Undercover cop Angel Larimore is gunned down in a New York street,
the latest victim in a rash of cop killings….
Steve Rogers meets with some of the Daughters of Liberty:
Sharon Carter, Misty Knight, Echo, and Toni Ho. Steve spies Alexandra Lukin in
the files of Power Elite members; discovering that she’s Aleksander Lukin’s wife,
he asks who they have tailing her. The women immediately become silent and
Steve confronts Sharon when they are alone, asking her why they are keeping
secrets from him. She is angry and conciliatory at the same time but Steve gets
a call from ex-girlfriend Bernie Rosenthal and chooses to keep the purpose of
her call a secret….
Later, Steve meets with Bernie in the park, both disguised.
Bernie describes having had a call from Angel Larimore, asking her to set up a
meeting with Captain America; she thinks it is related to the recent rash of
cop killing that Mayor Wilson Fisk is covering up for his own purposes. She
advises Steve to stay away, but knowing he won’t, gives him an address where
Larimore said he had hidden a video. Bernie again tries to warn him….
Steve goes to the address indicated and discovers Misty
Knight and Spider-Woman battling a band of Watchdogs; Steve joins in and they
are soon defeated. He gets the video and takes it back to their hideout where
Tony tries to break the encryption. Matters are a bit strained between Steve
and Sharon as they try to find a connection between the Watchdogs and Larimore.
Toni is successful and they watch the video: a SWAT team enters a warehouse and
there is a sudden explosion, followed by the cops being shot down by a marksman
with pinpoint precision; Steve is nauseated but then there enters the scene a
man in a white mask and a long white coat: Scourge….