Captain America has met a mystery woman named Veda (actually an agent for the sinister Corporation) who claims to know about his missing past. As they head through the night, they are attacked by costumed thugs seeking to capture Veda. Cap easily whips them and asks the police to deliver them to SHIELD HQ. Cap is increasingly suspicious of Veda and her motives and takes her to Avengers Mansion. There she reveals how she knows so much about him: Agent R, the female agent who was present at his origin, was her mother, and she fell in love with Cap from hearing her mom’s stories about him. She reveals the existence of a diary…but they are interrupted by Iron Man, who embarrasses himself by mistaking her for Sharon Carter….
The real Sharon is at SHIELD Headquarters, moping over seeing Steve kissing Veda (last issue); she tracks down the Falcon, who is training the new Super-Agents. She confides in Sam, who tries to reassure her but it doesn’t work….
Iron Man tells Cap he is going to inspect the Avengers’ submarine for possible improvements; Cap decides to join him, asking Veda to stay behind. This is the same sub he was brought back to New York in after the Avengers discovered him floating in the water in AVENGERS #4, and he wonders if seeing it again could jar loose some lost memory of his past. He listens to the tape chronicling the events of that day and is startled to hear he was found off the coast of Newfoundland when all these years he was under the impression he had been pickup up in the North Sea, much closer to the English Channel, where the drone plane exploded and Bucky was killed. Cap has Iron Man fly him to Newfoundland and he drops to the ground in descent-bags. Switching to his Steve Rogers identity he wanders the island’s streets, with a nagging sense of familiarity. Late at night he spies a gang of masked men, similar to the ones who attacked Veda the night before (at the beginning of this issue) and follows them as Captain America. He pursues them to a pier where they are carrying boxes down through a trap door. Cap descends but is quickly spotted by the baddies; he beats them all down and is greeted by a sinister voice from the past. Former Nazi spy General Lyle Dekker informs him he has waited 30 years for Cap’s return, though the hero clearly does not remember being there before. Dekker then shows Cap what he has been working on all that time: a twelve-foot-tall android duplicate of Captain America….