A man who looks suspiciously like Steve
Rogers but with a Hydra tattoo on his torso receives a visit from
Alexa Lukin. She tells him he is free to go so he gets dressed....
Steve Rogers, falsely accused of
murder, is now a prisoner at Myrmidon, the private prison run by
Baron Strucker. Strucker, once leader of Hydra, switched sides
during the Secret Empire, and was rewarded by the US government with
the prison position. Strucker also often beats up a prisoner and
broadcasts it to the whole prison. Today it's the Wrecker, a man who
challenged Thor but who can't defeat Strucker....
Sharon Carter meets with New York Mayor
Wilson “The Kingpin” Fisk; after some verbal sparring, she gets
down to business. Nothing that happens in the City escapes Fisk's
notice, so she want to know who really killed Thunderbolt Ross. When
he acts coy she threatens blackmail; Fisk calmly turns over to her a
USB drive and asks who the city—or even the country—trusts more:
Wilson Fisk or Steve Rogers?
In prison, Bulldozer invites Steve to a
game of pool; Steve wants nothing to do with him because he's a
criminal. This leads to an angry confrontation with Piledriver and
Bulldozer, who believe Steve was the Hydra Supreme Commander and
therefore a worse criminal than either of them, and even if he wasn't
how many people died for the lies that Captain America sold them?....
Alexa Lukin and “Steve” are in
flight when Lukin excuses herself. Selene then attacks “Steve”
and though he puts up a valiant fight, in the end he is dead, drained
of his life force....
In their secret lair, Sharon and some
of the Daughters of Liberty (Mockingbird, Misty Knight, White Tiger)
look at the information supplied by the Kingpin: Ross' killer is said
to be the assassin known only as The Foreigner of the 1400 Club....