Captain America has just returned from spending twelve years in Dimension Z while only a few hours have passed in the real world. As Bruce Banner and Hank Pym perform surgery to remove all vestiges of Arnim Zola’s tampering with his body, Steve recalls his mother’s last days and her advice to never give up. As he is in recovery, SHIELD Director Maria Hill offers her condolences about the loss of Sharon Carter (last issue) but Steve retreats into duty rather than talk about it. Elsewhere in the building, Nick Fury is interrogating Jet Black, and he doesn’t trust the daughter of Arnim Zola. She reveals that her powers include tachyon fu (see issue #5 for details) and infinite omni-senses—and she can tell Fury is aroused by having her under restraint like this. Cap steps in and takes her away, assuring Fury he will be responsible for her. As they fly off in a hovercar, they bond over shared secrets but Cap is otherwise silent….
In one of the former Soviet Republics, a brute with an American flag tattooed on his face rants about how Americans died to stop a war in this country and were not appreciated there or at home. Now Nuke is there to resume the conflict—and win. He produces a machine gun and opens fire on the crowd….
Cap takes Jet back to his apartment in Brooklyn, which is revealed to be a museum dedicated to Cap’s career, especially his World War 2 exploits. As they talk, Cap suggests she let go of the past as his mother advised; she points out the hypocrisy of his words as they are standing in a shrine to his past. So Cap bundles all his memorabilia together and makes a bonfire of it on the rainy rooftop….