Dryad contacts Sharon Carter for an update on the current
crisis; afterward, Sharon puts her phone down and Steve Rogers wonders who she
has been talking to secretly….
A mob is attacking a halfway house for recently freed
convicts, bent on lynching the perceived bad guys among them. Steve leads his
team: Misty Knight and Mockingbird will evacuate the residents, Invisible Woman
will provide cover, and Spider-Woman will calm the mob down with her pheromone
power while Steve addresses them, appealing to their former admiration for
Captain America and calling for them to trust one another and go home. And it
works. Without Jess’ pheromones, too. A police officer tells Steve that the
authorities have found Scourge and are laying siege to his cabin in the woods
upstate….
Steve’s team arrives on the scene, Sue sets up barriers to
protect the cops and Misty recognizes that Scourge is not in the cabin but
controlling everything (automatic gun turrets, etc.) from the barn behind.
Steve runs the gauntlet of the weapons and crashes into the barn and Scourge
runs out the back—and stands between three gun turrets to be shot to pieces.…
The next day, Mayor Wilson Fisk announces the death of Scourge
(Anthony Diaz, as suspected last time), revealing that his own assassination
was a ruse to draw out the villain. At home, Alyssa Larrimore, whose husband
Tony was murdered by the Watchdogs (last issue), is approached by John Walker,
the former U.S. Agent, appealing to her to remember the criminals in charge of
the city and handing her a Scourge mask….
Sharon comes home to Steve and while she is out of the room,
he uses her phone to set up a meeting with the mysterious Dryad….
Toni Ho of the Daughters of Liberty also appears but I couldn't work her into the synopsis.