Captain America, leaping from a biplane piloted by Daredevil in hopes of intercepting the dirigible hijacked by the National Force, finds himself drifting out of range. He adopts a skydiver’s stance and manages to drift closer to the airship—and he misses, plunging past his target. DD swoops down and tosses Cap his billy club. The Avenger grasps it and when he is in range uses the line to hook a flagpole to slow his fall enough to tear through an awning, relatively unharmed. Meanwhile, DD brings the stalled plane down to a crash landing on the docks….
Aboard the dirigible, Dr Faustus explains to the captive Peggy Carter his scheme to blanket New York with his mind-gas, bringing everyone under his control. He has the Grand Director unmask, revealing him to be the crazed 1950s Captain America. Faustus explains how the evil Cap and Bucky were brought to his sanitarium for treatment and the villain used them to test his mind-gas—by having Cap shoot Bucky. The memory of this causes "Cap" to have a complete breakdown, curling up into a fetal position. Meanwhile above, the real Captain America has arrived via Quinjet (piloted by Daredevil—does this guy have a pilot’s license?) and enters the ship to confront his enemies. Faustus yells at the Grand Director to do something…and the madman does—he presses his self-destruct button. He is consumed in flames which spread quickly throughout the ship. Cap battles the National Force goons and stops Faustus from releasing the gas. The burning craft crashes into the river and DD is on hand to rescue the survivors, including Cap, Peggy, and Faustus.