listen in from Morse's comms. They hear as Malick tells Petrov and FSO agents about Olshenko's disapproval of an Inhuman reservation, and Petrov informs them of Androvich having killed Olshenko's attaché. Malick tells the group that they need allegiance with the Inhumans, but that the prime minister cannot lead them.
* Malick suggests releasing Androvich to eliminate those against the idea; Coulson realizes he is staging a coup.
* Morse follows Malick's group, but loses them when she is forced to stop and take down an agent who notices she is missing her tie. Johnson attempts to hack the door to Androvich's cell so Morse can enter, as Androvich is already being cut loose.
* Simmons reports on the cause of Krupin's death, saying that it seems he was strangled, but there is no external evidence of physical harm, suggesting Androvich's power is psychic. Hunter is confused when he sees Malick leaving. Androvich escapes before Morse can stop him.
* **Infiltration into the Russian Inhuman Sanctuary**:
	+ Coulson notices helicopters arriving, and realizes the prime minister and his detail are traveling to the compound, and that Malick is planning for Androvich, now on the loose, to kill him. He instructs his team to ignore Malick and protect the prime minister.
	+ Prime Minister Olshenko arrives and finds out about Yuri Krupin's death. He declares the soldiers to be traitors and a fight ensues, where Hunter manages to guide Olshenko to safety and Morse takes the general the other way, with Johnson and Mackenzie following behind. Androvich uses his abilities of Darkforce manifestation to manipulate his shadow's density and turn on the trio to attack. They cannot retaliate, as he is intangible.
	+ Meanwhile, Anton Petrov is killed by Lance Hunter when he attempts to kill Olshenko. Simmons realizes the team have to kill Androvich himself to prevent any more manifestations. The general's shadow takes out Agent Johnson, then goes after the prime minister, but Morse runs ahead and shoots Androvich first, amidst his guards. She and Hunter are taken in by the general's guard for the murder, and the deaths of Petrov and Krupin.
* Phil Coulson contacts President Ellis to get involved and save the lives of Morse and Hunter.

#### 22nd

* At Moscow's Interpol Black Site, interrogation begins on Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter over the recent incident, and the accusations that they are former agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Both of them persistently ignore the questions.
* Morse and Hunter are put through polygraph lie detector tests, but avoid answering the questions. However, when Morse denies that she was the one to kill Petrov, the interrogator, Duval, plays this is as a confession that it was Hunter, and Hunter is dragged away from his interrogation. Bobbi Morse is informed by Duval that if she wishes to save Hunter from being executed by the firing squad, she must reveal she is from S.H.I.E.L.D.
* Dr. Holden Radcliffe is forced to leave the GT Agrochemical Facility due to his transhumanist experiments, which are considered unethical.
* Hunter is taken from the firing squad when President Matthew Ellis arrives and intervenes. Morse and Hunter reunite and discuss how to act next.
* Ellis tells Olshenko there was a coup attempt on his life, and he should be appreciative. Coulson also arrives, introduced as a high up member of the ATCU. He informs the prime minister that Androvich was trying to kill him.
* Coulson enters the room to speak to Morse and Hunter. He pretends not to know them, then uses his prosthetic hand to subtly turn off the camera signal for 90 seconds, and tells them the risky extraction plan the team have made.
* However, the duo refuse, saying that they are willing to take the hit so as to protect S.H.I.E.L.D. Seeing their determined resolve, Coulson sadly agrees that he will let them go.
* Maintaining the pretense of not knowing the duo, Coulson negotiates Morse and Hunter's release from Interpol. However, they know they will always now be tailed by agents, and so can never interact with S.H.I.E.L.D. or their friends ever again.
* Coulson returns to the Zephyr One and explains downheartedly to the team why their friends can never come back. This upsets them, especially Alphonso Mackenzie, who becomes very emotional.

#### 23rd

* In a pub in the United States of America, Lance Hunter and Bobbi Morse discuss what they can do next. They notice a conspicuous man nearby, who they realize is spying on them. Unbeknownst to them, their friends are also in the pub, ordering shots for them in order to pay their last respects from afar: a "Spy's Goodbye". The team begin to slowly exit the pub, but Mackenzie stays a little longer, tearing up because of having to leave his close friends. Morse and Hunter become very emotional, and hold hands, knowing they at least have each other for support.

#### 24th

* Gideon Malick returns home and reunites with his daughter Stephanie Malick. The two of them shoot birds together and discuss It, and how he seems to be biding his time before taking any action. Stephanie says she knows he will change the world.

#### 29th

* Christine Palmer visits Stephen Strange in his apartment and tries to convince him to stop wasting money trying to fix his hands. She tells him that there are other things that can give meaning to his life. Strange does not want to move on, but instead focus on finding other ways of healing his hands. Palmer turns to leave Strange, deciding she cannot watch him suffer anymore, when Strange starts shouting at her, saying that she is only pitying him because she loves a sob story. Hurt by his words, Palmer leaves for good, deciding to stay out of his life.
* **Assassination of Cartel Sicario**: In Juárez, the last leader of the Mexican Cartel arrives home to a hero's welcome. Across the border in El Paso, Texas, the Punisher trains his sniper rifle on the man, waiting for a moment when he knows he has a clear shot. As soon as he does, Castle shoots, killing him with a head-shot from far away.

### April

#### 2nd

* A law professor is shot in Philadelphia.

#### 4th

* After a few weeks of preparation, Lincoln Campbell has his S.H.I.E.L.D. assessment. While he believes it went alright, the results show that there are issues over his commitment to the cause, and with his reckless and unruly behavior.
* Alphonso Mackenzie begins a week off at home to take a break after losing Hunter and Morse, and spend some time with his brother Ruben. The two plan a relaxing time together.
* **Attack on the ATCU Storage Facility**: Malick's men raid the ATCU Storage Facility in Indiana and steal a nuclear warhead, as a squad of Watchdogs led by Watchdog Alpha then move in to attack the facility and cover up the raid. The group film themselves as they declare that the government is keeping secrets on the aliens, and demanding the information to be released. Alpha fires several rounds of Nitramene onto the building, and the facility is destroyed in a giant implosion.
* The Mackenzie brothers watch the destruction of the ATCU facility on WZTM News.
* The ticker of the channel informs "*L.A. Dodger Brady Kelly closing in on MLB record for most hits. Current record is held by Pete Rose*", "*Philadelphia DA to hold press conference to discuss shooting of local law professor*", and "*Gang war rages in Hell's Kitchen. Authorities searching for solution*".
* Phil Coulson calls and assigns Mackenzie to investigate the destruction of the facility before the police pick it clean. Mackenzie reluctantly tells his brother that he has to go.
* At the Playground, Daisy Johnson tells Coulson that the Watchdogs' active behavior is unusual. Lincoln Campbell arrives back from his agent assessment reasonably positive, but Coulson hints that the results of the evaluation report were not completely satisfactory. He sends Johnson and Leo Fitz to the site of the destroyed facility to join Mackenzie.
* Fitz discovers Nitramene in the residue from the bombs that the Watchdogs used, and Johnson reports this back to Coulson. He tells her that Felix Blake used to be fixated on improving the Nitramene formula created by Howard Stark in the 1940s, and deduces that the renegade ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is the head of the hate organization.
* Johnson reveals to Fitz and Mackenzie that she has been tracking some of the Watchdogs, and decides to use her powers to stop and threaten one to find out information. Mackenzie disapproves, saying that it is sidestepping civil liberties, and despite how badly the organization acts, S.H.I.E.L.D. should respond better. However, Johnson goes ahead.
* Coulson and Campbell begin the mission to find Blake.
* Returning home, Alphonso Mackenzie has a discussion with Ruben about the fact that he is never around to help him and their family.

#### 5th

* Jemma Simmons decides to help Melinda May to find Andrew Garner.
* Daisy Johnson stops Dallas Wyatt, a Watchdog she has been tracking, as he is driving. She gets in his car and shatters his windows to scare him.
* Leo Fitz reluctantly holds a gun to Wyatt's head at the broken window, and from the threat, Johnson manages to get the information that the Watchdogs meet at Easterling Farms.
* **Raid on Easterling Farms**:
	+ Johnson contacts Mackenzie to inform him of the Watchdogs' location. He reunites with Fitz and Johnson. They incapacitate two guards and send in one of Fitz's new cloaked D.W.A.R.F.s to spy in the farm. The device picks up audio of Blake, and Johnson sends a message to Coulson to let him know.
	+ Ruben Mackenzie arrives to show Alphonso that he has fixed his motorcycle, but when he sees his brother fighting, he decides to leave. Alphonso incapacitates three agents and Johnson quakes another. However, two more Watchdogs assume that Mackenzie is the one who has powers. Alphonso goes after Ruben as he drives away.
	+ Coulson and Campbell enter the basement of Blake's Atlanta safe house as Daisy Johnson moves in on attacking Blake, but as she gets closer, she sees no sign of him there.
	+ Simultaneously, Coulson is surprised to find Blake in the basement of the safe house. At the farm, Oscar shoots a projectile of Nitramene onto Fitz's neck.
	+ Johnson quakes him and runs back to inject sodium hydrogen acetate into the implosive, but instead of neutralizing it like it should, it only slows the implosion, because of Blake's modifications to the formula. She takes him back to a Containment Module with Oscar.
	+ Coulson comes to realize that Felix Blake is likely not really there, but simply a holographic projection. As he wants to test Lincoln Campbell on following orders, he orders Campbell to kill Blake, and after initially disagreeing, he fires electricity at Blake, proving he is only a hologram. He congratulates Campbell for following orders.
* Using liquid nitrogen from the outside of the module, the Nitramene is disarmed, saving Fitz's life.
* Oscar reveals to Johnson that Blake promised them they could actually kill an Inhuman, but they had assumed it was Mackenzie, not her, and laughs that several of their men are going after Mackenzie now.
* **Attack on Alphonso Mackenzie**:
	+ While the brothers discuss, a group of Watchdogs arrive at the Mackenzie Residence, breaking into the home to kill the Mackenzies. A fight ensues between the Mackenzies and the Watchdogs.
	+ Using a homemade shotgun-axe, the brothers successfully defeat their assailants, but Alphonso receives a bullet to the shoulder; he passes out due to the loss of blood.
* S.H.I.E.L.D. arrive to take Mackenzie to a nearby facility for medical treatment. Daisy Johnson tells Ruben Mackenzie that Damage Control will clean up, and assures him that Alphonso will be fine. She tells him they might call one day if they need help with mechanics, and drives him to the facility where his brother is being treated.
* Analyzing footage from the Attack on the ATCU Storage Facility, Johnson realizes that the bombing was a cover-up and distraction from HYDRA as they stole something from the facility. They realize Malick is funding the Watchdogs and feeding them intel.
* R. Giyera meets with Felix Blake, who tells him that he kept his part of the deal, and wants weapons in return to hunt down the Inhumans. Giyera assures him that if the plan continues to go well, their common enemies will die, and Blake will have armed soldiers.

#### 6th

* The instructor from Metro-General Hospital sends Stephen Strange the files on the paraplegic who started walking again: Jonathan Pangborn.
* Strange sees the files on Pangborn and decides to track him down.

#### 7th

* Stephen Strange visits Jonathan Pangborn while he plays basketball, inquiring how he managed to walk again. Pangborn initially refuses to help, but when Strange reveals his damaged hands, he agrees. Pangborn reveals to Strange that he discovered a place known as Kamar-Taj, and this is where Strange should go to seek different treatment and understanding. He warns Strange that once he is there, he will have to open his mind.
* Strange decides to spend the last of his money in order to travel to Nepal.

#### 21st

* The United States of America vice president departs on a global outreach trip.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter announcing "*Tune in for exclusive coverage in a WHiH Newsfront: Special Report coming soon.*"

#### 22nd

* The Miami Marathon is held, resulting in a record-breaking time.
* Thaddeus Ross announces his retirement from the army.
* Top musicians meet in Nashville to discuss music streaming services.
* Rumors of layoffs at Pym Technologies begin to circulate.
* WHiH Newsfront posts another video. Everhart questions who should account for the devastation from superhero incidents. She introduces political correspondent Will Adams, who states that discoveries still being found in the Black Widow leak. He defends superheroes, stating that their actions have saved many lives, but Everhart states that here they are not talking about that, but about the collateral damage. The question is posed to the audience of whether there should be oversight on superheroes. They post on Twitter announcing "*WHiH Newsfront returns with a special report: The Avengers have saved our world… but at what cost?*"
* The ticker of the video informs "*... European manufactured daily supplement to help correct the adverse effects of staring at a mobile device for hours each day*", "*Miami Marathon sees new world record set; runner cites Captain America as inspiration*", "*One of the most controversial figures of our time left us with more questions than answers.* Who Was Alexander Pierce?: A WHiH Special Report *tonight at 9:00 PM EST*" and "*U.S. vice president begins global outreach trip, with stops to Sokovia AND South Africa planned*".
* Another newstickers inform: "*Top artists meets in Nashville for summit to revisit streaming music service pros and cons in hopes coming to a resolution with record labels and online distributors*", and "*Lt. Gen. Thaddeus Ross announces retirement from the army...*".
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter saying "*Tune in to get the latest world news and insight on the issues that matter to you on WHiH Newsfront.*"
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reminding "*Watch an all-new edition of Newsfront with Christine & Will as they look back at "The World the Hero Leaves Behind". https://youtu.be/MvkZx3Lojuc*"
* Pepper Potts debuts intellicrop technology for Stark Industries to celebrate Earth Day.
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Stark Industries celebrates Earth Day as CEO Pepper Potts debuts breakthrough in intellicrop technology.*"
* Culver University holds a pep rally in celebration of a great academic year in sports.
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Culver University holds pep rally to celebrate historic, record-breaking year in athletics.*"
* *Who Was Alexander Pierce?: A WHiH Special Report* airs on TV.

#### 23rd

* WHiH World News posts on Twitter stating "*Crater in New Mexico rumored to have held Thor's hammer continues to draw crowds.*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Government says clean-up of Potomac River after destruction of S.H.I.E.L.D. "nearing end".*"

#### 24th

* Graciela Aguirre's driver license is issued.
* The Inhuman Charles Hinton accidentally causes citizen Edwin Abbott to have a frightening vision of his own death in the near future.
* While monitoring emergency dispatch, Coulson's Team hear Abbott calling in for Johnson, who has never heard of him. They fly to Dyker Heights to find him.
* The team find Abbott terrified and exclaiming that HYDRA is going to come soon, and he is about to die. He says that he had a vision of these moments, and the homeless man "Charles" must have cursed him.
* **Kidnapping of Charles Hinton**: A HYDRA QuadCopter swoops in suddenly to kidnap Hinton. As HYDRA captures him with an Extraction Claw, Johnson tries to save him, but when she touches him, she has a vision of the future.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter asking "*Many questions still unanswered after Pym Tech HQ explosion: Who was responsible? Where were the Avengers?*"
* While It and Gideon Malick have dinner in Schoonebeek Oil Field, HYDRA soldiers bring Hinton to them. They then set off to fly to the Transia Corporation.
* Coulson's Team deliberate over how to act on Johnson's vision. Leo Fitz explains how time cannot be altered due to the concept of four dimensions. Despite this, Phil Coulson decides they can ensure it does not occur, so long as May goes on the mission and Johnson stays in the base.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reporting "*Captain America exhibit will begin touring the country starting next week.*"
* Coulson discovers that the homeless man is Charles Hinton, and sends agents to find his family, who he walked out on in July 2015.
* Malick, It, Giyera, and Hinton arrive at the Transia Corporation Building.
* Polly Hinton, Charles' wife, is brought to the Playground for questioning. She explains to Daisy Johnson the nature of her husband's powers and how he had eventually left them in order to protect his daughter.
* Malick holds a board meeting with the Transia Corporation where he tells the CEO that he wants to acquire their new exoskeleton, as well as wanting to buy the whole company. However, the CEO, Rowan Hamilton, calls this request ridiculous, so It has Hinton touch the man, to show him what will happen due to his lack of compliance. Scared by the vision of his death, Hamilton agrees. However, It proceeds to massacre the board members anyway.
* May goes to Johnson to get her help in preparing for the fight Johnson saw in her vision. The team use resources in the base to recreate the scene of the fight, and have other agents play the soldiers who will be in the office. May practices the attack, but is not fast enough to save Hinton if this were the real fight.
* Using the exoskeleton in order to fully realize his desire to feel power, Malick kills Rowan Hamilton himself.
* WHiH posts on Twitter reminding "*Watch the latest WHiH Newsfront update on the financial implications of saving the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvkZx3Lojuc*"
* After more rehearsal, May manages to get fast enough to save Hinton. At that moment, an agent informs them that they have found the building from the vision where Hinton will be located. But as Melinda May prepares to leave, she is informed that Andrew Garner has arrived. Garner tells May that he is about to turn into Lash for the last time, and wanted to speak with her again before turning, as well as have Lash under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s control.
* May decides to leave on the mission, but Coulson insists that she must speak with Garner. He reluctantly sends Johnson instead.
* Using the security cameras in the Transia Corporation Building, the team discovers that Grant Ward is seemingly alive. But when Fitz deduces that "that" is not Ward himself, but It, Coulson urgently heads to the building.
* Meanwhile, Garner and May discuss recent events together. Soon, Garner's final transformation begins, and he gets himself into the Containment Module. He and May put their palms together either side of the glass. Garner finishes his transition, becoming Lash permanently.
* **Battle at the Transia Corporation Building**:
	+ Agent Johnson breaks into the security office and takes down the HYDRA soldiers as planned. With the help of Coulson, Johnson manages to move up to the roof to pursue the agents escaping with Hinton, as the S.H.I.E.L.D. team arrive outside.
	+ She is ambushed by Gideon Malick with the exoskeleton, brutally attacking her and beating her into the ground, wanting to kill her. However, Hinton touches him, giving him a vision of a death, and shocking him out of the attack.
	+ The billboard above Johnson explodes, causing Hinton to fall over, and he realizes he is dying. As he talks with Johnson, she promises him that she will look after his family. He asks her to give his daughter the robin he carved for her, and she agrees. Johnson touches him and is given another glimpse of the future: the death of someone on the team. The horrifying vision ends, and Hinton finally dies from his injuries.
* Malick escapes the building in his helicopter. He calls Giyera to ask where he is and why he is not protecting him. Under It's sway, he replies that he is where he is supposed to be. He tells It, who is with him, that Malick sounded afraid.

#### 25th

* *Black Enterprise* magazine publishes its May/June 2016 issue, with Mark Higgins of Atreus Plastics on the cover.
* Production begins on *Man or Mandarin: The Trevor Slattery Story*.
* The annual Bern science conference is held.
* Gideon Malick arrives home at Malick Mansion only to find out that It has already arrived. Stephanie greets him, and tells him that she has gathered HYDRA's inner circle to meet that evening, as It told her to do.
* WHiH World News roams the streets to ask people their opinion on heroes being held financially responsible for disasters they are involved in, collecting footage for their upcoming Newsfront episode.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter asking "*Col. James Rhodes: an officer and an... Avenger? Does that pose a conflict of interest? Newsfront discusses.*"
* Coulson notes that after the takeover of Transia, their subsidiary GT Agrochemical moved equipment out of its facility in Michigan.
* He and his team depart in the Zephyr One to investigate the compound, and send Lincoln Campbell and Daisy Johnson to the Badlands National Park in South Dakota to find a potential Inhuman Campbell knew from Afterlife, who was never transformed, and always used to rant about the "second coming" of an Inhuman who could "raise the dead".
* Malick talks to his daughter about his vision, and that he is fairly certain that his murderer was It, and that it will happen tonight. Stephanie, however, reassures him that they can trust It.
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Annual science conference draws an international crowd in Bern, Switzerland.*"
* At National Zoo, a panda called Ling Ling is born.
* Campbell and Johnson walk up to JT James' hut, but he warns them not to come closer because they are standing on a landmine. Johnson uses her powers to detonate the remaining mines as Campbell knocks out James with his electrical powers.
* The HYDRA inner circle arrive at Malick Mansion. It reveals himself to them, and to silence his doubters, he unveils his true form.
* **Raid of the GT Agrochemical Facility**: Coulson's Team break into GT Agrochemical Facility, and after a lengthy fight with Giyera in the base, they manage to capture him.
* James refuses to help Campbell or Johnson. However, Campbell says that he knows James wants to get his powers, and offers him a Terrigen Crystal in return for information. James reveals that he found a mysterious Kree Orb which he will trade.
* James explains that he learned stories of "Alveus", an Inhuman designed to lead the Inhuman army, but became too powerful and was banished by Inhumans and Humans together. Campbell takes the orb but refuses to give the crystal, telling James he does not deserve powers. Campbell and Johnson leave.
* After the meeting with the inner circle, Stephanie Malick shows her father that Alveus gave her the gift of the book *Paradise Lost*. Gideon understands the true significance of the book and its old trick, used by both him and his father, which had resulted in his brother Nathaniel's sacrifice.
* Alveus takes Stephanie with him as he confronts Gideon about the ritual of February 1970. After exposing the truth to his daughter, Alveus proceeds to kill her in front of Malick.
* After an emotional moment, Johnson confesses to Campbell that she had another glimpse from Charles Hinton, of a member of their team dying in the near future.
* Christine Everhart and Will Adams record the next day's installment of WHiH Newsfront.
* WHiH posts on Twitter announcing "*Tomorrow on Newsfront we ask our viewers: who should pay for the damage caused by superheroes? Stay tuned.*"
* **Hijacking and Retaking of Zephyr One**:
	+ Giyera manages to force open the doors of his Containment Module with his powers. He tilts the jet's controls downward to force the Zephyr into Schoonebeek Oil Field. HYDRA soldiers invade and take the plane from S.H.I.E.L.D., with many agents unconscious or injured.
	+ Melinda May contacts Daisy Johnson to tell her of the hijacking of Zephyr One. Johnson and Campbell decide that they should not be scared of the vision, and it is time to call in the Secret Warriors to help take back the plane and save their friends.
	+ Daisy Johnson and Lincoln Campbell pick up Joey Gutierrez from a night with his boyfriend in Miami, before flying to Bogotá to pick up Elena Rodriguez.
	+ Johnson explains the situation to the Secret Warriors as they fly to the Schoonebeek Oil Field.
	+ Alveus, with Malick, still shocked by the death of his daughter, arrive at the oil field base after a flight.
	+ Coulson's Team barricade themselves in a room on the Zephyr One after several hours of defending the plane. They attempt to administer medical aid to Agent May's injuries.
	+ The Secret Warriors enter the facility and fight the HYDRA Soldiers, capturing Gideon Malick in the process.
	+ Unbeknownst to anyone else, Alveus ambushes Johnson and infects her. He orders her to bring him the Kree Orb and the Terrigen Crystals, while pretending to the team that nothing happened, so as to plant her as a secret insider.
	+ Johnson hacks into the oil field base and opens the roof of the hangar. During the fight, Lucio is killed by Gutierrez. The team successfully rescue the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and take them back to the Playground.
	+ Alveus reassures Giyera that they now have someone on the inside: the swayed Agent Johnson.

#### 26th

* Ruby Hale goes to class at the HYDRA Preparatory Academy.
* WHiH Newsfront posts another video. Christine Everhart and Will Adams ask who should be financially responsible for Avengers' incidents.
* They show a series of interviews with people on the streets about the subject, who give a mixed response, with some thinking it's right that they pay higher taxes, and some thinking the Avengers should pay. They post on Twitter announcing "*WHiH Newsfront asked viewers: "Where should the financial responsibility lie when superheroes are involved?"*"
* The ticker of the video informs "*Production begins on new TV movie "*Man or Mandarin: The Trevor Slattery Story*"*", "*Rare albino panda, Ling Ling, born at National Zoo*", "*Expected start date for Pym Technologies to resume stock trading pushed back in wake of layoff rumors*", and "*FDA cautions against new "all gluten" diet fad*".
* At the Playground, the interrogation of Gideon Malick begins. Coulson speaks with Malick about "Hive", and comments on the fitting nature of the name, considering his parasitic swarm-like living.
* General Hale asks Ruby's instructor about what leadership as planned for Ruby after she graduates, but he says they are yet to decide.
* Malick states that Hive can make Inhumans change loyalty and join him, and warns that he may have turned any member of the Secret Warriors.
* Walking out of interrogation, Coulson asks Agent Mackenzie to quietly lock down the base, scared to trust any of the Inhumans.
* Coulson asks Fitz and Simmons to find a way to determine who has been swayed. They hope to find answers from Lucio's body.
* Returning to Malick, he and Phil Coulson discuss revenge for their dead loved ones, with Coulson urging Malick to channel his anger and help them take down Hive. Malick agrees to help and tell him all he knows.
* Alphonso Mackenzie watches the security feeds of the four Inhumans, but looks so closely that he begins to see seemingly suspicious behavior in all their actions.
* Under Hive's influence, Johnson steals a grenade from the weapons room and causes a power cut, using the distraction to walk into Malick's empty interrogation room and kill him before he can reveal any more information on Hive to S.H.I.E.L.D.
* Johnson brutally murders him by quaking him from both sides, as his head is crushed and bleeds, like he saw in his vision, having assumed his killer to have been Hive. She leaves the grenade next to Malick's body to explode and thus cover up the murder.
* Mackenzie finds that there is a grenade missing as Fitz and Simmons, on their way to Coulson to discuss their findings, notice the light of the grenade from inside Malick's room. They look around and see his dead body, just before the blast goes off.
* Knowing a swayed Secret Warrior must have been behind the murder, Coulson leads his agents to gather the Inhumans, to explain the situation and incapacitate them until they can determine who it is. However, the Inhumans escape together.
* After discussing who could be the traitor, Johnson promises the team that she will help them to escape, but secretly agrees with Coulson to lead all four of them out of the base to safety by a secret passage, sending a message to him to meet them at the Containment Module bay to hand over to S.H.I.E.L.D.
* While searching the Inhumans' locker room, Mackenzie finds the Kree Orb in Campbell's locker, and believes it to be proof that Campbell is the swayed Inhuman, and he came back to retrieve the orb for Hive.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter asking "*WHiH Newsfront opinion poll: Who should pay for the damage when superheroes are involved?*" The results eventually turned out as 76% "*The government*", 24% "*The heroes*".
* Johnson tricks the team as she leads them into the quarantine bay where they find Coulson, who confronts Campbell, ousting him as the infected one. Angered that they are falsely accusing him and will not listen, Campbell attacks Coulson, but Johnson knocks him out.
* Coulson tells Johnson that he has to disband the Secret Warriors, and they cannot be allowed to encounter Hive in the meantime. However, Rodriguez and Gutierrez leave the base in anger.
* **Escape from the Playground**:
	+ Johnson reveals to an angered Campbell that she is in fact the swayed Inhuman, and offers him to come with her, but he refuses.
	+ Johnson steals several Terrigen Crystals and the Kree Orb, proceeding to break into the Playground's hangar. She unleashes her abilities and shakes the whole base in an earthquake, wreaking havoc and destruction. Johnson then escapes through the broken roof of the hangar, while trapping the rest of the team in the base with the falling debris.
* Hale and Ruby talk over dinner. Hale receives a text and has to suddenly leave.
* Hale meets with General Fischer, who had texted her to come immediately. He informs her that S.H.I.E.L.D. has taken Gideon Malick and gives her important information in case they come after him as well, explaining that after the Battle of New York had found a Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device that allowed them to communicate with an alien group called the Confederacy.
* Glenn Talbot breaks through the door, on a mission to take down HYDRA once and for all. Fischer cracks a cyanide capsule in his tooth to kill himself before he can be questioned, and Hale pretends to have had no idea he had been working for the organization. Talbot assures her that HYDRA will soon be wiped out, so she need not worry.
* Ruby Hale's instructor tells her she must kill her dog to complete her education. Ruby refuses, and her mother enters, shooting the instructor and telling Ruby that they are the only two remaining members of HYDRA.

#### 27th

* Due to Daisy Johnson's betrayal, Phil Coulson reminds the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that she is still one of their own, but under Hive's sway, and they will try their best to rescue her.
* Melinda May skillfully pilots the Zephyr to exit the Playground while the others discuss Johnson's current addiction to Hive, and the possibility that scientist Holden Radcliffe might be able to cure her.
* May gives Jemma Simmons a gun to use in the mission to procure Radcliffe.
* Johnson reunites with Hive.
* A new high-speed train system makes its first trip.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter saying "*In light of the recent cleanup progress in D.C., Newsfront revisits Natasha Romanoff’s congressional testimony.*"
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reporting "*High-speed train system utilizing maglev technology makes first trip from New York City to Los Angeles.*"
* **Ambush on Lincoln Campbell**: Coulson deduces that Hive is building an army, and Alisha Whitley would be an asset for him. Lincoln Campbell is sent to apprehend her before Hive can reach her. However, the agents soon realize that Whitley has already been visited by Hive, when she tries to use a clone to kill Campbell. Coulson saves Campbell by killing Whitley's clone.
* In Bucharest, Fitz and Simmons go to a bar and meet a woman called Anon, who says she will take them to Radcliffe.
* Thaddeus Ross meets with Matthew Ellis in the Oval Office to privately discuss potentially appointing Ross as the new Secretary of State.
* General Hale finds the Phase Harmonic Teleportation Device. She activates it and is teleported to space, meeting Qovas and learning about the Confederacy's deal with HYDRA.
* WHiH posts on Twitter saying "*We asked you: "Who should bear the financial burden caused by superhero altercations?" See the full report here: https://youtu.be/o4iFusVgqBM*"
* JT James is visited by Hive and Daisy Johnson. James refuses to reveal the location of the companion piece to the Kree Orb, so Hive smashes a crystal to put James through Terrigenesis, so that he can sway him to take them to it. Hive reveals that the orb pieces are the only thing that can destroy him.
* WHiH posts on Twitter saying "*Group of college students decide to spend their spring break volunteering in Sokovia. All this & more on Newsfront*"
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter asking "*Who should cover the costs when superheroes are involved?*"
* Meanwhile, Anon tells Fitz and Simmons that to earn her trust and prove the worth of the eye technology they offer to Radcliffe, they must perform an optic surgery on a living human, giving him the cybernetic eyes. Simmons calls them out, realizing that it is a ruse, and they earn an audience with the scientist.
* In order to prevent Hive from controlling James, May and Coulson go to his residence in South Dakota, but it explodes when they arrive. Coulson uses a force field shield in his prosthetic hand to protect them from the blast.
* **Kidnapping of Holden Radcliffe**: Hive and Johnson go to Bucharest and confront Fitz and Simmons, wanting to take Radcliffe for their own purposes. Hive uses the memories of Will Daniels to try to entice Simmons as he talks to her. Johnson uses her powers on Fitz, and tells him that she has no desire to be saved by S.H.I.E.L.D.; that if she sees one of them again, she will kill them. Simmons manages to escape from Hive, shooting him, but he simply heals himself. Johnson and Hive capture Radcliffe.
* **Destruction of HYDRA**:
	+ Using the information that Gideon Malick gave to Phil Coulson, Glenn Talbot leads the United States Armed Forces into a global offensive to permanently wipe out HYDRA.
	+ Coulson and May watch maps of the destruction as it unfolds.

#### 28th

* James chooses the name of Hellfire, as Hive reveals that he wants Radcliffe to recreate the Kree experiments that were performed on him, in order to transform Humans into Inhumans. Hive has bought a city using Gideon Malick's money, where Radcliffe can work freely.
* The repairs in Washington, D.C. after the Battle at the Triskelion finally finish after two years.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reporting "*Clean-up of Washington, D.C. post-destruction of Triskelion complete.*"
* Transia Corporation announces a new interim-CEO after the death of their last one.
* Karen Page writes an article about a school board scandal.
* President Ellis releases a statement congratulating the citizens of Washington, D.C. on the clean-up effort.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter quoting "*Pres. Ellis: "Today is a day that demonstrates the true colors of the people of Washington, D.C."*"
* Thaddeus Ross follows up Ellis' statement with his own, recognizing the people of D.C.'s endeavors.
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Thaddeus Ross gives statement commending the people of Washington, D.C. on efforts to rebuild the nation's capital.*"
* WHiH Newsfront posts another video. Christine Everhart and Will Adams mention that the financial cost of clean-up efforts from Avengers incidents have crossed $1 trillion, and Everhart says politicians are wondering if there is a more strategic plan for better managing potential future events. Adams states that the White House has no official viewpoint, but that Ellis has commended Avengers' heroic past deeds. The video shows that the Ellis Administration have also announced that HYDRA is eradicated, as Adams goes on to express his view that he believes the Avengers are heroes who should be commended.
* Everhart then states that there are reports of the president meeting with Thaddeus Ross about a potential appointment.
* Adams says the Avengers are effective, but Everhart replies that she thinks Ellis is feeling pressured, then insists agencies worldwide should step up and figure out a means to work with the heroes. WHiH post on Twitter announcing "*Watch: Newsfront debates the role of the White House & the Avengers + rumors of Thaddeus Ross moving to politics.*"
* The ticker of the video informs "*Myth or new discovery? Reports of "massive ant-like insect" sightings continue to pour in from San Francisco suburbs*", "*Transia Corporation announces interim-CEO*", "*Local New York business owner commissions famously incognito street artist to create Avengers mural on the wall of his booming shawarma restaurant*".
* The ticker also informs "*Schools in Minnesota introduce elective classes focusing on the recent history in the making: the age of superheroes*", "*Airline adds themed flights for cult classic TV shows and films*", and "*Reality show star releases new fashion line designed primarily from burlap*".
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Sources: Thaddeus Ross has privately met with President Ellis at the Oval Office. For more: https://youtu.be/0OguhAYbjrs*"
* John Raymond goes missing.
* The national lottery is drawn, but there are no winners.

#### 29th

* WHiH World News posts on Twitter saying "*In the wake of the Battle of Sokovia, many international governments are asking "Where is the Hulk?"*"
* Pym Technologies reopens business after its headquarters imploded a year before, albeit with huge lay-offs.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reporting "*No winners in last night’s national lottery draw! The next drawing takes place Monday night for record amount.*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter asking "*WHiH wants to know! What would you do if you won tonight’s grand national lottery?*".
* The results eventually turned out as 21% "*Purchase an island*", 58% "*Build an Iron Man suit*", 12% "*Start your own charity*", 9% "*Buy a sports team*".
* WHiH posts on Twitter questioning "*The Vision. Human? Alien? Something else? Does it matter? WHiH investigates.*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Pym Technologies announces massive lay-offs as business begins again.*"
* The Roxxon Corporation is revealed to be illegally drilling in the Arctic.

#### 30th

* A new Captain America exhibit begins touring.
* A bird sanctuary opens in Costa Rica.
* A charity auction is held for a Captain America comic.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter saying "*CEO Pepper Potts continues to dodge questions about rumored consumer applications for arc reactor technology.*"
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reporting "*Rare bird sanctuary in Costa Rica finally opens to public.*"
* **Assassination of Mickey O'Hare**: At JFK International Airport, the last survivor of the Kitchen Irish, Mickey O'Hare, tries to flee to Dublin, Ireland. The Punisher tracks him down in one of the airport's bathrooms and corners him in a cubicle, strangling him with his own tie.
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Anonymous buyer purchases "Captain America #1" comic signed by Steve Rogers for $1.5 million at charity auction.*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter saying "*As rumors abound of Thaddeus Ross' entrance into politics, WHiH investigates the truth: https://youtu.be/0OguhAYbjrs*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Demand grows for international oversight of the Avengers, as debate continues.*"

### May

#### 1st

* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reporting "*Wanted fugitive and mercenary Brock Rumlow still at large. WHiH Newsfront investigates.*"
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reporting "*Shares of Roxxon Corporation tumble after revelation of illegal drilling in Arctic.*"
* WHiH World News posts on questioning "*Does Tony Stark really own the Iron Man suit, or should the government claim control?*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter saying "*Ultimate showdown looms as teams battle for hockey championships.*"
* A concert called "Sing for Sokovia" is held to raise money for the people affected by the Battle of Sokovia.
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Polls indicate increased support for legislation regulating superpowered heroes.*"
* With his family avenged, Frank Castle burns the vest with the spray-painted skull, choosing to move on and start a new life.

#### 2nd

* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reporting "*Sources: Stark Industries in talks to debut low-powered miniature arc reactor tech to fuel line of hybrid vehicles.*"
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter saying "*Sighting of apparent HYDRA-related graffiti in local city underscores the lingering threat of HYDRA.*"
* New fossils are discovered in South America.
* Matt Murdock goes to confession with Father Lantom after having left behind the role of Daredevil for several months now, causing him to feel guilty and conflicted.
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*NYC's top surgeons are pioneering new life-saving techniques. We discuss with Dr. Stephen Strange only on WHiH.*"
* The introductory 36 seconds of the next WHiH Newsfront installment is recorded ahead of time, and the ticker is prepared.
* The national lottery is drawn again, for a record amount, due to there being no winner in the previous draw four days prior.
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*New rumors hint at government-funded prison built to contain "superpowered prisoners".*"
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter announcing "*Tune in tomorrow morning to WHiH Newsfront for our next special report.*"

#### 3rd

* Captain America and Falcon get a lead on an ex-HYDRA agent in Lagos, who they believe might be the Winter Soldier.
* Bringing Black Widow and Scarlet Witch, Captain America and Falcon leave the Avengers Compound and fly to Lagos to apprehend the man they believe may be Barnes.
* Spider-Man stops a car from crashing into a bus before going to school, then leaves the scene. However, his heroic action is recorded and uploaded onto YouTube.
* Ross accepts an offer from President Ellis to be Secretary of State, after a meeting six days earlier.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reporting "*BREAKING: President Ellis will nominate Lt. Gen. Thaddeus Ross as Secretary of State. More to come...*"
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter asking "*Is Thaddeus Ross the best choice for Secretary of State?*" The results eventually turned out as 13% "*Yes*", 45% "*No*", 42% "*Time will tell*".
* WHiH posts on Twitter quoting "*Statement from Pres. Ellis: "Thaddeus Ross is a skilled leader who can navigate the unique challenges we currently face on the world stage."*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter quoting "*Lt. Gen. Ross: "Today I accepted President Ellis' offer to serve as Secretary of State. I look forward to making our planet a safer place."*"
* As they approach Lagos, Falcon receives further information on the ex-HYDRA agent, and find out that it is not Barnes, but rather Brock Rumlow.
* WHiH posts on Twitter announcing "*BREAKING: President Ellis will join Newsfront to discuss this surprise move to make Thaddeus Ross the new Secretary of State. Stay tuned.*"
* A WHiH World News interview with President Ellis is recorded to complete the next instalment of WHiH Newsfront just before it is released, concerning his appointment of Ross.
* WHiH Newsfront posts another video. Adams and Everhart discuss a series of catastrophes in which heroes were involved. They go live, to mention how Ellis has just appointed Ross, and go to an interview with him. Ellis says that he recognizes the fear and concern over heroes, but also recognizes the heroes' help.
* Ellis states that he wants to build an official relationship with the Avengers, with the help of Ross, who has experience such as the crises at Culver University and Harlem. Everhart and Adams both end saying that they would love to hear from the heroes themselves. They post on Twitter announcing "*BREAKING: President Ellis discusses his nomination of Thaddeus Ross for Secretary of State! Watch live.*"
* The ticker of the video informs "*ATCU continues investigation into militant organization that destroyed their facility*", "*New fossils found in South America may uncover untold answers about our past*", "*Top NYC surgeon Dr. Stephen Strange reveals new life-saving techniques in exclusive WHiH interview*".
* The ticker also mentions "*Competing second TV movie announced following the alleged Mandarin actor: "10 Rings To Rule Them All: The Trevor Slattery Story*", "*Culver University announces state-of-the-art library will reopen after extensive renovation*", "*Still no winner as National Lottery grows to $1 billion*", "*VistaCorp indicted on charges of secret surcharges for cable TV customers*", "*Star-studded benefit concert "Sing for Sokovia" pulls $300 million for charity*", "*Unseen documents belonging to Dr. Abraham Erskine discovered in New Jersey*", "*Bruce Banner, AKA the Hulk, reportedly still missing*".
* WHiH posts on Twitter announcing "*BREAKING: Pres. Ellis tells Newsfront he nominated Thaddeus Ross as Sec. of State based on his experience with superpowered individuals.*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter reminding "*This morning's breaking news: Thaddeus Ross named Secretary of State. WHiH Newsfront Exclusive: President Ellis Discusses the Avengers*"
* **Attack on the IFID Headquarters**:
	+ Brock Rumlow, now "Crossbones", plans to steal a biological weapon from the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Lagos, Nigeria. Captain America hears about the planned attack and, with the other Avengers, starts to search for Rumlow.
	+ Crossbones' mercenaries successfully enter the IFID Headquarters, stealing the bioweapon. The Avengers pursue Crossbones' men, taking out several of his mercenaries.
	+ Crossbones escapes, but not before entrusting the bioweapon to one of his men.
	+ While Falcon, Scarlet Witch, and Black Widow set out to find the bioweapon, Captain America confronts Crossbones.
	+ When Rogers unmasks Rumlow, Rumlow begins to blame him for his injuries. He then mentions Bucky Barnes so as to distract Rogers, then activates a suicide bomb intending to kill them both.
	+ Scarlet Witch manages to contain the explosion around Rumlow and tries to move the blast away, but she accidentally moves the explosion too close to a nearby building, before letting it go and inadvertently destroying part of the building, accidentally killing numerous civilians and several relief aid workers from Wakanda.
	+ Maximoff begins to cry as she is comforted by Natasha Romanoff.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter reporting "*WHiH revisits: Former felon Scott Lang vindicated as VistaCorp indicted on overcharging customers.*"
* Tony Stark gives a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, using B.A.R.F. to show the students how he wished his last moments spent with his parents in 1991 had gone. He then funds all of their projects, but cuts the speech a little early when the teleprompter tells him to introduce Pepper Potts, causing Stark to get upset about the recent break-up he went through with Potts.
* Quentin Beck watches Stark's presentation, angry that Stark made a mockery out of his creation with the name "B.A.R.F.".
* Backstage after the speech, Tony Stark is confronted by a grieving mother, Miriam Sharpe, whose son, Charlie Spencer, was killed in the Avengers' battle with Ultron in Sokovia. She places the photo of her son on his chest, and tells him that she blames him for her son's death.
* Beck tells Stark that misnaming his invention was a mistake and that his technology could change the world. Stark, however, fires him.
* WHiH Newsfront posts another video live. It's been several hours since the incident in Lagos. Everhart hands over to reporter Jackson Norris, live from Lagos, who speaks about the Avengers and Brock Rumlow's involvement. They are interrupted as they go live to President Ellis delivering a speech on the incident, promising support to Lagos, and to work with the UN to find who is accountable. Adams and Everhart then disagree on the meaning of Ellis' words, and Adams questions if actually, the Avengers prevented a worse outcome.
* WHiH Newsfront posts on Twitter announcing "*BREAKING: Newsfront is live on the scene in Lagos after a devastating incident. Watch now.*"
* The ticker of the video informs "*Multiple sources confirm that Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, was spotted at the scene*", "*Sources state Avengers were tracking wanted fugitive Brock Rumlow to Lagos*", "*Reports of Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff and former S.H.I.E.L.D. operative Natasha Romanoff in Lagos are confirmed*", "*Brock Rumlow rumored to be behind the Attack at the Military Compound*", "*BREAKING: Chaos strikes military compound in Lagos*", "*Eyewitness from Lekki Market in downtown Lagos, Nigeria spot Avengers at the scene*", "*Extent of damage unknown at this time*", and "*BREAKING: President Ellis to issue statement from the White House*".
* After deliberating urgently following the incident in Lagos, the United Nations decide to release the Sokovia Accords for heroes and powered individuals to register themselves under government control.
* WHiH World News posts twice on Twitter reporting "*Sokovia Accords released, proposing regulation for superheroes. Where do you stand on the issue?*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter reminding "*WHiH Newsfront is live on the ground at Lagos. Watch the fallout now: WHiH Breaking News: Attack in Lagos*"

#### 4th

* Stephen Strange arrives in Kathmandu and starts to ask people if they know the location of Kamar-Taj.
* After hours of trying, Karl Mordo hears Strange's inquiries and follows him to an alley. Strange bandages the broken leg of a dog he finds.
* Mordo then walks into the alley and witnesses Strange being attacked by three muggers who wants to steal his watch. Mordo defeats the muggers and tells Strange to follow him.
* Mordo leads Strange to Kamar-Taj, but warns him not to be disrespectful and to forget everything that he thinks he knows. He introduces Strange to the Ancient One.
* At first, Strange believes they are researching cellular regeneration, but while he listens to the Ancient One's comments, he quickly becomes skeptical of her methods and mocks her, claiming that he sees through her facade. She suddenly pushes Strange's astral form out of his body, impressing and shocking him. Once she has restored his soul to his body, the Ancient One then sends Strange on a mental journey, flinging him through various realities and dimensions, before dragging him back to his body in the temple. Barely recovering from the revelations just shown to him, Strange begs her to teach him. She refuses, scared that what happened to Kaecilius might happen again. He is cast out for his previous disrespect.
* After pleading at the door of Kamar-Taj for the following five hours, Strange is allowed back in when Karl Mordo convinces the Ancient One to give him a chance. Mordo shows Strange to a bedroom where he can stay.
* **Chase of Elektra**: Shaft fights Elektra Natchios in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, before Danny Rand and Colleen Wing arrive. They are unable to save Shaft from being fatally wounded. Rand hunts down and battles Natchios, but she slashes him across the chest and escapes. Rand returns to the dying Shaft, who tells them that the fight is not there, but rather back in New York City.
* Wanda Maximoff gives an incident report about the Attack on the IFID Headquarters noting her thought process throughout the disaster. She says that the losses will effect her for the rest of her days.
* Trish Walker gets a call from someone wanting to tell Jessica Jones' story.
* Meeting with the Ancient One in the morning, local time, Strange is told that he will need to study, and gives him his first four books.

#### 5th

* Jessica Jones wakes up in a bar, where she had accidentally slept through the night.
* Trish Walker attempts to reach her car only to discover it is being towed. However, Jones stops the tow, picking up the car with her super strength, and the two adoptive sisters go for a walk.
* Walker continues to attempt to convince Jones to take on a hero role, as people have started to recognize her, following her defeat of Kilgrave. Jones, however, continues to ignore her, not wanting that lifestyle.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter saying "*As the world sits divided on the role of superheroes, share your opinion on who should be held responsible: http://g.co/8xsxg*"
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter questioning "*Captain America was raised in a time when war was normal. Is his mindset right for this new age of superheroes? http://g.co/8xsxg*"
* Luke Cage is released from Seagate Prison. Foggy Nelson, who has been acting as his lawyer since his arrest in December, meets with him on his way out to tell him that Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz is at his disposal if he wants to start over. Cage rejects this, saying he is moving forward.
* Matt Murdock is making preparations for Aaron James' trial, when he hears crime nearby. Murdock reluctantly ignores the incident, sticking to his resolution to leave the vigilante role behind.
* James' trial takes place, which Murdock wins, allowing James' family a winning of $11 million in damages. Afterwards, Murdock speaks with James, and gives him some advice for dealing with his ongoing hardships. Karen Page approaches him, and they speak, agreeing to go to lunch together later.
* As Danny Rand flies back to New York City, he has a traumatic episode, hallucinating the dead bodies of the Order of the Crane Mother, being reminded of guilt of his guilt from abandoning K'un-Lun. He expresses his frustration to Colleen Wing that in the couple of months they have hunted the Hand, they have still got nowhere.
* Alexandra Reid visits hospital, where they inform her that she has a matter of months, if not weeks to live, as her major organs are failing. They assure her that they will continue to search for a cure, but admit not much can be done.
* Michelle Raymond visits Jessica Jones, asking for her to look into her missing husband, but Jones dismisses the case. Entering her office, she receives a scrambled call telling her not to take the case, and so, now intrigued, she changes her mind.
* Luke Cage arrives back in Harlem. He reunites with Claire Temple and return to Temple's home, where they have sex. The couple then discuss what Mariah Dillard and Shades have been doing to the community during his imprisonment, when Misty Knight visits and asks that she and Cage go for a walk.
* Matt Murdock and Karen Page have lunch together. Murdock compliments her on her story from last week on the school board scandal, and they discuss his decision to tell her the truth about being Daredevil in December. He tells her that the city is better off without Daredevil, and she accepts his decision, congratulating him on his work on the Aaron James case, simply as Matt Murdock.
* WHiH posts on Twitter reporting "*Brock Rumlow was spotted at the incident in Lagos. Were the Avengers there to confront him?*"
* Malcolm Ducasse visits Jessica Jones in the Alias Investigations Office, and together, they trace the location from which the blocked-number call came.
* Greatly affected by his encounter with Miriam Sharpe, Stark signs the Sokovia Accords, believing that the Avengers need control and restriction to stop such disasters and tragic deaths from happening again.
* WHiH posts on Twitter announcing "*Revisit WHiH's coverage of the altercation in Lagos, and what it means for the Avengers moving forward.*"
* Misty Knight walks with Luke Cage and they catch up about the goings on in Harlem during his incarceration. She shows him that Candace Miller's 25-year-old brother, Sean Miller, is the latest of several locals his age to have died recently. She expresses her concern that someone has been using Harlem youth.
* WHiH posts on Twitter announcing "*BREAKING: Tony Stark signs Sokovia Accords. Is this the answer to making the world a safer place?*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter again saying "*Sokovia Accords released, proposing regulation for superheroes. Where do you stand?*"
* Matt Murdock goes to confession with Paul Lantom once again, discussing how he misses Elektra Natchios and being Daredevil. He advises Murdock to let God into his heart and help him to move on.
* Madame Gao and Alexandra Reid sit in Central Park and discuss their plan for Midland Circle, as Reid feeds the birds. Reid tells her that the plan needs to move faster and be complete soon, aware that it may cause the project to have more exposure, but determined nonetheless.
* WHiH posts on Twitter announcing "*Is Iron Man looking out for the best interests of the world, or is his guilt getting the best of him? http://g.co/8xsxg*"
* WHiH posts on Twitter announcing "*In case you missed it, follow our continued coverage on The Cost of Saving the World. WHiH Newsfront Special Reports*"
* Luke Cage visits Cole Miller by the request of Misty Knight, to help put him on a good path, and save Dolores Miller's last remaining child. Despite his attempts, Miller rejects his help and tells him to leave.
* Jessica Jones visits John Raymond's home, but quickly finds he is not in home. She is concerned when, instead, she discovers C-4 explosives in the room.
* Gao informs Alexandra Reid that the necessary arrangements have been made. She attempts to convince Reid to wait, but Reid gives the order to go ahead.
* **New York City Earthquake**: As the Hand proceed with their plan, attacking the Wall of the Chaste, the impact and resistance of the magic wall triggers an earthquake that rumbles through New York City. Matt Murdock, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage all feel it in their respective locations, as well as Danny Rand and Colleen Wing just as they land back in the city. Reid is visited by Elektra, her Black Sky, and tells her not to worry - that it is nothing more than a city, and that over time, she will see many more fall. Murdock uses his enhanced senses and hears the panic throughout his neighborhood, tempted more than ever to return to his vigilante ways and help.
* Taking to the rooftops, Matt Murdock surveys the immediate area. In one direction, he hears young looters raid a nearby business, its employees armed and ready with shotguns cocked.
* As fast as he can, Murdock runs across the rooftops and leaps down from a fire escape to quickly subdue the gunmen, who showed no interest in lowering their firearms. Murdock walks away from the alleyway, relieved but conflicted about his return to vigilante behavior.

#### 6th

* Stephen Strange goes to the Kamar-Taj library to return the books. He meets Wong, who gives him a short tour of the library. Strange notices the Book of Cagliostro in the Ancient One's personal collection, and Wong gives him another book to read.
* Kaecilius enters a church and speaks to the priest. He insists that the idea of an afterlife is a contradiction, and that he can "prove it", proceeding to kill the man. Then, Kaecilius and his Zealots decipher the ritual to contact Dormammu from the Book of Cagliostro, and successfully connect with him, causing symbols of the Dark Dimension to appear on their foreheads. One Zealot is nervous and unable to contact the entity, so Kaecilius murders him.
* The following morning, Trish Walker walks to her car, leaving a message for Jessica Jones on her cell phone, asking how she is. Reaching a small crowd and a line of police, she requests to get through but discovers her car is stuck in a sinkhole from the earthquake.
* On *Trish Talk*, Walker engages with listeners calling in, discussing the earthquake, which had been centered in Hell's Kitchen. She receives a call from a geologist, who informs her that the quake was not ordinary, occurring only 300 feet beneath the surface. When the call is abruptly cut, Nicole informs Walker that their superiors do not want them to continue the conversation and want them to redirect.
* Meeting her superior, Captain Strieber, at the scene, Misty Knight is brought up to speed on the situation: that they have received a tip from Jessica Jones that John Raymond was keeping a stockpile of explosives in his apartment. The two comment on Jones' appearance, before Knight approaches the private investigator. She allows Jones to leave, but notices as Jones steals a document as she goes.
* Knight tries to catch her, but Jones manages to escape.
* Danny Rand and Colleen Wing arrive at the Chikara Dojo.
* Rand and Wing begin planning their next actions. Having seen the Tsukamoto Sword that Shaft used, Wing suggests that they visit a weapons workshop in New York to look for leads.
* Murdock returns to his home in the morning. Treating the bruises on his hands, he feels conflicted about his brief return to vigilante behavior and briefly contemplates donning the Daredevil suit once again, before he receives a call from Foggy Nelson asking to meet up.
* Luke Cage and Claire Temple spend their time assisting their community following the earthquake. Cage is determined to prevent any more young people from getting hurt or killed during night activities, and Temple advises him to look for information at 188th Street, in the Trouble in a Pair-of-Dice bar.
* Alexandra Reid watches the The Aeolus Quartet play *Two String Quartets, Op. 51*. Once the performance is over, Reid is visited by Madame Gao, who informs her that, during their dig underneath Midland Circle, they have uncovered a wall blocking their way, which they have been unable to destroy with explosives. Gao notes that the wall is inscribed with writing about K'un-Lun and suggests that they should rethink their plans on how to access the Dragon Bones they need for the Resurrection Elixir. However, Reid remains confident and claims that they will still be able to find a way to enter, claiming that this was not a wall but a doorway, and that the Iron Fist will be able to open it.
* Jessica Jones starts to investigate the company that hired John Raymond. Her investigations through public records lead her to discover that the company has repeatedly changed its name, and their transfers of assets go as far back as the 18th century.
* Matt Murdock meets with Foggy Nelson at Josie's Bar. They discuss their respective jobs, with Nelson congratulating Murdock on winning the Aaron James case and asking if he intends to remain pro bono, which Murdock says that he does. Nelson then talks briefly about his renewed relationship with Marci Stahl, but he notices the bruises on Murdock's hands and their conversation turns to Murdock's vigilantism. Murdock tries to change the subject, and Nelson offers him case files to keep him occupied and away from the temptations of Daredevil. He accepts the files and thanks his friend before leaving.
* Kaecilius and his Zealots set up in the church, performing another ritual for Dormammu, and the evil entity gives them more power, such as the ability to alter reality even outside of the Mirror Dimension.
* Jeri Hogarth approaches Jessica Jones and warns her not to interfere with the John Raymond case, seeing as it has turned into a matter of national security.
* Luke Cage visits Trouble in a Pair-of-Dice bar and finds Turk Barrett. He takes him aside and interrogates him on Mariah Dillard's whereabouts. Barrett explains that Dillard and Shades have disappeared, while a man nicknamed "White Hat" has entered the neighborhood and is the one hiring the youth of Harlem for the night work.
* **Attack on the Wall of the Chaste**: The Hand attack the Wall of the Chaste workshop, the headquarters of the Chaste organization, and a battle ensues between the Hand and Stick's Chaste. The Hand wins, slaughtering the entire sect and capture Stick.
* Danny Rand and Colleen Wing arrive at the Tsukamoto sword workshop, not aware that it is the Wall of the Chaste, where the massacre has just occurred. Entering the building, they are shocked to discover several dead bodies.
* Luke Cage arrives at the Wall of the Chaste as well, following his leads on the White Hat. He calls Misty Knight, but hangs up when he sees Cole Miller on one of White Hat's night duties, wanting to deal with it personally.
* Jeri Hogarth tells Foggy Nelson to keep the Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz firm away from any trouble that Jessica Jones gets into, predicting Jones' ignorance to her warnings.
* Trish Walker calls Jessica Jones, just as Jones gets home to her apartment. She finds her door open and walks in cautiously, only to find John Raymond holding a gun to Malcolm Ducasse's head.
* **Attack on John Raymond**: Jones tries to talk to Raymond, offering him help and trying to calm him down. However, Elektra suddenly arrives, entering the apartment and grabbing Raymond. Before she can take him, he decides to kill himself so that the Hand will have no incentive to go after his family, shooting himself through the head. Elektra flees and Jones pursues her, but she gets away. As Jones stumbles onto the street, she is arrested by Misty Knight.
* **Ambush at the Wall of the Chaste**:
	+ A cleanup crew made up of Harlem's teenagers arrives at the Wall of the Chaste to clean the mess left after the attack. They are ambushed by Colleen Wing and Danny Rand.
	+ As Wing fights the rest of the Hand's team at the workshop, Danny Rand pursues one of them, who turns out to be Cole Miller. Seeing Miller, Luke Cage chooses to intervene, and Cage and Rand come to blows. The two men fight each other, surprised by the other's resilience and powers. Using the Iron Fist, Rand manages to land an effective blow on Cage, just as the police arrive and arrest Miller. Rand and Wing flee as Cage reluctantly leaves in the other direction.
* In the Hand's headquarters, Alexandra Reid talks to Stick, keeping him shackled to a post. She claims that Stick is an old friend.
* Jessica Jones is questioned by Misty Knight. However, Matt Murdock, who was contacted by Nelson about representing Jones, arrives to be her attorney. He enters the room and introduces himself, to Jones' bemusement.
* Alexandra Reid interrogates Stick on the location of the Iron Fist. After he insults her on her declining health, she slaps him and reveals that she has resurrected and trained Elektra to work for her as the Black Sky.
* Despite his attempts to persuade Elektra to release him, both women pin their swords against his body. Left with little choice, Stick pushes them away and slashes his right hand off on one of the blades so as to slip through his cuffs. In the darkness, Stick makes his escape through the ventilation system.
* Jessica Jones and Matt Murdock talk in the interrogation room. Jones learns that Murdock was called to help her by Jeri Hogarth's office and so refuses to answer his questions, telling him that she wants another lawyer. Murdock tells her that she does not have to, since the New York City Police Department did not have any evidence on her and so she is free to leave. When he esquires about her case, Jones refuses to answer. She leaves the room and immediately calls Malcolm Ducasse.
* Luke Cage arrives at Temple's apartment and tells her about the man he met in the alley. Claire Temple recognizes the description as Danny Rand and organizes for them to meet formally.

#### 7th

* The *New York Bulletin* carries the front-page headline *Can't Cage Him*, reporting on Luke Cage being freed from prison.
* Stephen Strange begins training alongside other students who prove to have control of the energy that surrounds them. Strange tries hard, but manages nothing.
* With Colleen Wing accompanying, Cage and Rand are formally introduced to each other. The two are left alone by Claire Temple and Wing to speak.
* Jones visits the Raymond Residence and informs a tearful Michelle Raymond of her husband's death. She then says that she would like to continue to investigate deeper into the case. While in the house, Jones also takes note of an award John Raymond has from Duncan + Dotter Design. She asks Lexi Raymond to tell her mother that she is leaving as she walks out.
* As she walks along the street, the private investigator senses that she is being followed. She manages to evade the person following her, only to discover that it was Matt Murdock. Unknowingly, he has lost Jones' trail, and she follows him instead into an alleyway. Jones then witnesses him clambering up the fire escape and away and takes photographs, realizing that he is more than he appears.
* Jones makes a call to Duncan + Dotter Design, pretending to be a woman called "Anna Asher", trying to get more information on Raymond's previous work.
* As they talk, Luke Cage becomes angry at Danny Rand again. He tells him he was wrong for attacking Miller, pointing out that Rand has had privilege since he was born, while others have had to earn things for themselves. He criticizes the way Rand acts and tells him that he could do better, then leaves to visit Miller in prison.
* Cage goes to meet Cole Miller to ask him for information. Miller tells Cage that they were cleaning bodies and that the organization they were working for were tracking their movement. When Cage asks about the Hand, Miller resignedly ends the conversation, asking Cage to buy his mother some lottery tickets and to tell her that he was sorry.
* Danny Rand decides to go to Rand Enterprises and find out about the Hand's business with his company, having now realized that instead of targeting their agents, he could use his privileges as owner of Rand to fight the Hand's leadership.
* Rand arrives at the Rand Enterprises Building and asks them about several locations and the Hand's business with their company last year.
* Jessica Jones visits the architect who worked with John Raymond. He tells Jones about a project in Midtown he worked on last year, a Soho project from last winter, and their latest project, Midland Circle.
* Luke Cage visits the Millers' mother, Dolores Miller. While he is there, she receives a call informing her that Cole has been killed in prison. Dolores cries at the loss of all three of her children, and Cage tries to console her.
* Stick arrives at Chikara Dojo, shocking Colleen Wing as he stumbles in bleeding and asking to meet with the Iron Fist.
* **Escape from Midland Circle**:
	+ Danny Rand goes to Midland Circle Financial to confront the Hand. During a board meeting, he storms in and addresses their leader, Alexandra Reid, declaring his intention to expose them and revealing himself as the Iron Fist. Reid orders her subordinates to capture him, and a fight ensues in the meeting room.
	+ As Rand is pinned down and struggling to summon the Fist, Luke Cage breaks throw the door to assist him.
	+ Matt Murdock and Jessica Jones arrive at Midland Circle individually. Murdock tries to keep Jones away, but she reveals that she has leverage on him with the pictures she took in the alleyway. In response, Murdock simply breaks Jones' camera to protect his secret, just as they hear a gunshot from upstairs. He grabs Jones' scarf so as to hide his identity in the fight he anticipates, and the two of them run to discover what was happening.
	+ Murdock and Jones reach the boardroom and, alongside Cage and Rand, fight against the Hand. Murdock engages in a fight with a female warrior, not knowing who it is he is fighting. She defeats him and is about to kill him when Murdock realizes the woman is his ex-lover, Elektra Natchios, whom he had thought dead for 6 months. Iron Fist intervenes and saves Murdock and the quartet make their way to the elevator.
	+ At 08:18PM, the four heroes descend in Midland Circle's Elevator B. Jessica Jones notices the security camera watching them and breaks it.
* Closing the Royal Dragon for the day, Mr. Zhang orders his chef to make sure everything is cleaned, while he goes to the register and counts his earnings for the day. Suddenly, Matt Murdock, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Danny Rand enter the restaurant, forcing Zhang to tell them that the place was closed. Murdock and Jones ignore him and turn off all the lights, before blocking the doors with furniture and finally closing the blinds. Rand speaks to Mr. Zhang to convince him to let them stay in the restaurant.
* Cage and Jones briefly converse, asking how each other have been since their last time spent together. Murdock approaches them as Rand informs them that they are allowed to stay, admitting that he promised to pay the restaurant's rent. When everyone begins to introduce themselves with each other, Murdock quickly breaks away, explaining that he was not going to risk his identity being revealed.
* The chef walks to a table and serves food; Rand adds that as part of the agreement, they had to order something. Murdock continues to reject cooperation with the group because he cannot trust them all, when Cage grabs his arm, saying that he cannot trust him either, before Jones requests to speak with Murdock for a moment. Though he insists that he cannot risk his identity being revealed, Jones tells him that she figured out that he was "the Devil of Hell's Kitchen" and says that eventually Rand and Cage would work that out too. Finally convinced, Murdock removes Jones' scarf and reveals himself as Matt Murdock.
* At the Hand penthouse, Elektra Natchios stares at herself in a mirror, noticing scars from her past life. Alexandra Reid enters the room and reminds her that she is the Black Sky, and that that is all she needs to remember.
* The quartet have dinner and discuss their encounter, with Rand suggesting a potential team-up. As everyone protests the idea, Murdock senses someone approaching from the rear entrance. The person is revealed to be Stick, who enters and proclaims that he will aid the four in defeating the Hand.
* Murakami is cutting the innards from the corpse of a bear as Alexandra Reid walks into his apartment. She requests that Murakami regroup with the other "Fingers" of the Hand, since the capture of the Iron Fist has proven difficult due to his newfound friends. When Murakami asks about their other contact, Reid assures him that they will be arriving soon.
* Elsewhere, Sowande confronts the Black Sky, challenging her skills and her inability to strike down her opponents. However, she moves swiftly and manages to defeat his henchmen before leaving.
* Zhang and his chefs watch behind the counter as Stick approaches the group, and Murdock warns the others that Stick will only be planning to use them for his own ends. Stick explains that he was a part of the Chaste and was trained by similar masters as the ones who trained Rand in K'un-Lun. Murdock pushes Stick aside to speak privately, to Cage's displeasure. Murdock states that people will die.
* In grand disbelief of the conversation, Jones decides she is going to leave. Cage tries to persuade her to sit through the stories, but she still decides to leave, expressing gratitude for seeing him again before returning to her apartment.
* Murdock uses his enhanced senses to listen to Jones and Cage, and informs Rand and Stick that she will not be returning.
* Cage returns in order to listen to Stick.
* Preparing for a meeting, Alexandra Reid takes her prescribed pills. She takes a deep breath, then makes a call to say that her plans for the evening have changed.
* In her apartment, Jones drinks her liquor and looks through her photographs of the signed documents taken earlier that day. As she begins deleting them, she notices the handwriting of the signatures are all very similar, concluding that the individuals from across the centuries were, somehow, the same person. Jones reconsiders the truth to Stick's stories.
* As Stick informs the remaining trio about the five Fingers of the Hand, including Bakuto, Rand comments that he killed him some time ago. Stick also discloses that another, Murakami, is the one who pulled the strings around he and Murdock's former enemy, Nobu Yoshioka. Eventually, Murdock becomes impatient with his former teacher and asks what he desires; Rand interjects, stating Stick has just told him more than the elders of K'un-Lun ever did. Murdock and Rand briefly become hostile before Murdock walks away from the table, tired of the Hand situation.
* Jones wakes Michelle Raymond at her house. Mildly drunk, she informs Raymond that digging deeper into her husband's case has proven it to be weirder and weirder, and says that she will try to provide round-the-clock security for them. When Raymond tells Jones that she believed she already had security due to the car outside her house, Jones warns her to lock the doors and windows and go to her daughter while she goes to confront the man in the car.
* Rand continues to eat, and Cage questions how he could still be eating. Stating that it helps to restore his chi, Rand then comments that the two of them could make a great team, much to Cage's dissatisfaction.
* Stick approaches Murdock and questions him on his encounter with Natchios. Though Murdock expresses optimism about her resurrection, Stick warns him that she is only a "vessel", and not the same person he fell in love with before. Suddenly, both blind men hear weapons nearby.
* Jessica Jones goes to the parked SUV by the Raymond Residence and grabs the Hand henchman who was ordered to spy on the Raymonds, pulling him out of the car. The two briefly fight until he is pinned down. Jones pushes for him to leave the Raymonds alone, as they knew nothing about John's work. When the man refuses to go, however, Jones pressures him against the windshield until he finally leaves.
* Just as Matt Murdock, Danny Rand, and Luke Cage prepare themselves to fight the Hand soldiers approaching the Royal Dragon, Stick senses that Alexandra Reid has entered from the back. As they turn to her, she approaches Rand with the offer to join her side. Though Cage and Stick warn Rand not to go with her, Reid continues to push.
* **Ambush at the Royal Dragon**:
	+ When Rand declines her offer, Reid sends in the Black Sky, who slashes the door hinges and breaks into the restaurant.
	+ At that moment, an SUV comes crashing into the restaurant and knocks Natchios to the ground. Jessica Jones emerges, having pushed the henchman from the Raymond Residence's car through the window. She rejoins her friends, and they prepare to fight the Hand together.
	+ Danny Rand and Matt Murdock engage Murakami in battle, who entered the restaurant from the rooftop. Jessica Jones and Luke Cage try to take down Natchios as Alexandra Reid stays in the back, before leaving through a back door. Though Rand and Murdock manage to knock Murakami off his feet, he soon gets up to retreat.
	+ The vigilantes notice that Reid has left, but have no time to act before Sowande's men, carrying firearms, begin firing throughout the restaurant. Everyone except Cage takes cover from the spray bullets, but Madame Gao pulls a pistol of her own and kills one of Sowande's henchman, reminding Sowande that they are required to capture the Iron Fist alive, and his actions are reckless.
	+ Alongside Stick, the group is suddenly circled by the Hand's fighters. The five initiate a brawl with every Hand soldier and Murdock disarms Natchios, taking her out of the restaurant. He declares that he will not fight her and attempts to make Natchios remember him. At the mention of her name, Natchios calms down, allowing Murdock to slowly approach her and ask what the Hand have done to her.
	+ Murakami interrupts the ex-lovers and orders Natchios to kill Murdock. She is hesitant to obey, and so Murakami tries to attack Murdock himself; however, Natchios suddenly intervenes, protecting her old love as she beats Murakami and leaves him unconscious, before vanishing.
	+ In the meantime, Sowande manages to lure Luke Cage outside of the Royal Dragon, convinced that he will be able to break Cage.
	+ After a few strikes, Cage is beaten into the street. He is soon hit by a truck driven by the Hand.
	+ Jones watches in horror as Cage is dragged away, just as several more Hand soldiers arrive at the scene. Rand overpowers the soldiers inside, but upon going after Gao, the woman pushes him backwards with force and leaves him stunned. Gao then orders her henchmen to restrain him.
	+ The henchmen are, however, interrupted by the arrival of Stick and Jessica Jones, who defeat Gao's henchmen and leave with Rand through the back exit. Without Cage, the remaining four reassemble and escape through the sewers.
	+ Madame Gao walks to the back and uses her powers to blast the door to where the group had been hiding; however, she finds the area empty. Murakami is approached by Gao. She questions him on the whereabouts of the vigilantes and the Black Sky, and he replies that she should instead ask Alexandra Reid for Natchios' whereabouts.
* The group heads back to the Chikara Dojo, where they are received by Colleen Wing, who had been worried about the situation. Murdock senses that someone is coming, but calms down when he realizes that it is Luke Cage, who has captured Sowande and returned to the team.
* In her penthouse, Alexandra Reid visits Elektra Natchios. She tells Natchios the story of her previous life, how she had once a daughter who had eventually died, and how she enlisted into the Order of the Crane Mother from K'un-Lun. She then informs Natchios that if she is unable to kill those she is tasked to kill, she will be useless to the Hand. They are interrupted by Murakami, who enters and asks to speak with Reid himself.
* In the very early hours of the morning, Murdock, Cage, Rand, Jones, and Stick head to an abandoned building where they tie Sowande to a chair. They interrogate him on the Hand's current operations in the city. Instead of giving up information, Sowande warns them that their efforts to stop the Hand are futile, mentioning that they have plans to harm the group's loved ones, such as the "nurse" and the "radio host". Jones punches Sowande in anger and leaves him unconscious.
* While Stick stays to watch over their hostage, Cage wakes Claire Temple at her mother's apartment, informing her that the Hand may target her.
* While waiting outside Temple's apartment, Wing tells Rand that his new friends could be a liability to him and to his mission as the Iron Fist.
* Wing and Rand hear someone approaching. They leave to investigate, but Wing is soon ambushed by Bakuto, revealing himself to have been revived after the Duel at Bethesda Terrace. Wing tries to attack her former sensei, but he subdues her with ease. She is saved by Luke Cage, who arrives in time to knock Bakuto aside as Rand and Temple arrive. Bakuto disappears, but not before threatening the Iron Fist.
* Matt Murdock manages to find Karen Page at her office and briefly informs her on the situation. She becomes angry at him for returning to vigilantism. Murdock contacts Foggy Nelson and convinces him to also head to the 29th Precinct Police Station for protection along with Page.
* Sowande awakens and is confronted by Stick. Sowande decides to try to get inside Stick's mind, telling him the story of how the Chaste once captured him, just as Stick has now, and that he will soon be free of the chair. He tells Stick that not even the vigilantes will be able to help him defeat the Hand. Despite Sowande's threats, Stick ignores him.

#### 8th

* Matt Murdock returns to their hideout and talks to Stick, who claims that he had been trying to protect Murdock from his two worlds colliding. Murdock says that he does not buy it - that this was merely Stick's latest attempt to manipulate him into joining the Chaste and the war which he had no desire to be a part of.
* Stick tells Murdock to lead his new group of vigilantes, claiming that his leadership is needed as the Iron Fist is not suitable. Murdock explains that he has no desire to lead anybody into any kind of fight, to which Stick notes that he should have more faith in God's plan for him. This annoys Murdock, considering Stick to be using his faith against him. Stick reminds him of his duty to protect New York City and Murdock becomes angry, eventually leaving, telling Stick that he already knew who he was and did not need Stick's reminders.
* **Rescue of Trish Walker**:
	+ Jessica Jones tries to locate Trish Walker, so as to get her to safety. She finds her adoptive sister discussing the future of her talk show with her producers, and Jones tells her they have to go.
	+ As the women leave, they are ambushed by Murakami. He easily subdues Jones and moves to kill her, just as Daredevil arrives to help. Together, Jones and Murdock defeat Murakami, who decides to flee.
* Walker and Malcolm Ducasse are taken to the 29th Precinct Police Station under the surveillance of Misty Knight. Ducasse and Walker meet Karen Page and Foggy Nelson, who have also just arrived at the precinct.
* The four free fingers of the Hand reconvene to discuss their new enemies and how best to deal with them.
* Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones meet with Stick to continue to interrogate Sowande. Daredevil wraps his billy club around Sowande's neck and constricts to torture him for information, but the man still refuses to reveal any kind of information, beginning to mock Daredevil. In anger, Murdock chokes him and leaves him unconscious. Stick advises Murdock to tell the truth to the others about Natchios.
* Meanwhile, Murakami reveals to the Hand that Rand has found a new ally in the Devil of Hell's Kitchen. This is questioned by Madame Gao, asking him if he was sure, since the Daredevil had been absent from New York City for months. Murakami insists it was true, noting that he saw him with his own eyes.
* Bakuto notes that while Daredevil is a formidable fighter, so are the four of them. However, Murakami explains that his concern was not combat skill, but Daredevil's apparent relationship with Elektra Natchios, their Black Sky, with Gao noting that they had fought side-by-side against Nobu Yoshioka before his death. Murakami reminds them that Natchios had loved Daredevil, and claims that this was the reason she had attacked him instead of Daredevil during the Ambush at the Royal Dragon.
* Alexandra Reid questions if Murakami believes that Natchios had failed them, but he claims this was not the case. However, he explains that he believes that Reid herself has failed them, openly questioning her leadership.
* Murdock opens up to the team about his past with Natchios. They argue with him, claiming that he should have told them from the beginning, and during the conflict between Cage and Murdock, Sowande wakes up and grabs Danny Rand, holding him hostage at knifepoint. Sowande reveals that now that they have the Iron Fist, they can complete their goal, but Stick makes a sudden move, beheading him before he can escape with Rand.
* Elektra Natchios goes to Matt Murdock's Apartment, with the room bringing back memories. Eventually, Natchios enters the bedroom, setting her blade down on a nightstand and lying to rest in the bed.
* Meanwhile, the group converse over Sowande's final words, and how the Hand wishes to bring the Iron Fist to their side. Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Matt Murdock agree that keeping Rand hidden away is the best decision, but Rand protests that this is what the Hand wants: to divide them. The tension rises and a duel begins between Iron Fist and Daredevil. Cage and Jones try to separate them, but fail. Eventually, Jones manages to knock Rand unconscious, and they tie him to a chair.
* Elektra Natchios finds Murdock's original Daredevil suit, a Braille Bible, and a bookmark with the Bible verse of *Relevation 21:4*, used at her funeral 5 months ago. She takes this with her before leaving the apartment.
* Stick talks to the others about what their next move should be, noting that Midland Circle is the Hand's current headquarters. Matt Murdock explains to everyone that he had been there the year before with Natchios while the building was being constructed, and had found a large hole in the centre of the construction. This new revelation causes more of a rift with Jones and Cage, as they accuse him of keeping vital information from them yet again. Stick recommends that they focus on the mission.
* Murdock and Jones head out to see if they can find anything more of what John Raymond knew about Midland Circle.
* Stick remains behind with Luke Cage and they examine Sowande's dead body. Stick talks about the sleepless nights he had experienced as a result of hunting down and killing the Hand, then promises Cage that he will get rid of Sowande's corpse. When Cage questions what exactly he will do, considering they are dealing with a homicide, Stick refuses to tell him, claiming that the less Cage knows, the better. Cage reluctantly agrees and leaves Stick to act however he feels is necessary.
* Unbeknownst to Cage, Stick puts Sowande's head in a package and intentionally hides it in a place where the Hand will find it.
* Reid is informed that Sowande's severed head has been found in one of their warehouses. She gathers the other Hand leaders to see, and notes that Stick is the one to blame for killing their colleague. Although both Madame Gao and Bakuto claim that Sowande's death could have been avoided if they had searched for him, Reid insists that he only had himself to blame for getting captured, and shows no remorse.
* Reid points out that their many years together have rarely been peaceful and that they have all survived several assassination attempts against each other. She suggests they show unity, but Murakami retort that they had, in fact, been unified, until she brought the Black Sky into their organization. When Bakuto demands to know where Natchios is, Reid claims that she was being kept hidden, having foreseen that one of them would try to kill her. Gao stands up for Reid, claiming that they must honor Sowande by continuing their mission and following their leader.
* Jessica Jones and Matt Murdock arrive at the Raymonds' residence to talk to Lexi Raymond.
* While taking her pills, Alexandra Reid is visited by Madame Gao. Gao notes that while Reid's position as leader of the Hand is one of great power, she understands that it also comes with a great burden, and that this is why she had defended her to the others and convinced them to follow her leadership. However, she insists on a single term: that they would find the Iron Fist without the interference of the Black Sky, whom they have all lost confidence in.
* Reid accuses Gao of losing her faith, but Gao retorts that it was unlike Reid to show such weakness as she does with Natchios, revealing that she believes the same as their fellow leaders. Gao explains that since bringing Elektra Natchios back with the Resurrection Elixir, they have still come no closer to finding the Iron Fist or returning to K'un-Lun as they had planned, and are merely drawing closer to their own deaths.
* Reid tries to argue that Natchios had more than strength of body, but also strength of mind, although Gao notes that the others would still not accept this. When Reid questions why she no longer has faith that the Black Sky will be enough to save them, Gao claims that she simply no longer believes in anything. She leaves Reid to speak with Murakami and Bakuto about their decision.
* Meanwhile, in the hideout where Rand is being kept, Luke Cage reads the *New York Bulletin* and its "*Tremors Rock New York*" article about the earthquake. Danny Rand wakes up and tries to summon his Chi to free himself. When he sees Cage, they begin to talk. Cage remains by Rand's side but refuses to set him free, while trying to calm him down.
* Elektra Natchios goes to visit her grave. She is approached by Reid, who explains to her that the woman who had died in December was not truly her. She claims that Daredevil allowed Natchios to die during her fight against Nobu Yoshioka, and tells her that he may attempt to deceive her again, in an attempt to turn her away from the Hand. Natchios vows that she would not allow that to happen. Reid then reveals to Natchios that she is dying, much to Natchios' shock as she believed the Hand could live forever. Reid then notes that without the Resurrection Elixir that they gained from the bones of dragons, her body was beginning to shut down, revealing that she had used the last of the Elixir to bring Natchios back to life. With Natchios seemingly devoted to finding the bones for her so as to keep them both alive, Reid then tells her that she is the Black Sky and vows to her that once this is over, they will together be able to serve life itself.
* Through their talk with the Raymonds, Jones and Murdock learn that John tended to play the piano, beginning after he built the Midland Circle Financial Building. This leads Murdock to investigate the piano, discovering that John had hidden building plans in the instrument's casing. From these plans, he and Jones learn about a massive cave beneath the structure, and that John intended to level the building to collapse it into the cave and fill the hole. Murdock and Jones head back to the hideout to pass on their findings.
* **Kidnapping of Iron Fist**: At the hideout, Stick uses poisoned smoke to render Luke Cage unconscious and prevent Danny Rand from summoning his Chi, deciding to kill Rand and ensure that the Hand are prevented from using him. However, as he moves to do so, Stick is attacked by Elektra Natchios, who kills her old mentor. Murdock arrives and is horrified at Stick's death. He tries to fight her, but Natchios defeats him, Jones, and a recently awakened Cage, leaving them unconscious and taking the Iron Fist with her.
* Murakami visits Alexandra Reid at Kadir's restaurant, bringing a bottle of extremely rare champagne on the pretence of making peace with her for everything that had been said in the wake of Sowande's death. He tells her that he did not want to leave K'un-Lun with her, instead wanting to use their Chi abilities to do good, but Reid is not surprised by this, noting that his greatest strength was his singular focus. Murakami then says that he brought the champagne because he wanted Reid's last meal to be a good one, revealing his intention to kill her and take her place as the Hand's new leader. Remaining confident, Reid mocks Murakami, calling him a foolish for having planned to attack her alone. Before they can engage in a fight, they are interrupted by the arrival of Elektra Natchios, bringing them an unconscious Danny Rand. Reid claims that if Murakami had paid attention, he would have know that she always wins, and never wavered in his faith.
* **Assassination of Alexandra Reid**: Alexandra Reid gloats to the other leaders of the Hand about the victory they have achieved, claiming to have proven herself to be the worthy leader of their organization. As she speaks, she is caught off-guard by Natchios, who surprises her by stabbing her with a sai from behind, deciding to take the opportunity to kill the woman who manipulated her. Reid falls down, dead, and as Bakuto, Madame Gao, and Murakami stand in shock, Natchios claims the leadership of the Hand for herself.

#### 9th

* Stephen Strange starts to train with the Sling Ring along with other students, but again he is unable to achieve their level of competency. The Ancient One explains to him that the fact he cannot master the Sling Ring is not due to the damage to his hands. To prove this, she calls Master Hamir, who is missing an arm, but can perfectly master the Sling Ring.
* In order to push him to learn, the Ancient One takes Strange through a portal to Mount Everest and abandons him, forcing him to use all his efforts to master the Sling Ring and get back to Kamar-Taj. After a few minutes, Strange manages to create a portal back to the courtyard, impressing Mordo and the Ancient One.
* Jessica Jones wakes up in the interrogation room of the 29th Precinct Police Station. She is soon approached by Misty Knight, who asks her what had happened the night before.
* Murdock wakes up, finding himself in the precinct. Foggy Nelson arrives and explains that the police had found the trio with two dead bodies and intended to ask them questions about what happened.
* Colleen Wing and Claire Temple talk by an unconscious Luke Cage. They discuss what may have happened and where Rand could be, with Wing being worried about what could have happened to him. Cage wakes up and learns about the current situation.
* Elektra Natchios has Reid's body taken away. The remaining Fingers of the Hand agree to let Natchios pursue her goals, hoping that she will grant them access to the dragon bones.
* Murdock, Cage, and Jones are taken to be questioned by the authorities at the precinct. Knowing that time is running out and that they need to get out of the precinct, Murdock manages to convince Strieber to let him have a private talk with Cage and Jones.
* Strange shaves himself and cuts his hair. He then continues his training over the next few months with more vigor.
* Meanwhile, Natchios takes Rand down into the Midland Circle hole by elevator. During their descent, she explains to him that there is a blockage in the hole, and behind the blockage is the main ingredient for the Resurrection Elixir. Though Rand insists that he would not assist the Hand, while unstrapping him, Natchios tries to connect with him by highlighting their similarities in both choosing to run from their destiny.
* At the precinct, the trio agree that they needed to get out and get to Midland Circle to stop the Hand. Murdock is surprised when Foggy Nelson assists him by delivering him his suit.
* The group escapes the precinct by destroying one of the walls. They make their way to Midland Circle by getting on the subway.
* Danny Rand looks at the language on the wall, recognizing it to be from K'un-Lun. Natchios explains that since an Iron Fist sealed the wall with his Chi, only another Iron Fist can open it. Rand still refuses to help his sworn enemy.
* Officer Strieber sends Misty Knight to find the trio. Meanwhile, Colleen Wing goes to retrieve the C-4 recovered from John Raymond's hideout in hopes that it can be used to help her friends. She and Claire Temple head to Midland Circle. Knight is left wondering where Wing has gone.
* Cage, Murdock, and Jones arrive at Midland Circle.
* Elektra Natchios tries to convince Rand by setting him free. Rand, however, uses this opportunity to engage her in a fight.
* Meanwhile, the trio above ground fight Bakuto, Murakami, and Madame Gao. The battle causes the Hand leaders to briefly withdraw. Meanwhile, Claire Temple is relieved when Misty Knight offers to stall the police to give the team more time.
* As Iron Fist fights Natchios, she tricks him into summoning his Chi and punching in her direction with the fist lit up, as she stands in front of the wall. Natchios dodges it and the punch connects with the wall before Rand can stop himself, causing the blockage to open.
* Colleen Wing and Temple reveal the C-4 they brought, and Wing explains her plan to Murdock, Cage, and Jones: to destroy Midland Circle with the explosives, collapsing it into the hole below and killing the last three Fingers of the Hand.
* Danny Rand wakes in the cave he unintentionally opened and finds himself among the bones of a dead dragon. He is horrified, knowing the Hand are now close to fulfilling their goals.
* The team discuss the plan to stop the Hand with the C-4. Luke Cage is the last to agree, claiming that they would have to ensure that not a single innocent collateral damage death would be acceptable if they were to destroy Midland Circle.
* Misty Knight is altered about the stealing of the C-4, and worries about what it might be used for.
* Trish Walker and Karen Page talk about Jones and Murdock, and their experiences with the Hand. They are interrupted by Foggy Nelson and Malcolm Ducasse, who inform them that the police are calling every patrol to close in on Midland Circle. Walker points out that Midland Circle is not only the literal epicenter of the earthquake, but has been the epicenter of all the events of the last few days.
* In Midland Circle, Daredevil gets Cage to break through a door, allowing them to access the elevator into the chasm. He expresses his thanks for having found the others, and Jones expresses her own surprise at their newly formed friendship, saying that if she had been told a week ago that she would be here, she would never have believed it. The trio prepare for the upcoming battle.
* As they prepare to set up the explosives, Colleen Wing reassures Claire Temple that she is just as gifted as their friends, only in different ways, due to her kindness and selflessness in helping people without looking for any recognition.
* Misty Knight approaches the room where Wing and Temple are talking, just as Bakuto finds the duo. As her former sensei approaches, Wing goes to confront him. Temple hides, but Knight calls her cell phone and the ringing gives away her presence. Realizing she has to act, Wing engages Bakuto in a sword fight.
* Madame Gao explains how the process for obtaining dragon bones for Resurrection Elixir will cause part of New York City to collapse. Danny Rand expresses his anger to her for the desecration of the dragons and the Hand's selfish motivations.
* At the bottom of the chasm, the Hand are surprised when Jessica Jones reveals her presence. As she distracts them, Daredevil and Luke Cage ambush the ninjas from the side and a battle begins. Rand regroups with the trio and is informed of their plan to blow up the building. Finally formed as the Defenders, the quartet work together to fight the Hand.
* **Destruction of Midland Circle**:
	+ Meanwhile, above ground, Bakuto manages to defeat Wing and sets off the explosives' detonator timer. As he bears down on Wing, Knight arrives and attacks him. He knocks her gun aside and hits her with the hilt of his sword, leaving her unable to move. Wing reengages him in the sword fight and Claire Temple moves around the side in an attempt to ambush him. However, as she attacks, he easily stops her and prepares to kill her as Wing watches, helpless on the ground. Before he can act, Knight steps back in to get in his way, and in the process, he slices off her right arm. Taking advantage of the distraction, however, Wing manages to behead Bakuto, killing him permanently.
	+ The Defenders manage to defeat all of the Hand soldiers in combat. They are then attacked by Elektra Natchios, however, who manages to take them down. Daredevil tells his teammates to leave, claiming that he would reunite with them later, after he has managed to remind Natchios of who she really is. Knowing really that he is not going to escape and will most likely die in the chasm, Daredevil pulls Iron Fist over before he leaves, telling him in secret to protect his city when he is gone. Rand, Jones, and Cage leave in the elevator, while Murdock stays behind.
	+ Murdock parries Elektra Natchios' attacks, defending himself but not attacking, all the while trying to talk her back to her senses. Natchios throws a knife at the elevator mechanism to make it fall as Rand, Jones, and Cage are trying to escape. It begins to drop, but Jones catches the elevator, allowing Cage and Rand to escape with her.
	+ The trio reunite with Colleen Wing, Claire Temple, and Misty Knight, and are stopped by police, who prevent them from trying to return to the building to rescue Murdock. They escape Midland Circle as the explosives begin to go off.
	+ Meanwhile, Murdock and Natchios finally reconcile at the bottom of the chasm. The two of them express their strong and complicated feelings for each other in a kiss, just as the building above them collapses. Rubble falls around them as they embrace their deaths.
	+ Outside, the others watch the building fall and are horrified at their ally and friend's death under the building. Rand reveals that Murdock had no intention of escaping, telling the others what Murdock had said to him before they left.
* Matt Murdock falls through the crumbling foundations of Midland Circle, being swept up by the water main.
* The remaining Defenders return to the precinct to embrace their friends and family. Karen Page and Foggy Nelson wait for Murdock, but when he does not walk through the door, they realize what has happened. The friends cry and embrace other to find comfort in their best friend's death.
* Murdock falls out of the water pipes on the side of the road and collapses, extremely injured.

#### 10th

* A man finds Matt Murdock, and he mutters for Father Paul Lantom at Clinton Church.
* Delivered to the church, Murdock is tended to by the nuns, including Maggie Grace. When Lantom tells her he is Jack Murdock's son, she agrees to help him rather than sending him to a hospital, where he would be arrested.

#### 11th

* Jessica Jones visits Trish Walker at work at Trish Talk. Jones asks Walker to make sure that no one knows about their heroic actions, and admits her sadness at Murdock's apparent demise.

#### 12th

* Foggy Nelson tells Luke Cage and Claire Temple that he has made sure no one will be charging them for their actions, claiming that there is no record of what happened in Midland Circle, and that the incident has been reported to the public as merely a collapse due to bad construction. Temple gives her condolences to Nelson for his best friend, saying that Murdock died doing did the right thing. Nelson says that he knows that, but he did not know if he personally had done the right thing in ultimately encouraging Murdock.
* Misty Knight wakes up in hospital. She is greeted by Colleen Wing, who apologizes to her, feeling somewhat responsible for the loss of Knight's arm, having got her involved. Knight tells her not to worry, but Wing nonetheless reassures her that Danny Rand has useful contacts who he is reaching out to in order to help her recovery.
* WHiH World News posts on Twitter asking "*The Sokovia Accords have divided the world. Now that the dust has settled, where do you stand?*" The results eventually turned out as 27% "*For Sokovia Accords*", 73% "*Anti Sokovia Accords*".
* Cage finds Jessica Jones and sits with her to talk about Murdock's death and what happened between them. He tells her that any one of them could have died in the cave, but he is glad that she was one of the survivors, and he asks that she keep in touch. Now exonerated of the crimes he was framed for, and with his life with Temple secured, Cage returns to Harlem to continue his life.
* Rand meditates and reflects on the battle and Matt Murdock's sacrifice. Blaming himself for Murdock's death and deeply inspired by both his example as Daredevil and his sacrifice, Rand recalls Murdock's last words to him: "Protect my city." He resolves to follow Murdock's example to protect the city at night from all those who corrupt it. When Wing arrives, he tells her that he has finally started to feel like New York is his home again.

#### 13th

* Karen Page and Foggy Nelson hold a memorial for Matt Murdock. Page holds out a little hope that Matt could still be alive, but Nelson sadly reminds her that this is highly unlikely, given that it has been a few days already. Page tells Nelson that she was sadly also cannot yet publicly reveal Murdock's demise, knowing that people would realize that Murdock and Daredevil disappearing on the same day was not a coincidence.
* Danny Rand looks out at New York City, ready to honor his fallen ally's wish to defend the city.

#### 24th

* Adrian Toomes arrives at his facility in his Vulture exo-suit, and tells Phineas Mason that "business is good."

### June

* A letter is delivered to Matt Murdock's apartment, but Matt Murdock is not there to open it.

#### 9th

* "I'm with Her" gains traction as a slogan in Hillary Clinton's campaign.

#### 10th

* Jennifer Walters graduates from University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in law.
* Xu Xialing attends a concert by Chain Echo.
* The UEFA Euro 2016 begins.

#### 11th

* Brian Geparhart is taken by the Church of Gibborim's runaway project and given help, but also considered by Leslie Dean as a candidate for the next Rite of Blood sacrifice.

#### 16th

* "Charcoal Joe" by Walter Mosley is published.

#### 18th

* **Attack on the Red Dust Cell**:
	+ In Tangier, Morocco, Yelena Belova sits atop a building with a rifle, and reports that she is waiting for a package and has eyes on her target. Ingrid reports that she sees a person whose death would be collateral damage. Belova prepares to fire when an alarm goes off in the building and people run out, shouting. Belova sees that the target had made them and was fleeing with the target, so she rushes after her.
	+ The target leaves out the side door of a building and wanders through an alley.
	+ Belova scales the wall of a building to street level and rushes through a building.
	+ The target carries the package through a street. She crosses the street and looks behind her, when Belova opens a door in front of her, causing her to get hit by a taxi. The taxi drives away as Belova kicks the package out of her hand and engages her target. Belova cuts her target, who recovers the package and limps away.
	+ Belova again attacks the target, who pins her down. However, Belova drops her knife into her other hand and stabs the woman in the gut. She twists the knife and slices it out of her, causing the target to fall over. the victim opens the package and sprays a vial of Red Dust on Belova, freeing her from the Red Room's mind control.
	+ Belova suddenly recognizes her target as Oksana and rushes over to her, realizing what she had done. She tries to cover Oksana's wound, but Oksana simply puts the empty vial in Belova's hands and tells her to free the rest of the Widows before dying.
	+ Belova puts the vial back in the package as Ingrid asks for a status report. Belova cuts her tracker out of her leg while Ingrid again asks for a status report, and flees. Ingrid orders her team to converge on Belova.
* Ingrid contacts Dreykov and tells him that Belova deserted the Red Room, asking permission to activate the Taskmaster Protocol.
* Belova decides to send the Red Dust to Natasha Romanoff's safe house in Budapest.
* Belova buys a vest for herself, appreciating the utility of the vest and the number of pockets it has. She modifies the vest to suit herself.
* In the night, Peggy Carter dies peacefully in her sleep.

#### 19th

* Trish Walker does a segment on *Trish Talk* about a female warden at Eastern Regional Detention Center.
* President Matthew Ellis sends Thaddeus Ross to the Avengers Compound to propose the Sokovia Accords to them. He expects a full written report by the morning.
* In an interview the month after the incident in Lagos, the king of Wakanda, T'Chaka, says that he and his nation support the Sokovia Accords.
* As Steve Rogers consoles Wanda Maximoff, saying that what happened in Lagos was not her fault, Vision informs them that Tony Stark and the Secretary of State are waiting in the board room of the facility.
* Thaddeus Ross speaks to the Avengers, while he shows them footage from the Battle of New York, the Battle at the Triskelion, the Battle of Sokovia, and the Attack on the IFID Headquarters, much to Steve Rogers's annoyance.
* Ross tells the Avengers that the United Nations has decided that the team can no longer be allowed to operate privately, so they have created the Sokovia Accords, believing it to be the best balance between the Avengers' desire to secure world peace, and the world governments' concerns over the destructive repercussions of their interference. Ross tells them that they have three days to make up their minds before the signing of the Accords in Vienna. Before leaving the facility, Ross says that refusing to sign will be seen as an act of resignation.
* **Assassination of Vasily Karpov**: Meanwhile, in Cleveland, Helmut Zemo ambushes retired HYDRA general Vasily Karpov. Zemo hangs him upside down over a sink, slowly filling it up to torture him into giving him the information he needs about the mission of December 16, 1991 as he finds the Winter Soldier Book, which contains the words used to trigger the Winter Soldier's conditioning. When Karpov persistently refuses to give him information, Zemo leaves him to drown.
* The Avengers team is divided over the act. Stark supports government oversight because he feels that they need to be held responsible, whereas Rogers worries that the Avengers may be compromised if they come under the control of the United Nations.
* Vision realizes that there must be a causality between the increase in heroes and the increase in disasters, and so supports the Accords, along with Natasha Romanoff and James Rhodes. However, Sam Wilson and Wanda Maximoff disagree. During their debate about the Accords, Rogers receives a message informing him of the death of Peggy Carter.

#### 20th

* Vanessa Marianna visits the Nervión River in Bilbao. She observes tourists posing for pictures, holding hands, and kissing on the riverfront. Feeling as though she was not with the people who surround her, Marianna feels lonely.
* Hive tells his origin story to Daisy Johnson, Kirk Vogel, and the last two heads of HYDRA who escaped the destruction of the organization. He reveals to them that he wants to duplicate the experiment on them, changing them into Inhumans.
* Wanting to be helpful and to find Johnson, Lincoln Campbell volunteers himself to be the guinea pig for the antidote that Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons have concocted against Hive's sway.
* After two months of trying, Phil Coulson discovers where Johnson is hiding: in Union City, south Wyoming.
* Coulson informs Alphonso Mackenzie of the discovery. Mackenzie believes that his friend just wants to be rescued. Coulson says that he will send him and Melinda May with a group to the city; not to save Johnson, but to kill Hive.
* Marlene Vistain passes away while her son, Wilson Fisk, is still in prison.
* In Union City, Holden Radcliffe performs his experiment to change the three HYDRA leaders, but they die tragically, instead of becoming Inhumans. Radcliffe tells Hive that he failed because he does not have the DNA of a living Kree. Hive decides to spare his life.
* While a team is sent to Union City to kill Hive, Coulson tells Simmons, Fitz, and Campbell that the antitoxin experimentation will not be continued.
* In the city, May pretends to be a HYDRA agent, and flirts with Hellfire. He reveals that Hive wants to change all humanity into Inhumans. She knocks him out.
* In order to get the DNA of a living Kree, Hive uses the Kree Orb to lure them to Earth. Two Kree Reapers arrive.
* **Battle of Union City**:
	+ A fight ensues between the three sides, resulting in several deaths, including Alisha Whitley. Johnson attacks one of the Kree and breaks his bones, but when she proceeds to drain him, Mackenzie arrives and offers her to return to S.H.I.E.L.D.; she refuses.
	+ Mackenzie destroys the Kree's body with a Splinter Bomb, angering Johnson, and she attacks him relentlessly. Meanwhile, May and the Task Force witness an intense fight between the other Kree and Hive. Hive overpowers him suddenly, and kills the Kree. The team attacks Hive, but their weapons cannot do anything against him, and Coulson orders to evacuate. They gather an injured Mackenzie with them and escape.
* Campbell is informed that the experimental antidote is a failed experiment.

#### 21st

* In the morning, Hive reprimands Daisy Johnson for allowing her former friends to stop his progress. However, Johnson reveals that she has Kree blood inside her, and she is willing to let him have it by draining her.

#### 22nd

* Peggy Carter's funeral takes place in London. During the funeral, to Rogers' surprise, Sharon Carter delivers a eulogy, in which she reveals that Peggy Carter was her aunt.
* After the funeral, Natasha Romanoff hugs Rogers to console him and keep him company. They discuss the issues over the Accords, and Romanoff speaks about how it is important that despite their differences, the Avengers need to stay together.
* Romanoff then leaves to get on the flight to Vienna for the signing.
* **Bombing of the Vienna International Centre**:
	+ Arriving at the Vienna International Centre for the signing of the Accords, Romanoff meets T'Challa, son of T'Chaka and prince of Wakanda, who appreciates her signing the Accords. T'Chaka enters and tells his son thank you in their native language for coming with him to Vienna.
	+ As the meeting is about to begin, a terrorist bomb hidden in a news van by Helmut Zemo goes off, destroying the building and killing King T'Chaka. Zemo then travels to Berlin.
	+ Jeffrey Mace, who is present at the Vienna International Centre, tries to reach a safe place, stumbling upon a fellow victim of the attack.
	+ Mace is caught on camera, appearing to be helping the victim in a heroic manner, and is believed to have helped free several survivors who were trapped under rubble, despite his attempts to scale down the episode. Ultimately, he starts to be considered a hero by both the public and the American government.
* Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter discuss Peggy on the way back from the wake after the funeral. They are interrupted by Sam Wilson, who informs them about the Vienna bombing.
* When facial scans from security footage seemingly reveal the culprit to be James Barnes, T'Challa vows revenge on Barnes for his father, telling Romanoff that he will kill him.
* Meanwhile, at the Parker Residence, Peter Parker prepares to leave as May Parker sees the news about the bombing of Vienna, very worried to see that it was the Winter Soldier, and that King T'Chaka of Wakanda has died. Peter sees his Aunt May worried, and tells her to relax.
* Rogers then calls Romanoff; she tells him not to get involved, or he will be arrested for ignoring the Accords.
* Secretly trying to help Rogers and Wilson, Carter hands them a file she has found from her work about the potential location of the Winter Soldier in Bucharest. Rogers and Wilson go after Barnes, hoping to bring him in before the government do.

#### 23rd

* In Bucharest, Bucky Barnes discovers that the news are blaming him for the bombing of the United Nations in Vienna, but knows that someone has framed him.
* **Capture of Winter Soldier**:
	+ Captain America locates Barnes in his hideout apartment in Bucharest. As they talk, Falcon informs Rogers that the police are entering the building. Barnes prepares to make his escape, but the police arrive, so he and Rogers are forced to fight their way down the stairwell of the building.
	+ Barnes escapes from the building, but is suddenly attacked by a mysterious man in a black panther-like suit. The two fight on the roof, before Barnes manages to make his way out to the streets.
	+ The chase continues, now with Rogers trying to catch up with Black Panther as he pursues Barnes. The pursuit is interrupted by War Machine, who has arrived to arrest the three of them. The Black Panther unmasks himself, revealing himself to be T'Challa, to Rogers and Rhodes' surprise. They are then flown to Berlin in custody.
* At the Avengers Compound, Vision cooks paprikash to try to lift Wanda Maximoff's spirits. When Maximoff tries to leave for ingredients, Vision moves to block her, revealing that Tony Stark has told him to stop her from leaving the compound.
* Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes, and T'Challa arrive at the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre.
* At the center, Barnes is taken to be seen by interrogator "Theo Broussard", as Stark sits down to speak with Rogers. During the conversation, Stark explains about what went wrong with his relationship with Pepper Potts, and Rogers sympathizes. Stark explains that he wants Rogers to sign, and he reluctantly accepts, but when Stark reveals that he is keeping Maximoff at the Avengers Compound, the conversation gets heated briefly, and Rogers leaves.
* **Escape from the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre**:
	+ Barnes' interrogation begins, but instead of being seen by Broussard, Helmut Zemo has got into the center pretending to the psychiatrist, who he killed. Using the EMP that he has built, Zemo cuts off the electricity supply in the center, leaving him able to speak to Barnes in private.
	+ Zemo brings out the Winter Soldier Book. He uses the key words to trigger Barnes' Winter Soldier conditioning again. Zemo forces Barnes to reveal the mission report of December 16, 1991 and details of the HYDRA Siberian Facility, before ordering Barnes to rip himself out of his bindings and break out of his cage, going on a rampage throughout the center. When Wilson and Rogers arrive, they manage to confront Zemo, but Barnes attacks them. Barnes throws Rogers down an elevator shaft as Wilson pursues Zemo.
	+ Rogers attempts to climb back up while Stark leads the fight against Barnes, but is defeated. Barnes also defeats Sharon Carter and Natasha Romanoff, then is forced to fight T'Challa. He gets away, and leaves to the helipad on top of the building. Rogers arrives to catch the helicopter, stopping him from leaving. The Winter Soldier crashes the helicopter in an attempt to kill him, but he fails, and the two fall into the water below, where Barnes is knocked unconscious. Rogers then brings him to the surface.
* Steve Rogers traps Bucky Barnes' metal arm in a vice in a local abandoned garage, so as to stop him from escaping if he is still conditioned when he wakes.
* Helmut Zemo escapes from Wilson and moves forward with his plan, boarding a flight to Moscow.
* When Barnes awakes, he proves to Rogers that he is free of the conditioning by recounting small details about their childhood to him. Rogers asks what Zemo wanted, so Barnes reveals the existence of another five Winter Soldiers that HYDRA created after he retrieved a super soldier serum in 1991. He says that they had got out of HYDRA's control, and had been put back into cryogenic freeze. Barnes tells them that he thinks Zemo will be looking to reactivate them. Rogers and Wilson discuss what they should do next. While Rogers thinks they are out of luck, Wilson tells him that he might know someone who can help.
* After convincing Ross to leave the job of capturing Rogers to him, Stark and Romanoff decide to recruit T'Challa and Rhodes, but Stark reveals to her that he also has someone else in mind.
* Stark flies to Queens, hoping to get the help of the relatively new spider-like vigilante who Stark is sure is secretly teenager Peter Parker.
* Rogers contacts Clint Barton and asks him to help rescue Maximoff and arrange to pick up Scott Lang. Barton accepts.
* Peter Parker arrives home, only to find Tony Stark in his apartment, already talking to his aunt. Stark tells him that he has won the grant he applied for, subtly letting him know that he should go along with what Stark says, despite not knowing what he is talking about. Stark then goes to Parker's room to discuss things further with him. He explains that he knows Parker is the new vigilante of New York, but when Parker denies this, Stark finds his hidden costume. Parker explains his powers, saying that he has the responsibility to protect people. Stark informs him that he needs his help, and they have to go to Germany. He eventually agrees, as Stark promises to make him a completely new costume.
* Accompanied by Happy Hogan, Parker films as he is driven past Flushing Meadows, and is flown to Germany in a self-piloting jet.
* **Rescue of Wanda Maximoff**: Clint Barton causes an explosion outside the Avengers Compound, forcing Vision to briefly leave the compound so he can get away with Scarlet Witch. However, Maximoff initially refuses to leave, giving Vision time to arrive and fight Barton. Because of his far superior abilities, Vision defeats Barton. Maximoff then decides to use her own powers to restrain the synthetic being and increase his weight, plummeting him through many floors, deep underground, allowing them plenty of time to escape. Barton then informs her that they have one more stop to make first.
* Hawkeye then picks up Scott Lang, and the trio fly to Germany to meet with Rogers, Wilson, and Barnes.
* Peter Parker arrives in Germany early in the morning by local time, and gets to briefly sightsee before getting to his hotel.

#### 24th

* Peter Parker gets to his hotel, where he is staying in the room next to Happy Hogan. Hogan tells him to "suit up".
* Hogan and Parker prepare to leave, when Hogan realizes Parker has not noticed the case left by Stark. He shows Parker the extra room with the case, and the note, "A minor upgrade - TS". Parker opens it to find his new Spider-Man suit, left by Stark, and films his own ecstatic reaction to the improvement.
* Sharon Carter drives Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, and Bucky Barnes to the Flughafen Leipzig-Halle, giving them Rogers' shield and Wilson's suit. Rogers thanks Carter for all her help, and the two share a kiss before she leaves.
* Barton then arrives with Maximoff and Lang, and Lang agrees to help them. Suddenly, the group hear that Stark and his team have arrived and shut down the airport, so Rogers tells his team to prepare for a fight.
* **Clash of the Avengers**:
	+ Stark and his team, now with Spider-Man, using a new suit made by Stark, confront Captain America and his team at the airport. Peter Parker, meanwhile, films from a hiding spot behind a truck, pointing out all the heroes he is finally getting to meet. When Stark calls him in, he puts down his phone to film as he flips into the confrontation and steals Captain America's shield. After a short skirmish, the six heroes on each side begin to run at each other, clashing in an attempt to subdue and take down the other. A grand battle unfolds, resulting in the destruction of much of the airport. Rogers and Barnes know that they have to go to Siberia so as to stop Zemo from reactivating the five Winter Soldiers. They notice Stark's Quinjet parked in a section of the airport, and realize that they are going to need a distraction so as to escape in the jet.
	+ In order to distract Iron Man's team, Ant-Man uses his suit to grow into Giant-Man, taking Stark's team by surprise. Meanwhile, Parker picks up his phone to film, talking about what a great time he is having, just as Ant-Man grows, making him realize he has to drop the phone and continue fighting.
	+ Stark's team work on taking down Giant-Man, forgetting about Rogers and Barnes. However, Vision notices the trick and causes a tower to fall to stop the duo from reaching the Quinjet. With Scarlet Witch's help, supporting the tower with her abilities, they make it into the jet's hangar.
	+ They are stopped by Black Widow, but she decides to allow them to escape in the Quinjet, subduing Black Panther. Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Giant-Man are defeated by Stark's team. As the Quinjet flies away, War Machine and Iron Man fly in pursuit, and Falcon flies after them to help his friends escape.
	+ War Machine orders Vision to shoot Falcon's wings to stop him from catching them, but Vision fails, catching War Machine's arc reactor instead, and causing Rhodes to fall uncontrollably from the sky. He crashes to the ground before Iron Man or Falcon can catch him. Rhodes survives the fall, but is severely injured. The Quinjet flies away as Iron Man takes out Falcon in rage. The authorities soon arrive to arrest Captain America's team.
* Theo Broussard's body is found in the hotel room where Zemo was staying. The hotel reports the discovery to local authorities, and it soon reaches the news.
* With Scott Lang arrested for breaking the Sokovia Accords, by association, Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne become fugitives. They choose to go on the run.
* On returning to his hotel room, Parker films on his phone again to talk about what a great time he had. Hogan knocks on the door, complaining that he is too loud, as there are thin walls in the hotel.
* Parker charges a video to the credit card paying for his and Hogan's hotel rooms. Looking at the bill and the price of the movie, Hogan figures out that it was an adult video.
* An incident report from Berlin, Germany is filed talking about James Rhodes' status as well as the War Machine Armor.
* Tony Stark writes in his personal log about James Rhodes injury.
* James Rhodes has another MRI scan in hospital. Stark has a conversation with Natasha Romanoff about her disloyalty, and informs her that Rhodes may have some sort of paralysis. He states that the authorities will be after her, but Romanoff instead warns him to watch his own back. Stark is then alerted by F.R.I.D.A.Y. about the discovery of Broussard's body, and that along with the body were facial mask disguises of the Winter Soldier. Stark realizes Zemo's plan and his own mistake.
* Romanoff calls Rick Mason, asking for help setting up a place for her to decide in Norway. He agrees and gathers her mail from her Budapest Safe House, since she does not plan on using it anymore, and brings it to a trailer in Norway which he sets up for Romanoff.
* Helmut Zemo arrives at the HYDRA Siberian Facility and uses the Winter Soldier Book to enter and navigate the compound. Zemo eventually finds the five other frozen Winter Soldiers.
* The package containing the Red Dust, which had been sent by Yelena Belova, arrives at a S.H.I.E.L.D. Safe House in Budapest, intended for Natasha Romanoff.
* Peter Parker films himself as he sneaks out from his hotel in Berlin to join a party in his Spider-Man Suit.
* Stark is greeted by Thaddeus Ross at the Raft, and is shocked when he sees the conditions that Rogers' team are being kept in: locked up and kept like insane and dangerous people.
* Stark goes to speak to the team and is insulted by both Clint Barton and Scott Lang, before speaking to Sam Wilson.
* Stark uses a device to temporarily disable the audio in the prison so that he can speak to Wilson secretly, explaining that he found out about Zemo's framing. Wilson explains that Rogers and Barnes are heading to Siberia, making Stark promise to go as a friend, to which he agrees. Stark then reactivates the audio and leaves.
* Pretending that he learned nothing from the team, and directing the helicopter back to America, Stark leaves Ross and the Raft.
* However, as the helicopter heads off, Stark gets into his armor and flies in the opposite direction, toward Siberia, so as to help the duo. Meanwhile, T'Challa secretly shadows him in a jet, so as to get his revenge on the Winter Soldier.
* Captain America and the Winter Soldier find the HYDRA Siberian Facility and prepare arms, then cautiously enter the base, noticing that Zemo has already been there. Iron Man arrives to reunite with them, and Stark explains that he has come to help. The trio reconcile and stand together as they then proceed to explore the facility. While they explore the facility, T'Challa stealthily follows behind at a safe distance.
* The trio suddenly discover that the five Winter Soldiers have been killed by Zemo, who reveals that he is from Sokovia, and wants to punish the Avengers for the death of his family during Ultron's attack. He says that for over a year he has planned a way to tear the Avengers apart. Black Panther watches on and understands that Barnes was framed by Zemo, then walks away so as to contemplate what to do next.
* Zemo shows Stark the security video he has finally acquired from the death of his parents, showing that they were murdered by Barnes in order to steal samples of the Super Soldier Serum from their car.
* **Battle at the HYDRA Siberian Facility**:
	+ Shocked by the discovery, Stark questions Rogers if he knew that Barnes was responsible. When Rogers reveals that he did somewhat know, Stark attacks the duo, trying to kill Barnes. A chase ensues through the compound, and the trio end up falling into an open part of the facility.
	+ Rogers attempts to tell Iron Man that Barnes was not responsible for his actions, but Stark refuses to listen, so Rogers and Barnes are forced to fight him to save themselves and take him down. During the battle, the Winter Soldier loses his metal arm, and Iron Man blasts Captain America in the stomach.
	+ Meanwhile, Zemo is confronted by T'Challa. Zemo explains that he understands that he could not kill the Avengers himself, but realized that if he could make the Avengers kill each other, he could bring them down to human level and break them apart in front of the world.
	+ Zemo apologizes for T'Chaka's death. T'Challa decides that he will no longer let his desire for revenge consume him, and prevents Zemo from committing suicide, in order to send him to prison.
	+ Inside the compound, Stark analyzes Captain America's fight pattern and seemingly defeats him.
	+ However, Rogers picks himself up to continue the fight, and Iron Man cannot keep up with his flurry of attacks.
	+ Rogers finally knocks him to the ground and uses his shield to break Stark's arc reactor, and thus disable his armor, leaving him injured on the floor.
	+ Rogers helps Barnes stand and begins to depart, but as he leaves, Stark reminds him that his father was the one who made Rogers' shield, and that he does not deserve it.
	+ Realizing this to be somewhat true after the actions he just committed, and needing time to reconsider, as well as to show respect to Stark, Rogers decides to leave the shield behind. He drops it on the floor, without looking back.
* Rogers and Barnes encounter T'Challa outside, who apologizes to Barnes for everything that has happened and offers him the possibility to come to Wakanda, where T'Challa believes that he knows someone who may be able to cure him of HYDRA's brainwashing. Barnes agrees and thanks him. T'Challa informs them that he will first take Helmut Zemo to the authorities, and Rogers says that they themselves have loose ends to tie up as well. An agreement is made to keep in touch.
* T'Challa delivers Zemo to the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre.
* Thaddeus Ross approaches Pamela Hawley to ask permission to lead a manhunt for the fugitive Romanoff. They watch security footage of Romanoff taking her place during the Battle at the Triskelion. Hawley mentions that Romanoff fought alongside Tony Stark during the Clash of the Avengers, but Ross argues that she no longer fights with Stark, potentially having allowed Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes to escape custody.
* Hawley is unhappy with Ross' speculation, so Ross takes Hawley to the conference room, where they discuss Romanoff's past in the Red Room, as a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent, and an Avenger. He tells Hawley that death tends to follow Romanoff, and things get heated when Ross tries to tell Hawley of her responsibility. Hesitantly, Hawley agrees to give Ross United Nations resources in order to lead a manhunt against Romanoff. She walks away, refusing to shake Ross' hand.
* Ross calls after Margaret, asking her to call Stark and try to get in touch with him. Stark puts him on hold, and Ross begins the manhunt.

#### 25th

* Helmut Zemo is locked away, and Everett Ross teases him in his incarceration, but Zemo hints that while he may be imprisoned, that does not mean his plans have failed.
* Peter Parker goes to breakfast at his hotel, when Happy Hogan confronts him with that morning's Samstag (Saturday) paper about Spider-Man's antics the night before.
* The Wakandan medical team writes a report on how Black Widow's Bite was able to stun T'Challa.
* **Chase of Natasha Romanoff**:
	+ On a boat going to Sæbø, Norway, Natasha Romanoff washes her face in the bathroom before watching security footage of Thaddeus Ross leading a team of soldiers to a train station in Albany, New York.
	+ In Albany, New York, a soldier approaches Ross and tells him that all exits are covered, and Ross sends in a group of soldiers.
	+ Romanoff watches as a SWAT team enter the station.
	+ Ross tells the soldiers outside that Romanoff violated the Sokovia Accords and assaulted T'Challa, demanding an example be made out of her.
	+ Romanoff calls Ross, and tells him not to come after her, saying that he is embarrassing himself. Ross says that he believed she wanted to cut a deal. Ross assures Romanoff that she no friends left, with Clint Barton, Sam Wilson, and Scott Lang in custody and Steve Rogers on the run. Ross asks where she will go, and Romanoff says that she has lived a lot of lives before meeting Ross, and that she is done, hanging up the phone.
	+ The SWAT team move through the station.
	+ Romanoff hears a noise, and she turns around to see what it is.
	+ Ross puts the phone down and walks toward the SWAT team, where he believes Romanoff to be.
	+ Romanoff stands next to the door of the bathroom and exhales.
	+ The SWAT team kick a door down.
	+ Romanoff exits the bathroom.
	+ The SWAT team enter the bathroom and find that Romanoff had abandoned her suit and belt in the station.
	+ Romanoff goes out onto the parking deck of the boat.
	+ A soldier tells Ross that Romanoff is not there, and shows him her tracker on the belt.
	+ Romanoff pushes her phone into the water.
* Taskmaster sits in a room at the Red Room Academy and studies Hawkeye's fighting skills. Lerato enters and lowers Taskmaster's hood, placing a chip in the back of her helmet. She circles in front of Taskmaster and traces her fingers across her helmet's mouth, telling her to smile.
* Romanoff buys groceries and puts them in her car, driving away.
* WHiH World News reports that Steve Rogers is still missing after his feud with Tony Stark over the Sokovia Accords.
* While watching the news, Phil Coulson learns about the Avengers' Civil War take was caused by relations to the Sokovia Accords, before reading about the death of Peggy Carter in a newspaper. Following the signing of the Sokovia Accords, and being sent by the president, Brigadier General Glenn Talbot meets with Coulson to discuss registering the Inhuman agents. Despite his doubts on the Accords effectiveness, Coulson takes Talbot into the Playground to show him everything that S.H.I.E.L.D. has going on.
* Using a computer in Union City, Daisy Johnson communicates with Lincoln Campbell while he is in the Containment Module. She decides to help him to escape from the base and reunite with her, but also as a trap so Hive can infect Campbell. However, Campbell, using secret messages, surreptitiously informs Melinda May about Johnson's plan. They both tell Coulson and start to plan a way to take out Hive once for all.
* Coulson presents Elena Rodriguez and Lash to Talbot, explaining the situation with Hive to him, and shows him why they need to keep the Inhumans anonymous.
* **Capture of the Watchdogs**: Hellfire and Hive capture a group of Watchdogs for Holden Radcliffe's next experiment attempt.
* Radcliffe's experiment transforms the group of Watchdogs into horrifically mutated primitive Inhumans. Hive reveals to Radcliffe that he wishes to proceed with his ultimate plan to use a warhead, which was stolen from the ATCU, to spread Radcliffe's new pathogen around the world and transform all humans into these primitives.
* Campbell contacts Johnson and tells her that is time to proceed. Hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s systems as her blood is drained, Johnson helps him escape to get to a Quinjet, fighting Alphonso Mackenzie in the process.
* **Attack on Hive**:
	+ S.H.I.E.L.D.'s plan works, with Lash arriving at Hive's location instead of Campbell.
	+ Lash attempts to kill Hive, but is stopped by a group of Primitives. Lash kills two of them, and uses his abilities to free Johnson from Hive's sway.
	+ Lash is then caught by surprise and killed by Hellfire, as Johnson escapes back to S.H.I.E.L.D.
* After reuniting with her friends, Johnson is sent to the Containment Module for recovery.
* Romanoff drives through the Norwegian mountains and listens to a news report about herself and Rogers being on the run. She approaches a trailer and enters, finding Rick Mason sleeping on the bed inside. She wakes Mason up, making fun of him for falling asleep.
* Romanoff asks if Mason got everything she asked for, and he confirms that he did. Romanoff mocks Mason for giving her the alias "Fanny Longbottom," but Mason defends himself. Mason explains the logistics of the trailer and asks if Romanoff is alright due to the drama among the Avengers. Romanoff insists that she is alright, but Mason does not believe her.
* Mason leaves the trailer as Romanoff notices a box and asks what it is, and Mason says that it is her mail from her safe house in Budapest, revealing that someone else is now living in the safe house and that if she does not want it, she could throw its contents in the garbage.
* Romanoff puts the box, as well as her backpack and boots, in the trunk of her car.
* Romanoff opens a beer and looks at a box of hair dye.
* Romanoff watches *Moonraker* while eating dinner and recites the dialogue from memory, when the power goes out. Romanoff attempts to start the generator, but it will not work. She puts a gas tank in her car and begins to drive into town.
* **Ambush on Natasha Romanoff**:
	+ Romanoff drives onto a bridge, when her car suddenly explodes and flies to the edge of the bridge. Taskmaster pulls up while Romanoff recovers. Taskmaster approaches Romanoff's car, as she struggles against her seatbelt, causing the car to tip and a package to fall out. Romanoff leans back to prevent the car from falling and retrieves her gun. Believing Taskmaster to have been sent by Thaddeus Ross, Romanoff shouts that he does not have jurisdiction in Norway.
	+ Romanoff rights herself in the trunk of her car and fires at Taskmaster, who blocks and throws her shield at the car, lodging itself in the broken window. Romanoff climbs out the back window and aims at where Taskmaster was, finding her gone. She sees that Taskmaster is on top of her car and fires as she jumps, landing in front of Romanoff.
	+ Taskmaster kicks Romanoff's gun out of her hands and the two engage in hand-to-hand combat, and Taskmaster takes Romanoff down. The two flip to their feet simultaneously and study each other.
	+ Taskmaster is ordered to redirect her attention to her primary target, so she turns, heading for the package. Romanoff realizes that she is not there for her. Romanoff engages Taskmaster, who pins her down and picks her up by her hair before sending her flying back. Romanoff gets back up, but Taskmaster kicks her back again.
	+ Taskmaster walks toward the package, so Romanoff uses a grappling hook to attach to Taskmaster and a support beam, sending Taskmaster flying back. Taskmaster cuts part of the rope while Romanoff retrieves the package, and Taskmaster swings on the rope to Romanoff and attacks her with a sword.
	+ Romanoff uses Taskmaster's shield to defend herself as the pair fight over the package, which Taskmaster gets. Taskmaster kicks Romanoff off of the bridge, sending her flying into the river. Taskmaster sees that the package is empty and looks over the bridge for Romanoff.
* Romanoff surfaces before laying down and taking the vials of Red Dust out of her pocket. Among the vials she finds a set of photo booth pictures of her and Yelena Belova. Romanoff swears under her breath and leaves for Budapest.
* After spending the remainder of Friday and some of Saturday in Germany, Peter Parker flies home with Tony Stark and Happy Hogan.

#### 26th

* Peter Parker is returned home to Queens by Tony Stark in the early hours. He and Stark film an alibi video for where Stark had taken him for the weekend, to give to May Parker.
* Parker is delighted when Stark says he can keep his new suit, and then Stark and Hogan drive off, leaving Parker with his case to return to his normal life.
* Tony Stark arrives back at the Avengers Compound.
* Peter Parker tells his aunt May Parker of how he got into another fight, covering up for his secret identity as Spider-Man, and his aunt goes along with his story, despite suspecting he is not telling the truth.
* Peter Parker discovers a portable holographic computer that Stark has programmed into his new Web-Shooters.

#### 27th

* Natasha Romanoff arrives in Budapest and gets off the train.
* Romanoff arrives at her former safe house, and looks for Yelena Belova. She ascends in the elevator and sighs.
* She gets out of the elevator and retrieves a hidden gun, beginning to pick the lock. Belova announces herself, and Romanoff says that she is aware that Belova knows that she is there. Romanoff reveals that she is unsure of whether she can trust Belova, and Belova says that she feels the same way about Romanoff.
* Romanoff asks if they were going to talk like adults, and they find each other, holding guns on each other. They threaten each other as they walk through the safe house, and steal each other's guns in unison. They begin fighting each other without the guns, pushing each other against walls.
* Romanoff pins Belova to the counter tells her to stay down, but Belova breaks a plate over Romanoff's head, forcing her to back up. Belova attacks Romanoff with a towel, but Romanoff wraps it around Belova's neck. Belova falls and kicks Romanoff, causing her to fly backwards. The two right themselves and Belova grabs a knife while Romanoff grabs a three-hole-punch.
* The pair resume fighting as Romanoff gets the knife out of Belova's hand and they lock each other in place. Belova pushes Romanoff against a wall, and Romanoff grabs a curtain and wraps it around Belova's neck. Belova wraps the other end of the curtain around Romanoff's neck and the pair flip each other to the ground. They begin choking each other, but declare a truce and release each other. They grasp for air and Romanoff comments that Belova grew up.
* Belova gets drinks while Romanoff asks about Belova going to Budapest. Belova explains that she came because she assumed that Romanoff would not. Belova asks about the holes in the walls, and Romanoff says that they were made by arrows. Romanoff asks why she would send the Red Dust if Belova did not think she would come, and Belova yells at her for bringing it to Budapest.
* Belova explains that the dust is able to free people from chemical mind control, and Belova asks why she did not take the dust to Tony Stark, and Romanoff says that they are not on speaking terms. Belova complains about the timing, and Romanoff scolds Belova for putting her in danger. Belova says that she sent the dust to her because she is a superhero.
* Belova says that she continually checked the news for a headline about the Avengers taking down the Red Room, surprising Romanoff, who believed that the Red Room had been gone for years. Belova expresses shock that Romanoff believes Dreykov. At Belova's request, Romanoff explains how she and Clint Barton killed him. Belova asks if Romanoff confirmed the kill, but Romanoff says that there was no body to check. Belova says that Romanoff is forgetting Dreykov's daughter, giving Romanoff pause.
* **Chase for the Red Dust**:
	+ The roof of the safe house explodes as Belova and Romanoff take cover. Several Black Widows enter while Belova puts the Red Dust in her backpack. Belova rushes to Romanoff and triggers the lights to explode, giving the pair the opportunity they need to momentarily incapacitate the Widows and escape.
	+ The pair rush outside to find more Widows, who begin firing at them. Belova throws a grenade at two of the Widows and runs along with Romanoff, telling her that there is a motorcycle they can use if they can get to it. Ingrid chases after them, as they push a chimney over while holding it.
	+ Ingrid grabs onto Romanoff as chimney slowly falls, and Romanoff holds onto her, trying to keep Ingrid alive. Ingrid slices at Romanoff, causing her to let go, and falls into the alley below. The chimney crashes into a building, sending Belova through a window but causing Romanoff to fall and hit several vents.
	+ Romanoff approaches Ingrid and offers to help. Ingrid instead points her Black Widow's Bite at her, Dreykov then orders Ingrid to kill herself. Ingrid tells Romanoff that she does not want to do it before firing at herself, resulting in her death.
	+ Romanoff approaches Ingrid as Belova reaches the bottom of the stairs, ready to give her the Red Dust, but sees that Ingrid is dead. Belova asks if Romanoff believes her about Dreykov being alive, and Romanoff asks how many other Widows there are. Belova says that there are enough and the pair rush into a nearby building, leaving Ingrid's body behind.
	+ Belova and Romanoff rush to the motorcycle. Belova asks where the keys are, and Romanoff reveals that she has them. They get on the motorcycle as they are approached by a tank driven by Taskmaster, who chases them through the street.
	+ Belova and Romanoff turn into an alley while Taskmaster drives forward, and the girls come out on the other side, pursued by a widow. They ride down the stairs and crash into a stone rail, sending them flying over it into the street nearby
	+ A man gets out of his car as Belova points her gun at him, causing him to flee. Romanoff scolds her for stealing the car, and Belova sarcastically suggests chasing him down and returning it while Romanoff gets in the driver's seat.
	+ The Widow resumes her chase, catching up to them on the street, before she begins firing at them. Romanoff begins driving as the Widow follows on her motorcycle.
	+ Romanoff turns into a plaza, Belova remarks that there is now no way out, Romanoff replies that the gate was not there eight years prior.
	+ Belova looks back as the Widow fires at them. She asks Romanoff if there is a plan, and Romanoff says that the plan was to drive away. Belova says that it is a bad plan and grabs the wheel, turning the car around. While Romanoff drives backwards, Belova kicks the passenger door open, hitting a street sign, causing it to fly backward and hit the Widow's motorcycle, knocking her off of it.
	+ Romanoff continues to drive as Taskmaster begins following them again, while preparing a bow and quiver. Taskmaster fires an explosive arrow under Romanoff's car, flipping it and sending it into a train station.
	+ Romanoff and Belova get out of the car as Taskmaster follows them into the station, they slide down the handrail on the escalator. Taskmaster throws her shield at the pair, who dodge it, causing it to lodge itself in a support beam. Belova and Romanoff run and hide in the vent. Taskmaster follows Belova's blood and goes below ground, while Romanoff and Belova hide in the vent and watch.
* Belova makes herself a tourniquet as Romanoff explains that she and Barton spent two days hiding in the vents, before asking who Taskmaster is. Belova explains that she can mimic anyone she's seen and is only deployed for high priority projects. Romanoff insists that Dreykov being alive does not make sense, and Belova again asks about Dreykov's daughter. Romanoff explains that she needed the young girl to lead her to Dreykov so that she could kill him. Romanoff explains that she needed out.
* Romanoff and Belova go to Varoil Üzemanyag, where Romanoff asks where the Red Room is, and Belova explains that the place is too secure for her to know. Romanoff says that she is struggling to believe that the Red Room stayed off her radar, and Belova explains that if she were killed, one of the bigger Avengers would go after him.
* Belova asks where Romanoff thought she was, and Romanoff explains that she thought Belova was living a normal life and that she did not think Belova wanted to see her. Belova suggested that Romanoff did not want her younger sister tagging along, and Romanoff says that Belova is not her sister. Belova countered that the Avengers were not really her family.
* Belova asks why Romanoff always poses while fighting, making fun of her. Romanoff says that she does not pose, and Romanoff says that she was trying to do something good to make up for the pain she caused and trying to be more than a killer. Belova said that they are still trained killers, commenting that young girls call Romanoff their hero despite her being a killer.
* Romanoff and Belova find a table as Belova treats her wound. Belova explains that the Red Dust was synthesized in secret by an older Widow, and that she was cured on a mission to retrieve it. Belova explains the difference between the brainwashing Romanoff experienced and the chemical subjugation she experienced, and that she is still not sure what part of her is herself.
* Romanoff treats Belova's wound as Belova explains that the Red Dust they have is all that is left, and that he continues taking children every day and kills the ones who do not survive training. Belova says that thanks to Romanoff and Alexei Shostakov's efforts, no one is looking for Dreykov. Romanoff expresses surprise that Belova mentioned Shostakov.
* Belova and Romanoff look at a nearby family, causing Belova to ask if Romanoff had looked for her biological parents. Romanoff says that her mom abandoned her. Belova explains the pretend backstory she gave to herself, asking asking about Romanoff's, who says that she never lets herself be alone long enough to think about it.
* Belova asks if Romanoff ever wanted children, and says that she wants a dog. Romanoff asks where Belova is going to go, and Belova says that she does not have anywhere to go back to. Belova realizes that Romanoff wants to inspire her to help kill Dreykov, and says that it sounds like a lot of work. Romanoff suggests that it could be fun, and Belova agrees. Romanoff says that she remembers where the father of the family they saw put the keys to the car,so she and Belova clink their bottles and steal the car.
* While driving, Belova tells Romanoff that her vest is the first piece of clothing she ever bought for herself, talking about how the pockets are useful and how she made her own modifications. Belova explains that she wants to do things with her newfound control, and Romanoff says that she likes the vest, pleasing Belova. Romanoff suggests that she knows who would know the Red Room's location, saying that they will need a jet.

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* Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova meet Rick Mason, upset that he has provided a helicopter instead of a jet. Mason explains that he did not have time as Romanoff and Belova inspect the helicopter.
* Mason tells Romanoff that he was contacted by Thaddeus Ross to the point where he had contacts declining his calls. Romanoff continues making fun of Mason, who calls her annoying. Romanoff says that she will make it up to him and enters the helicopter. Mason expresses his doubt and closes the door.
* Daisy Johnson awakes from a dream where she and Phil Coulson are trapped in a Containment Module on a desolate planet, desperately hoping to escape.
* Jemma Simmons approaches Johnson in the Containment Module, in order to obtain more information about Hive and his plans.
* Melinda May uses the Quinjet with Alphonso Mackenzie, Lincoln Campbell, and Elena Rodriguez on board to successfully travel underwater and infiltrate the missile silo.
* **Battle at the Pacific Missile Silo**:
	+ The team infiltrate Hive's location and, using the nuclear codes that Glenn Talbot obtained from General Andaz, they stop the missile's launch.
	+ Hive swears to show S.H.I.E.L.D. his rage as he commands Holden Radcliffe to take two Primitives with him to reset the launch. Hive is lured by Campbell into Mackenzie's trap: a giant Theta Brain-Wave Frequency Machine to pull forward all the different personalities in that the dark Inhuman has absorbed over the millennia. Hive, trying to get his mind under control, orders Giyera and Hellfire to disconnect the warhead, since there is no hope of launching the missile now. May, seeking the warhead, frees Radcliffe from the Primitives, while Rodriguez frees the hostages from the conquered missile silo. However, R. Giyera takes the warhead and flees.
	+ When the team attempt to escape, they are confronted by Hive; however, they capture him in a Containment Module full of Suspension Gel.
* In Seventh Circle Prison, Alexei Shostakov wins an arm wrestling match and tells a story about fighting Captain America. He wins another arm wrestling match and continues his story while he is given a new tattoo.
* Ursa Major sits across from Shostakov and prepares to arm wrestle him while asking what year he fought Captain America in. Shostakov says it was in the 1980s. Ursa Major mentions that Captain America was still frozen, so Shostakov asks if Ursa Major is calling him a liar. Shostakov slams Ursa Major's hand against the table, breaking his wrist. Shostakov laughs at Ursa Major while he receives a mail call.
* Shostakov goes to receive his mail, and the prison guards and brag about having stolen the food mailed to him. He is given the rest of the his mail.
* **Escape from the Seventh Circle Prison**:
	+ Shostakov sits down and sees that he was mailed a doll of himself. He picks it up and pulls the string, causing the head to pop off and reveal an earpiece. He puts it in and hears Romanoff telling him that it is his lucky day. Looking at Belova's map, Romanoff tells Shostakov to move near the south wall of the prison.
	+ Shostakov approaches the window and grabs the guard through the glass, pulling him through. He pulls another guard against a metal bar.
	+ Romanoff and Belova approach the prison and give him instructions, telling him not to make a scene. Shostakov begins running, and an inmate shouts that Shostakov is escaping. Shostakov begins fighting the riot guards that approach him, and Romanoff realizes that Shostakov made a scene. Shostakov kicks down the exterior door and runs through the outside, asking Romanoff what to do next. Romanoff explains that she and Belova will get him out, and Shostakov notices their helicopter above the prison.
	+ Shostakov notices prisoners running at him and tries to escape, while guards run on the upper level and lock down the facility, firing at prisoners. Following Romanoff's instructions, Shostakov jumps to the upper level, but is tased and falls back down.
	+ Belova says that Shostakov will never make it, so Romanoff tells Belova to get her closer.
	+ Shostakov watches Romanoff jump out of the helicopter and land on the upper level to fight the guards. She lands and poses, which Belova comments on. Romanoff incapacitates several guards, but several more begin firing at the helicopter, forcing Belova to dodge them, nearly cutting Romanoff with the helicopter blades.
	+ Shostakov runs through the yard and looks up, during the chaos, he gets into a brief fight with Ursa Major and some other prisoners.
	+ Belova apologizes for nearly killing Romanoff, who yells at her to back up. A guard begins firing at Belova, causing her to leave the controls and fire a rocket at the guard, blowing the watchtower up.
	+ Belova resumes control and notices that the explosion caused an avalanche, commenting that it would be a cool way to die. Shostakov asks if the avalanche is a good sign, and Romanoff tells him to move.
	+ The prisoners cower at the avalanche while Shostakov jumps off of a riot shield and climbs the gates of the yard.
	+ Prisoners and guards run into the prison while Romanoff yells at Belova to get them out. Belova maneuvers back towards the prison while Shostakov makes his way to the upper level.
	+ Romanoff grabs onto the rope dangling from the helicopter. Shostakov watches the avalanche start to consume the prison, screaming as the helicopter seemingly passes Shostakov. Belova turns and allows Romanoff to grab Shostakov, barely escaping the avalanche in time.
* Romanoff and Shostakov enter the helicopter as he shouts a farewell to the prison while Romanoff enters the copilot seat. Shostakov expresses pride in the girls before realizing that they cannot hear him. He puts on headphones with a microphone, and Belova punches him in the face.
* Shostakov asks why Belova is being aggressive, suggesting she is on her period. Belova scolds him, explaining that the Red Room's graduation ceremony removed her uterus, preventing her from getting her period. Belova describes the procedure, upsetting Shostakov.
* Shostakov thanks them for coming for him, and Romanoff demands to know how to get to the Red Room. Shostakov suggests that she was indoctrinated into the Western agenda, and Romanoff explains that she chose to go west since the Avengers treated her like family. Shostakov expresses doubt, and Romanoff demands to know where the Red Room is.
* Shostakov confesses to not know where the Red Room is, and explains that his mission in Ohio was boring and upsetting, and complains that he was then put in prison for annoying Dreykov. Shostakov tells them to ask where Melina Vostokoff is, surprising Belova and Romanoff, who believed that Vostokoff was dead.
* Shostakov explains that Vostokoff was the strategist, and that she worked directly for Dreykov more than he did. Romanoff realizes that Vostokoff still works for the Red Room, and Shostakov says that she works outside of Saint Petersburg. Although Belova insists that they do not have enough fuel, Shostakov insists that they will make it.
* Thaddeus Ross and his men arrest Rick Mason, after searching his home, they find a note from Romanoff, saying "Come after me."
* Mackenzie informs Johnson that they have captured Hive.
* While he is assuring the base is sealed off, Fitz realizes what "Absolution" is: the releasing of the Absolution Virus in the Playground. Hellfire activates the trap, turning several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents into Primitives.
* Romanoff, Belova, and Shostakov's helicopter crash-lands, having run out of fuel. Shostakov, Belova, and Romanoff leave, and Shostakov says that they should have brought a Quinjet. As the trio walks, Shostakov asks to tell Romanoff something important. Shostakov asks whether Captain America talked about Shostakov.
* Romanoff scolds Shostakov for focusing on himself, and he asks if he did something wrong. He says that he only ever loved the girls, trying to make sure she would succeed and that everything worked at, talking about Belova's status as an assassin and Romanoff's status as an Avenger. He expresses pride in the girls' high kill counts, hugging them. Romanoff breaks free of Shostakov's hug, and Shostakov turns his attention to Belova, who also leaves.
* Ross offers Mason a deal; Mason will call Romanoff to get her location, and Ross will not arrest him. Mason agrees, calls Romanoff, and using a coded message, informs her what has happened. Romanoff understands Mason's warnings, and informs Belova and Shostakov.
* The group begin walking and Belova asks if they are there yet. Shostakov explains that they will know when they are there due to the sound of pigs.
* Vostokoff experiments with pigs, giving them orders and having them navigate a maze. She rewards the pigs who made it, and receives an alert from a proximity monitor. Vostokoff opens the gate to the maze and orders the pigs to return to their pen where it is safe, and they go.
* Vostokoff receives her gun and aims it at the hills, using her sight to see that it is Romanoff, Belova, and Shostokov.
* The three approach Vostokoff, who silently guides them inside her house and welcomes them. Romanoff watches Vostokoff open a weapons cabinet and threatens her, but Vostokoff says that she is putting away her weapon.
* Belova goes to the dining room table and sits down.
* Shostakov sits in the bathroom, nervous.
* Vostokoff leaves her weapons closet while Romanoff asks if there are booby traps. Vostokoff says they did not raise them to fall into traps, and Romanoff counters by saying that she did not raise them at all. Vostokoff says that if Romanoff got soft, it was not on her watch.
* Belova sits at the table.
* Shostakov begins struggling to put on his Red Guardian Uniform.
* Romanoff, Vostokoff, and Belova hear Shostakov struggling from the table, and Vostokoff suggests that they drink and uncaps a bottle.
* Shostakov struggles to get the shirt of his uniform on.
* Shostakov finally leaves the bathroom in his full uniform. He says it still fits, and Vostokoff whistles and applauds him. Shostakov sits down and sings to himself, and expresses joy that their family has reunited. Vostokoff suggests no longer using the term "family," and Romanoff agrees.
* Romanoff attempts to demand information from Vostokoff, but Shostakov interrupts and tells Vostokoff that she is still beautiful, she reponds saying that while he gained weight, he is still attractive. Romanoff cuts them off and again attempts to gain information, but Vostokoff cuts her off and tells her not to slouch. Romanoff says that she is not, and they argue over this, and Shostakov tells Romanoff to listen to her mother.
* Romanoff again attempts to gain information, but Belova cuts her off and says that she does not want food, and Vostokoff insists that she eat. Romanoff demands to know the location of Red Room Academy, explaining that killing Dreykov is unfinished business, but Vostokoff says that it is impossible, and that they never saw the culmination of their work in Ohio.
* Vostokoff calls Alexei into the room and rewards him, causing Shostakov to realize that the pig was named after him. Vostokoff comments on his obedience, and gives Alexei the command to stop breathing. Alexei obeys while Vostkoff explains that the North Institute they had infiltrated was a front for HYDRA's experiments with chemical subjugation.
* Alexei passes out, and Vostokoff explains that the science has become so exact that a subject commanded to stop breathing would have to obey. Romanoff tells her that she has made her point, and Vostokoff allows Alexei to breathe again and tells him to return to his pen.
* Vostokoff says that Dreykov has agents planted around the world, and Belova asks if they know who they test it on. Vostokoff says that she does not know, and Shostakov claims she is lying and that she was Dreykov's architect. The pair begin arguing about who was closer to Dreykov, and Romanoff demands that they shut up, calling Shostakov an idiot and Vostokoff a coward.
* Romanoff says that their family was never real, upsetting Belova, who insists that it was real to her. She says that no one told her that their family was fake and reveals that she was one of the chemically subjugated agents, asking if Romanoff is going to say anything about how she got out. Vostokoff attempts to comfort Belova, who gets up and leaves with a bottle of alcohol. Romanoff calls after Belova, who refuses and enters another room, closing the door.
* Vostokoff begins to say that she did not know that Belova was subjugated, and Shostakov comforts her, saying that it is okay and he will talk to her.
* Shostakov goes to Belova, who says that she does not want to talk. Shostakov agrees to just sit and sits next to her in silence.
* Vostokoff and Romanoff sit in silence, and Romanoff gets up to kill Dreykov herself. Vostokoff says that she will get herself killed, and Romanoff suggests that she does not care. Romanoff says that Vostokoff was not the first mother to abandon her, but Vostokoff tells her that Romanoff was not abandoned, but selected by a program that tested for genetic potential in infants.
* Vostokoff explains that her family was paid off, but that her mother never stopped looking until she was killed. Romanoff says that she thought of her mother every day, and Vostokoff says she finds it best not to look into the past. Romanoff asks why she saved the family photo album from Ohio and looks through it, reminiscing about the day they took pictures of fake memories.
* Romanoff asks Vostokoff why she is working in the Red Room, and Vostokoff explains that she did not have a choice after being brainwashed four times before Romanoff was born. Romanoff says that it is not her fault she was born into the Red Room, and Vostokoff asks how she kept her heart. Romanoff reminds Vostokoff that she used to say that pain makes people stronger, and says that her teachings kept Romanoff alive.
* Vostokoff apologizes, confessing that she had already alerted the Red Room and that they would be there any minute. They begin mobilizing a plan to take down the Red Room.
* Preparing weapons, Romanoff reviews the plan, saying that she will activate her tracker once she is inside the Red Room so that Thaddeus Ross will come. Vostokoff points out that she is still a fugitive, and Romanoff simply asks if Vostokoff can land the facility. Vostokoff says that if she is confined on Level 0, she can activate the landing protocol. Vostokoff realizes that she only has one set of earpieces, and Romanoff says that she will give the other one to Belova.
* Shostakov tells Belova a story about him ice fishing with his father and his father urinating on him to prevent frostbite, despite Belova asking him to stop talking. Belova asks how the story is relevant, and Shostakov says that he was talking about fathers. Belova scolds Shostakov for the way he talked about their time in Ohio as a bad thing, while she viewed him as everything.
* Vostokoff explains that even if he can get her access to the database, she would not be able to take it due to a pheromonal lock that would prevent them from hurting him. Vostokoff explains that the only workaround is to momentarily sever the nerve from her nose. Romanoff smiles and says that she can handle it.
* Belova gets upset when she deduces that he does not care and that he only cares about his glory days, referring to him as "Crimson Dynamo." Shostakov corrects her, saying that he went by Red Guardian, and Belova yells at him to leave. He stands up to leave, but stops and begins singing *American Pie*, Belova's favorite song as a kid. Belova laughs and joins.
* **Ambush at Melina Vostokoff's Homestead**:
	+ A light suddenly turns on outside as the Red Room surrounds the house. Soldiers approach as Shostakov tells Belova to get down. Shostakov is hit with a dart, which he pulls out easily. He prepares to brag, but he gets hit with several more, knocking him out. Belova checks his pulse and prepares her gun as soldiers surround the house.
	+ Belova wanders through the house, gun ready.
	+ A helicopter lands with Taskmaster inside.
	+ Belova searches through the house and finds Vostokoff, who she believes to be Romanoff, passed out.
	+ Taskmaster enters the house.
	+ Disguised as Vostokoff, Romanoff stands in front of Belova and apologizes before shooting her.
	+ Taskmaster approaches "Vostokoff," who tells her not to keep Dreykov waiting.
* **Battle of the Playground**:
	+ The Primitives free Hive from captivity. He wants to use the Quinjets' high altitude capabilities to launch the warhead in space, to turn all Humans into primitive Inhumans.
	+ After Alphonso Mackenzie leaves, Daisy Johnson escapes from the Containment Module and goes to confront Hive. She begs him to sway her again, but he cannot, due to Lash's powers. In anger, Johnson attacks her old master and launches him into a concrete wall, engaging in a battle between the two.
	+ Leo Fitz tells Phil Coulson that the Containment Module has been breached and Coulson figures that Daisy Johnson managed to escape to confront Hive. Coulson asks Melinda May to take a look, before May orders Fitz to go with her.
	+ Holden Radcliffe tells S.H.I.E.L.D. that the Primitives are able to retain some memories of their old lives before they experienced Terrigenesis. Alphonso Mackenzie tells him that the Primitives were former agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., therefore they know the layout of the Playground inside and out. They hear the Primitives entering the vents and growling, forcing the agents to separate and hide.
	+ Meanwhile, Leo Fitz and Melinda May enter the holding cell of the Playground, with Fitz asking if Johnson can actually kill Hive. May replies by telling Fitz to fetch some rope if she cannot.
	+ As the fight continues, Daisy Johnson whips out a knife and begins stabbing Hive multiple times, commenting that she wants him to suffer. Hive notes that she is the one who is suffering and telling Johnson that he must continue his crusade. Johnson watches as the HYDRA QuadCopter carrying the warhead enters the Playground's hangar before Hive knocks her out and places her on the Zephyr One. Hive boards the Zephyr with R. Giyera and Hellfire, who he tells that he will use Johnson as insurance the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents don't try anything foolish and that the Primitives will stay behind to finish the rest of the struggling agents.
	+ Meanwhile, in the Playground, Holden Radcliffe follows Phil Coulson and Lincoln Campbell while Elena Rodriguez takes a bullet for Alphonso Mackenzie when the Primitives attack, leaving her severely injured. Radcliffe, Coulson, and Campbell find more Primitives disabling the electricity throughout the Playground.
	+ With the memories of Will Daniels and Grant Ward, Hive flies the Zephyr One, ascending the plane to 100,000 feet with the Absolution Virus warhead on board.
	+ Running from more Primitives, Alphonso Mackenzie meets up with Phil Coulson, Lincoln Campbell and Holden Radcliffe and take Elena Rodriguez to the workshop of the Playground and hold ground to treat Rodriguez's wounds.
	+ Jemma Simmons hides from the Primitives in an empty engine room.
	+ As the Zephyr One ascends to 100,000 feet, Hive and R. Giyera explain that once the plane reaches 100,000 feet above the Stratosphere, the Absolution Virus will disperse and spread across the majority of Europe. Before the warhead detentions in the air with Hive's crew inside, they intend to use the S.H.I.E.L.D. Containment Module Daisy Johnson is inside and descended to safety. Unbeknownst to them, Leo Fitz and Melinda May had already infiltrated the aircraft.
	+ Giyera sets the time to the detonator of the warhead to 31 minutes.
	+ Lincoln Campbell and Alphonso Mackenzie desperately try to heal Elena Rodriguez, but when they start arguing with Holden Radcliffe, Phil Coulson shuts it down and urges them to find something to stop Rodriguez's bleeding. Radcliffe finds a blowtorch and hands it to Campbell, but Rodriguez tells them that she wants Mackenzie to blast her wound with it. Mackenzie fires the blowtorch on her wound, causing Rodriguez to scream.
	+ The Primitives bust down the door to the boiler room Jemma Simmons is inside of, huddled close to a furnace and notices that the Primitives right in front of her had gone away because of the heat of the furnace next to her. Simmons realizes the Primitives cannot see under a high temperature and decides to crank up the heat throughout the Playground.
	+ Meanwhile, Elena Rodriguez's wound has been sealed and Holden Radcliffe is impressed by Leo Fitz's work with Phil Coulson's Prosthetic Hand.
	+ Being held captive, Daisy Johnson sees a Primitive being dragged beneath the floor of the Zephyr One and taken out. She then sees Melinda May and Leo Fitz have infiltrated the plane. May explains that she and Fitz have come to rescue her and stop Hive’s plan. As Fitz goes to open the Containment Module, Johnson tells him to stop and that getting her off would put them at risk.
	+ Holden Radcliffe looks at one of the prosthetic eyeballs he used to create, watching it melt and disorient. He realizes that the Primitives must have infrared eyesight, a flaw unintentionally put in place. Radcliffe tests this on an approaching Primitive, but it does not acknowledge Radcliffe’s presence and runs the opposite way. Radcliffe makes his escape and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents follow him.
	+ After Fitz leaves to go find weapons, May tells Johnson that her powers did not make her powerful or a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, but that May herself did. Johnson, remembering her losses, tells May that she has nothing left, but May reminds her that Lash saved her life in exchange for his own and tells her that she knows what it is like to want to give up, but the pain will always be there.
	+ May is then suddenly knocked unconscious by R. Giyera, who ambushes them and points an MP5 at Leo Fitz. Johnson tries to stall but fails. Fitz tells Giyera that there is a weapon on the plane that is designed to kill him, and if he kills him, then he won’t know what it is. Giyera, still holding Fitz at gunpoint, tells him to find it. Getting down on his knees, Fitz tells him that S.H.I.E.L.D. would never hurt the people under Hive’s sway since they are not in control of their actions. However, Fitz tells Giyera that he was "a murderous swine" before Hive and shoots and kills the inhuman with a Cloaked Gun. Fitz opens Johnson's Containment Module and helps May back on her feet. As the Zephyr One ascends higher, May, Fitz and Johnson are forced to consider their limited options.
	+ Phil Coulson, Lincoln Campbell, Alphonso Mackenzie, and Holden Radcliffe, with Elena Rodriguez in tow, make their way to the office of the Playground and reunite with Jemma Simmons, who throws a lamp at Coulson in self-defense. Simmons tells the team that May and Fitz made it onboard Zephyr One and tells them about her solution to the Primitives chasing them regarding the heat. Radcliffe tries to get S.H.I.E.L.D.'s full name correct, but Rodriguez tells him to just say "S.H.I.E.L.D." as she groans in pain. Coulson uses his Prosthetic Hand to call a remote Quinjet to approach the Zephyr and help May, Fitz, and Johnson, personally confronting Hive for enough time to get his friends out. The agents try to object, but Coulson shuts them down, saying he brought Hive to Earth, therefore it is his responsibility to take him out. As the Quinjet approaches and Mackenzie tears down the window of the office, Radcliffe proclaims he likes the way S.H.I.E.L.D. works.
	+ As Hive looks at the coordinates on Zephyr One, Hellfire expresses his concerns regarding everyone turning into hideous Primitives, including the women and asks to rework the formula to perfection. Hive ignores him, and instead finds out that R. Giyera has been killed and demands to find the stowaways threatening his plan. Hearing a noise on top of the Zephyr, Hive goes to the docking bay and finds Phil Coulson's hologram projection standing outside of the Quinjet. Hive, seemingly not shocked, asked why he is alone. Coulson says he did not want anyone more people dying for his lapses of judgement. Hive figures out he is hiding something, but after revealing his true face and intending to steal Coulson's real body, Coulson reveals that he is a hologram projection of his body, telling him that he used this distraction to have Alphonso Mackenzie, Lincoln Campbell and Jemma Simmons save Leo Fitz, Melinda May, and Daisy Johnson on board. Finally, Coulson gloats before rephrasing the “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope” line from *Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope*, infuriating Hive and proceeds to search for the team.
	+ Lincoln Campbell is attacked by Hellfire, but defeats him. Hellfire leaves a bomb next to Campbell, badly wounding him. Daisy Johnson reunites with Campbell asks him if she ruined what they had together. Campbell tells her about counseling, but Johnson tells him the pain is not worth remembering and tells him that her destiny is to kill Hive using the Quinjet, as she saw in her vision. Campbell tells her that he knows he went down to face Hive not to kill him, but to be swayed again, and that he understands what it is like to be so addicted to something.
	+ The agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. hear the Primitives making their way to them and are on short ideas on how to stop both Hive and the warhead. Coulson and Johnson want to use the Quinjet to possibly send the warhead into space where it can explode safely without harming the Earth. Lincoln Campbell notices that Johnson is wearing the cross necklace kept by Elena Rodriguez and demands where she got it from. Johnson, however, leaves him, going to sacrifice herself to stop Hive and save the world to fullfil her purpose.
	+ After Alphonso Mackenzie shows off his new "Shotgun-Axe", they notice Johnson has departed and are ambushed by the Primitives as Hive makes his way to the warhead. A fight ensues between the two groups.
	+ Daisy Johnson goes to put the warhead into the Quinjet, attracting Hive's attention. Hive enters Quinjet as Johnson tells him that she intends to fly it away into Outer Space with him inside. However, she and Hive discover Lincoln Campbell had infiltrated the Quinjet and shorted the manual controls so Hive cannot escape. Johnson is pushed away by Campbell, who takes Hive with him on the jet as it launches into the stratosphere, much to Johnson's dismay.
	+ Johnson dashes to the communications systems, begging Campbell to pick up the other end of the line. When he answers, Johnson pleads for Campbell to turn around, but Campbell says that this was his destiny and that he stole the cross necklace from her. After the team defeat the Primitives on the Zephyr One, they reunite with a distraught Johnson, who says it was wrong of Campbell to do something so selfish. Campbell chuckles, jokingly telling her with how it felt right saving the world and his lover at the same time. Campbell goes to say "I love you" to Johnson for the first time, but the communications die and cut out as the Quinjet shuts down.
	+ Looking back at Hive, Lincoln Campbell tells him that even if he swayed him, his powers could not turn the Quinjet's power back on or turn the ship around. Hive accepts this as the truth while looking at the warhead's countdown reaching down to 1 minute before detonation—Hive solemnly tells Campbell that together, they will experience death as not friends or enemies, something he is okay with but disappointed.
	+ As the Quinjet drifts in space, Campbell gently drifts out of the Quinjet's cockpit towards Hive in the back, feeling somewhat happy that he is experiencing zero-gravity before he dies. Daisy Johnson begs Phil Coulson to bring him back, but says he cannot. Johnson tells Coulson that he was paying for her mistakes, but Coulson states that he was paying for all of their mistakes.
	+ Now floating next to each other, Lincoln Campbell and Hive watch as Earth enters the cockpit's window, admiring the planet with Campbell expressing his solemn delight that he got to see the world before he died. Hive murmurs how beautiful and small the Earth was then he had initially imagined and tells Campbell that he only wanted to make it better. Campbell agrees and acknowledges his goal. Hive asks how he could sacrifice himself to save humanity and his S.H.I.E.L.D. friends when they had flaws too great. Campbell replies simply by saying “They're only human”.
	+ Lincoln Campbell lets go of the cross necklace and watches it drift in front of him and Hive. Alphonso Mackenzie, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Melinda May, and Phil Coulson watch from the terminal inside the Zephyr One as the warhead detonation countdown timer reaches 0 and the Quinjet explodes in space: killing both Campbell and Hive while saving the world in the process. Daisy Johnson falls to her knees and bawls her eyes out, devastated by the events accumulated from the effects of Hive's sway and the sacrifice of Campbell. Simmons, tearing up, asks what to do now.
* Shostakov wakes up on an airplane and sees "Romanoff" and Belova passed out, hearing "Vostokoff" requesting clearance for landing, revealing that the base was in the sky. Shostakov is sedated as the plane touches down.
* A group of Black Widows trains. "Vostokoff" watches, and the group all stop and look at her. "Vostokoff" walks away and the group continues.
* **Destruction of the Red Room**:
	+ "Vostokoff" enters Dreykov's office, and Dreykov greets her, asking how it was seeing Shostakov, Romanoff, and Belova. "Vostokoff" says it was awful and confirms for Dreykov that Belova was the only Widow who was cured. Dreykov asks "Vostokoff" to sort the issues with the mind control. "Vostokoff" begins to protest, but Dreykov sits her down and grabs her head, telling "Vostokoff" to cut Belova's brain out and identify the weakness in "her" mind control.
	+ Belova is prepared for surgery as a line is drawn on her forehead. Belova says that it is a less cool way to die, and the surgeon activates a surgical tool.
	+ Shostakov struggles to break out of his cell while "Romanoff" lays in hers and calls his name.
	+ "Vostokoff" asks Dreykov what he will do with "Romanoff." Dreykov describes her as a traitor and tells "Vostokoff" to brainwash her, talking about how powerful it would make him. "Vostokoff" suggests Dreykov speak to Romanoff, but Dreykov reveals that he knows that he already is and takes the Photostatic Veil off of Romanoff's face. Taskmaster pulls a gun on her, but Dreykov tells her not to.
	+ Shostakov tells "Romanoff" that he cannot save them and apologizes for his cowardice in refusing to fight for her. "Romanoff" opens the door to his cell and says that she designed the cells, revealing herself to be Vostokoff. Shostakov is upset that he bared his soul to her instead of Romanoff, and Vostokoff contacts Belova over her intercom.
	+ Vostokoff tells Belova that she has a knife concealed in her uniform, and Belova reacts, attracting the surgeons' attention. Belova covers for her reaction and Vostokoff tells her where the knife is. Belova uses it to cut her restraints and attacks the surgeon approaching her. She is injected with a sedative but still fights her way through the surgeons. She pulls the needle out of her and Shostakov attempts to use the coms to apologize, until Vostokoff tells him that he does not have an earpiece for him.
	+ Vostokoff says that the Red Dust is in cold storage and that Belova needs to expose the Black Widows to it, and Belova sarcastically comments that it will be easy.
	+ Dreykov asks Romanoff what his plan is, and Romanoff says that her plan is to kill him. Dreykov points out that he is alive and asks what they do now, and Romanoff asks what her mother's name was. Dreykov tells a long-winded story, just to say that the name on her tombstone was "Unknown."
	+ Romanoff says that Dreykov does not feel anything, and asks if he felt something when she killed his daughter. Dreykov realizes that killing his daughter was part of Romanoff's haunted past, causing him to laugh. Dreykov thanks Romanoff and has Taskmaster reveal herself as is his daughter, Antonia Dreykov.
	+ Dreykov explains that he put a chip in Antonia's neck and says that he finds her hard to look at. Dreykov says that Antonia is a perfect mimic and that she fights just like the Avengers. Romanoff asks if Antonia can hear her, and Dreykov yells at her for nearly killing her. Dreykov sends Antonia after Vostokoff, Shostakov, and Belova.
	+ As Antonia leaves, Romanoff pulls her gun on Dreykov, saying that he sent away the one thing preventing her from killing him. Dreykov suggests that she try and kill him, but Romanoff finds that she cannot. Dreykov taunts her and takes her gun, firing it into the air. Romanoff tries to stab him but stops, and Dreykov takes her knife out of her hands. Romanoff asks how he is controlling her, and Dreykov says that he is not, and rather that there is a pheromonal lock in Romanoff's mind and that she cannot hurt him as long as she can smell him. Dreykov goes to hit Romanoff, making her flinch, but then walks away, saying that he is upset with Vostokoff and will have to kill her.
	+ Taskmaster arrives in the basement and sees Shostakov saying that he wants to break something. Vostokoff sees Taskmaster and tells him to fight her. Shostakov enters the computer room and the two begin preparing to fight. Shostakov prepares to say his last words to Vostokoff, but finds that she is already gone.
	+ Belova hides in the vent as a group of Red Room soldiers walk in the hallway. She lands in the hallway in a pose, but immediately gets up and finds it weird. Belova incapacitates a guard and uses his hand print to access a room.
	+ Vostokoff begins engaging the landing protocol. Dreykov watches Vostokoff on the security camera and deduces that she was planning to land the facility and hand him over to the authorities. He suspends the landing sequence, locking Vostokoff into the computer room.
	+ Romanoff asks if Dreykov is planning on brainwashing her, calling the Red Room pathetic and asking when was the last time he had a conversation with someone who was not forced to talk to him. Dreykov says that Romanoff was fighting the wrong war, and that true power comes from undetectable influence. Romanoff says that Dreykov is nothing, and Dreykov begins to talk about the people in his control. Romanoff tells him to stop, angering Dreykov, who yells at her. Romanoff continues taunting Dreykov, prompting him to hit her. Romanoff continues taunting him, and he continues punching her.
	+ Romanoff is knocked down, and Dreykov kicks her to the floor and starts saying that he owns the world. Dreykov uses his ring to show Romanoff the locations of the Widows currently deployed. He explains that he gives discarded girls purpose and life.
	+ Belova finds the Red Dust and tells Vostokoff, who says that she had a setback. Vostokoff tells Belova to get to the Widows and begins crawling through the vent.
	+ Shostakov fights Taskmaster, who knocks him back with her shield. Taskmaster pulls out a knife and they continue fighting. Shostakov lands against the wall and Taskmaster punches him.
	+ Dreykov explains that his network of Widows influence global events. Romanoff realizes the full extent of Dreykov's control, and Dreykov says that with her under his control, Dreykov can reveal himself, using the only resource that there are too many of: girls.
	+ Romanoff realizes that all of his control comes from his console, and Dreykov confirms. Romanoff smiles, and Dreykov asks why, so Romanoff thanks Dreykov for his cooperation. Romanoff says that he was not strong enough to sever her olfactory nerve, so she slams her nose against the desk, severing it herself. Dreykov presses a panic button, and Romanoff punches him.
	+ The Black Widows receive an alert and rush to protect Dreykov.
	+ Vostokoff arrives at the engine room and takes down a guard, finding herself surrounded at gunpoint. She holds her hands up and causes an explosion in the room, destroying the engine. She escapes the explosion and tells Belova what happened. Belova finds the Widows' training room empty and straps the vials to a grenade.
	+ The Widows approach Dreykov's office.
	+ Belova rushes to find them.
	+ Taskmaster throws Shostakov through a glass wall, recovers her shield, and begins beating him. Shostakov is thrown back, and Taskmaster prepares to stab him. Vostokoff jumps on top of Taskmaster and throws her into a cell, which Shostakov locks. Taskmaster punches against the wall of the cell and Vostokoff says that they have to go.
	+ The engine explodes, causing the facility to shake.
	+ Romanoff taunts Dreykov and kicks him. She tells him that he will not break anyone else and prepares to kill him, but a Widow stabs her shoulder and pulls her back. Dreykov recovers and orders the Widows to make Romanoff suffer and kill her, leaving the room. Romanoff says that they do not want to hurt each other, but the Widows attack and Romanoff fights them. Romanoff incapacitates several Widows, but shooting them with her Black Widow's Bite.
	+ Helen uses her staff to push Romanoff against a support beam, but Romanoff breaks the staff in two and punches her. Romanoff gets overwhelmed by the Widows, who start kicking and beating on her. A Widow puts Romanoff into a chokehold while others take turns kicking her.
	+ Belova appears and explodes the Red Dust over the group, freeing all of the Widows. Belova helps Romanoff to her feet and takes a weapon out of her back. A Widow asks what they should do, and Romanoff tells them to flee and make their own choices.
	+ An explosion occurs in the ship and they decide to leave. Romanoff stays behind and says that she will be with her soon.
	+ A group of soldiers guard Dreykov as he walks through the facility. Dreykov notices that his ring is missing a tries to go get it, but the ceiling behind him collapses.
	+ Romanoff uses the ring to access the monitors and transfer the data to her flash drive. She corrects her nose and waits for the transfer to complete. The facility explodes and the explosions approach Romanoff. The transfer completes and Romanoff gets the flash drive and escapes before the office explodes, jumping out the window.
	+ Romanoff grabs the rail of a lower level and watches a group of soldiers on a runway. She lands safely inside the building.
	+ A jet takes off as Shostakov and Vostokoff run into another jet. Vostokoff begins preparing to take off and asks after Romanoff and Belova, who Shostakov does not see. The runway falls apart as soldiers approach the jet. The jet falls and Vostokoff navigates it through an explosion. Vostokoff turns around and sees soldiers shooting at her. One lands on the plane, but Shostakov throws his shield at him. The soldier falls back and the shield hits the tail of the plane, causing it to fall. Vostokov struggles to control the plane while Shostakov braces himself.
	+ Romanoff runs through the facility as it is destroyed around her, falling to the floor outside Taskmaster's cell. Romanoff sees her and prepares to open the cell, but Taskmaster punches at her. Romanoff pleads with Antonia not to, saying that she will open the door and that she knows that Antonia Dreykov is still in there, refusing to leave her.
	+ Romanoff opens the door and Taskmaster walks out. She reaches for Romanoff, but an explosion separates them. Romanoff begins to fall out of the facility, but she manages to hold on by two hooks.
	+ Dreykov is brought onto a plane with Belova in pursuit. Romanoff lands on the runway and runs after Belova, who jumps on top of Dreykov's plane. She stands over the engine to the plane as Romanoff catches up to her and prepares her staff. Romanoff pleads with Belova not to sacrifice herself as soldiers aim their guns at her. Belova says that she had fun and shoves her staff into the engine, throwing her backward and causing the plane to explode, killing everyone inside, including Dreykov.
	+ Romanoff jumps off the facility after Belova holding a parachute. She falls through the sky and catches up to Belova. She puts a parachute on her back and activates it, allowing them to fall safely. However, Romanoff sees Taskmaster moving toward them and pushes Belova away, sending herself into a freefall.
	+ Romanoff and Taskmaster latch on to a piece of debris, and Taskmaster grabs Romanoff. The pair fight as they land on the ground. Taskmaster walks toward Romanoff and they fight. Romanoff steals Taskmaster's sword and points it at Taskmaster. She then puts her hands up and drops the sword, saying that she has had enough. However, Taskmaster grabs Romanoff's throat, giving Romanoff the opportunity to swing around on her arm and jump on her shoulders. She opens Taskmaster's helmet and knocks her to the ground. Taskmaster crawls toward Romanoff, who breaks a vial of Red Dust, freeing her from her father's control.
	+ Romanoff and Antonia Dreykov collapse, and Romanoff pulls herself toward Dreykov, apologizing. Dreykov asks if her father is gone, and Romanoff says that he is.
	+ Shostakov and Vostokoff wake up from the plane crash, the two embrace, and Vostokoff says that her leg is broken.
	+ Romanoff rights herself and watches the facility crash, beginning to call after Belova. She finds her sister and runs over to her, grabbing her head. Belova opens her eyes, sees Romanoff, and says that they are both upside down.
	+ Belova rights herself as Romanoff asks for forgiveness for not going back for her. Belova begins to forgive her, and Romanoff says that their family dynamic was real to her as well. Belova hugs Romanoff and thanks her. They are approached by Shostakov and an injured Vostokoff. Romanoff asks Shostakov if he has something to say, and Shostakov says that he would only mess it up. Shostakov takes Romanoff's hand.
	+ Thaddeus Ross's army approaches, and Ross is told that they are closing in on Romanoff. Vostokoff asks what the plan is, and Romanoff asks says that Vostokoff, Belova, and Shostakov should go, and that she will stay and fight. The rest of the family insist that they must fight together, but Romanoff insists that they should go, saying that if they can make things work, there may be hope for the Avengers.
	+ Belova gives Romanoff her vest, saying that she knows how much Romanoff likes it. Romanoff tells Belova that Vostokoff can copy the formula for the Red Dust so that Belova can free the remaining Widows. A plane lands near them, and the Widows that were freed come out, saying that they would not leave Belova behind. Belova thanks them and walks onto the plane.
	+ Vostokoff tells Romanoff to take care of herself, and Romanoff says that she can handle it. Vostokoff says that she knows and walks away. Lerato approaches Dreykov and takes her hand. Vostokoff passes her and says that Dreykov is coming with them. Belova whistles to Romanoff, who whistles in return. The sisters smile at each other before Belova boards the plane with Shostakov and the others, and Romanoff watches it take off.
	+ Romanoff turns to face the oncoming vehicles as they turn onto the field and approach her.

#### 29th

* **Rescue of Nakia**:
	+ Returning home to Wakanda a week after his father's death, T'Challa and Okoye first fly to the Sambisa Forest in Nigeria, hoping to extract Wakandan spy Nakia from her undercover assignment with missing Chibok girls held captive by terrorists.
	+ Okoye reminds T'Challa not to freeze when he sees Nakia, teasing him about his love for her. He shrugs this off and drops from the jet, throwing EMP Beads, which attach themselves to the terrorists' cars and disable them. T'Challa then hides in a tree as the terrorists get out of their vehicles.
	+ Leaping from his hiding spot, T'Challa engages the terrorists, the Panther Habit absorbing all their fire. He takes them out with ease, and Nakia steps out to help in the fight. She prevents T'Challa from killing one of the men, who had been forced to join the terrorists against his will. T'Challa loses focus at seeing his ex-girlfriend again, and a terrorist takes advantage of the moment, threatening to shoot one of the girls if T'Challa moves. Okoye, however, takes out the final man, having expected T'Challa to freeze and dropped down herself to help.
	+ Nakia is frustrated at T'Challa for ruining her assignment, but he informs her of his father's death and the fact that he will be crowned tomorrow, and wanted her to be there. Okoye, meanwhile, frees the Chibok girls.
* As the morning of June 30th dawns in Wakanda, Okoye pilots the trio home. The jet passes through Wakanda's protective dome, and T'Challa returns home to his kingdom.
* The Dora Milaje, an army of women bodyguards who are loyal to the king and led by Okoye, stand to attention at their new king's arrival. T'Challa then reunites with his mother, Ramonda, and teenage sister, Shuri, for the first time since T'Chaka's death. Shuri and Okoye exchange jokes about T'Challa freezing around Nakia, and Shuri then informs T'Challa of an update she has made for the EMP Beads. Ramonda discusses T'Challa's coronation, due to happen later that day, and tells her that T'Chaka is still with them.

#### 30th

* **Robbery of the Museum of Great Britain**:
	+ In London, Erik Stevens, also known as "Killmonger", surveys African artifacts at the Museum of Great Britain. The Museum Director Fiona Thomas speaks to him about each item, informing him of its history. However, when she says that the third item came from Benin, Killmonger corrects her. He tells her that it was stolen by the British in Benin, but originated from Wakanda, and is made of vibranium. She begins to choke, as he tells her that he has had poison put in her drink. Medics seem to arrive on the scene, but suddenly shoot the director and guards, revealing themselves to be in league with Killmonger - one being arms dealer Ulysses Klaue.
	+ Meanwhile, Killmonger's girlfriend Linda has hacked the security feed to loop footage as if nothing is happening in the African exhibit. Klaue teases a guard with the chance to escape, only to shoot him too, and uses his prosthetic arm to shatter the glass and vibrate the unimportant material off of the vibranium. With the metal acquired, Killonger, Linda, and Klaue escape into an ambulance they have hijacked and make their getaway.
* **Incoronation of T'Challa**:
	+ The tribes of Wakanda congregate to celebrate the coronation of T'Challa as their new king. They dance, drum, and chant on boats as they approach Warrior Falls.
	+ T'Challa arrives at the waterfall in a jet and steps out to face his people. Zuri has T'Challa drink a concoction which strips away the powers of the Heart-Shaped Herb, and each tribe is asked if they wish to challenge him for the throne. While the four tribes do not challenge, the fifth, Jabari Tribe surprises the citizens of Wakanda by making an appearance. Their chief, M'Baku challenges T'Challa.
	+ T'Challa and M'Baku engage in a duel for the throne of Wakanda. M'Baku uses his brute strength, whereas T'Challa utilises agility. M'Baku looks set to win as he spears T'Challa in the shoulder, but T'Challa removes the weapon and tackles M'Baku to the ground. Holding him in a lock at the top of the waterfall, T'Challa demands that the Jabari chief yields, not wanting to kill him. M'Baku eventually, reluctantly accepts his defeat.
	+ Zuri gives T'Challa the necklace of the king, and T'Challa is crowned king of Wakanda. Addressing his subjects, he crosses his arms over his chest and exclaims, "Wakanda forever!", and his people respond following suit.
* A few hours later, as evening arrives in Wakanda, T'Challa is taken to the City of the Dead to commune with his father on the Ancestral Plane. He ingests the Heart-Shaped Herb once more, and Zuri buries him in the soil.
* T'Challa's mind enters the Ancestral Plane and he walks in a savanna. He comes across a tree with several black panthers, and one of the animals leaps from the tree, changing form into T'Chaka. Pleased to see his father again, T'Challa embraces T'Chaka. T'Challa confesses to his father that he does not feel prepared to be king, and T'Chaka advises his son to surround himself with good people. He finishes by telling T'Challa that he is a good man with a good heart, but that because of this, he will face challenges as king.
* T'Challa wakes in the real world, and excitedly tells Zuri of how he had seen his father, having previously not believed the stories.
* After weeks of being unconscious, Matt Murdock slowly wakes. The nuns watching over him asks for his mother to come, calling, "Get Maggie. Tell her he's awake."
* Murdock calls for Elektra Natchios, but Sister Maggie Grace says she does not know who that is. Falling out of bed, Grace holds him as he states, disoriented, that he cannot see, just as he did when he first lost his vision.
* Father Paul Lantom visits Murdock in his bed. Murdock asks him about Natchios, confusing Lantom, who points out they buried her months ago. Murdock explains that while it might sound crazy, he was with her, but Lantom says that only he was found.

### July

#### 1st

* T'Challa's first day as king of Wakanda begins. He walks among his people, talking to Nakia as he passes through the market.
* The new king contacts Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes to let them know Wakanda is ready to bring them in to help Barnes.
* T'Challa visits his good friend W'Kabi at the rhino paddock, and T'Challa mentions what Nakia has been talking to him about - the prospect of opening up the borders of Wakanda to immigrants. W'Kabi is not happy with this idea, believing T'Challa should protect Wakandans first. Their conversation is interrupted when Okoye, who is also W'Kabi's lover, contacts both of them on their Kimoyo Beads, asking them to come to the throne room.
* In the throne room, Okoye delivers the news that Ulysses Klaue has shown up on their radar again, after evading Wakanda's searches for almost 30 years since he attacked the country and stole vibranium. She tells them that he stole a vibranium weapon from the Museum of Great Britain the day before, and is due to be in Busan, South Korea tomorrow, where a deal is happening. W'Kabi shows particular interest in taking down Klaue, since the arms dealer killed his parents during his attack on the country, but T'Challa tells him he has to remain to protect the Wakandan border. He agrees to go to South Korea, and decides to bring Okoye and Nakia.
* T'Challa visits his younger sister Shuri's lab, where she has new inventions to show him. She demonstrates silent vibranium boots nicknamed "sneakers" and a new version of the Panther Habit which uses nanotechnology to fit within a necklace, as well as absorbing kinetic energy attacks to be redistributed in pulses of energy.

#### 2nd

* The Wakandan Department of Defense sends a message to Shuri warning her not to use her inventions in the world. They worry about possible exposure.
* **Arrest of Ulysses Klaue**:
	+ The trio of Wakandans arrive at the casino in Busan, South Korea to prepare for Ulysses Klaue, who plans to make a deal to sell vibranium in exchange for diamonds. Princess Shuri remains ready in Wakanda to prove remote backup. Nakia uses one of her spy identities as a Kenyan and talks her way into the casino.
	+ T'Challa's group enters, and T'Challa is surprised to discovers that the buyer is the CIA, led by Everett Ross. All sides remain tense but no one takes action as Klaue enters with an entourage and goes to Ross.
	+ As the Wakandan trio debate whether to act, Okoye snaps at Nakia in Xhosa, giving herself away as a Wakandan. One of Klaue's men attacks, and Okoye throws off her wig, abandoning her fake identity and fighting back as a conflict erupts.
	+ T'Challa confronts Klaue, but the arms dealer uses his weaponized vibranium arm (a special replacement for the arm he lost to Ultron the year before) to cause a distraction and try and escape, with T'Challa's group in pursuit.
	+ Shuri excitedly takes control of a car and drives, with T'Challa on the roof, in pursuit of Klaue, as Okoye and Nakia drive a vibranium car themselves. Klaue's men fire at the vibranium car to no effect, and shoot at T'Challa, allowing him to absorb the kinetic energy. Okoye throws a vibranium spear to take out one of Klaue's cars, and T'Challa unleashes a blast of kinetic energy to take down Klaue himself.
	+ T'Challa extends his claws to kill Ulysses Klaue and walks up to him to take him out. However, as Nakia and Okoye arrive on the scene with Everett Ross, T'Challa is reminded not to kill with the whole world watching, as citizens have gathered around with cell phones to record. He takes a moment and steps back, allowing Ross to take Klaue into CIA custody.
* Morning comes in South Korea, and Ulysses Klaue is held for interrogation by the CIA in the CIA South Korean Black Site. T'Challa and Okoye tell Everett Ross that they will take him back to Wakanda, but Ross refuses, agreeing instead to simply let them also question Klaue. Before Ross enters, T'Challa places his hand on his shoulder and thanks him, subtly placing a listening device on Ross' shoulder. Ross interrogates the arms dealer, who claims that his "supplier" is the Wakandans, with his arm cannon being made from their vibranium. He asks what Ross actually knows about the country, and Ross says that he knows it is a third world country of shepherds and textiles, but Klaue informs him this is all a front, and he only stole a tiny amount of the precious metal in comparison to the mountain the Wakandans have.
* Nakia notices a van outside that she considers suspicious. Meanwhile, Ross confronts T'Challa about Klaue's claims, but T'Challa maintains that their country is not particularly special, and that Klaue is simply lying.
* Nakia goes to check the security footage and spots that it has been looped. Realizing something is wrong, she rushes to inform T'Challa and Okoye. Outside, Killmonger, Linda, and a man they have hired get out of the van and set explosives to detonate on the side of the black site building. Nakia gets to her friends, but before she can warn them, the explosions go off and Killmonger breaks into the interrogation room.
* Killmonger shoots at the CIA and Wakandans while Linda and the man they have hired carry Klaue into the back of the van. One of the bullets is aimed at Nakia, but Ross jumps in the way to stop it killing her, hitting him instead. Killmonger then throws a grenade to keep the group from chasing after him, but T'Challa, activating the Panther Habit, leaps onto it to absorb the energy of the explosion. He then pursues Killmonger as their assailant jumps onto the leaving van to escape. However, as he runs to catch the man, Killmonger shoots at him again, causing the kinetic energy build-up in the Panther Habit to overload, going off in a burst of kinetic energy that stops the Black Panther in his tracks. As the attackers get away with Klaue, T'Challa notices a Wakandan royal ring around the main assailant's neck.
* Okoye catches up with T'Challa and ushers him inside to check on Nakia. They find her safe and well, but standing over Ross, who has been severely injured. T'Challa requests that they be allowed to take Ross back to Wakanda, knowing that his only hope of survival and recovery is Shuri. The CIA agree and he stabilizes Ross with a Kimoyo Bead, then they carry him to their ship.
* A few hours later, the trio arrive back at Wakanda with Everett Ross unconscious aboard their ship. Okoye questions whether it is justifiable to bring a foreign intelligence operative back to their country, but Nakia points out that Ross saved her life, and T'Challa decides that despite his duties, they cannot simply let Ross die.

#### 3rd

* The group land and take Ross to Shuri's lab, where Shuri expresses her excitement at fixing another "broken white boy", after starting the project to fix Bucky Barnes' mental conditioning. She analyzes Ross' spine and concludes that she can heal him.
* W'Kabi visits T'Challa to ask where they have Ulysses Klaue, but the king sadly admits to his friend that Klaue slipped through their hands. W'Kabi expresses his disappointment to his friend, highlighting that in the almost 3 decades that T'Chaka was king, he had never managed to catch the arms dealer who had killed his parents, and while he had hoped T'Challa would be more successful, he is simply showing himself as no better than his father.
* With Luke Cage's permission, Willis Stryker is transferred to the Raft.
* **Assassination of Ulysses Klaue**:
	+ Arriving at a junkyard where their getaway plane is waiting, Klaue reassures Killmonger that his payment will come shortly. Killmonger waves this away, saying he is not concerned with money, but only hopes that on Klaue's return flight to Johannesburg, he drop them off in Wakanda. The arms dealer refuses, saying they would be crazy to go there, and Killmonger becomes angry, killing the man he and Linda hired and turning his gun on Klaue.
	+ Klaue grabs Linda and holds a gun to her head, threatening that if Killmonger shoots, he will kill her. Unwavering in his determination, Killmonger unsympathetically kills Linda to remove Klaue's leverage, then pursues him across the junkyard. He eventually catches up to Klaue, shooting him. The man falls to the ground and as Killmonger approaches, tells him that the Wakandans are savages who will treat him as an outsider. However, Killmonger reveals his War Dogs Tattoo inside his lower lip, and Klaue comes to an understanding of what his compatriot's campaign has been about all along. He laughs at his own folly until Killmonger shoots him again, killing him.
* King T'Challa visits Zuri in the City of the Dead and asks him what happened to N'Jobu, believing that the man he saw hours ago must be related to N'Jobu, since his ring was identical to T'Challa's - a ring passed down by T'Chaka's father, Azzuri. Zuri is reluctant to reveal what happened in 1992, having promised T'Chaka to keep it secret, but T'Challa demands the truth as the new king. Zuri sadly confesses what happened, explaining how N'Jobu pulled a gun on him, and T'Chaka reacted by turning and attacking his brother to save Zuri, unintentionally stabbing him in the chest with the Panther Habit claws. Zuri is ashamed as he then tells T'Challa that he and T'Chaka made the decision to leave N'Jobu's son behind, determining him as a risk to their ability to maintain the lie of what happened to N'Jobu, which they believed was important to keep for the good of the country.
* As morning arrives in Wakanda, Killmonger lands his plane at the border of the country and walks to meet with the Border Tribe, carrying a body bag behind him. W'Kabi goes to speak with him and asks what the bag is for. Killmonger claims it is just a "gift", and W'Kabi looks down to see the body of his parents' killer, Ulysses Klaue. Pleased but stunned, he asks the apparent foreigner who he is.
* Everett Ross wakes a little over 24 hours after receiving his bullet wound. Remembering what happened, he reaches for his back, but finds no injury. He confusedly gets up, not understanding where he is or what is happening, and goes over to the only person in sight: Shuri. Shuri is startled by him, but answers his questions, explaining that he is indeed in Wakanda, and that their advanced technology has allowed her to do what he previously thought impossible: heal a bullet wound in just one day. He learns that T'Challa was in fact hiding the truth from him, as Wakanda is overflowing with vibranium resources, with Shuri excitedly showing him inventions such as the magnetic levitation train and sonic stabilizers which temporarily deactivate vibranium and allow it to be transported. She then receives a message from Okoye via her Kimoyo Beads, informing her that a stranger has shown up at the border claiming to have killed Ulysses Klaue. Okoye says that he is also not an outsider, but a Wakandan, showing an image of Killmonger. Ross, however, recognizes him and says that he cannot be Wakandan, as he works for the CIA.
* Natasha Romanoff calls Rick Mason and asks for supplies to help her break Sam Wilson, Clint Barton, and Wanda Maximoff out of prison.

#### 4th

* T'Challa sits with Nakia over a valley in Wakanda, and tells her about his father's actions, trying to understand how the man he loved, respected, and looked up to could have acted this way. Nakia reassures him that despite his father's actions, he need not be defined by them - he gets to decide what kind of king he himself is going to be. T'Challa's Kimoyo Beads suddenly receive a message from Shuri, alerting him that they need him to return to the palace immediately.
* T'Challa and Nakia get to Shuri's lab and Everett Ross tells them about the man who has arrived in Wakanda, Erik Stevens, also known as "Killmonger", and his history in the United States Navy SEALs, his numerous kills fighting in Afghanistan, and time in a JSOC ghost unit. Shuri informs her brother of Stevens' War Dogs Tattoo, but that they have no record of him, and T'Challa silently works out the man is N'Jobu's son.
* Killmonger meets with the Tribal Council to announce his intentions. He declares that he wants the throne, and for Wakanda to arm the 2 billion African diaspora around the world with vibranium so they can fight for themselves. T'Challa claims that he is only king of Wakanda and needs to focus on his people, not the people around the world, and quietly tells Killmonger that the only reason he does not have him killed is because he is aware of who he is. When the king then requests that he be taken away, Killmonger then coaxes the Tribal council into asking who he is, and when the River Tribe Elder gives in, he announces his true identity as N'Jadaka, son of N'Jobu. Ramonda questions his truthfulness, but W'Kabi steps forward and presents Killmonger's royal ring, verifying his story. He challenges T'Challa for the throne, and T'Challa decides he must accept.
* **Incoronation of Erik Killmonger**:
	+ Atop Warrior Falls, Zuri gives T'Challa the herb to strip away the powers of the Black Panther ahead of the challenge. Killmonger taunts his cousin, telling him he has killed a multitude of people in the United States of America, Afghanistan, Iraq, and even the continent of Africa just to get to this moment: to earn the opportunity to kill T'Challa.
	+ The challenge begins, with T'Challa using a sword and shield and Killmonger wielding a sword and spear. The two are approximately evenly matched, but T'Challa manages to beat his cousin down, holding his sword over him and requesting that he yield.
	+ Killmonger refuses to give in and gets back on his feet immediately. The duel continues, and T'Challa manages to slash Killmonger's face. However, he becomes only more aggressive in retaliation, fighting back and managing to kick T'Challa down. While the king manages to stand up and resume fighting, Killmonger takes the advantage opportunity, slashing his foe's leg and then his midriff. Finally, he gets in close to T'Challa and uses the spear to stab him in the gut.
	+ Killmonger goes in to kill the king, saying he is avenging his father, when Zuri suddenly steps in to block him. He tells the challenger that he is to blame for N'Jobu's death, not T'Challa, and that if Killmonger is going to kill someone, it should be him. However, Killmonger simply decides to kill both men and spears Zuri in the stomach.
	+ T'Challa cries out at his mentor's murder and crawls to him as he dies, but Killmonger calls out to the witnesses, asking if this defeated and helpless man is really fit to be king, and then picks him up from the ground. He lifts the king onto his shoulders to carry him and walks over to the edge of the waterfall, declaring his victory, then throws his foe over the side to fall to his death.
	+ Shuri and Ramonda are distraught by T'Challa's apparent death, and Nakia ushers them away to safety before Killmonger can take any further action. Killmonger is given the necklace of the king, crowning him as Wakanda's new leader, and the shocked attendees cross their arms in a show of obedience.
* A Jabari fisherman at the bottom of the waterfall is collecting food for the tribe, when he comes across T'Challa, barely alive. He picks him up and takes him to the mountains, and on arrival, M'Baku buries him in snow to keep him comatose, but sustained and alive.
* Nakia goes to see Okoye for help in the fight against Killmonger. However, Okoye refuses, to Nakia's disbelief. The chief of the Dora Milaje becomes emotional, explaining her position: as much as she cared for T'Challa, a fight against the new king is in conflict with her loyalties. She is loyal to the throne, and has to be no matter who sits upon it, so long as they achieved their position through fair means - and Killmonger did, winning in fair ritual combat.
* Nakia goes to collect Everett Ross and get him to safety. She informs him of T'Challa's apparent death and takes him with her to meet with Shuri and Ramonda and get away.
* Killmonger lays down in the City of the Dead to go through the traditional ritual of new kings visiting the Ancestral Plane.
* Shuri and Ramonda hide together and mourn, with Shuri becoming very upset at the deaths of both her father and her brother in such quick succession. Nakia arrives with Ross and informs them of Okoye's refusal to help. She then tells them to wait for her return, as she briefly goes elsewhere.
* Killmonger ingests the Heart-Shaped Herb and is buried in the dirt, as is required for the ritual. He enters the Ancestral Plane, which manifests for him as his 1992 Oakland apartment, and he sees his father, N'Jobu. He laments not taking his son back to Wakanda to get away from the difficult life they had in California, and says that he fears even now, he will not be accepted in Wakanda. Killmonger wakes from the induced state, startled.
* Nakia sneaks through the tunnels she and T'Challa played in as children to get to the City of the Dead. She arrives as Killmonger orders that the heart-shaped herbs be burned, to prevent anyone other than himself from ever becoming the Black Panther. Before the burning begins, Nakia scoops one herb out of the ground, taking it with her.
* Killmonger stands in the City of the Dead as he watches the plants burn around him.

#### 5th

* As morning comes in Wakanda, Killmonger finally takes his seat on the throne. The Tribal Council convenes and discuss Killmonger's plans. W'Kabi explains that the outside world's technology is catching up with theirs, and they need to ensure they are the conquerors rather than letting themselves become the conquered. The new king then sets the Wakandans to work on his plans to use vibranium technology to strong-arm the African diaspora across the world.
* Nakia, Ramonda, Shuri, and Everett Ross arrive at Jabari Land, planning to deliver the Heart-Shaped Herb to M'Baku in hopes that he'll help them fight back. Jabari tribesmen suddenly emerge from hiding places to surround them, and the group are taken to meet with M'Baku.
* Night falls, and the group are taken to meet with M'Baku. They ask for his help, but he shows reluctance, feeling that if T'Challa lost in ritual combat, then the defeat was fair. When Ross tries to interject, M'Baku and the Jabari make heavy gorilla noises to intimidate him, and M'Baku threatens to feed the man to his children, to put him in his place - though he admits after that he is joking, beginning to show the group a softer side. When Nakia offers him the Heart-Shaped Herb, he rejects it and tells them to follow him.
* M'Baku leads the way and shows the group that T'Challa is not, in fact, dead, but they have him preserved in a vegetative state in a mound of snow after their fisherman found him. Ramonda, Shuri, and Nakia are elated, but when they ask to take him away, M'Baku says that he will die if they move him. Nakia realizes that the herb might give him strength, and they prepare the substance. They feed T'Challa the herb and bury him completely with the snow, allowing him to visit the Ancestral Plane once again.
* In the Ancestral Plane, T'Challa speaks with T'Chaka once more. He confronts his father about the decision he made to abandon Erik Stevens as a child. T'Chaka insists that he made the decision to protect the stability of the people, but T'Challa tells him he was wrong in that action, and that he was wrong in all his negligence towards the rest of the world.
* T'Challa wakes and happily reunites with his family and friends.
* Dawn breaks in Wakanda, and Nakia updates T'Challa on Killmonger's actions. Shuri returns the Panther Habit to her brother and tells him she will fight by his side, with Nakia and Everett Ross agreeing to help in the battle as well. T'Challa then asks to speak to M'Baku before they leave.
* T'Challa asks M'Baku for help - to offer Jabari tribesmen to fight for his cause in retaking the throne of Wakanda from Killmonger, whose actions are far too dangerous. M'Baku says that he owed T'Challa a great debt in sparing him at the coronation duel, but that he has repaid it in saving him, and he will not offer Jabari lives in a fight that is not theirs.

#### 6th

* A few hours later, Killmonger sets his plan into motion, preparing ships to distribute vibranium weaponry to the African diaspora, with W'Kabi's help. The first ship takes off, but does not make it far before suddenly falling out of the sky. Confused, Killmonger looks on at the wreckage on Mount Bashenga and sees the Black Panther emerge from behind it, climbing over the top and making his way towards his cousin. Okoye expresses her delight at her king and friend's survival. T'Challa lets down his helmet to talk with Killmonger, calling out that he never yielded, and since his is not dead, their challenge is not yet over. Killmonger insists that that is of no consequence and orders the remaining ships to launch.
* **Battle of Mount Bashenga**:
	+ W'Kabi remains loyal to Killmonger and sends the Border Tribe to attack T'Challa, but the Dora Milaje, led by Okoye, turn on the usurper and fight back. T'Challa begs his friend to stop the fight, but W'Kabi refuses, blowing a horn to summon war rhinoceroses.
	+ Nakia, Shuri, and Ross return to Shuri's lab. Nakia reluctantly dons a Dora Milaje armor to wear for protection while Shuri gives Ross brief instructions for flying a Wakandan ship, so that he can help take down Killmonger's ships of vibranium weaponry. Shuri takes her Vibranium Gauntlets and the women leave to join the fight.
	+ In his fight with the Dora Milaje, Killmonger defeats one of the women. He slits her throat gleefully, enraging the remaining warriors further.
	+ Shuri reaches the land and uses the gauntlets to blast opponents out of the way. USing a communication device, she gives Ross further instructions to pilot the ship, and he takes off to stop Killmonger's ships from leaving.
	+ Black Panther continues to fight alongside the Dora Milaje against the Border Tribe, taking down one of the rhinoceroses.
	+ Okoye and her fellow warriors seemingly beat Killmonger in battle and trap him with their spears, but when they press in further, his suit absorbs the kinetic energy and then blasts it back, sending the women flying.
	+ Everett Ross, meanwhile, begins shooting at the ships trying to leave Wakanda, in hopes of stopping them.
	+ As he fights, Black Panther is caught off guard and hit by a Border Tribe rhinoceros. His suit falters and he struggles to get back up.
	+ Killmonger bests Nakia in combat, so Shuri tries to fight herself. While her gauntlets are initially successful, they begin to malfunction, and her cousin beats her down.
	+ Border Tribesmen attack T'Challa while he is incapable of fighting back, but the kinetic energy begins to be stored again in the Panther Habit. As he is attacked, T'Challa sees his sister in peril and finds it in himself to get back up, wanting to help her. He lets out another kinetic blast and goes to save her.
	+ As Killmonger moves in to kill Shuri, T'Challa suddenly leaps to tackle him, and the two men fall into the Great Mound together.
	+ T'Challa communicates with Shuri and asks her to turn on the maglev train, knowing its sonic stabilizers interfere with their Panther Habits and will make his opponent more vulnerable. Shuri points out that he will also be exposed, but T'Challa is confident and Shuri activates the train with her Remote Access Kimoyo Beads. As it goes past, the men are separated either side of the track. T'Challa tells Killmonger he has become the thing he hates and will see the world divided, but Killmonger claims he owes the world nothing, as it took everything away from him, and now he is simply settling the score with T'Challa, killing everyone he cares about. The end of the train passes and, angered, T'Challa prepares to engage his cousin again.
	+ As Ross continues to go after Killmonger's ships, an enemy ship arrives outside Shuri's lab and begins shooting at the glass protecting him.
	+ As the battle on Mount Bashenga continues, the Border Tribe encircle the greatly outnumbered forces fighting for T'Challa. They activate their energy shields and close in on the group to finish the fight.< Just as all seems lost, the Jabari Tribe arrive, having had a change of heart, and attack the Border Tribe from the side. T'Challa's allies escape the circle and become able to fight back.
	+ T'Challa and Killmonger continue to duel in the Great Mound.
	+ The ship Everett Ross is remotely flying is attacked by Killmonger's forces. It starts to fail, but Shuri advises Ross via communication devices on how to escape. He controls the ship to let out a sonic overload, breaking free of the enemy ships' restraints. The ship begins to fall, but it reboots just in time to not crash. Ross then manages to shoot down the final ship just in time to leave Shuri's lab before Killmonger's forces can break through the glass, and gets himself to safety.
	+ W'Kabi charges at M'Baku on a rhinoceros, but just as he is about to hit the Jabari chief, Okoye steps in to stop her husband. Recognizing Okoye as a friend, the rhinoceros stops, and Okoye then holds her spear up to W'Kabi. W'Kabi sadly asks his wife if she would really be willing to kill him, but, loyal as always, the general says that if it were for the country of Wakanda, there is no question. He reluctantly drops his weapon, leading the Border Tribe to submit, and ending the Battle of Mount Bashenga.
* **Duel in the Great Mound**:
	+ The maglev train passes again and T'Challa and Killmonger are forced to one side of the track as they fight. Killmonger pushes his cousin to the edge to throw him over the side, but T'Challa resists. However, as soon as the train finishes passing, he then makes a sudden move in retaliation, twisting around Killmonger to get back onto the track and simultaneously striking his cousin's arm, knocking his knife out of his hand and into the air. As T'Challa gets around him, he catches the knife as it falls back down and swings it into Killmonger's chest.
	+ Killmonger accepts his defeat, reluctantly admitting T'Challa has impressed him with his skill. He tells T'Challa that his father told him that Wakanda was the most magnificent place in the world, and he had always wanted to see it in its beauty. As a show of empathy for his cousin, knowing that his father is greatly responsible for Killmonger's troubled life, T'Challa decides to help his cousin and carries Killmonger to the elevator up to the surface.
	+ The cousins rise on the elevator and out into the light. T'Challa stands and Killmonger kneels on the rocks to witness the beautiful sunset over Wakanda, as N'Jobu had told him stories of for all his childhood. T'Challa offers him healing, saying that they will be able to help him if he lets them, but Killmonger asks what purpose this would serve, if they will only end up locking him up. He asks that he be allowed one last request: that the Wakandans bury him in the ocean, with their slave ancestors who drowned themselves knowing, as he does, that death was better than bondage. He succumbs to his wound and dies watching the sun go down.

#### 7th

* T'Challa reclaims the throne of Wakanda and prepares to set things right, choosing to make changes in the country from the lessons he has learned from his cousin.
* Nakia walks with T'Challa in the Wakandan market, and he thanks her for her help in the Battle of Mount Bashenga. He then leans in and kisses her, and she reciprocates, their relationship rekindled. The king then asks Nakia that she stay in Wakanda instead of returning to spy work, telling her that he has an idea for how she can still do what she is passionate about while staying home.
* Believing that it is the best course of action to protect those she loves, Daisy Johnson leaves S.H.I.E.L.D. to become the rogue vigilante later known as "Quake". She flies to California to pursue leads on the Watchdogs.
* Steve Rogers sends a package to the Avengers Compound, containing a burner cell phone and a letter for Tony Stark for the next time he returns there.

#### 8th

* Rick Mason travels to two places in different time zones, attempting to fulfill a request by Natasha Romanoff.

#### 9th

* Rick Mason travels to two places in different time zones, attempting to fulfill a request by Natasha Romanoff.
* Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes plan an attack on the Raft for the next day to liberate Clint Barton, Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff, and Scott Lang.
* With the United Nations Vienna International Centre rebuilt after Helmut Zemo's bombing in June, T'Challa revisits the site of his father's death to address the organization. He speaks in front of them, telling them that he is ready for Wakanda to show the world what it has to offer and engage with them more freely. When a committee member questions what a third-world country could have of particular value, Everett Ross, who is in attendance, smiles at T'Challa to give him the cue to reveal the incredible secrets of Wakanda. T'Challa happily begins.

#### 10th

* Quake is involved in an incident in San Francisco, California.
* Rick Mason visits a place in a different time zone than he was in the day before. He then goes to where he is planning to meet Natasha Romanoff.
* Natasha Romanoff rides a motorcycle to meet Rick Mason in Ohio, during the trip she stops and sees some children playing as the Avengers, one little girl pretends to fire a Black Widow's Bite, Romanoff reciprocates.
* Upon meeting Mason, she finds him sleeping. Romanoff makes fun of Mason, who says that he has been in several time zones over the past three days. Romanoff continues to make fun of Mason, who shows her a Quinjet. Romanoff says that she is impressed and that Mason is a good friend. Mason asks where she is going to go, and Romanoff says that she is going to attempt to help bring the Avengers back together. She walks over to the Quintet and takes off.
* Lightning bugs fly near a tree.
* Rhodes begins physical therapy, learning to use an exosuit that will help him walk again after he broke his back.
* While Tony Stark helping him, Rhodes falls to the ground and refuses to get up. He tells Stark that he signed the Sokovia Accords because the was the right thing to do, but still feels horrible about how the debate turned out. Helping his friend back on his feet, Stark receives the package containing the phone and letter from Rogers. James Rhodes mocks him for the FedEx driver mistakenly calling him "Tony Stank".
* **Escape from the Raft**:
	+ Romanoff helps Rogers and Barnes from elsewhere, keeping Everett Ross distracted in Germany. Flying over the Raft, Barnes decides to stay on board as Rogers dives into the water and moves in on the prison. He breaks into the prison and attacks the guards, one of which triggers an alert to Thaddeus Ross.
	+ The guards are knocked out.
	+ Meanwhile, Stark goes to Rogers' room in the Avengers Compound and opens the package. He sits and reads Rogers' letter thoughtfully. The note reads that Rogers is happy that Stark had gone back to the facility, as the Avengers are Stark's family, possibly even more than they are his, and family is important. He apologizes for not telling Stark what he knew about Howard and Maria's death, and notes sadness that they could not agree on the Sokovia Accords. While understanding that Stark may want to cut ties altogether, he asks that they instead spend some time recovering. While their friendship is broken and the Avengers are torn apart, he promises that if Stark ever needs him, he will be but a call away.
	+ Stark then receives a call from Ross about the break-in at the Raft, but Stark simply enjoys irritating him by putting him on hold.
	+ Rogers enters the prison to free his friends, and Sam Wilson smiles as he steps into the light. Broken free, Sam Wilson, Clint Barton, Scott Lang, and Wanda Maximoff thank Rogers.

#### 11th

* Clint Barton is returned to his secret homestead and reunites with his family, resuming his retirement.
* The team then travel to San Francisco, where they drop Scott Lang home to return to his daughter.
* Barton and Lang hand themselves over to the FBI for their involvement in breaking the Sokovia Accords. Following negotiations between Homeland Security and the German government, it is decided that Lang can remain in the U.S., provided he served 2 years under house arrest, followed by 3 years of probation, while avoiding any unauthorized activities, technology, or contact with his colleagues.

#### 12th

* Finally, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes drop off Wanda Maximoff with Vision, who has learned to make himself appear human, aside from the Mind Stone glowing in his forehead. The two walk off together.

#### 14th

* Quake is involved in an incident in Los Angeles, California.

#### 17th

* Quake is involved in an incident in Death Valley National Park, California.

#### 18th

* Quake is involved in an incident in Las Vegas, Nevada.

#### 20th

* King T'Challa brings his sister, Shuri, to Oakland, California, and takes her to a basketball court. She does not understand his intentions, but he explains that it is the location of N'Jobu's death and where Killmonger grew up, and that now he has bought local buildings to start a Wakandan International Outreach Centre, and wants her to help. He hopes to use their resources to help the impoverished youth and prevent anyone further from suffering Killmonger's tragedies.
* T'Challa then uncloaks a Wakandan jet that descends on the basketball court, impressing the young boys who are playing. One boy walks over to T'Challa, realizing he is likely the owner of the jet, and asks him who he is. T'Challa smiles.

#### 24th

* Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes find shelter in Wakanda, courtesy of King T'Challa. Barnes chooses to be frozen again until his brainwashing can be completely removed, scared of how easy it was to trigger his conditioning.
* Rogers and T'Challa discuss how the authorities will attack Wakanda if the world finds out about Barnes, but T'Challa states that he does not mind, as he wants to help Barnes because he is another victim of Zemo's schemes, just like his father. He and Rogers gaze at a giant statue of a black panther.

#### 26th

* Quake is involved in an incident in Casper, Wyoming.

#### 30th

* Wilson Fisk marks Ray Nadeem as an FBI agent who can, through careful interference in his life, be manipulated into serving him and helping him achieve what he is setting out to do.

### August

#### 1st

* The BR app is released.
* Quake is involved in an incident near Durango, Colorado.

#### 10th

* Peter Parker quits the school band a few weeks before term starts, knowing he is too busy being Spider-Man to still do extra-curricular activities.

#### 11th

* Kate Bishop prepares herself to fight in a fencing tournament. She lunges forward and touches her opponent.

#### 12th

* Quake is involved in an incident in Bismarck, North Dakota.

#### 16th

* *A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits* is released in the United States of America, featuring the song "Stick Up" by Chick Norris.

#### 17th

* Quake is involved in an incident near Phillipsburg, Kansas.

#### 18th

* Stephen Strange approaches Wong in the Kamar-Taj Library, asking for books on astral projection, but he refuses, claiming that he is not ready.
* Stephen Strange uses the Sling Ring to create Inter-Dimensional Portals into the library and steal the books from Wong.

#### 19th

* Adina Johnson starts planning a Roxxon Corporation gala at her job.
* Stephen Strange tries to cast his astral form, but is unable to.

#### 20th

* While helping Stephen Strange train, Master Grem talks to him about how it is surprising that despite reading so much and learning a lot of skills over the past few months, he is still unable to master astral projection. Strange looks in the library again in order to find more information on how to master the astral form, but he is still incapable. Strange tries to astrally project once again, but is distracted by memories of Christine Palmer, reminding him sadly of his previous life.
* Grem recommends to Strange that he focuses over the next weeks on how to master astral projection, which he does.

#### 21st

* Glenn Talbot gives the location of the Playground to President Matthew Ellis, prompting Phil Coulson to begin to consider having to step down as director.

#### 24th

* Quake is involved in an incident near San Angelo, Texas.

#### 25th

* Receiving news about the Inhuman Outbreak, Black Bolt orders Triton to go to Earth to seek out the newly emerged Inhumans and bring them back to Attilan, keeping the mission quiet from the rest of the Inhuman Royal Family.

#### 26th

* **Attack on Triton**: On the island of Oahu, Hawaii, Triton has just found a newly transformed Inhuman, Jane, when they are attacked by a strike team. The team is able to kill Jane and injure Triton as he jumps into the ocean to escape. They believe him to be dead.
* Black Bolt and Medusa wake and look out on Attilan, the secret city of the Inhumans, located on the Moon.
* Gorgon destroys a rover sent by NASA and Callisto Aerospace to explore the Moon. His hoof is caught in the last second of its footage.
* As Gorgon informs the royal family about the rover and insists it is not a problem, on Earth, a center of intelligence tries to analyze why the rover was destroyed - among them, Louise Fisher. Fisher freezes the last frame of the footage, positing that a hoof can be seen.
* In Attilan, Black Bolt, Medusa, and other members of the Inhuman Royal Family attend a Terrigenesis ceremony for two members of society, Iridia and Bronaja, where they are exposed to Terrigen Mist to reveal their Inhuman powers.
* After the process, Iridia receives the ability of flight, while her brother does not believe he has received powers. Maximus, who himself did not receive abilities after his Terrigenesis, goes to console him and touches his shoulder, which suddenly causes Bronaja to have a vision. He tells Maximus of how he has seen him pinned against a wall with "snakes" attacking him.
* Iridia and Bronaja are brought before other citizens of Attilan, who enquire as to what their new powers are. While pleased for Iridia, when they hear of Bronaja's seemingly unimpressive powers, they immediately state that he must go to work in the mines. Maximus speaks out in defense of the boy, sowing seeds of doubt in the citizens about whether the class system they live under is just.
* Thanks to Duodon, an Inhuman with projective powers, Maximus learns of Triton's mission on Earth, and confronts Black Bolt on the matter as the royal family dines together. Black Bolt signs and Medusa translates that he sent Triton to help save Inhumans who had undergone Terrigenesis from the recent Terrigen outbreak on Earth and bring them back to Attilan to live without fear of being prosecuted.
* Angry and saddened to hear that Triton may be dead, his cousin Gorgon travels to Earth to find him, taken by Lockjaw, the royal family's giant teleporting Inhuman bulldog.
* Black Bolt retreats to his chambers to think about the next course of action.
* Maximus approaches Medusa to ask if she regrets choosing to marry Black Bolt over him. Offended, Medusa attacks Maximus with her prehensile hair, pinning him against the wall. Maximus realizes that this is the vision Bronaja had spoken of earlier, the "snakes" representing Medusa's hair, and that the boy has obtained powers of precognition.

#### 27th

* Maximus meets with Kitang, a member of the Genetic Council, and informs him that he is planning to lead a coup so as to remove the king from his throne. Maximus asks Kitang to tell the council, but Kitang refuses and accuses him of treason, ordering Auran to arrest him. Auran instead kills Kitang, revealing her true allegiance with Maximus, and the Uprising in Attilan begins.
* **Coup in Attilan**:
	+ As Gorgon continues to search for Triton, the strike team who hunted his cousin the day before finds him. They receive orders from Maximus, who is communicating with them from the Moon, to take him down.
	+ Karnak is ambushed by a group of Inhuman soldiers who claim they are sent by "King" Maximus. He uses his powers of perceiving flaws to analyse the situation, calculating the best possible maneuvers to subdue his attackers.
	+ Gorgon is attacked in Hawaii, but manages to stomp his hoof to take down the entire strike team.
	+ Karnak visits Crystal to warn her of Maximus' intentions, and Crystal has Lockjaw take Karnak to Earth for safety immediately, despite his protests.
	+ Maximus ambushes Medusa with Auran and her team. They manage to catch her off guard and depress her powers, taking advantage of the opportunity to shave her head, thus robbing her of her powers.
	+ Lockjaw takes Medusa away to Earth, helping her escape Attilan.
	+ Maximus' team then go to apprehend Black Bolt, but he is taken to Earth by Lockjaw before they can attack.
* Realizing they have all been stranded and separated on Earth, the Inhuman Royal Family worry about their situation. Karnak and Medusa both set out to find Black Bolt and reunite.
* Black Bolt arrives on Earth as Lockjaw appears on a road in Hawaii, causing chaos as the cars swerve to avoid him. He is confused by the technology he finds, and eventually flees the scene.
* Lockjaw returns for Crystal but is unable to save her as she is apprehended and he is ambushed and rendered unconscious.
* Medusa contacts Black Bolt using the Com-Link. He holds the device to his chest so that she can hear his heartbeat to know he is safe, to her relief. When Medusa then hears traffic from his device, she realizes that he, too, is on Earth, and goes to board a bus to try to find him.
* Maximus attempts to convince Crystal to join him in his revolution, but she refuses.
* When he tries to get off the mountain he has landed on, Karnak falls and is knocked out. This causes him to temporarily lose some of his abilities.
* Gorgon walks into the sea while searching for Triton and ends up nearly drowning. He is saved by a group of surfers and is brought ashore.
* The group of surfers talk to Gorgon, with one asking him if he is one of the Inhumans he has read about recently. Gorgon reveals that he is, and tells of how he was trying to find his cousin. He also reveals that his home is the Moon, to the surfers' surprise.
* Louise Fisher investigates the recent energy anomalies in Hawaii and realizes that four beings have transported down to the islands from the location on the Moon where the rover was taken out.
* Fisher's boss does not find her theory convincing, and requests she leave the project.
* Karnak wakes up and continues to search his king, Black Bolt, using his powers to find compass directions and the safest paths.
* Auran delivers food to Crystal, but Crystal threatens her in return. Crystal manages to steal Auran's Com-Link before she leaves and uses it to contacts Medusa, who receives the call on the bus, and informs her sister that she is on Earth. When Crystal reveals how she got the Com-Link, Medusa realizes that Auran will have let her get it intentionally as a trap so that Crystal would contact her and they can trace the call. Medusa destroys her own Com-Link, but not before advising her sister to be ready and alert.
* Gorgon decides from his conversation with the surfers that the best course of action is to use his Com-Link to contact Maximus, hoping it will be tracked so that he can bring the fight directly to him, instead of waiting to be attacked.
* Fisher packs for a flight to Hawaii to investigate the visitors from the Moon first hand.
* Karnak begins to struggle with using his powers, and wonders what might be happening to him.
* Maximus orders Auran to go to Earth and kill the rest of the Inhuman Royal Family.
* Auran convinces Eldrac to send her to Medusa's location.
* **Arrest of Black Bolt**: Black Bolt, not understanding Earth customs, shoplifts clothes from a store. Black Bolt is arrested by the Honolulu Police Department after the traffic disturbance and shoplifting. He is beaten, and unintentionally lets out a small grunt of pain, causing a car to flip from the sonic waves of his powers. Onlookers film the incident.
* Using Bronaja's abilities, Maximus discovers that the Genetic Council is planning to kill him, so he decides to attack them first.
* In order to investigate the recent events, Louise Fisher arrives in Hawaii. She watches the news about Black Bolt.
* Maximus threatens the Genetic Council, warning them against rebellion.
* Maximus tries to convince Crystal to join him, reminding her how her parents were murdered when they tried to change the way things were made on Attilan, and that turning on Black Bolt would be honoring them.
* Auran mercilessly breaks a bus driver's neck as she searches for Medusa.
* **Attack on Medusa**: Medusa ambushes Auran and a fight begins.
* Black Bolt is questioned in the police precinct, but cannot speak to answer any questions.
* Queen Medusa eventually defeats Auran, stabbing and killing her for her betrayal.
* As Black Bolt has his mug shot taken, Medusa contacts him one last time on the com-link, assuring him that she is coming for him.
* Maximus visits the mines to speak with the people of the lower caste whom he is freeing from oppression.
* Maximus then addresses the people of Attilan with a speech, as their new king. Meanwhile, Crystal sadly looks at a photo of her parents, thinking over Maximus' words to her, and Black Bolt is imprisoned in Hawaii.
* Auran heals, coming back to life and recovering from her wound. She requests Maximus send back up to help her take out the Royal Family.

#### 28th

* In the Declan Research Facility, Dr. Evan Declan is notified of the existence of an Inhuman who has caused a great uproar - Black Bolt. Declan is interested in this and contacts a criminal from the prison in Hawaii. In exchange for a favor, Dr. Declan will clean up his record.
* Black Bolt recalls how his father talked to him about the importance and responsibilities of being king.
* Louise Fisher tries to get information about the Inhuman who has caused the uproar, but gets nothing.
* Black Bolt is sent to the general area of the prison.
* Medusa attempts to obtain money by commanding an ATM, not understanding the human system.
* Gorgon and the other soldiers he has befriended prepare for a fight with Maximus' army.
* Maximus tries to convince Crystal again and asks her to make a statement of support before the Genetic Council. She says that she has decided to accept, on the condition that Maximus keeps his word of bringing the Inhuman Royal Family back safely.
* Maximus asks Auran to eliminate Gorgon. To help her, he considers freeing Mordis, a dangerous, locked-up Inhuman. Before releasing the prisoner, Maximus tries to induce a vision from Bronaja so as to determine any potential dangerous consequences, but the boy sees nothing. Seeing this as a sign that they will be safe, Maximus lets Mordis out, and he does not attack. Maximus welcomes him, and Mordis joins Auran and backup soldiers to head to Earth.
* Having previously threatened Eldrac into submission, the team then use his powers to travel from Attilan to Hawaii to track down Gorgon.
* Karnak is assaulted by a group of drug harvesters and kidnapped. Waking, tied up, he attempts to use his power of flaw perception to escape, but to his surprise, he miscalculates and fails. Karnak begins to wonder if his fall has affected his abilities.
* Other inmates provoke Black Bolt in prison, jeering in an attempt to get him to speak or retaliate. Black Bolt, however, manages to remain calm and silent.
* Impatient, Mordis gets Flora, an Inhuman in Auran's team, to clear a path and help speed up their search for Gorgon.
* Medusa sneaks into a nearby house, where she takes clothing, money, and food. She also finds that morning's Sunday newspaper, informing her of the incident her husband had caused the day before, and his arrest.
* The group of drug harvesters discuss what to do about Karnak, with Reno suggesting simply killing him. However, Jen and Ted object, coming to an agreement to simply keep an eye on him.
* Black Bolt is taken to the same cell as the inmate who has been paid by Evan Declan, Sammy.
* Black Bolt tells him with signs that he cannot speak, and Sammy poses different options for how he got his powers: experimentation, a bite from a radioactive bug, until eventually guessing he is an Inhuman, which Black Bolt confirms. Sammy, instead of fighting him, warns him to be careful, and to prepare himself to escape as soon as they can.
* Gorgon's team ambushes Auran's from above. Just as Gorgon seems to be winning the battle, Auran calls for Mordis, who releases energy blasts on their opponents. With a stomp of his hoof, Gorgon knocks his enemies unconscious and manages to escape with his comrades, but finds one of them, Lucky, fatally wounded. He carries him away, but Lucky would later die from his wounds.
* Jen, the only woman in the group of harvesters, gives Karnak first aid for his injuries. When she asks about his tattoos, he explains that they were made when he was a teenager, when he thought they were a great idea. They start a conversation, resulting in Karnak revealing that he currently feels useless without his full abilities, and that if he is not useful to his family anymore, he would like to stay with the harvesters.
* In order to keep investigating the mysterious events from the Moon, Louise Fisher visits the jail where Black Bolt is being held and asks for a meeting with him, but is denied access. Following this, Fisher decides to wait outside the facility.
* Phil Coulson officially agrees with Glenn Talbot that he will step down from the role of director soon to return to the field.
* Sammy is taken to Black Bolt's cell, and they play chess together.
* In Attilan, Maximus asks for an edict from the Genetic Council to abolish the caste system. When they refuse, he reveals that he has the support of Princess Crystal. Crystal asks Maximus if she can see Lockjaw before she gives her speech, but he refuses. Stepping forwards, she begins speaking to support her brother-in-law, but suddenly changes the words, renouncing his actions. She uses her powers to freeze Maximus' guards' weapons and escape. Tired, Maximus does not chase Crystal, but declares to the people that he would never turn his back on the Inhumans as, he claims, the Royal family has done.
* Crystal finds and wakes Lockjaw and teleports to Hawaii to find her sister.
* The harvesters vote 2-to-1 to release Karnak, and they tell him that he can stay with them a while if he is useful.
* **Escape from Oahu County Correctional Facility**:
	+ In the prison, the guards try to start a fight between Black Bolt and the rest of the prisoners, but instead find that the men have found a mutual respect for each other. One guard then chooses to try to intimidate Black Bolt himself, and a prison brawl suddenly breaks out between the prisoners and the guards. Sammy takes advantage of the situation to take Black Bolt and escape.
	+ Sammy reaches a metal door that the duo cannot break through and decides to reveal to Black Bolt that he, too, has powers. He begins melting the door, saying that he, like his new friend, is a "freak".
	+ Black Bolt escapes with Sammy in Dr. Declan's helicopter, just as Medusa arrives at the prison too late and tries in vain to call to her husband. Louise Fisher, who has witnessed the whole escape, approaches Medusa in an attempt to get information, but Medusa instead coerces her to help pursue the helicopter.
* Crystal arrives on Earth with Lockjaw, who falls to the ground, exhausted. The driver of an oncoming truck notices them too late and does not stop fast enough, crashing into Lockjaw and leaving the dog wounded.
* Evan Declan, who is working for Maximus, not knowing his malicious intentions, flies Black Bolt and Sammy to his research facility.
* Medusa and Fisher follow the helicopter in Fisher's car, with Medusa threatening her with a gun to make her comply. When police cars begin following, Medusa turns and shoots at them, seeing them simply as more enemies of her and her husband, and not understanding the ramifications.
* On Attilan, Maximus confronts his old friend Tibor, a member of the Genetic Council, about abandoning him after his Terrigenesis. Afraid, Tibor promises that he is still Maximus' friend.
* Crystal worries about Lockjaw's safety after he was hit by the driver, Dave. She orders him to contact a doctor, and Dave decides to call his ex-girlfriend, Audrey, a veterinary technician.
* After losing the helicopter, Louise Fisher tells Medusa how worried she is about her shooting at cop cars. Medusa simply orders her to make sure she tracks down the helicopter.

#### 29th

* Trying to find a way to achieve astral projection, Doctor Strange meets with one of the Masters of the Mystic Arts, B'sso. He advises Strange to clear his mind.
* Now following the advice of B'sso, Strange attempts again, making his mind blank. However, he still fails.
* Declan starts to analyze Black Bolt's DNA. He is amazed by the nature of the Inhuman's powers, but Black Bolt is interested in nothing but finding Medusa. Declan tells him that he will help find her. In the meantime, Declan contacts Maximus and tells him about the recent events on Hawaii involving Black Bolt. Maximus pretends not to know his brother and advises Declan to kill him. The doctor refuses, informing him that he might be able to harvest Black Bolt's DNA to find the secret to the second Terrigenesis that Maximus desires.
* Jen shows Karnak her crops, and the two begin to develop a romantic bond, to Reno's anger.
* Gorgon travels with his new Hawaiian friends. He tells them that he feels responsible for Lucky's death and requests that they leave, for their safety, but they refuse.
* Meanwhile, Auran, Mordis, and two other Inhumans continue to hunt down Gorgon.
* Medusa tells Louise Fisher to work faster, frustrating Fisher. They hear police outside, and Fisher realizes that they have tracked her and Medusa's location based on Fisher's credit card use. They pack up to leave as fast as possible.
* Maximus asks the Genetic Council for their loyalty as he endeavors to find a way to give himself the Inhuman gene again, but they refuse, to Maximus' disappointment, especially considering his supposed friend, Tibor, being part of the group.
* As they escape, Louise Fisher realizes she has left her rocket toy, containing her father's ashes, behind. Medusa offers to return for it, and manages to take it without being caught. The duo flee from the scene together.
* Talbot begins the search for a new director of S.H.I.E.L.D., while starting up the secret "Project Patriot", creating a serum derived from Calvin Zabo's Formula to give the new director so as to enhance them with super strength and durability.
* Crystal meets Dave's ex-girlfriend, the vet tech Audrey, who arrives to check Lockjaw.
* Fisher manages to locate Declan's facility while she eats with Medusa. When she gets distracted, however, Medusa runs off with her laptop in order to locate her husband.
* Maximus calls Auran and reveals Black Bolt's whereabouts to her, but orders her not to kill him.
* Jen takes Karnak to the sea and swims, encouraging him to join her. When he wades into the water, she kisses him.
* Fisher catches up with Medusa and confronts her about being left behind. Fisher talks about her father's ashes inside the rocket toy and explains how he was denied the chance to travel to Moon. Medusa compares both of their fathers, commenting that they both never obtained what they wanted. She tells Louise Fisher that she has decided she likes her, and they proceed to head to Evan Declan's facility.
* Gorgon thinks Locus will use her echolocation powers to lead Auran and Mordis to find them eventually. He leaves his group so as to protect them and find Karnak.
* Dave goes to high-five Crystal and she expresses her surprise, having never touched a human before.
* Jen brings Karnak back to stay in her tent.
* Black Bolt and Sammy deduce Declan's experimental intent after finding poison in the lab. The two Inhumans escape before being confronted by Auran's group.
* Meanwhile, Maximus orders Tibor to prepare for his upcoming Terrigenesis. Maximus' guards kill the rest of the Genetic Council for their refusal to comply.
* Medusa and Louise Fisher arrive at Declan's facility just as Mordis fires at Black Bolt, causing an explosion. Black Bolt escapes with Medusa and Fisher, taking an unconscious Locus with them, intending to get her to help find their family members. Mordis gets back up, still alive.
* Jen and Karnak sleep together in the tent, as Reno kills and buries his colleague, Ted.

#### 30th

* Stephen Strange gives back the books on astral projection, nearly giving up.
* Strange reads another book from Wong. Falling asleep, he accidentally finally astrally projects himself.
* Karnak and Jen wake up together. Karnak is happy to be with her.
* Leaving the tent, Jen's partner, Reno, shoots at Karnak. However, Karnak has recovered his powers, and he manages to split the bullet with a carefully calculated chop of his hand. However, shrapnel from the bullet pierces Jen's side. The duo flee, pursued by Reno, until they fall into Ted's grave, dug by Reno. However, when Reno receives a call, he reluctantly leaves and Karnak and Jen manage to escape.
* On the way down the road, Medusa tells Black Bolt about her hair being cut and he becomes angry at his brother's actions. Suddenly, they hear noises from the trunk and let out Auran's companion, Locus, who is able to use an echo power to locate different Inhumans. Black Bolt grabs her arm to get her to find Karnak.
* Soon, Locus' Com-Link starts ringing, receiving a call from Maximus. Medusa answers and threatens him, telling him that Black Bolt wants to say a few words when he gets home, before Black Bolt breaks the device.
* On the farm, Audrey, the veterinarian, says that Lockjaw's swelling is going down. Crystal asks Lockjaw to teleport them to the place where Lockjaw had left Medusa. Dave joins them, and the trio disappear, stunning Audrey.
* In Dr. Declan's lab, he performs autopsies on Auran and Sakas, who both died in the explosion outside.
* While Gorgon searches for Karnak, he recalls the time he took the American flag from the Moon.
* Reno tries to explain away his colleagues' absence to the men who come to check on the harvest. Not believing his story, they choose to kill him for his betrayal.
* In Attilan, Maximus meets with Tibor, his friend and the new head of the Genetic Council. He asks that he looks for a candidate to help Auran in the fight against Black Bolt.
* Meanwhile, Karnak uses his skills to safely guide the bullet shrapnel out of Jen's side.
* While Dr. Declan studies the DNA he has obtained, Auran returns from death once again and heals herself. She grabs Declan by the neck and enquires about Black Bolt. When Declan's partner tries to save him, she takes his scalpel and sticks it in through his eye and into his head, killing him on the spot.
* Karnak and Jen return to the camp, but on arrival, Karnak begins to have doubts, and fears this, having always been certain of his choices ever since Terrigenesis. Jen encourages him and makes him understand that it is not bad to have doubts.
* Maximus orders Auran to cooperate with Evan Declan, and find the Royal Family, and lets her know that she will receive reinforcements.
* Sammy, who was captured after the skirmish at the lab, tries to escape from Mordis, but does not make it far before he is recaptured. Mordis receives a call from Auran asking him to return to Declan's lab.
* Lockjaw arrives on a beach with Crystal and Dave. There, Crystal tells Dave about her life in Attilan and how protective her sister is. In response, Dave teaches Crystal to be more spontaneous and to relax.
* In the camp, Karnak and Jen see no sign of Reno, so Karnak starts training. When they notice some packages and hear a car approaching, they decide to hide. Karnak asks Jen to stay behind while he tries to ambush the harvesters, while they - the same who killed Reno - load the packages.
* As night draws in, the harvesters continue to load the packages. Karnak appears and attacks them, leaving them all unconscious. Jen burns the packages and starts to run when the man who killed Reno suddenly hits Karnak, knocking him out.
* Locus uses her power and notes that they are close to Karnak. Medusa discusses the political system in Attilan with Locus, defending it despite Locus' criticisms and claiming that it brings order to their city.
* In Attilan, Tibor gives Maximus the list of Inhumans who could help Auran efficiently. Everyone, except Bronaja's father, was not happy with the mission. Tibor, in addition, tells him that many wonder if all this is in fact for Maximus simply to conquer Attilan and not for caring reasons. Maximus excuses himself, before talking to the statue of his father. He becomes maddened and starts to shout, exclaiming that he feels that he is doing what Agon would have done.
* Karnak is tied up and the harvesters begin to beat and interrogate him. Gorgon then arrives, finally having found his cousin, and, with a stomp, sends the harvesters flying outwards. After subduing the others, Gorgon frees Karnak and Jen, and they escape through the jungle.
* Meanwhile, Auran and Mordis rendezvous. Auran tells him that they are no longer hunting Black Bolt.
* Hearing gunshots, Gorgon and Karnak prepare themselves, but Medusa, Locus, Black Bolt, and Louise Fisher appear, safe, having shot at their assailants. Jen leaves Karnak, telling the group that she will call the police anonymously.
* Karnak laments the end of the relationship after 1 day, 6 hours, and 46 minutes.
* Locus collapses with a fatal wound, having been shot. Before she dies, she asks Black Bolt to change for the good of Attilan, and confesses that she knows Crystal is on the island.
* In Attilan, hooded figures corner Tibor.
* Tibor believes they have been sent by Maximus, but when, in his fear, his actions show that he is not aligned with Maximus out of choice, they reveal that they are actually rebelling against the new king, and ask him to join them.
* Maximus has a nightmare in which the Inhuman Royal Family returns together to take back Attilan. He wakes up, tormented.
* Crystal returns to the barn with Dave, where Audrey tells her that Lockjaw's wound has gotten worse. Crystal argues with the veterinarian, who claims that she and her family should be registered. When Audrey threatens to take a photo for the police, Crystal uses her abilities to burn her cell phone.
* Crystal then decides to find somewhere to create lightning as a signal to her family.
* Louise Fisher tells the Royal Family that she found them because of the energy signals they left, and that Crystal should have left them as well, which would help them find her. Black Bolt communicates that he wants to kill Maximus when they return, but Medusa advises him to leave his brother alive. Fisher interrupts, telling them that Crystal must be in the north of the island.
* Medusa's Com-Link rings, and she answers to Auran, who says that she has Sammy and Declan as hostages. Black Bolt decides that Karnak and Gorgon will rescue them from the laboratory where they are being held, while he and Medusa will go looking for Crystal.
* Bronaja's father, Loyolis, tells his son how proud he is of being part of Maximus' mission, but his son tells him that he does not want him to go.
* Maximus encourages his new troops to help Auran and sends them through Eldrac's gateway. Tibor wonders how the people will react to the attack, but Maximus responds that they will see that he treats the citizens as equals and that if the soldiers die, his people will hate Black Bolt more for killing them.
* Tibor speaks to a fellow rebel, who says that they must kill Maximus.
* Louise Fisher is forced to stop the car after they enter a road cut. Black Bolt is upset by what Medusa had replied in the forest, whens he suggested not killing Maximus. She clarifies that she is protecting him, and that his people must be the ones to decide Maximus' fate.
* Tibor asks Maximus to speak privately and warns him of a group of rebels he claims to have become aware of so as to gain his trust, advising Maximus to take care of them. Maximus at first does not believe him, but in the end asks him to gather information.
* In Evan Declan's laboratory, Auran informs the new troops about how to proceed. Noticing a scar on her hand, Declan warns Auran that there will come a time and a point at which she will not be able to regenerate anymore.
* Upon reaching the highest point on the island, Crystal invokes a series of lightning bolts to help Medusa find her. Medusa, meanwhile, notices and realizes that Crystal is influencing the weather.
* In response to Louise Fisher's questions, as they walk, Medusa tells her that the Inhumans left Earth many years ago so as to hide for protection.
* In Attilan, Bronaja wonders why Maximus cares about the rebels, but he explains that he is worried about what comes after a revolt. Maximus suspects that Tibor is the main instigator, so he provokes another vision from him.
* Bronaja claims to only see Tibor and Maximus having further conversation, but not more, suggesting that they can trust Tibor. Maximus apologizes for the pressure he has put on the boy, and asks him to be present when he meets with Tibor.
* Gorgon and Karnak arrive at Evan Declan's laboratories. While infiltrating the facility, Karnak tells Gorgon that his powers are failing. Gorgon, however, suggests that he goes ahead anyway and feign confidence, as their opponents do not know of his difficulties.
* After this, Gorgon cuts the electricity while Karnak walks into the laboratory. Auran hesitates, not sure whether or not to fire, as she believes their opponents have a plan and will turn the situation against them. She asks Mordis for help when Karnak suddenly knocks out one of her soldiers. Mordis looks for Karnak, but Gorgon distracts him as Karnak ambushes him and knocks him unconscious. The duo go on to release Sammy and continue searching for Auran, not aware of her reinforcements. Karnak meets Loyolis and subdues him as Gorgon confronts Auran and they begin to fight.
* Auran eventually gives up, remembering her potential vulnerability when she sees her scar. Karnak releases Evan Declan and he asks about Maximus and his true intentions.
* Meanwhile, Dave confesses to Crystal that he will miss her. He ends up kissing Crystal, just as Medusa and Black Bolt appear and interrupt them.
* In Declan's laboratory, Mordis awakes and, scared of the possibility of being locked up again, tries to take off his mask and attack. Gorgon grabs him to stop the attack while everyone flees the building. As soon as they have escaped, he stomps, causing the roof to collapse and killing both Mordis and himself.
* Dave, Crystal, and the others arrive at Lockjaw's barn. As they hear sirens, Dave tries to buy time, realizing that Audrey has alerted the police about Crystal. Medusa asks Fisher to work with Dave to stall the police, and the three Inhumans teleport away with Lockjaw. Audrey, having arrived with the officers, opens the barn to find only Louise Fisher and Dave, with the duo claiming that they were dating and were locked up by Audrey.
* The trio arrive at Dr. Declan's laboratory. Black Bolt sees Mordis' mask on the ground and finds Karnak holding Gorgon's corpse. The Inhuman Royal Family are shocked by their family member's death.
* In Attilan, the rebels appear before Maximus and Tibor, but they are ambushed by the Attilan Royal Guard.
* Maximus cuts Tibor's throat, certain of his betrayal, and orders the guards to take the rebels.
* Bronaja worries about what will happen to them, and Maximus asks Bronaja if, in his vision, he actually saw him holding a knife to Tibor. Maximus reassures the boy, telling him that it was alright to be scared and lie, since fear is a great motivator, but he wants his loyalty now. Painting Bronaja's face with Tibor's blood, he forces him to say, "Long live King Maximus."
* Auran's team flees from Evan Declan's lab, followed closely by the Inhuman Royal Family. As they run, Lockjaw appears ahead with Crystal to corner them. Declan informs the Royal Family of everything he did for Maximus, and explains that he did not know his intentions.
* The Royal Family come to the realization that Maximus wants to go through a second Terrigenesis, and that he may have killed the Genetic Council.

#### 31st

* Strange goes to train with the Masters of the Mystic Arts.
* In the morning, the Inhuman Royal Family wraps Gorgon in a sheet. Black Bolt wants to send a message to Maximus, so Karnak decides to kill Auran and send her dead body before she comes back. Medusa becomes angry, feeling that they should not stoop to that level.
* In the Attilan throne room, Maximus asks for a record of his soldiers, when Lockjaw and Crystal suddenly appear before him, asking to negotiate and releasing Auran's team and Auran's dead body. Crystal informs him of Gorgon's death and Maximus agrees to negotiate at midday.
* Strange uses his astral form to read during his sleep.
* In Oahu, the Inhuman Royal Family discuss what they will do upon returning to Attilan. Karnak and Black Bolt plan to kill Maximus, but Medusa is completely opposed to the murder.
* On the beach, Black Bolt orders Lockjaw to call Triton, who appears in the waters beside them. Triton leaps onto land and informs the others that he was ordered by their king to pretend he was still dead, causing Maximus to think that his plan was working, and he expresses sympathy on finding out Gorgon's fate. As their next step, the family plan to travel to the secret Attilan Royal Bunker. Arriving in the Royal Bunker, Medusa expresses her surprise, having never been told of the location's existence. She and Black Bolt argue about his lack of communication as both her king and husband. She requests that the two of them move forward together, and that he tell her his full plan.
* Black Bolt reveals that he wants the family to prepare for the war, and to send Triton to bring Maximus so that they can expose him before the people of Attilan.
* Auran comes back to life beside Maximus. He tells her the objective of the Inhuman Royal Family, and that he will honor the death of Gorgon before their people. She confesses, however, that she found out his desire for a second Terrigenesis to achieve Inhuman powers, and explains that this went against why she had chosen to follow him - that her decision based on the strength he had shown despite his humanity, and for overcoming his limitations and still becoming a great king. Maximus takes offense at this, believing that others may think he is "something to be pitied", and that this will be his legacy.
* In the Royal Bunker, Evan Declan explains to Karnak that Maximus wanted to his DNA spliced with some blood samples to recreate the Inhuman gene. He expresses doubt in what his own role is in the war, but Karnak points out that Black Bolt must have plans for him.
* In the throne room, Maximus pays tribute to the deceased Gorgon with his people. He claims to lament that the family's blindness has led to the death, to spin the story as a result of his family's decision to fight, when all he wanted was peace.
* In the courtyard, the Inhuman Royal Family and Dr. Declan arrive at midday. Maximus meets with Black Bolt in the center.
* Medusa conveys Black Bolt's offers of an amnesty and the opportunity to undergo a second Terrigenesis, so long as he returns the throne of Attilan. Maximus claims to accept, but once his guards have taken Dr. Declan, he rejects the offer. Black Bolt assures him that next time they come to blows, he will kill him. The Royal Family escapes with the help of Lockjaw.
* In a room in Attilan, Dr. Declan shows Maximus samples of the Earth Inhumans who had recently turned. Maximus asks for a list of the powers of each sample so he will be able to choose. Declan warns him that he will have to test and experiment before the process is ready to be undergone, because if anything goes wrong, Maximus could die. Maximus responds by explaining what Terrigenesis is, and what it means to him to not have powers, revealing that he is so desperate that he would rather take the risk than wait.
* Auran informs Maximus that there are electricity and water problems in the subsoil.
* Maximus orders the old technicians to go and repair the system.
* Medusa reminds Black Bolt of how they met at age 14 and what had made them connect: the loss of their parents. Trying to convince him not to kill his brother, she explains that he and Maximus share the same pain.
* Karnak suggests they put Gorgon through a second Terrigenesis to attempt to revive him. Black Bolt and Medusa tell him that it is forbidden, due to possible terrible side effects, such as complete madness.
* Disobeying his king and queen, Karnak goes to the Terrigenesis chamber, where he uses his newly recovered powers to plan an attack and successfully defeats Auran's guards. He asks Auran to cooperate in resurrecting Gorgon with the help of a sample of her healing DNA, and she eventually accepts.
* Crystal shares her experiences on Earth with her sister, admitting that she misses Dave, and that she would like to return to Earth.
* Auran and Karnak put Gorgon in a Terrigenesis chamber. She donates a sample of her blood, but warns Karnak that her powers are no longer so efficient, and Karnak confesses that he had also experienced a knock to his abilities.
* After activating the Terrigenesis, Gorgon remains still, seemingly unaffected. Auran reminds him that recovery takes time, but after some time, Karnak becomes angry and desperate, not seeing any results, and Auran suggests that it has to be assumed that Gorgon is permanently deceased. When they hear people approaching, Auran suggests that they flee, and the two run away separately.
* Evan Declan and Maximus arrive at the Terrigenesis room, with the DNA already implanted, ready for Maximus' attempt to gain Inhuman powers. Maximus begins to tremble, remembering his first Terrigenesis and how his family supported him. Before entering, he realizes that Gorgon is in another chamber, just as tremors begin in the city and a guard warns that there are failures in the control room.
* While Maximus crosses the courtyard, Triton, hiding his face under a hood, defeats each of his guards one by one. Maximus begins to flee until he is cornered by Triton, shocked that his cousin is still alive. The two begin to fight hand-to-hand but Maximus soon falls to the ground.
* Triton takes Maximus to the Royal Bunker, where Black Bolt is waiting for them. Maximus, laughing, warns his brother that, if he kills him, all the people of Attilan will die, as he has a fail-safe in place.
* Evan Declan, who is still in the Terrigenesis chamber, is shocked to witness Gorgon moving, leaving his Terrigenesis chamber, revived but out of his mind. Gorgon grunts and snarls angrily.
* Maximus explains to the Royal Family that if he does not place his palm on a scanner in the control room every hour, the protective dome of Attilan will fail and their home and people will be crushed and destroyed. Black Bolt orders Medusa to prepare an evacuation as their last resort. She goes to Earth with Lockjaw, while Black Bolt leaves with Maximus and Triton.
* Meanwhile, the Royal Guard catches Karnak. They take him to Black Bolt's silent room and lock him up.
* On Earth, Medusa and Lockjaw arrive in Louise Fisher's apartment. She agrees to help, but asks in exchange that she is taken to Attilan.
* Medusa explains the serious situation that Attilan is going through, however, saying that it would not be safe to bring her friend.
* Crazed, Gorgon begins to throw everything he can reach, until he sees Dr. Declan. Declan tries to back away, but Gorgon pushes him into a Terrigenesis chamber, knocking it over and smashing it with the doctor inside, leading to a fatal wound that would soon kill Declan. The Royal Guard appears and one uses his powers to render Gorgon unconscious.
* Black Bolt and Triton carry Maximus through the tunnels while he continues to insult them. As soon as they hear the guards, Triton leaves to find and defeat them, while Black Bolt covers his brother's mouth.
* The Royal Guard throws Gorgon into the silent room, where Karnak is being kept. Confused, Gorgon asks Karnak for help.
* In the tunnels, Maximus reproaches Black Bolt for choosing to become king after killing their parents. Black Bolt recalls the time after his parents' death, when Kitang explained the responsibilities of being king, and how his power would defend them from a powerful enemy, remembering how Maximus was always sent away. As they continue walking, they notice that the city is beginning to tremble, as the dome is weakening.
* Quake is involved in an incident near Nevada, Missouri.
* In the silent room, Karnak reveals to Gorgon that he was the one who resurrected him. Gorgon becomes enraged again and runs at the wall. With the walls being designed to stop sonic waves, not brute force, his charge manages to break through, allowing him and Karnak to escape.
* Crystal, following her sister's plan, asks Eldrac for his help in the imminent evacuation of Attilan.
* Black Bolt and Maximus encounter the Royal Guard. As a fight breaks out, Maximus uses the opportunity to escape with some of the guards.
* Karnak and Gorgon meet with Triton, who updates them both on the current situation, as well as expressing his joy at seeing Gorgon alive.
* Maximus arrives at the Terrigenesis room, where he discovers that Declan has died and that there are no crystals left. He calls, asking to see Bronaja in the Great Hall.
* Maximus urges Bronaja to tell him everything he sees that could possibly be useful, such as where the crystals are or if the Terrigenesis will come to pass. After touching him, Bronaja says that he saw Maximus as the undisputed king of Attilan and that his brother was "gone". After a tremor, Maximus goes to the control room and puts his hand on the scanner to stop the dome's failure temporarily. He then goes with Auran to use the dome to send a message to the population of Attilan, calling for them to capture the Royal Family.
* Meanwhile, on Earth, Louise Fisher, Crystal, and Medusa ask George Ashland for help in organizing the evacuation. Medusa trusts Louise Fisher with the stolen Terrigen Crystals, and, knowing that she cannot go herself, Fisher asks Medusa to at least take the rocket model containing her father's ashes to the Moon. Medusa agrees. The sisters return to Attilan.
* Karnak arrives at the control room and realizes that Maximus may have made a mistake, being unable to actually stop the fall of the dome at this point. Black Bolt then arrives, shocked to see Gorgon alive, and Karnak admits his disloyalty. They meet with Medusa, who asks Karnak to take care of Gorgon, and she asks her husband for the opportunity to persuade Maximus to stop, with the bargaining chip of a Terrigen Crystal.
* In the throne room, Medusa tries to convince Maximus to stop his plan of destruction, offering the crystal if he renounces the throne. On his refusal, she destroys the crystal, enraging Maximus. He orders Auran to kill Medusa, but she refuses, having guaranteed Medusa's safety.
* The Inhuman Royal Family reunite and start to evacuate the people of Attilan. Standing before their citizens, Medusa communicates to them that they want to save them all, and they will put in place a better system where their people's need are put before their own, beginning an era of positive change. She urges them to go to Eldrac and return to their ancestors' home, Earth.
* Maximus watches and vocally opposes this decision, Auran realizes that he is crazed - that he would rather Attilan fall than they escape and be under Black Bolt's reign.
* Eldrac evacuates the people of Attilan.
* The Royal Family gather in the throne room to leave themselves. Black Bolt refuses to go to Earth, wishing to resolve the conflict with his brother, and agrees to meet with them later. Medusa buries the rocket with Louise Fisher's father's ashes on the Moon, as she had promised.
* The Boltagon brothers meet in the control room, and Maximus confesses that he can no longer stop the fall of Attilan. He reveals that he forged the document advocating a brain surgery on Black Bolt 19 years before, wanting to make him believe that their parents had approved it. He had not intended for Black Bolt to kill them in the confrontation that occurred because of the document, and been horrified as he watched it happen.
* Maximus tells Black Bolt to kill him, and he considers it, but eventually decides to knock Maximus unconscious instead, and takes him to the bunker.
* Once Maximus wakes, Black Bolt leaves, locking his brother away. Exiting the building, he turns to whisper, "Goodbye, brother", his voice collapsing, and thus sealing, the entrance of the bunker. Maximus is left alone inside, the undisputed king of an empty kingdom.
* Black Bolt runs to Eldrac and flees to Earth through the last remaining pieces of Eldrac's wall. Eldrac then falls, crumbling and dying with the city.
* The city of Attilan is completely destroyed as the protective dome collapses entirely.
* The Ancient One reveals to Stephen Strange that Wong told her about his stealing from the library. She invites Strange to use the Mirror Dimension to practice further in a space where he cannot affect the real world.
* Thanks to the Callisto Aerospace Control Center, the Inhumans from Attilan have been given a place to live on Earth. In their new home, the Inhuman Royal Family addresses the relocated population of Attilan with a message of hope, welcoming them to Earth, and promising a brighter future.

#### 1st

* Karl Mordo teaches Strange about relics. They proceed to train together, and Mordo warns Strange that one day his life might depend on an ability to fight.

#### 8th

* Peter Parker returns to school following his summer holidays, beginning his sophomore year. On the train to school, he texts Happy Hogan to say that he is available for any missions he is needed for. Hogan continues not to reply, as he has done all summer.
* Flash Thompson is rude to Parker as he arrives at Midtown School of Science and Technology.
* His best friend, Ned Leeds, however, approaches him, revealing he has recently acquired a LEGO Death Star they can build together. Parker tells him he looks forward to making it.
* Peter Parker watches videos of his actions as Spider-Man in Monica Warren's class. When she asks him a question, however, he still manages to answer correctly, angering Thompson, who got it wrong.
* In science class, Parker makes more web fluid instead of doing the classwork.
* Leeds and Parker admire Liz Toomes wistfully during lunchtime as she puts up banner for the upcoming homecoming dance. Michelle Jones catches them looking from across the table, and calls them "losers".
* Toomes, Jones, Thompson, and other students go to a practice session for the upcoming Academic Decathlon. Mr. Harrington tries to convince Peter Parker to come to the national competition, but he insists he is too busy with his "Stark internship". Thompson mocks his claims of spending time with Tony Stark.
* Jeffrey Mace is selected by Glenn Talbot for Project Patriot, and begins preparation to go through the procedure soon.
* Quake is involved in an incident in Atlanta, Georgia.
* After school, Parker visits Mr. Delmar at his delicatessen to buy sandwiches.
* He then changes into the Spider-Man suit in an alleyway, and goes out to help the neighborhood as Spider-Man. He stops a bike thief, but is unable to find the real owner. He performs a flip for onlookers, and gives directions to an old lady. He then tries to stop a man from stealing a car, incorrectly believing he is a thief, and the ruckus caused from the mishap disturbs the neighbors, including the Watcher Informant, posing as a man called Gary.
* **Robbery of the Queens Community Bank**:
	+ Parker returns to his balcony and reports on his activities in a voicemail left for Happy Hogan. He then spots four criminals in the Queens Community Bank attempting to rob the building, and puts his mask back on to go and stop them.
	+ Spider-Man arrives at the scene and finds the robbers are each wearing masks of Avengers: Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, and Captain America. He successfully stops the robbery, but is surprised to find the criminals using very advanced weaponry. A stray blast from one of the weapons hits Delmar's Deli-Grocery across the street, and Spider-Man goes to save Delmar and his cat, Murphy, from the resulting fire.
* Parker calls Happy Hogan, who picks up the phone this time, to report about the dangerous weapons he has encountered. Hogan informs him that he is helping box up items from Avengers Tower, as Stark has sold the building, and they have to pack everything up by next week before moving day in a fortnight, when they will relocate fully to the Avengers Compound in upstate New York.
* Once Parker returns home, he finds his friend Ned Leeds already in his room, and unintentionally reveals that he is Spider-Man. Leeds is very excited to find this out, and Parker promises to explain everything the next day.
* May Parker takes Peter out to a larb dinner, and tries to get him to talk about what is going on in his life. They see the news about the Robbery of the Queens Community Bank earlier that evening, and May tells him to run away if he ever encounters similar events.

#### 9th

* Peter Parker tells Ned Leeds about the spider which bit him in December 2015, giving him his powers.
* Mace begins training for the role of director, which he is set to assume in a little over two weeks' time.
* In gym class, Coach Andre Wilson shows Parker and the other students the Captain America's Fitness Challenge video which Captain America filmed in 2012. The class then perform the exercise routine. When Parker and Leeds overhear Liz Toomes hinting to Betty Brant that she has somewhat of a crush on Spider-Man, Leeds blurts out that Parker knows Spider-Man. They discover that Toomes is hosting a party that evening and they can come, though Flash Thompson, doubting Parker's honesty, tells him to get Spider-Man to appear and say himself that he knows Parker.
* Parker practices how he will enter as Spider-Man at Liz Toomes' party that evening in the mirror. He gets carried away, doing an impression of Thor as well, for his own amusement. He does not know that his suit has an A.I. recording him the whole time because of the "Baby Monitor Protocol" Stark programmed in.
* May Parker drives her nephew and Ned Leeds to Liz's home. Peter is wearing the Spider-Man suit under his clothes, ready to change and make a brief appearance at the party.
* **Chase of Adrian Toomes' Crew**:
	+ Parker changes into his Spider-Man suit, but before he can return to the party, he sees flashes similar to the weaponry from the previous day. He leaves to investigate, and finds an arms deal in progress.
	+ When his phone rings, Spider-Man's presence is revealed, leading to a confrontation with the arms dealers, Jackson Brice and Herman Schultz. The potential buyer, Aaron Davis, watches on as the dealers use their weaponry to fight Spider-Man.
	+ Eventually, their boss, the Vulture, swoops in to end the fight, taking Spider-Man with him.
	+ The parachute in the Spider-Man suit is engaged and pulls him away from the Vulture, but does not deploy well enough to allow him a gentle landing, and Parker falls into the Hudson River. He is saved from drowning by a remotely-controlled Iron Man armor.
* Iron Man explains that he put a tracker in Parker's suit, as well as a heater, allowing him to dry off. He reveals that he is controlling the suit remotely as he is actually in India, and tells Parker to let other people handle the weapons situation, to "stay close to the ground," and to simply be a "friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man," for his own safety.
* Ned Leeds calls Parker again, revealing that it is no longer a good idea for him to attend the party, as in his absence, Flash Thompson has gotten the other attendees to start a chant mocking him.
* Following the confrontation, Adrian Toomes scolds Jackson Brice for being reckless with the weaponry. Brice threatens to leave the gang, so Toomes reaches for the Anti-Gravity Gun to threaten him. However, he picks the wrong weapon and proceeds to disintegrate Brice completely. Despite his mistake, he shows no remorse for Brice's death, and gives Brice's "Shocker" gauntlet to Schultz to take over the mantle.

#### 10th

* Peter Parker and Ned Leeds have to go into school on Saturday.
* During a technology class, Parker and Leeds remove the energy core, of Chitauri origin, from the destroyed weapon. As they are analyzing it, two of Toomes' goons arrive at the school, having traced its energy signature. Parker puts a tracking device on the shoe of one of the men.
* Late at night, the tracking device stops moving, revealing the criminals are set up in Maryland. To get closer, Parker decides to rejoin the Academic Decathlon team, who are going to attend the national tournament in Washington, D.C..

#### 13th

* Peter Parker arrives at the decathlon team bus before it leaves for Washington, D.C., and asks to rejoin the team. While Flash Thompson insists he should not be able to just rejoin, Mr. Harrington welcomes him back. The team travel to the capital, and on the bus, Parker gets a call from Happy Hogan, asking why he is leaving New York. However, he lets him off, deeming it to be "no big deal".
* Parker removes the tracking device from the Spider-Man suit while Leeds shuts off the Training Wheels Protocol that had been cutting off access to various capabilities of the suit.
* Liz Toomes tries to convince Parker to be rebellious and go swimming with her and her friends. Parker reluctantly realizes he cannot join them, and has to leave to find the criminals' base of operations as Spider-Man.
* Spider-Man sets off to find the criminals in Maryland. It transpires that in overriding the Training Wheels Protocol, he has also activated the suit's A.I., who Parker later comes to nickname "Karen". He struggles to get a handle on all the suit's capabilities as he tries to follow the criminals.
* **Attack on the Damage Control Truck**: Spider-Man intervenes as the Vulture attempts to hijack a Department of Damage Control truck. While Spider-Man stops him, in the following fight, he gets trapped and left unconscious inside the truck. He eventually awakens inside the container, having arrived at the truck's destination: the Damage Control Deep Storage Vault.
* Spider-Man tries to entertain himself and test several new suit capabilities in the facility while he waits until morning, when the facility will likely next be unlocked. However, when Karen, the suit's A.I., informs him that the Chitauri object he found is explosive, he realizes he has to escape as soon as possible to warn Ned Leeds. Parker wires his calculator into the security panel and systematically works through all the possible combinations, hoping to find the one which will unlock the facility as fast as possible.

#### 14th

* Peter Parker finally breaks out of the storage facility, too late to participate in the decathlon. Meanwhile, the Midtown School of Science and Technology team manage to win the championship, as Parker rushes back to Washington, D.C. to save Ned Leeds if the object explodes.
* **Rescue at the Washington Monument**:
	+ As the victorious Academic Decathlon team visits the Washington Monument, the energy core in Leeds' backpack explodes while they are in the elevator.
	+ Spider-Man arrives just in time to save his friends, but begins to get scared as he reaches the top of the Monument, having never climbed that high before. He releases a Spider-Drone to assess the best way into the landmark, and Karen informs him that he has to break the window with a good amount of force.
	+ A helicopter arrives, telling Spider-Man to back away. Instead, he deploys the "Web-Wings" to jump and glide over the vehicle, before shooting a web onto the bottom of the helicopter and using the momentum to swing at, and break, the window.
	+ Spider-Man shoots webbing to catch the elevator as it falls, saving his friends and teacher. As they leave the elevator, it breaks, and Liz Toomes falls. Spider-Man catches her with a web, and checks everyone is alright, before his web snaps and he drops down the elevator shaft, catching himself with another web before he can injure himself, but then escaping the scene.

#### 17th

* Quake is involved in an incident near Waupaca, Wisconsin.

#### 19th

* Peter Parker is given detention. He and the other detained students are made to watch another video from Captain America about the importance of learning from your bad behavior. However, Parker sneaks out early.
* Parker talks to Karen, asking her to review the footage from the past Friday, before the Washington incident, the night of Liz Toomes' party, hoping to find out who the potential buyer was at the deal he interrupted. Karen identifies him as Aaron Davis.

#### 20th

* *This Is Us* airs its first episode.
* Spectrum News is started.
* While he should be in school, Spider-Man instead finds Aaron Davis and webs him to his car. He attempts to scare Davis into giving him information by using "Intimidation Mode" - unnaturally making his voice sound a lot deeper.
* Davis calls him out on his fake voice, unfazed, but gives Spider-Man the information he has, saying that he does not want the weapons in Queens, as he has a nephew who lives in the neighborhood. He informs Spider-Man that there is a Staten Island ferry leaving at 11 AM on which a deal will be going down.
* **Ambush at the Staten Island Ferry**:
	+ Following the information from Aaron Davis, Spider-Man intercepts a delivery of arms to Mac Gargan on a Staten Island ferry. The Vulture then intervenes, however, and the resulting confrontation causes a blast which splits the boat.
	+ Spider-Man desperately webs the two halves together as fast as possible in an attempt to hold it together, but the webs soon begin to break. He holds webs attached to either side, trying as hard as he can to hold the boat together, when Iron Man arrives with technology to push the boat back together and seal it, saving the ferry.
* Nelson's Meats' suppliers suddenly stop taking orders. Unbeknownst to them, Wilson Fisk has cut them off as part of a scheme to manipulate the Nelsons.
* Afterwards, Stark takes the Spider-Man suit from Parker, disappointed in his lack of responsibility, and hoping he will learn to be better.

#### 21st

* Principal Morita talks to Peter Parker in his office about his recent truancy. When Parker leaves the office, Ned Leeds is waiting outside, expecting him to be expelled. Parker explains that he only has a set of detentions, but reluctantly resolves to not try to be Spider-Man for the time being, and simply work hard in school.
* Jeffrey Mace goes through Project Patriot, which successfully gives him super strength, so long as he routinely takes the serum. He is ordered to pretend that he went through Terrigenesis during the Inhuman Outbreak, so as to improve public acceptance of the Inhuman race.

#### 22nd

* Peter Parker and Ned Leeds finally build Leeds' LEGO Death Star together.
* Peter Parker invites Liz Toomes to be his date to the homecoming ball, and she accepts.
* Peter Parker gets home and asks May for help in preparing for the ball the next day.

#### 23rd

* When Peter Parker goes to the Toomes Residence to pick up Liz Toomes for the ball, her father greets him at the door, and Parker is shocked when he recognizes the man as the Vulture.
* Adrian Toomes drives Parker and his daughter to the ball. On the way to Midtown School of Science and Technology, he recognizes Parker's voice, and deduces from Parker's conversations with Liz that he is Spider-Man. When Liz enters the ball, Adrian requests that Parker stay, so he can give him "the dad talk".
* He confronts Parker about his true identity, and says that he will let Parker go, as he saved Liz's life, but that if Parker ever interferes with his business again, he will kill him, and everyone he loves.
* Peter Parker enters the homecoming dance, dazed from his encounter with Adrian Toomes.
* He approaches Liz, but realizes he cannot just ignore the crimes her father will be committing that evening, and runs out of the building, picking up his old homemade suit as he leaves.
* **Ambush on Peter Parker**:
	+ Spider-Man runs out into the school bus yard when Herman Schultz intercepts him with the Shocker's Gauntlet.
	+ As Schultz prepares to kill him, Spider-Man is saved by the timely intervention of Ned Leeds, using Parker's Web-Shooters.
	+ Parker thanks his best friend and asks him to track his phone, which he left in Toomes' car, thereby allowing him to find the Vulture.
* Spider-Man accosts Flash Thompson and tells him he needs his car and his phone. Thompson, scared, gives them over, and Spider-Man drives off in the car, albeit with very little skill. While driving, he calls Leeds with Thompson's phone, who tells him that Toomes is at a warehouse in Queens and that Happy Hogan, whom Parker had asked Leeds to call, was near a plan. Parker realizes it is moving day, and Toomes is going to steal from the plane carrying Avengers weaponry.
* Going to the coordinates given to him by Ned Leeds, Peter Parker confronts Adrian Toomes, attempting to stop him from carrying out his heist. Toomes, however, collapses the warehouse they are in on top of Parker, burying him under rubble and leaving to catch his plane. Parker, at first overcome by self-doubt, finally manages to free himself from the rubble, just in time to attach a web to the back of Toomes' suit as his enemy flies away.
* **Hijacking of the Stark Cargo Plane**:
	+ The automated plane that left Avengers Tower headed for the Avengers upstate headquarters is hijacked by the Vulture using a high altitude seal. Unbeknownst to him, Spider-Man attached a web to his back to follow him up to the plane.
	+ Parker breaks the seal, intervening with Vulture's hijacking, but the plane begins to veer off course.
* As the plane heads towards a catastrophic crash, Spider-Man uses his webs to pull on the wings and redirect it to crash away from citizens and towards Coney Island.
* **Duel at Coney Island**:
	+ The plane crashes, and Vulture continues to fight Spider-Man. Beaten down, Parker watches as the Vulture attempts to escape, but he realizes that Toomes' wings are malfunctioning and are going to explode.
	+ He calls out to try to save him, to no avail, unsuccessfully attempting to stop him from taking off before realizing that he is out of fluid in his web shooters. The wings explode and Parker ventures into the flaming metal, carrying the barely conscious Toomes from the wreckage, saving his life. He leaves Toomes webbed to the various crates of Avengers equipment that had been on board, both being eventually retrieved by Happy Hogan and the Stark Industries crew.

#### 25th

* Jeffrey Mace assumes the role of director of S.H.I.E.L.D., effectively ending Phil Coulson's directorship term.
* *Man or Mandarin: The Trevor Slattery Story* airs on TV.

#### 26th

* Peter Parker comes into school following the incidents on Friday evening. He finds Liz Toomes crying at her father's arrest, and approaches her to apologize for leaving her at the homecoming ball. She accepts the apology, and explains that she is moving school. She tells Parker that she hopes he resolves whatever issues he seems to have going on in his life, and the two part ways.
* Following Liz Toomes' departure, the decathlon team have a meeting, where Mr. Harrington appoints a new team leader, Michelle Jones - although she notes that her friends do not call her "Michelle", but rather "M.J." Parker then gets a text from an unknown number, telling him to meet the sender in the bathroom, and he excuses himself from the meeting.
* In the bathroom, Parker finds Happy Hogan, who congratulates him on his success with the Vulture. After an awkward encounter with another student in the bathroom, who is confused by what is going on, Hogan then explains that Tony Stark is awaiting Parker at the Avengers Compound.
* When Parker arrives at the upstate facility, Stark greets him and praises him for his work, jokingly taking all the credit, saying that taking his suit back was the exact life lesson Parker needed.
* Stark then offers Parker an apartment at the facility, in the room next to Vision, as well as a new Spider-Man suit with gold and black lining. Stark explains that on the other side of the door is a room of press, waiting for Stark to step out and announce the newest member of the Avengers, "Spider-Man".
* However, to Stark's surprise, Parker turns down the offers, choosing to return to Queens and simply be the local hero.
* As he leaves, he notes that he believes he has seen through Stark's ruse, that there is not really any press, and it was all just a test to see what he had learned.
* Stark lets him go, knowing that this was not actually his intention. Pepper Potts comes through the door to ask Stark what they are going to do to please the press waiting for them, and he asks Happy Hogan if he still has the engagement ring on him, which he confirms, saying he has held onto it since 2008. Potts insists she will think of something better than this rushed engagement, but Stark has Hogan toss him the ring anyway, just in case. The newly rekindled couple kiss, before heading through the door to address the media.
* Peter Parker wears his red Stark-made suit from June again, back in his room in Queens. He pulls off the mask, not realizing that his aunt May is standing behind him in his doorway. She exclaims her shock at discovering her nephew's secret identity.
* In prison, Adrian Toomes is approached by Mac Gargan, who says he heard a rumor that Toomes knows who Spider-Man is. Protecting Parker's secret, since he saved both him and his daughter's lives, Toomes says that if he knew who he was, he would already be dead.
* Quake is involved in an incident in Oswego, New York.

#### 27th

* The *New York Bulletin* publishes an article about Quake, questioning whether she is a hero or a rogue.

#### 29th

* **Collapse of the Edison Bridge**: Quake is involved in the collapse of the Edison Bridge in Pennsylvania while pursuing the Watchdogs. She saves several citizens' lives during the incident.
* Meanwhile, having now been involved in many noted incidents, S.H.I.E.L.D. decide to pursue Daisy Johnson. Now that Phil Coulson is no longer director, he and Agent Alphonso Mackenzie are selected to board the Zephyr One and take long journeys to follow her tracks and try to apprehend her. Mace also wishes to keep Coulson's Team apart as much as possible.

#### 30th

* *Mobile Forensics - Advanced Investigative Strategies* by Oleg Afonin and Vladimir Katalov is published.
* Yo-Yo Rodriguez meets with Phil Coulson, who is about to board the Zephyr One with Alphonso Mackenzie for another long flight to pursue, and hopefully catch the vigilante Quake. Coulson gives her Peggy Carter's old S.H.I.E.L.D. badge.
* Rodriguez meets with Jeffrey Mace and signs the Sokovia Accords. Afterwards, she asks permission to find Victor Ramon, who killed her cousin, but Mace says she has to go through the United Nations first. On her way out, she steals his clearance card to receive access to Ramon's location.
* She begins scanning for Ramon's location when Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons notice her and stop her to upgrade her watch. As they do so, she distracts them from seeing what she is up to by knocking things over, and suggesting the two get an apartment together.
* Rodriguez tracks Ramon to Baltimore, Maryland, and on her way to sneak onto a Quinjet, she runs into both Alphonso Mackenzie and Melinda May.
* The former revealing that they have tracked Johnson to be on the east coast, but the latter revealing that she knows Rodriguez took Mace's clearance card. However, after she gives May back the clearance card, May lets her go to Baltimore anyway.
* **Chase of Victor Ramon**:
	+ In Baltimore, Yo-Yo Rodriguez finds and confronts Victor Ramon for killing her cousin. However, his men sneak up on her and knock her out. Yo-Yo Rodriguez awakes, but finds she is tied up. Victor Ramon prepares to kill her with the 0-8-4 weapon so as to demonstrate the weapon to the Watchdogs, when Quake arrives and frees her.
	+ The two battle the Watchdogs, and Rodriguez eventually holds Ramon at gunpoint. Although she decides to spare him, a Watchdog accidentally kills him with the 0-8-4 when she dodges the blast, which was intended for her. After all the Watchdogs are taken out, Rodriguez and Johnson say their goodbyes.

### October

* The Baskin-Robbins Polar Pizza is introduced.

#### 5th

* Quake is involved in an incident in Richmond, Virginia.

#### 7th

* *PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)* is released.

#### 10th

* Lincoln Campbell is issued a new S.H.I.E.L.D. ID card.

#### 14th

* "Do Hollywood" by The Lemon Twigs is released, featuring the song "I Wanna Prove to You."

#### 16th

* Having lost track of Quake, Phil Coulson and Alphonso Mackenzie return to the Playground for another short while, to restock and catch up with their teammates. They continue to keep track of Johnson's reported sightings on a map.

#### 19th

* Dinah Madani returns home to New York from an assignment in Afghanistan.

#### 20th

* Phil Coulson and Alphonso Mackenzie embark again on the Zephyr One to try to bring in Quake. They only ever touch down in the Quinjet, with the Zephyr remaining airborne for the whole span of their trips.

#### 24th

* Micro saves one of his frequently acquired surveillance footage files, the last before he engages Frank Castle.

#### 30th

* After 17 months and 21 days, the outbreak of Terrigen across the globe through its water supply is complete, having reached completely worldwide.

### November

#### 1st

* *Focus in Photography: Master the Advanced Techniques That Will Change Your Photography Forever* by John Neel is published.

#### 6th

* Six months after retiring the role of the Punisher, Frank Castle, now having grown out his hair and beard and under the identity of "Pete Castiglione", works on a construction site, swinging a hammer at a wall repeatedly and not engaging with his co-workers. Some of his colleagues approach him and are rude, with one man trying to provoke him to get angry, but eventually giving up, stepping on Castle's sandwich as he walks away.
* Quake is involved in an incident near Marshalltown, Iowa.
* Castle goes home and reads the latest book that his friend Curtis Hoyle has suggested for him to keep him occupied, *Moby-Dick*.

#### 7th

* At work the next day, Frank Castle sits outside to eat lunch. He is joined by his young colleague Donny Chavez, who is friendly to him. The two discuss how Chavez lost his parents in a car incident when he was 12, and, despite Castle's reluctance, he becomes fond of Chavez.
* Castle attends Hoyle's veterans meeting, including O'Connor and Lewis Wilson, standing outside instead of engaging with the rest of the group. Once it is over, he enters and speaks with his friend, the only person to whom he has revealed that he is alive since Karen Page and Daredevil. Hoyle is kind, and tries to encourage Castle to find happiness, which he rejects. He asks Hoyle if he ever thinks about what they did in their army days, and Hoyle replies that he does all the time - but that his conscience is clear.
* Castle tells him that his time in Afghanistan was different, but refuses to go into further detail. Hoyle accepts that, and tells his friend to at least attempt to cheer up a little.
* Coulson and Mackenzie return to the Playground to refuel after losing track of Quake again after Marshalltown.

#### 8th

* Dinah Madani arrives at work with a case to approach her boss, Carson Wolf, about, concerning the assassination of her friend Ahmad Zubair in Kandahar. However, Wolf shows her a sexist and dismissive attitude, and tells her not to investigate Afghanistan.
* Frank Castle's colleagues leave for drinks, with Donny Chavez offering to pay for the first round.
* Madani asks her office partner, Sam Stein, to look into the drug bust from the year before - the event in which Frank Castle supposedly died, and the Assassination of Ray Schoonover from the day after, since they are two consecutive deaths involving men from Operation Cerberus, a group linked with Zubair's death.
* Castle's colleagues drink and take advantage of Chavez's offer to pay for the first round, forcing him to pay a large sum of money for the drinks so as to stop them from becoming angry.

#### 9th

* Donald Trump is elected as president of the United States. The choice makes D. W. Griffith feel uncomfortable.
* Frank Castle has a nightmare of his wife, Maria, waking him softly on the day of her death. The nightmare twists as a soldier enters and shoots her in the head, startling him awake.
* At work, Paulie, Lance, and Leo discuss the robbery they are planning for that night at Linello's to repay the Gnucci Crime Family. When their partner, Scut, is injured, they approach Donny Chavez and pressure him to join them to replace him.
* Oscar Arocho is released from prison after a sentence for forging fraudulent papers for people.
* Dinah Madani speaks to her mother, Farah about her work. Farah warns her about the dangers she is getting into, expressing concern for her daughter and wanting her to stay safe.
* Castle sits at home, keeping calm by reading *The Crack-Up* by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the latest book Curtis Hoyle has lent him as part of recovery.
* **Robbery at Linello's**: The crew, along with Chavez, go to Linello's in ski masks to rob the Gnucci Crime Family during their gambling. They hold the men at gunpoint, threatening Tony Gnucci for the money, but Chavez drops his driving license, revealing his identity to the men and ruining the plan.
* Castle wakes again in the night from the same nightmare of his wife. He heads back to work to take out his frustration and anger by continuing to hammer at the wall, all the time unable to stop thinking of his family on the day they died.

#### 10th

* Soon after midnight, the crew pull up outside their workplace having fled from Linello's. They assault Chavez for his failure, not knowing that Castle is watching.
* **Rescue of Donny Chavez**:
	+ The trio beat up Chavez and throw him into a cement mixer, hoping to dispose of him so he cannot give them up when the Gnuccis come after him. Castle suddenly ambushes them with the sledgehammer, falling back into his violent tendencies and mercilessly attacking them to defend Chavez. He hammers Leo across the face, killing him and knocking him into the cement mixer.
	+ Lance shoots at Castle, who takes cover until the man is out of bullets. Lance runs and Paulie goes for a gun, but Castle breaks his arm and takes it for himself, pursuing Lance and shooting him through the head. After throwing Lance into the cement mixer as well, Castle goes to Paulie, hurting him until he tells Castle about Linello's. He smashes his head in with the hammer and throws it him into the mixer as well.
	+ Castle throws a rope in to help Donny Chavez escape, and leaves him the stolen money, with a message written telling Chavez to "leave town".
* **Massacre at Linello's**: Travelling on to Little Italy to go after the Gnuccis, Castle arrives at Linello's. He takes out the lights and shoots, killing each member of the family, protecting Chavez from their pursuit.
* As Castle leaves at 2:33AM, Micro watches live security footage and uses gait recognition software to identify him. He mutters to himself, "Welcome back, Frank."
* Frank Castle goes to a diner and is reading about the Massacre at Linello's in the newspaper when he is told that he has a call coming in for him. He picks up the phone and the caller introduces himself as the man who left the disc at the Castle Residence which Frank retrieved 11 months prior. Castle asks him about it, remembering the man goes by "Micro". Micro replies that he will be happy to meet with him once he has explained to Castle why he cannot kill him.
* Castle leaves the diner to find Micro, knowing he must be nearby and concerned by his words. He chases him but loses him, heading up to a rooftop to where he assumes Micro must have headed. Looking around, he instead finds Micro on the roof of the diner he just came from, across the road.
* Mackenzie and Coulson set off for their third long trip in pursuit of Quake.

#### 11th

* Frank Castle wakes from his recurring nightmare again and decides to watch Micro's disc. He recognizes the footage as the Assassination of Ahmad Zubair, and shuts his laptop in frustration when he sees Zubair get shot.
* Castle goes to visit Curtis Hoyle in the morning to ask if he gave up any information on him, seeing as he was one of only two people who he was aware knew he was still alive.
* Dinah Madani talk to Sam Stein about the video of Ahmad Zubair's murder that she was sent, and that she suspects Carson Wolf is covering up something. Madani mentions that she has found someone in the city from Castle's unit: Billy Russo, and that she wants to speak to him.
* Going to find the only other person he is aware knows he is alive, Karen Page, Frank Castle disguises himself as a homeless man on a street she commonly walks down. Page passes by and he pretends to beg, attracting her attention. He reveals himself and they head back to her apartment.
* In the apartment, Page and Castle talk about how each has been doing. Castle gets to the matter at hand and asks her if she passed on any information, but she promises she has not. Page offers to help him, and the two hug, telling each other how it was nice to see one another again.
* At the New York Bulletin Building, Page talks to Mitchell Ellison, asking if he remembers any articles from about a year ago on someone called "Micro", possibly an NSA agent. Ellison informs her that he had a source telling him about someone fitting that description, but did not have enough information to run a story - however, he had then been personally approached by Carson Wolf about not running it, legitimizing the story. He tells Page that he will find her the unprinted article.
* At 1:28PM, the Liebermans, Micro's wife and children, discuss how he has now been dead for a year. Unbeknown to them, their husband and father, whose real name is David, watches on through cameras he left in the hose.
* Billy Russo leads a simulated hostage scenario at Anvil for operatives, including Madani and Stein. Madani goes to speak with him afterwards, having entered into the opportunity to get the chance to have a conversation. Wolf arrives as she gets onto the topic of Kandahar and reminds Madani to forget about Afghanistan.
* Karen Page meets with Frank Castle on a bench by the water to give him the info she has found. She tells Castle that Micro's name is David Lieberman, and asks him to be careful in how he proceeds.

#### 12th

* At 8:20AM, Frank Castle intentionally runs into Sarah Lieberman's car, making it look like an accident. She invites him inside, as Castle intended, knowing Micro is watching from his hideout.
* Sarah Lieberman talks to Castle, not recognizing him as the murderous Punisher from the year before, due to his beard and long hair. She tells him about her husband, David, and how he died a year prior, unaware that he is actually alive, and that Castle knows this.
* Returning home, Castle cuts his hair and shaves his beard, as well as choosing to intentionally change the way he walks when he is outside, so as to ensure that Micro's face and gait recognition software cannot track him.
* Castle decides to go after Carson Wolf to interrogate him for further information on how Operation Cerberus was involved with the attempted murder of David Lieberman.
* **Attack on Carson Wolf**: At Carson Wolf's home, Castle ambushes Wolf in a mask and takes him down in a fight, tying him to a chair. When Wolf wakes, he threatens him to get the information on Lieberman. Wolf escapes from the chair and grabs the gun, thinking he has his attacker cornered. He pulls off the mask and is shocked to see Castle, still alive. Wolf tells Castle of how Cerberus had been involved in his family's deaths in April 2015, and that the gunfight was orchestrated to catch the Castles in the crossfire. He tells Castle that Lieberman acquired a disc with footage of the assassination of Ahmad Zubair, and then goes to shoot Castle, only to find that the gun is empty. In his moment of surprise, Castle swiftly moves to attack Wolf and grabs him from behind, killing him by snapping his neck.
* Billy Russo talks to Dinah Madani in a bar. They discuss Afghanistan and Russo tells her that he is aware she is not just talking to him for personal reasons, and has investigative questions to ask him. He allows her to ask, and she questions about Frank Castle. Russo says Castle was his best friend in the army, but that he lost the one thing he had to hold onto when his family were killed. As they talk, Madani receives an urgent call about Carson Wolf's murder and has to go.
* Madani arrives at Wolf's home to investigate the body. Despite not liking Wolf, she is still shocked at his brutal murder.

#### 13th

* Micro calls Frank Castle in the diner again, but Castle decides to take control of their communication, giving Lieberman instructions for how and when to contact him.
* **Chase of Micro**: Following Castle's instructions, Micro drives to meet him at an agreed location and time. When he arrives, Castle calls him again, giving him a new time and place. On arriving at that location, Castle gives him another, several times, until night falls. Finally, Castle has Curtis Hoyle meet with Micro at one of the locations, only to tell Micro that Castle is done with him, and does not want to be involved. This frustrates Lieberman, and he returns to his hideout.
* Castle follows Lieberman back to his hideout and breaks in. He ambushes him and knocks him out so as to interrogate him properly, on his own terms.

#### 14th

* Soon after midnight, Frank Castle wakes David Lieberman, who finds himself naked and strapped to a chair. As Castle continues to question him, a 3-minute timer begins on Micro's computer. Micro insists that if he does not disable it, explosives will be triggered.
* Castle eventually allows Micro to disables the supposed explosives, while keeping him under very tight control, as he suspects Lieberman might use the opportunity to fight back.
* Crouching to talk face-to-face with Micro, Castle eventually manages to get the hacker to tell him his story. Lieberman recounts what happened to him a year prior: his receiving of the Zubair disc, his decision to send it to Dinah Madani, and how Carson Wolf had shot him, but he was saved by the bullet hitting cell phone in his pocket.
* As morning comes, Madani and Sam Stein go over the reports on the break-in at Carson Wolf's home.
* Billy Russo visits Curtis Hoyle and they discuss Hoyle's veteran meetings. Hoyle suggests Russo join them to show the other veterans a man who built a second life, but Russo says he should not, because he feels guilty about it. However, before he leaves, he tells Hoyle that he would love it if he came to work at Anvil.
* Castle wakes Lieberman again, convinced that he is stalling for time and is working with someone, but Micro insists that he simply survived because he is skilled. He calls out to Castle and tells him that they are not enemies - that he is the only friend Castle has.
* Curtis Hoyle holds another veteran meeting, and Lewis Wilson speaks about his experiences. O'Connor speaks out again, saying they need to take matters into their own hands, and as the meeting comes to a close, he goes to Wilson and hands him a leaflet on the right to carry guns.
* Micro's timer begins again on its regular 12-hour interval and he asks that Frank Castle let him disable it again, but Castle calls his bluff, saying that there are no explosive devices. However, Micro still insists that he show Castle what the timer is really about, and when Castle takes him over to the computer, he reveals that the actual intent of the timer is that if it is not disabled, the video feeds from the lair will be published online, revealing Castle to be alive. Once it is disabled, Castle becomes angry with him again and grabs him by the throat. Lieberman aggravates him further by mentioning the murder of Ahmad Zubair, but says that Castle will not kill him, as he is, in fact, a good man. Castle, however, claims that Micro does not understand him at all.

#### 15th

* Soon after midnight, Curtis Hoyle and Billy Russo visit Castle's headstone and wish him happy birthday. Hoyle holds his promise to Castle, and does not tell Russo he is actually alive. They discuss their mutual friend and how tragic his life became in 2015.
* Dinah Madani talks to her mother about Carson Wolf, and how Dinah is up for his job. Dinah is conflicted, feeling she is not suited, but that she also cannot trust anyone else with the role.
* Frank Castle wakes from another nightmare, and Micro informs him that it is after midnight, making it the 15th, and therefore it is Castle's birthday. The timer starts again and Castle wheels him over to disable it, but Micro uses the opportunity to pick up a syringe and inject him with a sedative. Castle quickly falls unconscious.
* Lewis Wilson is lying in bed when his father, Clay goes to see him. Paranoid, Wilson instinctively reaches for his pistol and shoots, having grown used to shooting at potential attackers. He misses his father but is nonetheless horrified by what he nearly did. Clay is immediately forgiving of his son, but Lewis is further traumatized as he realizes how awful a state he is in.
* Sam Stein goes to Dinah Madani with Carson Wolf's suspicious bank records. She claims they cannot pass on the information as everyone else in the office could be corrupt, but he claims she is just deciding to work alone as usual, and needs to learn to trust more.
* Micro, free from the chair, watches as Castle wakes from the sedative. Castle asks him why he did not kill him, but Micro tells him that was always clearly not his intention, and he wants to work with him.
* Lieberman then shows Castle evidence he has found that Operation Cerberus was merely using him, and all the trauma he went through and all the people he killed was not for the noble cause he had been led to believe. He finally convinces Castle that he may be of use if they work together, and Castle agrees to team up on one condition: that Micro does not stop him from killing all the men behind Cerberus. Lieberman agrees to the terms.
* Lewis Wilson digs a foxhole for himself in his back garden and lays down to sleep in it.
* **Ambush on Turk Barrett**: Frank Castle finds Turk Barrett and holds a gun to his head. He questions Barrett on the weapons shipment he received from the Greeks. Barrett shows him a pink gun he received that was supposed to be a gangster's birthday present for his daughter, which Castle chooses to take. Barrett then asks that Castle to spare his life, saying he is not responsible for what people do with the guns he supplies, and Castle reluctantly lets him go, knocking him out before he leaves.
* Micro watches his family through the cameras he left in the house. Castle returns with the gun and tells him what happened with Barrett, then asks Micro to find him the full shipment.

#### 16th

* Sam Stein is talking to Dinah Madani about Carson Wolf's suspicious bank dealings and a gun deal they know will be happening with the Greeks tomorrow, when Rafael Hernandez interrupts. He tells her she needs to work with the team and focus on the greater good, not losing focus by concentrating her efforts purely on the Ahmad Zubair case. He then tells her that she has great opportunities coming up if she corrects her focus, but she is nonetheless disappointed by the request to give up on finding who killed her friend.
* Frank Castle is disappointed when he finds out Lieberman does not take care of his gun. He cleans it for him and tells him it is important that the weapon is not just for show, but that he is prepared to use it in a situation where it is the difference between life and death. Sarah Lieberman calls Castle, and Castle admits to Micro that he exchanged numbers with her as leverage against him. He asks that Castle help Sarah out with the headlight she says she needs fixing, but that he keep her out of their mission, and says that only once Castle's helped her will he find him the gun resupply.
* Curtis Hoyle visits Lewis Wilson and finds him in the foxhole, asking him why he is subjecting himself to the 40°F cold of November. Wilson says that the hardships of living in Iraq never bothered him, so returning to those conditions allows him to not have the nightmares that have plagued him ever since he returned. Hoyle advises that he at least dig the entrance deeper to deal with rain and tries to convince him to leave the hole entirely, but Wilson chooses to stay. He tells Hoyle that he is going to sign up to join Anvil. Hoyle asks him to come out to talk more about it, but Wilson refuses again, and Hoyle gives up and leaves.
* Micro watches on as Castle goes to his family's home, and Sarah Lieberman asks him for help with the plumbing under the sink. He continues to be kind to the family, though when he mentions that David let them down, trying to provoke Micro as he knows he is watching and listening, Sarah takes issue and defends her husband. Castle apologizes and then offers to fix the car headlight for her.
* Billy Russo gives a speech welcoming the new Anvil recruits, connecting to them by addressing the thoughts and feelings he knows they have as veterans, showing them that they all share the same experiences and goals and telling them how in Anvil, they will find a new brotherhood.
* Micro hacks into FBI computer files and begins reading their secure emails.
* At Homeland Security Headquarters, Sam Stein presents the plan for intervening in the weapons exchange tomorrow. Madani notices mistakes and stands up, taking over the presentation, and Stein feels she has embarrassed him. When he brings up Rafael Hernandez, Madani tells him that he was very kind to her in the past, but now she is doubting her own judgments about him.
* The new recruits work out together at Anvil as Billy Russo wanders and observes. While some men struggle, Lewis Wilson is determined to work hard.
* Frank Castle plays guitar in Micro's hideout, while Lieberman reads the FBI emails. He eventually finds what he needs, discovering that the Greek Mob's exchange tomorrow is being attended by the FBI, who have tricked the Greeks into believing they are buyers.
* **Attack on Mazur's Garage**: Castle and Lieberman head to Mazur's Garage, a stolen car garage run by criminals, to retrieve a vehicle to use when interrupting the Greek mob deal. Castle finds that Mazur and his men have been torturing men called Joe and Wilcox. When Mazur has Joe killed, Castle decides to take out the gang. He distracts them with a fake grenade, then begins shooting, killing Mazur and his men. Wilcox begs him for mercy and Castle spares him, knowing that while he, too, is a gangster, he has not done anything he knows of to deserve death. He gags him instead. Micro walks in and Castle explains what happened, then opens the door to a Ford Mustang and starts it, choosing it as his vehicle for the deal.

#### 17th

* Curtis Hoyle visits Anvil and tells Billy Russo that combat situations are not going to help Lewis Wilson. Russo worries how he will react when he lets him go, but Hoyle says he will help Wilson.
* Russo goes to speak with Wilson on Hoyle's request, and tells him the reasons they cannot keep him on. Wilson suspects that Hoyle is behind Russo talking to him and brings this up, and when Russo says that whether it is or not does not matter, Wilson takes this as confirmation and calls him a snake. He persistently asks that Russo keep him on, but Russo turns him down.
* The FBI set up for ambushing the Greek Mob deal.
* Frank Castle and David Lieberman discuss getting involved in the deal. Micro is nervous, but Castle intentionally gets on his nerves to rile him up. Lieberman detects this, but admits it has worked nonetheless, and they leave.
* **Robbery of the Greek Mob's Arsenal**:
	+ Micro hacks in to the FBI's Sniper One and Follow One cameras, leaving the agents without connection to Dinah Madani. Without guidance, the plan goes wrong. Madani tries to get things back on-track, but Castle takes matters into his own hands. He surprises the Greeks, holding a flamethrower, and threatens them and they give up the weapons.
	+ Madani realizes they are being fed a video loop and gets into a car herself to chase after the Mustang, not knowing who is driving it. Eventually, they end up either end of a street, facing each other. They both accelerate toward each other, but Micro, in a van, drives out at the intersection and rams Madani before she can crash into Castle.
	+ Castle helps Madani, who is badly injured. Barely conscious, she nonetheless realizes who is speaking to her, confirming her suspicions about him. Castle tells her that he was the one who killed Carson Wolf and that she needs to leave him alone, before walking away.

#### 18th

* Dinah Madani wakes up, bandaged and injured after the incident the night before. She vaguely remembers being carried by Frank Castle.
* In Micro's hideout, Lieberman berates Castle for helping Madani, concerned that she will remember him and report him to Homeland Security. Castle, however, insists that he had to help her, and leaves to visit Lieberman's family again.
* At 3:45PM, Castle, still calling himself "Pete Castiglione", talks to Leo Lieberman about *Life of Pi* while he helps fix their car. Going inside the house, Leo and Sarah talk and decide to invite "Castiglione" to lunch on Sunday. As she says this, Zach walks past and expresses his annoyance with his mother, saying she has not cooked a proper Sunday meal since their father died. David watches on from his hideout via the cameras and microphones he set up, and is saddened to see his son struggling without him. Sarah says to ignore Zach, and Castle accepts her offer.
* Madani goes into work, despite Rafael Hernandez asking her mother to keep her at home, and talks to him about the incident the night before. He tells her she handled it well until she chased after the men involved in the deal, but the OIG are now investigating after a whole truck of guns went missing, and she should cooperate. She then sits and looks through photos from Castle's case, and comes across a picture of Karen Page.
* Micro watches back the video of Ahmad Zubair's torture and murder, and wonders who would have risked filming it, believing they must have also seen it as wrong and would be motivated to help them. Castle recalls that it a soldier called Gunner Henderson.
* In the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Fairfax, Virginia, William Rawlins welcomes new recruits to the organization, telling them that they will have to do things that will cause them nightmares, but it is their duty and will help the rest of the United States of America sleep peacefully.
* Having asked her to come in, Dinah Madani goes to speak with Karen Page in the Homeland Security Headquarters. Madani tells her that looking at her record since she came to New York, Page seems to have a tendency to get over-involved, such as her interactions with Frank Castle, and Page comes to understand Madani's motive for asking her to visit: asking about the Punisher. Madani asks if Castle ever told her about Afghanistan, but Page says he never did. Madani explains to her that Castle may be the man she has been looking for regarding the death of her friend in Kandahar and asks Page about who he is as a person, and Page is complimentary, saying he was honest and had a strict code of honor. When Madani asks where he would be if he were still alive, Page says he would mind his own business, and would be best left alone.
* Madani tells Sam Stein that the operation in Kandahar that led to Zubair's death was off the books, but that she has found a list of names to question. Stein becomes frustrated that she is not helping with the OIG investigation, and when he walks out on her, she decides she has to admit to him that she saw Frank Castle. Madani tells her partner about it and asks for help working out what he might be after, but Stein simply says that she needs to report it to the OIG. Madani insists on keeping it private, but Stein tells her that if he is officially questioned about it, he will have to tell them the truth.
* Rawlins listens back to Madani and Stein's conversation about the list of names, having had a bug placed in their office.
* Frank Castle tells Micro that he is leaving the hideout to meet with Karen Page, but refuses to tell him why she is important.
* Castle and Page meet by the river to talk, and he tells her that in his time serving abroad, his son became troubled - using this example to explain how even during better days, he worsened the lives of the people around him. Going on to talk about how the only reason that his family died was because they had been with him, Castle tells Page that this is why she must stay away from him, for her own safety and well-being. Castle tells her that he has to go after everyone involved in his family's deaths, but Page tells him she is saddened by his loneliness. She requests that he let her expose the men, reminding him as well that if he kills them, they will be painted as martyrs, but he insists that this would only put a target on her back. He says he simply cannot let go and cannot protect her as he goes after them, but tells her he cannot deal with the same thing happening to her as happened to his family, maintaining his request that she stay away.

#### 19th

* Sam Stein and Dinah Madani are questioned by the OIG. Madani is difficult with them, saying their questions are ridiculous and not giving straight answers. When Stein is questioned on whether they have any suspects, despite what he had said to Madani, he realizes he cannot tell them and lies. After the session, he goes to Madani, annoyed that she most likely had guessed he would lie to them when push came to shove, but he warns her that if she does not find Castle within a week, he will report it to Rafael Hernandez himself.
* William Rawlins is given a Distinguished Intelligence Medal by Marion James for his service.
* Micro tells Castle he has found Henderson's address. Castle wishes to find Henderson on his own, but Micro insists on coming. Castle says he cannot take time to help Lieberman if Henderson attacks them, but Micro says he will keep to himself, and packs to travel with Castle.
* As they drive through the night, Micro rambles about the meaning of "Cerberus", irritating Castle. He is further annoyed when Lieberman reveals he made himself proper food and not Castle.
* Marion James meets with William Rawlins, telling him that she does not care for politics so much as his ability to deliver results and security. She asks if there is anything in his history which might come back to cause them problems, which he denies, and James agrees that so long as he continues to be effective, she is happy with their partnership.

#### 20th

* Arriving at Gunner Henderson's hideout area, Micro sits to read and wait while Frank Castle slowly approaches his old friend's hut, consciously keeping an eye out for traps Henderson has set. He gets up to the hut but is suddenly shot with an arrow. Castle hides behind a tree, struggling with the pain, until he sees Henderson in the woods, dressed in camouflage and with a bow and arrow in hand. Castle reveals himself and surrenders, getting on his knees to prove to his old friend that he means him no harm.
* Henderson eventually believes Castle and goes to help him, apologizing for shooting him. Castle asks him why he filmed Ahmad Zubair's torture. He tells him that a teenage soldier had been kind to him, but that when the young man died and he had visited the mortuary to pay respects, he had had seen Operation Cerberus leaders stuffing his body with drugs, and realized he could not continue with the mission or trust anyone involved.
* **Attack on Gunner Henderson**:
	+ At that moment, the pair hear helicopter blades nearby and become worried. Micro runs to the van and uses a walkie-talkie to alert Castle. Castle and Henderson, meanwhile, run through the woods while being chased by an armed squad, who are working for Rawlins. Rawlins surveys the mission via headcam footage.
	+ Micro launches a camera drone from his van and uses it to survey the area with a bird's-eye view.
	+ As Castle and Henderson stand their ground and shoot at their attackers, Henderson takes a bullet wound and falls to the ground, unable to keep fighting. Micro contacts Castle again, however, and uses the drone to check where the attackers are hiding and moving in from, warning Castle about them and instructing him on how to fight back. Using this advice, Castle manages to take down each attacker. He grabs the headcam of one of the final men and threatens whoever is watching, saying he is coming for them. Stumbling, Gunner Henderson manages to take down the final attacker. Castle catches his friend as he begins to fall again, and attempts to carry him to get help.
* The Lieberman family sit for Sunday lunch, waiting for "Pete Castiglione" to arrive after he accepted their invite. Eventually, they give up, disappointed to have been let down again.
* After hours of walking, Castle becomes exhausted himself, suffering from his own injuries, and is unable to continue carrying Henderson. He collapses and tries to keep Henderson talking, knowing that if he gives up, he will die. However, Henderson eventually succumbs to his injuries and passes away on the forest floor, and Castle himself begins to give up, just as Micro's drone finds him from overhead.
* Dinah Madani and Billy Russo go out for a drink together and discuss how difficult their days have been. They end up leaving together and initiating sex. Russo is concerned by Madani's bandages when she takes off her clothes, but she insists they are nothing to worry about, and the pair sleep together.
* Micro finds Frank Castle unconscious in the forest. He carries Castle into his van and begins driving back to New York City, hooking Castle up to a water drip. During the journey, Lieberman is relieved when Castle finally wakes up.

#### 21st

* Erik Selvig writes a paper about interdimensional travel.
* Frank Castle has another nightmare, this time imagining his family and the Liebermans sitting for Thanksgiving dinner when Cerberus soldiers arrive and he is tied to a chair, helpless as they murder everyone present except himself. He wakes up, finding himself in Micro's hideout, still severely injured.
* David Lieberman goes to find Curtis Hoyle. He gets to his apartment and tells Hoyle that Frank Castle is dying, and he needs his help.
* Back at the hideout, Hoyle realizes that they cannot pull the arrow out the way it went in, as this will tear Castle's flesh further, but they instead need to make an incision from the back and pull the arrow out by the head, therefore not pulling the arrowhead back through Castle's body. Micro is nauseated by the surgery but manages to help hold Castle as Hoyle removes the arrow, and Hoyle cleans the wound with alcohol, staples his shoulder flesh back together, and cauterizes the wound. Having finished the operation, Hoyle talks to Micro and tells him that it was a bad idea to get involved with Castle.
* Dinah Madani and Billy Russo sleep together again, for a second night in a row.

#### 22nd

* *Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations* by Thomas Friedman is published.
* Dinah Madani and Billy Russo have sex again the morning after sleeping together. However, Russo then discovers that Madani has a file on Frank Castle in her bag, and suspects her of having slept with him simply to find out more about Castle during their time together. Russo confronts her about it and says she is being disrespectful of his old friend. He notes that Castle's body was never found, saying he has always wondered what happened. Madani leaves for work to avoid further conversation.
* Micro injects Castle with adrenaline to wake him, and Castle's first reaction is to ask about Gunner Henderson. Micro calms him down, reassuring him that he dealt with the body and that Henderson will get a proper burial. Castle thanks him for the effort.
* Curtis Hoyle holds another veterans' meeting, where O'Connor talks about being a "real American" and how they should not need a thank you for their service or kind and soft counsel following their time, but simply need to know they did their duty and toughen up. He says he served in April 1968 and that people these days do not know how easy things are for them. Hoyle asks him where Lewis Wilson is, and he says that Wilson has come to understand the right way of life after he had spoken with him. Hoyle tells them that while he served, the army gave him a goat, whom he named Cassius, and used him for training exercises until he died from repeatedly being abused. Hoyle says that O'Connor is asking them to be like Cassius, being thrown into horrible situations continuously until they die, and that that is no life.
* At 7:29PM, David Lieberman watches as Sarah asks Leo about her math test. Zach arrives with a skateboard and says he borrowed it from his friend, Dinesh, but Sarah says she knows he is lying and stole it. Zach immediately punches his sister in the face, claiming she snitched on him, but Sarah tells him she actually heard from Dinesh's mother, and is worried that he is becoming a bully. He says that even if Leo did not snitch this time, she will do it soon as their family is full of traitors. He smashes a family photo in anger, indirectly smashing one of his father's cameras, which was hidden in the frame. David watches in shock and sadness at what is happening to his family without him.
* Sam Stein tells Dinah Madani that a man from her list, Gunner Henderson, has shown up dead in Kentucky, and Stein realizes that Madani will be taking him to Kentucky to investigate.
* In Micro's hideout, Castle and Lieberman are surprised when the radio starts picking up a message, calling for "Raven" from "Blackbird". Micro explains that he has been monitoring radio chatter in case they hear something about themselves or their targets but that this is the first transmission of significance. Castle explains that he is Blackbird, and Raven, the man sending out the transmission, is Billy Russo. He says that he does not think Russo knows he is alive but is simply calling out just in case, but admits he does not know why he would only start now.

#### 23rd

* Lewis Wilson and O'Connor stand outside a courthouse in the cold weather, handing out leaflets about the right to carry guns, protesting the trial of a teacher who carried a gun into his classroom. When an officer approaches them and tries to make them leave, Wilson stands up for himself, telling the officer the laws he knows he is abiding by which allow him to be there. The officer, however, manipulates the situation, claiming he saw Wilson reach towards him to take his gun and therefore giving himself an excuse to arrest Wilson. O'Connor simply slowly walks away, leaving Wilson to fend for himself.
* In Kentucky, Dinah Madani and Sam Stein investigate the site of Gunner Henderson's death. Madani explains that someone else was with him when he died, also bleeding, and that the evidence points to there having been a gunfight. She surmises that whoever was with Henderson was helping him but only made it a short distance before collapsing, pointing out that the mentality of choosing not to leave a man behind goes hand-in-hand with the marines. Stein realizes she believes the other man is Frank Castle, which she admits, asking him to keep it quiet.

#### 24th

* Micro and Frank Castle sit to eat a meal on Thanksgiving, and discuss how each other's families used to celebrate the traditional meal. Lieberman brings up Billy Russo again, wondering if they can trust him, but Castle assures him that Russo is like family to him.
* Back in New York, Sam Stein informs Dinah Madani that the blood they found matched Castle's DNA. They affirm that they need to find him, realizing that someone, whoever sent the squad after him and Henderson, is cleaning house to keep what happened in Kandahar under wraps.
* Lewis Wilson visits Curtis Hoyle, who bailed him out of prison. He asks why Hoyle paid for his release, and he explains that he did not want Wilson to be abandoned in jail. He then informs Wilson that he dug up O'Connor's files and found that he did not sign up until 1977, so did not fight in the Vietnam War as he had claimed, and in fact never saw combat. He explains that O'Connor is a fraud and did not serve like Wilson, and is not worth listening to. Hoyle asks that Wilson stay for a meeting, but Wilson chooses to leave.
* Billy Russo meets at the waterfront with Dinah Madani, who invited him. Feeling he deserves to know and hoping he will give them a lead, Madani confesses that she has learned that Castle is alive, and Russo says he appreciates her honesty, with the two beginning to rekindle a relationship.
* Russo then goes to see Hoyle, wanting to ask if he had known that Castle was alive. Hoyle lies and denies this, and Russo says he is actually somewhat disappointed, because if Hoyle had known about Castle, he might have been able to give him a lead on where to find his old friend.
* Hoyle visits Castle and Micro in Micro's hideout and lets him know about Russo visiting him. He tells Castle that Russo wanted to help him, and so might be an important ally, but Castle says he needs to keep the number of people who knows he is alive to a minimum. He leaves, and Micro, hearing Russo's persistence on the radio, chooses to recommend to Castle that he talk with Russo.
* **Assassination of O'Connor**: Lewis Wilson visits O'Connor and confronts him about his lies. O'Connor is defensive, trying to discredit Curtis Hoyle's sources, but Wilson does not believe him. Wilson asks him to name the air base outside Tam Kỳ, but O'Connor cannot, proving his lies. Wilson then attacks him in anger and the two get in a fight. O'Connor grabs a knife, but Wilson wrestles it out of his hand, and in the heat of the moment, he stabs O'Connor repeatedly. The man falls down and dies, and Wilson begins to panic at his actions.
* On Micro's advice, Frank Castle meets with Billy Russo. He explains that he never reached out because he wanted as few people as possible to know, for their safety. Castle asks him about Dinah Madani, knowing she must have been the one to tell Russo, and Russo tells him about how he met her at Anvil, which Castle remarks is a company he is impressed with his friend for building. He proceeds to then tell Russo what he has learned about Operation Cerberus, and Ray Schoonover and Agent Orange's deception, explaining about the heroin smuggling and Gunner Henderson's death. Russo recommends that his friend leave the country for safety, offering to help him.
* Micro watches from his hideout monitors as Castle goes to see Sarah Lieberman to apologize for not coming to Sunday lunch. Castle explains that he had an accident, and she accepts his apology, saying that she does not know why, but she trusts him. They sit down and she tells him about Zach hitting Leo. He tells her that, as much as he knows it is clichéd, he has confidence things will get better for her family soon.
* At the docks, Billy Russo meets with William Rawlins, whom he has been working with in secret against Castle. He informs the Cerberus leader that despite his efforts, Castle will not be coming with him.
* Lewis Wilson rinses his hands and face and then showers, wanting to clean off O'Connor's blood.

#### 25th

* Lewis Wilson returns home, shirtless after disposing of the clothes he was wearing when he killed O'Connor. He is surprised to find his father, Clay, is still in the house, having stayed late to see his son. Clay expresses his worry at Lewis being shirtless in the freezing cold and gives him pills to help him sleep, telling him he considers him a hero. Lewis hides his bloody hands from his father and goes to his room in the basement, then, despairing after his accidental murder, he takes his gun and places the barrel in his mouth to end his own life, but cannot bring himself to pull the trigger.
* Frank Castle and Micro plan an attack on Cerberus Colonel Morty Bennett for Saturday night. Castle tells Micro that Agent Orange will have been the man watching the headcams during the attack in Kentucky, and that Bennett will know his real name.

#### 26th

* Billy Russo visits Dinah Madani at Homeland Security Headquarters, claiming that he has put the word out to find Castle but gotten no response. He says that this must mean that Castle is, in fact, dead, trying to get Madani to stay away, but Madani insists she knows he is alive. Russo promises her that if he is alive, he will find him, and leaves. Sam Stein sees Russo leave and is angered when he realizes that Madani must have told him about Castle.
* Stein confronts Madani for telling Russo about Castle, saying she is compromising them and putting him in danger.
* David Lieberman expresses concern to Frank Castle that he might get carried away during their mission and kill Morty Bennett, when the target is Agent Orange. Castle insists that he is in control of his killing, but does bring up the moral quandary he has been considering: he does not know what he should do if he encounters resistance from a U.S. soldier defending Bennett, as they would simply be doing their job.
* As she works, Madani realizes that Gunner Henderson being killed just one day after they identified him. She looks around her office, worried there might be a bug, but cannot immediately see anything. Madani nonetheless goes to Stein and tells him her suspicions in secret.
* Meeting with William Rawlins again, Billy Russo tells him not to worry about Dinah Madani. Rawlins claims that Russo made a mistake in not having Castle killed when he met with him a few days prior, but Russo says that this would not have been possible, and that Rawlins only wants him dead so urgently because he wants revenge for Castle being the only person to bring him close to death. He then asks whether they should warn Morty Bennett that Castle may come for him, but Rawlins says that if he is told Castle is alive, he will either run or tell people. Russo suggests killing him instead, but Rawlins says they need his intel, and that they will save his life anyway, so there is no need to have him killed.
* Colonel Bennett begins his Saturday evening spent with a dominatrix.
* **Infiltration into Fort Bryon**:
	+ Castle waits outside Fort Bryon. Lieberman directs him through comms, monitoring the area from above using a night vision drone. Bennett's dominatrix begins to initiate foreplay, just as Castle arrives. The woman screams in fear.
	+ Hearing the screams from outside, Billy Russo, who has been waiting to hear Castle's arrival, pulls on a mask and leads a group of soldiers inside.
	+ Castle takes off his mask, revealing himself to Bennett. Meanwhile, Castle's proximity yo Bennett allows Micro to begin cloning the colonel's cell phone. Castle has to stay close to Bennett, but Micro warns him that he an see hostile soldiers closing in on Castle from outside.
	+ Castle lets off a smoke grenade to allow him to hide as the hostile soldiers arrive. The men enter Fort Bryon, but Castle ambushes and takes them down one by one.
	+ The phone cloning nears completion, but before it can finish and thus allow Castle to leave, one soldier pulls a gun on Castle and he is forced to shoot. Castle takes him down, but the man manages to hit him in the shoulder.
	+ Micro alerts Castle that the phone is now cloned and he leaps out of a window to escape the compound. One soldier still shoots at him from the window, but Castle manages to hide. He is completely unaware that the soldier shooting at him is, in fact, the man he still considers a close friend: Billy Russo.
	+ Russo unmasks and tells Bennett they came to save his life. He has the other soldiers get up, and instructs Bennett to follow his orders.
	+ Micro continues to monitor from a drone above the fort and direct Castle to a safe route of escape.
	+ Castle escapes into a tunnel, but encounters a young soldier. He decides that he cannot kill the man, as he is only doing his duty. He attempts to talk the soldier down, but the man, while scared, nonetheless is steadfast and refuses to let Castle go. Castle reluctantly turns quickly and shoots the soldier but makes sure his aim is non-fatal, then runs to get away.
	+ Castle reunites with Lieberman in his van and they drive away, escaping the scene.
* Lewis Wilson goes upstairs to see his father, who is rewatching the 1974 *The Rumble in the Jungle* George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali boxing match. Lewis says he envies boxers for having a clear understanding of who their single opponent is, but Clay tells him that despite real life being messier than boxing, it is not all a fight, and that Lewis needs to learn to live a normal life. Lewis says he has done awful things, but, assuming he is only talking about his time serving, Clay reassures him that it was only what he was ordered to do, and that now he has to look after himself.
* Castle and Lieberman track Colonel Bennett's phone, but he does not leave Fort Bryon. As they wait, Castle tells Lieberman about the young soldier he encountered, and explains how Colonel Bennett and Agent Orange's manipulation of young soldiers' loyalty sickens him. He comes to the conclusion that he will kill anyone involved with Operation Cerberus from now on. Micro then points out that Bennett's phone tracker is beginning to move.
* Lewis Wilson visits a hardware store and picks up items needed to make an explosive. He returns to O'Connor's house and rigs a nail bomb with a saucepan, wires, and other items.

#### 27th

* Morty Bennett expresses his anger to Billy Russo and William Rawlins for not letting him know that they knew Castle would be coming for him. They tell him he should be thanking them for saving him from Castle, and ask him what information he gave up. Bennett claims he said nothing, and Rawlins tells him that they will get him safely out of the country soon.
* Still recovering after his near-death, Matt Murdock is visited by orphans from Saint Agnes Orphanage. Sister Maggie Grace sends them away, and tells Murdock that she knows he is the Devil of Hell's Kitchen. He says those days are behind him, being deaf in his right ear and still struggling to walk. She says that since he has recovered just enough to get by, ideally he would leave soon, stating that there must be someone she can call for him, but he tells her he has no one.
* As they drive through the snow together, following Bennett's tracker, Micro talks to Frank Castle about the potential that he might actually get to return to his family. Castle reveals that he knows about Lieberman's cameras, and jokingly advises him not to tell Sarah when he returns to her, but tells Micro that when he reunites with his family, he should simply hug them tightly and for a long time.
* Sam Stein and Dinah Madani find the bug they suspected to be in their office, hidden at the back of a shelf. Madani signals for Stein to not say anything aloud, as whoever is listening in cannot find out that they know. They leave the room and talk outside. Stein reveals that he missed a date, but Madani jokes that as an agent, his date should come second anyway. She admits that she has no idea what to do about the bug, and Stein says that neither does he.
* **Assassination of Morty Bennett**: Billy Russo delivers Colonel Bennett to a CIA Safe House, on the pretence of keeping him safe until they can deport him. However, on arrival, Russo takes Bennett to his room and shows him the dead body of his dominatrix, whom he and Rawlins have had killed. He then corners the colonel and stabs him, leaving him to die on the floor and thereby tying up their loose end.
* **Attack on William Rawlins**: Castle positions himself in the snowy grass outside the safe house with a gun trained on the windows. Inside, William Rawlins takes a call from Russo to inform him that Bennett has been killed. Castle sees Bennett at the window and recognizes him as Agent Orange, filling with anger again at what the man has done to him and his family. He composes himself and aims for Rawlins' head, then pulls the trigger. However, the bullet does not penetrate the glass, which is bulletproof. Rawlins is shocked at the sudden and unexpected attempt on his life, and the flood lights come on around the house, with alarms beginning to blare. Castle is stunned by his failure but realizes he has to escape, and gets up to run.

#### 28th

* The *New York Bulletin* runs a piece about Morty Bennett's body being found in a motel.
* Billy Russo visits his sick mother in her nursing home. He tells her the anger he has felt for his whole life, about how her negligence and abandonment of him as a child affected him. He nonetheless continues to pay for her medical needs, but tells her he would have given her everything, if she had only wanted him.
* In Micro's hideout, Micro shows Frank Castle that he has found Agent Orange's real name and identity: William Rawlins, CIA Director of Covert Operations. He explains that the Rawlinses are a powerful family, and that William will therefore likely have a lot of influence and resources at his disposal. Micro then notices that the feed to the cameras in his house has shut down and begins to worry for his family. Panicking, he asks that Castle rush to his home and check on them.
* Dinah Madani and Billy Russo shower together. As they then get dressed, they discuss the scars each of them bear, and how they acquired them. Russo explains that one of them came about when he was young and in a care home, and a paedophile volunteer had tried to assault him: he had fought back and the man had broken his arm and ripped his rotator cuff. Madani says that she is glad he has confided in her, having not known about his troubled childhood.
* Castle turns up at the Liebermans' home with flowers to give Sarah as a thank you and apology. He is relieved when he finds she and the family are safe, and she invites him inside. She explains that she unplugged the Wi-Fi to punish Zach for his bad behavior, and drinks wine with "Castiglione".
* Micro waits anxiously in the hideout to find out if his family are okay.
* Madani talks to Sam Stein in her office and pretends to have a new lead on Castle, trying to fool whoever is listening through the bug in the office. Stein catches on to what she is doing, and plays along as they discuss a deal that will supposedly be happening soon where Castle will be buying ammunition - they hope to lure the listeners into a trap at the supposed meeting point and time. The conversation then turns to Billy Russo, whom Stein has worked out Madani is sleeping with. He teases her about Russo.
* At the Liebermans', Castle reboots the Wi-Fi router, claiming to Sarah that he simply wanted to save her the job. This in turn reboots the feed from Micro's cameras, and he goes back to watching his family. Sarah Lieberman starts a further conversation with "Castiglione", saying she often sadly wonders if she will ever be able to find love again. She says he is a great listener and goes to hug him, but ends up turning her head to kiss "Castiglione". He backs away shortly after, telling her that he never intended to give her the impression that things could be romantic between them, and Sarah apologizes, saying she hopes it does not affect their friendship. He tells her that he will put it behind him and they laugh off the awkward moment, before Castle leaves the house.
* Castle returns to the hideout and finds Micro drunk at his computer, struggling to deal with Castle having kissed his wife. He accuses Castle of having encouraged her advances with the flowers, but he says that they were merely bought to give him an excuse for turning up at the house. Micro continues to drink, claiming this is how he will have to deal with the situation.
* William Rawlins meets with Billy Russo to discuss the tape from Madani's office, and the fact that they need to intervene with the government operation because Castle has to be killed. Russo believes it is a risk, as it could expose their bug in Homeland Security Headquarters, and says that he needs outside operators as he lost nine men on his payroll on the attack on Gunner Henderson. Rawlins asks if Russo is making excuses and is actually worried about going against Dinah Madani, but Russo insists that she is merely a means to an end, and that no one will get in his way, both Madani and Rawlins included.
* At the Homeland Security Headquarters, Madani hands out hard copy tactical plans for the ambush at the fake Castle arms deal. She then talks to Stein about preparing getting into position early before whoever is after Castle arrives, and they go to upload a fake tactical plan into the computers, assuming that whoever placed the bug in the office also has computer access.
* In Micro's hideout, Frank Castle and David Lieberman start a conversation about their wives and how they each met theirs: how Castle had met Maria while playing guitar in the park, and how Lieberman had been at school with Sarah and had first kissed her after a junior year costume party. Micro, drunk, starts to talk about women and teases Castle about the topic. Castle tells him to stop, but starts to laugh at Lieberman's comments. Lieberman then has an idea, thinking that they should send Dinah Madani the video evidence they have against William Rawlins and then use Castle as an eyewitness to put Rawlins in jail, but Castle insists that they cannot imprison Rawlins, as he needs to be killed. Micro becomes angry, calling Castle a psychopath for his insistence on killing enemies, and goes to call Madani, but Castle punches him to knock him out before he can act.

#### 29th

* Billy Russo hires men for the operation to take out Frank Castle, promising them $500,000 each.
* Micro wakes with a hangover, and Castle gives him food to help him get through it. Sarah Lieberman calls Castle, and Castle asks Micro if he should answer. Micro bitterly says that she is now Castle's girlfriend, but Castle tells him that he has never wanted anyone else other than his wife, Lisa. Sarah leaves a voicemail saying that she is worried about Zach, thinking he might be planning to hurt someone.
* Castle goes to the Liebermans' home to help with Zach. Sarah tells him about how he has just not been the same since David died, and Castle asks that she go and take a walk and let him try to get through to Zach.
* Billy Russo's team gears up to enter the abandoned warehouse where the supposed deal involving Castle will be taking place.
* Castle sits down with Zach Lieberman and begins to tell him about his own childhood, and how he thought he was being rebellious when he hurt people, but that he was actually being a bully and an idiot, and that Lieberman is acting similarly.
* Russo's team ascend the staircase at the warehouse.
* Castle gets out the knife Lieberman took and begins to talk to him about the weapon, telling him why knives are better than guns in a close-quarters fight. He wants to intimidate Lieberman, and holds him in a headlock with the knife in-hand to show him how awful the weapon is and break his facade of feeling tough. Lieberman shocks him when he says that he wishes Castle would just kill him, telling him how he is scared and lonely and that is bullying behavior has been out of a desire to make other people feel the pain he feels every day. Castle puts down the knife and embraces him. Micro watches from his hideout, distressed at what is happening to his son.
* **Ambush at the Abandoned Warehouse**:
	+ Russo's team reach the room where the supposed deal is due to happen, but find no one there. Dinah Madani, Sam Stein, and their team then suddenly ambush the group as planned, but the men are fast to respond, immediately killing one of the Homeland Security agents. A fire fight breaks out between the two factions, but Billy Russo escapes out of the east side of the building, killing one of his own struggling men just so his calling out for Russo's help will not give him away.
	+ Madani alerts Stein about the man escaping, and Stein runs ahead to apprehend him. He approaches the soldier from behind and holds a gun to him, ordering him to drop his weapon, put his hands behind his head, and get on his knees, all of which he does. Stein then walks up to him and removes his mask, but is stunned to find out that the attacker is Billy Russo. Russo exploits his moment of confusion and swiftly attacks Stein with a hidden blade in his sleeve, stabbing him repeatedly in the gut, and mockingly asking him, "Who's pretty now?"
	+ Madani is horrified to find her friend unable to speak. He stares at her, unable to communicate and warn her about Russo as he dies on the floor before anyone can come to help.
* Frank Castle spends time with Zach Lieberman, throwing an American football between them on the Liebermans' street. He suddenly spots Micro around the corner and throws a long pass for Zach to give him a few moments to speak with David. He hurriedly goes over to tell David to leave. David tells him that he has come because Zach is distressed and needs him, but Castle firmly begs him to leave, warning that if Zach becomes embroiled in anything through either Cerberus finding out David is alive or Zach being around David, Zach is in danger of being killed. David reluctantly walks off just in time, as Zach walks over to Castle and asks who he was speaking to, having only seen him fleetingly from behind. Castle assures him it was just a man hanging around the neighborhood and gets back to playing with the football.
* Madani washes Stein's blood off of herself in the bathtub and sits in shock at her friend's murder. Billy Russo helps her wash, comforting her over the murder he himself secretly perpetrated.

### December

#### 1st

* With no luck on tracking Quake again, Phil Coulson and Alphonso Mackenzie return to the Playground to restock and see the team again. Coulson's Team are now seeing very little of each other due to the constant pursuit of Daisy Johnson.

#### 3rd

* Alphonso Mackenzie and Phil Coulson renew their search for Quake, boarding the Zephyr One once again.
* **Rite of Blood**: PRIDE holds their annual meeting, in which 16-year-old Brian Geparhart is sacrificed to revive Jonah.

#### 6th

* Farah Madani visits her daughter and talks to her about her grief following Sam Stein's death. She says that while she is glad Dinah is taking time to recover, it is unlike her to stay bedridden. Dinah explains that she has been wondering what she could have done differently, but Farah reminds her that it is in no way her fault. Dinah explains that Stein's mother has asked her to talk at his funeral, but that she does not know whether to tell a nicer story so as not to upset people, or whether to tell the truth because that was what Stein fought for.
* **Bombings of New York City**: Frank Castle and Micro sit on top of the building across from Madani's home, with Castle using binoculars to check what she is doing, suspecting that she might be corrupt as she has been so involved in recent events. As they wait for her to act, they are shocked by a sudden explosion in a building down the road.
* Two other explosions occur in New York City, with all three perpetrated by Lewis Wilson.
* The news reports on the bombings, showing a video recorded from the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms field office at the time of the explosion there, as well as reporting explosions at the New York City Police Department 10th Precinct and federal courthouse in Foley Square.
* Quake is involved in an incident near New Orleans, Louisiana.
* Lewis Wilson writes a letter addressed to Karen Page at the *New York Bulletin*, saying that the United States government has become tyrannical in trying people who seek to defend themselves with guns in court, claiming he has acted in defense of liberty. He explains that he chose to send it to Page as she is a reporter who previously stood up for the common hero and he believes she understands that sometimes people have to take a stand for what they feel is right. He requests that she publish his words "as a call to arms", or else he will consider her and everyone at the paper to be on his "list".

#### 8th

* Karen Page receives the letter and shows it to Mitchell Ellison, who believes they cannot take any action until the FBI have had some involvement in looking at the letter for evidence, which Page reluctantly agrees to, on the proviso that she gets to publish an editorial on the bomber's comments if the FBI approve it.
* Castle watches the news about the bombings and declares his hatred for bombers to Micro, saying that they are cowards who think they can scare people into doing what they want, when in fact they only inspire people to come together. Micro suggests that if the bombing has meant that Madani had to return to work, they could take their opportunity to follow her, but Castle says that the whole city will be paranoid and looking out for suspicious activity, and that they therefore cannot currently go after a Homeland agent.
* After touching down in the Quinjet, Phil Coulson sits in an apartment, looking over a square near Winslow's Veterinary Clinic. He is convinced that he has predicted Daisy Johnson's next actions and that she will show up here. However, Johnson does not appear.

#### 9th

* Rafael Hernandez goes to see Dinah Madani to ask for help and question her about the ambush at the abandoned warehouse, but she refuses to answer. She tells him about how she cannot get over the sight of watching Sam Stein die.

#### 11th

* In Micro's hideout, Frank Castle reads the *New York Bulletin* article Karen Page has written about the bombings. Micro lets Castle know that Page is on the radio.
* Page sits with Senator Stan Ori in a studio to go live on the Ricky Langtry Show. The segment begins, and she and Ori have a debate on gun control, with Ori saying that guns in society are far too dangerous, but Page saying that they might be necessary for self-defense. Ori brings up Castle's killings just over a year prior, but Page argues that he is not a terrorist and was working for the side of good. The show then gets a call from an anonymous man claiming to the bomber: Lewis Wilson, indeed the perpetrator of the explosions. He asks Karen why she has said the things she has, and she is defiant, saying she despises his actions and that he is a coward. Wilson calls her a pawn and says that Ori does not represent anyone, claiming the way is just beginning and they are on the wrong side of it, before stating "sic semper tyrannis" (Latin for "thus always to tyrants") and hanging up.
* As Castle listens, he recognizes the Latin phrase and recalls where he heard it before: at one of Curtis Hoyle's meetings, spoken by a young man. He describes the man to Micro, saying he remembers he is called Lewis, that he drives a cab, and that he is approximately 25 years old. He asks Micro to find his identity, sure that he is the bomber.
* **Kidnapping of Curtis Hoyle**: Curtis Hoyle calls Wilson, hoping to help him, but he does not pick up. He walks to O'Connor's home to talk with him about Wilson, but is forced to break in when he becomes worried about the lack of response. He is hit by the smell of a rotting corpse and discovers O'Connor's dead body, as well as the remnants of one of Wilson's explosives. Wilson then approaches him, having been hiding, pulling a gun on Hoyle. Hoyle tries to talk to him, but he is not responsive and lifts the gun to him, forcing Hoyle to engage him in a fight. He knocks the gun out of the young man's hand and manages to knock him to the ground, but Wilson kicks out his prosthetic leg from under him and beats Hoyle, then detaching the leg and hitting him with it until he is knocked out.
* Micro informs Frank Castle that he has found the identity of the bomber: Lewis Wilson, as well as hsi address. Castle then gets into the van to go after Wilson, telling Micro that they cannot call Curtis Hoyle for help, as Hoyle will only try to help Wilson and he is too far gone for that to work.
* The FBI are talking to Karen Page at the *New York Bulletin* when Castle calls her. He asks her why she is putting a target on her own back by going after Wilson, but she says she had to act so people like the bomber do not get away with their actions. Page works out that Castle knows who the bomber is, but he refuses to tell her, explaining that he has to go after the man first.
* Billy Russo visits Dinah Madani in her home. She tries to initiate sex, but Russo stops her, saying it will not help her feel better. He then tells her about the times he has had to attend the funerals of people who died serving with him, and that he understands the survivor's guilt of wondering if they could have done anything to stop it, but suggests that it is in fact worth considering that the deaths are sometimes the victims' own faults. Madani admits her plan's intention to bait and catch the people going after Castle, however, explaining that Sam Stein died for nothing and from a decision she made.
* Micro calls Castle, who is waiting outside Wilson's address, to inform him that he has got a trace on Wilson's cell phone and he is in fact at 83451 Van Buren, mentioning that Hoyle is also in the same house. Castle drives off to go to the address, now also worried about his friend.
* Senator Stan Ori makes preparations for a fundraising gala to benefit the victims of the bombings. Billy Russo arrives by request, representing Anvil, and the two men discuss Anvil providing his security for the gala. Ori says he is concerned that if the bomber comes after him, if Anvil are forced to shoot the man, it will not reflect well on him as an anti-gun senator, but Russo reminds him that these principles should not be worth dying for, and Ori agrees to hire him.
* Frank Castle gets to 83451 Van Buren and is horrified to find Curtis Hoyle bloody and beaten, gagged, tied to a chair, and strapped to a mine. Castle takes the gag off him and tries to work out what to do about the M18 Claymore mine. Hoyle's phone then rings and Castle takes the call, which is from Lewis Wilson, positioned outside with a gun trained on the window. He explains that he had to take things into his own hands just like Castle, which Castle rebukes, insisting that Wilson is nothing like him and is a coward hiding behind explosives rather than facing his victims the way he does.
* Dinah Madani tells her mother that she has agreed to speak at Stein's funeral, feeling she owes it to him, as well as saying she has decided to tell the truth, and that despite the fact that it will most likely get her fired, it will mean the federal agents and press will have to act on her words.
* Castle inspects the circuit on the mine strapped to Hoyle. He realizes that he does not know if it is an open or closed circuit, and that if it is closed, any wire he cuts will set off the mine, while if it is open, even then, only some of the wires will be safe to cut. Hoyle begins to talk to Castle about the feelings of helplessness he struggles with following the loss of his leg. Wilson calls again to say he has called the police to come to the house and get Castle, but Castle remains calm, saying he expected Wilson would do that. He is composed as he requests that Wilson tell him which wire to cut, and tells Wilson how Hoyle is a good man and that if anything, he himself is the one deserving of death. He explains how Hoyle lost his leg: that he had been bravely tending to an injured man and it was Castle's job to take out a woman threatening to set off a bomb, but he had hesitated and the explosion had killed Hoyle's patient and blown off his leg. Castle tells him he feels responsible for ruining Hoyle's life.
* Wilson tells Castle to go to the window, and the two talk while looking directly at each other. Castle becomes increasingly stern, trying to appeal to the soldier in Wilson, and demanding that Wilson consider whether he seriously wants both Castle and Hoyle dead. The sound of sirens gets closer, and Wilson knows he has to leave, and he eventually decides he has to tell Castle, instructing him to "try the white wire". He then runs to get away.
* Hoyle encourages Castle to leave, wanting him not to take the risk of being there to cut the wire and to get away before the police arrive. Castle decides to stay nonetheless to support his friend and prepares for the potential that Wilson might have lied as he goes to cut the wire. However, he snips it and nothing happens, as Wilson told the truth. With the mine deactivated, Castle then goes to escape from the police who are arriving outside.
* Although he tries to get away surreptitiously, Frank Castle is spotted as he escapes. He runs from the police, but a police car apprehends him. He is forced to throw a small brick at one officer, knocking him out, then bash the car door onto the other officer until he falls down. Castle gets into the car and drives away.
* Ahead of the funeral, Dinah Madani is drinking in a bar when Micro goes to find her. He tells her he can give her the names of everyone involved in Kandahar.
* The police find the car that Castle escaped in, but discover it abandoned.
* Micro explains to Madani what happened to Ahmad Zubair - how he was framed as a terrorist and executed when he found out about Operation Cerberus' involvement with heroin deals. He then tells Madani the name they have uncovered: William Rawlins, and says he has video files for proof.
* Mitchell Ellison goes to Karen Page and puts on the WHiH World News report on TV. It is reporting that dashcam footage has been captured of an assailant's encounter with the police. Madani and Micro both also watch the news from the bar they are in, with Castle watching on Micro's monitors as he gets back to the hideout, as the news reveals publicly that facial recognition has confirmed the man is Frank Castle, in fact alive and well.
* *10 Rings To Rule Them All: The Trevor Slattery Story* airs on TV.

#### 12th

* Lewis Wilson, carrying a *New York Bulletin* newspaper which reports on him being responsible for the bombings last week, arrives at Anvil guard Isaac Lange's apartment and shoots him through the door, then breaks in. He is fascinated by Lange's pet birds, before taking Lange's Anvil equipment so as to help him in his attack on Senator Stan Ori's gala.
* Dinah Madani arrives at work at 8:30AM for her first day back and goes to see Rafael Hernandez. He asks her what she has been hiding in taking the courses of action she has, such as the ambush at the abandoned warehouse and filing the false tactical plans. She confesses to him that she knew Castle was alive and tells him about finding the bug and setting up the fake deal. Madani says she could not report to anyone else, not knowing who else at Homeland Security Headquarters might be compromised, but Hernandez laments that she did not at least trust him. She decides to give him the name she has come across for the man behind Ahmad Zubair's assassination: William Rawlins, and Hernandez is shocked, knowing Rawlins to be the director of Covert Operations, but when she continues to insist she is sure, he decides to consider the information. Before he leaves, he then hands her the files of the attackers who died in the ambush at the warehouse, and Madani immediately notices the trend that they are all affiliated with Anvil.
* At 9:47AM, Senator Stan Ori tells Billy Russo he wants to hold his interview with Karen Page in a visible place so as to prove his not intimidated, but Russo tells him not to, saying that simply keeping him alive should take priority. Russo then gets a call from Frank Castle, who warns him that Lewis Wilson will be coming after Ori and that Russo will need to get Ori to safety, saying that he will be coming to help trap Wilson. Russo says he cannot just take Ori away as he needs to do his job as required, so Castle asks simply that Russo at least keep his security away from him as he goes to take out Wilson. He hangs up and moves to prepare, dressed as a cleaner. Russo meanwhile gets back to work and is introduced to Karen Page as she arrives on Ori's floor of the hotel.
* Now 9:49AM, Russo points out to Page the irony that she, being someone who usually carries a gun, is interviewing an anti-gun senator; however, Page, in return, highlights the irony that Ori should hire a gun-toting security organization. Russo tells her that Anvil is simply the best security group around, and mentions his status as an Afghanistan veteran, before leaving to go downstairs to the lobby.
* At 9:54AM, Lewis Wilson arrives at the gala dressed in Lange's Anvil gear. He spots Billy Russo entering the lobby and turns to avoid him, walking past Dinah Madani.
* Russo goes to speak with Madani, and he tells her he is glad she has returned to work. She confronts him about the men who killed her team being Anvil recruits, but Russo lies, saying they only worked for him a long time ago, and that they probably worked for several different places, meaning it is only coincidence that all four had at some point been affiliated with Anvil. He becomes angry with her when she continues to press him, pretending it is offensive to him that she could possibly suspect him of having anything to do with the attack. She asks if he would know who the fifth man was - the one who killed Sam Stein - and he promises to ask around.
* Wilson ascends the stairs to get to Ori. He starts a conversation with the Anvil guard "Eagle One" at the top of the stairs, continuing to pretend to be another Anvil recruit, before suddenly pulling a gun on him and shooting him through the head.
* Madani mentions to Russo that she is aware part of the reason he is working guard duty is to protect Ori from Frank Castle, and she asks if he would truly be ready to take out his friend. Russo claims that while he hopes not to have to deal with that problem, if it came to it, he would be willing, saying Castle has simply gone crazy. An alarm then goes off in the lobby, and Russo contacts Eagle One but becomes concerned when he gets no response, leaving to find out what has happened.
* **Attack on Stan Ori**:
	+ Karen Page and Senator Ori conduct their interview and discuss their feelings on having had their lives threatened. Meanwhile, Wilson sneaks into the main hallway. Page continues to interview Ori, saying that she appreciates the gala Ori is holding, but that his mere rhetoric and the actual effects on real lives are very different things. He replies that he is bringing those things together, however, in taking action to raise money, and highlights that the money would not even need to be raised if it weren't for the violence that lax gun laws allow. Page, in return, posits that a gun is just a tool and not where the violent tendencies lie. Wilson steps out into the hall and approaches the next Anvil guard, again continuing his ruse of pretending to be one of them, before killing that man as well. He then goes about rigging explosives in the hallway.
	+ Ori asks Page why she herself chooses to own a gun, and she informs him it is for personal safety. The senator replies that society should instead be providing personal safety in restricting gun sales, but Page highlights that he himself has chosen gun-bearers as his personal safety insurance.
	+ Meanwhile, Lewis Wilson dons a gas mask to prepare to enter the room. Page and Ori continue to debate, but are suddenly interrupted when, at 10:14AM, Wilson detonates the explosives, and they are thrown to the floor. He walks in and shoots the two Anvil guards inside before they have regained awareness of the situation, and Stan Ori begins begging for his life. Wilson chooses to continue to scare the senator before making any kind of killing shot, but Page then crawls out in front of him to protect him, begging Wilson herself. Wilson decides to kill her, but just as he pulls the trigger, Frank Castle arrives and dives in front of the bullet.
	+ Ori runs away, but Wilson grabs Page to hold her hostage, telling Castle that he cannot shoot him, as he has an explosive rigged to a dead man's switch, and if he dies, it will explode and kill Page as well. Castle reluctantly retracts his gun but follows Wilson into the hallway. More Anvil guards arrive from the other end of the corridor, preparing to take out both Wilson and Castle, but Wilson shouts to both parties, threatening blowing up everyone. He backs into an elevator and Castle promises to come to help Page as the doors close, with Wilson descending with Page still held captive.
* The moment the elevator doors close, the Anvil guards move to shoot at Castle, and he runs for his life. He takes a bullet to the back but manages to get back up and grabs the dead body of the guard Wilson killed in the hallway to carry on his back, using it as a shield from the spray of bullets before turning the corner to escape.
* Now 10:18AM, Frank Castle continues to attempt to get downstairs and apprehend Wilson. Dinah Madani meanwhile runs up a nearby staircase then through a hall, exiting onto Castle's staircase and accosting him as he is running, holding a gun to him and telling him to drop his weapon. Agitated and desperate to save Page, he calls her bluff and tells her he needs to get downstairs, and she eventually decides not to shoot, but as he backs away, he is nonetheless shot in the jaw, but from above. Madani looks up and finds Billy Russo, having shot his supposed friend, and preparing to shoot again. She tells him to stand down, threatening to charge him with obstruction, just as Castle gets back up, shocked to find that it is his friend who almost killed him. Russo tells her to walk away from the situation, which is a personal war he feels he is involved with, and she comes to the horrified realization that he was the man who killed Stein.
* At 10:22AM, Lewis Wilson drags Karen Page through the lower levels of the building. Officers hold their guns to him, but he threatens them by shouting about he bomb he has on him, ready to detonate if they shoot.
* Before Madani can act on her realization, officers arrive and arrest both her and Russo. Russo is calm and pleased that she cannot retaliate, while Madani screams in anger and begs to be freed, but they refuse. Officers then go after Castle, but he knocks them aside and grabs a fire hose attached to a wall, using it to ensure that he will not fall to the ground as he holds onto it and jumps over the rail to descend several flights of stairs in one go.
* Wilson drags Page into the kitchen with him.
* Castle's fire hose reaches full extension and he dangles over the stairs, then lets go to fall back onto the staircase, now near the bottom floor.
* As soon as they are in the kitchen, Wilson lets go of Page and begins to panic, not knowing what to do next with police outside waiting to take him. Page attempts to calm him down but he only becomes more erratic, beginning to recite drills from his time in the war, and deciding that, as his sergeant once told him, the best thing to do is to "wait like a soldier". Page tells him to back down and offers to help him, trying again to make him relax. However, Frank Castle then bursts through the door and Wilson grabs Page again, threatening to detonate.
* Castle realizes he is out of options other than to treat Wilson like a soldier - the only way Castle knows he will respond. He begins to berate Wilson for the things he has done, saying that he will have ruined his father's life for forever tarnishing the Wilson family because of his terrorist behavior, and says that Wilson should understand what the right thing to do now would be, and take this course of action. Castle then turns the conversation to discussing Page's bag, confusing Wilson, but Page picks up on his hint: he is checking she has her gun on her, and she subtly indicates that she does. Castle then carefully crafts his words to surreptitiously instruct her to break the white wire on Wilson's explosive, which she does, then he gives a signal and Page shoots Wilson in the foot through her bag, surprising the young man.
* Castle and Page exploit Wilson's moment of surprise, with Page wrestling free of him and the two of them locking him into a freezer. Wilson realizes he has reached the end of the line and recites a military poem to himself as he prepares to end his own life on his own terms; to die "like a soldier". Knowing that this is the only option left for everyone's safety and Wilson's peace, Castle does not move to intervene, but stays with Wilson on the other side of the door until the young man detonates the explosive, killing himself in a fiery explosion and knocking Castle and Page to the ground from the blast.
* With the police waiting outside, Page suggests that Castle pretend to hold her hostage when they step out, hoping that this will allow him to escape. He does so, walking past Brett Mahoney and the other officers with a gun held to Page's head and threatening her life, before the two of them get into the elevator and relax.
* Castle prepares to escape through the ceiling of the elevator and up through the elevator shaft. Page embraces him, and the two share an intimate moment with their heads pressed together as, without speaking, they communicate to each other how much they care about one another, how grateful they are that each other have made it out alive, and that they hope the other stays safe and well. Castle then climbs out to make his escape.
* At 1:45PM, Brett Mahoney sits with Billy Russo to question him about Lewis Wilson. He mentions the records they have that Russo looked at hiring Wilson for Anvil, but Russo points out that they had deemed him unfit and that he had no relationship with Wilson. Mahoney suggests he is suspicious of the fact that Wilson easily got past Russo's security, implying that Russo might have been working with him, but Russo angrily highlights the fact that he has lost men who worked with him during the incident, as well as the fact that he risked his life to protect Ori as promised - something he would not have done if he were working with Wilson.
* Mahoney then talks to Stan Ori, asking him to walk him through what happened. Ori explains first how his new experience being involved in a gun-related incident is making him reassess his positions, and that he is in shock. He then tells Mahoney what supposedly happened, but lies to paint himself as a more heroic man, claiming that when Wilson broke in, he had grabbed a gun at shot back at Wilson then run for help.
* When Mahoney interviews Karen Page, she explains that Ori lied, and tells Mahoney that he is wrong to believe Castle and Wilson worked together. Mahoney points out that she and Castle have been involved together several times, suggesting that she will need to provide more proof for her point due to her potentially being suspicious. She highlights that Castle would not go after a man just for a political opinion he disagrees with, and tells the first half of her story from the day.
* Dinah Madani talks to Brett Mahoney, and says that she believes if Castle had come with the intent of killing Ori, he would be dead. Mahoney asks why Castle would have come otherwise, which Madani admits she does not know, so he asks that she at least tell him her side of the story. Madani explains her perspective on the events.
* Mahoney interrogates Madani further on what happened in the standoff on the stairs, and she insists that she had the situation under control, but that Billy Russo had been intent on killing Frank Castle. Mahoney claims that this is understandable, but Madani highlights that Castle killed no one all day, suggesting this further proves her point that Castle is in fact innocent in this case, and she asks if anyone would actually be willing to give him the chance to prove himself. She then leaves, despite Mahoney not giving her permission.
* Walking down the hall, Madani encounters Karen Page and pulls her aside to talk. She confronts her about having not told her Castle was alive,saying she knows full well that Page knew the truth at the time. She does not press further, however, instead observing that Page and Castle have a connection, and warning her that people will use the ambush as an excuse to go after Castle. Page tells Madani that Castle is not the man that the police believe him to be, reaffirming the agent's beliefs about him.
* Mahoney sits with Karen Page one final time, as she finishes telling him of Castle's actions, and how it should be clear that he is no terrorist, but in fact saved all their lives that day.
* Frank Castle sits at a fire by the river with homeless people, heartbroken at his best friend's betrayal and thinking over everything that Billy Russo has said and done.

#### 13th

* The first generation of AirPods are released.
* Castle sits by the fire, motionless and in shock, into the morning.
* Micro and Dinah Madani both separately sit and watch WHiH World News as Billy Russo speaks out against the man who was once his best friend, saying that Frank Castle has lost the man he once was and become a monster. Madani angrily throws her mug at the television screen, and Castle gets back to Micro's hideout in time for the end of the report, sharing a look of dismay with Lieberman.
* Micro helps Frank clean and stitch his bullet wounds from the day before, giving him some reassurance as he struggles to come to terms with Russo's betrayal. However, when Castle finds out that Micro went to Madani behind his back, he accuses Micro of also betraying him.
* Sarah, Zach, and Leo Lieberman watch the news reporting on Frank Castle, horrified to find out who Pete Castiglione was all along. Both children ask Sarah about him, but Sarah does not know what to respond, not knowing what to believe about the man who had seemed so nice.
* Billy Russo comes in to Homeland Security Headquarters for a video interrogation, unaccompanied as he claims that if he brought a lawyer, it would imply that he was guilty. She begins the recording and confronts him with the crime scene photos from the ambush at the abandoned warehouse, but he refuses to respond about them, instead asking her why she has brought him in. She is direct, saying that he is a murderer and killed Sam Stein, but he twists the story to discredit her, reciting for the video how he picked her up and bathed her and slept with her then and on multiple occasions. She attempts to put the interrogation back on track by questioning if he conducted illegal operations in Kandahar with Frank Castle, but he derails the conversation again by claiming she is simply angry that Castle escaped from her and is now using him as a scapegoat to blame for her failures. He calls her out for the interrogation being unofficial, due to her doing it on her own, and she stops recording, hoping he will be more open in their conversation, and offers him leniency in return for all his information on executions, tortures, and everything else, to allow her to convict William Rawlins. Russo lets his guard down momentarily, slipping up as his reaction shows her he is surprised that she knows about him. She angrily says that she will prove he murdered Stein, but he continues to deny, saying she is deluded in her grief. Madani walks to look him directly in his eyes as she gleefully tells him that Frank Castle will be coming for him now, and that he could be waiting around any corner to kill Russo.
* Marion James and William Rawlins walk by the river and discuss their personal lives, with James telling him about her twin daughters Ella and Grace applying for college. She tells him she has come to New York to talk with the police commissioner about an incident with his son, who has been caught hacking, offering to clear his name if he joins the CIA. She asks why Rawlins has come to the city, and he tells her that Frank Castle is a problem, as he could expose activities he performed that he confesses were illegal, albeit claiming that they were done out of a need to defend the country. He tells her that Castle tried to kill him, admitting he had tried to have him killed first. James is stern with him, saying he needs to reflect on himself and berating him for not informing her before. He asks that she sanction his decision to have an asset take out Castle, calling him a terrorist.
* Castle spray-paints his signature skull emblem in preparation for the fight to come.
* Dinah Madani shows Rafael Hernandez the video she recorded, but he scalds her for her methods, saying she helped him build a conflict-of-interest case against her. However, she becomes heated as she says that she had to faze Russo and that they cannot let him get away with the murder of Sam Stein, but Hernandez says she needs to find Castle and Micro before she proceeds.
* **Kidnapping of Sarah and Zach Lieberman**: Zach Lieberman is helping his mother prepare food when the doorbell rings and he runs to the door, letting a police officer in. He claims that they got a call from their address to the Frank Castle tip line, and Sarah realizes that Zach must have called, trying to pass it off as a mistake. The officer persists, however, refusing to leave and asking where Leo is. When Sarah sees Leo on the stairs, she indicates for her to stay upstairs and hide, worried the officer is not who he claims to be, then tells the man that she is staying at a friend's house. He says that for their protection, Sarah and Zach should come with him, but when Sarah refuses, he suddenly moves to take them by force, trying to kidnap the mother and son. Sarah fights back, grabbing a kitchen knife, but another supposed officer arrives and threatens her with Zach's life until she drops it, and the two of them are taken away.
* As Frank Castle prepares for an attack in Micro's hideout, Micro tells him that the skull he is painting should be his "memento mori" - a symbol meant to remind him of how important life is. Castle suddenly notices Sarah and Zach Lieberman's absence in the live feed from their house, and he and Micro rewind the footage, finding out about the kidnapping from a little under an hour prior. Micro begins to panic, but goes back to check the footage when he realizes Leo was not taken. He watches her escaping the house during the kidnapping and running away, and Castle suggests that he should call her.
* Leo Lieberman walks through a park and gets a call on her phone. Picking it up, she is surprised to hear the voice of "Pete Castiglione". He instructs her to remove the SIM card from her phone and throw both it and the phone away to prevent being tracked. Micro advises Castle to ask her to go to a playground that he had once taken her to, and she says she will go. Once Castle has hanged up, he tells Micro that he should go to his daughter because she needs him now. Castle explains that he will wait for Rawlins' men to come to the hideout, knowing they will follow the tracker on Sarah's phone, and that he will get information from them on where Sarah and Zach are being held, before killing them all.
* Sarah and Zach Lieberman are held captive, tied to a chair. Rawlins and Billy Russo discuss having found out that David Lieberman survived Carson Wolf's attack, and that Castle must have found him. Russo suggests that things are getting out of hand, with the fact that they also had Homeland agents killed and that Dinah Madani knows about Rawlins' involvement. Rawlins explains that he has used CIA apparatus to go after the Liebermans, therefore meaning that the CIA will not work against them because if they get exposed, everyone will get in trouble. He tells Russo to kill Castle and Micro tonight, but Russo refuses, saying he has already exposed himself too much.
* Marion James arrives at the Homeland Security Headquarters to meet with Rafael Hernandez and Dinah Madani. They sit her down and tell her they have evidence of one of her field agents running an illegal assassination program funded by heroin from Kandahar, and having killed Ahmad Zubair, revealing the agent to be William Rawlins. James tries to cover him, saying he is highly decorated, but that she will "look into it". She claims that Homeland Security do not have jurisdiction on foreign operations, but Hernandez explains that agents were killed in an operation in New York because of Rawlins, insisting that he is covering his tracks and killing people, including good agents. James begins to express worry at what the truth might do to damage the CIA's reputation and when Madani says that no one would be surprised, she becomes angry, saying that Madani needs to learn that personal feelings must be abandoned when protecting the country, before leaving.
* Frank Castle continues to prepare guns and ammunition for the fight he knows is coming, hiding weapons so he can pick them up later and then setting gunpowder traps.
* David Lieberman goes to find Leo at the park and calls out for her. Leo is momentarily suspicious, but when she realizes it is genuinely her father, still alive and come to get her, she emerges from her hiding place and goes to hug him. David says that he will explain everything, but currently, they just need to get away.
* **Ambush in Micro's Hideout**:
	+ Castle stands in his Punisher vest and awaits Rawlins' men. Sure enough, soldiers soon enter the hideout and begin searching for him. Castle hides in dark corners, ambushing one man to snap his neck, then decapitating another. One of the remaining men phones Billy Russo to say that Castle is not there and that he left the phone they tracked on a desk, but Russo realizes that this is a trap and warns them that Castle will have intentionally lured them in. At that moment, the decapitated head of the man Castle killed is thrown out of a corridor, and a few of Rawlins' soldiers crowd around it, only to realize too late that Castle has strapped a grenade to it, just as it goes off.
	+ Castle emerges from his hiding place, making his way down the corridor and shooting every man in his way. He triggers gunpowder traps he has set up for distractions and continues to kill all his attackers systematically. Castle is caught off guard when a hidden soldier suddenly shoots at him from across the hideout, but he is mostly protected by the bulletproof vest, and dives for cover.
	+ From behind some crates, Castle calls out, wondering if any of the men are Russo, and threatening to go after his old friend and watch him die. He then triggers his next series of small gunpowder explosions and pulls a hidden gun from one of the crates, getting back up and taking down the men around him, all the time calling out for his old friend. He kills every wounded soldier he finds until he gets to the last man, interrogating him on where Russo and the Liebermans are. When the man tells him he does not know, however, Castle kills him as well, then takes his phone to call Russo.
* On the phone to Russo, Castle tells him that the friend he once knew would have come to do the job of killing him himself, calling him a coward for staying behind. He says that the two of them will eventually end up in a one-on-one confrontation, but Russo says that he will be found soon enough, going on to explain that he has the Liebermans with him and that they are safe for now, but that he is in control of their fate. Castle threatens him in response by saying that David Lieberman has evidence on Russo to get him convicted, and that if anything happens to Sarah and Zach, it will mean Russo gets exposed.
* Marion James meets with William Rawlins to confront him about the deaths in the ambush at the abandoned warehouse and his lies, including hiding the Kandahar heroin operation. Rawlins claims that they can have Russo blamed for Kandahar and that this would then mean the CIA get away from the situation without any consequences. James is disgusted at him for his scheming and conspiring and says he crossed a line, but Rawlins says that if she hands him over to Homeland Security, he will simply take her down with him. She eventually agrees to allow Russo to take the fall, but says that this will be their last time working together, saying he disgusts her.

#### 14th

* Just after midnight, David and Leo Lieberman continue to wait for Frank Castle to return, concerned that he might be in trouble. While they wait, they continue to rebond and make up for lost time.
* Dinah Madani arrives at the car and Micro is worried, but from the distance, Castle, having finally arrived, calls out that he asked her to come. Castle goes to speak with Leo Lieberman, telling her she did well and apologizing for keeping the fact that her father was alive a secret. He introduces himself properly as Frank Castle, not Pete Castiglione.
* Billy Russo gets to Micro's hideout and finds that the video of the assassination of Ahmad Zubair has been left on the screen with an 18-hour countdown, which he understands a threat that the evidence against him will be released once the timer finishes, cursing under his breath.
* Frank Castle records a video for Madani testifying about Kandahar and Operation Cerberus, naming William Rawlins and Billy Russo as being the main living culprits.
* David Lieberman talks to Leo, telling her that she is safe and that Sarah and Zach will be safe soon. She asks him what happened, and he says that he was trying to protect her and that he hopes she will understand that at some point.
* Micro sits for his testimony, but tells Madani that he does not want to divulge anything until his family are safe, asking for her help in saving his wife and son.
* Billy Russo watches over Sarah and Zach Lieberman.
* Madani resumes filming Castle's testimony, and turns the subject to Ahmad Zubair. When she asks him if Russo was the one to kill Zubair, Castle ashamedly confesses something she had not yet found out: it was him who pulled the trigger on shooting Zubair. Madani is stunned, as Castle repeats that Operation Cerberus damned everyone involved.
* **Capture of Frank Castle**:
	+ Frank Castle and David Lieberman wait at an agreed place and time. Castle promises that he will ensure Sarah and Zach are kept safe, but tells David to make sure that whatever happens, and, however, distracted he might be by seeing his family again, he sticks to the plan. Rawlins' men deliver Sarah and Zach Lieberman to the meeting point and take the bags off their heads, and they are confused and scared but delighted at seeing David alive. The deal begins, with Castle and David walking towards Rawlins' men as Sarah and Zach walk to them, forced to wear leaking tanks of petrol that leaves a trail that Rawlins' men can ignite if Castle or David break the deal.
	+ As David and Sarah cross, Sarah reaches out for him, but David manages to stay calm, telling her that she just needs to keep walking. Two police cars suddenly arrive on the scene and Rawlins' men begin shooting, as well as igniting the trail of petrol. Castle is knocked out and kidnapped by Rawlins' men. David throws his coat onto the petrol trail and stamps out the fire to save his wife and son, who get to the police safely. However, Russo contacts his men, telling them they need to take David as well as Castle. They go to grab him, but as they carry him back to the van, he is seemingly hit by a stray bullet, falling to the ground, apparently dead. Russo is frustrated at their failure to take him, and Zach and Sarah cry out in horror at watching David die again just after finding out he was alive. Rawlins' men leave his body and drive off with Castle.
* While unconscious, Frank Castle dreams of his wedding dance with Maria.
* Castle is woken by Billy Russo in Micro's hideout, strapped to a chair. Russo asks him why Homeland Security were present, but he claims he does not know, pointing out that he would not want Russo arrested, as he wants to kill him personally. Russo laughs at him, saying that the only choice Castle has left is to choose how he dies. He says he will give him an easier death if Castle explains how to get into the computers, but Castle replies that he should just ask Lieberman. At that point, Russo tells him that Lieberman died in the deal. He points out that it was Homeland's bullets, not his, but Castle then asks about his family instead, questioning whether Russo was the one who killed them. His old friend tells him that he was not there, saying that if he was, then Castle would also be dead, but he admits that he knew it was going to happen. Castle is disgusted, reminding Russo that his family had loved Russo, and Russo replies that he would not have wanted things to go the way they did, but that it was just necessary after Cerberus was exposed. Castle threatens to kill him again, saying that Russo's threat against his life is meaningless as there are much worse things than death, and he has wanted to die for a long time.
* Dinah Madani releases David Lieberman from the body bag they were keeping him in, having helped him fake his death again in the deal so that he would not be captured and could be reunited with his family.
* David Lieberman enters the room where his family are sitting and mourning him, shocking them once again. Sarah is overcome with emotion, angrily hitting him and shouting at him for having let them believe he was dead twice. David calms her down and once she has let out her feelings, she hugs her husband. Leo joins the hug, and eventually so does Zach, finally embracing as a family again.
* Russo tells Castle that he is happy that he can look in a mirror and be proud, as opposed to Castle, who sees himself as broken. He requests the computer passwords again, continuing to threaten that Castle will be put through torture if he does not. William Rawlins reveals himself to be present, and Castle starts taunting Russo for being submissive to him. Frank dreams of his wedding night. Rawlins then dons a pair of gloves and starts beating Castle, who is unable to retaliate due to being tied up. He knocks out one of Castle's teeth, and eventually hits him until he is barely conscious. He drifts in and out of consciousness, dreaming of Maria and remembering their wedding night, only to keep being woken by further hits.
* David and Sarah Lieberman sit together in private at Homeland Security Headquarters. David explains that over the past year, everything he did was just trying to survive until he could get back to them. She lightly kisses him, then asks where Frank Castle is, and David reveals that he wanted himself to get kidnapped so he can get the chance to try to kill Billy Russo and his men, unless they kill him first. Sarah says that she hopes he does it, as the men deserve to go to hell. Madani enters, however, saying that he is likely being tortured and/or killed because they do not know where he is, confronting David about the fact that the tracker he was supposed to carry has been left behind in the van.
* Madani shows David Lieberman that they found the tracker and that this means Castle broke the deal, which involved him being kidnapped so he could lead them to Rawlins and Russo. She asks if he knew about Castle's decision to break the plan and he explains that he had to cover for him because he owed him, not Homeland Security, and feels that they still held up their half of the deal. She asks him if he knew Castle killed Ahmad Zubair, saying that their talk of honor is meaningless when Castle was willing to murder like that. Lieberman, however, explains that Castle knows how awful that and his subsequent actions was and have been, saying it haunts him every day, and that the reason he is resigned to die is because he does not know that he deserves to live. Lieberman remarks that this is a true shame, and in reply Madani requests again that if he thinks Castle's death would be a shame then he should tell them where he is.
* Russo wakes Castle again, who is a bloody mess and barely conscious. He begins taunting Castle, saying his family, Gunner Henderson, and David Lieberman are all dead because of him. He attempts to convince Castle, who is coming across as is barely clinging to life, to give up, telling him it is best to go out as a soldier. Castle begins to mumble, pretending that he is desperate and giving in and telling them to unlock the computers, he needs to type it in and give them a retinal scan, on the proviso that Russo be the one to kill him. Russo promises he will, and they take him over to the computers to do so. He unlocks them as promised, though, unbeknown to the others, secret cameras in the ceiling that Castle and Micro set up as a trap are triggered by the unlock to start recording. With his right hand having been freed to type, Castle then slips a hand under the chair where there is a hidden knife taped to the seat and he draws it out, turning and stabbing William Rawlins in the upper chest then viciously biting him on the back of his neck. Russo hits him with the hilt of his gun, allowing Rawlins to break free and kick Castle in the head. He again falls unconscious and dreams of Maria.
* The computer expert Billy Russo has hired to help them goes through Micro's computer to delete the evidence on him and Rawlins. Rawlins, meanwhile, having tied Castle back to the chair, resumes beating him, shouting that he will make him feel deep pain and fear and beg for death. However, Russo then steps in and says that he needs to stop, because he had promised Castle that once they have wiped all the evidence, he would be the one to kill him. Enraged, however, Rawlins says that he does not care about the promise because Castle took everything from him.
* David Lieberman makes the decision to help Dinah Madani and urgently enters her office and requests to use her computer. He logs in and tells her about the truth behind their plan, having made sure that Russo and Rawlins would have to take Frank Castle to one specific place - the hideout - and that they set up the trap to secretly record the room so that they would have sufficient evidence to take down both men. He then desperately asks her for Homeland to go to the hideout and save Castle before it is too late.
* Rawlins continues to torment Castle, but Russo eventually has enough, pulling him away. Rawlins shouts to him that he serves him, and Russo says he has lost his mind, pointing out that he was clean coming out of Afghanistan but Rawlins had pulled him back into dirty work. Rawlins yells that he has control over Russo's record, attempting to put him in his place, and Russo angrily tells him that he should have let Castle kill him in Kandahar. Russo holds his gun to Castle's head, and Rawlins threatens him with his own gun, saying that Russo shall not deny him this kill. However, Russo uses the opportunity to subtly clip the ties around Castle's hands, wanting him to kill Rawlins for him. He then pretends to give up, stepping away and seemingly letting Rawlins continue to attack Castle.
* Castle dreams of Maria one more time, telling him to make the choice of whether he wants to give in or keep fighting. William Rawlins injects Castle with adrenaline, telling him he wants him to be awake for the final minutes of torture. The woman working at the computers finishes erasing the evidence and Russo has the other men present escort her out, leaving only him, Rawlins, and Castle in the room together. As Rawlins moves his knife in towards his face to kill him, Castle, thinking of Maria, finds the drive to summon the energy and fight back, headbutting Rawlins and getting up from the chair Rawlins had not realized he was no longer tied to. He kicks the man to the ground and stands over him, taking his own knife and stabbing him repeatedly in the neck before pummelling him in the face and shouting at him to die. He finishes him off by pushing his thumbs into Rawlins' eyes and cracking his skull, finally ending his mission of revenge against the former Agent Orange.
* Billy Russo, who has happily observing the whole fight, sadistically tells Castle that he loves to watch him work. Castle lies on the ground, on death's door, but still manages to laugh at his old friend, telling him he wishes he could see his face when he realizes he is finished. Russo complacently tells him that he can easily cover the fact that he was ever there, but Castle knows better and chuckles as he hears Homeland Security arrive. Russo lifts his gun to kill his old friend but is shot in the arm and forced to run to get away. David Lieberman rushes to Castle's side and desperately calls at him to stay conscious and live. He eventually manages to splutter and draw some breath, affirming to himself that he has finally come to the understanding that he is "home" in the world of the living.
* Lieberman and Dinah Madani carry Frank Castle out of the hideout.
* Dinah takes Castle to her father, Hamid Madani, who is a doctor, unable to get him to the hospital as they might have him arrested. Farah Madani is reluctant to help a man many would consider a terrorist, but Hamid trusts his daughter's judgement. He realizes that one of Castle's broken ribs has punctured his lung and successfully manages to use a syringe to drain the blood out of the punctured lung, saving his life.
* **Ambush on Billy Russo**: Russo gets back to Anvil Headquarters and removes the bullet from his shoulder. He then realizes that Homeland Security agents have followed him and are in the building. Using his knowledge of the building's layout, he maneuvers the headquarters to take out each agent with a single gun, then he escapes to go after Castle again and blows up the building behind him.

#### 15th

* Hamid Madani explains that he has tended to Castle as much as he can for now, and that at this point, his recovery is simply a matter of time. Castle asks Dinah about Russo, but she sadly informs him he got away.
* Rafael Hernandez and Marion James collect William Rawlins' dead body from the crime scene.
* David Lieberman hands Castle money he has stolen from bad people by hacking, telling him to use the money to get out of the city, but he insists that he has to finish matters with Billy Russo. He dresses and thanks Dinah Madani for her help, and Madani tells him that she will let him go, but that after this, if she sees him again then she will treat him as a criminal as she should. He accepts this and leaves.
* Back at Homeland Security Headquarters, Madani has a meeting with Hernandez and James, in which Hernandez tells her that he has worked out that she let Castle and Lieberman go. She responds by highlighting the accusations she could easily make against James in return and says that she did the right thing, because if either of them were in custody, the story they could tell would have the potential of ruining the CIA's reputation.
* The Lieberman family wait for David in a safe house, and he is taken to reunite with them. He tells Sarah that he hopes the family can function together again, albeit after an adjustment period, and informs her that Castle is alive but gone.
* **Attack on Curtis Hoyle**:
	+ Curtis Hoyle wakes and realizes there is an attacker in his room. He reaches for the gun he keeps by his bed, but finds it gone, turning to see Billy Russo sitting, holding it. Russo is not overtly threatening to Hoyle, allowing him to put on his prosthetic leg, but starts to question him, asking how long he had known Frank Castle was alive and saying he feels betrayed by another friend for having been lied to.
	+ Hoyle takes Russo to his living room, explaining that he kept Castle's secret because Castle had asked him to, and that he would have done the same for Russo. Russo says that none of them needed to be in this situation if not for Castle's interference, and that if anything, Castle should be blamed. Hoyle refuses to listen, but Russo continues, claiming that Operation Cerberus was not particularly bad, as the drugs would have arrived anyway and the Afghans were killing each other so their murders made no particular difference.
	+ Russo gets to the point of his visit, asking Hoyle where Castle is, as Hoyle opens the curtains. Before responding, Hoyle lures Russo in front of one of the windows by offering him a coffee, and Castle, who is waiting on the roof of the next building, takes the opportunity Hoyle has given him to take a shot at Russo. Having guessed at the last second what Hoyle was doing, Russo manages to react fast enough to dodge the shot, and takes shots himself at Hoyle, catching him in the back and shoulder before he can dive for cover.
	+ Castle calls Hoyle and asks him to hand over the phone to Russo. Russo takes it and Castle tells him that since he has him cornered, he could call Homeland Security if necessary, unless Russo agrees to meet with him to finish things between them privately. Russo has Castle eject the magazine and cartridge from his rifle to allow him to get away, then agrees to his terms, telling him to meet at midnight at the Central Park carousel, where Castle's family were killed. He throws Hoyle back his phone to call himself an ambulance and leaves.
* Craig Hollis gets tired of his marriage to Sebastian, so he takes a cyanide pill. He resurrects and leaves Sebastian.
* Castle is distressed by the idea of returning to the carousel and recalls a time he and his family had been at the park a few years prior with Russo. He remembers how Russo had been kind and loving to all of them, feeling intensely betrayed.
* Dr. Holden Radcliffe has his last day of hearings. His name is cleared of a few stipulations.
* Phil Coulson and Alphonso Mackenzie intend to capture Quake again. Coulson is confident that today will be the day she shows up.
* Johnson, keeping the promise she made to Charles Hinton several months earlier, meets with Polly and Robin Hinton in the square, and gives Robin the wooden robin figure her father carved for her. Polly thanks her for all her help.
* **Chase of Quake**: Coulson and Mackenzie notice Johnson and run to chase her. Johnson realizes that S.H.I.E.L.D. has found her and walks away to evade them, using her vibrational powers to lift herself off the ground in a very high jump onto a nearby roof, escaping successfully. The duo board a Quinjet to return to the Zephyr One.
* David Lieberman plays card games with his children and Sarah watches. However, Sarah suddenly tells the children that she needs to talk with David, and takes him to a nearby bathroom. He thinks she is angry, but is surprised when she starts passionately kissing him, and the couple have sex, with Sarah telling David just how much she missed him.
* Teenage couple Carl and Hayley finish work for the night at the kiosk by the Central Park carousel. Billy Russo surprises them, entering the kiosk and pulling a gun on them to take them captive.
* Radcliffe talks to his artificial intelligence Aida.
* Using the knowledge that he has obtained from his time with Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, Radcliffe has created a new program based off an old S.H.I.E.L.D. program: the Life-Model Decoy. He downloads the program into a body, telling Aida it is her "birthday".
* By Rafael Hernandez's request, Dinah Madani types up her report on the Russo, Rawlins, and Castle case.
* Soon before midnight, Frank Castle arrives at Central Park and cautiously crawls his way to the carousel, wearing his Punisher vest. He looks out for Russo all the way, but gets up and begins to walk, gun at the ready, to approach the meeting point.
* Madani gets a message from Castle containing a location in Central Park. She checks back at his files and realizes this is the location of his family's murders, understanding what is happening. Deciding she has to help, she gets up and leaves, ignoring Rafael Hernandez as he calls out for her to stop.

#### 16th

* **Duel at the Central Park Carousel**:
	+ At midnight, Billy Russo activates the carousel, causing Castle to recall his family's deaths once again. Compartmentalizing the thought to stay level-headed, he continues to advance, but suddenly notices that two teenagers are strapped to the horses. Russo calls him and tells him that the teenagers, Carl and Hayley, are bleeding out, and if he does not act soon, they will die.
	+ Castle uses a small grenade launcher to fires grenades over the carousel and land them on the other side, distracting Russo briefly with the small explosions and thus allowing him to run at his old friend. The gunfight between them begins, with both running for cover. Russo hits Castle in the leg, but he straps up the wound to stop the bleeding.
	+ Madani drives to Central Park and closes in on the carousel.
	+ Castle limps back out from his cover and jumps onto the carousel, with Russo getting on the other side. As Russo jeers at him, they both try to judge which side the other is walking out from. Castle uses the mirrors of the carousel to work out where Russo is hiding and shoots at him. Russo shoots back, only managing to him in his vest and wind him, but Castle gets the more severe hit as he shoots Russo through the cheek.
	+ Billy Russo threatens the lives of Carl and Hayley, telling Castle he will shoot them if he does not come out from where he is hiding. He cautiously and reluctantly walks out, throwing away his gun and knife on Russo's demand. Dinah Madani, meanwhile, makes her way to the carousel. Russo begins taunting Castle, telling him he always cared too much and that this has ultimately been his downfall, in giving himself up for the teenagers, punctuating his words with shots to Castle's vest to keep him down as he closes in for the kill. Madani gets onto the carousel but Carl asks her for help, revealing her presence to Russo, who turns and immediately shoots her in the side of the head. Frank Castle takes advantage of the momentary distraction, however, and tackles Russo, engaging him in a hand-to-hand fight. Russo pulls out a knife, but Castle knocks it out of his hand, then pushing it in towards his old friend's face.
	+ Russo pushes back and then extends the hidden blade in his sleeve through Castle's forearm, loosening Castle's grip and allowing him to reclaim his knife. They continue to fight, but Russo starts to win, shoving Castle against one of the carousel's mirrors and preparing again to kill him. Castle, however, picks up a shard of the mirror from the ground and uses it to stab Russo in the gut, who finds himself barely able to stand.
	+ Castle grabs Russo and throws him into the next carousel mirror, cracking it. He then shoves his face into the glass and scrapes it across the cracks, grating Russo's face across the sharp shards and cutting his cheek into a bloody mess. Russo feebly attempts to fight back one last time, but Castle breaks his arm and throws him head-first into the next mirror. His enemy brought to his knees, Castle walks over and holds a knife to Russo's throat.
	+ Russo begs for Castle to kill him, but Castle decides not to, saying that dying is the easy way out. He tells Russo that he wants him to learn about pain and loss the way he has had to after Russo helped orchestrate his family's deaths. He repeatedly smashes Russo's face into the glass as he tells him that every day he will have to look at his mangled face in the mirror and remember everything he ever did wrong, keeping going until Russo falls to the ground, comatose, with shards of the mirror lodged in his face.
	+ Castle frees Carl and Hayley and tries to help staunch Dinah Madani's bleeding as the police arrive on the scene.
* Castle is arrested and Madani and Russo are taken to hospital. Russo undergoes eleven hours of surgery, remaining comatose the whole time.

#### 19th

* 3 days after the duel at the Central Park carousel, Frank Castle is taken to see Rafael Hernandez and Marion James in Madani's hospital room. Madani is recovering from the bullet wound to her head, and he thanks her for saving his life. James and Hernandez tell him that they need him to stay quiet, and in return, while he is officially still at large, they have replaced his fingerprints and DNA samples in the system with those of a dead man and are giving him freedom under the identity of Pete Castiglione in repayment for what he has done for the country in exposing and taking down Operation Cerberus. He asks why they did not just have him killed, but they explain that these terms were what Madani requested for him. Castle then enquires what has happened to Billy Russo, and Hernandez says that he is still in a coma and they are unsure if and when he might wake, or that if he does, how much brain function he could have or regain. Madani says that she hopes Russo remembers everything, so that he knows she played her part in taking him down.
* David Lieberman returns home for the first time in over a year, to join his family for a turkey lunch to celebrate the holidays. Castle drives him there, but says that he cannot join himself, and drives away. The Lieberman family are reunited for good, embracing and starting their new lives together.
* Castle visits Curtis Hoyle, having agreed to join him for one of his veteran meetings. He sits with the other veterans and takes his turn to speak, telling them that while he was at war, he never considered what life would be like after he got back home. He says that the silence after coming home is hard to come to terms with, but admits that really, he has still been in a personal war since returning. Castle states that now, for the first time in as long as he can remember, he does not have a war to fight, and confesses that if he is honest with himself, without it, he has to admit he feels scared.

#### 20th

* Sebastian spends ten thousand dollars and holds a New Orleans jazz funeral for his husband, "Arnie."

#### 22nd

* Shuri finishes clearing Bucky Barnes' mental conditioning and he is thawed out of his cryogenic freeze sleep in Wakanda.

#### 26th

* Having recently been woken from his cryogenic sleep, Bucky Barnes wakes from a recuperation rest in a Wakandan hut.
* Barnes is greeted by children, but Shuri sees them bothering him and shoos them away. She welcomes him, and tells him she has much more for him to learn.

#### 30th

* After letting Quake slip through their fingers yet again, Mackenzie and Coulson return to base for another restock and catch-up, and to celebrate New Year. They are starting to push the boundaries of the Zephyr One, coming reasonably close to its longest recorded stay in the air.

#### 31st

* Ronda Rousey loses a fight for the first time.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 Sometimes the *Marvel Cinematic Universe* alludes to events which happened in our world, and it is assumed they happened on the same dates in the universe, for timeline purposes.
2. ↑ *Moon Knight: 1.03: The Friendly Type*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: 1.07: The Retreat*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Spider-Man: No Way Home*
5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 5.25 *Iron Fist: 1.04: Eight Diagram Dragon Palm*
6. ↑ *Hawkeye: 1.04: Partners, Am I Right?*
7. ↑ *New York Bulletin | Joy and Ward Meachum Special Report*
8. ↑ *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: 1.09: Whose Show is This?*
9. ↑ In *Whose Show is This?*, Elaine Walters says that a video was taken "in law school." Walters is estimated to have graduated law school in June 2016 (see **2016** references). The video can be approximated to have been taken in the middle of the school year, January 2016.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 In *Lord of Lies*, a flashback to Amy Minoru's memorial service is shown as being "two years ago" before February 18, 2018 (see 2018 references), suggesting it is early 2016. Minoru's death is dated December 4, 2015 (see 2015 references). The Minoru family may be following Japanese funeral traditions, such as a service on the 7th, 49th, and 100th day after death. 49 days fits, with 49 days after December 4, 2015 being January 22, 2016, so it can be concluded that the Minorus are honoring her death using Japanese traditions, and this memorial service is the last one within a 49-day period. This fits with Alex Wilder not wanting to say his "final goodbye", on January 22, 2016.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 *Runaways 3.03: Lord of Lies*
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 In *3 AM*, a montage is shown of what Frank Castle does following *A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen*, consisting of him playing guitar, his attack in Alabama, his attack in Juárez, and finally his last attack in JFK airport, followed by him retiring the "Punisher" role. In the airport scene, O'Hare's ticket seemingly says "April", and what appears to be the next day is when Frank retires, before cutting to "Six months later", to a scene firmly placed on November 6, 2016. This would imply that the retirement scene is May 2016. With the day before seemingly being April, it can be taken that the attack in the airport is April 30, 2016, and his retirement being May 1st. The other three previous scenes in the montage are distributed evenly between December 24, 2015 and April 30, 2016.
13. ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 13.16 13.17 13.18 13.19 13.20 13.21 13.22 13.23 13.24 13.25 13.26 *The Punisher: 1.01: 3 AM*
14. ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 14.11 14.12 14.13 14.14 14.15 14.16 14.17 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.09: Closure*
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 When *Bouncing Back* picks up, it has been long enough since *Maveth* that Coulson is still affected by Price's death, but is able to move forward. Some time has definitely passed, but he is still questioning Campbell's suitability for the team, and Fitz is still upset about destroying Daniels' body. 6½ weeks pass in the timeline, from January 31st to March 16th, which fits well.
16. ↑ 16.00 16.01 16.02 16.03 16.04 16.05 16.06 16.07 16.08 16.09 16.10 16.11 16.12 16.13 16.14 16.15 16.16 16.17 16.18 16.19 16.20 16.21 16.22 16.23 16.24 16.25 16.26 16.27 16.28 16.29 16.30 16.31 16.32 16.33 16.34 16.35 *Doctor Strange*
17. ↑ 17.00 17.01 17.02 17.03 17.04 17.05 17.06 17.07 17.08 17.09 17.10 17.11 17.12 17.13 17.14 17.15 17.16 17.17 17.18 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.10: Maveth*
18. ↑ Andrew Garner's beard in *Maveth* seems to indicate that he has been under HYDRA custody for around a month, depending on how fast his beard grows. The timeline works out as December 13, 2015 to January 31, 2016, which works sufficiently.
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 In *BOOM*, Phil Coulson says, "I've followed my worst instincts at times. Last year. Loss will make you do that. It feels good in the moment, but it never ends well. I've lost my temper. I've killed." He is referring to murdering Ward, and refers to it as "last year". He says this on April 27, 2017, referring to January 31, 2016, which fits the statement.
20. ↑ 20.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 20.10 20.11 20.12 20.13 20.14 20.15 20.16 20.17 20.18 20.19 20.20 20.21 20.22 20.23 20.24 20.25 20.26 20.27 20.28 20.29 20.30 20.31 20.32 20.33 20.34 20.35 20.36 20.37 20.38 20.39 20.40 20.41 20.42 20.43 20.44 Scott Derrickson said, "It's months that he's in recovery, I think it's between 3 and 6 months. Yeah, I think it's about 3 to 6 months. Somewhere in there [...] I think - gosh, don't hold me to this because again I haven't thought about this in a long time [...] but I think it's about a year from the beginning of the movie to his return to New York. And so, [...] I think it starts early fall, to late fall, so it's a little over a year, because I think it's like winter-y when he has the fight with Christine, it's like that cold, New York, really dark grey, nearly snowing kind of vibe."
On the day of Strange's car crash, he checks his watch and it says "TUE", "2016", "FEB", "2", making it Tuesday, February 2, 2016. While this does not fit with the fact that *WHiH World News* tweeted on May 2, 2016 and posted a video on May 3, 2016 (and *WHiH World News* is proven to be set in real time, (1, 2, 3, 4, and other dialogue in videos matching with dates given)) about Strange being a surgeon, Scott Derrickson tweeted to confirm the February 2nd date as well as retweeting another post about it.
With the beginning of the film in "early fall" and the end of the film in "late fall", "a little over a year" later, and the February 2016 car crash falling between the two, this would mean the film begins around early Fall 2015 and ends around late Fall 2016. However, Derrickson also says that Strange recovers for 3-6 months, and Mads Mikkelsen says Strange trains for "9 months" before his clash with Kaecilius, which overall would suggest the film ends 12-15 months after Strange's car crash, thus placing the ending around February-May 2017. This, in turn, using Derrickson's comment about "a little over a year" ("early" one season to "late" the same season a year later would mean 4⅔ seasons, so about 14 months), would, working backwards, place the opening of the film between December 2015 and February 2016 (the latest it can be, before Strange's car crash).
Overall, using weighted math from all the evidence available, the details of which can be seen here, the result is that the opening is October 13, 2015, the car crash February 2, 2016, the argument with Christine March 29, 2016, Strange's arrival in Kathmandu May 4, 2016, and the climax January 18-19, 2017.
This would put the opening still in the early part of fall (working with Derrickson's comment), the argument with Christine towards the end of the snowy period and a bit after winter, but enough time after Strange's crash and a good time for the heavy rain (a bit later than Derrickson's comment but realistic), his arrival in Kathmandu 3 months after his crash (just fitting inside Derrickson's 3-6 months comment), the climax another 8.5 months later (just fitting for Mikkelsen's "9 months" comment), and the climax a bit after Fall 2016, instead Winter 2016-17 (a bit later than Derrickson's comment) but fitting as "a little over a year" (15 months) after the opening (fitting reasonably with Derrickson's comment), a realistic time of year for the snowfall at the Ancient One's death, and working with the other comments just described. This also works fine considering Derrickson made it clear he did not want to be fully held to his comments.
The specific dates of smaller events in between can also be found here.
21. ↑ 21.000 21.001 21.002 21.003 21.004 21.005 21.006 21.007 21.008 21.009 21.010 21.011 21.012 21.013 21.014 21.015 21.016 21.017 21.018 21.019 21.020 21.021 21.022 21.023 21.024 21.025 21.026 21.027 21.028 21.029 21.030 21.031 21.032 21.033 21.034 21.035 21.036 21.037 21.038 21.039 21.040 21.041 21.042 21.043 21.044 21.045 21.046 21.047 21.048 21.049 21.050 21.051 21.052 21.053 21.054 21.055 21.056 21.057 21.058 21.059 21.060 21.061 21.062 21.063 21.064 21.065 21.066 21.067 21.068 21.069 21.070 21.071 21.072 21.073 21.074 21.075 21.076 21.077 21.078 21.079 21.080 21.081 21.082 21.083 21.084 21.085 21.086 21.087 21.088 21.089 21.090 21.091 21.092 21.093 21.094 21.095 21.096 21.097 21.098 21.099 21.100 21.101 21.102 21.103 21.104 21.105 21.106 21.107 21.108 21.109 21.110 21.111 21.112 21.113 21.114 21.115 21.116 21.117 21.118 21.119 21.120 21.121 21.122 21.123 21.124 21.125 21.126 21.127 21.128 21.129 21.130 21.131 21.132 21.133 21.134 21.135 21.136 21.137 21.138 21.139 21.140 21.141 21.142 21.143 21.144 21.145 21.146 21.147 21.148 21.149 21.150 21.151 21.152 21.153 21.154 21.155 21.156 21.157 21.158 21.159 21.160 21.161 21.162 21.163 21.164 21.165 21.166 21.167 21.168 21.169 21.170 21.171 21.172 21.173 21.174 21.175 21.176 21.177 21.178 21.179 21.180 21.181 21.182 21.183 21.184 21.185 21.186 21.187 21.188 21.189 21.190 21.191 21.192 21.193 21.194 21.195 21.196 21.197 21.198 21.199 21.200 21.201 21.202 21.203 21.204 21.205 21.206 21.207 21.208 21.209 21.210 21.211 21.212 21.213 21.214 21.215 21.216 21.217 21.218 21.219 21.220 21.221 21.222 21.223 21.224 21.225 21.226 21.227 21.228 21.229 21.230 21.231 21.232 21.233 21.234 21.235 21.236 21.237 21.238 21.239 21.240 21.241 21.242 21.243 21.244 21.245 21.246 21.247 21.248 21.249 21.250 21.251 21.252 21.253 21.254 21.255 21.256 21.257 21.258 21.259 21.260 21.261 *Iron Fist*: Season 1 takes place a while after *Daredevil*: Season 2 and *Luke Cage*: Season 1 in late 2015. The exact dates for its placement are contradictory.

A few pieces of evidence, from small dates on screens and a newspaper saying Danny is "25", not 24, overall suggest that the season is set around mid-2016. However, a Chinese festival appearing in *Snow Gives Way* includes lion and dragon dances and the zodiac monkey mask (2016 was indeed the Year of the Monkey), all heavily suggesting that the festival is Chinese New Year. This lines up with the other, broader evidence.

Charlie Cox is quoted as saying *The Defenders*: Season 1 is 6 months after *Daredevil*: Season 2 (1, 2), which would place that season around May/June 2016, and the overall result of Finn Jones and Jessica Henwick's comments about the time between *Dragon Plays with Fire* and *The Defenders*: Season 1 suggested a little over 2 months' span ("several months", "1 month", "about 2 months", "a couple of months"), which, working back, would indeed line up with *Dragon Plays with Fire* ending in March 2016. *Worst Behavior* also shows that by *The Defenders*: Season 1, Elektra's resurrection (December 25, 2015) was "months ago", and it is said in the season that Danny leaving for K'un-Lun/starting to go after the Hand were both also "months" prior. The fact that the same timespan is given since both *A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen* and *Dragon Plays with Fire* would suggest that the events are close together, within 2-3 months of each other, certainly not 7 months apart.

Using Chinese New Year, which lines up with this more important evidence, the season revolves around February 8, 2016 (Chinese New Year 2016).
22. ↑ 22.00 22.01 22.02 22.03 22.04 22.05 22.06 22.07 22.08 22.09 22.10 22.11 22.12 22.13 22.14 22.15 22.16 22.17 22.18 22.19 22.20 22.21 22.22 *Iron Fist: 1.01: Snow Gives Way*
23. ↑ In *Snow Gives Way*, when Joy talks to Danny outside her house, she says, "My dog was closed in my study last night when I got home." This places this scene the day after Danny broke into his old home.
24. ↑ In *Snow Gives Way*, Joy says to Ward, "He was waiting outside my house this morning." This places this scene on the same day as when Danny approached her outside the house.
25. ↑ Chinese New Year appears in *Snow Gives Way*. This is evident from the dragon and lion dances, as well as the mask Danny dons of a zodiac monkey - one of the twelve zodiac animals of Chinese New Year. 2016 was also the Year of the Monkey, fitting perfectly with the Netflix shows' evidence. Chinese New Year in 2016 was February 8th.
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 *Learn Kenjutsu - The Wing Way!*
27. ↑ In *Snow Gives Way*, Danny says to Joy just before he is drugged, "Your brother tried to have me killed last night." This places this scene the morning after the men chased Danny through Chinese New Year.
28. ↑ In *Snow Gives Way*, when Danny wakes in hospital, the doctors can be heard saying, "Looks like he had another one of those episodes," and, "Better to let him sleep." These imply that Rand has been in all day slipping in and out of consciousness, and now they're going to let him sleep.
29. ↑ 29.00 29.01 29.02 29.03 29.04 29.05 29.06 29.07 29.08 29.09 29.10 29.11 29.12 29.13 29.14 29.15 29.16 29.17 29.18 29.19 29.20 29.21 29.22 29.23 In *Shadow Hawk Takes Flight*, when Rand talks to Dr. Edmonds for the first time, Edmonds says, "I have you for 72 hours." It is unclear if this is from the afternoon before, of February 9th, when he came into the hospital, or from that moment in time, the morning of February 10th. From the midpoint of these, it would suggest his 72 hours are up on the night of the 12th to the 13th. This therefore places 2½ days between this morning scene and Rand's escape, which is said to be when his "72 hours are almost up", therefore placing the episode from the morning of February 10th to the night of February 12th.
30. ↑ 30.00 30.01 30.02 30.03 30.04 30.05 30.06 30.07 30.08 30.09 30.10 30.11 30.12 30.13 30.14 30.15 30.16 30.17 30.18 30.19 30.20 *Iron Fist: 1.02: Shadow Hawk Takes Flight*
31. ↑ In *Shadow Hawk Takes Flight*, when Joy talks about feeling bad for drugging Danny, she is wearing different clothes to the ones she wore when she drugged him. She asks Ward, "What's the latest with the Danny Rand wannabe?" Together, these imply it's the following morning after the drugging.
32. ↑ In *Shadow Hawk Takes Flight*, when Danny calls Colleen, he says he was attacked "the other night" - implying it's not just the next day. It's dated as two days later, with the attack on February 8th, and this discussion on February 10th.
33. ↑ 33.000 33.001 33.002 33.003 33.004 33.005 33.006 33.007 33.008 33.009 33.010 33.011 33.012 33.013 33.014 33.015 33.016 33.017 33.018 33.019 33.020 33.021 33.022 33.023 33.024 33.025 33.026 33.027 33.028 33.029 33.030 33.031 33.032 33.033 33.034 33.035 33.036 33.037 33.038 33.039 33.040 33.041 33.042 33.043 33.044 33.045 33.046 33.047 33.048 33.049 33.050 33.051 33.052 33.053 33.054 33.055 33.056 33.057 33.058 33.059 33.060 33.061 33.062 33.063 33.064 33.065 33.066 33.067 33.068 33.069 33.070 33.071 33.072 33.073 33.074 33.075 33.076 33.077 33.078 33.079 33.080 33.081 33.082 33.083 33.084 33.085 33.086 33.087 33.088 33.089 33.090 33.091 33.092 33.093 33.094 33.095 33.096 33.097 33.098 33.099 33.100 33.101 33.102 33.103 33.104 33.105 33.106 33.107 33.108 33.109 33.110 33.111 33.112 33.113 33.114 33.115 33.116 33.117 33.118 33.119 33.120 33.121 33.122 33.123 33.124 33.125 33.126 33.127 33.128 33.129 33.130 33.131 33.132 33.133 33.134 33.135 33.136 33.137 33.138 33.139 33.140 33.141 33.142 33.143 33.144 33.145 33.146 33.147 33.148 33.149 33.150 33.151 33.152 33.153 33.154 33.155 33.156 33.157 33.158 33.159 33.160 33.161 33.162 33.163 33.164 33.165 33.166 33.167 33.168 33.169 33.170 33.171 33.172 33.173 33.174 33.175 33.176 33.177 33.178 33.179 33.180 33.181 33.182 33.183 33.184 33.185 33.186 *Black Widow*
34. ↑ In *Shadow Hawk Takes Flight*, when Harold talks to Kyle, he tells him that he wants to leave the penthouse "tonight", placing the scene where he visits Danny in the hospital on the same day.
35. ↑ *Iron Fist: 2.06: The Dragon Dies at Dawn*
36. ↑ In *Shadow Hawk Takes Flight*, when Dr. Edmonds visits Danny after Joy corroborated his story, he says that the research he did on the commercial was "last night", placing this the day after.
37. ↑ In *Shadow Hawk Takes Flight*, when Harold tells Ward to have Danny moved, he insists it should be done "tonight", placing the attack on Danny in the hospital the same night.
38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 In *Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch*, Colleen wants Danny gone as soon as possible, and Ward's men are hunting Danny, both implying he only just escaped. Ward assures Harold, "I'm sure we'll find Danny within the hour," also implying this.
39. ↑ 39.00 39.01 39.02 39.03 39.04 39.05 39.06 39.07 39.08 39.09 39.10 39.11 39.12 39.13 39.14 39.15 39.16 39.17 39.18 39.19 39.20 *Iron Fist: 1.03: Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch*
40. ↑ In *Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch*, Rand says he will pay the rent on "Friday". This implies it is not currently a Thursday or Friday, otherwise it would be "tomorrow" or "next Friday" respectively. The reasoned date for this, based on the Chinese New Year date, is on February 13th, which was a Saturday.
41. ↑ In *Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch*, when Ward is talking to Joy about leaving Rand Enterprises, he says to her, "You, uh really went above and beyond last night," referring to the agreement she made with Patel. This places this scene the morning after Joy took Patel to see Kevin Kennedy.
42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 42.4 42.5 42.6 Part of *Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch* is dated to February 14th, Valentine's Day, which is potentially awkward due to the lack of recognition. However, there is nothing to actually go against the events on this day being Valentine's Day, and with Chinese New Year 2016 on February 8th, and no feasible time jump to make the events steer clear of Valentine's, it has to be the case. The restaurant in which Danny confronts the Meachums also has pink flowers up, which is almost definitely coincidence, but works with the day.
43. ↑ In *Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch*, when Joy tells Ward about Danny mentioning Harold, she says, "I have to face Hogarth tomorrow." This places the board meeting the day after this scene.
44. ↑ In *Eight Diagram Dragon Palm*, Ward compares Rand to Daredevil, but in the German and Italian dub, instead of Daredevil, Ward says he was climbing like Spider-Man. Despite the fact that this is not the canon dialogue in its original language, it still fits the timeline. Peter Parker began his vigilante activities in December 2015 (see other references), so being mentioned in mid-February 2016 fits as he has been Spider-Man, growing in recognition locally, for 2 months.
45. ↑ In *Eight Diagram Dragon Palm*, during the board meeting about the leishmaniasis drug, Ward says it is Danny's "first day". This places this scene the same day that Rand moves into his father's office.
46. ↑ In *Eight Diagram Dragon Palm*, when Harold calls Ward to congratulate him, he says, "Good job today. You handled Danny's introduction to the world with real class," and, "Taking care of this will more than make up for that drug pricing screw-up this afternoon." This places this scene on the same day as Rand's press conference and the leishmaniasis cure board meeting.
47. ↑ In *Eight Diagram Dragon Palm*, as Danny and Joy talk, Danny says, "So I'm guessing, after this afternoon, you're regretting giving me that bowl." This places this scene on the same day as the leishmaniasis drug board meeting.
48. ↑ In *Eight Diagram Dragon Palm*, when Ward asks Megan to call Jennifer Many, he says, "Tell her I will answer all of her questions tonight in my office." This places his discussion with Many on the same day as this scene.
49. ↑ In *Eight Diagram Dragon Palm*, as Joy and Danny talk to Colleen, Joy says she wants to know "what the hell was going on tonight," referring to the attack on her. This places this scene on the same night as the ambush at the penthouse.
50. ↑ *Iron Fist: 2.05: Heart of the Dragon*
51. ↑ In *Eight Diagram Dragon Palm*, the article "*Daniel Rand, Corporate Hero*" says that Danny returned "two weeks ago". Other evidence points strongly to it only having been 10 days, however, he returned on the Sunday of the week before last, making this the second week following his return, so it still fits as roughly 2 weeks.
52. ↑ 52.00 52.01 52.02 52.03 52.04 52.05 52.06 52.07 52.08 52.09 52.10 52.11 52.12 52.13 52.14 52.15 52.16 52.17 52.18 *Iron Fist: 1.05: Under Leaf Pluck Lotus*
53. ↑ In *Under Leaf Pluck Lotus*, when Danny tells Ward about the Steel Serpent shipments, he says he spoke to Sandi "this morning". This places this scene on the same day he asked Sandi to investigate the drug.
54. ↑ In *Under Leaf Pluck Lotus*, Colleen says to Claire, "I've never had a student progress as fast as you have." Considering that Temple has progressed well, but is not fighting with any exceptional skill yet, this fits with only about 2 months of training since Claire saw the flier in December 2015.
55. ↑ In *Under Leaf Pluck Lotus*, as Danny and Colleen talk after Claire leaves, Danny says, "There's a shipment tonight at 8:30 at the Rand Pier." This places the ambush on the pier on the same day as this scene.
56. ↑ In *Under Leaf Pluck Lotus*, just before the ambush on the pier, Colleen says to Rand, "You've gone from homeless man to billionaire in a matter of days," which fits with him returning 10 days prior.
57. ↑ In *Under Leaf Pluck Lotus*, after Joy and Ward watch Fitzgerald's video, Joy says, "Ward, they're threatening to release this video by the end of the day." Because this threat is acted upon, this places the release of the video on the same day as this scene.
58. ↑ 58.0 58.1 58.2 *New York Bulletin* website
59. ↑ 59.00 59.01 59.02 59.03 59.04 59.05 59.06 59.07 59.08 59.09 59.10 59.11 59.12 59.13 59.14 59.15 *Iron Fist: 1.06: Immortal Emerges from Cave*
60. ↑ In *Immortal Emerges from Cave*, as Joy and Ward talk about his overdose, Joy says, "What happened last night can't happen again," referring to Ward's overdose. This places this scene the morning after the overdose.
61. ↑ In *Immortal Emerges from Cave*, Ward Meachum says, "Wayne Olsen himself is coming in at 4:00." During the meeting he is referring to, later in the episode, it gets dark outside not too long in. The meeting began at 4:00, meaning sunset would have to be really around 4:40. However, this would imply early January, but the weather itself implies more like spring. In between is February, the date which is given due to Chinese New Year in *Snow Gives Way*, which also works as a compromise between the weather and the sunset as well. On the 18th, the sunset was at 5:33. It is not too much of a stretch that the meeting is still going at 5:45 after 1 hour, 45 minutes, while fitting better with the weather than January, and matching Chinese New Year.
62. ↑ In *Felling Tree with Roots*, as Alexi and Vando visit Harold, it is said that Gao met Danny "earlier tonight". This places this scene the same night as the da jue zhan.
63. ↑ 63.00 63.01 63.02 63.03 63.04 63.05 63.06 63.07 63.08 63.09 63.10 63.11 63.12 63.13 63.14 63.15 63.16 63.17 63.18 63.19 63.20 63.21 63.22 63.23 *Iron Fist: 1.07: Felling Tree with Roots*
64. ↑ In *Felling Tree with Roots*, when Joy confronts Ward, she says she found him in a bad state "the other night". However, with other references to scenes occurring in relation to others, it has to be only the following night that she says this.
65. ↑ In *Felling Tree with Roots*, when Gao and Rand talk at Rand Enterprises, she talks about what happened "last night", referring to the da jue zhan. This places this scene the day after the tournament.
66. ↑ In *Felling Tree with Roots*, when Joy apologizes to Ward, she says she is sorry for snapping at him "last night". This places this scene the day after she was tough with him over his drug incident.
67. ↑ In *Felling Tree with Roots*, during the board meeting where Danny is supposed to apologize, one man's phone, for a split second, shows the date "Mon, July 11". This would imply that the scene is set on Monday, July 11, 2016. However, this is overruled by the fact that Chinese New Year 2016 appears in *Snow Gives Way*, which was in February, as well as the fact that Jessica Henwick and Finn Jones said overall that *The Defenders* picks up a little over 2 months ("several months", "1 month", "about 2 months", "a couple of months"), which Charlie Cox said was 6 months (1, 2) after the events of *Daredevil*: Season 2, placing the end of *Iron Fist*: Season 1 roughly in March 2016, lining up with the Chinese New Year date, and in *The Defenders* it is stated that it has been "months" since both *Daredevil*: Season 2 and *Iron Fist*: Season 1, placing them reasonably close together, and not 7 months apart.
68. ↑ In *Felling Tree with Roots*, when Joy gives Danny his statement, she says the meeting "this afternoon". This places the meeting on the same day as this scene.
69. ↑ In *Felling Tree with Roots*, when Harold and Danny survey the spreadsheets, a spreadsheet includes "07062016" in the title and an image includes "07112016" in the title. This would imply that the scene is set in July or later of 2016. However, this is overruled by the fact that Chinese New Year 2016 appears in *Snow Gives Way*, which was in February, as well as the fact that Jessica Henwick and Finn Jones said overall that *The Defenders* picks up a little over 2 months ("several months", "1 month", "about 2 months", "a couple of months"), which Charlie Cox said was 6 months (1, 2) after the events of *Daredevil*: Season 2, placing the end of *Iron Fist*: Season 1 roughly in March 2016, lining up with the Chinese New Year date, and in *The Defenders* it is stated that it has been "months" since both *Daredevil*: Season 2 and *Iron Fist*: Season 1, placing them reasonably close together, and not 7 months apart.
70. ↑ In *Felling Tree with Roots*, when Danny visits the Yangsi Gonshi, he says, "You'll all be dead by the end of the week". This implies that it is not currently a Saturday or a Sunday. February 19, 2016 was a Friday, which fits fine.
71. ↑ 71.00 71.01 71.02 71.03 71.04 71.05 71.06 71.07 71.08 71.09 71.10 71.11 71.12 71.13 *Iron Fist: 1.11: Lead Horse Back to Stable*
72. ↑ 72.00 72.01 72.02 72.03 72.04 72.05 72.06 72.07 72.08 72.09 72.10 72.11 72.12 72.13 72.14 72.15 72.16 72.17 72.18 72.19 *Iron Fist: 1.08: The Blessing of Many Fractures*
73. ↑ In *AKA Ain't We Got Fun*, on May 22, 2017, Jeri Hogarth says Shane Ryback has "been awaiting trial for 15 months". This could refer specifically to approximately February 22, 2016, but could more generally refer to "May 2017 - 15 months = February 2016", between February 1, 2016 and February 29, 2016 so approximately February 15, 2016. Putting more weight into the specific date, it can be calculated that Ryback began weighting around February 20, 2016.
74. ↑ *Jessica Jones: 2.08: AKA Ain't We Got Fun*
75. ↑ 75.0 75.1 75.2 75.3 75.4 75.5 75.6 75.7 75.8 75.9 In *The Blessing of Many Fractures*, scenes are shown to be daytime simultaneously in both Anzhou, China, and New York, U.S.A. This is impossible, with the timezones being 13 hours apart and daylight hours not lining up. However, with some stretching to be as close as possible, it works out as such:

On the 20th, around 15:45 New York time/21st, 04:45 local time, the trio land in China and make their way to Anzhou, getting there around morning local time. Several hours later, roughly 03:00 New York time/16:00 local time, they discuss Colleen's mother at Anzhou. Danny says, "We saw some workers being herded in a few hours ago," implying they have been in Anzhou for more than a few hours, and a few hours ago the compound was still visible in daylight. Joy and Ward then talk by the river in the very early morning in New York, when really it should still be just before sunrise. Then, in Anzhou, Danny says, "They leave for their evening meal around now, right?", meaning it is evening local time, just still daytime (really, the sun should have just set). Ward takes Joy to the Art Deco building, still in the very early morning, and Danny takes Gao, before they return to the plane, and would arrive back in New York around midnight on the night of the 21st-22nd.
76. ↑ In *The Blessing of Many Fractures*, Ward says to Joy, "You couldn't put this much dirt together overnight," implying that Joy rejecting the offer (with the confidence in her incriminating evidence on the board) was the day after they were ousted. This fits with the travel times for Rand, Wing, and Temple flying to Anzhou, China.
77. ↑ In *The Blessing of Many Fractures*, when Joy and Ward talk by the river, Joy says, "I didn't mention [the incriminating evidence] the other day because I wasn't sure I was ready to do something like this," implying that their ousting was not yesterday, but "the other day." This fits with the travel times for Rand, Wing, and Temple flying to Anzhou, China, with it being 2 days later.
78. ↑ In *The Blessing of Many Fractures*, Claire jokes about asking her mother asking "How was your weekend?" when she gets back, and also mentions that she has "almost been killed three times this week," both implying it is the weekend. Working on from Chinese New Year, this naturally dates as February 21, 2016, a Sunday.
79. ↑ 79.00 79.01 79.02 79.03 79.04 79.05 79.06 79.07 79.08 79.09 79.10 79.11 79.12 79.13 79.14 79.15 79.16 79.17 79.18 79.19 79.20 79.21 79.22 *Iron Fist: 1.09: The Mistress of All Agonies*
80. ↑ 80.00 80.01 80.02 80.03 80.04 80.05 80.06 80.07 80.08 80.09 80.10 80.11 80.12 80.13 80.14 80.15 80.16 80.17 *Iron Fist: 1.10: Black Tiger Steals Heart*
81. ↑ In *Black Tiger Steals Heart*, security footage cameras show "2016".
82. ↑ In *Black Tiger Steals Heart*, when Joy convinces the board to reinstate them, she says, "We have been riddled with controversy over the past few weeks. The Danny situation, the firing of me and my brother, and now we have this." It has only been a "few weeks" since Danny returned - it naturally works out as 17 days/2½ weeks, which fits.
83. ↑ In *Black Tiger Steals Heart*, when Joy convinces the board to reinstate them, she says,
"Lawrence Wilkins committed suicide last night." This places this scene the night after Harold killed Wilkins.
84. ↑ In *Lead Horse Back to Stable*, when Joy talks to Harold, she says, "After these past few weeks, constantly feeling like I'm drowning..." It has only been a "few weeks" since Danny returned - it naturally works out as 17 days/2½ weeks, which fits.
85. ↑ 85.00 85.01 85.02 85.03 85.04 85.05 85.06 85.07 85.08 85.09 85.10 85.11 85.12 85.13 85.14 85.15 85.16 85.17 85.18 85.19 *Iron Fist: 1.12: Bar the Big Boss*
86. ↑ 86.00 86.01 86.02 86.03 86.04 86.05 86.06 86.07 86.08 86.09 86.10 86.11 86.12 86.13 86.14 86.15 86.16 86.17 86.18 *The Defenders: 1.06: Ashes, Ashes*
87. ↑ 87.00 87.01 87.02 87.03 87.04 87.05 87.06 87.07 87.08 87.09 87.10 87.11 87.12 87.13 87.14 87.15 87.16 87.17 87.18 87.19 87.20 *Iron Fist: 1.13: Dragon Plays with Fire*
88. ↑ 88.0 88.1 In *Dragon Plays with Fire*, when Ward meets with Danny in the evening, he refers to Danny "being on the run for one day." By this, he means the whole of this day, as they had to escape from the dojo just after sunrise, and he has just referred to the Bakuto incident being "last night" to Joy, when he visited her in hospital. This places the main events of the finale on the same day as the Escape from the Chikara Dojo.
89. ↑ *Runaways: 1.07: Refraction*
90. ↑ *Runaways: 1.02: Rewind*
91. ↑ 91.00 91.01 91.02 91.03 91.04 91.05 91.06 91.07 91.08 91.09 91.10 91.11 91.12 91.13 91.14 91.15 91.16 *The Defenders: 1.07: Fish in the Jailhouse*
92. ↑ *Jessica Jones: 3.05: AKA I Wish*
93. ↑ 93.00 93.01 93.02 93.03 93.04 93.05 93.06 93.07 93.08 93.09 93.10 93.11 93.12 93.13 93.14 93.15 93.16 93.17 93.18 93.19 93.20 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.11: Bouncing Back*
94. ↑ 94.0 94.1 In *Bouncing Back*, it is shown that Campbell's death in *Ascension* is "3 months from now". The timeline lines up that *Bouncing Back* begins on March 15th, and Campbell dies on June 28th, which fits well as 3 months later.
95. ↑ 95.0 95.1 95.2 95.3 In *The Inside Man*, Malick tells Hive, "I made some moves this week to ensure we have all the Inhumans we need when the time comes." This implies the kidnapping of Lucio was within the last week. Malick also needed to make a deal with the Watchdogs a few weeks before *Watchdogs*, and it would make sense for this to be included under this statement as well.
96. ↑ 96.00 96.01 96.02 96.03 96.04 96.05 96.06 96.07 96.08 96.09 96.10 96.11 96.12 96.13 96.14 96.15 96.16 96.17 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.12: The Inside Man*
97. ↑ 97.00 97.01 97.02 97.03 97.04 97.05 97.06 97.07 97.08 97.09 97.10 97.11 97.12 97.13 97.14 97.15 97.16 97.17 97.18 97.19 97.20 97.21 97.22 97.23 97.24 97.25 97.26 97.27 97.28 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.14: Watchdogs*
98. ↑ 98.00 98.01 98.02 98.03 98.04 98.05 98.06 98.07 98.08 98.09 98.10 98.11 98.12 98.13 98.14 98.15 98.16 98.17 98.18 98.19 98.20 98.21 98.22 98.23 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.13: Parting Shot*
99. ↑ In *Parting Shot*, the Russians skeptically say to Hunter and Morse, "In the woods of Siberia in the dead of winter." While "dead of winter" implies January/February-time, March fits better with the timeline (the date being March 21st), and still fits this statement on the whole: the winter months in Siberia are December to March, with March still being very cold, albeit starting to slowly get a little warmer.
100. ↑ 100.0 100.1 100.2 100.3 100.4 100.5 100.6 100.7 The *Marvel Cinematic Universe* follows a general real time policy in most of Phase Two - set when the media is released when suitable.
101. ↑ 101.00 101.01 101.02 101.03 101.04 101.05 101.06 101.07 101.08 101.09 101.10 101.11 101.12 101.13  *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.18: The Singularity*
102. ↑ 102.0 102.1 In *The Singularity*, the agents discuss, "Holden Radcliffe… He [worked] at the agrochemical lab we raided… He wasn't actually there [during the raid]. He was asked to step down a month before." The raid is dated as April 25th, so him leaving is dated as March 22nd, a month prior.
103. ↑ *Agent Carter*: Season 1
104. ↑ 104.0 104.1 104.2 104.3 104.4 104.5 104.6 104.7 *AVENGERS IMPACT: A WHIH Newsfront Special Report*
105. ↑ 105.00 105.01 105.02 105.03 105.04 105.05 105.06 105.07 105.08 105.09 105.10 105.11 105.12 105.13 105.14 105.15 105.16 105.17 105.18 105.19 105.20 105.21 105.22 105.23 105.24 105.25 105.26 105.27 105.28 105.29 105.30 105.31 105.32 105.33 105.34 105.35 105.36 105.37 105.38 105.39 105.40 105.41 105.42 105.43 105.44 105.45 105.46 105.47 105.48 105.49 105.50 105.51 105.52 105.53 105.54 105.55 105.56 105.57 105.58 105.59 105.60 105.61 105.62 105.63 105.64 105.65 105.66 105.67 105.68 105.69 105.70 105.71 105.72 105.73 105.74 105.75 105.76 105.77 105.78 105.79 105.80 105.81 105.82 105.83 105.84 105.85 105.86 105.87 105.88 105.89 *WHiH Newsfront* - Twitter Profile
106. ↑ 106.00 106.01 106.02 106.03 106.04 106.05 106.06 106.07 106.08 106.09 106.10 106.11 106.12 106.13 106.14 106.15 106.16 106.17 106.18 106.19 106.20 106.21 106.22 106.23 106.24 106.25 106.26 106.27 106.28 106.29 106.30 106.31 106.32 106.33 106.34 106.35 106.36 106.37 106.38 106.39 106.40 106.41 106.42 106.43 106.44 106.45 106.46 106.47 106.48 106.49 106.50 106.51 106.52 106.53 106.54 106.55 106.56 106.57 106.58 106.59 106.60 106.61 106.62 106.63 106.64 106.65 106.66 106.67 106.68 106.69 106.70 106.71 106.72 106.73 106.74 106.75 106.76 106.77 *Marvel Cinematic Universe* official social media tie-in websites post on the matching dates within the universe.
107. ↑ 107.0 107.1 107.2 107.3 107.4 107.5 107.6 107.7 107.8 *WHIH Newsfront: The Cost of Saving the World*
108. ↑ *Runaways: 2.01: Gimmie Shelter*
109. ↑ 109.00 109.01 109.02 109.03 109.04 109.05 109.06 109.07 109.08 109.09 109.10 109.11 109.12 109.13 109.14 109.15 109.16 109.17 109.18 109.19 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.15: Spacetime*
110. ↑ 110.0 110.1 110.2 110.3 110.4 110.5 The *WHIH Newsfront: The Avengers and The White House* episode, posted on April 28th, announces that Transia has appointed a new interim-CEO. This is referring to the fact that the last one died, presumably only a few days earlier. This is coupled with the onscreen text saying ""HYDRA eradicated" says Ellis Administration", implying that the Destruction of HYDRA was the night before. Working back, this would place the Transia massacre on the 24th, 4 days before the announcement of the new CEO, which fits perfectly as well.
111. ↑ 111.0 111.1 *Luke Cage: 2.01: Soul Brother #1*
112. ↑ 112.0 112.1 *Luke Cage: 2.05: All Souled Out*
113. ↑ 113.00 113.01 113.02 113.03 113.04 113.05 113.06 113.07 113.08 113.09 113.10 113.11 113.12 113.13 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.16: Paradise Lost*
114. ↑ 114.00 114.01 114.02 114.03 114.04 114.05 114.06 114.07 114.08 114.09 114.10 114.11 114.12 114.13 114.14 114.15 114.16 114.17 114.18 114.19 114.20 114.21 114.22 114.23 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.17: The Team*
115. ↑ 115.0 115.1 115.2 115.3 115.4 115.5 115.6 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 5.15: Rise and Shine*
116. ↑ 116.0 116.1 116.2 116.3 116.4 116.5 116.6 116.7 *WHIH Newsfront: The Avengers and The White House*
117. ↑ 117.0 117.1 117.2 117.3 117.4 The events of *Emancipation* are set shortly after the climax of *Captain America: Civil War*, which is set on June 24th (see other references), but *The Singularity* is set on April 27th-28th. In *Failed Experiments*, Campbell states that "it's been days" since he took the antidote. The reasoned date for him saying this is June 25th (one day after Rogers and Barnes go missing), and so *Failed Experiments* is reasoned to be dated as June 20th. There is also the necessity of 3 months to pass between *Bouncing Back* and *Ascension*. All these things create a necessary time gap of nearly two months between *The Singularity* and *Failed Experiments*, in which Radcliffe works on improving the experiment, and S.H.I.E.L.D. search for Hive and Johnson from satellite imagery.
118. ↑ In *BOOM*, Radcliffe tells the Superior, "Pure Terrigen crystals. I picked up some samples last year when I was working for a previous benefactor. His goals were, well, the complete opposite of yours." He is referring to Hive, and his plan to increase the number of Inhumans, rather than kill them. He says this on April 27, 2017, referring to April-June 2016, which fits the statement of "last year".
119. ↑ In *The H Word*, Matt says in a scene dated to Thursday, May 5, 2016 that Karen wrote the article "last week". The middle of the week before is Thursday, April 28, 2016.
120. ↑ 120.00 120.01 120.02 120.03 120.04 120.05 120.06 120.07 120.08 120.09 120.10 120.11 120.12 120.13 120.14 120.15 120.16 120.17 120.18 120.19 120.20 120.21 120.22 120.23 *The Defenders: 1.01: The H Word*
121. ↑ In *The H Word*, it is said in a scene dated to May 5, 2016 that John Raymond "has been gone a full week". This would place him going missing around April 28th.
122. ↑ 122.0 122.1 122.2 122.3 122.4 122.5 122.6 122.7 *WHIH Newsfront Exclusive: President Ellis Discusses the Avengers*
123. ↑ In *The H Word*, Matt says in a scene dated to May 5, 2016 that it's been "3 days since [his] last confession". This would place his last confession on May 2nd.
124. ↑ 124.0 124.1 124.2 *Captain America: Civil War Prelude Infinite Comic*
125. ↑ 125.00 125.01 125.02 125.03 125.04 125.05 125.06 125.07 125.08 125.09 125.10 125.11 125.12 125.13 125.14 125.15 *Spider-Man: Homecoming Prelude*
126. ↑ 126.00 126.01 126.02 126.03 126.04 126.05 126.06 126.07 126.08 126.09 126.10 126.11 126.12 126.13 126.14 126.15 126.16 126.17 126.18 126.19 126.20 126.21 126.22 126.23 126.24 126.25 126.26 126.27 126.28 126.29 126.30 126.31 126.32 126.33 126.34 126.35 126.36 126.37 126.38 126.39 126.40 126.41 126.42 126.43 126.44 126.45 126.46 126.47 126.48 126.49 126.50 126.51 126.52 126.53 126.54 126.55 126.56 126.57 126.58 126.59 126.60 126.61 126.62 126.63 126.64 126.65 126.66 126.67 126.68 126.69 126.70 126.71 126.72 126.73 126.74 126.75 126.76 126.77 126.78 126.79 126.80 126.81 126.82 126.83 126.84 126.85 126.86 126.87 126.88 126.89 *Captain America: Civil War*
127. ↑ 127.0 127.1 127.2 127.3 127.4 127.5 127.6 In the *Spider-Man: Homecoming Prelude*, it is shown that Spider-Man preventing the car accident (also seen in YouTube footage in *Captain America: Civil War*), the Attack on the IFID Headquarters, and Stark's MIT speech are all on the same day. Because of WHiH (see other references), we know this day to be May 3, 2016.
128. ↑ 128.0 128.1 128.2 128.3 128.4 As Rogers watches TV, the Attack on the IFID Headquarters is stated to be "last month". The *Spider-Man: Homecoming Prelude* also states that the Bombing of the Vienna International Centre is "one month later", after Lagos. WHiH gave the timeline date for the Lagos incident as May 3, 2016 (see other references), putting the rest of the events of *Captain America: Civil War* in June. However, in *Spider-Man: Homecoming*, it jumps forward to "two months later," to the firm date of September 8, 2016. Assuming the 2 is rounded, this still works with June so long as it is very late June. It has to be as late as possible in June, but before schools broke up in New York on June 28th (1, 2), as Parker gets home from school and still has homework to do. In *Spider-Man: Homecoming*, Stark says that he took Parker for the "weekend," and in an extended version of Peter's video diary it is shown that the day after the Clash of the Avengers is "Samstag" (Saturday), therefore making the date he picks up Parker Thursday 23rd June, and when he returns him the very early hours of Sunday 26th June. These are the only dates which fit as being a weekend, before schools break up, a rounded 2 months before September 8th, and still the month following the May 3, 2016 Lagos incident, as well as a loose (May to June) "one month" after the incident, thus placing *Captain America: Civil War* firmly around these dates.
129. ↑ 129.0 129.1 129.2 129.3 *Black Widow Prelude*
130. ↑ 130.0 130.1 130.2 *Spider-Man: Far From Home*
131. ↑ 131.0 131.1 131.2 *WHIH Breaking News: Attack in Lagos*
132. ↑ 132.0 132.1 132.2 132.3 132.4 The WHiH Newsfront campaign posted videos and Twitter posts relating to the Attack on the IFID Headquarters, an event depicted in *Captain America: Civil War*, stating it to be on May 3, 2016.
133. ↑ 133.0 133.1 *Doctor Strange* - Deleted Scene
134. ↑ 134.000 134.001 134.002 134.003 134.004 134.005 134.006 134.007 134.008 134.009 134.010 134.011 134.012 134.013 134.014 134.015 134.016 134.017 134.018 134.019 134.020 134.021 134.022 134.023 134.024 134.025 134.026 134.027 134.028 134.029 134.030 134.031 134.032 134.033 134.034 134.035 134.036 134.037 134.038 134.039 134.040 134.041 134.042 134.043 134.044 134.045 134.046 134.047 134.048 134.049 134.050 134.051 134.052 134.053 134.054 134.055 134.056 134.057 134.058 134.059 134.060 134.061 134.062 134.063 134.064 134.065 134.066 134.067 134.068 134.069 134.070 134.071 134.072 134.073 134.074 134.075 134.076 134.077 134.078 134.079 134.080 134.081 134.082 134.083 134.084 134.085 134.086 134.087 134.088 134.089 134.090 134.091 134.092 134.093 134.094 134.095 134.096 134.097 134.098 134.099 134.100 134.101 134.102 134.103 134.104 134.105 134.106 134.107 134.108 134.109 134.110 134.111 134.112 134.113 134.114 134.115 134.116 134.117 134.118 134.119 134.120 134.121 134.122 134.123 134.124 134.125 134.126 134.127 134.128 134.129 134.130 134.131 134.132 134.133 134.134 134.135 134.136 134.137 134.138 134.139 134.140 134.141 134.142 134.143 134.144 134.145 134.146 134.147 134.148 134.149 134.150 134.151 134.152 134.153 134.154 134.155 134.156 134.157 134.158 134.159 134.160 134.161 134.162 134.163 134.164 134.165 134.166 134.167 134.168 134.169 134.170 134.171 134.172 134.173 134.174 *The Defenders*: Season 1 is set after the events of *Iron Fist*: Season 1, and before *The Punisher*: Season 1, as they were chronologically released. There is a tiny, unfocused laptop date of "11/07/2016" in *The H Word*, which is most likely simply the date of filming. This is overruled by the fact that if the season began on November 6th, it would run in November to the point where it clashes with hard dates stated in *The Punisher*: Season 1 - with Karen Page being in two places at once. It is also overruled by evidence for it being earlier in the year:

Charlie Cox was quoted as saying, "Well, it's been a few months since the end of Season 2. I think it's been quite a challenging few months for him." This would place the season only a few months after November/December 2015 (depending on whether he is referring to the climax or the epilogue), when *Daredevil*: Season 2 comes to an end. He later stated, "At the end of *Daredevil* Season 2, everyone failed. Matt failed, and the consequences were devastating. Six or so months have passed, and he's had to completely reevaluate everything that he believes, everything that he does." Six months would place *The Defenders*: Season 1 around May/June 2016. He added later, "In the 6 months since *Daredevil* ended and this show begins, there is so much stuff that I would like to have explored," again placing it in May/June. It is confirmed in the show that it has been months since the epilogue of *Daredevil*: Season 2, with it flashing back to its events, "Months ago..."

Finn Jones and Jessica Henwick provided some slightly contradictory information about the amount of time it has been since *Iron Fist*: Season 1. Henwick said, "It takes place several months after *Iron Fist*..." She later said, "We pick up with Colleen not in New York - which is crazy, as all the shows have been predominantly in New York. We find her a month after we left her," and, "We pick up, I would say a couple months after we left." Finn Jones stated in *Empire* magazine, "It's about two months after *Iron Fist* finishes." Overall, it can be taken that it is about 2-2½ months. *Iron Fist*: Season 1 finishes on March 1, 2016, and so this would suggest it is around May 2016. In *The H Word*, Danny says, "We've been chasing the Hand for months," referring to the time since March 1st. In *Worst Behavior*, Alexandra says, "Danny Rand has been running around off the grid for months," referring to the time since he left on February 27th.

These timespans would suggest around late May 2016. However, in *Ashes, Ashes*, it is shown that there are a few small lumps of snow leftover from a reasonably recent snowfall. This would place it earlier in the year. We know from *Self Control*, which is firmly no earlier than late April 2017, that it is perhaps a little more common for there to be snowfall in late April in the *MCU* than the real world, so it is just about possible that there was an April snowfall, and it is now early May. There is also a calendar in the precinct through the season, which is a Sunday-Saturday calendar (as the same type is shown up close in *A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen*), where the days matching the dates, and the fact it has 31 days, would mean it is a March 2016 calendar. We know from *A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen* that the precinct calendars can fall behind a couple of months (as in that episode, between scenes, it is flipped from September 2015 to December).

Overall, it can be taken that the season takes place around early May 2016, after Lagos. This is 6 months after Elektra's death in the climax of *Daredevil*: Season 2, as Cox stated, and a couple of months after *Iron Fist*: Season 1's ending, as Henwick and Jones have implied, and as the show states. There was a late snowfall in April, and there is a little compacted snow left, and the calendar is a little behind. This also fits with the feel and dialogue implications of the timespan since *Luke Cage*: Season 1, minimising the gap between *Jessica Jones*: Season 1 and the season (which is implied to be recent), and allowing Karen 6 months to have moved past her mourning for Matt by the time she appears in *The Punisher*: Season 1.

On Day 3 and Day 8 of the season, Trish Talk appears, which is reaffirmed in the season to be a weekday show. This means they are either Wednesday 4th and Monday 9th, Thursday 5th and Tuesday 10th, or Friday 6th and Wednesday 11th. If it is the Friday and Wednesday, this allows the New York parts to begin 2 days after Lagos, allowing it to not be top news, but also adding an extra reason why, on Day 3, Trish Talk listeners are concerned about terrorist attacks because of recent events. This also fits with the Trish Talk team going to lunch on Day 5, the 8th, as it would be a Sunday and so they are not on air.

Therefore, the season takes place approximately from May 4-14, 2016.
135. ↑ 135.0 135.1 135.2 135.3 135.4 135.5 *The Wakanda Files: A Technological Exploration of the Avengers and Beyond*
136. ↑ 136.00 136.01 136.02 136.03 136.04 136.05 136.06 136.07 136.08 136.09 136.10 136.11 136.12 136.13 136.14 136.15 136.16 136.17 136.18 136.19 136.20 136.21 136.22 136.23 136.24 *The Defenders: 1.02: Mean Right Hook*
137. ↑ 137.00 137.01 137.02 137.03 137.04 137.05 137.06 137.07 137.08 137.09 137.10 137.11 137.12 137.13 137.14 137.15 137.16 137.17 137.18 *The Defenders: 1.03: Worst Behavior*
138. ↑ In *All Souled Out*, a *New York Bulletin* paper is shown reporting on Luke Cage's release from prison. However, it cannot be the paper from the day after his release, as that paper would be reporting on the earthquake on the front page, so presumably it was the front page the day after, May 7, 2016.
139. ↑ *Midland Circle Security Elevator B*
140. ↑ 140.00 140.01 140.02 140.03 140.04 140.05 140.06 140.07 140.08 140.09 140.10 140.11 140.12 140.13 140.14 140.15 140.16 140.17 140.18 140.19 140.20 *The Defenders: 1.04: Royal Dragon*
141. ↑ 141.00 141.01 141.02 141.03 141.04 141.05 141.06 141.07 141.08 141.09 141.10 141.11 141.12 141.13 141.14 141.15 141.16 141.17 141.18 141.19 141.20 141.21 141.22 141.23 141.24 141.25 141.26 141.27 141.28 *The Defenders: 1.05: Take Shelter*
142. ↑ 142.00 142.01 142.02 142.03 142.04 142.05 142.06 142.07 142.08 142.09 142.10 142.11 142.12 142.13 142.14 142.15 142.16 142.17 142.18 142.19 142.20 142.21 142.22 *The Defenders: 1.08: The Defenders*
143. ↑ 143.0 143.1 143.2 143.3 143.4 143.5 143.6 143.7 *Daredevil: 3.01: Resurrection*
144. ↑ 144.0 144.1 144.2 144.3 144.4 144.5 144.6 In *The Defenders*, an epilogue shows the events after Matt Murdock's apparent demise on May 9, 2016. First, Jessica Jones visits Trish Walker at work. This is likely 2 days later, May 11, 2016. Next, Foggy Nelson talks to Luke Cage and Claire Temple. Nelson is composed enough to discuss legal stuff with Cage and Temple, suggesting it's been several days since Murdock's death - at least 4, which would make it at least May 13, 2016. However, 2 scenes later is Jones talking to Cage, and she says that "it's been a hell of a week". The main events for her began on May 4, 2016, suggesting this is May 11, 2016. To compromise, both scenes (and the scene in between with Misty in hospital) are May 12, 2016. This gives 3 days for Nelson to recover a little, and means that Jones is only slightly rounding when she says "a week", since it has been 8 days. The next scene with Rand and Wing is also that day. Then, at Matt Murdock's memorial service, Foggy Nelson says "it's been days" since Murdock's apparent death. It is placed as the day after the last 4 scenes, May 13, 2016, 4 days since Murdock's death.
145. ↑ 145.00 145.01 145.02 145.03 145.04 145.05 145.06 145.07 145.08 145.09 145.10 145.11 145.12 145.13 145.14 145.15 145.16 145.17 145.18 145.19 145.20 145.21 145.22 145.23 145.24 145.25 145.26 145.27 145.28 145.29 145.30 145.31 145.32 145.33 145.34 145.35 145.36 145.37 145.38 145.39 145.40 145.41 145.42 145.43 145.44 145.45 145.46 145.47 145.48 145.49 145.50 145.51 145.52 145.53 145.54 145.55 145.56 145.57 145.58 145.59 145.60 145.61 145.62 145.63 145.64 145.65 145.66 145.67 145.68 145.69 145.70 145.71 145.72 145.73 145.74 145.75 145.76 145.77 145.78 145.79 145.80 145.81 145.82 145.83 145.84 145.85 *Spider-Man: Homecoming*
146. ↑ Ignoring the issue of the "8" not matching the timeline at all, this scene is shown to be before *Captain America: Civil War*, x years after the day following the Battle of New York. 4 (the number which fits all the other timeline evidence) years after May 5, 2012, would put this around May 24, 2016.
147. ↑ Marvel Television Live Auction Lot #317: FBI Murdock Apartment Raid Evidence
148. ↑ *Runaways: 3.10: Cheat The Gallows*
149. ↑ *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: 1.01: A Normal Amount of Rage*
150. ↑ In *A Normal Amount of Rage*, Jennifer Walters is shown to have graduated from University of California, Los Angeles. Walters was born in December 1992 (see 1990s references), and the average age to graduate law school is 23 years old, placing her graduation in 2016, when UCLA held their graduation on June 10.
151. ↑ 151.0 151.1 *Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings*
152. ↑ A poster in Xu Xialing's room in *Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings* advertises a concert on "FRI JUNE 10." This matches with three potential years since Xu's birth: 2005, 2011, and 2016. To keep Xu as old as possible when she saw the concert, Xu can be taken to have attended the concert on June 10, 2016.
153. ↑ Through *Runaways* it is said that PRIDE sacrificed someone to Jonah once a year for 15 years (*Fifteen*: "One a year for 15 years", *Hostile*: "You ever notice that every year one of your young parishioners goes missing?", "Same time of year, every year", *Last Rites*: "One a year"), resulting in fifteen sacrifices (*Fifteen*: fifteen names are listed, *Kingdom*: "Fifteen kids have died in this room", *Doomsday*: "How could you murder fifteen kids?", *Last Rites*: "Like you killed fifteen runaways"). Fifteen annual sacrifices would amount in fact to 14 years start to finish, and with the last one in December 2017 (see 2017 references), that would make the first sacrifice around 2003.
However, there is evidence for 15 + years of sacrifices, not 14 years. In *Fifteen*, it is said they have taken runaways for "over 15 years". In *Doomsday* it is said that PRIDE has had a grip on the parents' "lives for the last 15 years". As well as this, Season 3 suggests there was in fact a further sacrifice (*Smoke and Mirrors*: "I only sacrificed seventeen innocent kids" (including Andre Compton, which the previous counts did not), *Rite of Thunder*: "She helped murder seventeen teenagers", *Enter The Dreamland*: "We are the seventeen"). Plus "one a year for 15 years" could be taken as "one a year, and we've been doing that for 15 years" rather than "one a year fifteen times, amounting to 15 years". So, it would seem overall that yes, the sacrifices started around 15 years before 2017, not 14. This, then, would make the first sacrifice 2002.
However, in *Doomsday*, a flashback to "fifteen years ago" before December 2017, set shortly after the first sacrifice. While this would align with 2002, Nico Minoru is shown to be a baby only about 3-4 months old. With Nico born around January 2001 (see other references), this would make it roughly April-May 2001. Amy Minoru is also shown to be about 2½. With Amy born around December 1998 (see 1990s references), this would make it roughly mid-2001. Given this, and the lack of flexibility to the children's ages, particularly baby Nico, then the latest this scene can be is June 2001. So, taking this latest possible time, the "fifteen years ago" must be taken to be a rounding from 16 years, and the first sacrifice, Brooks Watten, must also be moved from 2002 to June 2001. With the *Metamorphosis* flashback to "fifteen years ago" of the Wilders getting their house set not long before this and particularly given it is also stretched already to 16 years prior, but enough time to get Brooks Watten, it can be assumed that Watten did not undergo 6 months at the Church of Gibborim like the other Runaways, and was procured in May 2001, with the house scene set that same month.
With it said in *Hostile* that the sacrifices are the "same time of year, every year", it should be assumed that almost all the sacrifices were in early December, like the one on December 4, 2015 (see 2015 references) and the one on December 8, 2017 (see 2017 references), so likely the Friday closest to December 6th. With fourteen sacrifices prior to Destiny Gonzalez and not including Brooks Watten, the second sacrifice would therefore, however, be 14 years prior in December 2003, 2½ years after the first. Given Jonah deteriorates over a year, it should be taken that there were never two sacrifices more than 18 months apart. So, it may be taken that the second sacrifice was in fact December 2002, the third June 2004, and then the fourth December 2005, with the fourth to sixteenth (Gonzalez) all being annually in December from 2005 to 2017, and the first few negligible enough to be discounted in the statement of "same time of year, every year".
Fifteen names, up to and including Gonzalez, are shown in *Fifteen*, meaning there is a bonus sacrifice not listed on the computer somewhere between Brooks Watten and Destiny Gonzalez, making them between the second and fifteenth sacrifice, so it may be guessed that they were the eighth/ninth. To decide which, taking halfway between June 2001 and December 2017, it would have been roughly late 2009, making it closer to the eighth sacrifice than the ninth. So, it may have been taken to have been the eighth.
Therefore, overall, the sacrifices were: Brooks Watten June 2001, Adam Cooper December 6, 2002, Jamie Baxter June 8, 2004 (halfway between December 6, 2002 and December 9, 2005), Tim Bennett December 9, 2005, Xavier Marquez December 8, 2006, Karly Scolari December 7, 2007, James Braswyck December 5, 2008, unknown runaway December 4, 2009, Anthony Rocha December 3, 2010, Kim Hwang December 9, 2011, Bridget Bynum December 7, 2012, John Donahue December 6, 2013, Emily Wong December 5, 2014, Yvonne Taylor December 4, 2015, Brian Geparhart December 9, 2016, and finally Destiny Gonzalez (failed sacrifice) December 8, 2017 and Andre Compton December 11, 2017 (see 2017 references). Adam Cooper to Destiny Gonzalez would have been taken 6 months in advance.
154. ↑ 154.0 154.1 154.2 *Runaways: 1.04: Fifteen*
155. ↑ 155.0 155.1 155.2 155.3 155.4 155.5 155.6 155.7 155.8 155.9 In *Black Widow*, Yelena Belova is shown being freed from the Red Room's control in a scene following a scene in which Natasha Romanoff is on a boat to Norway. This is followed by Romanoff arriving at a hideout, and "six hours" later she is attacked by Taskmaster. Romanoff then arrives in Budapest the next day, when Belova talks about having bought a vest as though she has had the vest for some time, even though the order of scenes makes it appear as though it has only been one day since she was freed from the Red Room's control. It can therefore be taken that the Belova being freed is a flashback. After this scene, Belova mails a package to Romanoff's hideout in Budapest, which would take approximately six days to be delivered. This fits with Belova checking the news for information about the Avengers taking down the Red Room without knowing that the team split up.
156. ↑ In *AKA Pork Chop*, Trish Walker says on May 25, 2017 (see 2017 references), "The warden owes me one. I did a segment on her last year." This strictly means any point in 2016, so between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016 and therefore approximately July 1-2, 2016. However, it can also be used as a short way of saying "a year ago", which would imply approximately May 25, 2016. Putting more weight on the strict meaning, it can be calculated that the segment was around June 19, 2016.
157. ↑ *Jessica Jones: 2.10: AKA Pork Chop*
158. ↑ 158.0 158.1 158.2 Thaddeus Ross says that the signing of the Accords in Vienna is set to happen "three days from now", on the day of his meeting with the Avengers, which is dated as June 19th. This places the Bombing of the Vienna International Centre on June 22nd.
159. ↑ 159.0 159.1 In *Captain America: Civil War*, Stark says that Spencer decided to "spend his summer" in Sokovia, making May 2015 the earliest possible timeframe for *Avengers: Age of Ultron*. Zemo says he has spent "over a year" planning his revenge. This is on June 24, 2016, so the Battle of Sokovia being on May 6, 2015 works.
160. ↑ *Daredevil: 3.12: One Last Shot*
161. ↑ In *One Last Shot*, Vanessa Marianna discusses a time when she visited Bilbao while protected by Fisk's bodyguards. This would happen between when she left New York and when she went missing, dated to February 16, 2015 (see 2015 references) and October 23, 2017 (see 2017 references), respectively. With no other mentioned instances of Marianna's time away, this can be approximated to the middle of the time spent, June 20, 2016.
162. ↑ 162.00 162.01 162.02 162.03 162.04 162.05 162.06 162.07 162.08 162.09 162.10 162.11 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.19: Failed Experiments*
163. ↑ In *The Devil You Know*, Wilson Fisk says, "When I was in prison, my mother passed away." Given he was imprisoned from February 16, 2015 (see 2015 references) to October 23, 2017 (see 2017 references), her death can be approximated to the midpoint of this period, so June 20, 2016.
164. ↑ 164.0 164.1 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 4.05: Lockup*
165. ↑ 165.0 165.1 165.2 165.3 165.4 165.5 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 4.10: The Patriot*
166. ↑ *Ant-Man*
167. ↑ In *Captain America: Civil War*, Parker tells Stark, "I've had these powers for 6 months." The date of him saying this is reasoned as June 23, 2016. The ending of *Ant-Man* is set shortly after he becomes Spider-Man. To appease both, the "6 months" is stretched to be as early as possible and still fit, in early December, with him being bitten on December 1, 2015, and there is a time jump of 4 months between Lang and van Dyne's kiss and Wilson looking for Lang.
168. ↑ In *Captain America: Civil War*, Parker is coming home from school when he encounters Stark. When he returns home 48 hours later in Homecoming, Stark says he has been gone for the "weekend". An extended version of Peter's video diary shows that the day after the Clash of the Avengers is "Samstag" (Saturday). His encounter with Stark two days earlier, is dated as June 23rd, a Thursday, with his return being the very early hours of Sunday, June 26th.
169. ↑ *Ant-Man and the Wasp*
170. ↑ 170.0 170.1 *Spider-Man: Homecoming* - Extended Scene
171. ↑ 171.00 171.01 171.02 171.03 171.04 171.05 171.06 171.07 171.08 171.09 171.10 171.11 171.12 171.13 171.14 171.15 171.16 171.17 171.18 171.19 171.20 171.21 *Avengers: Infinity War Prelude*
172. ↑ 172.00 172.01 172.02 172.03 172.04 172.05 172.06 172.07 172.08 172.09 172.10 172.11 172.12 172.13 172.14 172.15 172.16 172.17 172.18 172.19 172.20 172.21 172.22 172.23 172.24 172.25 172.26 172.27 172.28 172.29 172.30 172.31 172.32 172.33 172.34 172.35 172.36 172.37 172.38 172.39 172.40 172.41 172.42 172.43 172.44 172.45 172.46 172.47 172.48 172.49 172.50 172.51 172.52 172.53 172.54 172.55 172.56 172.57 172.58 172.59 172.60 172.61 172.62 172.63 172.64 172.65 172.66 172.67 172.68 172.69 172.70 172.71 172.72 172.73 172.74 172.75 172.76 172.77 172.78 172.79 172.80 172.81 172.82 172.83 172.84 172.85 172.86 172.87 172.88 172.89 172.90 172.91 172.92 172.93 172.94 *Black Panther*
173. ↑ 173.0 173.1 173.2 173.3 173.4 173.5 173.6 *Black Widow* - Deleted Scene
174. ↑ 174.0 174.1 174.2 174.3 174.4 174.5 174.6 174.7 174.8 174.9 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.20: Emancipation*
175. ↑ In *Emancipation*, when Coulson reads the papers reporting on Carter's death, they state that she died aged 95. Her date of birth was April 9, 1921, definitively placing her passing between April 9, 2016, and April 8, 2017. Her date of death on the timeline is June 18, 2016, which fits this statement.
176. ↑ 176.00 176.01 176.02 176.03 176.04 176.05 176.06 176.07 176.08 176.09 176.10 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.21: Absolution*
177. ↑  The scene in the car is 48 hours after the airport battle.
178. ↑ 178.00 178.01 178.02 178.03 178.04 178.05 178.06 178.07 178.08 178.09 178.10 178.11 178.12 178.13 178.14 178.15 178.16 178.17 178.18 178.19 178.20 178.21 178.22 178.23 178.24 178.25 178.26 178.27 178.28 178.29 178.30 178.31 178.32 178.33 178.34 178.35 178.36 178.37 178.38 178.39 178.40 178.41 178.42 178.43 178.44 178.45 178.46 178.47 178.48 178.49 178.50 178.51 178.52 178.53 178.54 178.55 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.22: Ascension*
179. ↑ 179.0 179.1 In *Ascension*, the scene with Quake's escape is shown as "6 months later", after Lincoln Campbell's death. Campbell's death is dated as June 28th, and the escape is December 15th, which fits this statement.
180. ↑ 180.00 180.01 180.02 180.03 180.04 180.05 180.06 180.07 180.08 180.09 180.10 180.11 180.12 180.13 180.14 180.15 180.16 180.17 180.18 180.19 180.20 180.21 180.22 180.23 180.24 180.25 180.26 180.27 180.28 180.29 180.30 180.31 180.32 180.33 180.34 180.35 180.36 180.37 180.38 180.39 180.40 180.41 180.42 180.43 180.44 180.45 180.46 180.47 180.48 180.49 180.50 180.51 180.52 180.53 180.54 180.55 180.56 180.57 180.58 180.59 180.60 180.61 180.62 180.63 180.64 180.65 180.66 180.67 180.68 180.69 180.70 180.71 180.72 180.73 180.74 180.75 180.76 180.77 180.78 180.79 180.80 180.81 180.82 180.83 180.84 In *Black Panther*, when the present-day events begin, the newsreader says, "The tiny nation of Wakanda is mourning the death of its monarch, King T'Chaka. The beloved ruler was one of many confirmed dead after a terrorist attack at the United Nations a week ago." This refers to the bombing of the Vienna International Centre in *Captain America: Civil War*, which took place on June 22, 2016. This therefore places the rescue of Nakia on June 29, 2016.
The main events of *Black Panther*, culminating in the Battle of Mount Bashenga, take place over 8 days, therefore meaning they are June 29-July 6, 2016. T'Challa reassuming the throne and rekindling his relationship with Nakia is July 7, 2016.
181. ↑ 181.0 181.1 181.2 181.3 *Resurrection* spans 17 months, from May 9, 2016 (see other references) to October 23, 2017 (see 2017 references). With it being difficult to stretch the events of the episode over these 17 months, it would help for Murdock waking from his coma to be as late as realistically possible to minimize the stretching of the scenes after. When Murdock wakes, it is said that he was comatose for "several weeks". With him falling unconscious on May 10, 2016, realistically, the latest it should be is the end of June, with early July leaning more toward "2 months", so June 30, 2016 can be used.
By the time of Benjamin Donovan visiting Wilson Fisk in prison, it is less than a month from October 23, 2017, as Fisk finds out about the troubles with Vanessa Marianna when Donovan visits and then at his next meeting with the FBI wants to make a deal because of it, and the meetings are said to be monthly. So, with it already being a big stretch to have the events span 17 months, the Donovan scene should be as early as possible to minimize the stretching for all scenes up to then, so around September 24, 2017. The scene before, of Murdock moving into the laundry room, is shown to be the same day as Fisk being visited in prison, so September 24, 2017.
Therefore, the scene of the orphans visiting Murdock and Page and Nelson discussing Murdock's apartment should be distributed between June 30, 2016 and September 24, 2017, so November 27, 2016 and April 27, 2017 respectively.
182. ↑ 182.0 182.1 182.2 182.3 In *Captain America: Civil War*, it is shown that some time after T'Challa returned home to Wakanda, he harbored Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes and allowed Barnes to be cryogenically frozen while his people worked on a potential solution. This therefore has to occur after T'Challa's return to Wakanda on June 30, 2016.
However, on July 3, 2016, Shuri says, "Great! Another broken white boy for us to fix." This is a reference to her work on Bucky Barnes, which suggests that she has begun work on him by July 3, 2016. There is no space between July 1st and July 3rd in which she could have been helping Barnes as soon as all the problems with Klaue began, so the only options are that either this scene takes place in the day between T'Challa's coronation and the Klaue situation beginning, June 30th-July 1st, or after the main events of *Black Panther*, July 7th or later. If it is the latter, the assumption has to be made that Shuri has begun the project either because she has been informed of Barnes' problem or even because Barnes has arrived in Wakanda and is being hidden (though that takes more assumption and is implausible considering his absence during the events of the film).
The ultimate answer comes in *Black Widow*, where it is shown that Natasha Romanoff went to help in the escape from the Raft "2 weeks" after June 28, 2016, and *Avengers: Infinity War Prelude*, where the escape is shown that it was shortly after June 24, 2016. So, it can be taken that the epilogue and escape from the Raft are as early as possible, both on Sunday, July 10, 2016, almost "2 weeks" (12 days, two calendar weeks) after June 28, 2016 and as soon as possible after June 24th. In *Avengers: Infinity War Prelude*, we see that Rogers and Barnes spent approximately 2 days helping their friends as Lang and Barton arranged their house arrest deals (explained in *Avengers: Infinity War* and *Ant-Man and the Wasp*) then were dropped home, and it was arranged that Wanda Maximoff would meet in secret with Vision, and then she was dropped off to meet with him around July 12, 2016. Following this, it is then shown that "weeks later", Barnes and Rogers speak with T'Challa in Wakanda, and then T'Challa takes Barnes to be frozen. This therefore means the *Captain America: Civil War* scene must be after the events of *Black Panther*, and Shuri is merely talking about having begun her work on the project to fix Barnes' mental conditioning.
The scene is presented as being not long after Rogers' fight with Stark on June 24, 2016, as he still has some bruising on his face. So, it must be the minimum possible time that counts as "weeks" after July 12, 2016: Sunday, July 24, 2016 (two calendar weeks later).
183. ↑ In *AKA Everything*, it is revealed that Willis Stryker ended up in the Raft. With his initial arrest in December 2015 (see 2015 references) and the Raft not yet built, as well as no reference to the Raft being his allocated place of arrest in *You Know My Steez* (fitting the timeline), it can be taken that the choice to transfer Stryker was made some time after his initial arrest. With the Raft activated in June 2016 (see other references), and its focus being first on the Accords-breaking Avengers until June 26, 2016 (see other references), it can be taken that Stryker's transfer was not until around a week later, July 3, 2016.
184. ↑ *Jessica Jones: 3.13: AKA Everything*
185. ↑ In *Black Widow*, Natasha Romanoff is shown to have requested supplies from Rick Mason. Mason says on July 10, 2016 that he has been in "six different time zones in three days," suggesting that he started traveling on July 8. Romanoff can therefore be taken to have made this request between then and when she destroyed the Red Room on June 28, 2016. This places Romanoff's request on approximately July 3, 2016.
186. ↑ 186.00 186.01 186.02 186.03 186.04 186.05 186.06 186.07 186.08 186.09 186.10 186.11 186.12 186.13 186.14 186.15 186.16 186.17 186.18 186.19 After *Ascension*, Daisy Johnson goes rogue for 9 months. 6 months in, in December 2016, we see a map of her movements with pins on reported Quake incidents over the timespan. These numerous happenings are added to the timeline in the appropriate places, and the subsequent mentions that there were also incidents in Sunbury and Baltimore are slotted in at the right points as well.
187. ↑ 187.0 187.1 In *Black Widow*, Rick Mason says, "I've been in six different time zones in three days because of you" on July 10, 2016. It can be taken that Mason is saying this on the third day in the sixth time zone, thus placing two locations on July 8, two on July 9, and a fifth on July 10.
188. ↑ *Marvel Studios' The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline* places the United Nations credits scene of *Black Panther* after Erik Killmonger's defeat on July 6, 2016 and before the ending of *Captain America: Civil War* on July 10, 2016. To allow for time for T'Challa to organize a presentation at the United Nations, it can be placed on the day before, July 9, 2016.
189. ↑ *Avengers: Infinity War: The Heroes' Journey*
190. ↑ *Avengers: Infinity War*
191. ↑ *Ant-Man and the Wasp*
192. ↑ 192.0 192.1 At the end of *Black Panther*, there is a small time jump after Nakia and T'Challa rekindle their romance, taking the film to its final scene, in Oakland. It is implied to be not long after the main events of the film, but it would have taken T'Challa some time to have bought the buildings and started to make plans. It is is approximated as 2 weeks after T'Challa and Nakia's kiss. The kiss was July 7, 2016 morning (approximately 10AM) Wakandan time, which is 2AM Eastern time, July 6, 2016 11PM California. Therefore, the closest midday (roughly when this scene is set) to a fortnight after is midday Pacific July 20, 2016.
193. ↑ In *Revelations*, Tammy Hattley says on October 30, 2017 (see 2017 references) that that Fisk has had Nadeem "marked for more than a year". This would suggest approximately 25% more than a year, so 92 days before October 30, 2016, placing him beginning to mark Nadeem around July 30, 2016.
194. ↑ 194.0 194.1 *Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania*
195. ↑ In *Spider-Man: Homecoming*, on the reasoned date of September 20, 2016, Tony Stark mentions that Parker quit band "6 weeks ago". Exactly 6 weeks prior would be August 9th, while the middle of that week (taking into consideration a general "weeks ago" statement) would be August 11th. Overall, it is reasoned as August 10th.
196. ↑ 196.0 196.1 *Hawkeye: 1.01: Never Meet Your Heroes*
197. ↑ The opening credits of *Never Meet Your Heroes* shows a montage of events in Kate Bishop's life. These events are:

	* Eleanor Bishop giving Kate a bow and arrow
	* Eleanor watching as Kate fires and hits a target twice
	* Kate placing a picture of her and Derek on a shelf
	* Kate placing a trophy on a shelf
	* Kate firing three arrows at two targets
	* Kate eating dinner with Eleanor at a young age
	* Kate eating dinner with Eleanor while older
	* Kate firing an arrow
	* Kate achieving third place in a fencing tournament
	* Seventeen ribbons and trophies sitting on Kate's shelf
	* Eleanor placing her hand on Kate's shoulder as Kate fires an arrow
	* Kate achieving second place in a fencing tournament
	* Kate as a yellow belt fighting a black belt in karate
	* Kate losing a fencing match
	* Kate touching her opponent in a fencing tournament
	* Kate as a black belt
	* Kate doing a flip on a bar
	* Kate firing three arrows at three different targets
	* Kate making first place in a fencing tournament
	* Kate standing on a balance beam on one foot
	* Kate standing on the roof of a building on one foot and jumping onto another building
Kate is shown asking Eleanor for a bow and arrow is dated to May 9, 2012 (see other references), so her receiving the bow, which is shown to be soon after, can be taken to be the next day. Since the montage details Kate's training, it can also be understood that the first scene of Kate firing her bow and arrow is meant to be the first time she used it, placing that scene on May 10, 2012 as well.
In *Never Meet Your Heroes*, Eleanor says to Kate, "I still remember when you got your black belt at 15." This event is dated to December 15, 2017 (see 2017 references). It takes approximately 54 months to earn a black belt. However, in *Hide and Seek*, Kate says, "I, uh, started martial arts training when I was five." It must therefore be taken that she started at five, but did not take it seriously until after she decided she would protect her family in 2012. Using 54 months prior to when she earned her black belt, June 2013, as a starting point, Kate would have earned her yellow belt at the 3 month mark, in September 2013. She would have earned her orange belt, therefore ending her time as a yellow belt, that December. This fight can therefore be approximated to the midpoint of these dates, October 15, 2013. The scenes preceding this scene can therefore be evenly distributed between May 10, 2012 and October 15, 2013. Similarly, the scenes that follow this scene can be evenly distributed between October 15, 2013, and the start of the present day events, December 19, 2024 (see 2024 references), while keeping events clear of events given more specific dates.
198. ↑ *Runaways: 1.01: Reunion*
199. ↑ In *Princeton Offense*, on February 21, 2017 (see 2017 references), it is said that Adina Johnson has "spent 6 months planning" the gala. This could be referring to exactly 6 months, August 21, 2016, or more generally February 2017 - 6 months = August 2016 (making it approximately August 16, 2016, the midpoint). Putting more emphasis on the exact 6 months, but taking into account the possibility of a more general 6 months, a weighted average would suggest this was around August 19, 2016.
200. ↑ *Cloak & Dagger: 1.05: Princeton Offense*
201. ↑ 201.0 201.1 201.2 201.3 201.4 201.5 201.6 201.7 201.8 201.9 *Doctor Strange: Mystic Apprentice*
202. ↑ *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 4.01: The Ghost*
203. ↑ 203.000 203.001 203.002 203.003 203.004 203.005 203.006 203.007 203.008 203.009 203.010 203.011 203.012 203.013 203.014 203.015 203.016 203.017 203.018 203.019 203.020 203.021 203.022 203.023 203.024 203.025 203.026 203.027 203.028 203.029 203.030 203.031 203.032 203.033 203.034 203.035 203.036 203.037 203.038 203.039 203.040 203.041 203.042 203.043 203.044 203.045 203.046 203.047 203.048 203.049 203.050 203.051 203.052 203.053 203.054 203.055 203.056 203.057 203.058 203.059 203.060 203.061 203.062 203.063 203.064 203.065 203.066 203.067 203.068 203.069 203.070 203.071 203.072 203.073 203.074 203.075 203.076 203.077 203.078 203.079 203.080 203.081 203.082 203.083 203.084 203.085 203.086 203.087 203.088 203.089 203.090 203.091 203.092 203.093 203.094 203.095 203.096 203.097 203.098 203.099 203.100 203.101 203.102 203.103 203.104 203.105 203.106 203.107 203.108 203.109 203.110 203.111 203.112 203.113 203.114 203.115 203.116 203.117 203.118 203.119 203.120 203.121 203.122 203.123 203.124 203.125 203.126 203.127 203.128 203.129 203.130 203.131 203.132 203.133 203.134 203.135 203.136 203.137 203.138 203.139 203.140 203.141 203.142 203.143 203.144 203.145 203.146 203.147 203.148 203.149 203.150 203.151 203.152 203.153 203.154 203.155 203.156 203.157 203.158 203.159 203.160 203.161 203.162 203.163 203.164 203.165 203.166 203.167 203.168 203.169 203.170 203.171 203.172 203.173 203.174 203.175 203.176 203.177 203.178 203.179 203.180 203.181 203.182 203.183 203.184 203.185 203.186 203.187 203.188 203.189 203.190 203.191 203.192 203.193 203.194 203.195 203.196 203.197 203.198 203.199 203.200 203.201 203.202 203.203 203.204 In *Behold… The Inhumans!*, it is shown that the Terrigen outbreak from *S.O.S. Part Two* is ongoing. It is also referenced as being "recent". In *Laws of Nature*, it is shown on a detailed simulation that the Terrigen dispersal will be complete 17 months and 21 days after it started, on May 9, 2015. This would place its completion around October 30, 2016, suggesting that Day 1 of the show takes place before this. While it is possible that it occurs after, with the Terrigen still in the water, it is unlikely, especially with the outbreak still "recent". In *The Gentleman's Name is Gorgon*, Audrey references the Sokovia Accords, asking Crystal if the Inhuman royal family should "be on a register or something." This places Day 5 of the show after June 22, 2016, when the Accords were ratified. Overall, this suggests that Day 3 is approximately August 26, 2016, the midpoint between these dates. On Day 3, in *Divide -- And Conquer*, Medusa picks up that day's paper, and it is a Sunday edition. The closest Sunday is August 28, 2016, therefore placing the show approximately around that date, from August 26-31, 2016. This also matches a report claiming that Scott Buck said the royal family are aware of Quake. Quake would have caused several incidents at this point and become public knowledge. Makani also says in *Those Who Would Destroy Us* that Gorgon "must be one of those Inhumans I've read about." There is not a clear moment in *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.* that Inhumans become public knowledge, but it is safe to say that by Quake's incidents, the public is aware.
204. ↑ 204.00 204.01 204.02 204.03 204.04 204.05 204.06 204.07 204.08 204.09 204.10 204.11 204.12 204.13 204.14 204.15 204.16 204.17 204.18 204.19 204.20 204.21 *Inhumans: 1.01: Behold… The Inhumans!*
205. ↑ 205.00 205.01 205.02 205.03 205.04 205.05 205.06 205.07 205.08 205.09 205.10 205.11 205.12 205.13 205.14 205.15 205.16 205.17 205.18 205.19 205.20 205.21 205.22 205.23 205.24 205.25 205.26 205.27 205.28 205.29 205.30 *Inhumans: 1.02: The Second Chapter - Those Who Would Destroy Us*
206. ↑ 206.00 206.01 206.02 206.03 206.04 206.05 206.06 206.07 206.08 206.09 206.10 206.11 206.12 206.13 206.14 206.15 206.16 206.17 206.18 206.19 206.20 206.21 206.22 206.23 206.24 206.25 206.26 206.27 *Inhumans: 1.03: Divide -- And Conquer*
207. ↑ 207.0 207.1 207.2 207.3 207.4 207.5 207.6 207.7 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 4.11: Wake Up*
208. ↑ 208.00 208.01 208.02 208.03 208.04 208.05 208.06 208.07 208.08 208.09 208.10 208.11 208.12 208.13 208.14 In *Wake Up*, Coulson says, "I spent six months on a plane with [Mackenzie]." It is said in *Vendetta* that "Coulson had just stepped down" in the scene in which we see him heading off to board the Zephyr for the beginning of the six-month span. Due to the April 17, 2017 date in *Wake Up*, *The Ghost* ideally picks up in March 2017 (see other references). Working back from this, the events of *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot*, and the first boarding of the Zephyr, is in September 2016. This works with *Slingshot*, as it picks up just before *Broken Promises* on April 13, 2017 (see other references), it then flashes back to the Baltimore incident, referring to it as "Several months ago". With the Baltimore event on September 30, 2016, this is 7 months prior. It is dated as late September - September 30, 2016, to allow time for Mace being selected for, and then go through Project Patriot, but still fit with Mace's statement in *The Patriot*, "Few months [after Vienna], Talbot came to me with an offer." This still fits, with the bombing being on June 22nd, and his selection being September 8th, 2½ months later. It is implied that Mackenzie and Coulson began testing the limits of the Zephyr, to go for weeks and weeks on a thorough hunt for Johnson, and that the director wanted to keep Coulson's Team apart after he took over, as the duo get to only see their friends every few weeks when coming back for restock. They get back after their last trip of 6 weeks (their furthest yet, impressing Fitz), and Fitz and Simmons are excited to see them, with Fitz exclaiming, "Six weeks. That's a record!" Coulson at this point has indeed spent 6 months with Mackenzie living mostly on the plane - September 30, 2016 to March 18, 2017.
209. ↑ 209.00 209.01 209.02 209.03 209.04 209.05 209.06 209.07 209.08 209.09 209.10 209.11 209.12 209.13 209.14 209.15 209.16 209.17 209.18 209.19 209.20 209.21 209.22 209.23 *Inhumans: 1.04: Make Way For... Medusa*
210. ↑ 210.00 210.01 210.02 210.03 210.04 210.05 210.06 210.07 210.08 210.09 210.10 210.11 210.12 210.13 210.14 210.15 210.16 210.17 210.18 210.19 210.20 210.21 210.22 210.23 210.24 210.25 *Inhumans: 1.05: Something Inhuman This Way Comes...*
211. ↑ 211.00 211.01 211.02 211.03 211.04 211.05 211.06 211.07 211.08 211.09 211.10 211.11 211.12 211.13 211.14 211.15 211.16 211.17 211.18 211.19 211.20 211.21 211.22 211.23 211.24 *Inhumans: 1.06: The Gentleman's Name is Gorgon*
212. ↑ 212.00 212.01 212.02 212.03 212.04 212.05 212.06 212.07 212.08 212.09 212.10 212.11 212.12 212.13 212.14 212.15 212.16 212.17 212.18 212.19 212.20 212.21 212.22 212.23 212.24 *Inhumans: 1.07: Havoc in the Hidden Land*
213. ↑ 213.00 213.01 213.02 213.03 213.04 213.05 213.06 213.07 213.08 213.09 213.10 213.11 213.12 213.13 213.14 213.15 213.16 213.17 213.18 213.19 213.20 213.21 213.22 213.23 213.24 213.25 213.26 *Inhumans: 1.08: ...And Finally: Black Bolt*
214. ↑ *The Daily Bugle* TikTok Account
215. ↑ 215.00 215.01 215.02 215.03 215.04 215.05 215.06 215.07 215.08 215.09 215.10 215.11 215.12 215.13 215.14 215.15 215.16 215.17 215.18 215.19 215.20 215.21 215.22 215.23 215.24 215.25 215.26 215.27 215.28 215.29 215.30 215.31 215.32 215.33 215.34 215.35 215.36 215.37 215.38 215.39 215.40 215.41 215.42 215.43 215.44 215.45 215.46 215.47 215.48 215.49 215.50 215.51 215.52 215.53 215.54 215.55 215.56 215.57 215.58 215.59 215.60 215.61 215.62 215.63 215.64 215.65 215.66 215.67 215.68 215.69 215.70 215.71 215.72 215.73 In *Spider-Man: Homecoming*, the film begins after the "two months later" text on a school day, and the following day, the day of Liz Toomes' party, is later said to have been a Friday. What is implied to be the following school day, therefore Monday, is when Parker puts the tracker on Toomes' men. The next day (as Parker has to rush, he has not had another day to ask), Parker rejoins the decathlon team as they leave, the day before the competition. A poster early in the film says that the decathlon will be on October 13-15, and at that point Mr. Harrington also asks if Parker cannot spare one weekend for it. However, later, another poster is more clearly shown with the date of September 14th, which makes more sense with all the other evidence and is more prominent and presumably newer, therefore this is the date for it, and the weekend mention is no longer valid as the date must have been changed since then. However, when they get back into school, the Washington incident is referred to on the Midtown High TV news as having happened "this weekend". There is an internal inconsistency here, as at least 2 days after the incident, Parker refers to Toomes' party as "last Friday", but it cannot be "last Friday" if there has been at least another school day + a "weekend" since the party, as well as the fact that the men coming to find the Chitauri object cannot realistically be more than the first school day after the party, and Parker rejoining the group cannot be realistically more than the day after that. With the September 14th date, which is a Wednesday, this all lines up much better as the film starting on Thursday 8th, the party being Friday 9th, Toomes' men coming on Monday 12th, Parker rejoining the group on Tuesday 13th, and then the incident on the 14th. It can be assumed that following the incident, Parker's classmates spent another day or so in Washington, D.C., and/or were not in on Friday to allow them to recover, and so they are returning on Monday, victorious, and the school news incorrectly reports it as having happened at "the weekend" - besides, they are presented as unreliable newsreaders. It has to be assumed either way that the "last Friday" is simply a Monday referring to "not the Friday just been, but *last* Friday". This would then be the Monday, September 19th, putting the Ambush on the Staten Island Ferry on the 20th, and the homecoming dance on Friday 23rd, which fits perfectly with this ticket prop an extra posted a photo of, and matching tickets officially on display at an event in Japan. While Happy Hogan says on the 8th that he has to clear out Avengers Tower by next week, it can be assumed that he had to clear it by the Sunday ahead of some other business, before the actual moving the following Friday.
216. ↑ 216.00 216.01 216.02 216.03 216.04 216.05 216.06 216.07 216.08 216.09 216.10 216.11 216.12 216.13 216.14 216.15 216.16 216.17 216.18 216.19 216.20 216.21 216.22 216.23 216.24 216.25 216.26 216.27 216.28 216.29 216.30 216.31 216.32 216.33 216.34 216.35 216.36 216.37 216.38 216.39 216.40 216.41 216.42 216.43 216.44 216.45 216.46 216.47 216.48 216.49 216.50 216.51 216.52 216.53 216.54 216.55 216.56 216.57 216.58 216.59 216.60 216.61 216.62 216.63 216.64 216.65 216.66 216.67 216.68 216.69 216.70 216.71 216.72 216.73 With *Captain America: Civil War* extremely firmly placed in June 2016 from evidence supplied by *WHiH World News*, *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.*, and the film itself, and *The Avengers* firmly placed in 2012 from evidence supplied by *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.*, the MCU timeline coupled with the film itself, and from other films, the "8 years later" has to be ignored as a major continuity error at least until the evidence overrules the huge current evidence for 2012 and 2016. See here for the many reasons why. It is generally accepted as such, though unconfirmed. *Spider-Man: Homecoming* is shown to be "2 months later" following Parker returning home, and is clearly set in September, putting it beginning in early September 2016, a rounded 2 months after late June. The fact that Aaron Davis' date of birth is shown as April 1984 and he is said to be "33" also has to be overlooked as a minor, common error due to the staggering evidence that *Captain America: Civil War* cannot occur later than 2016.
217. ↑ *Spider-Man: Far From Home Prelude*
218. ↑ *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 4.07: Deals With Our Devils*
219. ↑ *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 4.09: Broken Promises*
220. ↑ In both *Deals With Our Devils* (set on April 5, 2017), and *Broken Promises* (set on April 13, 2017), it is said that Vijay Nadeer has been in his Terrigenesis cocoon for "7 months". Working back from the midpoint of these dates (April 9, 2017), 7 months earlier is September 11, 2016.
221. ↑ *Luke Cage: 2.07: On and On*
222. ↑ *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: 1.04: Is This Not Real Magic?*
223. ↑ In *Revelations*, Theo Nelson says on October 30, 2017 (see 2017 references) that that Nelson's Meats' suppliers stopped taking orders "about a year ago". This could refer to a close years (around October 30, 2016) or a more general "2017 - 2016 = 1" (so approximating with mid-2016, July 1/2, 2016). Putting more weight on the more specific, a weighted calculation gives him starting as approximately September 20, 2016.
224. ↑ 224.0 224.1 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot: 1.01: Vendetta*
225. ↑ *Jessica Jones: 3.10: AKA Hero Pants*
226. ↑ *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot: 1.02: John Hancock*
227. ↑ 227.0 227.1 227.2 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot: 1.03: Progress*
228. ↑ 228.0 228.1 228.2 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot: 1.04: Reunion*
229. ↑ 229.0 229.1 *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot: 1.05: Deal Breaker*
230. ↑ *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot: 1.06: Justicia*
231. ↑ Lincoln Campbell's S.H.I.E.L.D. ID card
232. ↑ In *3 AM*, in a scene firmly dated to November 8, 2016, Carson Wolf says to Madani, "Back in the country 3 weeks, and you already have a case for me." This implies that Madani returned 3 weeks prior. Taking into account that exactly 3 weeks prior is the 18th, and that the middle of the week 3 weeks prior is the 20th, overall, she would have returned around the 19th.
233. ↑ 233.00 233.01 233.02 233.03 233.04 233.05 233.06 233.07 233.08 233.09 233.10 233.11 233.12 233.13 233.14 233.15 233.16 233.17 233.18 233.19 233.20 233.21 *The Punisher: 1.04: Resupply*
234. ↑ *Luke Cage: 2.03: Wig Out*
235. ↑ *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.01: Laws of Nature*
236. ↑ *Jessica Jones: 3.12: AKA A Lotta Worms*
237. ↑ 237.000 237.001 237.002 237.003 237.004 237.005 237.006 237.007 237.008 237.009 237.010 237.011 237.012 237.013 237.014 237.015 237.016 237.017 237.018 237.019 237.020 237.021 237.022 237.023 237.024 237.025 237.026 237.027 237.028 237.029 237.030 237.031 237.032 237.033 237.034 237.035 237.036 237.037 237.038 237.039 237.040 237.041 237.042 237.043 237.044 237.045 237.046 237.047 237.048 237.049 237.050 237.051 237.052 237.053 237.054 237.055 237.056 237.057 237.058 237.059 237.060 237.061 237.062 237.063 237.064 237.065 237.066 237.067 237.068 237.069 237.070 237.071 237.072 237.073 237.074 237.075 237.076 237.077 237.078 237.079 237.080 237.081 237.082 237.083 237.084 237.085 237.086 237.087 237.088 237.089 237.090 237.091 237.092 237.093 237.094 237.095 237.096 237.097 237.098 237.099 237.100 237.101 237.102 237.103 237.104 237.105 237.106 237.107 237.108 237.109 237.110 237.111 237.112 237.113 237.114 237.115 237.116 237.117 237.118 237.119 237.120 237.121 237.122 237.123 237.124 237.125 237.126 237.127 237.128 237.129 237.130 237.131 237.132 237.133 237.134 237.135 237.136 237.137 237.138 237.139 237.140 237.141 237.142 237.143 237.144 237.145 237.146 237.147 237.148 237.149 237.150 237.151 237.152 237.153 237.154 237.155 237.156 237.157 237.158 237.159 237.160 237.161 237.162 237.163 237.164 237.165 237.166 237.167 237.168 237.169 237.170 237.171 237.172 237.173 237.174 237.175 237.176 237.177 237.178 237.179 237.180 237.181 237.182 237.183 237.184 237.185 237.186 237.187 237.188 237.189 237.190 237.191 237.192 237.193 237.194 237.195 237.196 237.197 237.198 237.199 237.200 237.201 237.202 237.203 237.204 237.205 237.206 237.207 237.208 237.209 237.210 237.211 237.212 237.213 237.214 237.215 237.216 237.217 237.218 237.219 237.220 237.221 237.222 237.223 237.224 237.225 237.226 237.227 237.228 237.229 237.230 237.231 237.232 237.233 237.234 237.235 237.236 237.237 237.238 237.239 237.240 237.241 237.242 237.243 237.244 237.245 237.246 237.247 237.248 237.249 237.250 237.251 237.252 237.253 237.254 237.255 237.256 237.257 237.258 237.259 237.260 237.261 237.262 237.263 237.264 237.265 237.266 237.267 237.268 237.269 237.270 237.271 237.272 237.273 237.274 237.275 237.276 237.277 237.278 237.279 237.280 237.281 237.282 237.283 237.284 237.285 237.286 237.287 237.288 237.289 237.290 237.291 237.292 237.293 237.294 237.295 237.296 237.297 237.298 237.299 237.300 237.301 237.302 237.303 237.304 237.305 In *3 AM*, Dinah Madani asks Stein for info on "the explosion and drug bust at the 41st Street docks last year", referring to the Destruction of the Blacksmith's Ship. With that event in *Daredevil*: Season 2 firmly placed in November 2015 (with all of the first four Netflix seasons linked together in a very strong 2015 placement), this places at least the beginning of *The Punisher*: Season 1 in 2016. In *Resupply*, it is also shown that Micro has two collections of computer files - a total of 62 files - in a random order, the earliest of which is "03/05/2015" and the latest of which is "10/24/2016". In 599 days, he added 61 files, meaning that there is roughly an average of a file every 9.8 days. This would therefore suggest that early in the season, it is roughly late October/early November 2016.

In *Kandahar*, just after midnight, Micro says to Frank, "Happy birthday, Frank. It's the 15th. Happy birthday." Around 36 hours later, making it the 16th of the month, in *Resupply*, Curtis says to Lewis, "Now you're sleeping in a hole in November," placing that scene in November - therefore making it November 16th. This is only 8 days after Madani talked about the drug bust, making that November 8th, in which she said the drug bust was last year, making it 2016 - so, the 3rd day of the main events is November 8, 2016, and thus the main events of the season began on November 6, 2016, and the Curtis scene, on the 11th day, is November 16, 2016. With that being the same day as Micro looking at his files, that also matches with his computer, which implied around late October/early November 2016 - just roughly a fortnight later than the average approximately implied.

On the 19th day of the main events, in *The Judas Goat*, it is implied to be around Thanksgiving. This matches perfectly, with 18 days after November 6, 2016 being November 24, 2016 - the exact day of Thanksgiving 2016. The events continue to the end of *Cold Steel*, which takes it up to Tuesday, November 29th.

*Front Toward Enemy* picks up a few days later, and in the opening of the episode, Lewis Wilson's bombing occurs. Later in the episode, it is stated that the bombing was on "Tuesday", so the bombing is Tuesday, December 6th, 7 days after *Cold Steel*. In the following episode, *Virtue of the Vicious*, the *Homegrown* newspaper is shown. On the *New York Bulletin* website, it can be seen on that front cover that the bombing is mentioned as being "last week" - despite the episode being the day after Frank is revealed publicly to be alive at the end of *Front Toward Enemy* (Billy Russo says, "Up until yesterday, I thought he was dead"), and *Front Toward Enemy* only seemingly spanning a couple of days. Therefore, *Virtue of the Vicious* should be as early as possible to still be the week after the bombings - Monday, December 12th, and *Front Toward Enemy* is spread across 6 days for it to end on Sunday, December 11th, with some gaps placed in the episode, which is just about possible.

In that episode, Senator Ori also says, in a scene dated to December 11, 2016, "It's barely a year since this city was terrorized by the Punisher." This matches perfectly with his attacks in *Daredevil*: Season 2 being firmly placed in October-November 2015, and again confirms that this season is in 2016. The *Homegrown* front cover from December 12, 2016, also says that Frank's trial was "last year", working perfectly again as 2016.

Working from December 12th, the rest of the season plays out, with *Memento Mori* on December 14th-15th, and the confrontation in Central Park just after midnight on the 16th. "3 days later" (around 80 hours after the fight), the epilogue occurs on December 19th.

The season, therefore, takes place from November 6, 2016 to December 19, 2016.

In *Front Toward Enemy*, Lewis Wilson's driving license does say that he was born on "05/30/1991", and Micro says that Lewis is "age 26", which would place the season between May 30, 2017 and May 29, 2018. However, this is overruled by all the previously listed evidence. If the season occurred in late 2017, it would contradict all of this evidence, and/or *Daredevil*: Season 2 would have to be moved to late 2016 - which in turn would drag Season 1 into early 2016 (since it is several months before Season 2), *Luke Cage*: Season 1 into late 2016 (since it overlaps with *Daredevil*: Season 2), and *Jessica Jones*: Season 1 into 2016 (since it is between Season 1 and 2 of *Daredevil*), contradicting a very large amount of evidence placing all four in 2015. Plus, Frank says earlier in the episode that he believes he's "25 years old", which despite being only a guess, would be correct.
238. ↑ Why the 'Luke Cage' season 2 finale made all those Donald Trump references
239. ↑ *Luke Cage: 2.13: They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)*
240. ↑ In *AKA God Help the Hobo*, Oscar Arocho says on May 6, 2017 (see 2017 references) that he "got out of prison 6 months ago". This could refer to approximately November 6, 2016, or more generally to "May 2017 - 6 months = November 2016", so any point between November 1, 2016 and November 30, 2016 - approximately November 15-16, 2016. Putting more weight on the specific date, it can be calculated that he got out around November 9, 2016.
241. ↑ *Jessica Jones: 2.04: AKA God Help the Hobo*
242. ↑ 242.00 242.01 242.02 242.03 242.04 242.05 242.06 242.07 242.08 242.09 242.10 242.11 242.12 242.13 242.14 242.15 242.16 242.17 242.18 242.19 242.20 *The Punisher: 1.02: Two Dead Men*
243. ↑ 243.00 243.01 243.02 243.03 243.04 243.05 243.06 243.07 243.08 243.09 243.10 243.11 243.12 243.13 243.14 *The Punisher: 1.03: Kandahar*
244. ↑ 244.00 244.01 244.02 244.03 244.04 244.05 244.06 244.07 244.08 244.09 244.10 244.11 244.12 244.13 244.14 244.15 244.16 244.17 244.18 244.19 244.20 244.21 244.22 244.23 244.24 *The Punisher: 1.05: Gunner*
245. ↑ *Ms. Marvel: 1.03: Destined*
246. ↑ In *Destined*, Bruno Carrelli mentions on June 7, 2025 (see 2025 references) a paper written by Erik Selvig about interdimensional travel. Selvig began to be respected as a scientist following the events of *Thor: The Dark World*, which ended on November 15, 2013 (see 2013 references). In *Spider-Man: Far From Home*, Selvig is shown to be respected enough to have a documentary about him and Einstein Rosen Bridges, the release of which is approximated to November 29, 2019. The paper being published can therefore be approximated to the midpoint of these dates, November 21, 2016.
247. ↑ 247.00 247.01 247.02 247.03 247.04 247.05 247.06 247.07 247.08 247.09 247.10 247.11 247.12 247.13 247.14 247.15 247.16 247.17 247.18 247.19 247.20 247.21 *The Punisher: 1.06: The Judas Goat*
248. ↑ *Jessica Jones: 3.11: AKA Hellcat*
249. ↑ 249.00 249.01 249.02 249.03 249.04 249.05 249.06 249.07 249.08 249.09 249.10 249.11 249.12 249.13 249.14 249.15 249.16 249.17 249.18 249.19 249.20 249.21 249.22 249.23 249.24 249.25 249.26 *The Punisher: 1.07: Crosshairs*
250. ↑ 250.00 250.01 250.02 250.03 250.04 250.05 250.06 250.07 250.08 250.09 250.10 250.11 250.12 250.13 250.14 250.15 250.16 250.17 250.18 250.19 250.20 250.21 250.22 250.23 *The Punisher: 1.08: Cold Steel*
251. ↑ The 2017 PRIDE Rite of Blood sacrifice is dated to December 8, 2017, while the 2015 PRIDE Rite of Blood sacrifice is dated to December 4, 2015. Therefore, it can be reasoned that the sacrifices from at least a few years in would occur around approximately the Friday closest to December 6th. In 2016, this was Friday, December 3, 2016.
252. ↑ 252.00 252.01 252.02 252.03 252.04 252.05 252.06 252.07 252.08 252.09 252.10 252.11 252.12 252.13 252.14 252.15 252.16 252.17 252.18 252.19 252.20 252.21 252.22 252.23 252.24 252.25 *The Punisher: 1.09: Front Toward Enemy*
253. ↑ 253.00 253.01 253.02 253.03 253.04 253.05 253.06 253.07 253.08 253.09 253.10 253.11 253.12 253.13 253.14 253.15 253.16 253.17 253.18 253.19 253.20 253.21 253.22 253.23 253.24 253.25 253.26 253.27 253.28 253.29 *The Punisher: 1.10: Virtue of the Vicious*
254. ↑ 254.00 254.01 254.02 254.03 254.04 254.05 254.06 254.07 254.08 254.09 254.10 254.11 254.12 254.13 254.14 254.15 254.16 254.17 254.18 254.19 254.20 254.21 254.22 254.23 *The Punisher: 1.11: Danger Close*
255. ↑ *Ms. Marvel: 1.02: Crushed*
256. ↑ *Jessica Jones: 3.02: AKA You're Welcome*
257. ↑ 257.00 257.01 257.02 257.03 257.04 257.05 257.06 257.07 257.08 257.09 257.10 257.11 257.12 257.13 257.14 257.15 257.16 257.17 257.18 257.19 *The Punisher: 1.12: Home*
258. ↑ 258.00 258.01 258.02 258.03 258.04 258.05 258.06 258.07 258.08 258.09 258.10 258.11 258.12 258.13 258.14 258.15 258.16 258.17 258.18 258.19 258.20 258.21 258.22 258.23 258.24 258.25 258.26 258.27 258.28 258.29 258.30 *The Punisher: 1.13: Memento Mori*
259. ↑ 259.0 259.1 *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: 1.06: Just Jen*
260. ↑ 260.0 260.1 In *Just Jen*, Sebastian says that he paid for a New Orleans jazz funeral after Mister Immortal killed himself. The two men were married, implying that this happened after gay marriage was legalized in Louisiana on July 7, 2015. It is not known whether or not Sebastian survived the Snap on May 31, 2018 (see 2018 references), so it should be placed before then. The midpoint of Mister Immortal's death and funeral can therefore be approximated to the midpoint of these dates, December 17, 2016. Funerals happen approximately five days after the death of the person on average, placing the death on December 15 and the funeral on December 20, 2016.
261. ↑ 261.0 261.1 261.2 In *Avengers: Infinity War Prelude*, it is shown that "months later" after July 24, 2016, Shuri has nearly worked out how to clear Bucky Barnes' mental conditioning. Soon after this (dialogue implies it is immediately after), Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson deal with a terrorist group in Syria. A follow-up on this Syria scene in *Captain Marvel Prelude* shows it to be "months later" after June 24, 2016, suggesting it is late 2016-early 2017. In this scene, Fury says, "And it ain't even Christmas yet," implying that it is not shortly after Christmas (early 2017), but rather not long before, so late 2016. The Shuri scene individually would ideally place around early 2017, being "months" after July 2016, but since it has to occur before the late 2016 Syria scenes, it has to be a little earlier than this ideal placement, also in late 2016 - which is not a problem. However, this means that the later the better - in other words, the closer to the Syria scenes, the better, which matches the implication from the dialogue in *Avengers: Infinity War Prelude*, placing the Shuri scene and the Syria events most likely on the same day, with nothing suggesting otherwise. So, these can be reasoned to take place around approximately November 21, 2016, 4 months after July 24, 2016 and almost 5 months after June 24, 2016, but still several weeks ahead of Christmas.
Shuri would have begun work on Barnes at some point between July 8, 2016 (after Killmonger's defeat) and July 24, 2016 (when he was frozen), so around July 16, 2016. With Barnes being frozen on July 24, 2016 and that helping her with her work, overall, with those first 8 or so days being roughly half as helpful, it is essentially as if her work began on July 20, 2016. Therefore, on November 21, 2016, she has been working on Barnes for roughly 124 days, and dialogue implies she is approximately 80% complete on finding and finalizing her solution. This would then imply that it would take approximately a further 31 days until Shuri was ready to wake Barnes, suggesting he was woken around December 22, 2016. Finally, the *Black Panther* post-credits scene is likely a further few days later, as he has recuperated a little and the Wakandan children are familiar with him - approximately 4 days later, giving December 26, 2016.
262. ↑ *Luke Cage: 2.04: I Get Physical*