Black Widow stands in a courtyard enclosed by the inner walls of a skyscraper,
seeking the crime boss called Apogee. She battles a big dumb giant, breaking
his arms then then stinging him in the back of the neck. Apogee’s voice
promises even better. She sews up her wounds and thinks of her baby Stevie….
Six
days earlier in a San Francisco flower market, Natasha caught a teenage girl
swiping her wallet and chased her through the streets and corners her. Nat
offers to swap her own wallet for all that the girl, who falsely says her name
is “Marigold,” is already carrying. When Yelena Belova shows up, Nat hands the
girl her wallet and she tosses several others back. Nat, who has a tracker in
her wallet, wants to help the girl, while Yelena, calling herself the White
Widow, suggests they could train her for a team she is dreaming of….
Back
to Nat at the skyscraper: confronted by another hulking tough guy, she whips
out her grappling hook and easily ascends nearly to the penthouse. She blows up
a door to prevent anyone from the lower levels from coming up and ties another
big bruiser to a guy with wings, making them both plummet to the ground. She
climbs to the top level, blows open a window, fires off a smoke bomb and beats
up the four henchmen. She grabs the last guy and discovers he is not Apogee.
She gives this guy a warning for Apogee and tosses him off the balcony (he has
a parachute, presumably for just such an emergency). Nat calls Belova to tell
her Apogee was never there and to prepare the guest room, she’s bringing home
the unconscious “Marigold” ….